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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by Jill (?) » Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:33 am

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hot take

nintendo is just as bad and greedy as any other AAA, but people are way too forgiving toward them out of nostalgia or becuase nintendo made a game they like
i agree with the general sentiment as no corporation is your friend, but honestly have you really thought about this and are you actually willing to equate nintendo with the likes of activision blizzard, EA, bethesda, sony, konami, ... ?

nintendo encompasses a super large base of game developers, each with their own slew of faults, and they are uniquely a major publisher not being run by total ghouls who are okay with making people crunch out buggy games for fear of being included in the next round of mass layoffs

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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:48 am

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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by diribigal (?) » Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:42 am

At least Iwata cut his pay down (twice, I think) when Nintendo was going through tough times, but I admit that's just one person and so allow for the corporation as a whole to be comparably evil or whatever.
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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:04 pm

Allow me to be blunt, in the time Nintendo released the switch and everyone was bending over backwards to praise them and act like they're such a nice company, they C&D'd Emuparadise, forcing them to remove all the roms they have.

Roms that someone else dumped and uploaded, that Nintendo themselves have been using for their virtual console and selling them back to us.

Nintendo has also made microtransaction laden mobile games that nintendo fans kept defending and acting like nintendo was forced to do it. And you only make such games if you wanna capture "whales" aka people with poor impulse control who will fork over money for the stuff your dangling in front of them.

They've created artifical scarcity with their hardware (most notably with the NES Classic) letting scalpers hoard them and sell them at inflated prices, while they acted innocent about it.
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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:07 pm

Hell, Jim Sterling was routinely calling them out on a lot of shit and constantly got crap from Nintendo fanboys for it.

It's nice that Iwata cut his pay, but Nintendo as a whole is far from a good company.
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Post by Aria Genisi (?) » Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:11 pm

nintendo is still a big corporation and corporations are not your friends

the trick though, is that they aren't outwardly greedy and constantly doing various shitty business practices than a lot of notable AAA game devs are doing

they still absolutely do make some shitty decisions that suck ass and they do deserve flak for them, but when you have shit like Ubisoft releasing multiple homogenized ubisoft open world games that are constantly insistent that they are apolitical , or Rockstar making gigantic budgeted detailed games that only could have been made by crushing their own developers into a fine paste, or EA's whole lootbox fiasco with Star Wars Battlefront 2, some folks are willing to ignore nintendo's fuckups because they do at least seem to avoid the lot of fuckups that the rest of the AAA industry constantly leans into

I would legitimately say that Nintendo is one of the best companies in the AAA game industry, even though it is still 100% correct to say that they still aren't good.
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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by Outlander (?) » Mon Apr 13, 2020 5:15 pm

Coming down hard on emulation and having way-too-expensive junk to buy as DLCs or in mobile games is like, so much less bad than what so many other companies are doing. If people are actually mad at EA because of those things rather than the outright evil shit they do, then I don't know what to say.

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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by W.T. Fits (?) » Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:41 pm

New X-COM game coming out on the 24th of this month!





Currently available for pre-order for 50% off! $10 US is a pretty good deal for a small spin-off game!

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Apr 16, 2020 5:43 am

The important thing is that the sneks are there.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Apr 16, 2020 5:43 am

Snek friends, heck yeah.
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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Thu Apr 16, 2020 6:46 am

Shifting the politics from driving off invaders to combating xenophobia in the wake of the old war is an A+ move, and the fact that the squad members are distinct characters rather than created troops that can't really have personalities actually makes me interested in the series for once. I may just pick this up!

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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:56 am

XCOM has done a really good job keeping its sequels fresh and distinct.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:54 am

Hopefully they've also learned from the mistakes they made in XCOM 2 :-I
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:30 pm

DaikatunaRevengeance wrote:
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Hopefully they've also learned from the mistakes they made in XCOM 2 :-I
Since there's only one week between announcement and release, there's no time for Firaxis to re-balance it around Beaglerush streaming himself dunking on every single beta version he gets.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:34 pm

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Update to these: I'm on 26 deaths, and I've done all of the main game, aside from the final boss. I'm now past the wolfy bit in the Ashes of Ariandel DLC.
I have now finished the main game and both of the DLCs on New Game+. 67 deaths from start to finish. Most bosses took up to 4 attempts to beat em except for the Demon Prince (6 attempts) and Darkeater Midir (23 attempts). :vogue:
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun Apr 19, 2020 8:46 pm

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God, that looks like it's gonna be so much fun. Tomorrow can't come soon enough. :-D

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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Sat Apr 25, 2020 12:05 am

I’m digging Chimera Squad so far. A lot of the familiar XCOM mechanics are intact but it’s certainly not a clone. I do hope it gets more challenging though; the first few missions have been super easy.

