I hate this so much because I love em dashes and have been using them forever.

I think it could be useful in edge cases and the user needs to be skilled at whatever they’re using it for.

Reality is it is predominantly used by rich assholes to cut corners and get around hiring and paying workers.

Thank you for putting this together.

Consensus seems weak environmental design, mediocre graphics, and awesome combat—more Platinum than TN, which fans more or less predicted from the pre-release footage. As a Platinum fan myself, I don’t mind that, but I see why this can annoy the Itagaki faithful.

I’ve seen Steam reviews bring up some performance issues most critic reviews didn’t, but apart from that, I’m satisfied with the reception enough to add it to my wishlist. It’s such a nice feeling knowing there’s a new action game waiting to be bought and played. We don’t get to experience this feeling nearly enough.

Hopefully, Onimusha and Okami 2 will follow suit and we’ll get a DMC6 announcement soon.

From Software could kill the entire soulslike genre with one lawsuit. Like, just pick the biggest non-From Software soulslike and sue the publisher.

I feel like this shit is cyclical. Like, we’ve been here before and we’ll be here again.

The question is: are we ever going to evolve past this nonsense before we go extinct. Historically speaking, the answer has always been “probably not”

We’re just getting closer and closer to the end so it’s more frightening now, I feel.

Reportedly, Itagaki was an alcoholic and chainsmoker. I don’t think he cared much to live long and, TBH, his games reflected it. I can’t think of anything more YOLO in gaming than that staircase fight in NGII. Man designed a fight to break the console and bragged about it.

Controversial figure. IDK if I ever liked him, TBH. Even though he was cleared of the sexual harrasment charges, he still admitted to having an affair… and he gave us one of the best action games of all-time. Weird guy.

Hopefully, he’s at peace now and whoever was affected by his weird life decisions is at peace as well.

Now that he’s dead, will Team Ninja and Tecmo stop holding vanilla NGII hostage out of spite?

Fuck, I don’t like most video games so I can throw a rock and hit one, but I’m gonna go with the genres I like just to make it interesting.

Fighting games: Mortal Kombat—I’m sorry, I like the hyper violence as much as the next guy, but the gameplay doesn’t do it for me at all. Entertaining to watch, but it stops there for me.

Action games: Suda51 overall. Like, play No More Heroes but steer clear of the rest. It’s mediocre combat wrapped in nonstop nonsense.

Shmups: ZeroRanger. I can’t stand that game.

It has been getting better though, no? Hasn’t Under Night registration numbers been higher than MK for the last two Evos? I don’t necessarily wish failure for MK as a competitive game, but it seems they’re happy cashing in on the casual appeal more than anything else.

Maybe this new Warner Bros. gaming division shake up will lead to a new direction, who knows what the future holds.

It so did not. Publishers re-released the same game over and over again and consumers paid more money overall.

Heck, they’re still doing it to this day 😂

Smash is still a top seller on Nintendo platforms and has never had a season model.

Nintendo sells hardware—entirely different business model. Capcom, Bandai, and Arc System Works sell games.

I don’t even know how to respond to this, like, you’re wrong, but show the graph. I wanna see what kind of numbers you’re looking at because MK competitive numbers have clearly been nosediving for at least half a decade.

Like, even if you go back a decade to MKX just to prove a point, you’ll at best get a nice bell curve that clearly shows a divorce with the FGC when compared to the steadily rising competitive numbers of other fighting games.

MK and the FGC divorced long ago. When people say fighting games, they’re mostly talking about Japanese fighting games and a few indies.

That’s not financially feasible in fighting games. Guilty Gear -STRIVE-, for example, currently has 32 characters even though it launched with 15 and that’s thanks to DLC selling well.

The current version of the game as we know it took nearly 10 years to develop. If you’re asking a mid-range developer to put 10 years of development into a self-published fighting game without seeing a single cent, you’re obviously disconnected from the market’s economics and are OK with the game potentially never seeing the light of day because it’s “not complete”

What does the “whole game” even mean in fighting games? It sounds like you’re applying non-fighting games standards to fighting games while ignoring any and all nuances related to the genre, which’s uninformed at best.

There’s “protect the consumer” and there’s “nuke the genre”—you’re calling for the second here.

Sounds shady, TBH. I wonder who they are and why was this deal done in the dark. Every piece of info I found online was deliberately vague.

I guess only time will tell.

Unfortunate for the people laid off, but this game sucks and this developer has been a dick since day 1.

HLD still doesn’t have cloud save support BTW.

Can we not use “roguelite” and “arcade” in the same sentence? Roguelite is the anti-arcade.

Arcade games don’t reward you with permanent power ups for losing runs, that’s just modern gaming nonsense, which you can enjoy, just get your terminology right and don’t mislead people.

Beat’em up != arcade.

I couldn’t believe my eyes seeing this update pop up in my library a few hours ago. Madness from Bandai.

Hot take: it shouldn’t be. Guy has great ideas, but he’s never really been a good writer. Nothing he ever writes is cohesive or makes total sense.

Good comedy bits though… he should still write the comedy bits.

I have a hard time believing there are many people willing to spend 360$ to play games that will disappear as soon as you stop playing.

I hardly spend $100 on games a year. Subscribing to Game Pass means I’m overspending by April, and for games I don’t even own. Insane proposition.

New Lemmy pasta?