Mystery Science News Thread 3,000

Philip K Dick’s Magic the Gathering: the anime

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I didn’t say virtual on itself was a jankfest!

I also love witcher movement though

your brain,

is wrong

it’s literally impossible to walk through a city without roleplaying a guy who shoves every orphan he sees; it’s so bad they patched it to ruin their ‘beautiful’ turn animations and made it 50% better but it was still awful

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can you not just push the stick more gently?

what you’re describing sounds bad but it’s never corresponded with my experience.

players can choose from, including wolves, rabbits, cats, dogs, bears and birds…

is this the first time Sonic Team finally understands the audience they’re going for??

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forces and mania are so laser focused on specific kinds of sonic fans i feel like they must have had some kinda real productive focus group 2 years ago or something

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i’d argue sonic 06 understands this for better or worse

2017 is really a wild and great year for videogames and literally nothing else

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they made a sequel to nier!

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how increased graphical fidelity makes the insensitivity of available inputs (i.e. pushing around a tiny lollipop) relative to the actual articulation of a real human much starker, and how that influences other factors, like: city streets being far less populated than in reality, because navigating your swirling meatsack through an actual Times Square would be a stupidly hilarious exercise in ragdolling a zillion pedestrians as you shoved them to the ground

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I totally understand why Persona 5 makes the crowds of people in the subway stations holograms you can walk through, but it would’ve been lovely for sense-of-place if you sometimes got stuck waiting for the crowd to go up the escalator and you can’t just push through blindly. And if the range of analog input between “stand dead still” and “walk” was adjusted so you could actually walk rather than sprint everywhere.

I don’t think it would be appropriate to give the main character the Open World Pedestrian Shove, though, that’s pretty clearly out-of-character.

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QWOP 2: New Donk City

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Phantom Dust is Magic The Gathering The Movie The Video Game.

if i remember correctly, if you holded the “x” button in red dead redemption during a campaign mission where you had to follow someone (which happened a lot), john marston would walk or ride his horse at the same pace as the other character. i was freaked out by how neat and painfully-obvious-yet-rare that was

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Wait, I thought they were rebuilding Phantom Dust from the ground up? Or am I mistaken and it was always supposed to be a remaster?

They were doing a remake, intended as a multiplayer-focused thing, then project managers at MS changed and demanded a scope change with no budget increase, and the project was cancelled. So instead, we get the port. Which is OK, too.

If you thought it would be okay to maybe buy some DLC just to support the game in some way I hope you never accidentally delete your character or lose your save file.

love that jank-ass win32 dialog popup in the middle of the transaction menu in-game

That kind of ugly UI inconsistency (or jarring fullscreen teleport) is characteristic of payment platforms of all kinds. The payment systems want to fully isolate their code from client apps to avoid any funny business.