@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.
@Notsoavid From seeing Nitrorad's review of it, it's about as hard as a standard RE game. It being brutally hard seems to have been casuals talking, considering Bloober made walking sims before Chronos and Silent Hill 2 RE
@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.
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.
55 was way to young. practically middle aged. wth happened? I got no bond with the guy or his work, but it's cold knowing he didn't even get to have one more christmas
@ThatOneLevel when you really think about it, breaking it down to verticle slice, Diana would just be an additional moveset. it's more like 1.5 characters because they decided to give a mechanic a face
@ottoecamn Well, compared to the complains against the industry about female characters as of late, at least she doesn't look bad. Not my type, but eh, I'm not that selfish
@axelhander I think we went over this before, but this same argument is treating robots in the same way as humans should be treated. They are not human, not even in how they are wired.
Inspiration is not the same as stealing art to train a robot to mash all of the assets together. They have no will of their own either.
@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.
@MathByThePixel It arguably does not. We have damn hard games still selling well. And vice versa too. They are deliberately designed, and that's why they appeal
@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
i can understand Godzilla (or Gojira for the cultured ) because Toei can be like that when it comes to games but why Miku?!
I know Sega doesn't own Miku, but at this point, she's practically a Sega character
@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
Don't F%&k IT UP, DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID, DON'T CENSOR ANYTHING!
FFS, NAMCO! GET IT RIGHT!!!
i don't rush to play Tales games, admittedly. But Berseria, Berseria is special to me and I want it on my shelf after the PC version moved me from start to finish
@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.
@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.
@steely_pete Trust me, some japanese politicians are noticing. Zkurishi being one of them. That said, he's not a particularly high ranking politician, so he proposes and highlights what he can within his power
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Re: Censored Dispatch Artwork Spotted On Nintendo's Digital Storefront
@jojobar Don't breastfeed your children or else they will become bad people!!!!
Re: Cronos: The New Dawn Is Getting An Easy Difficulty Setting In Early 2026
@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: Persona 3 Reload Switch 2 Performance Update Now Live, Targets 60fps In Docked Mode
At least it's future proof. Just wish there was a way to unlock the framerate in handheld mode for when I get it down the line
Re: Cronos: The New Dawn Is Getting An Easy Difficulty Setting In Early 2026
@LoadingSinceThe80s Honestly I'm not a fan of it. It makes me think of a chef who has no confidence that their food tastes good as is.
Re: Cronos: The New Dawn Is Getting An Easy Difficulty Setting In Early 2026
@Notsoavid From seeing Nitrorad's review of it, it's about as hard as a standard RE game.
It being brutally hard seems to have been casuals talking, considering Bloober made walking sims before Chronos and Silent Hill 2 RE
Re: Talking Point: Does It Bother You That Big Games Companies Are Using GenAI?
@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?
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: Vince Zampella, Call Of Duty Co-Creator And Respawn Head, Has Died
55 was way to young. practically middle aged. wth happened?
I got no bond with the guy or his work, but it's cold knowing he didn't even get to have one more christmas
Re: Rumour: Bethesda's Newest IP Is Still Reportedly On Course For Switch 2
Is it Hifi rush?
Re: Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 Updated To Version 1.3.0, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
So when's mouse support?
Re: Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collection Continues The Celebration March 2026
They really gotta do something about that AI garbage in the remake tho...
Re: Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collection Continues The Celebration March 2026
@Anti-Matter Well at least the switch versions are gonna replicate the DS versions with the new TATE mode
Re: Kirby Air Riders Dev Team Disbanding Soon, Game Updates Also Ending
Sakurai also disbanded the Kid Icarus Uprising team when development finished.
He did say that Sora was just a 1 or 2 man company, him and his wife. So yeah, not much to go off of for a dev team.
Re: Video: Pragmata Hands-On Impressions Shared By Capcom
@ThatOneLevel when you really think about it, breaking it down to verticle slice, Diana would just be an additional moveset.
it's more like 1.5 characters because they decided to give a mechanic a face
Re: A New Tomb Raider Entry Has Leaked Ahead Of The Game Awards
@ottoecamn Well, compared to the complains against the industry about female characters as of late, at least she doesn't look bad. Not my type, but eh, I'm not that selfish
Re: Surprise! Capcom Is Bringing Pragmata To Switch 2, Demo Out Soon
Better be a proper switch 2 card
Re: Xbox Is Bringing Another Game To Switch 2 In 2026
@Sindayl I have Killer Instinct on PC as is. The complete version on Steam as opposed to the newly properly released F2P version.
