All the games featured in the showcase are part of a Steam Event: https://bit.ly/computerworlds

He is neither intelligent nor wise, though.

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How do you “accidentally” record other people’s conversations?

I’m sad this is probably going to replace the older ones, like RE2make and RE3make did.

Is this an historically accurate Strand-type game?

Last time I replayed Emerald, me and my friends had a lot of fun playing with the custom phrases.

The difference is that “DnD Next” was just a placeholder name, they were very clear about that and never intended to use it officially, same as OneDnD.

DnD 2024 never made any sense in the first place. Of the first three core manuals, only one was released in 2024 proper. It was just dumb and led to unnecessary confusion.

Point taken, I’ve edited the title. It was not my intent to disparage others, I’ve actually enjoyed playing Coromon.

The entire review is subjective and to be taken as such! Nothing I said is objective. This is just my favourite in a long time and I wanted to convey that - admittedly I fucked up the wording.

Yeah, the video puts a LOT of data together, but I don’t think it interprets that data correctly and the conclusion is skewed. At a certain point, it says “for every brown game, there’s a Just Dance or Super Mario game to balance it off”, which, sure, it’s technically true, but nobody ever accused those games to be brown in the first place.

There certainly was a tendency in using a more prominent brown/green filter and/or excessive bloom in games during that time. The video posits that it may be due to gamers aging (something along the line of “a player playing Kingdom Hearts on PS2 who then grows up and plays Gears of War on X360 may wonder where the colours went”), but I remember a lot of series turning brown that weren’t before: compare Ace Combat 4 to Ace Combat 6, Resident Evil 3 to Resident Evil 5, and even Call of Duty 2 to Modern Warfare 2.

EDIT: Some more examples among non-shooter series to demonstrate that shooters were not the only genre affected by this: Need for Speed Underground 2 vs Need For Speed Most Wanted, Deus Ex vs Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage to Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon. The latter puts to rest the theory that gamers think that games became brown only because they switched to more mature games as they grew up.

I agree with you, I just don’t care about gamerscore and I don’t think it has any relevance in any topic.

We all know she is not a gamer, we all know she’s an ex-AI exec and that’s why I think she doesn’t have what it takes to save Xbox. I just think that using achievements as a metric and being proud of having more achievements than another person is weird.

I also think that her setting up an Xbox account to play a month before her promotion is a stupid “how do you do, fellow gamers?” marketing pitch that I’m not sure why was attempted in the first place.

Huh, I wasn’t familiar with the concept. Thanks for showing it to me.

Gamerscore is a useless metric and doesn’t prove how much of a “gamer” a person is. I had a low gamerscore back in the X360 days because I played few titles per year, but I would play them for countless hours for fun and not to chase fake internet points. Add to that the hours spent on emulators and other platforms with no achievement, and it’s no wonder I never cracked 100,000 until, years later, Covid and GamePass let me play more games than I usually do (I’ve since jumped to PC, so my gamerscore hasn’t increased since then). Heck, I have friends who only have a few thousand fake points because they have spent thousand of hours on the same few games, while I usually hop from game to game as I chase different experiences.

Even if the above wasn’t true, I fully expect someone who has a real job to have less time to devolve to gaming, which means less gamerscore. I don’t want Microsoft (or any company, really) run by sweaty neckbeards who spend more hours in their man-cave than the outside world. I want those companies to be run by competent people who understand and care about the gaming industry. Which is not to say that the ex-AI exec cares about any of that stuff, but her lack of gamerscore doesn’t mean anything.

Sharma having no gamerscore is not the problem. The problem is her not having any gaming background and having been cherry-picked by Nadella because she was an AI exec. Xbox desperately needs new blood and a bold vision to resurrect their dying brand, but I doubt she’s the one who’ll save the day. I’ll be more than happy if she proves me wrong a few years from now, though.

3x speed is nice, but I can already do that on emulators.

If this is the same port that was sold on consoles, you can speed the game up while maintaining the music at the correct pace, which you cannot do on an emulator. It makes the game 100% more bearable.

Hooty Is the “watcher” in “watchers and dreamers”.

He watches everything. He’s probably watching you right now.

Quick review: while having the choice to play the Rayman 1 port you like the most is cool, there is not much reason to play anything other than the PS1 port except for the novelty of it.

Even then, the sountrack has been altered: this new one was made by the same person who did the Origins/Legends soundtrack. While I love the soundtrack of those games, Remi Gazel’s original soundtrack for Rayman 1 is iconic and it’s a bit insulting to both the fans that grew up with it, as well as to Gazel himself who sadly passed away a few years ago, not to be able to toggle the original version. Compare Bongo Hills’ original soundtrack with the new one, it’s a completely different experience - why can I toggle between five different ports, but I’m unable to experience those games the way they were originally intended?

The hyped SNES prototype is the same rom that was dumped on the internet a decade ago. Nothing new to see here.

The artbook and dev commentary is cool, although the value for those things is subjective.

PS1 by a mile. Every other version has either worse graphics, removed cutscenes and/or fucks up the music score (including the GoG version, unfortunately). The soundtrack plays a BIG part in making the first Rayman so good, so playing a port with a worse soundtrack is not worth it, imo.

Even better, Rayman Redemption is a free fangame that contains all the content from the best Rayman, and expands upon it. I’d say it’s the best way to experience this classic.

EDIT: Although I wholeheartedly recommend Rayman Redemption, it would be a bit irresponsible from me not to mention that it is a fundamentally different game compared to the original: a non-exhaustive list of changes:

• All power-ups are unlocked from the start (which makes for a less slogg-y beginning, but does make the first few levels a tad bit easier)
• Most levels have been expanded, either with longer screens or entirely new levels, boss battles and collectibles.
• An overall less grindy experience (more lives, being able to unlock additional hit points and gloves power-ups).
• Different physics (such as: being able to hit small enemies more easily; helicopter-hair being more similar to how they work in the sequel games; Rayman now stays in place when he is hit instead of jumping backwards, which makes the eggplant-riding challenges a LOT easier).
• Some QoL features, such as keyboard/controller setup, options for resolution and aspect ratio, gloves power ups being visible on Rayman’s sprite, full-charged glove having a different loop animation from the normal throw animation, etc…

TL;DR: If you want to experience the original game as it was intended, PS1 is the best port to experience it. If you want a more modernized experience, Redemption is the way to go.

Goddammit Penguin Random House doesn’t ship outside the US :(

I hope it’ll become available elsewhere in the future. I’m so excited for this!

Thanks <3

Let’s protect the children by scanning everyone’s face and ID and uploading them to a server that’ll get hacked five years from now.