Natalie Rambles About 2024
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Rundown (12/22/2024) Fatalie’s Festive Feast
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Fatalie’s Festive Feast
- Natalie Muses About Progression Systems (Written Half Past Midnight on Wednesday)
- Natalie Complains About Falcom’s Localization Practices (Ys X: Proud Nordics Announced, Trails in the Sky 1st Global Launch Confirmed)
- Sony X Kadokawa Business Alliance Announced (Better Than An Acquisition!)
Rundown (12/15/2024) Natalie Mustn’t Become Fatalie
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Mustn’t Become Fatalie
- Change of Plans for TSF Showcase 2024-51 (No More Valkyrie Yuuki)
- Blue Protocol Is Being Resurrected as Star Resonance (Still a Generic Name, but Also Way Better)
- The Platform Agnostic and Self-Important Geoff Keighley’s Spike Video Game Awards X Advertisements (Leg’s Go!)
- Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound Announced (D@SH and R@GE!)
- Edgy Pac-Man Metroidvania Shadow Labyrinth Announced (What the Fuck?)
- Final Fantasy VII-2: Re;Birth is Coming to PC on January 23, 2025 (Hopefully People Buy It This Time Around)
- The Witcher IV Properly Announced (Thank You For the AWFUL CG, Now Leave!)
- Elden Ring Nightreign Announced (A Multiplayer Survival Elden Ring Spin-Off)
- Former Team Ico X Tencent Project Was Shown Off (It’s Sci-Fi… Good Night!)
- Hazelight Co-Op Venture #4: Split Fiction Announced (Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Crossing Over in Virtual Reality!)
- Virtua Fighter 6 Announced (We Basically Knew This Was Happening, But Whatever!)
- Turok Origins Announced (I Guess That’s A Functional Subtitle?)
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword Announced (No Clue What Flavor of Onimusha It’ll Be!)
- Okami Sequel Announced! (And It’s Directed By Hideaki Kamiya!)
- Sonic Racing 4: CrossWorlds Announced (I Miss When Games Were Announced Via Press Releases…)
- Project Century by Ryu Ga Gotoku Announced (Like a Dragon: 1915!)
- Dispatch Announced from Ex-Walking Dead Developers (Now THIS is Next Gen Telltale!)
- Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announced (Natalie Gets TOXIC Over the New Naughty Dog Game)
Rundown (12/08/2024) I Want to Do Everything!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: I Want to Do Everything!
- Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Complete is Just An Offline Gacha Game (And It Sucks Because of It)
- Tetris: The Grand Master 4: Absolute Eyes Announced (An Offline Competitive Tetris Game in 2025?)
- Year-End Recaps Should Be at the END of the Year (December Is the Un-Month)
- World End Politico (What the Hell Is Going On in the World?)
Rundown (12/01/2024) TG and Turn Into A Girl
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: TG and Turn Into A Girl
- Never 7 and Ever 17 Remasters Revealed (It’s Not a Remake Like They Said It Would Be!)
- Sony is Planning a Portable PS5 (The PlayStation Portal Was a Test Project)
- Natalie Fixates on Collection Contents (The Early GAMEBOY Days)
- Tariff Turmoil (Fear The Rulers Who Want to Destroy The Economy)
- Tencent Bought Kuro Games (They Develop Punishing: Gray Raven and Wuthering Waves)
Rundown (11/24/2024) How Natalie Would ‘Wreck’ The American Tax System!
Rundown (11/17/2024) Natalie Has Become a Witch!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Has Become a Witch!
- Doom Spending and Financial Paranoid (Buy Assets and Invest in Stonks)
- Lawsuit Updates! (Palworld and The Crew Are Making Legal Waves)
- Hideaki Itsuno Joins LightSpeed Japan Studio! (Tencent’s Consumption Continues!)
- The GOG Preservation Program is Go! (GOG’s Fancy New Sticker and Promise)
- Tequila Works Announces Insolvency (Tequila Works Is All Outta Booze)
- Natalie Muses About The Success of Lollipop Chainsaw RePop (Lollipop Shadows of the Damned Chainsaw)
- Warcraft: Remastered and Warcraft II: Remastered Announced (Pulled Outta and Polished From The Vault!)
