If I see anymore pro feminists crap on this news site I'll probably stop following it, I'm not joking. Stop bringing crap like this up to appeal to social justice warrior women who would rather seen the censorship of art, just as long as they get to see what they want in pop culture instead of what men might want to see.
All humans are objectified. That is what society does. The moment you get a job you become an employee, if you make bread, you become a baker. All things to take away your individuality.
If feminists would actually play senran (which is an amazing game) they'd realize that the women in Senran happen to be some of the most fleshed out and deep female characters I've seen in a game in a long time. God forbid women have large breasts and be sexual in nature.
This isn't an issue of how women are portrayed in video games, its an issue of women not liking men drooling over stuff like this. Women are allowed to complain about this but yet they have horrible idealizations and objectifications all over day time television.
Fricken deal with it, the game was fun as hell, and I would have played it if it were about dudes with their clothes exploding off-- people act like clothes exploding off in fighting games is a new concept. Big burley menly men have been blowing their clothes off in anime and video games for years and years. To see a girl do it once is a nice breath of fresh air.
Looks a lot more interesting than Mighty Number 9, mainly because this looks more like a successor to the Rockman Zero games, the best Megaman games ever made.
Legend of Mana is the end all tell all mana game, despite its ignorant nostalgia driven reviews of its release. Its probably one of the best games ever made, end of story.
The need to be like the "Snes classic" is what ruined all the Mana sequels after Legend of Mana. They should abandon the Zelda like mechanics and return to the side-scrolling ones.
Donkey Kong Country games for me always seemed horribly over-rated. They lacked the whimsy of super mario world, or other superior side scrollers. They just felt... too western for my tastes.
Hah. People don't want new consoles. I think Sony and Microsoft should have waited a good, two or three years before releasing their new crap. I think nintendo counted on them doing it-- thus why they released the wii-u so early. Now the wii-u is getting dreamcasted, a term I use when people refuse to buy an 'inferior console' that is on the market before even knowing what the next console is going to be like. The Playstation 2 did just that to the dreamcast.
Either way-- its funny to see these minuscule figures for console sales. I have a feeling gaming as a hobby is going to go back to its glory days of inventiveness, less emphasis on the mainstream and more emphasis on staying power.
YEP! And when their multi million dollar games don't sell for the PS4 and the Xboxone, they'll be back making games for cheaper-to-develop on consoles.
God I wish this would come over here and I wish the Wii-u was region free, I'm annoyed that I'd have to get it for the PS3 to play it.
BUT! This proves my point, that Japan is going to support the Wii-u with these interesting third party titles. I can't wait for all the developers to lose millions on their PS4 and Xboxone games over here and start flocking to the Wii-u because its cheaper to make for.
Am I the only one annoyed that Inazuma Eleven keeps getting localized but not LBX?
That poll that was done for Level 5 games not too long ago was annoying as hell, Prof Layton shouldn't have even been on the list, it would have came over here regardless. Totally gave LBX a shoddy chance.
Not digging the trailer for the cartoon, but the gameplay looks okay. My biggest problem with Sonic Lost World was how effin slow it was, I'm hoping this isn't slow.
Lobster boys out there that want slower sonic games can just go lay mario or something.
Should have launched at 200 dollars flat-- that would have really appealed to the cheaper parents out there. That'd make it much cheaper than the other two consoles out there.
But I honestly think the moment they announce a LOZ game for the Wii-u will be its rebirth. I'm not a LOZ fan, but lets be honest, it sure moves product.
I'm fine with this concept as long as its simple, phone centric concepts. I really don't wanna hear about full games coming to phones. I hate that-- because in my opinion the whole smartphone iphone fad is like anything else in gaming, a temporary fad. It comes in, dominates the market, then dries up in about six-seven years. Same happened to guitar hero, motion controls, and such.
I haven't seen a single game on kickstarter I'd want to support, mainly because of ambiguity. A sweet talking developer pops onto a screen and makes promises hes never going to fulfill. Its like paying Molynuex to screw us again with fable before the game even comes out.
Yes, I understand the industry needs Kickstarters to get unique and interesting games funded. Too bad every game I've seen on kickstarter that got funded has been knockoff games or sequels that should just happen anyway.
Now if Kojima popped up on there and said "I need money for ZOE3" well then I'd start throwing money at him.
