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

"physical release"

@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

@Arcane-Fer Still a compromised experience. Sorry, but I don't like compromises like that.

@KociolekDoSyta @Smithicus they censored some aspects of this version of the game. Don't want a compromised experience

Silencing it only make it stronger

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

So they couldn't do a multicard release?

@calbeau yeah, run a marathon why don't ya.

@calbeau Oh? How so?

@calbeau See comment 98 and 100

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.

@Elektrogeist1287 the first one is a cult classic. Other ones are more arguable between fans

@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

@Nep-Nep-Freak Just to let you know, but they did get an asian release, uncensored and in english on card

@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"

@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

reminder that Nier Automata's 10th Anniversary is in less than 2 years

they might re-release an updated version for modern consoles

@chickje "hentai" games

these are all fake btw.

@the_beaver you can hack your save file for the Witcher to make it run at a higher framerate. I recall hearing it's just the PC settings file turned into a switch save. I'll leave you to look that up

@sportymariosonicmixx In practice, the vast majority are. But some are just not gonna work because of hardware requirements, like the Fit Ring, or because there is a contractual reason like Netflix. The only other games that have issues are ones that rely on specific emulation software, which isn't going well with the Switch 2's own emulation layer

@NotASockPuppet That's why I didn't like it as much and why there's a slow, decaying apathy for the game in the fandom (last I checked). The fact that the game is so basic when everyone else already has played the first 3 (4?) games is why it feels pretty dull. Serviceable, but nothing more compared to other Sonic games, 2D or 3D, that aren't afraid to be loud and brash arcade games.

It's nostalgia poisoning a series, if you will.
That's why 2D Sonic is seen as second class now instead of the old GameCube days where you could argue the games were neck and neck.

@Dr_Lugae The problem is that 2D sonic was making progress in the handheld space. By the DS, it was telling its own stories and having its on spin on things.

But people around the late 00s were pretending like the games after sonic 3 were all sh|te and so the 2D games started regressing, cutting out mechanics that gave the games personality until we ended up with Sonic Mania.

Now, you may like Sonic Mania, but as a kid of the GameCube era onwards, I liked it when I saw Sonic progress and add new mechanics that would even become staples. So you can imagine what I think of Sonic Mania when we jump from the dazzle of Sonic Rush Adventure back to the basicness of the genesis and stayed there. It was a symptom of a greater problem

I liked Frontiers. Was a really zen game when it wasn't a rush.
Recall the album for the game being titled "stillness and motion" and honestly, I can't think of anything better to what the charm of the game is

@metaphysician English please?

I dunno how that's wrong in what I said. I definitely skipped some steps, but yeah, even companies behind generative AI have gotten in trouble for buying a bunch of copyrighted material to train their tech on for the purpose of replication.

@Woshiernog Your brain doesn't steal art. It remembers it, both practically (to the best of its ability) and emotionally, and replicates it to your own personality traits, a snapshot into your mind

GenAI just takes it, saves it as accurately as a copy of a file on PC and then mashes it all together to create a fake image based on prompts

@DTFaux Not only that, but the AI bros are intentionally misconstruing what people mean by AI.

We mean GenAI, but they wanna paint this as you being against AI as a whole if you're against GenAI, so they can call you a luddite

Some AI bro just tried doing this to me today, even though we play video games, which are laced with AI tech in general by default

You gotta be very deliberate with your language, very deliberate with the tech you're talking about, so to shut down those goalpost shifting attempts

@DTFaux I just respond with "no tool is suppose to replace it's wielder"

Recently got booted from a subreddit mod list because the only mod there was an AI bro and he argued this exact same thing. Meanwhile I just wanted some quality control....

no censorship this time?

@Wexter "have you played Xillia and Xillia 2? They're complete on their own"
So are games like Atelier.

I don't care man.

@Wexter "Hey guys we're going to delay this fan favorite release so we can slaps the 2nd game in, increase the price and it's a game a good 1/3 of you don't even like!

How is that pro-consumer!"

It's almost like delaying a release to be complete is actually pro-consumer! (not that Xillia has any water to hold with it's censorship removing and altering content to the point of getting Japanese politicians talking but I digress)

@Wexter Mario galaxy 1+2 was a game with a worse deal than the last Mario collection. 3 games arguable 20 bucks each, vs 2 games, one of which was in the previous collection, for 35 bucks each at cheapest.