- Embracer Sells Easybrain to Miniclip for $1.2 Billion (The Unembrace Continues)
Rundown (11/10/2024) Humanity Has Declined
Rundown (11/03/2024) Natalie Rambles About Psycho Shatter 1988
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Psycho Shatter 1988 Is A Wack-Ass Mess, But I Love It
- Steins;Gate RE:BOOT is a Re;Make (The Terminology of Re-Whatevers Remains Inconsistent)
- Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete Overview Released (I Will Pay $500 For Dragalia Lost Complete, Nintendo…)
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Announced (The Switch Consolidation Continues)
- Nintendo Music Streaming Service Announced (Why The Frick Do Zoomies Use Streaming Services?)
- Sony Closes Down Concord Developer Firewalk Studios (Hopefully The Final Concord Segment)
- The REAL Reason Nintendo is Suing Palworld (A Lawyer Explains Nintendo v. Palworld!)
- Natalie Rambles About How Sports Games Were Ruined (What’s an Accolade?)
Rundown (10/27/2024) Rushing to Completion!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Rushing to Completion!
- Let’s Talk About Acquire Corporation! (Because They Made Mario & Luigi 6!)
- I Might Have Been Wrong About Unity (Unity Management Has Completely Changed Over The Past Year)
- Nintendo Switch Online: Playtest Program Has Slipped Through The Cracks (Nintendo’s Nintendo-some Nintendo-ing)
- More Musings About Re-Whatevers (Because I Didn’t Want to Go to Bed at 1 AM)
Class of ‘09: The Flip Side Review
BECOME A FOOT WHORE!
DISCOVER THE PEDOPHILE GOLDMINE!
DIE YOUNG AND LEAVE A GORGEOUS CORPSE!
WATCH YOUR BEST FRIEND FUCK YOUR DAD!
WORK A SHIT RETAIL JOB AND GET A DUI!
CATCH A FUCKLO ON DA FLIP SIDE!
Rundown (10/20/2024) Natalie Needs a NAS
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Needs a NAS
- The Pokémon Tera Leak (Possibly Bigger Than The Nintendo Gigaleak)
- Tribe Nine is a Perplexing RPG (I Played the Tribe Nine Demo and… What the Fuck?)
- All in Abyss is DOPE! (I Cast My Judgment, and This is The Real Shit)
- I Also Checked Out Ys X Nordics! (The ANOFO Vibe Remains Dead and Over)
- Out of the Frying Pan; Into The Firefox (I Switched to Firefox and Plugins Ruined My Site)
Rundown (10/13/2024) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic! – The Lost Levels
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic! – The Lost Levels
- Silent Hill 2 (2024) is… Actually Good? (Bloober Got It Right?)
- 343 Industries Is Now Halo Studios (Still Doesn’t Get Halo Out of Its Mess)
- Student Transfer FINALLY Got An Official YouTube Channel! (And Other Miscellaneous Tangents)
- Red Dead Re-Re-Re-Redemption! (Red Dead Redemption Is FINALLY Coming to PC)
- LittleBigDelisting (Sony is Delisting LittleBigPlanet 3)
- The Great Big Roblox Exposé! (Roblox Is an X-Rated Pedophile Hellscape)
- Raise the Alarmo! (Nintendo Reveals a Smart Clock to Watch You as You Sleep)
Rundown (10/06/2024) Natalie Vs The Medical-Industrial Complex
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Natalie Vs The Medical-Industrial Complex
- CaptainCaption Posted Another Life Update! (It’s A Cascade of Bullshit!)
- Natalie is Anti Hardware Innovation (On The Wrong Side of History Yet Again…)
- RIP RyujiNX (Nintendo Shuts Down Ryujinx, the Other Switch Emulator)
- Palworld Mobile Announced! (That’s All!)
- Epic Royalty Discount! (Release Games on Epic Games Store, Save 30% on Unreal Fees!)
- Keep It Peashy, Nippon! (Japan’s PC Game Market Grew 260% In 4 Years!)
