Tom_Gamer

Huh, where are all the "Every single article is just bashing AI!" commentbros this time?

Surely Piko Interactive looks at this story and laughs their ass off

While a remastered version or remake would 100% be a gold mine, a take everybody agrees with, at this point in gaming with whoever would be in charge (Disney) I'm unsure if it'll come back in a satisfying way. I could see even kicking and slamming on random NPCs being neutered somehow...

Wow seems super weird and super cool. Looks like dude had a very interesting career in general!

Hell yeah, looks sick

I would love it if all the people full-throat defending AI would be forced to play the so-called games it's alleged to start "making" soon. Hey buddy, YOU didn't think there was anything wrong with this, so YOU play those games.

Considering these people have very little actual taste or perspective on anything outside of the internet they'd probably eat it up too. Just a perfect circle of slop grifters eating slop games fed to them by trillion dollar corpos, all of them with a **** eating grin too!

"The Jag DESERVES more 3D games"

Yeah we can all say words! Mode 7 N-Gage wen???

Actually reminds me of that one fighting game where you steal moves from your opponents...Fight for Life for 3DO. Supposedly horrible game but a cool mechanic at least lol

There's only one way to please me as a Nintendo fan...

Four guys playing Four Swords, if you know what I'm sayin'!

They need to bring Battlebots back just for this guy alone

I definitely noticed that they showed SMK in the original but "had to" blur World in the new version. A depressing sign of the times or the stakes just not high enough to risk it anymore?

They had to have ChatGPT write those descriptions, any actual human would be far too ashamed to type all of that. I'm talking like, near suicidal levels of shame.

So is this another case of everybody just reading the headline and heading straight to the comments or...

Thanks Audi Sorlie...

"The industry has a tendency to remake games which already have strong, timeless aesthetic sensibilities."

I mean more like they'll just remake absolutely anything and everything they want regardless of any other factor lol

It definitely doesn't look as interesting as the OG but these tweets are the same kinds of comments I saw when the first remake came out almost word for word, though not like the words are wrong. I really think making the games look better than Orta on the Xbox should be a bare minimum but doesn't look like that's gonna happen.

Now for the inevitable "If everybody ignores this Sega will think nobody cares about Panzer Dragoon and drop the series" vs. "Buying this will reward a mediocre game but might convince Sega to do more entries/proper remakes" debate! (I don't actually know what Sega has to do with the series at this point or if they still have ip ownership tbh)

That Miyamoto interview is so indicative of how business execs think. The game won't sell because it looks "too Japanese" then just a few years later they see they can market games better because it has an anime style.

And actually a lot of people in the west were indeed offput by anime styled graphics in the 90's, but the point is a top-down conservative culture of fear is toxic to creativity as well as even profits at times. Imagine looking at Nintendo's future biggest money maker of all time right in the eyes and saying "no."

Just have to say in case it isn't obvious that the same people that will spend an hour telling you how the Postal series is God's Gift to Humanity also are incapable of taking criticism of their own views without acting like a baby about it. Delicious irony!

I could say Elon would fail Media Literacy 101 with flying colors, but we all know he'd hire somebody to take the tests for him.

@Zybex242 I am suddenly extremely hoping they sell the paddle controller separately for Tempest 2000!

Never had heard of this one but does look cool, a blend of FPS and the adventure style games they had been making is really interesting. At the same time I can see why it wasn't a success, looks years older than it is despite the art direction and that was basically a death sentence for FPS popularity in the late 90's.

Arguably you still see that a bit even now, I've seen people overlook that RoboCop game because of it looking "bad" or "jank" regardless of its merits.

Weird idea or not I really would've liked to play this. Same with the cancelled Pandemic Batman game, I've always wanted to play that one too. Considering how many different devs made Batman games before it's actually a bit weird that Rocksteady has been the only one making them (at least games with the Bat actually playable) since 2009! Well not counting Arkham Origins I guess. Even Activision making Treyarch the "Spider-Man Game Company" didn't last nearly as long.

A Sonic Dimps Collection would be pretty great, right?

I'm all for this, somebody quick add it to Mario Kart/Party/Strikers Splatoon and Welcome Tour too

I like to think of Wade walking into a retro game store, knocking down some Sega Saturn cases, asking "Hey chump, what's your top selling console here?"
"Uhhh...PS2 sir Mr. Wade sir!"
"Not anymore, sucker!"

Immediately his legion of Atari goons ransack the hell out of the place, propping up 2600, 5200, and 7800 carts the likes of which we've never even seen, knifing the anime and Sonic energy drinks and replacing them with Astroids and Missile Command brand in record speed. Wade, clutching a gored and emptied Salior Moon can, droplets piddling on the counter:
"We own you now."

Will be following this even if I don't end up buying one, Vectrex was like the holy grail of retro consoles as a kid

Think it's pretty funny myself. If it's just some person doing it on purpose they must have a pretty strange sense of humor.

I had low expectations for this initially but the game's underrated for sure. I think one primary reason it was good is that it was developed right before the era of live-service/forever game hell(see Suicide Squad for example). It was great as a casual, fast paced, kind of Quake 3 like experience. Turning it into like, Apex Legends or Overwatch would've ruined it I think.

