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- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 12 hours ago:
Aika from Skies of Arcadia
- Comment on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands 1 day ago:
As a journalist she did it to see what would happen. And then wrote an article about what happened. This is definitely worth talking about even if she did click the box, the box isn't really the point here.
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 1 day ago:
Just a few days ago, at a local Vampire Savior tournament. Grand Finals ended with me sniping Q-Bee's bubble super with a callout from B.B. Hood's gun super. Wish I had a clip, but it wasn't streamed or recorded.
Also had a few good laughs playing Skullgirls earlier that night at the same local, chaotic shit always happens in that game.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 day ago:
Word of caution, do NOT read the original manga. It's kind of infamous for the incredibly controversial direction the story goes in the second half, which the anime thankfully omits.
- Comment on How can a US state block porn? 2 days ago:
Conservatives have been labeling anything and everything they don't like as "porn". A queer romance novel is "porn". Two male characters kissing on television is "porn". Drag queen story time is "porn". The picture book Heather Has Two Mommies is "porn". And most importantly to them, educational resources for LGBTQ youth are "porn".
So by declaring porn illegal, they now have a pretext to go after everything they call "porn". Their goal isn't to remove all porn from the internet, it's to make it harder for people who need those educational resources to access them. It's not about porn, it's about "porn".
- Comment on How ZSNES Changed SNES Emulation Forever | Interview with the Creator | Zophar 5 days ago:
ZSNES was an important milestone for its time, but once Snes9x came out, it didn't take long to overtake it in terms of accuracy and compatibility. ZSNES is actually pretty terrible in comparison.
- Comment on Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games? 1 week ago:
Romhacks:
- Link to the Past Randomizer - Generates a shuffled ROM with all chests and items swapped around, sending you on a wild goose chase through Hyrule trying to find everything required to beat Ganon. Has a LOT of settings to play around with.
- Link to the Past/Super Metroid Combo Randomizer - Like the above, but with both games combined into a single ROM using some elaborate witchcraft. Certain doors take you from one game to the other, and the item pools are shuffled together so you'll have to go back and forth between Hyrule to find Metroid items and Zebes to find Zelda items. It's a bit imbalanced by the fact that LttP is a much bigger game than SM with far more items and locations, but I recommend playing through it once for the sheer novelty.
- Celeste Mario's Zap & Dash - A metroidvania running in SMB1's engine. As the name suggests, it's heavily inspired by Celeste and ports in mechanics from that game.
Standalone fangames:
- Panel Attack - Open source clone of Panel de Pon/Tetris Attack/Puzzle League/Puzzle Challenge/oh my god Nintendo please pick a name and stick with it featuring netplay and modding support.
- AM2R - Another Metroid 2 Remake. Do note that I've heard a big 2.0 update is supposed to be coming soon, so you may wish to wait for that.
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 1 week ago:
I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
DRM-free games can be freely copied, nothing's stopping you.
Pirates have to crack games that don't have DRM-free versions available, games that aren't on GOG.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Will never be anywhere close to what Newgrounds and Kongregate were at their peak.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Porting two existing titles is hardly what I would consider a new golden age.
Browser games peaked in the 00s-10s as the most accessible place to publish a simple indie project. It was simple and easy for beginner developers to just make something and put it out there, and for those that took off there was a decent pipeline to monetize a hit by licensing it to sites that would share a cut of ad revenue.
But now, mobile and Steam have replaced that as the go-to target for developers. They've gotten to a point where they're just as accessible to develop for, and if you want to make a living off your work you'll have a much better shot that way.
Plenty of great tools still exist for HTML5 development, if developers wanted to they could, and some do. Itch.io has a good amount of new browser games, they exist.
But there's never going to be anything as big as Newgrounds or Kongregate. Those days are gone for good.
- Comment on Do deaf people know they have a deaf accent when speaking? 2 weeks ago:
They may not know how their own voice sounds, but they are definitely aware that Deaf people are often perceived as sounding odd. Some Deaf people put a lot of practice into learning how to speak, sometimes even with the help of a vocal coach. Others may choose not to even try because of it.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
At one point MaxEnt had announced an Avatar fighting game, but then silently canceled it when everything imploded. So this appears to be a revival of that.
Over a month ago we were told that TFH's IP had been sold to a new owner, and they'd have an announcement within a month. Announcement still hasn't happened, but the publisher on Steam was silently changed to Gameplay Group International, along with Diesel Legacy's.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 weeks ago:
I'll be that guy. I do think the Tetris: The Grand Master series built on it in really good ways (shame this style was then discarded in favor of Guideline, but that's a rant for another day), but classic Tetris kind of just falls apart as soon as you start to get good at it.
It's a product of its time, but I honestly feel there's an entire genre worth of better puzzle games that came after it, and I have a small chip on my shoulder at the fact that Tetris is the only one that gets any recognition while every other IP lies dead and buried.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 weeks ago:
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (1987)
- Comment on Space battle games for casual player? 2 weeks ago:
FTL
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 2 weeks ago:
There actually was a new Madou that came out last year. Heard it wasn't very good though...
TBH, I don't the originals hold up very well either...
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago:
I'm here making a point, and you're willfully ignoring that point to pretend I agree with you.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago:
Did you miss the part where I'm pointing out the fact that it won't happen? I'm not agreeing with you, I'm making a point.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago:
They should have. But they won't.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago:
I'm against the death penalty because I don't believe it should be necessary in a just world, nor should the state ever be trusted with that kind of power.
However, I see the guillotine as symbolizing the last resort in an unjust world. The worst monsters in society commit their injustices in broad daylight, and nothing will be done about it. We know that justice will never be served through the courts. So what then?
- Comment on New Steam study alleges that Valve's store is home to extreme right-wing "wars" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there's definite value in having these boards to ask questions. It just... needs moderators to be more proactive in dealing with bad actors.
- Comment on New Steam study alleges that Valve's store is home to extreme right-wing "wars" 3 weeks ago:
Don't want to manage your own forum, then disable user posts entirely.
I don't believe that's an option. I know one indie dev that actually told me they wished they could just not have a Steam forum because they hate it.
- Comment on New Steam study alleges that Valve's store is home to extreme right-wing "wars" 3 weeks ago:
Steam Forums are one of the worst hellholes I've seen on the modern internet, and Valve does nothing. Any game that gets declared a target by the post-Gamergate crowd ends up having its board seiged until it's unusable for any kind of actual discussion.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 weeks ago:
I don't like framing things in terms of doing a bad thing = being a bad person.
But they are undoubtedly doing a bad thing, street racing endangers bystanders and can get people seriously hurt or even killed.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Humans lived past 38 long before modern technology.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 4 weeks ago:
It's 少年. How you want to transliterate that into our alphabet is open to interpretation.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 4 weeks ago:
That's an answer for you as a consumer, but the article is from the perspective of the industry. If no one ever bought new games, game development would not be sustainable.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 4 weeks ago:
There are three tiers of activity:
- Active enough that I can queue at any time of day and find opponents close to my skill level with good ping
- Active enough that I can queue at peak hours and find opponents
- Need to schedule games via Discord matchmaking
If I really love the game enough, I'll put up with jumping through hoops to play it, but it does get frustrating when the games I like are a lot more convenient to play than the games I love.