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Great little animation. Reminds of this commercial, anyone else?

Eh, close enough. Welcome back 3D Classics.

A tragedy. Alongside Mix 'n Mojo, that was my go-to site for point n' click news.

@PinballBuzzbro wait, didn't the loading screen patent expire back in 2015?

YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

Game was already shaping to be a banger and now they've got two banger composers

I'm amazed that the stupid thing even has a stable present. Still don't see the point of it tbh.

God forbid people with brains actually make things without needing to rely on machine learning

@bring_on_branstons I just want them to announce anything game related at this point - info on the the new one, an enhanced port of the OG, maybe they'll finally announce a port of Future - I'm just desperate, man.

Maybe it'd fare better in a game of Wii Chess.

@MikeP I dunno, I don't think it was THAT bad. Soundtrack was pretty great at least.

I couldn't contribute much but I hope this project goes well.

@Andee or Future at the very least

At this point it feels like people are looking for any opportunity to dog on the stupid thing regardless of whether or not it's a truly significant issue.

A garish CRT filter is not worth getting worked up over.

I changed mine at the beginning of the year, so I'm not too worried.

Though I do need to get a new adapter for the thing...

@shiromar Yeah, but is there even a build of that version available, though?

@shiromar sir, that is a GameCube game.

If it's so great, why doesn't it have a Select button

Can Wayforward seriously partner up with another publisher now? Fangamer, iam8bit, LITERALLY ANYONE OTHER THAN LRG.

Cool, I guess. Probably not gonna use it. I ain't a big "achievements" guy.

@frogproject maybe try running it through a native emulator instead?

The claims are hollow until they actually act on them.

Honestly at this point we oughta let Hamster handle the Namco Museums.

Not their first slam into the mouse business - they did something similar with the N30 Mouse a few years back. This one however seems a lot more practical.

@Deuteros no because the GB screen is green

@-wc- Eh, I think Alucard should be allowed a few more centuries of beauty rest. Besides, I think Soma filled his shoes pretty well in the Sorrow duology.

@-wc- I'm down to get it ported to modern systems, but does SotN really need a direct follow-up?

Based Blackley.

@Guru_Larry yeah, I realized that a bit later after writing that comment. Still, a guy can dream, can't he?

And the monkey's paw finger curled...

@-wc- I think it's less about morality and more about not wanting to rob a bank in order to play it.

...But with the Switch 2's prices, what's the difference? HEYOOOOO

@Andee (whiny child voice) but I don't wanna buy a PS5

Please let this mean we'll get R4....

What, no clicky stick?

Deserved. Shimomura never misses.

@BulkSlash I'll take beige devices over the swath of black and white systems we've been stuck with lately

@RupeeClock their stuff has made plenty of money and yet they still can't be bothered to keep said stuff consistently in stock

That picture is giving cheap-o "Saul Goodman commercial" vibes.

@Razieluigi I've honestly never minded the Joy-Con's D-buttons - It's different for others, I know, but I got used to it pretty quickly.

Looks sick. I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

I gotta admit, as a skeptic towards the idea, that is pretty impressive. Seems like the only downside is that the thing is running windows.

Tis BLASPHEMY!!!!1!!!

Death speedrunning is apparently "in" it would seem.

@MontyMole yeah, people like to think Return was saying "you should stop caring about fiction you loser" which deliberately ignores the ACTUAL point the game was making. Ron was being a lot more charitable with the game and it's ending then people like to believe.

@slider1983 There was no real constructive criticism on that blog page - it was mostly just attacks and vitriolic complaints. If you can't understand why going to someone's face to tell them the thing they believe in sucks and that they're a terrible person is a problem, then maybe you should rethink a few things.

There's no way you would "criticize" someone like this:

@slider1983 You had to be there.

Either way, the responses to the art direction were totally out of proportion. You'd think people would learn after Streets of Rage 4 and Wind Waker and Crash 4 and even Curse of Monkey Island, but apparently not.

Time really is a flat circle.

@slider1983 it was mostly harassment disguised as "valid criticism," to the point where Ron Gilbert had to shut down comments on his personal blog because so many people were flooding them with impotent rage-fueled threats and attacks.

@slider1983 if you don't like it, that's all well and good - people have their preferences(I for one don't care for Curse's style after all), but Return's visuals are certainly not bad enough to justify harassing the people who made it for having the gall to not make it look like the one game people won't shut up about.

@MontyMole That's also true, but I feel the detraction has lessened a lot in recent years. I've seen more people praise Curse as one of the best in the genre, as many players' introduction to Monkey Island, and as the best Monkey Island game. If anything, a lotta vitriol I've seen has mostly been aimed at Return as of late. A shame, too - I think that one is also great.

@MontyMole "doesn't get the credit it deserves."

Bubbalah, please. Curse is pretty much the "Thousand-Year Door" of Monkey Island - the game in the series almost everyone loves and no one shuts up about loving(for better and for worse).

Really amazing how much effort people are putting in to preserving these games in the long-term - certainly more than most official studios. I can only imagine the possibilities and all of them involve Viva Piñata.