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This isn't about online or offline play, or about EULA's. It's about the relationship between merchant and customer.

For the last 20 years, companies have chipped away and chipped away and chipped away at their offerings to consumers, and they keep nickel and diming us to death, over and over. It's getting tiresome, and they're participating in anti-competitive practices as well, to make it more difficult for us to "vote with our dollars" or go to a competitor.

It isn't about what is being offered for the money. It's about what's a right and respectful way to treat a customer and what is a wrong and disrespectful way to treat a customer.

I don't think these companies really understand that we are living in a world where they can basically just run roughshod over consumer rights, consumer convenience, and consumer satisfaction, and basically anything belonging to the consumer, and we don't really have any power.

This is not parity, here. They are stomping on our throats, daily, and it is not a situation where consumers feel they have any say in anything, anymore. Stop addressing us like you know how we feel. You don't.

The point of it all is that it is unfair for Nintendo to take your money for a device, and then render that device useless, regardless of the circumstances. You paid for it, it should belong to you, and rendering it unusable is destruction of property.

Nintendo may think that it can do whatever it wants, but that should not be true of any entity, person, or company. Because (pay attention) it is not fair to take someone's money and then destroy the thing they bought from you.

Block online access, sure. But you can't just take away the person's Switch and toss in on the ground. What are you, a four year old child, Nintendo?

Dbrand: "The producers of Dbrand wish it to be known that those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have themselves been sacked. The response to this issue has been completed at great expense in an entirely different style, and at the last minute."

Don’t reply to trolls guys

Just report em

This ain’t 2010

It's not everyday I hear a person from Japan cut straight through the claptrap. Geez. I was already gonna buy it Matsuno-san, you didn't have to go that hard

This reminds me of the German response to "the funniest joke in the world" from Monty Python:

"My dog's got no nose!"
"How does it smell?"
"Awful!"

A: Continue being too poor to afford a Nintendo Switch 2.

I don't mean to pour cold water on anyone's point of view, but...

...Y'know, it's Nintendo. Try telling Nintendo anything.

The name is pretty indicative, tbh

Who wanted this? Who is this for?

Not me, that's who

I'll take a Chrono Trigger Pixel Remaster, I guess 🤷‍♂️

I can't be the only person who misses the original OST of Lunar: The Silver Star for Sega CD. Washing over it with the saccharine new OST was a mistake. I wish they'd have remixed the music from the original instead.

The only thing I really remember is Night Striker having giant words flashing in neon on the whole screen saying "YOU ARE DEAD" for its game over screen. It was the most blatant game over message of any video game I'd seen up to that point.

What I remember the most about SPC was, despite it being totally reworked for airing on US Television, it was still very obviously Japanese. I'd seen Akira already, but I don't know if that movie has anything that would identify it as a Japanese show to a foreginer's eye.

Samurai Pizza Cats is so Japanese that it crosses the line of Stupidity, goes around the world, and crosses it again. It's just stupidly stupidly Japanese. It's all the Japan.

And back then I just found that a bit remarkable, that they didn't bother trying to conceal it at all. A lot of tv anime back then were a bit vague about when and where they take place.

Uncle Bob, eh? ...Okay 🤠

If you're not familiar with SPC, then here's a sample of the dialogue from the English Dub of the first episode:

GUIDO: "Well now I've seen everything. As if the wanton destruction of the Brazilian rain forest weren't enough for you. You're the most environmentally irresponsible person I've ever met!"
SPEEDY: "Save that pinko pop-psychology talk for the next Greenpeace newsletter!"
GUIDO: "Who's a pinko you neofacist feline?"
(They fight)
LUCILLE: (Cybernetic Missile Launcher in head opens) "STOP TALKING POLITICS!!!"
(Lucille Macross Missile Massacres them both)

🦅 WILL SOMEBODY PLEEEZ CUE DAT BOID

@RupeeClock Nintendo is Gandalf The Grey, confirmed

There's really kind of a gaping hole in these collections. And no, I'm not talking about the janky N64 games...

Rondo of Blood and Symphony Of The Night are missing, guys. What would be nice is if they are actually working on prettying them up and adding a big beefy set of bonus features and stuff to them.