Until then, I'll stay conservative with my cash thank you.
@citizenerased
Even with the games that are still in development, its proving a point. Most of these games had a projected date, a lot of them required -further funding- and still have no clear release date...This displeases the funders... quite a bit.
Not super excited for this for a lot of reasons. This just proves the horrible state the industry is in-- where big names wont even use their IPs out of fear of losing a nickel, so their creators have to exploit their fans for funding to create a ripoff of their own products.
Anyone who believes his marketing hogwash is a sheep.
This is just developer word vomit they throw out to justify why they are cutting something from the game. He can divert the blame to people who upload videos on the internet and away from him, typical PR bs.
This doesn't worry me-- I don't expect nintendo to depend on high label third party support.
Where the Wii-u will shine is in the same area in which the wii shined, in games that can't be made on other consoles because of its unique control scheme.
Plus Japanese developers will actually be able to AFFORD to develope for the 'under powered console' because its far cheaper to do so.
I don't expect a Nintendo console to operate like a sony console, it wouldn't be nintendo then. I'm sorry if that is what others want, but it just wont happen.
Besides, they are still dominating in the handheld market and more than likely always will.
I'm all for a Wii-u Animal Crossing, as long as it isn't as bad as City Folk.
Not that City Folk was terrible, its just, compare the content between the first Animal Crossing into Wild World, it was astounding how much they added to Wild World.
Then go from City Folk to New Leaf, the bar was raised again. I don't want another shallow game like City Folk, which felt like a port of wild world with better graphics. I want a full blown new game with a lot of NEW interesting features added.
Not looking to insult game makers in general, but I do find that the industry is filled with people like Russel who are so out of touch with their user base they do things like come on here and shout angrily at potential costumers. Watch the insults — TBD
I'm sorry you're losing money because of pirating. Perhaps the gaming industry should figure out a real way to combat it instead of alienating its paying consumer base.
I personally know maybe 2 people in my experience that make anywhere near 24.50 an hour, and that is under the assumption that they get a full eight hour day, which most don't. Particularly in the midwest where the economy is still poopsydoodoocacapoopledoople. Even then your 'less than a days pay' logic works real great in a situation where say, someone has these things called 'bills' and responsibilities. If you wanna bring statistics into it, I think a 2 person household on average costs about 150 dollars a day to operate, that's a national average I read not too long ago.
Please tell me what company you work for so I know to never buy a game from them again.
150-200 dollars might not seem like a WHOLE lot to someone who 'works in the gaming industry' but it is for someone who has real world responsibilities... Why am I even bothering? You're not going to get it. It is possible to refute arguments without resorting to insults — TBD
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Re: Keiji Inafune Stills Wants To Make Mega Man Legends 3 A Reality
That is great. Just don't ask your fans to fund it.
Capcom dropped it because their idiots, like most publishers. Morons that only go with a sure thing. You can't fight that kind of stupidity, sadly.
Re: Aztez Is MadWorld Meets Empire-Building Strategy, And It's Coming To Wii U
Looks like it plays like senran kagura, or any good 2.5 d action game. I'll be getting this, no doubt.
Re: Soapbox: Ignoring The Objectification Of Women In Games Won't Make the Problem Go Away
Re: Soapbox: Ignoring The Objectification Of Women In Games Won't Make the Problem Go Away
If I see anymore pro feminists crap on this news site I'll probably stop following it, I'm not joking. Stop bringing crap like this up to appeal to social justice warrior women who would rather seen the censorship of art, just as long as they get to see what they want in pop culture instead of what men might want to see.
#womenbetryingtocontroleandcensoreverything #howisthatequality
Re: Soapbox: Ignoring The Objectification Of Women In Games Won't Make the Problem Go Away
This crap is really childish idealistic drivel.
All humans are objectified. That is what society does. The moment you get a job you become an employee, if you make bread, you become a baker. All things to take away your individuality.
If feminists would actually play senran (which is an amazing game) they'd realize that the women in Senran happen to be some of the most fleshed out and deep female characters I've seen in a game in a long time. God forbid women have large breasts and be sexual in nature.
This isn't an issue of how women are portrayed in video games, its an issue of women not liking men drooling over stuff like this. Women are allowed to complain about this but yet they have horrible idealizations and objectifications all over day time television.
