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faramir77 posted...

I don't have a reference point for how much developing a game should cost, but the quality of Pokemon games in the last 10+ years has been abysmal so either they aren't spending enough, or they just don't care.

Most AAAs these days are 50 - 100 million + USD.

That said, Game Freak doesn't have the talent or skill to actually make a modern AAA, and they also refuse to expand and hire people (apparently because they are "happy" being a small company) who do know how to make a modern AAAs. And because Pokemon is profitable regardless, and continues to be the most profitable media IP, Nintendo nor the Pokemon Company makes them change. Why would they rock the boat when it's working so well, profitability wise.

A lot can be done with just talent and passion.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7d202527.jpg

Where as Game Freak has neither. The passion they had for Pokemon dried up a long time ago. And as for their skill level, take a look at Home Town Hero, Game Freak's personal passion project they had most of their main staff working on simultaneously with a main line Pokemon game, that had no restrictions of budget or time that many people use as excuses for Game Freak making poor quality Pokemon games (not that they have no effect but they don't matter when the development team is Game Freak), and Game Freak were marketing and asking people to buy (Home Town Hero) during marketing segments for Pokemon.

faramir77 posted...

If they made a more classic styled HD 2D game with 16 bit sprites like the GBA games but realistic backgrounds and shadowing along with animated sprites like in B/W, a lot of older fans would be well on board with it, plus development costs surely wouldn't be too high. They could even limit the Pokemon in it to just be from the first few generations, but make it so that ALL of the Pokemon from those generations are available to catch.

I'm not sure this is true. That's basically appealing to people who like retro games. Given, many Pokemon fans would buy anything labeled a "main series" Pokemon game

And let's not pretend here that Nintendo and the Pokemon Company are strapped for cash and can't afford better games. That has never been the issue. Pokemon is the most profitable media IP in human history.

But the key is how it's he most profitable media IP in human history. It's not from the games themselves, but the merchandise. So in essence, the games need to keep coming out at a steady pace to fuel the merchandise sales, which is what they really care about. And it's been definitively proven that the quality of the games don't matter in regards to the merchandise sales, as along as they keep coming out.

argonautweakend posted...

I actually dont know much about Hasan other than his dog issues which I dont care about(only because its everywhere, and i am unfamilliar with the specifics. dog abuse is terrible)

The tldr is Hasan uses a shock collar on his dog to keep it on the small bed in camera on his stream, likely to improve his stream performance (animals on camera statically have this effect). After he was caught doing it (he's been doing it for a long time after people looked at past streams, but he was recently caught doing it), he poorly lied about it, further proving he was using a shock collar, than people started making fun of him for using a shock collar just to keep his dog on camera and making lots of memes. Him and his influencer friend group kept coming up with new, different explanations for the shock collar, which further made it seem like they were lying.

The concept is not inherently bad but...

Blue_Thunder posted...

It's generally a trap that ensnares the poor and financially illiterate.

This is usually their main purpose.

It's to get the same people who use credit cards for "advanced purchases" for stuff they can't actually afford.

Just be a weeb and play anime games. Problem solved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHEXAjdo44A

I've don't watch late night show videos on youtube but youtube keeps recommending them over and over. And won't stop recommending no matter what. I don't care what a late night show host's opinion is on whatever the current hot topic is.

Funnily enough, asking google's AI why youtube keeps recommending late night show videos, its answer is because "the algorithm thinks your interested in them", where as asking grok, grok says because youtube thinks those videos will make youtube the most money.

Gore and jump scares are basically the modern horror movie in a nutshell.

"I want to see other people to find out if I like them better than you but I want you to reserve yourself for me in case it doesn't work out".

Muscles posted...

Yeah but if that happened you aren't a superhero, you are just a guy with superpowers that got himself killed, in order to be a superhero you need to actually do some heroic shit, so even if you aren't bullet proof you would, by definition, not get yourself killed before you become a hero

I was referring to how a mass majority of the super heroes and villain's in the worlds of super hero storylines are typically in no way shape or form immune to bullets and modern weaponry, and the fact that they haven't been shot dead is a handwave for the story to work, because they can't have every super villain (or hero) be on that power level. The lack of lethality of blunt force trauma is also a handwave typical in super hero stories, where it seems like blunt force is always non lethal and only bullets and sharp objects can actually kill people.

The story says the hero is "holding back", but than you see them toss a guy with a regular body across the room into a wall, and throw people through solid wood desks, and the criminals are "just knocked out" but otherwise perfectly fine with no permanent injuries.

