Another thing, people use the excuse of "Gameplay is more important than graphics" to justify games running below 60FPS.
There's just a problem, FPS is not graphics, it is gameplay, when a game is running below 60FPS, they sacrificed good gameplay to achieve better graphics.
It seems this Pokémon game is running well, but I'm talking about general.
There's a limit to the excuse of "Gameplay is more important than graphics", and this Pokémon game went way over the limit.
While it seems that the game is still good, we shouldn't be clapping the game without any criticism, of course graphics are important, there are many comparisons about games for Dreamcast or PS2 being prettier than a game released in 2022.
@HammerGalladeBro Actually, there is, it's a promise of giving money to players, you can play games and get money.
And of course, this will be great in theory, but terrible in practice, games are a hobby, not a job, of course fun is going to be sacrificed to allow money to be earned from games.
And NFTs are an attempt of solving a problem that didn't exist, way before NFTs, we already had games that allowed players to get money by playing, and we had people becoming rich by playing games.
@BLD Crypto has a future, if people decide to use cryptocurrency as an actual currency, not as an investment, something to buy low, sell high, that's not how currency works, there are people who buy dollars and euros in hopes of selling for more, but their main reason is allowing trade for americans and europeans.
There are people who use crypto as money, there are stores that accept crypto directly, but there is still a long way to go, and those cards that allow you to buy things in crypto, but the store still gets normal money, don't count.
@ModdedInkling The GameStop stocks event was a protest, it was about making rich people lose a lot of money, some small people got money from it, but it was about sending a message.
It's a shame, but this was inevitable, even before the pandemic, arcades were already gone and Japan was the only place they survived.
Thankfully, arcades came back recently, but mostly as a collector's item, the videogame market is diverse, there will always be options, even arcades are coming back as a niche.
The best Donkey Kong game is Tropical Freeze, screw nostalgia, Retro Studios surpassed Rare.
However, in 5 years, Rare released 3 DK games for SNES, 3 DK games for Game Boy, one 3D DK game for N64, all while working in a bunch of other projects, meanwhile, Retro Studios only delivered 2 DK games, one for the Wii with a port for 3DS, one for Wii U with a port for Switch, and they didn't deliver anything else aside for some work on Mario Kart 7.
Quality beats quantity, but quality with quantity beats quality without quantity, this is why old Rare is still better than Retro.
While I like Metroid, I am much more worried about Donkey Kong.
I want Retro Studios to finish the next 2D Donkey Kong game, made especially for Switch, but at this rate, maybe the Switch won't have neither Metroid Prime 4 nor the third Donkey Kong game by Retro.
@Specter_of-the_OLED The problem here is not digital distribution as it is, the problem is like usual, legal issues.
Videogame companies need to keep everything simple when making deals, making sure games won't leave digital stores thanks to expired contracts and stuff like that, digital downloads are a huge part of their profits, yet they keep making contracts that when they expire, the game has to leave stores.
Sure, you can argue that those things will never stop existing and we need physical media, however, not even physical media is safe anymore, because now, even if you buy a physical game, you still need to make downloads to play the complete game, the good version of a game, or just play at all, if the download servers are gone, your physical copy won't save you, and now, everything is made with cheap plastic that rots and depending on where you buy, digital downloads can be even more future-proof than physical media.
The only way to fully preserve videogame history is piracy.
@nessisonett Not really, because painitngs from Degas and other classic painters are not protected by copyright, Ocarina of Time only loses its copyright in the year 2094.
We need shorter copyrights, because the point of copyright is flourish creativity, make sure artists can live from their work and companies can get back the money they invested, but it needs to expire to allow improved versions like this one.
Remember that when Banjo and Kazooie were created, Banjo appeared first in Diddy Kong Racing and it's stated in the manual he is a friend of Diddy Kong, meaning that the Banjo-Kazooie games take place in the same universe as Donkey Kong, which by extension, is the same universe as Mario.
Physical media is dying, the moment where you still need to download something to fully enjoy what you bought, it's just fancy digital media, we don't know if Nintendo's servers are going to be shut down, making the physical copy a paperweight.
Even when a physical copy doesn't require a download, it may still require patches and DLC to fully enjoy the game, you will still own the bad or incomplete version of a game.
Long live the public domain, Sherlock Holmes is a character no person or company owns, anyone can make a movie, show, comic, videogame, etc, about him, and a lot of great works of entertainment are coming from this, but the state of Arthur Conan Doyle still sues people who use the character due to a few of the original books still being under copyright and using elements from these books like his personality, I don't think he would approve this, this is what caused Herlock Sholmes in Ace Attorney.
Imagine a world where copyright lasted much less, we would have so many popular characters like Superman, Batman, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny free for everyone to use, Disney is the main reason copyright lasts almost 100 years, while they themselves used so many stories from the public domain to build their empire.
