Vista was good eventually, but certainly not on launch. It launched with absurdly aggressive popups about for User Account Control and backwards compatibility was somewhat spotty, largely due to the security changes. By the end, though, it was actually really solid, to the point that Win7 essentially launched as Vista Service Pack 2 with a new taskbar skin.

My problem with the Forerunner stuff in Halo 4 is the same problem I have with all the aesthetic changes in 4 and 5 - it’s extremely busy. 1, 2, and 3 have a sleek and simple design language that makes it very easy to tell what’s happening in chaotic combat. The vibrant colors and shiny materials even give Halo 3 an almost heroic fantasy vibe. They deliberately went the other direction with Reach to enhance the grim tone of the game, but environments are still relatively simple so that enemies stand out. 4 and 5 put excessive lines and greeblies on absolutely everything. It’s all so packed with details that you sometimes lose enemies in the background and it can be difficult to tell what you’re looking at.

Nintendo is consistently terrible about not having solid launch titles.

I’ve also seen volume settings not kick in until you loaded a save file. Also, PS1 era Final Fantasy games that don’t acknowledge your button mappings until the save has been loaded, so that B is select and A is cancel on the main menu, but the other way in-game.

RPGs are absolutely terrible about giving you the ability to inflict status effects on enemies, but not giving random encounter enemies enough HP to justify inflicting statuses, and then also making the bosses immune to them.

And the point I’m making is that only a handful of games are keys; the vast majority are still on the cart, same as the last system.

Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.

Generally agree with your post, but a large majority of games really are games. If they’re a download key, it’s very clearly labelled on the box.

And so do the people inside the big helicopter!

We also have stripes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaschko's_lines

Despite how long the show takes to make and how old the actors playing the kids are now, no. Each season is set during the year after the previous season. Season 5 is supposed to be 1987.

I’ll give one. Despite Sheridan and Delenn giving that speech about rejecting the Shadows and Vorlons and making their own way, the Vorlons won. The Army of Light, the Rangers, and the Interstellar Alliance are all in line with Vorlon philosophy, they run on Vorlon tech, most members were Vorlon allies, and they still oppose former Shadow allies and destroy Shadow tech when they find it.

Another is that the Shadows should have had their own Kosh, a character who was still comitted to the original goal and hadn’t succumbed to motive decay. Shadows believe in strength through adversity, so one setting up obstacles with the expectation that the cast would overcome them and grow stronger cpuld have been interesting.

Er, no. A Linux program from five years ago probably won’t run on a current distro if it hasn’t been maintained in four years. A Windows program released twenty years ago and never patched has pretty good odds of running on Win10 without even needing to touch the compatibility tab.

Which they could clean up, but it would mean killing backwards compatibility, which is arguably the only selling point of Windows.

The new body is distinctly inhuman, so it’s also transhumanism.

Or perhaps Homer was colorblind?

No. MCC mostly just ported the games to newer hardware and to PC. They eventually updated the game logic to operate at 60 ticks per second instead of 30 and added some new customization options, and it included from launch the graphical remasters of Halo 1 and 2, but it was really just ports and patches with a unified launcher.

What they’re doing now is remaking the Halo 1 campaign from the ground up. New engine, new code, redesigned levels, new levels, etc.

always had supervision while playing with girls

That absolutely sounds like she expressed attraction toward another girl when she was little and someone decided they needed to keep an eye on her.

I think that might be the default mode for cats.

I would love if Civilization or Crusader Kings implemented this.

Final Fantasy 9 had you learn skills from equipment.