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Re: "Of All The GenAI Slops You've Ever Seen, This Is The Sloppiest Of Them All" - The Oliver Twins Tarnish Their Legacy Further With 'Wizard Of Oz' Board Game

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@OliverTwins I think the key difference here is that the people against what you were putting down back then were old codgers, and you were the new kids on the block, with a fresh way of looking at things. But now, you guys have been around long enough to see yourself become the old guys wagging their finger at the youth. These are not the old guard who dismissed you, they are the next generation who will be the ones who decide how your catalogue is remembered. They're worth listening to.
If you speak closely with millennials and gen Z, you'll see that a plurality of them are strongly against AI, and believe its mass use via baby boomers and gen X is indicative of them lowering their bar of quality and giving up on being consistent with the ethics they taught their kids and grandkids. Growing up, your generation taught mine about the importance of not taking shortcuts to a job well done, and not engaging in plagiarism. AI contravenes those sentiments harshly, and it's jarring for those who remember.
You are visual artists, and people like your art because you have a consistent sense of style, and your art has the strength of your personality behind that. People categorically do not see this when they look at AI-generated imagery, they just see filler. It lacks your personality when others see it, regardless of what you see in it. You're in here trying to convince a bunch of steakhouse regulars that mechanically-separated chicken is basically the same thing, and it falls flat.
With respect, your reasoning doesn't add up either. If it's squarely meant for families and their kids, why does it have a Kickstarter? Kids don't have Kickstarter. If it's an experiment to appeal to kids, why a 126-year-old IP? Why not just pick up one of the dozens of Wizard of Oz board games/tabletop games that already exist, with human-made art, at a cheaper price?
I get that you're proud of what you came up with, but you're fighting an uphill battle here, and it's really not a hill worth fighting for.
When people looked at Barry Bonds, they didn't care how good his muscles looked, they cared that he violated the social contract, which is what AI use feels like to your fans.
When everyone can generate The Wizard of Oz out of whole-cloth, why would anybody go to a Kickstarter and wait a long time so they can pay for it?
People have solid reasons to dislike this, conscious and unconscious, some of them are even instincts rooted in evolutionary psychology, like the "contagion heuristic". It's not cruelty for the sake of cruelty, and it's not coming from the place of old people misunderstanding like it was with your forebearers.
I don't want to burst your bubbles, because your passion sounds sincere, but this'll be reflected in the Kickstarter numbers. I get that looking at your own AI output can be cool, but for the rest of us, it's like trying to read your own tea leaves to someone else. All we see is the crud left over, the waste left behind after the person to who it's interesting has drank their glass.
The next generation is telling you that you're wrong about this. You can future-proof yourselves by listening to what they have to say and empathize with their concerns, or you can dismiss them, at the risk of joining the ranks of oh so many Principal Skinners. Heed his famous words: "Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong."

Re: "We All Know How This Will End" - Kirby's Dream Land 2 & 3 Are Getting Unofficially Ported To PC, But Will Nintendo Step In?

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@Damo yeah well I'd argue you're demoralizing the people who work on these projects with unneeded anxiety and are having a chilling effect on people making cool new things for the community
it's myopic and it poisons the well that people come to this site to drink from
for crying out loud think about how it feels from the perspective of the people working on these projects, it's not exactly like we're all confident outgoing people, could very well grind this project and/or others to a halt

Re: Feature: It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites

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If you'll allow me to be opinionated for a second, RetroDodo is absolutely an SEO slop content farm that has historically prized quantity over quality, unless they've changed lately there is a reason they have been usurped by literally every other creator in the "retro handheld" space
You know....going the way of the dodo
They have an article that was "ranking all the Croc games" and it's just every Croc game in no particular order with descriptions making it clear he's played none of them, and by the end of the article it's listing off J2ME games he openly admits he hasn't played because he's scraping the bottom of the barrel to fill space lmao
There are simply not enough Croc games to fill an article about ranking them (which the article doesn't even try to do), it became impossible for me to take RD seriously after that
Besides, anybody who has actually played Croc would rank 2 higher than 1....

Re: "It Does Not Save Time Or Offer Anything Of Value" - Translator Hilltop Isn't A Fan Of AI

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@Daniel36 I think I might take a whack at that localization and if someone with higher Japanese proficiency comes along they could iterate on it later (no promises)
Might need to be cut down for text character limits but here's an example, old version and new version respectively:

Old version:

Title: Bear Fist (kanji: Kumaten, pretty obviously trying to make people think of Tekken)

Target Audience: All Ages

Genre: Fighting

The balance is already broken, but...

That's what makes it appealing, according to reviews.

Additionally, for beginners to fighting games or those that struggle with them,

it offers an approach for those who find fighting games difficult.

Auto-adjustment with learning functionality is included.

Although the balance is broken,

the system that ensures satisfying wins and losses is highly praised.

My version:

Title: Soulcalibear II

Rated E for Everyone

Genre: 3D Fighter

Featuring an innovative "Quest of the Claw" mode, unlocks are drip-fed until the roster reaches a record breaking 128 playable characters.

It only took a couple days for players to bust the balance wide open, but...

...that’s what makes it appealing, according to critics and players alike.

Additionally, for newcomers to the FGC, or "cubs" as the game calls them, it makes sure not to send them out to hunt on the first day,

as its "modern controls" option ups accessibility for those who struggle with traditional inputs. A brawl minus the challenge.

With an optional auto-adjusting handicap, extensive on-boarding learns from player mistakes to educate them going forward.

Despite the tier lists being in shambles from day one,

this impressive release has been lauded for systems that ensured that whether casual or seasoned vet, its matches were satisfying, win, lose or draw.

Re: "I Think It Would Be Extremely Difficult" - Don't Expect Sega To Sell Yakuza's Retro Games Individually

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Make a game about playing the other games, walking through a virtual arcade, and forming bonds with the people who work there

Like a Yakuza game without combat that boils down to a single location where the verb is playing the arcade games instead of the combat/minigames
The main character would be a create-a-character self-insert as a first on their engine, and the overarching walking around the arcade and sidequest stuff (similar to the arcade sidequest in Yakuza 0 but denser and with social link mechanics like 7) would be in the Dragon Engine

This writes itself

Re: English Translation Of Cult Dreamcast RPG SEGAGAGA Is Complete, But There's A Catch

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@Sketcz with what you say about it being satire of the game industry requiring nuance, I ought to re-edit it like I did for the script of Starnaut (2025)
which is available now on Steam, the true successor to both El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron and Segagaga at the same time, and also it's a Vampire Survivors
but the satire is almost all gone unless you get the mod I released for it in the Steam community, in which case it goes crazy and there are things I wrote in that roast the industry so well you'd never imagine reading it from another game
iirc there's a bit in there parodying the arcade machine smashing you covered in one of your books? and also Peter Gabriel, in the same lore entry
only in the mod though
c-c-c-check it out