Recent content by Meximagician

Generic sports film, but it's competitive e-sports. Contractually required to climax with a grenade (or similar) being thrown, in slow motion, worm's eye angle, to the song "Chariots of Fire", and ending in a fade-to-white as the throw lands/explodes perfectly. American Graffiti/Animal House...

"That... doesn't sound like normal supernatural activity."

The story I was told (take with an appropriate amount of salt) was that the original didn't do very well in Japan, but its distribution rights were sold as part of a package deal. Unfortunately, it did so poorly that the original production team hadn't bothered creating the usual character...

Maybe the publishers felt that industrial-revolution-strategy-game is so niche that they would do better cooperating. Or they're trying to gauge if the strategy game community prefers city builder RTS to grand strategy. Reminds me of how Naughty Dog and Insomniac used to cross-promote Crash and...

"You can't trust 'em, they all look alike"? LADY, THEY ARE CLONES! Clones humanity genetically engineered, to form a homogeneous slave species! THAT'S LITERALLY A CHOICE WE MADE FOR THEM!

Could that have been WarTech: Senko no Ronde?

Come to think of it, search, rescue, and triage would be much easier if the critically-injured-but-still-alive folks were lit up like Christmas trees, while Stubbed-Toe Stew blends into the background. So it's both inconsistent and silly. Maybe the CEC wanted healthy workers more visible so...

The later Tales of... games by Namco (I think this started with Tales of Vesperia, not sure) added "attachments" which are little cosmetic trinkets you can add to your characters. Depending on the game, these can be highly customizable: color, size, exact placement, and which part of a...

Not to nitpick too much (I'll just wait and see on the Minecraft movie) but I want to push back on one line: Because nobody's ever made a movie that looks like pixelated blocks. Vanilla Minecraft can look great with a shader and texture pack thrown on: That's before getting into Bedrock...

Speaking of old Capcom games, Rockman DASH 2 Episode 1 got a fan translation recently. That leaves only one Mega Man Legends game, Rockman DASH: Great Adventure on 5 Islands, still untranslated. There also seems to be rumors of a Legends collection in the works... but I'm not holding my...

Could that have been Titan Quest? The selection of a mastery (screenshot here) looks a bit like your description of selecting elements.

You guys believe in the "moon"? pshaw. /s That said there's apparently a conspiracy theory that the sun has somehow been replaced by a big lamp. So there's really no telling what lunatics believe anymore.

Maybe I'm feeling curmudgeonly, but what's changed in the four years since Halo: Combat Evolved: Anniversary: The First One: Colon: It's Not a Hidden Object Game We Swear to make it worth re-remastering? Or is Microsoft's Gaming division that hard up for spare change?

To be fair, that assumes the use of place-value notation, the use of place holders, and zero as a place holder. One counter examples is Chinese/Japanese/Sino-Vietnamese numerals (which don't use place holders, the only time they use zero in their notation is when a number is exactly equal to zero).

That's probably the 1993 DOS/Amiga/Atari ST game RobooCop 3 developed by Digital Image Design Ltd. The first level/area seems to be driving around, but the first person shooter levels closely match your description.