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Pablo Nergigante posted:Lmfao ahahah jesus christ
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Lmfao A good review will always keep you guessing as to whether or not they played the game or just looked at the screenshots on the back of the box.
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Feb 10, 2019 23:53
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Reminds me of the George Woods review that Retsupurae mocked https://youtu.be/T8vhGSm0rfw
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Feb 11, 2019 00:08
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Random total longshot question: does anyone have Ace Combat 3 (either version) running on original hardware? The game has hosed up analogue controls in every emulator I've tried, and I wanted to know whether that's an emulation issue or if the original game running on original hardware still has the same problem.
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Feb 11, 2019 01:05
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Has anyone played the Nightmare Befors Christmas PS2 game. I just learned that it’s kind of a kid-oriented Devil May Cry clone so I’m intrigued
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Feb 11, 2019 01:47
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Has anyone played the Nightmare Befors Christmas PS2 game. I just learned that it’s kind of a kid-oriented Devil May Cry clone so I’m intrigued Its extremely absurdly shallow and repetitive and Jack says "soul rubber" when you attack every. single. time.
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Feb 11, 2019 02:36
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Star Man posted:There's also just this awkward timing with the PlayStation Classic where Crash and Spyro got remade within the last year and other PSX remakes have come out. Despite that, Sony has no one else to blame but themselves for the lacking game selection and mismatching of PAL versions of games for North America. Considering the bulk of the games were licensed from third parties, I’d say you’re a bit out to lunch on that whole “nobody to blame but themselves” line. For their first-party releases, they would still have possible issues with licensed music, branding and likenesses in some games. As for the third parties, it comes down to those issues, as well as the corporate agendas involved in getting anything onto the system. People forget that Sony distributed Crash and Spyro in a partnership with Universal, but never owned either property. Universal was bought by Vivendi, and rolled into ActiVision. Look at what it took for ActiVision to finally get around to making the Crash remaster. The funniest one I’ve seen people whine about is the lack of any of the Tony Hawk games. The number of things making those games hard to license again would be a mammoth undertaking, and that is in a world where ActiVision’s contract with Hawk hadn’t ended with gamers and Tony disgusted by what had become of the games in the last few years of the series. If Hawk and Acti were still on good terms, there would still be a licensing nightmare, as the games not only had licensed soundtracks, but video footage, skateboard graphics, clothing designs, shoes and branding belonging to up to 20 companies per game. Then there’s the levels. Most of the games have at least one level that is a real skatepark, and those layouts and designs are trademarked and copyrighted like golf courses are, so you’d need the park owners and the designer to sign off again. Then there’s the likeness rights for the pros. A lot of gamers who don’t know skateboarding don’t realize that the pros are real people, and their models are based on their real looks, and most skaters in the games have changed sponsors over the years, so you’d have to get permission from their current sponsor and the company they rode for to keep the original boards, or you’d have to license new designs and put those into the old game! And I’m not even going to touch on the bonus characters. There’s a lot more at play when licensing is involved in anything. The technical side of it is just inexcusably sloppy, but the inclusion of the PAL versions could have been done for two reasons. 1. Emulating a PAL game at 50fps is less demanding than emulating the 60fps NTSC build. 2. It is possible in some cases that the European branches of some companies may have been the ones contacted for materials, and since the PS1 and 2 were pre-HD, any builds they have would have been PAL! And with the possibly short window the product appeared to have from concept to ship, it may have been a case of shipping what they already had on hand rather than waiting for other materials. The whole thing is a massive missed opportunity, and something more akin to a streaming box that could have downloaded the pre-packaged PS1 ISOs on the PlayStation Store would have been more ideal, but they wanted it plug and play to go toe-to-toe with Nintnedo’s offerings and put out a dud.
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Feb 11, 2019 03:42
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Deadguy2322 posted:The technical side of it is just inexcusably sloppy, but the inclusion of the PAL versions could have been done for two reasons. 1. Emulating a PAL game at 50fps is less demanding than emulating the 60fps NTSC build. That's not really how it works by the time you're getting to the PSX. And besides people ran the NTSC versions just fine on the equipment.
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Feb 11, 2019 03:56
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The only other reason I can think of for why they used the PAL version is that in some cases, that was the later release with some bug fixes. Still, it's a bizarre choice.
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Feb 11, 2019 03:57
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fishmech posted:That's not really how it works by the time you're getting to the PSX. And besides people ran the NTSC versions just fine on the equipment. Not true. Most people emulating the PS2 use the PAL ISOs for games that were speed-adjusted for 50Hz to make it less demanding. A weak enough SOC would benefit from the same on PS1 games.
