Quick_Man

As a huge rhythm game nut I often struggled with Samba de Amigo due to the feeling I had of a lack of tactile feedback. I like me some buttons. I know when I'm pressing a panel in DDR, I know when I'm strumming in Guitar Hero, I know when I'm hitting buttons in IIDX, I know when I'm twisting knobs in Sound Voltex... Samba de Amigo often was hard to get used to with the idea of just having to trust you were doing it right and it would be registered. Still, it's a game with legendary art direction, and I appreciate it for that alone.

Games even as recent as then did typically have the burden of "the female character needs to basically just be there to be the male character's shadow", I'd kinda be interested to see some of the wilder concepts of Amiga.

At least when the character is a sister and not a love interest or something, it gives an excuse for them looking similar and "just do the male character in a dress with a bow".

@somnambulance I really don't think that counts in what he's saying. The games weren't successful when they released.

@Craftylover "This isn't happening" to "who cares that it's happening" pipeline speedrun

@RetroMasters Would you rather be told when video game stuff gets cancelled that it was because of magical space fairies or get the actual truth?

@PKDuckman For some reason whenever their "team" [let's face it, they see politics as merely a team sport] flops they just transition into this fantasy land where actually the opposite happened.

Nah, nah, mate, trust me, the tarrifs have got the Chinese SHOOK, they're BEGGING for us, the alpha Americans, to stop winning so hard, trust me bro trust me.

This is cool. Outrun on Game Gear was a pretty solid conversion but it looks like this person definitely has the talent to do it well on Game Boy. I like seeing these super-scaler style games on the more primitive handheld systems.

@MG4M3R I will say when he mentions the PC-98 version of this game featuring rape, he means completely uncensored and explicit rape scenes played for sexualization. I don't know where the hell you got this whole "touching someone but for the good of the world!" thing from. That's not what happens, lmao. False equivalence helps nobody here and dilutes the conversation. This is not, like, Silent Hill type storytelling here.

Again, I'm not to censor art, if that's your thing, I will leave you to your thing... buuuut I'm completely okay with that kind of tripe staying in the obscure home computer scene where it belongs and generally has stayed since the 80s.

@Norsaken This is just wrong. Art you don't like still deserves to be preserved. I don't particularly care for so many of these anime games that quite clearly are just pretty bad games stapled onto the main attraction - anime tiddies - either, but c'mon. You being formerly addicted to something does not mean it should be banned. I'm a recovered alcoholic, I don't slap beers out of people's hands.

@PopetheRev28 Given that half the Switch's e-Shop is just shovelware softcore hentai... yeah, doubt it.

@-wc- Well said. "Censorship" just became yet another word that the internet silently turned into a simile for "I don't like it". I saw many of these big "PRO FREE SPEECH! ANTI CENSORSHIP! GAMERS RISE UP!" accounts with six figure followings who spend their life making money off people's desire to always have something to be big about... actively celebrate things like Middle Eastern versions of games censoring any LGBT topics. It was "based" so it's a Win For Gamers[TM], right? A lot of this is just performative.

@PKDuckman The PC-98 original is not the one getting released, though, which is why the cancellation is confusing. If it was actually the version where the plot literally has "the loser gets sexually assaulted" written into the plot [no, I'm not kidding.], I'd understand a bit more. No way would that have made it onto consoles neither back in the 90s nor now - it's just not happening.

If you want eroge, and look - fine, maybe you do, I guess. Not my cup of tea, but then again games of those type are a bit dry when it comes to those aimed at my gender and sexuality of person - it's historically always been "go PC". We are not getting those games on consoles any time soon and basically never did unless they were unlicensed garbo like Divine Sealing on the Mega Drive. But, yeah, Saturn Advanced Variable Geo is just "lewd" at worst. There's no porn in it. So I don't understand. There's honestly more titilating games available to buy on all current consoles than this so I'm not going to do the Capital G Gamer thing of going "pshhh censorship amirite gamers rise up", I'm just wondering what exactly happened.

