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@CharlieGirl to be fair people overestimate how many others there are who are one video game scene away from an emotional breakdown.

@moodycat sounds like you answered your own question lol. "If I don't like two of the main games that were direct inspirations for this one and seeing those comparisons bothers me will I like Omori?".

The answer is no.

@Nancyboy On the flipside if my life was impacted negatively because a character I grew attached to was killed I would probably need less free time on my hands lol. I cannot fathom something like that being a source of stress in my life.

I love some Sonic games but I've never given a solitary crap about the world beyond the premise of a platformer.

I feel like Sega has always had some grander vision that Sonic should be as ubiquitous and universally applicable like Mario, and for that reason I think it took a fan to make the best Sonic games in years. Sonic Mania played to the series' strength.

A) if something this irrelevant bothered me I'd be genuinely embarassed, to the point of not expressing it out of shame.

B) the joke isn't that she only plays single player games and that's bad, the joke is that they couldn't game together. I realize that any contact with a woman in a romantic context is hard for some of you sympathize with, but that's where the joke was.

EA is a bad company that has killed some of my favourite developers, and even then this is so utterly innocuous. Which do you think speaks more to EA's view of single player focused games, this one tweet, or pushing the Jedi games, Mass Effect and the Dead Space remake as single player experiences?

If it's the former and not the latter I have to assume you're a silly human being.

I like visual novels, and I've grabbed worse games on the sole basis that they were shmups, so I nabbed this.

I don't cry over lost profits or giant corporations having their copyrights infringed, so I don't care one way or the other beyond my own choice to emulate or not emulate. That said this guy is making himself out to be a freedom fighter defending personal liberty when it amounts to personal greed. You're not stealing from the rich to give to the poor.

@CharlieGirl its easy to escape that feeling if you just consider you're wrong.

@SteamEngenius dunno about this 'we' business, but there's no such thing as 'too much' of a genre. If you're bored by them then don't pay attention to them, in which case the Metroidvania tag should be a dead giveaway that this isn't for you.

What's a Metroidvania anyways? They're just platformers that put a premium on exploration and gaining new skills, and they may or may not have action RPG elements. Dunno how it's possible to play out something that general.

@AndyC_MK111 I apologize for coming off as antagonistic, but people already abuse YouTube's copyright policy as it is and there's often little to no recourse for people who aren't actually stepping on anyone's IP rights.

@AndyC_MK111 but to say they shouldn't 'complain'....if they're following youtube policy to the letter and following the guide lines of fair use and then they lose revenue that they generated, not due to some kind of legal ruling or policy change, but an arbitrary tag, why shouldn't they take issue with it? What sense does that make?

"Oh, I did nothing wrong or unethical and now I'm losing money I had a hand in generating. Ah well."

@AndyC_MK111 their right to defend their IPs doesn't mean that any videos which fall under fair use are any more or less valid, and in this case it just shows how YouTube's policies with channel tags have nothing to do with respecting intellectual property at all.

It's really simple: if you're satirizing, parodying or critiquing/reviewing something then you're creating content. If your content generates ad revenue under fair use then you get money for it. It's not any deeper than that. Either way you're fine with someone other than the IP holders being compensated, you just seem to have less of a problem when it's a corporation claiming that revenue and not people making videos for fun.

@AndyC_MK111 so to extend your logic further, absolutely nobody should ever profit from fair use criticism, satire, or parody? That's an extremely black and white take based on nothing other than some arbitrary notion you have that people who would generate that revenue by YouTube's own terms should create their own IP, as if if it's a supplement for a lack of creativity. It's not, it's people who have enthusiasm for the content they're covering, that doesn't make them failed creators themselves.

Either way, it's a good thing you're not making decisions about what content generates revenue and what doesn't, so you're pissing into the wind.

@SpringDivorce I did, but it was never released as far as I know.

Had the original on Genesis. Seeing random games like this be preserved is so refreshing compared to the last decade of multiple ports of the same game between three distinct generations.

@XBontendo NMH1 is one of my favourite games of all time, but literally everything you listed as a criticism of 3 is prevalent in 1/2, save for open world complaints about 2 which aren't applicable. Empty open world? Check. Forced or over the top humour more for effect than actual laughs? Check? Repetitive combat? Check. Tedious mini games? Hey, if you find mowing lawns and collecting scorpions to be either engrossing or substantive then you do you.

The entire series is style over substance, and that's absolutely okay because the game is both social commentary and satire. The games are more than the sum of their parts. If you don't like 3 I'm not trying to change your mind or **** on your taste, it's moreso that your criticisms of 3 aren't consistent against the rest of the series. Cheers.

