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Sad_Face posted...

I am not arguing they were right. I'm stating that even Nintendo (specifically one of the late presidents of the company) considered and rejected your point. Regards to whether or not they were right, I don't have an opinion formulated for it currently.

Fair enough. Definitely shouldn't undervalue employee morale.

Sad_Face posted...

Nintendo was well off even before the success of the DS and could have survived if the DS flopped. However, Yamauchi discussed how the DS was a big deal to Nintendo morale-wise and they would have been in dire straits from a non financial standpoint had the DS not take off.

So I think the war chest point is a very shallow point since it ignores the intricacies supporting the personnel who need to be invigorated to generate successful products. A company going through a decade of flops is going to have a very, very difficult time climbing out of that hole even if they have the money to weather that seemingly perpetual storm.

Okay, what does that change about people who are saying Nintendo was done back during the Wii u? Are you arguing that they were right because continued failures would have caused Nintendo to eventually collapse in 3 decades due to morale problems? Because the only point I was actually making is that saying Nintendo is done back then was a nonsense statement.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

I mean, no. 7 has the materia system to customize each character to almost anything you want. 9 has abilities tied to gear which can let you mix and match what each character will excel at.

16 has basically nothing. Like literally. Even the accessories are awful (5% extra damage, cool). I don't think anything you said is really true as plenty of older FF games had plenty of actual customization. FF12 Zodiac let's you multi class which really opens the options. FF5 and 3 have the entire job system. Some of them are just plain level ups, but even 6 gives you the opportunity to mix and match with the gear and accessories

16 gives you the absolute bare minimum and doesn't even do anything interesting with the eikons. Would have been far better if there was an elemental system to utilize the eikon abilities and when you mix and match them they CHANGE the element of the ability or look. They could have done far more than they did

But this is the thing, if you take a piecemeal interpretation of the features I mentioned then yes, there are games that do them. But when's the last final fantasy that did all of them? Saying well 16 isn't an RPG because three does this and six does this other thing and 12 does this other thing isn't really fair to that game. Especially when each of those features are isolated to a small portion of the overall main line series.

Also, not to be rude but you're really working with a superficial understanding of accessories if you think that all of them are just minor bonuses to stats. I guess if you skipped the side quests, didn't build reputation using the hunt board, and didn't hunt for chests it might seem that way, but there are definitely accessories like the berserk ring that completely change up how Dodge works and actually meaningfully altered my play style.

Nintendo has enough cash reserves to survive something like 50 straight years of Wii-U like financial failures before they're out of money. People who said Nintendo are done just have no idea what they're talking about.

edit (this article is from 2012):
https://www.gamesradar.com/nintendo-doomed-not-likely-just-take-look-how-much-money-its-got-bank/

Check this out for a completely not boring financial fact about Nintendo: Nintendo has 6.7 ($10.5) billion in the bank and, even if making big losses every year, that considerable nest egg would keep the company going until 2052.

Here's the exact quote taken from a feature in the latest issue of the UK's Nintendo Gamer magazine: "Buried in reams of financial data is the revelation that Nintendo have 812.8 billion Yen (6.7/$10.5 billion) in the bank - enough for it to take a 20 billion Yen loss (163/$257 million) every year until 2052. Then there's almost 469 billion Yen (3.8/$6.0 billion) held in premises, equipment and investments. When that runs out - we're in the year 2075 by this point - they've got some of the most valuable intellectual property in gaming to sell off before the company goes out of business."

Turbam posted...

Is this that bullshit game that no one cares about?

Nah. This is the interactive tv show thing that isn't even a game. The full list of projects is:
Ascension - an interactive show
Townfall - the game being done by a point and click adventure studio
2 remake - that's the one done by bloober that says they're done with scary games
"F" - this is probably the only actual SH-like game in the works that isn't a remake.
Return to Silent Hill - a new hollywood movie made by the guy who made the first one (and luckily nobody involved in the second)

Vampire Survivor is constantly giving you new toys, but if by progression you mean a feeling like you're more capable of beating it, I would recommend:Hades and Rogue Legacy (no idea of the sequel is good)

Kaldrenthebold posted...

I beat it and it's currently my GOTY by far but almost everything you said was more or less as basic as can possibly be. There is zero depth whatsoever, especially in terms of gear giving you +5 strength. Wow.

The ability tree is also not really there. There's no abilities, just your eikon abilities you get as you go on. And then there's just three moves you can upgrade once.

