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@Zebetite Surprised none of them have thrown the classic "why can't you create an entirely other website solely so I, a sensitive person, will have no chance of having to read anything anti-AI" yet.

He isn't dead, he's just gone to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.

... SPACE!

@xzacutor He played the first two extensively during development as special segments during the seasons when they were being made. He's never officially challenged them but given that they're actually Game Center CX games in Japan they probably don't feel the need.

Damn, I've been watching Game Center CX long enough to remember Arino quipping about being unsure they should be playing a PS1 game because it's not that old lmao.

I feel like Golden Axe could have a fun Avatar The Last Airbender type adventure series. It could be really funny without actually being a comedy show.

It's one thing for non-artists to be flooding music platforms with genAI slop but to be doing it under the name of real artists is absolutely disgusting. If you're doing that, you already KNOW what you're putting out there is tripe.

I love having both options. Corporations only want us to have one. There's nothing wrong with digital media in itself - far from it, it's kinda superior in almost everyway. The problems mostly just stem from corporate restriction. The reason PC has gotten away with basically being digital-only for years is places like Steam and GOG that have earned the trust for that. Not so much console stuff yet. Prove people can trust you, and people will trust you.

I will say that while the game is by no means impossible, my shmup benchmark of difficulty is my all-time favourite Gradius, and this is harder than that. And many people who aren't shmup-brained consider Gradius a nightmare. So I get why it got the reputation - and the AVGN bump doesn't help matters.

James just wanted to make funny videos while playing a character that's miserable about video games, man. He didn't think people would actually end up absorbing it and regurgitating it as faux-criticism.

GO HOME TO YOUR MOTHER... NICK.

DARN IT!

@slider1983 Present company included?

This is somehow Pat and Ian's fault.

This goes beyond huffing your own farts at this point. This is gorilla-gluing your face to your ass.

@Guru_Larry It is, yeah. Tatsumi repurposed TX-1 cabs for Buggy Boy iirc

@AndyVGR if they did that, would you and the people like you who post this on every article that even dares to mention AI sod off?

@Cronodoug There were a dozen articles posted today that had nothing to do with AI - Am I to assume you have some rare inability to just click those?

"Game delay bad good design game forever game delay" - Hideo Kojimbo

@zazou703 Maybe you should just not click things that don't interest you

@Deway "Everyone wants to shred a guitar solo, nobody wants to pick up the damn guitar and learn how" as I've said to a friend of mine who's just getting into learning.

"We're all looking for the guy who did this."

@Ruka You can't get in trouble for falseifying sales data if you didn't present any sales data.

People really just want to FEEL like they're contributing something to the world for the clout and respect even though we're a niche of a niche lmao. You wanna be a musician, pick up a goddamn instrument.

"Don't like, don't use" how about "can't make, don't fake"

lol. lmao. rofl, if you may

What's next, a CD-i revival with the tagline "RETURN OF THE KING"?

Detox from the digital realm. Not us, though. GenAI everything. You should buy our 500 dollar flip phone still.

JOHN ROMERO'S ABOUT TO HOPE YOU ARE DOING WELL.

@slider1983 Completely irrelevent to the point.

Are the defenders just purposefully ignoring all the comments about how phones like this already exist by actually reputable companies for a fraction of a fraction of the price? It's not the CONCEPT of a non-smartphone that's the issue. Stop pretending otherwise.

iam8bit seem like the bottom of the barrel of retro rereleases. If this were half the price and there wasn't random chance involved in getting the glowing cartridge, sure. A nice collector's item for hardcore Sonic fans. At this price and with that gimmick? This is just insane.

Obligatory "screw Carmack" for being a jackoff about Rebecca Heineman's passing. Always knew he was a jerk but that was just beyond the pale.

Arcade Archives is for hardcore enthusiasts and people who like preservation. Always has been. Console features aren't there because it's the arcade game and the arcade game didn't have them. This is not some mainstream treat-it-as-a-disposable-product project. Like, no duh it doesn't have online play with rollback and crossplay or the FMV endings. The arcade game didn't have them, so this won't either.

@metaphysician Well, as someone who isn't even a GTA fan, even I know it's probably going to be a really good game. I don't know of a GTA that wasn't at least "good"... ever. San Andreas is the only one I really loved but both 4 and 5 were good games and I also know 2 is really fun, so...

@Willgraham At least GTA6 is a product that you can trust will be a good video game with lots of work put in over the span of a decade, y'know? It's not worth 80 bucks to me but it's not even close to the scam-level worthy Commodore phone.

@bippity_bop I was using a £30 "dumbphone" as recently as last year before work pretty much necessitated I have a smartphone which I went out of my way to buy used for around the £50 mark too lol. No interest in smartphone culture whatsoever. Don't gotta be to still see how terrible an idea this whole thing is.

