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One gen back is "old". 2 or more gens back is "retro". Them's the rules

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in theory I think this is a perfectly fine statement. However - in the last 5 years, we've had Colors, Generations, and Origins - still weird the Adventure games aren't on Switch - it's gonna be so fucking funny in a year or two when they announce a remaster of like Heroes or Unleashed instead

Idk I think people could maybe just trying playing the Mario Kart game Nintendo made for like a month before trying to force it to be more like literally every other Mario Kart game they have ever played

heard an ad on a podcast today that was like "yeah massage chairs are expensive but you deserve one anyway" and I thought wow, they've really misjudged just how much of a broke loser I am Then it pivoted to "and that's why you should buy this car that comes with massagers built into the seats"

I feel like the "smoothening" of game design over the past decade or so has changed the way many players interact with the art form for the worse. Friction often serves a purpose. If something feels unsatisfying, why? Does that feeling contribute to the meaning of what you're experiencing?

There was not a lot in that ArcSys Direct for me, but Daisuke WAS SPITTING about the game industry. Hearing that gave me a lot of hope for ArcSys' future and in turn felt very fitting for a first direct since it is clear the company is going in a slightly new direction.

look, ask me the same question a week from now and like 7 or 8 of these could be totally different, but at the moment this feels like the right list

@grubb.wtf Mario Maker on Switch did better than you think. More than 1/2 a Luigi's Mansion 3! Dare to dream

watched The Shining and I'm confident I would not have been corrupted by the evil hotel. i'm built different

An Indian-Muslim socialist who is openly pro Palestine is going to be mayor of a city that is bigger than 38 states

"We have to pull back on palestine support" "we have to pull back on trans rights" "Dems should be more centrist" EAT HOT ASPHALT YOU FUCKING LOSERS!!!

rip bozo

It's crazy that two decades of "are games art?" dialogue has resulted in an answer that says "Yes, but only when it's MGS or TLoU or one of the three biggest visual novels ever."

Hypersensitive dorks eager for validation did everything they could to throw the medium under the bus unless it presented itself like the prestige entries of other mediums and now we don't get novel control schemes that provide unique and imaginative challenges and gameplay scenarios anymore.

'Ranma 1/2' Season 2 - Teaser youtu.be/gwyS6IivzV8?...

Once more with feeling

Same folks who insist there are only two genders have 50 subclasses for men...

look. I'm broke as hell. it would help. PayPal: @maplearcmm Bandcamp: decimae.bandcamp.com

i am uncomfortable with the idea of calling a video game console that can still be factory reset and still play the majority of games "bricked" because someone was thick enough to try to run a piracy cartridge's "switch 2 bypass" firmware on it. really feels like promoting the idea of ewaste

in the 1% chance scenario that this game shadowdrops in the next week, I'm gonna need everyone that complained about the Switch 2 launching without a big single-player 1st party game to put their money where their mouth is and make Metroid a best-seller

we have commodified everything. games, movies, everything. its all formulas and tests and feedback. with its history and art design, marathon should have been a singleplayer shooter, or at least shipped with a singleplayer campaign. but those numbers wouldn't stack up the way executives want.

something something Erdtree last year something something eligible for Geoff's GotY

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Discoursing about the Mario/DK "timeline" is inherently silly and always comes off as weirdly performative nerdery because the people actually making the games do not care, but also anybody trying to do that while ignoring that Mario Galaxy explicitly rebooted that universe is just kinda yapping

put kid-Pauline in Mario Kart you cowards

ngl, really didn't have "3D DK will be an Odyssey prequel" on my bingo card game looks like a banger

this game rules. Solid entry in the Goose Game/Little Kitty-style "animals fucking stuff up in a sandbox" genre

Mario Kart World Geoguessr is going to go wild in a few months

tbh this also describes most real GTA missions, so hard to blame *this* one on the Benz