This does look genuinely cool, for what it is, but all I ever see on AR really is gimmicks. Some people go on about how they believe AR is better than VR—I've yet to see any proof of it. I mean, sure, Pokemon Go is hugely popular; but the game is meh and the AR stuff is kinda crap and unecessary. With VR there's actually real, fully-fledged games there, that don't necessarily rely solely on the gimmicky aspect of the technology either. And there's stuff you can do in VR that you simply can't do in any other medium, and that stuff is amazing precisely because of what VR specifically brings to the table (that complete/total immersion in an imaginary world). AR is mostly just a glorified HUD/UI. Still, it's cool to see these NES games floating like this in AR, as entirely superficial and basically pointless as it is.
@Aurelis There are certain "warts" that make sense and others that are purely the company being lazy and avoidance as much extra work as possible, to the detriment of the experience of the end user. I don't expect Nintendo to include high-res modes or extreme stuff in these games, only the stuff that make sense in 2016, regardless of these being older games running on a Virtual Console. So, common sense should dictate what does and does fit in with that thinking. Displaying the NES colours properly for example should be a bare minimum to expect, and that's irrespective of some people having TVs that made the games look like total junk back in the day because others didn't have such crap TVs and the games actually looked fine for them. So, Nintendo should basically go with what these games could have looked like at the absolute best, even back in the day.
I've always found the colouring of THQ's logo slightly strange: The letters stand for Toy Head Quarters; so, you'd think that the Toy would be considered the most important of the three words and that either the T would be red or both the H and Q would be red but not just the Q on its own. It seems strange to highlight the Q in red, like "Quarters" is somehow the key word in the name.
Just an observation. lol
But, I guess they just like the look of the Q in the logo and thought it would be nice to colour it. Or, maybe there's more significance to it than I'm aware of.
I'll tell you this: 99.99% of you don't really have the slightest clue what you're talking about when it comes to IP law. You just imagine otherwise. And, ironically, most of you who don't have a clue like to go around accusing other people of not having a clue. lol
@-DEMISE- Yes, we know this. This is why it even had any case at all in this instance. If he had made a whole new game and just stuck the Metroid name on it, there'd be little Nintendo could legally do other than tell him to remove the name. So, obviously there's a line, but even in this case it's still a free game and not some rip-off product that someone's trying to sell to profit off of Nintendo's IP, and that's the biggest thing to consider here imo. Nintendo's not having its IP abused here; it's having its IP celebrated by passionate fans. Shooting this kind of stuff down it just stupid business as far as I'm concerned.
@Wolfgabe No, they fight for the corporations. They just don't understand enough about the world to know that's what they're doing.
And, again; using another company's art assets is not in violation of copyright law in and of itself. It almost always has to involve money in one form or another before there's any legal grounds for action.
But hey, you understand Copyright law, right—so why am I'm even bothering to tell you anything about something you clearly already understand down to the smallest minutiae.
@-DEMISE- It legally doesn't have to play any differently; it could play basically identically. General gameplay (game mechanics) is not protected by copyright:
@bogofet I think they eventually came to some agreement on that or something. But, the only reason they were really able to raise an issue is because there was some kind of money involved, and that's why they started with the whole copyright infringement crap. If it were entirely free, like the Star Trek example I posted above, it probably wouldn't have had any issues getting made at all. Although, never underestimate the doucheness of the corporations.
And, the full trailer, just because it's awesome (imagine seeing this for the first time as a kid in the early '80s, when most home games were still plain white dots on a black screen):
They're acting as though they have some kind of invested financial stake in Nintendo or have been hired by the company to protect its interests above all other considerations.
@-DEMISE- It could be 100% identical for all it matters. All the actual art assets, code, music, and other stuff (or 99.9% of them) are original creations by those guys, and they are protected under copyright law just as Nintendo's creations are. A general map layout in a Mother game is almost certainly not likely to be copyrighted, particularly if it's literally just the layout we're talking about and not any of the actual art assets you see in the actual game (which ultimately means it would actually look different to most people, and almost certainly play differently too).
