Lots of the assets (most notably face models) are from Half-Life 2. The reason they’ve been used in this skibidi shit is because the original videos were made with either gmod or Source Film Maker, not sure, but in any case, in the Source engine.

And of course the easiest way to find models for this is to take them from Source games. If you just started playing with gmod, that’s probably what you’d be doing, building silly stuff with assets from your source games.

Vinesauce’s Vinny got one as a joke. He’s made full streams being baffled and trying to understand the trend (one of them with a lengthy tour from a “lore expert”). And of course being amazed that this is probably the only thing for what the G-man face is known to a lot of people now.

But he’s got a segment where he opens silly collectibles and blind boxes, so of course he had to get that shit. And uses it as a prop once in a while for a convenient flush sound effect.

What should be especially illegal is those ads that use “alert” sounds. Door knocks/bells, phone rings, and worst of all, fucking car horn and other alarm noises.

Anything beeping or sounding like a siren should be completely forbidden for safety reasons.

Ah ah ah boost that shit.

6128 too, with the disk drive. I wish I still had that thing. Drive stopped functioning, and we got rid of it. Had I known back then that we apparently just needed to replace a freaking rubber band…

Somehow the chatGPT US map generated a clean, correctly spelled French word for “Mondays” instead of Illinois.

Sorry, Illinois, Garfield hates your guts.

I did a Dr Mario clone around that age. I had an old Amstrad CPC I had grew up with typing listing of basic programs and trying to make my own. I think this was the only functional game I could finish, but, it worked.

Speed was tied to CPU, I had no idea how to “slow down” the game other than making it do useless for loops of varying sizes… Max speed that was about comparable to Game Boy Hi speed was just the game running as fast as it could. Probably not efficient code at all.

The Triforce quest was somewhat nerfed in the remake. You get some fragments immediately instead of finding a map to them.

And the new sail kinda makes wind control useless for sailing which I’m honestly not sure I like. This is just a part of the game’s theme they cut, there is such a thing as too convenient IMO.

That’s okay, it’s a Borg cube.

IMO the cool thing about TP is the weirdness. There are those eerie choirs, even in the jingles, there are some quite grotesque designs, and a few quite disturbing and puzzling cutscenes.

It’s definitely the Zelda game for weird moods, maybe not as crazy as Majora’s Mask but more like a constant feeling of something being not right.

Gen 2 : “We’ve heard your request for huge mammaries, and we’re giving you Miltank.”

Such is Aryll’s power. I am pretty sure she can invade people’s minds.

Exhibit A : just her being there is enough to change the background music in all of Outset Island to her theme.

They even got an expert from IGN. “7.8, too much water.”

Including himself. If I had to find some respect for the guy, the fact he risked his own life might be it…

Fortunately, I don’t have to. What an idiot.

On the subject of colours/lighting, not sure your emulator is to blame because this is one of two things I didn’t like about that remake, and I played it on Wii U. They made everything neon and cranked lighting effects to the max.

The other thing was removing the Tingle tuner, that was a lot of fun in coop on the GameCube, and replacing it with a soulless online message system that didn’t even last for the whole (very short) life of the console (because it was tied to miiverse, a service they killed after a few years).

The game does have a long intro, but IMO Twilight Princess was even worse. That game took forever to start.

Well, I did say a sequel would probably not ruin a game I liked… And admittedly, yeah, this involves very few competitive multiplayer games.

The part about a beloved franchise or character didn’t really evoke that kind of ruining to me. But I get that point of view.

Or Wii points. With craftfully engineered payment options and prices so that emptying your account was a puzzle where you always end up buying something you didn’t really want.

Combined with star points in Europe, the loyalty reward points that you couldn’t use for anything for years… And then they let you exchange them for Wii points, at a ridiculously low conversion rate, and you’re struggling to use those again.

I don’t think it would be possible for a bad sequel to ruin a game I liked.

Metroid Other M has not ruined previous Metroids for me (its terrible Adam Malkovich depiction doesn’t even register when I’m playing Fusion, since the character has barely any continuity between the two).

Okamiden did not ruin Okami, it just sucked on its own and what little story it tried to change I disregard. I’d replay Okami today in a heartbeat.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 took a direction I hated, both in style and gameplay, and it made me want to replay XC1. I did. It’s still awesome, though XC3 became my favourite.

And complete opposite of the topic : Baten Kaitos was not bad, but kind of a silly popcorn game to me. Baten Kaitos Origins did not ruin this game : it was so great and flipped the interpretation of the first game so well it made BK better.

… How is that the name of an actual game?

Just in case, no, that was a joke about Voltaire, the philosopher.

The phrase “Holy Roman Empire” is most commonly used for the German empire that went from Charlemagne to 1800-ish (long after the fall of the “other” Roman Empire). Voltaire criticized the HRE of his time calling it “neither holy, nor Roman or an empire”.

This quote is kind of a meme among Crusader Kings players for example because HRE is kind of a pain in these games.

Oh ya. I remember Stephanie Sterling trying that one and it looked like empty, boring shit. IIRC it also had some previously unique characters being assigned a generic weapon. It’s the kind of stuff I already thought was lame on a smaller scale in both Fire Emblem Warriors, where most characters share like 6 movesets or so.