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Is it any wonder they're reviving tak? Battle for bikini bottom rehydrated sold like mad, thq Nordic and nick have trying to recapture their glory days for years.

I have mixed feelings about all this. On the one hand the 6th generation is given new life to an audience that never got to experience just how great we had it before all the dustborns, and veilgaurd bs. On the other we're living in that simpsons joke about "nostalgia meals" for aging millienals/gen xers who can't seem to let go.
 
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Just give us another FOP game already. THQ Nordic could give us a console port/remake of the last GBA game based on the show.
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Man the handheld exclusives of some licensed games were definitely a box of surprises, literally never know what you're gonna get. The console games were clearly the breadwinner main course people would be expecting to play (you will never find a license game commercial featuring its handheld counterpart unless it's exclusive), but handhelds certainly had their own unique quirks as a "play on the go" type of game. In some cases, maybe even better than console versions as something like Spongebob's Truth or Square was pretty mediocre and a bit of a falloff from BfBB/Movie game, but the DS version was a very solid 3D linear platformer.
By the time 9th gen consoles came out and the discontinuation of the 3DS and Vita, it really seemed like the end of an era for exclusive handhelds and all games getting streamlined into 1 playable version ported to different devices. There's still the mobile market sure, but cmon nigga, it's either microtransactions or some weird gacha slopified version used in its likeness.
 
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Colon capital V said:
Man the handheld exclusives of some licensed games were definitely a box of surprises, literally never know what you're gonna get. The console games were clearly the breadwinner main course people would be expecting to play (you will never find a license game commercial featuring its handheld counterpart unless it's exclusive), but handhelds certainly had their own unique quirks as a "play on the go" type of game. In some cases, maybe even better than console versions as something like Spongebob's Truth or Square was pretty mediocre and a bit of a falloff from BfBB/Movie game, but the DS version was a very solid 3D linear platformer.
By the time 9th gen consoles came out and the discontinuation of the 3DS and Vita, it really seemed like the end of an era for exclusive handhelds and all games getting streamlined into 1 playable version ported to different devices. There's still the mobile market sure, but cmon nigga, it's either microtransactions or some weird gacha slopified version used in its likeness.
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SpongeBob Atlantis Squarepantis is best on the DS. It was the base for Truth or Square, but had more playable characters. Compared to the console version, which was a rushed minigame compilation, the DS version was far superior in a way it had no right to be.

NickToons Attack of The Toybots was also better on DS, going from a 3D platformer beat-em-up on console to a 2D beat-em-up. One cool aspect about the games is that they had different characters between versions, with console being more 90s oriented with Stimpy and Rocco on the roster, while DS was late 2000s oriented with El Tigre and Mr. Blik being playable. Other differences were that console had Sam from Danny Phantom, while DS had Zim. DS is arguably the better roster, at least to me.
 
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Did Justin Roiliand help write Rick & Morty? I recognize his voice from a video game called High on Life.


I ask because his comedy style is common with "adult" humor in animation nowadays. High pitched voice, excessive profanity, pop culture references, incessant human, anti-social behavior masked as being "ironic." The only show I know that doesn't rely on that style is Smiling Friends.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Did Justin Roiliand help write Rick & Morty? I recognize his voice from a video game called High on Life.


I ask because his comedy style is common with "adult" humor in animation nowadays. High pitched voice, excessive profanity, pop culture references, incessant human, anti-social behavior masked as being "ironic." The only show I know that doesn't rely on that style is Smiling Friends.
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I'll take the bait.
Are you serious?
 
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Yes. Serious about what? My point?
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He asked if you were serious because Roiland was co-creator of Rick & Morty along with Dan Harmon. It's kind of what put the two of them on the map. To have heard of Roiland in a context outside R&M and not know of the connection is so unlikely as to seem joking or facetious.

Yes, High on Life is that way because of Roiland and all of the crappy R&M knockoffs are because the Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon style of show became immensely popular due to R&M.
 
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He asked if you were serious because Roiland was co-creator of Rick & Morty along with Dan Harmon. It's kind of what put the two of them on the map. To have heard of Roiland in a context outside R&M and not know of the connection is so unlikely as to seem joking or facetious.
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I've never paid attention like that; it takes time for me to GET it. So, I get where he was coming from with that. Anyway, High on Life reminds me of Rick and Morty because of its "absurdist, ironic" humor which can get grating in prolonged periods of time. It has its moments of actual funny, but that style of humor is stale.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
It's the The Mitchells vs. the Machines eyes that bug the shit out of me. Doesn't matter that they're Koreans so they only have like one eye shape and iris color, but still, stop doing the "tennis balls with marker dots for pupils" eyes.
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Those are just used for comedic effect when they want the girls to pull exaggerated, goofy faces. They have normal eyes in most scenes.

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The Last Stand said:
I ask because his comedy style is common with "adult" humor in animation nowadays. High pitched voice, excessive profanity, pop culture references, incessant human, anti-social behavior masked as being "ironic." The only show I know that doesn't rely on that style is Smiling Friends.
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Had a flashback to when I considered Rick & Morty an original and interesting direction for television.
That was 11 years ago.
 
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