RunninBlue

Is the app not available in Australia? The link doesn’t work and an app store search brings up nothing. You may want to mention that.

They are both terrible. The western one never peaked my interest at the time. Something about it seemed boring and childish. Big trucks perhaps.

They can’t get a licenced LotR games in brick & mortar stores? Weird.

It just stands to reason. I stopped visiting sites like Kotaku & Giant Bomb many years ago after previously being a daily consumer because their focus went from gaming to other things. I never read Polygon because I knew I wouldn’t like their content from day 1. I just transitioned to other sites that kept their content mostly apolitical. I was not alone, millions did the same. It didn’t help their cause that myself and people like me (long time customers) were treated with ridicule and open disdain for suggesting these companies not alienate the majority of their audience base.

Like others have said, you reap what you sow. Actions have consequences. Don’t cry about it.

As they always loved to say,

Do better.

@browneyes lol, same here. The most annoying voice/accent/lilt combo in existence.

@Princess_Lilly They are based in Bucharest, Chisinau and Lasi.

Moldova and Romania.

@Bratwurst35

https://www.uschamberfoundation.org/civics/new-study-finds-alarming-lack-of-civic-literacy-among-americans

@Ashunera84 Do you honestly believe American tech companies don’t take user data and work and share with their government?

Like honestly? You don’t believe that?

Wow.

“Any company that out competes American companies is bad, mmmkay?” - the American regime

• Huawei
• Tik Tok
• Tencent
• ?

If you can’t beat them, destroy them.

@Keman Those high end portables are made in relatively small numbers.

Nintendo has the advantage of buying tech in bulk which brings prices down.

It’s something to consider.

“Neo Geo”

“Classic side scrolling beat em up”

You had me there for a second. I thought there was a long lost NeoGeo game I had missed.

Apparently not.

I didn’t play this game and don’t know much about the drama around it (although, I get it), but from that statement it sounds like the company wants to repeat what they did before with their second game if they can find funding (as they sit their handing out redundancy letters and already announcing layoffs earlier).

Is that a smart or sound business decision?

@Daniel36 Uniracers?

They should do it in the style of an 80s ‘straight-to-video’ ninja movie, lol. Cheese it up.

What does he do with it after he’s done filming? I’m guessing dismantled and thrown away?

I ordered a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro three days before this announcement.

Lol.

@Moistnado I get that sentimentality, but I was recently sorting through my storage and found a F4F Samus statue I had from years ago and decided to look at the current value.

I was blown away that it was selling for thousands of dollars AUD on the secondhand market. So, if you get lucky, these can be a decent investment.

@awp69 Just keep an eye on your News app on the homepage. It’ll show up in there if they do the same deal in the USA.

EDIT: Homepage of the Switch console, I mean.

@BeefSanta Of course it’s the individual’s choice. I wasn’t the one proclaiming my altruistic tendencies to a video game website.

My point is, if your intentions are genuine, then there are waaaaaay more destructive companies and evil individuals than current flavour of the month, MBS that you could and should focus your attention on. But, people seem to develop selective outrage about these things based on what they are fed in their social media and/or “news” feed.

Anyway, you do you and I’ll do me, but I will continue to point out hypocrisies and double standards when I see them.

@BeefSanta https://www.slickcharts.com/blackrock

Go your hardest.

And if you use anything from Youtube to Coca Cola to an iPhone and just about anything else, I suggest you go live in a cave if you want to stay true to your morals.

@BeefSanta Your brainwashing is similarly weak. If you buy American, you buy games from companies with Blackrock and Vanguard in their shareholders. They fuel wars so that the “defense” companies they are invested in can turn a profit. They are evil.

Don’t be a hypocrite.

And don’t use made up words that mean nothing and were trendy 10 years ago.

@BeefSanta Do you buy American-made games?

I hope they have a well staffed store security team.

I think this looks great. A lot of games nowadays try to emulate the look of games from the past, but always seem to lack something authentic whereas this one really looks like a long lost game.

They nailed the look.

@DestructoDisk Good to know. Thanks for the reply.

How do you go about putting (personally dumped) ROMS on an iPhone? I don’t get it. Apple’s ecosystem is so locked down. Do you put them in the Files app?