@smoreon Don't fall for narratives that people peddle on the internet exclusively because getting gamers to have a Boogeyman Of The Week is how they make a living lol. I was literally going to make a joke about "but The Last True Gamer on YouTube told me it was SONY coming for all my anime tiddies, now I don't know what to believe! Mods! MODS!"

I understand that they can't just show full blown sex or bare breasts, but the Saturn version of Advanced Variable Geo was never an eroge game anyway - I'm pretty sure the only Variable Geo game with flat out porn was the very original game on PC. Advanced Variable Geo on Saturn and Playstation is essentially a sequel, and doesn't contain any R-18 stuff. The most you'll get some clothing damage, which is no more explicit than, say, when King's shirt rips off in Art Of Fighting and reveals her bra. What exactly did they want altered at this point? At least it's coming to the other platforms so 98% of people who would actually care about this game can still play it, but how bizarre.

As a fighting game, the game is pretty bad, but, like... bad games still deserve te be preserved properly.

The fact that after all this time we still have very good super smart geniuses going "wahhh stop talking about politics" or "just make it in the US" proves that there are definitely multiple alternate universes and they clearly don't live in the same one as us humans.

@Zeebor15 Shun'ei, Meitenkun and Tung were a cool hero team, at least. Kukri [the sand guy] is African.

DJ Hero 2 genuinely has one of the best rhythm game soundtracks ever, I'll always love it. Shame this happened. Bigger shame some wooden spoons will blame this extremely hypercapitalist consequence on the "wokes" or whatever they're saying in 2025 now. DEI? I dunno.

There's something really funny about a rip-off being so bad that they went "well it'd just be bullying if we sued at this point..."

I have no idea who Salvatore is so I can just pretend he's a brand new character and I actually kinda like him, he's amusing and I like the idea of a DJ character.

Wacker.

That is all.

Billy is a complete cheater and compulsive liar, Karl cost him at least one appearance at an event due to claiming he was why Apollo Legend took his own life.

Only one of these are crimes - and it's not cheating in a video game.

Hate them both, frankly, but what a jackarse Karl was by purposefully never mentioning that he was being sued for this in particular and trying to frame it as "cheater doesn't like that I said he cheated" - he ABSOLUTELY knew he wouldn't have gotten the support he did if he was 100% honest about what he was being sued for, because it's completely open-and-shut.

I would've liked the home console versions, but the only one that's really arguable as an improvement is the SNES version of Gradius III. The rest are just the best versions of them. Hard to get upset.

It is a bit of a shame we won't be getting some of the console versions too like the TMNT collection [everyone who only knows Gradius III on the SNES is in for a rough time when they try the frankly unfair arcade version lol] but this is still a day one purchase for me. Konami have been killing it lately. Maybe we'll get a Gradius Origins 2 with Gaiden, Rebirth, 4 and 5.

We are so back, gamers.

I refuse to accept the "well we weren't there" excuse. It is very easy to learn new things in 2025. It is also very easy to not act informed and then when challenged say "we're just not informed".

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Thing is you get what you pay for. If you want something like the PSP library emulated fully or at least mostly, you're unlikely to find it for this price point.

@slider1983 It is okay to see bad things happening and call thm bad without being intentionally obtuse and sarcastic. This is a gaming forum, not r/Conservative.

I do love people just completely outing themselves as brainwashed by going "this isn't happening, and also if it is happening, you deserve it, but it's not happening, but it is happening although it's not the fault of the guy who did it". Like all the people who actually know what they're talking about because they work in the industry are just lying for kicks.

You can tell who voted for who when their opinion and attitude is more pre-determined than pro wrestling.

@slider1983 yes actually

Hopes should not be raised too high - this is just for merch.

There's nothing to be said about the product that hasn't already be said - the purest essence of scam.

What I do want to say is, isn't it really really funny how this guy seems to be more unkempt and dishevelled every single time?

Looks great, sounds great, and being a Bitmap Bureau game I expect a good challenge. One to check out.

