Okay, so every time I decide I'm going to play a retro game through emulation, a remaster is announced, giving me access and an opportunity to enjoy a better version of the game instead. It happened with Metroid Prime, Link's Awakening, Baten Kaitos, Trails from Zero/to Azure, FF pixel remasters, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, and now this I guess... So for the sake of everyone else, what retro games are worth adding to my list?
Look I'm just saying if you have the ability to conjure into our reality remasters and remakes of old games, I'm going to suck your fucking dick if we can get an Illusion of Gaia (snes) remaster sometime soon.
I'd rather them do this one really well than have them do the both of them at the same time. I love Dark Forces 2, it's the Star Wars game I grew up with. I haven't looked but I'm assuming Disney has some involvement due to the ownership and honestly, it makes sense they want to give it a shot at remastering these titles since canon tied in the Dark Troopers, both white and black versions from what I can tell.
Mostly what I'm excited for? Dark Forces 2 multiplayer... oh man, those were the days.
Nintendo have ALWAYS been supervillains (at least, since they got into video games).
Like, everyone loves the story about how Nintendo “saved video games” after The Crash by tricking stores into carrying Robby the Robot. And… like most stories that came out of 90s/00s games media, it ignores the existence of PC gaming. But whatever. We got REALLY lucky that people liked the NES because if they didn’t? NOBODY would ever have been able to try that again.
Aside from that? Nintendo is just Disney. They are ridiculously protective of their IP and everyone insists on dragging their kids in because they remember loving it growing up. And they are INCREDIBLY protective of their back catalog (less so in the Switch era where third parties were an active detriment for performance reasons) a la The Disney Vault.
And… all the Nintendo Adults have made it clear over the decades that “Corporations aren’t your friends. Except for the one with Mario. #StandUpForNintendo”
To be clear: I am one of the five people who bought every single Battlecruiser game. That shit was GOOD. That doesn’t mean Derek Smart wasn’t always an evil mother fucker (back in the day, he joined an Unreal message board JUST to curse me out and call me like seven slurs. And I was actually defending his games in that thread).
Enjoy what you enjoy. Just don’t associate “make good game” with virtue.
And… all the Nintendo Adults have made it clear over the decades that “Corporations aren’t your friends. Except for the one with Mario. #StandUpForNintendo”
I must be in a hell of a bubble but the stereotypes I’m familiar with are as follows:
“Nobody hates Nintendo more than Nintendo fans” and
“Nobody hates Nintendo fans more than Nintendo.”
They make it impossible to enjoy damn near any of their older games without piracy. Their hardware is objectively worse performing than other consoles of the time. And they price gouge like a mfer.
I still play my Switch and my old 3DS but I’m doing my damnedest not to give them another cent directly if I can help it.
I’m less than a minute in and I’d hardly call Nintendo petty for wanting to stop someone naming their shop “Super Mario” and with a picture of Mario as the logo… It couldn’t look any more Nintendo-esque.
Edit from deleted comment. I was talking about Disney’s ownership of the Futurama IP possibly giving this issues. That’s great the original devs support it but any C&D would not come from them
Hell any of the voice actors could get this shut down because they used AI voices for placeholders
I was about to say, I loved Futurama, It’s run it’s course, I’m fine with Meanwhile being the series finale (especially since as broadcast it ended with them pushing the time loop button, and they aired the first episode after that) and I’m ready to move on.
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