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Minor News Thread Anonymous 08/23/2021 (Mon) 22:32:02 Id: 9cb4c9 No. 396559
Basically this is a thread for those minor news articles that are interesting but not necessary big enough to have their own thread. We will be taking the bigger stories from these threads and making them into their own threads, Anons are welcome to do the same. We will NOT be heavily enforcing these threads, so please keep that in mind. Basically things like game announcements, live stream events, new gaming hardware, etc. should have their own threads while shit like NEW GUILTY GEAR DLC 3 "SLAYER" or something like that should be posted in this thread. While we won't ban anyone for doing the former, we encourage anons to use their best judgement when posting news content.
>>1007022 At least half of that would be some form of: >HENR'Y COME TO SEE US >OI LOOK, IT'S HENR'Y >HENR'Y HERE JESUS CHRIST BE PRAISED
>>1007040 HOY, CUNT
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>>396559 https://archive.fo/4vG0R Blue Protocol announces its end of service after being featured in a DEI presentation from Bandai Namco for including dreadlock hairstyles in customization. It will never live to be censored in Global. Prophetic.
>>1005380 >Cuckchan blocked image and thumbnail display on TOR. This got worse. To view any page, Cuckchan now throws Cloudflare checks which don't resolve. Cuckchan has officially banned Anonymous.
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Hopoo, the studio behind Risk of Rain, is now apart of Valve? Their post is a little unclear, but that's what it sounds like. That, or they've entered one of those partnerships Nintendo has where a company makes games for/with them but isn't owned by them.
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In one in string of shit-eating interviews, Phil Spencer says he's "some of the worst game choice decisions". https://archive.is/uPNNL >"There's so many mixed emotions and stories for me around Destiny," Spencer explained. >"Obviously, Bungie was part of Microsoft when I started at Xbox, and I shared a floor with Alex Seropian [and] Jason Jones in the building that we were in Redmond. I learned a ton from just being around Bungie." >Despite his natural closeness to Bungie, Spencer admitted that Destiny "didn't really click" when he first played it, and it took until the game's first expansion, House of Wolves, for it to "land" him. >Consequently, Destiny went on to be published by Activision, as too was Guitar Hero, another series Spencer "passed" on, thinking it wasn't "going to work". >"I've passed on some of the worst… like, made some of the worst game-choice decisions," he said. >"An interesting one is when this team came down to Redmond and Alex Rigopulos, he pitches a game where they're actually going to make plastic guitars, and they're going to plug into consoles, and then they're going to sell tracks where you're going to play Simon on this guitar and I'm like, really? Do we really think that's going to work? >"I'm not a regrets-type person," Spencer explained. "Maybe that's a fault of mine, but I passed on so many games. I could look back and say-," he clenches his fist, "-but no, I try to look forward and be positive about the things that we are doing. TL;DR Phil passed up on snatching many games including Destiny and Guitar Hero. Redfall was apparently too good to let go, though.
>>1009143 If only he regretted making mediocre at best vidya full of the usual cancer. If only he regretted mismanaging so many devs repeatedly. If only MS and him actually gave a fuck about the vidya industry.
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>>1009127 I'm going to be optimistically cautious given modern Valve but this sounds great. Hopoo used to be /agdg/ regulars which is why RoR took off on prime, so this is definitive proof you can go places here. (The inverse case is (((Yandev))).)
>>1009143 The typical bad taste idiot/spoiled manchild. I worked with many of those over the years. They have an almost supernatural "shit sense" to always like and choose the very worst of everything (be it products, brands, services, and so on) and get really passionate about their bad choices, until reality shows them that they have shit taste and don't know what is good. I witnessed some go bankrupt over being stubborn in always choosing the very worst of any product to fund, others got into debt and were forced to leave their positions in order to be able to pay them off. And a few actually "learned" that they indeed, have shit taste. But they don't go forward, and instead, just abandon the job area, frustrated that the world doesn't like the garbage that they do. The understand it, but still won't try to change their bad taste, and instead, blame the world to "be wrong about it". Those are all the same kind of retards that Phil is: they pass on to really good ideas, and focus on literal garbage that nobody likes, but they alone like it for some reason. Then they attach themselves to those bad ideas and go all the way into self destruction to defend them.
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After Star Wars: Outlaws launched with lukewarm reception and sales numbers, Ubisoft's stock has been tanking; losing 10% (34% YTD) in two days and dropping to its lowest value in a decade. https://archive.is/cl5kS (Graph is outdated, it's even lower now)
>>1009607 Ironically, I will defend Ubishit in this one instance...because the entire stock market has been dropping.
>>1009607 >>1009634 I think we have to wait for the new AssCreed for something special to happen. >>1009143 Honestly, I can't blame him on passing up Guitar Hero: Peripheral based games (let alone ones made for a single game and its direct successors only!) are, at best, high risk moves. The original THQ came afterwards, but is a good example of how the infrastructure behind these things is so heavy it tends to topple horrifically when it fails.
>>1009607 I just want them to do a complete rehash when it comes to management. They've been fucking everything up so badly that it's been spilling into other companies. Hell SBI is a product of Ubisoft alumni
>>1009634 The majority of the market is only 2-4% down today, and Ubisoft's decline has been ongoing since 2018
>>1009634 Anon, Focus Home Interactive, which is a middle sized publisher, just surpassed their stock value. It's that bad
>>1009734 A French publisher as well Ubisoft is completely fucked top to bottom
Remember when they used to blame mass shootings on video games? Those were the good old days. I have grievances that I don't know how to air. I'm pretty sure I'mma piss off the bible-thumping mod. There was a shooting in Georgia. Afterwards, the response from the government was: < "We need universal background checks. We need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require safe storage of firearms, invest in prevention programs and pass a national red flag law." You telling me that a 14 yo went through a background check? You telling me that that gun wasn't securely stored from being stolen by strangers? You telling me that a red flag law could have taken away the guns that the child didn't own? None of these would have done a damn thing to change what happened. You know what else wouldn't have done a damn thing? > Posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms > Prayer in school > Thoughts and prayers And this just goes to show that the Democratic party is a religious cult. No one will call them out on it. Their response to this tragedy was "this is because society doesn't pray enough to our lord and savior Karl Marx". Plain religious bullshit that no one will call them on. The Republicans/Christians don't want to sully the word "religion" by calling whatever-it-is-that-the-Democrats-are a religion. And the Democrats keep getting away with calling their faith something other than a religion. And Christians keep loosing arguments with different religious people because they won't call out when Marxists fall back onto their quasi-religious dogmas.
>>1009866 Things that likely would have prevented it: >a high trust society >a reasonably ethnically and racially homogeneous society >a non psychotic society that tends to produce non psychotic people >a locally lived society where people tend to know and interact with each other
The piracy community is apparently losing its shit at Dodi Repacks' Discuck being nuked. Me, I'm just laughing at how long it took for those dumbasses to realize the dataminer was never their friend. Excuse the soundless vid.
>>1009872 All true, but how do you get there? How do you reestablish high trust society or a reasonably ethnically and racially homogenous society in CY+9?
>>1010732 That's like asking how do you close Pandora's box.
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>>1010693 Imagine hosting a piracy community on Discord.
>>1010790 Imagine hosting anything on Discord.
>>1010790 Imagine having discord
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>>1010830 Imagine
>>1010732 Through the genocide of others.
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>>1010830 >Imagine having discord
>>1011174 Yeah, it looks like a great game. Just not one to buy an entire console for.
>>1011501 It only took Sony fifteen years to realize people liked all those great games on the PS1 and PS2.
>>1011174 Remember when the 3DS didn't have games for like 6 months then Nintendo announced as an apology they would lower the price of the console and give everyone a bunch of Virtual Console games? This feels like that except you have to pay money for that apology and you still have a shit console.
>>1009866 >used to Remember when Obama blamed CoD for shootings and nobody cared because it wasn't for religious reasons? >There was a shooting in Georgia Actually, the gun was bought by the father for his tranny son. He's being held accountable for his son's actions since he gave the gun to his kid. >You know what else wouldn't have done a damn thing? Religion and better videogame quality would have stopped him from trooning out, so yes, these would have helped. >>1010693 What happened? I might have used a Dodi Repack once or twice before starting to use the Russian site. >>1011174 Watching drooling retards who bough the PS5 for storygames actually have fun playing and being filtered by a game is amazing. Too bad large parts of it are a big ad for other games.
>>1011514 >Remember when the 3DS didn't have games for like 6 months Nah, 3DS had the opposite problem of too many games, like the Wii.
>>1011530 What are you talking about? The 3DS only had half the number of games as the DS.
>>1011545 The comparison was the games Ps5 and 3ds have. Ps5 has 724 games and 21 Ps5-only games listed on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_5_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games 3ds has 1817 games and 231 3ds-only games listed on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_3DS_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nintendo_3DS-only_games
>>1011550 >it includes remasters and compilations/collections as exclusives Wew. If you excluded remakes too that list would be pathetic.
lol some fanboy's mad >>1011550's 3ds list is 11 times longer than the ps5 list full of psvr gimmicks that also has remakes like demon's souls and ff7r and neptunia and remasters like rtf3e and worse tlou2 which i wouldn't fish from a dumpster does this newfag not know why it's called nogames5 here, lurk more retard
>>1011567 Nigger, I don't give a shit about the soystation 5, but when people try to gas up the 3DS library as having "too many games" I pay attention because I bought 3 of those fucking things thanks to retards on the internet hyping it up. A pathetic list is still better than a nonexistent one, but the 3DS was a massive step down from the Nintendo systems of the past in terms of quality and originality.
>>1011174 >Paul trying to cope hard for the inevitable slowdown of support and updates of his dopamine simulator, Destiny 2.
>>1011567 He moved goalposts from objective facts like number of games to subjective bullshit like game quality no one even said shit about because he got triggered Ps5 is a joke and he's trying to hide it. Nes had fewer games than 3ds, Snes had fewer games than 3ds, N64 had fewer games than 3ds, Gcn had fewer games than 3ds, even Wii had fewer games than 3ds. Wii u had fewer games than 3ds. Gb had fewer games than 3ds. Vb had fewer games than 3ds. Gbc had fewer games than 3ds. Gba had fewer games than 3ds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_64_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GameCube_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_U_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Boy_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Color_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Advance_games There's a reason he only said Ds because beside Switch it's the only Nintendo system with more games than 3ds. The giant library on 3ds is known to anyone game literate. He's not, didn't realize how giant it was and acts like objective facts said in a negative way are "gassing up." Made a fool out of himself and keeps going on.
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>>1011601 >twisting yourself into knots to justify the 3DS >ignoring that my post had literally no reference to the PS5 whatsoever >forgetting that the DS was the immediate predecessor of the 3DS which anyone who actually bought the 3DS would use as a frame of reference for what to expect >comparing 30+ year old console gens to digital age generations which literally overlaps the past libraries I wish the rule against console warring was enforced again, it always brings out the biggest retards in existence. Apparently you can't just disagree with a general retarded statement without being assumed to take a side in whatever retarded argument was going on.
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>>1011608 To be fair this is the only reason to own a sony unit
>Some (1) false equated 3ds and Ps5 by saying 3ds didn't have games >Someone spoonfeeds the retard that the 3ds has a giant game library >You jump in, suck the (1)'s shaft, acting like saying 3ds has a lot of games is absurd, cherry pick 1 of just 2 nintendo systems that has more to bullshit your point >I spoonfeed you the giant library of 3ds games in >>1011550 >You start double standard excusing it as remakes and remasters for only the 3ds list ignoring the Ps5 list does that proportionally worse than the 3ds list >Your shit's called out by >>1011567 who marks you as a fanboy newfag retard because you acted exactly like one >You take big 3ds numbers, act like they're small, claim spoonfeeder "gassed up" the 3ds for saying it has too many games, move goalposts, start comparing it to other nintendo shit >I point out >>1011601 every nintendo system beside Switch and Ds have fewer games and that you're making a fool of yourself and keep going on >You get memed on in >>1011608 >You pretend reporting an objective fact said in a negative way about the number of games 3ds has is "twisting into knots to justify the 3ds" because you're a console war retard projecting all over the place You are the biggest retard in existence f3031e. Too bad you got no games to play on your Ps5 so you retard all over the minor news thread with off topic instead. Maybe trade up for 3ds or something.
That's the last time I reply to a random stupid post on the index, I didn't know I was in for a vortex of autism.
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>>1011620 >Owning a Sony unit Borrow
>>1011628 The 3DS really didn't have that many games, or at least it had more than the Wii U, PS4 and PS5.
