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@JackGYarwood No prob. I live for fixing minor mistakes.

Powermonger on SNES was a game I rented a few times and loved, even though I never got far.

Utopia I bought on a whim on SNES and I ADORED!! Many find memories of this game. Difficult game, but very rewarding. And hauntingly beautiful music.

Ps. Fragile Allegiance, not Alliance.

@KingMike The DOS game and the SNES game look nothing alike, and they only share the name and the publisher, Interplay. They are two very different games.

The DOS game is a very DOS-like RPG, much like Ultima, with keywords being used to offer branching dialogue, which is also a mainstay of a lot of DOS adventure games of the times.

The SNES game was a lot more straightforward. More action adventure than RPG. The graphics were also completely different. Really atmospheric music, I remember.

I never got very far in either games, but they hold a special place in my heart nonetheless.

That is smort. Good to listen to feedback and doing something with it.

@rpgaymer You never heard that interpretation?

The current youth, or at least a few years back, called us boomers, not because we were born in the 40s, but because we might as well have been as far as they're concerned, being in our 40s.

And since it's fun to piss on us, the shooters that we grew up with, the pioneers of the genre, would be given that name, not because it is correct, but because it's funny to rile us up. And it works. (Not on me, but... you know...)

And it is 100% the correct interpretation. Kids told us 40-somethings "Okay, boomer" to basically tell us we're old, and that name was jokingly given to the resurgence of OG Doom inspired games. It's basically the same term as "old school", which I can tell you also has very little to do with educational institutions.

I mean, the SMB cart is pretty iconic, and it shows better popped up than flat on the table. It's just to show some older tech, and it did the job. This wasn't aimed at gamers, but it sure caught their attention!

Except for the ever present fan-service (guess I have ti either accept it or just not watch animé), Goblin Slayer was really good. Pretty grounded storyline. Hopefully this will be in a similar vein.

Wait, what? Virtual Console Reviews is family of Hookshot? Guess I was a family member for far longer than I thought...

Greatly enjoyed that site for a fair while.

While I can no longer enkoy these types of games, the platformy stuff destroys my suspension of disbelief, I will say this looks incredible.

It channels the NES vibe without trying to look exactly like a NES game. Well done!

@Peteykins Make Amico Great Again?

@antdickens One of the owners even? Well, well... I feel honored.

And no, I am not perpetually online, I just happened to be the second you reacted. Haha.

I swear!

@antdickens Ah, I take it you are a writer for this site, then? Sorry, didn't recognize that.

No, no, quality journalism isn't tied to any particular topic. You can write seriously and journalistically about fun subjects. Now if only the serious stuff was still reported by serious people in the US.

And there is your other problem. Populist parties buying up the media, so they can have their sock puppets, and European businesses seeing more and more the monetary opportunities from such an approach. At least here most people still think with their brains, and we look just as much to the French people as we do American politics, so they don't yet dare to pull the same shenanigans.

But the internet is still a bit of a Wild West... butnyou bring the right mix. I love reading artickes and this site is one of my faves.

Ps. I like how you snuck in that long dash and italic in there in there. Very a.i. of you.

@antdickens Oh, absolutely. I was offering it as a different take, not necessarily against the original, but just something to ponder. So yeah, you're right, it's a combination.

But blaming the downfall of journalism squarely on ai... I don't feel that way.

And I can't say it's comparable to CDs killing records, or Spotify killing CDs, it's not entirely the same... However, on the other hand, if people want slop, they want slop. Plenty folks say records are superior to CDs and CDs are superior to Spotify, and technically they are correct, but if people are content with slop, they will eat slop.

Doesn't make it less terrible for the people affected, but hey, welcome to capitalism, I guess... My guess is nobody is reading it anyway, but the bots are sending bot traffic that way so they can tell the advertisers that they have a lot of traffic... It's all the rich abusing the system.

Either do it in Gary's Mod style or not at all.

I've been thinking a lot about this piece, and if you would humor me, I have a different take.

Not saying I am right, but something to ponder.

I don't think this type of AI is taking over and killing the journalism industry. I think that some outlets are using this as a kneejerk reaction to being killed by something else. All the clickbait AI generated slop is there to get people to sites they aren't going to visit otherwise anyways.