It's THERE, but it is all extremely limited and basic. I wouldn't say it's an RPG for that stuff. The long and awesome story and characters yeah they got that though

but how much more shallow it is compared to every other final fantasy is the question. Gear gives you +5 str.. okay. Isn't that how weapons and armor have worked in nearly every FF? It's just a stat boost, with the trinkets and rings being where weird abilities lie. How many final fantasies do anything beyond "buy the newest sword and armor in the next town and it's objectively better than what you have until endgame secrets"? That's like... all of them.

Same with the ability tree... most FFs don't even have one. You just get moves at certain levels and that's it. There isn't even the illusion of choice. Sure, you don't have a ton of options in terms of which moves you equip, but you HAVE options.

I'm not saying 16 is some incredibly mechanically rich RPG, but I feel like 16 does RPG about as well as every other Final Fantasy and simply because it's more action oriented in the battles it's become trendy to act like the game is somehow way short of everything else people want in a JRPG.

So like... is Blackbeard just being written out of the series? The dude was being set up as the main antagonist and now in the 0th hour here comes a whole new host of unbelievably powerful guys apparently so strong the entire world government caves to their every demand. The same WG that is apparently comfortable with putting a bounty on Blackbeard, so they're clearly not as afraid of him as they are of the gorosei.

It's a shame, because One Piece has always done such a good job of having the villains "level up" right alongside the heroes up until a point, and then I guess Oda got bored of Smoker, Teach, etc and decided to just replace them as a threat with some new, more powerful than everyone out of nowhere, villains.

Voidgolem posted...

DMC4 and 5, Scarlet Nexus, and probably the entire hunting-game genre would be up your alley, I think

Oh, that's a great point. TC might absolutely love monster hunter. There are heavy RPG elements in needing to bring the right equipment for the job, monsters absolutely can be staggered or knocked over, and you get just enough tactical combat that it's engaging.

VeggetaX posted...

Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control. Information control. Emotion control. Battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control. War has changed.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/2/0/AABJX0AAE5-E.jpg

Kaldrenthebold posted...

To be fair FF16 barely has any form of RPG elements

Honestly, I think 16 has plenty of RPG elements. People just want to hate on it.

You have multiple towns, you have your mid-game mount upgrade, you have equipment, you have leveling, you have an ability tree, you got chocobos and moogles and summons, there's crafting and upgrading, equipping different eikons, you have all the normal jrpg stuff involving churches and gods, etc.

Outside of turn-based combat and controlling the rest of your party, what other RPG elements are missing that you would find in more than half of the mainline final fantasies? Most of them don't even allow you to pick your moves when you level up.

War never changes.

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Actually, now they're claiming that the war started 10 years ago and the special military operation was designed to end it.

Time for Jon to return. There's no way he's happy just doing some no name apple plus show when he could be back home where he belongs.

The FF7 remake has a lot of similarities to the combat engine in 16.

Ratchetrockon posted...

so how do you guys scan the items correctly? it seems like the way i hold the items to the scanner is not ideal. idk the correct technique

If it's one of the self-checkouts that has the scanner gun, just use that. It's 10 times faster cuz it will scan as quickly as you pull the trigger and you can rotate it to whatever angle you need for the product. Otherwise I tend to just roll the item around the scanning spot until I hear a beep and that's usually pretty quick too.

It'll come out about 6 months after people stop calling Martin to ask for interviews and stuff. Even over covid there was an article like twice a year where he was being interviewed for stuff. Stop calling for interviews. Stop inviting him to galas. Stop asking about the book. Stop getting him to write spin-offs or video games.

Completely shut him off from fame and that man will finish the book in a weekend.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

I think it's Krogers thats demoing that cool af thing where you roll your cart into a little airport looking scanner thing and it rings up all your groceries at once. Fuck this caveman, scan one at a time bullshit

Amazon is tinkering with a model where you scan an Amazon membership card at the door and then AI tracks everything you pick up so when you're done you just... walk out of the store with your stuff and your Amazon account is automatically charged.

Fuck checkout entirely - that's the future right there.

Keep self checkout, but limit it to people with a handful of items. I'm perfectly happy ringing up three things myself if it gets me in and out, but when the self checkout line is longer than the regular lines because people have carts with like 50 articles of clothing in it that they're scanning and folding the whole thing feels like a giant parody.

