Chinesus

Chinesus

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Re: Modder Builds "The Ultimate Game Boy"

Chinesus

I absolutely love my Game Boy Colour, I've still got the one my parents bought me in 1999 so I could play Pokemon Red. It's insane just how durable they are, aside from having to replace the speaker that Game Boy still works perfectly to this day.

I also bought a second, ratty Game Boy Colour so I could mod it with an aftermarket case, buttons and an IPS backlit screen. It looks absolutely gorgeous but that screen chews through AAs horrendously quickly. Really need to add the LiPo battery mod to that Game Boy at some point.

Actually playing on the original hardware just isn't that great nowadays though, all the limitations with the hardware are extremely apparent and there are far nicer ways to play old GB games now. Steam Decks are pricey but they're incredible emulation machines.

Re: Flashback: When Hideo Kojima Argued Over Policenauts' Bouncing Boobs With Sony

Chinesus

@Carck Nice to have a differing opinion with someone on a comments section and it be civil to be fair! In this case it wasn't just a woman running around in a bikini, at the time when the controversy came about he said something along the lines of "There's a really good reason for why she's a half naked sniper in a warzone, you'll all feel really silly when you find out the reason why when the game comes out" and then that reason turned out to be "she breathes through her skin".

The thing is GTA is meant to be the edgiest of the edgiest, it's meant to hit all the wrong buttons. MGS4 gets played off as a serious war drama so there is a fair amount of thematic dissonance in a game discussing PTSD and mental trauma but also at the same time saying "Hey why don't you take some risque pictures of these people". Like I said, I'm 100% not against bikinis and half naked women, but in an industry that already has a very poor reputation for the treatment of women in both real life and in game a lot of what Hideo says and does comes across as greasy and the kind of thing a 14 year old would say.

Speaking of things a 14 year old would say, that's a real boring take there @Gamer83. Please go back to the Call of Duty lobbies where your opinion probably means something, because you clearly have nothing of interest to add to any discussion involving adults. Perhaps you could even find a job with Blizzard because you seem to have the same mentality as them.

Re: Flashback: When Hideo Kojima Argued Over Policenauts' Bouncing Boobs With Sony

Chinesus

@Carck I did, and although it's not an extreme example it's one more thing in a long line of things that show what he regards as important is slightly to incredibly questionable.

I'm not a puritan and I'm entirely not against sexy in media and art but when you have someone who decides a game (MGS4) should feature an option for you to take risque pictures of a group of women who are extremely mentally damaged and suffering from PTSD in the middle of a section of the game where you're fighting them it just comes across as incredibly greasy.

And that's just one example from one game, people quite rightly called out Quiet when she was first introduced as an example of an oversexualised character in a video game with no real reason or context for why she's oversexualised, something games in general have had a massive problem with, and Hideo's explanation for why was hilariously bad.

Re: Kickstarter Goes Live For GameBook, A New Guide To The Game Boy

Chinesus

@purplesodium It's not just the fact that Game Boy wasn't in the title though, there was that Unofficial MD/GEN book that by all accounts should have been fair use but was cancelled because it was facing legal action by Sega and I swear Nintendo did the exact same thing to another fanmade book recently.