RightHandOfIkaros @ RightHandOfIkaros @lemmy.world

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Wait, its not Nintendo this time?

Stellarblade is requesting Shift Up and Sony be prevented from using Stellar Blade or any other similar name in the future - and that all Stellar Blade material in their possession is handed over to be destroyed.

LOL. This is rich.

Im just a person pointing out that this site has issues. Make up your own opinion, I don't care.

Interesting, but its based on user generated input, so this data could easily be manipulated by someone that doesn't like particular games creating a few accounts to add bad data.

Its more than nostalgia. The games actually look better because thats what they were designed with.

Nowadays people seem to use "nostalgia" as some hand waive to dismiss something as unnecessary or invalid. But in this case it is actually necessary, old games just do not look good on any display technology other than CRTs. Shaders come extremely close, and if you have an HDR compatible screen that gets bright and vibrant enough, shaders can be nearly comparable to real CRTs.

It hurts me that the Castlevania screenshot does not match the pattern of the other screenshots with filter on the left and raw on the right.

EDIT: Thank you for fixing it.

Sometimes it seems like Lemmy users sort by most negative first just so they can keep dogpiling on the comments with negative vote score.

Which is a Reddit behaviour, and probably came from whatever existed before Reddit too.

FromSoftware has never made a game I didn't enjoy. From their well known games like Dark Souls, Armored Core, and now apparently everyone on Earth knows about King's Field, to their more niche titles like Metal Wolf Chaos, Kuon, and The Adventures of Cookie and Cream. Yes, I even liked Ninja Blade.

Except Steel Battalion for the Xbox 360 but that is entirely because Capcom mandated the Kinect be used for controls.

Also am a big fan of Konami, pre-2005. They never really had huge masterpieces aside from what Kojima and Team Silent made, but their other games were fun and varied, taking on almost an experimental position. Games like Gungage were very engaging, if a little short.

Its to entice people to spend more.

Life is more comfortable, but it's a lot more miserable too. Incredibly high levels of poverty, overcrowded cities, too many work activites tried to pack into just one day, etc.

Life back in the 1910s, for example, was a lot simpler. There was less work that people were expected to do in a day, so they could take their time getting done what needed to be done. And had more time for themselves when they were off work. The general cost of living was way lower than it is now. A person could have a family with a nice home and a big plot of land on a single income. Cities were less noisy and less overcrowded than they are now. They still had plumbing, electricity, radio even, and they also had ways they could be more social in person. They didn't have cell phones that their boss could hound them to show up to work at any hour of the day. They didn't have smart devices that could provide immediate and addicting stimulus in their pocket all day long. They didn't have social media wreaking all sorts of havoc on the entire global society of humanity. People were much more patient back then because they had to be, unlike now when everyone wants everything done instantly. They had a lot of jobs that are mostly gone now because technology and robots replaced them. Paperboys and Milk Men, for example. The food was less processed, restaurants either had fresh, real ingredients or they served rotten food and lost business quickly. With all the information available to people today, people back in the 1910s were significantly more informed on topics than now, especially on topics about their local community. Depression, anxiety, and other sorts of disorders were way lower than they are today, primarily because the causes of those things either didn't exist back then or were not accessible to the general public.

All the modern amenities can be nice, but for all the good things like the internet do, they also sure do a lot of harm. Plenty of criminals abuse the internet every day, and commit disgusting, unspeakable crimes they otherwise would not be able to without internet access. Terrorists are able to organize much more efficiently than before when they would have to rely on physical messengers, letters, or some contrived telegraph system.

People may live longer now, but is that really a big win? I mean, what, we get on average 10 or 20 more years of suffering? Being old is not fun, they're not the good years of a person's life. Even if you make them more comfortable, they're still old and still have to lose independence and autonomy. They have to just watch as life takes away the freedoms that they had, and the joy those freedoms gave them fades away.

Should the world reset to the 1910s? I don't know, and it doesn't really matter since that will never happen. But looking back on how humanity has progressed until now, I personally can't say that the condition of humanity has got any better.

This is how progress in gaming dies. Big companies abusing the law. This needs to be stopped, but unfortunately nothing will be done and things will continue to get worse.

The worst part? This is going to happen to everything. Not just gaming.

Life sucks. Right now is literally the worst time to be alive, and it will only get worse.

May your Ls be massive, and your wenches dry, Nintendo.

Random combat is the number one thing that makes me drop a game.

Its annoying, it happens too often, it always interrupts me when I want to do something else, and it is too repetitive.

This is why I stopped playing a lot of JRPGs. The other thing I drop them for is when combat only has a single song and always starts with the exact same intro, like what happened with Dragon Quest 11 or whatever it was that I played.

I hate grinding. Its repetitive and boring. Its not fun. If a games story missions are not paced properly with level such that I can do only the story missions and never be underleveled, then I will drop that game immediately.

They could not have paid enough people to download the game and play it, let alone get people to do it for free.

There is a lot more than that.

Lemmy is almost as anti-Xbox as gaming journalists, sheesh.

There are more than two dozen Xbox players, come on now.

In order to guarantee sales of the PS5 Pro, we are now resorting to FOMO tactics.

~ Sony, 2024

They are very different, not just between the two but even between the different iterations of each. They compete but not directly.

I was not saying that this was retroactive. Merely that new games in the Mario Party series could be rated R18+ because of this, perhaps I was not concise enough. Of course, this also applies to any game, Mario Party was only an example because even if a casino is not explicitly used, gameplay which imitates gambling such as a slot machine or some other "randomized reward" element of a game, is gameplay that is pretty common to Mario Party's minigames.

Fire Emblem Heroes is a mobile gacha game by Nintendo that is still ongoing and was released in 2017. In just 3 years the game grossed $656 million USD globally, which makes it Nintendo's most lucrative mobile game. Gacha is considered gambling by this regulation.

I agree with engaging in discussion. I was voicing my frustration at a behaviour that was common to Reddit, and Lemmy is supposed to be different from Reddit. Better. So I was both disappointed and frustrated to see the exact same behaviour as what happened over there. Because someone will say something someone else follows it up and then everyone bases their entire opinion on the reply, then regardless of if the second comment is edited or not people.just completely disregard everything the first commenter says. Its a terrible way to foster a community and a behaviour I hope dies off very quickly. Unfortunately it would seem that social media is conditioning people to do the opposite.

60fps only in 864p though. If you want 1080p youll have to live with 30fps, of course.