@HingryHuppo Hollywood still takes way more care of making sure music and license rights will not stop a movie from being sold in the future, their contracts are way more future-proof.
There are many older shows from a time before DVDs and streaming services that failed to have a contract that covered them, but overall, they still take more care than the videogame industry.
The real problem here is videogame companies that make licensed games, being dumb when they sign contracts where when the license expire and they don't renew, the game has to be removed from stores, even in a world where digital media doesn't exist, all games are physical, these licenses expiring is still a problem.
@silverdamascus GoldenEye 007 took decades to be rereleased after the license expired, aside from piracy, it was only available on the original N64 carts, carts that are very sturdy but do not last forever, while most people who use emulators just want free games, unintentionally, they are preserving videogame history.
Physical media existing didn't allow GoldenEye 007 to have physical copies for the GameCube, Wii, Wii U and Xbox 360, that game stayed locked to the N64, even in a hypothetical situation where physical copies last forever, demand eventually makes them very expensive.
This could be prevented with a clause where once the contract with MGM expires, Nintendo/Rare cannot make another 007 game, but they could still sell GoldenEye 007 since that game was already released.
This is when people come to say how physical media is better since it doesn't have this problem, but they are ignoring the real problem.
Videogame companies that make licensed games are still dumb enough to sign a contract where when it expires, the game cannot be sold anymore and has to be removed from stores, this model should have been abandoned when digital stores were invented, and was already a bad model during the physical only times of the 1980s and 1990s.
Videogame companies should demand the same contract used for movie studios, where when it expires, they can't make a movie with the license anymore, but they can still sell and distribute the movies that were already released.
What annoys me the most is people on the internet that would usually complain about the censorship, actually defending it, and shifting the blame by saying it's not them who are crybabies for censoring, the ones complaining about the censorship are the crybabies.
I'm not talking just about this game, I'm talking about censorship overall.
Remember that even with physical media, technically you're not buying the game, you're just buying a license to use it, if buying a Mario game meant you own the game, it not only meant you could make your own copies and sell them, but you could also make your own Mario games.
Internet just allowed ways for the companies to actually take the game away from us after they were sold, and now, while they can't get into your house and take away the physical copy of your game (yet), they can press a button to make your physical copy useless.
Remember that for many modern games, buying physical media is not the solution:
The box only has a digital code to download the game.
There's a disc, but it only has a few files, the actual game must be downloaded and the disc is only a key.
Sometimes, only parts of the game are available on disc, you can play without internet, but not the full game.
You can play the game without internet with just a disc, but not the good version of the game, because at launch, the game is full of problems and you need to download a patch later or there's a patch since the launch day.
Sometimes, the patch is so big that you are almost downloading the whole game.
You still need to connect to the internet to buy and download DLC.
To play online, you need to download the most recent version.
Many games are online-only, require a constant connection to the internet, even on single-player, and to make things worse, the servers often close, making your physical copy a paperweight.
When Braid was released in 2008, games like this were unique, the idea of a small studio making a small but fun game that is better than the AAA games was a novelty, now, even if your game is good, too much competition with similar games, if the original Braid was released today, it would likely be forgotten and sold even less.
@NatiaAdamo USA also has the death of the author + 70 years copyright.
It's just that corporate works have a 95 years copyright after publication, the death + 70 rule is only when the authors keep the copyright of their creations, when the copyright is owned by a company, which is the case with the biggest IPs, then it's 95 after launch.
Also, works in USA released before 1978, have the 95 years after launch even when not corporate-owned, that's why the works of George Orwell are public domain in Europe, but not in USA.
@Dr_Lugae I say better, people should use public domain characters and ideas, but still be creative, come up with something good that couldn't be made when the IP was private, not just throwing the characters in something cheap and designed for shock value.
Creativity is not just creating something from scratch, taking something that someone else made, but making changes and additions to make it different or even better is why public domain is a good thing.