It would be like trying to claim the first level in Mario is copyrighted and that no one could make a level with a similar layout, even if their game looks and plays differently in every way. You might imagine Nintendo has absolutely domain over even stuff like that, but it doesn't. Copyright law is douche at times—or at least it is when these giant corporations decide to push it to its limits and in some cases even abuse it—but it's not completely absurd.
@nab1 I think Christian initially just went and made his own thing without ever really contacting any companies, as most of these fans usually do, and eventually it got back to someone at Sega and then things started happening (it may have been because he contacted them eventually, but I doubt he did so upfront). But, I don't see any need for these guys to go to Nintendo first, personally. I say make the art, enjoy it, and then see what happens.
@VanillaLake Well, 99.9% of it is actual original work, created from scratch by these guys specifically for this game. So, if Nintendo decides to be a douche about this one, these guys could simply change the name and remove/replace the one or two actual Mother characters in the game (there's not many), and then it would be entirely their own creation and protected under the very same copyright laws as Nintendo's work is. And that's exactly what I'd do if Nintendo decided to be a tool here—and it would be another fan project that could have actually promoted Nintendo's brands and franchises in a positive way but that could now actually end up being sold and competing directly with them (and that's also exactly what I'd do if Nintendo's going to be wide about it). So, in this case I don't think we have too much to worry about.
@nab1 No they don't, as I have shown above with a few good examples. Some companies actually embrace this kind of stuff for the most part—as long as it's free and probably made clear it's just fan works too.
@Wolfgabe When it's not been monetised in anyway and ultimately just amounts to a piece of fan art (arguably), I think it's not such a big deal to let it lie. This isn't a case of someone stealing/abusing Nintendo's IP and trying to profit from it, which it what copyright law is mostly there to stop; it's just a few fans who've made an amazing tribute game. Personally, if it were my company, I'd be embracing and actually celebrating stuff like this. You know, much like this kind of thing is absolutely embraced and celebrated:
Imagine if everyone always shut down stuff like this immediately—it would just be sad, destructive and detrimental in some ways, and ultimately stupid, imo.
I don't see how rewarding Nintendo here is the right thing to do.
Reward a company like Sega, who actually went out and got a few of the most loyal fans to work on a brand new 2D Sonic that actually looks like it might be the best Sonic game ever:
That's the right way to go about this kind of stuff imo; so buy Sega's new Sonic game if you want to reward a company for respecting you as fans and consumers of its products.
Just striking down all the fan made stuff, even when it's not being monetised at all (and, rather than abusing the IP, it's actually celebrating it), and also not having anything in the works that would at least replace or conflict with the work these dedicated fans are doing, so there's no good reason to shut them down (remember, this is just free fan tributes to beloved games basically), is just douche and very "corporate" as far as I'm concerned. And it's even worse with the whole YouTube crap, where it literally is abusing the Fair Use law in many cases, for a quick and easy buck.
Nintendo has been acting very "corporate" of late towards its most dedicated fans—don't waste your breath telling me it's a business, blah, blah blah (stating the obvious is a waste of air; and it's not that simple either)—and it doesn't enamour me to the company at all.
@Joeynator3000 You're supposed to know it's implied swearing. There isn't, or at least there should not be, some kind of oppressive ban on people now posting not actually swear words too. Is that really how controlled, Orwellian, and pathetic you want the open Internet to be? Even on a video game site, I think posting completely censored bad words should be acceptable. Otherwise, what you're actually saying is you can't even imply bad thoughts now. Because, let's face it, most bad thoughts on most normal human beings minds have bad words attached to them, and not being allowed to even suggest that is just—it's seriously too unbelievable to think about.
It's like if I tell Nintendo to go shove a stick up its when it makes some douche move—that's just some dude saying it like it is, BUT intentionally censoring his swear words to there is no actual swearing taking place.
You know, like when South Park beeps swear words. In your Orwellian world, the show and its creators would be in jail or something.
