Severian

Severian

Fighter, expat, Taoist, book lover

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Re: Sonic's Run On "Non-Sega Hardware" Made Yuji Naka Both Sad And Happy

Severian

It was a contrast given that I grew up with Sega basically trashing Nintendo heavily in their commercials and magazine advertisements. All that talk of blast processing and a hedgehog being cooler than a plumber, and suddenly, he’s on GameCube… followed by the Bandicoot too.

Too bad Crash never made it to Smash for a true closure to the battle of the mascots.

Re: "Indie Masterpiece" Platformer 'Horace' Gets Physical Release

Severian

The water sequence really annoyed me for the boss fight and escape, and some platforming areas were unfair without using a YouTube walkthrough. I think the game earned its 10 though because it’s a quintessential British humor game that I enjoyed and story that pulled the heartstrings.

Re: Xbox Boss "Trusts" Nintendo To Not Do Anything That Would Harm The Games Industry

Severian

I feel Microsoft sees Nintendo as their preferred competitors, because they're not selling to the same demographic. Sony has really been their rival for a while, though some would argue that they're still slightly different demographics due to the Japanese games on PlayStation--however, Sony has been annoying Japanese fans for a while. Changing the button mapping for X and O to match American and European preferences instead of Japanese was really a bad idea, and they aren't fond of the censorship it seems.

Re: Video: We Tried To Convince A PS5 Fanboy To Get The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack

Severian

Convincing editor Sammy Barker of Push Square is more of an impressive feat to me given he’s posted multiple incendiary headlines and shill pieces dumping on Nintendo. He is the main reason I don’t like going to Push Square and get my PS5 news elsewhere, and I would most definitely never want to be in the same room as him.

I also can’t even be bothered to get the NSO EP because it’s too expensive. And I also know some jerk who says games are meant to be expensive and if you can’t afford them you’re cheap or you’re poor and don’t deserve to play video games, yet the pricing makes it seem like he’s right even if the value for the cost is not worth it.