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@larryisaman You care enough to take the time to comment

Echoes was pretty good, not great. Very easy - a good entry point for younger players. Definitely engaging at first, and when you found a new echo that did something significantly different than what you had previously it was fun to find new uses for it. But it didn't need nearly as many echoes as it gave you, which gummed up your list of echoes and made parts of the game a chore.

@LuXifer "Emulators are in practise legal, both to make and distribute. But the moment Nintendo can prove that the distributor makes even a single cent of what they perceive as their property, either directly or indirectly, they're out of luck."

Not quite. They are in practice absolutely legal, regardless of whether you make money on them or not. The only thing whether you make money or not changes is how willing Nintendo is to go out and bully you into stopping with hollow threats.

It does not violate copyright to create a machine or other technology that is CAPABLE of violating a copyright (among other, legal, uses). Xerox isn't liable each time somebody illegally uses their machine to copy an entire book or magazine.

Ugh, this is so frustrating. I know the legal battles are expensive, but there's no way Nintendo wins a copyright infringement lawsuit in America against an emulator. It's the exact same issue as the video recording machine fight in the 1980's. Yes, the technology CAN be used to do illegal things, but that doesn't make the creator liable for those illegal things, especially when there are perfectly legal things you can do with the same technology.

I wish Elon Musk or somebody would stand up and fund this sort of fight back.

I didn't like it nearly as much as #1. I liked the more relaxed approach of the first one, I found the dark areas stressful and unfun.

But they didn't spend a lot of time on it. They imported it straight from TOTK.

@-wc- Turtles all the way down!

@Ogbert Yeah, I know that's what they said but I don't particularly believe them lol. I think they're retconning, and my evidence is the existence of the last used sort.

@GravyThief That's actually one of my favorite things about the game. I was disappointed that they so quickly give you traditional combat back (albeit on a limited basis). I avoid using it as much as possible.

@Ogbert "Allowing you to set favourites is encouraging you to use the same echoes you already know to solve each puzzle in a way you've done before"

I don't really buy that. If that were the case, then they wouldn't have the sort function of "last used".

This is very speculative, but I get the feeling Nintendo's gotten a little too used to people just rolling over when sued or threatened with suit. They think a patent for riding animals in a video game will hold up?

Is this related to the recent news about a variety of black-colored kitchen objects having problems?

It's all about the money, and that's OK. Money isn't evil. Money is a brilliant and necessary invention as it's a far superior medium of exchange than barter, favors, or relying on the kindness of strangers.

I'd rather know the most popular characters to play with than the results of a poll.

I really hope all this is complete baloney. Nintendo has never done such a tiny iteration from one console to the next. Every time has been something very different.

Is it an animation issue? The stills don't seem bad.

@-wc- Yeah, I should have said "lately". I played some of those as a kid.

That's really too bad. Looney Tunes is a great IP that doesn't have that much video game exposure yet.

Wonderful! I love these games so much. Was first introduced to them on PS1, eventually scrounged for the Sega CD versions to play later. Also played the GBA one.

When this was announced I was convinced it was an April Fool's joke.

Interesting. Something I'd definitely want to try a demo for first.

Very curious to see the grounds for alleged patent infringement rather than copyright. Did a few searches and couldn't find anything easily.

You can't patent game rules/mechanics. Hence the million Scrabble clones (though you can't use that name, which is copyrighted and trademarked).

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Technically Phantasy Star Online New Genesis 2 is a thing. But yeah, a real return to the franchise would be amazing!

I played the Emio demo. Wow that was unpleasant. "Here's 5 options with several suboptions for most of them. Keep trying them all until something advances the story." No thanks.

@Arehexes It's even worse than that. All the screaming about "scraping" others' content to generate AI ignores that this is exactly what humans have done forever. We all read other content and use it to inform our own writings. Composers all listened to other music and got ideas. Artists all looked at other visual works for inspiration.

It's how progress happens.

@RupeeClock Why on earth is that alarming? It's fantastic. It allows all of us to be far more creative. It gives people tools to do more than they ever could do previously. These are great things for progress.

The whole furor is the same thing that happens with any new technology. Woe unto the buggy whip manufacturers when the auto-mobile becomes common.

On the voice issue specifically, people have been hiring sound-alikes FOREVER. It's not illegal to do an impression (it would be illegal to explicitly state that the voice is somebody it's not). Doing an impression is a talent - if you tell people they can't do that, it's harming them. Developing and using an AI to do an impression is also a talent - if you tell people they can't do that, it's harming THEM.

It's ok. Progress happens, new technologies replace old ones. New skills replace old ones. Take a deep breath and tone down the histrionics.