@Syrek I've reported you too, for suggesting banning me when I have not broken any of the community rules. It is quite literally suggesting oppressive behaviour and mob-mentality group thinking in a supposedly open community where people should feel free to talk and express themselves and defend their views, sometimes even passionately and/or vigorously. If you don't like what I say then don't read my comments; that's how it should work at least. And, unless I'm breaking the rules, which I'm not as far as I'm aware, you don't try to remove me from the discussion just because you don't like the cut of my jib—that, to me, is far more indicative of something insidious and seriously wrong in a comments section, or the kind of thinking and behaviour by certain people in the comments section, than some guy making some heated comments but still comments that are absolutely controlled and thoughtfully censored to make sure they don't contain any swear words or whatever. It's like you can't even tell the difference between someone going off on an uncontrolled violent rant and someone who's raging where they're sitting but has clearly composed their comment to literally censor most of that rage and only convey the general sentiment that they're not happy about something someone said. And it's pretty sad when people can't tell that difference, because that's what's slowly leading to a sinister kind of oppression of thought and expression throughout the Internet—be nice, or you get excluded from this society—and it's close to Orwellian in practice.
@gcunit Get lost. I censored every single bad word in that comment. So, the reality here is that it's a perfectly controlled comment. It doesn't require some kind of "cooling off" ban; that's just absurd and oppressive. I have now reported your for basically threatening me by posting a comment that is overtly intended to intimidate me into not speaking/posting other than in exactly the way you want to hear. Bans should not be used for unpleasant attitudes in a comment; they should be used for things like swearing, threatening, spamming, trolling, etc.
Look, that trailer was pretty decent, for what it is, but I just cannot get past them making the characters stupid frikin' chibi-bobble-heads for no GENUINELY good reason. That kind of stuff just pees me right off.
@RandomBlue Sega in the example I posted does 1000% help my argument.
And, eh, what are you talking about regarding links? Loads of people post links all the time in Nintendo Life's comments section—as do I. @Kirk - we can do without that last bit of unfriendly business, thanks.
Also, you only think Nintendo can do whatever it wants, even when it comes to free fan created stuff, because you are a totally ignorant and blind fanboy who just assumes that Nintendo holds 100% in absolutely everything that can possibly exist around it's IP, which any non-tool knows fine well it's total ignorant junk. Nintendo can project abuse and misuse of its IP, but it has have a case of abuse and misuse in the first place. It couldn't, for example, just go out and tell every single person who's ever made a Mario fan image to remove it from the web just because Nintendo owns the rights to Mario's image. And, you'd know such things if you weren't such a blind fanboy.
I'm not saying it doesn't have any case at all in this particular situation, but I'd certainly be fighting my corner if I were the creator of this fan game, because it's a totally free project that's basically just a fan-made piece of art at the end of the day. It's not trying to profit off of Nintendo's IP.
The odds of it being powerful to support the kinds of games Bethesda is making and/or going to make at the level of graphical quality they are making them is slim.
I certainly wouldn't complain if all ten of those games appeared in the first year of the system.
Also, I wanna see an F-Zero a some point. And, in some magical fantasy world, I'd love to see a fully 3D version of something like Mother 3 on their too.
Edit: Although, I'd actually get rid of Mario Party / Nintendo Party and replace that with a brand new and proper WarioWare game that really shows off the system's strengths.
Well, the more games the better, but hearing that the likes of Just Dance and now Dragon Quest X (basically, a Wii game) are coming to the NX doesn't particularly excite me. At least we know it's also getting Breath of the Wild.
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Re: Video: Augmented Reality NES Gaming Finally Gives Us A Reason To Want Microsoft's HoloLens
This does look genuinely cool, for what it is, but all I ever see on AR really is gimmicks. Some people go on about how they believe AR is better than VR—I've yet to see any proof of it. I mean, sure, Pokemon Go is hugely popular; but the game is meh and the AR stuff is kinda crap and unecessary. With VR there's actually real, fully-fledged games there, that don't necessarily rely solely on the gimmicky aspect of the technology either. And there's stuff you can do in VR that you simply can't do in any other medium, and that stuff is amazing precisely because of what VR specifically brings to the table (that complete/total immersion in an imaginary world). AR is mostly just a glorified HUD/UI. Still, it's cool to see these NES games floating like this in AR, as entirely superficial and basically pointless as it is.