Notice how dumb that sounds to a consumer? That they have to buy the same game at a higher price?

now, lets put that into perspective with Xillia. 2 games separately for 100 bucks, or 2 games bundled together for 50 bucks.... which one sounds like the better deal...

again, see how dumb this sounds?

People aren't made of money, so please, stop mocking people for thinking the money isn't worth it when their finance situation makes it so they can't buy as many games. I already mention that some people avoid digital games for a reason. You might be better off, and good for you, or you don't care about the ownership of your games, but others aren't in that situations

Might just wait for a nintendo reprint then to get the say one update on card

@Wexter Xillia isn't an abstract collection like the Mario 3D Stars, man. This is a continuous story. There really is no sensible person that would ask for both games to be separate.

When I said that this is putting artist out of a job, I meant it. GenAI is trained to mash actual artists work into a mess of an image, without their consent and without their permission, which, surprise, the corporate world weaponizes against the very people who made said art. It just becomes a viscous cycle of people getting put out of a job while the machine can't survive without stealing their work because GenAI inbreeding causes more damage to the system long term.

This isn't the same as horses getting replaced by cars, because the car didn't chop off the horse's legs to call it its own to prove it's worth. Woodworkers still exist in the more artistic and decor world, and mechanics are still making things too. Machines are still an extension of that, but not a hostile replacement of them.

To answer your part of "being human"...
Illustrative arts is suppose to be a snapshot into a person's mind and soul, how did they feel, what were they thinking, what memories slipped into the work itself by mistake, how do they see the world even in the mundane ways. That's part of the human side of making art and why it starts to connect on a deeper level. And that's what AI doesn't understand nor can it properly replicate it. But cooperation's still want to push it anyways because it's cheaper to make a "product" than actually try to sit down and make something, even if the end result is worse. If firing everyone would save them money, they will do it without a care for the end result. (and we already see that a lot in gaming as is)

@roboshort Then just play a TTRPG then. >.>
Isn't the whole point to play and mess with friends? Be a game of imagination?

Why the hell would you want to play with an AI?! That defeats the point.

A JRPG is made to simulate TT roleplaying while telling a story of its own, not replace it.

@Wexter Look man, if the games in question are part of a unique back to back duology, I say it's fair to try and bundle them together when they become retro. Hell, Namco already did this with Klonoa. Not everyone is made of money. Additionally, many people here also prefer physical so they actually own their games, which doesn't go on sale in the same way as digital. And this is competing with other retro RPGs that are bundled too on Switch like the final fantasy bundles.

So yeah, acting like wanting a better, cohesive deal being "complain for the sake of complaining" is missing the point.

@roboshort GenAI has nothing to do with gameplay tho.

It's a theft system designed to put artists out of a job using their own creations against them
So yeah, it's not something to celebrate

@Wexter I believe his point is that you can put both games in one collection. Size and length be damned

I have both Atelier trilogies on one card per sub-series

So there really is no point in trying to separate them when they are this old

@JR150 Pretty much. I'd say it's more adorable there, what with the Neps being all cute and funny.

Would really love to see the Neptunia series return to SEGA's hands, even if only as a guest. Imagine how Neptune would start rippin on all of the SEGA IPs

They better not censor any of these releases. Especially Berseria.

Found out too late that they neutered a violent but impactful scene for the west. Would like a fully uncut release.

Bayonetta and Neptunia

Especially Neptune. She's suppose to represent all of Sega, after all!

@CaptainCluck Eh, Nintendo is already pretty hated right now so it balances out I guess

@Yosti Why wouldn't it? The OG game was for PC. Can't remember the last time the game came out on a non-pointer system

Never let it be forgotten that Nintendo is a massive patent troll.

In japan, they are infamous for this. Most Japanese gaming conglomerates too

@ShieldHero Actually they are. they try to sell subscriptions and such to even use the AI generator.

I'd much rather that money goes to a fan artist that might be brought on to be official one day

On one hand, I know that they are lying and are only out for themselves

On the other hand, GenAI is theft, and the end result is often lifeless and crowds the internet's algorithm that could have gone to a real artist or someone else that's just as entertaining

If it means I start seeing less invasive GenAI on my pixiv feed, the better it is for me

@Pillowpants Most Disgaea games are standalone anthologies, with an exception made to the first one which has 2 direct sequels (2, D2) and spinoffs inspired by it.