I don’t remember, but it was one of those yellow cartridges the size of your palm. I think they were knockoffs. Can’t say for sure.
It was a side-scrolling fighting game with tiny martial arts dudes. It could be played co-op. I think the bald character was overpowered, or I just felt like he was.
It was either a tournament style, attacking a rival dojo or both. Or something else.
I liked the cool art on the cartridge.
Don’t go all in with Steam. The people in charge right now are kinda old and the vultures are already circling.
Nostalgia filter up to the max, because everything else was a choice. It’s meant to be about 7 seasons long, with one year explored per season. And in today’s state of things, that’s a very big gamble to take.
Oh. It looked like one of those narrative, fake choice Telltale games and it had me fall down that train of thought.
Visually, it’s subjective. Gameplay wise, I agree with you.
Earlier these few months, an article popped up educating indie devs on how to attract a publisher and it basically boiled down to “appeal to their money-grubbing soulless husks”, because investors don’t care about games, they care about making profit out of an investment.
But it defended this kind of practice because profiteers care about results. They want a game to be successful, because it makes them money. However, they’ll also cut their losses early if it doesn’t look good.
Developers on the other hand just want to express their creative vision, even if this might bring them to ruin.
And it’s this cooperation between realism and idealistic, when done properly, that brings out the greatness of a game. Or so they said.
Unfortunately, a lot of the decision makers involved are idiots who fail to understand the need for balance between the costs of production and unhinged desire for success, artistic or material.
Kingdoms of Amalur failed because the people in charge spent their money like crazy on comfort and knickknacks.
Concord failed because the publisher threw a large sack of money at the devs and then fucked right off without a care in the world, leaving a bunch of headless chickens to run around it with no purpose or direction.
New World failed because it was a project run by scammers looking to scam investors (or so I’ve been told).
Highguard failed because the owner was dumb. And probably still is. Also, Tencent was their silent investor, who pulled out when shit went sideways.
Indeed, the formula for a good game doesn’t guarantee success. Even the best of games will fail if the conditions allow it. Yet, for those who simply do not give damn about what they’re making, their carelessness will make damn sure they guarantee its failure.
Vibe-coded for the lulz.
Or something.
PPSSPP because I can’t trust second hand dealers anymore.
Reminds me of an old article. I forgot the details, but it was about a suicidal man who failed his attempt and was arrested in a country where suicide was illegal and punishable by death.
No idea what happened to him or if it was even true, but this reminds me of that.
Will the protagonist lightly touch a car and then proceed to fly across the map?
Is this why they cancelled the new series? Did they know or did they make sure?
The ones that survive that is?
I’m watching Doctor Who again. But only from season 5 (of 2005 portion) because I stopped before the final bit of the River Song saga and now I want to see it all.
It’s interesting to me because I forgot many details, such as the reason for Amy and Rory’s later difficulties. Or at least, i didn’t pay enough attention to them back then and I’ll probably miss others this time…
I do recommend High Potential, even though it has many… difficulties, such as the protagonist having perfect memory, high IQ, attention to details, a wide mental database of random knowledge and the rest of the cast seeming… lacking in comparison. Why? Because I watched it and so must you.
Thank you for the well wishes.
A recent study performed on the large batch of one person revealed that pure black used as menu button colour is unlikely to draw out a positive emotion. When asked for more details, the study participants suggested having a more colourful UI would make it more visually pleasing and subtly influence the player’s perception of the game itself.
However, the colour pallet should not be in conflict with the rest of the game or its theme, but rather to complement it.
Both the study participant and I wish you well on your journey.
Nah, didn’t you hear? Ever game that fails does so due to DEI!
Real people are gullible in the sense that it’s way easier to notice trouble when it happens to others than when you’re at the center of it.
The triggers for recognition change alongside perspective so it’s harder to notice something you see as a 3rd person when viewed in 1st person.
Liam Neeson. No wait, he’s a Taken actor. Nvm.
Amazingly though, jump scare pranks are quite popular in the low effort short videos communities.