Had Nobunaga's Ambition for Genesis. Imported a mouse to play it. Realized I'm too dumb and lack the patience required to enjoy it, and that's where I still am with the series and Romance of the Three Kingdoms decades later.

@Anti-Matter I think you're mixing up the appeal of Punch-Out and confusing it with legitimate boxing/fighting sims, which is something it never tried to be and not why people play it in the first place. It's like comparing Outrun with Gran Turismo, two different things that aren't competing concepts.

@sketchturner I don't think they're necessarily big fish stories short of flat out implausible feats like you mentioned. When I was a kid I obviously had no disposable income, so games like Ninja Gaiden/Contra were played religiously, obsessively, with no concern for time or doing the same thing a million times over.

Without the luxury of being able to play anything whenever you want meant that 'git good' was practical advice next to cheat codes. As an adult I don't have the time or motivation to do that in general, so in that regard I've gotten worse as a gamer as I've gotten older.

@LittleGhost why am I doing what now?

@IronMan30 you think someone who goes through the trouble of reverse engineering a game is doing so to avoid buying a Nintendo console? Do you think people who would even bother to play OoT in 4k are doing so to avoid paying for a Switch online subscription? Because if you think there's any crossover between those demographics and people who pirate because they just like stealing you're high.

Most of these people have already paid for Ocarina of Time at least once in some form since 1998. No one is specifically doing this because they're a cheapskate or don't want to buy a Nintendo console, and this isn't comparable to refusing to pay for an NSO subscription and getting shoddy emulation for it, it's going to the nth degree to do something you would pay for if it was offered by Nintendo. I have no idea how that translates to casual emulation or piracy in your mind.

@GrailUK sa'll good, I don't think I understood what you meant.

@Slowdive GoG is a great example. When it comes to PC games from the early to mid 90s they've eliminated any incentive for me to pirate anything.

@Kainbrightside the only scenario where there's any true moral problem is when there's a legal, convenient way of purchasing something and you choose to pirate it. If a book is out of print and the only way I can read it is paying hundreds of dollars to someone who owns a copy, and not the publisher or author, why wouldn't I pirate it? Same thing applies to retro video game content, and the industry is nowhere near matching the strong initiative to properly preserve legacy content that the publishing and film industries do. They seem to be way better at understanding that when you give people a choice and the means a lot of them will gladly spend their money.

@IronMan30 or you can invest 10-20 minutes of time, and save the trouble and money of hunting down carts. I understand this particular endeavor required more extensive work but you make it sound like emulation is somehow more difficult or time consuming than spending hundreds of dollars.

I have no problem buying anything from Nintendo given the option to do so, or any creator/publisher, but spending upwards of $1000 to play my favourite childhood RPGs in their original form are the 'lengths' I'm trying to avoid going to.

As someone who is both Portuguese and a fan of chicken I wish I could time travel to 5 minutes in the past so I could pistol whip myself before reading this article.

Definitely not the cheapest or most efficient way of getting those sounds, but I love the concept.

@Astral-Grain I dunno about you, but I go through the series every couple years. There are ones I like, ones I don't, ones I want to like and can't. That's the way I look at any series. Look, you can try to justify your own taste however you'd like, I don't actually care why you like anything or if it lines up with my taste at all or not. That doesn't make the series any less well known or well regarded, or negate specific titles from being viewed that way.

I'm not going to get into an argument that amounts to "No u", I just think it's ***** to pretend any one of us is being more objective in their take, as is interjecting into an argument when one of the relevant parties hasn't even responded yet. I'm not going to argue against what you think they meant, so enjoy what you enjoy and leave it at that.

@Troll_Decimator You can say it as forcefully as you want to, that doesn't make it any more true, valid, or less subjective a take. I don't think going out of your way to be a contrarian constitutes 'decimating' trolls. "Awkkkshully it's not a classic series, you guys are all wrong". Lmao.

It's a popular, prolific series with entries that were a lot of people's first experiences with that gen, hundreds of hours of youtube analysis and articles about it, a novel series, a graphic novel series, an upcoming live action series, longevity...at this point it's as 'classic' as any series that was birthed on 360/PS3. Sorry :/

@Mando44646 I'll agree with that, 4 was definitely the start of venturing away from assassin-centric gameplay. I want to like Odyssey and Valhalla but they're too big for their own good.

@Mando44646 having gone through everything from 3 to Syndicate recently, including spin offs/DLC like Freedom Cry and Liberation, I don't think it's fair to say they're bad from 4 onwards. If anything Black Flag is a peak that created valleys, but Syndicate is the closest thing to Brotherhood and a great game in its own right. I'd easily put Black Flag up there with AC2 and Brotherhood, and say what you will about Odyssey and Valhalla but Origins is mint in its own right.

