Streaming games sucks. I had a Portal and I have a 500+ mbps down connection and it was ok for slower moving games, but anything like sports or FPS was super laggy. And that was with my PS5 hardwired on my network. I can only imagine streaming games over the cloud would be even worse. I sold the Portal and will wait for the inevitable 3rd dedicated Sony handheld system that will be coming within the next few years.
Kojima is a creator. As such he wants to make his content available to the widest audience possible. Ask any developer and they'd tell you (at least off the record) that if it were up to them, their games would be available everywhere. Great that Xbox players can now experience this very strange and great game.
I grew up with the NES, SNES, Genesis, N64 etc. It was a simpler time before microtransactions / shameless monetization tactics and over-the-top, extreme violence and blatant sexual content in games.
Call me old school I suppose but I personally don't believe sex belongs in videogames. It can be teased or illuded to, but games having egregious sex scenes or even the character creators in games like BG3 and Cyberpunk with full frontal nudity should be rated AO.
You have to admire Rare's sense of humor as a studio. They know something as basic as crouching not being in the game for over 6 years is a glaring and perplexing omission, so why not make fun of themselves and have a good laugh over it?
The game's characters, weapons and enemies are such a blatant ripoff of Castlevania already, they may as well make it official by making a deal with Konami.
Looks awesome like all other Analogue products have been. Too bad I just sold 90% of my retro gaming collection so I don't have any N64 controllers or games to use with this :(
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