Re: Retro-Bit's Next System Aims To Challenge The NES Classic Edition Mini Console
@Aurelis There are certain "warts" that make sense and others that are purely the company being lazy and avoidance as much extra work as possible, to the detriment of the experience of the end user. I don't expect Nintendo to include high-res modes or extreme stuff in these games, only the stuff that make sense in 2016, regardless of these being older games running on a Virtual Console. So, common sense should dictate what does and does fit in with that thinking. Displaying the NES colours properly for example should be a bare minimum to expect, and that's irrespective of some people having TVs that made the games look like total junk back in the day because others didn't have such crap TVs and the games actually looked fine for them. So, Nintendo should basically go with what these games could have looked like at the absolute best, even back in the day.
Re: Nordic Games Rebrands With a Touch of THQ and Talks Up Future Projects
@ThanosReXXX Yeah, hopefully they're up for supporting NX.
Re: Review: Metroid Prime: Blast Ball (3DS)
Well, this isn't great.
Re: Nordic Games Rebrands With a Touch of THQ and Talks Up Future Projects
@Sir_JBizzle Yeah, in this particular logo it actually works well.
Re: Nordic Games Rebrands With a Touch of THQ and Talks Up Future Projects
@aaronsullivan I doubt that's what they were going for, but it's a nice idea.
Re: Nordic Games Rebrands With a Touch of THQ and Talks Up Future Projects
I've always found the colouring of THQ's logo slightly strange: The letters stand for Toy Head Quarters; so, you'd think that the Toy would be considered the most important of the three words and that either the T would be red or both the H and Q would be red but not just the Q on its own. It seems strange to highlight the Q in red, like "Quarters" is somehow the key word in the name.
Just an observation. lol
But, I guess they just like the look of the Q in the logo and thought it would be nice to colour it. Or, maybe there's more significance to it than I'm aware of.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@Syrek24 I simply call a turd a turd.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@-DEMISE- Good for them, I'm sure.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@Dr_Lugae Indeed: Words pulled straight from the mind of a corporation—which you seem to be well in tune with.
Luckily, some business don't think only in terms of the most obvious bottom-line figures and little else.
Some companies can see the bigger picture just a little better, I guess.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@Syrek24 Says you.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
I'll tell you this: 99.99% of you don't really have the slightest clue what you're talking about when it comes to IP law. You just imagine otherwise. And, ironically, most of you who don't have a clue like to go around accusing other people of not having a clue. lol
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@-DEMISE- Yes, we know this. This is why it even had any case at all in this instance. If he had made a whole new game and just stuck the Metroid name on it, there'd be little Nintendo could legally do other than tell him to remove the name. So, obviously there's a line, but even in this case it's still a free game and not some rip-off product that someone's trying to sell to profit off of Nintendo's IP, and that's the biggest thing to consider here imo. Nintendo's not having its IP abused here; it's having its IP celebrated by passionate fans. Shooting this kind of stuff down it just stupid business as far as I'm concerned.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@Wolfgabe Here, go do it right now:
http://www.inceptional.com/inceptionals-games/
As long as you're not selling the games as though they're official iNCEPTIONAL products, I don't give a hoot.
In fact, if your games are real good, sell them as iNCEPTIONAL games and give me a cut—I'd be more happy than you could imagine if that happened.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@Wolfgabe No, they fight for the corporations. They just don't understand enough about the world to know that's what they're doing.
And, again; using another company's art assets is not in violation of copyright law in and of itself. It almost always has to involve money in one form or another before there's any legal grounds for action.
But hey, you understand Copyright law, right—so why am I'm even bothering to tell you anything about something you clearly already understand down to the smallest minutiae.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@-DEMISE- It legally doesn't have to play any differently; it could play basically identically. General gameplay (game mechanics) is not protected by copyright:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/06/texas_court_ruling_states_that_game_mechanics_cant_be_protected_by_copyright
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@-DEMISE- No, I'm not real (maybe "hyper-real"). I'm just a figment of your imagination—your worst nightmare.
Was that movie-like enough for you?
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@bogofet I think they eventually came to some agreement on that or something. But, the only reason they were really able to raise an issue is because there was some kind of money involved, and that's why they started with the whole copyright infringement crap. If it were entirely free, like the Star Trek example I posted above, it probably wouldn't have had any issues getting made at all. Although, never underestimate the doucheness of the corporations.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@VanillaLake They are mindless, mass-media programmed, social-media conditioned sheep. They fight for the corporations.
