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@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.

I realize I'm in the minority, but all the life sim stuff is why I gave up on Fire Emblem. I thought Awakening had an OK balance, but I gave up on Fates halfway through because it was so omnipresent and NECESSARY. The harder modes weren't hard because you needed better tactics, but because you needed to manage your relationships better and cook better foods and... no thanks. I didn't even bother with Three Houses.

Engage ditches social stuff and focuses more on battles? Maybe I should give it a chance.

As of my vote, 754-754, wow.

NA/Japan for me. Europe's is good looking, but also fairly generic. Could be any RPG.

How can the cover of Monkey BALL not have BALLS. Europe fail.

@HolyGeez03 Lemon laws protect against defects that exist at the time of sale and let you return the car and get your money back. They don't cover parts of the car wearing down over time. That's what warranties are for, but the scope of a warranty is defined by the purchase contract. To go back to the car metaphor, different manufacturers offer you different lengths of miles/years on different parts of the car. After your warranty expires, you don't get to sue when things wear out.

Good time for a reminder that it's not illegal to sell a low-quality product. There's no law that says how long a controller should last.

@KoopaTheGamer Not just wirelessly. Mine can't figure out how to connect even when they are physically attached to the Switch.

I've hated the joycons since about Day 2. Far too small to play on a single one for more than about 4 minutes. Not comfortable when attached to the Switch even. I don't have large hands, either.

Then of course, the drift started and nonsensical connection issues keep occurring. Nooooo thank you.

Well that's incoherent.

I have very average size hands (although skinny fingers) and I still find the joycons (attached or not) extremely uncomfortable.

Sounds really preachy, wow. I don't think I want lectures in my 4x game.

What a stupid thing to make criminal, wow.

Is "range" a particular UK term? I would expect "line" or something else there.

Woah woah woah this is some BS. First, as I've explained before, it's highly unlikely the emulators themselves are illegal copyright infringements, for the same reason that tape recorders survived legal challenges at the US Supreme Court. Second, even if they are illegal, Section 230 prevents Discord from being held liable for any potentially illegal communications posted by other people. Third, discussion of illegal activity itself is generally constitutionally protected, with the primary exception being inciting imminent lawless behavior.

Now, Discord is within its legal rights to take these channels down, none of what I've explained protects the creators against Discord. But Discord is nearly bulletproof from any legal claims by Nintendo so it's upsetting to see them cave like this.

For everybody here hating on zero-hour contracts, ask yourselves what the alternative is. Because the realty is that the alternative is not having a job at all. Here at least the employee has some opportunity for performing paid work without having to apply and be hired. And in the meantime they can still do other work and they're free to quit completely. It's not a great situation, no, but it's better than just losing their job completely.

Spiritfarer meets Flame in the Flood meets... random tactical RPG thrown in? I guess?

@-wc- The game itself yucked my yum, I'm just sharing my experiences I never buy into this idea that you shouldn't criticize things other people like. I don't look down on anybody who likes the game. I did too, for a short time.

I bet in a week people will be regretting this score and shaking their head that they thought this could be GOTY. This game does not have staying power. It gets old and repetitive real fast. It's just a big number cruncher, the goals of what you're trying to do are very limited.

Plus I think the devs seriously goofed in balancing straights and flushes. In traditional poker, a flush is harder to make than a straight, so is a higher-ranking hand. The devs ported that over without much thought to this game, ignoring that it is WAY easier to build your deck to make it easier to create flushes instead of straights (1 - lots of ways to change suits; 2 - wild cards for suits but not ranks; 3 - removing one card makes a flush easier but not a straight)

They aren't exactly the same, of course, but when home video recorders came out, there were big legal fights claiming that the manufacturers of these technologies were responsible for any copyright violations committed by their owners (e.g., recording and distributing/selling TV shows and movies). It went all the way to the US supreme court, which held that the VCR company was NOT violating copyright. Key to that ruling was that there were legal uses of the copying technology. Specifically, fair use generally permits creating an archival/backup copy of something you own or have a license to use for your own purposes.

Analogizing here, Yuzu is like the VCR. It enables infringements of copyright, but I would argue it itself is not committing any copyright infringements. You have the right to a copy of a game you own, for your own use, to protect against degradation/loss (however, you should not be distributing the copy and if you transfer the original to someone else you can't keep the copy).

Nintendo feels they have an argument around that. I'll admit I don't know really what they mean by ""accessed Switch games from a hacked unit and made copies of games." Maybe that's enough different and an infringement by itself.

Pocket Jockey was the last game I bought on the 3DS eshop. It's super fun!

@Ralizah But real time instead of turn based? I guess? It seems weirdly slow...

And this was some impressive work!

"gelato" actually looks like "gelato"

@EarthboundBenjy (also on the TG-CD)

Great, another tactical RPG that shoehorns in a million things besides tactical battles.

So this is going to be on the top of the NL feed every day, isn't it? Is that really necessary to "report" that the next free crappy game is available?

This game was originally announced on (or at least reported on) April 1, so I had always thought it was an April Fool's joke until I actually saw it on the eshop.

How do you get the DLC since the Eshop is closed?