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Feb 11, 2019 04:00
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Lmfao It is very difficult to understate how much people hated 2D graphics in 1997.
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Feb 11, 2019 04:23
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The most grossest thing about Shantae is that Matt Whatshisface declared on Twitter that the title character is 16. Why the gently caress would you do that. You could have said she's an adult, or just not clarified. There's nothing about the plot or the art, really, that signifies that she's a child. You did that to appeal to creeps. gently caress you!
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Feb 11, 2019 04:53
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DoctorWhat posted:The most grossest thing about Shantae is that Matt Whatshisface declared on Twitter that the title character is 16. I am so glad I don’t enjoy WayForward games. Makes it very easy not to support them.
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Feb 11, 2019 04:55
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Lmfao Ah the days of "If you ain't 3D, you ain't poo poo!" My personal theory on the major reason for the PS Classic's failure is that the PlayStation brand isn't something people care about. Yeah, it was a technical mess with a ton of problems, but the people going out and buying gizmos for Christmas aren't going to know about that. Instead, people just don't care about PlayStation being it being a means to an end of playing whatever the cool new game is. Sony has been terrible about building game brands of their own, just look at PlayStation All-Stars. Nintendo has a brand, Sony has a platform.
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Feb 11, 2019 05:21
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Random Stranger posted:Nintendo has a brand, Sony has a platform. This is why I compare Nintendo to Disney a lot.
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Feb 11, 2019 05:50
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Random Stranger posted:Ah the days of "If you ain't 3D, you ain't poo poo!" No, the Classic consoles have a VERY specific market and once word filters through it that the console's bad, it's done.
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Feb 11, 2019 06:23
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Im trying to give shadows of the empire a chance
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Feb 11, 2019 11:47
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Cemetry Gator posted:The only other reason I can think of for why they used the PAL version is that in some cases, that was the later release with some bug fixes. PAL versions may supported multiple languages. Still a poor choice.
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Feb 11, 2019 12:12
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Nonviolent J posted:Im trying to give shadows of the empire a chance
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Feb 11, 2019 12:29
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Doc M posted:The first and last levels are good! yeah all i remember as a kid is hoth all range mode, inside the base and using wampa__stompa to get to the end which i know isnt the death star trench but I remember it as
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Feb 11, 2019 12:35
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To be fair the PlayStation Classic did not have a very good selection of games - they were mostly very early PlayStation releases - and while I have a lot of nostalgia for the PS1 era I’m not going to a buy a device where I only want to play 6 out of 20 games on it. Never mind that Twisted Metal 2 and 3 were better than 1, or that Persona and FFVII are the only 2 RPGs on a relaunch of a system known for RPGs. There is tons of nostalgia for early PlayStation aesthetics and games right now - look at YouTube - people are still obsessed over Xenogears and FFVIII, the early Tony Hawk games, Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, etc. - but probably not many people are still into the first Rainbow Six game, or Mr. Driller, or Intelligent Qube. It just seems like they rushed to launch a bad product. I wouldn’t take much more than that away from the failure of the PlayStation Classic. If the same machine had FF 7-9, Vagrant Story, and Xenogears I would buy it for those five games alone. Resident Evil Director’s Cut and Syphon Filter without a Dual Shock controller? Jumping Flash? No one wants these things.
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Feb 11, 2019 14:22
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Like i said earlier, they thought Nintendo classics sell well, PS4 is near 100 million, retro gaming is cool and youtube will be filled with people playing it, how could it fail?
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Feb 11, 2019 14:34
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I mean just partner with Square and release all their major PS1 games on a box. Parasite Eve 1&2, FF 4-9, Chrono Trigger, FF Tactics, Ehergiz, Vagrant Story, Bushido Blade, Brave Fencer Musashi, Front Mission 3, Legend of Mana, Threads of Fate, Saga Frontier, Chrono Cross, and Chocobo Racing. People would buy the poo poo out of that, and licensing would only involve one company that no doubt retained IP rights to everything in its games in the original contracts. If Square didn’t want to do it, then it wouldn’t fly, but they already sell most of those games on other platforms. It would take two meetings and some phone calls to lawyers to finalize the deal. Something smart like this will never happen though.
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Feb 11, 2019 14:34
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Neddy Seagoon posted:No, the Classic consoles have a VERY specific market and once word filters through it that the console's bad, it's done. You don't become the hottest product of the holiday season, selling out everywhere by catering to a niche.