I actually think it's the crap that Instagram, TikTok and other such outlets pump out at an insane rate that is killing journalism. People have become addicted to doomscrolling through absolute crap. Sure, it started with funny cat videos, and you can say "TikTok challenges" aren't doing squat to journalism, but that's all interspersed with bite sized very much faux journalism hoping not for clickbait, but worse, ragebait, that is rendering people completely unable to keep their attention for longer than three seconds to read an article. Heck, reading at all is out the door, unless it is coupled with an atrocious AI powered female voice that should infuriate us all, but is apparently popular enough to continue to be used.

So, short clips of podcasts from people who are in no way, shape or form an authority on any of the subjects they present are the new way people consume their """news""".

Journalism is dying because people's attention spans are being murdered by social media. Some outlets are simply trying to keep their heads above the water in the worst possible way.

Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

Funny I had the same little argument over the word decimate a little while back on another site.

I personally love AI for getting me inspired, but as with any tool, hoes included, it can be used for its intended purpose, or abused with ill intent.

And this one is VERY easy to abuse.

@Thedashfox Sorry, you misunderstood. I didn't edit your comment, I meant I edited my own comment.

But you can see, under your comment, when you hover over the heart icon, you see Reply - Edit - Delete - Report, and you can edit your own comment.

@Nischenliebhaber clCorrect. I am pretty good at prompting, but I know my students aren't, haha. So there's that... I guess that was all I was thinking of when I said that.

@Thedashfox You can edit your comments, if you still want to.

Edit: I just did.

I think S3 is set 15 years after 2. I don't want to spoil too much, so I will just say there are some returning characters, not too many, but storylines are continued in a very cool way. It is a different main story, but it is also in a way a continuation of 1 and 2.

I absolutely adore ChatGPT, but you have to know what to use it for, and where it falters.

I am a tabletop wargaming enthusiast, and the hobby ideas that are generated from going back and forth with ChatGPT are nothing short of phenomenal. It is amazing at it, and has a strong sense of humor too.

But asking it to fact check something, isn't the best thing to do.

I also tried to see if he could create a sort of "Choose your own adventure", and it started out amazing! I was really immersed, until things became illogical. Suddenly someone else was on the roof, I suddenly had a walkie talkie where I had none, items were suddenly somewhere else. I had to retcon Chat quite a bit.

That said, he gave his best effort. If there was a choice of a, b or c, I could say none, or first a and then c, and he would just roll with it. It was fun.

But yeah, it's far from perfect. Still a lot of fun. I also use it for work.

@MSaturn @Gryffin Or maybe it means "Rules for thee but not for me"

That is how I read it anyways.

I wasn't aware this game had been ported. Cool!

I might actually get the collection, if the price is right.

Nah, I will stick with my pre-ordered SuperSega thank you very much! Can't wait till it finally releases!!

@HoyeBoye Yeah, I guess... but it doesn't sound like game development even then was really that cheap. Even unreleased, this had to have cost a small fortune. Cabinets were even made. I'm all for parody, but even taken into account the era this was made in, still this is filled with the worst kind of toilet humor.

Wow.

That was...

Something!

That game wasn't even TRYING to be a good knock-off. I almost admire the badness.

Almost.

Him wanting to add the possibility of rpinying out a receipt on the GB Printer as a final high score is genius. Shame it didn't work but the idea itself is already awesome.

And he sounds like a right programming genius if he managed all this at age 13. He will definitely go places!

@PinballBuzzbro @PZT What are we missing? It doesn't sound like the worst name...??

@slider1983 They need to improve everything!

Imagine making cool drawings, turning it into a game, and the company that releases it is like "Burn EVERYTHING YOU *****!!!" up to the smallest doodle you made.

I am not a huge preservationist, but this is just awful behaviour from a company.

@gingerbeardman Mario Kart 64, probably...

At least as far as racing goes. I actually didn't play many racing games, but GT definitely took the cake as far as being uninteresting to me.

@Wezlypipz Well, I LOVE Azure Dreams, so...

Still, the grey haired dude in thatbartwork looks like it was drawn by me. I am not a terrible artist, but you can tell I don't draw for official publications.

As someone who is about as far removed from being a car enthusiast as can be, the game bored me to tears. I was more content building up my burnout meter, drifting through traffic at breakneck speeds, in games like Burnout.

I think it's for the best I have no driver's license.

