@Silly_G I was thinking your first paragraph, almost exactly. I really don't like the "digital deluxe" naming. It's like a slap in the face after already having turned the other cheek, and being told to like it with their hand already threatening a third slap if you don't, and you know they'll find a "reason" to "justify" the third slap anyway.
"remove cigars? No, but some sugarcoating on it. An actual sugarcoating."
They obviously had some laughs at the people who want censorship. I can appreciate that. Had it been forced, I couldn't, but optional, it's a great joke.
Japanese looks scarier, but the European better represents the game. And what a game! I remember being on smallband internet and loading in the trailer that I watched several times already, just because of how "hyped" I was, and how I loved the game throughout despite its flaws. Actually, I was reminded of playing Shattered Memories by playing Alan Wake on Switch. An equally awesome game that shares some of what I enjoyed most: exploration of a creepy environment with a flashlight, and a great psychological horror story. And it also shares some of the bad parts, being obviously more ambitious than the budget and / or deadline allowed, but still overall having the ambition overshadows the jank and other technical stuttering (for me at least).
I also like how many Japanese horror games on Wii had a black box instead of the white, but in this case I felt like the re-imagining of the game fit perfectly with the Wii's white style.
Persona Q has a genuinely creepy dungeon. With a real horror theme to it, but every time you enter combat the music shifts to the (awesome) battle music that is very much not creepy.
Alan Wake (really enjoying it in handheld, I did play it on 360 back in the day as well), and Bravely Default 2.
Bought them for the combined price of 21,2 euro's, BD2 physically. Once I'm done with them, I'll start Nier Automata, Persona 5, or Bayonetta I think. All three of which I got physically cheaper than the usual price due to a trade-in deal for Persona, a 25% discount on pre-orders of Bayonetta (I suppose because of the "controversy" for a while), and Nier just being cheaper where I got it.
@Vyacheslav333 Which probably means it never hurt the enjoyment of the game, so it's fine. If it was bad, they'd notice and it wouldn't get a 9 I suppose.
Now I know this is an unpopular opinion, but Alan Wake on Switch, from my experience in handheld with it, is a perfectly enjoyable and well written horror game which, I'm going to say it, despite its obvious visual downgrades, still looks great at times (and yes, terrible at other times). It runs just fine, it plays great, it moves at a fantastic pace, and its story is always a joy to return to.
Alright, at full asking price for the Switch version, I can imagine being a bit sour about it. But I managed to pick it up before they corrected the Mexican eshop price (23,99 MXN, divide by 20 to have an idea what the € or $ price is). I would have loved gyro aim in it as well. But even RE4 on Switch still doesn't have it (which is a terrible oversight, making me not even WANT one of my favourite games on the handheld... I know, double standards, but the price, and the fact that they have implemented motion controls in some other versions of the game...).
So yeah, Alan Wake is perfectly fine (which definitely does not equal "perfect") if you allow yourself to just enjoy the game in handheld, and not count pixels and frames all the time, compare with better versions, or let some other technical issues spoil a good story with good gameplay.
Other than that, most of the better ones are on the list I suppose, but there's more if you're a little bit forgiving and can enjoy despite some technical flaws here and there (and I still think Gamecube / PS2 is one of the best generations for horror, and my graphical expectations haven't really updated since then, only when it comes to lighting effects for atmosphere).
Zombi U, one of my favourite survival horror games, and it's one of the games that work perfectly with the console's unique features. Forget the ports.
I worked in a car factory of a brand that is apparently worth 11.97 billion dollars. I made less than 2000 euro's a month for 5 sessions of 8 hours a week, at night time, and even less when I worked in alternating shifts or completely random hours. I could easily be insulted by that low value they gave me, or by how someone is insulted by an offer of 4000 for 4 sessions of 4 hours or whatever it is, and even lie about it.
I chose to not let them value me, I valued myself above money, became "poor" but actually rich in what I value instead, and surprise, got labeled "invalid" by the corporate state, which is their "politically correct" word for "handicapped" or whatever. "Invalid", now there's an insult... If I valued their fictional validation of my exploitability.
@NImH I think we should first understand that the internet is NOT the people and A people is not SOME peoples, and neither of both is the individual. Two individuals of different opinions can "exist" on the same internet, so reading two different opinions in a group doesn't make both writers hypocrites. There are plenty of other things that make people hypocrites, plenty of absolutely insane double standards within the individuals (being controled by the hivemind), but different opinions in a group is not one of the things that make any individual hypocrite.
I bought it for ridiculously cheap because they made a mistake in the Mexican eshop, listig it as 23.99 MXN which is about 1.2 EUR. So I played it out of curiosity (it's been since the 360 version that I got late in that generation that I last played this game), and if you WANT to and allow yourself to enjoy it, nothing will keep you from enjoying the Alan Wake game entirely on a handheld. If you want to hate it, and allow others their opinions to make you hate it, you'll find reasons to, and probably wont give it a chance anyways. As with almost anything almost anywhere at almost any time for almost anyone. I'm enjoying it, and it was definitely worth what I paid for it. Which is nearly nothing, but still, it's worth a low price for a low effort fun experience.
Gyro patch, some visual upgrades, and it's arguably good, even. The game is good and it runs fine, without cloud.
I bought it at the faulty price of 23,99 Mexican, which is about 1,2 Euro, and have played it out of curiousity because of the instant negativity, but the price being a "sale" we'll probably never see, and I didn't believe it would PLAY bad.
And it's true, it's not the most beautiful port, but if you allow yourself to enjoy it, and don't allow influencers to tell you it's "unplayable", it is perfectly playable, and a perfectly enjoyable port of a good game.