People complain too much, while it's true that Microsoft was terrible for the Banjo-Kazooie franchise, at least the Xbox ports of Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie are better than the original N64 versions.
Especially for Banjo-Tooie, which has severe slowdowns and frame-drops on the N64, while the Xbox version runs at locked 30FPS, that alone made the original cartridge obsolete, and when Tooie comes on Nintendo Switch, we will probably get a version that runs even worse than on original hardware since it's just emulation.
Not only Blizzard spoke against GamerGate, but I heard they were the first company to do that.
That shows how the GamerGate aftermath went, no matter in which side you are, the people against it, were exposed again and again as the same sexual predators they were supposed to oppose.
@icomma At first I supported this, then I realized it's an endless purity spiral.
Female characters in games don't even need to be hot, have big boobs and wear little clothing, just having a pretty face is enough to offend these people.
@RupeeClock This subject is way more grey than people imagine.
This whole Activision Blizzard fiasco showed how the issues of sexism go way beyond the gamer, it's so easy to blame the gamer that distrusts videogame journalism and rejects progressive politics and feminism, and wants those modern politics out of their games, it's so easy to claim that this archetype is just a sexist jerk that hates women and minorities, but when you look close, not only you realize that modern politics are directly influencing our media and for the worse, because these people only care about putting their politics on their products instead of making it good, it's the same reason why christian movies are almost never good, and these people became puritans, again, just like those christians that want to censor everything, and then, the real sources of sexism were the people who claimed to be fighting against it.
Activision Blizzard was so proud of defending women and minorities, putting pride flags of every color on everything, but we already realized how the only colors they care is green and pink from dollars and yuans when they sided with China in the Hong Kong controversy, and then we found out how Blizzard was rotten inside, it's so easy to blame the small guy for problems caused by the big guy, for the most part, the gamers that were accused of sexism, stayed fully against Activision Blizzard.
@Bret At first it was about videogame journalism, then it was taken over by actual sexist people.
I don't support GamerGate, but it didn't happen because people don't want women and minorities working in games and as characters in games, it happened because feminists and progressives who say "You can't do that, that's sexist","You can't do that, that's racist", became just like those people who said "Violent videogames will turn children into murderers" and "Pokémon is the devil", although later it was taken over by people who really hate women and minorities.
That's why free internet is mostly a good thing, you can buy big tech companies, but not their users, first they censor fake news that are false, then they censor fake news that are true, first they censor hate speech, then they censor speech they hate.
When you look at the videogame industry as a whole, Microsoft buying Activision is a terrible thing, I don't want the videogame industry to be so concentrated on big companies, I don't want it to become just like Hollywood, where 5 companies control everything.
But when you look at just Activision Blizzard, Microsoft buying them will be a good thing, they will likely clean much of the company, and they don't need to make every single Activision Blizzard game a billion-dollar franchise.
The problem with this, is that it seems this will be just the N64 version with a few tweaks.
While Microsoft was a terrible company for the Banjo-Kazooie franchise, at least the Xbox ports of Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie are better than the original N64 versions, they had a lot of improvements.
Especially with Tooie, the N64 was not ready for a game like this, the original version had a lot of slowdowns and frame-drops, while the Xbox version runs at locked 30FPS, that alone makes the original N64 version of Banjo-Tooie obsolete.
For the videogame industry as a whole, Microsoft buying Activision is a bad thing, monopolies are bad for any industry, I don't want the videogame industry to be controlled by 5 companies like Hollywood is now.
But when you look at only Activision Blizzard, Microsoft will probably bring almost only improvements, not only they can clean much of the company, but also make sure that they won't be after only billion-dollar franchises and will give a chance to less profitable franchises.
Sonic Lost World is for me, a great example of how modding is a good thing.
Way before this, they had a mod to fix many of the issues of the base game, like poor controls, while the game should still get some more fixes, it was way better than the launch product.
Sonic Lost World was in the right track, it was going to be a good game, then Sega screwed up on the most important part of the game which is the gameplay.
Well, despite all that, there are good things about this:
As terrible as Microsoft is, they will probably fix the serious problems of sexual abuse and mistreatment of employees that were happening at the conglomerate, especially at Blizzard.
Microsoft may also fix the problem of Blizzard not being able to deliver games of the same quality as before.
Crash and Spyro are now in a new house that will likely allow the franchises to continue, I would have preferred that Activision had sold the franchises separately, but still, as terrible as Microsoft is, they will be better off there.
With so many FPS series that Microsoft already has and with so much money they have, they don't have to release another Call of Duty every year and can give a chance to the less profitable franchises they bought.
