@Emperor-Palpsy - Do you have a computer with a Steam account? I don't know if these are available on other storefronts, but they are on Steam and they don't require a beefy rig to run them well in general.
I have heard many many stories and heard of entire communities based around hacking Nintendo hardware, especially the Wii and DS...but I seldom hear or read anything about other consoles being hacked, jailbroken, homebrewed, modded, etc...
I know that was a big thing back in the PS1 days, but I haven't heard much about Xbox or later Playstation hacking or modding communities.
I a huge Shmup fan, and while I should love a game like this, I simply found it okay.
The problem is that it tries to shoehorn in this deep and serious plot about war and vengeance that sort of slows things down and confuses you when you just want to get absorbed into the action.
You'll play as various anthropomorphic animals in different time lines with different planes, and the whole thing never feels like a coherent story with any real progression.
Some of the later stages start to feel more like tedious physics puzzles than action twitch fare.
On the upside, the game looks gorgeous with a unique sense of style and design direction. The actual controls and animations are fluid and feel "right"...but the experience itself left me wanting to play a more traditional shmup that had such beautiful graphics.
3DS is the most stable, it's so stable it'll make your head spin, nobody has a more stable operating system, it's so stable you'll be tired of stability, not even a bad hombre could make it less stable, don't believe the lying articles about fake instability, the stability is yuge, bigly stable.
It's almost like the Wii U had some really amazing game, but the general public were too influenced by gaming media that were telling us how the public didn't understand the arcane concept of a big screen on your controller to tell the public that it's a big screen on your controller and that they should not buy it because it did not meet an as-of-yet unestablished arbitrary benchmark of processing power.
@OorWullie - Yeah, Shmups have become sort of a lost genre, like the beat 'em up.
I'm not a huge fan of modern "bullet hell" shmups because for one...I'm just not that good, but also because they seem to sacrifice aesthetics and any sense of atmosphere. They seem to just strip everything down to the purest twitch gameplay and score multiplier mechanics.
@gatorboi352 - Wait, the problem is that they fixed the issue?
It genuinely comes off that you seem unwilling to let go and move forward, that you want to keep fighting the battles and punishing Nintendo for their grievous sins.
Honestly, the way the Switch seems to be handling indies is so good, that now you're pretty much left to complain about how the third party support is "too many indies."
@NEStalgia I think it's the cutesy face character design I'm not liking. Western Dude bro game critics hated the XCX "faces" and I think this was in response to that...they went full cartoony to please the critics who were never the target audience for this franchise anyway.
@Zeargo - Have just recently returned to XCX after taking a break. It's an amazing treat for any JRPG fan.
If you like non-linear, open world, party building, gear optimizing games with sidequests all over that are frequently more than fetch quests, this game will more than satisfy.
I'm about 140 hours in now, and not really that close to the end. People talk about Witcher 3"rabbit holes"...well XCX actually has that too. One offhand mission can eventually lead to new recruit able party members, an entire new arms manufacturer opening shop in NLA, or just some basic rewards and humorous dialogue with a weird Back to the Future spoof character...you never really know which is kind of nice.
1) Do you people really hate the XCX soundtrack, or do you hate the choices for New Los Angeles music...because while some of the music is absolutely breathtaking like the Noctilum day theme, or atmospheric and offbeat like the cavern music, both day and night themes for NLA were annoying and grating and they played in the hub area where you spent a lot of time.
2) Is it just me or does the art style of this game feel like a downgrade in style from both previous games?
While XC was limited by SD hardware and pushing the aging hardware of the Wii and portable hardware of the 3DS, it still looked amazing. XCX was an astoundingly beautiful sci-fi game with a strong anime influence.
What has changed in Xenoblade 2 looks...very generic compared to the unique organic/metallic fusion and retro-mech artistry of the previous titles.
Is it just me, or when some of these always-negative people hear a positive quote from a third party developer like the one in this article, you hear Gollum from Lord of the Rings screaming "It Burnsss us! It Burrnsses us, precious!"
@gatorboi352 - of course you're being absolutist to paint this positive story as negatively as possible.
First off, it's acknowledged immediately in the story that this has been a catch-up game.