Now, I wouldn't pay regular asking price, but I never do. I'd also like to see gyro aim patched in, and some visual upgrades for the brighter daylight scenes especially, but the game plays perfectly fine, and runs native, so it's already better than a cloud version.
@Expa0 plot twist: Luigi's Mansion is about a guy with ptsd from a government job. It's the ghosts haunting his repressed memories from when "Big Brother" had him invade a family home and kill everyone and collect "due taxes". Not directly with a gun, but indirectly by sucking out all their life energy after reading their minds and hearts to find their weak spots.
Dark stuff.
I did mean it as a joke, but I'm not going to claim that any similarities with real life events are purely unintended and coincidental.
I think if you hold start while booting up a DS, DSi, or GBA game on a 3DS, it forces it to start in original resolution.
Also, I had no idea about the market value of the discs... I think I have 3 or 4 GB players, from back in the day when I wanted a perfect set up for 16 player Double Dash and all possible GBA-Gamecube linking stuff. And then I got other goals in life, but yeah, things happen, ideas evolve or get replaced, and stuff remains.
@HammerGalladeBro I suppose so, because the DLC isn't out yet. I am excited about it though, as it will bring Rayman in the game. I'll gladly buy it day one of it reaching the price I'm willing to pay for a single game of its quality, when all dlc is out, and any bug that got through is patched out. It will even skip the entire line of my "backlog" I think. Loved the original, this seems a big leap forward still, technically.
@Otoemetry ever been falsely accused? It has equal potential of ruining one's life. Been there, it ruined mine back then. Accused by the person that had abused me for over a year in many ways I'm not going to say here, no less. So at least stick to your not taking sides if you don't know, that is a neutral stance. Also, I had to work over 2 months of 40 hour week night shifts in a car factory to make 4000, and that was considered a "good pay" despite being below the national poverty line here. Sure, capitalism is a disaster and I completely agree there, it's legal but immoral, but her rant might just as much be an insult to everyone that didn't have her "privileges". Her boycot could have ended up destroying so many people's hard work, and more importantly, their lives under capitalism. If she feels an offer undervalues her, more power to her for refusing it. We can all learn from her in that regard. But if others value it for their own reasons, struggles,... She could learn to keep her head high yet remain humble towards them.
@HotGoomba well at least G4 paid some guests so well that the entire show went under and everyone ended up on the street again. From what I heard at least. Oh wait, that's NOT a good business model.
@Yomerodes I was afraid it would be owned by Sony as it was specifically exclusive and remained so, didn't really remember if it was maybe just published by them or not. Still, it WOULD be nice wouldn't it? Having a multiplatform modern release of Eternal Darkness would also be nice.
But yeah, won't happen. Switch exclusive should already have happened though.
Those are also the SH games I'd like most. But I'm also one of the seemingly few fans of 4.
I'd love to see Siren Blood Curse come to Switch, I vaguely recall it was also worked on by members of Team Silent. It being a PS3 game must mean it CAN run on Switch, and it's a fantastic game that could easily be made much better still. Playing in bed with a good set of headphones that can do surround for example, would be a good enough start already. But obviously, that's not what they will announce in the announced annunciation. Ah, hype tactics. Gone are the trailers. Tease teasers and hide even that, or announce that you will announce something. I think many people are more addicted to "hype" and buying games than to actually playing games.
That aside, I'd be more than happy with SH2, 3, 4, Shattered Memories,... A true remake of 1, or just a big collection. Whatever, if it's good it's good.
But I find it more interesting to compare the two that are the same artwork but totally different. I think that of those two, I like the European one more. It's more like a pencil drawing, more consistent with the background as well, and just a better drawing at that. In my personal opinion, as they are weirdly similar for having different drawings of the main character in the same pose on the same background.
This is a fantastic game. From beginning to end hardly a moment that is't somewhat memorable, or a much needed moment of relaxation, atmosphere building, or puzzle solving between mostly short but very intense moments. The ending is just insane, in one of the best ways possible.
Then again, I'm a big fan of everything disturbingly dystopian, totalitarian collectivist stories of how humanity has succeeded in creating power systems they no longer can control, and that no longer care about the individual, and turn against all that was supposed to be sacred in their "greater good" (except for the "reality" of it we live in, not a fan of that. Not. At. All).
Are we all underpaid?
Yes.
Has capitalism escalated to show its true face of slavery?
Obviously, to anyone who has even opened a single eye within the pas centuries probably. Or ever.
Is it good to refuse when you think a deal is bad?
Most definitely. And I'm in absolute support of that.
Will someone else who needs the money still fill in that role?
Certainly.
I wouldn't rent my body or mind or soul to a slave system for all of the "money" in the world. Others just need five dollars for whatever it is they think they want, and they're yours.
Is it your right to claim the future of what you did in the past it and boycott them?
Nope.
Someone took a job you refused. You can't take it all hostage and make demands that undermine the ones who did agree. But still, if you felt insulted by the offer, I'm happy, genuinely, that you refused. More people should refuse offers that insult them. But keep that pride and remain a bit more humble at the same time in what predictably follows.
Legality and morality have nothing to do with each other, so basically (ffff) legality. But the market does what the market does, and they don't owe you to agree to your terms just like you don't owe them agreement. That would be total slavery (and it is legal in many forms throughout the entire world). One look inside a factory, a slaughter house, a mine, a battlefield, a political agenda... and you know legality and morality should barely fit in the same sentence ever, if it isn't to deny any existence of them being tied to each other in any way.
@geox30 funny reply when your "facts" aren't true, just conclusions drawn out of thin air, but hey, enoy not being free then, and I'll enjoy my "too much free time" working hard in other ways than "just doing a job".