Now, it's going to become just like the movie industry, one company buying another, the market is getting more and more concentrated in a few companies, at this rate, soon we will have news that 5 companies control the entire USA videogame industry, just like it's happening at the moment with the movie and TV industry.
We need antitrust laws for Microsoft, they can't make another acquisition like that.
@steventonysmith Yes, the original book is public domain, but Dracula from Castlevania is a separate creation that is still under copyright, alongside all the original characters like Simon Belmont.
The cycle must continue, someday, Simon Belmont an all the other Castlevania characters should become public domain, and since Konami really doesn't care much for the franchise, making the fans own it is not that bad.
Some people may think that Dracula is a legendary character, people in the Middle Ages believed he was real and were afraid of him, but he was created in 1897, by a known author, Bram Stoker, Dracula is not that old, and copyright laws existed back then and there were lawsuits about people copying Dracula without permission, like the movie Nosferatu.
If Dracula was still protected by copyright, Castlevania would never exist, or at least not like we know, and for those saying "Konami could just pay to use Dracula", they could, but it would be just like all those TMNT games that Konami made, but can't bring back because they don't own the franchise and can't use these games the way they want without a permit from Viacom.
@sebas150015 70 years after the creator dies is still not enough? Who cares about using the work of someone who died 70 years ago without permisson?
In a world without public domain, we would be still paying money for the family of Thomas Edison every time someone made a light bulb, we would be paying to use music by Mozart and Beethoven, Castlevania would never exist because Dracula would be still under copyright, and a school that made a theater play about Little Red Riding Hood would be sued by the descendants of Charles Perrault.
Is it that hard to understand that things like characters, stories and music are ideas, and ideas can't be owned? Creativity cannot be restricted by a company or a family forever, creativity should belong to humanity, copyright is temporary just to reward the artist so they can live from their work.
There are several orphan works, they say that if you want to use something that someone else made, pay the artist to use it, but there are cases where the artist has disappeared, you can't find him to pay a license, they don't know if he's alive or dead, or if he died, they can't find his family, and when companies go bankrupt, they sell all their works to pay the debts, and it is often difficult to know who the current owner is, the buyer may even have gone bankrupt too.
This also leads to lost media, many works of entertainment were lost forever, all their copies were lost or destroyed and we can't enjoy them anymore, this is still happening even now in the internet age, many works cannot be distributed thanks to copyright issues, public domain is a great way to preserve media for future generations.
Copyright became a mess, several companies are using it to censor people, and copyright rarely benefits the true creator of the work instead of the company that hired the creator, copyright lasting less would be a good idea to reduce this mess.
And of course, companies like Disney and several others, keep taking stories from the public domain to adapt to movies, series and other stuff, and even put restrictions when people adapt these stories so they don't take things from their versions, but their original creations, they don't want them to go into the public domain.
In several countries, copyright only ends after the creator of the work has died, and if it is a company, it takes 70 to 95 years to end, by then the company has already closed, and if it exists, everyone who worked on the company back then has died or left.
Things like music, characters, stories, these are all just ideas, things in people's heads, you can't own an idea like owning something physical like a car or a house, if you make a song, and another person starts singing this song, that person didn't steal anything from you, nothing was taken from you.
Copyright is not even being the owner of the work, it's just being the owner of an exclusivity to copy, share and make public exhibitions, if you write a book, you don't own the combination of words, they have to pay you to make copies or adapt to a movie, but you can't go to stores that already have the books and force them to take them off the shelves, much less go to the homes of the people who bought the book and force them to have the books returned.
Ideas cannot belong to one person forever, ideas have to be copied, expanded and improved, imagine if someone invented the cure for cancer, but kept the patent forever? The cancer problem would not be solved, a patent only gives exclusivity to the creator to become rich for about 20 years, then everyone can make the cure as well, with works of art, copyright lasts until the person dies.
Even after LEGO lost the patent on the invention of LEGO blocks and a lot of copies appeared, they are still the market leaders, public domain does not prevent people and companies from using their creations, it just takes away the exclusivity.
Copyright was created to encourage creativity, but with copyright lasting so long, it's holding back creativity, companies like Disney, Warner, Universal and Viacom own so many things that they don't need to create anything new, that's why Hollywood no longer invests in films with original ideas and only makes adaptations, sequels, remakes and reboots.
It's impossible to create something 100% original, everything has to be based on something that already exists, in a world without public domain, we would eventually get in an era where it wouldn't be possible to create anything without violating someone's copyright, a world where ideas cannot be copied would not be more creative, it would be less creative.
@sebas150015 Nope, you can no longer extend copyrights, but even when you could, you could only renew once.
You can't "steal" an idea, if you make something, and I take it away without your consent, that's stealing, you don't have it anymore, but if you make something, and I make a copy of it, you still have the original, nothing was stolen.
