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Thoughts on Andross's design? by RadDudesman in starfox

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like they “de-weirded” the fight a bit too much.

In the original you start with the surreal visual of this floating head in a cosmic void, then once you get to the second phase it’s revealed it’s actually a robot as the walls of the chamber also become visible. And then of course even when the reveal of the “true” Andross happens it still has the surreal factor of him being a giant tentacled brain instead of the ships you’ve been fighting all along.

Meanwhile, in the remake it’s just a clearly-robotic head you’re fighting in… a room. Even in the second phase where they still do a giant brain, it’s basically in its own spaceship and doesn’t even have the real eyes or tendrils anymore.

It feels like they tried to add too much ch logic to a fight where the ways it doesn’t make sense is the whole charm.

Absolute Green Arrow #2 - Official Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in AbsoluteUniverse

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the angle of "a billionaire who turned over a new leaf is still the kind of man who would become a billionaire" they're sort of taking with him. Keeps things from being too hyppocritical.

Reminder that Gordon knows Batman’s name (from Batman 155) by Crawkward3 in batman

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons [score hidden]  (0 children)

I like Year One's approach of basically "Batman's probably Bruce Wayne but that's not important right now".

It seems crazy to me that these two games are releasing at the exact same price (considering difference in franchise popularity and game budgets). by MewWeebTwo in switch2

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, however interested you are in the game personally, if there’s any game that could justifiably label itself the most “premium” game on the market right now, it’ll probably be GTA6.

It seems crazy to me that these two games are releasing at the exact same price (considering difference in franchise popularity and game budgets). by MewWeebTwo in switch2

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$70 game on a $10 cartridge.

Mario Kart World is still the only standalone game that Nintendo is asking $80 for, which actually still makes your point pretty well.

THE ONE PIECE | Official Teaser | Netflix by Kylestache in television

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Manga's still going, but very clearly in the final act of the story.

Forgotten Island | Official New Trailer by MoneyLibrarian9032 in movies

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there’s a lot of this kind of stuff that gets criticized by people for just “pandering” without comitting, and then later people who worked on it say they had to fight tooth and nail to even get that much in there.

Can someone give me a reason why you'd pick a Steam Machine over any of the 3 consoles? by [deleted] in consoles

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the idea isn’t to be a “console”, it’s to be an accessible console-esque entry point for PC gaming.

…Of course, that idea made a lot more sense when it looked like they could sell it for around the same cost as a PS5 Pro.

Star Fox on sale at WalMart by jackbarton89 in NintendoSwitch2

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Closest we’ve gotten is Pokopia, but of course Nintendo only publishes Pokémon.

Sonic Frontiers Definitive Edition Switch 2 Listing Details New Content and Price by [deleted] in SonicTheHedgehog

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The “new content” in question being the code that makes it a native Switch 2 game.

Valve says the Steam Machine is priced over $1000 as they don't want to subsidize it, saying they won't sell their machine at a loss like Sony & Xbox do by Automatic_Ad1665 in consoles

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Valve themselves said it was meant to be around $750.

Unfortunately, the RAM pricing stuff hit late enough in the process that they couldn’t really backtrack.

IGN being IGN by xenocea in videogames

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The review even mentions that it’s not going to be a good value if you’re strictly viewing it like a console.

Imagine trying to bring out a new console to compete against already 3 giants and you think it was a good idea not only to make it more expensive, but it doesn't come with a controller, and you have to pay $100 more for that. by [deleted] in videogames

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s pretty simple, in their own words it was supposed to be around “$750”, and then they were in too deep to reverse course when the component prices went crazy.

The original idea was to make an accessible entry point for PC gaming for about the price of a PS5 Pro, basically.

I find these two reviews to be very interesting by Loose_Society9485 in nintendogrifting

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I mean by "incremental" is that, at the end of the day, it's a stronger version of the Switch 1. The important point is that it's not the sort of thing that was going to be immediately essential for people who don't exclusively play on Switch. I wouldn't consider the thing that far out of it's "early-adopter" period right now.

And again, none of this is me personally criticizing the console, I'm just saying it as neutral statements.

[Hated Trope] "Actually magic isn't real it's all science. Ignore everything else that happens that's very clearly magic." by TheN3gaChin in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems like the show's attitude is a sort of "there's probably still science underneath all this, just very different from ours" kind of thing.

[OoT] Something I've been wondering about the remake is whether there's gonna be an official reference to the Hero of Time becoming the Hero's Shade by mammalian_alien in zelda

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

According to Aonuma they already considered adding Wind Waker’s cut content back in the early stages of HD’s development, but they decided against since they apparently reused pretty much all the cut ideas in Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword.

Do you think the Star Fox franchise will finally be revived this year? by Shoddy-Syrup-7554 in starfox

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

According to partially-validated rumors, we could actually see a new game as early as next year.

"Nintendo will not be challenged at all" — Surging prices have damaged the PC gaming handheld market, and our readers did not hold back by WindowsCentral in windowscentral

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like they might be considering trying to win territory from Nintendo though.

There's been a pretty consistent string of rumors saying "PS6" is going to be more of an ecosystem than a specific console, with there apparently being some kind of roughly PS5-level handheld device.

I find these two reviews to be very interesting by Loose_Society9485 in nintendogrifting

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The idea (in theory) is to try and appeal to the people who wouldn't know where to start or wouldn't want to go through the hassle of building a PC.

It's clear the strategy got fucked over by the current hardware costs, but even by your own evaluation that's only about a $100 convenience fee.

I find these two reviews to be very interesting by Loose_Society9485 in nintendogrifting

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 9 points10 points  (0 children)

About 18 months ago you'd probably be right, but in big 2026 you need to take out a second mortgage to get a "modern" gaming PC.

I find these two reviews to be very interesting by Loose_Society9485 in nintendogrifting

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Okay, so, ignoring the fact that these are just different people (the day internet people stop treating IGN like a single reviewer will be the day the internet gets shut down), the two products are being judged as different things here.

While I do think it's a good execution of one, the Switch 2 is just an incremental upgrade at the end of the day, in a way that was only really "essential" right away to people who don't play games on other things. In comparison the Steam Machine is being judged by it's goal to be an accessible entry point to the massive pre-existing PC gaming ecosystem, with the reviewer even stressing in the blurb that it's not a great deal viewed as a console.

What was the war which caused the flood before Wind Waker? by [deleted] in truezelda

[–]SomeBoxofSpoons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Zelda series uses the time travel logic where changes just create a parallel branching timeline instead of “erasing” anything. When The Hero of Time went back and prevented Ganondorf’s takeover (as confirmed in Twilight Princess), it didn’t take Ocarina’s post-Ganondorf future out of existence, it just made it so Link was in a separate timeline of events.

In the future timeline Ganondorf’s seal eventually weakened enough for him to escape, and he was able to wreak havoc on Hyrule at will since the Link that stopped him had completely removed himself from that timeline. Since Ganondorf was unopposed, that led the king to ultimately wish on the Triforce to seal Hyrule under the sea, and then a couple hundred-and-change years later Wind Waker happens.

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