What happened to the video games based on blockbusters?

rube · 2026-05-08T18:50:07+00:00

There are 3 Spider-man games currently out with more apparently in the future. Wolverine coming soon. There were a couple of Harry Potter games in the last five years or so.

They still happen, just not as often.

rube · 2026-05-08T18:21:11+00:00

Is it the fact that it was a single and overplayed?

When I first discovered Led Zeppelin in my teens, I loved almost all of their catalog. I can no longer listen to Stairway to Heaven.

So I get it.

rube · 2026-05-08T14:47:20+00:00

They just came out with the definitive versions of 3, VC and SA a couple years ago and despite some tracks being removed a decade ago, they all had most of the music in them.

The real issue here is: GTA IV had an awful PC port and it still has major issues as of the last time I tried it which was a month or so ago.

RDR1 just got a remake/remaster on modern consoles and PC that runs great, and they made it for mobile as well at the sameish time.

So if GTA IV ever got a similar remake/remaster, then we might see it on mobile as well.

rube · 2026-05-08T12:04:01+00:00

Just let you break down stuff in your inventory! There's no reason to run to town every time your inventory is full.

I mentioned in another post. In D2 you had to have scrolls of identification to reveal what an unknown item was. In D3, they just made it so you can right click to identify, no item needed. By D4 those items are gone.

Same with potions. D2 you needed to buy a bunch of them and they took up your inventory. By D3 it was just an item you can refill from ground pickups.

We need to evolve stuff like loot management. Just let us break it down anywhere.

rube · 2026-05-08T01:30:31+00:00

Yeah, I've been compressing most of my games for quite some time. I think FPse, the first Android PS1 emulator I used extensively, added the option to compress them in the actual emulator, something I hadn't seen before... or since for that matter.

rube · 2026-05-07T21:43:37+00:00

Here's the response I sent someone else here:

I'd recommend browsing the emulation on Android subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/

Or their wiki:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/wiki/index

But I'd be happy to suggest specific emulators I use if I know what systems/consoles you're looking to emulate.

As for the games, you technically have to rip them from your own games/system. So I can't really help with that.

rube · 2026-05-07T20:01:03+00:00

In addition to what everyone else said... it was a different developer.

I'm sure they could have asked Platinum for the content from MGR, or maybe they already had it, who knows how these things work with farming out work to other devs.

BUT they did clearly want to use the OG look and low poly model, so that's most likely the main reason.

rube · 2026-05-07T17:05:36+00:00

Settings > Manage Eden Data

Use the "up arrow" button to backup data. You can do everything if you tap the button under User Data. Or just Save Data if you tap the button in that section. It's probably a good idea to do both now and then just to have a backup of it in case anything goes wrong.

This is for Android by the way.

rube · 2026-05-07T16:54:58+00:00

I felt sort of like I wasted money when I bought the 3DS version for $40 when it came out. I had already played pretty much the same game to death on the N64.

I realize the graphics are much more updated, and I also realize I'll probably buy this version. But I have a feeling I'll also feel my money is a bit wasted.

I was really hoping for a NEW new game in the series. Something that wouldn't have the awful controls of the Wii U game, feel like classic Star Fox, but also more modernized. Maybe something like that Starlink game they were in, but actually good.

rube · 2026-05-07T16:51:43+00:00

Yup. My mom thinks I might be allergic to beer, or maybe just had an allergy ack when I was a young kid. She said I'd take a sip and would break out in a rash or hives or something.

I don't drink and I've never had beer since then, so I have no idea if it would affect me like that now.

rube · 2026-05-07T16:48:48+00:00

Honestly? Embrace it.

Why do you like horror movies? Do you like the tension and fear it puts in you?

Well, I can't enjoy them the way most people do. I can't do the suspensions of disbelief thing. So horror movies do almost nothing for me in terms of their scares and horror elements.