Copyright is a protection that you can't make a copy either to protect the artist/creator, but copyright cannot last forever because there are always people who will make a better, improved copy, why do you care about an extention? You will be dead, and your children will probably be also dead.
@sebas150015 Copyright already lasts 70 years after the creator dies, and 95 years after release if the owner is a company, and you want copyright to be even longer?
They keep using the excuse that this is to benefit the small guy, help artists and their families, but it's always to benefit the big guy, making big companies become even richer than they already are, it's just like when YouTube removed dislikes with the excuse of helping small creators, small creators that were against this, this was made to benefit big companies, mainstream media and government.
Remember that no videogames will enter the public domain until the year 2067, and at first, only ancient games like Computer Space and Pong will be ours.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will only lose its copyright on the year 2113, only in that year, sharing the game for free on the internet and making mods for it will be 100% legal.
And people still claim that public domain is unfair and copyright should last forever to protect the artist, do you think the people who made the game will be alive by that time?
@jsty3105 Copyright only expires after you die, and your family has inheritance for 70 years, this is too long.
Originally, you could lose your copyrights while still alive, so creators are forced to keep making new stuff so they won't rely on one thing forever.
Sure, it seems unfair that people will just take what you made and use it to make profit, but creativity should not be owned by a company or family forever, ideas can't be owned, they need to be expanded and improved by other people.
@sebas150015 @jsty3105 Copyright is important for artists to live from their work and for companies to recover the money they invested, I am not against copyright, it's important to prevent people from just taking what you made and using it for a quick buck, but copyright needs to expire because there are always people who will take what you made and make improved and expanded versions.
In USA laws, copyright expires 70 years after the creator dies, and if the owner is a company, it's 95 years after release, it's too long, and some people defend that it should be even longer, lasting forever.
Most works of media from 50 years ago aren't even making any money, but copyright keeps getting tigher and longer to protect the companies who profit from the few works that still are.
Again, while Nintendo did nothing really illegal, it's another example on how copyright laws are too draconian and we need less restrictions and a shorter deadline for copyright to expire.
@UglyCasanova Vocaloid is a singing software, a digital voice that can sing any song, and people use it to make some pretty good songs, the voices are tied to characters like Hatsune Miku who is the most famous one, but there are many other vocaloid characters.
It doesn't matter if it's someone poor surviving on a minimum wage, or someone who just won the lottery or a rich celebrity, people can easily lose everything and ruin their lives thanks to not knowing the basics of spending money, not even the basic concept of never spending more than you earn is known by them.
People like him are the ones who buy NFTs as a final customer, that actually want to keep and collect them and not resell them for investment/tax evasion/money laundering.
Fanboyism can be a good thing, when the PS3 launched, it was a horrible launch, Xbox and Nintendo fanboys making fun of the PS3, helped people know about the many flaws of the console, and at first, it failed on sales, then Sony delivered a bunch of improvements to fix it.
Same happened to the Xbox One, it was a disaster since it was revealed, and all the memes making fun of it was a big reason why it didn't sell as much as they hoped and why Microsoft also made changes to fix most of the issues from the original reveal.
The problem is unconditional fanboyism, never complaining about problems in your own console.
I'm one of the few people who don't want Mario Kart to become Smash Kart.
There are so many good Mario characters still missing, like E. Gadd, and characters like Pauline and Kamek are still exclusive to the mobile game, and characters from the Mario RPGs deserve a chance.
And if they really want more franchises, add characters from Donkey Kong, Wario, Yoshi and Rhythm Heaven, because those are still part of the Mario universe.
@Kayvoo Yes, while Mario Kart 8 on Wii U had paid DLC, and Mario Kart 8 DX on Switch had all the DLC included and some exclusive content, DX never had extra content after launch.
Which they could have released as paid DLC, or even better, free DLC thanks to so much money they got from sales and still get.
Edit. Link got his BOTW costume and bike in a free update, but overall, the game didn't have much extra content after the launch.
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Re: Soapbox: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Raises The Question - How Much Do Janky Graphics Matter?
@MetalMan Like I said above, some people think that framerate is not gameplay and say "I don't care about graphics" to justify poor framerate.
Re: Soapbox: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Raises The Question - How Much Do Janky Graphics Matter?
Another thing, people use the excuse of "Gameplay is more important than graphics" to justify games running below 60FPS.
There's just a problem, FPS is not graphics, it is gameplay, when a game is running below 60FPS, they sacrificed good gameplay to achieve better graphics.
It seems this Pokémon game is running well, but I'm talking about general.
Re: Soapbox: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Raises The Question - How Much Do Janky Graphics Matter?
There's a limit to the excuse of "Gameplay is more important than graphics", and this Pokémon game went way over the limit.
