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Re: Game Freak's Secret Best Game Is No Longer 3DS Exclusive

DashKappei

GF’s best game uh? Pj is awesome but it’s no HARMOKNIGHT please port (and give it some score based online leaderboards while at it)!

Also, ugh, AA exclusivity means that if it’ll ever come it’ll be 6 months/1 year from now… IF (even TEMBO was never ported to a Nintendo console and that one’s also great!)

Re: Ys X: Nordics Announced For Nintendo Switch, Launching In 2023

DashKappei

@shake_zula look again, there are proper links to Gematsu and the article. In fact, you can say NL articles might have their own issues but if there’s one thing the NL staff have always done well and never failed to provide is to give proper credit to og sources. Unless those links weren’t there before (but at least it was swiftly corrected, if that was the case)?

Re: Class-Action Lawsuit Claims Epic Games Knowingly Made Fortnite "Very, Very Addictive"

DashKappei

@Ryu_Niiyama it wasn’t about addiction, it was about gambling and ties to the mob (lol). For Pinball, Sharpe (one of the best pinball players and designers of all time) had to demonstrate, by playing a game of pinball how it was a game of skill and not a game of luck.

Edit: here’s one of many articles:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/8gdwn3/tracing-the-history-of-pinball-from-illegal-gambling-to-mac-demarco-195

Re: Class-Action Lawsuit Claims Epic Games Knowingly Made Fortnite "Very, Very Addictive"

DashKappei

Everyone saying bad parents and dismissing Epic being at fault, both statements can be true you know? The parents surely have failed intervening to help their kids and at the same time the game can be made to purposefully be addictive, and to children in particular. Nowadays there are many many games built on the same predatory allure and features that casinos and gambling venues/products have, hiring people with tailored toolsets and knowhow on how to build an addictive interaction which is going to be much more effective on the youngest.

Re: Review: Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration - A Painstaking Love Letter To Gaming's Pioneers

DashKappei

@Teksetter Unfortunately those you’ve mentioned are either 3rd party or made by Atari Games and not “Atari”, so different licensing. I mean, no Paperboy, and especially Marble Madness… tho without a trackball I wouldn’t see myself enjoying it anyway.

I wish there were controller-add ons on Switch like there were on NDS, I LOVED playing Arkanoid, Puzzle Bubble, Space Invaders Extreme with the spinner (paddle) controller add-on. Playing Missile Command, Tempest, Breakout and such with a joystick… bleargh.

Re: Review: Sifu - Sloclap's Kung-Fu Epic Revives Itself On Switch

DashKappei

I have to say that the COMPLETE lack of shadows is pretty jarring, especially for an 3rd person action game, gives a bad disconnect between the game world and its characters.

Too bad they had to get rid of all of them and still the game has significant framerate issues in portable mode. I wonder if it hits 720p in portable mode because I’d personally prefer a softier 600p but locked 30fps, bare minimum for an action game like SIFU.

Hopefully there are is a patch coming to improve on the game’s performance.

Re: Mini Review: Sophstar - A Solid Shmup Bursting With Originality

DashKappei

@Tom-Massey when reviewing a shmup or any score-based game really, for the love of god PLEASE MENTION IF THERE ARE ONLINE LEADERBOARDS.

It says nothing on the eShop’s blurb, as many pubs fail to mention, but a review? It’s frankly important information for the kind of audience that is interested in these games.

Re: Nintendo Download: 27th October (North America)

DashKappei

@HolyGeez03 it’s also developed by Pasta Games (Pix the cat, Rayman Jungle Run, Maestro Jump ‘n Music) so it’s got some pedigree behind.

I wish Siesta Fiesta was ported to Switch, that game is great and definitely in the top 3 of best 3DS eShop exclusive games

Re: Bayonetta's OG Voice Actor Responds To Online Backlash In Ongoing Dispute

DashKappei

@PinderSchloss Really now? She actively and repeatedly called for boycott on the game, based on her lies and misleading on purpose. hurting hundreds of people who worked on B3.

I’d say she’s done plenty.

@nocdaes please just stop it with that nonsense

@tober to be fair, good luck trying to buy Platinum for just $45M, but Insomniac was bought by Sony for $229M, so…

Re: Atari Anniversary Collection Full List Of Games Possibly Revealed In Retailer Leak

DashKappei

I get why there’s no Pitfall or H.E.R.O. or Jungle King (much prefer it to Pirate Pete and its awful music) but I didn’t know they didn’t have rights to Atari Games so no Paperboy (nor did I know its righrs were of Midway apparantely) as well as no KLAX, no Marble Madness, etc.

30 versions of Asteroids and Breakout… I’m one that would always go for the arcade (or “best”) version of any game (when the home version is a simple downport), so I don’t see the appeal of playing an arcade game on 2600, but nostalgia hits everybody differently I guess so I get it

Re: Video: Here's What Mario's Movie Voice Sounds Like In Other Languages

DashKappei

French is great. Spanish Bowser is awesome but Toad is terrible as is Mario.
German’s cool.

Italian’s is awful. As expected.

How the mighty have fallen, what was once the best voice acting “school” in the world is now in shambles (well, it’s been going downhill since all the great voice actors of the ‘70s/80s are now dead or retired). Still not as bad as Spanish dubs but still awful.