@nukatha Right? That jumped out to me too. They are the most obviously one-into-the-next games in the series.

Omg Youtube is horrible these days. Farking political ad every 2 minutes.

A little sad they felt the need to turn Zelda into a sword fighting Link during the game. Would have been nicer to keep her unique.

@Nintoz I'd buy that t-shirt!

Missing answer for what I most want to see from Switch 2 - more comfortable to hold - both the whole system and the individual joycons (if they still exist)

#1 - It's also available on Netflix for completely free. I'd imagine a huge portion of people interested in playing or replaying Braid have Netflix
#2 - I don't think it's aged well. It was unique when released but other games have done similar tricks much better.

@Waluigi451 Agreed! Games that let you hand-make your maps are another fantastic use of the concept.

@AlexOlney To the extent AI straight up copies, yes, that's wrong. That's largely not what it's doing, though, which is where your analogy falls apart.

@TenEighty So said the buggy whip manufacturers when the car rolled out.

I think the furor over AI scraping content and using it to inform its own generative content is ridiculously overblown. This is literally what every creative person does. Writers read other books. Composers listen to other music. Artists look at other paintings. Every single one of us uses vast amounts of input of other creative work to inform our own creative processes.

""which also forbids us from listing those titles on our CVs."

Wait, why not? That sounds like baloney. There's no laws or even rules for what you can put on your CV/resume. You did the work, of course you can put it on there. At most, if you really feel the need, add "(uncredited)"

Also, if this is a normal practice, then the reasonable expectation you went into this with was that you would not be credited. That's what happened. Move on.

Last Story, but not Pandora's Tower? Complete the trio!

Linear game structure
Themed elemental dungeons
Key items which open new areas or are required to defeat certain bosses
Side quests and collectibles

This formula first appeared in the original The Legend of Zelda

Um, no? LOZ was not at all linear. There were no themed elemental dungeons. There were no side quests and no collectibles other than heart containers. The only accurate part is that there were key items necessary to get to certain areas and that made bosses a lot easier (maybe a couple were necessary to beat bosses? Not most of them though).

The formula you're talking about first appeared in LttP, and reigned supreme until BotW, which everyone rightly noted was a REVERSION to the original open world formula.

Shake it up! Start with all your powers and every boss you beat you lose one, but you still have to beat the boss.

@Tyranexx Agreed, I hated the EMMI sections. So frustrating and unfair.

@SalvorHardin I want to know what "correctly licensed" means, too. It could be a total ***** claim, or the people not really understanding what they're claiming, or it could be legit and Nintendo screwed up. We have no way of knowing.

Leaving that aside and assuming there wasn't a legitimate license here... No, you can't just create your own sheet music arrangement of somebody else's song and sell it. Even if no sheet music for that song exists. The copyright holder still owns the rights to create derivative works like sheet music.

@the_beaver Last Story, Pandora's Tower, Xenoblade Chronicles...

@nocdaes Agreed, I'd preorder that in a heartbeat.

100% agreed, Rogue Squadron II is just a brilliant game. Holds up really well and I still go back and play it (and think for a brief minute I'll reach gold on each mission this time, hah).

Woah this game is still around? ;p Hype died down real fast after this game came out. checks Twitch 200 whole viewers!

@Tupin I mean why would they when they have you to do it for them

@Tupin How do I know it was unacceptable behavior if nobody will tell me what it actually was?

@Tupin My job also includes telling my clients when they are wrong and should change their behavior or their perspective. Be glad for attorneys willing to do that. I'm also fully aware this site can moderate how it sees fit. Where did you get the idea that I'm claiming they can't? I'm saying their reporting would be better if they would tell us what actually was being said rather than just reporting the developer's reaction to it, and also their moderation makes it impossible to tell just how bad these comments really are. I would suggest they have the option to click to reveal what was written rather than delete it.

I know I'm in the minority, but I've never liked Toriyama. Everybody looks soooo similar. These characters look just like DBZ and just like Chrono Trigger.

Although what the heck is going on with "I*N*C*L*U*D*E*S"? Just why????

The first thing I want to know in an article like this is, "How bad actually is it?" Because when claims like "harassment" are made, I am instinctively skeptical. So many people (especially in government, in my line of legal work as a civil rights & transparency lawyer) exaggerate any criticism they receive to the level of "harassment" that the term nearly loses all meaning. I am constantly telling both my clients and adversaries, "No, that's not harassment."

But the way this story is reported, and the way the comments are "moderated" gives me no idea at all whether this really is nasty ***** behavior or it's being exaggerated.