@Pod Because it is really hard to have a folded piece of paper to contain other pieces of paper inside a digital system so that is why they are not LITERAL folders.
As many have said we know very little about what is actually being said and done.
To some this might seen as an accusation of the employees lying but a reputation is easily destroyed by damning rumors, I have been in that place a few times myself. People are very quick to take the side of the accuser.
On the other hand some people are just bad leaders, great artists, programmers, composers etc. but not when in a position of power. The Ego is easily inflated if you gain control over others and if you couple this with perfectionism this can lead to unwarranted behaviour.
It could also just mean a disgruntled employer wants to get back at their boss and just throw some rumor around and see what happens.
It could also be that the leadership just let everything fester because they do not want to boss around people or put them in the place which also gives them the ability to do whatever.
In the end this just goes to show that people are flawed beings and no one fits any idea of perfection or moral superiority. It seem to me a lot of people want to be on the side of good but what it truely means to be a good person is not as black and white as a lot of people seem to think these days.
@riki_sidekicks Can, but are in no way obligated or owe anyone to do it. I like Building sims in their concept but I have no concept of finance so none of these games are 'accesible' to me so I just play them casually till I hit my bottle neck or avoid them. It's not hard to just admit defeat and look for some other game to play there is plenty to do after 3 decades worth of development.
I don't think difficulty options for games should be mandatory.
Just like horror films are not for the faint of hard, difficult games are not for those who cannot overcome their challenge.
I have no sense of rythm so most rythm games are far beyond my grasp, even on easy a hatsune miku game kicks my ass.
And I am fine with that, people should shake the idea that every game needs to be for everyone sometimes a game is just too hard or time consuming etc. then just don't play it.
It's just like people, you can try to get everyone to like you but that will never happen and that's ok.
and if a developer, who ofcourse is free to put in their game whatever they like, decides to put one in it should be so that it does not take away from the intended game design philosophy.
A game that comes up a lot in this is Dark Souls a game that can be incredibly unforgiving but is not exactly hard just has a steep learning curve but it will lose it's meaning if you can just faceroll your way trough the game.
Besides, DS games start on their easiest difficulty because it can only go up from there.
I hope the SNES sound emulation is better than it is on the Lion King version of Digital Eclipse's Disney classic collection. That has some frequent crackle in the music playback.
See this is why the Gid Gud thing is just a meme, these games are not as impossible as a lot of people make them out to be. Yes they are less forgiving and failure is more punished than most modern games. It's the difference between redoing a level after a death or respawning flickering on the last solid ground you stood on.
@Quarth Well I was wrong this time but yeah ABBA loops are nightmarish. Regarding this person, nothing about this are accusations it's just how they are in general. They put me on ignore simply because I do not share their view of things, that is enough for me to not value their opinions on anything but that is not the point here.
@-wc- While I understand where Nessisonett is coming from I cannot agree that a game should change for that purpose simply because it 'might' offend someone because they are part of a certain 'group'. as you said we don't know how many of the gamers will play this game once released and how many trans people would be offended by it.
As far as the name Magypsies goes... easily changed to Romagi and you get the same meaning.
But I do think that the depiction are an essential part of the games presentation and japanese cultural depiction of Okama. It's just how they are seen and people can decide for themselves if it is good or bad. These acts of 'protection' deminishes these groups and paints them as too weak or immature to have proper judgement or handle sensitve content and I think they deserve better than that.
The enemies in corridors should be fix in a next patch there was a slight issue with the hit box of the player character. he is build like a pyramid it feels like it now.
@-wc- See, my problem with this whole debacle is that as you said not everyone would be offended or even play the game. Why can't a fictional world have 'homophobic' people in it? Them being there does not represent the creators thoughts, maybe he want you to judge for yourself.
I give as an example, if you write a first person novel about a anti semetic nazi during WW2 and in his head that character thinks he is the hero of the story and that he does all the right things. Then it is up to the reader to conclude wether or not the person in the story is good or bad it's not the writer telling people "Well I wrote this guy as a protaganist, therefore I think all his actions are good and just." It represent a very two-dimensional way of seeing the world and people and is really childish way of looking at things.
