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Post by Woody Alien 2 on Jul 30, 2024 5:00:59 GMT -5
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Post by Apollo Chungus on Jul 30, 2024 6:14:35 GMT -5
Woody, you've just made me realize I've been conflating Katawa Shoujo and Doki Doki Literature Club for nearly ten years lol. (I've not played either one, I'm sure they're perfectly fine and interesting games)
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Post by Woody Alien 2 on Jul 31, 2024 9:29:13 GMT -5
Woody, you've just made me realize I've been conflating Katawa Shoujo and Doki Doki Literature Club for nearly ten years lol. (I've not played either one, I'm sure they're perfectly fine and interesting games) I can confirm about them being interesting, also they're free so if you're curious you can easily give them a shot!
I never reall cared for this series, being a mostly lone player who doesn't play party games unless in special occasions... but still, I find it pretty absurd that in the year 2024 they're still trying to make NFT a thing, a good 2 years after pretty much everyone is seeing them as scams, useless stuff and directly interfering with the environment. Also e-sports, but they aren't nearly as controversial and I'm mostly complaining about them because I dislike that kind of gamer culture that they foster.
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Post by dsparil on Jul 31, 2024 11:43:46 GMT -5
Kinda weird that Eurogamer doesn't mention the real replacement in the headline, a crappy mobile game. The NFTs and eSports are their own separate junk.
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Post by excelsior on Aug 1, 2024 4:30:08 GMT -5
A shame for Sega, since these games sold well for them. I don't know how much of a cut the Olympics Committee would have seen, but I would imagine this series would have been easy money for them, being tied to the biggest mascots in video games.
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Post by chronotigger65 on Aug 2, 2024 20:19:40 GMT -5
I see no one has mentioned this but the site Romhacking.net is being shut down for a number of reasons.
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Post by jorpho on Aug 2, 2024 23:43:27 GMT -5
I see no one has mentioned this but the site Romhacking.net is being shut down for a number of reasons. It's surprising to see so many people popping up on the forums over there expressing their dismay. The boards there have a cosy, mostly-dead feel to them. Reading Gideon Zhi's Twitter thread, I can't help but think back to the dying days of Home of the Underdogs, which was also firmly in control of a somewhat aloof admin with little inclination to share power or keep the site updated, possibly due to a continual assault by undesirable characters. At least RHDN is dying a lot more gracefully than HotU did. I expect there will be several different attempts to salvage the existing exported database in various ways that will largely fail to get off the ground. I also saw the romhacks dot org response and it just goes to show that trusting the wrong person can have utterly devastating consequences. It definitely makes me a bit wistful for the Internet of yore. Websites! Message boards! Communities! Enthusiasm! Distilled expertise! Hard to find that sort of thing anymore, it seems.
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Post by dsparil on Aug 3, 2024 5:23:30 GMT -5
That does explain a lot. RHDN seemed like such a central repository for so long but then went on the decline for years. Sad to see it implode from internal issues with the admin. ROM hacking is not a big community, and for good or for ill, RHDN was a central pillar.
I used to go to HotU and that was a site that was sad to see go. It's a good example of how a lot of early-ish sites were just someone's personal page. If they explode in popularity either they can become a real business like GameFAQs or other life concerns get in the way and things shut down because they were never conceptualized as a group effort.
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Post by chronotigger65 on Aug 4, 2024 0:19:43 GMT -5
I got a double whammy yesterday of bad video game news. Not only the end of Romhacking.net but Gamestop decided to end their magazine Game Informer? And I just renewed my subscription a some months ago. I feared this day would come. I don't like using online video game news websites and prefer magazines. All I have left is the magazine Nintendo Force. Though with my perference for Nintendo platforms I shouldn't have much trouble getting news on new Nintendo games do to their Nintendo Direct videos.
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Post by JDarkside on Aug 4, 2024 6:24:53 GMT -5
Eh. I can't imagine Game Informer's work the last decade has been especially impressive.
For the record, I don't even use websites anymore because I decided I just don't care about game news due to most sites not bothering to cover things I care about or being turned into content swill machines by the companies that buy them up. When news about a big game I actually care about comes up, I can usually count on someone bringing it up out there in conversation or just getting official updates on store pages.
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Post by spanky on Aug 4, 2024 6:44:20 GMT -5
I subscribed to GI for a few years in the late 90s - My mom bought me a game from Funcoland for a Christmas gift and she fell for the sales pitch. It wasn't the most impressive magazine but I remember they covered a lot of content in their small page count. If I remember, their gimmick at the time was they didn't give any game a cover story that couldn't be bought in the store at the time of publishing, which I'm sure had something to do with their connection to a game store. They also had a dedicated retro game section which I thought was kind of cool as I got into collecting retro at that time (another Funco mandate possibly). I lament the death of print media as much as anyone but it's not like I've subscribed to a physical game magazine in 20 years either.
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Post by shelverton on Aug 4, 2024 9:27:44 GMT -5
Despite my Metroidvania fatique I’m a few hours into Afterimage on Switch. I’m starting to wish I had bought it for ps5 instead. The performance isn’t as horrible as I was told, at least not in handheld, but the game looks rather pixelated and blurry. Main character is tiny and lack detail (or perhaps it’s my old eyes) which is unfortunate cause I was expecting a much prettier game (yes, sometimes it matters). Other than that it’s an alright game, I guess. Story is absolutely impossible to follow and I’m unsure about some of the game systems, what weapons are better than others etcetera. But at least it plays rather well and I’m not entirely bored with the exploration just yet. Do you experience genre fatigue? Is it even possible to recover from it? I’m worried :/
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Post by excelsior on Aug 4, 2024 11:37:57 GMT -5
Yes, definitely. These days it's for all of the genres.
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Post by Apollo Chungus on Aug 4, 2024 13:27:23 GMT -5
Genre fatigue is deffo something I've experienced every now and again, although I can't currently recall any specific examples. The only advice I could offer is to try some other kinds of games for a while, especially in ways you're not really that familiar with. Maybe try stuff from a console/handheld you haven't played much of, check out games from a country you don't know all that well, or a particular point in the past where common design sensibilities will be different from what you might be used to. The main point is to just have a change of pace, to see things from a new perspective for a little while, and hopefully you'll find some cool games you'd otherwise have not tried or at least have enough distance that you'll be refreshed afterwards.
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Post by spanky on Aug 4, 2024 16:33:44 GMT -5
I also get Metroidvania fatigue. Almost all of them are well made but after a while they all sort of blend together for me. Just give me all my abilities at the beginning and let me have the rest of the game to make that shit work!
Sims are a genre I'll become really obsessed with for a few weeks at a time then I'll get burnt out on them.
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