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@DwaynesGames oh, absolutely it can be done well. I love a multi-layered movie where you don't realise those things until the 3rd or 4th sitting because the movie's storyline is so engrossing that you fail to notice such background things.

And I firmly believe that a movie that's been worked on for years should have a little more depth than an episode of a tv show full of Easter eggs (thinking particularly of recent Treks)
If you have the time, money and energy to create a feature film, make it so that I walk out of the cinema talking to my mates about the story that we just experienced.

I am SO sick of easter eggs and cameos being the "Best" thing in a tv show/movie. Bring back plots!! </angry man at clouds>

I haven't played SmileBASIC for a while, now. Once I'd made my 155th game using it, I found myself struggling to come up with any new ideas. Still, 155 games isn't a bad number, right? After all, it's 55 more than I made for OUYA.

Wonder what the French voice actor sounds like?

@Krysus This. Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur. What a launch!!

US : Pin badges
UK : Bit of paper

It's great to be a UK Nintendo Fan.

Hang on, let me check my lottery numbers.

.. Nope, not this week.

Does anybody have a 17 year old version of Fifa I can play for free.
.. Oh, hey, thanks Nintendo!

Pah. Looks nothing like Duke Nukem Forever..

I'd whinge about being housebound and how much I'd prefer to be able to stream this...
... but the more I hear of Chris' voice, I'm not sure I'm in any hurry to see it.

Japan : Thanks for buying our games. Would you like a free mug, some free cases for your games, some free plushies, free cushions and more?!!

UK/US : Thanks for buying our games. We can print a picture for you, if you want?

@Sisilly_G .. By that same logic.. I watched the first Super Mario Bros game, and there's no way in heck I'm ever going to play THAT game. What a load of garbage!!!

My Mum likes this game, but she finds the menu system oddly difficult to navigate compared to that of Puyo Puno Tetris. I'm not really sure why, it's not "that" hard of a menu, but she really does struggle with it.
I tend to play it on Quest2, so it's already nice and vertical

It'll be interesting to see the differences between a "big" movie, and the previous BBC docu-drama.

I wonder if the alpha channel for that object is something in the code, or something in the art?
If it's code, then it means the remaster team have overlooked a tiny bit of code somewhere, which makes you wonder what other bits they've overlooked, and how broken the rest of the game is.
It only takes one little variable somewhere, and the whole thing comes crashing down.
Speedrunners are bound to find issues.

If the alpha was in the art, though, then that's an even bigger issue. Hopefully they didn't mess up any more alpha textures, because if this one's as obvious as it is, then.. .. Eeek!

In a country where school shootings are as frequent as they are, I'd sure as hell be glad the police are on top of everything like this.
For every hundred false alarms, there's one that isn't.

I'll wait until I can stream it, mostly so I can change the language to French and get the more lively sounding Mario.

Repairable and powerups and that sort of thing.
Yeah, gimme dem "Weapon Recipes"!

Also.. a time limit.
The fuse on the right.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on the Amstrad CPC.
... nnnnghhhhhhhhhh...

I couldn't get beyond about episode 5.
The fight scenes..
Maaan, so many fight scenes.
I don't mind a good fight scene, but these.. weren't good fight scenes.
Seeing a ball bounce at things repeatedly, over and over, again and again, for ludicrously lengthy scenes. It put me right off it.
If I was playing that, fine, but just hearing "Nngh, urgh.. gah!" and seeing a blue circle bobbing about on the screen..
Nah, I gave up.

It's made me go back and watch Boom again, though, so that's ok.

Speaking of Yellow, the Yellow album isn't available, or at least not on Apple Music/iTunes.
I wonder why that album never gets any love?

Hurray for Puzzle Bobble!

Good grief. The Nintendo-styled bright and colourful static image, Vs the Xbox-styled dinghy, dark, grubby ingame footage.
Has the marketing ever been so blatantly focussed??!

Old icon + title = cleaner and more "readable".
The chaotic mass of tiny little images in the new icon is just a mess.
https://socoder.net/uploads/1/2022/51/99DC1780-E48E-43B8-B5D8-3E2C53A7A2B5.jpeg

So.. the old one is the bright, vibrant, colourful, easily identifiable one, and the better one is the mangled smush of splodges and an unreadable title card in a tiny font?
... is that right?
yeay progress!!! Woot!!

