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Post by jorpho on Sept 30, 2022 0:39:41 GMT -5
I played the heck out of Mega Man II GB some 30 years ago when I borrowed it from a friend. Is it conceivable that the music sounds substantially better on the original hardware? At this point there's one ROM hack that apparently fixes what are actually some obvious bugs in the sound engine - and another ROM hack that someone made because the author disagreed with how the first hack was handled. www.romhacking.net/hacks/4695/www.romhacking.net/hacks/7181/the compositions themselves aren't horrible, there are some good remixes out there You mean on OCRemix, or somewhere else?
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Post by Woody Alien on Sept 30, 2022 4:05:00 GMT -5
In a move that should surprise absolutely nobody, Google will shut Stadia down in January '23. Honestly did anyone even really care about it? To me the most comical thing are the Google apologists saying that it could have worked if only there weren't the pandemic and a worldwide chip and hardware shortage... People should just stop kissing corporations' asses all the time, Google has a history of killing off products and services (there's even a site about it: killedbygoogle.com/) and it's clear they can't really be trusted anymore. This outcome reminds me of the failed video app Quibi and the same excuses people gave for its failure (the pandemic etc.), while in reality Katzenberg and the others just spent a boatload of money to deliver something nobody really asked for and nobody really cared about. Stadia is more or less the same: Google buying game studios left and right and spending huge stacks of cash for something that was clearly doomed from the start since they didn't really know much about gaming business. Not to mention that all the promised features never really happened.
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Post by spanky on Sept 30, 2022 6:19:52 GMT -5
I played the heck out of Mega Man II GB some 30 years ago when I borrowed it from a friend. Is it conceivable that the music sounds substantially better on the original hardware? At this point there's one ROM hack that apparently fixes what are actually some obvious bugs in the sound engine - and another ROM hack that someone made because the author disagreed with how the first hack was handled. www.romhacking.net/hacks/4695/www.romhacking.net/hacks/7181/the compositions themselves aren't horrible, there are some good remixes out there You mean on OCRemix, or somewhere else? I've just heard a number of them on Youtube. This one in particular.
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Post by dsparil on Sept 30, 2022 13:12:39 GMT -5
In a move that should surprise absolutely nobody, Google will shut Stadia down in January '23. Honestly did anyone even really care about it? To me the most comical thing are the Google apologists saying that it could have worked if only there weren't the pandemic and a worldwide chip and hardware shortage... People should just stop kissing corporations' asses all the time, Google has a history of killing off products and services (there's even a site about it: killedbygoogle.com/) and it's clear they can't really be trusted anymore. This outcome reminds me of the failed video app Quibi and the same excuses people gave for its failure (the pandemic etc.), while in reality Katzenberg and the others just spent a boatload of money to deliver something nobody really asked for and nobody really cared about. Stadia is more or less the same: Google buying game studios left and right and spending huge stacks of cash for something that was clearly doomed from the start since they didn't really know much about gaming business. Not to mention that all the promised features never really happened. Quibi at least had a concept that made sense in the abstract. I also saw it described as solving a problem that only executives like Katzenberg have. It made zero sense in a world where YouTube can fill people's medium length video needs very easily, but it maybe could have had a chance if it had launched around 2010 instead. Stadia was a mess on all levels. I've read that the higher level management never cared about it much, and the concept of buying streaming only games never made sense. GeForce Now had already tried and failed with both subscriptions and purchases, but apparently it works well enough as a way to stream your own Steam library. Amazon seems willing to throw money at Luna to get it be somewhat reasonable as a subscription service, but I question how long they're willing to do it. They have kept their game studio and it's minimal output for a decade now so who knows.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Sept 30, 2022 13:23:20 GMT -5
Mega Man 3 and 4 are the best GB ones. Come to think of it, 3 and 4 area also the best NES ones. 5, despite being all-original I didn't like as much, and 2 I've never touched because the music gives me depression.
