@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.

@DestructoDisk You're not being censored. You're in someone else's house and being told to wipe your feet on the doormat. You are behaving extremely obnoxiously crying about an article being anti-AI /every single time you see a new one/ instead of learning "I don't like the articles that are anti-AI so I'm not clicking on them anymore" and then going WHY POLITICAL? NO POLITIC, ONLY VIDDY GAME and then going "waow censorship" when ONE of those comments finally gets deleted. You're not criticizing at this point. This has zero constructive merit.

Stop preaching to the writers to steer away from "extremism" and "the low road" [good goddamn grief, how narcissistic can you be?] and start behaving like an adult. Life gets a lot more enjoyable once you do. You've literally explicitly been told that they're not going to stop covering this stuff and telling it how it is AS RECENTLY AS LAST MONTH. Why can't you accept that?

@BionicDodo Frankly I'd be glad your "but both sides" comment wasn't removed too for being utterly unconstructive.

The quotes aren't "cherry picked" by any means because 99% of the reaction has been "this is bad" - what would've been ACTUAL cherrypicking would've been picking out one of the few pro-AI comments that usually just read "it's inevitable, get over it" or "stop whining, I hate having to read it".

It's not "not journalism" nor an "echo chamber" for a website's writers to be their own human beings with leanings and biases and opinions. I am sick of having to read people claim this. Journalism done by humans will always be biased - ironically, the closest thing you can probably get to "unbiased journalism" is asking ChatGPT.

"We just did it for reference points!" Yeah, I have a great reference point for you. It's called San Francisco.

@stankybeans I mean, I can't say I'm surprised. They're just crybullies, happy to insult anyone and everyone and then play victim when their punches get returned, usually with more ammo. Almost makes me feel sorry for them at this point - it can't be a very gratifying existence.

You're also right that the Amico was simply trying to serve a market that didn't need it. Local multiplayer is still alive and well, I'm a fighting game player so I know that. It's more of a niche than it used to be 20 years ago, sure, but it's still there. I was literally playing Streets of Rage 4, Gran Turismo 7 and Tekken 8 at a friend's house locally two days ago - you're not "bringing people back together" with an overhyped, underspeced piece of you-know-what.

@slider1983 I can only know you to the pathetic degree you've shown me.

@slider1983 "I always admit when I'm wrong."

No, you don't.

@slider1983 "That I keep being proven correct about their behaviour? Interested to know. This should be interesting..."

Can't have a conversation with someone who knows they're wrong and has been proven wrong many times over and says "Actually I've been proven right". No point. Would get a better understanding out of a brick wall.

@slider1983 Why is it you always cry "harassment" and "bullying" when YOUR behaviour gets called out? It seems like "wahh you're biased" is the only thing you have anymore. I've seen conversations Kevtris has had with Tommy Tallarico before and the man could not have been more cordial or patient. You just can't refute anything he said, so you go "uhhhhh bias" as a way to not have to engage with any of it. It's pathetic behaviour.

@slider1983 It is objectively more unbiased than any of the lies the few Amico holdouts keep trying to peddle which somehow you are /still/ believing after six years.

@slider1983 Well, the one person who has one without a vested interest in bragging about it says it boots in 2 minutes.

The guy claiming it's 55 seconds, which still sucks, could just make a video showing that, but the last time they did they cut the footage on the boot. Probably to hide that it takes goddamn forever.

@SlangWon "So you hate AI but love comments?"

A non sequitur (Latin for "it does not follow") is a statement or conclusion that has no logical or clear connection to what was previously said.

@gmar "Graaaaah only release games that cater to me aaaaaaargh"

John Alvarado has claimed this unit is three revisions old, and the newest one to date boots in a staggering 55 seconds.

The list of people who believe this includes:

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Hell yeah, companies, boldly advertise less effort.

Well... shoot for the moon, at least you'll maybe hit the stars?

@slider1983 *response. Singular.

It's not like the 32X was a bad idea in theory. Being able to offer something for both the budget and premium markets is smart.

@Bot_Bot_69 or maybe, also like that other Very Peaceful Guy, he'll get someone who actually won one to just hand it over

Class to keep it private all this time until his family were finally ready to make it public. Hope they've manged to process the grief. Two years seems like a long time but the loss of someone that close remains with you forever.

Alternatively, since this is just most certainly not legal, just selling emulators in a box without permission from Sega, you could just... download the emulators. On your own PC. For free.

@slider1983 Society got more woke, yeah. Good. It hasn't stopped everyone from seeing sexy women in video games.

@slider1983 yeah it's fact you just can't have sexy anymore. Please ignore all evidence to the contrary. Don't look over there. Or there. Or there.

Capcom must've used a lot of Canadian talent in the late 90s. I remember hearing that the rapper who performed on the main theme and character select theme of Third Strike was also Canadian.

@Exerion76 Bro ignored literally everything said to trot out drivel about how woke everything is now and how SEXY WOMEN ARE BANNED AND CANCEL CULTURE WOULD RUIN YOUR LIFE IF YOU HAD THEM ANYWHERE etc

@knightofthewind89 Yup, Max is a rare content creator of his size that just seems like a cool dude. He recently said if anyone wants to impliment rollback netcode for Marvel vs Capcom 3, he'll give them ten thousand dollars.

@Thad "yeah but, uh, woke bad. or something. idk send me money on patreon i just made a video on why Pragmata being awesome has owned the libs"

I just can't imagine being so goddamn inept you can't type, by human hand, a paragraph describing Fantasy Zone and OutRun. I could probably do it in a handful of minutes! They're kind of iconic???

Reminds me of the Japan release of Mortal Kombat 2 on SNES having green blood and also going to black-and-white during the Fatalites.

@Kev711 If "I noticed this sound effect is panned slightly incorrectly towards the left sound channel" is enough to make a game not enjoyable to you then honestly I wouldn't even be certain you were someone who enjoyed playing video games. 100% accuracy, a theoretical perfect, is an insane thing to demand. Get the real console.

"Japanese soldier who kept fighting 29 years after World War 2"

I tried to make my comment just "NO" but that's too short. But I do think that sums this up.

Keep making stuff "no one asked for" and then when some idiot whines "no one asked for this!" make something even somehow less people asked for. It pleases my soul to see creators doing whatever the hell they want and having fun and releasing quirky weird stuff.