@FawfulDX The problem is that the mods themselves are full of copyright infringement, like putting characters from IPs the modders have no permit to use in games unrelated to those IPs.
When nothing is in the public domain, everything is in the public domain.
We could be so better if copyright laws worked like they were in the past, with a 28 years duration and the option to renew for 28 more years, if companies wanted long copyrights so much, they could have lobbied for the option to renew two or three times, but they just killed the renewal option to extend copyright to 95 years even when the work is used for nothing.
Mickey just joined the public domain this year, the first taste of something important entering the public domain after decades, and not much was done and it still feels like the character is owned by Disney.
Videogames will only start entering the public domain in 2067, and at first, only stuff like Pong, in a more fair world, a huge chunk of the 1980s and 1990s videogames would be now in the public domain due to abandonment.
@Not_Soos First they claim "Nothing will change in your life, an easy mode will not affect you in any way, just don't pick it", then they add an easy mode into the online modes that will totally affect those who don't want to pick it for a bigger challenge, seems they won't even add a speed handicap or something.
Games are all about variety, there are many situations where the whole charm was having only one difficulty mode and no easy option, there are also easy games where I want only one difficulty, I don't want a hard mode.
Next step is those "inclusivity options" not affecting even achievements and trophies, making sure they are worthless for achievement hunters, they are not about including disabled people and young kids, there are people without arms finishing games with their feet, and I managed to beat some hard games when I was a kid, it's all about pleasing people who just suck.
"What do you mean these games are stupid?!!! I got a bunch of money from them!!! Since when getting money is being stupid?!!! LOL! Have fun staying poor!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
To be fair, like any pyramid scheme, if you managed to play these games early and sell these items early, you could earn a lot of money from them, ways to earn easy money actually exist, but when everyone learns about a way to earn easy money, it stops being easy money.
Even before NFT games existed, players were already able to earn money selling videogame items, NFT games were not the invention of games you can play to earn money.
Do you know why NFT games crashed and burned while popular games like Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike still allow players to earn a fortune with items? Because these games are fun and have people playing them for love, and there are players willing to buy these items for a big price and not sell them, keep them.
If the only reason people buy something is in hopes of selling it for an even bigger price, it's a bigger fool scheme, a bubble waiting to burst.
@Serpenterror Sakurai already said that only videogame characters are allowed, it's the only official rule, not a rule made by fans who is destined to be broken in the future when more characters start coming again.
Although Sakurai needs to specify that rule better, the Shin Megami Tensei franchise started as a book but quickly abandoned the source material and became a strictly videogame franchise, and Sora is in the game, while he is a videogame character, Kingdom Hearts is too tied with non-videogame characters.
"Ryu will never be in Smash, characters from traditional fighting games don't fit in."
"Cloud will never be in Smash, he has no relation to Nintendo, his game was never released on Nintendo hardware."
"Bayonetta will never be in Smash, she is too sexy, her game is too violent and she uses guns."
"Snake is never going to come back, Konami only cares for pachinkos, and Kojima was fired, same goes for Simon Belmont, he will never be in Smash."
"Ridley will never be in Smash, he is too big, he can't work as a Fighter."
"K. Rool will never be in Smash, he is dead and irrelevant, he is missing for over a decade, he was removed from his own franchise and replaced."
"Erdrick or Luminary will never be in Smash, the Dragon Quest series is only popular in Japan."
"Banjo will never be in Smash, he is dead, irrelevant, literal who, he is missing for over a decade, only boomers care about him, and don't compare him with K. Rool."
"Terry will never be in Smash, no one knows who he is and no one asked for him."
"ARMS will never get a character in Smash, that game failed in sales and no one plays it anymore."
"Steve will never be in Smash, he is just a meme chararacter, something people ask only as a joke, Minecraft is cringy and zoomer trash."
"Xenoblade 2 will never get a character in Smash, that game is old news at this point."
"Tekken will never get a character in Smash, you can't adapt a 3D fighting game to a 2D game like Smash, Sakurai already said it was too hard."
