RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on Did rap become more popular in asia in recent years? 3 days ago:
Rap was extremely popular in Asian countries, especially Japan and South Korea, in the early 2000s. I don’t know if it has remained as popular as back then though.
- Comment on Anime Industry Report shows overseas anime market is bigger than Japanese one, but is this a cultural tipping point? 1 week ago:
Shocker. You mean to say that the market with more people is bigger?
This will stay the same it always goes with Japanese companies. They make products exclusively for the Japanese market, and any sales they get outside of Japan are just a financial bonus. If something performs really well in Japan but badly everywhere elsez they keep making it and just don’t distribute globally. If something performs really well globally but badly in Japan? Cancelled.
- Comment on Have you watched/read/played anything in the Fate franchise? 1 week ago:
I tried watching Fate Stay Night but never made it past episode 1. I dont remember why.
I played Fate Extra on the PSP via PPSSPP, and I actually enjoyed the game but I havent been able to finish it yet. I heard somewhere it is getting a remake, so I am curious to see how that turns out.
Outside of this, I have very minimal knowledge of Fate as a series. All I know is that Fate started originally as an eroge/visual novel, the series is made by Type Moon, and that the series features characters named after real historical figures that are usually women (in other words, even if a real historical figure is a man, in the Fate series there is a really high probability that they will be a woman). Also something about real names needing to stay secret so they use really basic code names like “Saber,” “Archer,” “Caster,” etc.
- Comment on Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES 1 week ago:
I hate this. Not because of the product itself, but because it looks like the character is in a jar. And the internet has thoroughly ruined jars.
- Comment on Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001) 2 weeks ago:
I am old enough to remember consoles connecting to an RF Switch, which then plugged into the TV. Channel 3, baby. Whats your point?
Me not using a Switch since shortly after it came out doesn’t mean anything. I brought it up because it was part of my point that I could not remember if there was a profile or parental setting to filter eroge on the Switch eShop. Perhaps ther was not when I had used the Switch but now there is, a lot can change in 6 years.
- Comment on Trying to find a game I remember... 2 weeks ago:
Are you sure it was London? Or was it just a city you thought was London?
My very first thought was Syberia, but that game is much older than 10 years old.
- Comment on Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001) 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo (and Sony, actually) have been highly criticized for censorship of games on their platform. Particularly, adult anime styled games.
I know this may come as a shock to you, so please sit down before you read this, but adults do infact buy and use Nintendo consoles.
Hentai games (or rather called by their proper name, “eroge,” which is a portmanteau of “erotic game”) are pretty popular amongst Japanese gamers. In fact, many of Japans biggest games or game franchises started off as eroge. Nintendo intentionally cutting out that much of their market would be stupid, as it means less sales of their hardware, obviously.
I am unsure how these games are filtered in the eShop, though I would imagine that a parent would be able to control the ratings or tags of games that would appear in the eShop of their child’s account, to prevent these games from being in their child’s eShop feed. I don’t know how, as I haven’t used a Switch since about 2018.
- Comment on Trying to find a game I remember... 2 weeks ago:
Is there any other information you can recall about the game? Platform, character design, art style, etc?
- Comment on DOOM CAPTCHA: Defeat 3 Monsters for Verification | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, but honestly this takes too much time to be a captcha. The longer it takes people to complete a captcha, the higher chances greedy people start looking to inject ads into it. I mean, they already do, but like, worse. Afterall, captchas are not “skippable,” and therefore ads in a captcha cannot be skipped.
Id rather not live in a world where verifying I am a human means I need to be subjected to 27 ads just to find the one thing I need to click on to prove I am, in fact, a human.
- Comment on S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu episode 2 discussion 2 weeks ago:
I am pretty sure there is only one.
- Comment on S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu episode 2 discussion 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How many games do you manage to play at the same time? 2 weeks ago:
Mostly one at a time, but it depends.
Typically I play Marvel Rivals with my friend group, as it is one of the few multiplayer games these days that supports at least 5 people on a team (we already tried League, Paladins, etc and got tired of that real quick).
On my own, I sometimes feel like playing a retro game, so I have been playing Legend of Dragoon, but recently my save file got corrupted somehow so I haven’t restarted. Instead I switched to playing a less retro game, Need for Speed Carbon. Its been maybe 10 years since I played it last, so it has been interesting dealing with the horrendous rubberbanding and random crashing on PC. I also like to play Goddess of Victory NIKKE as a mobile game whenever I have down time but am away from home.
But I don’t think it is atypical to really focus on playing one game at a time. I’d say that would actually be quite unusual and likely only done by people who have a job playing multiple games per day (a not so good reviewer, streamer, etc).
