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How come it's possible to rate a product you have not bought, that's a big mystery.

I think people have it backward. It's not that Twitch damages the mental health of streamers, it's that streaming is one of those activity appealing to people who have socialization and/or mental health issues. I am absolutely not saying that all or even most streamers fall in this category, but...

Unless she lost her eyes in a gruesome accident, I am sure she is doing fine.

@Intrinsic well I skipped a verb in the idiomatic expression so it became confusing. I meant : "without making waves". The bigwigs want Madrid to look good while the whole catholic world is watching so they want to hide the fact a serial killer is currently active in the city. Amusingly, in the...

A Good Year ? GI Jane ? Hannibal was also pretty weak compared to Manhunter and Silence of the Lambs. I also seriously doubt Someone To Watch Over Me aged well. And in the post 2010 era, The Martian was pretty damn good ! But as a whole I agree, the bating average went from high to low.

Recently saw two spanish movies written by Isabel Peña and Rodrigo Sorogoyen and directed by Sorogoyen. The first is a serial killer movie titled May God Save Us (Que Dios nos perdone) and the second is a political thriller titled The Realm (El reino). Both films use tired tropes, but with...

@Quineloe No sound is strange. From my experience the only thing that dies on NES is the cartridge connector because of wear and/or oxidation. Did you try on both the right and left connector of your AV to SCART adapter ? The default for mono is supposed to be Left, but maybe some TV models want...

@Quineloe most NES models have cinch connectors on the side : yellow for composite video and black for mono sound. If you have some cinch audio cable lying around, that does the trick. For having somewhat recently played a NES using composite on a modern flat screen TV, it does take a little bit...

These cardboard boxes look in pretty good shape too. Not that common with NES games. That said I am not sure the EU versions of games ever became collector's items. Almost all of retro gaming / speedrunning is done on US/JP consoles.

@Intrinsic April 1st news though....

I guess I should have phrased this differently : you do not knowingly wrongfully terminate a millionaire, because he will fight back and win while the average person is very likely to not fight back.

Wasn't the whole of Mixer viewership in hours something negligible like 2% of Twitch ? There is no massive anything going on when Ninja come and goes or when Dr Disrespect is banned. The service as whole grew dramatically faster than them.

@Oldbased Don't confuse the fact we don't know why he was banned with him not knowing why he was banned. He most certainly knows and it's most certainly related to a breach of an agreement he made when signing his contract. You cannot really legal-bully a millionaire, so it's pretty safe to...

I played the game a while back, but if I remember it correctly, the sorta lame part about the world tendency is that, playing the game blind, the tendency had basically no effect. Noteworthy things only happen at an extreme or the other, which require very specific ways of playing, so it's all...

Isn't it a standalone DLC like The Ballad of Gay Tony, Uncharted : The Lost Legacy or Blood Dragon ?

Any video or article that is titled "yadda yadda ALL CAPS group of people" is not worth watching/reading.

This thread is not really in the spirit of the movie ! :D But yeah this is an amazing film for many reasons. The David Bowie songs (in portuguese and with guitar only) have been mentioned, but the score by Mark Mothersbaugh that alternates between minimalist electronic and orchestral versions of...

I have mainly two problems with the movie. The first is that the basic "high concept" premise, the lock-down of Manhattan to catch two criminals, is basically unused in the film. It gives an artificial time limit for the operation, but the film is not about the hunted trying to find a way to go...

Saw it a while back when going through all of Verhoeven's films. I think I liked it but I must say it did not leave a very lasting impression on me. My memory might trick me AND I might be wrong, but I associate the film with a representation of the middle ages that was pretty innovative for a...

It's been a long while since I bought a console on release. I now wait until whatever comes first : a game I really want to play or some sort of discount. For the PS3 it was GTAIV and for the PS4 a general store around here had 20% on all electronic devices for a week-end. In any case there is a...

They stopped scoring games a while back. The reviewer did not enjoy the game though, the main argument being that it is relentlessly dark and violent to the point it becomes impossible to read it like the commentary or rumination on violence the authors wanted it to be.

Even in the case of some insane technological breakthrough, the evolution of visual fidelity in games is condemned to be on a logarithmic curve : the perceivable jump from a generation of console to the next is getting smaller and smaller. I suspect though that what this new generation of...

I like your plan for the many people who never played the game, but, selfishly, as someone who played the game already, I hope they make a lot of changes/additions to it to give me a reason to play it again !

Just played through the main campaign and the challenge levels of Poly Bridge 2 for personal computers. I played the first game a few years back and it's basically more of the same, but with the major flaw fixed, so, yay ! The idea behind the game is pretty simple. Each level is a situation...

Serious question : are there Game Gear exclusive games that are worth playing ? Never owned one, but I was under the impression that the few good games on it were ports of games available on other Sega consoles (and better on them).

With heavy assistance of the replay feature I played through Earth Defese Force on the Switch SNES emulator. We are talking about about the 1991 horizontal shm'up by Jaleco, not the super campy (and suposedly very fun) serie of 3rd person shooting game of the same title. The notable things...

Finished The 25th Ward : The Silver Case. This is the sequel to the japanese style adventure game The Silver Case that I reviewed in the Retro thread. The 25th Ward was originally made for cell phones in Japan and released episodically. With contractual changes and evolving technologies, the...

The wrestler became a thing after the game, but seeing some screenshots, there is a character named Batista, so it might just be a coincidence and a red herring for the search ! A small fish compared to "underwater" but heh :P

So.... '90s PC game, squad based strategy fighting aliens in underwater bases but it's NOT X-Com : Terror from the Deep ? The special edition maybe....

Some new games on the Switch official NES and SNES emulators means me spending some time playing them. Played through Rygar again since in this US version it's possible to kill the last boss. Still think this game is weird and rough. The bosses you need to spam-kill are dumb. Maybe I was in a...

youTube's algo found that guy for me and I thought people in this thread might enjoy him : He also makes videos dedicated to a single trick, be it famous classic tricks or, and that's pretty relevant for this thread, tricks featured in THPS.

There must be some people buying these special editions or they would not make it !

Just played through One-Way Ticket on Switch (also available on Steam). Sometimes curiosity pays off, sometimes it does not. Sadly this was a case of the latter this time. Browsing the Switch online store I stumbled upon that cheap visual novel with a somewhat interesting pitch : a murder...

Played trough two indies on PS4 recently, but both games are available on most platforms. The first was Tacoma by Fullbright, the makers of Gone Home. At a fundamental level, Tacoma is a very similar game since it also works on the idea of what one could call archaeological storytelling. The...

A couple generations of consoles back, games like those of Ubi were made for the so called 'greatest common denominator' of the different platforms, so it was not unfair to say that every version of the game was a downgrade compared to what it could have been if optimized for its platform. I am...

That would be a pretty elaborate bait and switch considering the story does not come from them !

There is a lot to unpack here. First there is a false equivalence : people deciding to not play a game because there is something they find objectionable in it (Not enough diversity ! Too much diversity !), is not the same as academics analyzing a game and commenting it through the lens of...

Saw it a few months back in a festival... I don't have a precise memory of it other than I did not like it much. I think It had more to do with the type of story than the actual execution though.

Many of you sound like people who read the first tome of A Song of Ice and Fire, heard about the Red Wedding and decided to not buy or read tome 2 (though that might be a good choice for a number of other reasons :D ) It is an age old narrative device to have plot points that infuriate the...

@Khane @Zindan The first game took about 15 hours to beat in a sprawling world with dozens of characters. I imagine the sequel will be in the same ballpark and we are talking (if I understand it, since I did not check the spoilers) about the design choice of a single character. Also, even if the...