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Re: "This Is A Regret In My Life" - Sonic X-treme Designer On The "Fork In The Road" That Killed Saturn's Most Famous Unreleased Game

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One of the main problems as we all know is Japan just was very toxic to the American branch. That's ultimately why Sonic X-treme was never completed. What still baffles me to this day is they were clearly capable of doing a 3D Sonic game as Sonic Jam shows so why not just do more of that? πŸ€”

@Sketcz Yes it does look like Bug! which is great as a Bug! as that's a classic platformer game for Saturn but it doesn't fit Sonic well.

Re: "The [NES] Is Not Gonna Go On Forever" - Forget GDC 2026, Take A Trip Back In Time With Recordings From The 1989 Event

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@KingMike I mean it was a technically worse console than SMS. I'm not trying to negate the popularity of the NES but it was very overrated compared to what the SMS could do. SMS had more potential but as you've stated was let down by not enough big third party support. What we got however was still incredible.

To be clear I'm also not putting 100% of the ignorance on North America. Nintendo made sure all gamers knew there about their console and nothing else. They created a drone loyalty that still exists today. Japan is guilty of this as well.

My position of being in Europe is actually beneficial because I was able to expose myself to many different regions of gaming, unlike NA and Japan.

Re: "I Could Not Give Less Of A S**t If Anyone Else Plays Them" - Developers Behind 'Pointless' Homebrew Ports Defend Their Work

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There's nothing wrong with porting games but with new homebrew games it often feels like a lazy excuse to bring the same game to different platforms without taking advantage of the hardware. This isn't what they're talking about as they're talking about whether porting existing commercial games is worth the time.

But yeah if you're going to do a multi-platform release of a 2D game make it take advantage of the hardware otherwise what's the point of having a 2D game on Dreamcast, a 3D format when it's the same game that appeared on Mega Drive?

Re: DOOM Star Says The Movie Was "Probably One Of The Worst Films Ever Made"

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If Pike had done research she might have realised she wasn't even supposed to exist in the movie! They made BS up like they normally do with these video game movies. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

@PKDuckman Honestly I don't see a difference. Video game movies today are just absolutely boring and STILL don't follow the video games they're based on.

Re: "War Is Not A Video Game" - White House Social Media Post Mixing Iran War Footage With Nintendo's 'Wii Sports' Triggers Outcry

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Oh boy, watch what happens when the White House learn about Miiverse. Mario is not going to be happy! Insider reports suggest the Wii Fit trainers are also not happy with the President.πŸ˜‚

Seriously, is it in poor taste? Yes. Is this a reason to throw the baby out with the bath water when there are worse things going on in gaming? Nope!

@Arcadia_Official This is definitely the best response here.

@mjparker77 Good luck on that one! πŸ˜‚

Re: Interview: "I'm The Luckiest Son Of A B**ch In The Industry" - Skyrim's Bruce Nesmith On TSR, Elder Scrolls & Daggerfall's "Miserable" Crunch

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"Morrowind, as it was created originally, is not going to hold up today. Like, literally go back and play Morrowind. The game's out there. Go play it and tell me that still holds up."

I reject this type of thinking. There will be some games that have aged badly but most don't. They just play differently according to when they were made.