"Sora will never be in Smash, he is not a videogame character, and Disney will never allow him."
"Mortal Kombat will never get a character in Smash, the game is still too violent, and banned in Japan."
@zbinks My point is that licensing contracts should allow perpetual distribution for works that were already released, the license expires, the company can still sell the games that were already released in their original format, they just can't make a brand new game.
Movies are often made with this in mind since reselling old movies is important for studios, nowadays, selling older games became more important for videogame companies, but they still make that mistake.
@DanijoEX Movies are made with a license where even after it expires, movie studios can still sell DVDs of the movie that was already released, they just can't make another movie.
Why videogame companies don't make a similar contract?
People blame digital games and claim how physical media is superior, but the real problem here is how companies keep making the mistake of buying temporary licenses.
When a company buys a license to use characters or music they don't own, when the contract expires, they should be still allowed to sell the game, they just can't use the license in another game, that's how Hollywood movies work, Sony doesn't have the rights to Ghost Rider anymore, but they just can't make another movie, they can still sell DVDs of the Nicolas Cage movies.
And even better, give us free DLC, this game sold 50 million copies, they can give us free DLC, it's not being entitled, giving us free DLC would make even more copies sell.
Remember all the edgy teenagers and kids from the 2000s saying that Nintendo is the company for little kids and Sony is the company for adults, still clinging on the stories about Nintendo censoring games even though Nintendo abandoned most of their censorship policies in the 1990s?
This game improved so much over the years, even the loot boxes were removed.
However, it's still a service-based game where the player is supposed to play a lot every day, to the point the game becomes a second job, trying to avoid those kinds of games.
I have a hard time understanding why Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy keeps selling so well even though it's a game from 2017, yet Crash Bandicoot 4 never appears in the Top 40.
Some say that's because that game only sold thanks to nostalgia, when they made a new game, people didn't want it because the franchise was never good, but no, Crash 4 is still faithful to the PS1 trilogy but with a lot of improvements.
The main problem with Zelda 1 is that it's a cryptic game where you need a strategy guide to fully play it, finishing this game without a guide is much, much harder and requires a lot of guessing, Simon's Quest is this but way worse.
Inspector Gadget had so many other cartoons, yet the original is still remembered as the best, and these sequels keep contradicting and ignoring each other, it's like Terminator, where many keep trying to be the true sequel to the loved classic and no one sticks as the true Terminator III.
This game is using the designs of the original series.
90% of the movie and TV industry is in the hands of 5 conglomerates (Disney, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony), this is a major reason why Hollywood sucks, even when they release good movies, they don't want to create new things and want to just keep recycling what they already have, and these conglomerates also own journalism companies, making things even worse.
Disney buying Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox didn't go well, for the people who liked the franchises Disney bought and for the people who liked Disney before those acquisitions.
Warner Bros. and Discovery merger caused many projects to be cancelled, including some of them that were finished, and even works that were already released were removed from distribution.
Activision and Blizzard merging was terrible for Blizzard fans.
20 years later, most people agree that SquareSoft and Enix becoming Square-Enix allowed us to play some great games and there are franchises that stayed well, but overall, the merger was bad for those who liked what both companies had to offer.
EA has a history of buying smaller companies, ruining them and their franchises, and shutting them down.
Before Konami became a terrible company, they bought and absorbed Hudson, not only ruining the Castlevania, Contra and many other Konami franchises, but also ruining Bomberman, Adventure Island and other Hudson franchises.
But relax, Microsoft buying Activision is going to be good for us and Blizzard will be fixed, trust me bro, everyone who complains is a whiny and envious Sony fanboy.
I was a kid, and I had experience from scam toys, this looked like another one when I saw it, and I knew that even if it worked like advertised, it would be fun for a few minutes, then to the wardrobe or the attic.