@geox30 How is there such a thing as too much free time, and how is working for myself and maintaining my own life and taking care of rescue dogs, forest, and more than a handful of humans that find no care in human society, not "working"? I'm not sorry that nothing that I do fills the pockets of the gangsters behind the tax extortion system of human slavery... On the contrary. If this is not what you expected, stop assuming where you don't know, and if it is what you expected, just try and respect yourself and other beings a bit more, that just want to BE, not be exploited and stressed by fictional things like "the state" and other corporations, or "time", let alone "company time".
Who pays that much money for a wristband keeping you tied to a clock constantly, in a world where it is hard to, for just an hour or so even (oh irony), for once NOT be tied to a clock? Reminds me of a recent story where a local housing project manager was robbed of his 300 000 euro watch, and all I could think was: my sister and her partner are both stuck in a 40 years, 40 hours a week slave contract to pay off their house of about that price... Just so you (some words that would get me a permanent ban of the entirety of the highly censored internet) could buy a watch and act the poor victim when a poor man who cannot buy a house steals your watch? And you can shamelessly (even PROUDLY) mention that watch's price?
It's a moustache, not a smile. He's the third of the Mario Bros, but he went looking for his own princess to rescue in his own spotlight, so he was denied his Mario Bros name in fear of him slandering the name.
When he got popular, they offered him his name back, but he refused as he had made a name for himself, even though most games are named after the princess.
Living in a forest, having acorns fall on my cabin's roof, cold hands, and keeping warm collecting fallen branches and dead trees, sawing them by hand, and burning them in the wood stove and drying the next batch on the stove, making pumpkin soup for me and the dogs, sleeping many more hours, going for long walks in the low sun with a hand axe and saw and old bicycle inner tube to collect more fallen branches among fields (because it's a little warmer and dryer there and it's still not the city) and forest, and having all the dogs sleep with me again to preserve our body temperature,... Fall mood is already here. But I still go barefoot and purposefully step in every mud pool and river I come across, it's not winter yet and I love every season for its own reason, but summer, I already miss you. Fall and Winter are kind of tough the way I live. My cabin isn't much more than a roof to keep rain out and walls to keep wind out. It's a summer home I use all year around. Luckily I named one of my rescue white huskies "Lente" (meaning Spring, the season, because she's so full of warmth and life and got me over a winter depression instantly when I decided I'd adopt her and her brother from the kill shelter), so Spring is never far away.
Undernauts amd Tails of Iron have been on my watchlist from the moment I first saw anything about them, but I want the physical price to go down first, or I'll give up waiting for physical when digital goes below 5€, that's when physical is no longer worth the extra money (unless it's about 10 to maybe 20€ or so, depending on what game and how nice the physical release is).
I'm a fan of dungeon crawlers like Labirynth of Refrain, which I got physical for less than 10€, so Undernauts I'm very sure I'd like.
@OrangeSoda @Not_Soos I'll share the burden of ruining the joke by shifting the blame of ruining the joke to the one who corrected the title. I think what we're trying to say here is, we ALL ruined the joke. Or was it... CRAB PEOPLE?
The only thing missing is Dr Dre saying "Splat tat tat tat, splat tat tat, like that".
And Snoop Dog saying "You know I never hesitate to shoot an inkling in the back".
Well, it isn't really missing, but it's only playing in my head though. Still kind of gangsta, no? I mean, most of these gangsta's are only gangsta's in their own head to begin with, so it's kind of fitting.
Nightfire on GBA was actually quite impressive. I had only Game Boy's back then, and I played every fps on the GBA. This was a good one by GBA standards. I think I played the Wii games the most. I liked that fps with tps cover shooting with blindfire and some stealth gameplay from Quantum of Solace, but technically Goldeneye was obviously better, and Rainbow Six Vegas did the fps tps thing much better, but that didn't have the Wii's pointer shooting which I liked as well.
On one hand I'm sad, I wanted it to be good to replay the first game (which I can actually do on PS4, still have the collector's edition, but I wanted it to be handheld) and finally experience the sequel. On the other hand, I'm relieved, I didn't want to want to BUY it first (not a typo, I actually mean I didn't want to want to, but somehow I still want to if they make it better and cheaper). Maybe if they actually master their remaster with some patches, and on a deep sale.
@WallyWest your comment just appeared as I was writing the other replies Didn't know about the cut content, but assuming MP is multiplayer, that's not something I'd miss. I do still have a PS4, at least I assume it is still their under all the dust it has been gathering, but I just can't get myself to like staring at a fixed corner of the room and enjoy a PS4 or any PS controller in my hands. I either want to play just sitting or lying down wherever I want to, mostly outside in the forest I live in when the wheather allows it, or in short bursts with low energy use (because of how I live here and because of the dogs that often require my attention... Which is obviously the case right now, it's getting late for their supper).
@Guitario from Alex's preview I just saw on youtube, I'd say it runs really well, and that is enough. But you ARE absolutely right, just because you can doesn't have to mean you should, I played Serious Sam on the GBA back in the day, and that too was a perfect example of that. Haven't even played it on Switch even though I'm a fan of the old games (in part because my name is Sam as well, that's always kind of funny, but hey, Sam Fisher could have been called Biggus Dickus and I would still have been a great fan of the games. It would have been hard to take it serious though. Which is no problem for Serious Sam, he's a LUMBERJACK!
@burninmylight I actually meant Wii U, I held off back when it first released on PS4 I could have been more clear about that though.
I've been holding off on this one for a Wii U port, to play it semi-handheld or on the tv.
This makes it feel even more like a victory of patience. Near perfect port, more content than ever, lower starting price (but probably won't ever drop as low as the price I could have gotten the base PS4 version for in the meantime), physical, and FULLY portable (not even interested in playing on the tv anymore, but I COULD, without double dipping).
