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@KillerBOB "The NFT has a value, because then you sell it to someone else for even more money"
1. it has a price, not a value, which is a different thing, value is created by a combination of factors, not just by the price, which can be one of the factors, but things have value even when they are free or nobody wants them.
2. You can sell it IF you find someone who wants to buy it, apart from the fact that is literally the definition of "bigger/greater fool" scams ("buy x in the hope that tomorrow someone would want to buy it for more"), and since they don't have intrinsic value and you can't have an infinite number of people buying it for more that means at some point someone won't find a buyer.

And with points 1 and 2:
"There are evidently lots of "idiots" out there, because NFTs and crypto keep going up in value"
It's because it is a bubble. Nobody is buying crypto and NFT because they need it. They are just used as speculative intruments benefitting early adopters, without a real useful purpose (just some vague points repeated ad nauseam) and with the need to find new buyers all the time, it's not even a MLM scheme, it's the worst type of bubble.

@CactusMan I think there's a difference between the energy consumed by the entire banking system, who is used by the entire planet, and a useless scam used by, in the end, gamblers and speculators

The reviewer: does 3 different specific references to other point and click adventures only understandable by fan of the genre. It's a review made by a fan of the genre for other fans of the genre.

Some comments: "They just don't like this type of game".

WTF, dudes? ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

I don't really understand why so many people in the comments are upset, the only comments I understand are the "but they consider lootboxes 3+" but there's always that flavour of whataboutism. Anyway, ludopathy is a big problem in a lot of european countries, that's why people don't want to introduce children to gambling, it's really just this.
And since Europe is the most peaceful and least violent part of the world that's the reason violence is usually 12 or 16 and gambling is 18, less risk of emulation.

2021: People still feed trolls.

"the most recent high profile platforming game starring the mascot" was Sonic Forces, a couple of months after Mania.

But was totally forgettable (it wasn't even bad), so I understand if no one remembers it.

"San Marino, Wikipedia tells me, is a football team"
Well, it's not totally wrong, but it's a bit sad that's the first reference. I suppose San Marino it's not a too much known country outside Italy (▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿)

@ilh there are actually more than one football team with "San Marino" in the name: the national one; a team from San Marino that played in the italian championship; an italian team that plays in the italian championship (Cattolica San Marino); and apparently a team that will play in the next italian championship.
All of that for a country of 30'000 people

@GlowingOrb I didn't know they are German, so I suppose is not a coincidence, anyway I was reading about the game (it's out for pc) and it looks like are just random references for a "pulp setting" as you said. I think I will probably try it anyway, it caught my attention and is more than what I can say about 80% of eshop releases.

I didn't know about "Rebellion: Heimat Defender" and is... something, apparently. It's looks like a window on an alternate dimension where Leni Riefenstahl created games instead of movies. And it's made by a german developer (´。＿。｀), with real people as pc and even a real AfD's politician as a pc, bad taste at is fullest, probably a new low point in the history of videogames

@Severian Well, I like things I can overthink and analyze in every detail (complex wordbuilding, eviromental storytelling, symbolism, historic references, etc...), and if I see a WW2 reference my mind goes mad []~(￣▽￣)~*

@Yanina I don't think it will be a nazi propaganda game or something like that, maybe it is even all a big coincidence (Siegfried von Hammerstein is not exactly an impossible name to create by chance without referencing anything), but now I am curious to play the game to find what is.
Anyway, I would love a Starship Troopers-style game but I don't think the world is ready (there are still people that think that the humans are the good guy in the book and in the movie)

I'm overthinking it, I'm sure, but there are some WW2 and nazi references here:

• the title that is one letter away to sound like two different nazi references, as Stormfront is the first nazi website and a nazi character in The Boys (or still sound like a nazi reference because they put "sturm" in the name of everything, from military corps to newspapers, but "sturm" is still a german word so I feel it would be a stretch)
• than the main character with a german name, not any German name but Siegfried, which is the name of the mythological hero, but also the last line of defense of Germany on the west front during WW2 (and is fitting with the name as the last line of defense of humanity in the game)
• but Hammerstein-Equord was a german general who plotted to kill Hitler during a visit to the Siegfried line and later a member of the german resistance, and with the year the game is settled that could be a reference to the book (which talk about dictatorship) it could be the opposite of where I was going

So, I'm sure in the mind of the developers the "evil mutants you have to kill to save humanity" are a clear stand-in for something, but I'm not sure what that something is...

@mauhlin12 mine was just a joke 😅 Sometimes I think I should spend my money better, but I something makes me feel good money are well spent.

@BloodNinja
The only new thing they announced is the Cold Steel anime 😕

Anyway, I don't know if I even would buy more Ys or Trails games ports on Switch (I own all of them on one platform or another).