I FIGHT FOR THE USERS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiw2FbHBd14
And, the full trailer, just because it's awesome (imagine seeing this for the first time as a kid in the early '80s, when most home games were still plain white dots on a black screen):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efV2wqEjEY
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@VanillaLake Exactly.
They're acting as though they have some kind of invested financial stake in Nintendo or have been hired by the company to protect its interests above all other considerations.
Me, "I fight for the users."
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@-DEMISE- It could be 100% identical for all it matters. All the actual art assets, code, music, and other stuff (or 99.9% of them) are original creations by those guys, and they are protected under copyright law just as Nintendo's creations are. A general map layout in a Mother game is almost certainly not likely to be copyrighted, particularly if it's literally just the layout we're talking about and not any of the actual art assets you see in the actual game (which ultimately means it would actually look different to most people, and almost certainly play differently too).
It would be like trying to claim the first level in Mario is copyrighted and that no one could make a level with a similar layout, even if their game looks and plays differently in every way. You might imagine Nintendo has absolutely domain over even stuff like that, but it doesn't. Copyright law is douche at times—or at least it is when these giant corporations decide to push it to its limits and in some cases even abuse it—but it's not completely absurd.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@nab1 I think Christian initially just went and made his own thing without ever really contacting any companies, as most of these fans usually do, and eventually it got back to someone at Sega and then things started happening (it may have been because he contacted them eventually, but I doubt he did so upfront). But, I don't see any need for these guys to go to Nintendo first, personally. I say make the art, enjoy it, and then see what happens.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@VanillaLake Well, 99.9% of it is actual original work, created from scratch by these guys specifically for this game. So, if Nintendo decides to be a douche about this one, these guys could simply change the name and remove/replace the one or two actual Mother characters in the game (there's not many), and then it would be entirely their own creation and protected under the very same copyright laws as Nintendo's work is. And that's exactly what I'd do if Nintendo decided to be a tool here—and it would be another fan project that could have actually promoted Nintendo's brands and franchises in a positive way but that could now actually end up being sold and competing directly with them (and that's also exactly what I'd do if Nintendo's going to be wide about it). So, in this case I don't think we have too much to worry about.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@nab1 No they don't, as I have shown above with a few good examples. Some companies actually embrace this kind of stuff for the most part—as long as it's free and probably made clear it's just fan works too.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@VanillaLake Nope, still not. It will be one day though. . . .
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@Wolfgabe When it's not been monetised in anyway and ultimately just amounts to a piece of fan art (arguably), I think it's not such a big deal to let it lie. This isn't a case of someone stealing/abusing Nintendo's IP and trying to profit from it, which it what copyright law is mostly there to stop; it's just a few fans who've made an amazing tribute game. Personally, if it were my company, I'd be embracing and actually celebrating stuff like this. You know, much like this kind of thing is absolutely embraced and celebrated:
http://www.startrekcontinues.com/
http://www.mother4game.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPbvxRft02g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVD1aQH6ZCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXOBHnWiinY (and, look what happened in this case: http://www.mtv.com/news/1899150/doctor-who-opening-sequence-fan-made/)
And again, this awesome new and official Sonic game was born out of fan-made creations:
http://www.inceptional.com/2016/07/28/8-awesome-nostalgia-fueled-minutes-of-sonic-mania/
Imagine if everyone always shut down stuff like this immediately—it would just be sad, destructive and detrimental in some ways, and ultimately stupid, imo.
Nintendo is being stupid, imo.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
@VanillaLake Exactly.
Re: AM2R Developer Encourages Players to Support Metroid II On the eShop and to Avoid 'Hate' Against Nintendo
I don't see how rewarding Nintendo here is the right thing to do.
Reward a company like Sega, who actually went out and got a few of the most loyal fans to work on a brand new 2D Sonic that actually looks like it might be the best Sonic game ever:
http://www.inceptional.com/2016/07/28/8-awesome-nostalgia-fueled-minutes-of-sonic-mania/
That's the right way to go about this kind of stuff imo; so buy Sega's new Sonic game if you want to reward a company for respecting you as fans and consumers of its products.
