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@Franc001 what if I told ya that was the point?

@SillyG "With that said, I think a breast slider is tacky and unnecessary, except perhaps for a player avatar, but I get that its omission would be a source of annoyance for purists"
I mean, it was for the player avatar. They literally took away a customization option so you couldn't even make the bust size bigger or smaller. I was even wanting to make a character like Daidouji from Senran Kagura at the time because she was genuinely badass but I had to settle with a mediocre looking arab guy...

Though nowadays, I'd probably make my female avatar a cutting board tomboy because why not!

@Synecdoche "Don't ask questions. Just consume product, get excited for next product even if you already own product"

Did they also undo the censorships in this definitive version? That's make or break as someone who bought the original 10 years ago

Not to celebrate the layoffs, but what a surprise that one of the ugliest, soul sucking "toys" on the market isn't very popular of a brand to branch out with.
It's like POPs are sold based on "it's pop culture" and not "it's a passion for the hobby"

@Zeebor15 I'm sorry, but aside from the TCG, I don't recall Pokémon getting involved with gacha. So I'm at a loss as to what you are talking about.

@Chaos_Knight Gatekeeping is good

This might bode well for Ananta being on the Switch 2

@Greatluigi Maybe when the Marinetime Odyssey School gets some students, they might.

Glad there is SOME back to basics aspect with the EX Gear. Might have to do tricks to gain air and then spend air strategically to get the upper hand.

Though, I wonder if the overspending risk from the first game is still there. Forces you to think wisely about boosting. Might need to keep the air pitstops in the game to punish overboosting.

@Anti-Matter Eggman is an adult womanizer who let rouge on the team in SA2 because he got pink in the face.

Guess the whole sonic series is off the table for you then......

People who love feudal ninjas are eating good this year.

Unless it's AssCreed

I'm more of a akihabara kinda guy though so gimme Kuda Izuna any day

@Serpenterror Hardware issues should be irrelevant by the time the Switch 2 hits

60fps or bust

I'm hoping Extreme Gear will be the most technical out of all of the rides. I absolutely loved the original Riders, and I want the game to treat its sense of style with respect. I don't care if it's too hard for a "kids game". It should be an option for the adults who want more difficulty out of their racing games

@Anti-Matter Yes, stick with the worst game in the series over something so shallow

Anyways!

@dcon_dot_exe Would make for some interesting multiplayer

@-wc- Well, I mean, when you start seeing what these games are actually like and how human they can be, the eslop becomes even more insulting and comes off as someone who took sex ed from P-hub.
So yeah, I do take it seriously.

@-wc- Golden rule of eslop: If it has "hentai", "waifu" or other curiously chosen words in the title, it's not real hentai. Just baity bullcrap.

Actual eroge blend in with a lot of the JRPGs and Visual Novels that get released because they actually seek to have a loyal, long-lasting audience, not rip the customer off.

@Dazman There use to be Nedgame, but they closed their shop around me when the pandemic hit...

@-wc- "porn"....

@JohnnyMind It's because doing so isn't going to make it easy to reverse. When they hide something, they hide it. So how do you know it is something to "unhide" if you never know it exists?
It does start to overstep what a storefront is logistically trying to do: sell you stuff.

Again, I'd rather just have a tidy storefront that lets all creativity shine on the same stage.
Inversely, a better system would be to allow following highlight developers. But not hiding the meaningful content. This way if you are feeling adventurous, you can take a look at the "what's new" page and see everything.

@JohnnyMind I'm not quite into that idea, because what if they release a game that does interest you, or help you understand a whole new genre of gameplay or storytelling?
I'm just not a fan of the idea of blanket blocking because of shallow disinterest in the heat of the moment.

I don't mind them hitting the clear scam titles off of their platform, but I hope this doesn't lead to them removing earnest creativity on their store.

@Sir_Axeman Next year?

No Triple Deluxe?

@Vyacheslav333 The fact that we still don't have Tekken Advanced or Tekken Prime on home consoles yet....