Same for No Man's Sky, if that isn't a victory for patience... And several other games as well, like Dying Light and The Witcher 3 and Skyrim and... Always waiting. If the game is truly that great, it WILL eventually be released in a way that meets my demands, or there will be plenty others that do and get my voluntarily but not strictly limited gaming budget instead.
-um, no. And won't get one either. I very much welcome this port. I won't buy every system so I can play every game, I'll play the most interesting games on the system I got because I believed it would be the most interesting for quite a while to come.
If I wanted to play a football game, without any interest in the actual "sport" or the players, this was actually good news, it means I can get the oldest version on any given console for €1 or so, and still have the latest experience. If it had to be handheld, I could get my GBC game Zidane I once found, Inazuma Eleven on 3ds, or whatever, it's all pretty much the same if you just want to kick a ball across a field in a team effort.
And all of this is IF I wanted to.
I do feel like @Silly_G is right though, this game is probably better than the score it got, if this is your thing. It better be after all those years and with all those sales. But acceptance of expected disappointment is only two steps above absolutely zero care given and zero expectations, so I won't say it's WRONG. Had I expected anything from it or hoped anything from it, I'd probably feel the same. BUT if you buy it every years at full price, the joke is actually on you, and if EA's show is sold out every time, what do they care you're all disappointed? They got your money, and they could if they wanted just go around and collect your money for next year's edition already, with or without promises made. It's almost like a subscription, and that (including microtransactions for a constant cash flow) is what the market is about, everywhere, every market. And the people are all buying it. They're even paying taxes for no service at all, only to not be bullied even MORE by the state. And they review their state as "the greatest society ever" because they can't imagine anything better due to lack of imagination.
As SEGA Rally so joyfully declared, or that guy in Alien so hopelessly: GAME OVER (YEAHHHH / MAN)
If they combined the black border from the Japanese version with the US version's box art, it'd be hard between US and EU, but now I prefer the EU version somewhat. Played this game for over a hunderd hours, solo and online, and I still boot it up from time to time. I bought it digitally when it was at a deep sale, but still have it physically as well, and I must have played that Revelations pilot level hundreds of times, followed by the real demo hundreds of times, and finally the full game many many times through, a ton or Raid Mode,... RE on 3ds was amazing.
I have plenty of Picross games on my 3ds still, and even though I've completed them all on the toughest settings and challenged my best times and such, replaying them randomly does kind of give the same challenge and mental reward. I'd much rather see Picross 3D round 3, but that would definitely require a physical release with some kind of precision pen.
But there's no such thing as too much Picross if you're a fan of it, and I know I am, I'm just not willing to pay that price every time again.
@Doctor-Moo When I played Just Dance with some friends years ago, it was a self rewarding experience, through the fun and hyper movement we had outside of the game, mostly because of the game. But I'd never play it alone, so I guess it's a great example indeed. Just depends on the situation and mood.
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Re: Nintendo Switch System Update 15.0.1 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
It still falls over when I put my launch day Switch on its kick stand and so much as look at it in a wrong angle.
Re: Project Zero: Mask Of The Lunar Eclipse Will Scare You Silly In March 2023
@Silly_G I was thinking your first paragraph, almost exactly. I really don't like the "digital deluxe" naming. It's like a slap in the face after already having turned the other cheek, and being told to like it with their hand already threatening a third slap if you don't, and you know they'll find a "reason" to "justify" the third slap anyway.
Re: Video: Here's A Closer Look At Bayonetta 3's Censored "Naive Angel" Mode
"remove cigars? No, but some sugarcoating on it. An actual sugarcoating."
They obviously had some laughs at the people who want censorship. I can appreciate that. Had it been forced, I couldn't, but optional, it's a great joke.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Japanese looks scarier, but the European better represents the game. And what a game! I remember being on smallband internet and loading in the trailer that I watched several times already, just because of how "hyped" I was, and how I loved the game throughout despite its flaws. Actually, I was reminded of playing Shattered Memories by playing Alan Wake on Switch. An equally awesome game that shares some of what I enjoyed most: exploration of a creepy environment with a flashlight, and a great psychological horror story. And it also shares some of the bad parts, being obviously more ambitious than the budget and / or deadline allowed, but still overall having the ambition overshadows the jank and other technical stuttering (for me at least).
I also like how many Japanese horror games on Wii had a black box instead of the white, but in this case I felt like the re-imagining of the game fit perfectly with the Wii's white style.
Re: Feature: The Spookiest Levels In Non-Spooky Games
Persona Q has a genuinely creepy dungeon. With a real horror theme to it, but every time you enter combat the music shifts to the (awesome) battle music that is very much not creepy.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (October 29th)
Alan Wake (really enjoying it in handheld, I did play it on 360 back in the day as well), and Bravely Default 2.
Bought them for the combined price of 21,2 euro's, BD2 physically. Once I'm done with them, I'll start Nier Automata, Persona 5, or Bayonetta I think. All three of which I got physically cheaper than the usual price due to a trade-in deal for Persona, a 25% discount on pre-orders of Bayonetta (I suppose because of the "controversy" for a while), and Nier just being cheaper where I got it.
Re: Review: Signalis - Brilliantly Tense And Surreal Sci-Fi Survival Horror
@Vyacheslav333 Which probably means it never hurt the enjoyment of the game, so it's fine. If it was bad, they'd notice and it wouldn't get a 9 I suppose.
Re: Best Nintendo Switch Horror Games
Now I know this is an unpopular opinion, but Alan Wake on Switch, from my experience in handheld with it, is a perfectly enjoyable and well written horror game which, I'm going to say it, despite its obvious visual downgrades, still looks great at times (and yes, terrible at other times). It runs just fine, it plays great, it moves at a fantastic pace, and its story is always a joy to return to.
