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inenai

Software Engineer & Game Developer

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Re: Nintendo Appears To Have Improved Switch Online's N64 Emulation

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It's actually very nice to know they are listening to the complaints and doing something about it. If the service is going to continue to be expensive, at the very least it should be its best version. It if ends up running smoothly and looking as it should, then I think I could start considering it. Still feel it's a bit too expensive.

Re: Soapbox: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Is A Reminder That It's Never Too Late To Change

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I agree completely with your opinion. I played Pokémon yellow, which I found ok for the time it came out in, and only tried coming back with Pokémon X which I did finish... but it felt the same. So many generations had come and gone and Pokemon felt like the same game with a few changes... Arceus made me love the franchise again. It's like I've always wanted it to be more dynamic and engaging, with the trainer actually being an important character alongside the Pokemon! I hope they keep making Legend games.

Re: Soapbox: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Raises The Question - How Much Do Janky Graphics Matter?

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Pokemon is the IP that makes the most money, in the entire WORLD. They HAVE the money to invest in better graphics and optimisation. They are just saving that money. If the game looked way better, they'd sell even more copies. The game is the most fun I had playing a Pokemon game in ages, but it looks like a game that would run on mobile. And the low res textures and ugly graphics break the immersion for me from time to time.

Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial

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@Jellyghost But the difference between having an NFT is that if you don't, your art can be sold (copies or phisical items using said art) without you seeing any benefits anyway, that already happens. But with an NFT that the very artist generates of their work, they could forever earn a fee whenever that NFT is sold, they can earn from their work. As far as I know, it actually tries to fix that exact problem

Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial

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@MarioBrickLayer How about this:

Player A buys an item for 5, plays the game, develops the item (makes it better), then is tired of the game and wants to get their 5 back.

Player B has the choice to either buy an upgraded item for 5 from player A or a new copy of the item for 5 from the game.
If player B buys from player A:
-Player A gains money back
-Player B gets better item for same price, doesn't give more money to game
-If transaction pays fee, game earned, say, 0.5 instead of 5 when Player B decided they wanted a copy of the item.

With NFT you cannot: Hack a developed item into existence, or fake the transactions, since it's super-hard to hack blockchains.

That is one use I can see that is beneficial for the players.

Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial

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@MarioBrickLayer Again- I see more benefit for users than for companies in this case. I just think that in itself should make the games way more appealing to the players - that is why companies would want to compete against each other implementing this technology before someone else does. Thus why they say players don't get it.

Blockchain is HARD to understand. Most people (me included half of the time) actually really don't get it. If they did, they'd all be investing in cryptocurrencies, since today it is the only way to own your money without a bank in the middle. No one to take the money away from you. But to trust that, you need to trust the technology (and for the third time: proof of work sucks- I will buy ethereum when they finally start using proof of stake).

I don't claim to have the absolute truth, but I actually have a degree in informatic technology (yes, and even I sometimes have a hard time understanding the technology because it IS very complex) and work in the video game development industry, and I discuss blockchain with my peers now and then, so I MIGHT have a somewhat educated view in the matter.

Most people I've seen complain didn't even make an ATTEMPT at understanding the technology.

Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial

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@DTFaux I am not sure what Ubisoft IN PARTICULAR is trying to get out of it, apart from competing because eventually many companies might want to use NFTs, all I'm saying is the technology in itself isn't killing the planet like many people think. I've seen way too many comments against NFT because it hurts the planet, when it actually just is a digital solution to proving stuff is original. What you do with it might be good or bad (or HOW you do it, as I said, proof of WORK is indeed consuming too much energy and I hope proof of stake becomes a thing soon), not the technology itself. And being able to recover your money once you stop using something digital doesn't sound bad. Today a company creates a game, clones it into endless amounts of copies digitally still charges each like a physical game. Being able to re sell it and recover that money doesn't sound so bad to me! I'd love to sell games I bought and don't like, or stuff I paid for in games I don't play anymore. I fail to see how that is a bad thing in itself.

Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial

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As an informatic professional and someone who (mostly) understands NFTs I have to agree with Ubisoft this time, there is a misconception about them damaging the ecosystem, and that is what mainly angered people. Proof of work, used currently to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is what consumes too much energy, not NFTs in general. That is why models like proof of stake have been designed, to fix the energy problem.

Read about it, don't just follow an angry mob over something you don't fully understand. Blockchain technology is amazing.

Re: Gallery: Here Are Some Gorgeous Images From Inside Nintendo's Old Headquarters

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TORANPU taruka? What does that mean on the sign?
OOOH wait, for whatever reason the hiragana, just like the kanji, are supposed to be read from right to left... (The kanji from right to left read Yamauchi Nintendo, as I found).
TRUMP "karuta". Trump / Triumph (or at least in Spanish, triunfos) or suit cards. Western cards. As in playing cards. Nintendo's original business.
Nice!

Re: Video: Here's A First-Person Look At Pokémon Legends: Arceus In 'Hisui 360° View'

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Still not one SINGLE bush. It's all grass, equally shaped trees and the occasional high grass. With such a nice art style, why so barren in the plants department? Sad noises because it would be so easy to make it look better. Guess they didn't know how to make it look good and not drop frames in the process. I hope Pokemon starts using some of their infinite money to pay programmers who actually know how to optimize things- It can be done, we've seen it in other titles.