Very curious what direction they’ll take this one. Loved Of Rice and Ruin, but it’s a novelty that couldn’t just be the same thing twice. And it sounds like they’re not trying to do the same thing twice, but I’m dying to know what else this will be.
I just want a new Punch-Out!! to happen.
If that’s what it takes to get a new Punch-Out!! game, you know what, fine. As long as I do get a new game.
I think HL3’s meme status is the only reason a lot of gamers today do know it. If it had come out, it would’ve been forgotten.
This new edition concludes the Half-Life 2 development story, with never-before-seen concept art from Episode One and Episode Two, along with ideas and experiments for the third episode that never came to be.
Not that it should be a surprise to anyone, but is this the first time Valve has openly admitted that Episode 3 is officially cancelled?
There’s an entire genre of fantastic arcade/versus puzzle games not named Tetris. And that whole genre lies forgotten in ruins now. The one game that survived the longest was Puyo Puyo, but ironically, you can blame Tetris for killing that IP in the end.
I wish any developer luck in trying to do anything at all with this genre, give me something new and I will be first in line to buy ten copies. But I don’t think Pajitnov, or anyone else for that matter, will ever find even 1% of the success Tetris did. I just don’t think audiences still want this genre anymore, they just want Tetris and only Tetris.
This dumbass contacted Nintendo to taunt them about how he’s gonna stream leaked pirated copies. Hard to have sympathy for this idiot for poking the bear.
Puyo Puyo Champions - After the video essay I posted two weeks ago ended up doing so much better than I expected, 11k+ views and 600+ likes, I decided to try streaming some ranked for the first time in 2.5 years. I’m still cracked.
Riichi Mahjong - This really ought to be worth a lot more for how rare it is.
Persona 4 Golden - Finally coming back to this, where’d I leave off again?
Mobile very quickly turned into a race-to-the-bottom. When the market is flooded, any paid title has an incredibly difficult time standing out. So in order to get players in the door, you gotta make it f2p. And in order to maximize profits for a f2p game, you gotta employ all the worst dark patterns, because that’s what all your competitors are doing too.
And this has led to a feedback loop of consumer expectations. People understand that this is just what mobile is now, so people who want anything else have given up on mobile and are instead buying games on other platforms. Releasing a premium title on mobile is basically just trying to sell to the wrong audience.
Puyo Puyo Champions - After the video essay I posted two weeks ago ended up doing so much better than I expected, 11k+ views and 600+ likes, I decided to try streaming some ranked for the first time in 2.5 years. I’m still cracked.
Riichi Mahjong - This really ought to be worth a lot more for how rare it is.
Persona 4 Golden - Finally coming back to this, where’d I leave off again?
Bring back versus puzzle games. Puyo Puyo is more or less the only surviving IP today, and even that is only barely on life support now that Sega has banished it to Apple Arcade exclusivity.
The whole damn genre lies in ruins now and I miss it so much. Someone, anyone, make a new game please.
Do they though? The biggest and most profitable games right now are all live services. Consumers are very much voting for live services.
Rivals has found its niche, but I don’t think even that is pulling in the kinds of numbers Warner expects for a AAA they sunk this much money into.
Skullgirls, Vampire Savior - 2nd in SG, 1st in VSav at locals. This happened in grand finals
Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] - Didn’t do too hot in netplay biweekly. Gordeau matchup takes years off my lifespan.
Riichi Mahjong - skill
Splatoon 3 - Splatfestin’
Also finally published the big secret video essay I’d been working on. It’s about Puyo Puyo.
Splatoon 3 had the Splatoween Fest over the weekend. Same as last year’s event, just a typical Splatfest but with some spooky aesthetics added.
I’m not sure how I feel about this.
In a vacuum, the app itself is a nice value add for your NSO subscription. I like that they have both single-length and extended versions of each track, so you can loop them seamlessly without an intro/outro. Loopable OSTs can be hard to find sometimes, when I was trying to decide what BGM to use for a li’l video essay I recently put out I had to narrow it down to something I could find an extended version of.
But what’s annoying is that this is the only official way to listen to Nintendo music. It’s either this, unofficial rips on Youtube (and I would not be surprised if these start getting taken down), or the seven seas.
I just wanna buy an album and listen to it offline, DRM-free. I want to be able to shuffle these tracks in with the rest of my music library.
But that’s been a problem since before the new app, so I can’t really blame the app for this, can I?
Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 got a remaster a few years back.
What am I supposed to be looking at here?
Steam Forums really are a hellhole that has allowed the worst toxicity to incubate and spread. They’ve got to crack down.