Oof. The artwork looks... rough... and was that an advert? That looked, and sounded... rough too!!

I guess it's not always a shame when a game doesn't cross the pond.

But maybe it is a lot of fun to play regardless. In which case; Yay!

@mashk It's not nostalgia. The same was true for Amiga games. They just felt different from PC games, especially in the music department... and even between Sega and Nintendo, the games just had a completely different vibe. Nowadays, that's only really true for platform exclusive first party games.

Woaahhhh I played this game. Didn't remember the name, and onlynwhen you started talking about Alone in the Dark and ellipsoid graphics did a bell ring.

And yes, this game was definitely suspenseful and scary!

Time Extension can produce mind-boggling articles!

And as of today, I now understand the name Parodius comes from "parody" and "Gradius".

I am not ashamed of myself.

Never seen an MSX in action, but I knew of it, and as the article mentions, that's probably because I live in the Netherlands.

The setting doesn't really appeal to me (skeleton bikers, trains... no), but I will say, this is how you do NES inspired graphics and gameplay, employing modern effects but still keeping the feeling. It looks well done, so while not for me, I salute their creativity and wish them many sales!

None if the animation is as choppy as the Castlevania series. I could NOT get into this show because of the choppy animation. Also, if there was ever a series that deserved an actual Japanese animé style, it would've been this one. I am just not a fan of the Western take on it.

I wouldn't have needed to resort to importing if the EU would've just gotten us.. oh, I dunno...

Final Fantasy 3
Chrono Trigger
Breath of Fire
Super Mario RPG

Need I go on? At least we got Terranigma, so there's that.

Though I will admit the importing and different looking carts, along with the difficulties of getting them to play, made them even more special than they already were.

@Lowdefal I was listening to a dance track that I could perfectly read that on, and it sounded amazing in my head.

Got it for free, now I just need to find some time for free. And that will never happen.

Not the AI we wanted to see go. Too bad they couldn't finish the alphabet.

So what I am reading is Nightdive saying something that makes no sense, as Gokdeneye isn't a Nintendo property, and then following that up with a "No comment".

Yeah... no.

Personally, I am not glad. I generally despise fourth wall breaking stuff, especially in JRPGs. But maybe I was never the intended audience for this game. It's not like I loved the original. I got horribly stuck and found the encounters too cumbersome as well...

Those graphics are mind-boggling!!

Seeing as early Sid Meier games and those like it are my jam, this looks better to me than the "real" game.

I don't even play Doom, but this is how you support your legacy, people!! Not just release it again, but making sure it gets even better.

And they sell it for peanuts, so the fact that they continue their support just screams a love of the game from the devs. They don't HAVE to do this, but here we are.... wonderful.

Many devs and publishers can learn from this. They won't, but they can!

@-wc- I am far from an expert in the field of SaGa, but they are an oddball series for sure. None of them really have a connection to the others, so there really isn't a place to start, just whichever strikes your fancy the most.

The SNES Romancing games were pretty much Final Fantasy but with highly obtuse systems. That is basically the defining factor that makes it a SaGa game, an obtuse system that nobody really understands. A few of them also have this generational system in it, where you continue the game with one of your offspring, which in itself is a mini-game.

Should you play them? Well... do you like JRPGs? Are you okay with oddness? I'd say the first few, the Game Boy ones, have since shown their age plenty. I wouldn't go for those. The SNES ones are available on Switch. The remake of last year of Romancing Saga 2 looks cool, and Saga Frontier 2 has that delightful PSX vibe going, so if you're into that time period, that's another good one. I personally didn't like the look of Saga Frontier 1. Unlimited Saga isn't currently available, I don't think, but I remember it was a hugely divisive game, probably the most difficult and obtuse of them all.

I am sure you know of the existence, but https://www.nintendolife.com/guides/best-saga-games-of-all-time-switch-and-nintendo-systems

No idea on the stylization, but knowing the Japanese, it probably just "looked cool".

@smoreon @drypaphmrbro - Thank you both for the clarification. So not only is the game still terrible, the start-up is even worse?

Nice!

@amishpyrate Hmmm... I appreciate the info, but honestly... selling weapons is selling weppons, whether or not you sell them to the "good guys".

It is a can of worms I will happily put the lid back on, because I also understand the necessity to arm nations against those who wish to do harm, but the lines are pretty darn grey these days on who the good guys are.