Secondly, this isn't like a valve that was shut tight and now it just being opened for the first time. This was an ongoing process and clearly the trend from Wii and DS, to DSi, to 3DS and Wii U was a slow and gradual process.
Again, what mostly hurt the Wii U for all third party releases was difficulty in porting and the infamous low sales. Obviously the porting issues have been vastly improved with the Switch as many developers have stated.
At that time, outside of personal computers which actually had more variation between releases (Commodore, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Tandy) at that time than we have today, consoles had largely exclusive libraries.
The very idea of a multi-platform release of the same game is relatively new, or at least dates back to around the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation.
If anything, multi-platform releases in previous gens were:
a) rare b) often completely different games developed by different teams c) licensed movie or TV show shovelware
You haven't already sold or traded in your Switch to buy [X-system] because of a particular game that wasn't coming or because of some other baffling arbitrary reason?
@NEStalgia - your comparison of the PS4Pro to Sega CD/32X is quite apt.
People will scoff because "the PS4 is so successful!" but so was the Sega Genesis/Megadrive.
There is never any guarantee that history or cycles will repeat themselves (although trying to find these secret revelations for Nintendo platforms written in the fate of previous consoles seems to be a full times job for Nintendo haters) , but we can look at the factors involved.
Mainly: the power arms race. Yes, the bitwars and chaos of the early-mid 90s where you had Sony first enter the console fray and Sega suddenly found themselves pushing out stop-gap machines to compete with all the new advances in tech...people grew tired of the add-ons and iterations until they finally got it right with the Dreamcast....which was unfortunately too little too late.
Of course, all of this remains to be seen with the current iterative console power wars.
@BigBadJohn - You did well, but you forgot one crucial thing: You have to find a way to make some issue personally Nintendo's fault and sarcastically call them out for it.
I'm liking that games such as this are getting press and popular interest.
I feel like the era of the dude-bro shooter being the dominant force in gaming are coming to a close. Sure, we'll always have those Call of Duty/Assassin's Creed games for H4RdC0R3 kids who aint' got time for that baby imaginative stuff.
@Rontanamo_Bay What do you mean fewer people had "access" to Bayonetta 2? They could buy a Wii U and play it - still can!
This is an unfortunate side effect of groupthink and conventional wisdom. People loved all the exclusive games on Wii U, but they just couldn't bring themselves to buy the hardware because gaming media poo-poo'd it.
For all the complaints and hysterical hating of the Wii U, isn't it the GAMES that make a console? Or is it the superficial criteria repeated by console fanboys designed to justify their own purchases and loyalties?
This is honestly way more cringeworthy and less fun than the original, and that had the excuse of being 20 years older and an original idea.
Also, the characters just aren't appealing, and trouser snake is just too much cringe. I actually like the earnest cheesiness and simplicity of the original, but they did a pretty terrible job with this parody.
@RatKing64 - Nah, I think Sony is done with the handheld or even handheld hybrid market.
Sony has been selling their video game brand as all AAA and "moar powah plz" since the launch of the PS4 and now the PS4 Pro.
If this were still the era before the smart phone, I'd tend to agree, but I think Sony is more likely to try and sell streaming services for your portable devices than actually jump back into portable hardware.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE - What's really fortunate for Nintendo haters like yourself, is that you can call the Switch a handheld or a console to more conveniently shape your negativity and nitpicks.
It's not a console, it's a handheld! - When discussing positive sales in Japan.
It's not a handheld, it's a console! - When discussing processor power and technical limitations.
These devs want to get their software on the hot new console (which is available in Ireland I hear, not hard to find!) and they may rush things to market to take advantage of an as of yet fresh and uncluttered e-shop.
I have Insanity's Blade on PC, and it's pretty fun. It's a true homage to late 80s, early 90s ultra violent arcade platformers like Rastan and Black Tiger.
Personally, I often enjoy having a female protagonist in a game. One time I heard the term of "Lara Croft syndrome" where if you're a male gamer watching a character's backside on screen for hours, you prefer it be an attractive woman.
Seriously though, I also like Samus Aran, and non-sexualized female leads - If they are good characters.
@Onion - Well, I do still disagree that the inclusion of the casual modes is insulting or takes away from the standard and more difficult modes.