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>>1011632 >people are discussing videogames in a way I don't like how could this be happening
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>>1011815 >or at least it had more than the Wii U <Well, that's bullshit. The past decade of vidya has been absolutely fucked because every single console can no longer sell itself on it's own games. They have to keep digging into the past in order to remake/remaster/rerelease game that already exist. I know Snowy came out a couple days ago and delcared that they have "zero" legacy IPs to pull from, and how everyone (Including myself) immediately mocked them for this, but I think it also shows the mindset of the industry. They're going to tear everything down, make you long for the past as recent as five years prior, only to then revive the past in order to take a steaming dump on it (As they censor everything that's offensive or make the game politically correct), and does nothing except make you wish you never had any love or enjoyment of this material in the first place. Yes, I very much prefer the days of the 3DS and the Wii U over EVERY SINGLE THING that has happened to the industry over the past five years. Fuck Microsoft for making a game industry where you don't own your games, fuck Soyny for making a game industry where I don't even like the games, and fuck Nintendo for making a game industry where I already OWN the games but demanding that I pay full price for them again.
>>1011836 All I see are rehashes and makeshift ports on both lists anon, unless it's non-nu Mario and Zelda. I really don't care about Splatoon.
>>1011628 Sorry for being unclear, my original point was 3DS stumbled out of the gate and Nintendo course corrected very quickly, Nintendo dropped the price and offered a gift to the people who adopted early. The PS5 came out 4 years ago, and so far the best game it has so far is a nostalgia-baiting platformer that looks like it should be a pack-in to the console, and the system hasn't even gotten a price drop (in some markets they fucking ROSE the price). I guess the key point was, the 3DS eventually had fucking games. I love the 3DS, have probably over a hundred games installed on it, and it's probably my most played console, to be honest. I'm just saying, it's 4 years in, and all the PS5 has is fucking Astro.
>>1011836 >buying games I found your problem.
>>1011836 The picture's misleading, it wants me to look quick and think the games are the same but Splatoon 2's a sequel to Splatoon 1, Super Mario Maker 2's a sequel to Super Mario Maker 1, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's a sequel to Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Bowser's Fury excels by itself, Mario Kart 8 has 48 new tracks exceeding base content in any Mario Kart, Breath of the Wild has the Switch sequel Tears of the Kingdom, Hyrule Warriors has the Switch sequel Age of Calamity, and Pikmin 3 has the Switch sequel Pikmin 4. I have 3DS, Wii U, and Switch. It's not a competition, they're all fun. If you like the first 2 I promise you'll like Switch if you can disengage argument mode and approach it not as an opponent to fight with memes but an opportunity to have fun. After exhausting Wii U and 3DS, Switch has enough new games and content to provide value and nothing's lost to give it a chance. It's not perfect, but worth playing. If you don't like the company don't pay them, look into custom firmware, Yuzu, or Ryujinx. Some games even work on old PCs. I wouldn't get New Super Mario Bros. U twice either since old games are for new players, not for you and me. >>1011928 I have over a hundred games installed on the 3DS too, it's a great machine.
>>1011928 >is a nostalgia-baiting platformer that looks like it should be a pack-in to the console It's literally a sequel to one.
>>1011928 If we're admitting mistakes I was too hard on you since I considered you may be the f3031e retard but you're not. If you're who I think now, you're a good lad, one of few oldfags I'd befriend if we weren't anon. I don't like people who keep arguing when objectively wrong and misplaced that on you, my bad. Easy to fall into negativity here.
>>1011961 >you're an oldfag if you liked the 3DS If you were an actual oldfag, you'd have remembered the 3DS threads died the same year the Switch came out.
>concord killed a Infamous x Prototype crossover Game thanks to the resources and time that piece of shit had FUCK FUCKING FUCK
>>1011983 >>1011986 literal fake news btw hoax started by Z-tier youtube Cheems of Regret
>>1011950 Okay, well I stand corrected, but still people normalfags are really overselling this new one when it only serves to remind me that there is just no a lot that is compelling about the PS5. I almost want the console but I just don't see a lot to do with it. >>1011961 Oh it's okay, I guess there was just an initial jump in the conversation that escalated it hard (I posted what I thought was a pretty innocuous comment anyway and left the thread). Also even though I've been on 8chan since the exodus I don't think anyone knows me unless they get really autistic with typing styles. Even among anons I feel like a wallflower
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>>1011940 >Mario Maker 2's a sequel to Super Mario Maker 1 Didn't they axe majority of the content from the first game? >Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's a sequel to Super Smash Bros. for Wii U And it also ends up removing content and replaces it with nothing. >Bowser's Fury excels by itself Then why not make it a standalone game? >Mario Kart 8 has 48 new tracks exceeding base content in any Mario Kart Except the tracks are remakes of older tracks from all the previous games. >Breath of the Wild has the Switch sequel Tears of the Kingdom Which doubles down and doesn't fix the problems people had with BOTW. >Hyrule Warriors has the Switch sequel Age of Calamity It's not a sequel, it's a completely different game with a completely different story. A story people were not already fans of to begin with. >and Pikmin 3 has the Switch sequel Pikmin 4. And I haven't heard a single good thing about it. >After exhausting Wii U and 3DS, Switch has enough new games and content to provide value and nothing's lost to give it a chance. Be honest, WHAT new games and content? In 2024, we've had a remake of a NDS/Wii game, a remake of a GBA game, a remake of a GC game, a remake of a 3DS game, and the rerelease of a Wii U game. LAST year, we had three remakes of a GC game, a remake of a Wii game, a remake of a GBA game, a remake of a SNES game, and a compilation of minigames from a series dating back to the N64. And NEXT YEAR, we're looking forward to the release of another Wii game. All I see from Nintendo is the clear indication that there is no reason to buy a Switch when I'm just going to be playing available on the same exact consoles that I already own. I don't care what's "added" to the games when we keep receiving reports of how they're either removing content, censoring it in a manner so that it doesn't offend "modern sensibilities", or even overcorrecting and ruining the "charm" the content originally had. And like I said, Nintendo is not the only one doing this, so do not think I'm singling them out. Mavelous is remaking years old games, Square Enix is remaking years old games, Capcom is remaking years old games. I don't not see the purpose behind buying a new console when it's just to play the same games I already own.
>>1012057 Having a portable version of a lot of games is nice. And there's a lot of releases on switch that while they have PC versions, again, it's nice to have a portable version of. Also there are new games even in the past year. Not to mention good RPGs like the Xenoblade games.
>>1012061 >Having a portable version of a lot of games is nice You're acting like that's something new. You do realize that people have been playing full console games on portable devices as far back as 1990, right? >And there's a lot of releases on switch that while they have PC versions, again, it's nice to have a portable version of. You do realize that tablets and laptops/netbooks exist, right? >Also there are new games even in the past year. Then why haven't you shown one? The "newest" game you have pictured is from over 18 months ago. And if the argument actually does get to this point, how about you show me a good (Recent) Switch game that is (1) exclusive to the system and remains exclusive to this day (Addons to games that already exist do not count), (2) has not fallen victim to localization shenanigans, and (3) doesn't have any DLC/updates (Doesn't matter if it's "free") attached to it?
Oh great, you've set him off again.
>>1012061 You have good taste there. All four Xenoblades are probably my favorite RPGs, Takahashi and Monolith really know how to design fantasy worlds that engross me.
The PS5 won't be getting any big first-party sequels until 2025 https://archive.is/8QUjQ >Sony said Wednesday it won’t launch any new blockbuster first-party PlayStation exclusives until at least early 2025. Meanwhile, the platform’s first-party exclusive Wolverine game may not arrive until 2026. As for why PlayStation ended up with such a long gap between first-party flagship games, Totoki said in an earnings call the company’s creative teams can can improve their development turnarounds. PS5 console sales missed their target in the quarter. The company has adjusted its fiscal year projections of PS5 sales down 4 million. Sony expects a gradual decline to continue.
>>1012080 >OK LADS IT'S TIME TO ALIENATE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR THIRD PARTY PUBLISHERS AND TURN THE MACHINE INTO THE MADDEN AND FIFA PLAYER >AYE AYE SIR
Capcom starts survey for Ace Attorney Investigations survey (no archive because this kind of survey checks referral links and seeing a bunch of stuff from archive link will get anything similar tossed out) https://x.com/aceattorneygame/status/1833921098305474662 Actual survey: https://jp.research .net/r/SCV7L8D?lang=en Tell them you aren't buying it because of Denuvo, Enigma Protector, and not yet knowing if the collection is censored/badly translated.
There's some reporting suggesting Star Wars Outlaws actually flopped. I'm genuinely surprised by that, Star Wars really is just "another IP" now isn't it? Not even the prequels managed to commodify it the way Disney has. Of course it could also be because it's the most 2017 game I've ever seen, in the age of the CRPG resurgence Ubisoft decided to release something that follows all the open world design trends of last gen. I think gamers have fully moved beyond that formula now.
>>1013502 It didn't just flop. It brought Ubisoft to its knees. Assassin's Creed Niggamurai is poised over Ubisoft, stolen katana in hand, ready to cut its head off. Go look at the Ubisoft stock prices or search for recent Ubisoft news. The Concord thread is full of this news, too.
>>1013502 >>1013576 I thought this game looked boring as fuck but every thread I looked at on "gamer sites" was full of your typical normalfag "Yall are haters, this looks sick! Can't wait!" type posts. Guess they were Star Wars drones, because casuals didn't show up for Outlaws.
EA announced that there will be no Sims 5 in favor of updating The Sims 4 indefinitely because they don't want players to "reset their progress". https://web.archive.org/web/20240917183918/https://variety.com/2024/gaming/news/the-sims-5-update-multiplayer-creator-content-ea-interview-1236142010/
>>1015824 So basically a GTA situation
>>1015825 This is more like a TF2 situation. GTA is still getting a sequel. I saw this shit coming ever since The Sims 4 went F2P.
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>>1015824 So people stuck with the inferior Sims game. Whole fucking series peaked with 3, and that shit had ugly fucking characters and engine issues. Thinking about it, EA murdered it's development department years ago.Each game they shit out has less and cant handle basic shit like save files sizes. Frostbite went from BF4's impressive destruction engine to large empty Starfield map generator. The nuSims can't handle towns, but atleast you can call your tranny a xir/xer/fewyearsanddead. Battlefront can't handle large battles (fucking linear small corridor maps and cutscene boarding). Their sport games are unstable as fuck and mobile game tier bad. The cant do anything with their rts games (literally made Tiberium into a lotbox mobile game).
>>1015824 >because they don't want players to "reset their progress". Chances are this part is just an excuse. But couldn't they have paid someone to come up with a better lie? Sims players actually enjoy resetting their progress, whether that means building new houses or making new families of sims. One of the things players enjoy doing most is purposely burning down houses or breaking apart families for entertainment before moving on to build some other wacky scenario. No one expects EA to know their audience, but come on. >>1015840 >I saw this shit coming ever since The Sims 4 went F2P. That's true. But the fact that The Sims 4 started out as some scrapped online multiplayer experience already showed that EA wasn't interested in making a decent game in the series anymore. More than ever before, everything they do is to sate their voracious desire for money.
I don't give a fuck about Sims because I don't have a vagina.
>>1015888 >Sims players actually enjoy resetting their progress Would that include the hundreds spent on all the DLC that presumably wouldn't carry over to Sims 5? I'm seeing numbers over 1000 USD as of 2024. To replace all of that with an even shittier product by modern EA would be catastrophic without either; A. Making Sims 5 backwards compatible with 4 DLCs or B. Providing equivalent value upfront for veteran players (which would be impossible according to >>1015849 )
There's a new Korean Sims-like that's getting Sims fans hot and bothered. Can't remember the name, but by coasting on Sims 4 as a GAAS/DLC-fest they're shooting themselves in the foot by allowing someone else to make the successor.
>>1015824 They should just admit they lack the talent to make a new one that isn't a clusterfuck of issues like all their other recent games. Which is why they stick to making more broken DLC for 4. When I need my sims fix, I just go back to 3 or earlier. 4 felt like too much of a downgrade so I really don't give a shit what they add to that turd. >>1015900 (checked) Good. EA doesn't deserve any money. >Can't remember the name Was it inZOI?
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>>1015900 I played the demo. They removed the body type shit, but it wasn't even proof of concept years away from release level. Character customization just flat out didn't work for some sliders, and all results were unquestionably just a Korean in makeup with makeup. Children didn't have any customization beyond clothes, hair and eyes.
>>1015888 >the fact that The Sims 4 started out as some scrapped online multiplayer experience already showed that EA wasn't interested in making a decent game in the series anymore. More than ever before, everything they do is to sate their voracious desire for money. It probably wouldn't be a problem if the average modern Sims fan wasn't a filthy casual. Like it or not, The Sims is probably the most casual PC franchise on the market right now. >>1015955 They could probably get the game done quicker if they weren't focused on hyper-realistic character models and in-dejewsustomization. Just give me all the features of TS3 plus the ability of visiting other towns and I will be a happy camper.