Again, not claiming that super hero stories need to be realistic, just that they do rely on a lot of conveniences and handwaves to work.

Muscles posted...

Also you could have bullet proof costume/armor, or just be smart enough to not get yourself shot, like most depictions of Batman where he works from the shadows. You can't get yourself shot if the people with guns can't see you or know you are there

Then when he's in the Justice League storylines he's punching people in board daylight with Superman, Wonder Women, and Green Lantern, and often being portrayed as somehow contributing that way in a manner that matters.

And yeah, I know that's one of the bad depictions.

Revelation34 posted...

That wouldn't work on somebody with powers like Magneto's.

How does Magneto's powers not qualify as making him immune to modern weapons? He obviously is.

The in universe counter to magneto, fully plastic guns and bullets, and plastic vehicles and robots that have no metal wiring or any metal parts whatsoever, don't actual exist IRL.

And depending on the version of Magneto he sometimes just has a shield that can block things that are non magnetic.

Which is the point, he's one of the exceptions.

SinisterSlay posted...

More convenient 100% of super crime happens in New York

Realistically if super powers existed people wouldn't use them to be costumed super villains or vigilantes that work for free.

First of all, if your super power doesn't make you bullet proof, or immune to modern weapons, trying to be a super hero or villain that runs head first into battle is just suicide. You'll be killed within a week.

Banks IRL don't have too much physical money on site because they know robberies can happen, banks in super heroes stories consistently have vaults full of gold bars.

If you just wanted money why use your super power for crime? Many super powers effectively give you a huge advantage in the job market nobody can compete with, and even if you wanted to use your power for violence you could become a mercenary, which is legal.

And nobody would intentionally commit crimes in a city where a far more powerful super hero has beat them unconscious up 10+ times already.

The point being, there are a lot of conveniences and handwaves in super hero stories for the story to work at all.

To be clear, as I know not everyone follows this news, Visa has been refusing service to sites with anime porn and even IRL dating sites in Japan since a few months ago (long before these Collective Shout lunatics got involved) actually putting some of them out of business, with Visa Japan's CEO very openly and smugly claiming they can and will do whatever they want to "protect their brand".

Visa and Mastercard have also been called into congress several times about their abusive duopoly position, controlling 90% of the payments processing systems on the planet. To which they usually just roll their eyes to knowing congress can't do crap about it.

I feel like, if anything, based on their previous behavior, Visa and Mastercard wanted to start censoring anime games outside of Japan anyway, and just used these Collective Shout lunatics as their perfect excuse to do what they wanted to do already, while having them absorb the blame (which they are very proudly doing).

Damn_Underscore posted...

The organization that caused this is called Collective Shout

Humble_Novice posted...

They're a conservative group that's looking to censor anything they deem "immoral".

To be clear, as I know not everyone follows this news, Visa has been refusing service to sites with anime porn and even IRL dating sites in Japan since a few months ago (long before these Collective Shout lunatics got involved) actually putting some of them out of business, with Visa Japan's CEO very openly and smugly claiming they can and will do whatever they want to "protect their brand".

Visa and Mastercard have also been called into congress several times about their abusive duopoly position, controlling 90% of the payments processing systems on the planet. To which they usually just roll their eyes to knowing congress can't do crap about it.

I feel like, if anything, based on their previous behavior, Visa and Mastercard wanted to start censoring anime games outside of Japan anyway, and just used these Collective Shout lunatics as their perfect excuse to do what they wanted to do already, while having them absorb the blame (which they are very proudly doing).

YoukaiSlayer posted...

True. I wonder if we the public will ever get to know what was really going on. It's kinda bizarre, like, even if you have no morals, this seems like the worst money to steal. People with millions of collective viewers are gonna know it's gone missing. Like, how could you think you'd be able to get away with it? It's one thing when people skim money from the top and hope no one notices, but this is skimming money from the bottom and everyones gonna notice. Frankly surprised it didn't come to light a lot sooner.

I remember reading about another company a long time ago that managed content creators, and I can't remember the details anymore, that did something similar, they withheld payments for many months, kept telling their content creators that their money was coming and not go public about it, then one day just fired everybody and ran with the money. Obviously, the content creators went public about it but the could never get that money back. And while the news was public, as the company owners were never public figures and went into hiding to begin with it wasn't that easy for the public to go after them.