While it seems that the game is still good, we shouldn't be clapping the game without any criticism, of course graphics are important, there are many comparisons about games for Dreamcast or PS2 being prettier than a game released in 2022.
Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial
@HammerGalladeBro Actually, there is, it's a promise of giving money to players, you can play games and get money.
And of course, this will be great in theory, but terrible in practice, games are a hobby, not a job, of course fun is going to be sacrificed to allow money to be earned from games.
And NFTs are an attempt of solving a problem that didn't exist, way before NFTs, we already had games that allowed players to get money by playing, and we had people becoming rich by playing games.
Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial
@BLD Crypto has a future, if people decide to use cryptocurrency as an actual currency, not as an investment, something to buy low, sell high, that's not how currency works, there are people who buy dollars and euros in hopes of selling for more, but their main reason is allowing trade for americans and europeans.
There are people who use crypto as money, there are stores that accept crypto directly, but there is still a long way to go, and those cards that allow you to buy things in crypto, but the store still gets normal money, don't count.
Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial
@ModdedInkling The GameStop stocks event was a protest, it was about making rich people lose a lot of money, some small people got money from it, but it was about sending a message.
Re: Ubisoft: Players "Don't Get" What Makes NFTs So Beneficial
2nd, 3rd and 4th generation: Arcades that cheat, games you can't beat without a strategy guide
5th and 6th generation: Expansion Packs
7th generation: DLC, Season Passes
8th generation: Microtransactions, Loot Boxes, Battle Passes
9th generation: NFTs
Re: Sega Is Exiting The Japanese Amusement Arcade Business After Half A Century
Sega was born to make arcades, not consoles.
It's a shame, but this was inevitable, even before the pandemic, arcades were already gone and Japan was the only place they survived.
Thankfully, arcades came back recently, but mostly as a collector's item, the videogame market is diverse, there will always be options, even arcades are coming back as a niche.
Re: It's Now Been Three Years Since Metroid Prime 4's Development Was Scrapped And Restarted
The best Donkey Kong game is Tropical Freeze, screw nostalgia, Retro Studios surpassed Rare.
However, in 5 years, Rare released 3 DK games for SNES, 3 DK games for Game Boy, one 3D DK game for N64, all while working in a bunch of other projects, meanwhile, Retro Studios only delivered 2 DK games, one for the Wii with a port for 3DS, one for Wii U with a port for Switch, and they didn't deliver anything else aside for some work on Mario Kart 7.
Quality beats quantity, but quality with quantity beats quality without quantity, this is why old Rare is still better than Retro.
Re: It's Now Been Three Years Since Metroid Prime 4's Development Was Scrapped And Restarted
@Bunkerneath The first is Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii.
Which also needs a port for Switch.
Re: It's Now Been Three Years Since Metroid Prime 4's Development Was Scrapped And Restarted
While I like Metroid, I am much more worried about Donkey Kong.
I want Retro Studios to finish the next 2D Donkey Kong game, made especially for Switch, but at this rate, maybe the Switch won't have neither Metroid Prime 4 nor the third Donkey Kong game by Retro.
Re: Another Game Has Been Delisted From Nintendo's 3DS eShop
@Specter_of-the_OLED The problem here is not digital distribution as it is, the problem is like usual, legal issues.
Videogame companies need to keep everything simple when making deals, making sure games won't leave digital stores thanks to expired contracts and stuff like that, digital downloads are a huge part of their profits, yet they keep making contracts that when they expire, the game has to leave stores.
Sure, you can argue that those things will never stop existing and we need physical media, however, not even physical media is safe anymore, because now, even if you buy a physical game, you still need to make downloads to play the complete game, the good version of a game, or just play at all, if the download servers are gone, your physical copy won't save you, and now, everything is made with cheap plastic that rots and depending on where you buy, digital downloads can be even more future-proof than physical media.
The only way to fully preserve videogame history is piracy.
Re: This Unofficial Zelda PC Port Is About '90% Complete', Say Devs
@nessisonett Not really, because painitngs from Degas and other classic painters are not protected by copyright, Ocarina of Time only loses its copyright in the year 2094.
We need shorter copyrights, because the point of copyright is flourish creativity, make sure artists can live from their work and companies can get back the money they invested, but it needs to expire to allow improved versions like this one.
Re: Random: 'Grunty's Mansion' Is The Banjo-Kazooie X Luigi's Mansion Hack We Didn't Know We Needed
Remember that when Banjo and Kazooie were created, Banjo appeared first in Diddy Kong Racing and it's stated in the manual he is a friend of Diddy Kong, meaning that the Banjo-Kazooie games take place in the same universe as Donkey Kong, which by extension, is the same universe as Mario.
But when Rare was sold, the connection was cut.
