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@Wexter
It’s all profit. Most of these games are around 20-30 years old. They certainly aren’t getting any money off of the secondhand market.

@Serpenterror
Why would it matter if they were using a in house emulator or M2s? Thing is you purchased the games. We should be able to transfer our games over and just use whatever emulation is being used to play them. You can have several different nes emulators in a pc and play the same ROMs on all of them.

Rather slim and dull pickings this week.

MGS Collection when? MGS GBC is arguably the best hands down. By the way y’all forgot about Snakes Revenge.

@nhSnork
I’d like to see some numbers that say VC sales were low. If VC sales were indeed low it would’ve been due to Nintendo not adding games to the service and not allowing crossbuy. Gamepass allows you to rent games on a sub but you can purchase individual games and play them for nonsubs. Nintendo call offer a similar deal.

What I can’t figure out is why have the standard version being a limited release through their online store rather than be an open preorder through brick and mortar retail stores. I can understand why a collectors edition would only be available in short supply and on their storefront but for a standard no frills release?

@nhSnork
If they were underwhelmed by it’s performance it was their own fault for not continually adding games to the service. So far it seems they have failed to learn this lesson but instead are forcing consumers to pay a yearly fee for a worser deal if you want access to the complete retro offerings.

@talllennart
Not everyone plays online. Kinda ridiculous to lock these games behind a subscription service to play online if you don’t care about playing online.

@Clyde_Radcliffe
At least I don’t have to pay $50 a year every year to play them on the collection. I don’t understand why they can’t offer them for individual purchases rather than as a part of the online sub.

All of these are already available via the Genesis Collection that’s been out for a few years now.

I have the vita game and I really enjoyed it so I’ll double dip on this.

Looks interesting. I’ll definitely be getting it (as a physical release).

The NA box art is definitely more iconic and shows what you will have a fight on your hands so I went with it. Although I’ll have to give a very close second to the EU cover.

The technical issues still don’t detract from the game itself. I’m having a great time with it but it does feel a step back compared to Arceus so a 7 is a reasonable score in my honest opinion.

@Crono1973
That defeats the point of being open world. I love the idea of Pokémon done in a BOTW style so you could go literally anywhere go through at your own pace your own way. But with that said having level scaling is honestly the best COA. Just leave the Pokémon at that location those levels you were when you leave.

@Crono1973
Level scaling as far as the story battles should be a thing. While you can run away from a wild encounter it’s not guaranteed as they can block your path so your level 5 Pokémon could easily be taken out by a level 45 wild encounter.

No level scaling is going to be a problem. Catching Pokémon and battles with 20-30 plus levels on you in either direction doesn’t sound fun or challenging. It would’ve been nice to see a Gym Leader change their teams up to reflect the scaling (example a low level gym with base Pokémon would become a gym with mid to full evolutions as it scales.)

@AtlanteanMan
This! I keep saying this over and over!

@DjinnFighter
The main draw of the online service is playing games online. If you don’t play online then why should you drop $50 a year to get access to offline retro games? They could still offer the expansion tier with those games and dlc included and have an option available for those that will not subscribe to get access to a self curated collection of older legacy titles.

If older games are so easily deliverable why the drip feed? Also why are they only available to subscribers instead of ala carte?

@Krysus
Having the Virtual Console would bring in additional revenue from those that don’t want to pay $50 a year if they don’t care about online play or the dlc (mostly for online games) and just want to play some classic games.

I can understand to an extent having to pay to play games online. What I don’t understand is why they keep the legacy games attached to the service instead of allowing us to cherry pick the games as you could with Virtual Console and essentially own them and not lose them every 12 months.

It wasn’t that out of the blue. I had my preorder in for it for a while and I managed to get a copy no problem.

@Eagly
I can’t take MatPat seriously. Most of his game theories don’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny.

@Eagly
In some universe yes. Canon in Mario games though doesn’t really seem to exist. (A few exceptions do apply though like the Luigi’s Mansion series and possibly M&L RPGs)

@Eagly
He was de-evolved into fungus by Koopa when he staged a coup to take over Dinohattan and merge our dimension with theirs.

The ability to buy games on the classic games apps ala Virtual Console and not need to subscribe.

@PinderSchloss
Yeah but then others are going to order pictures as well so you are going to make more after the fact.

So the last offer was $15,000. And she wanted more?!

I’m still waiting on my physical copy.

No physical no purchase. No native port no chance in hell.

@YoshiF2
Same here.

I knew it smelled awful greedy and fishy.

@YoshiF2
Never did I say everyone should be paid equally. Where did I say that? I said all work is equal. You want to get paid you do a job. Something has been lost in translation somewhere.

@Wexter
Probably so. I take pride in my hard work and feel accomplished doing what I do even if I personally feel I should make more I’m not out of work like she is which is what really gets under my skin. We all have to do things we don’t like to get my in life. Life’s not fair after all. If the opportunity came for me to voice act or act (my dream job) then I would put in any amount of work and legwork to ensure I would continue employment. Of course I think it’s ridiculous how much athletes and other celebrities get paid for work doing comparatively very little but as I said that’s a job.

@YoshiF2
I don’t think she should be paid less. I never said that. She turned down an offer which if the story is to be fully believed the $4000 was Kamiyas offer after she was given a lower offer. She had no problem working for them before. If this was lower than her last work on the franchise I could see her walking away but from everything we know that doesn’t seem to be the case and if it is she hasn’t said.

