Exactly, ear in particular was what I thought about. There are very tiny bones in there. I'm pretty sure they didn't replicate a functional human ear, so those have no impact on anything.
Many bones in the hand and foot are also locked in place together, so modeling each one seems, well, I don't think it's a waste of time, but at this point you're making an art performance.
Kinda, Balatro is still largely a more traditional card game which couldve come out just as easily 30 years ago at least from a mechanical perspective
Yeah, that part feels irrelevant to me. Sid Meier's Civilization VII just launched.
And really, Balatro has as much to do with Slay the Spire and other deckbuilders as traditional card games.
I don't understand separating puzzle games from gaming, either. Tetris was a huge part of why the Gameboy became a thing, and it keeps being more or less reinvented today. Back then, someone playing Tetris or even just chess on a computer was playing video games, period. And that was almost enough to call them nerds. That was "only" 40 years ago, compare that with any other medium.
What I am saying, is that this separation is blurry. Also look at the vast majority of games on any current platform, including Steam, and tell me it's not full of poorly made barely interactive piece of shit on the level of the worst phone "games".
Probably F-Zero GX. Though I'm older than that, I wasn't playing racing games a lot before that. An older game I'd enjoyed a bit was POD (: Planet Of Death).
I've played Mario Kart quite a bit, starting back with super, but I can't really pick one as my favorite retro racing game, because the one I like the most is 8. Though Wii came close.
Where do you draw the line?
I passed the Balatro virus to my mother, she plays on a tablet. Is Balatro casual?
It's clear they made this weird on purpose but still, so many questions...
the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots
Oh yeah, definitely a huge step in that direction...
Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones
That's all of the bones of an human adult. Yeah, I'm sure absolutely all of them were necessary.
I hadn't spotted that was on the Rimworld community and was like "Well, that's kind of crazy."
And then, absolutely everything made sense.
MSX laptop? Is this freaking La-Mulana?
Every time there is news about that thing, I'm like, it's at least as weird a game concept as a whole game about Gollum.
Who knows, maybe it'll end up better... Maybe.
Not that extreme a time gap, but there was a shitty PS2 game in 2007 supposedly based on the first Fievel movie (1986). It had basically nothing to do with the movie and played like a terrible Super Monkey Ball for some reason.
Someone saw a cheap IP floating around and thought they could sell slightly more copies through vague nostalgia. They're probably right too, they're not losing any sale from people who have no idea what the original cartoon was, and they might earn a few from people who recognize it and are curious.
Sure, but I think the key word here is quietly.
They'll try to hide the most embarrassing stuff, long after the fact, but I wouldn't expect them to comment publicly on it. It'd be bad for their business.
I have literally no idea how that came to your mind immediately. It's very funny to me that it did though.