Alright, at full asking price for the Switch version, I can imagine being a bit sour about it. But I managed to pick it up before they corrected the Mexican eshop price (23,99 MXN, divide by 20 to have an idea what the € or $ price is). I would have loved gyro aim in it as well. But even RE4 on Switch still doesn't have it (which is a terrible oversight, making me not even WANT one of my favourite games on the handheld... I know, double standards, but the price, and the fact that they have implemented motion controls in some other versions of the game...).
So yeah, Alan Wake is perfectly fine (which definitely does not equal "perfect") if you allow yourself to just enjoy the game in handheld, and not count pixels and frames all the time, compare with better versions, or let some other technical issues spoil a good story with good gameplay.
Other than that, most of the better ones are on the list I suppose, but there's more if you're a little bit forgiving and can enjoy despite some technical flaws here and there (and I still think Gamecube / PS2 is one of the best generations for horror, and my graphical expectations haven't really updated since then, only when it comes to lighting effects for atmosphere).
Re: Soapbox: After 10 Years I'm Finally Getting A Wii U, But Where Should I Start?
@RudyC3 Also got the ZombiU launch bundle, and I agree, that was one of the best launch bundles ever made.
Re: Soapbox: After 10 Years I'm Finally Getting A Wii U, But Where Should I Start?
Zombi U, one of my favourite survival horror games, and it's one of the games that work perfectly with the console's unique features. Forget the ports.
Re: Bayonetta's OG Voice Actor Responds To Online Backlash In Ongoing Dispute
I worked in a car factory of a brand that is apparently worth 11.97 billion dollars. I made less than 2000 euro's a month for 5 sessions of 8 hours a week, at night time, and even less when I worked in alternating shifts or completely random hours. I could easily be insulted by that low value they gave me, or by how someone is insulted by an offer of 4000 for 4 sessions of 4 hours or whatever it is, and even lie about it.
I chose to not let them value me, I valued myself above money, became "poor" but actually rich in what I value instead, and surprise, got labeled "invalid" by the corporate state, which is their "politically correct" word for "handicapped" or whatever. "Invalid", now there's an insult... If I valued their fictional validation of my exploitability.
Re: Video: Here's What Alan Wake Remastered Looks Like On Switch
@NImH I think we should first understand that the internet is NOT the people and A people is not SOME peoples, and neither of both is the individual. Two individuals of different opinions can "exist" on the same internet, so reading two different opinions in a group doesn't make both writers hypocrites. There are plenty of other things that make people hypocrites, plenty of absolutely insane double standards within the individuals (being controled by the hivemind), but different opinions in a group is not one of the things that make any individual hypocrite.
Re: Review: Alan Wake Remastered - A Modern Classic Returns With Major Visual Downgrades On Switch
I bought it for ridiculously cheap because they made a mistake in the Mexican eshop, listig it as 23.99 MXN which is about 1.2 EUR. So I played it out of curiosity (it's been since the 360 version that I got late in that generation that I last played this game), and if you WANT to and allow yourself to enjoy it, nothing will keep you from enjoying the Alan Wake game entirely on a handheld. If you want to hate it, and allow others their opinions to make you hate it, you'll find reasons to, and probably wont give it a chance anyways. As with almost anything almost anywhere at almost any time for almost anyone. I'm enjoying it, and it was definitely worth what I paid for it. Which is nearly nothing, but still, it's worth a low price for a low effort fun experience.
Gyro patch, some visual upgrades, and it's arguably good, even. The game is good and it runs fine, without cloud.
Re: Grab Your Torch, Alan Wake Remastered Is Out Now On Nintendo Switch
I bought it at the faulty price of 23,99 Mexican, which is about 1,2 Euro, and have played it out of curiousity because of the instant negativity, but the price being a "sale" we'll probably never see, and I didn't believe it would PLAY bad.
And it's true, it's not the most beautiful port, but if you allow yourself to enjoy it, and don't allow influencers to tell you it's "unplayable", it is perfectly playable, and a perfectly enjoyable port of a good game.
Now, I wouldn't pay regular asking price, but I never do. I'd also like to see gyro aim patched in, and some visual upgrades for the brighter daylight scenes especially, but the game plays perfectly fine, and runs native, so it's already better than a cloud version.
Re: Grab Your Torch, Alan Wake Remastered Is Out Now On Nintendo Switch
on the Mexican eshop it's quite a deal... If you can region hop, well worth it. Guess they made a mistake.
Re: Random: Former Luigi's Mansion Dev Is Now Heading Up The Silent Hill Franchise
@Expa0 plot twist: Luigi's Mansion is about a guy with ptsd from a government job. It's the ghosts haunting his repressed memories from when "Big Brother" had him invade a family home and kill everyone and collect "due taxes". Not directly with a gun, but indirectly by sucking out all their life energy after reading their minds and hearts to find their weak spots.
Dark stuff.
I did mean it as a joke, but I'm not going to claim that any similarities with real life events are purely unintended and coincidental.
Re: Random: Turns Out You Can Make The GameCube's Game Boy Player A Lot Better
I think if you hold start while booting up a DS, DSi, or GBA game on a 3DS, it forces it to start in original resolution.
Also, I had no idea about the market value of the discs... I think I have 3 or 4 GB players, from back in the day when I wanted a perfect set up for 16 player Double Dash and all possible GBA-Gamecube linking stuff. And then I got other goals in life, but yeah, things happen, ideas evolve or get replaced, and stuff remains.