Gamers today don't have the decades of experience grinding their tolerance for difficulty against Castlevania or beating Contra with and without the 30 man code...(still haven't beaten Gradius without the Konami cheat code though!)
I don't mind if people with less skills want to enjoy a Fire Emblem game, as long as I still have a skill level properly balanced for me and other long time players.
Hell, I can't handle the higher difficulty levels beyond the first few scenarios myself...normal difficulty is just about right for me, and I am challenged by it.
@khululy - Lol...you just repeated a fiction that has been used to give cover to neo-nazis and white supremacists by playing word games.
Any government can call themselves anything, and the Nazi party were not socialists as you think you're defining them. They were adamantly opposed to communism and fought their most vicious rhetorical and military battles against the Soviet communists.
Oh, and to further pour cold water on your talking point: North Korea is by anyone's standard a despotic monarchy enforced by a military ruling elite...but guess what they call themselves:
"The Democratic Republic of North Korea"
So...does that mean that all western democracies are like North Korea now? Hey...they call themselves a democratic republic, so it must be!
Lol..."Nazis are socialists" word games...it's beyond silly propaganda.
@Onion - That's quite a dissertation, but I remember finding Path of Radiance to be the easiest and Awakening to be one of the harder games. (Radiant Dawn being the hardest by far)
I don't mind the ability to grind, but I agree there should be limits, like have some smaller optional battles to help level people up.
As far as the pairing goes, I thought it made things a little harder in some ways. The EXP balance grew even more severe between the heavy weapon tanks and healer/mage units.
@DEADCELL I don't think you know what a strawman is.
You don't know what a collectivist is...
...and you don't know what tongue-in-cheek means.
This is just getting boring now. I hope you'll eventually outgrow this white supremacy thing. Doesn't it tell you something how you must dance around it and use code words to discuss it publicly? It's not like these are radical new ideas...these are stale zombie ideas that keep getting resurrected and brought back when times are tough and minority groups are easy to scapegoat and use to rally people behind these outdated ideologies.
@DEADCELL - Okay, you've devolved into word salad.
You keep recycling these weird tangents and you don't know what tongue in cheek or collectivist even means. Admit it...collectivist is just something you've heard alt-right and white supremacist friendly media figures call people, isn't it?
Honestly, it may have started like something that resembled a discussion, but now it's degenerated into you just wanting to get the last word in.
1) Tongue-in-cheek means not totally serious...But I see that you'll cling to that statement to play victim even though I clearly state it was a joke in the OP.
2) Nope. I'm stating assertions based on behaviors and statements made by people that hold certain beliefs and how they communicate them.
3) You are guilty of the same thing you accuse me of when you call me a "collectivist nutjob" because I've heard people use these same statements before, and I've heard the ideologies and agendas.
You base your assertions of me being a "collectivist" on far less.
@DEADCELL I just want to make it clear to you, as well as any other random people visiting this message board that you don't speak for all white people, and you're embarrassing us.
That was meant to be tongue in cheek, but the issue is that this "concern" over the decline of your "race" is A) often a mask for much more draconian prescriptions, and B) unique in terms of enjoying historical power and majority in the west when trying to make a 1:1 comparison with concerns of groups who have not enjoyed full civil liberties and rights historically.
I'm just pointing out how your comments, which are common representations of frequently used complaints, are somewhat intellectually dishonest and fallacious.
This tactic of accusing anyone that disagrees or speaks out in response to opinions and statements they find offensive of "silencing" them is ironic projection, since most often it's those attacking the "SJW" that believe they have special rights or the right to take away the liberties and dignity of others.
Sorry, but now you're again projecting and playing victim. You started this by accusing people with a different point of view as SJW and claiming they were "silencing" you.
Well, you're still typing and responding, which I have no power to stop you from doing, and it's obvious you learned nothing.
Clearly you believe yourself to be above criticism, but not above criticizing others.
You have essentially epitomized what is known as "projection". The act of placing one's own negative behaviors or attributes onto others to deflect attention towards your opposition.
Bonus points for doing so while playing the victim to the straw man you created.
Now, I'm not just lobbing attacks at you. You are trying to make yourself and those with your point of view into the victim by first insulting those who might disagree as "SJW", then accusing them of "silencing" you. Now...I'm neither an SJW or in any position to "silence" you even if I wanted to.
