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brsrklf, 2 godziny temu

The French branch filed bankruptcy 10 years ago.

Some of the stores became Micromania-Zing (owned by gamestop) which amazingly enough still exists.

Yeah, those have been primarily funko pop stores for years too. Their new games are like 20% more expensive than everyone else, and their second hand games priced like everyone else’s new.

brsrklf, 2 godziny temu

Game doesn’t exist anymore where I live, but the last thing I bought from a similar store (down to overpriced games and being mostly about merch) was a 8bitdo controller several years ago. I was there, price was not excessive, and it was slightly more convenient than having one delivered.

Beyond that… I went a couple times just to pick up a free event pokémon on 3DS, and nothing else, and I think the last actual game I got from them must have been Order of Ecclesia on the DS.

brsrklf, wczoraj

Until they give a “better” reason, I am going to assume the one they hinted at is true, and Microsoft just decided that it was worthless because it wasn’t “Mikami’s studio” anymore. Honestly, I already suspected it.

In which case, fuck them. These games were not made by one person, a studio is bigger than its director. And the rest of them didn’t get even one chance to prove themselves.

Truly shows how little they value the people who make their games.

brsrklf, 3 dni temu

I did see a few low-poly, very PS1 or N64-looking indies recently, even going as far as mimicking the weird texture wobbling from the PS1.

But Penny’s big breakaway is not really low-poly, or something that looks like 5th gen/PS1. Not graphically anyway.

Though it’s mechanically rather retro, with the focus on move combos, scoring and speedrunning. It’s almost more of a linear kind of skate or jet set radio-like game than a platformer.

brsrklf, 4 dni temu

Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance / Bomberman Tournament multiworld

So… that’s a thing apparently.

brsrklf, 5 dni temu

Yeah, I suspect the last minute trailer request too. I am a huge fan of the Metroid Prime trilogy (hunters doesn’t count), and that trailer did practically nothing for me.

Woo, slight remix of the space pirate theme, scanning a dead pirate, and morph balling through a conduit. And three seconds of Sylux, again, because we’re supposed to care about that character for some reason.

brsrklf, 5 dni temu (edited 5 dni temu)

I prefer GameCube control for MP1 and 2 too.

Though MP3 did the wiimote control very well IMO (duh, it was made for it, but still, in this case it added something).

I have not tried MP1’s switch remake though, I only played the original MP and MP2 on gamecube and then Trilogy on the Wii.

brsrklf, 5 dni temu

It failed completely at being a Metroid game. It’s obvious the single-player “story” was just hastily hacked together from the multiplayer mode.

Maps were linear, without any kind of secrets or exploration. They were mostly boring corridors between multiplayer arenas for fights against bots.

The only abilities were different coloured guns, and while the MP trilogy gives the four beams specific properties to interact with the environment, I can’t remember what most Hunters guns were supposed to do beside opening corresponding doors.

There were three boring and mostly static bosses in the whole game, two of them copy pasted once to make it last a bit longer.

I don’t even think its controls or arena map design felt like Metroid Prime. The very limited Metroid Prime 2 multiplayer felt more like “competitive Metroid Prime”. It was more fun to me anyway, not that I’d buy a Metroid game for multiplayer.

brsrklf, 5 dni temu

The reveal wasn’t a complete surprise though.

It was hinted that guy would return in MP3’s ending, and apparently in Federation Force too (I haven’t played that one, but of course the reveal has been floating around).

Sure, it was still kind of hidden, but for those who recognized him at all, chances are they’d knew that too.

The trailer certainly failed at making his apparition exciting in any case.

brsrklf, 5 dni temu (edited 5 dni temu)

I have a personal beef with that game :)

I am sure there are people with good memories of it as an arena shooter, but I had little interest in that. And as a Metroid, it sucked (…sorry)

I remember trying the First Hunt demo, that was a demo cartridge from the beginning of the DS and was supposed to be a short teaser for what Hunters would be. Back then I thought, yeah, with a game around it, it could be great.

Turns out the actual Hunters was absolutely nothing like that, and focused only on multiplayer. The only reason they tacked a half-assed single-player mode on it is so it could be sold to people who wanted an actual Metroid game. I’d respect the game more if they didn’t try to sell it as more than it really was.

brsrklf, 7 dni temu

I thought that credit shit died after the 7th gen and its wii/xbox points.

That it still exists, only for a single game baffles me.

brsrklf, 7 dni temu

Wow. What a load of crap indeed.

brsrklf, 7 dni temu

Sure it’s profitable, but it’s also (correctly) seen as a manipulative, and some companies have stopped using those.