Now, Vshojo's owners haven't officially run away with the money and gone underground, yet, I'm just saying if the goal is just to gather as much money as possible before you get caught and run, it's been successfully done before.

It's the old Gabe Newell quote.

Piracy is a service problem.

It usually happens when companies insist it's their legal right to be unreasonable and consumers should just eat it.

Guess what music industry, nobody wants to pay $50 for a CD with 19 songs they've never heard of before to get the 1 song they did want. So people pirated that. You're making less money now you have to sell individual songs and have a harder time strong arming people?

Boo hoo.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's confusing because there was never meant to be any direct continuity between all of the games (though occasionally games like the first two would be linked - no pun intended). But then fans whined about trying to figure out how all the games fit together in the timeline, so Nintendo eventually said "ehh, fuck it" and came out with something that sort of worked.

That's exactly what happened.

But now, Nintendo has committed hard to the timeline being a thing, even though, aside from the games that are direct sequels, the sperate Zelda games basically still don't matter to each other.

Personally, I never understood why people wanted Nintendo to make an official timeline for them, or why to them, all these separate Zelda games needed to be on a timeline to "make sense", but if they are happier for it then whatever.

If we are talking about only making IRL fire and ice than fire is more useful because you are creating energy from nothing and real life ice isn't generically useful.

If we are talking about the magical version of fire and ice powers than you can use ice as projectiles, armor, and to create any number if useful objects to use in daily life and while fire would still excel at destroying things more I doubt that's more useful to more people unless your profession puts you actively in combat.

Is this casino propaganda?

Casino games are mathematically designed to favor the house so they'll always gain more than they lose over time through the laws of probability (as long as they have enough customers).

And in the case someone is just really lucky, or cheating in a way the casino can't figure out, and are consistently winning too much money, they'll just tell you to cash out your winnings and leave (and don't come back). At the end of the day they're a private business and they don't have to serve you if they don't want to.

It's probably just a numbers thing.

Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, and Street Fighter just make more money, so they put money into making those instead.

Best Megaman gets are some re-releases of old games and retro style games which are cheap to make.

adjl posted...

Thinking about it, if you only need one copy of Mario Kart to play with a few friends online and can pass the virtual game card around a family group as desired, that does help to offset the extra cost. It's still worse than buying a single copy at $60 and being able to play with four people locally, but it's a lot better than all four people needing to buy their own $60 copies, so I guess that's a plus.

$80 is still pricey, though. Gotta love global trade being totally upended because reasons.

I'm not an international trade expert but a quick google says "reasons" does not apply to "digital goods", only "tangible goods".

"Different strokes for different folks", some people do find "attacking" or "letting out their frustration" in a violent fashion relaxes them. Doubly so if they would have done so anyway on people (usually the people closest to them) if they didn't have an alternative to let out their frustration in a safe way.

Given, usually people do this at a gym, with a punching bag or something, having to pay to enter what is basically an amusement park attraction that has to restock everything after they're broken sounds like it can get expensive very fast.

I have also seen scam versions of this idea where they just bring people to the woods that they say is a "safe space" where you can scream, stomp, and break sticks (that were already in the woods) without being judged, which of course has basically no overhead and you could have just gone to the woods yourself to do that.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

fuck yeah it's like odyssey but better

I think "it's a modern Ubisoft open world game that plays like a modern Ubisoft open world game" was basically the expectation from the start, it's a matter if if you're into the "Ubisoft Formula" or not.

The people who go on Jeopardy are not geniuses in all manners of topics, they literally study trivia that often shows up in trivia games. Their actual skill is studying and memorization.

And the trivia questions they select for Jeopardy are chosen by people looking for trivia questions for games.

So the answer is because if they had video game trivia beyond the very surface level nobody would know the answers because none of the contestants studied those questions.

Now, if elaborate video game trivia became standard trivia questions that showed up in trivia games and Jeopardy often, then there would be trivia research materials on that subject available to study, and the Jeopardy contestants would then study those questions and know the answers, even if they don't play video games.

Jeopardy is obviously more fair but I'm not going to tell you I have the trivia knowledge to be able to "play along" with it like Wheel of Fortune.

I mean, Sonic 3 looks like they tried to make a good movie, and Mufasa looks like, and from the reviews I've seem, is a soul less cash grab.

But the "live action" Lion King was a zero creativity soul less cash grab too and that made a billion dollars for some reason even though I've never heard anyone say anything about that movie aside from how the animated version was better.

No.

I'm hoping Net Navis from Megaman.exe become real one day.

