MaficMonstrocity

Read Life After Life by Raymond Moody, After by Bruce Greyson, The Self Does Not Die by Titus Rivas, Mindsight by Ring & Cooper, God and the Afterlife by Long & Perry, the Journeys Trilogy by Monroe, Consciousness Beyond Life by Lommel, and the IANDS Journal of Near Death Studies

@ND1539 On the contrary, the fact you're playing Sunshine is the only good thing about the 100% process.

sunshine is worse cause you have to play sunshine to do it

Name 4 games you personally give a 10/10

@TheJadCruz @trinh_pham13 @ManaByte The year they had to adjust to new more powerful hardware as well as the Microsoft buyout in the last quarter of it? It's impressive they put out one major game (on par with their 1998 output)

@MaficMonstroci1 @trinh_pham13 @ManaByte Now how many games did they release in 2002.

@ManaByte Slowing to a crawl???

@TheJadCruz @trinh_pham13 @ManaByte That's double the 1 game released in 1998.

@MaficMonstroci1 @trinh_pham13 @ManaByte "Games weren't slowing to a crawl at the end of the era!" *goes from 6 games to 2 at the end of the N64 era*

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@PalmerLuckey @trinh_pham13 @ManaByte Thank you for offering a real explanation in clear terms.

@MaficMonstroci1 @trinh_pham13 @ManaByte The games released in those years started development years earlier. Actual internal development work had indeed slowed to a crawl by they were coming out.

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@MaficMonstroci1 LOLL @ thinking DKC and “Mickey’s Speedway” re-releases count as output.

@trinh_pham13 @ManaByte No matter how you spin it, it makes no sense to consider releasing at least one major new game per year a "crawl".

@Quartzer10 @trinh_pham13 @ManaByte Wikipedia included it, there was no way I could work around including it in the screenshot. Even if you remove all less relevant games from this list you're still left with at least one or more major game per year.

@trinh_pham13 @MaficMonstroci1 @ManaByte And a Japan exclusive version of DKL 3 subtracting another one from 200

@trinh_pham13 @ManaByte Calm down, no need to be vitriolic.

@MaficMonstroci1 @ManaByte For $375M, you want more production to justify the price tag. Rare has done nothing since being acquired by Microsoft. Why are gamers like you financially illiterate? Please pick up an economics book.

@pogster666 (I didn't play much in 2024, and was able to connect with my family extensively over Jamboree)

My Game of The Year from each year I was alive

@BlueBlurLewd @ManaByte Many people would beg to differ on the idea of Conker not being fun. (and again, it only sold poorly due to the M rating and late release in the N64's lifespan)

@MaficMonstroci1 @ManaByte Ok but it sold really bad. It also isn't fun, that's kinda important. Star Fox Adventures is pretty mid. And Rare didn't make a successful game again until Sea of Thieves. It took Playtonic a decade to make Yooka Laylee any good. Just not a great track record.

By the end of the N64 era, Rare was missing deadlines and their output was slowing to a crawl while development costs skyrocketed. When Rare co-founders Tim and Chris Stamper put their remaining stake up for sale, they triggered a bidding war hoping Nintendo would overpay out of sentimentality.  Hiroshi Yamauchi looked at the math and refused to bite. Rare only accounted for a tiny fraction of Nintendo’s revenue at the time, and critical talent was already leaving the studio to form independent teams. Crucially, Nintendo owned the rights to Donkey Kong and Star Fox, meaning Microsoft was paying an inflated 375 million dollars for a logo and a handful of niche intellectual properties.  Passing on Rare wasn't a mistake; it was letting a competitor spend a fortune on a studio that had already peaked, freeing up resources for Nintendo to build their own internal teams and weather the GameCube era.

@BlueBlurLewd @ManaByte Purely because it released during the height of the N64's popularity and wasn't a mature rated game like Conker. That's not indicative of Rare losing their touch or whatever, especially considering Conker received comparable critical acclaim.

@MaficMonstroci1 @ManaByte Yeah but it was a good game that sold really well.

@BlueBlurLewd @ManaByte And yet three years before they only dropped one game, do you see how arbitrary this is?

@trinh_pham13 @ManaByte 4 games in 1999, 6 games in 2000, 2 games in 2001. These are the years that comprise "the end of the N64 era".

@MaficMonstroci1 @ManaByte “By the end of the N64 era”, yes.

@BlueBlurLewd @ManaByte In what world is one or more games a year a "crawl"?

@MaficMonstroci1 @ManaByte Well yeah? They made 6 games in 2000 then 2 in 2001 and both sold terribly. Then Star Fox Adventures. That's a crawl.