FantasiaWHT

On the one hand, one example is not data.

On the other hand, there's a lot of people commenting on this thread who think their social media bubble is representative of reality.

@OpheliaDynamight This is how I feel about it, too. Yes, it hurts some people pretty hard in the short term, but in the long term it's just part of technological progress and overall will be a positive thing.

I don't care if something is made by AI or not just like I don't care if animation is hand-drawn or computer generated or not. I care if it's good.

Yeah both are weak. Japan's is boring, NA looks like a magazine advert instead of a game cover.

"Something else entirely" * emulation * cough * cough *

Oh, are you not allowed to use that word?

I mean of course it is, look at the picture at the top of the article, there's a pikmin right there

#1 - Parody is the quintessential example of fair use
#2 - Human beings also learn to create art by studying vast quantities of other copyrighted art
#3 - Might as well sue the pen manufacturer somebody used to draw Pikachu on their notebook.

@Debo626 I had the same question. Young Adult? "Yeah"? YAbba-dabba-do?

I played the crap out of this on 3DS. Might be interested, but would really rather see a new game.

<company whines that competitor delivers better goods at lower prices>

Boo hoo?

Just found this from the other article about DD2. The comment above about FE games becoming bloated is dead on point. I've really disliked the latest entries. Might look into this one and its sequel.

Over at CTRL-ALT-DEL comics, they whined and moaned about how unfair the Silksong publishers were being by giving so little warning, which "made" other games change their release dates. Good grief. One business has no obligation to make things easier for their competitors.

Still, thanks for taking a minute to highlight these! I'll be looking into Dark Deity 2 (maybe there's Japanese VAs? The English ones are pretty corny. They Japanese ones might be too, but I couldn't tell). Also Fling to the Finish! Been looking for something light to play with my daughter.

@JohnnyMind I was wondering about parallels to Baba Is You. Thanks for confirmation!

But these games were soooo bad haha.

And people were complaining about that Elliott game's title from the Direct?

Elliot = Secret of Mana, anybody else? Pacing feels similar, coop play

Also: "How can we make this game stand out?" "I know, let's come up with YET ANOTHER WAY to spell... let's make it "Faie" this time!"

Hela good!

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NA isn't anything special but wow is that Europe cover trash.

The best solution is not to demand features you haven't paid for, but to not buy games that don't guarantee you an offline experience - if that's what you care about. You spent your money on a game that didn't have a feature you want, don't go crying to the government demanding you get something you didn't pay for.

Pixel art retro is one thing, but I have zero desire to relive the early 3D days of PS1 and N64.

I'm way in the minority here, but to my eye the NA version is way too busy & chaotic and makes less sense the more I look at it. Japan is cleaner and I really like the wire frames. I'll admit the sharp cutoff between the scene and the diagrams is too severe though.

Even with a graph showing me exactly when it's happening, I still can't tell the difference between 30 fps and 60 fps

I love to play games with a mouse! I don't like to play games with something 1/4 the size of a normal mouse, not shaped like a mouse, with buttons not placed like a mouse. Just I like I don't playing with a controller... that's 1/8 the size of a normal controller, not shaped like a controller, with buttons not placed like a controller.

So, can I just connect a normal mouse to the Switch 2?

@Polvasti Reporting is only one example of fair use. There are many others, including some commercial uses.

@Polvasti Commercial use is relevant, but not determinative, of the question of fair use. Many fair uses can be monetized. This site uses images of Nintendo products and Nintendo games. I don't know if it profits or not, but if they're monetizing ads or other revenue streams, it's still a commercial use and it's still OK. Like I said I don't know exactly how far this service's use goes but it should be within the realm of possibility to make a dating site for people who enjoy Smash Bros. that still uses a (limited amount) of the names, images, logos, etc.

@FantasiaWHT To use an obvious example, this site survives by almost exclusively talking about and promoting itself to fans of Nintendo.

Hm, I'd have to have more details, but this really seems likely to be fair use, both of copyright and/or trademark. As long as they're not trying to make it seem like it's being run by, sponsored by, or approved by Nintendo itself, you're allowed to talk about an IP, gather together fellow fans of the IP, etc.

"The biggest takeaway" is that they're good at jargon that doesn't actually mean anything.

Lol that's not how trademark works. You can't violate a trademark by talking about something, showing pictures of it, reporting on it, etc. You violate a trademark by trying to make your own version and passing it off as your own to sell it. It's closer to a trade secrets violation.

@StewdaMegaManNerd It might, yeah. It's always a balancing act - will this alienate too many people such that the increased sales aren't worth it.

@cvrator I worked at an EB Games when PS2 came out (college job). We definitely sold people on "that's not much more than you'd pay for a standalone DVD player".

It's fine. There's so much demand for the product that they likely can find enough buyers willing to pay for a bundle. There's people willing to pay way over market price just to get the console itself (from resellers), so why should retailers be hamstrung? For that same price the reseller is charging, you can get the console plus games/accessories from the retailer.

Manufacturers force them to sell at a particular price (ahem, vertical antitrust problem, anyone?), selling a bundle is one way they can compete and actually make money (since the consoles sell for little, if any, markup).

Where's the option for "What's Nintendo Today?" Never heard of it.

" By and large, the scripts are the same, with those less-timely jokes removed,"

Ok, more honest people, just how hard did the PC crowd hit this one? Is Kyle still permitted to be a misogynist or is he watered down?

Agreed, this is Switch 1.5. It's not inherently bad, but it's very unlike Nintendo to do something this derivative rather than innovative.

every time this article pops up

Ooh Imma play Shining Force I & II again.

No, but I noticed that you shut off comments on the article about how Trump's tariffs are negatively affecting something the vast majority of us readers are really interested in.

NL shut off comments on the Trump tariff article. What are we coming to?

@Jayenkai Both of those are good comparisons. And one of my first thoughts was "What if you put the left joycon in your right hand and vice versa, could you hold it like an ergonomic mouse to access the buttons better?" Or you could flip it around maybe.

Seems like a less-than-ideal gimmick, just like the detachable joy cons in the first place. Those things are incredibly uncomfortable to play with for more than 5 minutes, and after the initial "oh neat, look kid, we can set the Switch propped up on a table and both play", I never used it that way again.

The pearl clutching and outrage just makes me laugh. Video games are a luxury, people. If you don't like the price, don't buy it, and move on. Stop pretending that it's some kind of personal offense that things are getting more expensive.

New Horizons is so good! Such a fun open world pirate game. Played a ton of it, but never got around to doing much in the story, hah.

@Tyranexx Yeah I watched a few episodes, it was pretty bad.

"this is not the first time we've heard about Nintendo's slow reaction times to complaints like these."

Um, you are presenting zero information about how long this process is taking. Did the dev make this complaint a day ago? A week ago? A month ago?

Wow, I hated this so much. Annoying characters, terrible writing, every cliche in the world packed into the first 5 minutes. The game HAS NO MENU. At least not early in the prologue, once you start the gameplay, you have no way to quit the game without doing so from Windows, there's no way to change settings, etc. Ridiculous. Dialogue can be skipped completely but it can't be sped up/advanced.

I intentionally picked the cliched "No, I don't want to save the world" option at the first opportunity to get the game over screen so I could quit. NOPE. Dropped me right back in to the same decision point, still with no menu.

No thanks.

It's just a fancy way of raising prices slightly. Just like when they were implemented, it was a fancy way of lowering prices slightly. Take a deep breath everybody, it will be OK.

@Coolmusic I was trying to remember the name of Little Nightmares, because it reminded me of that game too