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@Ralizah Not according to Wikipedia at least. He also worked on P5/Royal and several spin-off's / remakes.
Now, he rarely worked alone and i can't say how much influence he has on the overall direction, but there is a good chance that things may change from hereon out.

How is Sin & Punishment's mapping a "control issue"? O.o
It now plays like a modern shooter, just that you move with the D-Pad (since you only move left/right anyways).
I fail to see an issue here...

"Moooooom? Can i have 50 bucks? I want my character to look like a character from a game way out of my age rating! Mooooooom!"

Is the MLK stuff still going on?
RE5 Chris skins during that event would be unintentionally ironic...

Finally, harassment defeated!
ActiBlizz is such a joke of a company

And onto the blacklist Grasshopper goes. ¯(ツ)/¯
A shame, really.

8 times where i had no idea what i actually read and why.
Number 6 will make you go "What? No way!"

The raw number of hours from start to finish is irrelevant.
Replay value is king.
Let's take Devil May Cry. About 6-8 hours from A to B.
On paper it's a bit on the short side.

But then you have difficulty modes that change more than just numbers, unlockables, NG+, different costumes (with functions) etc.
Even a simple score mode can go a long way, DOOM (2016)'s Arcade Mode comes to mind.

I don't care about the raw A to B playtime as much as i care about how replayable a game is.

@Lyricana Oh really? I guess @MegaVel91 was right on the money then that journos just now picked it up that Dread is creating more clicks. Thanks for the headsup! I'll look into it.

And yes, if these allegation hold water, i'm with you.
It would be beneficial for them to get swallowed by Nintendo, keeping the obvious talent of the actual devs and restructuring their leadership.

@MegaVel91 Sure, i can absolutely see that.
Like i said, i'm not questioning any of these statements whatsoever. I just find the timing of it all very coincidental.

While not necessarily questioning any of these testimonials, i find it mightily coincidental that all these allegations surface after they released a critically acclaimed title, despite having worked with big IP's for over a decade now, but never causing quite that ruckus. Do the studio was known and present in the mainstream.
Just food for thought i guess.

@sunny63 Yup, and i really tried to like the game (great coffee break ARPG), but its frame-pacing issues genuinely give me headaches and it constantly crashes.
Most i've manages to play without a crash was one and a half level.
As for internet connection, it's the same with Minecraft, it can take several minutes to connect to the MS servers.

So yeah, the port is pretty shoddy

But does it get playable?
I usually gave each patch a shot and was met with increasingly worse connection issues, headache inducing stuttering and constant hard crashes. I eventually gave up on it.
Does anyone know of things have changed (on Switch)?

The...storage capacity?
So, instead of slapping a big warning on the store page, saying "Requires SD card this big", they went with hosting the game on a streaming server farm instead?
What?
Of all the weird excuses...

Personally, i'd be perfectly OK with doubling the price if it would "guarantee" expansion of the service in the future.
Or rather, a slightly faster expansion than now.

But why bundle AC DLC to it? O.o
I mean, sure, the AC crowd is the prime target for Nintendo Online...but they don't strike me as the prime demographic for retro games.
This bundle seems to have something either core demographic doesn't care about all that much...

Weird move.

They could always make their own, creative new pokemon!
Like Pikachu 2, Meowth DX or Caterpie - Fighter Mode.
And with 0,000038% drop chances per 50 bucks draw, they create a lot of play time!

Genuinely never found any use for the map markers since the games map is already so obsessed with being as detailed as it can.
I mean, it automatically records uncovered special blocks on its own...

Blut glad they're working on it

@BloodNinja The interesting thing is, i've exclusively met folks who like either one or the other, never both

Personally, i lean more towards Silvergun, i enjoy its more colorful presentation more, but i find both to be too "puzzly".
It's just way too much routing for my taste ^^
Great games though, when they click.

@BloodNinja Radiant Silvergun probably takes more memorization than R-Type does.
To be effective at it, you not only need to know each weapon combo by heart, you also need to know when to use what as to level it up properly.
It's completely bonkers and needlessly complex.
Great, but probably one of the more casual play unfriendly Shmups out there

It's not the first time i heard of that exact situation happen.
Is this some kind of unwritten, unspoken industry rule thingy not to credit people not in the team at reaching gold status?

