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To what extent does "being a good game" necessitate playing directly to the unique characteristics of the medium? In other words, suppose there's a beautifully executed linear-story game that adopts Hollywood/cinema techniques. Let's say this game measures up to higher-tier movies and TV series...

Problem is, I won't have the chance to play it any time soon, maybe ever. If and when that time comes, I may not be able to dig up old discussions about it. I've missed a lot of interesting thoughts that way, so I decided spoilers weren't really my main concern.

Well NOW I wanna play it.

The biggest thing I look at is what significance there is to the reveal in-context. Getting a shotgun is just getting a shotgun, games had thousands of shotguns even before Borderlands came along and added a few killion more. Getting the villain's signature sword is a surprising twist. I can't...

You're not missing much. In short, there were forums, but there wasn't a ton of overlap between people who frequented the main site and people who frequented the forums. They grew apart and the forums were closed, and now people like to reference it as a silly in-joke because of the new forums.

Goldeneye just 100% doesn't hold up. Even within the N64 library it's basically obsolete next to Perfect Dark. And neither of those are worth playing over... Almost any shooter made since. Dangus is right, Timesplitters is the best candidate if you want to scratch that specific itch. But I'll...

GTA San Andreas. I want to like it. The city's good. The characters are good. There's a lot of ambitious ideas, and that they actually implemented so many of them on the PS2 is impressive as hell. It's just not fun to play. The driving is okay but not great. Combat is worse than okay. The...

I keep seeing Blades in the Dark get mentioned, why is it so good/important?

PC upgrades are the priority for me. I might eventually get a console, and I feel like PS5 is more likely, but we'll see what happens once they're out.

I think part of it is that FLUDD interrupts your momentum and flow. Stopping to aim, detouring to swap nozzles, slowly hovering across long gaps. Don't get me wrong, FLUDD isn't all bad. It's actually a pretty impressive way to expand 3d platforming, because you have more verticality now. But...

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That was the moment I had to stop treating Mario World like Mario 3. Which made me realize how open the rest of the map could be. I love Mario 3, but the overworld map in World is just *so* much better.

My favorite part is Pikachu's dismissive "Get a load of THAT guy" face.

Yeah, the closest thing I've found to a solution is just tagging release years onto the title. Prince of Persia 2008, Doom 2016, etc. It mostly works but isn't ideal. "Hitman 2 2018" is extra awkward, but tbh I mostly pretend that there were no Hitman games before Blood Money. At least we have...

In this case, they actually made the reboots distinct specifically by NOT having a subtitle. Hitman: Codename 47 is the original and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin is the sequel. The reboots (which technically aren't 'reboots' per se, they mostly ignore the older games but it's not a separate...

If you're only gonna play one Zelda game, it should probably be either Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time. Not because they're the best Zeldas necessarily, but because they're the most Zelda-y Zeldas. Link's Awakening might be worth trying, since all the gameboy games (Awakening, Oracle, other...

Somebody take Hitman, it's guuuud

Super Metroid is the textbook answer. It really is perfectly executed, beat for beat. I had it spoiled at least a decade before I experienced it myself, and it was still fantastic. But in my heart it's probably Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. And then the series never did anything that cool...