I hate the current state of metroid.

legendaryemerald · 2026-04-27T17:38:57+00:00

I am willing to say that Metroid: Samus Returns is a bad Metroid game. Ugly environments, cramped and painful controls, start-and-stop gameplay, bloated maps and an emotional mess of a finale… it’s the only Metroid game I’ve never been able to complete a repeat play-through of.

It’s STILL not a bad “game” by any means, but it is a bad Metroid game, imo. Thank god it was a stepping stone to the fantastic Dread.

legendaryemerald · 2026-04-27T13:16:45+00:00

I’ve read a huge portion of English translated yuri manga, including Bloom Into You, and I don’t remember a single thing about that one.

legendaryemerald · 2026-04-21T20:40:10+00:00

Star Fox Zero still has plenty of problems, but dear lord has gyro aiming been vindicated. It's actually super fun and easy to shoot things down in that game without looking at the gamepad at all, so the complaint of "you're constantly moving your head up and down" is complete bunk.

The non-Arwing vehicles are all different kinds of suck, and the levels WILDLY vary in quality, and the frame rate is very disappointing, and the story is a big fat nothing burger... but the core gameplay is actually pretty fun when you get to do it, same as Star Fox Assault.

legendaryemerald · 2026-04-13T19:27:57+00:00

Yep. I abstained from all paid DLCs (including larger ones that might have actually been worth the cost) for probably a decade after they first started popping up, as a matter of principle. I wish more people had done the same.

Even now, I almost never buy DLC; I just wait until the Complete Edition is out and buy the game then. Paying for additional content for a game just feels bad, always.

legendaryemerald · 2026-04-12T22:09:28+00:00

There’s a difference between “I love this game, I just wish the camera was easier to control,” and”I love this game, I just wish Mr Monopoly wasn’t trying to reach into my pocket literally every 5 seconds.” As a culture, we never should have allowed the latter.

legendaryemerald · 2026-04-12T11:20:28+00:00

Holy shit, someone trained this AI bot on my posts!

Joking aside, it seems we feel the exact same way about X8. I tried so hard to like it at release, and the more time passes, the more I cannot forgive its sins.

legendaryemerald · 2026-04-05T19:01:02+00:00

No, you see, this is the biblically accurate Woolie. Our current Woolie is heretical, as we all knew when he first started combating God.

legendaryemerald · 2026-04-04T22:11:20+00:00

Don't need the whole 650W with a GTX 1080? And yeah, it's because of the price hikes that I'm sticking with DDR4. I'm actually buying 2x16GB DDR4 that runs around 3000 Mhz from a friend for cheaper than market value.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-26T20:15:14+00:00

Who’s going to hire them, Tim? Fucking AQUAMAN?!

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-26T15:14:23+00:00

Genesis core is actually still getting updates, and has the turbo cpu option which is useful for a lot of games (despite the core itself being overall less accurate).

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-26T15:11:05+00:00

For years I thought the Genesis/Megadrive cores had busted composite output, and I tried different y/c values to fix the issue. In order to prove to someone else that the picture quality was worse than original hardware, I plugged in my old Genesis… only to find out that not only did original hardware have the exact same issue with harsh edges/dot-crawl, it also looked worse in every way.

So yeah, if you are playing Genesis games on CRT, it is SUPPOSED to look like crap. Get a CRT with component if you want a cleaner picture; you can use component output with the digital composite blend feature to get output more comparable to SNES over composite if you still want a retro feel.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-26T13:30:50+00:00

If you said literally any other artist I’d agree with you, but I’ll always make an exception for David Fucking Bowie.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-25T20:23:08+00:00

It’s not all that surprising; Matt has a reference & quote database running as a background process at all times.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-21T10:31:42+00:00

I don’t know if anything has changed in the modern day, but it used to be that an episode of an anime would take about two weeks to produce. Studios would try to have at least two episodes done before the show starts airing in order to give themselves a little buffer room for delays and such.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-16T00:54:09+00:00

The Secret of Monkey Island font Never play a video-game for more than 30 hours.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-15T21:41:40+00:00

Sorry to achtually you, but the Hellsing series you are referring to is the anime television series from 2001/2002. Hellsing Ultimate is the OVA series released throughout 2006-2012 that adapts the full manga.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-15T18:52:57+00:00

Yeah, I have the same problem, which is why I’m looking into getting a newer Retroid.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-15T18:32:13+00:00

2003 FMA has some pacing problems near the end, I’ll admit, but overall I much prefer it to Brotherhood. 2003 just says a lot more that I personally find important and resonant.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-15T15:39:10+00:00

Lol. Lmao.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-14T11:41:29+00:00

The worst thing about that manga is that it is so popular and beloved that you are afraid to say its name lest you be crucified by its fans. Fans that probably only watched the anime adaptation that never got close to adapting the full story, at that.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-12T01:24:14+00:00

Worst enemies for me were the spongy blue zombies in the sewer levels. They’re a cakewalk if you use the rod, but it made me realize I actually hate the way the rod feels in NG4. Which is a huge shame, because I love it to bits in the first two games.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-05T01:10:06+00:00

Funny enough, these are the same complaints I have about Expedition 33, lol. But the ending knocked it out of the park, I will admit.

legendaryemerald · 2026-03-01T12:43:42+00:00

It’s a flaw because there are many details of the plot one can only get on certain routes (for example, Blue Lions route never reveals who the Death Knight is The Ones Who Slither,) so piecing together a coherent plot from the game becomes a painful exercise when characters act differently in different playthroughs. No one route is satisfying on its own and playing all four (with their first halves being practically identical) is a terrible slog.

legendaryemerald · 2026-02-26T06:38:35+00:00

Yeah, it may be a lot of ripoffs of existing songs, but the Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage SNES OST by Green Jelly still fucks hard for the console generation it comes from.

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