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[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Limited Run are scam artists.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago

This is worth watching. What a nutjob that guy in charge is.

[–] EveningPancakes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I really don't understand why this trilogy needs to exist. Nostalgia I guess? These games were terrible and always a rent from Blockbuster for the weekend type jam and be glad you didn't spend money on actually owning them.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Gex was an important part of that era in video game history, and every game deserves to be preserved.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Superman 64 does NOT. It's memory is enough to topple a nation.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Even Superman 64. Though any rerelease of that game needs to come with cheat codes. You can see what the true experience looks like here.

[–] BigPotato@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Also, a necessary warning about the water at Jerry Garcia's house.

It definitely hasn’t aged well, but that’s largely because the humor was based on pop culture references. Talking about Jessica Simpson isn’t really cool anymore. But that the time, it was a sort of revolutionary thing to have games reference current pop culture. It made the games feel fresh, especially if you played them right at launch.

Were they great games? No. But from a gaming culture standpoint, they had a surprisingly large impact. Game devs learned what did and didn’t work in regards to the references and gameplay, and that alone makes them culturally important.

Also, games deserve to be preserved even if they didn’t have a massive impact on gaming. Even old Flash games have massive preservation efforts, because every single game was someone’s pet project. Imagine saying the same thing about a bad film. Sure, a modern 4k re-release may not need to exist, but that keeps it in modern formats and makes preservation easier.

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Jeb Jab is devastated