Fricken deal with it, the game was fun as hell, and I would have played it if it were about dudes with their clothes exploding off-- people act like clothes exploding off in fighting games is a new concept. Big burley menly men have been blowing their clothes off in anime and video games for years and years. To see a girl do it once is a nice breath of fresh air.
#dealwith #growup #feministslikestupidsexiststufftoo
Re: Feature: A Week of Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS Screens - Issue Twenty Eight
Needs more Wolf/Mewtwo/Agumon/RayMK and the list goes on.
Re: Keiji Inafune And Inti Creates Announce Azure Striker Gunvolt For Nintendo 3DS
Looks a lot more interesting than Mighty Number 9, mainly because this looks more like a successor to the Rockman Zero games, the best Megaman games ever made.
Re: Latest Mana Game Rises To The Challenge
Legend of Mana is the end all tell all mana game, despite its ignorant nostalgia driven reviews of its release. Its probably one of the best games ever made, end of story.
The need to be like the "Snes classic" is what ruined all the Mana sequels after Legend of Mana. They should abandon the Zelda like mechanics and return to the side-scrolling ones.
Re: Month Of Kong: What Donkey Kong Country Means To Me
Donkey Kong Country games for me always seemed horribly over-rated. They lacked the whimsy of super mario world, or other superior side scrollers. They just felt... too western for my tastes.
Re: It's Not Waluigi Time In The New Super Smash Bros. For 3DS And Wii U
HERE IT COMES.
Meh.
Re: Video: Experience The Acute Embarrassment Of Owning A Physical Copy of Senran Kagura Burst
OH WAH!!!! I bought an amazing action game that had to put big boobs in it so it'd sell in today's horrible market.
Game is amazing, ignore the boobs, grow up children-- its a fun game.
Regardless, I got over this kind of embarrassment when I became an adult. It never bothered me to buy things like this.
Re: PS4 Launch Sales Close to Wii U Equivalents, 3DS Remains Best of the Rest
Hah. People don't want new consoles. I think Sony and Microsoft should have waited a good, two or three years before releasing their new crap. I think nintendo counted on them doing it-- thus why they released the wii-u so early. Now the wii-u is getting dreamcasted, a term I use when people refuse to buy an 'inferior console' that is on the market before even knowing what the next console is going to be like. The Playstation 2 did just that to the dreamcast.
Either way-- its funny to see these minuscule figures for console sales. I have a feeling gaming as a hobby is going to go back to its glory days of inventiveness, less emphasis on the mainstream and more emphasis on staying power.
Re: Sega Unleashes Sonic Boom Behind The Scenes Video
They seriously need to replace Pollock-- his eggman is awful.
Re: Bandai Namco Cheekily Projects An 80-Foot Pac-Man Onto The Side Of Sega's UK HQ
Its not a big deal, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega, and even Nintendo are all pretty close knit.
Re: Diddy Kong Confirmed as the Latest New Challenger for Super Smash Bros.
Meh.
Re: Less Than 5% of Those Polled by the Game Developers Conference Have Wii U Plans
YEP! And when their multi million dollar games don't sell for the PS4 and the Xboxone, they'll be back making games for cheaper-to-develop on consoles.
Re: Level-5 Wants to Know Whether You Want Yo-kai Watch in the West
I'd rather have LBX, to be honest.
Re: Talking Point: What We Expect In Nintendo Direct - 13th February
Hoping for Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode getting localized in the west.
Re: Kamen Rider: Battride War II Steers Its Way to Wii U in Japan
God I wish this would come over here and I wish the Wii-u was region free, I'm annoyed that I'd have to get it for the PS3 to play it.
BUT! This proves my point, that Japan is going to support the Wii-u with these interesting third party titles. I can't wait for all the developers to lose millions on their PS4 and Xboxone games over here and start flocking to the Wii-u because its cheaper to make for.
Re: Nintendo Download: 13th February (Europe)
Am I the only one annoyed that Inazuma Eleven keeps getting localized but not LBX?
That poll that was done for Level 5 games not too long ago was annoying as hell, Prof Layton shouldn't have even been on the list, it would have came over here regardless. Totally gave LBX a shoddy chance.
Re: Wii Fit No Substitute For Real Exercise According To Academic Research
WOW! And this just in, Wii-fit trainer is no substitute for a real character in Smash Bros.
