News & Gossip VII: For Blood and Headlines

I rented The Phantom Menace when it came out because I was like wow it’s like Tomb Raider kind of but Star Wars. I got as far as the part where you start playing as Jar Jar and I got stuck on a platforming challenge I could not for the life of me figure out.

Never played it again.

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Do you even play as Jar Jar? Maybe I’m misremembering it. Trying to where I got stuck on a longplay on YouTube and all I can say for certain is that it was most likely the second level, The Swamps of Naboo.

i feel like i both read the novelization and completed a playthrough of (or maybe just started?) a http download warez release of the Phantom Menace PC game in the days before the release of the movie itself?

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games as a service have reached their pinnacle: announcing the launch and imminent shutdown at the same time

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Bunch of little news in here but Tomb Raider was ported to 32x.

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So you can be the maker of Hearthstone, WoW, and Diablo, and still have MS buy you for $70B and lay off nearly half your staff. And gee, the President and the CEO who saw the sale through have now both left. Poor guys.

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Soon the closure will be part of the reveal and the snake shall eat itself

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people are really out here doing all types of nostalgias

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The gulf of time between launch and retirement will narrow until it inverts, games shutdown before they are even announced, all players arrested on launch day

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This is from the folks who did the unofficial (and solid) remasters of the CDi Zelda games

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Was wondering if it was something like that when I saw the “seedy eye software” studio name. ^_ ^

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they really need to go whole hog with this and have horribly compressed audio

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it’s baffling to me but I love to see it. like there is a lot that’s fun about the production of the cd-i zelda games and I kind of prefer people appreciating how creatively deranged they are instead of letting it rot as a stale meme

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they are producing terrible new cd-i controllers for this

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okay they’re leaning into the bit hard enough for me to get behind now

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In true LRG fashion, the estimated street date of the controllers is November. Estimated.

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robocop got a new game + patch

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How did they predict that assholes like me would say something like “go all in and make replica CDI controllers you cowards” and actually do it ahead of time.

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