No, what those who use these fallacies and tactics fail to understand is that you are entitled to your opinion, and you are entitled to disagree with my opinion, but you are not immune to criticism or consequences for stating your opinions, and many (especially on the political right) simply feel entitled never to be challenged, or that disagreement is an unfair attack, and THAT ...is at the core of the projection.
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Re: Nintendo Starts Paying Out to Switch and 3DS Hack Tipsters
@KTT - Yeah, that's interesting.
I'm not into hacking or modding, just observing which ones I seem to hear the most about.
Re: Classic Neo Geo Racer 'Over Top' Speeds Into View
@Emperor-Palpsy - Do you have a computer with a Steam account? I don't know if these are available on other storefronts, but they are on Steam and they don't require a beefy rig to run them well in general.
Mini Moto Racing EVO (I recommend)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ssQ2YDGFY
Little Racers Street (not bad)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC0tZMGkI74
Blaze Rush (Mad Max style - not bad)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2bs80kqZ40
Those are some of the better ones on Steam PC.
Re: Nintendo Starts Paying Out to Switch and 3DS Hack Tipsters
@SLIGEACH_EIRE - That's actually a good question.
I have heard many many stories and heard of entire communities based around hacking Nintendo hardware, especially the Wii and DS...but I seldom hear or read anything about other consoles being hacked, jailbroken, homebrewed, modded, etc...
I know that was a big thing back in the PS1 days, but I haven't heard much about Xbox or later Playstation hacking or modding communities.
Re: Florida Officials Ban Inflatable Mario And Maybe Even Freedom of Speech
@nhSnork - I assume you aren't from the United States.
Because whenever a story starts with "Today a Florida man/woman..." you know to brace yourself for insanity.
Re: Florida Officials Ban Inflatable Mario And Maybe Even Freedom of Speech
So Uh...are the city officials racist against Italians, or Sony fanboys?
Seriously though...he owns a gaming store, why is this a problem if it's commercially zoned?
Re: Feature: From BIT.TRIP to Runner3 - The Nintendo Journey of Choice Provisions
@brettwayne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDGud3o0Nrc
Re: That Bayonetta Countdown, Unsurprisingly, Was for a PC Port
Bayonetta 2 is hands down the superior game, but Bayo 1 is still quite enjoyable.
Re: That Bayonetta Countdown, Unsurprisingly, Was for a PC Port
@SLIGEACH_EIRE - I really enjoy your infectious positivity.
Re: Check Out These Limited Time Micro SD Card Deals From Amazon
Fortunately, this is a case where the tech will go down in price as the console matures.
So while at the moment it seems like a bad move from Nintendo, it really is the most elegant solution for a self-contained portable.
They just should have included a larger internal storage area from the get-go...
Re: Sine Mora EX Is On Its Way To The Nintendo Switch
@TossedLlama -It's not as fun as Steel Empire, but the game play is smooth and the graphics and design are beautiful.
I don't recommend Sine Mora, nor do I say you should avoid it...it's definitely a divisive game for shmup fans.
Re: Sine Mora EX Is On Its Way To The Nintendo Switch
I a huge Shmup fan, and while I should love a game like this, I simply found it okay.
The problem is that it tries to shoehorn in this deep and serious plot about war and vengeance that sort of slows things down and confuses you when you just want to get absorbed into the action.
You'll play as various anthropomorphic animals in different time lines with different planes, and the whole thing never feels like a coherent story with any real progression.
Some of the later stages start to feel more like tedious physics puzzles than action twitch fare.
On the upside, the game looks gorgeous with a unique sense of style and design direction. The actual controls and animations are fluid and feel "right"...but the experience itself left me wanting to play a more traditional shmup that had such beautiful graphics.
Re: 3DS Update 11.4.0-37 Brings Even More Stability To Nintendo's Incredibly Stable Handheld
From here in America:
3DS is the most stable, it's so stable it'll make your head spin, nobody has a more stable operating system, it's so stable you'll be tired of stability, not even a bad hombre could make it less stable, don't believe the lying articles about fake instability, the stability is yuge, bigly stable.
Re: Deals: Get on the Grid With These Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Accessories and More
Yet another port of a fantastic Wii U game.