Re: Grand Theft Auto Trilogy's Physical Edition On Switch Launches Next Month
Physical media is dying, the moment where you still need to download something to fully enjoy what you bought, it's just fancy digital media, we don't know if Nintendo's servers are going to be shut down, making the physical copy a paperweight.
Even when a physical copy doesn't require a download, it may still require patches and DLC to fully enjoy the game, you will still own the bad or incomplete version of a game.
Re: Review: Banjo-Kazooie - Peerless Platforming Perfection, And Now Available On Switch
@WoomyNNYes We need the purchase option for Nintendo Switch Online games, and also the option of buying with those digital coins Nintendo offers.
Re: Switch eShop Confirms Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments For February
Long live the public domain, Sherlock Holmes is a character no person or company owns, anyone can make a movie, show, comic, videogame, etc, about him, and a lot of great works of entertainment are coming from this, but the state of Arthur Conan Doyle still sues people who use the character due to a few of the original books still being under copyright and using elements from these books like his personality, I don't think he would approve this, this is what caused Herlock Sholmes in Ace Attorney.
Imagine a world where copyright lasted much less, we would have so many popular characters like Superman, Batman, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny free for everyone to use, Disney is the main reason copyright lasts almost 100 years, while they themselves used so many stories from the public domain to build their empire.
Re: Video: Here's A Graphics Comparison Of Banjo-Kazooie Running On Switch, Xbox And Nintendo 64
People complain too much, while it's true that Microsoft was terrible for the Banjo-Kazooie franchise, at least the Xbox ports of Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie are better than the original N64 versions.
Especially for Banjo-Tooie, which has severe slowdowns and frame-drops on the N64, while the Xbox version runs at locked 30FPS, that alone made the original cartridge obsolete, and when Tooie comes on Nintendo Switch, we will probably get a version that runs even worse than on original hardware since it's just emulation.
Re: Bobby Kotick Considered Buying Game Websites To "Change The Public Narrative" Around Activision
@icomma Death treats are not a good thing, but no one cared when Jack Thompson was getting death threats.
Jack Thompson managed to be better than these people.
Re: Bobby Kotick Considered Buying Game Websites To "Change The Public Narrative" Around Activision
Not only Blizzard spoke against GamerGate, but I heard they were the first company to do that.
That shows how the GamerGate aftermath went, no matter in which side you are, the people against it, were exposed again and again as the same sexual predators they were supposed to oppose.
Re: Bobby Kotick Considered Buying Game Websites To "Change The Public Narrative" Around Activision
@icomma At first I supported this, then I realized it's an endless purity spiral.
Female characters in games don't even need to be hot, have big boobs and wear little clothing, just having a pretty face is enough to offend these people.
Re: Bobby Kotick Considered Buying Game Websites To "Change The Public Narrative" Around Activision
@RupeeClock This subject is way more grey than people imagine.
This whole Activision Blizzard fiasco showed how the issues of sexism go way beyond the gamer, it's so easy to blame the gamer that distrusts videogame journalism and rejects progressive politics and feminism, and wants those modern politics out of their games, it's so easy to claim that this archetype is just a sexist jerk that hates women and minorities, but when you look close, not only you realize that modern politics are directly influencing our media and for the worse, because these people only care about putting their politics on their products instead of making it good, it's the same reason why christian movies are almost never good, and these people became puritans, again, just like those christians that want to censor everything, and then, the real sources of sexism were the people who claimed to be fighting against it.
Activision Blizzard was so proud of defending women and minorities, putting pride flags of every color on everything, but we already realized how the only colors they care is green and pink from dollars and yuans when they sided with China in the Hong Kong controversy, and then we found out how Blizzard was rotten inside, it's so easy to blame the small guy for problems caused by the big guy, for the most part, the gamers that were accused of sexism, stayed fully against Activision Blizzard.
Re: Bobby Kotick Considered Buying Game Websites To "Change The Public Narrative" Around Activision
@Bret At first it was about videogame journalism, then it was taken over by actual sexist people.
I don't support GamerGate, but it didn't happen because people don't want women and minorities working in games and as characters in games, it happened because feminists and progressives who say "You can't do that, that's sexist", "You can't do that, that's racist", became just like those people who said "Violent videogames will turn children into murderers" and "Pokémon is the devil", although later it was taken over by people who really hate women and minorities.
Re: Bobby Kotick Considered Buying Game Websites To "Change The Public Narrative" Around Activision
@Grandiajet Which often works.
That's why free internet is mostly a good thing, you can buy big tech companies, but not their users, first they censor fake news that are false, then they censor fake news that are true, first they censor hate speech, then they censor speech they hate.
