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The feature list doesn't include bouncing here and there and everywhere, so so don't know what to feel about this project.

"Please stand by, the game's finished but we need to find new ways to manipulate you suckers into spending more."

I mean, they cite another joint retro console from 2016, but along with Nintendo and HAL, NES mini had Konami, Capcom, Namco, Technos/Arc System Works, Koei Tecmo and Square Enix (and Taito which belongs to SE too).

We're unlikely to see an official crossover like that ever, they've all switched to publishing lots of retro collections on their own.

Asking the real questions here.

Bowtie.

Okay, game budgets are bigger because of massive teams and longer development cycles.

Not sure we got a good explanation for that though. Graphical fidelity is "only part of it", what's the rest? Is it really just game scale? Open worlds are not that new at this point. And the bigger ones tend to feature lots of copy-pasted content and boring shopping list designs. Are the new ones really bigger enough that they need ten times the team?

Every times I watch Ubisoft credits for a game (which has been much more rare lately, admittedly), the part of it that was for people actually making the game goes smaller and smaller. Even in the 2010's you'd already have 30-minutes long credit rolls, with most of it marketing, and a bunch of executives. This was even more obvious on the games that are definitely not larger scale.

I've played several Shiren games (1 on DS, 3 on Wii, 5 and 6 on Switch) and I recommend Shiren 6 (Mystery Dungeons of Serpentcoil Island).

5 kinda went too far from its roguelike roots and feels too grindy, with too many ways to escape safely, especially easy ways to undo your death indefinitely.

6 is a lot more fun to me and makes good runs and crazy builds more special again.

For a very good introduction to the series, if you can play it, the port of Shiren 1 on DS is great and already has a lot of what makes those games fun. There is also a rom hack translation for the original on Super Famicom (that one only existed in Japanese), but I've not played that one much.

Maybe they can just give him a bogus golf trophy or something.

That guy again.

There's probably a movie to make with this shit.

Those are (I assume) the actual 3D models they used to make Donkey Kong Country, but of course they rendered them because the game itself was 2D. That trick looked pretty impressive for the time, kinda "I can't believe it's not 3D".

If you want a much later, much less impressive result of such a technique, look at Fire Emblem : Shadow Dragon on the DS. They clearly did unit art with rendered 3D animated models, slightly retouched. They mostly look dirty and, in a very uncanny valley way, the animations look weird, too fluid.

Yeah, well I tend to give sites I don't know the benefit of the doubt, which is why I don't ad-block by default. Now I know this one doesn't deserve to exist at all.

I tried to read that article. You'll notice that the end of my message refers to the Steam rating system, which is mentioned towards the end (or at least I think it was the end) of that article. Problem is, this site is utter fucking shite, and most of it was obscured with scrolling tracking ads as I always trying to read. So yes, I missed the part about it just being a form to fill.

As for "official", yes, I know PEGI/ESRB/Whatever are industry-controlled. But for better of for worse, they're still used as reference, and they're third party (though clearly not that independent). It's still different from declaring yourself what your game contains.

I wonder how it works for more alternative platforms like itch.io.

No way you're having any official ratings on 99% of their catalogue. Most of it is experimental stuff, and having basically no barrier to publish is the point.

Unless the German regulations allow self-assigned ratings? It says they allow Steam's own age ratings, how are those applied?

It sounds and probably is pointless, but I expect politicians everywhere are completely lost as to how the hell they can communicate with that idiot. And they have little choice in the matter.

I kinda want to see the parallel universe where handheld CRTs are a thing though.

Though, really, they'd probably be like Fallout's Pip-Boy.

Not sure which game you're thinking about, there are lots of shitty Christian shovelware from that era, but Konami's Noah's Ark has nothing to do with it. And very little to do with the biblical story really.

I had that game on the NES (and I'm not in a Christian or religious family at all).

It's a real game, the arcade-y kind that tries to kill you all the time. It's quite hard.

Hi-res screen is a key feature for playing Atari games?

Also, how "high" is "high resolution" anyway?

Well they definitely kept their core principles of collecting data without consent in any case.

I was, of course, refering to the actual Final Fantasy NPC.

^{not really, that was 100% 8-bit theater too}

Can't watch now so not sure what's in the video, but Lands of Lore 2 was quite fancy.

Had a parchment scroll-like UI with animated burning transitions, did creepy chants at you to test stereo sound.

Funny thing, it tested your CD-ROM drive speed too (it used to matter). Of course on a modern PC, you'd have the whole game on your (much faster) hard drive and simulate an optical drive with DOSBox or something. The installer runs its test and literally says : "Wow, your drive is fast!"