@Anti-Matter Yep.. That's definitely not running through my head, right now... Not at all...

@FirstEmperor I was thinking the other way around.. Like, way earlier.. Could've sworn that the Pokemon-anime was already a well established thing by the time I was in college. I guess not.
Memories are failing in my old age!

April '97? Is that really all the far back as the series goes?
I was in college by then. My head's timeline isn't functioning accurately, today, methinks. .. Must be the cold weather.

"Breaks immersion"?
You guys don't all have watermarked paintings on the wall?
.. Have I been scammed!?!?!

@Ratmasterd21 They're the original normal controllers!!
None of these newfangled shoulder buttons. You got one button, and you loved jumping with the up direction.

Not a single Joystick?!

I hope the ingame music is better than that of the trailer.
I HATE bad synth instruments like that. Reminds me of Sonic4.
Ugh..
If you're doing synths, do them properly. There's millions of decent SynthVSTi's out there, free even.

@abdias That was my first thought, too. They wouldn't have randomly added that for no reason.

Ed Sheeran in the Pokemon Music Universe + Ed Sheeran helped write one of One OK Rock's songs + One OK Rock in the Sonic Music Universe = Sonic's in the Pokemon Universe!!!! OMG!!! Sonic's a Pokemon!!!!!!!!!! ! !!?!??!?!!!? !?! !! ! HeadExplodes

They're probably just adding the toggle to increase the resolution when it's running on the Switch Pro.

@Edd-O 42 too!
This article deserves a poll.

I haven't given a munky's about graphical prowess for a long long time. Once we reached Half Life 2 levels of quality I was, like .. "OK, this is good enough for me.."

"No, that bug isn't there, it's because you played it wrong."

I abandoned my villagers a long time ago. I do feel bad about it, but Mr Angry Brows kept judging me every time I dropped in.
https://socoder.net/uploads/1/2021/44/2021110415065000-02CB906EA538A35643C1E1484C4B947D.jpg

£8.99 for something like this in the Argos Autumn/Winter 1990 catalogue.
Comes to about £25 in today's money.
https://archive.org/details/argos-autumn-winter-1990-1991/page/n51/mode/2up

... is that all?
For ALL of them?!
All of those numbers feel incredibly low.

I'm not ashamed to say that I LOLded a number of times watching Boom.
It's never going to be that much fun, is it?

RIP Rieko.
Gosh, that's kinda scary to think about. How many more of the great names we grew up with have silently passed away without us ever hearing about them?
Perhaps NL could do some investigative work, and start a "Are they still with us?" series or something..

It scares me to think of a modern reimagining of this franchise, full of horrific loot boxes and IAPs.
The original was "play = reward" and that was perfect, and there was SO MUCH to unlock
Beautiful..

Modern games. Grrr...

I have greatly enjoyed making use of AI Art for many things, from silly obscure artwork for my (too many to list) games, to frequently generating HD counterparts to my Daily Platdude Pixelart.
It has its downsides, sure, and it's still not at a point where I can say "make me a spritesheet of 32x32 pixel sprites for a platform game set in a western town.".. yet...
.... but I don't expect that to be a million miles away, either.

For me, at least, it's not about replacing someone who I'd never have had to make art in the first place.. it's about enhancing what I can accomplish myself.. 'ish!!

21 hours into No Man's Sky Switch. Enjoyable, and much better than I expected.
Had a few crashes at first, but the update seems to have solved a lot of the issues.
I'm not addicted.
... but I have already racked up another 350 hours on the PS4, and 130 on Xbox Cloud Game Ultimate Pass thing.

Looking forward to that Mac edition!

I'm not addicted.

Coool... this is like the Sonic Boom marketing all over again.
What could possibly go wrong?!?
..
.... at least we got that great cartoon, though, right?

6 hours I spent playing this, today. Six!! How'm I supposed to write all these games when I spend 6 hours flying around aimlessly, looking at lovely grassy hills and selling Dirt for profit...!?

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