Ok, that hard edged square tiling looks ridiculously bad in 3D...

"Unable to" is always a very bad position to put yourself into.
Especially when it comes to things others have already done.
Divinity OS2 for instance had no issues integrating their cross-save functionality.

This does sound like Capcom either thinks it's not financially viable enough to support save transfer servers for a handful of double dippers (If i remember correctly, they even encouraged people to show support for that feature, so it probably didn't create the resonance they expected) or they genuinely messed up something and truly can't import the save file to another system...
Personally, i place my bets on the former:
The switch version had a bombastic start. It's a game that was always strongest on a handheld.
Maybe they just don't see the potential of enough double dippers to warrant the server costs.

@Anti-Matter Maybe it gets there once it's on a platform that actually exists :/

What exactly is the news here?
"Switch emulator plays switch games" surely can't be news, even if its a new game...

Is it that they could rip the ROM?
Again, how's that news? If the community found a way to do it, it's nearly impossible to stop it from happening.
Ask Sony and their futile struggles to combat PSP CFW's.

Or is this yet another setup article with the inevitable followup "Nintendo took legal actions against XYZ"?
I don't get it...

After having played it now...no, i don't think i can bring myself to agree.
After just an hour, i was genuinely contemplating to just quit it.
It controls like a hokey puck on a soaped ice field and i just can't deal with it...
It sucks out any and all enjoyment from it for me.

Man, Classic Speedrun Samus is almost George Kamitani buff :3
She makes the Power Suit look like a limiter rather than an enhancement xD

Just got it and...i kinda don't like it at all so far...
The control is godawful, the EMMI sections are annoying and the muted palette and screen effects make it hard for me to see some things (Eye condition, 99% sure it's a me problem).

So yeah...i'm barely in and i already need to force myself to continue...

@Tourtus That's the beauty of Kingdom Hearts.
The answer is yes, no, maybe, potentially, most definitely and absolutely not, all at the same time and depending on the weekday!
In short:
KH canon only lasts from one game to the next. Best not to think too much about it.

Even if i wanted to i couldn't, since our government still thinks the internet is a fad that will go away soon.
Still, "Cloud Gaming" is a ridiculous concept if you ask me.

You are expected to pay ridiculous sums to play a product you don't own at all and where it's consumption are entirely dependent on outside factors.
Payed 60 bucks for your stream game? Oh look, construction outside knocked the landline out. What's that? Power outage at the distribution node? Oh, peaking traffic in your cluster?

For me, it's a bit like investing money in f2p games.
Why spend money on something you know for sure will eventually vanish for good.

Even purely digital games can be preserved and freed of their DRM (if they had any). My NES cartridges still work 30 years later.
I'm not paying premium prices for hot air.

@Muddy_4_Ever While they are certainly no twitch reaction games like, say, Ninja Gaiden, i'd say that they have a few battles that would be rather annoying with lag.
Especially KH2 with its reliance on its reaction / counter system.

@wuntyme8 Only thing to note is that the FF Pixel Remasters didn't include FF4 After Years, because the games are based on the first release of each individual title, so NES for 1-3, SNES for the other 3. So that rules out everything else.

But yeah, generally on point...hurtfully so...

Not even having spirits of Donald and Goofy is probably a good indicator of what licensing hell this character has sent the team through.

@twadebarcelona The irony is, you could take your Steam library with you soon...but it's EGS exclusive :^)

And sure, the upcomming Steam Deck can "sideload" any game, but it makes it more difficult to configure it properly to said handheld.
So even this handheld option is messy

@Specter_of-the_OLED Among other things, yes...
Their decisions are sometimes incredibly weird.
Especially as a company holding several IP's strong enough to sell blindly by name only.

For me, this nonsense is a hard pass.
Even on a good day, under clinical conditions, our infrastructure barely reaches the minimum required lower bandwidth limit.
And since our government never showed any interest in replacing our old copper phone lines with anything more modern, cloud solutions are just out of the question in general.

Oh god no...we'll never hear the end of it now...
I actually would have cared a lot more before the KH series itself went up in flames :/

Oh well, could have been worse.

