Quick_Man

Itagaki's passing, Tagawa's passing, Harada leaving Namco after working on the Tekken franchise since the beginning... now Nishimura's also passed. Rough year for fighting games.

Always loved Akuma's menacing grunts in Third Strike, but it has to be the terrifying Bison end boss from Alpha 3 that the man's fighting game legacy shines brightest to me. Probably the most intimidating Bison as a final boss has ever been because for the first and last time in a proper Street Fighter game, continues were disabled at the final boss - lose the match and you get the bad ending. Made it terrifying when you saw the guy with full Super just waiting to unleash that PSYCHO CRUSHAAAAA and take 80% of your health bar.

@ozyr *throw

Your comment history shows all we need to know, really.

Also does anyone else think Sammy Salazar sounds like a name they'd give to one of Don Corneo's perverted goons that Tifa and Aerith beat up or is it just me?

I thought this had already been discovered after scouring TCRF about these games years ago, but maybe they were different debug menus.

... Was SAMMY on Cribs?

Nobody but a tiny amount of nerds like us care or would ever notice, so.

You can tell AI is the future because Tim Sweeney just whined about the fact Steam has an AI tag.

If these slop peddlers were so confident that this is the way forward, why are they so terrified of consumers knowing about it?

Remember, folks, if someone has a differing opinion to you, it means their review is worthless. And if they didn't note an issue you have, it means they never actually played the game. It's me, John Review Reader, here to tell you for the 573rd time why you shouldn't believe anything you see on the internet. Except what I say, of course. I'm different and cool.

Video System's catalog has to be one of the most interesting catalog's of an obscure company.

Too many good games on this machine to count. XBLA was a revolution, too. Many hours spent on Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Peggle, Trials Evolution... and all the many many notes spent on Rock Band DLC.

Absolutely gutted. According to her she went in one day and was told "you have one to four days". Not six months. Not a month. "Four days, maybe."

Cancer is /terrifying/.

@Guru_Larry I was about to "uhm acktyually", but now that I think about it, even though you can tell where the GTA games take place, they never do actually NAME the city... You can tell for example that GTA4 takes place in New York, but they make sure to ever call it that.

@OdysseyPoint Cool. Don't care. If you're not gonna credit the things you take, you don't get to take them.

I mean, you could easily handwave there being guns in the game by having them be obtained illegally. GTA characters do commit, y'know, crime.

"Watch me play or watch me don't, depending on if they ever deliver it"

@OdysseyPoint Then you can "1-to-1 copy" it yourself, can't you? It's so easy after all, it's nothing but 1-to-1 copying.

I don't understand people like you who always have this contradictory take of "Your work is not valuable enough to deserve credit despite being valuable enough for me to take". Pure selfishness from people who don't have knowhow yet want to act like an authority. If you take something, give credit. It doesn't matter what it is or where you drew your artificial self-satisfactory line of smugly going "well you didn't do enough to DESERVE it now, did you"? If you're using things that other people worked on and passing them off as your own, you won't last in any community.

@Coalescence Not really, the major plot points are identical. Any deviation is usually for the moments inbetween to further develop characters. The two "major" deviations in Rebirth for instance that you're probably quick to say are 1) an alternate dimension/timeline and 2) Cloud's imagination.

@PopetheRev28 True, Mega Drive was the premier place to get CPS1 ports for the most part. Strider, Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition [yes, the presentation is slightly better on SNES but the gameplay itself is more arcade accurate on Mega Drive], Forgotten Worlds, Ghouls and Ghosts...

@Guru_Larry I think it's fair to say both systems could handle more sprites on screen than what we usually actually got during their lifespans as we learn more about the hardware. Developers back then don't have the 30-35 year knowledge advantage we do now.

If he made a Matrix game now everyone would be crying about how Kojima had "gone woke".

@OdysseyPoint If you don't want to credit people don't use what they did, whether it's vectorizing logos or ripping sprites. Be an adult, do the work yourself to rip those sprites, or credit whoever did. The absolute end of the discussion.