It's almost like the Wii U had some really amazing game, but the general public were too influenced by gaming media that were telling us how the public didn't understand the arcane concept of a big screen on your controller to tell the public that it's a big screen on your controller and that they should not buy it because it did not meet an as-of-yet unestablished arbitrary benchmark of processing power.
Re: Deals: Get on the Grid With These Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Accessories and More
@SLIGEACH_EIRE - You are so brave!
Re: Review: Alpha Mission II (Switch eShop / Neo Geo)
@OorWullie - Yeah, Shmups have become sort of a lost genre, like the beat 'em up.
I'm not a huge fan of modern "bullet hell" shmups because for one...I'm just not that good, but also because they seem to sacrifice aesthetics and any sense of atmosphere. They seem to just strip everything down to the purest twitch gameplay and score multiplier mechanics.
Re: Nintendo Is "Getting With The Times" When It Comes To Indies On Switch, Says Image & Form
@gatorboi352 - So you confirm it is exactly as I stated:
You're angry that this was fixed, but it wasn't fixed sooner...and so basically just whining and whipping Nintendo for it's past sins.
Hey, have you attacked Nintendo for not using optical discs on the N64 yet today? How about for phasing out support on the GBA to push the DS?
I'm sure there are lots of mistakes from the past you can continue to be mad at Nintendo for and never get over.
Re: Review: Alpha Mission II (Switch eShop / Neo Geo)
@Shiryu - Oh yeah, Pulstar, Blazing Star, Last Resort, Prehistoric Isle, and Aero Fighters!
Re: Nintendo Is "Getting With The Times" When It Comes To Indies On Switch, Says Image & Form
@gatorboi352 - Wait, the problem is that they fixed the issue?
It genuinely comes off that you seem unwilling to let go and move forward, that you want to keep fighting the battles and punishing Nintendo for their grievous sins.
Honestly, the way the Switch seems to be handling indies is so good, that now you're pretty much left to complain about how the third party support is "too many indies."
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Composer Confirms Soundtrack Is Practically Complete
@NEStalgia I think it's the cutesy face character design I'm not liking. Western Dude bro game critics hated the XCX "faces" and I think this was in response to that...they went full cartoony to please the critics who were never the target audience for this franchise anyway.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Composer Confirms Soundtrack Is Practically Complete
@Zeargo - Have just recently returned to XCX after taking a break. It's an amazing treat for any JRPG fan.
If you like non-linear, open world, party building, gear optimizing games with sidequests all over that are frequently more than fetch quests, this game will more than satisfy.
I'm about 140 hours in now, and not really that close to the end. People talk about Witcher 3"rabbit holes"...well XCX actually has that too. One offhand mission can eventually lead to new recruit able party members, an entire new arms manufacturer opening shop in NLA, or just some basic rewards and humorous dialogue with a weird Back to the Future spoof character...you never really know which is kind of nice.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Composer Confirms Soundtrack Is Practically Complete
1) Do you people really hate the XCX soundtrack, or do you hate the choices for New Los Angeles music...because while some of the music is absolutely breathtaking like the Noctilum day theme, or atmospheric and offbeat like the cavern music, both day and night themes for NLA were annoying and grating and they played in the hub area where you spent a lot of time.
2) Is it just me or does the art style of this game feel like a downgrade in style from both previous games?
While XC was limited by SD hardware and pushing the aging hardware of the Wii and portable hardware of the 3DS, it still looked amazing. XCX was an astoundingly beautiful sci-fi game with a strong anime influence.
What has changed in Xenoblade 2 looks...very generic compared to the unique organic/metallic fusion and retro-mech artistry of the previous titles.
Re: Nintendo Is "Getting With The Times" When It Comes To Indies On Switch, Says Image & Form
Is it just me, or when some of these always-negative people hear a positive quote from a third party developer like the one in this article, you hear Gollum from Lord of the Rings screaming "It Burnsss us! It Burrnsses us, precious!"
Re: Nintendo Is "Getting With The Times" When It Comes To Indies On Switch, Says Image & Form
@gatorboi352 - of course you're being absolutist to paint this positive story as negatively as possible.
First off, it's acknowledged immediately in the story that this has been a catch-up game.