Time for Jon's triumphant return.

I have no idea why they let the dog stay there after the first few bites, let alone 10. The dog is clearly some combination of anxious due to the environment and poorly trained and really doesn't have the temperament for a place that chaotic.

TC said the name!
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/8/3/AABJX0AAE5w_.jpg

DemonBuffet posted...

https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1709920998009803038?s=46&t=zide-xMmO1Jfbehl1xCCdw

But Biden vowed there wouldnt be another foot wall built under his administration?!

Biden also promised that he would cure cancer, so I don't know why people are acting like campaign trail promises are anything to base a vote on.

By the way, that wasn't hyperbolic above. He literally said it:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/06/12/joe-biden-says-hell-cure-cancer-campaign-stop-ottumwa-iowa/1429287001/

Speaking at a campaign stop in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Tuesday he discussed losing loved ones before making his promise.

"A lot of you understand what loss is and when loss occurs, you know that people come up to you and tell you 'I understand' if you lose a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter, a family member," he said. "That's why I've worked so hard in my career to make sure that I promise you if I'm elected president, you're going to see the single most important thing that changes America, we're gonna cure cancer."

FortuneCookie posted...

Are Republicans locked into funding Ukraine by this? Is the bill that builds the wall the same one that provides funding for Ukraine? If we're giving Republicans their wall on the promise that they will fund Ukraine in the future, we've as much as built that wall for nothing.

As far as I can tell, there's no relationship between Ukraine funding and this. That's just people making blind speculation. From the BBC article I listed above, this is using 2019 funding that's already been allocated for this:

In a statement to Associated News on Wednesday night, the US Customs and Border Protection defended the latest move, saying it was using funds already allocated for a border barrier.

"Congress appropriated fiscal year 2019 funds for the construction of border barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, and DHS is required to use those funds for their appropriated purpose," the statement said.

Unknown5uspect posted...

Yo lemme get the data on that.

I don't have any data on overstay, but the BBC is reporting the same numbers as that poster:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67015137

More than 245,000 crossings have been made this year in the Rio Grande Valley area alone, government data shows, and September is expected to be a record month.

US Border Patrol apprehended 181,059 people along the southern border in August compared with 132,648 in July, according to the latest data.

Mexico's president, Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, said that 10,000 people arrived at the border every day last week alone.

Russia is moving their Black Sea fleet from occupied Ukraine to occupied Georgia:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67017375

Russia will set up a naval base in the separatist Georgian region of Abkhazia, its leader has told Russian media.

Aslan Bzhania told the Izvestia tabloid his Moscow-backed region would soon host a "permanent point of deployment" for Russia on the Black Sea coast.

It comes as Ukraine increases its attacks on Russia's Black Sea fleet. Two weeks ago, Kyiv struck the fleet's headquarters in Crimea.

You're as likely to get that shaman dude who is apparently also "running for speaker" now that he's out of jail.

TonyKojima posted...

And when it doesn't happen then what?

Then they'll know that the tin foil worked.

Solar_Crimson posted...

And it's odd that they don't even touch the manga stuff, for some silly rights reason.

Saving the new manga stuff for when it gets animated so it can be an anime tie-in event because those make more money.

Sounds like they need another spinoff show to generate new character designs for all their gatcha games, which is where the real profit is happening.

Cut it in half lengthways, gently dampen the crust with water (it will soften it in the oven), and put a spread of butter and garlic (and whatever else) on the inside halves before sticking it back together. Heat at 350(?) for 5 to 10 minutes.

Where does OG Dragon Ball cover art Bulma sit on your list?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/7/AABJX0AAE5Zd.jpg

Bioshock 2 just suffers from being after Bioshock 1. The gameplay was better, but it wasn't as shockingly new, and the story was just "rapture again, but opposite day" which felt like it was copying itself. If the order was reversed we'd probably all prefer 2, but that's just not how it happened.

Kimberly posted...

Yeah, it is definitely a thing.

There is a misunderstanding floating around that you can't talk about Vegy. That's not the full story of it, though. The only thing is that you can't talk about other people's suspensions, a decision made well before anything happened to Vegy's account. Some people tried to circumvent this, and they were moderated. Like a game of telephone, that became 'don't say his name' and a race to outdo each other.

I can only ask that people not participate in it. We do have to intervene when little board jokes balloon into legitimate disruption of the boards, and we don't like doing it.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80584262

You were saying?

