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I'm really looking forward to Prime 2 Remastered. This video does a good job articulating why I like Prime 2 so much. Probably one of the better Youtube videos I've watched in a while, even. Especially the way it zeroes in on the soundtrack and the effect every BGM has on the player. The...

You're totally right. "I hope they never make any more Metroid games. Fuck getting any further projects involving my favorite series growing up" That better? They've got a whole engine here that can be used to make more games that will hopefully not make the incredibly easily-avoidable...

Damn, that sounds horrible. At least we're getting a Prime 5? Use the engine from this and fix everything people hated and maybe we'll get the game this should have been by 2027 or 2028. Remaster the other Primes first plox. You need about a bajillion Green Crystals to beat the game. Even if...

So the Buga Dildo was basically just a psyop to delegitimize the Buga Sphere. Not surprised, given how literally everything I read online about the Sphere was inundated with comments all with the same derisive tone, "lol this looks like a 5 year old made it as a science project" type comments...

Maybe towards the end they're running on fumes because of whatever is making them sick. I think his wife died right around when Heretics came out, so that may have also had an impact on Chapterhouse. He himself died 2 calendar years after the wife.

Heretics must be the one where Duncan Idaho gets super powers of sex so that he can go and have orgies with the Order of Matre or whatever the all-female collective is called. Should have just made Duncan Idaho immortal instead of reviving him a hundred times. IIRC Chapterhouse was released in...

Good old Jimmy C needs to give us a Future War movie to bring Terminator full circle. Yeah, I know T2 turns it into an open spiral where they maybe prevent Judgment Day, but T1 had us on the way to a closed loop. The Terminator Resistance video game is the closest thing we have to a T3 that...

On Tuesday I've got the day entirely off and am going to take a swing at a Prime 4 marathon to try and get the game down, considering how little time I've had for it. Is 12 hours a pretty accurate guess at runtime? I've heard as low as 10 hours and as high as 18 hours, but 12 seems to be the...

Are Heretics and Chapterhouse worth reading or should one stop with Book 4? I hate unresolved cliffhangers and I know Book 6 ends that way. If Book 7 existed then of course I'd go all the way to the end, but as it is I get the impression 4 is the best stopping point to avoid frustration. Also...

Doesn't Myles chirp in regularly during the desert section? (Which is I think later? Unless that's in the first world and I haven't seen it yet) I've only played the first world (most of it, I think) and while Myles didn't annoy me as much as I expected, he IS intrusive, and it's difficult to...

Everywhere else that we've seen Metroids pop up, they were in some sort of containment / being used as weapons in their base form. With one exception: the Impact Crater in Metroid Prime, which had base form Metroids as well as Fission (split into two when attacked) and Hunter (base with a...

For a split second I processed this as Fred Sanford somehow won.

The timeline goes: Metroid > Metroid Prime series (all of them) > Metroid 2 > Super Metroid > Metroid Other M > Metroid Fusion > Metroid Dread The only real reason to have the Metroid Primes all set before Metroid 2 was so they could bring back Metroids as an antagonist (since they get...

Just gonna take a moment to appreciate how cool Epic 2.0s are. What's the best-looking Epic 2.0? Personally I'd say either Paladin, Ranger, Berserker, or Monk. All of these are sick. Double Ranger 2.0s looks insane. For Epic 1.0s I'd probably give the duke to Warrior: Ranger 1.0 and...

Definitely play this on Quality Mode rather than Performance. It still runs in 60 FPS and looks WAY nicer. Ridiculously good-looking game. Probably the best-looking game ever published by Nintendo. The graphical fidelity actually looks modern and the art direction is great too. ...most of the...

Only in flashbacks, huh? Well that's disappointing, considering we see it in the trailer. Anybody playing this? I might not have much time for it until the weekend but I'll at least give it a couple hours this afternoon if I can.

Possibly related - This looks like some sort of marketing for a new Diablo game.

Yeah I'm also wondering WTF is up with the suit. It looks like something out of Tron. Making her a mute when she has all these guys yapping at her was also a choice

Didn't preorder, I guess we'll see if I'm able to pick one up tomorrow as a walk-in. Asked GameStop about a midnight launch, sounsed like that sort of thing doesn't happen anymore.