@Zeebor15 ay yeah that's right, I was gonna badmouth them in my comment but couldn't remember any exact details of what they'd done. Bobby alone makes me feel sick in the throat

Wow, an extremely rare W for movie studio execs! I'm wondering why Vivendi decided to cancel it to begin with though. I'm imagining some brainless manager walking into the studio, looking at five minutes of alpha footage, and going "Where's all the violence? Looks stupid and boring. What are we even paying these guys for?"

Damn who would've thought we needed a "removeddit" for the TE comments section lmao

I would say it's surprising or something to do with the modern internet but when I think about it, this has always been what happens when you gather enough nerds in one room(see BBS, Usenet "alt." era etc)

Nice, this has been one of the DBZ games I'm most curious to play for myself

@Quick_Man Yeah didn't the literal CEO or president of SEGA slap a dude in a meeting before? Pretty sure I read that a while back

Looks pretty cool, one thing I think would add to the visuals a lot (looks like it's already in the cutscenes but maybe not gameplay?) is having a stop motion-like or "stepped" animation style similar to Into the Spider-Verse and other recent media. Not sure if I've seen that in a 2D perspective game yet, though some of the animations in Super Mario Wonder are reminiscent I think.

Man I entirely forgot about the Viva Pinata show. I always thought it was so weird they tried to make such a franchise out of what seemed, to me, to be a sort of niche game or one without mainstream appeal, but I guess nobody expected Pokemon to be so successful either

@MegaDriven thanks, looked those games up and they seem interesting too. Funny how this kinda thing happens sometimes, like when there were those two SSX-like games coming out at almost the same time

@Sketcz this is indeed quite fascinating but I honestly think I will need somebody like that guy sitting next to me IRL and being a backseat gamer about it to convince me the game is not just "Falling Into Holes Simulator 1982"

No matter what people say about Polygon (much of which I can agree with!) those oral histories were amazing, definitely worthy of a book. The Street Fighter II entry was one of the best articles on a video game site ever, and was probably the best one since the 2000's. RIP 1up and OG Gamesradar

With the UI and camera perspective I'm wondering if Diablo was an influence here at all? But with some card system instead, which is funnily ahead of its time considering the card-based games these days.

Absolutely no idea if it plays like Diablo though, good look getting that licensing out of whoever the hell owns Fox Interactive IP now!

E.T. really is the gift that keeps on giving. Every few years or so I learn about yet another flop game somehow always on a different console from the last one I read about.

But this one is truly absurd, sounds like an old Onion article really.

@BausRifle seems like you're being pretty oversensitive about this

I would maybe think that the AI Pixar-like images are supposed to interest children but then the actual game doesn't look like it'd appeal to them(or anybody else really). Maybe it's a stupid ruse to trick kids and get money from parents' wallets? Just completely bizarre.

Nice, always in the mood for a good tube shooter. Tempest 2000 is one of my favorite games ever and N2O is probably one of my favorite PS1 games too

I feel like the real smoking gun for these is not having Scud Race. Throw an R360 in there too and I'd be there every day!

One of the things I've learned over the years is that people do not respond well to desperation. Not saying it's fair, but from what I've observed it's almost like an instinctual reaction people have to it. I mean some points are fair, and Sony was a new player, but I imagine retailers that saw this whole diatribe were cringing reading it!

Man this is the "Giant" Site That Could if there ever was one! A nice, long, oral history of its development and challenges through the years would be amazing.

R.I.P Ryan Davis

Maybe I'm thinking WAY too much into this, but since I was a kid I've noticed the Japanese design philosophy tended towards restricting the players freedom and ability to just "mess around" compared to western 3D games. Like you didn't really see "sandbox" style games as much. Well, besides the Mario games if you count those, which I do!

Sounds good to me, I feel like this game is dying for a major critical re-evaluation and the only reason it hasn't had one yet is

1. Released during the "dark age" of Crash so anybody that got to Warped(or Wrath of Cortex) and then dipped, probably just assumed all of the later entries were straight up garbage or something(and my memories were that Twinsanity was sandwiched between a bunch of mid handheld games), and just reading the critical reviews would seem to back that up.

2. No re-releases or anything to expose it to a younger audience more likely to gel with its humor. I think Wrath of Cortex kind of got a bump from the remasters as it feels like a logical next step, while Twinsanity and the later Radical developed games like Mind over Mutant just seem weird to people.

I remember seeing something about the sales of Mega Man games being shockingly low compared to other Capcom games, to the point where it can maybe be accurately called kind of a "cult hit." Of course it is a media franchise with anime etc and maybe in Japan it's different but it kind of tracks with rumors of Inafune and his self-promoting/taking credit style personality.

Speaking of anime I think the increasing popularity of it(in the West)would have led to Legends also being more popular had it been released a few years later. And I think it's why Battle Network was popular with a young audience at that time too, I know I was familiar with the games and the Saturday morning cartoon version airing at the same time.

@HoyeBoye yeah and I hope people continue to use it to not let Embracer off the hook! Was a wild couple of years there but I think in hindsight people will look at them as a major destroyer of the "AA" gamespace, and all because of some failed Saudi deal? The hell?

Anyway, this is great and Volition was a very interesting company. Makes sense that lots of them were reluctant to do the Saints Row thing but I think they(or at least whoever stayed on with them) ended up "embracing" the ridiculousness of the genre and leaning into it obviously was a success. Hope somebody-- wink wink --does a "Where Are They Now" style piece on them someday!

imo file this under the same BS press releases as the "Candyland Movie" and countless other examples lmao

Although the Battleship movie with Rihanna ended up being real somehow, so...