Re: Video: Persona 5 Royal Side-By-Side Graphics Comparison (Switch & PS4)
@ChromaticDracula here's some free advice: don't click on them
Re: Where To Pre-Order Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope On Switch - Best Deals And Special Editions
@HammerGalladeBro I suppose so, because the DLC isn't out yet. I am excited about it though, as it will bring Rayman in the game. I'll gladly buy it day one of it reaching the price I'm willing to pay for a single game of its quality, when all dlc is out, and any bug that got through is patched out. It will even skip the entire line of my "backlog" I think. Loved the original, this seems a big leap forward still, technically.
Re: Bayonetta's New Voice Actor Jennifer Hale Issues Statement About Bayonetta 3
@Otoemetry ever been falsely accused? It has equal potential of ruining one's life. Been there, it ruined mine back then. Accused by the person that had abused me for over a year in many ways I'm not going to say here, no less. So at least stick to your not taking sides if you don't know, that is a neutral stance. Also, I had to work over 2 months of 40 hour week night shifts in a car factory to make 4000, and that was considered a "good pay" despite being below the national poverty line here. Sure, capitalism is a disaster and I completely agree there, it's legal but immoral, but her rant might just as much be an insult to everyone that didn't have her "privileges". Her boycot could have ended up destroying so many people's hard work, and more importantly, their lives under capitalism. If she feels an offer undervalues her, more power to her for refusing it. We can all learn from her in that regard. But if others value it for their own reasons, struggles,... She could learn to keep her head high yet remain humble towards them.
@HotGoomba well at least G4 paid some guests so well that the entire show went under and everyone ended up on the street again. From what I heard at least. Oh wait, that's NOT a good business model.
Re: A Silent Hill Transmission Is Coming, But Will Switch Be Left In The Cold?
@Yomerodes I was afraid it would be owned by Sony as it was specifically exclusive and remained so, didn't really remember if it was maybe just published by them or not. Still, it WOULD be nice wouldn't it? Having a multiplatform modern release of Eternal Darkness would also be nice.
But yeah, won't happen. Switch exclusive should already have happened though.
Those are also the SH games I'd like most. But I'm also one of the seemingly few fans of 4.
Re: Talking Point: Which Animation Studios Should Tackle Nintendo's Other Franchises?
I'm all for Luigi's Mansion being tackled in claymation by Henry Selick.
Re: A Silent Hill Transmission Is Coming, But Will Switch Be Left In The Cold?
I'd love to see Siren Blood Curse come to Switch, I vaguely recall it was also worked on by members of Team Silent. It being a PS3 game must mean it CAN run on Switch, and it's a fantastic game that could easily be made much better still. Playing in bed with a good set of headphones that can do surround for example, would be a good enough start already. But obviously, that's not what they will announce in the announced annunciation. Ah, hype tactics. Gone are the trailers. Tease teasers and hide even that, or announce that you will announce something. I think many people are more addicted to "hype" and buying games than to actually playing games.
That aside, I'd be more than happy with SH2, 3, 4, Shattered Memories,... A true remake of 1, or just a big collection. Whatever, if it's good it's good.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Mega Man 4
Japan.
But I find it more interesting to compare the two that are the same artwork but totally different. I think that of those two, I like the European one more. It's more like a pencil drawing, more consistent with the background as well, and just a better drawing at that. In my personal opinion, as they are weirdly similar for having different drawings of the main character in the same pose on the same background.
Re: Backlog Club: Exploring The [REDACTED] And Finding The [REDACTED] In 'Inside'
This is a fantastic game. From beginning to end hardly a moment that is't somewhat memorable, or a much needed moment of relaxation, atmosphere building, or puzzle solving between mostly short but very intense moments. The ending is just insane, in one of the best ways possible.
Then again, I'm a big fan of everything disturbingly dystopian, totalitarian collectivist stories of how humanity has succeeded in creating power systems they no longer can control, and that no longer care about the individual, and turn against all that was supposed to be sacred in their "greater good" (except for the "reality" of it we live in, not a fan of that. Not. At. All).
Re: Bayonetta's OG Voice Actor Asks Fans To "Boycott" Third Game After PlatinumGames Wage Fallout
Are we all underpaid?
Yes.
Has capitalism escalated to show its true face of slavery?
Obviously, to anyone who has even opened a single eye within the pas centuries probably. Or ever.
Is it good to refuse when you think a deal is bad?
Most definitely. And I'm in absolute support of that.
Will someone else who needs the money still fill in that role?
Certainly.
I wouldn't rent my body or mind or soul to a slave system for all of the "money" in the world. Others just need five dollars for whatever it is they think they want, and they're yours.
Is it your right to claim the future of what you did in the past it and boycott them?
Nope.
Someone took a job you refused. You can't take it all hostage and make demands that undermine the ones who did agree. But still, if you felt insulted by the offer, I'm happy, genuinely, that you refused. More people should refuse offers that insult them. But keep that pride and remain a bit more humble at the same time in what predictably follows.
Legality and morality have nothing to do with each other, so basically (ffff) legality. But the market does what the market does, and they don't owe you to agree to your terms just like you don't owe them agreement. That would be total slavery (and it is legal in many forms throughout the entire world). One look inside a factory, a slaughter house, a mine, a battlefield, a political agenda... and you know legality and morality should barely fit in the same sentence ever, if it isn't to deny any existence of them being tied to each other in any way.
Re: Tag Heuer Reveals Two Mario Kart Watches, One Of Which Costs $25,600
@geox30 funny reply when your "facts" aren't true, just conclusions drawn out of thin air, but hey, enoy not being free then, and I'll enjoy my "too much free time" working hard in other ways than "just doing a job".