AC2 and its sequels were great because they took the proof of concept that was the first game and fully realized it but I think some of the series gets written off because of how many were released in a short time. 3 and Unity were too ambitious for their own good on top of it, but they're not bad at all (post patches).

I had only played it on PC, the first level in the remaster was completely different different than I remembered. I think you can get the original PC release on GoG and play it through BuildGDX so you have the best of both worlds.

@Nintendo_Thumb you realize I was responding to the points you made, right? I literally said none of those things lmao, you specifically said that Smash Bros. is less casual than other fighting games and I disagreed. You straight up said 2D fighters have less depth than Smash.

You've got to work on your reading comprehension, so many of the points you raised are complete non-sequitors. I never mentioned specific sales, I didn't suggest there's anything wrong with appealing to a casual audience, I didn't say a lot of things you addressed. I don't think you actually get the point I was making.

I have no idea how in the blue hell your takeaway was that I think no one ever played Street Fighter casually. The point I was addressing was you saying Street Fighter is primarily played by casual gamers in between laundry loads. That's asinine, but not as asinine as you thinking I'm saying no one plays Street Fighter casually or that no one plays SSB competitively lol. You can't say fighting games primarily appeal to a casual audience and then argue Smash Bros. doesn't. I also never denied that SSB is a fighting game. You're really bad at this, earlier in the thread I literally said how stupid it was to compare the series to Jack Party Box or Mario Party and not fighting games. 🤣

@Nintendo_Thumb I don't know what's worse, suggesting that Smash Bros. isn't largely aimed and marketed to a casual audience to a much larger degree than arcade fighters, or suggesting that the majority of people who have played the franchises you listed were 'casually' playing them in arcades in the 21st century, as opposed to at home on consoles they bought. The vast majority of people are playing Smash casually, which isn't in any way me gatekeeping the genre or series, and a lot of those people would never find themselves in arcades, let alone playing a game on any genuinely competitive scale.

That's the worst hypothesis I've read today, and I've largely spent it reading about half baked conspiracy theories. All of a sudden chemtrails sound plausible lol, at least compared to trying to argue that SSB isn't a casual game aimed primarily at 'casual' gamers. The reasoning is all over the place, it's like suggesting chess has less depth than a game of Sorry! because there are only two players.

@Paraka yeah, there are just some people who are so rigid and obsessive about genres yet completely inconsistent in their argument. Fallout 3 and Dragon Quest III are both RPGs yet play completely differently. To say Smash isn't a fighting game is to argue two equally vapid points: fighting games are apparently so rigid that the genre hasn't changed or evolved in 30 years beyond core concepts (can't think of too many genres that can say the same), and that Smash has more in common with Jack Party Box than any fighting game.

Ah well, people love to be pedantic.

If you had told me even a few years ago that the Cotton series would have a presence in the 21st century I wouldn't have believed you. As someone who always had to spend crazy money collecting shmups I'm so happy the genre has been getting the proper curation it deserves in the last few years.

@Wexter that's okay, I know there are demographics of gamers where this is a lot more relevant because they're putting themselves out there and getting constant, targeted abuse

@Wexter I realize that. I don't think it's a bad idea, I just don't know how necessary it is to save people a couple of steps.

If people are harassing you they should obviously be blocked, but I don't see why it has to be universal just to save the extra steps of blocking people a second or third time.

I'm biased though, there's literally nothing anyone could say over voice chat to me that's going to offend me, at least not without them getting deeply personal about loved ones, but that's not going to happen unless some rando knows intimate details about my life. I've been called gay slurs, ironically had black people tell me I was inferior for a lack of of skin tone, etc. I refuse to be offended by that ****, it's low effort.

@Heavyarms55 that's not what I said, and it's not hard to imagine how it would feel if it was a subject I felt badly about being made fun, because I'm not that sensitive that people can't joke about things in general just because I've gone through something tragic. As long as individual people aren't being actively harassed I take it for granted that people will make jokes about things that affect me personally. I've lost loved ones to cancer, but I don't bat an eye at jokes in poor taste about cancer, because why would I allow myself to be riled up by a bad joke?

Also, I'm not just "speaking to you", I replied to a post of yours. Read it, don't read it, but don't clutch your pearls just because you can't stomach an opinion you disagree with. That's how a public forum works, which you would also take for granted if you were capable of handling and internalizing offense.

But hey, if you want to be so cynical that everything you have a problem with is a sign of a declining society you do you.