Secondly, this isn't like a valve that was shut tight and now it just being opened for the first time. This was an ongoing process and clearly the trend from Wii and DS, to DSi, to 3DS and Wii U was a slow and gradual process.
Again, what mostly hurt the Wii U for all third party releases was difficulty in porting and the infamous low sales. Obviously the porting issues have been vastly improved with the Switch as many developers have stated.
Re: Video: Here's How Lego City: Undercover On Switch Compares To The PS4 Version
@electrolite77 - To be fair...
At that time, outside of personal computers which actually had more variation between releases (Commodore, Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Tandy) at that time than we have today, consoles had largely exclusive libraries.
The very idea of a multi-platform release of the same game is relatively new, or at least dates back to around the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation.
If anything, multi-platform releases in previous gens were:
a) rare
b) often completely different games developed by different teams
c) licensed movie or TV show shovelware
Re: Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap Has Gone Gold
@BigBadJohn - What?
You haven't already sold or traded in your Switch to buy [X-system] because of a particular game that wasn't coming or because of some other baffling arbitrary reason?
You're welcome for the suggestion...
Re: Video: Here's How Lego City: Undercover On Switch Compares To The PS4 Version
@NEStalgia - your comparison of the PS4Pro to Sega CD/32X is quite apt.
People will scoff because "the PS4 is so successful!" but so was the Sega Genesis/Megadrive.
There is never any guarantee that history or cycles will repeat themselves (although trying to find these secret revelations for Nintendo platforms written in the fate of previous consoles seems to be a full times job for Nintendo haters) , but we can look at the factors involved.
Mainly: the power arms race. Yes, the bitwars and chaos of the early-mid 90s where you had Sony first enter the console fray and Sega suddenly found themselves pushing out stop-gap machines to compete with all the new advances in tech...people grew tired of the add-ons and iterations until they finally got it right with the Dreamcast....which was unfortunately too little too late.
Of course, all of this remains to be seen with the current iterative console power wars.
Re: Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap Has Gone Gold
@BigBadJohn - You did well, but you forgot one crucial thing: You have to find a way to make some issue personally Nintendo's fault and sarcastically call them out for it.
Re: Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap Has Gone Gold
I'm liking that games such as this are getting press and popular interest.
I feel like the era of the dude-bro shooter being the dominant force in gaming are coming to a close. Sure, we'll always have those Call of Duty/Assassin's Creed games for H4RdC0R3 kids who aint' got time for that baby imaginative stuff.
Re: Sega Countdown Site Teases Bayonetta News Next Week
@Rontanamo_Bay - I'm just saying that the gaming media has us trained to groupthink these double standards.
Would you say the same thing about people having not having "access" to Bloodborne, or Uncharted?
It's just not put into those terms when talking about other platforms.
Re: Video: Here's How Lego City: Undercover On Switch Compares To The PS4 Version
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
People on Steam are basically saying it's downright broken on PC. It's Arkham Knight all over again.
Re: Sega Countdown Site Teases Bayonetta News Next Week
@Rontanamo_Bay What do you mean fewer people had "access" to Bayonetta 2? They could buy a Wii U and play it - still can!
This is an unfortunate side effect of groupthink and conventional wisdom. People loved all the exclusive games on Wii U, but they just couldn't bring themselves to buy the hardware because gaming media poo-poo'd it.
For all the complaints and hysterical hating of the Wii U, isn't it the GAMES that make a console? Or is it the superficial criteria repeated by console fanboys designed to justify their own purchases and loyalties?
Re: The Yooka-Laylee Rap Tries to be the Best and Worst Thing All at Once
This is honestly way more cringeworthy and less fun than the original, and that had the excuse of being 20 years older and an original idea.
Also, the characters just aren't appealing, and trouser snake is just too much cringe. I actually like the earnest cheesiness and simplicity of the original, but they did a pretty terrible job with this parody.
Re: Nintendo Switch Hardware Sales Grow in Japan as Monster Hunter Stays at Number One
@RatKing64 - Nah, I think Sony is done with the handheld or even handheld hybrid market.
Sony has been selling their video game brand as all AAA and "moar powah plz" since the launch of the PS4 and now the PS4 Pro.
