Topic: Nintendo Switch 2

Yeah, this is legitimately the issue. Nearly everything about Censorship is just the worst things about creepy, awful people. Anyone virtue signaling about WoKiEs is someone I don't take seriously at best or actively awful at worst. It's all the Fire Emblem petting mechanic all over again but somehow more vapid and stupid.

@Nep-Nep-Freak in the immortal words of Killer Mike, "I support the sex workers unionizing their services." That's where all of this is coming from because women are making money on adult websites.

Resident Evil Requiem on Switch 2 is looking 🔥

Check out this gameplay in handheld mode. Notice the hair looks pretty good compared to prior demos and trailers.

@Nep-Nep-Freak
That's a fair point. The frog being boiled slowly. The individual changes are rarely enough to even turn your head at, but cumulatively over time they start eroding creative vision in a more substantial way.

I can respect that. It still doesn't bother me but, I can at least understand the argument and point of view.

I mean, we have two recent Square Enix reimaginings of old games with 7 in the title. One of them made things more explicit and also added extra gambling. Now one has very slightly less fan service and maybe less gambling. That is not much data to try to generalize from. Did everyone complain about anti-censoring with final fantasy 7? Actually, some people kind of did but not in those words; basically people complain both if there are changes and if there are not changes in any remake.

I'm not saying censorship is not a worry (I think there is a nonzero chance very broad censorship laws could get passed in our country), but inevitable slight tweaks in society and artistic standards are very different than true censorship and we have not seen any evidence Squeenix is suddenly going on a true censorship spree.

@FishyS

They changed dialogue in DQ3 as well. It sucks that they waited after Toriyama’s death to do this.

It certainly is. That's why you are a staunch opponent of Russia's bad on LGBT content in video games, and a firm supporter of gay rights against such oppressive censorship, right?

crickets

RE: "Censorship"

There are some very principled people but, generally, most people hide their actual intentions behind some more vague principle. Just to make it more palatable. And I would argue wholly pure and decent concept of freedom of speech is probably the worst offender for this kind of behaviour. It's always a shield but I'm not sure how many people using it actually hold it as a belief

For example, currently the centre-left Australian government is considering hate speech laws. Both the Right and Left are complaining. The right have taken the angle of complaining that it has a religious exemption, basically using the argument that church leaders shouldn't get special treatment. Which is a fair principle. Meanwhile the left is taking the stance that the laws should go further than religion and ethnicity and should extend to hate speech regarding sexuality, gender, disability. Because there's more to your identity than just your religion or lack of it. Which is also fair

FWIW I think in this case the laws are a bit too much. Not much of a fan of them myself. But regardless, I think it's fair to say if the left got their way and hate speech targeting sexuality was included the right would immediately become less principled. None of these guys are behaving based on some form of ideological purity, they're just using it as a cover for their actual agendas

@skywake
I don't believe in hate speech. I think there's speech that's hateful, but unless you're actually harassing someone it shouldn't be a legal issue. That means some ppl will have to learn to cope with being offended. I get mocked all the time for my religion. I don't want people charged for it. It just comes with the territory, ya know? But the minute you start enacting laws under the guise of "hate speech" suddenly it gets weaponized to prevent criticism or truth from being spoken.

Basically, all freedoms come with a cost. And the freedom of speech comes with the cost of sometimes having to endure offensive speech. But again, that's not a license to straight up harass someone. But there's already laws on the books for harassment.

That's my two cents.

@JaxonH
Without getting too deep into what's an incredibly spicy topic I would say that it should seem incredibly clear what events in Australia said laws would be in response to. And that, it's fair to say, there are certain beliefs and symbols that many would believe should not be protected. I mean, at the core of this is literal Nazis and terrorist organisations so... yeah....

In any case, my broader point is that people often hide behind some more pure and sanitised and harder to argue against thing. But only if and when it aligns with their often harder to argue broader agenda. Whether it's a politician arguing against a religious exemption but only because the religion it would currently apply to isn't their base. Or a gamer crying censorship and freedom of speech when what they really want is some side-boob or they have some culture-war barrow they're pushing

It's always the same thing. And I'm often as guilty of it as the next person

@skywake
Gotchya. I'm not in Australia so I don't really know what's going on there. My perspective is just my honest thoughts on the matter. I'm sure you're correct in that motives may not always be pure in arguing for/against, but I do think there's more danger in not allowing certain speech than the resulting offense of allowing it.

