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All the best to Jess and Jason and the talent still employed with Giant Bomb, Gamespot and Fandom as a whole. I was warming back up to the site after a change in my own content consumption tastes and

Jess was a delightful addition to the team as both an on-camera and off camera talent. I have no doubt she’ll continue to find creative outlet and opportunity.

Jason always came off as very knowledge and professional in editing and production. I still tie my cables up the same as him ever since the video on it! I hope he finds opportunity to put those skills to the test in new ways.

It’s best to try and be optimistic in how to navigate a crap deal but I think the message can be “we’re starting a new chapter” or “we’re in transition” so many times before you start wondering if anyone still thinks its a job they still want to do.

They have an exclusivity agreement with Sony. Does anyone honestly think they are going to say anything that could be seen as disparaging that? Of course the stance would be “Buy a PS5 for this game.”.

I’ve started Front Mission 3 more times than I can count on many different platforms and emulators from original, PS3, PSP (Go), PS Vita, PC and Android (ePSXe).

Now this is all anecdotal of course but when not running original hardware, I’ve usually hit some crash or lock at some point so if you’re using an emulator the name of the game is save often! Some cases the crash was repeatable so I’d have to pull my memory card file and load it on another system/emulator to get past the part (even on Sony’s proper PS1 emulator on PSP/Vita!).

I just ordered my Steam Deck and it feels like time to make another attempt to actually finish this damn game. Either that or finally get a PS1 again (or see how well the MiSTer core handles it).

Edit: Oh and I just want to say how nice it was this morning to look at the latest thread list and see Front Mission 3! It made me smile big time!

I’ve been through a number of the early books and enjoy the expanded world building that’s been done over the years. That said, I also respect that its a game first and don’t fret the details.

The show being its own take is totally good with me as I never bought into an adaptation or remake somehow “ruining” an original. I really enjoyed how they introduced the covenant and wasted no time in showing their brutality. The CG is pretty good for a TV show but it is on that TV show budget. Still, they make some bold choices with how much of the CG they let you see and focus on.

The dialog and delivery thus far seems to be the weakest point but this first episode does a LOT of establishing. I don’t know how much I care for a human with a covenant upbringing although the idea isn’t that farfetched if you consider their dependance on humans to activate key forerunner technology.

I’m interested in watching more of the show and seeing what they do.

I’ll just list a bunch in order that I thought. It’s clear the through line is mostly games that have epiphany moments.

Fez

Portal 2

Super Metroid

Zelda Link to the Past

999 and Virtues Last Reward

Antichamber

The Witness

The moments when a twist hits or you find a layer of depth that has been there all along waitung for you to see it through the cracks. It’s very powerful and I loooove experiencing those moments.

Also I just love Super Metroid and play piles of rom hacks and randomizers of it.

Saw the trailer and read the thoughts and all I want now is Big Trouble In Final Fantasy.

I played about 15 minutes a few weeks back and wasn’t immediately digging it but I could play this while watching TV or listening to a podcast. I’ll be curious if it grows on me.

Sounds plenty fair to me. There are plenty of games I haven't finished but still enjoyed my time with and talked with friends about. Sometimes it spurred me on to keep going and finish it, sometimes I hear how it loses steam and I decide to move on to the next thing.

1. Superliminal

2. The Pedestrian

3. Record of Lodoss War (2 weeks is fine)

I recommended Supraland as a discussion point as I think it’s easy to miss it but I’d save that for later due to the longer length versus these.

Moving over my impressions of the game to here:

I really liked how the game utilized the four panels/frames. It felt like navigating a point and click adventure on top of a sliding block puzzle. It's method of integrating what might be a bag or inventory in a more conventional game was very cool.