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I wanted to make a joke post changing my answer to 8-9 but I can't even think of a joke reason for that

ZOLOMY RUINED wtf, sormormy doesn't roll off the tounge nearly as well

Lopen posted...

Like basically any game with a structure of stages and bosses ceases being Atari style.

It doesn't differentiate it much to me, it still feels like an arcade game.

Mega Man for example does not feel next gen at al. Metal Slug, Contra, Ninja Garden, etc. Even Metroid feels archaic due to the password system alone. Mario though feels totally modern.

Pokemon (if we're treating GB as the NES generation equivalent) is also completely modern. There's such a a huge gulf between that and Mega Man.

No one I know played those 2D games but I guess some people did

I did play Worms on Dreamcast though now that I think about it

Did not expect that, damn

Lopen posted...

There's probably over 100 2d games on PSX and N64 combined. It's not remotely an extinction event as was said with the super simple games of Gen 1-2.

What are 3 popular ones? I literally can't think of them. But the exception does prove the rule.

The NES catalog was majority Atari style games but better graphics, the advanced games were the exception. SNES is when the simple games actually became extinct.

Brayze_II posted...

First off no, secondly 'relegated to handhelds' as if that isn't a major part of gaming?

You're right, I should vote for the Gameboy on the poll. It was undeniably the biggest leap in gaming.

Oh wait it's not on the poll because it's not relevant to the question.

The crash is a good argument for 3 though. It did turn an industry from a dying fad into a permanent medium of the entertainment.

On that angle though, I think gen 6 turned it into THE medium of our generation and the most profitable form of entertainment.

Brayze_II posted...

but there was no widespread extinction of gen 4 type games.

What lol. There was SOTN and that's it. All other 2D games were done, forever relegated to handhelds, until indie games came back during the 360 era.

Paratroopa1 posted...

When I play NES games I feel like I'm just playing video games

I don't really. It still feels like a more advanced arcade game.

The fancy ones that saved your games do feel like a big step into the future though. That top tier of games was pretty much like modern gaming. But the majority of NES games still feel super outdated.

4 to 5 no question

2 to 4 is enourmous, but 3 is so perfectly in between both gens, that it greatly softens the impact on either side

TomNook7 posted...

Don't nobody wanna play new Star Wars Battlefront

That's not a remake, it's essentially Battlefront 3 but without the number to make it sound cooler.

In general I def do the remake or remaster. Haven't really found one that's much worse than the original.

GANON1025 posted...

if youre gonna lie about who his mom is why even use the name Jenova? Literally any other name besides that or Lucretia would avoid this whole thing.

Sephirothia

I did figure whoever sent him to Nibelheim did it on purpose

GANON1025 posted...

Where else would he have learned about Jenova, considering everyone he knew who would know lied to him about it and all the files on the experiment only exist in the Shinra manor (maybe Gast or Hojo had more, but again they were lying to him)

They clearly brief him on super confidential stuff all the time (e.g. Hojo's experiments), and he has limitless access to places like the manor's library. If that's really the only place with that info then that makes sense, but that's unlikely.

Waluigi1 posted...

People are stupid as fuck, that's why these corporations try, and do, get away with so much bullshit.

The fallacy here is that, yes, there are enough stupid people to keep stupid corporate bullshit afloat. But the total market is far greater than that, and true success does require tapping into the majority part of the market, which is very savvy nowadays. A proper strategy can't rely on repeat business from those few stupid people.

I mostly think it shows how dumb Sephiroth is. It took him 30+ years to figure out who his mom was? He didn't question it at all until seeing a sign on a door? He's never read a book before? He has the backstory of a typical 14 year old protagonist who goes on to save the world, but because he only discovered this during his mid-life crisis, he became a villain.

Is the whole thesis of FF7 that ignorant middle aged men are the most dangerous people?

Lmao Cloud's mom's name is Claudia. Peak 90s writing.

Also why did they tell Sephiroth his mom's name? Could've avoided this whole thing.

Is the 3D audio in this game messed up? From headphones it sounds great but not from TV. I guess there's only so much my crappy TV speakers can do. It sounds great in the menu and in Astro though.

Actually even in Stereo mode the sound is pretty weird.

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Damn Cloud's got a milf

Related, I just got my PS5. It was supposed to be new but the sealing sticker was ripped so it looked like a refurb or something. I asked support for a discount and they gave me $70 no questions asked.

So if y'all have good standing with Amazon you should try that on your next purchase.

I havent seen how big the world is yet but it's not really unheard of. Xenoblade did it on the Wii, which is insane. Here the SSD is fast enough to be used as a really large cache for streaming so it's near instant. It's like what Spiderman's fast travel does which people thought was impossible.

The problem with reloading is it's not just streaming data from the SSD, it has to run the whole world loading process again, tons of different functions to reset things. That can take a long time and hardware can't really help.

Fast travel probably isn't reloading the state of the world, just moving you. Retrying stuff has to basically reload the game so that it can start fresh, which can be very slow.

RT as a company has been fumbling for pretty much 10 years straight. Not sure when they were bought by WB but I don't think it changed much.

