People haven’t lost interest in gaming. The entire global economy has gone to crap. People dont have the disposable income they used to have, and food, gas, and utilities are more important to buy than video games.

Many people have moved to PC gaming because they already have a PC and Steam and GOG have very affordable games and vast libraries to choose from that isn’t available on console, most of which are unlikely to have performance problems on their device. PC also has the most discount sale events for games, I am pretty sure.

If they could actually afford it, gaming spending would be higher, especially on walled garden consoles. Guaranteed.

Whichever build doesn’t die in the first 10 minutes lol

I wish Metroid Prime 4 was vaporware lol

Its Kojima though, one of the biggest names in game creation. People like me buy games just because he worked on it. And its always a fire game. Sony can easily account for him while handling their other projects. He’s like Yoko Taro, except Square doesn’t let Yoko Taro make whatever he wants. But I still buy all his stuff because its always fire, even though I really don’t like Square Enix.

Sony is just burning every bridge possible. No idea why, but it seems like they are speedrunning ending their company, like every other company, but they just found new method to reduce time.

The cinematic was fire, but I wasn’t getting “open world shooter” from it. Rather, I thought this was “Helldivers 2 with Starcraft window dressing,” which would be awesome I won’t lie.

Sony is definitely int’ing right now

I probably don’t need to tell you this, but I think you picked the wrong dialogue option there. Too bad Quick Load is currently disabled.

Are the Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian Tales books science fiction, or fantasy?

Its written as a classic sword & sorcery fantasy story. But it takes place on Mars, and features aliens and flying machines. If Lord of the Rings had aliens and airplanes, but everything else more or less stayed the same, is it still high fantasy, or is it now science fiction?

Personally, I call them Science Fantasy, as they blend Fantasy and Science Fiction, but also don’t belong in only one or the other. Fantasy Fiction wouldn’t make sense since fantasy is always fiction already. Science Fiction often doesn’t focus on science, but it usually features elements that are scientifically plausible, or have a science-back explanation as opposed to something purely fantasy like magic. So combining the two makes sense to me. I don’t see why it cant be here.

I think there was WWII motifs because at the time the original trilogy was being filmed, left over weapons, uniforms, etc were extremely cheap to buy and there was a lot of it available. Lot of material for low cost is always good for film.

Apparently, the Tetris Company is a copyright troll / vexatious litigant.

According to Tetris Holdings LLC v Xio Interactive, the 10x20 play area and block shapes are somehow copyrighted, despite these being argued as public domain previously.

Therefore all Tetris clones are somehow illegal. Absolutely insane.

Even crazier is Tetris Company somehow owns a copyright on the Russian folk song that was used for the original game in the video game market. Somehow, using that old, public domain song in any video game is infringing on Tetris Holdings copyright. How is that legal? Why is such unilateral control of public domain works allowed?

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I am curious to know what exactly the copyright infringement was? There are a vast myriad of Tetris clones, none of which the Tetris Company have taken down. Copyright isn’t something you can pick and choose when to enforce it, copyright holders are legally obligated to enforce it on every infringement, or they lose the copyright. Was the game using Tetris IP music or something?

Probably CryzenX, who has been remaking OoT in Unreal Engine for a while now. Seems Nintendo didn’t bother to try making theirs look any better than CryzenX’s attempt, sadly.

Transitions and a minor less-than-a-second pause are one thing. That’s not what I am talking about.

The triforce animation instantly tells me that’s a 4+ second loading screen. Nobody puts those in for stylistic choice. Even Resident Evil 1 style door transition screens are significantly faster than in the original RE when they show up in modern indie games. RE1 had them because of a hardware limitation, and the creatives decided to hide them with the door animation. Modern developers aren’t usually so creative and they just shove a tiny animated sprite in the bottom corner, as seen here with the animated triforce.

“This will be graphics in 2013.”

Nintendo really is stuck in 2013, huh? Wonder when they’ll get to the UE5 Slop trend… 2040s maybe?

“We kept the load screens in some areas to keep the essence of the original game.”

No dawg, you did that because the hardware required a load screen there. The transitions would have been instant without the animated triforce if it was purely a style choice and not a hardware limitation.

Absolutely insane that people here still suck up to Nintendo. Holy.

Please clarify what game you are talking about in the title of the post next time, talking about Colonel Miller had me thinking this was about Metal Gear’s Colonel Miller, the father of Kazuhira Miller.

Ah yes, Quake III At Home But With Mecha.

This one’s Axis. Good times, though I didn’t get to really play it that much.

Good. SteamDB is completely dead being bought by NexusMods.

Who wants to bet the first thing to go will be concurrent user count? Or perhaps I will need to make an account (for data harvesting) or pay a subscription to view the numbers.

IMO too expensive. Especially since it cannot play 3DS games. If it could handle 3DS also, at its price I’d probably pick one up. But for now just playing on an R36H gets me most of the way there for way less cost ($40 USD).

This is such a Japanese business thing to do. I’m not even surprised. I understand the need to protect your employees, especially when Japan has a history of whackos damaging businesses that sometimes result in deaths, but this is going a bit far IMO. I think they could comply with Japan’s new law about worker protection without needing to go this route.

In Japan, laws have pretty much always been dictated by big businesses, just look at their defamation laws. Even if what you say is true, if it harms the company in any way, you will still be arrested and are basically guaranteed to lose a case in Japan for that.

I am interested to see if they try to implement this outside Japan. I mean, Japanese businesses almost always try to apply Japanese law outside Japan (most famously, Nintendo), but still interesting to see if it happens.