Gryzor

IF capitalism ❤️ profit
THEN Chrono = profit
GOTO Chrono remake coming soon, TM.

Genius, innit?

@JohnnyMind Wow. What's your other job? xD

I beat Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow and went for new game+.
The Dominus Collection is such a wonderful Halloween treat, filled to the brim with yummeh gameplay.

Development must've been a lot "smoother" than the lousy 30 FPS gameplay of the demo then.🤪
Atlus could've sold Persona 3 to me a fourth time, but they'd have to actually make an effort. 40 FPS on the Switch's 120 Hz display was the bare minimum, but since they can't be arsed with that, I won't bother either.🤷🏻‍♂️

@Dogorilla The thing is, Ogre Battle 64 is not primarily an RTS game. Although it says "Real Time Battle System" on the back of the box.
You're supposed to plan ahead of combat, by choosing your units and setting up your troops. Kind of similar to programming your party in Final Fantasy XII, so they act precisely the way you want them to during the auto-combat sequence. You should give it a go or try ATLUS' excellent spiritual successor, Unicorn Overlord.

Ow, PJ. That searing, political zinger at the end.😮
Ogre Battle 64 has been sitting on my shelf for the past 25 years. Unplayed, mind you. Hopefully I'll get around to playing its tribute, Unicorn Overlord, at least.

@rallydefault
Appreciate the quick update, thank you.
Yeah, docked demo gameplay was smooth on Switch 2, but it tanked in handheld mode.
From what I’ve heard, you can expect a range from 40 to 60 FPS across the board, if you decide to upgrade to Switch 2. It will look much better, but I guess if you do plan on playing only docked, you might wanna omit the update and stick with the Switch 1 version.

@rallydefault
Can you please elaborate on whether it runs at 60 FPS in both modes? The demo's framerate was awful in handheld mode, which is why I grabbed it for PS5 instead.

@ro-kurorai
Surely you meant⭐️estellar⭐️

@Sidewinder172
The scientific fact is that you'll experience a slightly longer period of input lag at 30 FPS, after pressing a button. Which directly translates to gameplay feeling less immediate. Why would there be such a thing as a "bandwagon of hate"? Each to their own.🤷🏻‍♂️

Here's some dissent from a diehard G&G fan:
The perfect way to celebrate is to beat Ghouls'n Ghosts on my MVS candy cab, hooked up to a MiSTercade.🤩
Resurrection was utter ***** tbh and I'll think twice, before purchasing the next entry in this series.😮

@Cyberbotv2
Of course average gamers don't care about FPS.
Otherwise they'd be refered to as core gamers.

A higher framerate with lower input lag always translates directly to better and snappier gameplay. Whether you value that is up to you.

Now, EA has hard data on their FC target audience and it says that they're overwhelmingly football fans first and average gamers second.
EA marketing also knows precisely, that they have a monopoly on football videogames. So they can get away with 30 FPS, as long as all the superficial stuff, like stadiums, fancy graphics, player names, club jerseys, etc. is in place.

@Denoloco Supah Mario Galakshi, available soon for Switchi Tsuu🤪

@kmtrain83
Who's to say digital won't outlast physical? My own experience, for starters.
All my physical media, CDs and cartridges, still works just fine after 35 years.

Whereas some of my digital purchases from Sony, Nintendo, Apple and Amazon were either purged, discontinued, had their servers shut down, ran into licensing issues or had some other shenanigans come up.

Who's to say digital storefronts won't need to be supported for longer?
The fact that capitalism is about profit only.
If you think customers have the upper hand vs corporations, you can think again.
Money talks, so corporations lobby our lawmakers and create the most favorable conditions.

But feel free to FAFO for yourself, cause it's none of my business to tell you how to spend your hard-earned dosh.

We've established that all servers will go offline eventually.
So when purchasing digital-only, we're basically renting a product.
Accordingly, publishers will never get more than a 10 bucks renting fee per game from me.

@timtimtim Woah, a 4.1 GB patch for physical cartridges is more than a little disappointing to me, considering the available storage on Switch 2 is already puny.

Warner Bros: "Imagine if we owned a beloved 85-year-old IP with gorgeous embellishments by artists like Neal Adams or Jim Aparo".😮
Also Warner Bros: "Right, let's publish our umpteenth, tired LEGO Batman game then".🙄

@Noelemahc @BeefCatStudios
Nightdive should definitely let us know then. They did announce kb/m for PS5 System Shock, which was false advertising.
I bought it based on that feature and it turned out to be a flat out lie. Their marketing and PR department is doing a naff job tbh. Fantastic coders and artists, but awfully weak communication.

