what on earth is this tho
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Iâm sorry, that looks amazing
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I just realized we havenât added Batman Forever to this list
@american2004 this may be right in your zone
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I love how this looks
In the cacophony it took me a while to realize that when Batman spawns the audio clip goes:
âWHO IS!
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batmanâ
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Itâs really the fucking Descent explosion and Doom flames that sell it for me
And presented such that theyâre happy to run 10 on top of each other.
Itâs too much itâs too much itâs just right
Watch with sound on:
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heck yeah, Colin, the jack of all trades trailer cutter/scene decorator/jujitsu fiend at 17-BIT, would put this on every morning to wake Granpa up in the lounge
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Probably the (visually and aurally) loud, garish pre-rendered Takumi âreflect-em-upsâ
i definitely remember being really confused by this game because it looked both really expensive but also really bad. the whole digitized / prerendered look was just so abject. I remember feeling precisely the same way about games like this* as I did about hair metal as an even younger child, in a weirdly specific way.
It just seemed like everyone who acted like it was good couldnât possibly be serious. Having the impression I was supposed to think it was great but didnât made me feel kind of nuts. Yet at the same time I was optimistic enough to assume that by the time I was the same age as the people that these things were apparently intended for, stuff would look completely different. And in both cases I was right! By the time I was a shitty 13 year old or whatever there was grunge music, and Mario 64. I mean both of those things are equally dated now, but they at least seemed more plausibly âforâ me. I think things like this are what convinced me that generation gaps existed.
*Except it was specifically Primal Rage, which should be in this thread if it isnât already
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If Batman Forever was the future of games I think itâd be insufferable, but now, as a dead end, I can admire its harmless overindulgence. And because it embodies that offshoot more than anything, it feels like a decadent masterpiece from a form falling out of fashion, like the last rococo piece before the Revolution.
Itâs so weird how Primal Rageâs obvious desire to be a Harryhausen homage got crossed with Mortal Kombat and '90s 'tude. If theyâd played it straight it would be remembered as a colorful, vibey thing. Instead itâs the game with a pee finisher.
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the genesis version is also hideous
Wow, somehow I played this and never connected it as a port of the arcade game. Well, itâs not, but it definitely shares some assets, andâŚtop notch use of the Genesisâ one and only sound channel
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is this too obvious
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Is the grotesque part of this how bad this youtuber is at playing Snood
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Lands of Lore 1 and 2 might be the biggest grotesqueness delta between two series entries ever
From this:
To this:
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modern screenshots/footage of snood are shockingly hard to come by, in fact. itâs like most people have forgotten it exists (yet if you mention it literally everyone is like âomg I was addicted to that in 2002â)
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