He finished early that day, and offered to do some lines for staff voicemails, just to hang out (and stall having to go back through LA traffic). Iconic.

Thanks for everything, Jim. However much joy you think you brought to millions of people over the years, double it at least, trust me. Rest easy.

Putting aside 4's unique issues (a lot of people haven't reached em yet), I think people having a fresher memory of 3 especially would have made peoples' frustrations with 4 FAR worse.

Like "wait, we waited 20 years for this?" instead of being hyped bc Fury Green felt like how they remembered Prime

It's only some of the variable names in the code, and I think even then, those are only used for a mode that doesn't exist (yet?).

I've legit made that exact comparison in my head four times today, only with the flirting vs harassment meme every time

Imagine these, everywhere, in a huge desert that has almost nothing else in it.

The game's first dungeon also makes you get a driver's license, it's the funniest Metroid game ever made

End of an era 🫡 now you can take a good break, before getting a head start on the Worst Games version!

can you imagine

Mind you, I was smashing a ton of rocks already, because the game kinda hints at it near the start, and I STILL had to spend an hour cleaning up at the end, when it locked me out of the endgame

Honestly, the gap actually helped it imo! It's been so long that we're giving it the "eh, dev hell" pass for some genuinely inexcusable design decisions.

Like driving around the empty desert for 60mins JUST smashing rocks, because you can't finish the game until you've smashed enough rocks.

Hey hey, hold on, let the record show that the only R&C game that calls them Gold*en* is Ranger Rumble (in the internal game files). Don't get me sued, now!

Honestly, I'm not sure. Yrs of cooling off & the trailers kinda giving away that they weren't that confident in it helped reset expectations. The same game prob gets a far worse response, if it drops during peak hype (& only Switch 1)

It's exactly the level of game I expected, based on the trailers