#paradox development

[posthumanwanderings]

X-Men: Mutant Academy 2 (Paradox Development / Activision - PS1 - 2001)

[numberxxisora]

Today, we return to fighting with the x-men, and we give Phoenix a try out in the arena.

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

Console Fighting Games of 2002 - X-Men Next Dimension

X-Men Next Dimension is the final entry in the X-Men Mutant Academy series of fighting games. Like previous entries in the series the game was developed by Paradox Development and published by Activision. 

X-Men Next Dimension expands on the first two games with additional characters, with a roster now up to 24. The Xbox roster stands at 25, with Pyro being a console exclusive character. 

X-Men Next Dimension features fully 3D stages, with stages also being transitional to other stage areas. The game has a story mode, which can be played with a limited number of the games roster, while the traditional arcade mode allows you play as any available and unlocked fighters, a survival mode is also available. 

The GameCube version of the game has exclusive modes in Team and Practice, while the Xbox version in addition to Pyro has exclusive stages. 

1. Intro 00:00 

2. Games Intro 00:15 

3. Gameplay 01:56 

4. Outro 10:32 

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Console Fighting Games of 1995

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Console Fighting Games of 1996

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Console Fighting Games of 1997

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Console Fighting Games of 1998

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Console Fighting Games of 1999

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Console Fighting Games of 2000

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CFeqy-o99iichpNC_2TAs2w

Console Fighting Games of 2001

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Console Fighting Games of 2002

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[dinoserious]

raging bolt get behind me

[hismajestysaerialcorps-temeraire]

One thing I love about the Temeraire series is that by the time I found it, it was COMPLETED. Today in the year of our lord, 2025. Finished. ✅

There’s no baiting and social media frenzies to amp up or ‘find’ the ending. No side books before finishing the series. No profiteering, not really. It’s just a classic banger, done up in a bow, sitting on the shelf waiting to be read and reread.

No ambiguity, no waiting. There are nine perfectly complete books just sitting on the table. They are filled with love, companionship, friendship, and liberty. It is an abolitionist, anti-colonial alternative history of Dragons in the Gunpowder Wars.

*Chef’s kiss*

The Mobius Strip is complete. We are whole and we are content.

[fulcrums501st]

still don’t get why outtie Irving’s “oh wait I want to be loved now” also had to mean abandoning/overshadowing his anti-Lumon motivations. like why is the only thing he discusses in ep9 his relationship with Burt and none of it is abt what Lumon is up to? cuz otherwise he would not have gotten on that train. now Irv has MORE of a reason to stay and fight Lumon cuz they’re why he can’t remember the only time he ever fell in love. so then why is he passively leaving? get off that train my corporate spy would never. he clearly has motivations outside of Burt!! why are they being brushed aside?!!!!

[nilesmoon]

isn't it crazy that we have potential time frame for when chungsung started to lean into to punches (literally and figuratively) but it's like a small tidbit from the fanbook

chungsungs timeline says something along the lines of "16 years old - willingly takes on punishment from hajun" and the "willingly" part really does grab ones attention doesn't it!!!

[miraneko19]

Realized this while playing Birushana. Tomomori. You know.

[tau1tvec]

Speaking frankly, but this game looked like a scam to me as soon as they announced its early access or whatever way too soon. Might be the reason why despite being interested, I kept it at arms length until they had something truly genre bending to show.

This wasn’t it.

[jumpscaregoose]

self indulgent stickers I made over break. was planning on making a third one with yosuke but it didn't work out

[pampel-mousse]

omgheissoprettymyeyesareblessed

[posthumanwanderings]

X-Men: Next Dimension + Beats (Paradox Development / Activision - PS2 / XBOX / GameCube - 2002)

[xolunelle]

new era of me: unashamedly multi-faceted, multi-passionate, with multiple aesthetics. I can pull it all off and I won't hide that I can any longer.

100% the paradox girl. 100% me.

X's and O's, Elle.

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

Console Fighting Games of 2000 - X Men Mutant Academy

Developed by Paradox Development and published by Activision, X-Men Mutant Academy was released to coincide with the release of the movie X-Men and was developed and released on the PlayStation and Game Boy Color. 

The PlayStation release of the game would feature a 10-strong roster with Cyclops, Wolverine, Gambit, Storm, Beast, Phoenix, Toad, Mystique, Magneto and Sabretooth. 

The Game Boy Color version does not feature Beast while Phoenix is a secret character in that version. The GBC version features two exclusive characters in Pyro and Apocalypse. 

For its PlayStation release, it would be released in July of 2000 in the United States with an August release in Europe. A Japanese release of the game would not come until the following year. 

