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- Comment on Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade 41 minutes ago:
My opinion about Far Cry 2 did a complete 180 over the last few years. When it first came out, all I remember thinking was that it was less technically impressive than Crysis. (I was just obsessed with graphics in 2008. There were many of us like that. I have changed.) Now I see it as the most distinct entry in the series.
- Comment on Shenmue II 1 week ago:
If you close the program, you might lose information. Like where the sailors are.
- Comment on Video Game Websites in the early 00s 1 week ago:
Oh man, I even recognize a few of those! I miss that era of web design.
I found some old websites myself a few months ago and put some links on my blog. These aren’t archive links, they’re still up in their original form.
Pasting a summary below:
Sonic Team, https://www.sonicteam.com
A bunch of websites for Sonic Team’s games are still up, dating back to the Sega Saturn. Here’s a few highlights:
- Sonic Adventure, for the Dreamcast, released in 1998.
- A blog from the music team about their trip to a recording studio in New York. Check this one out with Google Translate, it’s amazing.
- Photos from the trip
- Space Channel 5, also for the Dreamcast, released in 1999.
- Sonic R, for the Saturn, released in 1997.
- Nights into Dreams, also Saturn, relased in 1996. The footer mentions Netscape 3.0.
- a page about the story with a very 90s era background
The King of Fighters. This fighting game series still has some of the original marketing sites up for its earlier
titles.- KOF 98 "Unlimited Match". I’m not sure when this was made. This is for the 2008 re-release of KOF 98. The copyright date says 2007 and there’s a Wordpress logo for the favicon. However, everything else about the website screams <marquee>"1998."</marquee> It’s using tables for the layout and font tags for text colors. I’m wondering if there was an existing site for KOF 98, and they gave it an update for 2008 without changing the way it was written.
- KOF 2000. A great example of how a site would sometimes have completely different layouts for each page.
- KOF 2002
- A general information site about SNK’s games, last updated in 2009, but looks like it was designed before then.
Honorable Mention: Team Fortress 2, https://www.teamfortress.com
This one is newer, of course, but still has some hallmarks of mid-2000s web design. I point out some things about it in the blog post.
- Sonic Adventure, for the Dreamcast, released in 1998.
- Comment on My time with Anbernic's RG477V 2 weeks ago:
Thank you! That is good to know.
- Comment on My time with Anbernic's RG477V 2 weeks ago:
I have a couple of questions, one about this device and one for anyone just in general:
- For Android games, does this have the actual Google play store? Or do you need to use the Aurora store? And if so, do you use a throwaway account because Google might decide that they aren’t OK with that someday?
- This is available with 8 GB or 12 GB of memory. I’ve never played PS2 games on one of these handhelds before – would 8 GB be fine for that?
- Comment on My time with Anbernic's RG477V 2 weeks ago:
Great review! And wow, this thing looks fantastic. After using a horizontal retro emulator, I wasn’t sure if I would ever want a vertical one again. Horizontal just immediately felt so much more comfortable for me. But this one definitely looks tempting. Also, the vertical handheld I have, a Miyoo mini, is really small, so maybe that’s part of my ergonomics problem.
- Comment on Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 2 weeks ago:
It’s amazing just how much better games have been from indie devs and smaller publishers. I don’t see a single game from EA, Ubisoft, or Activision on there.
- Comment on delicious wrap 5 weeks ago:
Baconator Aero was the best design trend.
- Comment on Naz Reid gets a huge block that leads to a monster jam by Jaden McDaniels 1 month ago:
Honestly, the policy for a while has been 1) superstars like an extra step, 2) LeBron gets two extra steps, 3) if it looked cool, let them do it.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 month ago:
Finding cheat codes for Sega Genesis games was my introduction to the internet. It was so fun getting to tell other kids at school about cheat codes that you knew about for their games.
These days I don’t, mainly because they don’t seem to have them anymore, and also because if I’m not enjoying the game with its base mechanics I have plenty of other games in my backlog that I can check out instead.
- Comment on Fatekeeper - Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
I was just thinking “Hey, this kind of looks like Dark Messiah.” And then he kicked an enemy off of a ledge and I thought “Oh it’s 100% a sequel to Dark Messiah.”
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
I’ve always thought it was both. I’m definitely no expert on Metroidvanias, since I’ve only played the one (if Dead Cells counts as one). I actually thought the term “Metroidvania” was about the movement and combat – today I just learned that it’s about the exploration and finding things. You do at least have to do that in the bank level, if I remember right. And the castle level.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
The only one I’ve played is Dead Cells, and it’s fantastic. I haven’t even bought any of the DLC, the base game is already endlessly replayable. I also listen to the soundtrack at least once a week.
I definitely want to get around to playing Hollow Knight and Animal Well at some point.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 months ago:
Wait…you can just do that?
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 2 months ago:
I don’t think that is true, but I certainly like the idea of it being true.
