They’re both pretty ambitious tbh, but in different ways.
Jedi Knight works better and has more polish, but the jankiness of sote almost makes it feel more impressive to me. Like how many features had to be invented from scratch for that game, versus the mostly iterative improvements on earlier fps games in Jedi Knight.
The sheer variety in sote is even more remarkable when you compare it to other early n64 games.
Like for a long time I had only that, Mario kart, and Mario 64
SotE has a special place in my heart for having the ur Battle of Hoth level but also I don’t want to play it again because I know the snapback-style of aiming would drive me up the wall
I know this would change everything because the Rare Replay version of Jet Force Gemini makes the simple change from auto-centering to a more modern control method and suddenly the game is great and playable
yeah the last level is fucking BULLSHIT on the two hardest difficulties!!! ARGH
one of the reasons i got into destiny 1 was because the tower reminded me of shadows of the empire
anyway its one of the like, ten games im actually good at so of course its my favorite
Videoball Final Tune announcement.
Not sure if this is real or not, someone should DM Tim the requested picture and find out.
I really did not like SotE outside of the hoth level everyone loves
even final fantasy xiv is like, go daphny, chase your dreams
EDIT: i watched the shadows of the empire digital foundry video and they didnt talk about how only the first run of carts had the full debug mode
I never played SotE but I had a friend in sixth grade who raved about for like a week back when it came out. I’ll probably emulate it someday.
Also, HOT NEWS: Classic Euro maximalist horizontal shmup Jets ‘n’ Guns is on Switch eshop for $7.
Oh baby, I had a ton of fun with the PC version of this in like 2008. It’s so ugly in such a classic MS-DOS kind of way. I remember it being a great time. I’m tempted to pick it up.
Yeah I played it around the same time. Very homely looking game but all the ship upgrades!
Ooh, shadows of the empire is on GoG. I might have a beer and revisit it tonight.
OK, so I just bought this for Switch and it is WILDLY unreadable undocked. This game was not made for a tiny screen. The maximalist nature of the game means that you are definitely going to miss a ton of important details on a screen this small. It’ll probably be better on a TV, but this is still unfortunate. I should have seen it coming though.
is it the gold version of jets’n’guns cuz that was extremely my shit in 2007
Could see myself using this simply so I’d never have to click a thumb stick ever again.
dear system manufacturers
it should not cost a minimum of 85 US dollars (MSRP) to get fucking back buttons on a controller
no, those PowerA Switch controllers that have back buttons for 50 bucks don’t count because they destroy my anger
nope, this is the new trend, you want the ergonomic advance, you pay a 50-100% premium because it could offer A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
how did Valve figure out how to shove trackpads and back paddles into a 50 dollar controller 4 years ago
here’s a free idea for Sony
save me 10 bucks and cut the screen and have it configurable in a system menu
kind of like the one you already have for changing any button to any other button for handicapped players
or the one Microsoft makes available to all Xbone owners
Yeah I’m real confused at this system, they have to do some kind of firmware/software already for the attachment and the screen is just peak Sony overengineering.
they committed to buying more OLEDs to get china to abstain from the UN security council vote against gamers
Blasphemous is getting some DLC, and just got a heap of fixes, mechanical and level design tweaks
Good