>>1015955 They're cute. Can you make a ginger?
>>1015934 >inZOI That's the one. Couldn't think of it for the life of me.
Ironically the AI thread here >>987619 is a perfect encapsulation and incubator that demonstrates the mentalities the EA exec is buying into with muh magic AI as well as displaying in realtime the flaws he fails to account for. >LOOK WITH THIS FILTER I CAN MAKE ANYTHING LOOK LIKE PIXEL ART <IGNORE THAT THE MODEL FUCKS UP THE COLOR PALETTE
>>1016030 >hair >cheeks There's absolutely nothing wrong there you mongoloid.
>>1016030 >model Anon.. these edits were done in Krita.
Wasn't sure which thread to put this in. The VR thread? The autismblocks thread? Anyway, Minecraft Is Dropping PSVR Support Early Next Year https://archive.md/OhCEK
>>1015985 The hyper-realism in both characters and environments seems to be the whole selling point but to me it comes of as a Sims version of those MARIO 64 REMADE IN UE4!!! videos
>>1016037 >>1016049 The moron doesn't understand a point of pixel art is to have fewer colors.
>>1016069 This is strange, why not fork a stable build instead of dropping support entirely? Mainstream gamedevs do weird behaviour that'd get you shunned in any normal dev community.
>>1016074 The Sims was made to look more cartoony and exaggerated on purpose. It's much easier to have cartoony characters that may or may not be based off of people you know in real life because it's means fewer details to work with and it allows you to fill in the rest with your imagination.
Half-Life beta disc has been found, contents to be uploaded soon.
>>1016652 Nice, reminds me of when someone found that Starcraft beta disc with the source code https://www.techpowerup.com/233062/blizzard-pays-generous-bounty-for-original-starcraft-gold-master-source-cd
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>>1016670 <Nice, reminds me of when some dimwit Retardditor had the Starcraft source code and instead of uploading it for the public to peruse he gave it back to Pizzard for a bunch of tickets to a dogshit expo that would later get mocked to hell and abandoned
>>1016675 It was such a wholesome moment wasn't it?
>>1016030 AI will always be fast improved until perfection. It is inevitable. I celebrate the removal of the workforce in favor of AI.
>Freedom Wars Remaster trailer comes out >only lists PS4 and PS5 as platforms >could have sworn it was also getting released on Steam >check Steam >sure enough, it's listed >Sony is now actively pretending that games aren't getting Steam releases Even more fun news for people who liked Freedom Wars, but hated some of the dev's baffling design decisions, Famitsu's early gameplay footage video claims that the game's difficulty has been balanced and certain features have been made more user friendly. I have a sneaking suspicion they're talking about the fucking instagibbing assault rifle enemies and the free to play, pay to win MMO mechanics of crafting weapons. Also, just imagine how cripplingly in the red Sony must be right now for them to be so desperate as to dig out Freedom Wars from their trash bin.
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>>1016756 Despite ignorant common consensus around the web, this Freedom Wars re-release has nothing to do with Sony anon. Japan Studio likely let DIMPS keep the Freedom Wars IP after it didn't do so good. Bandai Namco is publishing this, they're the number 1 major stockholder in DIMPS, guess the 2nd major stockholder...it's Sony >Sony is now actively pretending that games aren't getting Steam releases Every console company does this anon, go check the trailers and ads for multiplat games, only their brand will be there, none of the competing brands. This is also coming to the Switch by the way PC + Nintendo is the future, it's over for home consoles. Phones have captured the casual market and they don't care about owning a console.
>>1016652 It's been uploaded. https://archive.org/details/nettest-2 You have to crack it, the best way seems to be to run the game in a virtual machine and set the computer time to October 1998
>>1016850 The comments suggest this is not going over well with the playbase. Though I think they're overblowing this a bit, it's silly and extremely cringe. It starts off bad and gets worse the further you go, it feels like it was made entirely to trigga da libz. Personally, I'd prefer if she had actual armor. That 2005 MMO getup doesn't do anything for me.
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>>1016852 >The comments suggest this is not going over well with the playbase. We have a thread about this, the comments are part of some Reddit raid, if you look at the more recent comments, there are people approving of this. I agree, but I also like the apron. The helmet must stay on at all times, though.
>>1016852 >Personally, I'd prefer if she had actual armor. When the POZZ infecting the industry is removed we can go back to having women being armor because it looks cool. At the moment they're being covered up for censorship reasons,and given manjaws.
>>1016868 Having niggers in gaming is just as pozzed. Sexy or not.
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>>1016869 Not every melaneted fella is a nigger, anon.
>>1016869 Its fiction, anon. Pozz is based on the intent of the developer.
>>1016868 >>1016869 >>1016872 If I never hear "pozzzz" (throw in a few extra pointless Zs, be like how normalfags spell dox as doxx) again it won't be soon enough. It's become divorced from its original meaning and is now a stand-in for the equally vague "woke". One of our drawfags/devfags/streamers, Dingo, was complaining about "the poz" awhile ago on his stream. He's a gay furry. Just a totally meaningless word. Have a suited chick to stay vaguely on topic.
>>1016870 One of the worst thing about niggers is their disgusting pube textured hair. I don't know if Storm still has pube texture on her hair but at least by making it white it's easier to pretend it doesn't.
>>1016874 Anon, pozz was always used that way on imageboards unless you're referring to the actual original definition where AIDS-ridden homos were literally making a fetish out of turning people HIV-positive, which was a long time ago in terms of the internet. Words being used idiomatically/colloquially rather than being strictly literal is a pretty common practice anywhere where language is informal. Calling something cucked or saying someone cucked out on imageboards isn't usually literal unless context says otherwise, for example.
>>1016859 >spoiler Who ever said anything about taking off the apron? :^) >>1016874 You're in any community with enough people, you're going to have to deal with those who mindlessly regurgitate buzzwords. Don't take it too seriously, most anons are not putting it a lot of thought to their posts.
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>>1016882 Post more
>>1016916 >nigger proportions Kill yourself
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>>1016882 >spoiler define "taking off" :^) >>1016921 Swiggity swag, you are a fag.
>>1016921 >niggers invented white hips They didn't invent shit
>>1016922 >>1016923 >>1016925 Niggers popularized grotesque disproportional huge asses to cope with the fact all of their women are morbidly obese and inject saline into their bodies in order to not look like walking spheres. You hyper fags always just slightly inch past the point of something looks an aesthetic so you can hide behind your veil of "DUDE BIG BUTT IS FOR HETERO MANLY MAN WHO NOT GAY". Hyper fags are the most deceptive fucking subhumans on the planet. They are the jews of hentai and will constantly gas light and ruin things that are otherwise attractive. Fucking blow your brains out hyper niggers. What you have posted is morbid obesity.
>>1016930 >anything bigger than average is now hyper I'm getting real tired of you fags
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>>1016930 You are mentally ill
>>1016944 I don't know how many times over the years I've repeated this every time I see this fucking discussion come up but these are fetishes; they're grossly exaggerated depictions of the physical impacts of motherhood and are a form of sympathetic magic. These are the similar to male fertility statues with cocks longer than their legs (pic 2); it's a sexual depiction but not necessarily an arousing depiction. If you want an actual example of erotica from the ancient world then check out the first pic; it's 4000 years old and from Sumeria. Please note in particular the physique of the female figure. I don't agree with the "reee only niggers like big asses argument" and I also think he's retarded but holding up fertility statuettes in an argument about male sexual preference is just as bad. The taste of men, generally speaking, is universal and goes back as old as erotic art and probably even farther - we want enough tits to squeeze, enough ass to jiggle when you slap it and little fat elsewhere. It's really that simple. Pics three through five are from ancient Greece, ancient India and the Ming dynasty and the women are all not only similar to each other but very similar to the first image that's four thousand goddamn years old.
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>>1017007 Just want to note the Venus figurines are literally tens of thousands of years old, an order of magnitude older than anything you're posting. They're also mostly found in radically different cultures to those. We have no idea why so many were made, why they were made in the first place, or what they were used for. They would have been extraordinarily difficult to produce as they didn't yet have metal tools, the main theory is that they were some kind of trinket or charm, possibly something mothers would hold during childbirth, but that's a complete guess. These figurines are a mystery and I don't like when people postulate one way or the other what they were for.
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>accidentally clicked strip filename I want it to be known the filename of that image was supposed to be "THIG"
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>>1017016 >>1017017 They were obviously made for one single purpose It's time to go back to simpler times
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>>1017033 Ronaldo is probably one of the most famous people to ever live, yet he's virtually unknown in the States. He could walk down the street and most wouldn't recognize him.
>>1017037 No shit, nobody cares about soccer there unless the national team is winning. The female team was winning a few games and suddenly all that American investor money started pouring it to shill it, not only in the USA but Europe as well since our leaders suck fat American cock. It was hilarious
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>>1017033 >penaldo >>1017038 >The female team was winning a few games and suddenly all that American investor money started pouring it to shill it Lel, the same is happening with the colombian team.
>>1016874 Making female characters which look like trannies for reasons based on gender theory sounds pretty pozzed to me.
>>1017038 >nobody cares about soccer there unless the national team is winning Even then, NO ONE gives a shit about soccer. They've been doing everything possible to sell soccer here in Burgerland for the past couple decades, and people have zero interest in it no matter what they do. The only sports people actually give a shit about in this country are (gridiron) football (Which I don't care for myself) and baseball.
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>>1017037 >>1017033 I have no idea who this is.
>>1017061 >The only sports people actually give a shit about in this country are (gridiron) football and baseball. Ahem.
>>1017072 yo mudda!
>>1017074 Golf is one of those sports everyone wants to play, but very few do because of the high entry price. Even bowling arguably has a "larger" presence than golf.
>>1017037 Maybe for whites they don't care, but all the immigrants and their 20 kids love it, soccer is probably as popular as most other sports in America now. Going through college with diversity admission roommates basically made me a futbol fan. >>1017074 Also, ice hockey.
>>1017080 >everyone wants to play Not really, I find it boring as fuck
>>1017087 >Also, ice hockey. Only if you're Canadian or Alaskan.
>>1015934 >When I need my sims fix, I just go back to 3 or earlier. I have a rip/portable version of sims 1 I play. Cool thing is I still have yet to experience sims 2 and 3, and I guess 4 as well.
>>1017016 >Just want to note the Venus figurines are literally tens of thousands of years old, an order of magnitude older than anything you're posting. They're also mostly found in radically different cultures to those. Sure, fair enough. >We have no idea why so many were made, why they were made in the first place, or what they were used for. They would have been extraordinarily difficult to produce as they didn't yet have metal tools, the main theory is that they were some kind of trinket or charm, possibly something mothers would hold during childbirth, but that's a complete guess. These figurines are a mystery and I don't like when people postulate one way or the other what they were for. I'd usually be right there with you but I have a couple of objections in this case specifically. First, the venuses (venii?) are found across a considerable swathe of places and dates. As far as I'm concerned there is a 0.00% chance of the same cultural context being handed down from ~43,000 YBP to ~9,000 YBP even broadly and so I feel confident in assigning them a generalized and effectively ecumenical significance given the similarities. This ties into my second point, which is that people didn't stop making the damn things. All the way into the lower paleolithic and from there into the neolithic and beyond, people thousands of miles away from each other were STILL making figurines that are separated by date as opposed to content and we have a much better idea of the cultural significance of these latter objects because of their archaeological and cultural context. I am not prepared to believe that some pregnant woman in the Indus valley ~5000 years ago praying to an ivory figurine with milky tits, a sagging belly and thunderous thighs was doing it for a reason fundamentally different than a pregnant cro-magnon woman doing the same thing in a cave 40,000 years before THAT just because "we can't know". As far as I'm concerned, playing agnostic about these figurines is the coward's way out and akin to claiming that men didn't make dick jokes until there's hard evidence (pun fully intended) of them doing so. I'm not about to go to bat for the Löwenmensch or the Vogelherd figurines or the Shigir idol but I am prepared to do so for these idols.
After 13 years, Microsoft is ending their Xbox Ambassador program. https://ambassadors.microsoft.com/xbox/blog/celebrating-the-legacy-and-evolution-of-the-xbox-ambassadors Also, there are reports from Saudi journalists that Microsoft is considering pulling out from the Middle East.
>>1017080 Golf was always more of a socializing event rather than a serious sport to people I know. >>1017726 >Xbox Ambassador program I completely forgot about that. Also: https://archive.is/Cu2kl
>>1017726 What's the ambassador program supposed to be anyway?
>>1016944 You're the mentally ill one. Venus and other fertility idols were exemplary of matriarchal societies. Fat women are disgusting.