I'd love to see a 3D version of Super Metroid using the Metroid Prime engine. Pretty much the only remake of Super that would actually be worthwhile to do because it'd be so different (no Mercury Steam 2.5D remake of Super, TY) At this point given how rare Metroid games are and all, it feels...

Out of curiosity, what's people's beef with AEW's shows? What should they do differently? Is the issue with it the look/presentation, the structure and pacing, the matches, the character development, or something else? Right now neither company really interests me, so I don't know what AEW's...

Looking at that article, it sounds like the other way around? They say that the handholding Navi characters aren't present for most of the game. At this point, I'll probably like the game because my expectations are so low and I'm sure it'll be decent enough. If I'd gone in blind with sky-high...

I also wasn't crazy about Dread. Only played through it once, beat the game, then later when I replayed Metroid 1-4 I found that I had no desire whatsoever to continue onto 5. I did try, and turned it off after about an hour. Wasn't into Samus Returns either so I guess I don't like the...

The Prydain Chronicles is another good series for any age. Sort of a Lord of the Rings with heavy Welsh/Irish/Hibernian/Nordic influences. Five books. Very easy to read, compulsively so. Aside from LOTR and Harry Potter, Prydain is the third book series that I could read every few years and have...

Nirgon vs. Araysar If this doesn't end in Araysar being the asshat, then the USSR wins.

Kind of surprised that the woman is on the right. I would have 100% expected a story like this to be an angry leftie. Hate crime hoaxes have been at an all-time high since 2021, and it's mostly women using politics or race to drum up sympathy / make themselves the main character. Like that one...

The lore in EQ hasn't been interesting in a long time, as I understand it. The last time I personally got much out of it was during the Velious remake (level 115) where we had Velious get nuked by Vulak and have to go to Sleeper's Tomb to stop him. Even the other dragons are generally against...

That's cool. I've noticed a lot of weird music similarities over the years between unrelated game properties. Everyone takes inspiration from somewhere. That sounds like Flaaghra's battle music. Omega Pirate is as far as I ever got with Prime 1 on Hard Mode back in the day. So all I had left...

Anybody who hasn't, do yourself a favor and get this while it's $9. Like Tuco said $9 is way more than worth it just to play the first half of the game.

This version of FF12 is the one they used for the Zodiac Age remaster for modern systems, if you want to play a (very very nice) upscale of it instead. They also changed it a bit to let every character pick two classes on the ability board instead of one.

Never played any of the 3D Castlevanias, just all the 2D ones. If I ever do a 3D one, now I know which one to play. I maintain that Metroid Prime 2 is good, and better than people remember. Just play it in the dark and stuff so the atmosphere can be absorbed. Too bad there's no remaster of it...

Who are you and why are you pretending that you want to win?

The movie IS based on "Who Goes There?" - "Frozen Hell" is the expanded version of that original novella, with about 25-30% more pages and a lot of changes to the existing ones. Turns out that Campbell wrote a lot more of this story than what was published, and it fell on his son (IIRC) to find...

Most criticism of AEW is overblown, and mostly by people who never actually watch it. As someone who actually is familiar with the product, though, it does have a lot of room for improvement, and didn't measure up to all the promise it had in 2019. There was a pretty big responsibility hefted...

Missed most of it here, like I was saying before, the whole thing got rushed through. This should probably be more of an "event", with a notification at the top and a couple more days for each round. Nobody around here has substance abuse issues, everyone is squeaky clean and makes zero...

This is still the best match I've ever watched in-person, and the first five minutes or so are the loudest crowd I've ever heard in-person. Nobody was sitting down. Helps that both guys had to wait 12 years to wrestle the other, and they got to do it in front of 22,000 people in NYC. AEW catches...

Not yet. Maybe in another year. Guessing Miles won't be around for that long no, but the menu screen has six entries for companions and there are six main areas (besides whatever the final area is going to be) so chances are every area will have a companion to rescue and babysit. Eh, we'll...

It's possible Prime 2 won't hold up as well as I remember whenever they do put out a remaster. I only played through it twice (in 2004 and 2010). I remember the individual areas dragging a bit (Agon Wastes went on too long, then Torvus Bog went on way too long). Which is a byproduct of them...

Same here, my most-played games are EQ, FF Tactics, and Bloodborne (which is kinda old at this point). Got Diablo 2 Resurrected. Any other Diablo 2 classes interesting enough to spend some time checking out besides Necromancer? Almost definitely going to play Necro in a month but might want to...