Mega64 wins after all

Seph
Donkey Kong
Bowser
Goro

If it weren't for the TOTK leak they would still be alive. Which is pretty amazing considering how blatant they were being.

That means you think it's fine to say anything you feel like, regardless of proof or reason. You would think that someone worried about AI exponentially accelerating misinformation would raise their standards, not lower them.

Leafeon13N posted...

I dont think its as bad a take as some say tbh. When scams are harder to do people do those scams less, making laws less necessary.

ZenOfThunder posted...

we are in for several years of low effort scams and grifts, more than we ever thought possible.

Problem is, this doesn't pass even a 5 second smell test.

Look at the example you're using to come to this conclusion. A tiny single day event event that even if done "properly" would've been super mediocre. No one heard of it until well after it happened. Maybe thousands of dollars spent on tickets total.

Compare to Fyre Festival, which had months of top-tier advertising, even your mom heard of it. People wasted millions on it. It literally starved its guests and nearly killed them.

Fyre happened many years before generative AI, and Wonka happened about 2 years after AI advanced far enough to create those fake images and stories (I know the ads used DALLE3 but you could get similar looking images with Stable Diffusion 1, and text with GPT3).

So how can look at an event that's not even 1/1000th as bad as Fyre, and it took over 2 years of the tech being open to billions just to generate ONE decent twitter-threadable scam, and then conclude that OBVIOUSLY scams are getting worse and more common?

It makes no sense and shows lack of understanding in the tech and especially the economics of scams. It's some sort of wishful thinking or confirmation bias that gen AI is the one true destroyer of our society, if only we stopped it we'd be back to "normal" (aka 2021, the best year ever).

HanOfTheNekos posted...

That was sarcasm my dude

I keep forgetting we are living deep into post-irony

Fat gamers asked for it

Also it sounds like they added Chadley and a bunch of BS specifically to punish open world completionists who can't leave a stone unturned

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Also it was probably incredibly hard to make towns this good?

Even with the right tools it's insanely, ridiculously hard. With the wrong tools it's impossible.

My runs are super polarized still which is why I'm mostly turned off from the game. I had a run where I was making 2.5m scoring hands if I got the right cards, or 100k if I didn't. And then the next run I struggled to make 50k and lost quickly. Some people like that but I like more steady progression.

I think until your beat Lillie it's still valuable to have infinity. But once you know how to use the locusts it becomes less valuable.

Aecioo posted...

Tell me more!

How dare u

Alright I'm getting a ps5

Did the open world ruin it or what?

GranTurismo posted...

oh really? could you go back to gaming on a regular old mouse?

Literally no distinction between gaming and regular mouses. As long as it has the right weight, DPI, and 5 buttons, it's pretty much equivalent. I prefer ambidextrous shapes too, which exists in both office and gaming mouses.

I've had Razers and hate them deeply. My favorite now is Steelseries Sensei. But my all time favorite was a Logitech office mouse kinda one.

I do think 5 buttons is the absolute minimum, since you can navigate forward/back and you will definitely use them in games. Buttons 6 and 7 are occasionally useful but not a priority.

MacArrowny posted...

Baldur's Gate 3 just won game of the year.

Good suggestion, I'll play it

The older TCLs did afaik

TomNook7 posted...

Man youre such a hater lol. Did you ever play 13 Sentinels? Youre so jaded about video games; I feel like you need something like 13 Sentinels to cleanse your palate

That game does look cooler, but I have easier ways of getting anime hentai

But seriously, you can't understand how a turn based tactical RPG can be seen as boring? It's a digital single player board game.

Maniac64 posted...

In a lot of ways LWT is closer to Adam Ruins Everything than The Daily Show.

Dan Gurewitch is a lead writer so there's some shared DNA for sure

Yeah his script sucked but he wasn't really trying either

MacArrowny posted...

why get a 4K TV if 1080 and 4K look the same to you?

Pretty much no TVs are 1080 anymore. Most 4K ones are fake though, they upscale from 1080 or 2K to 4K.

Paratroopa1 posted...

Okay will do. Although I really COULD HAVE beaten the game like this in theory grumble grumble. what a bizarre game

I think it's fine if you continued that way. But you would probably have to play through again to do what the others were telling you.

Paratroopa1 posted...

What did other people do here?? I'm pretty decent at sokoban puzzles, so I'm kinda baffled that people didn't lose their minds on this

You really do get plenty of locusts, so it's not a huge problem. On my run, I got close to game over a couple times but that's it. And yes you can always use a guide if you need to ensure you survive.

Ultimately this game does not coddle you, and it's comfortable with you getting stuck or frustrated and quitting. It believes this is the only way to make the victories actually feel significant, and it's right.

It also means that you can use any tool in your disposal to win. There is no honor here, just pure challenge. When you beat this game, you actually BEAT it. I can't think of any recent game that does this. Undertale Genocide is closest.

@Gin No, I you don't need to do anything in Lillie's run technically. You can finish the whole game with Gray.

I def looked that one up