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Re: Cronos: The New Dawn Is Getting An Easy Difficulty Setting In Early 2026

Samalik

@LoadingSinceThe80s Sorry, but a game for everyone is a game for no one.

I'd rather them have a focus they stick by and understand their target audience is intelligent.
And yes, this also applies adding painful hard modes to games intended to be easy too (And boy do I know that pain from Sonic Frontiers...). Its funny how nobody defends that if ever done but it's always the game being "too hard" for a stock finished 'normal mode' that always gets bashed on "to attract more players". And I'm not even talking about poorly tested difficulty spikes here.

Re: Talking Point: Does It Bother You That Big Games Companies Are Using GenAI?

Samalik

@PharoneTheGnome "The genie is out of the bottle. Trying to ignore it is a career limiting move."
Trying to use it as your personal genie is even more career limiting, considering now companies are asking for artists to walk in and show them that you know how to draw, assuming they value art and the experience with it first.
That's how bad it's gotten.

Re: Talking Point: Does It Bother You That Big Games Companies Are Using GenAI?

Samalik

For me, I draw the line at vocal generative AI. There are practical applications for it and the music/voice acting industry is showing signs of respecting creators in some ways.
From using genAI voices to splice in a moment where characters say your inputted name, to allowing Vtubers to become completely anonymous. And thats saying nothing about new "vocaloid" software that hires someone to provide a voice and gets paid for it while still being required to use their voice like an instrument.

There's far more ethics being used there compared to genAI images, which are still built off of theft while avoiding the creative process altogether.

Re: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Difficulty Settings Revealed By Nintendo

Samalik

@MathByThePixel The last entry was 3 years ago, in an overcrowded subgenre in our day and age, in a series that isn't considered the hardest games in the world. I don't think we need to over extend "difficulty options" as a crutch for a less polished experience. We already had the lack of confidence shown in "difficulty options" this year in Doom Dark Ages alone.

Re: Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collection Has Been Rated For Switch

Samalik

@Charlirnie depends on what you're looking for.
They are both familiar games to each other with shared mechanics (I mean, Starforce is the sequel)
That said, Starforce may be a tad more challenging due to limited movement whereas EXE uses a 3x6 grit split in half.
Starforce uses 3D during battles too, so it might be a bit more of a spectacle. It's also a bit more "tokusatsu hero" than the EXE games
They're both fun of course

Re: Capcom Releases Switch eShop Demo For Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny

Samalik

@KociolekDoSyta Well like I said, a PS2 copy is in the wild for relatively cheap. If I like the demo, I'm buying that instead!

btw, I hear Onimusha Warlords is only censored if you buy the western version. If you buy a Japanese copy, which will still includes English, you'll still get the full horrific experience. I'm not one for horror, but I'll bear with it if it means seeing the true artistic intent

Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled

Samalik

@calbeau You're only saying that so you don't have to tackle everything else I said tackling what you said. Nothing more than a coward's approach to debating, so don't think this is gonna work on me. You don't seem to know how invalidating via ad hominin actually works then if you're serious about this.

When people say "karen" they have a specific type of person in mind. And lo and behold, that's what other people were seeing in ya. If that's an insult then ya need to look in the mirror for once, buddy.

Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled

Samalik

@calbeau "inappropriateness"
Oh bloody hell, stop being a bloody karen.

You say you're a father right? The surely you yourself must remember how "active" you were as a teen, with memories of the kind of content aimed at teens.

The moment you advocate for silencing anybody because you don't like what they make or say is the moment you're gonna have the average joe working against you because they know what comes after. needless to say, going "censorship bad, except for the thing I don't like" isn't gonna win you any points with anybody

Trying to paint this as a moralist dilemma isn't gonna work because we're already aware how much of the morals are phoney and rely heavily on weaponized empathy.