I'm lying, I bought Origin (for Switch) and Celceta (for ps4) even if I already had those on pc, I would buy pretty much all of them just to have a physical copy, there's something wrong with me 😖

For all the people asking for ports: Falcom does not create ports for non-PS consoles, they are developed by other companies (NIS, XSEED and Clouded Leopard usually), so they won't announce any; same for localizations: NIS is the copyright owner for western localization

@Damo the movie has a budget of 200 million, and the producers receive 50% of domestic revenue (91 million) and between 20 and 40% of foreign (245 million), so they made 150 million in the best outcome, less than the budget even before you consider thing like taxes. So, yeah, it was a flop, sorry

And you can have flops with even higher box office, Justice League with 657 million worldwide is still at the best the "most successful flop ever"

@durr really, that's your answer? That? "what would they say?"
I don't even have the words to describe how much stupid is it and I come from the nation which gave birth to fascism: my bar was on the ground and you brought a shovel...

@durr "You can't even explain how my stance is wrong" there were already two persons with three different wall of text that tried to explain you the problem, and you decided to ignore everything just to say that.
Ok, I think I'm done, it's really like a chan board here

@durr "He's not white he's Indian. His father is Indian."
Even if, his mother is not, and that's the point, for your idea of "white" there has to be some "pureness", every possible ancestor has to be white, for you he can say he is indian because has an indian father but not that he is white even if he as a white mother.
That's a double standard, that's the problem, that we are in a world were whites have to be "pure" and everything else is something that make everything non-white.
Try reverse your concept and he is magically white and not indian.

@Lordplops like just 70% of africans are black, who would even say that? Have you ever seen anyone saying, I don't know, Elon Musk is not a real South African? Everyone knows there are non-black africans -.-

@durr "he's father is not indian?" no, he may have some indian ancestors, the same way I have some germanic ancestors (you can see it all around my father's family) but all the ancestors I can find were italians, so I'm 100% italian, not german

"You literally wouldnt be saying this if it was non white characters being replaced with white people"
First of all, Jogia is white; second, that a totally different problem because white people played non-white characters A LOT in the past, just so producers didn't have to hire non-whites, it's a false equivalence; third, white was always a broad concept that was used just to decide who was the enemy, and it's a concept by exclusion (a person who has a black parent and a white parent can't say is white), and as an italian with really light skin I would have been addressed as "pale non-white" in the past; fourth, you don't know, you just decided I was part of some group that you perfectly know how works and called me hypocrite just because you think you know me

So, 18 minutes after the article is published half the comments already are "but the cast is not full of aryans"

Chan boards are really a ***** what do you mean we are not on a chan board?

@durr "Where is his father from?"
England, the mother is canadian.
Please, stop embarassing yourself

@Wexter last thing: I am reading the various twitter treads, now we have people that are posting treats to people who commented the game, people that are writing more horrible things, it's a mob that need to hate everything.
People are incapable to understand that they are doing exactly what they are criticizing, just because they are on what they think is "the right part". It's really sad, it's a ***** show that won't have any good side ever

@Wexter dropping the points: I know there are exagitated people that create un unsane environment, and just the fact that we can think that death treats about a game are real means there is something really wrong, but real censorship is something else, the example of removed games after chinese complain it's because that can determine real censorship, because in China the government can really ban something because is "offensive" just because they feel so, so Sony didn't want that type of problems. Here in Europe you shoud, I don't know, create a game were nazis are the good guys (and even there, just in some countries and has to be explicit, a lot of games normalize nazis like they were just wacky people or soldiers like everyone else and are pretty much ignored).
I think that a lot of things that sometimes are felt like censorship are just aknowledging of problematic aspects of games, but a lot of people have their identity built on the things they like, so every analysis and critiques are seen as personal attacks. People can enjoy problematic things (and really, I do all the time, my avatar is a problematic character like other people noticed), but there is nothing wrong knowing what is problematic. But on internet people behave like they are in a mob, and every high cerebral function is off, so everything as to be a fight.
We, fortunately, live in countries where people can't ask for censorship just because they don't like something, sometimes I think that people just want to have problems that they don't have (and, of course, other people prey on that)

@Wexter [English is not my first language, I don't intend to be disrespectful or caustic and I don't know if something can be misinterpreted, read it as much as plain as possible, I just wanted to give quick responses, I don't want to antagonize]
1. every time someone receives a death treats they post it, really, I have seen comics writer receive it, I can believe, but... where are than? Why post just the response?

