TDIRunner

That's a good question. It's difficult to say because the quality probably started dropping very slowly, and I loved The Simpsons so much, that I might have overlooked some of the bad episodes early on and just brushed them off as "less funny" episodes. However, I somewhat remember the episode "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" as one of the first episode that made me think the show just wasn't the same anymore. Edit. As I think of it more, I want to say that the episode that revealed that Principal Skinner was a fake is probably a really good candidate for jumping the shark. I just looked it up and was super surprised when I realized that was all the way back in season 9.

This is how I tried to vote as well. The Simpsons have been around long enough that you could almost split the debates into separate threads for groups of seasons or even decades. I wouldn't want to do that with any other shows, but The Simpsons are a little different to the point that you could justify it.

I voted "love it" even though I haven't watched a new episode in over a decade. The good years were too good to not give it that vote. I don't really care what they are doing today. It doesn't change out good the early years were.

Even though I'm not into sports games, and I understand this game is pretty different from your traditional football game. However, I still couldn't get into it. My roommates in college played this all the time and they loved it. I understand why it was so popular at the time, but I still couldn't enjoy it. It's just not for me. If I had a gun to my head and forced me to pick a football game, this is probably the one I would pick, but that's about the best I can say for it.

Mirror tracks............ my least favorite kind of "new" track.

It may not be open world 3D, but you still move around in a 3D environment with 3D rendered graphics. It's absolutely a 3D game. Edit: Even the side scrolling levels allow you to move around in a 3D environment. You have the ability to fall off ledges towards the screen or away from the screen.

I'm now playing through the remaster of Tomb Raider II. I'm about half way through as of last night. As with Tomb Raider I, my only complaint is that I wish the controls were the same as the original game. It's minor enough that I can live with it, but it's still annoying.

My interest lasted only about a week. I haven't played it since. It's not that I didn't enjoy it. It's just not something I see myself playing much. I usually don't spend a lot of time playing online games where a 9 year old kid from another country is kicking my ass constantly. With that said, I hope Nintendo continues to make these kinds of games. I do enjoy them for what they are.

I've said it before, but I don't get upset at the presence of microtransactions. It's how they implement the microtransactions that determines whether I get upset or not. If the game is designed to be impossible or near impossible without the extra purchases, that's when I start to get annoyed. Or if the game requires EXTREME grinding in order to get simple items, I'm obviously not a fan of that. I thought Capcom did it correctly with the microtransactions on the Resident Evil 2 remake. All of the extra purchases were available in game and their requirements were fairly reasonable. Another thing to keep in mind is that Capcom sometimes has sales on their microtransactions. They just recently had an offer for all unlockable items the RE2 and RE3 remakes and purchase price was either $3 or $4. That included all of the extra outfits, all of the infinite weapons and all of the other unlockables.

I'm not sure if it counts since it was an original song composed for the game, but Tomb Raider II includes a song called Venice Violins, and it's in the style of classical music.

Moonlight Sonata is also in the original Resident Evil.

I finished the remaster of Tomb Raider. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the results. The game looks absolutely beautiful and my complaints are pretty minor. The biggest issues is that the "classic controls" are not the same as the original game. They are very similar, but not exactly the same, and I have absolutely no idea why. If you don't like the original controls, you have an option for modern controls, and you can also reassign most of the buttons, but for some reason, the exact original controls are not possible, and that makes absolutely no sense to me. The only other issue I found is the minor split second freezes while things load in the middle of the level. This never occurred in the original game, so I don't see why it would occur on newer modern consoles. It's super minor, but still annoying. I'll be moving on to Tomb Raider II remaster tonight.

Why not? It certainly isn't going to get damaged. I enjoy the convenience of having my entire collection ready to play at the push of a button. And that link gave me a chuckle. I remember paying $180 for mine brand new.

Easy 10 for me. My absolute favorite of the series. It took everything from the original and improved on it. I believe 2 is more challenging than 1 in terms of level design, but I agree that 2 is much easier to 100% compared to 1. The graphics still look beautiful today.

I always wanted to watch it, but never got around to it. I've seen so many short clips from the movie, I feel like I've seen at least 40% of the movie.

I enjoyed the show as a kid. I have not rewatched it as an adult, and I'm not sure that I want to. I prefer to remember it as awesome.

@a3quit4s when I said this: I was referring to this: I was just too lazy to go into the detail.

Unfortunately it doesn't, because I know why he was banned.

I didn't even think about trying to find the thread. Since I was going completely off memory, you had me wondering if my account of the story was mostly accurate, so I just went to see if I could find it, and it was actually a little worse then I remember. Hard to believe that was almost 7 years ago. I specifically remember thinking I had about a 50/50 chance of surviving the forum after writing my reply. Obviously, I didn't get banned, probably because I chose to make one reply and leave it at that. I don't regret any of what I said in that thread. Sorry you had to go through a similar experience.

I'm still playing the Tomb Raider Remaster at about 2 levels per evening. However, in addition to that, and I can't really explain why, but I just recently got the itch to pull out my old Guitar Hero and Rock Band controllers and start playing those games again. I forgot how much I enjoyed those games back when it was the big thing. It's funny how huge that market segment was, and then it became super saturated, and overnight completely fell off the radar. The games are still a lot of fun, and fortunately, I purchased a bunch of other games in the series, when they were selling for dirt cheap. Unfortunately, the prices have gone back up, so it's unlikely that I will get any of the other games I'm the missing from the series. Maybe I will go through the PS2 games and beat those for the Beat the PS2 Library thread.

I've heard of that. And by that, I mean that the other night while watching a YouTube video, about every 3 minutes I was forced to watch the exact same 10 second, unskippable ad for X-Men 97. So I've heard of it many, many, many, many times.

I bought it new many years ago when such things were common. It's surprisingly small considering what it holds. It has the ability to to read the band, album and song off the CD if the CD has that capability. Unfortunately, the majority of my CD collection was purchased before that was common, so I had to manually enter the name of each album through the keyboard input. I also have a 200 disc CD player in storage which can piggy back off the 300 disc unit if I wanted to. Sony also made a 400 disc player that played CDs and DVDs with HDMI output. I might have even played SACD, but I can't remember for sure. I almost bought one of those when they were still available new at Best Buy. I kind of wish I had because now the only way to get them is second hand, and they go for a pretty penny. Amazingly, the 400 disc player wasn't much larger than my 300 disc unit.

Never seen it, but I feel like I probably should some day.

I 100% agree. My involvement with that site was very limited, and I was more of a lurker than a poster. Over 5 years, I probably had around 300 posts. I saw lots of newcomers get pushed out, but I was able to tip toe my way around to site and avoid most of the hostility. I actually made a bit of a game with it. I attempted to see how long I could go without triggering anyone. I only made one mistake in my time there. In a thread about Legos of all things, in a lapse of judgement, I mentioned that all of my Lego sets from my childhood had been keep in their original boxes, and I never combined my sets together into one large bin of Legos. Oh boy, was that a mistake. I honestly don't remember who, but one of the long time members really let me know how shitty it was of me to treat my Legos like that. I've said this before, but after that forum imploded from the rogue mod, I specifically remember thinking about how nice it was knowing that nothing like that could ever happen to NintendoAge. Less than 12 months later, I ended up eating those words.