As I said Nintendo and Xbox store used to do that, but they transitioned to prices in real money quite some time ago, and if they got a wallet, they let you fill it with the exact amount of what you’re buying. Same with PS store, most PC game stores, even freaking playdate catalogue and itch.io where the average payment must be like $3.

I expect that from shitty mobile games, because I know mobile gaming monetization is fucked forever, but I didn’t know major publishers still used that garbage unemptiable wallet strategy.

brsrklf, 8 dni temu

Extremely positive actual roguelike? I need to try that.

brsrklf, 13 dni temu

Well, I don’t think they’re putting up a very good show right now.

brsrklf, 14 dni temu

The way I understand their description, they really want emergent stories rather than any written plot, so I wouldn’t expect any kind of specific objectives from it.

Interesting, but as any procedural game, it will be a difficult balance between believable, consistent simulation and unexpected stuff keeping things exciting.

brsrklf, 17 dni temu

Hey, they did Race the Sun, that was fun. Interesting.

I am going to wait till it’s finished though.

brsrklf, 18 dni temu

They’re talking about giving away their account. They don’t care about what happens to it, except maybe in the sense they’d prefer someone who wouldn’t waste it.

brsrklf, 24 dni temu

I sure do. A lot of it is Beat Saber, but it is quite a lot.

I’ll get a PS5 in like, 4 years. Maybe. If I find something I absolutely need on it.

brsrklf, 27 dni temu

Okay, I’m all for good, complete education, but blaming people not understanding media on “too much STEM” is a bit ridiculous.

brsrklf, 27 dni temu

Sorry, dude, what you said must have been very interesting, but at some point I just stopped reading to optimize a watermelon workflow instead. Weird.

brsrklf, 27 dni temu

This is what bothered me in the original discussion, making it seem like being in STEM somehow doesn’t prepare you at all for critical thinking in general. On the contrary, I believe too there are people who develop it in part because of the S in there. It’s not necessary, but it’s an important tool.

Hopefully people don’t need a college degree in literature to understand basic subtext. We ask kindergarteners to do that with Dr Seuss.

brsrklf, 28 dni temu

Paraphrasing : those expectations are not too high, they’re the direct result of the games’ budget.

Yeah, okay, let’s admit that for a second. It’s not like they have no control over the scale and budget of their own games. Seems to me this still counts as unrealistic expectations…

brsrklf, 28 dni temu

Foamstars was a new IP, so they didn’t count on brand name to carry this one.

Unless they thought “Square Enix” would be enough to hype it, and yeah, for a game that far away from their usual, that would be completely disconnected from reality.

18+ brsrklf, 30 dni temu

So, what's the story for the lone, empty tomb outside?

brsrklf, miesiąc temu

Buy Game on Platform A.

Go to Platform B and tell them : see, I bought Game already, let me play it here too.

Platform B : “who are you and why should I care?”

Proving your digital ownership never was the problem. The problem is those platforms are different companies and have no reason to honor a purchase from somewhere else.

brsrklf, miesiąc temu

No way they can enforce that. I hope nobody is going to intimidated by this.

brsrklf, miesiąc temu

Embargoes do get a bit of backlash sometimes, but not nearly enough.

When I am aware they are a huge red flag for me in any case.

brsrklf, miesiąc temu

That “Atari” was already Infogrames buying itself a new name in the early 00s. It had already changed hands a number of times since 70s/80s Atari, and had basically nothing to do with it anymore.

brsrklf, miesiąc temu

Waiting for this on the Switch. The slight reduction on early antes should help for going further more consistently. With some decks my runs are often cut short by a bad draw before I had a chance to get good combos.

brsrklf, 2 miesiące temu

I’ve kind of drifted away from Steam around the Greenlight/Direct debacle, when it quickly went from too tightly curated to an unexplorable paradise for thousands of fake games. Steam is not the inescapable monopoly this weird editorial makes it to be.

Nowadays, I need a good reason to buy on Steam, like decent workshop integration. And even then, I don’t even have to buy on Steam to have that. I bought Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress DRM-free from Ludeon’s site and itch.io and that included Steam key activations too.

Centralised library may have been an argument once, but it has not been for a long time. Stuff like Playnite obfuscates all that launcher explosion crap.

brsrklf, 2 miesiące temu

Honestly, it’s been a very long time since I last used start/windows menu as a… menu I guess. I don’t think I’ve tried to explore it since early XP. Back then I’d even try to organise it a bit by categories and such.

Now I have way too many games to make it readable, with a lot of these not currently installed but available. The only way I’m using the windows menu is with the search bar.