And guess that it's another one to be stored in a wardrobe and forgotten, like all the plastic guitars and plastic mats, the Power Glove, the Kinect, and also Nintendo classics like the R.O.B., the Super Scope, the Game Boy Printer, the N64 microphone, the eReader, the DK Bongos, the Wii Speak and the Circle Pad Pro.
The live service bubble has already burst, while the biggest games like Fortnite are services, for every 1 game that achieves success, there's like 20 or 50 that fail and close.
And I knew that since the Switch is underpowered, eventually more services would drop support just for the Switch version.
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Re: PSA: You Only Have A Few Days To Buy This Bithell Games Title Before It's Gone
@HingryHuppo Hollywood still takes way more care of making sure music and license rights will not stop a movie from being sold in the future, their contracts are way more future-proof.
There are many older shows from a time before DVDs and streaming services that failed to have a contract that covered them, but overall, they still take more care than the videogame industry.
Re: PSA: You Only Have A Few Days To Buy This Bithell Games Title Before It's Gone
@HingryHuppo Read my posts above.
The real problem here is videogame companies that make licensed games, being dumb when they sign contracts where when the license expire and they don't renew, the game has to be removed from stores, even in a world where digital media doesn't exist, all games are physical, these licenses expiring is still a problem.
Re: PSA: You Only Have A Few Days To Buy This Bithell Games Title Before It's Gone
@silverdamascus GoldenEye 007 took decades to be rereleased after the license expired, aside from piracy, it was only available on the original N64 carts, carts that are very sturdy but do not last forever, while most people who use emulators just want free games, unintentionally, they are preserving videogame history.
Physical media existing didn't allow GoldenEye 007 to have physical copies for the GameCube, Wii, Wii U and Xbox 360, that game stayed locked to the N64, even in a hypothetical situation where physical copies last forever, demand eventually makes them very expensive.
This could be prevented with a clause where once the contract with MGM expires, Nintendo/Rare cannot make another 007 game, but they could still sell GoldenEye 007 since that game was already released.
Re: PSA: You Only Have A Few Days To Buy This Bithell Games Title Before It's Gone
This is when people come to say how physical media is better since it doesn't have this problem, but they are ignoring the real problem.
Videogame companies that make licensed games are still dumb enough to sign a contract where when it expires, the game cannot be sold anymore and has to be removed from stores, this model should have been abandoned when digital stores were invented, and was already a bad model during the physical only times of the 1980s and 1990s.
Videogame companies should demand the same contract used for movie studios, where when it expires, they can't make a movie with the license anymore, but they can still sell and distribute the movies that were already released.
Re: Be Warned, Two NES Titles From Limited Run Games May Damage Your Console
The Nintendo Seal of Quality was never about the actual quality of the games, a bunch of garbage like Superman 64 had the seal.
The Seal of Quality is about that, how putting a cartridge with that seal on your console will not cause it to malfunction.
Re: NES-Inspired Platformer 'Everdeep Aurora' Is Bringing Wholesome Vibes In 2025
If you think the artstyle is great, OK.
But NES games were not like this.
Re: Random: Guilty Gear Strive's Latest Update Apparently Censors "Inappropriate Angles"
Re: Random: Guilty Gear Strive's Latest Update Apparently Censors "Inappropriate Angles"
The worst part is not the censorship.
What annoys me the most is people on the internet that would usually complain about the censorship, actually defending it, and shifting the blame by saying it's not them who are crybabies for censoring, the ones complaining about the censorship are the crybabies.
I'm not talking just about this game, I'm talking about censorship overall.
Re: Random: Guilty Gear Strive's Latest Update Apparently Censors "Inappropriate Angles"
Do not accept the excuse of "It's just a small change, it's just something unimportant, you shouldn't care, get a life, grow up, touch grass."
If it's something small and unimportant, they shouldn't have changed anything in the first place.