Before the 2000 release on PlayStation and Game Boy Color a Nintendo 64 version of the game was in development, planned to be an upgraded version of the PlayStation release, the game however was subsequently cancelled 

1. Intro 00:00 

2. Games Intro 00:10 

3. Gameplay 00:41 

4. Outro 13:31 

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For more fighting game videos check out the playlists below 

Console Fighting Games of 1993 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CFcKSo9Eglrv2NFDHAqNDRi 

Console Fighting Games of 1994 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CF-R5w4NujQcYo8cCcOMHYv 

Console Fighting Games of 1995 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CEUiZn8FlwHoMcwoOzUqchX 

Console Fighting Games of 1996 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CF0j9K_v7UqS3dxjwh6XIIM 

Console Fighting Games of 1997 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CFm1r27Q5PvbO_4CjYYsj4- 

Console Fighting Games of 1998 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CHG7kROLoO-HAXmmzib8cd4 

Console Fighting Games of 1999 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CH1CPUcsBRyu5VpFnhqj4Kv 

Console Fighting Games of 2000 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJOZYl1h1CFeqy-o99iichpNC_2TAs2w

[deargravity]

one of the many things that bothers me about goku luck is the fact that they have kenta (a minor) in a penitentiary full of adult convicts. where was the juvenile welfare officer and why are they not doing their job. hope they’re fired

[erinravenseeker]

Just had a middle-of-the-night “ohhhh” moment as I just figured out that Kim Dokja needs the Fourth Wall not because of the scenarios but because it was essentially his survival mechanism for life.

Now I have only read the novel once so I could totally be forgetting stuff & way off-base but this is what I remember. Inane rambling under the cut, major spoilers included.

We know he’s generally antisocial, placing himself outside of society like a reader, and he internally smoothed over Sangah’s rough points even before the scenarios, making her into a ‘character’ (a caricature of herself) that fit into an archetype.

Dissociating from reality & viewing himself as a reader is his coping mechanism & “WoS coming to life” provides a convenient excuse to keep ignoring that fact.

This kind of ties in with an idea I’ve been forming about the Fourth Wall, which is that KDJ is fundamentally incapable of believing that “The Characters” (read: everyone) can experience growth as a result of his actions. He exists outside of the story, he is in the audience beyond the fourth wall, so he cannot affect the characters.

Hence the paradoxical nature of the Fourth Wall. For as long as he is a Reader, the Fourth Wall is maintained. And as long as the Fourth Wall is maintained, he will continue to be a Reader.

(Warning this is where it gets incoherent and messy.)

Kim Dokja fundamentally NEEDS the Fourth Wall to be maintained. Not just because of the OD stuff, but because it’s the way he’s learnt to cope with existing. It’s also why dying is so easy for him—we know he cannot deal with the guilt of making people he cares about suffer, but if he’s just a Reader, that means he can’t really have any meaningful impact on their lives, so it’s fine for him to just… disappear.

Kim Dokja is not actively suicidal, he’s just invested himself so far into the worldview of himself being a Reader that to him, his temporary deaths no longer register as dying. More like… stepping out of the theatre for a bit.

It gets complicated when we hit OD. Because then we realise the KDJ we’ve been accompanying is essentially a self-insert OC. So we can ascribe the way he thinks to OD, including all the coping mechanisms and self-distancing. But where OD manages to escape the narrative along with SP, at the same time the KimCom Crew escape the narrative, KDJ actually kind of… doubles down?

Like, OD does what any Reader does and learns from the book. When KDJ says “I, someone of no redeeming quality, could be loved by the others.” It’s not just him learning this lesson. It’s actually kind of the opposite. OD is Reading this lesson so he learns that he’s allowed to accept the mercy of SP & the 999 crew. So they escape the narrative.

KimCom also manages to escape the narrative but KDJ… can’t. He comes to the conclusion that he was actually backstage all along. But that means he’s still not ON stage. A Character can’t feel for the Script Writer or Director or Stage Manager. So he doubles down on his separation from them, stepping into that role. And then then KimCom comes banging on his door backstage because they’re not just characters, they’re the Actors now, and KDJ disappears because he can’t deal with that, because he fundamentally cannot exist on the same plane as them.

I think that’s why I’m hopeful at a post-epilogue ending. KDJ The Reader exists at essentially a higher tier than the people around him, and so he believes he cannot be loved in a way that has a lasting impact on them. But he DID spend years being affected by WoS, by Yoo Joonghyuk. If he becomes the Character, and them the Readers… maybe, just maybe, he can actually accept that love.