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A lot of questionable decisions here, but GI Joe might take the cake for me. When was the last time any media based on that IP has done well? They couldn't even get people to watch a movie with Bruce Willis and The Rock. They have so many other franchises to work with, why keep trying to bring this one back?

Wouldn't call it the worst trope, but it is annoying.

Thanks for this. It was a very good write-up. I wrote off playing Black Mesa because I generally stay away from remakes if I've played the original, but you have me intrigued now. Didn't quite realize hom much was changed from the original, and it would be interesting to see all that. Plus it's been two decades.

@bigsocrates: *Hawkeye "Don't give me hope"* meme

To be honest, I've been playing these on Dolphin for a while. But if Throwback ever does anything with them, I will compensate their efforts with currency.

@gtxforza: I forgot the gen 6 entries had licensed soundtracks. That's a bummer. It wouldn't be too hard to change the music, but considering this was a niche series even back in it's prime, Throwback probably won't think it's worth the effort.

@chamurai: @gtxforza: I might be the only one excited by this, but we now know for sure that SOMEONE still holds the eXtreme G license. I hope they start doing something with it, because the games were actually pretty good, especially 3 and XGRA.

@bigsocrates: Or maybe, this was the plan all along.

*Smiles and slowly crouches behind couch*

Ron Howard narration - "This was definitely not the plan all along".

I agree it's a weird thing,but I do have a theory. After a long dark period of swings that mostly missed, Atari has finally had some success with a few classic compilations and the Recharged games. They are however, running out of things to recharge, and probably figure they need to start doing new stuff with their IPs to keep momentum going. Wayforward has has resurrected several old franchises, and my guess is Atari reached out to them because of it. My guess is Wayforward chose Yars mostly because it's one of the few old Atari games with some actual lore to work with (thin as that lore might be).

I often feel this way for two reasons:

If a game is fairly long, I am reluctant to pick it up. My gaming time is limited these days, so I often go with visceral, immediately satisfying experiences like racing or fighting games. Things I can play for 30 minutes and feel accomplished. You can play an open world game or RPG for that amount of time and easily get nothing done. Have a bunch of those in my backlog, because I do like those genres, but I probably won't touch any until the kids are teenagers and don't like me anymore.

The other issue is my backlog is large to the point it can be hard to pick what to play. Which is a first-world problem if there ever was one.

Saw this coming when they just kept buying stuff, but still depressing to watch.