Something tells me they are gonna take after twilight princess

@Fiergala actually in regards to the steam filtering, I was speaking in general. You did bring up sexuality in your post so I responded accordingly. But the same would apply if it was another theme. Someone blacklists "platformer", well now that's most of the games with a jump button gone for example. That's like, most of the gaming library in steam's ecosystem

I did contribute to stop killing games and got into some spats of my own over that too because some people kept making excuses. I'm more of an indoor person, so I'm not that kind of person to make strikes happen. The best I would be for that is sending information or pointing out problems. I don't have that much energy.
Also the US? I have no power there. And I'm no superman. I primarily focus on things that catch my eyes and hold it. lol

@Fiergala It doesn't stop at Bridget, know where your going with this. They also stripped May of her unique character design traits to be a generic anime looking girl. besides Elphelt, that was my main.

My first guilty gear was accent core for the Wii. The style is very thick. You start that far back into GG, you'll notice it more clearly. The new characters just do not scream GG.

@Fiergala yeah, until the next mario game gets added to the sexual content pile because of Peach's peaches was put in a costume that made her alluring to certain post pubescents, kinda like how the biker outfits were for MK8 Steam would block that game outright, so I'm not for copying that system.

out of sight, out of mind, never thought of again. Some times it take exposure to something unique to hook them on a new style outside their comfort zone.

@Pho the game series in question, WAS metal itself.

Mario has had rock and metal soundtracks in the past. That doesn't mean it's suddenly defined by the heavy metal fantasy.
Characters were even inspired by actual trends in the medium. Hell, Sol Badguy is a fan of Freddy Mercury with a giant "Rock You" on his forehead. Even Xrd had a character that was literally guns and roses. You literally ride the lightning as Ky, May is inspired by pirate metal and so on. Guilty gear use to have as much musical history as Jojo Bizarre Adventure.

Metal was the DNA of Guilty Gear. and then the first crossover character we get via Strive has nothing to do with that spirit

now those elements are being neutered or just removed from their character, new characters usually don't have that cohesion and so on.

Also @KociolekDoSyta You call it an evolution, everyone else calls it a devolution. Aesthetics, narrative gameplay and all. I'm not the most hardcore in guilty gear as a player, but I love the characters, the creativity and the vibe the world brings when I do play it. I almost have the whole series on steam, and still need to find a copy of AC+R for switch. That Bridget drama really broke things for a lot of people, and the new redesigns of characters are not helping with that heavy metal vibe that many fell in love with

@KociolekDoSyta Oh? How "metal" is this current guilty gear compared to past iterations? Because they've been doing everything they can to strip back the very spirit of rock and metal in this iteration while also bastardizing fan favorite characters.

You're calling an old head guilty gear fan "wrong" for saying the franchise has lost its identity.

Only played/followed along with Strive, have we?

@KociolekDoSyta the spirit of guilty gear is dead. How does that sound?

Guilty Gear died with Strive

@SuntannedDuck2 Can we not encourage turning all games into a McDonalds to go meal?
These are works of art, visual novels being especially blunt on that. Things in the games are there for a creative reason.

@ShieldHero have fun!

@ShieldHero i wouldn't say snashed up like crazy, but they can get limited once manufacturing stops. It's also important that those who know that those who know about the cancelation of Neptunia Rebirth will really want their copies on Switch.

The rebirth games are lacking a character or two that were suppose to be crossover content. That's because they made contracts with Square to create a girl inspired by Million Author. That has since expired because Square Enix is a moron with short term financial memory. But other than that, all content should be on the card, crossover characters included (like Falcom). Core story is complete and requires no downloads or DLC on that front.

Rebirth 3 should come later

@ShieldHero Mainline Hyperdirmention games aren't really action rpgs, but they look like it when you play them. They are closer to SRPGs in a small field, like Fire Emblem but a game can take only 5 minutes to finish before moving onto the next fight. The games' gameplay are an acquired taste though, but the stories are usually hilarious.
PlayAsia accepts all western and far eastern currency, so you'll be fine. Since these games are niche, I recommend getting them Asap so you don't miss out on them. The Switch aftermarket can get pretty brutal with select releases.

Reset the clock is an extensive list showing all of the people who tried to make themselves look virtuous by attacking those who like anime or otaku subculture only to show they have questionable to legitimately criminal tenancies that contradict their attacks on others. It seems to have changed its name to "reset the clock redux". Definitely not a kids topic, so I'll leave that to your curiosity.