I think I have room to ask
Re: Xbox Is Bringing Another Game To Switch 2 In Spring 2026
And still no Killer Instinct
Re: Metroid Prime 4 On Switch 1 Impresses Digital Foundry - "Nigh-Imperceptible Dips"
@axelhander Well they are both texan
Re: Katsuhiro Harada Announces Departure From Bandai Namco
@Solid_Python Oh...
Re: Katsuhiro Harada Announces Departure From Bandai Namco
@Solid_Python uh, he did. Twice. One of which was a stripped back port of Tekken 6
Re: Sega Will "Carefully Assess Appropriate Use Cases" When It Comes To "Leveraging AI"
@axelhander I think we went over this before, but this same argument is treating robots in the same way as humans should be treated. They are not human, not even in how they are wired.
Inspiration is not the same as stealing art to train a robot to mash all of the assets together. They have no will of their own either.
Re: Metacritic Shares Updated List Of "Every Metroid Game, Ranked"
@Scrubelicious It's apparently also got pacing issues and questionable writing (or more so, acting)
Still seems solid, but go in with caution
Re: Random: Samus Is Joined By Doom Slayer's Voice Actor In Metroid Prime 4
@Zeebor15 Just for short badass moments in Eternal. Otherwise, he never talks. Not much for interaction either
Re: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Difficulty Settings Revealed By Nintendo
@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: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Difficulty Settings Revealed By Nintendo
@MathByThePixel It arguably does not. We have damn hard games still selling well. And vice versa too. They are deliberately designed, and that's why they appeal
Can't be the jack of all trades.
Re: Mega Man Star Force: Legacy Collection Has Been Rated For Switch
@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: Nintendo Has Scheduled Maintenance For 3DS Later Today
while they're at it, they might as well remove the stupid region locking
Re: NieR:Automata Finally Lands Switch 2 Compatibility Update
isn't this game 30fps locked?
for a Platinum game, that's unacceptable....
Re: Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble DLC Is Getting Delisted A Year After Release
i can understand Godzilla (or Gojira for the cultured ) because Toei can be like that when it comes to games but why Miku?!
I know Sega doesn't own Miku, but at this point, she's practically a Sega character
Re: Resident Evil Requiem's Switch 2 Physical Release Includes A Lenticular Edition
"physical release"
Re: Capcom Releases Switch eShop Demo For Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
@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: Capcom Releases Switch eShop Demo For Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
@Arcane-Fer Still a compromised experience. Sorry, but I don't like compromises like that.
Re: Capcom Releases Switch eShop Demo For Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
@KociolekDoSyta @Smithicus they censored some aspects of this version of the game. Don't want a compromised experience
Re: Kirby Air Riders Players Are Creating 'Micro Bikini' Machines, But Nintendo's Having None Of It
Silencing it only make it stronger
Re: Capcom Releases Switch eShop Demo For Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
Dunno why they are releasing a demo for an old game.
Will be avoiding this version of the game if the demo impresses me tho
Re: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade's File Size On Switch 2 Is Making Us Sweat
So they couldn't do a multicard release?
Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled
@calbeau yeah, run a marathon why don't ya.
Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled
@calbeau Oh? How so?
Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled
@calbeau See comment 98 and 100
Re: Sorry Xillia 2, 'Tales Of Berseria' Is The Next Remaster From Bandai Namco
Don't F%&k IT UP, DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID, DON'T CENSOR ANYTHING!
FFS, NAMCO! GET IT RIGHT!!!
i don't rush to play Tales games, admittedly. But Berseria, Berseria is special to me and I want it on my shelf after the PC version moved me from start to finish
Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled
@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
@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.
Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled
@Elektrogeist1287 the first one is a cult classic. Other ones are more arguable between fans
Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled
@steely_pete Trust me, some japanese politicians are noticing. Zkurishi being one of them. That said, he's not a particularly high ranking politician, so he proposes and highlights what he can within his power
Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled
@Nep-Nep-Freak Just to let you know, but they did get an asian release, uncensored and in english on card
Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled
@Kawaiipikachu But Neptunia was not? Tokyo Clanpool was forced to be censored?
yeah, these games are showing an eerily similar throughline than "the game has a security bug"
Re: Corpse Party Tetralogy Pack Switch Western Release Cancelled
@UltimateOtaku91 Friendly general reminder that Nintendo published every Bayonetta game and has contractual lockdown on the last 3 games
They don't have room for this nonsense to be believable
Re: How Are You Finding Switch Game And App Compatibility On The Switch 2?
reminder that Nier Automata's 10th Anniversary is in less than 2 years
they might re-release an updated version for modern consoles
Re: How Are You Finding Switch Game And App Compatibility On The Switch 2?
@chickje "hentai" games
these are all fake btw.