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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 1d

3K has the opposite problem of 2: takes too long to get good.

A lot of levels in 3 feel big for the sake of being big. Like they just got "stretched out" in development for the sake of it and ended up with a lot of autopilot padding setpieces as a result.

Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 1d

One of them is a reworked version of the scrapped Genocide City Zone.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 1d

Marble Garden's a good pick too.

For Metropolis it's mostly a case of enemies almost always being placed in a way to extract maximum frustration. You can bait the starfish but it's tedious. The mantis and crab are nightmares. Being the only 3 act stage makes it wear on the player more than others.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 1d

Everything from Oil Ocean onward is kind of sketchy. When people complain about Sonic games being "blind turns into spikes," they almost always come across as either exaggerating... or referring to Metropolis Zone specifically.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 2d

A near-circle overlap with the "Biden CAN'T do anything about student debt" crowd, I'm sure.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 2d

It made no sense from a US perspective at that time especially. People were disappointed that it was just the 4 games that any US Saturn owner would have *definitely* already played to death, whereas something like CD, Chaotix, or the Game Gear catalog would be more justifiable value-adds.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 2d

I've always had the impression that that was the entire reason for that compilation's existence in the first place.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 2d

For as frankly as SGGG portrays Sega's failings and the crunch culture that was no doubt rampant, it still expresses an attachment and gratefulness to that company's vision and the people who made and played their games.

It is impossible to imagine a company like Microsoft producing a similar work.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 2d

I've been playing a whole lot of Segagaga lately, and it's interesting to recontextualize that game against the backdrop of another company exiting the console market in the real 2025.

Strife (CR: Danganronpa 2) @csstrife.bsky.social · 2d

these two popping up in the same day is like
man
they're OUT out huh

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 2d

Do people still say this?

'Cause I thought we worked out a long time ago that this was only ever an excuse for people to be assholes in public.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 3d

They would literally rather kill the sick than heal the sick.

You'd think that this could garner some proper outrage beyond business as usual political pablum about "increased insurance premiums" or whatever.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing beats Japanese Dreamcast games on genre labels.

The back of Rez's box classifies it as "Midnight High Shooting."

headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 3d

i’m mostly unbothered about genre names in that i think context clues basically always work, until i try to find a single game using steam tags and then i become Classification Stalin

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 4d

Remember when crossovers were a big deal

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 4d

I've felt for a while that the key difference between the US and, say, Dubai is that slave labor in the US is simply kept out of sight.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 4d

Sherry has the EFight Pass as a notch on her belt at least.

Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 4d

eBay protip: If you ever receive an item that does not match the seller's description, you're entitled to a full refund via an "item not as described" claim.

I encourage buyers on the platform to use this information accordingly.

Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 4d

It’s glaringly obvious when someone has used eBay’s stupid AI thing to fill in their item description. Just tell me if there any scratches on the disc, mate.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 5d

Of all the things in Segagaga, one thing in particular that flew over my head the first time I played it was that the Hong Kong '97 creator is just... there, as a cameo. Maybe he wasn't widely known for that yet?

I wonder what the story behind this is.

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 6d

Still think Antifa isn't violent? Here's bodycam footage of Antifa founder B.J. Blazkowicz shooting a heroic member of ICE who was just trying to protect this great nation. Thank God we have Blazkowicz's girlfriend in custody.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 5d

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Galaxy's polish and art direction are second to none, but it's also a game that "caps" Mario's movement and abilities to such an absurd degree that it never permits the player to do anything cool.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 5d

When it comes to 3D Mario I'm forgiving of games whose flaws can be overcome by the player. 64's camera and Sunshine's collision detection can be dire at times, but that kind of "jank" can at least be learned and corrected for on the user end.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 5d

Mario 64 (mostly) nails the main point that games inspired by it don't: the main collectibles are objective *markers,* not the objective itself.

The game is balanced around that function-first design.

Odyssey is fine, but it scratches an itch somewhere between Banjo-Kazooie and Sonic Adventure.

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 5d

Remember when internet usage was "banned" for children a quarter century ago and all it effectively did was add an "Are you 13?" check box to every forum sign up?

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 7d

Everything good on the Internet dies, and nobody understands this better than people who have been forum-hopping for 20+ years.

The best "social media" is and always has been your Following list itself, not the platform that currently hosts it.

Kayin @kayin.moe · 8d

This is just the hard transition from the Honeymoon phase to the "We're mallrats in a mall that hates us" phase. We don't leave because security wants us to leave, they can eat a dick. We leave when the Hot Topic and Sarku Japan close

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 7d

WANUS!

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Sixfortyfive @sixfortyfive.bsky.social · 7d

It's a holdover from ancient times when kicking was the main way to score. They realized that traversing the field was what actually took most of the work and that the touchdown should thus be worth the most points, but the PAT stuck around anyway bc nobody felt like completely overhauling the rules

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