2. yeah, so? For every game that was criticized there is a ton that was ignored (just watch the steam releases), and if we talk about censorship we need something more than nl comments

3. Yes, was criticized and survived, noone censored it in 28 years, no lost sales, no boycott, and nothing changed, astonishing

4. I didn't even remember those games, anyway that is probably the excuse, because games like that exists in the west, it's just that haven't sold enough probably

5. Xenoblade 2 was scrutinized and... nothing happened, no boycott, no lost sales, noone cared

6. I study people beaviour and... sometimes it's really awful, and we don't know why

@Clyde_Radcliffe
1. is a game that screams "sex sells" from every pixel with "cyberpunk" in the title that goes out just after another famous "cyperpunk" title, it's just a step above things like "We Party", it's pretty sure is a marketing stunt, because the worst that you can find is something like "it looks horrible"

2. there is a ton of sexualized games out every week, noone bats an eye, really, noone cares, no, noone that talks about censoring games, there are just some people that WANT to believe that things like that are usual, and those people are used to sell games (just see how many people on twitter are posting images after buying a game nobody ever considered until today, and all the comments here, like the one that popped while I was writing this one -_- talking about "liberal mob" and "leftist lunacy", the sellers are just using people bias to make more money)

3. Cammy is sexualized, is one of my favorite character in vg as a whole, but I can't disagree if someone says that, and I can live with that

4. the last DOA was localized, as every other one, what are you talking about? If a game is not localized is just because it does not sell enough

5. even Nintendo publish sexualized games and noone says anything (Xenoblade 2 for example)

6. my point was just that these comments section nowadays look like chan board (and not the funny part of 4chan)

I don't know if is the year, if the success of the Switch is making the fanbase larger, if there is another motive, but every day the comments sections are worst.
Sometimes it feels like a chan board.

Also: is sad to see so much people falling for a marketing stunt just because they need to confirm their own bias

@PcTV yes, they are common, so common that there is even a name for some of them, but the strange thing is that if you have the combination of one "epic" pose and a brokeback pose it's always epic male and brokeback female. This time is the opposite, and it's a nice change.

BTW, european BOTW it's not brokeback pose, that is when the character shows both chest and butt in a usually anatomically impossible pose

I think it's the first image I have ever seen where the female character has the epic pose while the male is doing the brokeback pose, usually Rex and Elma's roles would be reversed.

I'm sure the fact that an always bigger share of the production of videogames is in the hands of a totalitarian dictatorship won't have any negative repercussions on the videogame world (/sarcasm)

@sandman89 same reason for every third (and sometimes fourth) game or any remake or port, it's only about the base games

@Zuljaras
To abuse the bug you need to disconnect at an exact moment, even if you have a bad connection it's impossible to have that in a totally involuntary way too much times, i suppose when the number is statistically impossible to be an accident than they ban you.
Also: you have to hit the power button to use the bug, if Nintendo can see when your console was on, off and on stand by, and they can, they know if you just disconnected or if you shutted down the console.

@Docpipo Fix a bug it's not an instant operation, it may require days of work, in the meantime the will use this solution. Anyway, if cheaters stop to play, well... THAT'S THE POINT.

@Zuljaras IT. IS. NOT. JUST. DISCONNECTING.
It's the same company which did all of this things: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings/Nintendo
What do you expect? They totally hate cheater and will do everything against them. If you don't cheat you don't have anything to fear.

@Zuljaras it's not "disconnecting", it is abuse of a bug, that maybe needs a lot of work to be fixed and won't be done in just some days.
Also Nintendo and Gamefreaks have a long story of punishing cheaters really hard, they want people to know that if you play their games you are safe from scummers.
That strategy was successful until now so I don't think they will change that in the near future.

@Heavyarms55 A lot of people don't understand the fact that even if you see thousands of people complaining it's a very little fraction of the total with number like this. Also: on internet usually the people who hate something are louder than the others.
Probably SwSh is loved by a lot of people, millions of people, but we hear only the 0,1% who complains.
And the devs don't give a s*** about that type of complaining, they look at sales and the data that the consoles send them

@DarkLloyd Marvel vs Capcom 3 had a special server for people who disconnected too often before the end of the match, they can only play against people like themselves

@JayJ @Purgatorium
To abuse the bug you need to disconnect at an exact moment, even if you have a bad connection it's impossible to have that in a totally involuntary way too much times, i suppose when the number is statistically impossible to be an accident than they ban you.
Also: you have to hit the power button to use the bug, if Nintendo can see when your console was on, off and on stand by, and they can, they know if you just disconnected or if you shutted down the console.

@nessisonett
It's like they don't want to hear that all of their privileges come from stealing

I love the podcast

So, it's for a lot of european countries but not for Italy.
Guess where I live...

@Tasuki Politics belong everywhere, it's the way to decide how to live our life, it influences everything, from what you eat for breakfast to the death of peoples. And once is in you can't take it out anymore, because just saying "stop politics here" is a political stance too.

OMG! The first videogame i remember playing, I can't miss it, even if I usual avoid nostalgic shopping

LOL, the angry comments

It's the third time they announce Puzzle Bobble -_-
Anyway, Kizuna Encounter is the rarest game on the Neo Geo, so I'm curious to try it

I bought all the KOF available on the Switch, please give me more.
I suppose that 2002 and 2003 will be make available by Hamster, but it would be good to see even XI, XII, XIII and XIV

Wishlist:

• Xenoblade 1 on Switch in HD;
• Xenoblade X2;
• Xenoblade 3;
• Xenosaga on Switch;
• Something New

Metal Slug 4 and Real Bout 2 for me!