@Ikuto_the_reaper Just credit the person you're taking stuff from oh my god it's not hard

Really disappointing that not only have they been caught stealing but they then turned into a passive-aggressive arse about it as if they're the victim of something. "You don't do anything groundbreaking!" Then it should be easy to do yourself or credit. "Obviously you invented redrawing logos" No they just drew what you're using, so credit them. "Yup, you caught me, I've made millions off these" No one said that they just said you're profiting off it.

What a piece of work. Screw whoever runs that account. Absolute child.

Between this and the garbo AI generated image of Chief and Trump shaking hands, Gamestop's social media is just DESPERATE to be part of something, anything, isn't it? As if the official White House account itself trying to piggyback off this wasn't cringe-inducing enough. You're not part of the team, be quiet while you continue tearing the White House down.

I mean, Street Fighter 6 very recently had an AI controversy lmao. None of this "MY precious company would NEVER!" drivel, please and thanks.

And imagine the nerve to use AI for an art book of all things. Scum.

Amazing tribute. I always wondered if the excessive smoking and drinking had anything to do with Itagaki's passing, but it's always a "who can say for sure". Itagaki's games gave me many great childhood memories.

I've always enjoyed Midnight and Top Landing personally, there's something relaxing about them.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant If I exaggerate anything I don't like, I too can pretend to have a point. "Remakes were rare and special!" Or maybe you can look at things with the reality-lensed goggles and realize there was nothing special about Mario All-Stars or Ninja Gaiden Trilogy...

It's hard to not review a compilation of games without talking about the games. You know how stuff like Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection or Street Fighter 30th Anniversary include the bad stuff like Mortal Kombat Advance or Street Fighter 1 because it's like "well we've got all the good stuff, let's include the stinkers because it's part of history and it's a good curio and it's pretty funny"? The Bubsy Collection is a collection where the "good stuff" doesn't exist to offset the novelty of playing the bad stuff.

Also enough of the "mob mentality" stuff. You're not a victim, you're part of a scam that you refuse to stop perpetuating, even when it's so obviously over that even the god emperor of it all has given up on it. It's over. You're not some renegade rebel going against Da Woke Mafia, you're not a victim of a conspiracy. You openly say things that go against any basis in reality and then respond to anything saying otherwise with "I'm a little birthday guy c'moooooon it's my birthdaaaaay". Just stop it. I'm going to just hit the ignore button on you and keep it that way but I am BEGGING you to realize you're not the main character of the universe and people don't care enough to rally the troops against you.

Japan wants to hire you young and keep you for life.

As a musician myself I've never once thought in the creation of the three albums I've done "man, I really hate doing this. I wish it could be easier". We already have SO MUCH technology involved in the creation of modern music. It's never been easier without AI to start.

Maybe I'm just a complete loser for thinking creative projects should remain so? I don't know anymore. Pick up a goddamn guitar or a pair of sticks or a DAW.

AI never would've been able to create something like No Promises to Keep, I'll tell you that much.

@slider1983 "They weren't. Tallarico snubbed them online and they got angry and spent the next eight years complaining about him and the console almost every week on the podcast, to this day."

So Tommy snubbed them online and Pat and Ian... aren't snubbing him online too? Tommy's words are somehow epic cool and based while Pat and Ian's words are mean and harmful and unfair? That's what we're going with? All they do is cover this trainwreck, and they've been the best at covering the trainwreck lmao. They haven't gotten anything substantial wrong because so often all they do is use the Amico team's own stupid words.

And I'm sorry, but if you actually BELIEVE Alvarado with no proof or evidence to his claim that the tech would be "updated" [jesus christ], then this conversation is pointless. We clearly live in different realities.

@Lowdefal Yeah, they're gonna make all three of the Bubsy fans out there really angry.

@slider1983 Acting like the CUPodcast haven't been attacked by Tommy tenfold [and that Pat and Ian aren't COMPLETELY CORRECT] is really, really funny.