Re: Mario & Luigi's Future In Doubt As A Potential Sony Acquisition Emerges
Re: Californian Law Dictates Storefronts Be Honest About Digital Game Ownership
Remember that even with physical media, technically you're not buying the game, you're just buying a license to use it, if buying a Mario game meant you own the game, it not only meant you could make your own copies and sell them, but you could also make your own Mario games.
Internet just allowed ways for the companies to actually take the game away from us after they were sold, and now, while they can't get into your house and take away the physical copy of your game (yet), they can press a button to make your physical copy useless.
Re: Californian Law Dictates Storefronts Be Honest About Digital Game Ownership
Remember that for many modern games, buying physical media is not the solution:
Re: Braid: Anniversary Edition Sales Have Been "Utterly Terrible", Says Creator
When Braid was released in 2008, games like this were unique, the idea of a small studio making a small but fun game that is better than the AAA games was a novelty, now, even if your game is good, too much competition with similar games, if the original Braid was released today, it would likely be forgotten and sold even less.
Re: Feature: 16 Great Late-Gen Nintendo Games - Maybe There's Life In The Ol' Switch Yet
If this list gets expanded, add Joy Mech Fight, released for the Famicom in 1993, when the Super Famicom was already in the market for years.
Re: Nintendo Issues Multiple DMCAs On The Modding Site 'GameBanana'
@NatiaAdamo USA also has the death of the author + 70 years copyright.
It's just that corporate works have a 95 years copyright after publication, the death + 70 rule is only when the authors keep the copyright of their creations, when the copyright is owned by a company, which is the case with the biggest IPs, then it's 95 after launch.
Also, works in USA released before 1978, have the 95 years after launch even when not corporate-owned, that's why the works of George Orwell are public domain in Europe, but not in USA.
Re: Nintendo Issues Multiple DMCAs On The Modding Site 'GameBanana'
@Dr_Lugae I say better, people should use public domain characters and ideas, but still be creative, come up with something good that couldn't be made when the IP was private, not just throwing the characters in something cheap and designed for shock value.
Creativity is not just creating something from scratch, taking something that someone else made, but making changes and additions to make it different or even better is why public domain is a good thing.
Re: Nintendo Issues Multiple DMCAs On The Modding Site 'GameBanana'
@FawfulDX The problem is that the mods themselves are full of copyright infringement, like putting characters from IPs the modders have no permit to use in games unrelated to those IPs.
Re: Nintendo Issues Multiple DMCAs On The Modding Site 'GameBanana'
When nothing is in the public domain, everything is in the public domain.
We could be so better if copyright laws worked like they were in the past, with a 28 years duration and the option to renew for 28 more years, if companies wanted long copyrights so much, they could have lobbied for the option to renew two or three times, but they just killed the renewal option to extend copyright to 95 years even when the work is used for nothing.
Mickey just joined the public domain this year, the first taste of something important entering the public domain after decades, and not much was done and it still feels like the character is owned by Disney.
Videogames will only start entering the public domain in 2067, and at first, only stuff like Pong, in a more fair world, a huge chunk of the 1980s and 1990s videogames would be now in the public domain due to abandonment.
Re: Lara Croft's Pinup Posters Go Missing In Tomb Raider I-III Remastered
Never accept the excuse that it's just a small thing, just a small change, and you shouldn't care.
If it's a small thing, they shouldn't have changed anything in the first place.
Re: F-Zero 99's New Update Is Now Live (Version 1.3.0), Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@Not_Soos First they claim "Nothing will change in your life, an easy mode will not affect you in any way, just don't pick it", then they add an easy mode into the online modes that will totally affect those who don't want to pick it for a bigger challenge, seems they won't even add a speed handicap or something.
Games are all about variety, there are many situations where the whole charm was having only one difficulty mode and no easy option, there are also easy games where I want only one difficulty, I don't want a hard mode.
Next step is those "inclusivity options" not affecting even achievements and trophies, making sure they are worthless for achievement hunters, they are not about including disabled people and young kids, there are people without arms finishing games with their feet, and I managed to beat some hard games when I was a kid, it's all about pleasing people who just suck.