Re: Bobby Kotick Considered Buying Game Websites To "Change The Public Narrative" Around Activision
When you look at the videogame industry as a whole, Microsoft buying Activision is a terrible thing, I don't want the videogame industry to be so concentrated on big companies, I don't want it to become just like Hollywood, where 5 companies control everything.
But when you look at just Activision Blizzard, Microsoft buying them will be a good thing, they will likely clean much of the company, and they don't need to make every single Activision Blizzard game a billion-dollar franchise.
Re: Banjo-Kazooie Joins Switch Online's Expansion Pack This Week
The problem with this, is that it seems this will be just the N64 version with a few tweaks.
While Microsoft was a terrible company for the Banjo-Kazooie franchise, at least the Xbox ports of Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie are better than the original N64 versions, they had a lot of improvements.
Especially with Tooie, the N64 was not ready for a game like this, the original version had a lot of slowdowns and frame-drops, while the Xbox version runs at locked 30FPS, that alone makes the original N64 version of Banjo-Tooie obsolete.
Re: Banjo-Kazooie Joins Switch Online's Expansion Pack This Week
The good son returns home.
Re: Activision Blizzard Boss To Leave When Xbox Deal Is Done, Report Claims
For the videogame industry as a whole, Microsoft buying Activision is a bad thing, monopolies are bad for any industry, I don't want the videogame industry to be controlled by 5 companies like Hollywood is now.
But when you look at only Activision Blizzard, Microsoft will probably bring almost only improvements, not only they can clean much of the company, but also make sure that they won't be after only billion-dollar franchises and will give a chance to less profitable franchises.
Re: The Sonic Lost World PC Mod Has Now Recreated The Legend Of Zelda DLC
Sonic Lost World is for me, a great example of how modding is a good thing.
Way before this, they had a mod to fix many of the issues of the base game, like poor controls, while the game should still get some more fixes, it was way better than the launch product.
Sonic Lost World was in the right track, it was going to be a good game, then Sega screwed up on the most important part of the game which is the gameplay.
Re: Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard, Now Owns Call Of Duty And Crash Bandicoot
Well, despite all that, there are good things about this:
Re: Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard, Now Owns Call Of Duty And Crash Bandicoot
I'm worried about the future of videogames.
Now, it's going to become just like the movie industry, one company buying another, the market is getting more and more concentrated in a few companies, at this rate, soon we will have news that 5 companies control the entire USA videogame industry, just like it's happening at the moment with the movie and TV industry.
We need antitrust laws for Microsoft, they can't make another acquisition like that.
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
@steventonysmith Yes, the original book is public domain, but Dracula from Castlevania is a separate creation that is still under copyright, alongside all the original characters like Simon Belmont.
The cycle must continue, someday, Simon Belmont an all the other Castlevania characters should become public domain, and since Konami really doesn't care much for the franchise, making the fans own it is not that bad.
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
Some people may think that Dracula is a legendary character, people in the Middle Ages believed he was real and were afraid of him, but he was created in 1897, by a known author, Bram Stoker, Dracula is not that old, and copyright laws existed back then and there were lawsuits about people copying Dracula without permission, like the movie Nosferatu.
If Dracula was still protected by copyright, Castlevania would never exist, or at least not like we know, and for those saying "Konami could just pay to use Dracula", they could, but it would be just like all those TMNT games that Konami made, but can't bring back because they don't own the franchise and can't use these games the way they want without a permit from Viacom.
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
@sebas150015 70 years after the creator dies is still not enough? Who cares about using the work of someone who died 70 years ago without permisson?
In a world without public domain, we would be still paying money for the family of Thomas Edison every time someone made a light bulb, we would be paying to use music by Mozart and Beethoven, Castlevania would never exist because Dracula would be still under copyright, and a school that made a theater play about Little Red Riding Hood would be sued by the descendants of Charles Perrault.
Is it that hard to understand that things like characters, stories and music are ideas, and ideas can't be owned? Creativity cannot be restricted by a company or a family forever, creativity should belong to humanity, copyright is temporary just to reward the artist so they can live from their work.
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
Why public domain is a fair law:
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
@sebas150015 Nope, you can no longer extend copyrights, but even when you could, you could only renew once.
You can't "steal" an idea, if you make something, and I take it away without your consent, that's stealing, you don't have it anymore, but if you make something, and I make a copy of it, you still have the original, nothing was stolen.
Copyright is a protection that you can't make a copy either to protect the artist/creator, but copyright cannot last forever because there are always people who will make a better, improved copy, why do you care about an extention? You will be dead, and your children will probably be also dead.
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
@sebas150015 Copyright already lasts 70 years after the creator dies, and 95 years after release if the owner is a company, and you want copyright to be even longer?
