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@drypaphmrbro Yeah. It's a simple platformer but it plays well. If you need something deeper though, it may not be for you.

@drypaphmrbro It's a great game! But I haven't played it in a while; I don't recall who voices who.

Nah, one is hopeful and the other is just a bitter man's fetishization about the end of humanity.

I liked my Arzette special edition stuff, and am currently wearing said t-shirt under my work shirt. So good on THAT, but yeah, LRG been taking loads of Ls lately.

He makes a very good point.

@slider1983 Here's hoping.

Even though you could, you shouldn't.

This looks like the Amico version of the game, which admittedly looked like fun.

Shame about the Amico. Some of those games looked cool. I hope they see the light of day on other platforms.

You need both: a) to be superhuman; and 2) to be extraordinarily lucky with RNG.

Devils you know and devils you don't. The "sides" only pretend to hate each other as they rile up their demographics against the others.

That said: no, it won't affect the things I'm going to buy, but I'm already pretty frugal with my gaming purchases and prefer to play what I have than yearn for what I don't.

Seems easy to read looks like about 25:80 GM.

@poyo_pie Agreed 100%.

For this alone I hope someone finds a way to rip the models from the PS5 version. Just to piss off these puritans.

Also @poyo_pie is most likely correct; they couldn't port it well so they're virtue signaling instead.

I'm torn because while I do think these companies should provide free rollback when they can AND SNK has been one of them before, I also get that doing so ain't cheap.

BUT some of my sympathy evaporates when I remember how so many people 15 years ago begged and pleaded with Capcom, SNK, and ArcSys to PLEASE use rollback netcode like SF2 HD Remix did so well, and all three were like "lol but what if we don't."

Loads. Just a few:

• Every NES Double Dragon looks worse but plays way, way, way better than its arcade counterpart.
• SNES Turtles in Time is missing 4-player co-op (2 max) and some animations, but has additional stages and bosses, and changes that make it better than the arcade version.
• NES Castlevania is way better than the arcade Haunted Castle.
• PSX Tekken 3 outdoes the arcade original (despite less RAM).

@Razieluigi Maybe it's pirate-themed.

Classic DOOM will never die. Can't wait until someone gets WADs and DeHackEd patches working so I can play Strain in a PDF.

This looks intriguing. I'm not a "buh buh muh CRT blur" purist despite having grown up in the 80s and 90s, so something like this outputting nice crisp pixels and with minimal input lag would be a dream.

I need this season in my mouth.

Not the greatest of performances but you cannot deny the band's energy.

Can't wait for that second season.

Anyone offended by a Punch Out character is in dire need of some real human contact.

The only thing offensive about Punch Out is that the Wii game was a full priced thing instead of a WiiWare title. Oh, and that some people think Punch Out is a fighting game, but that's less offensive than asking full price for an XBLA game.

Love the art.

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Please finish this before the C&D hits...

@PopetheRev28 Ima pump up CHA and win that roll.

I need to secure the rights to Brave Fencer Musashi somehow.

Mighty No. 9 is like Mega Man X6: islands of greatness in a sea of mediocrity. I still had my fun with it and I hope one day it gets the sequel it deserves.

@mganai77 I avoid Kotaku like the plague so I'll pass on reading that.

But Sony's just another evil corpo, so it don't take much to convince me that Nintendo accepting the deal might've been bad for both companies.

Have they added the true final boss?

Good that it didn't end up being a thing back then. The PSX was amazing and we owe its existence to Nintendo being dumb.

That said, I like the look of this unit and a custom shell in its image would be neat.

Why articles need editors.

The gist is that US games were made harder because of our rental systems and return policies, Buster Busts Loose specifically locked out level passwords and made the good ending very hard to obtain on real hardware.

This is a psyop isn't it

Saw this in theaters. Didn't hate it, even though it wasn't good.

It's better than Advent Children, but so is the kidney stone I passed last month, so...

(Except the fight scenes obviously, I ain't insane.)