Re: Tag Heuer Reveals Two Mario Kart Watches, One Of Which Costs $25,600
@geox30 How is there such a thing as too much free time, and how is working for myself and maintaining my own life and taking care of rescue dogs, forest, and more than a handful of humans that find no care in human society, not "working"? I'm not sorry that nothing that I do fills the pockets of the gangsters behind the tax extortion system of human slavery... On the contrary. If this is not what you expected, stop assuming where you don't know, and if it is what you expected, just try and respect yourself and other beings a bit more, that just want to BE, not be exploited and stressed by fictional things like "the state" and other corporations, or "time", let alone "company time".
Re: Tag Heuer Reveals Two Mario Kart Watches, One Of Which Costs $25,600
Who pays that much money for a wristband keeping you tied to a clock constantly, in a world where it is hard to, for just an hour or so even (oh irony), for once NOT be tied to a clock? Reminds me of a recent story where a local housing project manager was robbed of his 300 000 euro watch, and all I could think was: my sister and her partner are both stuck in a 40 years, 40 hours a week slave contract to pay off their house of about that price... Just so you (some words that would get me a permanent ban of the entirety of the highly censored internet) could buy a watch and act the poor victim when a poor man who cannot buy a house steals your watch? And you can shamelessly (even PROUDLY) mention that watch's price?
Humans...
Re: Splatoon 3 Made Up Almost 70% Of All Boxed Game Sales In September (Japan)
I was go-ink to say
"that's insane",
but I stopped myself JUST in time to say
"that's ink-sane"
ink-stead.
Re: Talking Point: What's Your Favourite Music Track From A Nintendo Game?
So many I really enjoy, but Ashley's theme is in a class of its own.
Luigi's Mansion main theme, whether it's the full musical version or Luigi humming, is also one that always comes back to mind.
Re: Random: The Original 'Black Box' Art For NES Zelda Resurfaces, And Link Is Happy
@xzacutor Or in an ancient local Hylian dialect, lost over time to all but a select few keeping it real:
Re: Random: The Original 'Black Box' Art For NES Zelda Resurfaces, And Link Is Happy
It's a moustache, not a smile. He's the third of the Mario Bros, but he went looking for his own princess to rescue in his own spotlight, so he was denied his Mario Bros name in fear of him slandering the name.
When he got popular, they offered him his name back, but he refused as he had made a name for himself, even though most games are named after the princess.
Hence the term "missing Link".
And if you don't know, now you know.
Re: Feature: The Best Autumnal Levels In Video Games To Get You In The Fall Mood
Living in a forest, having acorns fall on my cabin's roof, cold hands, and keeping warm collecting fallen branches and dead trees, sawing them by hand, and burning them in the wood stove and drying the next batch on the stove, making pumpkin soup for me and the dogs, sleeping many more hours, going for long walks in the low sun with a hand axe and saw and old bicycle inner tube to collect more fallen branches among fields (because it's a little warmer and dryer there and it's still not the city) and forest, and having all the dogs sleep with me again to preserve our body temperature,... Fall mood is already here. But I still go barefoot and purposefully step in every mud pool and river I come across, it's not winter yet and I love every season for its own reason, but summer, I already miss you. Fall and Winter are kind of tough the way I live. My cabin isn't much more than a roof to keep rain out and walls to keep wind out. It's a summer home I use all year around. Luckily I named one of my rescue white huskies "Lente" (meaning Spring, the season, because she's so full of warmth and life and got me over a winter depression instantly when I decided I'd adopt her and her brother from the kill shelter), so Spring is never far away.
Re: Community: 24 Switch Games We Missed, As Recommended By You
Undernauts amd Tails of Iron have been on my watchlist from the moment I first saw anything about them, but I want the physical price to go down first, or I'll give up waiting for physical when digital goes below 5€, that's when physical is no longer worth the extra money (unless it's about 10 to maybe 20€ or so, depending on what game and how nice the physical release is).
I'm a fan of dungeon crawlers like Labirynth of Refrain, which I got physical for less than 10€, so Undernauts I'm very sure I'd like.
Re: Persona 3 Portable & Persona 4 Golden Arrive On Nintendo Switch January 2023
@OrangeSoda @Not_Soos I'll share the burden of ruining the joke by shifting the blame of ruining the joke to the one who corrected the title.
I think what we're trying to say here is, we ALL ruined the joke.
Or was it... CRAB PEOPLE?
Re: Persona 3 Portable & Persona 4 Golden Arrive On Switch Nintendo January 2023
@OrangeSoda Nintendo January 2023 is different from regular January 2023. It means whenever Nintendo feels like it, but no sooner than January 2023.
Re: Random: Google's Splatoon Easter Egg Lets You Ink Your Search Results
The only thing missing is Dr Dre saying "Splat tat tat tat, splat tat tat, like that".
And Snoop Dog saying "You know I never hesitate to shoot an inkling in the back".
Well, it isn't really missing, but it's only playing in my head though. Still kind of gangsta, no? I mean, most of these gangsta's are only gangsta's in their own head to begin with, so it's kind of fitting.
Re: Best James Bond Games On Nintendo Systems
Nightfire on GBA was actually quite impressive. I had only Game Boy's back then, and I played every fps on the GBA. This was a good one by GBA standards. I think I played the Wii games the most. I liked that fps with tps cover shooting with blindfire and some stealth gameplay from Quantum of Solace, but technically Goldeneye was obviously better, and Rainbow Six Vegas did the fps tps thing much better, but that didn't have the Wii's pointer shooting which I liked as well.
Re: Review: Life Is Strange: Arcadia Bay Collection - Strong Narrative Let Down By Poor Presentation
On one hand I'm sad, I wanted it to be good to replay the first game (which I can actually do on PS4, still have the collector's edition, but I wanted it to be handheld) and finally experience the sequel.