Capcom releases survey on Dead Rising Fucked Up and Censored Edition. Tell them you aint buying shit with Denuvo, yellow paint, and censorship https://jp.research .net/r/NJB9MRY?lang=en
http://archive.today/2024.09.24-191838/https://gamerant.com/zelda-echoes-of-wisdom-totk-improvisation-ultrahand-bind-tri-rod/ >Just like Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Echoes of Wisdom encourages players to improvise their way through the land of Hyrule. However, whereas Tears of the Kingdom gave players Link's Ultrahand ability to contrive different ways forward, Echoes of Wisdom places the Tri Rod in Zelda's hands, which allows players to create copies called Echoes of enemies and objects throughout Hyrule.
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>>1017751 >finish survey >get lame wallpaper Not even as good as the original
>>1017751 I will celebrate the day crapcom goes bankrupt.
>>1018324 Notice how Frank has some resemblance with Michael DeSanta, both got cucked
>>1017080 >Golf is one of those sports everyone wants to play okay, retard >>1016944 You are mentally retarded.
>PS4/5 port of Lunar announced >filled with rage that Lunar gets yet another port, but Lunar 2 is mostly ignored >suddenly notice that both Alex and Hiro are in the announcement art >watch trailer >it's actually a bundle with both Lunar 1 and 2 It's a fucking miracle. Now, I'm just crossing my fingers that I can switch both the voices and text to Japanese so I can finally play a version of these games that isn't raped by Working Designs.
http://archive.today/2024.09.25-123931/https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-legend-of-zelda/legend-of-zelda-producer-confirms-that-2d-games-like-echoes-of-wisdom-will-coexist-with-3d-titles-like-breath-of-the-wild-and-tears-of-the-kingdom/ >Echoes of Wisdom is a stunning top-down ode to some of the Legend of Zelda series' most iconic games - and it looks like even more vibrant 2D titles will come, coexisting with 3D gems such as Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. >Link's Awakening marked the beginning of this top-down 2D line of Zelda games, according to Aonuma, as well as fellow studio Grezzo's work on it. "Amid all this, we felt that the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on Nintendo Switch, which we developed with Grezzo, had become our new approach in terms of graphics and gameplay feel, as a top-down Legend of Zelda game for the Nintendo Switch generation." >As a dedicated fan myself, I'm excited - and shamelessly hopeful that A Link Between Worlds will come to the Switch one day.
Metaphor Refantazio demo is out. Bosses are big homo.
>>1018646 The only good Zelda games are the 2D ones anyways.
>>1018907 Tears of the Kingdom wasn't super bad so far but I feel the 2D is where it's at
>>1019158 No it hasn't. Controlling entry and exit nodes has always been an attack vector that everyone is aware of. When you use onion sites your traffic never goes through an exit node. The browser is not compromised. Using the browser to browse the clearnet, which is not the primary utility of the browser or the onion network, has the potential to expose your identity. Maybe learn the basics of how a technology works before spreading fud about it.
>>1019163 Can do. Thanks for the description, anon.
https://archive.is/KAUQJ Actiblizz laying off 400 people
>>1020092 SC1 had about 70-80 employees at best on the game excluding VA.
>>1020095 Blizzard was a much, much smaller company back then.
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>>1020092 Watching the AAA space implode is hilarious to witness.
>>1020095 The idea of the industry being bloated is nothing new, there's a book about bloat in tech called The Mythical Man-Month from 49 years ago. This has become such a uniquely bad problem in vidya, and there is no good solution. It never should have been allowed to get this bad.
>>1020103 >and there is no good solution. There is a perfect solution stop bailing them out and let them crash, it all needs to burn to the ground it's the same with half of the legacy company's we have today too big too bloated if they cannot compete they need to be replaced.
>>1020110 Communism and capitalism are literally funded by the same people.
>>1020092 Jesus Christ.
>>1020149 https://www.mobygames.com/game/47486/starcraft-ii-wings-of-liberty/credits/windows/ StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty credits (Windows, 2010) - MobyGames The official game credits for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty released on Windows in 2010. The credits include 4280 people. I think Bethesda probably had more, if they weren't outsourcing to pajeets and chinese.
>>1020095 I was expecting something like 30 people working on Starcraft 1, because speaking of Bethesda >>1020158 when they made Skyrim, as bloated as it was, "only" had 100 people working on it, and that was a much more complex game to make than Starcraft, with the exception of no multiplayer feature.
>>1020164 I'm not surprised that Skyrim was around 100 given that people still act like it's a competent skinnerbox even though it shouldn't be.
To no ones surprise, the PS5 pro anniversary edition pre-orders sold out day one and is being resold for a significant mark-up on Ebay. And that's a good thing.
>>1021066 Yeah. If it's anything like the regular PS5, a bunch of scalpers will have lost a bunch of money on trying to scalp a product nobody actually wants.
>>1021078 Given the story of the abandoned PS2s sitting in a warehouse you'd have to wonder who exactly is preordering it, besides scalpers I mean.
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The first Starfield expansion just launched, and boy people seem to hate it.
>>1022331 Considering they were already disappointed by the initial offering of Starfield, I don't think this was ever going to save it. You can slap 30 bucks worth of makeup on a pig, but at the end of the day it is still a pig.
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>>1022331 ES6 is going to be a fucking trainwreck
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>>1022331 Fun fact: there's a bug in Starfield that causes companions to not play their commentary lines or unlock topical dialogue options - so if you take the snake cultist companion with you to the snake cultist DLC planet, there's a good chance that they won't comment on what's going on and you can't ask them about it. Despite being fixed in the first community patch for the game (IIRC), it still hasn't been fixed in an official patch. >>1022338 >Considering they were already disappointed by the initial offering of Starfield, I don't think this was ever going to save it. You can slap 30 bucks worth of makeup on a pig, but at the end of the day it is still a pig. What I find especially funny is that CP2077 has probably been a big part of why Starfield was received so poorly; Phantom Liberty dropped at exactly the right time for an apples to apples comparison to Starfield, cost $30 (the same as Shattered Space lmao) while having more content than some AAA games and came with the 2.0 update that massively overhauled the entire game, addressing most of the technical complaints about the game. People played Starfield for a while, started a new 2077 playthrough with PL when it released and said "wow, Starfield is actually fucking awful instead of just mediocre" and that's been the judgement ever since. For me, the icing on the cake is the file sizes. I have a pirated (so no patch bloat or anything) copy of CP2077+PL and my size on disk is ~87GB; I pirated Starfield (before trashing it a few days later) and the files were 92GB and unpacked to ~115GB. Fucking insanity. >>1022340 Just like every Bethesda game since Oblivion. I still think that it will be way better than Shekelfield, though, just because they're working with an established franchise and as such the level of creativity required is basically nil compared to starting from scratch; they already have factions for the various playstyles and the dedicated "bad guy" faction, whatever region the game is going to be set in already has tons of established lore, they can just rehash various enemy types, etc. I think that it will be "acceptable", at least to the normalniggers. People want Skyrim 2: Desert Boogaloo and that's probably not too far for what Bethesda is shooting for and is something that I think is actually within their grasp. Assuming that whatever tortured iteration of gamebryo they're on manages to run the fucking thing, I mean.
>>1022960 Anon, thank you so much for posting that. That "I can't wait to play it, love it, then pretend to hate it, then actually hate it!" line has been in my head for years but I couldn't remember where it was from. Such a specific but strangely accurate description.
Transtars is free to play now, since no one wanted the splatoon knockoff. https://archive.ph/Ejcs2
>>1023330 >PS4/PS5 only No wonder it flopped
>>1023330 >>1023331 >No PC version the fuck?
>>1023330 >Transtars >rhat color scheme This is not even on the nose, it's went straight to the lungs
>>1022331 >Ever playing anything made by Bethesda
>>1022331 Did the first Starfield expansion expand the empty fields of endless space? Because that's what Starfield was.
>>1023429 People shit on the many barren worlds so it focused mostly on one world. Flesh out the galaxy now for the low cost of $30 per planet!
>>1023330 >game but trans Lol, why are they like this
>>1023330 >called it Transtars >not Splatroon Low energy 5/10, See me after Holocaust class.
>>1023330 >>1023331 >>1023348 You wouldn't even want this trash on PC. Having to manually reload foam every time kills all momentum.
>>1022331 >"NASApunk" game >Add in Dune-tier ripoffs that is so out of place with the base game >Emil Peglerino: This is the best game we ever made! Get fucked!
>>1023652 I have to wonder why Beth hasn't told Emil to stop talking to the press, his interviews are genuinely embarrassing.
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There are now journos regretting their positive Starfield reviews
>>1023688 Weak, pressured out of liking a game. There's not 1 game I turned on because a swarm of faggots called me a tasteless retard.
>>1023688 HH brother >and the best thing about is This Starfaggot "writer" doesn't even review their own writing
>>1023362 It's called Foamstars you dork
>>1023688 >Yeah.. Starfield kinda sucked and didn't fix any of Bethesda's decades-running problems; this expansion being a uninteresting, soulless attempt at course correction made a team trying to please everybody.. but 6.5/10 Are journos put on trial for scoring AAA below 6? I was guessing his score was going to be 4.5.
>>1023648 Ah, I thought it was just a straight up Splatoon clone. >>1023793 Go back to the Chess club, Todd.
>>1023790 >Weak, pressured out of liking a game. To their credit, they might have just been a retard who bought into the marketing.
>>1023799 When Todd Howard plays chess, the board only has one piece, and it's a million spaces squared.
>>1023688 A good journo is a dead journo.
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>>1024440 Disney has to strike while the iron is hot with Romulus and that stupid Alien Earth TV show. And now more video games.
>>1024440 Guess they need to bank on something that worked after Hyenas.
>>1024440 I never really got why the first one was so popular. I tried to get into it, but never lasted as getting chased by a monster as you hide under tables/closets/vents/etc had been done to death already.
>>1023799 As it turned out it a gayed up Splatoon clone!
Fallout: México mod trailer just got revealed the other day.
>>1024650 Fallout Mexico is just normal Mexico. Japanese cities that got nuked in WWII look better now than Mexico does.
>>1024651 You remind me of the people who think all of the Middle East is just desert and rock.
>>1024653 And they're right.
>>1024650 Great idea, but this writing, oh god.
>>1024671 The Middle East isn't all desert and rock, but enough of it is desert and rock that taking "all" out makes it accurate. An average sight in the Middle East doesn't look like Dubai or Abu Dhabi.
Stolen from Gematsu: Rockstar Games will release the original Red Dead Redemption for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Rockstar Store on October 29, including zombie horror companion story “Undead Nightmare,” the company announced. Red Dead Redemption first launched for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on May 18, 2010, followed by PlayStation 4 and Switch on August 17, 2023. Took them long enough
>>1024440 Watch as it becomes a dumpster fire.
Universal Powering Up Sega Video Game ‘Shinobi’ Into Movie With Sam Hargrave At The Helm https://deadline.com/2024/10/shinobi-universal-sam-hargrave-1236110732/ https://archive.md/2z0Eb
>>1025268 Oh God, this is going to be terrible
>>1025268 If anybody is wondering who Sam Hargrave is, you're exactly right! He's directed a few films you've never heard of. He did work on some other major stuff though, mainly capeshit. I assume he was hired because he's mainly a stunt coordinator and that's the kind of thing you want for a ninja movie.
>>1025268 Why? The games have basically no plot ("Joe is a master ninja. He fights bad guys."), the name is generic, the only fanbase of the series I'm aware of are people treating it as "cool Sega game" rather than any interest in the IP.
>>1025282 I'm hoping it's a throwback 80s ninja action movie done by a stunt guy and it turns out neon awesome.
>>1025304 That would be nice. I miss all the ninja movies.
>>1025268 >pedowood movie Automatically shit. >>1025304 >ever expecting anything good from pedowood
Yes this is real.
>>1025412 I already have a cellphone and a dog to wake me up when I need to or not.
>>1025412 i fucking love waking up as a minigame. I LOVE MINIGAMES! LET'S PLAY A GAME /v/!!!!!
>>1025412 So did they patented this too?
>>1025417 Really all out of surprises with Nintendo, so I won't be surprised if they also patented Nintendo Labo 2 for the next iteration of the Switch.
https://www.vooks.net/nintendos-still-working-on-a-quality-of-life-product/ https://japanesenintendo.com/2020/05/14/nintendo-apply-for-quality-of-life-patent/#more-121004 A link to a patent article but it won't work for me due to Cloudflare issues. Can anyone else use the link at the bottom of the article?
>>1025422 Checked it on several VPNs, nothing. So cloudflare issues and it's taking a bit long to archive.
>>1025412 >quadroon nigger first thing we see It's shit.
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>>1025412 One AA battery. No distractions.
>>1025412 The soyjak posters are probably having a field day with this
On that topic, can you think of a consumer device that can't be just adequately replaced by a phone app and a possibly a pair of headphones?