>PC ports EGS exclusive
>Switch cloud versions of PS3 games

Square really is the entire circus...

@Daniel36 That's your takeaway from the trailer? Really?
But i'm glad the giant eye bats and lizard men are anatomically and physically correct.
Maybe, just maybe, it's you staring at boobs and butts too much and not the games fault, just a hunch though...

Do me a favor and mention if it has a dedicated music volume slider in the review because heavens help, what is this cacophony of noise?!

White, as the black theme, while easier on the eye overall, lacks vital contrast to be more readable for me.

Ok, i think need an NL break again.
It's getting more and more soap-boxy in here and now there are borderline advertisements for campaigns of what can only be described as lunatics.

It's starting to look like its initial reveal was either a massive miscommunication or a botched marketing ploy.
Either way, it's starting to create somewhat negative PR.

The more i see it, the less i want to actually play it.
There is something about this art style that really really turns me off. And negatives all gameplay related...nah, pass.

@Moistnado It's less about "simulating the arcades" and more about that using the entire width of the screen would break the whole game concept ^^

There are plenty of modern Shmups who do that and it works fine, but you need to approach them quite differently.
A classic Shmup really needs this narrow format to work ^^

@MJ1200 @BadWaluigi
Ayup, that's exactly the point. It pretty much corrupts their entire review credibility, as you can no longer rule out that they are playing any kind of favoritism here.

Like i initially said, good on them for at least saying so, but by doing it, it put every other review under scrutiny.
It sure is an interesting hill to die on.

Not reviewing a released game because it's utterly broken and want to wait til it's fixed?
At least you were honest enough to tell but geeze, who gets to decide which games get this benefit in the future?

A game releasing unplayable is no excuse to postpone a review, it's the reason to write one.
It not only tells customers about the game itself, but the devs attitude towards polishing their product as well.

I'm eager to see what indies will get this "benefit of the doubt" in the future.

So that's where Netflix gets their casting ideas from!

Leon and Claire are a miscast if you ask me.
Though i have to say, they would make for a great Luis Sera and Helena Harper respectively!

Chris and Jill look pretty good, the bloke has a biceps as big as my thigh, so that checks out xD

What little i can see of Barry looks ok. Costume is great, but he looks a little young.

Not sure if the bloke with the buzzcut is supposed to be Wesker. If so, it's the only one who completely misses the mark then.

The monster design is simple yet on point as well.
The mask looks a bit too clean, but that's a nitpick.

What little set we can see also looks pretty good.
I think their pick for Leon (and presumably Wesker) is the only one that really sticks out as wrong, yet not offensively so.
But part of Leons character design is his baby face, the "innocent rookie", so he could have used a clean shave at least.

But we've seen SO much worse, this looks pretty promising actually. The costume design looks to be incredibly faithful!

@MegaVel91 Let's say it would contain something about one of the greatest videogame franchises, smartphone junk and some rather flowery language concerning West-Taiwan.

There is little i can say here that stays within the TOS...

@JasmineDragon Well, we agree to disagree, so we did find some consensus
And that's the thing: I have my point of view and opinions and i like to voice them and challenge others.
But i'm no crusader, i'm not here to convert anyone

You think it's silly, i think it's silly to think it's silly...and that's it really ^^
Civil discussions are the shinies of the internet (Look! A videogame segue!)

Also, this discussion got me to pick up Hollow Knight again (It's soundscape is just out of this world), so thank you for that

@JasmineDragon
Just a question, since you mentioned geekery and we're on a gaming site:

Would you also say it's silly to use groupings like "NES Era games"? Because no matter how "retraux" a game like Shovel Knight is, games made in that era will always feel different due to being bound to their times limitations.

And many people feel the same about music.
Prog-Rock, as a genre, still exists today.
But t never sounded like it did in its golden age, the 70's ever again.

This does not mean that today's prog is in any way worse. far from it. But you can cut out this decade and it will always sound distinctive, no matter the genre.

And before the lockdown killed everything, i could have shown you at least 4 stores around here, 2 enthusiast vinyl stores, one dedicated more modern music store and an electronics supermarket who divided everything by decade > genre > artist

Most divided the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's and modern, stopping decade groupings after that simply because there just isn't enough demand (according to one of the enthusiast store owners)