@Mando44646 Visual novels and RPGs might struggle with that

@ShieldHero They usually stay in stock for 2 years before manufacturing dies down a little. Maybe longer. I recommend getting as many of Compile Heart's games from Asia while you can, except Tokyo Clanpool since that got censored in the west and asia.

Also don't mind the people who are quick to call ya a wierdo for liking this stuff. They usually have skeletons in the closet, if Reset the Clock 2024 is anything to go by.

@Fiergala The problem is that steam's filters are overkill. They will even blacklist games you may want to play/are of quality as well, simply because it was one of the 20 tags added by the community that was added to your blacklist. That's part of the reason why I'm against filters like that, as well as wanting to keep options and tastes open to new stuff

@ShieldHero I just check play-asia for the physical version. It's multilingual. I recall it being 30 euros minus shipping per independent release

Edit: I'd still recommend a switch 2 for power increase, but if Nintendo doesn't get their ***** together this gen, they are gonna see a sharp decline in loyalty

@ShieldHero Well, at least there's respite in the Asian physical version coming soon, which won't effect eShop releases.... hopefully....

@Andee Yeah, AI doesn't understand nuance, so I don't count it. And I don't see Nintendo using this for their approval process or how it would see the art in question when games like these are layered as code files.

But that's where I feel there should be an internal filtering system so only the cream rises to the top.

Personally I would have a system where if something doesn't pass in America, it would be sent to Europe. Also doesn't pass? Sent to Japan. Does pass? It's allowed globally. Otherwise you'll have to try again.

The second guideline looks at sensitive content. Nintendo specifically states what would constitute sensitive content, and this includes "sexualization of children, overly sexual content, discrimination and hate, exploitation of social issues, instructing criminal activity, and political statements".

That's not good. That's just gonna choke creative expression.

And also, the part "sexualization of children"... look, if this is aimed at combating actual sexual abuse via photographs and such, then by all means. But I've seen so many people try to silence art too because they prefer to treat fiction as reality and reality as though it's fiction, so this doesn't bode well, especially if a game is Japanese as hell like, say, Bombergirl.
It also begs the question: how are you going to appeal to a teen audience if you are not allowed to attract and entertain them to begin with? You do realize a lot of characters aimed at the youth are youthful and attractive themselves so to appeal to their target audience, right?
And that's ignoring how many people speak from the closet...🙄

Which then leads me into this: "overly sexual content"... What do you describe as "overly"?!?! These rules are vague. I'd at least make a distinction based on art quality, narrative strengths and gameplay quality.

This better not choke out the Compile Heart games. I even want some proper eroge like Nekopara or Senran Banka to have room for uncensored versions here in Europe

I wonder, does the mouse mode work for Galaxy now?

"I can't choose either" would probably be enough to say "I don't want digital"

Physical forever

@Willo567 in all fairness, this game is not rendering as many things as Knack. So I feel like those frame dips this game is going to experience needs to be ironed out

@WiltonRoots As time went by people worked out better ways to write their games. Strange that.

Hardware homogenized in the past 15 years down to just AMD and Nvidia, for example. The expectation is that if you can program for RTX, you should be able to have some coding knowhow to program what's on the Switch/Switch 2, since it also runs on Nvidia. Especially when the console has the horse power of a PS4 pro.

This isn't like the SNES era where hardware was scattershot

Yeah, that F-Zero one and SoulCalibur thing might be a deal breaker in the long term. One is a racing game that requires heavy reflexes to survive, the other is not even tournament legal because of it's frame delay issues

Personally, I'm not really buying the excuse. Is it too much to ask to optimize your game AND be fun?

This is your hardware, Nintendo. You should know the ins and outs of it

@Solid_Python except I haven't heard any reports, and I have NDS cards that are 20 years old now that still work. I don't know how those people are handling their cards to make them fail.

Digital isn't preservation in this current landscape. You can, and will. have games or digital goods you bought taken from you my hand. Those who lost their stuff during the Crunchyroll merger know that all too well. And Nintendo is no different.

@Solid_Python Yeah, on switch cards, everything is done via a flash storage so they should last 100 times longer than an Atari cartridges running on batteries. imagine that, especially the longevity of Atari carts alone!