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Feb 11, 2019 14:41
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Be Depressive posted:I mean just partner with Square and release all their major PS1 games on a box. Parasite Eve 1&2, FF 4-9, Chrono Trigger, FF Tactics, Ehergiz, Vagrant Story, Bushido Blade, Brave Fencer Musashi, Front Mission 3, Legend of Mana, Threads of Fate, Saga Frontier, Chrono Cross, and Chocobo Racing. That would be nice, but part of the problem is, as you say, many of those games are already available for a ton of platforms including phone/PC, and the others probably wouldn't be major draws.
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Feb 11, 2019 14:54
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Random Stranger posted:You don't become the hottest product of the holiday season, selling out everywhere by catering to a niche. While this is true to a point, the Playstation Classic could've enjoyed moderate success among the 'gamer' community if it was executed properly. The shear amount of preorder cancellations posted on gaming forums/twitter after the first reports of performance issues and bad reviews came out was pretty intense. It was dead in the water after that.
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Feb 11, 2019 17:02
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Be Depressive posted:I mean just partner with Square and release all their major PS1 games on a box. Parasite Eve 1&2, FF 4-9, Chrono Trigger, FF Tactics, Ehergiz, Vagrant Story, Bushido Blade, Brave Fencer Musashi, Front Mission 3, Legend of Mana, Threads of Fate, Saga Frontier, Chrono Cross, and Chocobo Racing. You left out Einhander. 
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Feb 11, 2019 17:03
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So in that interview about the Sd2snespro, is Krizz saying the custom APU Implementation won’t work with the SuperNT?
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Feb 11, 2019 17:17
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DoctorWhat posted:The most grossest thing about Shantae is that Matt Whatshisface declared on Twitter that the title character is 16. not as bad as this guy quote:The moustachioed plumber had been presumed by most of his fans to be in middle age, largely based on his moustache and wise face. But a newly unearthed interview with his creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, says that in fact the only thing definitely true about the character is that he in his mid 20s.
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Feb 11, 2019 18:43
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DoctorWhat posted:The most grossest thing about Shantae is that Matt Whatshisface declared on Twitter that the title character is 16. Matt Bozon being a creep isn't anything new if you've seen the concept art for the first game or the spanking gif from the cancelled GBA game. The series is just super skeevy.
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Feb 11, 2019 18:47
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The Shantae games are the answer to the question "What if eurotrash platformer, but explicitly by and for the Sex Offender Registry"
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Feb 11, 2019 18:52
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Random Stranger posted:You don't become the hottest product of the holiday season, selling out everywhere by catering to a niche. The NES was just a case of "we made 20 of these hope you find one lol" in addition to being a convenient way to get some of those games on a modern screen with HDMI. The pricing did no favors for the PS, either.
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Feb 11, 2019 18:54
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Nonviolent J posted:Im trying to give shadows of the empire a chance Don’t bother, it’s crap.
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Feb 11, 2019 18:55
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Star Man posted:This is why I compare Nintendo to Disney a lot. Eisner-Era Disney, definitely. Profit above all else, retread everything that was popular, no regard for real quality since everyone will insist your crap is magic.
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Feb 11, 2019 18:57
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Deadguy2322 posted:Eisner-Era Disney, definitely. Profit above all else, retread everything that was popular, no regard for real quality since everyone will insist your crap is magic. Hmmmmmm
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Feb 11, 2019 18:58
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Stan Taylor posted:Hmmmmmm We'd be on the 4th DTV Frozen film (this one introduces Cinder, the princess who controls fire!) If he were still in charge. Current Disney is really calculating and recognizes the insane value their IP holds (and the value of their acquisitions). They've backed off of the Star Wars train because Solo reached the topping point and they don't want to ruin the gravy train.
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Feb 11, 2019 19:08
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Deadguy2322 posted:I am so glad I don’t enjoy WayForward games. Makes it very easy not to support them. Aliens: Infestation is real good.
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Feb 11, 2019 19:08
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Remember that time Michael Eisner took a paycut so that he wouldn't have to lay off any employees? I don't either.
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Feb 11, 2019 19:18
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DoctorWhat posted:The most grossest thing about Shantae is that Matt Whatshisface declared on Twitter that the title character is 16. Was this before or after they gave her 3D boobs on the 3DS
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Xenomrph posted:Aliens: Infestation is real good. It is. Wayforward has made some really good games: Thor, boy and his blob, contra 4, but I never liked Shantae. Their difficulty varies wildly though. They’re all either baby easy or hair pullingly hard
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