That Mario Sunshine total conversion should have been its own thing.

Take Rollin’ Rascal; it’s an indie game that plays almost exactly like Sonic and you even have a ball form. But everything is legally distinct, and it’s a super fun game. There’s a mechanic for “taking over” different robot enemies so you can use their powers on others or the environment to unlock secrets and shortcuts. The company that’s making it previously worked on (I think) a couple Sonic games, and I believe they’re working on a port of Mother 3 as well.

Edit: there’s a demo that they keep updating with cool new features, and there’s a multiplayer mode with races and different tracks. You can also customize your “rascal” with different colors and outfits. All free and incredibly fun.

Just call the target “Chuck” or something.

I hate the term “save scumming,” like I’m supposed to feel dirty for playing how I want (e.g. using quicksaves and such as checkpoints) and using shit that is built into the fucking game.

Kenshi is a pain in the fucking ass (still love it though). Do you realize how many times you’d have to restart from scratch, like totally restarting the game from the very beginning, if you didn’t use the save system?even just from dust bandits kicking the shit out of you when you first spawn in, to getting yourself killed off because you happened to enter an area at the wrong angle, the game is unforgiving as hell. You almost need to constantly save just to keep your progress.

And that’s not even getting into if the game crashes.

Sand: Raiders of Sophie

Would’ve been real fuckin nice for the author to put even a tiny hint of the game title in his article title.

I know a few years ago when it was announced they ended up just firing the people who were going to be working on it.

So… They just gave up without ever really trying.

Was it taken down to be worked on for the “revamp”? I seem to remember that being the case but apparently not.

I literally just saw an Instagram post from the guy who’s making it yesterday.

I’ve been playing through the Halo series again

I was never a fan of CoD but this feels kinda big. Like if the person who created Halo were to die.

I played through 4 and liked it enough. I skipped literally every cutscene, and it felt like a natural progression of the series (all the weather control crap and crazy mechanics).

I’ve been listening to the Halo 2 soundtrack (classic version) and it sounds very 2002-2003. Like you can hear the cheap early-2000s equipment and software that was used to make it.

The drums in almost all the tracks really remind me of the old Jak, Tak, and even Crash soundtracks because of it. And it just takes me right back to my childhood playing games on an old box tv with nothing but those speakers.

Why do you think there’s so many?

I mean the Fallout show is honestly giving great. Imo you should at least give it a chance. Especially if you’re even a tiny bit of a fan of the games.

It’s all still based on a video game though. Fallout was never a show first so it’s not “based off a TV show”

4 is actually pretty fun too. Have you played the DLC with the jetpack and weather weapons?

Imo 2 was just a little too rough compared to 3. I never finished 2, but I moved right onto 3 when it came out and I had a blast.

It’s like getting upset over the free choice in Knights of The Old Republic. It’s a story that technically by movie POV, should have already happened exactly as it did in the history books, yet in-game we can do whatever the hell we want, up to killing pretty much whoever we want and just running purely dark side. Technically, we shouldn’t be able to make our own choices and it should be a very linear game; but that’s not what the developers wanted to do.

Same thing with Fallout.

Huh?

It’s a few games and one season of a show (yes I know the second one started, but we’re only one episode in). It’s nowhere near the amount of bullshittery that is the MCU or Disney Star Wars.

All they really need to do for ES6 is bring Michael Kirkbride back and let him run wild with the lore.

True. And I do like the games, it just kinda felt a little strange the first time I played the first one.

Baranor is one of my favorite side characters in anything LOTR too.

Idk, I felt like the story for the games was pretty complete once I finished it. It’s a little weird with the whole “Shelob can shapeshift and helps this Gondorian guard get his petty revenge on Sauron” noncanonicity though.