Re: Sega Cools On Blockchain Games As Executive Calls Them 'Boring'
When NFT games first appeared:
"What do you mean these games are stupid?!!! I got a bunch of money from them!!! Since when getting money is being stupid?!!! LOL! Have fun staying poor!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
To be fair, like any pyramid scheme, if you managed to play these games early and sell these items early, you could earn a lot of money from them, ways to earn easy money actually exist, but when everyone learns about a way to earn easy money, it stops being easy money.
Re: Sega Cools On Blockchain Games As Executive Calls Them 'Boring'
Even before NFT games existed, players were already able to earn money selling videogame items, NFT games were not the invention of games you can play to earn money.
Do you know why NFT games crashed and burned while popular games like Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike still allow players to earn a fortune with items? Because these games are fun and have people playing them for love, and there are players willing to buy these items for a big price and not sell them, keep them.
If the only reason people buy something is in hopes of selling it for an even bigger price, it's a bigger fool scheme, a bubble waiting to burst.
Re: Random: Mortal Kombat Co-Creator Knows Who He'd Add To Smash Bros., If Nintendo Was To Ask
@Serpenterror Sakurai already said that only videogame characters are allowed, it's the only official rule, not a rule made by fans who is destined to be broken in the future when more characters start coming again.
Although Sakurai needs to specify that rule better, the Shin Megami Tensei franchise started as a book but quickly abandoned the source material and became a strictly videogame franchise, and Sora is in the game, while he is a videogame character, Kingdom Hearts is too tied with non-videogame characters.
Re: Random: Mortal Kombat Co-Creator Knows Who He'd Add To Smash Bros., If Nintendo Was To Ask
"Ryu will never be in Smash, characters from traditional fighting games don't fit in."
"Cloud will never be in Smash, he has no relation to Nintendo, his game was never released on Nintendo hardware."
"Bayonetta will never be in Smash, she is too sexy, her game is too violent and she uses guns."
"Snake is never going to come back, Konami only cares for pachinkos, and Kojima was fired, same goes for Simon Belmont, he will never be in Smash."
"Ridley will never be in Smash, he is too big, he can't work as a Fighter."
"K. Rool will never be in Smash, he is dead and irrelevant, he is missing for over a decade, he was removed from his own franchise and replaced."
"Erdrick or Luminary will never be in Smash, the Dragon Quest series is only popular in Japan."
"Banjo will never be in Smash, he is dead, irrelevant, literal who, he is missing for over a decade, only boomers care about him, and don't compare him with K. Rool."
"Terry will never be in Smash, no one knows who he is and no one asked for him."
"ARMS will never get a character in Smash, that game failed in sales and no one plays it anymore."
"Steve will never be in Smash, he is just a meme chararacter, something people ask only as a joke, Minecraft is cringy and zoomer trash."
"Xenoblade 2 will never get a character in Smash, that game is old news at this point."
"Tekken will never get a character in Smash, you can't adapt a 3D fighting game to a 2D game like Smash, Sakurai already said it was too hard."
"Sora will never be in Smash, he is not a videogame character, and Disney will never allow him."
"Mortal Kombat will never get a character in Smash, the game is still too violent, and banned in Japan."
Re: Friday 13th: The Game License Expires This December, Will Be Delisted
@zbinks My point is that licensing contracts should allow perpetual distribution for works that were already released, the license expires, the company can still sell the games that were already released in their original format, they just can't make a brand new game.
Movies are often made with this in mind since reselling old movies is important for studios, nowadays, selling older games became more important for videogame companies, but they still make that mistake.
Re: Friday 13th: The Game License Expires This December, Will Be Delisted
@DanijoEX Movies are made with a license where even after it expires, movie studios can still sell DVDs of the movie that was already released, they just can't make another movie.
Why videogame companies don't make a similar contract?
Re: Friday 13th: The Game License Expires This December, Will Be Delisted
Also, buying a physical copy of the game doesn't work here, because the game is 100% online.