What would make me mad (but unfortunately not surprise me) is that there's some kind of litigation going on for the license rights to them that is preventing them being released in this series.

The World Will Be Square Again

@VHSGREMLIN They are just riding the hate train for no reason. In American minds, California = Hippies. Hippies are the enemy of American Freedom™.

Yes, it's nuts. No, most of us don't get it either. There's this whole unfunny, unstable pocket dimension that some people in the USA live in.

Rich people have a consent problem.

This is great, and I approve

But Rondo and SotN are literally right there, come on!!

@Andee ...Technically, 100% of the experience is watching a video. I just want the first 1-10% of it to be me interacting with it.

I'm remembering Pam in the Office episode "Dinner Party..."

"I don't care, I just wanna eat. And, I know that's a crazy thing to expect... at a dinner party."

So, too, do I expect to be able to play a video game.

FF6 is consistently high on these “GFFOAT” Lists.

Yet it’s never had any kind of spin-off or remake (barring Pixel Remaster, which, while glorious, is basically still a glorified SNES Port).

What gives? I wonder why SE doesn’t do something else with these characters they own use of likeness for? People seem to really dig them some FF6, but it’s always just sort of been “there.”

My guess is, when the FF7 glamour finally wears off…Plan B begins…

Sonic the Hedgehog is looking weird in this story's thumbnail

"Join" Nintendo

Akak "Flail uselessly at" Nintendo

I have loved Super Metroid since first playing it in a Video Games, Etc.! when it came out. I'd already played Metroid 1 several times by that point and was familiar. Metroid 1 was even one of the first NES games I ever saw someone playing as a kid.

But as to why it's taken so long for it to come into its own, I have to wonder if it's the fact that its influences are kind of obvious. Mario (King Kong, Alice In Wonderland), Zelda (LotR, DnD) and even Megaman (Astro Boy) are a bit more elaborate in terms of where they go with their aesthetics.

Metroid is fairly deeply rooted in one very recent sci-fi franchise (The Alien films). It doesn't pull from Star Trek or Star Wars, or even Spielberg or Stanley Kubrick that much. The throughline of its influence is extremely clear, and it can even be kind of blunt in places about it.

@Zulzar has the proper take

We don't give a shiest about the story. It's a runandgun. Why did you waste time with this idiocy? We never needed a story in Contra (NES). That money/time should have been spent on optimizing it for all consoles.

The only real comfort of all the stuipidity I see in the world today is that I have to ask myself "Were humans always this dumb?" and being the History Buff that I am, I do indeed know that the answer is a resounding "Oh heck yeah."

⬆ Something for anyone who has a problem with how Nintendo does business to remember.

Richest company in Japan. Debt-free. Whatever your opinion of their decisions, they seem to be doing alright in what is no doubt a very tumultuous time for any business.

The real “Kindness in RPGs” would be to include an English Translation with it, for goodness’ sakes.

Come on.

@KingMike In any case, its initial sales performance was just the catalyst; FF7 has an installed userbase that is not going away any time soon

FF6 is never going to have that kind of brand recognition associated with it, and there's nothing that can be done about that, and therefore, a FF6 remake would cost more to make than it would probably take in, goes the line of reasoning.

@KingMike You're right, it would be crazy

Tell it to Squaresoft's CEO at the time, though... 😏 Turns out unrealistic sales projections is not a new thing

@KingMike From the wikipedia article for Dragon Quest V:

"By 1993, the original Super Famicom version of Dragon Quest V had sold 2.8 million cartridges in Japan,[74] and nearly 3 million copies worldwide,[75] grossing several hundred million dollars[76] (about $630 million adjusted for inflation)."

Now from the article for FF6:

" In mid-1994, Square's publicity department reported that the game had sold 2.55 million copies in Japan,[38] where it became the best-selling video game of 1994.[102] In the United States, where it went on sale in the last quarter of 1994, it was the top-selling Super NES game in October[103] and became the year's eighth best-selling Super NES cartridge.[104] Despite this, it was not a commercial success in that region, according to Sakaguchi."

