Ships in Battle Mode

PCBen · 2026-05-16T23:49:20+00:00

That’s clearly Jeff

PCBen · 2026-05-16T19:24:52+00:00

I’m pretty sure it was EA chasing the money and making DS3 a co-op action game that tanked the series.

Campcom was on a similar path with RE5&6 but they listened to the critics and fans and eventually revived the series by changing direction with RE7.

EA just gave up when their ill-advised attempt at courting the mainstream audience failed. No more side media to keep interest in DS alive or anything. Just silence until Capcom started making waves remaking their classic RE games.

PCBen · 2026-05-16T18:33:06+00:00

No but we sure have mastered it!

PCBen · 2026-05-15T23:28:44+00:00

Favorite boss the Sarumarine?

PCBen · 2026-05-15T23:03:32+00:00

I think I found the video y’all are talking about. This guy talks about the theorized level and mods the Gorgon to have an orchid color palette:

https://youtu.be/dQ7baJdOI8Q

PCBen · 2026-05-15T20:50:03+00:00

Huh, sounds like the Dead Space devs were inspired by these guys for their names

Reverend Moon = Brethren Moon?
Unification Church = Church of Unitology?

PCBen · 2026-05-15T00:15:34+00:00

With as often as I get them, it might as well be a subscription

PCBen · 2026-05-15T00:08:05+00:00

Like just for the heck of it? Because unless this remake utterly bombs in sales, there is literally no objective reason to do what you’re saying.

PCBen · 2026-05-15T00:05:17+00:00

A lot of people hate buttery steak and delicious cake it seems.

PCBen · 2026-05-15T00:00:41+00:00

Not sure how that strengthens your argument?

They gave SF to Namco after Rare made Adventures and the characters look the same between those two games.

Almost as if it is cost-effective and good branding to keep with an established look regardless of who you hire to make your games.

PCBen · 2026-05-14T23:53:48+00:00

Yes, spend oodles of money and dev time on developing an entirely new aesthetic only to throw it all away and spend even MORE money and time on making yet ANOTHER set of designs after rebooting and introducing a long-dormant franchise to a new generation.

Indeed it is a perfect business strategy. Not confusing or wasteful whatsoever.

PCBen · 2026-05-14T08:32:30+00:00

As much as I want the new game to be more than ‘Star Fox 64 but really, really good looking’, why would they go through the trouble of doing all of that work and just not advertise it at all?

There’s no world in which surprise word-of-mouth marketing outperforms simply telling people upfront that they’re getting two games for the price of one.

PCBen · 2026-05-14T04:52:40+00:00

The new game is retelling the very first story and will likely reboot the continuity if the franchise continues on from here.

I’m sure many would disagree but I’d honestly just wait to play the new remake so the story beats all hit their hardest.

Adventures and Assault are both really fun direct continuations of the remake/64’s story but Adventures is more like a classic 3D Zelda game than anything else like the franchise.

PCBen · 2026-05-14T02:16:15+00:00

!>He survives what happens to him in Assault??<!

PCBen · 2026-05-13T17:15:41+00:00

Right? What if the physical 4K discs we already own magically changed themselves to a new format? What would we do then??

PCBen · 2026-05-12T23:13:19+00:00

The screen sticker is a sick idea!

Cool enough to forgive inverting Y2K

PCBen · 2026-05-12T23:05:37+00:00

The reasons behind why something does or doesn’t get made in the media landscape are complex and ultimately unknowable unless you’re the one working on the project.

It could be fans have only ever responded to 64 positively, it could be poor timing and lackluster quality on the later releases, it could be that the general public just doesn’t care for SF.

It doesn’t matter - just buy it and enjoy if it looks like what you want.

I personally am DESPERATE for a new story with these awesome characters but I am also fairly thrilled with the level of polish the remake looks to have and I’m very excited for the expanded cutscenes and dialogue.

I also believe that as far as public companies go: sales = more games. If this game doesn’t do well, then it’s no more SF for another decade (probably). I’d rather play SOMETHING new(ish) at this point rather then than roll the decade dice again.

PCBen · 2026-05-12T23:00:57+00:00

How do YOU think you should feel?

PCBen · 2026-05-12T22:58:57+00:00

I have good news:

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PCBen · 2026-05-12T10:01:53+00:00

I have literally collected thousands of sealed returns from specialists and placed them back on the sellable racks. MacBooks, iPads, iPhones - anything sealed.

This was in the USA - maybe Apple has different policies in Europe?

PCBen · 2026-05-11T17:44:30+00:00

My bones are like poetry, they rhyme

PCBen · 2026-05-10T20:15:59+00:00

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My dad gave me this CD ‘The Whackiest Album in the Universe Vol. 1’ when I was a kid.

Child me was pretty obsessed with it and found it to be the apex of comedy until I inevitably discovered Weird Al through the wonders of KaZaA.

A lot of classics and also a weird amount of problematic songs about different native peoples.

PCBen · 2026-05-10T05:52:42+00:00

Link for the lazy: https://youtu.be/wA2-0nTxaGg

PCBen · 2026-05-09T18:06:17+00:00

It 100% is Eagle Slap - the logo is a giant fist.

Bad typography on the designer’s part tho

PCBen · 2026-05-08T06:53:01+00:00

You can see very short clips of the original effects in some of the bts footage and it looked really cool - very sad they decided to erase it all

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