VincentVendetta

Can't believe I forgot about this one; when I was deep into GBA emulation (never owned the system) I finally got to play Racing Gears Advance - a game that was nominated by Gamespot in 2004 as one of the "best games no one played", and it is an amazing game.

Everyone should play this.

@jeldh: @fram: So I decided to translate the full paragraph. Keep in mind the original text, "La loi de la jungle: Audiard & Co", was published in the September 2015 issue of the Cahiers du Cinéma, about what they called "The political emptiness of French Cinema" - also I'm not a translator:

Those "genre" films chaining together scenes already made can only come back to one thing: atmosphere. Atmosphere is basically when the movie has no soul but we gotta fill it with something. It is the poison that kills political possibilities. At the beginning of De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) we see three young greedy men going on night shifts like drunk dudes: the car is going through the night, the guys are talking, about real estate, about eviction, they're not very clear, we try to understand, but we understand quickly that it's no use, there's nothing to understand, that what's important is just that car going through the night with drunk people inside. In one scene Audiard (the director) heightens the critical possibility and evacuates it in favour of imagery. The jobs are only pretexts, yet "sellers of goods" is a hot subject that we must hold Audiard accountable to confront, whether it's concerning the eviction of squatters or the reselling of estate in Paris. But the filmmaker only wants to put us in immersion. Atmosphere, atmosphere... Return to the poetic realism of daddy's old cinema. Audiard and his scenarist Tonino Benacquista felt the spirit of the times and found the framework for their vague and, as such, inoffensive equation of "white-collar crime" - not to mention the direction can't hide his fascination for those bad boys: the nightlife, the violence, the masculine friendship. We swim in complete confusion.

tl;dr - a game or a film banks on atmosphere when it has nothing to say. Inside basks in atmosphere, but that's because it has nothing to say. But I can understand how people that think Blade Runner 2049 is a great film can think such a thing (it looks cool, atmosphere son!). Frankly, I gave up on We Happy Few when people started mentioning Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

@dudeglove: OH SNAP I KNOW THAT GAME! It was awesome! I never got far into the adventure game part, but your could listen to music, watch flash movies, play casino, even take part in online chat! They tried to make it into a TV show after its success but it collapsed pretty quickly.

#ApeEscape4Dammit

To paraphrase a film critic: "Atmosphere is when the game has no soul but we gotta fill it with something."

"The game is an attempt to capture this pivotal moment, when the age of outlaws was ending and the modern world was born."

Oh you mean like every western movie ever made?!

From their latest update:

It's not worth it for us to risk potentially disastrous consequences. I cannot in good conscience risk the futures of our team members who have contributed to the site through the years. We run EmuParadise for the love of retro games and for you to be able to revisit those good times. Unfortunately, it's not possible right now to do so in a way that makes everyone happy and keeps us out of trouble.

This is an extremely emotional decision for me after running this site for so many years. But I believe it is the right thing for us at this point of time.

Thus, we have decided to make a new start. We will continue to be passionate retro gamers and will keep doing cool stuff around retro games. But you won't be able to get your games from here for now. Where we go with this is up to us and up to you.

Another blow for video game preservation if you ask me. It's frankly disgusting how video game companies try to control video game history. Sometimes I wonder why I bother with this stuff.

Do not forget to update in technology and cargo inventory, especially as one cargo slot carries the equivalent of two (so if one normal inventory slot can carry 250 carbon, for example, one cargo can carry 500 carbon. Use them for essential elements).

While it is tempting to buy ready-made upgrade modules, you cannot carry them to a different gun/ship if you update. You will need to buy them all over again which can be pricey on nanite clusters (around 450 NC for each S-class update is expensive, and and not the easiest to come by). If you buy blueprints, the recipe will always be available for you to make.

Speaking of S-class updates, will shielding tech is seducing, the more advanced a technology is, the more advanced the full it needs is.

If you're pursued by sentinels ships, a good way to escape is to board a space station or a freighter. Being neutral grounds, they will stop immediately.

Refine materials to save space. When you get your advanced mining laser that can mine crystals of Condensed Carbon or Sodium Nitrate, there is really a reason to keep them around as is - except for a little carbon which is used for fuel for the refiner, but don't keep too much. If C+ or Na+ is more powerful than their base elements, AND you fill cargo slots which them (500 of each), that means fuel for a long time.

DO NOT refine all Copper to make Chromatic metal; the resource can be given to the Korvax (robots) for help with the language (10 Cu for a word).

In space combat, use the breaks to take sharp turns. Shooting ships in the back does double damage.

You can stack missions on top of each each to make them go faster. For example, one mission can ask for you to destroy 4 sentinels, while another asks for you to destroy 5 sentinels. If you take both at the same time, you will only need to kill 5 sentinels as both missions progress at the same time. In previous updates, you could do the same with other types of missions for an even bigger benefit - can't say if they've changed it or not.

@mocbucket62: I just hope they make a small team on the side to make a new GTi+ Club. That Time Bomb mode was some of the most fun I had online last generation.