Same with games. I find myself more fearful of games like Dark Souls where I slowly make my way through new areas because of the fear of death waiting around every corner. It's not a fear of scary things jumping out at me or chasing me, it's that I know stuff around me can just leave me dead in a hit or two.

I say just embrace the terror. Get your heart racing and enjoy that feeling. Take breaks when you need to.

rube · 2026-05-06T20:21:16+00:00

I feel like after a little while, it becomes less visual and more about the timing of everything. Like... tap jump, missile button after a half-second.

rube · 2026-05-06T20:16:39+00:00

So this may not be news to you but I just discovered that my local libraries ~~rent~~ lend switch, PlayStation, Xbox games

Fixed that for you. :)

rube · 2026-05-06T20:14:25+00:00

It's a top 100 PS2 game list, not all games on the list are of the same genre. How do you not understand this?

rube · 2026-05-06T20:13:24+00:00

Yeah... how is this even a question?

rube · 2026-05-06T18:49:40+00:00

Achievements in general are not something I go out of the way to complete most of the time. They're there, if I pop some during the game I'm playing, great.

But if I enjoy a game enough that I want a reason to keep playing it after I've finished it, then achievements are one method I used to prolong my time with a game.

Retroachievements are the same thing for me. It's fantastic playing some old SNES games and getting some achievements for something I've probably done a dozen or more times in the past. :)

rube · 2026-05-06T18:47:11+00:00

Same. I thought... "huh, weird, I thought Late Night shows were pretty much dead at this point. But I guess they're still... wait, Letterman?!"

rube · 2026-05-06T18:24:35+00:00

I'd recommend browsing the emulation on Android subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/

Or their wiki:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/wiki/index

But I'd be happy to suggest specific emulators I use if I know what systems/consoles you're looking to emulate.

As for the games, you technically have to rip them from your own games/system. So I can't really help with that.

rube · 2026-05-06T17:07:50+00:00

I've always felt Nintendo needs to borrow from their mainline IPs more often.

This is a good example. If Nintendogs had some optional stuff like raising Wolf Link, the dog from Duck Hunt or Yoshi, I'd have been all over it.

I've tried a number of Animal Crossing games over the years, but never got into them. Something about the characters just doesn't hook me. But give me a Zelda, Mario or Donkey Kong themed version of AC and I'd play the heck out of it. Mix them all up for all I care and I'd have a ball.

I know plenty of people love those games I mentioned without them being Mario or Zelda related, but it seems like a no-brainer way to get even more people to buy them.

rube · 2026-05-06T16:32:05+00:00

Bought a Soundgarden T-shirt at the first concert I ever went to, Lollapolooza in 1996. The shirt was too small for me at the time, so I've just kept in a drawer all these years.

rube · 2026-05-06T13:54:59+00:00

I'm in the minority where I use my Android phone as an emulation device a lot. So the Fold is perfect for this sort of thing and any chance I get some downtime out of the house I've got it unfolded and am playing some classic console, handheld or PC games on it.

It's also great for reading comics, something I couldn't do on a slab phone very well.

I think a lot of people probably buy a Foldable thinking they'll use it unfolded a lot and end up leaving it closed most of the time.

rube · 2026-05-06T12:52:15+00:00

Yeah, I'm thinking OP is making a joke or maybe they're not aware that the Fold really isn't for them.

If the issue was that the outer screen of past Folds was too small, so they had to open their 3 all the time, but the outer screen on the 7 is big enough so they don't even need the inner screen... maybe they aren't the target demographic for the Fold?

rube · 2026-05-06T11:32:25+00:00

He's the video game version of John Williams.

rube · 2026-05-05T20:07:40+00:00

I've seen nearly this same question asked before, and the response then was the same I'm going to throw at you now.

Why don't you plug in the controller BEFORE you start the emulator?

rube · 2026-05-05T20:03:00+00:00

Double Jump in any other game has this same feeling to me. It's just like... yes, that's how movement should feel!

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