Companies need to allow P2P servers, so players can play online between them without a middle man.
Re: Friday 13th: The Game License Expires This December, Will Be Delisted
People blame digital games and claim how physical media is superior, but the real problem here is how companies keep making the mistake of buying temporary licenses.
When a company buys a license to use characters or music they don't own, when the contract expires, they should be still allowed to sell the game, they just can't use the license in another game, that's how Hollywood movies work, Sony doesn't have the rights to Ghost Rider anymore, but they just can't make another movie, they can still sell DVDs of the Nicolas Cage movies.
Re: Nintendo Says The Next Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC Wave Is Coming "Soon"
Expand the DLC plans even more.
And even better, give us free DLC, this game sold 50 million copies, they can give us free DLC, it's not being entitled, giving us free DLC would make even more copies sell.
Re: Random: Nintendo Embraces Mortal Kombat's Gore In Stark Contrast To '90s Censorship
Remember all the edgy teenagers and kids from the 2000s saying that Nintendo is the company for little kids and Sony is the company for adults, still clinging on the stories about Nintendo censoring games even though Nintendo abandoned most of their censorship policies in the 1990s?
Re: Random: Nintendo Embraces Mortal Kombat's Gore In Stark Contrast To '90s Censorship
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Re: Blizzard Cancels Overwatch 2's Long-Awaited PvE Hero Mode
Activision and Blizzard merging and becoming Activision Blizzard was terrible for Blizzard fans.
But relax, doing this again by allowing Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard is the solution to fix Blizzard.
Re: Mario Kart Tour Brings Back Mushroom Bridge For Upcoming Mii Tour
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe needs more DLC after this DLC season ends, just so they can have even more retro tracks and new tracks made for Mario Kart Tour.
Re: Mario Kart Tour Brings Back Mushroom Bridge For Upcoming Mii Tour
This game improved so much over the years, even the loot boxes were removed.
However, it's still a service-based game where the player is supposed to play a lot every day, to the point the game becomes a second job, trying to avoid those kinds of games.
Re: UK Charts: Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp Tumbles Out Of The Top Ten
I have a hard time understanding why Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy keeps selling so well even though it's a game from 2017, yet Crash Bandicoot 4 never appears in the Top 40.
Some say that's because that game only sold thanks to nostalgia, when they made a new game, people didn't want it because the franchise was never good, but no, Crash 4 is still faithful to the PS1 trilogy but with a lot of improvements.
Re: Soapbox: It's Time For A Zelda 1 Remake, Please
The main problem with Zelda 1 is that it's a cryptic game where you need a strategy guide to fully play it, finishing this game without a guide is much, much harder and requires a lot of guessing, Simon's Quest is this but way worse.
Re: Mario Kart Tour Brings Back Classic SNES Circuit In Upcoming Bowser Tour Update
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe needs another DLC pass after the current one ends.
How about a free DLC pass? They sold 50 million copies only on Switch, why can't they give us free DLC?
Re: Wowzers! Inspector Gadget - Mad Time Party Go Goes Onto Switch Later This Year
Inspector Gadget had so many other cartoons, yet the original is still remembered as the best, and these sequels keep contradicting and ignoring each other, it's like Terminator, where many keep trying to be the true sequel to the loved classic and no one sticks as the true Terminator III.
This game is using the designs of the original series.
Re: Microsoft's Activision Blizzard Acquisition Has Been Officially Blocked In The UK
Re: Microsoft's Activision Blizzard Acquisition Has Been Officially Blocked In The UK
90% of the movie and TV industry is in the hands of 5 conglomerates (Disney, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony), this is a major reason why Hollywood sucks, even when they release good movies, they don't want to create new things and want to just keep recycling what they already have, and these conglomerates also own journalism companies, making things even worse.
Disney buying Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox didn't go well, for the people who liked the franchises Disney bought and for the people who liked Disney before those acquisitions.