Rundown (9/29/2024) Acknowledge ALL of Gaming History!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Acknowledge All of Gaming History!
- Metrics 4 Gamers (Gimme All The Sales Data!)
- Oops! An Unhinged Rant About Controllers (The Astro Bot Mind Virus Strikes Again!)
- Level-5 Is Still Alive(?) (TGS Rundown Part 1)
- Inazuma Eleven RE(make) Announced (Also Victory Road Looks DOPE!)
- More like Yok-AI Watch! (Yo-Kai Watch Next: Holy Horror Mansion Announced)
- Let’s Play Down State of Play! (TGS Rundown Part 2)
- Bring Back ALL The Great 90s RPGs! (Lunar Remastered Collection Announced)
- The Legacy Must Be Retold! (Legacy of Kain 1 & 2 Remastered Announced)
- Look Into The Horizon And See… A Pretty Game (Horizon I: Zero Dawn Remastered Announced)
- That’s Not Ghost of Two-shima! (Ghost of Yotei Announced)
- Behavior Gets Their Hooks In Another One! (Behavior Interactive Acquires Red Hook Studios)
- Every Day I Wish For The Live Service Industry’s Collapse… (Persona 5: The Phantom X is Coming to Japan)
- Classic Dungeons Are The Best Dungeons (Cladun X3 Announced)
- I Got Bamboozled by a Surprise Launch! (I’ll Review Class of ’09: The Flip Side Next Month)
Rundown (9/22/2024) An Impromptu Vita Retrospective
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: An Impromptu Vita Retrospective
- ♫FREEEEEDOM WAAAAARS!♫ (Freedom Wars Remastered Announced)
- So Long Touch Arcade (Massive Gaming Publication Shuts Down After 16 Years)
- Playtika Acquires SuperPlay for $700 Million (We Need Better Reporting on Mobile Games…)
- Starlight Re:Volver and the Financial Landscape of Games (You Can’t Fund a REAL Games Nowadays…)
- Interest Rates Dropping Affects The Gamindustri, You, and Natalie (♫Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gotta Get The Money!♫)
- Another Console Data Tangent! (You Gotta Have One Every Week!)
- Who is the REAL Master of Pokémon? (Natalie Talks About A Video Essay She Watched Twice)
- Pokémon v Pocketpair – A Palworld Patent Panic (Nintendo Sues Pocket Pair for Patent Infringement)
- How Do You Solve The Final Fantasy Problem? (Or Why Didn’t FFXVI and FFVIIR2 Do Well?)
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Announced (Yar Har, Fiddle De Dee! Being a Pirate Is What We Wanna Be!)
- The Annapurna Interactive Exodus Explained! (IGN Reveals The Full Story!)
Rundown (9/15/2024) How Are ‘Real’ Video Games Profitable? Mk2
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: How Are ‘Real’ Video Games Profitable? Mk2
- Natalie Rambles About Roblox For Way Too Long (All Because of a Potential Nothingburger)
- Looks Like Ubisoft is Crumbling… (They Just Keep Letting Us Down, Letting Us Down…)
- PlayStation 5 Pro Announced ($700 And They Don’t Even Give You A Disc Drive…)
- THE GREAT UNITY TURNAROUND! (Unity Axes Runtime Fees After Destroying Their Brand)
- So Long, I Guess, Annapurna Interactive (The Entire Annapurna Interactive Staff Resigned)
- Drats! Generative AI Found Natalie.TF! (I Got 3,339 Page Views In A Day)
Rundown (9/08/2024) Compulsory Game Design
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Compulsory Game Design
- Fall of the Concord (And Future Questions Regarding Live Services)
- Death of the Concord (Oops! Natalie Got Bamboozled by Fate!)
- Natalie Is The Only One Who is Displeased By Astro Bot (Her Opinion Is Probably Wrong)
- Natalie Rambles About The Zelda Timeline (The Downfall Timeline is Bullcrap, But Also Not Really?)
- Fuck The Law, Praise The Archive (An Obligatory Pro-Internet Archive Aside)