Bro looks like he aged twelve years in the past four.

I see Star Control anything and I upvote.

I’ve been saying for a while that Microsoft’s best bet from here is to turn the Xbox into a Windows box, update Windows to work decently on handhelds, and launch an Xbox portable. Kill the console/PC distinction and leave Sony flat-footed to compete with Nintendo.

The only challenge to this approach is Valve beating them to it from the other direction.

I remember the chill I felt when I first saw an announcement with a countdown to an announcement for the next CoD. I could tell we were going somewhere bad, and this was probably eight years ago.

I noticed the announcement trailer doesn’t even show any footage of the original, which makes it the only remaster trailer I think I’ve ever seen that doesn’t do a split screen or other comparison at some point.

And the first thing they mention is new Spatial Audio and haptic triggers. It’s like selling a new car and bragging about the cup holders first.

I feel like this is a good litmus test. If you have to double the price of the original, your remake/remaster is coming too early.

Right. They’re planning to release a new version of the game with microtransactions and likely some crypto who knows what because they were able to snipe the trademark.

Upvoting despite the Xitter link because people need to know about the scummy shit going down with Flappy Bird.

Welcome to dystopia. Jesus Christ this is bleak shit.

93/100 is a fraction. This is meaningless.

Edit: to be clear, the HEADLINE is meaningless. The actual cost from the article is £390.

Was this game named by an AI?

Also novel: the dong wipe shot transition.

I think they need to do this now before Microsoft does it first. Xbox is flailing and the daylight they can see from there is the Xbox/PC ecosystem. Turning Xbox from a box to a brand that merges PC and console into a fluid system would be the best way to pivot the market and put Sony on the back foot.

Your points are totally valid, but I will share my reasons for having faith in this particular project:

1. The creators have been delivering projects for about 40 years now (not Kickstarter, but mostly as Toys for Bob).
2. The project has progressed significantly already - prototypes have been built and assets have been created. It’s not just a speculative project.
3. The project is of a manageable scope. It’s not planning to revolutionize anything or deliver innovative technology. It’s well-trodden ground, technically speaking.

I will admit that there’s risk in it being a small team chasing nostalgia, so even if it does deliver something, the quality may not be what we all hope it could be. But I have enough faith in the team that it can’t be worse than Star Control 3.

I could probably Name That Tune for 90% of the songs even to this day.

I’m looking forward to it because it’s the official sequel, from the original creators, over thirty years after the fact, to my favorite PC game of all time. Star Control 2 (Free on Steam but now renamed to Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters due to a bizarre copyright squabble) is an open-world (galaxy?) sci-fi adventure with brilliant and hilarious writing, endearing hand-drawn pixel art, and phenomenal music. There’s nothing quite like it. It was crafted with a deep love for gaming and I have no doubt the sequel is being treated with the same kinds of reverence.

EVERYBODY BACK THIS PROJECT! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pistolshrimp/free-stars-children-of-infinity/description)

Yeah but I think if you average out “direct exposition” and “mind-boggling WTF” You come out in a good place.

That movie is such a rollercoaster you owe it to yourself to finish. It’s just an accelerating spiral of weirdness.

Beat me by one minute! I recommended this and everything by Sam Barlow.

Her Story, Telling Lies, and Immortality (all games by Sam Barlow) are uniquely meta/postmodern FMV games with no input besides consideration, selection, search, and other very democratizable actions. I bet those would go over really well!