>>1025412 >Motion tracking >Sleep activity logs >Internet connectivity I never thought I would live to see the day where Nintendo creates a literal botnet to monitor people's sleep patterns. Why can't this just simply be a Nintendo themed alarm clock with downloadable themes or themes loaded from Nintendo Switch cartridges?
>>1025440 From what they have shown, this device scans your body movements in order to play different song effects and songs, as well as playing a soothing tune when going to bed at night. Maybe the Kinect could be a replacement to this, but not most mobile phones.
>>1025422 Website seems to have been scrubbed, ain't seeing anything else of it.
>>1025443 Can't this be emulated with technology similar to what a Snapchat filter does, with depth perception only using a camera?
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>>1025439 It's already happening.
>>1025445 Camera's are not as good as infrared sensors or sonar(it's not clear what it uses, since they just say "motion sensor"). Ideally you would use a combination of multiple sensors such as what the Kinect did. Cameras also have the problem of detecting 3D objects, unless you use two cameras, something that 3DS had and some smartphones back when 3D was the "next best thing".
>Getting up at 7:30 That's some pussy ass shit. >Connected to the net >Records your sleep habits Of course, they pinky swear to not sell your data, right?
can it play moaning girly sounds to the movements of me masturbating?
This is minor news, waste of a thread.
>>1025438 I'm a bit more nostalgic for LCD radio/CD clocks. Companies like GPX still make them.
>>1025412 Disappointing.
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>>1025438 I have one of these. I bought it in 2008 and put a battery in it. The battery is still working. It has never been removed. It has never been turned off. It has been in my attic for about 10 of the intervening years, in temperatures from 120ºF to -10ºF and humidity from 0-100%. It's not a quartz precision clock, so the time is now slow by about 25 minutes. But it's the same fucking battery. It's amazing.
>>1025446 Jesus Christ
>>1025453 >This is minor news, waste of a thread. Nah every time a company releases/licenses one of their thousands of shitty merch pieces it should get a thread. In fact, /v/ should ONLY be shitty merch threads.
>>1025446 That's like 5 years old.
>>1025481 Should be merged with the Minor News Thread >>396559.
>>1025412 RING RING WAHOO
>>1025481 >Nah every time a company releases/licenses one of their thousands of shitty merch pieces it should get a thread. In fact, /v/ should ONLY be shitty merch threads. <a company Not a company, just Nintendo, so the usual unhinged shitposts get more attention. Watch out, the ninjas are coming to sue your alarm clock manufacturers, or something.
>>1025488 Bamco should sue Nintendo for stealing their wahoo patent.
How long before people have this emulated on a raspberry pi and pirate all the themes
>>1025532 I lol'd
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Just use something like that.
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>>1025344 Your brain is automatically shit, Luciano.
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>>1025273 A cheapo director who is known for his stunt work is hired for a ninja movie? That sounds legitimately promising. Cheapo ninja movies full of stunts were a big part of what made the 80s fun. Is it weird to be looking forward to a video game movie?
>>1025593 Cry more, pedowood worshiper/retard.
>>1025619 More like he will enjoy a ninja movie while you REEEEEEEEEEE
Thread's over, only worthwhile thing to come out of this nonsense.
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>>1025448 Are you kidding? You effectively sign a click contract the second you open the box it comes in.
>>1025618 A bit, I can see your logic, but it's clear that paramount wants to push their luck test the waters to see what other sega IPs are viable for live action movies. The only ones that seem to have a chance are shenmue and like a dragon. Which the latter is getting a show anyway. The majority of the IPs that sega has would be executed better as a series, and the majority (bit not all) of them should be animated as well. A live action Valkyria Chronicles just seems like a bad idea.
>>1025645 >what other sega IPs are viable for live action movies Phantasy Star would absolutely work in the hands of a director who takes the world seriously. Panzer Dragoon could be done well if the producers don't make everything lazy CGI--imagine instead matt paintings and animatronics. A Streets of Rage series would be the absolute shit as a gritty series about rogue ex-cops who end up fighting the corrupt police force. The only way that Virtua Fighter would work is as a super cheap Golden Harvest-like kung fu flick.
>>1025412 Cardboard, clocks, what will the masters think of next? A fridge? Oh, wait Microsoft probably already patented that.
>>1025645 >what other sega IPs are viable for live action movies I once heard Sega got Erik Feig to work on a movie for Comix Zone with Sketch Turner, is anything still happening with that?
>>1025795 Nothing really new.
>>1025671 Super Monkey Ball, starring the negress from the Minecraft movie, who needs the exercise.
>>1025442 With a camera pointed at your bed 24/7, the least of what they can do is monitor your sleep habits. But I'm sure, Nintendo pinky swears on scouts honor that they totally won't use what they film you doing on your bed for anything at all... Just like Amazon promised they totally wouldn't record everything your Alexa heard and Tesla totally aren't using all the telemetry your car sends them. And who can you trust now days, if not your friendly local giant faceless corporation looking to monetize everything you do?
>>1025671 >what other sega IPs are viable for live action movies None because Hollywood, but in the past, RPG IPs like Phantasy Star could be good under a good director.
>>1026350 Hollywood's cursed to produce filth until the Sun explodes but if you could send video game IPs back in time to when movies were enjoyable what video game IPs would you adapt?
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https://mp1st.com/news/valve-updates-store-to-notify-gamers-they-dont-own-games-bought-on-steam-only-a-license-to-use-them >Valve Updates Store to Notify Gamers They Don't Own Games Bought on Steam, Only a License to Use Them Anyone with two brain cells to rub together already knew this this, but thanks to a new California law valve has to make it crystal clear to the average steamongloid.
>>1026403 This has been the case in vidya literally forever, this was true even in the 80s, but it's funny to see corpos finally have to admit you only own a license.
>>1026352 I feel like a pulp fiction style adaptation of Touhou 17.5 Could be fun. Presenting the character's stories in order as chapters and showing opposing perspectives on fights? Maybe exclude Yuuma's story though since it takes place after everything else. For a more normalfag/widely known IP, I think the CoD games could be really easy to adapt into Michael Bay style military flicks. Black Ops 1 probably being the best for that. Feels like it'd be a no brainer, really. Another good one would be Final Fantasy 3 since it's a really short game and you could easily cut some corners and move some shit around to get a 2hr movie, or you could make it a trilogy if you wanted, first part focused on the part on the sky island with a cliffhanger about the world being subsumed by darkness, then the second two being about the rest of the story. Could take a ton of liberties with the protagonists as well since they're basically just blank slates even in the DS version.
>>1026407 >this was true even in the 80s Maybe when you went to Blockbuster or when you put a quarter into an arcade cabinet. Is that what you are talking about?
>>1026413 No, CDs and DVDs were always a digital license of the content inside.
>>1026413 Legally, you only owned licences to the media. In small print, you'll see text starting with something like "All Nintendo products are licensed by sale for use only.." in the manual. Funny you mention Blockbuster because this wasn't only true for video games, but VHS and CDs too. This is an industry-wide problem for decades. This was almost a big problem for VHS until it went to court, where the Supreme Court ruled they were legal under Title 17 of the United States Code. Look up Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.
>>1026420 >>1026421 One big difference between having Steam/GoG games and having CDs or DVDs from the 90s and early 2000s is that you could sell the individual games, songs, movies, whatever. I can't just go on Ebay and buy someone's "used copy" of Elden Ring from his Steam account, but I can do that with his 80s Metallica album, and I assume I can do that with his physical copy of Elden Ring on PS5. Second hand market was actually much more damaging to companies than pirated games, it's part of the reason why companies started implementing forms of DRM that only allowed you to install the game a set number of times, or "free" items you get by redeeming the code on the box, but it only worked once per account, an example of this being Zaeed from Mass Effect 2. He is a DLC companion that you get for "free" if you bought the game, but after using the cupoon, if you sold the game to someone else he would not have access to Zaeed.
>>1026420 >CDs and DVDs >80s
>>1026433 Yeah, CDs were invented in 1982 in Japan, but got popular in the 90s.
>>1026420 Anon, if you actually bother reading the damn EULA, the "license" you have is for that specific copy of the product you bought and nothing else. In other words, if you buy a copy of SMB for the NES, then you own that specific copy you have in your tight little fists, HOWEVER you do not own the copyright to SMB and everything that comes with that. That's what they mean by "This product is licensed, not sold". >>1026433 >>1026438 My mother also has some music CDs from the later 80's.
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>>1026448 I wish Laser Discs were still a thing.
>>1026449 that's not what manly tears looks like.
>>1026438 They weren't used for games, though. Consoles used cartridges, and computers used 5 1/4" and 3.5" disks. >>1026448 Ah, Dragon's Lair. Should we love it for its uniqueness and originality, or should we hate it for QTEs and cinematic experiences?
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>>1026449 >that filename
>>1026460 >They weren't used for games, though. https://necretro.org/CD-ROM%C2%B2_systems <In December 1988 NEC Home Electronics began to release video games on CD-ROM for its PC Engine console. These CD-ROM² systems, beginning with the appropriately titled CD-ROM² would take a number of forms over the coming years, complementing the base system and its range of games on HuCard.
>>1026559 Turbo-Grafx had a CD? I don't remember that. I just remember it flopping hard. But wait, Zero Wing is in the game list! I wonder if Natols sounded different with CD music.
>>1026403 Man steam is going full zog-faggot though it was only a matter of time. Cant' these niggers instead not by kikes? Nah? Guess I'm going to learn Cyrillic so I can use something not filled to the brim with fucking malware. Nothing is sacred & I'm sick of these disgenuine faggots ruining everything I love.
>>1026613 What a retarded post
>>1026425 The biggest offender of the system you mention by far was online passes, and it shocks me that so many people have forgotten that dark time. For those who don't know, there was a hot minute in the 2010's when corpos decided to attack the second hand market by making online multiplayer attached to one of those one time use codes. This naturally infuriated the average retard when he realized he couldn't go online with the copy of CoD he bought for $5 from his friend when his friend got bored with it. Corpos threw gasoline on the fire by offering to let people buy passes for their used game for $10. The backlash was so bad that corpos abandoned the practice within a few years. As far as I can remember, it's been the only one of these jewish systems that ended up being removed due to customer backlash. Having your game separated into 5+ parts and sold to you at full game price then 30 US DOLLARS for each of the other parts? "What are you, poor?" DLC announced MONTHS before the game even comes out? "I'm so hyped!" Content paywalling and microtransactions in games that already require a subscription? "They have to make money somehow!" But online passes? That's a bridge too far. I swear to fuck I'll never understand normalfags.
>>1026629 It's just niggerpill sperging out again. Don't even acknowledge the posts and certainly don't feed him (you)'s.
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>>1026636 Am I brain dead for thinking that 'free coupon' shit was reasonable, since a used sale proves you were will to give vidga company money but didn't because it was cheaper somewhere else? At least compare to the other man made horrors of nickel and diming we have now?
>>1026648 What free coupon shit are you talking about?
>>1026651 see >>1026425 >companies started implementing forms of DRM that only allowed you to install the game a set number of times, or "free" items you get by redeeming the code on the box, but it only worked once per account, an example of this being Zaeed from Mass Effect 2. He is a DLC companion that you get for "free" if you bought the game, but after using the coupon, if you sold the game to someone else he would not have access to Zaeed. I typed coupon instead of code for some fucking reason.
>>1026425 Legally you should be allowed to re-sell games on Steam, Valve has been taken to court over this and lost. They just refuse to do it.
Three new projects by former Disco Elysium devs were announced today. Probably because of Disco Elysium's 5th anniversary. >Summer Eternal, new studio Argo Tuulik, Lenval Brown, Olga Moskiva, Dora Klindzic >XXX Nightshift, new game, by recently formed Dark Math Games Kaur Kender and Heiti Kender >Longdue Games, new studio Unnamed ZA/UM people, also with former Bungie and Rockstar devs. Of these, XXX Nightshift is the only thing you can actually see, pics related. It's aping DE's exact style but none of the artists or writers are working on it.
>>1026760 I look forward to not playing any of these.
>>1026761 Though Summer Eternal did write an interesting essay about how much corpos suck in lieu of an actual company introduction.
Aspyr is working on a port of Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles to PC and modern consoles. Kinda neat I suppose.
>>1026993 I can finally play as Qui Gon Jinn again.
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>>1026993 Aspyr also announced Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered. It releases on Valentine's Day.
>>1027003 Valentine's Day is also Lara Croft's birthday. They released the first three remastered games on the same date this year. I'm looking forward to seeing what changes they make to Angel of Darkness. But mostly I just want to play Revelations again. Not enough games properly use the Egypt setting.
>>1026993 >before Rogue Squadron trilogy I wonder if it's that Factor 5's code is just that obtuse, Nintendo has a still valid exclusivity contract for 2/3, or the source code is lost.