Seems like she'll have to be taken out for more deserving characters! YAY!!!!
Re: We Didn't Know It, But Sonic Boom Was First Shown in Spring 2013
Not digging the trailer for the cartoon, but the gameplay looks okay. My biggest problem with Sonic Lost World was how effin slow it was, I'm hoping this isn't slow.
Lobster boys out there that want slower sonic games can just go lay mario or something.
Re: Feature: A Week of Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS Screens - Issue Twenty Three
I hate you so much Lucario.
Re: Rumour: 2015 Sonic Title To Hit Wii U Alongside PS4 and Xbox One
God, please don't let it be slow like Lost World. Game had great level design and concept but the slowness really killed it for me.
Honestly there was NOTHING wrong with the adventure engine, they need to bring it back.
Re: Nintendo of America Discounts Refurbished Wii U Deluxe Sets to $225
Should have launched at 200 dollars flat-- that would have really appealed to the cheaper parents out there. That'd make it much cheaper than the other two consoles out there.
But I honestly think the moment they announce a LOZ game for the Wii-u will be its rebirth. I'm not a LOZ fan, but lets be honest, it sure moves product.
Re: Lucario The Aura Warrior Returns To Battle In Super Smash Bros. 3DS & Wii U
Boo... hisss.... booo...
Re: Feature: 10 Nintendo DS Games We Want To See On The Wii U Virtual Console
None. I'm not a big fan of re-buying DS games.
I'd much rather just have an app that allows me to play my 3DS on my tv via the Wii-u-- thus meaning I could play my old DS games as well.
This is not what I want... at all.
Re: Satoru Iwata Confirms That DS Games Are Coming To The Wii U Virtual Console
Annoying...
Mainly because I'd rather just have a way to play my 3DS on the tv, thus making it possible to play and DS game I own on the TV.
Re: Satoru Iwata Admits The "Wii U Isn't In Good Shape" Ahead of Investor Briefing
@Yorumi
Agreed completely. People forget these facts real fast. No one also remembers how the 360 had like no games worth playing for its first two years.
Re: The Nikkei Reports Potential Nintendo Smartphone Strategy, to be Announced This Week
I'm fine with this concept as long as its simple, phone centric concepts. I really don't wanna hear about full games coming to phones. I hate that-- because in my opinion the whole smartphone iphone fad is like anything else in gaming, a temporary fad. It comes in, dominates the market, then dries up in about six-seven years. Same happened to guitar hero, motion controls, and such.
Re: Kickstarter Research Highlights Low Delivery Rates of Game Projects
I haven't seen a single game on kickstarter I'd want to support, mainly because of ambiguity. A sweet talking developer pops onto a screen and makes promises hes never going to fulfill. Its like paying Molynuex to screw us again with fable before the game even comes out.
Yes, I understand the industry needs Kickstarters to get unique and interesting games funded. Too bad every game I've seen on kickstarter that got funded has been knockoff games or sequels that should just happen anyway.
Now if Kojima popped up on there and said "I need money for ZOE3" well then I'd start throwing money at him.
Until then, I'll stay conservative with my cash thank you.
@citizenerased
Even with the games that are still in development, its proving a point. Most of these games had a projected date, a lot of them required -further funding- and still have no clear release date...This displeases the funders... quite a bit.
Re: Early Mighty No. 9 Screenshots Blast Into View
Not super excited for this for a lot of reasons. This just proves the horrible state the industry is in-- where big names wont even use their IPs out of fear of losing a nickel, so their creators have to exploit their fans for funding to create a ripoff of their own products.
Re: Nintendo Was Dead To Us Very Quickly, States EA Source
Lol, we don't make games for kids.
Even though all their sport games sales are primarily people ages 9-15.
Re: Sakurai Reiterates That There'll Be No Subspace Emissary-Style Story in Super Smash Bros.
Anyone who believes his marketing hogwash is a sheep.
This is just developer word vomit they throw out to justify why they are cutting something from the game. He can divert the blame to people who upload videos on the internet and away from him, typical PR bs.
Re: Nintendo President Satoru Iwata "Has Earned The Right To Fail", Says David Jaffe
We live in a pretty odd world if selling 2 million of a console, at over 200 dollars a pop is considered a 'failure'.
