There are a lot of, let's say, "extreme fans" when it comes to games. The Rare ones are always the most baffling to me.
Like... I'm not going to besmirch stuff like Solar Jetman; it was a different era. And I totally get why Goldeneye was such a big deal at the time.
But I also get why no one cares about Perfect Dark, except the Rare devout.
Rare has never made a game I liked. Which is fine. But some people act like the idea of them having been developers on par with companies like Capcom, or old Konami, as if that's just common knowledge and a universal consensus. Which is also fine. But also super crazy to me.
Rare Replay is a beautifully constructed package full of some truly mediocre games.
Low key Xbox take also; having never owned one before I'm kind of thinking it looks better then the PS5 so far feature wise? Still getting a PS5 instead but I'm a little jealous of some of the stuff here and I've not really seen anything that cool over in Sony land the Xbox is missing.
Would anyone be interested in a game that was less focused on mimicing the look of a tv broadcast and was instead closer in on the players? Maybe trying to better simulate what it's like to be playing hockey as opposed to controling a televised game?
@alistercat: Though GI Joe soldiers on to this day I don't think it ever really broke through in a significant way after the 80's cartoon. So you're probably too young for it to have been a sure thing. Though there was definitely stuff at the time aiming for your age group... it just didnt do well.
There's a reason Vinnie is the lead on this one after all :D
Anyways this PS2 game does *just enough* to make me sad they've never done a good GI Joe game. The potential is there, it's such a videogame friendly ip.
I think of High Moons War for Cybertron games and I think that'd be the right tact and scope to take. If it did well (And Activision didn't force you to tie the third one into a movie series...) then you could start getting ambitious. But to start? A nice third person action game, with a decent budget, in a wholly original take on the setting that doesn't overly tie it to either nostalgia or a current iteration.
Basically the thing Arkham and Spider-Man did that everyone always points to as "the thing you should do with a license". Except it's GI Joe so you also don't take for granted people will buy it.
But yeah a stand alone GI Joe game that was allowed to just be a videogame sounds good to me. Kind of like this. But better.
Splatoon is easily on the same level as a Star Fox or F-Zero. Honestly beyond them if you consider that Nintendo also actually cares about it.
But will anything ever be Mario, Zelda or Pokemon? I feel that Animal Crossing kind of hit that point. But will it last? Who knows.
The real answer though is it'll never happen. Why? Because the popularity of those things is unreasonable and borderline cultish due to that special brand of Nintendo, ahem, *fans* who are the absolute worse. Basically quality has never determined popularity so it's hard to envision anything being able to break through to that level. It happens, in other new non-Nintendo ip, but Nintendo has it's "those" and the gatekeepers will never let anything else get up there.
And I adore that stuff too btw. It's great. But most people aren't weird about it in the way I'm criticizing.
I put about 2000 hours into Pokemon Blue as a kid then stopped dead with the franchise for some reason. Tried to play X a few years ago but it didn't take.
I gotta say though Mr. Ochoa, I just threw this on out of curiosity for the expansion then sort of zoned and left it running while I did other stuff and I have one big takeaway;
I don't know the technical term but Pokemon's "audio barks" are unparalleled. The little musical cues & stings that play when you catch something, or level up, or do anything really. The entire audio design in general is pretty amazing.
I need to find like a ten hour, no commentary, let's play or something to help me fall asleep to. Or even just as back ground noise.
It kind of reminds me of a Dragon Quest soundscape but way better?
I think a hole has to be an addition to something right? A change to it's original form that, by removal, has added an opening of some kind.
So a straw, which is formed in that state, has no holes. It's just a tube.
OR
A straw is a hollow cylinder with a hole on the top & bottom.
OR
A straw is a cylinder with one hole going through it.
It is an impossible question because english is invented and did not account for every possible use case. Language is a tool. Not some nonsense decree from above You Must Conform Too.
There is no right or wrong, there is only whether you correctly communicated what you meant to or not.
The thing that has struck me about Mass Effect in general while watching this is that I, having never played the games, knew all the ME1 companions by name before playing any of it, or watching Alex play it.
But the Mass Effect 2 cast? Keeps surprising me. Never heard of any of them except Miranda and maybe Mordin. I'd definitely *seen* Jack, go figure internet, but people didn't ever talk about her.
People seem to favor 2 the most so why haven't characters like Grunt, Thane, Jack, Kasumi or Samara reached the same notoriety of the likes of Garrus, Tali, Wrex and Liara? Did everyone just stick to the ME1 crew in 2?
Instead of starting over on each planet from scratch, would it be easier to turn on the teleporter next to the new base then just run back home for supplies and prepackaged equipment?
To start at least. Once you get a base solidly going the planet can provide the rest presumably.
Also I just want to see if you could 100% eat a planet. Like, not from these guys, but in general. Especially since you can see the worlds in the skies of each other.
Or take all the matter in the solar system and convert it into one giant artificial plain, ir a mobius ring, or Dyson Sphere. Oh man, could you make a Dyson Sphere? Just bubble the sun and cover the inside in solar generators!
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