>>1027094 Factor 5 worked magic with their code, and some of their code never got proper emulation until recently.
>>1027094 The source code for earlier games is still internally available, they probably have the source code. A Pokemon leak just happened where source code of early games leaked. >>1027181 is a thread about this.
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Interesting study suggesting Denuvo does actually increase sales. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952124002532 However, that's only for the first three months. They find when games are cracked at launch, there's a 15-20% decrease in revenue on average. When games are cracked months later, there's no appreciable decrease. So long-term Denuvo usage is pointless.
>>1027494 If it didn't increase sales it wouldn't DRM games.
>>1027494 The statistics it uses are pulled out of thin air. I don't even think the study lists it's methodology.
>>1027494 >there's a 15-20% decrease in revenue on average How would you even determine a decrease in revenue on a newly released game? What numbers would you compare it with? How would you know whether the game is just selling less because it's less popular? >need to pay to see any of the actual data Sounds like these data scientists are just retarded.
Happy 3rd anniversary to MONARK! The game's dev team just announced a new project. No word yet on whether they'll bring back the classic MegaTen writers, but here's hoping. https://archive.is/QvMow
New Tron game announced. Some kind of story-driven action game? It's by Bithell, who did another Tron game last year. Looks kind of Disco Elysium inspired. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3025590/TRON_Catalyst/ It's "Disney™ TRON" so don't expect too much.
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Sidenote, but imo the worst thing about modern Tron aesthetically is how everything looks like it's made of real materials. It all has texture and semi-realistic lightning, it's so skeuomorphic. I prefer the abstract, intentionally artificial look of Tron pre-2010.
>>1027494 Same fake study as the one claiming that piracy increase sales.
>>1027625 >No word yet on whether they'll bring back the classic MegaTen writers, but here's hoping. Update: Kazunari Suzuki just tweeted that he's involved again. https://archive.ph/JTFg6 Also, Tsukasa Masuko retweeted the dev post, but didn't comment. I hope he's coming back to compose again. No word from Nishitani or Ito yet, but I'll keep an eye out.
Dino Crisis 1 for PS1 is now available on PS5 But you have to be a subscriber to PS Plus Premium to get it. It's not available for purchase for plebian users (yet). I've also heard rumours that the GOG people are trying to get the first two Dino Crisis games too, after the success of their re-release of the original Resident Evil trilogy. I'm still annoyed we only got the original version of RE and not the DC with extra content.
>>1027934 Forgot my pic of Regina.
Just saw that Starship Troopers Extermination is 1.0 and out of early access. Downside is it still is in a rough/poor state and not worth the asking price. A shame they couldn't get their shit together.
>>1027958 >Available for free literally everywhere, through piracy. a good pc port could allow for some nice mods.
>>1029379 This soon? Fuck me.
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>>1029379 I can't wait for the inevitable salt flood when someone fixes MJ's face.
>>1029394 And makes the missions without Peter skippable. Or using AI to make the deaf girl speak (which won't require any hooks because there's already an "accessibility" option to get a real deaf girl read the subtitles so you can just replace those files).
Actually! I just realized why they announced this only a year after it launched - the Insomniac leaks. There was a build of the PC version that's since been fixed up and made fully playable. It's still kind of obscure and I imagine they wanted to get ahead of that while it still was.
>>1029406 That and Concord flopping
>>1027934 >Dino Crisis 1 for PS1 is now available on PS5 It's been available on my PC for 25 years now.
>>1029394 >someone fixes MJ's face Why bother? MJ's face is the least of that game's problems, and you can't mod out cancer that deeply rooted.
>>1029456 What were that game's problems and didn't builds leak already?
>>1029455 It's been available on PS1 even slightly longer than that.
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Some you might get a kick out of this. The industry lobbying group Entertainment Software Association is seething to the US Trade about FitGirl and DODI. https://archive.is/cmlDm
>>1030291 >The ESA, which represents video game companies including Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft, A company that hasn't been monopoly busted yet given how many companies they have killed and eaten, Chinkshit Games, Microkike, Patent Trolling Kike company, Soyny Live Service Scams, and Ubikike government tax scams, yeah.
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>>1030310 But it's not a monopoly, Anon. The ESA is simply a trade organization, comprising of about 20 of the biggest companies involved in computers, entertainment, and video games. Granted, half of the companies listed as members are also listed as members of the Japanese equivalent organization (CESA, CERO is a branch of said organization), but there's nothign wrong with that. Certainly no racketeering. After all, these organizations were established only because those pesky misogynistic man-children wanted to have sex and violence on video games. If it wasn't for those incels, then these organizations wouldn't need to exist in the first place. Don't just want to be able to play video games, Anon?
>>1030310 Just so no one forgets who the enemies are
>>1030830 >Layden goes on to criticize Japanese studios for trying to reach global audiences saying that they “have not been successful for a long time”, and even applauds Square Enix for “abandoning its ambition” to expand development overseas. It took this long for a corporate suit to be rational for once. But then: >Historically, Layden has shared what appear to be pessimistic opinions about the Japanese gaming industry and gaming as a whole, especially since he joined Chinese company Tencent. The guy is basically a dog for the chinks now, so he will say that everything is bad, except chink products. Which is ironic/hypocritical of him when he said that imitators were bad for the industry: https://archive.is/T4v8l
>>1030291 Oh no don't force me to change my DNSerino! >>1030849 >Squeenix abandoning "modern" audiences Whst is this nigga smoking, DQ III HD has that DEI crap all over it
>>1030859 >Whst is this nigga smoking, DQ III HD has that DEI crap all over it How?
>>1030906 Body type nonsense and the removal of gendered language. One can only imagine what they'll do to the puff-puff scene.
>>1030906 Remember they're censoring Toriyama's sexy character designs? (And also scrubbing Horii and Torishima's interview from the internet where they complain about the west's content policies cause this gay censorship)
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>>1027494 I had a look through the study. They look at the reviews for Denuvo games vs non-Denuvo/cracked games, chart it out, and show there's a clear 20% median reduction in sales in the first 12 weeks. The values and methodology is all in the study. My only issues with the study >their sample size is quite small, only 86 >they don't have access to actual sales data, so they use Steam user reviews as a proxy Both of these could potentially compromise the validity of the study; sample size is self-explanatory but user reviews aren't a very good approximation for sales. They can vary wildly, games can have reviewer ratios of as high as 1 in 25 to less than 1 in 150. It changes with genre, language, pricing, popularity, etc. I'd like to see this study done by a different group on a different set of games to see if the results hold. What they've gotten is a strong result, but it could be a fluke.
>>1031216 >their sample size is quite small, only 86, could potentially compromise the validity of the study; What's the p value? That's the chance the study's validity is compromised.
>>>/v/1010655 It's out. You probably shouldn't make a thread about it though. Maybe the lounge thread could be fine.
>>1031216 >>their sample size is quite small, only 86 What is with these small ass sample sizes back in college you at least needed a hundred. Now we have 60+ studies being pushed out as science
>No More Room in Hell got a sequel and is now out in early access >the original devs apparently got bought out by Torn Banner Studios >Torn Banner allegedly pushed the devs to abandon the more polished/worked on UE4 version of the game in favor of UE5 >end result is a buggy/broken trashfire start to early access >also missing/changing/downgrading a ton of what made the first game interesting for example they already pussied out on zombie kids Disappointing.
>>1031388 I tried this & it fucking sucks. Your character gets exhausted within two swings of your weapon and never fully recovers. Zombies take multiple bullets (I'm cool with melee taking multiple hits but what the fuck is with headshots not being OHKO?). So many spots I just thought to myself "wow this game sucks, why limit me so hard?" uninstalled & never touched it again. Most of the mechanics slow down the gameplay for no good reason, weapons feel very underpowered, combat is garbage.
>>1031396 >I tried this & it fucking sucks Yup. Fags keep saying "but they nailed the atmosphere!" like that matters when the rest of it is fucked. It needs a lot of work that I am not sure it will get.
>>1031388 >>1031396 >>1031419 Just quickly popped into the steam forums and the corporate cocksuckers are out and go after the slightest bit of criticism.
>>1031437 Not shocking. Even if the game is early access, it doesn't magically excuse putting out a fugged game for $30. People are rightly pissed off, and I'm glad those niggers can't silence everyone like they clearly want to.
>>1031388 Since the 90s corporate suits/retards still don't understand that changing engines is not like changing a tool to fix a car. If a game is built on one engine, it HAS to be finished on that same engine, or else it will just ruin the whole thing in the end. Changing engines mid development is THE stupidest thing that anyone could do, and yet, retards/corporate suits STILL insist on doing so, even with all the failures that can be used as examples to not do it.
>>1031388 >>1031437 Everything about this game smelled rotten, the way it was advertised was pathetic. You got a sequel to a game all about atmosphere and cooperation and you get some of the shittiest "action packed" generic trailers I have ever seen in my life with garbage indie folk and such. All of it smells of corpo rat
>>1031612 Good, honestly. It's been getting way more popular lately and I always felt "Minetest" was a stupid name for an engine. Mineclone 2 also renamed itself not too long ago to VoxeLibre, which is now averaging something like 50,000 downloads a month and rapidly increasing. I feel like Minetest is on a sigmoid curve and will really explode in popularity, so it's good they changed the name now before it goes from hundreds of thousands of players to millions.
>>1031612 But why? FVR WHAT PVRPOSE?
>>1031640 No longer having test in the name which often led to being perceived as alpha software.
>>1031640 Minetest is a very unprofessional sounding name for what has ostensibly become a game engine. Imagine if Source was called Quaketest. It's also not accurate for what the project has since become.
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Killer7 got an update. Quite a bunch of improvements, including fixes to sensitivity and skippable Kess Bloodysunday, but they decided to use AI upscaling on fonts and pre-rendered movies. Results aren't very good.
>>1031612 Good call. I digged Minetest as a game. Wonder if they fixed that horrendous bug where you randomly get teleported to wherever you were 10 minutes ago. Triggered by leaving a boat sometimes, I think.
>>1032129 Considering I never had it it's probably fixed.
Monster Hunter open beta sign up https://www.monsterhunter.com/wilds/en-us/obt/ There's a survey so you can say it ran like shit and claim the translation is shit because it says "body type"
>>1032633 The open beta is going already if you're a PSPlus subscriber.
XENOBLADE X ANNOUNCED FOR THE SWITCH
>>1032812 It's a shame that it's the censored version.
>>1032813 I don't think people care, much like people didn't care that the Switch versions of TMSFE and Fatal Frame 5 are of the censored releases as well.
>>1032813 Probably, but I'm interest in whatever the fuck they have planned for Lao because he felt like a non-entity with his arc ending in a weird way even if you did his side-quests.
>blackpill shitting up another thread This faggot has been so active lately, it's genuinely annoying. Can Mark not hire another mod who's more active during the day?
>>1032830 >Active global reports, zero He's banned personally by Acid as a GR4. You want him gone? Report him. I'm not cleaning up marks entire fucking board
>>1032831 Sorry I offended you personally, Mister Hotpocket. But I'm talking about Mark getting more vols for /v/ specifically, not globals monitoring the board.
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I don't understand why Xenoblade of all things gets Willy so upset. He doesn't sperg out nearly as hard with other games. >>1032813 Well dang. Hope the JP fanbase gets up in arms over changes like they did for TMSxFE and this motivates the modders to make an uncensored version again. Especially since the Switch modding scene is far more active than the Wii U's.
>>1032833 You can either join the army, or watch your country burn. You want more vols? Volunteer then. You want niggerpill gone? Report him. These are your options. But if you do neither than my sympathy is limited.
>>1032831 GR4 is about not attacking the website, isn't it? I'm guessing he falls under that for screenshotting his posts and false flagging that 8moe is a bunch of doomposters. >>1032835 Does Mark actually accept applications? We used to have threads for that but I haven't seen one in years.
>>1032836 It covers spam and bots, Acids position is explained in the corner case rulings on >>>/site/ As far as I recall the issue with niggerpill is he always says the same shit, so spam. >Does Mark accept applications? My God yes, of course. As far as the threads falling off well you'd have to ask him.
>>1032836 I mean Acid banned me for GR4 because I said /v/ obviously has less activity than it has in the past when he was raving about the sites activity because of spic boards. He clearly does not have a rigid definition of what "attacking the website" means.
>>1032836 Yes, feel free to send me an email and I'll check it in the next few days. markmann@tuta.com
Edited last time by Mark on 10/29/2024 (Tue) 17:03:59.
There's a typo. It's markmann@futa.com
>>1032812 What's new in Xenoblade X for the Switch?
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>>1032883 Seems like the ending scene that leaves on a cliffhanger is getting extended, revealing who the mystery man getting Lao is, and there might even be a new story like there was in XB1DE. Details are still vague.
