Every year became a competition, and it was unsustainable. Companies could spend millions on their presentation only to "lose" and get their reveals drowned out because Sony announced FF7 or Microsoft got Elder Scrolls etc. On all sides there was a rush to be the winner of the year, and it led to more and more CGI trailers of things 5+ years away just for the big reveal moment. I imagine both Sony and Microsoft would prefer to announce individual games as they come throughout the year, so their reveal is the only big gaming news of the week and everyone is talking about it.

I love the colour. It looks like Dr. Seuss soup haha

Lemmy doesn't need to be #1 in popularity. I'd prefer it to split and maintain a higher level of quality, even if it's smaller as a result. Even if Meta can grab data either way, it should be disconnected on principle.

It still feels weird to class the 360 era as retro, even though the launch is approaching 20 years ago. I'd say anything PS2/GC and earlier.

Separating the two sounds like it would make the problem a lot worse. Nobody would have a reason to create smaller duplicate communities anymore so things would end up centralised and easier to abuse, like what happened with Reddit. You could hop your account to a new instance, but doing so means nothing if there's only one instance of the community.

Do you remember the genre or visuals at all? Like perspective, artstyle etc?

I'm new to lemmy so I might be wrong on this, but say if we have one big community for a certain hobby/interest and the moderators get power trippy or there are other problems, people into that hobby essentially have nowhere to go right? Having lots of smaller places and subscribing to them all makes it easier to cut one out and be less reliant on a specific group of people.

Still no pixel remaster discounts ;-;

Thanks for all the recommendations. It's always nice to have new stuff to watch.

Women should be equally welcome and safe in all spaces. I don't think we need to splinter into female-only variations of existing subs unless there's a specific reason. I'd prefer inclusive communities.

My ex at the time picked up Freedom 2 not long after launch, and I asked him about it after seeing it sat on his shelf. He gave me it to keep since he got so frustrated with the controls and not knowing what to do, but I fell in love. I sucked at the game, but would spend hours gathering materials and building new gear to try out. Since then I've played all of the localised games, as well as fan translations and the recent private servers for 1/Tri and Frontier. Can't wait to try out the online for Dos too.