If by "average" you mean, the endless amount of people trying to make it their career, but are unable to get any significant amount of views, or build an audience, I'd say a mass majority of them, like over 99% of them, are losing money by streaming, when time and cost of creating content is considered.

I would say, like "movie star" was the dream job of many young people in the past, that has mostly been replaced with "content creator".

The most interesting Superman stories are the ones where he loses his powers which is kind of telling.

Goku is himself an unwavering good guy idiot hero, which is also a problem, but I would argue what makes Goku's fights interesting is not Goku, but the villains he fights.

Because Dragon Ball keeps introducing new stronger villains to challenge Goku, even if Goku himself keeps getting stronger to the point it doesn't make much sense.

And despite lots of villains eventually becoming Goku's allies, the story still permits a lot of death.

You know Gwyneth Paltrow's Snake Oil business (Goop) is valued at $250 million as of 2022 right.

That's a better example of a mass scam being successful.

Elizabeth is an interesting companion, and the game has good spectacle.

Which I think made the game enjoyable by itself.

However, the story is basically a disaster that doesn't remember its own time travel/dimension travel rules.

Then the DLCs very questionably decide to backtrack what happened in the main game, defeating the entire point on the main game's story, and its themes.

While I didn't love Bioshock 1 as much as many others, I would still rate 1 and 2 above Infinite.

Maybe that wouldn't be the case if Infinite's story actually made sense, but it doesn't.

caprontos posted...

A lot of what Harris said she wants to do, Trump also wants to do. Why would they stonewall what they want to do? Also they can compromise, it doesn't have to be her way or the highway.

I imagine all the vacation time coming is more what gets in the way of them doing anything.

This is just standard 2 party politics.

You try to block everything the other party wants to do that can remotely be seen as good to the public then when the next elections come up loudly proclaim the other party hasn't done anything while the people suffered.

I'm not saying "only one party does this", BTW, this happens basically everywhere in the world where 2 parties vie for control of the government. They don't care if anything is actually done, only how they are perceived.

Zareth posted...

When someone who's bilingual speaks English and they just randomly add in words from their second language. I grew up in an area with a lot of kids who knew both English and Spanish and NONE of them ever did this. Is this just some shit writers do to show that someone is bilingual?

Depends on both the language and how fluent you are in it, and of course the person speaking.

Now, if you're asking why American made movies do this, it's has absolutely nothing to do with realism, because of course it doesn't.

It's done because they are making an English movie for a primarily English speaking audience, and want to give the feeling of a language other than English being spoken while having their primarily English speaking audience understand it without having to use lots of subtitles, because lots of people don't like subtitles.

SunWuKung420 posted...

No. But that is what your phone is.

Yeah, while Nintendo is certainly trying their very best to wipe the music they own from all corners of the internet, if you really wanted to wake up to licensed Nintendo music, you can just download the music somewhere and set the music as your alarm on your phone.

https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64872628/?ref_=tt_nwr_1

Joker: Folie Deux: $37.8 million

Morbius: $39 million

The Marvels: $46.1 million

I'm honestly surprised more people didn't go watch it just because the first movie was so popular, despite Joker 2's very poor pre-release word of mouth.

Dikitain posted...

Rumor is that Todd Philips intentionally made it as bad as possible out of protest for being asked to make a sequel.

I mean, I'm sure they paid him a huge amount of money to do it too. Saying he made an intentionally bad movie purely out of spite seems a bit cope, like, you believe an artist is above wanting huge amounts of money.

Judging by how it's bombing at the box office, I'm pleasantly surprised by how most people seem to have collectively agreed that Joker 1 was a great self contained story that didn't need a sequel, and Joker 2 is a soul-less cash grab that was only made because the first movie made so much money, to the extent that most people didn't even bother to go see it.

Even if there were I expect data entry will be one of the jobs big companies are going to try and replace with AI sooner rater than later.

SomeUsername529 posted...

The whole ethos of DBZ is that potential is meaningless and grit is everything. You'd have to be uncommonly determined to want to do Goku's training routine but if you were 100% certain it would result in flying laser fight power you'd probably stick with it.

The reason the saiyans were all killed, originally by Frieza, and later retconned to have been Frieza under the orders of Beerus, was because the saiyans were a danger to everyone due to their combination of violence and limitless growth potential.

While there are repeated themes of the strongest not being those who necessarily look traditionally strong or scary, there aren't really themes of anyone being able to fight at the strongest level just because they train hard enough.