Quake II saw Nightdive implementing keyboard/mouse controls and LAN support, which to me are top priorities in boomer shooters. They've dropped both features here, so I'm not biting.

60 FPS-games take only half the time of 30 FPS-games, to translate button pushes into on-screen action. Therefore gameplay is objectively worse at 30 FPS and that very much matters in any action game.🤷🏻‍♂️
Pretty confident though, that at least Switch 2 will run Ninja Gaiden at 60.

@Friendly
I can tell you why, based on my own experience:
Becoming rich is comparable to putting on Tolkien’s “The One” ring. The more money you have, the greater the fear becomes to lose it. It started messing with my character and destroying my empathy.

Only 12 felony charges? If he thought he’d be president with such low criminal energy, he can think again. We all know it takes 34 felonies for that.

In other news: Water is wet and corporations solely exist to squeeze all the profit they can get away with out of consumers.🤷🏻‍♂️

Apples and oranges, I know, but I’ve already lost an ungodly amount of my purchases for Apple iOS.
“Sword & Poker” is an amazing game, but over 80% of what I’ve “bought” is now gone. I’ve learned my lesson on digital distribution well.

@Coalescence Oh my goodness, so many truth-bombs.😮
You peered right through all of their bs.😅

@Jester676 Yes, that’s exactly the point - I’ve looked at my Steam library and listed the best exclusive games, that I appreciate most.
Hence the Nintendo exclusives further down for comparison.

Let’s be honest, it’s all about the games. So here’s a different perspective. My Steam Deck runs what Nintendon’t (yet):

Alice: Madness Returns, OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast, Batman Arkham Origins, Wizardry 6, 7 & 8, Dragon Age Origins, Heroes of Might & Magic III, Drakensang I & II, Ys 1, 2, 4, 6 & 7, Divinity II Dragon Knight Saga, The Saboteur, Binary Domain, Fallout New Vegas, Baldur’s Gate III, Mass Effect Trilogy, Chrono Trigger, Virtua Fighter 5, GTA IV & V, Red Dead Redemption II, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Yakuza - Like a Dragon Zero - 8, Bionic Commando & Rearmed, Strider, Metal Gear Rising, MGS V, Persona 3 Reload, Tales of Berseria, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Trails of Cold Steel 1 & 2, Deadpool, Transformers Cybertron 1 & 2, Sacred Gold, Judgment & Lost Judgment, Dead Space Trilogy, Nioh 1 & 2, Sekiro, Armored Core VI, Granblue Fantasy, Scarlet Nexus, Spider-Man, God of War, Ratchet & Clank, Uncharted and other Sony IP.
Halo, Diablo IV, WoW, Fable, Forza, Age of Empires and other Microsoft IP.

VS.

Bravely Default HD is the only Switch 2 launch game I want.
Looking forward to: Metroid, Zelda, Mario, Fire Emblem, Kirby, Wave Race and F-Zero. I’m lukewarm on Bananza and MK World.
Will ignore: Animal Crossing, Splatoon, Luigi’s Mansion, Pokemon Z - A.

@Jack_Goetz I don’t mean to belittle you. I’m just genuinely surprised, there are people who still think that any corporation prioritizes anything - let alone fans - over profit.

@NeoGee Will do. Thank you so much for going through the trouble of opening your cab.
Been happy with my Egret3 for years.❤️ I just don’t perform as well with a Nintendo controller, as I do with a Sanwa arcade panel.😅

@NeoGee Awesome. Thank you for the detailed description.
I’m considering doing the same, by tossing a Nintendo Switch into my Taito Egret cab with a tri-sync monitor.👍🏻

@NeoGee How did you connect the HDMI-out of the Switch to the video-in of your CRT?
And how on earth did you get the control panel of your cab to work as a Switch controller?😮