- Comment on Godot Engine – 2025 Showreel 2 months ago:
These look great, I love the diversity of art styles on display here.
The title “The Adventures of Gary Pretzelneck” cracked me up. :D
- Comment on Day 477 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
This is making me want to replay this game. I don’t really remember much about the story of this one, but I do remember than the slow motion mechanics were much better than those of the first game.
- Comment on The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle 2 months ago:
Peter Thiel gives himself blood transfusions with the blood of younger people in order to slow the aging process. It is a procedure that scientists call “not working.”
- Comment on Inside ARMSX2: Interviewing the Team Reviving PS2 Emulation on Android (my article!) 2 months ago:
That was a great interview, thanks for doing it! And I bet the devs enjoy getting to talk about this kind of thing. There are plenty of blog posts about what new features are coming out in open source projects, but very few interviews like this one.
It’s cool how everything right now is still (mostly) focused on translating x86 to ARM, but how we’re starting to hear talk about native ARM. I’m guessing that there won’t enough of a push for that, though, until Linux ARM PCs become more popular. I’m definitely looking forward to that.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 3 months ago:
Nice, glad to hear that the original, non-remastered Crysis is available! If I remember right, Crysis Remastered is actually an update to the console port of Crysis, and the console versions simplified how your powers activate, making it easier to do on a controller.
- Comment on this level is amazing 3 months ago:
Wait, really? I looked at it on the piefed instance I’m using and also on lemmy.world.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 months ago:
I’m not, and I’ve enjoyed the process of finding my own music again. I started buying music CDs; there’s a used bookstore near me with a giant shelf of CDs for $1 each. I set up a music server (I chose Funkwhale, although Navidrome seems to be the more popular choice) that I upload everything to, so I can still stream things, it’s just from my own server. And I bought an MP3 player.
- Comment on this level is amazing 3 months ago:
I agree, but I think that says a lot about how good the atmosphere in this level was. Gameplay-wise, it really isn’t as interesting as the rest of the game. And yet, everyone was talking about the Scarecrow parts back when this game came out, and it’s still a memorable part of the game.
I think it helps that you won’t die too many times at this part. If it was a platformer section and you had to keep replaying it, people would remember it negatively. (Kind of like how people always hate the puzzle sections in action games.) But instead, they gave this part a great presentation, and you can get through it fairly quickly, so the gameplay didn’t really leave a bad taste in your mouth.
- Comment on this level is amazing 3 months ago:
I love this version of Scarecrow, probably one of the best iterations of the character. Although he was creepy as hell in Arkham Knight, too.
Also…
DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVEN’T BEATEN ARKHAM ASYLUM IT IS A CLASSIC DON’T RUIN IT
The fake game crash totally got me when I first played this.
- Comment on this level is amazing 3 months ago:
I bet it is. I haven’t played it in a few years, although I just replayed the sequel – Arkham City – earlier this year and it was still great. Arkham City added quite a few game mechanics on top of Arkham Asylum, but I bet Asylum is still fun. Most people agree that Asylum had the best atmosphere, too.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 3 months ago:
Maybe none, maybe a couple; lately I have resisted sales since my backlog is so big. That being said, some of the more interesting ones on my wishlist are on sale this time around. I might pick one or two of these:
First person shooters:
- Trepang2 (F.E.A.R. homage) - 60% off, $12
- Prodeus (boomer shooter) - 40% off, $15
- Metal: Hellsinger (boomer shooter) - 75% off, $8Indie/puzzle/chill:
- The Talos Principle 2 - 70% off, $9
- Everspace 2 - 70% off, $15
- Ultimate Chicken Horse (casual/party couch co-op) - 65% off, $5
- Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition - 90% off, $3
- Untitled Goose Game - 55% off, $9
- It Takes Two - 75% off, $10
- Kaze and the Wild Masks (2D platformer) - 80% off, $3
- The Forgotten City - 75% off, $6
- Dreamscaper (indie roguelike) - 80% off, $5Also:
- Persona 4 Golden (JRPGs aren’t really my thing, but I hear that this is literally one of the best games ever) - 50% off, $10
- God of War - 60% off, $20
- Desperados III (isometric tactics) - 90% off, $4
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (2D platformer) - 75% off, $8
- Sifu - 60% off, $16 - Comment on Yes, Apple. This is exactly what I wanted *facepalm* 3 months ago:
Also if you type “bluetooth” it will suggest “Bluetooth File Sharing” above “Bluetooth.” That second one is the one you want for connecting to a speaker.
This irks me every day.
- Comment on PlayStation State of Play (Sept. 24, 2025) | MEGATHREAD 3 months ago:
Bah, I got excited and thought that you meant that it was going to be the Epic Games Store freebie next month. Wishful thinking on my part. :P
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 months ago:
I think people are mostly saying D for India, China, Japan, and Korea. It also has Greece and Lebanon.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 months ago:
The Guinness! Makes everything else tolerable. (But also, shepherd’s pie is in there.)