Re: Video: Please Don't Let This Wii U Star Fox Footage Get Your Hopes Up
That big bright P in the corner makes my eyes light up with glory.
If only this were real. I'd throw down my agnostic belief and join the all knowing church of the N.
Re: Capcom Claims Its New Panta Rhei Game Engine Can Be Adapted To Any System
It kinda is the developers job to do awesome things with their tools.
All things considered, no one figured a game like Golden Eye could be made for the 64 and yet... it was.
Re: A Third-Party "Secret Developer" Gives an Inside Story of Working on Wii U
This doesn't worry me-- I don't expect nintendo to depend on high label third party support.
Where the Wii-u will shine is in the same area in which the wii shined, in games that can't be made on other consoles because of its unique control scheme.
Plus Japanese developers will actually be able to AFFORD to develope for the 'under powered console' because its far cheaper to do so.
I don't expect a Nintendo console to operate like a sony console, it wouldn't be nintendo then. I'm sorry if that is what others want, but it just wont happen.
Besides, they are still dominating in the handheld market and more than likely always will.
Re: Feature: Nintendo Games We'd Love to See in 2014
@Darren1986
I agree. Though I personally like the idea of the game going into the 3rd person shooter realm with action game elements.
Re: Feature: Nintendo Games We'd Love to See in 2014
I'm all for a Wii-u Animal Crossing, as long as it isn't as bad as City Folk.
Not that City Folk was terrible, its just, compare the content between the first Animal Crossing into Wild World, it was astounding how much they added to Wild World.
Then go from City Folk to New Leaf, the bar was raised again. I don't want another shallow game like City Folk, which felt like a port of wild world with better graphics. I want a full blown new game with a lot of NEW interesting features added.
Re: Video: Allow Us To Serve Up The First Thirty Minutes Of Puzzle & Dragons Z
Please tell me this will come over here.
Re: Rainy Frog Launches to Focus on Bringing Western Download Titles to Japan
@Baum897
Hmm, interesting.
Re: Rainy Frog Launches to Focus on Bringing Western Download Titles to Japan
@Kaine_Morrison
Totally agree.
Nice Koryuger icon by the way.
Re: Rainy Frog Launches to Focus on Bringing Western Download Titles to Japan
How about the other way around!
Re: King Dedede to Wield the Mallet as the Latest Challenger in New Super Smash Bros.
Alright, that is nice... but pokemon trainer please?
Re: 3DS Hack Removes Region Locking For Retail Cartridges
@BinaryFragger
God bless you for that. Retail work is god awful for minimum wage.
Re: 3DS Hack Removes Region Locking For Retail Cartridges
@kamifox1
Not looking to insult game makers in general, but I do find that the industry is filled with people like Russel who are so out of touch with their user base they do things like come on here and shout angrily at potential costumers.
Watch the insults — TBD
Re: 3DS Hack Removes Region Locking For Retail Cartridges
@russellohh
Former EA employee?
Wow you really don't know what you're talking about. Have a lovely day.
Re: 3DS Hack Removes Region Locking For Retail Cartridges
@russellohh
Thanks for confirming that once again, the gaming industry has little to no idea what their user base is like and how they operate.
Please tell me some more fun figures and statistics you've googled in your sparetime to justify the poor way you're treating the people on this page.
Re: 3DS Hack Removes Region Locking For Retail Cartridges
@russellohh
I'm sorry you're losing money because of pirating. Perhaps the gaming industry should figure out a real way to combat it instead of alienating its paying consumer base.
I personally know maybe 2 people in my experience that make anywhere near 24.50 an hour, and that is under the assumption that they get a full eight hour day, which most don't. Particularly in the midwest where the economy is still poopsydoodoocacapoopledoople. Even then your 'less than a days pay' logic works real great in a situation where say, someone has these things called 'bills' and responsibilities. If you wanna bring statistics into it, I think a 2 person household on average costs about 150 dollars a day to operate, that's a national average I read not too long ago.
Please tell me what company you work for so I know to never buy a game from them again.
150-200 dollars might not seem like a WHOLE lot to someone who 'works in the gaming industry' but it is for someone who has real world responsibilities... Why am I even bothering? You're not going to get it.
It is possible to refute arguments without resorting to insults — TBD