If you've ever wanted a phone without the smartphone tat attached they've always been available, always been good on the wallet, and always been made by far more reputable companies.

3 Count Bout is up there with Mortal Kombat 2 as one of the most unfun single-player experiences in arcade history lol. Comically unfair. KOF 2002 is a worthy addition regardless of the series being over represented - '98 and 2002 are the two major Neo-Geo era KOF games that still see competitive play. Fatal Fury Special is like to Street Fighter 2 Turbo what Garou is to Street Fighter 3 Third Strike so it's well worth including.

So it was already being done without the use of AI and the already-ongoing project looks significantly better than the AI done one.

Amazing.

@Ruka I don't think the argument is that there's explicitly no market, just that... there's no market that isn't already filled with cheaper options that are superior that the consumers in said market aren't already happy with. It's a huge red flag when the response to "so why exactly is this half a grand?" is "you are paying for the OPPORTUNITY to DETOX from the DIGITAL REALM and SPECS AREN'T EVERYTHING and YES I DID PREVIOUSLY WRITE INTRODUCTORY PAMPHLETS FOR CULTS WHY DO YOU ASK", like, what the hell?

Donnington is honestly a track I'd like to see come back, although I suspect it would be met with complaining about the UK getting two tracks even though Italy gets two and the US gets three.

@NoirConceit "Can you elaborate upon this?" With the original press release, do you actually NEED them to elaborate?

@slider1983 I dunno, remember when they tried the Commodore 65? Or the disaster of the CD32? The Amiga 600? They were notorious for endless rehashing and trying to make things for a market that didn't exist. Meanwhile what they had that was good, they always mismanaged. A company that were kings of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory a lot of the time. Slashing the budget of anything they could while pretending they were going to be the future, even though no budget meant they weren't going to have a place in the future.

It's kind of a fitting situation for a company that somehow managed to fumble the Amiga, really.

@Exerion76 Ironically, wasn't the reason Commodore died in the mid 90s because they... kept putting out useless garbage nobody was asking for? Seems history repeats.

@truth_will_set_u_3 A bunch of other people making various videos about various games clearly isn't the same as one guy putting everything together himself in a single video. Come on now.

You know, if you don't want a smartphone... you could just get a phone that isn't one. This isn't a new idea. I didn't even finally cave and get a smartphone [an extremely cheap and old used Samsung Galaxy for like 50 quid] until last year. And I'm 26, apparantly part of the "smartphone generation". Who exactly is this for? There's no market that wants to pay luxury smartphone pricing to not have the features a smartphone gives you. If anyone wants a non-smart phone they've got those options for a fraction of the price.

This piece of junk is verging on SuperSega/Amico territory of scam city.

If they're doing Gaelco, I do hope we somehow get Radikal Bikers. That game's awesome.

Also, has a bootleg ever been officially published in a retro collection? Because re-releasing Blomby Car [a World Rally bootleg] would be absolute gold.

"Look, I might have an extra ace in my pocket, but it's not like I'm gonna USE it while we're playing poker!" God, I hate that "but it won't be in the finished product guys, honest" has rapidly become the easy out for genAI usage. It's like ctrl+c/ctrl+v every bloody time since Expedition 33 played that hand.

I disagree with the complaints about the game being a "clone" though - so what? Clones have always existed. How many people only got into/played DDR or Guitar Hero thanks to Stepmania or Clone Hero? How many people only got into Tetris The Grand Master thanks to the various TGM clones out there?

@truth_will_set_u_3 "I could do it, anybody could" - guy who hasn't and won't do it, in a world where nobody else has done it, when a guy announces they plan to do it

So many people are like this and I do not understand why.

BlazBlue games had a roguelike mode called The Abyss and it's still my favourite single-player mode in any fighting game ever. Highly interested.

I am a bit sad that the newest release of Symphony of the Night changes the dialogue and voice acting - it IS easier to take seriously and a definite objective "improvement", but it would've been nice to have the option of the original. It's like House of the Dead - it's part of the charm at this point.

Man, I have a lot of early memories with the most random of RPG Maker stuff. Wasn't the famous [and bloody terrifying - child me had NIGHTMARES about that blue sunuva] Ao Oni an RPG Maker game?

@DestructoDisk "Calm down friend" UghhhHHHHHHHHHH. It's like conversing with a literal genAI pipeline that ends up at "it's not that serious". It clearly bloody is since it bothers you that much...

"It is clear many readers feel the same" Would they happen to be called the same names as your own?

"blah blah blah me being upset translates to it being directly made against the idea of having a community or a connection with the reader" Yeah, I'm gonna have to point out the narcissism again. Weird that you can't comprehend the fact that there's a positive influence or a community being built whenever you see an article you don't like. They should "build something optimistic" like they do with 99% of their articles by never pointing out anything bad ever. Good grief.

If it were up to you, journalistic integrity would actually go out the window, because some things being reported on make you unhappy.