I hate to say it but maybe if you directly follow in the article a particuarly nasty quote with "by the way this might not be right because we just used Google Translate lmao", don't go ahead and then use that quote as the TITLE OF THE ARTICLE? Seems a bit deliberately done to paint this guy in the worst possible light and make it seem like his entire response was "why should I care"

Depends on the online. KOF 13 Global Match promoted itself entirely on its rolllback netcode... and it's garbage.

Most of my IRL friends do not play video games and the few that do aren't really interested in my genres of choice being rhythm and fighting games.

Online is the only way to go for me unless it's attending a specific event dedicated for these games. Nostalgia might be a hell of a drug, but none of us get a year younger each go around the sun.

There's no legal way to claim a fan translation, really, considering it's an illegal modification of a game that is also most likely downloaded illegally.

That being said, it's objectively ***** to use someone else's hard work that they made entirely for free and start selling it while claiming it was actually your own original work all along. Thankfully, the response is understandable - if the translator guilty of the stealing was known for doing honest work over the years, it's easy to see how this could've slipped through. As long as they refine their quality control, I don't think there's anything further to get angry about. It's just a shame when talented people take cheap and unethical shortcuts when they're so clearly capable of doing it the right way.

These types of games were even popular in arcades, in case you wanted to be playing this type of thing in public. With pride, I assume.

I'll take any excuse to get to see more of my boy Reno. Finally decided to check out Remake, Crisis Core and Rebirth at the beginning of the year and have been obsessed with FF7 ever since.

@HoyeBoye I heard it was pretty good, too. Had Samoa Joe in it so it's obviously peak media.

It's not biased to state facts like "the only differences are objective wins for the Everdrive Pro, and it is also significantly cheaper". That's just how reality is.

Directed by the director of the Eric Andre Show.

This is the timeline I didn't know I needed until now. Give me all of this.

There's a difference between "relaxing" and "easy", I think. I get a theraputic sort of "zen" relaxation from balls-hard rhythm games, games that are objectively not easy to play. I'm really damn good at the Tony Hawk and SSX games and I find going through a simple run of career mode in something like THPS 1+2 is very relaxing - it takes only around an hour for me to complete every Goal in each stage per character.

I think relaxing essentially means you're able to just sit back and enjoy something with minimal frustration - even if the game itself is hard or you're pushing your skills. Final Fantasy 7 Remake was my first ever Final Fantasy game, I intentionally played it on an easy difficulty, and I've never felt so relaxed and just happy to be playing a video game in a long time - combat that felt theraputic to hit things in, and a world that genuinely feels like it's come to life. So many different experiences can be "relaxing", it's a much more subjective thing than actual easy-to-hard - I think we can all agree that Ninja Gaiden 1 on NES is ridiculously hard, but some people probably find it very relaxing.

The three most notable changes I remember are that Yakuza 5's "stat boost" system you got from eating was also in the original Ishin, and the intro is just gone. This was a recent change to the entire series with I think Yakuza 6 because the intros just blatantly spoiled the in-game story before you'd even pressed "new game". A fair few faces/likenesses are also changed - characters who couldn't have been in the game when it released due to it being earlier than their actual debut aren't in the original, whereas in the remake we have some newer fan-favourites like the Lieutenants from Yakuza 0 and Joongi Han from Yakuza 6.

The ACTUAL most notable change, however, and I think you'll agree with me is the greatest crime ever committed, is that they greatly increased the amount of fog covering Kiryu and Ryuji's lower regions during their naked brawl in the bathhouse. THE GREATEST QTE IN THE HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES [Kiryu straight up smacks Ryuji's ass before using that grip to throw him. This is a real video game] is completely hidden due to this.

Aside from that, uh... minor balancing? Gun style may be a bit better in the original? But frankly it was already really strong in my opinion in the remake, so if they nerfed it, it couldn't have been much. Every other change is just objectively better QoL stuff - knockdowns no longer last for 56 centuries, weapon seals are not permanently locked to the weapon you're using them on, etc.

Gotta love how quickly things have changed from "this isn't happening!" to "this won't negatively effect you!" to "okay it will!" to "it's actually good!" in record time