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Post by lurker on Sept 30, 2022 13:38:38 GMT -5
In a move that should surprise absolutely nobody, Google will shut Stadia down in January '23. Honestly did anyone even really care about it? To me the most comical thing are the Google apologists saying that it could have worked if only there weren't the pandemic and a worldwide chip and hardware shortage... People should just stop kissing corporations' asses all the time, Google has a history of killing off products and services (there's even a site about it: killedbygoogle.com/) and it's clear they can't really be trusted anymore. This outcome reminds me of the failed video app Quibi and the same excuses people gave for its failure (the pandemic etc.), while in reality Katzenberg and the others just spent a boatload of money to deliver something nobody really asked for and nobody really cared about. Stadia is more or less the same: Google buying game studios left and right and spending huge stacks of cash for something that was clearly doomed from the start since they didn't really know much about gaming business. Not to mention that all the promised features never really happened. Quibi at least had a concept that made sense in the abstract. I also saw it described as solving a problem that only executives like Katzenberg have. It made zero sense in a world where YouTube can fill people's medium length video needs very easily, but it maybe could have had a chance if it had launched around 2010 instead. Stadia was a mess on all levels. I've read that the higher level management never cared about it much, and the concept of buying streaming only games never made sense. GeForce Now had already tried and failed with both subscriptions and purchases, but apparently it works well enough as a way to stream your own Steam library. Amazon seems willing to throw money at Luna to get it be somewhat reasonable as a subscription service, but I question how long they're willing to do it. They have kept their game studio and it's minimal output for a decade now so who knows. The only ones I feel sorry for are all the game devs, especially the indie ones, that had to find out through Twitter that Google was pulling the plug. Google didn't even notify them that it was happening.
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Post by dsparil on Sept 30, 2022 14:39:04 GMT -5
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Post by excelsior on Sept 30, 2022 21:09:26 GMT -5
Come on dsparil, you know there are rules on this site against posting lewd images. I'd have to say linking them isn't a work around. Are you trying to get yourself banned???
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Post by jorpho on Oct 1, 2022 0:30:23 GMT -5
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Post by JoeQ on Oct 2, 2022 11:12:18 GMT -5
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Post by mainpatr on Oct 2, 2022 23:32:59 GMT -5
Why do we need a remake of Horizon:zero Dawn? Sooooony? ? First Last of Us,now this? This isn't the Sony we all loved from 1994-2011.
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Post by excelsior on Oct 2, 2022 23:49:48 GMT -5
This isn't the Sony we all loved from 1994-2011. We did? I mean, they obviously had the prominent platforms during much of this time, but I struggle to think of much I cared about from them on the software front in this period. They offer less varied software nowadays, but there's more that appeals to me lately, and that's speaking as someone who pretty much holds disdain for their 'cinematic' approach.
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Post by mainpatr on Oct 2, 2022 23:57:32 GMT -5
I can pretty much say that Syphon Filter 3 and their RPG's are more memorable than having Kratos babysit a kid for 30 hours. The Fumito games are good too,I guess.
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Post by excelsior on Oct 3, 2022 0:27:34 GMT -5
I can pretty much say that Syphon Filter 3 and their RPG's are more memorable than having Kratos babysit a kid for 30 hours. The Fumito games are good too,I guess. I'm presuming you're talking about Dark Cloud/Wild Arms on the RPG front - since you know even alluding to that other one they made doesn't go down well around these parts. The thing for me on that front is that I never consider them in the top tier on the PS1/PS2, since those are both so rich in the genre. Unless we're counting their co-publishing efforts with Square, but I really don't consider those Sony games personally. For me, their RPG's are just lost in the shuffle a bit.
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Post by JDarkside on Oct 3, 2022 5:22:07 GMT -5
Been playing the Sherlock Holmes series from Frogwares, been a wild time.
I think the four best are definitely Crimes & Punishment, Chapter One, Versus Jack the Ripper, and Testament, in that order. All the others are worth playing (ignoring the casual games, which only Baskervilles and Osborne House are worth it) but are either kind of messy (the PC version of Awakened had an annoying issue with the mouse controls getting stuck for a few seconds every now and then) or have moments that send me to the Angry Dome (mainly case two in Devil's Daughter and its bullshit mind palace temple segment, and the entire museum part of Nemesis and its endless bloated puzzles).
There isn't one I'd say is bad, though. There are a lot of positives to balance out the bad spots, like how funny Nemesis is, or some inventive set pieces in Devil's Daughter.
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