Alexandra Hall's saved articles

Sins of a Solar Empire has aged but is still great if anyone is interested in a recommendation.
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I’d personally like to see Sony embrace more indie devs, Microsoft has and it’s given players a solid number of really amazing, budgeted titles. Cuphead was more fun then almost anything else I’ve played in years, that game also looked gorgeous, beyond gorgeous even. Both Ori games were incredible too, fun, fast,… Read more

The original Masters of Orion was so much fun, imbalances and all. I honestly much preferred its relative simplicity and fairly quick gameplay to later refinements in 4X space games. Read more

Meanwhile I’m just sitting here mildly bemused by the fact that Hasan’s monthly Twitch earnings are essentially twenty years of income for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Read more

Well, it did fix something the last firmware update broke: PS4 physical games that have a PS5 upgrade no longer install the PS4 version if a PS5 version is installed.
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That was the funniest part. They finally put Sora in, but he’s so stripped down and basic in terms of his series representation that he might as well really just be another generic “anime sword fighter.” Read more

It’s probably fine. If Donald and Goofy were there too, then Sora would be too OP through the power of friendship. This is the only way everyone else can stay competitive.
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Anything is better than playing on a GBA at launch (not shown, glare and reflections).

I discovered the same thing playing Metroid: Zero Mission on my recently purchased Anbernic 351V. Playing around in the RetroArch options, I accidentally found the filter that emulates the original GBA screen, and was amazed by how more natural the colours looked. Even as someone that never owned a GBA, I appreciated… Read more

I loved FF back in the day, but the more they lean into this dude bro stuff the more they loose me. Their character designs just completely throw me off. I feel like they are stuck in the 2000s still with how they think men look like or what might be cool. I’d like less of Neo in my games please Square. Dragon Quest… Read more

“In other news, productivity today has skyrocketed. Researchers are unaware of why.” Read more

The most prevalent thought I had from playing Infinite is “This feels like Halo.” If feels more modern than Halo 3, but nowhere near as complicated as Halo 4/5.
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As someone that never really played Halo games before (was more of Playstation guy) I must say I was having a blast. I usually get salty quickly playing PvP games, but I didn’t care as much. Read more

People talk about textures and all that, but having a good coder who can make some good compressed files go a very very long way.  Read more

I’ve left it running in a browser for years now:

All I can say is good luck.  My co-workers and I had a game running for a long time (years) but eventually let it go since we had unlocked everything and the only thing that was left was for the numbers to go up even more.  If you really want to quit playing, just cheat.  Then there won’t be a point to it anymore and… Read more

You, my friend, badly need Cookie Monster.
It will tell you how long it will take a new building to pay off (in seconds), and I will bet a lot of cookies you need another 100 or so Grandmothers.  Remember that grandmothers boost the production of every other type of building... Read more

id be happy with birdo, that would be brilliant. twitter would explode into literal thermite, but that would be funny.
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No matter who gets announced, at least half the player base will be upset. Read more

Agreed that Lil Nas X was probably the biggest disappointment here. Read more