Fighting level wise as the story progressed pretty much everyone gets left behind on the good guy side aside from the surviving saiyans, because of their limitless growth potential (also even the other saiyans aside from Goku and Vegeta stopped caring about getting stronger just for the sake of it).

There are a tiny handful of humans that can properly use Ki, but they are pretty much a joke on the power level scale. Given, while they are a joke on the power level scale, they can still fly and shoot energy blasts, but again, even in Dragon Ball only tiny handful of humans could accomplish this. What could you do with this power if you actually attained it? Cheat in competitions against normal people I guess, like they did in the Buu saga. The Buu saga being where, they dramatically raised the power level floor, but at the same time raised the power level ceiling. Literally in this story though everyone accepts only the saiyans have any remote chance of posing a threat against Buu, and focus all their efforts on specifically trying to power up the remaining saiyans, rather then train themselves.

Damn_Underscore posted...

I'm surprised Bulma is winning by so much

Bulma is the richest and smartest person on the planet vs an old pervert that could potentially train you to use Ki but it'd be pointless if you didn't have the potential for it in the first place?

???

Bulma at worst would tell you to leave her alone because you're beneath her.

Chi Chi would make you work.

Bulma has been responsible for saving Earth multiple times.

Even in modern times, the main reason Beerus hasn't destroyed earth, and keeps helping earth, is because Bulma keeps giving him high quality food.

I'm not really interested in these mass produced Bandai Namco 3D arena fighters they make with anime IPs. But don't let that stop you from enjoying them.

I don't follow Mr. Beast and don't care about the drama, but from an outsiders perspective, it sounds like one accusation became viral so everyone's jumping on the accusation bandwagon for attention, profit, and views.

Like, when one accusation towards a celebrity gains traction, then suddenly 50 people come out of nowhere with more accusations.

It's basically all semantics at this point. Competitive e-sports already exist without the help from traditional physical sports organizations.

That said, it's been pretty much impossible for most competitive gaming scenes to grow in any significant manner without a steady feed of cooperate money and direct support from the game's publishers, so there is nothing inherently wrong with someone else forking over they money for it to happen.

rjsilverthorn posted...

The overall response was negative at launch and after the first content drop and I haven't heard much about it since then. A lot of the hate was centered around it being a live service game but there were other issues with it as well. The concurrent player counts on Steam have been under 1000 for months now, so it is not a thriving game.

Well, it was a live service game nobody asked for that was forced on a studio famous for their single player games because every game's publisher wants to make the next Fortnite or die trying.

And to nobodies surprise trying to force a studio to make a live service game they have no experience in resulted in a poor game.

OhhhJa posted...

This is actually a pretty tough choice for me bit leaning toward Paris. Benefit of being in Paris would be that I could essentially visit most of Europe pretty easily. If I'm in Tokyo I can visit... well Japan. Both countries have great cuisine but hard to beat easy access to great bread and cheese. As for cons, I've heard both countries are pretty hostile toward foreigners

Also, as someone who likes to smoke weed pretty sure you'd be fucked if you got caught with weed in Japan. Probably not a big deal in France

From what I've heard it's mainly Paris where people are hostile.

According to Abroad in Japan he says in his decade of living in Japan (I don't think in Tokyo though) he's had dealings with openly racist people only a handful of times, but he does speak fluent Japanese so that cuts the cultural barrier significantly.

I just enjoy more Japanese things then French things, the hugest hurdle to living in Tokyo is the outrageous rent, but in this scenario it's already paid for.

That's kind of surprising, in the trailer it kind of seemed like they were pushing a "you're not a real american unless you believe in ????" narrative.

Smart in what?

People are not universally smart in everything, that's not how it works, you can be a rocket scientist and have no common sense, or knowledge of politics, or know how to repair your car.

And not being knowledgeable on a subject doesn't mean said person thinks they aren't. If anything, some people are more sure about subject the less they know about.

C0RNISHACID posted...

what's stopping him?

Because the technology to reach Mars alive to be able to die there doesn't currently exist.

Many people like to claim their response is "Fight" because it sounds cooler and "Flight" sounds cowardly but from my experience a pretty small amount amount of people actually have the automated reflex to attack things in a situation that triggers the "fight-or-flight" response rather than retreat or shrink away.

And I do mean, your automated reflex when you sense danger, not you thinking about it a bit and deciding you rather fight than run.

Given, you can train to change your fight-or-flight response to default to fight rather then flight, but very few people do this outside of combat training.