Just striking down all the fan made stuff, even when it's not being monetised at all (and, rather than abusing the IP, it's actually celebrating it), and also not having anything in the works that would at least replace or conflict with the work these dedicated fans are doing, so there's no good reason to shut them down (remember, this is just free fan tributes to beloved games basically), is just douche and very "corporate" as far as I'm concerned. And it's even worse with the whole YouTube crap, where it literally is abusing the Fair Use law in many cases, for a quick and easy buck.
Nintendo has been acting very "corporate" of late towards its most dedicated fans—don't waste your breath telling me it's a business, blah, blah blah (stating the obvious is a waste of air; and it's not that simple either)—and it doesn't enamour me to the company at all.
Re: Pokémon Uranium is the Latest Ambitious Fan-Made Game to Run The Gauntlet
Looks pretty sweet.
Re: Nintendo Issues Takedown Notices for Impressive Fan-Made Metroid II Remake, AM2R
@Joeynator3000 You're supposed to know it's implied swearing. There isn't, or at least there should not be, some kind of oppressive ban on people now posting not actually swear words too. Is that really how controlled, Orwellian, and pathetic you want the open Internet to be? Even on a video game site, I think posting completely censored bad words should be acceptable. Otherwise, what you're actually saying is you can't even imply bad thoughts now. Because, let's face it, most bad thoughts on most normal human beings minds have bad words attached to them, and not being allowed to even suggest that is just—it's seriously too unbelievable to think about.
It's like if I tell Nintendo to go shove a stick up its when it makes some douche move—that's just some dude saying it like it is, BUT intentionally censoring his swear words to there is no actual swearing taking place.
You know, like when South Park beeps swear words. In your Orwellian world, the show and its creators would be in jail or something.
Re: Nintendo Issues Takedown Notices for Impressive Fan-Made Metroid II Remake, AM2R
@Joeynator3000 In what sense do you mean?
It's not like if I type **** it comes up as actually meaning anything other than ****, and you have to choose your own word to insert there.
I could be saying book for all you know, or I could be saying ****.
It's just, literally, four asterisks.
Re: Nintendo Issues Takedown Notices for Impressive Fan-Made Metroid II Remake, AM2R
@VanillaLake I'm alway . . . around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Maq10NIWKo
Re: Nintendo Issues Takedown Notices for Impressive Fan-Made Metroid II Remake, AM2R
@Syrek I've reported you too, for suggesting banning me when I have not broken any of the community rules. It is quite literally suggesting oppressive behaviour and mob-mentality group thinking in a supposedly open community where people should feel free to talk and express themselves and defend their views, sometimes even passionately and/or vigorously. If you don't like what I say then don't read my comments; that's how it should work at least. And, unless I'm breaking the rules, which I'm not as far as I'm aware, you don't try to remove me from the discussion just because you don't like the cut of my jib—that, to me, is far more indicative of something insidious and seriously wrong in a comments section, or the kind of thinking and behaviour by certain people in the comments section, than some guy making some heated comments but still comments that are absolutely controlled and thoughtfully censored to make sure they don't contain any swear words or whatever. It's like you can't even tell the difference between someone going off on an uncontrolled violent rant and someone who's raging where they're sitting but has clearly composed their comment to literally censor most of that rage and only convey the general sentiment that they're not happy about something someone said. And it's pretty sad when people can't tell that difference, because that's what's slowly leading to a sinister kind of oppression of thought and expression throughout the Internet—be nice, or you get excluded from this society—and it's close to Orwellian in practice.
Re: Nintendo Issues Takedown Notices for Impressive Fan-Made Metroid II Remake, AM2R
@-DEMISE- And you don't have to. Keep up the good fight. lol
Re: Nintendo Issues Takedown Notices for Impressive Fan-Made Metroid II Remake, AM2R
@gcunit Get lost. I censored every single bad word in that comment. So, the reality here is that it's a perfectly controlled comment. It doesn't require some kind of "cooling off" ban; that's just absurd and oppressive. I have now reported your for basically threatening me by posting a comment that is overtly intended to intimidate me into not speaking/posting other than in exactly the way you want to hear. Bans should not be used for unpleasant attitudes in a comment; they should be used for things like swearing, threatening, spamming, trolling, etc.
