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[Frumple]

... you do realize stuff of that nature's has been produced since, at least, the NES era, right? There's kinda' always been this incredibly small niche of christian (or <insert other religion>, I guess) themed games. They're pretty much unilaterally terrible, but they're there.

[Neonivek]

I just saw someone sort of defend a movie and it was Star Trek, the new one.

And in many ways I can see where she is coming from. As a movie on its own it is fine and the characters are not meant to be THE characters we know and love but offshoots. Heck I like the movie and I also think it is a good movie. Yet I couldn't grasp what I was getting mad about, as if there was something she was saying that was just inherently wrong.

She spoke about how the movie wasn't made for fans of the original series and that even the creator backlashed against the fandom by saying so.

Then she mentioned Cumberbach in the sequel and I could finally put it together.

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What I found so wrong was... Star Trek WAS for the original fanbase. It was for everyone who watched the original and loved it.

AT LEAST as far as giving the movie hype.

And that is a trend we see in videogames as well. IPs just taking on the names and guises of the original barely doing them serves with hopes that the community appeal already contained in the fanbase it already has spills over to the casual market.

That is what I find wrong. Star Trek might not have been for "fans of the original" but it needed them, it needed them to be sort of the pawns, its puppets to spread its popularity. It uses their superficial element to draw in the dedicated fanbase to splash it over the people who don't care.

Syndicate, Thief, Xcom Beauro... All games that tried to cash in on its good name.

That is sort of the problem I have in concept...

[SealyStar]

... you do realize stuff of that nature's has been produced since, at least, the NES era, right? There's kinda' always been this incredibly small niche of christian (or <insert other religion>, I guess) themed games. They're pretty much unilaterally terrible, but they're there.

True, but "Prayer Warriors" is particularly shitty. At least the NES Christian games were comparable to normal NES games (mainly because they were total ripoffs of them). This is... I don't know. Dose repeating textures doe.

EDIT: Pretty sure "use helicopter to rescue kids from wizard with skeleton army" isn't in the Bible.

[hops]

First, there was darkness. Then AAA spoke, "Let there be n00bs for me to pwn".

[Xantalos]

Pretty sure "use helicopter to rescue kids from wizard with skeleton army" isn't in the Bible.

It really should be though.

[Arx]

Skeleton army: check (Ezekiel saw them dry bones/ Ezekiel saw...). Wizards: check (And the Pharoah's magicians...). Attack helicopters: possibly, depending on how you interpret some of the minor prophets or possibly Revelation, the exact one escapes me right now.

All at the same time? Sorry, nope.

[Flying Dice]

Unless rather than being cosmic horrors invented by bronze-age goatherds, the angels of the Abrahamic faiths were in fact ancient aliens. Though they were probably less attack helicopters and more attack VTOLs. Moses got his hands on a fusion-powered forcefield generator. &c. &c.

I thought that was the normal procedure for fixing diesel engines. O_o

I've been doing it wrong all these years, and I never knew...

Nah, percussive maintenance is the way to go.

[Lord Shonus]

... you do realize stuff of that nature's has been produced since, at least, the NES era, right? There's kinda' always been this incredibly small niche of christian (or <insert other religion>, I guess) themed games. They're pretty much unilaterally terrible, but they're there.

At least the NES Christian games were comparable to normal NES games (mainly because they were total ripoffs of them).

No, they were not. All of the Wisdom Tree/Color Dreams games were total shit. The entire reason that Color Dreams turned itself into Wisdom Tree and reskinned their games into vaguely-christian ones is that their unlicensed knockoffs (unlike Tengen, who often produced unliscenced games superior to the official NES ones) were so appallingly bad that nobody would buy them, so even retailers willing to risk Nintendo's wrath wouldn't stock them. Since Christian bookstores didn't stock NES games in the first place (and thus had no reason to fear Nintendo), and they could count on parents and grandparents buying Christian games as parents without knowing anything about the quality, they decided to cash in there.

[pisskop]

Snowing big ass flakes outside.  Doesnt look too windy or blizzard-y, but Im not holding my breathe on an easy commute.

[Tawa]

Snowing big ass-flakes outside.

FTFY

[miauw62]

First, there was darkness. Then AAA spoke, "Let there be n00bs for me to pwn".

Get with the times, this should be"First, there was darkness. Then, the quickscoper spoke,"Let there be skrubs for me to rek" ":V

[UXLZ]

Git rekt skrublord.

[Yoink]

this is a game that exists

Ha, that's hilarious.
Also I noticed another of their videos where they speedrun No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!
Wow, that's a heck of a nostalgia trip... I remember playing a demo of that on PS1.

[ArKFallen]

Snowing big ass-flakes outside.

FTFY

This is my WTF for the day. I was like "How is that fixed? Double adjectives get a comma or are hyphened together."
After further thought I'm thinking it is a joke involving inappropriately placed dandruff.

[AlleeCat]

For me, a "scourge" is either a bladed whip or a synonyme for "plague." Do I want to know what the WTF is?

Scourge is also Sonic the Hedgehog's evil twin, more or less. So much of the immediate imagery is appropriately related.

I know of Scourge the Hedgehog because he only showed up in the comics and my sister is an avid reader.