A game like Earthbound is far more mature than its presentation leads you to believe which is what makes it so beautiful in my opinion.
@Franklin I was alluding to the closure his latest netflix special. If you haven't see it for yourself caused a lot of uproar with people of a certain ilk.
@nessisonett Don't they though? maybe not for their 'identity' sure and the fact that you think I am bigotted by me saying 'Chapelle was right' exposes your bigotry.
You don't even adress the other points I made you clearly just want to do backflips while grandstanding on your highhorse.
I really hope we get an un adulterated version of this game as a translation
@nessisonett oh don't be so dramatic most okama depictions in japanese media are kinda lovingly silly. Like the ones in one piece, Yakuza, Gintama and in this game from what I can tell they are the good guys. Most 'groups' are made fun of in many ways look at middleclass husbands in cartoon shows all fat drunk idiots, no one cares. People who like games and reading are nerds and get bullied ppl don't bat an eye. Dave Chapelle was right...
@nessisonett oh no not the jokes!!!
I prefer to see games as they are, like books, movies etc.
So people can see as the creator intended and can form their own opinion about it instead of having a manufactured opinion forcefed trough change and censorship.
@Shambo Not everyone likes or knows about emulators, official releases like this also bring these games to the general public it's an allround good thing if it happens.
I think it will be ports of the UE4 re-releases. I hope they get atleast a stable 30fps performance, the original graphics quality should not be too taxing and UE games run fine on switch.
@chiefeagle02 The planet is not fragile. A unconvenient truth is that earth will manage just fine if we destroy ourselves to extinction. The eco systems will eventually rebalance themselves and things will go on as if nothing happened. It's mostly OUR livelyhood that is at stake which is certainly a topic of concern for us as species. We also as a whole need to take responsibility for the messes we made but we only 'recently' discovered our impact as mankind.
So they want to sell us products that are not worth replaying so we can resell them to other players so they can get a cut of that sale so they can keep making money of 'discarded' games. Or they want to make all loot and extras in games a purchase and the games they sell us are just graphical shells we get the 'privilege' to play.
I cannot think of any scenario how this could benefit players. If I think I will play a game only once or not till the end, I will wait for sale, the time enjoyed vs the money invested needs to be a good balance.
More and more big companies treat games like a consumer product, which they are to a degree, instead of a work of art a means to expression or just good entertainment. We are back to the days of the arcade again where games are made to bleed wallets one quarter at the time.
"The medium has absolutely moved on from this kind of deliberately maze-like environment" I am currently playing Jedi Fallen order and it certainly has a maze like structure in it's levels albeit with a bit more shortcuts and modern gameplay.
I adore the remasters of old Acclaim N64 games thath Nightdive Studios put forth, this as an absolute gem.
Having played the remaster on pc and seeing how well it runs on switch, I would surely recommend this game to those who like horror games, old school cult classics and retro gameplay. It is a flawed game that is a product of it's time but once you adapted to it's quirks it is a great game with an amazing soundtrack by Tim Haywood (the deadside overworld music is amazing and the music in the area called 'the Playrooms' is the most demented piece of music I have ever heard.) Nightdive did an incredible job on the remaster but the people who developed the original also deserve credit for this little gem.
@Greatluigi They were allright, not Bubsy 3D bad but not out there with Banjo Kazooie. They had pop culture reference that dated quickly, one liners were over used and camera that was just plain evil and overal a lack of refinement. Great games? not by any sense of the word but they were allright as far as I can remember.
@Noble_Haltmann I get what you mean but even real gamers get cringe when they are as scripted as this. I like Will Arnett as a (voice)actor but outside of that I do not really care about him.
@John_Deacon I find that comparison to be really odd.
I see very little resemblance between the two.
Sure there may have been inspiration but Tintin is one of the grandfathers of European comics/graphic novels.
You have your spunky main character and cute pet with a digruntled friend and there is also a goofy professor type but outside of that the comparisons stop.
Spirou comics dive a lot more into the fantastical Tintin was usually more grounded in it's setting and story telling.
