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@jmbenetti No thanks, I decide to base my definitions off of my extensive knowledge of video games, and the experience, especially having played every GBC racer, as well as most racers for every handheld console ever. Pseudo 3D does not mean every attempt to add depth to a game, otherwise shading on a 2d Sprite would be considered pseudo 3D. I reserve the term for stuff like tiertex’s video playback work, most notably on the Game boy color, as well as certain uses of pre-rendered graphics and isometric angles, such as rock and roll racers, as well as scaling and properly textured 2D sprites, such as Konami crazy racers. The game references here looks mediocre at best, certainly less good than V&D's offerings such as wacky races, or similar games such as Looney tune racing on the same console. I have a passion for both 3D and pseudo 3D on old consoles, and then basically familiar with all the games that fit it, this one does not, any more than outrun does. If you're calling out run pseudo 3d, you might as well throw the term out the window because terms begin to lose their meaning.

This is NOT what pseudo 3D means and also it do a not look impressive or any better than average. It's the same as all the other her mediocre nudge racers on the console.

Who wrote this? The judge who sided against blizzard when pixar sued them?

The inability to use objective thought is the problem not nostalgia.

@AJB83 Arcade racers and Kart racers evolved from very different routes along very separate paths, one is not a subgenre of the other. Also neither detract from the others' existence, they've had separate paths the entire time. The death of the arcade racer happened as a very separate event.

@Daniel36 The snowy ones with the castle in the background look amazing, the one where it's fighting a dragon or whatever, sort of looks like a late cycle PS1 game.

Edit: okay now I see, that one was from the PS2 game.

I wish there were more games like mercenary Force. This has some similar qualities, I don't think it's the same at all, but I wish the design space got more attention.

@ChaseIQ Accuracy really just means not having to use workarounds, though the bar being said against Saturn softwares emulation is not very high

This looks great! I'm typically skeptical of games that look like they want to be Zelda soullikes, but from this trailer at least it looks good.

Whether they release this or not, it is one of the coolest pieces of design work I've seen in a long time on a console.

More composer interviews please

I didn't even know that Yoshi thing. Saying their relationship with Nintendo cooled off is sort of funny. They essentially went from boundary pushing 3D graphics on low-powered systems, to janky stuff like this, you wouldn't expect Nintendo to want to close a relationship. It feels like they mostly just liked Dylan Cuthbert anyway.

Also this game sold 3 million copies? And none of the jumping flash games even hit a million. There's no justice in this world.

@Damo People are just so entitled. Give them a free emulator, and they complain that it doesn't have the features they want. Put it behind a paywall so you can develop it, and they act like you're stealing lunch money from children.

Unfortunately until fpga can utilize the same enhancements as software emulation, it's really not going to be more than niche. On the plus side though, if you already love it, enjoy it while it's still niche!

@somnambulance It's the version they use for competitive play, it's not just the past few years, though people have been admittedly trying to break it more in the past few years. It's also one of the only couple versions to play if you really like Tetris.

@WhensDinner I was basically going to say this. I'm pretty forgiving with 3D platformers, but croc is just atrocious to play. If you want to play a frustrating to control PS1 platformer play Kingsley's Adventure.

@KingMike So the first time you play the GBC game, and to be clear it's the only version I've played, you are given a personality test, and one of the tests makes you like a giant demon thing that breathes fire, and you can destroy the village, or leave it be, so presumably someone on the ratings board got that intro and realized you could be a giant fire breathing demon and destroy villages and that's why it got a t rating.

@Darknyht Shh, don't tell them our secrets.

This feels like a slap in the face to people who want playable mini consoles lol

@Geonjaha The changes are not "for the best", they're adding in features which were not part of the original game, and not oversights by the developers, or hardware based limitations which they faced. By your logic, all of the Star Wars special edition changes were for the best. Leaving things in generally the state they were originally made is always the better choice, also as I already said, there's already a better rom hack than this.

@Przemyslaw Warioware gold is basically Twisted. They are my co favorites.

@-wc- Yeah I don't disagree with anything you've said. Incidentally, I don't know about Nintendo's policy, but a friend of mine did just get some call of duty game or something rescinded on steam. So that does happen, and I agree there is a difference. The digital age of video games has brought many negative things along with the positives for sure.

@slider1983 Correct, you do not own digital goods, they are numbers on a storage device.

Edit: To clarify, I mean you don't own a switch game even if it's on a cartridge, because it's just the same as one on the system except on a separate device.

@-wc- Only if you think of things in terms of legality. I buy games to support people who make them because I want more. To me, I don't differentiate between a ROM I have on my phone, or digital switch game, or the ones I have on a hacked vitas and 3DS's. I could definitely sell my Nintendo account for a couple Grand though.

@slider1983 Wow laugh emoji, really clever way of expressing yourself without actually muster a cohesive thought or argument. Please, enjoy your 3DO games, and need for speed cutscenes.