And "confirmed to have improved tech"? Confirmed by literally WHO? WHEN? HOW? WHY? WE CANNOT LIVE IN A WORLD OF CHAOS. How is it 2025, LATE 2025, and this thing that doesn't bloody exist and won't ever exist is treated like this evolving Necronomicon where all the remaining believers just come up with their own fanfiction about it???

Is Tommy's mother still very proud?

@Jimgamer8 The tarrifs are arse for sure, but if that was a factor... wouldn't they just say so? What would they have to be afraid of with that transparency?

@jmbenetti Honestly as a video game it would definitely be improved by that, but I always felt like it was a one-of-a-kind experience and the fact that the game itself barely worked and had every Sierra and LucasArts BS trope rolled into one ball of "I hate you, player, please commit Turning The Game Off" almost adds to the game's charm for me. It's like "so bad, it's good" but of game fairness.

And yeah, Ellison was the voice of A.M itself - apparantly, he unexpectedly found himself having such a good time doing the voice that he then went on to do the audiobook himself.

@jmbenetti The game being an absolute nightmare is part of the experience, I find. I believe the original writer of the story who worked on the game originally wanted there to not even be a way to beat it, or at least not in a way that ended the story with any hint of hope. He had to be talked back on that.

@HammerKirby The earliest one I can think of is Choplifter from I think 1985.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant Translation: "Lalala can't hear you", I guess. Remakes ain't new, haven't been new for 40 years, and aren't going away.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant Jesus Christ some people just think everything they don't like is a new bad invention huh. Back to the Intellivision I guess, wouldn't wanna exist in any era post remakes. You know, the 80s.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant So... never?

Ninja Gaiden II and Dead or Alive 4 were mainstays of my childhood years, excitedly having crazy experiences on my first ever "brand new" console [the first... and only, as I never got a console within the launch year after that ever again lmao]. Ninja Gaiden II was definitely a smidge too hard for 9 year old me, that's for sure.

I know these games are praised for their sexy women, but... Ryu Hayabusa, jeez, one of the most attractive men in video game history. Definitely ended up being one of the formative video game characters of my awakening, that's for sure.

And Dead Or Alive was so much more than just the eye candy, it had a feel that no other fighting game franchise has had before or since - these cinematic set-pieces that complimented the mechanics, not got in the way of them. The stage interactivity that made you feel like you were part of a martial arts movie.

RIP Itagaki. It's a shame he didn't live to 99 years old so Heaven would've had maximized jiggle physics.

Every time Atari does one of these things I just look at Atari 50 and think "yup, the choice is obvious once again".

I'm glad they budged on it eventually but this just really goes to show that we need to get the companies themselves on board with true preservation when so many of them still don't understand it. Like, I'm not a purist at all, but there's no reason why a remake happens we shouldn't be able to have the best of both worlds. I love Final Fantasy 7's remakes thus far, Remake, Crisis Core Reunion and Rebirth, some of the biggest generous uses of the term "remake" ever with crazy interesting plot twists and much better development of more unexplored characters - but the original experience should be there too, and the fact that it is available is a fantastic thing and is nothing but a win-win - players get to choose which version they want [give me them ALL, personally, om nom nom more Zack content om nom feed me] and the companies always make more money as a result.

@Daniel36 It wasn't hugely popular outside Japan in console format due to the high price point, it really was the Ferrari of consoles at the time. The system you'd have on a poster on the wall. Their twin-pronged approach of having both arcade machine and home consoles helped massively. A lot of people couldn't afford the system but the machines were everywhere, especially in poorer regions like Latin America, South America or parts of Asia like Taiwan. The home console was the rich person's club, but the arcade machine felt like the arcade machine of the people lol.

Thing is, Nitro was never even finished and what was shown was more than just "a little buggy". UMK3 WaveNet was a complete game.

@Daniel36 The Neo Geo sold over a million, which is pretty insane when you consider the price of it and the competition.

I don't think we need to "both sides bad" the argument when the sides are "how dare you set up a GoFundMe for a medical expense, this implies that our country is not completely flawless and as the main character of the universe I cannot abide by such slander" and "shut up mate".

We know which side was wrong.