@sandman89 I wouldn't call it overrated it is a really good game with a unique mechanic and while some might overrate it I personally like the sumi-e stylings of the graphics and the shinto inspired story. The game is very very Japanese in a non anime sense.
I never played spider-man 2 but the web swinging in Ultimate Spider-man is pretty dope and the venom part are just fun. Sadly the game gets a tad repetative but it is imo one of the best games coming from the cell shading craze.
Games that are contenders to this graphically imo are: Silent hill 2 Metal Gear Solid 2 Luigi's Mansion Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 Ico Max Payne And I probably forgot more and it's easy to have high detail models in an empty void same way RE on psx could have high detail models to a pre-rendered backdrop.
@GrailUK that, or the shadowcasting 'lightsource' of the sun is turned off at night time and headlight and street lights are not shadow casting light sources.
A complaint I do have is the lack of grass, even the ps2 version had grass.. like blades of greass sorta well fuzzy things that were supposed to resemble grass.
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Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Finally Gave Us Switch Folders, In A Very Nintendo Way
@Pod Because it is really hard to have a folded piece of paper to contain other pieces of paper inside a digital system so that is why they are not LITERAL folders.
Re: Ori Developer Moon Studios Labelled "Oppressive" Workplace In New Report
As many have said we know very little about what is actually being said and done.
To some this might seen as an accusation of the employees lying but a reputation is easily destroyed by damning rumors, I have been in that place a few times myself.
People are very quick to take the side of the accuser.
On the other hand some people are just bad leaders, great artists, programmers, composers etc. but not when in a position of power.
The Ego is easily inflated if you gain control over others and if you couple this with perfectionism this can lead to unwarranted behaviour.
It could also just mean a disgruntled employer wants to get back at their boss and just throw some rumor around and see what happens.
It could also be that the leadership just let everything fester because they do not want to boss around people or put them in the place which also gives them the ability to do whatever.
In the end this just goes to show that people are flawed beings and no one fits any idea of perfection or moral superiority.
It seem to me a lot of people want to be on the side of good but what it truely means to be a good person is not as black and white as a lot of people seem to think these days.
Re: Feature: 5 Accessibility Features That Every Game Should Have
@riki_sidekicks Can, but are in no way obligated or owe anyone to do it.
I like Building sims in their concept but I have no concept of finance so none of these games are 'accesible' to me so I just play them casually till I hit my bottle neck or avoid them.
It's not hard to just admit defeat and look for some other game to play there is plenty to do after 3 decades worth of development.
Re: Feature: 5 Accessibility Features That Every Game Should Have
I don't think difficulty options for games should be mandatory.
Just like horror films are not for the faint of hard, difficult games are not for those who cannot overcome their challenge.
I have no sense of rythm so most rythm games are far beyond my grasp, even on easy a hatsune miku game kicks my ass.
And I am fine with that, people should shake the idea that every game needs to be for everyone sometimes a game is just too hard or time consuming etc. then just don't play it.
It's just like people, you can try to get everyone to like you but that will never happen and that's ok.
and if a developer, who ofcourse is free to put in their game whatever they like, decides to put one in it should be so that it does not take away from the intended game design philosophy.
A game that comes up a lot in this is Dark Souls a game that can be incredibly unforgiving but is not exactly hard just has a steep learning curve but it will lose it's meaning if you can just faceroll your way trough the game.
Besides, DS games start on their easiest difficulty because it can only go up from there.
Re: Konami Announces Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection For Switch
I hope the SNES sound emulation is better than it is on the Lion King version of Digital Eclipse's Disney classic collection.
That has some frequent crackle in the music playback.
Re: Over 20 Years Later, Neo Geo Title 'Ganryu' Is Getting A Sequel On Switch
The first game I only played on an emulator (oooh evil me) and it's an allright game not horrible but not on Metal Slug levels.
Re: Random: Forget Bowsette, 2022 Is The Year Of 'Eggma'am'
I'd smash eh I mean vote for smash!
Re: Random: Elden Ring Player Defeats Boss With Nintendo's Ring Fit Controller
See this is why the Gid Gud thing is just a meme, these games are not as impossible as a lot of people make them out to be.