>>1032866 Haah waaw
>>1032866 Is the futa circumsized though?
Finally, some gameplay footage of the Let It Die sequel! About damn time. (Sadly, it's just a 20-second teaser, and still no release date in sight.)
>>1033891 Are there any cracked versions of Let It Die? I want to play it without all the free-to-play BS.
>>1033893 Not as far as I know. But then again, I haven't been looking.
Gameplay trailer for Showa American Story Fucking chinks delivering some quality shit
>>1034012 Chinks are better than jews.
>>1034041 Piss is better than shit
>>1033891 Same guy here; I went and clipped the 1080p source, because I've got too much free time on my hands. Also, here's a bit of a breakdown: >The player character's backpack has a "Bubble Beast" figurine attached to it (that's the "Shiny Soap" mascot from Deathverse) >The player can dash and roll in quick succession, a core Deathverse mechanic >The enemies drop floating blue orbs, most likely SPLithium >There are signs on a wall that say "アルミ" (meaning "aluminum") and "ごったまぜ" (meaning "jumble")
>>1034054 I'd sooner drink piss than eat shit.
>>1031687 They added another update to disable the AI videos, but not the AI textures yet, maybe next update.
>>1034041 Chinks have been delivering some quality games recently, if the game's quality I don't care what country makes it.
>>1037544 >running CCP malware Retard
>>1027983 >friend bought this anyway >told me he just played matches with Casper Van Dien (Rico from the movie) who proceeded to play for 2 hours and answer questions and such and even letting people invite their friends Pretty cool. I'm still not buying it, but I like it when actors and shit care enough to interact with their communities. >>1034041 They are both toxic.
Seems like a Stellar Blade PC port is officially in the works and will release some time in 2025. Shift Up seems to see promise in the expanding PC market, especially on Steam, and see Black Myth: Wukong as an example of this. They believe that they will sell more copies on PC than on consoles. https://archive.is/mQjyC (Translation below is a machine translation) >Q. '스텔라 블레이드'의 PC 플랫폼 확장 시기와 기대성과는? >= 출시 시기는 ’25년 내 출시를 목표로 하고 있습니다. 최근 AAA 게임시장에 대한 스팀의 점유율 확대와 '검은신화: 오공'의 글로벌 흥행 등의 트렌드를 고려 시, PC에서의 성과는 콘솔 이상을 기대하고 있습니다. >Q. What is the timing and expectation for the PC platform expansion of 'Stellar Blade'? >= A: We are aiming to launch within 2025. Considering recent trends such as Steam's expanding share of the AAA game market and the global success of “Black Mythology: Wukong,” we expect the performance on PC to exceed that of consoles.
>>1037904 Casper Van Dien shows up as a voice in the game as General Rico.
>>1038928 EVE SEXO
>>1038928 >more on PC than on consoles I mean, that goes without saying. The PS5 is a joke.
>>1038931 Of course, but here we have Shift Up saying so themselves. Despite closely working with Sony, they are openly showing their belief in the higher success of PCs.
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>>1038930 >see what post you're replying to >it's not EVE from the hit 2008 Pixar Animation Studios animated film Wall·E
>>1038940 Wew, that's a good point. I'd say that would be a massive insult to Soyny, but then again, Soyny themselves have basically already given up and are porting their shit to consoles too.
>>1038948 Porting to PC*
>>1038965 You said this in the gg thread already.
>>1038942 Wtf is a pixar is that an anime studio in ohio 💀💀
>>1039208 nigger
>>1038929 Ah, that explains it. Probably trying to help the devs promote it or whatever.
>>1038930 The powerful woman/cowardly man role reversal with EVE and WALL-E felt wrong even in 2008.
>>1038931 >>1038928 I'm unsure about, Final Fantasy 16 didn't do so well on Steam. Mainly because it released right next to a whole bunch of games, but even so.
>>1039303 And FF16 was a super mediocre game that fell off after a week even on PS5.
>>1039495 FF16 is the game that stuck me with the realization of "Wow, Final Fantasy isn't important anymore". This had been true for years of course, but you could excuse FF13 as being a missed step or FF15 for its troubled history, and hey FF14 was decently popular the second time they launched it! I didn't actively think about the cultural decay of Final Fantasy until the release of a mainline title was met with no fanfare and poor sales, there were no excuses for FF16. For awhile FF was one of the most relevant franchises in gaming, it was a game even non-gamers knew. FF7 was arguably the first ever AAA game. FF turning into a legacy franchise is one of Squeenix's biggest failures.
>>1039303 Being released along with other games that got more attention probably did have an effect. But more damaging to FF16's Steam sales was the fact that not many people seemed to care. Stellar Blade has gotten decent reviews and has gotten a lot of attention in the media. Even before release, people were eagerly anticipating a PC port.
>>1039508 I haven't thought of it like that, but yes. Come to think of it, with 12 being as divisive as it was, and 11 being another MMO I don't think there's been a true mainline FF people actually liked since X came out 23 years ago.
>>1039508 >>1039515 You can trace it all back to FF 7, post success. Around 90% of people who care about FF started with 7. And FF 8 was, at the time, expected to be a direct sequel to 7. Forget about anything. Those 90% all wanted "Cloud and friends' game part 2" when FF 8 was announced. It wasn't well received. Partly because it is one of the worst games ever made. But also because it wasn't FF 7 Part 2. To this day, people waited for more of FF 7, but wanting it to be good of course. But Square never delivered that. FF 9 went under the radar as literally nobody cared about it once it was announced alongside FF 10, which would be the first FF for the PS2. FF 10 was successful, but as much as things like Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, a lot of people got buyer's remorse after it, due to it being the start of the "corridor fantasy" decay. FF 11 was met with poor sales at start, as most people didn't like or care about a online FF title at the time. It got better over time, partially due to other games' successes, like world of Warcraft. FF 11 filled a niche and it got better sales, but it was still something that most fans avoided. FF 12 was basically ignored, as it was the last FF on PS2, and with the FF 10's craze dying down, people weren't interested anymore. Especially after FF 10-2, which made a lot of people abandon the series completely, due to how retarded it had decayed by that point, with it's idol retardation. FF 12 was ignored mainly because, after 10-2, people wouldn't even look at a FF trailer anymore. Remember those news about "FF 12 was labelled in Japan for containing male nudity"? That was another fiasco for the series. FF 13 was the mess that everyone knows. A literal tech demo that the company lied about being a game, then rushed to try to actually make a game out of it, and failed miserably. Then canibalized 2 of their most iconic IPs to make sequels to that failure (a new Valkyrie Profile was changed into FF 13-2, and a new Chrono Trigger game was changed into FF 13-3), and with that, practically everyone from that initial 90% who wanted FF 7-2 also abandoned the series, as it was clear that Square would make anything BUT a good new FF 7. Then came the audacity of FF 14, which people rejected once more, in the beginning. Then FF 15, another mess, from a tech demo rushed into a side quest game derived from FF 13, to a unfinished stand alone game full of false advertisement and with the lamest normalfag-friendly game mechanics. It failed so hard that even announced DLC were cancelled after the initial game and DLC sold poorly. Then that pure cancer that was FF 7 Remake was announced and released, to the disappointment of every normalfag from that initial 90% who always wanted only a new good FF 7. This was the end point for Square, really. After this fiasco, nobody cared about anything FF again. Not even FF 7 anymore. FF 16 was produced and released within that total turmoil. A game announced after many fiascos, failed games, flops, lost of credibility, and mosta importantly, after people lost confidence even in FF 7 itself. It became clear that, no matter what, Square can't make a good FF game ever again. And it all started back at that time when people wanted FF 8 would be "Cloud vs Sephiroth Part 2", and the retards at Square didn't deliver that.
>>1039588 >It failed so hard that even announced DLC were cancelled after the initial game and DLC sold poorly. If I recall correctly the last planned FF15 DLCs were shitcanned because FF15 up until that point had sold "only" 8,8 million units, 1,2 million short of the 10 million sales target the game needed to hit in order to recoup its development cost.
>>1039303 How did FF16 sell?
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>>1039614 Wonder what kind of employee does something like that
>>1039588 >And it all started back at that time when people wanted FF 8 would be "Cloud vs Sephiroth Part 2", and the retards at Square didn't deliver that. To be fair, how is that Squaresoft's fault? Each Final Fantasy was it's own standalone game up to that point, and understood as such by it's fans. The only one that received anything of a sequel was the OVA made for FFV, which has yet to leave Japan at that point, and the GB FF Legend series (Which went on to become SaGa). Everything after FF8 is their fault, however, because Square was chasing the normalfags who enetered with FF7, which immediately led to the company's bankruptcy and absorbtion into Enix.
>>1039614 Isnt that illegal? Great way to shoot yourself in the foot sony.
>>1039627 Apparently the guy was such a Trophy addict that they thought he was hacking the console to do it.
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New Xbox ad campaign This is real
>>1039653 But do they have games with these Xboxes?
>>1039614 This guy looks like he had to take part in every Napoleonian battle without any sleep whatsoever.
>>1039653 They are 100% pulling out of the console market within the decade aren't they?
>>1039653 This is an xbox with 0ms input latency, this is an xbox with 800ms input latency.
If i get a steam deck on christmas i'll fully become a nigger
>>1039664 Leta hope, Microsoft Xbox was a blight on the hobby
>>1039682 >This is going to confuse the shit out of casuals I am confused, and I thought Sony was the king of confusing adds with the PSP dustball add. What even is this add trying to say? That if a device has internet+GamePass then the device then it's an Xbox? If PS5 had GamePass on it would it also be an Xbox? Is this a less subtle version of Expand, Extend, Extinguish?
>>1039623 >GB FF Legend series (Which went on to become SaGa). SaGa was always SaGa in Japan, they renamed them elsewhere for brand recognition. Don't know how the expensive flop that was The Spirits Within escaped the conversation but should always be mentioned.
>>1039682 I can only imagine how overpaid the genius behind that campaign was.
>>1039653 This feels more like a child's tantrum rather than an ad campaign
>>1039623 >Cloud vs Sephiroth Part 2 I don't get that because going by the final fight and ending cutscene of FF7 it looks like it's pretty clear that Sephiroth is dead and then basically there's a cataclysm, with Holy + the Life Stream only being able to mitigate and not completely deflect Meteor. Looks like a pretty solid THE END to me. Everything after has been retcon.
>>1039686 This is the company that named their third Xbox system the "Xbox One" and publicly announced how they're going to record everything you do on "your" PC. They are pretty good at making Xboneheaded moves when cloud services (from what I recall) literally pays for everything else they do. >>1039664 Very likely. I honestly think it's more likely Microsoft does a UMPC with some "Xbox" branding than them making a "proper" Xbone Three.
>>1039602 Yes. and even then, not accounting for the massive refunds that happened shortly after, which Square-Enix promptly tried to hide. >>1039605 Anons posted the official numbers not long ago. FF 16 and FF 7 Rebirth (the second chapter of the remake) are now the all time lowest sales in the series. Even flops like Dirge of Cerberus sold better, according to the newest chart posted a few months ago. >>1039623 >how is that Squaresoft's fault? Each Final Fantasy was it's own standalone game And that is the lamest excuse ever. So what if they were all stand alone? FF 7 was a massive success. Read the audience and deliver what the audience wants. After FF 7, nobody cared about stand alone FF games anymore. Everyone, old and new fans, wanted FF 7 Part 2, and for the series to be now sequels to 7 forever. >Everything after FF8 is their fault, however, because Square was chasing the normalfags who enetered with FF7 Not really. Square was chasing their own inflated ego. Nomura started to force musicals in all games he worked on. Sagakuchi thought he would be a pedowood director. Nobuo Uematsu thought that he would be a rockstar. They weren't making the games for the normalfags fans of FF 7. If they did, they would be successful. Instead, everyone in the company was making the new games for themselves and for their own ego, completely ignoring what the customers wanted.
>>1039701 Indeed. It was a ego project by Sakaguchi and the other inflated egos ate the company. It was THE sole reason for the company's unreported bankruptcy and them begging Enix to pay for the company's debts. >>1039765 Anon, people loved the game. That is the only reason anyone needs. Pretty much the world ended by the end of the game. Everyone dies. So what? The game was successful. Bring everyone back with some excuse (lame or not) anhd keep making games set in that world, as it was the most financially successful of them all. Much like Advent Children, which is shit, but most fans loved it at the time, even if most realized it was shit later on, THAT was what everyone wanted. Sephiroth is dead? Bring him back. He is a strong selling point. The lore of FF 7's world is complete and there is no way it can continue? Continue it nonetheless, as it is a strong selling point. The fact that the company didn't realize that and went on with just another standalone game shows how incompetent they already were at management. Read the audience. Create what sells. It is that simple. But of course, do a good job. Or else you end up with FF 10-2 or Advent Children. But stopping because "there is no way to continue the plot"? That is idiotic.
