OldManHermit

Speaking of liminal space, was at the production office for a show I'm working on the other day. They set up shop in a small section of an old law office that had been in disuse for god knows how long. Just a labyrinthine maze of carpeted corridors, empty offices and vast open common areas with depressing drop ceilings. It was basically being inside the backrooms, I'm not even kidding,
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Holy crap, I'm gone for a few days and this news drops, frikin incredible!!

I played this only recently, it's a solid Capcom beat 'em up, up there with the greats. They really were the kings of the genre during the 90s.

This looks quite intriguing. Love those gorgeous isometric visuals.

It's a nice idea for a set, but I think DK himself needs some work. He just looks, off.

Yep, the NA cover is cool as hell.

@NeonPizza Yeah, I played the demo as well. It definitely feels slower and more methodical than ninja gaiden, but that’s not a bad thing. It also happens to be gorgeous, it barely resembles the original nes game. As you say it does look like a 2d ps1 game, I was reminded of Megaman X4.

@abbyhitter 3 is great, it definitely builds upon what came before. DKC2 remains my fav, but I like how all three have a unique tone/atmosphere that sets them apart from one another.

Why this is simply 'banana slamma' as the kids say.

@Ralizah I’ve seen the first Rob Zombie remake, it sucks. He tries to make Micheal a sympathetic character with an abusive childhood, which I think ruins him. He was way scarier when he was a soulless murder machine with no clear motivation, just pure evil.

And I know it’s divisive, but I actually like Halloween 3 Season of the Witch. It’s when they tried to turn Halloween into an anthology horror series, with each movie being a self contained horror story that had nothing to do with Micheal Myers. But unfortunately it flopped, so they just went back to bringing Micheal back in every movie. Anyway, 3 is worth checking out if you haven’t seen it.

Wow, these actually look really freakin cool. Hopefully they turn out to be good.

I wonder if Bruce Campbell will be lending his voice talents? That's something he's traditionally done in most Evil Dead games.

Marty McFly Jr called, he wants his wardrobe back.

@Diogmites Oh yeah there are definitely some interesting themes at play in Prometheus about faith, the origin of humanity, and the search for immortality. And it is a very pretty movie. It’s trying to be high brow sci-fi, while also having the trappings of a bad b-movie, with the goofy writing. Like the guys with the high tech 3d mapping orbs who somehow still get lost, and then subsequently treat a horrifying alien snake like a cute puppy, lol. David was a great character tho, And the surgery scene with Shaw is intense as hell. I really just wish it was it’s own thing, and not connected to Alien. I feel like they just did that for marketing reasons.

Ah yes, I often lament there was never was a Conan 3, and they tease it at the end of both movies too. Absolutely missed opportunity.

@Diogmites Yeah, definitely some development hell that went on with 3.

In regards to Prometheus and Covenant, I just have a ton of issues with the writing in those movies which I won’t get into here. Suffice to say, lots of characters making nonsensical decisions. My main issue with those films however, is that it completely ruins the mystery of the space jockey, that being the giant alien corpse they find on the ship in the original film. That scene is so haunting and atmospheric, you just wonder what that thing was when it was alive and how it got there. Then according to Prometheus it’s just a big albino bodybuilder…okay. Oh, and by the way, David the android made the aliens with the black goo….like, really??? It’s stuff like that that makes the universe they established in the first film seem smaller. The space jockey and the alien did not need an origin story. It’s the mystery that made them interesting. It’s as if Ridley Scott doesn’t even understand the appeal of his own series. Anyway that’s just how I feel. There definitely is still some fun horror stuff in those movies, I feel like I might like them more if they had no connection to the Alien franchise.

Oh yeah Conan the Destroyer rocks, haha. It’s not as good as the first one, but it’s still a very fun fantasy quest kinda movie for sure.

@Diogmites Lol yeah, Brad Dourif spouting expositional dialogue whilst cocooned to a wall is hilarious. And yeah Weaver is great, you can tell she’s just having a lot of fun with the roll. Fun fact, the scene when she effortlessly makes a backwards 3 pointer shot on the basketball court apparently only took two takes!

I remember reading somewhere one of the original drafts for the script of Alien 3 involved Ripley landing on a wooden monastery planet inhabited by space monks. Certainly sounds more interesting than what we got.

Agreed the og Alien is still the best. Don’t get me started on Prometheus or Alien Covenant though, oof those movies are rough.

@Diogmites Haha, well I’m glad to hear there’s another fan of Alien Resurrection out there besides myself and a buddy of mine. It’s just a fun spin on the Alien premise that does not take itself too seriously. (Brad Dourif making kissy faces at the alien is too funny). It also happens to still look great years later. I will grant that Alien 3 does have a pretty epic ending, but overall I find it to be a depressing slog, with mostly terrible alien vfx.

The curse of the video game movie strikes again.

