Smithicus

Smithicus

The clan tell tales of him...

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Re: 'The Zelda Effect' Causes Game Sales To Drop This May (Europe)

Smithicus

@AfroMario i have about 300 hours in it, and at the end i would say it is of course a great game, but at the same time disappointing. I was raging at people first saying it is a DLC, but in truth, there is an element of it that does just feel like it is a large DLC. the weakest aspects though are the voice acting and elements of the story line. BotW just has so much of a more coherent and engaging plot line/narrative. I will be happy to see a new art direction and concept on the Switch 2

Re: Lara Croft's Pinup Posters Go Missing In Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

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@LikelySatan given the furore around it and the silence i mean its a bit suspect. Most of these things are always the same thing. you dont have to be especially prescient to guess (and you want to bet that the people who have been guessing this is about 'womens objectification' or something similar to that are right? ) it would be a risky wager. And come on man, no one thinks that some right winger in Crystal Dynamics asked to have these removed for 'think of the children' lol. At least let us be honest and we can be pretty sure what this is. This is the zeitgesit we are living in, and it just ties in with the increase in hate speech laws and bills being passed left right and centre and the culture of wrong think that is coming from left wing/liberal sources. If i am wrong, i will stand corrected, but i am willing to bet i and everyone here is not. I mean read the article, earlier statements from CD show a left wing narrative and scope running through the whole ethos of the company. they have the statement in the actual article. It is extremely disingenuine to say 'ah, this could actually be a right wing thing' lol. we know what this is

Re: Lara Croft's Pinup Posters Go Missing In Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

Smithicus

@LikelySatan well my comments were all deleted, so i am not sure which comment you were responding to. i mean hey, i am all over the political spectrum, left and right. When i was young i was a hradcore socialist. But the the things the left used to stand for are mostly dead. It is a purely trite reactionary ideology now. They used to be against corporate power ans stuff like that, but i think this later gen of 'leftists' figured that actually, corporations are actually FINANCING almost all of our ideological structures so we are with the corrupt Govs and corpos. Its a sad state of affairs, but there actually people in these comments who dont even care about re-writing history and whatnot. I just cannot relate to most progressives. they have gone way over the line (some time ago). So idk where i stand tbh.

Re: Embracer Group Sells Saber Interactive For A Cool $247 Million

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"Embracer Group is reportedly now able to discontinue all operations in Russia; a goal that had previously been set by the board in order to reduce geopolitical risk."

there is no geopolitical risk, this is pure propaganda. There is political pressure for ideological reasons and reasons to do with political manoeuvring and power games in this artificially created new cold war. Basically making Russian devs unemployed because they are evil Russians etc and need to be punished. Saying they are minimizing their risk like they need to do it for survival reasons is just a manipulation of language

Re: Review: Contra: Operation Galuga (Switch) - Does The Series Proud, But Best Played Elsewhere

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@miwa i see your point, because there is an obligation to inform a potential costumer about how things stand, at the same time, a feel a review is supposed to review the actual game, and its quality as a game, and not supposed to be bogged down in a console specific problem vis-a-vis basically being not yet ready for consumer use. I personally would be happier with a statement in cases like this that said: 'not yet consumer ready so will not be reviewed'. I feel that informs the public strongly enough and sends a message to the dev.

Re: Publisher Midnight Works Allegedly Targeting YouTuber For Calling Out Its "Scam" Switch Games

Smithicus

pretty petty stuff lol. imagine producing low effort shovelware (part of the sewage the floods the Switch e-shop on a weekly basis), and getting mad at people who call it for what it is. Are sales of trash shovelware really gonna be that influenced by a YT channel? anyone that needs to stay away from obvious trash prob isnt too smart to begin with tbh, not sure they would heed any extra warnings.

Re: Slave Zero X Has Been Delayed On Switch

Smithicus

well, the little demo or whatever it is available as a Quake download in the Quake Remaster is basically bust, so kinda not surprised. I was really enjoying the Quake demo thing, but would continually crash the software after clearing first level

Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

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@Rob3008 the video game industry itself has become extremely ideological and political. It is forced onto almost everything. And then someone says 'ugh, why do you have to get so political, did you watch the game last night' and we are surrounded by insane ideologues obsessed with political messaging everywhere.

Re: The First Review For Mario Vs. Donkey Kong On Switch Is In

Smithicus

i played the demo because i had never tried this game before. its eh, ok. obviously well made, but nothing i would buy. If it wasnt for the Nintendo characters it could be like a decent indie type of puzzle based platforming title that would be decent but nothing to write home about.

Re: Sega Reports 'Sluggish' Sales Of Sonic Superstars And Other Major Titles

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Sonic just is not that good.its fandom and nostalgia and people wanting to believe. Even the OG sonic games dont really hold up that well, no where near as well as OG Mario titles hold up. The speed thing was never really well adapted for platforming tbh, it was a cool 90's fad that had appeal. Sonic games are average at best and just bad often enough