Yes they are less forgiving and failure is more punished than most modern games.
It's the difference between redoing a level after a death or respawning flickering on the last solid ground you stood on.
Re: Naughty Metroidvania 'Wife Quest' Launches On Switch In March
@Quarth Well I was wrong this time but yeah ABBA loops are nightmarish.
Regarding this person, nothing about this are accusations it's just how they are in general.
They put me on ignore simply because I do not share their view of things, that is enough for me to not value their opinions on anything but that is not the point here.
Re: Naughty Metroidvania 'Wife Quest' Launches On Switch In March
@Quarth to them it is ( they have me on ignore but I can almost guess that the comment was of the, for lack of a better term, 'woke' nature.)
Re: Stunning Mother 3 Tribute Video Gets Side-By-Side Comparison With The Game Boy Advance Original
@AlphaXXI I'd wish a golden sun to look less plasticy
Re: Mother 3 Producer Would "Love To See" GBA Entry Receive A Worldwide Release
@-wc- While I understand where Nessisonett is coming from I cannot agree that a game should change for that purpose simply because it 'might' offend someone because they are part of a certain 'group'.
as you said we don't know how many of the gamers will play this game once released and how many trans people would be offended by it.
As far as the name Magypsies goes... easily changed to Romagi and you get the same meaning.
But I do think that the depiction are an essential part of the games presentation and japanese cultural depiction of Okama.
It's just how they are seen and people can decide for themselves if it is good or bad.
These acts of 'protection' deminishes these groups and paints them as too weak or immature to have proper judgement or handle sensitve content and I think they deserve better than that.
Re: Review: PowerSlave Exhumed - An Old-School FPS That's Absolutely Worth Digging Up
@Johnno137426 Some devs are very involved with people on the Nightdive Discord and take a serious look at valid complaints regarding their games.
Re: Review: PowerSlave Exhumed - An Old-School FPS That's Absolutely Worth Digging Up
@Specter_of-the_OLED I heard rumors of a Time Splitter re-release by another studio recently.
Re: Review: PowerSlave Exhumed - An Old-School FPS That's Absolutely Worth Digging Up
The enemies in corridors should be fix in a next patch there was a slight issue with the hit box of the player character. he is build like a pyramid it feels like it now.
Re: Mother 3 Producer Would "Love To See" GBA Entry Receive A Worldwide Release
@-wc- See, my problem with this whole debacle is that as you said not everyone would be offended or even play the game.
Why can't a fictional world have 'homophobic' people in it?
Them being there does not represent the creators thoughts, maybe he want you to judge for yourself.
I give as an example, if you write a first person novel about a anti semetic nazi during WW2 and in his head that character thinks he is the hero of the story and that he does all the right things.
Then it is up to the reader to conclude wether or not the person in the story is good or bad it's not the writer telling people "Well I wrote this guy as a protaganist, therefore I think all his actions are good and just."
It represent a very two-dimensional way of seeing the world and people and is really childish way of looking at things.
A game like Earthbound is far more mature than its presentation leads you to believe which is what makes it so beautiful in my opinion.
Re: Mother 3 Producer Would "Love To See" GBA Entry Receive A Worldwide Release
@Franklin I was alluding to the closure his latest netflix special.
If you haven't see it for yourself caused a lot of uproar with people of a certain ilk.
Re: Mother 3 Producer Would "Love To See" GBA Entry Receive A Worldwide Release
@nessisonett Don't they though? maybe not for their 'identity' sure and the fact that you think I am bigotted by me saying 'Chapelle was right' exposes your bigotry.
You don't even adress the other points I made you clearly just want to do backflips while grandstanding on your highhorse.
I really hope we get an un adulterated version of this game as a translation
Re: Mother 3 Producer Would "Love To See" GBA Entry Receive A Worldwide Release
@nessisonett oh don't be so dramatic most okama depictions in japanese media are kinda lovingly silly.
Like the ones in one piece, Yakuza, Gintama and in this game from what I can tell they are the good guys.
