Piston Hyundai
@pistonhyundai.bsky.social
video game overthinker
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Blogs: https://pistonhyundai.tumblr.com/
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Piston Hyundai
@pistonhyundai.bsky.social
· Jan 29
THREAD: Most of my thoughts on games these days are posted on Backloggd, where I review games as I beat them.
Here's the first four of the year from me: Call of Duty 3 and the OG Modern Warfare trilogy. I'll throw up more here as they happen.
Here's the first four of the year from me: Call of Duty 3 and the OG Modern Warfare trilogy. I'll throw up more here as they happen.
The East LA level in Tony Hawk's American Sk8land has an elaborate secret involving an invisible rail that clips you through geometry to an out-of-bounds section of the map, revealing a message telling you to hide in the bushes in the Beverly Hills map.
When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.
When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The East LA level in Tony Hawk's American Sk8land has an elaborate secret involving an invisible rail that clips you through geometry to an out-of-bounds section of the map, revealing a message telling you to hide in the bushes in the Beverly Hills map.
When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.
When you do so, the game plays a fart noise.
1: I'm probably not playing video games to the degree that I am without Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Magnificent, foundational game.
2: "Judy Toyota" is maybe my favorite 80s/90s-era developer pseudonym.
2: "Judy Toyota" is maybe my favorite 80s/90s-era developer pseudonym.
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
1: I'm probably not playing video games to the degree that I am without Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Magnificent, foundational game.
2: "Judy Toyota" is maybe my favorite 80s/90s-era developer pseudonym.
2: "Judy Toyota" is maybe my favorite 80s/90s-era developer pseudonym.
This is what it sounds like when you play the new Skate with the fake AI narrator on.
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is what it sounds like when you play the new Skate with the fake AI narrator on.
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Here's a look at the Most Nominated Games at #TheGameAwards
MLB Slugfeast is the most nominated game in TGA history with 12 nominations.
MLB Slugfeast is the most nominated game in TGA history with 12 nominations.
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Here's a look at the Most Nominated Games at #TheGameAwards
MLB Slugfeast is the most nominated game in TGA history with 12 nominations.
MLB Slugfeast is the most nominated game in TGA history with 12 nominations.
Three solo Spigot Jerkcities in a row is the starkest recession indicator yet.
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Three solo Spigot Jerkcities in a row is the starkest recession indicator yet.
Bill Clinton's hog should be preserved and deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.
November 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Bill Clinton's hog should be preserved and deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.
Black Ops 7's campaign isn't great so far, but it's at least given Treyarch and Raven a very good excuse to get Michael Rooker to say some really stupid shit:
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Black Ops 7's campaign isn't great so far, but it's at least given Treyarch and Raven a very good excuse to get Michael Rooker to say some really stupid shit:
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tetsuya mizuguchi truly, earnestly believes, with his whole heart and whole mind, that generic vocal trance from 2003 has the power to awaken humanity's shared consciousness and guide us to universal peace. The strength of his conviction is so powerful that it might actually cause this to be true
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
tetsuya mizuguchi truly, earnestly believes, with his whole heart and whole mind, that generic vocal trance from 2003 has the power to awaken humanity's shared consciousness and guide us to universal peace. The strength of his conviction is so powerful that it might actually cause this to be true
The guy that always seemed like a starfucking egotist is a starfucking egotist????????????????
Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The guy that always seemed like a starfucking egotist is a starfucking egotist????????????????
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We have been blessed with high resolution Robbit.
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We have been blessed with high resolution Robbit.
Found a clip I saved from my Call of Duty: United Offensive playthrough and lost my shit all over again:
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Found a clip I saved from my Call of Duty: United Offensive playthrough and lost my shit all over again:
I have come around HARD on Halo in the past five years but sometimes I feel like I'm crazy with how much people talk up CE in particular. Forget the Library, that whole second half of the campaign is just the first half backwards because the game was rushed to hell, and it is not great.
As two popular launch titles, the gulf in quality and playability between Halo Combat Evolved on Xbox and Call of Duty 2 on 360 is so vast. Halo absolutely decimates COD2 in retrospect and it’s not even close in my book. COD2 has aged horribly - Halo remains a classic.
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I have come around HARD on Halo in the past five years but sometimes I feel like I'm crazy with how much people talk up CE in particular. Forget the Library, that whole second half of the campaign is just the first half backwards because the game was rushed to hell, and it is not great.
