Johnny Baghead

Look at everything that happened with Destiny 2 and deleting paid gameplay content and losing assets, even look at Marathon which sure people are enjoying now, but has had a more than rocky road.
Some people need to stop living decades in the past

I bring this up specifically whenever I see people lamenting 343 Industries (now Halo Studios) taking over the series and "oh what if Bungie stayed?"
Except no Bungie's output since Halo Reach has been a major drop off and filled with controversy, and also numbnuts a bunch of 343 devs were ex-bungie

YouTube video by Myggen Myggen Giant Bombcast GOTY 2014 - Jeff's Destiny Rant

Randomly stumbled into a Jeff Gerstmann rants video playlist and got reminded of this one about Destiny and as someone who put dozens of hours into it, everything here is 100% right
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-TI...
I legit took Taken King expansion for Destiny to actually be good

You're getting more, I cannot be contained!

And this is me limiting my picks to best in series, more MGS, SH, DMC, DOOM, Time Crisis, Nier, Tekken, TimeSplitters deserve to be on here.
Honestly I just want to make two more lists, if this post gets 2 ❤️ screw it I'll do two more

I tried to do a my9games.com thing, I failed I have to be real, the idea of just 9, I couldn't make it work, so here's 18 and honestly, it's still too low a number. GTA San Andreas, PoP SoT, Castlevania SOTN/DoS, SSX3, THPS3/THUG, there's so many missing here, I'd be more like my 90 games

Great read so far, hoping you have some info on this stuff I was told about when I did a playthrough for Bad Game Hall of Fame last year

bsky.app/profile/cbak...

Honestly with some of the "jokes" in this trailer if it turns out this was a script that was written 10-15 years ago and only just got put into production I'd believe you.
It doesn't even feel like a throwback it just feels stuck in the past, when we used to pretend these parody movies were funny

We as a society really do not shit on 2000s adult comedy/parody movies enough, some of the worst stuff put to screen that got that dated, aged like milk stance in less than a decade.
So to see yet another nostalgia bait attempt from Hollywood and its just that same 2000s writing unchanged, for whom?

Thanks to very generous donations from fans, I know own two Sinden Lightguns! Let's mess around with them for a bit and catch up!
POTENTIAL FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING please be advised!
www.twitch.tv/johnnybaghead

I know it's short notice, but letting you know now I'm prepping for a stream, so when I post I'm live, I'll be live for real

Hope you'll come a tune in!

Though if you're willing to completely beat the optional fight club in the story mode, there is a fight against Cammy. Aaaaaand billboards for Slipknot's Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) album, so there's that

It can run Doom!

Also I hope you get that book report done in time for Monday class

Bunch of fools, that's the impression I get reading this, another story of the people running the video game industry don't actually have any clue what to do and the people who actually help it succeed don't make the decisions

4) I don't really see the need for that recently announced God of War Trilogy remake, but yeah huge sign Sony didn't know what to do with Bluepoint that they don't seem to have been considered for that.

Hey maybe instead they could have ported the two GoW HD collections off PS3, free idea Sony

This part especially just, I don't know what they were thinking here, "out of ideas" feels like an understatement. Were there really no other Sony owned released from their back catelog that Bluepoint could have worked on bringing to modern systems?

3) "An updated version of Shadow of the Colossus PS4"? What would that even be? re-remake the graphics? Try to make them closer to the OG? I know over a decade ago Udea briefly thought the PS3 port could get the cut Colossi added, and he's long gone from Sony so they couldn't do that

We have to presume what "remake" meant here, it's a term is little meaning in the industry, but I'd assume that meant something like their previous remakes, I don't know why they didn't pitch to Miyazaki an updated port, something he has openly expressed interest for publically

I obviously don't know if Miyazaki shares that opinion, or even has any about Demon's Souls PS5. But I find it hard to imagine he has none, and him saying he'd only approve a Bloodborne remake if he was directly involved, has to mean something about how he felt about Demon's Souls PS3/PS5

2) After that ill-conceived GoW Live Service was cancelled, Bluepoint didn't seem to have any good suggestions either. People want a modern release of Bloodborne, don't think "remake" is what they mean & I don't blame Miyazaki wanting to be involved cos Demon's Souls PS5 butchered the art direction

1) Bluepoint were mainly known for their technical ability with ports and conversions, even with the remakes they released before Sony buyout, their port work was more recognised.
So why did Sony buy them out, to have them not do any porting/remastering? Clueless berks

This is a great read, but when it comes to everyone involved in the story their behaviour leaves me dumbfounded, not just sony higher ups but some of Bluepoint based on these pitches

I'm very lucky to have this honestly, me and my younger sister were watching Game Center CX starting around 2010ish and when this 2nd DVD release with the original Japanese audio released she brought it for us, massive legend

www.discotekmedia.com/retro_game_m...

Very much out of print, probably very costly to get now.

Because these episodes got official english license you'll see most fan sites that link/host fansubs not include them, on request of the rightsholder though at some point the eng license will be expired

This was a limited release Discotek did back in 2012. This was after that weird Kotaku version, so it's those 12 episodes with that english voice over, but added back Japanese audio + 2 more episodes with Japanese audio, and subtitles done by Nina Matsumoto (one of the SA fansubbers I think)

If you know another developer/publisher that does keep these kind of records beyond "series sales" like a Konami tends to do, I would love to know.
A surely naive part of me questions "why aren't companies required by law to keep sales records to confirm shit for tax reasons?" but, you know, whatevs

I wish we had more below 1 million sold data though, and I still want to know why Megaman Battle Network 4 is the only battle network game to clear 1 million.
Would also be nice if Capcom themselves archived the quarter year updates to the list, again why web archive is so important

5) Also a sign of just how much the video game industry has grown in the last 20-30 years, pretty much every big name Capcom release since Resident Evil 7 will at some point sell above 10 million units, compared to the 1-2 millions in the 90s-2000s.
Their huge quality jump since the 2010s helps too

YouTube video by Bad Game Hall of Fame DmC: Devil May Cry [#04 / End] - Bad Game Hall of Fame

4) Much like with RE5 & RE6 7th gen versions, DmC Devil May Cry's vanilla release still sells 100-200k units yearly, so while it failed sales targets it's launch quarter, after a lull it's been doing this for 10+ years.
More on that here youtu.be/7LIkg6jc4W8?...

3) When Devil May Cry 4 SE and DmC Definitive Edition released vs each other, for a while we didn't really know how they did beyond vague insider reports.
Eventually both cleared the 1 million mark, but longterm DMC4SE has more than doubled DmC DE's (PC version probably a factor there)