It's because a bunch of their dev teams are out of touch, overworked, underpaid, or all three. Greedy and clueless execs are why Sega fails to inspire confidence.

Sonic Mania's team should've been behind Superstars. Maybe Superstars wouldn't have sucked.

PSO2 New Genesis is a blast to play, but obviously still lacking years in.

Gross

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I love the look personally.

@poyo_pie Exactly. All AI is doing is what people already do, but faster. The same rich corpos leveraging it for-profit already leverage EVERYTHING for-profit. AI isn't at fault here.

People acting like you're shortchanging artists you haven't hired in the first place. It's ridiculous.

Good to see a number of people in the comments not falling for the fearmongering. Warms my heart. <3

@MSaturn Exactly. The tool is never the problem; it's what those with the most power (aka, the most money) will do with it.

Hooray more AI fearmongering.

Viper Phase 1 is a very pretty game. I don't think it's the greatest of shmups but there's still something so satisfying about those missiles that cause the green 'splosions that trigger even more green 'splosions.

Hope Funko AND the domain registrar both get in trouble for this.

Considering how overpriced the Playdate is I'm surprised this thing isn't $50.

Secret of Mana and Wild ARMs still have the best town themes in gaming.

@poyo_pie I laughed pretty hard at "sad dad movie games"

Offline only seems silly, but I get it for TGM. Would be nice to see online leaderboards but the odds of cheaters are high.

If the SuperSega wasn't an obvious scam and/or money laundering scheme, I'd be on their side.

I have Dbrand's Killswitch case for my Steam Deck (highly recommended), and it has a modular back mounting socket. I could see someone on Etsy making a holder for this that mounts to the Killswitch. Would be pretty rad.

It's a lot like the SNES vs. Genesis vs. TG16/PCE debates: it all depends on what you're pushing and how good the devs are. The Genesis had the most powerful CPU of the three, but the SNES CPU was more efficient and the console had loads of AV bells and whistles, while the TG16 had its own advantages with color palettes and the like.

I bet you if SotN was made for the Saturn first, it would have been spectacular.

@Freyhon Your communication is fine. I understand what you're trying to say.

"AI art simply CTRL+C information from another electronic source then applies focused randomization based on prompts that it only understands as predictive modifiers." <-- Even if this were true, and it isn't, it still wouldn't change anything I'm saying; building upon what has come before to create something new. It is "stolen" in the exact same way a news site's opinion piece is "stolen."

You're hung up on this carbon copy point and I'm not sure why. There isn't code from SMB in Shovel Knight, but even if there was, who cares; the end result remains an original creation. There's a screenshot of the title screen of the NES game Totally Rad in early builds of World of Warcraft, probably used in some sort of prototyping for a UI or something; again, who cares, the end result isn't some carbon copy of Totally Rad.

We start calling usage of these things "theft" then we have to take them to their logical extreme, because I promise you, rich multi-national corporations ABSOLUTELY WILL. And that extreme leads to:

• Style as trade dress being subject to copyrighting and trademarking. Which means that Disney and Microsoft and Sony and other big organizations will scour their archives, their sat-on IPs, for anything with a distinct style they can claim ownership to. This gives them the legal OK to sue any work, no matter how small, that even remotely looks like it's "infringing." This point could happen very soon, as there are artists fighting for style as trade dress in the misguided hope it will "defeat AI."
• Copyrighting tropes. Nintendo patenting Pokemon capture mechanics and d-pad designs? That's just the beginning; imagine Disney copyrighting the "coming of age" trope based off of all the properties they owned that use it to some degree.
• Same thing but with memes. Want to make your own variant of that "enslaved moisture" meme? Get ready for a takedown notice.

These are what AI fearmongering will lead to, what the basic refusal to accept that AI is just another way human beings create new things out of already existing material will result in.

Beyond that, the point stands: AI is just doing via Python or C++ or whatever what the biological human brain does already. But the machine cannot generate value on its own, which is why the fearmongering over it is unjustified. Only a human can take that raw output, from AI or from their own observation of reality, and make it something valuable.