@Wilforce
Given what he was paid though the offer of $4000 wasn’t that far from it.

@Wexter
To me a job is a job. A athlete gets paid millions to throw a ball but that’s their job. Her job is acting. If that’s not doing enough to pay the bills and live fairly comfortable then maybe she needs to look into other avenues. If it requires that much work to get a gig then she should do the legwork to get jobs. I had to put in application after application before I got hired. I was out of work for 3 months when the factory closed where I was making $25 an hour. But I couldn’t sit and whine about it I needed to get paid to pay for food to eat, clothes to wear, utilities and so on.

@Wilforce
The number is based of the interview on another article NLife did on this when the VA of Revali told how much he made for his contribution to BOTW. That $250 an hour is the average industry standard.

@YoshiF2
So which is it exactly the point you are trying to make? She negotiated for more and lost out and was given to someone else. Just because she feels like her talent is worth more doesn’t mean it is. That’s how it goes. She could’ve successfully negotiated for more but she didn’t. Maybe Platinum didn’t think her talent given her work history was up to par? Maybe they wanted to bring someone else on? Shady? Underhanded? Absolutely! But that’s the nature of the beast that is business. Dog eat dog.

@YoshiF2
But she was offered an industry standard rate. She obviously didn’t have a problem with the last 2 games and Smash appearance being paid for that. They negotiated. Apparently it was low so she went to Kamiya and the best he could offer was the $4000. After all there’s another new character so they had to pay her too as well as Luka, Rodin, Jeanne and Enzo. As far as lines spoken in the last game Jeanne got the bad deal as she had maybe 5 or 6 lines throughout Bayo 2 as story events happened.

@Wilforce
Then they don’t report it to the union. You do realize that the union takes a significant cut of her pay to be in the union right? It’s not a free membership club thing. You want to talk about scummy practices look no further. If the union fails to negotiate a higher pay grade you still have to pay them either way.

@Wilforce
Have you played the Bayonetta games up to this point? I have. She doesn’t have that many lines in the games even as the main character. Maybe a minute or less per chapter and a lot of looped battle sounds like grunts and the like (Smashing!). It’s not like persona 5 where dialogue is spoken every screen.

@Wexter
Thank you. At least someone else can see it too. I hate that she isn’t reprising her role but end of the day when all is said and done she turned down the work and was replaced with someone else who took the pay.

@YoshiF2
She was offered the industry standard pay as has been discussed over and over. If her pay isn’t cutting it for her she can work in another industry. I see no difference in her and me when it comes to actually doing work. Yes I would like to make more money but I’m not hurting for it and gave stable income. If she is going to be in the industry then I’d expect her to put forth the effort to get VA roles. She should’ve known what she was getting into choosing this as her career. If you aren’t going to do what you need to do to make money to support yourself but instead hope you get that one big score that’ll set you up for life and not have to work again is a very unrealistic outlook.

@YoshiF2
Same as you. A job is a job. You work and you get paid. You don’t work or turn down paying job down you don’t get paid. Is it that hard of a concept to actually grasp? To have a job that is so much easier than the majority of others who would do anything for the chance to do the same just comes off as a bit selfish and demeaning to the average Joe who has to work long hours for less pay and recognition she has. I don’t see her any different than myself or any other working adult. But it seems we hold celebrities in much higher regard. While I won’t say I’m completely happy with my job I do take pride in it and I do get recognition for a job well done with bonuses and the like not to mention other benefits I get from my job like healthcare insurance, retirement savings plans etc.

If I quit my job it’s only be because I found something better and was already guaranteed the job. I certainly wouldn’t go long without pay. The last job closed it’s doors and moved out of the country so I was out of work for a few months. But I got a job closer to home but making $10 less than I was but I had a much shorter commute so it balanced itself out in that regard. If the opportunity arose for me to get into VA I’d gladly take it. If I wasn’t getting enough pay I’d take a side job while I waited for the next gig.

@Wilforce
It’s a job what else is it to say about it. Oh it’s so stressful doing a job where you say lines into a microphone compared to someone who gets up and clocks in working 8 hours or more a day less than an ideal working environment to make around $250 an hour compared to the factory workers who make $15-20 an hour. Oh yes I absolutely sympathize with her she’s been so mistreated how dare they offer only $4000! She should be paid $40,000 so that way she wouldn’t need to work the rest of the year!

@YoshiF2
I know of a few people that work side jobs or gave their own small businesses they run on the side. If the only thing she does only pays what it does so sporadically she should seriously consider other forms of employment. That one job would’ve paid well considering what others have to do to make the same pay. Maybe broaden her characters besides Bayonetta and do other voice work. Maybe she needs to hit the convention circuit when she can to make extra money. As I’ve always heard don’t sit around on your butt and whine get your start like I got mine.

@Wilforce
She doesn’t have that many lines. It’s an action game not an RPG. I’d say she has around overall an hour if not a bit more of dialogue (Enzo and Rodin speak more in the opening intros and than she does).

@YoshiF2
They do charge for them. $30-50 for 1 autographed item (that’s if you brought something to have signed as they offer prints with the actor and character for sale for $10 or so) and your picture taken with them is usually the average price range. More better known VAs and actors charge much more.