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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?

I had the opposite experience. A fair length into TOTK I had gotten bored and was googling things and looking forward to when I had finished it and could set it aside. After BOTW it felt stale. The world felt smaller somehow.

@NinjaNicky Consoles have some amount of auto-aim to compensate.

Oh this is so much more fun than it's been in awhile. Everything's a little sparser, resources are more scarce, and most importantly, weapons are simpler and not as good! Spreads are larger, it all takes a little more skill.

@Dom_31 Which is 100% why I turned it to Japanese.

I really liked Purah and wish she played a bigger role throughout the game and not just at the beginning.

But is it fun to play? Seriously, we play games where we do things that would be absolutely horrendous both legally and morally ALL THE ***** TIME. We don't need moralizing.

I dunno, Japan's is super washed out and Europe looks like so many other covers.

584 votes still 50/50.

I agree both are pretty bad, but NA's is so boring. I have no idea what this game is going to be.

Japan's is weeeeird. Combination of three distinct styles (pixel, smooth cartoon, and... I guess a magazine ad? Yuck.

@aresius Generally you're correct, but it's possible that the original contract permitted changes like this in the future. Or it didn't cover past installs originally, which fees are a condition for continued use of Unity products. Or something else. Lawyers are very good at doing things like this, and I expect that they've taken into consideration the general rule you identify and have, if not a rock-solid argument, an argument with a reasonable likelihood of success.

It's a remarkably different take than when writers et. al ask for more money for work they've already done in the past.

But it does seem amazingly short sighted. I predict this will backfire horribly (which I would've predicted even before I saw developers threatening to stop doing business with them)

He's already bad at it.

Really? Japan is so busy. And everything mushes together. And "put all your characters in an overlapping pile" is so overdone. Yech.

@Princess_Lilly

HM64 - 1999. Fortnite - 2017. So 18 years apart (Goat_FromBTW did not say 20 years ago, they say 20 years later than Fortnite).

@Balladeer Agreed, my daughter and I just loved it!

Were they going to charge for it on Steam or would it have been free?

@Expa0 I had the same thought, with the single character "floating" on a piece of ground on the right.

Huh, I'm in the clear minority here, but I think Europe is much too busy. I like cleaner presentations.

Motion controls are like the FLUDD. A fun novelty that shouldn't be the core function of any game.

I don't like any of them. That long white silhouette is weeeird.

I dunno, the Europe/Japan is very cliched I feel. NA is more interesting & unique

Tara Reid is in Pokemon?

In pretty much any context, scripted attempts to recreate people muttering to themselves while doing something never come across sounding realistic.

1 - Dang I loved BOTW's story.
2 - Neat idea to have a recap like this
3 - Can we have whoever did the VO for this recap switch places with the Zelda VA?

As much as I love Princess Zelda in a couple of the games, in most of them she has little to no personality (or presence). I went with Bowser

Gives me Spiritfarer vibes.