@MikeP People are still laughing about it today, many decades later, even outside the culture. Hell, the gacha game in question you probably saw was Korean. I say that's pretty timeless, much to the point that they make actual character dynamics out of it or even outright role reversals. (Bless the mesugaki trope! 😭) Hell, there's already dynamics out of it with how the old men all have bloody water faucets for nostrils and the dancer getting all shy and flustered. It's not much because 90s arcade game, but it's at least trying to be something a bit more and is trying to be cute about it (in a Belgian comic kinda way). It just helps to know when to not take something seriously, because it certainly ain't a commentary. Most average people would already understand that and move on.

@MikeP Dated? yeah right. Was just in a gacha subreddit and there was a lot more implications shown in those gag comics than that ending. The comic in question: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmirais-revolutionary-jelly-disaster-translated-himiya-jouzu-v0-pub1m6erdihe1.png%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D5ad11f3536d4eb50bd2845b5fe1b70260ba7e09d

The "modern audience" doesn't exist. Sexual humor is also a timeless concept. It's better for entertainment media, old or new, to be enjoyed for what they are instead of becoming more concerned about moral-brigading problem tourists. Because let's be perfectly honest, if you played the game and chose the obvious "sexy arab dancer" and tried getting to that ending, chances are you already like the game anyways to get to that point and you don't really care much for the ending to begin with.

The only thing I can say about the ending itself, is that it feels kinda flat. Not much to care about. But you could probably say that about all old fighting game endings

@Vyacheslav333 well sht....

@Anti-Matter Maybe if we are talking utility devices like phones, but consoles are leisurely devices, specialized to do one thing.

The reality is, people are losing interest because they already have a switch.

@axelhander What kind of person would bring up the anime (as I just did) and talk frequently about how much he loves the games and say "this gothic looking guy CLEARLY listens to rap music"?

While I'm no Donguri, I'm no casual in these games either.

@axelhander Are you talking about me? because I already showed I know a lot

The hell are the Jack Cayman games?!?! Madworld was a stylish game and Max Anarchy Reigns built on top of that by turning it into an arena fighter.

@OldManHermit Nah, he canonically listens to something like this

@axelhander In the context of Devil May Cry, it sucks

Not gonna lie, kinda came off as cringy thinking a nanny type was listing everything in that description.
"Someone said the A word" and other things really threw me off.

@iedutu There's always Playasia and Dundle

@Bobb Currency conversion issues.
The yen is quite weak right now and people are exploiting that. In comparison, the euro and dollar right now are about neck and neck with each other

Isn't this "prototype" just a wooden block?

@Bobb I wouldn't bother worrying. Assuming it's a 1:1 conversion, all of the cards featured in these games already have a real world translation/localization. So it's just a linguistic portjob.

My real concern is content authenticity, since back in the day, the guys who wee running the card game thought it would be a smart idea to market a game aimed at teens to 6 year olds... Ya know where I'm going with this.

@NintonicGamer Xbox wasn't porting their games to everything though outside of Minecraft though

Killer Instinct and whatever boomer shooter they put out is all I care about

@IronMan30 There's actually belief of questionable behavior going on behind the scenes with the whole access journalism propping up the reviews and being dishonest about the game's quality.
You then have the likes of SkillUp being brutally honest in his review and pulling no punches when needed, speaking things that became the main sentiments behind a lot of what people felt when they played it.

I can't speak about Dragon Age as a series though and don't care too much outside of maybe trying Inquisition. But Valgard's gameplay alone for an RPG entry seemed rather dull just by looking at it.

@Serpenterror That sounds like a mess. Why not just go with Platinum Ninja?

Either way, with the knowledge that Platinum now owns W101, that's not gonna happen.

At least Ninja Gaiden 4 looks promising.

I wanna see if they removed the censorship or not before ordering. Already own the game on Wii U when I was much less stern about this, so they gotta convince me I'm getting the most authentic experience to double dip