VindictiveJudge

I beat Halo 2 on legendary. I also refuse to attempt that again and haven’t bothered playing legendary at all on any Halo in over a decade. Pretty sure my thumbs will not do that anymore.

Getting a gem was also the only way to save. Crash Bandicoot may be the only game series where each new game is easier than the one before it, and Crash 3 was still one of the most challenging games on the system.

The motion controls made the Wii version seem harder. Plug in a Gamecube controller and play with that and you’ll smoke the AI and any wiimote players online.

Speaking of chess, you might be able to argue that some old RTS games are puzzle games when playing campaign, such as the first Command & Conquer. You often have very limited resources, the AI will do specific things at specific times or with specific triggers, and you’re often given specific constraints, like a time limit or keeping a specific thing alive. In this case, though, it’s mostly because the AI is so primitive that almost every action is scripted in advance for that specific map.

Save corruption was what did it for me. Every single attempt at playing New Vegas resulted in save corruption before I could beat it.

Devs tend to go with simplified or cartoony graphics for legibility on the small integrated screen, but that’s just an art style choice. Doesn’t look too far off from Xenoblade 3, especially given polygons will be saved by not having to render a mile out. Or consider that Doom 2016 runs decently on the Switch.

The Wiimote worked with a pair of IR blasters to locate your screen. Joycons have no idea where your screen is. In that light, that they work as pointing devices at all is actually rather impressive.

Serial Experiments Lain is also great anime cyberpunk.

I’m guessing a single release, and the game being used to show off the backwards compatibility features of the next system. Probably the usual 800p-900p 30fps on Switch and something higher when slotted into a Switch 2.

That’s about the extent of her French, though.

It helps to think of your hair as essentially being a mane. Remember, lion manes also expose their forehead.

I’m hoping that advances in 3D printers will make this a reality in my lifetime.

I love hex grids and wish more games used them.

The movie had some other solid stuff. Rey has a natural affinity for the dark side, but that she chooses the light in spite of that is what makes her the hero. Similarly, Kylo is a natural with the light but chooses the dark. The dark side also isn’t evil so much as it is playing with fire, which was a popular interpretation in the old EU. Rey and Finn are also given actual motivations instead of just pinballing through the plot. Whether the motivations actually work is a different question, but the fact they had no reason to be there in TFA really bugged me.

I do still think Rey and Kylo should have traded sides in the throne room scene, though.

Honestly, 3 doesn’t really need it. The art direction is excellent and just inceasing the render resolution works great. Same with ODST and Reach.

It was also based on Gearbox’s shoddy PC port, so the classic graphics were broken on release and stayed that way for about ten years.

They did. It was based on the PC version that Gearbox fucked up and it took ten years for the classic mode graphics to be fixed. The remastered graphics were a lazy mishmash of Halo 3 and Reach models haphazardly thrown together. The remastered level geometry also didn’t match the actual geometry, which resulted in things like invisible trees blocking your bullets.

Well, most of the time, anyway. Biology is far too messy for that to be a hard and fast rule, as it turns out.

I think it’s a reference to Lucas editing the movies to account for later released ones.

Well, the documentary said he was going to come back with a zombie army after Madonna had him assassinated.