They keep using the excuse that this is to benefit the small guy, help artists and their families, but it's always to benefit the big guy, making big companies become even richer than they already are, it's just like when YouTube removed dislikes with the excuse of helping small creators, small creators that were against this, this was made to benefit big companies, mainstream media and government.
Re: Talking Point: What Could NFTs Mean For Gaming, And Why Are They So Divisive?
2nd, 3rd and 4th generation: Arcades that cheat, games you can't beat without a strategy guide
5th and 6th generation: Expansion Packs
7th generation: DLC, Season Passes
8th generation: Microtransactions, Loot Boxes, Battle Passes
9th generation: NFTs
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
Remember that no videogames will enter the public domain until the year 2067, and at first, only ancient games like Computer Space and Pong will be ours.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will only lose its copyright on the year 2113, only in that year, sharing the game for free on the internet and making mods for it will be 100% legal.
And people still claim that public domain is unfair and copyright should last forever to protect the artist, do you think the people who made the game will be alive by that time?
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
@jsty3105 Copyright only expires after you die, and your family has inheritance for 70 years, this is too long.
Originally, you could lose your copyrights while still alive, so creators are forced to keep making new stuff so they won't rely on one thing forever.
Sure, it seems unfair that people will just take what you made and use it to make profit, but creativity should not be owned by a company or family forever, ideas can't be owned, they need to be expanded and improved by other people.
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
@sebas150015 @jsty3105 Copyright is important for artists to live from their work and for companies to recover the money they invested, I am not against copyright, it's important to prevent people from just taking what you made and using it for a quick buck, but copyright needs to expire because there are always people who will take what you made and make improved and expanded versions.
In USA laws, copyright expires 70 years after the creator dies, and if the owner is a company, it's 95 years after release, it's too long, and some people defend that it should be even longer, lasting forever.
Most works of media from 50 years ago aren't even making any money, but copyright keeps getting tigher and longer to protect the companies who profit from the few works that still are.
Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Mod Videos Targeted By Nintendo
Again, while Nintendo did nothing really illegal, it's another example on how copyright laws are too draconian and we need less restrictions and a shorter deadline for copyright to expire.
Re: A New Hatsune Miku Puzzle Game Has Been Announced For Nintendo Switch
@UglyCasanova Vocaloid is a singing software, a digital voice that can sing any song, and people use it to make some pretty good songs, the voices are tied to characters like Hatsune Miku who is the most famous one, but there are many other vocaloid characters.
Re: Random: Logan Paul Paid $3.5 Million For Fake Pokémon Trading Cards
Another example of economic illiteracy.
It doesn't matter if it's someone poor surviving on a minimum wage, or someone who just won the lottery or a rich celebrity, people can easily lose everything and ruin their lives thanks to not knowing the basics of spending money, not even the basic concept of never spending more than you earn is known by them.
Re: Random: Logan Paul Paid $3.5 Million For Fake Pokémon Trading Cards
People like him are the ones who buy NFTs as a final customer, that actually want to keep and collect them and not resell them for investment/tax evasion/money laundering.
Re: Video: We Tried To Convince A PS5 Fanboy To Get The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack
Fanboyism can be a good thing, when the PS3 launched, it was a horrible launch, Xbox and Nintendo fanboys making fun of the PS3, helped people know about the many flaws of the console, and at first, it failed on sales, then Sony delivered a bunch of improvements to fix it.
Same happened to the Xbox One, it was a disaster since it was revealed, and all the memes making fun of it was a big reason why it didn't sell as much as they hoped and why Microsoft also made changes to fix most of the issues from the original reveal.
The problem is unconditional fanboyism, never complaining about problems in your own console.
Re: Surprise! Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting A Brand New Spirit - Street Fighter's Evil Ryu
Sakurai deserves a rest, hope that all the post-Sora content is made without him.
But it's possible that the game will continue on Switch 2, getting a deluxe version of Ultimate.
Re: Talking Point: Could 'Mario Kart 9' Be The Smash Bros. Ultimate Of Racers?
I'm one of the few people who don't want Mario Kart to become Smash Kart.
There are so many good Mario characters still missing, like E. Gadd, and characters like Pauline and Kamek are still exclusive to the mobile game, and characters from the Mario RPGs deserve a chance.
And if they really want more franchises, add characters from Donkey Kong, Wario, Yoshi and Rhythm Heaven, because those are still part of the Mario universe.
Re: UK Charts: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Stays Top For A Second Consecutive Week
@Kayvoo Yes, while Mario Kart 8 on Wii U had paid DLC, and Mario Kart 8 DX on Switch had all the DLC included and some exclusive content, DX never had extra content after launch.
Which they could have released as paid DLC, or even better, free DLC thanks to so much money they got from sales and still get.
Edit. Link got his BOTW costume and bike in a free update, but overall, the game didn't have much extra content after the launch.