Abram Buehner

unfortunately the charge is the same

I appreciate you turning yourself in

posting a timestamped photo of marathon running on my ps5 and remanding a recount

Doing a citizen's arrest on anyone who posts about the Marathon concurrent player count

Loved the first hour I played and I can't wait to settle in for several hours after work tn

I've only played an hour of Pokopia during lunch, but that one hour captured my imagination & curiosity in an immediate and wonderful way. It so thoughtfully saturates this little crafting/building sandbox with Pokémon terms and ideas that are brilliantly rethought for this context. In awe of it

I didn't realize that was a discourse since I only played it for the first time last year, but I think MHGU is easily one of the most beautiful games I've played

I think that if Pokopia came out when I was 11 it would be the only game I ever played. I think that if Pokopia came out when I was 25 it would still dominate my gaming life. I am currently 25

YouTube video by Critical Error Remakes Are Good, Actually

REMAKES ARE GOOD!
youtu.be/BjDmzSYeTVA

real af

It's most similar to comfort TV shows. My girlfriend sort of cycles between the same 4 shows over and over and over. And in fairness so do I, I have seen every episode of seinfeld many many times

I'm just thinking about playing Pokopia tomorrow & I'm thinking about RE9 last night... I'm considering that if I were to make a top 10 games of all-time list MK World & Bananza would be on it... I'm pondering all the games I've not listed that I love... Switch 2 is prob my fave system ever already

Fantastic game so far!!

So sorry to hear this Joe :(

Still playing virtual boy

little wario with his hat off is freaky

Finally trying out my Switch 2 Virtual Boy

Some days I think Tenet is the greatest movie of all time

Highguard was extremely fun & its shutdown is an indictment of the gamemaking/funding environment. But I also think that it's kind of on you & your management if you take a secret Tencent deal tied to milestones you miss by a mile before spiking all your team's jobs and work into the dumpster?

Yeah weird that it was only in the Japanese show when I just bought it off the US eShop

I've been wanting to play Öoo! Awesome!

Im also less concerned with people wanting a game like Delta, but that's somewhat removed from the point I'm particularly interested in making here, for remakes that are fundamentally different from their source material and present an intriguing conversation, like remakes of Metroid 1 and 2 do

Yeah this goes back to my original post where I agree that it doesn't need a remake, and my defense here isnt of the type of remake you're describing i think. I'm playing the mgs games for the first time and when time comes I'm plating 3 not delta. I'm interested in the take, not the brand exercise

Tbf I guess my position is less straightforward in that "need" doesn't really enter into the equation. I guess I'm also just not too bothered about a primarily financial justification for a remake either so long as the game in my hands has something to say or something for me to respond to.

I'd say I have a lot more common ground with the person who wants a remake for reasons I disagree with than the person, who I've disagreed with in this thread and others quite thoroughly, that has a principled stance against any Super Metroid remake, or remakes more broadly

designers in Japan in the 90s. Part of my POV is recalibrating the conversation about remakes to see them as discrete works that aren't "fixing" anything (as a lot discourse does) but instead reintrepeting games through a different lens to make something new and singular and in conversation

Leave their IPs, but that I see a lot of similarities between Yorgos Lanthamos making Bugonia, a 2025 English remake of an early 00s South Korean movie & applying his own sensibilities, and a team of several 100 in Spain reimagining SM with their sensibilities, in comparison to a few dozen Nintendo

I totally hear what you're saying, I think my somewhat unsatisfying response is that the reinterpetation is what *I'm* asking for. The point of my Departed example or any other high-minded, lauded non-game remake isn't that i think we'll ever get to the point in games where stories being remade

I think we're just prioritizing different things, which is OK and I appreciate you taking the time to go back and forth with me. Fwiw we certainly have common ground on wanting Metroid 6 over a Super Metroid remake

And I would argue your energy for them is strange. If we both believe mechanics are what's at the core of how games produce meaning then what RE2 og and RE2R share is not nearly as relevant as what they both do uniquely and express through that