While it's something a lot of people complain about, I personally really appreciate how Smash's EarthBound rep greatly prioritizes the surrealism and parody-Americana over the dark spooky side.
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this is the most bizarre content farm article i've ever read in my life
People who say "game preservation is a waste of time because almost everything not legally available is bad shovelware" have not listened to enough Tim Follin.
I'm surprised that no mascot horror games have tried to make a character who serves as a pastiche of the old Walt Disney "Uncle Walt" persona and 50s Disneyland TV show - I guess it's just so old and poorly-preserved that nobody in the gaming market would be nostalgic for it, but the idea of a CEO who's business has a primary market of kids selling products with a "cozy, friendly" human persona is nightmarish when you think about it, much moreso than the Bozo the Clown/Barney types more commonly used in satire, even if Walt himself wasn't exactly the Hitler 2 people make him out to be.
Inside you there are two wolves. Unless you have a trisomy.
I'm starting to dislike how people are portraying Peppino as this badass violent force of good instead of a deluded neurotic weirdo - like, part of the reason I love Pizza Tower so much is because of how unconventional and un-aspirational Peppino's personality is for a gaming protagonist, so seeing him undergo fandom Doomguyification where people act like he's admirable doesn't sit right with me.
I think people tend to overexagerate how little Smash changes characters because... it does, quite a bit in fact, it's just that most of its changes have primarily been balance-based instead of anything diegetic. 3DS/Wii U Bowser and Brawl Bowser are completely different beasts, even if Bowser's flame breath didn't become a projectile.
Bring back the act of turning bad cartoons into inescapable memes as soon as streamers or reviewers mention them in passing once. I am not seeing nearly enough Family Gal discussion.
Slap City is making me wish Smash gave characters alt costumes where they've inexplicably got purple or green skin.
i really, really hope the simpsons weren't too spot on with this recent chinese bear thing.
I like how Chadtronic's Temu sponsor bit isn't hiding Temu's reputation for useless bootleg ****e at all, but instead using it as a selling point. In a weird way, I think it's the most sincere a YouTube sponsor has felt to me.
I have a feeling NASB 2 will be one of those "bad sequel, great game in it's own right" games, which I'm personally OK with.
My Friendly Neighborhood feels like it was made to be played by children (compliment)
Poppy Playtime feels like it was made to be played by children (insult)
I can't believe the new Twitter slogan is "Blaze Your Glory!" - Elon's basically just promoting vehement discourse as a feature and not a bug.
IMO Rivals 2 is looking to have the best stages of any platform fighter on an aesthetic level - they all have actual setpieces to draw attention just like the first game, but they also look like a lived world you could explore if you broke into the Z-axis compared to how pretty much every other comp-designed stage in the genre (including Rivals 1) is either just an isolated island or weird flying plank of wood.
"Christorians" explaining how having more intimate personal info documented online for some random woman who made a bad webcomic then we have for Ghandi, Genghis Khan, all 3 MLKs, and Hitler combined is completely OK and ethical. (she's a bad person, so obviously that means we should throw out all of our fundamental human ethics!)
God, it is horrific how Smash fans treat games and characters themed around suicide and depression - I was rereading the response to my Miner Willy submission for Infinite, and everyone was up in arms over him and Freddi Fish when Sunny was right there to direct hate to. Somehow having no powers or being made for babies is a bigger problem than being from a game about teenage suicide???
Rare literally ported a ZX Spectrum game into one of their 90s tentpole releases as a mandatory quest for any% completion and elder Nintendo fans still think the gaming crash happened worldwide.
i apologise for today's double-bout of 3d platformer fandom mockery.
Fans of Zoogly Dooby walking into an important financial meeting unannounced to inform the Affable Software stockholders that Zoogly Dooby is officially their mascot despite not having a single poster or statue in the building and the name not even ringing a bell to those who invested in the company circa 1998.
windows xp startup lyrics:
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windows xp closedown lyrics:
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Associating dumb AI memes made by 14 year olds where Marge sings Death Grips or whatever with the actual AI crisis in the professional filmmaking world is equivalent to saying that YouTube Poops caused the Star Wars Special Editions.
I can't believe the argument against Barbie disproving the whole "woke = broke" BS is "it was falsely advertised"
Like... you could make a case for the advertising hiding the film's PG-13 sensibilities or deeper themes, but in the case of "wokeness" were you genuinely not expecting a movie based on Barbie of all things to have feminist themes??? Who the hell do you think is the target audience? I don't think tradwives are all too lucrative a market.
This forgotten 1983 vinyl made Mario history, but it could never be created today
Before Mario even had his own game, four moonlighting musicians gave him a voice on an offbeat album from Nintendo’s wildest era.www.digitaltrends.com
I know that "they didn't have to go THAT hard on the music for THIS game" is a bit of a cliche, and it really shouldn't be shocking to see great music made for the sake of meme freeware or cheap licensed tie-ins after a while, but god damn, Logan Kart 8, man. I don't even think they got paid for this.
They ****ing killed Uberduck. I'm mad.
i started writing a lost media wiki article for the ugly sonic cut under the presumption that it may exist but probably doesn't, and then found a source saying for certain that the ugly cut doesn't exist right as i was finishing it off, so i had to scrap it because reworking the article to change every instance of "it is unknown if..." to "... does not exist" would be too tedious.
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One thing I appreciate about Plankton in NASB 2 is that they gave him a mech that looks like himself and - unlike the source material in Sponge out of Water - gave it unique expressions, so it still looks like you're fighting as Plankton compared to his appearances in other Nick and SpongeBob games.
Rise of the Robots rep in Smash would go hard. There's some really cool character designs that could do with an appearance in a (as much as I hate on modern Smash) structurally-functional game, it's technically 90s computer rep, and it's just as much a part of gaming history as DKC - if anything, it's failure gives it a bigger place in the history books.
It REALLY annoys me when people act like established IP platform fighters are the only ones that exist.
This box art makes me feel an emotion that doesn't exist, albeit complemented with a tinge of "why didn't they they focus on the blob".
new google subsites just dropped
The more I read from Sakurai, the more I realise that I genuinely do not like this man, in a way that goes beyond simply "I disagree with his game design philosophy". Seems to have a pretty huge ego, loves to yap on about "everything he goes through", and responds to criticism (even the criticisms I disagree with, like those of clones) incredibly poorly whenever he choses to do so.
I love the genre of YouTube video where some kid makes a compilation of logos or movie trailers, and then once they're done with all the actual logos they try to predict the future.
Hot take: cutscene Final Smashes are the best Final Smashes, because they're the only ones that can actually be whiffed - even if they unfortunately aren't punishable on whiff. -
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