In regards to Alien Romulus, I just have no interest in seeing it for some reason, and I love the first two, (and 4 is a lot of dumb fun). I think I'm just tired of them dredging up these old franchises over and over again, they're almost always mediocre at best.

Yeah this looks amazing. Ninja action platformers, one of my favourite sub-genres.

It's a cool illustration of Zero on the NA one, but I don't like how it's cropped.

EU looks like another artist traced the JP one. He's got weird googly eyes.

JP is definitely the strongest here.

@LikelySatan I like the cathedral background, or 'nude place' as it's called, and the forest stage is nice too. But yeah, overall the backgrounds aren't anything to write home about.

@Vyacheslav333 Ah, thank you for the correction.

While I don't think it's quite as good as the previous two Capcom Vs Snk games, I've still been having a lot of fun with it.

There is one character that is absolutely cheap and that's Goenitz.

"KOKO DESU KA? KOKO DESU KA?"

Holy crap I can't stand that guy. It is satisfying when you actually do beat him tho.

@WaveBoy Completely agree. 80s/90s was the golden age of amazing hand painted box/cartridge art.

I like the sleekness of the N64 carts, but I gotta go with the Snes.

I really like the look of this. Just in time for spooky season.

Hey now there's a mash up I never considered before. Looks excellent.

@CazSonOfCaz Neither did I! I always assumed it was a reference to HAL 9000 the ai from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

It's time to give Tingle a jingle.

I'd keep my dried herbs in there. Uh you know, oregano, thyme, etc.

Yeah I grabbed it. I've literally wanted to own this game for decades, haha.

They both have a lot of 90s charm, but I think I prefer the saturday morning cartoon vibes from the JP version.

this game is great btw, I'm surprised it's not on the NSO yet.

Nice! But what about the first two games? This game is good fun, but I do kinda prefer its predecessors.

I just can't see Nintendo doing something as edgy as making a game starring the main antagonist of one of their most beloved series.

Honestly Hyrule Warriors already gave me all I'd want from a Ganondorf game, which is just running around kicking all kinds of ass.

looks like something I might eventually pick up at a discount. Kinda wish they had aped Hades visual style as well. That wonderful inky, cell shaded look would be a nice nod to the Turtle's comic book origins. But I suppose they can't borrow everything from Hades, haha.

@Lizuka Really? I've lost count of the amount of times I've replayed Fusion, but Nightmare gives me trouble every time. I can't seem to beat it without sustaining a ton of damage. Yakuza is no joke either though, I just feel like I have a better grasp of its attack patterns.

I found the Nightmare boss battle from Metroid Fusion way more difficult than Mother Brain.

How many Emio's are going to be showing up at Halloween parties this October I wonder. Good last minute costume methinks. Sharpie + paper bag = Emio!

That's some incredible ingenuity/creativity right there.

Intriguing. Might be a nice companion for my Star Trek cookbook. So far I've made Captain Sisko's jambalaya, and Captain Janeway's Welsh Rarebit, both of which were delicious.

Recently played Rastan 3, it's pretty great. I really just can't get over how small these collections are compared to a few console generations ago. Taito Legends 1 and 2 had more than 3 times as many games each.

All I know is, when I play fighting games I tend to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentation of the women.

I haven't had cereal for breakfast since I was a kid, more of a black coffee and bacon and eggs man these days. A gamecube shaped coffee mug might be neat though, just rotate the handle 90 degrees.

To be fair, he was wandering around the Ganon's Castle neighbourhood in Nuneaton, the local population of bokoblins did feel a bit threatened.

RE7 was my fav RE since the original RE4. It highlighted the things I really love about the series, those being exploring beautifully decrepit locations, a haunting atmosphere, and sense of isolation. Looking forward to seeing what this director comes up with next.

"It's the new DING DONG KING KONG SING SONG BURGER!!"

-Mr Show

@DogDetective Yeah, it's honestly weird to me they only ported the first one to Switch.

Why would you want to play RE7 on a phone of all things? Ideally you wanna play at home on a big screen, late at night with all the lights turned out. Not on a tiny screen while you're riding a crowded subway to work or whatever.

@AJWolfTill I'm trying to think of some modern games that sort of follow a Zelda dungeon formula and a couple come to mind. There's the two recent God of War games that have unique locked off regions with puzzle solving, and usually some kind of boss fight at the end.

And actually now that I think about it, Resident Evil Village felt very much like Zelda in structure. You have the main village hub area, (hyrule field), and the four surrounding boss areas (dungeons), where you find the four macguffins to open the path to the final battle. I'm almost positive the developers took a cue from Zelda when designing that game.

Man, I just want a switch port of Eternal Darkness.

Japan's is more traditional with the hero posing, and the cast of villains arranged behind her, whereas the NA cover is more evocative of the 'corruption' theme of the game with Samus standing with her back to her dark reflection. I don't mind either, but I think both would be better if they were hand drawn illustrations as opposed to using the game models.