If this were still the era before the smart phone, I'd tend to agree, but I think Sony is more likely to try and sell streaming services for your portable devices than actually jump back into portable hardware.
Re: Jackbox Party Pack 3 Is Hitting The Nintendo Switch eShop On April 13th
If this isn't proof that it's easy to port for Switch I don't know what is.
I'm glad stuff like this is coming to Switch...while it can be called "casual" and other pejoratives, I call it variety.
I just picked up Jeopardy for Wii U for a few bucks, and it's one of the few games I can get my non-gamer family members to actually participate in!
Re: Nintendo Switch Hardware Sales Grow in Japan as Monster Hunter Stays at Number One
@SLIGEACH_EIRE - What's really fortunate for Nintendo haters like yourself, is that you can call the Switch a handheld or a console to more conveniently shape your negativity and nitpicks.
It's not a console, it's a handheld! - When discussing positive sales in Japan.
It's not a handheld, it's a console! - When discussing processor power and technical limitations.
Re: Don't Worry, The Rumble in Snake Pass Will Be Fixed Soon
@SLIGEACH_EIRE - Welcome to a new system launch.
These devs want to get their software on the hot new console (which is available in Ireland I hear, not hard to find!) and they may rush things to market to take advantage of an as of yet fresh and uncluttered e-shop.
Re: Feature: How Battle Princess Madelyn Is Fulfilling One Little Girl's Dream Of Starring In Ghouls 'n Ghosts
I have Insanity's Blade on PC, and it's pretty fun. It's a true homage to late 80s, early 90s ultra violent arcade platformers like Rastan and Black Tiger.
Personally, I often enjoy having a female protagonist in a game. One time I heard the term of "Lara Croft syndrome" where if you're a male gamer watching a character's backside on screen for hours, you prefer it be an attractive woman.
Seriously though, I also like Samus Aran, and non-sexualized female leads - If they are good characters.
Re: Video: Nintendo's Fire Emblem Echoes Overview Shows How It Shakes Up the Formula
@Onion - Well, I do still disagree that the inclusion of the casual modes is insulting or takes away from the standard and more difficult modes.
Gamers today don't have the decades of experience grinding their tolerance for difficulty against Castlevania or beating Contra with and without the 30 man code...(still haven't beaten Gradius without the Konami cheat code though!)
I don't mind if people with less skills want to enjoy a Fire Emblem game, as long as I still have a skill level properly balanced for me and other long time players.
Hell, I can't handle the higher difficulty levels beyond the first few scenarios myself...normal difficulty is just about right for me, and I am challenged by it.
Re: Playtonic Removes JonTron's Voice from Yooka-Laylee
@khululy - Lol...you just repeated a fiction that has been used to give cover to neo-nazis and white supremacists by playing word games.
Any government can call themselves anything, and the Nazi party were not socialists as you think you're defining them. They were adamantly opposed to communism and fought their most vicious rhetorical and military battles against the Soviet communists.
Oh, and to further pour cold water on your talking point: North Korea is by anyone's standard a despotic monarchy enforced by a military ruling elite...but guess what they call themselves:
"The Democratic Republic of North Korea"
So...does that mean that all western democracies are like North Korea now? Hey...they call themselves a democratic republic, so it must be!
Lol..."Nazis are socialists" word games...it's beyond silly propaganda.
Re: Video: Nintendo's Fire Emblem Echoes Overview Shows How It Shakes Up the Formula
@Onion - That's quite a dissertation, but I remember finding Path of Radiance to be the easiest and Awakening to be one of the harder games.
(Radiant Dawn being the hardest by far)
I don't mind the ability to grind, but I agree there should be limits, like have some smaller optional battles to help level people up.
As far as the pairing goes, I thought it made things a little harder in some ways. The EXP balance grew even more severe between the heavy weapon tanks and healer/mage units.
I think a lot of this comes down to play style.
Re: Playtonic Removes JonTron's Voice from Yooka-Laylee
@DEADCELL
I don't think you know what a strawman is.
You don't know what a collectivist is...
...and you don't know what tongue-in-cheek means.
This is just getting boring now. I hope you'll eventually outgrow this white supremacy thing. Doesn't it tell you something how you must dance around it and use code words to discuss it publicly? It's not like these are radical new ideas...these are stale zombie ideas that keep getting resurrected and brought back when times are tough and minority groups are easy to scapegoat and use to rally people behind these outdated ideologies.