Feel free to use this topic to talk about your favorite Vegy moments. The mods have explicitly stated we can talk about Vegy as much as we want as long as it isn't within the context of account status (see below).

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80584249#17
Kimberly posted...

Yeah, it is definitely a thing.

There is a misunderstanding floating around that you can't talk about Vegy. That's not the full story of it, though. The only thing is that you can't talk about other people's suspensions, a decision made well before anything happened to Vegy's account. Some people tried to circumvent this, and they were moderated. Like a game of telephone, that became 'don't say his name' and a race to outdo each other.

I can only ask that people not participate in it. We do have to intervene when little board jokes balloon into legitimate disruption of the boards, and we don't like doing it.

Every call on the planet has been suffering from higher than usual call volumes for decades now.

As someone who's been a longtime defender of the site, its TOS, and the mods: no. I actually joined a few reddit channels recently, something I have never once done up until this point, as a trial run to see what it's like in anticipation of bailing on gamefaqs entirely if it keeps trending in the direction it's already going.

You'd probably get something like how protests work in Japan, where people keep going into work but just refuse to charge customers:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/11/no-ticket-to-ride-japanese-bus-drivers-strike-by-giving-free-rides-okayama

Australia did something similar:
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/farefree-buses-thursday-but-no-buses-friday-afternoon-as-drivers-strike-20170725-gxi8zz.html

Did people think Netflix was going to be the one paying out those newly agreed upon streaming residuals?

Dark_Arbron posted...

Jacob?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benjamin

Not since Sargon ran for parliament will a campaign fail so spectacularly.

Fuck WizPig.

SayHeyyShohei posted...

All but a few fringe scholars believed in gravity too.

Aristocrats taking power after the middle ages and wanting to exert their dominance by taking over the language in an attempt to flex the suppression of society is a much more realistic scenario than one fucking man writing hundreds of books and having it completely change how society talks.

It was a method of oppression and that's it.

Okay, 63 karma alt with nearly 600 posts. Whatever you say.

SayHeyyShohei posted...

Shakespeare wasn't a real person but a collective of writers. It's why a lot of "his" works are very inconsistent in narrative yet similar in themes. The latter of course happening because it's easier for multiple people to tell the same story twice than it is for one person.

Note to other posters: this is considered a fringe theory that the overwhelmingly majority of scholars don't agree with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question

Although the idea has attracted much public interest,[2][a] all but a few Shakespeare scholars and literary historians consider it a fringe theory, and for the most part acknowledge it only to rebut or disparage the claims.

Depends. I'm not under the illusion that if my work week was cut by 20% that my pay wouldn't see a similar reduction, and that extra day off doesn't get me a discount on my bills.

EDIT: but the whole debate is, IMO, kind of worthless, because saying something like "when polled, most people would accept a reduced work week at the same pay" is kind of meaningless. No shit people would prefer to work less at no negative. I'm sure when polled most people would accept no work at the same pay, too, but that's not a statement we try to base policy on.

Depending on whether you believe him entirely or not, it's worth higlighting that the cost of defending himself against Billy Mitchell's (multiple) lawsuits against him is in the range of $180K a year.

Note that the article below is from 2022 so I believe at least 1 of the lawsuits has been resolved at this point, but it's a benchmark on cost nevertheless:
https://www.thegamer.com/billy-mitchell-donkey-kong-sues-karl-jobst-youtuber/

With this new legal action, Mitchell will now have three active defamation claims against Jobst.

Jobst reveals that defending himself against these lawsuits has cost $180,000 in the past year alone. He estimates that another $100,000 will be spent before they conclude.

So while I prefer Karl's speedrunning videos, I'm not going to hold it against him for doing all these Billy videos, both to defend his channel and reputation against accusations from Billy's camp, but also to actually cover the costs so Billy doesn't just drown Karl in legal debt until he folds.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Has Billy tried to sue Karl yet?

He's already suing him, yea.

thronedfire2 posted...

being the same as it was a year ago is skyrocketing?

not to mention our gas is still $2-4 per gallon less than Europe

You can't really compare US prices for most of Europe because we buy crude and refine it ourselves. Many European countries don't have the industry to do that, so they have to buy fully refined gasoline. At no point should the cost of gas in America come anywhere close to the price of gas in Europe because if it does it means that we are buying crude and refining it and seeing literally no savings from that process versus just buying refined gasoline over from overseas.