YoohooKangaroo

the movie is finally in sight for longtime fans.

Please tell me the names and addresses of videogame players who think movies based on games are good.

I don’t think Michael Bay is doing Heat just because there’s a shootout in a city. It may be the worst insult that Michael Mann has ever been subjected to.

I would normally be the first to say the script is more important than the director. Not in the case of Michael Bay though.

involve Garret Dillahunt’s character

Wait what. So I AM going to see this movie, surprisingly?

What about the Train to Busan writer though

Polygon said this in a different article:

So why remake Cowboy Bebop? Nemec says he wouldn’t dare try. […] Nemec and his team […] could tell a new set of stories in the show’s exciting, known universe.

But the current article says this:

10 episodes, like most Netflix series, that isn’t enough to cover all the story in the entire 26-episode anime. It’s possible Netflix either condenses the story a bit

like it’s a re-do of the series, almost episode per episode. Polygon should print a retraction of the director’s lies in that other article.

Samurai Flamenco (and the same director’s other shows like Durarara!!).

I’m surprised you haven’t watched it already. You correctly mentioned Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo being superb, and said after that there was nowhere to go but down, but the creator of those 2 beloved shows made other shows!

Space Dandy is also good, but not Cowboy Bebop / Samurai Champloo good.

That comment was nuts, #11 is one of the best.

Whoa wait a minute, I was going to say that I knew I was forgetting a really bad one somewhere, but I looked up #11 and you’re talking about Toys in the Attic? That’s one of the best ones, and also one of the best "random one-off" episodes of any series ever!

but the newest entries feel different somehow

The old ones are exploratory and adventurous like you said, while the new ones have millions more textboxes and camera cut scenes and interruptions. It’s the same problem as what happened in later Mario and Zelda games compared to early ones. The direct honest straightforward videogame-ness was killed off by misguided designers.

having to support almost 1,000, with modeling but also balance in battle and what moves can be inherited by other Pokemon in this egg group and all of these other little details is a genuinely massive task, especially when you add in the fact that Gamefreak is not a large studio all told (less than 200 people total I think, and that probably includes things like payroll and the like) and are releasing on an annual schedule.

OK then they can hire more people and release every two years instead of every year. You’re claiming these like they’re obstacles that can’t be helped, but they’re choices. The people in charge make more money by limiting the scope.

Sakamichi No Apollon, Space Dandy

And if you watch the first 5, feel free to skip #6. That’s the worst episode of the series.

That would be a mistake if a person didn’t also watch Sakamichi No Apollon.

The challenging AI again spikes rather noticeably from average to above average, though, and the result is that a lot of overtaking at higher difficulties inevitably involves contact.

I don’t see any inevitable connection between increased AI and more frequent smash-ups. Do you mean deliberately crashing into AI to gain an edge, which is perfectly valid (unlike in multiplayer) and an honored age-old custom in racing games?

The fact that Forza Horizon 5 will load from the Xbox Series X’s solid-state drive also gave the developers a lot more freedom, creative director Mike Brown said. […] (Players on Xbox One, of course, won’t see as much fidelity in the visuals, and will face more loading times in situations where one would expect to see them, Brown said.)

On the new consoles, are there still loading times when fast traveling or starting an event, or moving between garage / game world / auction house, and all that? The game world was always seamless from Horizon 1 in 2012, but there’s no details in the article about actual effects of the new SSD and fast data hardware.

will probably add manual gears to have some challenge this time around.

Probably?! Definitely use manual gearbox unless you have finger disability. That layer of inputs and control is part of what makes driving the cars fun.

While seasons change on a weekly basis, you’re free to change between them manually if I remember correctly in FH4. I think this was added post launch.

Where’s that option? There isn’t anything like that in FH4. You can set the season when you create a custom event, but that’s only for that one event, it doesn’t apply in general to free roam open world driving. Just like how Horizon 1 in 2012 had no option to set your preference for day/night, the conditions are all forced and restricted without any player choice.

The pentagon is exploring every

Oh we can all rest easy then.

Anyway about the trailer arguments, it’s obviously something alien or sentient in origin since a purely physical anomaly wouldn’t have specifically undone the lady’s seatbelt and opened the door and whisked her outward and upward out of the car door like it knows what it’s doing. That or the creators don’t care either way.

I said the trash was 3, 4, and 5. That’s before any pandemic happened. Also how "hard" people worked is irrelevant to the quality of their work. If a game is terrible then yes there is reason to insult the people involved. The Crew 2 shows similar fundamental incompetence in videogame design.

You can restrict my comment to the leads and leadership, not necessarily the rank and file if that’s better.

a difference between a game running against natural limitations against its hardware

Framerate is never a "hardware" "limitation". Framerate is about game design. Every console and every game can be 60fps if the developers prioritize framerate instead of detail, which they never do because people are more superficially impressed by detail. And secondly because people accept the limp excuse of "hardware limitation!" so the devs and publisher have nothing to lose. And thirdly because bad framerate sells new consoles and new remasters down the line.

NES had 60fps. SNES had 60fps. N64 had 60fps. Xbox 360 had 60fps. Anything can be 60fps if devs choose to do it and budget the graphics accordingly.

like Just Cause

That’s not a good comparison. People need better clearer definitions of "stupid" because while Just Cause is "stupid" goofy playground action, it does NOT have a stupid toxic conceit of weird gross racism / colonial fantasy / rape jokes / child abuse (FC6) layered on top like the last few FarCry games. JC is more like a respectable sandbox.

keep ending up with a brainless, expensive, sandbox like Just Cause; over and over and over again in different locations

That’s not bad for Mario and Zelda so why no-story sandbox bad for other games?

so, in fact, your knowledge of a "stereotype" directly affects whether or not that thing is actually a stereotype.

Let’s try another version: "Whether you have the disease directly tells you whether a pandemic exists or not." Oh wait everyone knows that’s false. And falls under Personal Anecdotes Aren’t All Of Reality.

Strange how instead of arguing against the point, you’re arguing "against" how consistent and accurate the point is.

His point was that it makes him uncomfortable when people criticize a videogame. According to him, they’re not allowed to criticize a videogame if the videogame was bad, because, "OF COURSE it was bad! Everyone knows that!"

I don’t go to a mexican restaurant and complain about the quality of their burgers.

If that’s true then you don’t understand the point of a restaurant review.

You made up arbitrary expected/not expected thing to rationalize your dislike of critical videogame reviews. (And, of course, weird racism tropes are inside your random example.)

Did you actually expect otherwise?

Translation: "reviewers shouldn’t criticize a thing if it was expected to bad anyway."

You forgot to explain why it’s a problem that someone criticized a videogame.

bad track record in the political department should manage their expectations.

So what you’re saying is that a reviewer shouldn’t say a bad thing is bad, just because the creators made bad things before. That’s a common irrational deflection from the horrible horrible situation of an article that criticized a videogame.

"And if your interest lies in the search for any semblance of proper representation, you’re better off looking elsewhere. " Oh, so not in the game that has a rocket backpack and macarena launcher? Got it!

Just because a game has silly things, doesn’t mean it’s OK and beyond criticism to have obnoxious stereotypes. Pretty simple stuff here.