Can you actually jump into the tech world before saying stuff like this? the only way these cards are breaking is if you deliberately damage them. other than that, they have the data resilience of a CD in a dry environment, which is to say they can last for 1000 years if handled properly.

Meanwhile online services have financial incentives to pull the plug.

@Solid_Python Tell that to atari games, many of which still work 50 years later

Meanwhile, how are your Satellaview games doing?

@Solid_Python the plastic holds metals and silicon that actually hold the data of thing you bought that can't be taken away from you.

Crazy, right?

@RasandeRose Oh, so you must be really be into gambling companies then. Good to know, monopoly man.

Meanwhile those who pirate from poverty have no incentive to profit off what they obtain unlike shoplifters. They just wanna play a game they cannot reasonably obtain. Not everything revolves around your US problems

Also "pays their taxes" 🤣 Many big companies try AVOIDING methods of paying taxes. Nintendo included. Reality check, man!

@WiltonRoots Yeah, I wonder why. Must be the drugs and alcohol being the point of attention instead of video games!

I also lived in Pakistan for a whole year, so I know how rough it is there too. Imagine going days without electricity! I've even heard stories of no electricity for weeks while the government keeps increasing taxes nonsensically.
If you wanna be a teacher's pet to a corporation and treat them like a living being, be my guest. I'm not for piracy myself, but I'm gonna think twice about people's living situations encouraging certain habits online before casting judgment. If it can help them escape and stay sane without going to the extreme end, that's more important.

@RasandeRose yeah, because everything is online these days. Not having a computer or cheap phone is the equivalent of death in this society.

Is that monopoly hat worn unironically?

@RasandeRose I have family who lives in Pakistan. They are a poor AF country who doesn't get the media in the same easy way we do. Piracy is the only way to keep some flow of culture coming in and out regularly, especially gaming culture. You're trying to be a smart arse about "kids in africa", not knowing who you're talking to.

@WiltonRoots
"you have a roof over your head, clothes on your back and food on your table and you need nothing else" is what you're telling me. That's not living, that's barely surviving, and your telling people to have no sense of escapism... Good luck with anybody listening to that

@WiltonRoots
I can make that same argument in reverse, man. If that's all people have while having absolutely nothing else, what do you expect people to do? Not watch movies or play games?

also, @RasandeRose

@Deerock69 except I'm pretty sure you're still reading a lot anyways since not everything is voiced. lol

@RasandeRose I said robin hood for a reason. If someone really is that much of a cheapskake, then that's on them. But with bull currently happening in the industry, along with youth and impoverish who can't afford to buy stuff, that's only creating legitimacy for the behavior

@Max_the_German what you just said is precisely why the mantra is practiced

Don't do crappy business practices, and the robin hoods will behave.

@ShieldHero You could also use a mig dumper if you wanna mod. you can even play your legit copies on PC too, straight off the card, if you have the right setup if you're worried about legalities. Contemplating buying that too for games that don't get upgrades on switch 2, so to make them run better after mods

just don't share your roms online

@Max_the_German How about this in the switch 2 era?

"If buying isn't owning, Piracy isn't stealing"
Cuz keycards suck

That nsw2 part may have alerted Nintendo....

@HeadPirate eh, more like slight revamps than remasters, at least that's how I call your Ultra Street Fighter 4's and Personal 4 Goldens. Same engine, same assets, just new stuff added to a full re-release

@FishyS 30 bucks a game is not too bad I guess, especially when they're not that old

@Exerion76 what are ya talkin about? that's nothing new for Japanese action games in the past 20 years

Behold, the grand battle between kyonyuu and hinnyuu!!!!

Anyways, I can tell Sonic fans are already gonna love this game

@Liam_Doolan watch Asia get the full edition on card :3

There was one thing that was promised, but not tested.....

Can the switch 2 version of the game card work on the switch 1??!?!?!?!

I wanna see a video of that in action!!!

@TwinFami Blech. YOU are tired of them. Other people are not. If you are gonna be in an echo chamber of "gamers only want single player". then you are gonna be no different from the execs who say "gamers only want live service games".

This whole initiative is to allow live service games to end with secondary options of support so you can keep playing (albeit at level 1), not to end the concept of a live service game. Because quite frankly, I can't see a game like Mecha Break surviving without multiple people online playing

@Zuljaras Don't diss Hi-fi rush!