This is a great interview, thank you! It (sadly) confirms some stuff I’ve been suspecting for a while about the piracy scene: that repackers are a very rare bunch, repacking is getting more complex and liveservice/streamed games would truly be the end for piracy.
Repacking main challenge is simply the huge amount of games coming out now. Live service is really not the problem. I won’t be surprised if new genre based repackers come out. But yes repackers are rare cause it’s a huge time investment for no return in any form.
That's definitely a stretch goal. But at least if we can start by stopping them from killing something innocuous like games it shows that we still maybe have some power over them.
Get a Steam Deck. The existence of Family Sharing alone makes it a much better choice for portable family gaming.
Nintendo has numerous major anti-consumer problems, from game ownership, to hardware quality and longevity, to their abusive behavior towards fans, consumers, and competitors. It’s not worth it, there are better options.
That’s indeed possible, but hard to prove unless you give an archived proof (wayback machine, etc.). AI made creating fake screenshot trivial, so I can’t blame anyone for thinking you may have faked it.
I checked the named YouTube channel a few minutes after the first comment about this topic popped up and it didn’t have any recent upload, only older ones about other games… So yeah… Just my 2 cents, but the whole post was really suspicious.
Edit: I still wish you good luck with the game and hope your goals will met
If my game is not your cup of tea, that’s okay but lying about me is where I have to stand up for myself. I have messaged the mod ask them what’s this all about. Waiting for an answer, I’m pretty sure I’ve never traded those kinds of insulsts with anyone here. If you know a way to source what you’re saying please post it, I don’t mind. If not, apologize and delete your comment.
Goddammit, I got you confused with MITM0. My apologies.
You’re the one who posted the fake fitgirl repack screenshot, instead of doing honest advertising (which, admittedly, you’re doing now, so good on you, I suppose).
But don’t go pulling my personal info from other communities about sensitive people. :/
Like I said, I never traded insults with anyone. Not my style and also the screenshot is not fake, that was real, the dude deleted all of his pirating videos after people reported them. Maybe you can check them out with wayback machine or something. Still waiting for that apology too because by now I hope you realized I’m not into lying
That’s fine. Created characters are strong enough to beat the game with. I only played through it 2 times, but my second run I used as few named chars as possible. I created my team based on Seiken Densetsu 3 characters.
How old were you when you played Sonic Unleashed? I thoroughly played and enjoyed Sonic Adventure 2 for the Gamecube when I was in middle school, but revisiting it as an adult, it was so hard to envision how I ever enjoyed the way that game controls. However, even though my muscle memory was totally gone, since all the levels I knew from SA2 were remixed, Sonic Generations was good even as an adult.
If we're sharing honest opinions minus filter here: if you worded your question differently, more people would answer, and they would be less defensive and have more interesting answers. You've limited the people who will reply.
Condescensing and annoying people like myself will still have a lot to say, but people with fun stories and heartwarming anecdotes will not want to put themselves out there for what seems like will be a snarky put-down as a response.
Specifically, the "kiddie game" opening was fine, but the way you worded the followup came across less like you were confused and more like you wanted to have a group shit-on of adults who play mario kart. Being a little more vague would've been your friend here. "but it looks like i was wrong" might've convinced people who don't want to be shit on to give an answer.
The part about it being unfair by design was fine, but the last paragraph again comes across as "anyone want to hang here and make fun of the losers who like this obvious bullshit?"
anyway, i don't play party video games generally but my impression is they want to appeal to different skill levels, abilities, and ages, so they often have additions that level the playing field so it's not just Gamer Frieda winning while everyone else gets bored and gets out the playing cards (which can also have a random quality that means sometimes the newbie will win or at least not be bored and frustrated).
These catch up elements add extra elements for dedicated players to account for, which is more memorization and reflex training, which is a kind of fun for the type of people who play outside parties.
In a way it’s more fair by design. In a completely fair game the most skilled player will always win. In a game like Mario Kart everyone has a chance to win.
As a kid my family wouldn’t play most games with me because I won every time. If we couldn’t do co-op mode we didnt play, and they’d still get grumbly on co-op because I’d be doing the heavy lifting and showing them up. They’d play Mario Kart and Mario Party with me though.
As an e-sport or “compare your online rank to mine and weep” dick-measurer it sucks. As a video game its very good.
I did an evil playthrough of KOTOR where I did all the normal stuff but kept choosing the dialogue options for “give me money” to rack up the dark side points.
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