But with regard to games, I do think many times people just wanna see their promiscuity and don't want that impeded in any way. Though I can't say that's always the motive. I have seen people get really worked up over word to word vs thought for thought, which to me is about as ridiculous as Christians who tell me New King James Version is better than New International Version (actual translation accuracy aside), when I prefer a "thought for thought" translation as word for word results in a lot of nonsense from idioms that don't make sense in other cultures or time periods.

Hey, uh... so I have an actual question lol

Is there any way to remap my A and B buttons just for one game? Yooka Replaylee has jump as A, which is preposterous, obviously, but the game itself doesn't seem to let you remap buttons.

So the only remedy I found is to remap A and B through the actual Switch settings, but it applies the change across the entire system, which is no bueno.

Edit: I think they patched it. Ah well. I’ll just remap it in the Switch menu; it’s not too awful lol

@rallydefault A lot of games do A as jump and I always hate it 😆 Unless it is literally a 2 button game. Nintendo added by-game button remap for NSO so I don't understand why they don't do it for all games.

@rallydefault
Best option I can say is

A) Make a config and name it "Yooka Laylee* so you can easily load it when needed, and when you play something else you can just select the "Reset Mappings". And since you can toggle access to Button Mappings in Quick Access Menu, it would be pretty easy to load the saved Mapping or reset when needed.

B) Using Pro Controller or Joycon in Charge Grip, map to either of the rear GL/GR buttons which are the easiest buttons to use imo.

With VB coming to NSO I'm kinda thinking I might grab the cheaper cardboard headset thing for it. Just so I can kinda dive into the VB a bit. But the Nintendo store has free shipping for orders over $100AU and there are several things just a bit under $100 I've been eyeing off for a while.....

So should I get:
1. The GameCube NSO controller
2. The Zelda Games and Watch
3. The Breath of the Wild Soundtrack on Vinyl
4. The proper VB mount
5. All of the above you coward

@skywake
I might go whole hog and just get the full headset.

It’s weird. It’s stupidly expensive. It’s weird.

Why the heck not. I’ll cook in instead of eat out on my usual night this week to recoup the money lol

@skywake
I highly recommend the gamecube controller. It recognizes as a real gamecube controller so analog triggers work in games like Grid Legends and Trials Rising. Plus for GC authentic experience. And has HD Rumble 2, gyro, Home, Capture, GameChat, even ZL which can be mapped to Minus in GC NSO app for easy save states access.

I plan to get GRID Legends which comes with all DLC for $39.99 USD and has GC compatibility for analog triggers. It's so useful having a controller with those triggers as an option for the rare games that benefit from them.

The VB I ordered the stand and cardboard but... eh. I have VB on my 3DS with all 23 released games in glasses free 3D. I'm just getting for the novelty. I think the cardboard one will be more practical unless you have a desk or something and a chair at just the right height. I tried a real one as a kid and it was awkward sitting cross legged on the floor to use it.

I have a coffee table at the perfect height. I mean, I’m gonna have to sit on the carpet, but hey - I’m not ancient yet lol

On the question of publishers and dev kits, I noticed a KEMCO game is putting out a Switch 2 edition in a few days.

Ignoring the fact that KEMCO games almost certainly don't need the power of Switch 2, it's a sign that some of the medium-small publishers have had dev kits for long enough to actually publish something now.

@FishyS There were reports from a few weeks back that the dev kit situation had been largely resolved, with most reputable publishers finally able to get their hands on one.

It's still an invitation-only process, with no formal channel to even request one though, so they'll still presumably be out of reach of the shovelware makers for the foreseeable future. I guess we'll find out when things get that far when the first match-three games start turning up on the eShop.

Anyway, even for the makers of relatively lo-fi games, having access to the dev kit allows them to support the machine's native resolutions, 120fps, HDR, the microphone, mouse mode, etc. so it's still a major step up from relying entirely upon backwards compatibility.

Since the Switch 2 eShop includes almost every Switch 1 game, the shovelware faucet has unfortunately never turned off; it's actually at record highs lately, with over 140 new eshop entries in a single week recently. I think what will happen if and when all the shovelware companies get their hands on dev kits is that they will simply publish 2 versions of every game and the Switch 2 eShop will become even more of a mess.

In the meantime, we get companies like kemco charging 1 dollar to add mouse to an older game and maybe optimize the graphics slightly. Which is totally fine and good but I wish it didn't translate to 2-3 different eshop entries (original, Switch 2 edition, upgrade pack). The shovelware will completely abuse that if they can, similarly to how they currently abuse bundles to get themselves more visibility. Even kemco I am sure is mainly doing it for visibility, not because their 90s-style rpg really needs improvements.