Most 'groups' are made fun of in many ways look at middleclass husbands in cartoon shows all fat drunk idiots, no one cares.
People who like games and reading are nerds and get bullied ppl don't bat an eye.
Dave Chapelle was right...
Re: Mother 3 Producer Would "Love To See" GBA Entry Receive A Worldwide Release
@nessisonett oh no not the jokes!!!
I prefer to see games as they are, like books, movies etc.
So people can see as the creator intended and can form their own opinion about it instead of having a manufactured opinion forcefed trough change and censorship.
Re: Mother 3 Producer Would "Love To See" GBA Entry Receive A Worldwide Release
@Shambo Not everyone likes or knows about emulators, official releases like this also bring these games to the general public it's an allround good thing if it happens.
Re: French Retailer Lists Batman: Arkham Collection For Switch
I think it will be ports of the UE4 re-releases.
I hope they get atleast a stable 30fps performance, the original graphics quality should not be too taxing and UE games run fine on switch.
Re: Best Nintendo Valentine's Day Gift Ideas For 2022
@HotGoomba :C that hurt me right in my hearthpiece...
I don't have enough rupees either .
Re: Nintendo "Has Interest" In NFTs And The Metaverse But Ponders What "Joy" It Can Provide
@SonOfVon As a long life Nintendo fan I say, NO!
Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial
@chiefeagle02 The planet is not fragile.
A unconvenient truth is that earth will manage just fine if we destroy ourselves to extinction.
The eco systems will eventually rebalance themselves and things will go on as if nothing happened.
It's mostly OUR livelyhood that is at stake which is certainly a topic of concern for us as species.
We also as a whole need to take responsibility for the messes we made but we only 'recently' discovered our impact as mankind.
Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial
So they want to sell us products that are not worth replaying so we can resell them to other players so they can get a cut of that sale so they can keep making money of 'discarded' games.
Or they want to make all loot and extras in games a purchase and the games they sell us are just graphical shells we get the 'privilege' to play.
I cannot think of any scenario how this could benefit players.
If I think I will play a game only once or not till the end, I will wait for sale, the time enjoyed vs the money invested needs to be a good balance.
More and more big companies treat games like a consumer product, which they are to a degree, instead of a work of art a means to expression or just good entertainment.
We are back to the days of the arcade again where games are made to bleed wallets one quarter at the time.
Re: Even Miyamoto Doesn't Like "Stupid" Navi In Zelda: Ocarina Of Time
@TommyTendo I feel that Twilight Princess did it best.
Re: Random: Link's Breath Of The Wild Bow Technique "Really Sucks", According To A Professional Archer
So it is basicly gun experts telling us holding a gun sideways is not practical.
Whatever will I do.
Re: Gal*Gun: Double Peace's Limited Edition Comes With Plushies And A 'DIY Tentacle Kit'
@nessisonett That's what you think!
Re: Mini Review: Shadow Man Remastered - A Rich, Inscrutable World To Get Lost In
"The medium has absolutely moved on from this kind of deliberately maze-like environment"
I am currently playing Jedi Fallen order and it certainly has a maze like structure in it's levels albeit with a bit more shortcuts and modern gameplay.
I adore the remasters of old Acclaim N64 games thath Nightdive Studios put forth, this as an absolute gem.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Investigates Shadow Man's Frame Rate And Resolution On Switch
Having played the remaster on pc and seeing how well it runs on switch, I would surely recommend this game to those who like horror games, old school cult classics and retro gameplay.
It is a flawed game that is a product of it's time but once you adapted to it's quirks it is a great game with an amazing soundtrack by Tim Haywood (the deadside overworld music is amazing and the music in the area called 'the Playrooms' is the most demented piece of music I have ever heard.)
Nightdive did an incredible job on the remaster but the people who developed the original also deserve credit for this little gem.
Re: Troy Baker Partners With NFT Firm, Asks If Fans Want To "Hate" Or "Create"
How about, we create hate towards NFT's
The only NFT I approve of is Nice effin T*ts (cuz I like birds)
Re: Random: Pokémon Whips Were Once Considered, But Game Freak Thought It Was "Too Cruel"
Castlevania/Pokémon crossover when!?