Musk buying Rockstar would probably end up being a good thing in the end.

The nightmare would be if they were bought by Disney or Sony.

I love the idea and I’d love to buy this, but I can’t justify the price for something I know will just sit on the shelf, look cool and collect dust.

I already built a full size MAME cabinet years ago and bought a sit down cocktail style MAME cabinet too, that’s enough for me.

There’s definitely a market for these things, though.

Pretty impressive cosplay effort. I didn’t even notice there was a Samus until a while in.

Why do people film vertical videos? He could have got both Mother Brain and Samus in the shot, but no, let’s shoot vertical. People are weird.

I’ve been playing NES games since the 80s and never realised that there was a Felix the Cat game until now. Interesting how that slipped by me.

I remember people saying that GTA Trilogy was “unplayable” even after patches, but then I played it myself and found it not perfect, but absolutely playable and enjoyable.

So, I don’t know what to think. Reserved judgement.

@Ninersdad Same here. They never replied to my email and I never received my game compensation that they claimed I was due.

I can only take from that, that Aspyr are a ***** company.

@HeadPirate I think the outrage over the scrotum armour was well deserved. Most ridiculous looking thing ever.

I thought it was a new Ogre Battle until I saw the Vanillaware-style sprites.

Looks promising.

My Pro Controller finally started drifting badly after having it since launch. My original Joycons also had to be replaced a while back due to drifting and I couldn’t utilise Nintendo’s repair service due to Covid lockdowns at the time.

An expensive and annoying fault which is a first in my 35+ years of Nintendo gaming.

Hopefully they learn from this.

@BrianJL You’re right, but the gameplay does look kind of slow for a beat em up. It was the first thing that stood out to me.

I haven’t heard or thought of this guy in many years.

So, no. Not really excited.

The trailer says “improved graphics”, but the story states “no remastering”. Which one is true?

I played them all through during March-May 2022. I found them all perfectly playable. Slight framerate hiccups here and there, but nothing soul-destroying. Very minor graphical glitches and hardly any bugs. Maybe I was lucky, but I believe you can enjoy the games just fine unless you are going out of your way to be upset in all honesty.

In saying that, I am not excusing the developer or publisher for the state of the game at launch. That was unacceptable.

@GADG3Tx87 Thank you for letting me know. Maybe I’ll have to create an account then.

@GADG3Tx87 No, I didn’t. I sent an email through their Feedback portal and I have been ignored too.

Maybe the NL author of the article can shed light on this? Paging @Liam_Doolan

I have to say, my impression of Aspyr is not very good right now. I can’t help but think that the free code was just a PR stunt to mitigate negativity and that they have no intention of fulfilling that promise.

@sleepinglion Nintendo games get emulated so quickly because of the popularity of Nintendo games, not the specs of the console. That’s why Nintendo consoles always get emulated first, because of desire. This has been the case since the very beginning. That’s why Sega, PlayStation, Xbox consoles etc were always an afterthought in emulation. They got done AFTER the Nintendo console in most cases. This is why generally Nintendo emulation was traditionally more comprehensive, smooth and stable and other emulation wasn’t.

The only thing to match that desire in emulation was arcade back in the day. Arcade emulation was also highly desired.

When emulation became a thing, they didn’t say “oh ****, I want to play Master System games!”, they said “****, I want to play NES!”

Does anyone know how to contact Aspyr about the free code? There is no mention of it on their website and to email support you have to sign in to an account.

Lol, I finally bought it a week or two ago when the eShop had the Star Wars bundle sale. It was included in the bundle.

I wonder if that counts for the free game key?

The Song of Storms sounds like a Doors song from the Soft Parade era. Not bad.

Where’s the tweet?

Looks interesting. I found the music and sound effects very lacklustre, though. They didn’t match the stunning visuals…

I remember when people feared that Nintendo would become a mobile only company after they dipped their toe in the mobile industry.

I hope they tweak the text size on those item information boxes and such. That screenshot makes it look too small.

@Ralizah

Chinese?

“ LavaBird is a video game developer headquartered in London, England. It is known for Warside.”

https://www.gematsu.com/companies/lavabird