- Comment on S-Rank Monster no "Behemoth" dakedo, Neko to Machigawarete Elf Musume no Pet toshite Kurashitemasu episode 2 discussion 2 weeks ago:
I havent seen this anime, but people complaining about fanservice in anime is like moving into a house next to an airport and then complaining about the noise.
- Comment on CryZENx Unveils 30-Minute Zelda Ocarina of Time Preview 2 weeks ago:
Potential criminals
Slowdown there, Mr Nintendo.
- Comment on The voice actor of the GMan just posted this promising cryptic HL3 rumor 2 weeks ago:
Just seems like a New Years thing to me. Am I missing something?
- Comment on Arifureta Season 3 Delays Episode 12 Due to Production Issues 3 weeks ago:
This sure is happening a lot lately. “Production issues…” Is it possible to be any more vague?
- Comment on Winners of the 2024 Lemmy Anime Awards 3 weeks ago:
Do people on Lemmy only watch Frieren and Dungeon Meshi? Lol
- Comment on How Elf Girls Took Over Anime 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it was nice to see him mention it, but to say that elves “took over” isn’t exactly true. It has always been like this. The amount of popular elf characters in anime now is not really much different than it was 30-40 years ago.
A bit of clickbait in the title, IMO.
- Comment on How Elf Girls Took Over Anime 3 weeks ago:
Elves have been my favorite long before Frieren ever existed. Its crazy to think that elves weren’t prominent before Frieren came along, and honestly makes me think this person maybe hasn’t seen a lot of older anime or only watches more recent stuff. Even in old Japanese adventure games elves were a pretty common sight.
A Girl Who Chants Love At the Bound of This World: YU-NO, Record of Lodoss War, Those Who Hunt Elves, etc.
As I am sure you guessed, their origin, much like nearly everything relating to RPGs and fantasy settings in Japanese media, cones from Wizardry. It always comes back to Wizardry.
- Comment on DanMachi Season 5 Delays Episode 12 Onwards Indefinitely Due to Production Issues 3 weeks ago:
Was episode 12 going to close out the season? I haven’t been up on Danmachi after season 2. I wonder why they couldn’t wrap up 12 if it was going to be the seasons last episode.
- Comment on Sony's Crunchyroll Finds Its Early Lead in Anime Under Attack 4 weeks ago:
When I said that I really meant with regards to the anime studio getting money from the viewer, not with the quality of the anime itself. But you are correct, anime is having a big problem with bad localization lately.
- Comment on Sony's Crunchyroll Finds Its Early Lead in Anime Under Attack 4 weeks ago:
I mean, some subscription services do pay the IP owners, but many times it is at a reduced rate. The best thing that you can do to support your favorite studios is buy bluray releases and merch direct from the studio, or as direct as possible.
Pirating doesn’t directly pay studios, but if you pirate and then buy bluray/merch, the studio is definitely getting more of your money than if you were paying for a subscription service.
- Comment on Sony's Crunchyroll Finds Its Early Lead in Anime Under Attack 4 weeks ago:
IDK who this expert is, but “core anime fans” are absolutely not watching anime on Netflix or other “mainstream” streaming sites.
They’re pirating. We all are. Because pirating is literally the same as watching through those other sites, except it doesnt cost us money.
- Comment on Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is a seriously cool visual novel love-letter to retro anime and 80s Sci-Fi 5 weeks ago:
Very PC98, but too many colors and makes inconsistent use of dithering. Interesting, but not enough for me to want to buy it.
- Comment on Consistency 5 weeks ago:
See, the problem is when people say no, and then later they complain about why the person didn’t keep going…
If someone out here respecting that you said no, you’re a moron that deserves to be called a clown if you start complaining about “why didn’t they keep trying?”
I ain’t playing that game.
- Comment on Now I get it what Dark Souls genre mean. 1 month ago:
Have you seen Shojo lately? Some of their designs be looking like they belong in Shonen or Harem.
- Comment on Don't Forget The Sega 32X Turns 30 This Year, Too | Time Extension 1 month ago:
Star Wars Arcade, Space Harrier, or Afterburner, probably.
The 32X was around for such little time it didn’t really get to build up much of a library in the first place.
- Comment on "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX" Anime Announced with Visual, PV 1 month ago:
Anoo co-writing Gundam? I don’t know what to think of this.
He came up with Evangelion because he was bored with anime at the time being to homogeneous, Gundam specifically. I wonder why he took this job, being the perfectionist he is, knowing he would not have total control like he did on Eva?
- Comment on Crunchyroll to Move Episodes of One Piece From Ad-Supported Tier to Premium Tier 1 month ago:
I was part of the class action lawsuit. Sony can bite rocks. Sony can bite rocks after losing all their teeth, and then step on a 1x1 LEGO brick.
- Comment on Jake paul is cooked 1 month ago:
Isn’t Nokotan a little young for him though?