>>1039614 >Ever playing anything online >Ever giving your data to any company whatsoever His fault, to begin with. >>1039653 And none of those matter, as there are no good games for it. I will stick with playing Super Nintendo games on a emulator. >>1039733 I guarantee you it was made by either a woman or a faggot, to be this childish. >>1039682 >The exaggerated bus painting add that screams "I am a insecure marketeer!" They still think that they are in 2002.
>>1039858 >So what if they were all stand alone? FF 7 was a massive success. Read the audience and deliver what the audience wants. A company should suddenly stop doing what was making them money because what they were doing that was making them had suddenly resulted in a major hit, so they should suddenly stop doing what was making them money? Also, Square did do several sequels to FF7 long before the remake. There was the Advent Children movie (2005) taking place two years later, the Dirge of Cerberus game (2006) that takes place a year after that, and the prequel game Crisis Core (2007).
>>1039887 Final Fantasy as a brand didn't make money. Final Fantasy 7, alone, did. What you posted were very late products, made after the company was already going to shit, from losing it's talents and after the FF 10-2 fiasco. Square should have focused solely on FF 7 from 1998 onward, and never look back. That would ensure success, as they still had talented people around. And those were still kept on a leash, without their later inflated ego. They should have gone full on "we are now the Final Fantasy 7 Company" since the initial success of FF 7, instead of making anything else. And don't forget: after FF 10-2, the brand was completely destroyed and literally everything that wasn't FF 7 that came after it (after FF 10-2) was mostly ignored and sold poorly. Even FF 14 was only successful after a second launch AND the fall of Blizzard, prompting people to seek the next big MMORPG. Had Square stuck with FF 7 since 1998, day one, they would be successful.
>>1039918 How many years do you think they would have really been able to continue that. The good thing about FF was that every entry was a completely new thing that just reused names and concepts.
>>1039930 More than what they did with the FF 8 and FF 10-2 fiascos. >The good thing about FF was that every entry was a completely new thing that just reused names and concepts Until 7. After 7, most people wanted that story to get sequels. The overwhelming majority of people didn't want new worlds with new characters anymore. After FF 7, they wanted FF 7 parts 2, 3, 4, and on and on. I assure you this, at that time (and not today, with how shitty Square is), with those teams at Square, from that specific period, would make more success than anything they produced from that point on. At least for a long time, before it would eventually turn to shit. But it would at least take longer than what happened, with FF 8 and FF 10-2 starting to kill the franchise so early on.
>>1039918 Funny considering i like FFX-2, Shuyin was a better antagonistic than most in the series
>>1039934 Always wanted sequels/spin-off for FF6 and its cast. Never gave 2 shits about FF7,hated all the attention it got for yeeeeaaaaars
>>1039918 Anon I think you're talking shite
>>1039918 >That would ensure success, as they still had talented people around. All the "talented" people left because of Square doing exactly what you wanted. Everyone got tired of Squares bullshit and left during the Aughts just before the Enix merger. Takahashi left to form Monolith in '99, Sakaguchi left just before X-2, and Dream Factory and Masato Kato were always freelance. Everyone else I can find who was at the company during that period still works there.
>>1039986 He's absolutely right, most normalfags don't even know any Final Fantasy before 7 exists. Square and Sony poured millions into advertising it, it was the Halo of it's time.
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>>1039988 >most normalfags don't even know any Final Fantasy before 7 exists Again, how is that Square's fault? They were doing what they were always doing and making money, and it's only when they began shifting their priorities to doing exactly what the other Anon is outlining that they began failing. Never mind that anything Square attached the "Final Fantasy" label to basically printed money (Both before and after FF7, or that one time Cloud and his friends appeared in a fighting game literally the year after FF7 was a massive hit that no one remembers a single thing about.
>>1039934 Anon I think you're forgetting just how popular FF8 was with normalfags. It rivaled FF7. I think FF7 just built up a mystique because of it's not quite modern graphics, and for years after people wanted a remake that looked exactly like the concept art.
>>1039998 >FF8 rivaled FF7 in popularity Wew, in what universe?
>>1040020 Despite the widely different cultural cache between them today, they had similar sales figures at launch. FF8 sold phenomenally well, ending its year out with over 6 million copies sold. A lot of the talk you're saying is retroactive history based on what people think today.
>>1040020 The sales charts. FF7 sold 15 million and FF8 sold 11 million.
<<1040031 *talk you're seeing, apologies for the typo.
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Welcome back to the rice fields mother fuckers https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=yBmca65E_jo Well, more like the robot workshop, because we got a Kokorowa spin off, as well as a second season of the anime.
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Grove Street Games, the studio behind the botched GTA trilogy remasters, are furious their name has been removed amidst Rockstar's effort to fix it up. https://archive.is/IEVPA I'd like to note these guys accidentality left their dev comments in the code, and they were openly insulting Rockstar's QA team in it. Some of the worst manchildren I've seen in the industry.
>>1040100 >Home. At least it was before we fucked everything up.
>>1039944 It doesn't excuse the idol garbage though. >>1039983 You hated it. The rest of the world loved it. Your personal taste won't change the fact that FF 7 is immensely successful and surpassed all other games in the series. >>1039986 Point out what you consider wrong. I presented facts. Not personal bullshit/taste about what is better or not. 7 was a success, and Square would be successful if it stuck with making infinite sequels to it. >>1039988 Exactly. And normalfags are the majority. Pandering to them ensures profit. >>1039987 False. They left because the company was going bankrupt from the Final Fantasy Spirits Within movie flop. If you want a name to blame, then everyone left because of Hironobu Sakaguchi. He was the idiot who let his inflated ego ruin the company. The Enix merger happened precisely so Enix could pay the debts from all the expenses Square had with that movie, which was Sakaguchi's ego project. He didn't left on his own. He was fired. The president of enix at the time has a well known interview were he states clearly that the merger was a loss to Enix. and all that happened exactly a few months after Spirits Within flopped. Square would be successful if the company stuck with making FF 7 sequels over and over, for many years.
>>1039991 Ehrgeiz wasn't a new Final Fantasy 7. Plain and simple. People wanted a new Final Fantasy 7. >how is that Square's fault? It is their fault for not giving what the customers wanted: a new Final Fantasy 7, direct sequel, turn based RPG, plot heavy, with the same cast of characters and the return of Sephiroth. It was retarded that the company didn't realize that, and instead resorted to cameos. >They were doing what they were always doing and making money No. FF 7 made money. Anything else sold way less. >it's only when they began shifting their priorities to doing exactly what the other Anon is outlining that they began failing Years AFTER people wanted it, with the talents gone, the hack Nomura in charge, and the FF 10-2 fiasco causing almost every fan to abandon the franchise. Your point? FF 7 sequels done from 1998 onward would be successful. The mindset of customers at that time was simply "we want more FF 7". The company just had to deliver that. Instead, they took almost a decade to deliver garbage like Dirge of Cerberus, when the hack Nomura was already in charge and ruining every game he worked on.
>>1039998 >>1040031 Look at the sales numbers of both games and you will see how wrong you are.FF 7 keeps selling well to this day when re-released, while 8 is barely touched.
>>1040100 >openly insulting Rockstar's QA team in it That is incredibly stupid and unprofessional. Hope they get fucked with more in the future.
>>1040075 >robot workshop So it's gonna have a crafting gameplay loop like an atelier game instead of the rice field simulator like the first game?
In November's investor Q&A, Nintendo executives expressed disapproval of bloated budgets. Executive Fellow and Representative Director Shigeru Miyamoto: >Our belief is that what we create is more important than the amount spent on development >It is possible to create appealing products based on intriguing ideas, without incurring significant costs >With the current technology it is possible to create fun games with a small number of developers in a short period of time >We continue refining our products until we are confident that we have created something that our consumers will be satisfied with. With that in mind, what is important is to find ideas that are worth honing… We believe that it is important to nurture developers who take this unique concept to heart, allocate funds to development if necessary, and release games only after we are confident in the product Senior Managing Executive Officer and Corporate Director Shinya Takahashi: >I believe unique titles that are small in scale, but worth polishing can be created by expanding on the ideas of a small number of developers, rather than spending large sums of money on every game Senior Executive Officer and Corporate Director Ko Shiota: >I believe that the most important thing for Nintendo is how we create new ideas. Bigger budgets do not necessarily equate to better ideas, so we hope to continue to focus on a process where teams of hardware and software developers share ideas to create interesting things
>>1040173 Sources for these quotes?
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>>1040175 Posted the wrong fucking PDF somehow
>>1040173 >In November's investor Q&A, Nintendo executives expressed disapproval of bloated budgets. Your quotes give me hope some people in the industry realize 300 million Triple gAAAy shit's fucking cancer. Too bad the rest won't get the fucking message.
>>1040182 >Your quotes give me hope some people in the industry realize 300 million Triple gAAAy shit's fucking cancer. Shawn Layden has been very outspoken about this for years.
this is an xbox *points down at crotch*
>>1040216 >THIS IS A SEX BOX
>>1040184 And yet he approved some of the most bloated releases like TLoU2
>>1040255 He is the kind of scum who wants to force competition out by stating that they should not do what he is doing, so he stays the only one doing it. in this case, amassing all the (((investor))) money.
This went compeltely under my radar, but did anyone know that Inafundme tried to sell NFTs of Megaman rejects? https://web.archive.org/web/20241116110655/https://nintendowire.com/news/2022/05/19/keiji-inafune-is-launching-an-nft-project-because-of-course-he-is/ Conman till the end. I'm laughing at the retards who fell for his promises.
>>1040170 I'm assuming it will have tinkering and fidgeting with robots.
>>1040173 >>1040180 >Miyamoto: <However, one thing we are sure about is that it should be something which has not existed in the past. The more you polish something that has never existed before, the more value it brings. And THAT'S the reason why we won't get games that we actually want, like a proper F-Zero or a follow-up to Star Fox: Assault, and instead keep receiving trash like F-Zero 99 and SF0.
SubVerse hit 1.0. 37 gig total with + 30gig if you want the 4k video pack.
>>1040410 >SubVerse If I wanted to play a cuckolding simulator I'd download Borderlands 2
>>1039653 >>1039682 Just found out, that as part of this add campaign, they also made a test. https://www.xbox.com/en-US/what-is-xbox Post your score, and let's see if /v/irgins know what an xbox even is.
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>>1040910 Get on my level fellow gaymers!!!
>>1040910 can't get past the first question
>>1040917 Do a coin flip. >>1040913 Seriously now, how is it possible to answer all questions correctly and not get full points?
>>1040919 Because it's timed
>>1040919 tor won't let me view your what is xbox, access denied error, "You don't have permission to access http://www.xbox.com/en-US/what-is-xbox on this server."
>>1040933 I guess this is proof that Tor is not an Xbox.
Can't beat me nigguh.
>>1041399 Yes I can >>1039653 >>1039682 >>1040910 This is retarded as an ad campaign can get without being >video games? tier
>>1041414 That's an edit, isn't it?
>>1040262 That's no worse than the current state of Capcom, anon. https://archive.ph/J7zFE
>>1041422 I don't think they went through with that though.
>>1041415 No, it's real
Valve leaker is claiming both the Steam Controller 2 and the Deckard are being tooled for mass production. I screen capped the important bits with an archive of his profile being worked on. https://archive.ph/wip/L21HZ
>>1041441 >>1041445 I'm surprised how unknown Bradley is for how long he's been talking about rather technical information. Something not mentioned in these tweets, noting his "anyone with common sense" remarks, is how the Steam Deck actually started off as a second iteration of the Steam Controller. No surprises the next one will be taking a lot of lessons learned from the Deck.
Not actually vidya related but strange enough I wanted to show it here. Disney are making a live-action How to Train Your Dragon. It's not a new adaption of the book, it's basically just a shot-for-shot remake of the already existing film.
>>1041550 I suppose they have to get the rest of them outta the pipeline before they change tactics.
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>>1041550 >Disney <clearly fucking says Dreamworks above the movie title
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>>1041573 I literally looked it up beforehand and still wrote out the wrong company. My suicide is imminent. The trigger mechanism whines. Out of curiosity I looked up who owns them and it's Amblin, the TV production company. Not who I would have expected.
>>1041574 Not them but their parent Storyteller Distribution, who confusingly also call themselves Amblin. The production company and holding company are two different entities. >TV They started out making films, pretty famous ones too! Gremlins, Jurassic Park and Back to the Future were all by them. They haven't been too active in film for about 20 years now, most of their non-TV work are those Jurassic Park sequels.
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>>1041573 >How dares he confusing colon cancer with testicle cancer, what a noob retard At this rate Creamworks became the B grade Yidsney, having their shit funded by Netflix was a heads up.


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