On the other hand, I'm relieved, I didn't want to want to BUY it first (not a typo, I actually mean I didn't want to want to, but somehow I still want to if they make it better and cheaper). Maybe if they actually master their remaster with some patches, and on a deep sale.
Re: Review: NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition - A Modern Classic Shines On Switch
@WallyWest your comment just appeared as I was writing the other replies Didn't know about the cut content, but assuming MP is multiplayer, that's not something I'd miss. I do still have a PS4, at least I assume it is still their under all the dust it has been gathering, but I just can't get myself to like staring at a fixed corner of the room and enjoy a PS4 or any PS controller in my hands. I either want to play just sitting or lying down wherever I want to, mostly outside in the forest I live in when the wheather allows it, or in short bursts with low energy use (because of how I live here and because of the dogs that often require my attention... Which is obviously the case right now, it's getting late for their supper).
@Guitario from Alex's preview I just saw on youtube, I'd say it runs really well, and that is enough. But you ARE absolutely right, just because you can doesn't have to mean you should, I played Serious Sam on the GBA back in the day, and that too was a perfect example of that. Haven't even played it on Switch even though I'm a fan of the old games (in part because my name is Sam as well, that's always kind of funny, but hey, Sam Fisher could have been called Biggus Dickus and I would still have been a great fan of the games. It would have been hard to take it serious though. Which is no problem for Serious Sam, he's a LUMBERJACK!
@burninmylight I actually meant Wii U, I held off back when it first released on PS4 I could have been more clear about that though.
Re: Review: NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition - A Modern Classic Shines On Switch
I've been holding off on this one for a Wii U port, to play it semi-handheld or on the tv.
This makes it feel even more like a victory of patience. Near perfect port, more content than ever, lower starting price (but probably won't ever drop as low as the price I could have gotten the base PS4 version for in the meantime), physical, and FULLY portable (not even interested in playing on the tv anymore, but I COULD, without double dipping).
Same for No Man's Sky, if that isn't a victory for patience... And several other games as well, like Dying Light and The Witcher 3 and Skyrim and... Always waiting. If the game is truly that great, it WILL eventually be released in a way that meets my demands, or there will be plenty others that do and get my voluntarily but not strictly limited gaming budget instead.
Re: Feature: "No Man's Sky Will Never Run On That" - Sean Murray Talks Defying The Odds On Switch
@PtM "don't you guys all have Steam Decks?"
-um, no. And won't get one either. I very much welcome this port. I won't buy every system so I can play every game, I'll play the most interesting games on the system I got because I believed it would be the most interesting for quite a while to come.
Re: Nintendo Launches Official Website For Newly Acquired 'Nintendo Pictures'
@Ironcore My first idea as well... "NOOO... oh. Okay."
Re: Disco Elysium's Creative Talent Is No Longer At Developer ZA/UM
Damn... I see Disco Elysium, my heart skips a beat. I read the article, and it's been skipping every beat since.
Re: Review: FIFA 23 - The Final Whistle Blows On A Legacy Of Disappointment
If I wanted to play a football game, without any interest in the actual "sport" or the players, this was actually good news, it means I can get the oldest version on any given console for €1 or so, and still have the latest experience. If it had to be handheld, I could get my GBC game Zidane I once found, Inazuma Eleven on 3ds, or whatever, it's all pretty much the same if you just want to kick a ball across a field in a team effort.
And all of this is IF I wanted to.
I do feel like @Silly_G is right though, this game is probably better than the score it got, if this is your thing. It better be after all those years and with all those sales. But acceptance of expected disappointment is only two steps above absolutely zero care given and zero expectations, so I won't say it's WRONG. Had I expected anything from it or hoped anything from it, I'd probably feel the same. BUT if you buy it every years at full price, the joke is actually on you, and if EA's show is sold out every time, what do they care you're all disappointed? They got your money, and they could if they wanted just go around and collect your money for next year's edition already, with or without promises made. It's almost like a subscription, and that (including microtransactions for a constant cash flow) is what the market is about, everywhere, every market. And the people are all buying it. They're even paying taxes for no service at all, only to not be bullied even MORE by the state. And they review their state as "the greatest society ever" because they can't imagine anything better due to lack of imagination.
As SEGA Rally so joyfully declared, or that guy in Alien so hopelessly:
GAME OVER (YEAHHHH / MAN)
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
If they combined the black border from the Japanese version with the US version's box art, it'd be hard between US and EU, but now I prefer the EU version somewhat. Played this game for over a hunderd hours, solo and online, and I still boot it up from time to time. I bought it digitally when it was at a deep sale, but still have it physically as well, and I must have played that Revelations pilot level hundreds of times, followed by the real demo hundreds of times, and finally the full game many many times through, a ton or Raid Mode,... RE on 3ds was amazing.
Re: Mini Review: Picross S8 - Four-Player Picross? It's Absolute Madness!
@Fizza I'm waiting for the movie.
I have plenty of Picross games on my 3ds still, and even though I've completed them all on the toughest settings and challenged my best times and such, replaying them randomly does kind of give the same challenge and mental reward. I'd much rather see Picross 3D round 3, but that would definitely require a physical release with some kind of precision pen.
But there's no such thing as too much Picross if you're a fan of it, and I know I am, I'm just not willing to pay that price every time again.
Re: Skyrim Anniversary Switch Players Seem To Be Experiencing Performance Issues
@PBandSmelly Also, it's not their fault, they didn't even make this dlc themselves, did they? Bad, bad community!
Re: Talking Point: What's The Worst Game That You Still Love For Some Reason?
@Doctor-Moo When I played Just Dance with some friends years ago, it was a self rewarding experience, through the fun and hyper movement we had outside of the game, mostly because of the game. But I'd never play it alone, so I guess it's a great example indeed. Just depends on the situation and mood.