I can link larger versions of either of these. I used Bing’s Image Creator if you want to mess around with it using the prompt: photorealistic picture depicting a pink felt puppet of Cthulhu on the set of Sesame Street

Same as the original post, just swapped green for pink.

I would love for Larian to make a real Kotor 3 based off the BG3 engine. It's been a while since I've played the original but I remember it attempting to do a lot of the things that BG3 accomplished. I would trust that they could do it justice. But I would totally settle for some one doing a graphical remake/remaster while leaving all of the behind the scenes stuff alone.

Exactly. Or in my wildest dreams, hand everything over to Larian.

Very cool. What was your prompt for this?

Hard disagree. The best games were the Ezio trilogy and Black Flag. And a lot of people hated Black Flag because it wasn't a game about an Assassin, but it had all the best mechanics from the previous games plus the best ship gameplay and it had an excellent voice cast.

Unity was great, after they fixed it. But the series nosedived after that.

Glitchy and exploitable how? And I’d say the boss fights fit perfectly in the regular game loop because every time you’d come to something like a boss fight it was really just introducing you to a new regular enemy type.

I remember the first time I fought the breaker, roid rage freak, and I burned through my entire stock of ammo and molotovs. And I never wanted to see one of those things again. But then they were added to the regular enemy spawns. Driving around at night, oh shit it’s a breaker. Cleaning out a nest, fuck it’s a breaker. The game kept the tension of exploring and fighting high by continually adding new challenges and as long as you kept going you’d get new ways to deal with those challenges.

Days Gone is much better than Mad Max, which was still a good game. It’s a shame Days Gone launched with so many problems because the final product is so so good. Yeah the story is a just ok and the acting can be hammy and a little uneven. But the gameplay is great and I actually enjoyed the story.

The auto industry lobbied to kill public transportation back in the day to sell more cars. For a recent example see Ellen Musk and the Hyper Loop.

Is Stranger of Paradise good? I never played it but you make it sound good.

Yeah I definitely agree about dropping you in to a lived in world with it’s own culture, slang, and colloquialisms. I ended up loving it and the next two in the series. It was kind of amazing seeing so many cyberpunk themes originating in one text. At the same time seeing how you could say that Neuromancer was set in the same world as Blade Runner, almost like a fan fic, just in a different part of the world.

Have you tried Neuromancer by William Gibson?