Warner Bros. and Discovery merger caused many projects to be cancelled, including some of them that were finished, and even works that were already released were removed from distribution.
Activision and Blizzard merging was terrible for Blizzard fans.
20 years later, most people agree that SquareSoft and Enix becoming Square-Enix allowed us to play some great games and there are franchises that stayed well, but overall, the merger was bad for those who liked what both companies had to offer.
EA has a history of buying smaller companies, ruining them and their franchises, and shutting them down.
Before Konami became a terrible company, they bought and absorbed Hudson, not only ruining the Castlevania, Contra and many other Konami franchises, but also ruining Bomberman, Adventure Island and other Hudson franchises.
But relax, Microsoft buying Activision is going to be good for us and Blizzard will be fixed, trust me bro, everyone who complains is a whiny and envious Sony fanboy.
Re: Microsoft's Activision Blizzard Acquisition Has Been Officially Blocked In The UK
Being against Disney buying Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox = Caring about the quality of movies and series
Being against Warner and Discovery merging = Caring about the quality of movies and series
Being against Universal buying DreamWorks = Caring about the quality of movies and series
Being against Activision and Blizzard merging = Caring about the quality of videogames
Being against SquareSoft and Enix merging = Caring about the quality of videogames
Being against EA buying small studios = Caring about the quality of videogames
Being against Konami buying Hudson = Caring about the quality of videogames
Being against Take-Two buying Zynga = Caring about the quality of videogames
Being against Sony buying Bungie = Caring about the quality of videogames
Being against Sony buying Square-Enix even though it's just a rumor = Caring about the quality of videogames
Being against Sega buying Rovio = Caring about the quality of videogames
Being against Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard = Being a whiny and envious Sony fanboy
Re: This Kirby's Dream Land 2 ROM Hack Adds Colour To The Game Boy Classic
Just hire these fans and release these patches on Nintendo Switch Online.
Re: Random: Anti-Smoking Campaign Is Part Animal Crossing, Part Creature Horror
@Pillowpants There's fair use.
Re: Random: Animators Reimagine Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom As A Game Boy Color Title
So many modern cartoons made for YouTube, animated with digital ink-and-paint, are replicating the classic style of using cel animation.
When are we getting a full TV/streaming cartoon with this style?
Re: Anniversary: Five Years Ago, Nintendo Unboxed Its Most Joyful, Harebrained Experiment
"It's for kids! Let them enjoy stuff for kids!"
I was a kid, and I had experience from scam toys, this looked like another one when I saw it, and I knew that even if it worked like advertised, it would be fun for a few minutes, then to the wardrobe or the attic.
Re: Anniversary: Five Years Ago, Nintendo Unboxed Its Most Joyful, Harebrained Experiment
And guess that it's another one to be stored in a wardrobe and forgotten, like all the plastic guitars and plastic mats, the Power Glove, the Kinect, and also Nintendo classics like the R.O.B., the Super Scope, the Game Boy Printer, the N64 microphone, the eReader, the DK Bongos, the Wii Speak and the Circle Pad Pro.
Re: Horizon Chase Turbo Dev Aquiris Joins Epic Games To Work On Fortnite
On one hand, it's good to see big companies investing in Brazil.
On the other hand, I wanted Aquiris to stay independent, they were the best brazilian studio, a brazilian pride, now they are owned by foreigners.
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Re: Hi-Rez Studios Is Ending Support For Hero Shooter 'Paladins' On Switch
The live service bubble has already burst, while the biggest games like Fortnite are services, for every 1 game that achieves success, there's like 20 or 50 that fail and close.
And I knew that since the Switch is underpowered, eventually more services would drop support just for the Switch version.
Re: UK Charts: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Speeds Into Second While FIFA Takes Home The Trophy
We need another Mario Kart 8 DLC pack.
Even better, how about Nintendo making a big free update to Mario Kart 8? The game could easily sustain itself with 100% free updates.