Yeah I've played at least one of those games, and the thing is they're all just too many degrees separated from real pure Tetris. I'm not saying they don't take skill, it's just a different skill set, and not one I find particularly interesting.

You don't own physical games either, just the cartridge. Just like you own the right to watch a movie on DVD if you buy the DVD.

@slider1983 it looks cheap, and has typically indicated a low quality of game for basically the entire history of video games.

@mjparker77 All that I'm really getting from all the people saying they like 2 best, is they're kind of not very pleasant to interact with, and fun haters. Burnout 2 isn't even in my top 50 racing games of all time, but I'm glad you enjoy it so much.

I really like the premise of this game, and the aesthetic, but not the fmv thing. It just feels cheap and terrible to me.

@Razieluigi These are basically my thoughts. What I wouldn't give for a real remaster of 3.

Burnout Paradise was like this stepping stone between the good open world racers of the early 2000s, and the mess that is racing games today. It's not a bad game, but it basically killed the two best arcade racing franchises.

Did you play dominator? People always crap on it, but I thought it was a really good sequel to those other two.

@845H I didn't say it was a racing Sim, you said you like the game that focused on racing, I said if I want to play a game that focuses on racing then I will play Gran Turismo 3. Perfectly logical, end of story. If you couldn't follow that, that's your own issue, and maybe try not being so unpleasant to other people.

This, along with Legends for PSP which is basically just an expanded port, is my favorite arcade racer of all time. Actually Legends is a bit better in my opinion as a single player experience, with the benefits of emulation.

@Gs69 Revenge was a bit too easy where you can knock everything out of your way, though it's still a great game, I like take down and dominator better, but I sort of think of them as a trilogy. Though I think my girlfriend prefers revenge because it's so hard to crash

@845H Yeah because being eliminated from races for missing checkpoints is much more fun than seeing how much stuff I can destroy. If I want realistic racing I'll play Gran Turismo 3.

@Bunkerneath Some wii ROMs are dodgy? I've never had a problem with a Wii ROM, except that nkit isos don't play on some emulators, if you download them from some site that gave you fake files, that's on you. This device seems amazing, though with the sensor bar issue, probably best suited for GameCube or classic controller.

AI is to art what the microwave is to food, and you will not stop people from using either unfortunately. I could not be more anti-ai, or anti microwave for that matter, but people will take easy over quality everyday. Easiness is actually an addiction, I think that's pretty plain to see when you look at every step of our development.

Yeah but PS1 games can be improved so much in retroarch, that I can't understand the desire to play on original consoles very much. You can up the resolution, the frame rate, as well as other improvements, and shaders really help some games too.

Wow, these became almost collector's items for a while. Really though, all their stuff is semi premium. They look really nice, but it's mostly just plastic junk with leather accents with a hugely marked up price.

I already bought it on steam, but was thinking of returning it so I don't have to buy it again on switch. I think the 10/10 is pretty fair though, especially if you love the NES era.

Old news. I remember people downloading this crap five years ago lol.

@slider1983 It's sad that all those creatives understandably ended up with desk jobs. A lot of them also have a Peter Jackson/ George Lucas attitude: "This is what we always REALLY wanted to do with games, but didn't have the technology".

I get what they mean, because if you're familiar with marvel, it sort of cannibalizes everything. I don't mean the movies and stuff, long before that, the entire universe is kind of about making everything that touches it a part of it, which is why I've always sort of hated marvel comics, with a few exceptions.

That being said, it's just a weird silly thing, and street fighter is fine.

I think everyone who wants a saturn badly enough probably has one, But I get people's point.

@Sketcz "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

There was speculation that this is the same guy who did aethersx2. I don't know if it's true, but either way both devs need to freaking ignore the community. In the emulation community people are greedy and just want handouts for free, and even when they're given them they complain about them.

Ooooh nice review. I've always wanted an amiibo device, but everyone said the best way to do it was buying a bunch of single use cards. I absolutely hate their existence, and resent the fact that you have to pay for them.

This was a great interview. Gimmick is definitely too hard, luckily their hacks to make it a tiny bit easier, and design Wise it's still an amazing game either way.

Yeah the main difference between Italy and China in these regards, is that China has very little respect for Western copyright law, so the government essentially sanctions that sort of intellectual property theft. Italy on the other hand, has to deal with the mafia, who I assume are somewhat intertwined with this sort of crime, given that they're essentially the largest money making organization in the country.

@gojiguy Also, if you want a more contemporary to the time view, that has a lot to do with this, Rising Sun by Michael Crichton deals heavily with this sort of subject matter, if in a whimsical and over the top fashion. But it's a neat look into some of the views of the time period, without actually being a hateful piece of literature.

I was just playing this a couple days ago, and yeah the difficulty of remaining on the track at all really detracts from the fun. Cool to see someone fixing it.

Why would anyone who isn't Japanese play this when there's already a translation

That is a very misleading headline, and definitely not what pre-order means lol