Re: Square Enix's Triangle Strategy Has Been Rated For Nintendo Switch
@Silly_G uhuhuhuh bust...
Re: Sega Could Reverse Decision To Sell NFTs Following Fan Backlash
@NEStalgia It's the REAL real arcade experience from home, every life is a transaction... Kinda like Double Dragon III
Re: Sega Could Reverse Decision To Sell NFTs Following Fan Backlash
@dBackLash Enlighten us oh, wise one, how can NFT benefit gaming without creating devolving in Diablo III's real money AH.
Re: Konami Is 'Celebrating' Castlevania's 35th With An NFT Auction
@carlos82 Have you seen their latest attempts at games?
Re: Capcom Shares Special Ace Attorney Artwork To Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary
@Tobiaku Apollo has his hand on his hip, look closer!
Re: Capcom Shares Special Ace Attorney Artwork To Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary
No objections here!
Re: 'Gex' The Forgotten '90s Video Game Mascot Might Be Making A Comeback
@Greatluigi They were allright, not Bubsy 3D bad but not out there with Banjo Kazooie.
They had pop culture reference that dated quickly, one liners were over used and camera that was just plain evil and overal a lack of refinement.
Great games? not by any sense of the word but they were allright as far as I can remember.
Re: Talking Point: What Did You Think Of The Game Awards 2021?
@Noble_Haltmann I get what you mean but even real gamers get cringe when they are as scripted as this.
I like Will Arnett as a (voice)actor but outside of that I do not really care about him.
Re: 'Poland's Asterix' Is Getting A Switch-Exclusive Game, Written By A Former CD Projekt RED Staffer
@John_Deacon I find that comparison to be really odd.
I see very little resemblance between the two.
Sure there may have been inspiration but Tintin is one of the grandfathers of European comics/graphic novels.
You have your spunky main character and cute pet with a digruntled friend and there is also a goofy professor type but outside of that the comparisons stop.
Spirou comics dive a lot more into the fantastical Tintin was usually more grounded in it's setting and story telling.
Re: Best Cheap Nintendo Switch Games - Switch eShop Deals (Europe)
@sandman89 I wouldn't call it overrated it is a really good game with a unique mechanic and while some might overrate it I personally like the sumi-e stylings of the graphics and the shinto inspired story.
The game is very very Japanese in a non anime sense.
Re: Poll: What's The Best Spider-Man Game On Nintendo Systems?
I never played spider-man 2 but the web swinging in Ultimate Spider-man is pretty dope and the venom part are just fun.
Sadly the game gets a tad repetative but it is imo one of the best games coming from the cell shading craze.
Re: Random: This $10 Nintendo Switch eShop Game Has Suddenly Shot Up To A Whopping $250
I'll buy that for a dollar!!! or 250...
Re: Talking Point: Is There A Better-Looking 20-Year-Old Game Than Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II?
Games that are contenders to this graphically imo are:
Silent hill 2
Metal Gear Solid 2
Luigi's Mansion
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
Ico
Max Payne
And I probably forgot more and it's easy to have high detail models in an empty void same way RE on psx could have high detail models to a pre-rendered backdrop.
Re: Ed Sheeran's Pokémon GO Collab Includes In-Game Concert And Special Pokémon Appearances
@wiley990 Sounds like voyeurs anthem
Re: Activision Blizzard Employees Stage A Walkout Calling For CEO Bobby Kotick's Resignation
@Jeronan I find calling him a monster a bit harsh.
Monsters have feelings too ya know!
Re: The New Zelda Game & Watch Hides A Cool Little Secret
@Jawessome even a good plastic one would be nice
thnk the lord for 3D printers.
Re: Watch: This Is What Grand Theft Auto Definitive Trilogy Looks Like On Switch
@GrailUK that, or the shadowcasting 'lightsource' of the sun is turned off at night time and headlight and street lights are not shadow casting light sources.
A complaint I do have is the lack of grass, even the ps2 version had grass.. like blades of greass sorta well fuzzy things that were supposed to resemble grass.