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It's been a few days without anybody posting this on VGR, so I decided to share it. A new digitally animated movie based of the iconic Nintendo games is coming on April 7nth 2023. Here's the trailer... What I love is the aesthetics, very faithful to the games, but it still looks very much like a modern movie. Bowser (Or is it just King Kuppa?) in particular looks great, again faithful to the game but still quite intimidating. I am a little usure about Chris Pratt as Mario. Not that I envy him the task as finding the right balance between authenticity of the character and avoiding the stereotypical, borderline offensive way Mario has been portrayed in the past. That was always going to be very difficult if not impossible. Still, there is no way this film can be as bad as the 1993 live action film, and this does look great and I think will be very funny.

Then why wouldn't you spend time in the Halo universe instead?

To be honest, I hadn't heard of Fallout until Fallout 3 and didn't even play that game at launch, so it really doesn't feel that old nor nostalgic for me, but I've grown to love the franchise. I love it's setting, it's style and the dynamic stories it's told over the years. It's had heavy social/political mirroring, bug shagging madness and everything in between. All the games I've played have had problems, perfection is never your companion when you play Fallout, but each game develops thier charms and unique identities' through the flaws as much as the good stuff. Sometimes these games are infuriating and other times they're really going to thrill and entertain you, but no matter what, even at thier worst, they are never boring. Thank you, Fallout. Unless it Fallout 76, that game can suck a monkey's smelly thing.

Hi and welcome to VGR.

So given the choice to spend time in any video game universe you want with thousands of amazing and unique fantasy's to explore and you two would choose to spend time in the reality we actually live in...

I'm not so sure. If I understand what they were actually doing here she would know that a fall during that activity (It looked like a padded baton battling contents of some sort) was likely, so she might have to take part responsibility for deciding to take part. More importantly she technically wasn't doing the padded baton contest at that moment. She was celebrating and did that massive star jump into the pit and that's what caused the injury. The powers that be at twichcon could say that they didn't tell her to do that and that the padding in the base of the pit was designed to protect people falling off the platforms, not for someone doing "acrobatics" of the platform. Because of that, to me her case for a lawsuit is far from solid.

Anyway, did long into it only to find the message "Play more games to unlock my museum." Still, the thing is pretty cool, and impressive for a browser based interface with a fully 3D areas to explore and some cool articles to read. One more thing, can somebody more well versed on Xbox than me tell me what the hell this frying pan is about?

Moving this thread to the Video Games sub-forum as the topic is about a specific franchise.

Setting aside what is a complete lack of patience that you can't wait a few seconds for a webpage to load, I don't understand why you bothered to comment on this before you even checked out what it was. Why wouldn't you hold off on replying until you had the time to check it out more thoroughly? That's what I did. I wanted to check it out, but couldn't immediately remember my Microsoft password to acces the "My Museum" section, so I decided put it off until I could remember it. This from you, however, is about as pointless a reply to thread that I have ever seen. It's not like I expect you to kiss an OP's ass (in this case that being @Techno), but I think people who post on VGR deserve more from people who reply to thier threads than for people to say; How many am I going to have to tell you that if you have nothing to say, then say nothing until you do have something to say. Or perhaps this is deliberate, going back into post farming habit again? I don't know what your problem is, but between thought and action there is a realm of common sense begging for your acquaintance. Sorry about this @Techno, I'll come back to this thread with more on this when I've have more of a chance to check it out.

Welcome to VGR. It looks like we're from a fairly similar place in terms of our history with gaming, so looking forward to getting to know you better.

Trick or treat, but I'm afraid not much has changed...

No, I hate football. I just found the first gif in the list that had something to do with a trophy.

Have Activision gone beyond stupid or something? What makes them think that the backlash that forced to peddle back on this policy for Overwatch 2 won't happen for MW2? They obviously think that for some reason the COD fanbase will be OK with this when the Overwatch fanbase were not and that's idiotic.

Honestly, gamers need to stop boiling thier sense of appreciation for a game down to numbers. Obviously it's fair to expect a certain amount of content for them money, but what matters is the quality of that content, not how long it lasts. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is one of the very best games I've ever played, a masterpiece with lifelong impact and it clocks in at 6-8 hours max and the game has little to no replay value. That's still better than a similar type of game that's twice as long that's full of bullshit padding.

Still going strong with my NG+ playthrough of Horizon Forbidden West and earned the Platinum Trophy a couple of days ago.

Trick or Treat!

I'd say the Horizon ZD/FW world. It's beautiful, fascinating and I could have pet watcher that I'll name Porkchop. C'mon, look at this and tell me you don't want one.

To me, all video games (Or at least all good video games) have to have what I call the "empowerment factor". They have to make you feel like more than what you are. I hate simulator games because there's really only two kinds: The actual simulator focused of being as close to the reality of the experience being simulated as possible. I exempt sports games from this because that's the player role playing in an empowering fantasy (So they have the "empowerment factor".), but the other serve to let you try out something that's mundane and actually quite boring. Even when it's something that sounds cool on paper like flying a plane these games tend to expose how boring these things actually are to do as a job in the real world, so actually ruining the fantasy itself and I cant see the the point. You can have games like Ace Combat because, again, that's putting you in the roleplay of something empowering and cool and deliberately don't simulate being a fighter pilot 100% accurately o make it more fun. Microsoft Flight Simulator, that's a different story. Don't get me wrong, it's a very impressive game in it's own way with the derails, how accurately it emulates how planes really fly not to mention it's graphics, but there's no style or excitement for me. The "mock" simulator. I get it, they're a joke, and can be fun to play, but for me once the joke has warn off (After and hour at the absolute most) they have little to no substance. At least Untitled Goose Game set's you goals be as annoying a little ass-hole as possible, that actually is empowering by letting you be the prick that, and let's be honest, we'd all kind of like to be if we could get away with it, but I can't be a Goat falling of cliffs and bashing into things with god awful physics for hour after hour. Stupidity isn't funny, it just isn't. Now, I know a lot of people like these kinds of games and if that's you, then good for you, but I just don't get them at all. Maybe I'm crazy, but I would rather be a badass in some amazing fantasy world than be farmer, mowing the lawn or cleaning stuff.

Hunting, or more specially butchering animals for resources. And no, I'm not talking about the gory, repetitive and time consuming reality that's involved with such a task (although those could be considered another reasons to not be be focused on being realistic in this case), it's more bout how it works as loot. In horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden west, for example, animal parts have levels of rarity and you're no guaranteed to loot these part every tine even though every animal obviously has the bone or that pelt or the shell or wherever. Most games of this types that I know of work in a similar way.

I wouldn't waste your time looking. At best, these so called "Play-to-Earn" games demand hours and hours of grind into a less than stellar gameplay experience to earn a pittance. Most of the time that pittance is paid in the from of a blockchain currency or NFT run by whoever published the game itself, so it's basically a front for a con. Trust me, it's a waste of time and will wear down your sanity.

I knew it, you're here to peddle that game, aren't you? Don't deny it, you made two posts here and with no introduction just "casually" mentioned the same game twice. As per our Forum rules and Guidelines, posts only meant to promote a product or service are not allowed on VGR without permission. Because of this, I'm removing the link from your post and all refences to any specific game you've mentioned from your posts. Try this again, and it will be a ban.

Hello and welcome Kyng. Nice to have someone else into gaming and F1.

Locking as we already have a thread.

I've merged your thread with this existing one as they are about the same thing.

Thread locked as there are other discussions about Minecraft on these boards, such as this one.