Re: Random: SEGA Announces the Announcement of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection EU Release Date
@mjharper lol
Re: Random: SEGA Announces the Announcement of the SEGA 3D Classics Collection EU Release Date
I don't know what monkeys Sega hired to do the marketing/PR stuff, but they need to send them back to the crazy scientist's laboratory they came from.
Re: Video: New Metroid Prime: Federation Force Trailer Arrives, and It's Still Fighting Dislikes
Look, that trailer was pretty decent, for what it is, but I just cannot get past them making the characters stupid frikin' chibi-bobble-heads for no GENUINELY good reason. That kind of stuff just pees me right off.
Re: Nintendo Issues Takedown Notices for Impressive Fan-Made Metroid II Remake, AM2R
@RandomBlue This is what I'm hearing "Blah blah blah."
Re: Nintendo Issues Takedown Notices for Impressive Fan-Made Metroid II Remake, AM2R
@RandomBlue Sega in the example I posted does 1000% help my argument.
And, eh, what are you talking about regarding links? Loads of people post links all the time in Nintendo Life's comments section—as do I. @Kirk - we can do without that last bit of unfriendly business, thanks.
Also, you only think Nintendo can do whatever it wants, even when it comes to free fan created stuff, because you are a totally ignorant and blind fanboy who just assumes that Nintendo holds 100% in absolutely everything that can possibly exist around it's IP, which any non-tool knows fine well it's total ignorant junk. Nintendo can project abuse and misuse of its IP, but it has have a case of abuse and misuse in the first place. It couldn't, for example, just go out and tell every single person who's ever made a Mario fan image to remove it from the web just because Nintendo owns the rights to Mario's image. And, you'd know such things if you weren't such a blind fanboy.
I'm not saying it doesn't have any case at all in this particular situation, but I'd certainly be fighting my corner if I were the creator of this fan game, because it's a totally free project that's basically just a fan-made piece of art at the end of the day. It's not trying to profit off of Nintendo's IP.
Re: Nintendo Issues Takedown Notices for Impressive Fan-Made Metroid II Remake, AM2R
@-DEMISE- One day I'll be gone . . . and you'll miss me.
Re: Bethesda Doesn't Rule Out Nintendo NX Support, But "It's Too Early to Say"
The odds of it being powerful to support the kinds of games Bethesda is making and/or going to make at the level of graphical quality they are making them is slim.
Re: Nintendo Issues Takedown Notices for Impressive Fan-Made Metroid II Remake, AM2R
It's not like you're going to make a remaster of Metroid 2 anytime soon.
Why not take a leaf out of Sega's book and actually work with some of these passionate fans; it might even turn into something real good:
http://www.inceptional.com/2016/07/28/8-awesome-nostalgia-fueled-minutes-of-sonic-mania/
You know.
Re: Dragon Quest X Confirmed for Nintendo NX, Again
@ThanosReXXX Hopefully it looks sweet at least.
Re: Feature: Ten Ideal Launch Year Nintendo NX Games
And, let's be honest here: I want to see every single game on your original poll appear on NX at some point.
Re: Feature: Ten Ideal Launch Year Nintendo NX Games
I certainly wouldn't complain if all ten of those games appeared in the first year of the system.
Also, I wanna see an F-Zero a some point. And, in some magical fantasy world, I'd love to see a fully 3D version of something like Mother 3 on their too.
Edit: Although, I'd actually get rid of Mario Party / Nintendo Party and replace that with a brand new and proper WarioWare game that really shows off the system's strengths.
Re: The Mini NES Classic Edition May Have Some Neat Display Modes
@World Well, I sort of half did too. lol
Re: Dragon Quest X Confirmed for Nintendo NX, Again
@aaronsullivan That would def be great if true.
Re: Dragon Quest X Confirmed for Nintendo NX, Again
@ThanosReXXX I'd be more excited if it weren't the one MMO Dragon Quest JRPG of the bunch. If they confirm Dragon Quest XI too, that would be cool.
Re: Dragon Quest X Confirmed for Nintendo NX, Again
Well, the more games the better, but hearing that the likes of Just Dance and now Dragon Quest X (basically, a Wii game) are coming to the NX doesn't particularly excite me. At least we know it's also getting Breath of the Wild.