Re: Playtonic Removes JonTron's Voice from Yooka-Laylee
@DEADCELL
1) No, I asked you to define the strawman you accused me of using. Try again, same question...
2) You really don't want to define your points, do you?
I would be too ashamed as well. Ever wonder if that feeling of persecution you carry around is because you know your beliefs are abhorrent deep down?
Re: Playtonic Removes JonTron's Voice from Yooka-Laylee
@DEADCELL
1) Please define the strawman.
2) What are your points.
(why do I already regret asking these questions?)
Re: Playtonic Removes JonTron's Voice from Yooka-Laylee
@DEADCELL - Okay, you've devolved into word salad.
You keep recycling these weird tangents and you don't know what tongue in cheek or collectivist even means. Admit it...collectivist is just something you've heard alt-right and white supremacist friendly media figures call people, isn't it?
Honestly, it may have started like something that resembled a discussion, but now it's degenerated into you just wanting to get the last word in.
Re: Playtonic Removes JonTron's Voice from Yooka-Laylee
@DEADCELL
1) Tongue-in-cheek means not totally serious...But I see that you'll cling to that statement to play victim even though I clearly state it was a joke in the OP.
2) Nope. I'm stating assertions based on behaviors and statements made by people that hold certain beliefs and how they communicate them.
3) You are guilty of the same thing you accuse me of when you call me a "collectivist nutjob" because I've heard people use these same statements before, and I've heard the ideologies and agendas.
You base your assertions of me being a "collectivist" on far less.
Re: Playtonic Removes JonTron's Voice from Yooka-Laylee
@DEADCELL I just want to make it clear to you, as well as any other random people visiting this message board that you don't speak for all white people, and you're embarrassing us.
That was meant to be tongue in cheek, but the issue is that this "concern" over the decline of your "race" is A) often a mask for much more draconian prescriptions, and B) unique in terms of enjoying historical power and majority in the west when trying to make a 1:1 comparison with concerns of groups who have not enjoyed full civil liberties and rights historically.
Re: Playtonic Removes JonTron's Voice from Yooka-Laylee
@OptometristLime
Picking on me? I hadn't even considered that.
I'm just pointing out how your comments, which are common representations of frequently used complaints, are somewhat intellectually dishonest and fallacious.
This tactic of accusing anyone that disagrees or speaks out in response to opinions and statements they find offensive of "silencing" them is ironic projection, since most often it's those attacking the "SJW" that believe they have special rights or the right to take away the liberties and dignity of others.
Re: Playtonic Removes JonTron's Voice from Yooka-Laylee
@OptometristLime
Sorry, but now you're again projecting and playing victim. You started this by accusing people with a different point of view as SJW and claiming they were "silencing" you.
Well, you're still typing and responding, which I have no power to stop you from doing, and it's obvious you learned nothing.
Clearly you believe yourself to be above criticism, but not above criticizing others.
Re: New Kid Icarus Awards Have Shown Up on My Nintendo in North America
Ugh...at least there are some videos that I will need to upgrade my SD card to watch.
Not sure why they can't put the anime vids on Wii U.
Oh well, I have all the games on 3DS, so may as well get NES Kid Icarus on Wii U discounted.
My points will expire soon anyway...
Re: Playtonic Removes JonTron's Voice from Yooka-Laylee
@OptometristLime
You have essentially epitomized what is known as "projection". The act of placing one's own negative behaviors or attributes onto others to deflect attention towards your opposition.
Bonus points for doing so while playing the victim to the straw man you created.
Now, I'm not just lobbing attacks at you. You are trying to make yourself and those with your point of view into the victim by first insulting those who might disagree as "SJW", then accusing them of "silencing" you. Now...I'm neither an SJW or in any position to "silence" you even if I wanted to.
No, what those who use these fallacies and tactics fail to understand is that you are entitled to your opinion, and you are entitled to disagree with my opinion, but you are not immune to criticism or consequences for stating your opinions, and many (especially on the political right) simply feel entitled never to be challenged, or that disagreement is an unfair attack, and THAT ...is at the core of the projection.