Having a dedicated game library (with everything in it) makes sense to me.

brsrklf, 2 miesiące temu

I did use Gog Galaxy as my main library for a while too. I switched to playnite at one point because it had more options and updates.

brsrklf, 2 miesiące temu

Long-time casual player of the 8 and 16-bit Compile games (mostly through emulation), I’m not even sure I’ve ever seen a SEGA-developped Puyo for any platform in retail before Puyo Puyo Tetris. Seems like they barely existed at all where I live.

So I’m not sure Puyo Puyo Tetris is to blame for the state of the game, at least it made a lot of people aware that the game exists. Though I can’t say I’m a big fan of its aesthetics or writing…

Nowadays whenever I want to play some quick Puyo I just play Tsu on switch online SNES.

brsrklf, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

“OMG, those nerds have had 20 full seconds to talk? WRAP IT UP”

(for those who don’t know Game Awards really did this. The few acceptance speeches that were there were very short, and winners were all told to “WRAP IT UP” via teleprompter and cut with music. 11 minutes of them talking in total, for a 3-hour-long show)

brsrklf, 2 miesiące temu

Straight from the article :

“Since using letters seems to be the trend in the industry, we figured that adding a couple of i’s to indie was a fair way to describe this new format. Also, triple-i just sounds cool”

They’re a bit late on the trend though, according to Microsoft and Ubisoft it’s all about Quadruple A now.

brsrklf, 2 miesiące temu

For the bottom of the barrel part of it (not good horror) it’s also probably the easiest reaction you can get.

A jumpscare can be as easy as a sudden full screen gif. Good luck trying to provoke any other kind of feeling like that.

brsrklf, 2 miesiące temu

For a long time I thought I didn’t like Tetris very much. Tetris 99, Tetris Effect and Puyo Puyo Tetris made me reconsider that. Turns out I just needed a push, and now I occasionally spend hours on the stuff, gladly.

I think excluding rhythm games, Tetris must be one of the only game that gets me into “the zone”.

brsrklf, 2 miesiące temu

The only reason gamebryo modding is “easy” is because the community has been working on tools for it for decades.

It uses weird proprietary formats nobody else is using and full of stupid quirks. Back when Morrowind released, officially all Bethesda provided along the construction set was their plugin for a thousand-dollar licenced product to make nif models. Nowadays they don’t even do that anymore because they know people have been making their own free tools for Blender etc.

As for the modding structure itself, other games support a plugin hierarchy like they do. Rimworld in particular, and it runs on Unity.

brsrklf, 2 miesiące temu

The one with 2,061 preinstalled games on it, right? I love Super Mario Bros 43, that’s when the series really took off IMO.

brsrklf, 3 miesiące temu

I haven’t played Fights in tight spaces or even heard about it before, and it looks interesting.

But honestly, that fantasy flavour appeals a lot more to me than the look of the first one.

brsrklf, 3 miesiące temu

One of the 6 characters in Xenoblade 3’s main cast is black. He’s quite interesting too, this game has pretty good character writing IMO. They’re not the usual stereotypical JRPG character types.

brsrklf, 3 miesiące temu

Once during a long train trip I beat the Metroid Prime three times in a row in Metroid Prime Pinball, and at that point I told myself “OK, this game will never end, drain all remaining balls and do something else”.

brsrklf, 3 miesiące temu

Already started. Not sure what happened, but my mods don’t load, even though I’m technically still on stable, 1.4 branch.

I think a mod has already been updated for 1.5 and broke something for 1.4.

I’m glad the game’s alive though, I don’t mind doing a bit of vanilla until modders do their magic.

brsrklf, 3 miesiące temu

Teach me your ways, ChatGPT, you who are so wise in the art of acronyms.

Also, stellar roadmap there. I can’t wait for LLM to replace game designers, the future is bright.

Also also, fun fact : Kirby’s Adventure did ROYGBIV (or rather, VIBGYOR) 30 years ago. They’re the world initials.

brsrklf, 3 miesiące temu

I don’t know, I think Voyalty : Ooyalty with a Vengeance was the best implementation of the Ooyals.

You know what they say, third time’s the charm.

brsrklf, 3 miesiące temu

Regarding “overcharging”.

The only price that exists is the one they offer for it. If you think it’s too expensive for what is offered, congratulations, you know how to spend money. For any kind of product whatsoever.

I certainly think Super Mario Odyssey or Super Mario Bros Wonder were worth their price tag, because they’re great. And that’s completely subjective.

You either think it’s worth it and buy it, or you don’t. They’re selling games, not food and water. And you’ve got a freaking galaxy of other games to choose from.

brsrklf, 3 miesiące temu

You certainly can.

It shouldn’t matter at all to you though. And it sounds absolutely ridiculous when you’re shouting your outrage at people who do buy some of their products.