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I you use an ad blocker (I hope you do), consider checking out AdNauseum, same functionality as ublock and it feeds advertisers garbage data, obfuscating their analytics. The more useless their data becomes, the less incentive they have to collect the data.
adnauseam.io
adnauseam.io
AdNauseam - Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
A browser extension that clicks on every blocked ad to fight advertising surveillance.
adnauseam.io
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I you use an ad blocker (I hope you do), consider checking out AdNauseum, same functionality as ublock and it feeds advertisers garbage data, obfuscating their analytics. The more useless their data becomes, the less incentive they have to collect the data.
adnauseam.io
adnauseam.io
I was going to joke "F-Zero" and then made myself upset because that'd probably be the most fun thing they could turn into a movie
just put the Wachowskis on it and you'll at least get like three fucking sick gifs out of it
just put the Wachowskis on it and you'll at least get like three fucking sick gifs out of it
Nintendo teases more movies to come https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-teases-more-movies-to-come/
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I was going to joke "F-Zero" and then made myself upset because that'd probably be the most fun thing they could turn into a movie
just put the Wachowskis on it and you'll at least get like three fucking sick gifs out of it
just put the Wachowskis on it and you'll at least get like three fucking sick gifs out of it
he's right, but still
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
he's right, but still
Super Mega Baseball 5 needs to have this kind of commentary, holy shit
Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Super Mega Baseball 5 needs to have this kind of commentary, holy shit
Donkey Kong Country hack where when you fall off the level the music stops like when you snap your neck in Tomb Raider, and all you hear is the shameful 1-UP balloon popping
November 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Donkey Kong Country hack where when you fall off the level the music stops like when you snap your neck in Tomb Raider, and all you hear is the shameful 1-UP balloon popping
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im glad the government posting halo memes is revealing that half the people reporting on it are fine with it
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
im glad the government posting halo memes is revealing that half the people reporting on it are fine with it
Hidden messages outside of the boundaries of Jazz Jackrabbit levels. What could they mean???????
October 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Hidden messages outside of the boundaries of Jazz Jackrabbit levels. What could they mean???????
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![A screenshot of a video titled "Every Cancelled Metal Gear Solid Game."
The image shown is from Saving Private Ryan, and the caption states: "For folks watching that aren't super familiar with WW2, if you've ever seen Saving Private [Ryan]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3sxab2l6jaeseu3avro3rbg6/bafkreicllvin4ublmwebkouof7pll3mpq22z2xi2uvtgdolzzmipxjbnoe@jpeg)
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#41: Did you know that John Cazale, supporting cast member in The Conversation, had roles in only five feature films, but every single one was nominated for Best Picture? He's phenomenal in Dog Day Afternoon.
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PistonHyundai's review of Silent Hill 4: The Room | Backloggd
Ever see The Conversation? Incredible fucking movie. Gene Hackman is amazing in it (That dream sequence? My god, man), Harrison Ford pulls off some considerable menace in his role that you never quite...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
#41: Did you know that John Cazale, supporting cast member in The Conversation, had roles in only five feature films, but every single one was nominated for Best Picture? He's phenomenal in Dog Day Afternoon.
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One of the most underappreciated aesthetics in all of games marketing is "Williams and GT promoting how violent Mortal Kombat and Doom were without getting complaints by doing Skull Shit"
October 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
One of the most underappreciated aesthetics in all of games marketing is "Williams and GT promoting how violent Mortal Kombat and Doom were without getting complaints by doing Skull Shit"
I've seen the "this is like Sonic on Nintendo for the first time" comparison like five different times with Halo but I feel like a key detail there is that Sonic was on Nintendo like six months after Sonic Adventure 2 as opposed to a decade after the series stopped being a huge deal.
October 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I've seen the "this is like Sonic on Nintendo for the first time" comparison like five different times with Halo but I feel like a key detail there is that Sonic was on Nintendo like six months after Sonic Adventure 2 as opposed to a decade after the series stopped being a huge deal.
RIP to the source of one of the hardest laughs I've ever had watching retro gaming YouTube
"conveniently"
"conveniently"
October 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
RIP to the source of one of the hardest laughs I've ever had watching retro gaming YouTube
"conveniently"
"conveniently"