And now, Street Fighter II: Turbo - Hyper Fighting (SNES)

"Console
In Japan, the Super Famicom version topped the Famitsu sales charts in July 1993.[30][31]

Worldwide, the SNES version sold 4.1 million copies in total."

It sold ok, but it was unable to top Dragon Quest V, and either of them were getting obliterated by SF2 at any given moment.

Now, here's FF7:

"According to Weekly Famitsu, Final Fantasy VII sold 3.27 million units in Japan by the end of 1997.[151] By the end of 2005, the PlayStation version had sold 9.8 million copies including 4 million sales in Japan,[152] making it the highest-selling game in the Final Fantasy series.[153]"

And there we have it.

FF7 makes money, and SE has always known it. I promise you, I am not making this up, and you are talking to a person who dropped 1.5 years of his life into rewriting Final Fantasy VI's script for funsies, btw. I am a huge fan, but realistic enough to know that it's never going to have the Top Dog Status that VII does.

Try to remember, too, that FF6 was not a terribly popular game when it came out. It got great reviews, but it did not sell all that well.

Dropping money into FF7 Remake is a sure thing; they know so many millions of people will buy it. Doing the same with FF6 is a risk, and I get that. It might be better to leave well enough alone.

It looks like a Metal Slug game, which is a compliment

Very nice. Not super into the MIDI synth music. Get some rockin' guitar up in there, come on these are Ninjas, it should be totally metal What's up with the lame remix of the music

Can we call the Cowgirl version "Georgia Peach?"

CanweCanweCanweCanweCanwe pleeeeease

And of course the reasoning all falls apart when one considers that Hedgehogs are by nature actually fairly timid and banal creatures, but anyhoo

I'm glad to see that Sparkster has kept the torch lit, and Felix The Cat is nice to see. The BGM on it really is what I recall the most, that and it's daft powerup system.

I still say Possums are nastier than cats, I've seen my Cat come home after a Possum hissed at him, his tail was all poofed up. My Cat is afraid of the Possum, so that's Possums 1, Cats 0.

Most people know what evils Cats are capable of, but Possums are nasty, you don't wanna mess with Possums.

Possums with razor sharp broadswords and a jetpack is basically an excuse to go AWOL from the Fascist Pig Army

yeah way better than making games or whatever it is you guys used to do

please stop being insane SE

Amazingly, I only have one problem with my Switch

Unfortunately, it's a big problem. The LEG that it stands on, next to the SD slot, is flimsy and falls off of the system easily.

A reliable stand built into the next Switch would be nice. I don't like it when my system falls over because that dinky arm decided to woopsie doodle itself.

“Violence Fight” is like saying “Dining Meal” or “Learning School,” isn’t it

@LikelySatan I can confirm that Arin Hanson really likes Princesses and shaves the beard off his neck.

Just...like, he says the f word, a lot. Like, a lot.

I think he summed up why Game Grumps has a following best in an interview he gave once, in that "People who like watching our show, like it because we truly don't give a darn." (and yes I had to clean it up)

Arin and Dan have no political axes to grind, they tend never to punch down, they don't get involved in drama, I don't know of any major scandals they've landed themselves in, laughing fits where someone runs out of breath are a regular occurence, and they're just generally down-to-earth and relaxed people, when doing their show.

I will reiterate that they are extremely foul-mouthed, but never in a mean way. Basically it boils down to: Arin plays a game, makes jokes with Dan, they both laugh, Arin starts to do badly at the game, goes on giant tirades full of swears about it, and Dan laughs and says "Arin" like a disappointed mother a lot.

@OwenOtter "AYYY!! Y-YOU RLY NEED TO JUMP OVER THIS OPEN PIT, YKNOW CUZ IT'LL KILL YOU!!" ...
..."OK JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW" 🤪

okthanx 😨

Darn you Sega, put on your big-kid pants and make Phantasy Star V already.

Haven’t we waited long enough?

@OwenOtter "And then there's this...person???"

"that a guy or a girl, idfk"

I don't know if they could muster it, cuz it'd be a tall ask, but Phantasy Star V would be on my to-play list immediately.

No more coy subtitles, no more spin-offs, just continue the series dangit. I wanna play me some more Phantasy Star.