Also dipped my toe into Elsinore, and ho ho, this one has potential. :dreamworks: It’s a narrative game where you play Ophelia during the events of Hamlet. The game keeps track of the various characters (adding a few new ones), their conversations and the general timeline. It also keeps track of everyone’s mood, their current intentions and what they know. It appears that depending on who you choose to talk to and what to tell them, you might change the course of events.

Also, I won’t spoil anything but let’s say there’s a lot more rotten in Denmark than what the play shows. Ophelia can do a fair bit of Nancy Drew-ing around the castle while the play happens around her. If the game lives up to the promise of complexity, this will be really fun.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:18 am

Didn't know such a game existed.
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Post by Aria Genisi (?) » Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:17 pm

X-COPS: Chimera Squad seems good. I've only gotten through the tutorial and the first proper mission, and I'm already liking it a lot
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Post by W.T. Fits (?) » Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:47 pm

I'm currently slowly working my way through my first campaign on Normal, and I'm having a great time with it so far. Only managed to recruit two other members (Blueblood and Torque) beyond the tutorial squad (Godmother, Cherub, Terminal, Verge) so far, and from what I've read, you max out at 8 members total for your squad, meaning you gotta do multiple runs if you want to use everyone.

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Re: General gaming superthread

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Nier: Automata is like... Ghost in the Shell meets MGS meets Girl's Last Tour and I'm living for it.

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Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:55 am

I don't know how blind you are going in to this, but I'm super psyched for your experience regardless. Automata is absurdly good. :allears:

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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by !saak (?) » Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:02 pm

Nier: I'm a game and know that I'm a game and gonna use that to do cool shit
Me: I know that you know that you're a game and gonna use that to do cool shit
Nier: I know that you know that I know that I'm a game and gonna use that to do cool shit
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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by !saak (?) » Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:03 pm

Perpetual Motion wrote:
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I don't know how blind you are going in to this, but I'm super psyched for your experience regardless. Automata is absurdly good. :allears:
I know nothing other than multiple playthroughs and Yoko Taro likes hot girls

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:19 pm

I appriciate his honesty with that.

Like yeah, i get what people mean when they say it's not "better", but imo, to me it's worse when it's clear what you're doing and yet you're pretending it's not that.
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Post by Jill (?) » Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:32 pm

hot girls > no girls

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:42 pm

Jill wrote:
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Post by Angel Beat (?) » Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:45 pm

That reminds me I should continue Nier Automata myself. I couldn't even get past the intro last time. :v:


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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by !saak (?) » Fri May 01, 2020 10:39 am

Okay I got the first ending and continued on now what the fuxk is this game doing????? :-I

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Post by !saak (?) » Fri May 01, 2020 12:23 pm

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me n yoko taro agreeing on hot girls

also the game never leers at 2B. I suppose the only instance is when you self-destruct, but it's a far cry from say the Beauty and the Beast unit from MGSIV. Or Quiet from MGSV.
the game's basically "girls are hot" and like... yeah, fair point.

somewhat related but I really like the characterization of 2B, and I'm not sure about my read but she's basically the stand-in for the kind of player who just wants to gogogogogogo. Whereas 9S is the opposite of that.

I suppose both of them have the same kind of arc where they become more "human"... or... uhhh whatever that means in the context of this game/existence in general.
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Okay I got the first ending and continued on now what the fuxk is this game doing????? :-I
this is btw not the actual first ending I got


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-- the part where the game plays back me messing around in the settings menu as 2B lmao
-- the game autocompleting a quest cuz my items carried over
-- me changing the voice of 9S to something shrill and robotic and 2B going "I like your voice"

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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by !saak (?) » Fri May 01, 2020 12:26 pm

anyway imma play more of this cuz i just wanna live in NieR rn haha

apparently starting an entirely new run changes things up as well???

oh boy :-D

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Post by The Ghost of Ember (?) » Sat May 02, 2020 9:41 am

i was wondering when yoko taro was going to show up
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Re: General gaming superthread

Post by !saak (?) » Sat May 02, 2020 6:45 pm

me: okay Yoko Taro, I caught on to humanity being dead all this time a while back, but still this is a v poignant and bittersweet story about non-human-but-still-sentient beings trying to figure out what it's like to be "human" you've got he----

Yoko Taro:

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Post by Perpetual Motion (?) » Sat May 02, 2020 8:15 pm

The reveal of Route C is one of the coolest things ever because of what doing the first play through over conditions you to expect. And then shit is in a perpetual state of going down from then on and it’s amazing. :allears:

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun May 03, 2020 8:58 am

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Steam legit does not understand what a simulation is and it kind of pisses me off.
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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Sun May 03, 2020 9:22 am

"one night, hot springs art collection"

literally the artbook of a visual novel
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