Hamster usually does a fantastic job with its Arcade Archives and I’ve bought several dozens of them.
However, they did drop the ball by introducing some major input lag to Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. Those are completely unplayable to me. Here’s my wishlist for upcoming games:
Alien Syndrome - SEGA
Shadow Dancer - SEGA
Blasteroids - Atari Games
Xybots - Atari Games
Satan of Saturn - SNK
Psycho-Nics Oscar - Data East
Chelnov Atomic Runner - Data East
Dragon Ninja - Data East
Midnight Resistance - Data East
Robocop - Data East
Toki Juju Densetsu - Data East / TAD
Karnov - Data East
Sly Spy Secret Agent - Data East
Snow Bros - Toaplan
Legend of Hero Tonma - Irem
Mr. Heli Battle Chopper - Irem
Pang - Mitchell
Quartet 2 - SEGA
E-SWAT - SEGA

I’m an arcade nutter who bought north of 70 Arcade-Archives games, so Hamster got a boatload of cash from yours truly.
I don’t mind Ninty chasing after the subscription model.
It just means they won’t be seeing any of my dosh for classic console games, as I’m playing these on SteamDeck instead.

I agree with Zuljaras and The_Pixel_King: Add an offline mode or gtfo, Microsoft.

@SilvercatMoonpaw Ok. Valve has cranked up the prices on Steam four to tenfold since 2020. The same is about to happen in console gaming. Which is why affording hardware will be the least of your worries.

@Gaymer90 You are of course correct, but that doesn’t make the impending digital monopoly and consequent price hike any less lamentable.

@SilvercatMoonpaw A small annoyance like swapping cards is the lesser evil, compared to paying through the nose, when the market is a digital monopoly. You’ll soon find out. Which is ironic, because you were talking about being able to afford games =P

@Burning_Spear “The law should be that once you buy the game its license can't be revoked”.
Sure, but here’s a quick reminder that laws are not tailored to our best interest, but for the corpos. The fat cats who own the corpos also happen to own our lawmakers.
Which is also why California is merely dishing out a warning label, making it clear we don’t own jack.

If we lap this up, Capcom can maximize profit by:

1) Not having to pay Nintendo for manufacturing thousands of proprietary Switch cartridges.
2) Saving shipping costs from Japan to Europe.
3) Shutting down reselling by only including a one time code.

It’s entirely up to us now, whether we want to let the decision makers at Capcom Europe get away with this scam or not.

Yes, but getting it for the SteamDeck instead.

It’s not AI that’s coming for us, but those who are in control of it.
There’s more than enough wealth for us all to live with dignity, but the powers that be are insatiably greedy and morally prefer to buy a brand new yacht, by making us redundant 🤷🏻‍♂️

@shgamer How are video games not art, when they're in fact an amalgamation of writing, painting, designing and making music?
Staying on topic though, I dislike cutscenes and tutorials. I'm already invested when I start a game, so I want control from the get go. If I weren't, I'd be watching a movie, listening to music or reading a book instead.

The demo got me addicted and I love the new hybrid combat system.
As @Aiwen correctly mentioned, the reviewer misunderstood the purpose of the action combat.

You’re supposed to smack the tougher enemies only till their stun gauge is full, so turn-based combat can then be initiated with the advantage of them being stunned.

Enemies will force you into turn-based mode at some point, if you keep hacking and slashing away for too long. It’s also convenient to just dispose of weaker enemies with Ys-style action combat.

@russell-marlow
Imagine practicing for a 1cc run of Contra and being forced to watch the same unskippable cutscene during level 1 about 30 times.
Just might get a tad annoying and turn into a waste of time.
This is a classic arcade game that’s meant to be replayed over and over, not The Last of Us.

@russell-marlow We’re obviously playing an arcade game in “Arcade” mode already, but even that has a cutscene in the middle (!) of level 1, completely breaking the gameplay and flow. Not sure what they were smoking when designing this at WayForward.

I was gonna pick up the physical PS5-version tomorrow, but looking at these patch notes now, that disc only contains incomplete code, basically turning it into a mere dongle.
Not getting anywhere near the Switch port, after experiencing the input lag of the demo.

@Debo626 Exactly. I wonder which part of invading a peaceful neighbour seemed “artificial” to smithyo.

@Psycho-Werekitsune Wow, I truly admire your resilience and willingness to put up with such input lag
Try pressing down on your D-pad and then tell me there wasn’t enough time to make coffee before that animation finished. And I’m only slightly exaggerating here
Also, play the PC and Switch versions back to back. They’re like night and day.

@Zulzar LOL, spot on! Love ya for that comment 👍🏻

@Truegamer79
“Well it is a demo duh. Don’t judge until you’ve played the final product.”

But that’s the whole point of making a demo; to demonstrate what to expect from the final product O_o