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General / Re: What do you think the gaming industry lacks in ?

« on: October 05, 2017, 06:28:34 pm »

- Indie games. I don't believe all indie games are bad, but there are far too many flooding the market, and most of them suck. Funny thing about having no publisher is that there's nobody standing behind you to tell you that your game is trash. Curiously, a US indie studio can release a game with horrible graphics and it's a 9.0 score, but a small Japanese studio doing the same gets taken down several notches for it, despite similarly limited resources.

Publishers care about quality?  Ubisoft Published Beyond Good & Evil & Assassin's Creed Unity, RE Umbrella Corps and VII were published by Capcom, Sonic Mania & Sonic Boom published by Sega.   All HUGE names which are 'marketable' because that's what the publishers care about, they have exhibited multiple time that they're content with shipping gold or garbage because they can get away with it and fix it later 'maybe'.  Skullgirls lost Konami as its publisher and it's still a great fighting game that went Indie. Yooka-Laylee & Mighty No. 9 picked up a Publisher midway through development, and it appears to have done sod-all for their quality. 

I'm sorry for nitpicking but there's so much wrong with this statement.  I understand what you mean though, the ratio of indie games worth playing at all is heavily skewed against the guys giving it there all.  But surely this is down to lack of industry experience and poor planning, not 'has a publisher Yes / No'. 

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General / Re: What do you think was the worst gaming fad of all time?

« on: October 03, 2017, 12:34:05 pm »

I'd agree with Micro-transactions and motion controls, though I will stand in to defend touch screens. 

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General / Re: (Obsession) 10 Or More Games You Can't Stop Playing Or Going Back To

« on: September 24, 2017, 11:37:13 am »

Okay, let's see here:

1. Crash Bandicoot 3 Warped
2. CTR Crash Team Racing
3. Puyo Puyo Tetris  ----> This overrides Tetris on Game Boy
4. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
5. Skullgirls
6. Ratchet & Clank 3
7. Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
8.   --- I can't think of any others ---

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General / Re: Imagine If You Were Invited To Play A Game In Front Of People (live)

« on: September 20, 2017, 05:11:33 pm »

Didn't they make a film about this?

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General / Re: Secret Santa 2017 (part 1: Sign-ups)

« on: September 14, 2017, 09:08:56 pm »

I originally signed up for it last year, but my involvement went on the back-burner and I was dropped out. 

I'll do my best not to repeat that, count me in!

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General / Re: Good qualities in bad games.

« on: September 14, 2017, 09:05:01 pm »

The Acapella soundtrack carved from the cold, black heart of Crash Tag Team Racing, and that's ONLY the music for the race tracks.  Otherwise, it's still one of the worst Crash Bandicoot games. 

Even just saying "the game's bad but the music is good" is barely noteworthy anymore, it just seems like good soundtracks can be found in so many games, needless to say they can be found in better games.  I think it's more interesting to think of the opposite side of the spectrum, good games with crap soundtracks?? 

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General / Re: What Do You Think Is The Greatest Console Of All Time?

« on: September 12, 2017, 11:13:39 am »

I'll second the PS2, though the Nintendo Switch is slowly climbing the ranks for me personally.  Didn't see that coming!

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General / Re: What iconic character do you think should have had a video game but never did?

« on: August 31, 2017, 05:35:34 pm »

oh OH OH! Kill la Kill was so good, why didn't it get a game of some kind?!  I believe there was an interview with Kenji Saito of PlatinumGames a couple years back that they would be interested in making a Kill la Kill game. 

Now Little Witch Academia is getting a game... and that's it, splendid

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Off Topic / Re: The internet is life, God is wifi.

« on: August 06, 2017, 02:17:30 pm »

Brilliant, you keep doing what you're doing, I'll go play Blaster Master Zero

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General / Re: Tomba 3, Half Life 3, Klonoa 3, Bioshock 3 or Dark Cloud 3?

« on: August 06, 2017, 02:13:21 pm »

A number of you will know by now that my pick would be a Klonoa 3.  For a long time Valve just exhibits no interest in making a Half-Life 3. 

Does Bioshock infinite really not count as a supposed Bioshock 3?

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Modern Video Games / Re: Super Mario Odyssey

« on: August 04, 2017, 07:53:04 pm »

I suppose it would be the willingness to introduce all sorts of different new worlds and new characters, existing characters are being peppered about but it's a 'new' adventure with new ways to traverse the land. 

1 or 2 new power-ups and the same level design and aesthetic isn't doing it for me anymore.  In Super Mario Odyssey, all that transforming malarkey hits the nail on the head for me. 

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Error Listings 2017

« on: July 31, 2017, 09:25:29 am »

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - released for the PlayStation 2???  Is this a homebrew or something??
https://vgcollect.com/item/130144

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Marketplace / Re: Selling a lot of collection. UK buyers only.

« on: July 20, 2017, 11:05:28 am »

I'm selling  a super famicom and snes and SMS as well

Hmmm, depends if you can cut a good deal on that SNES

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Modern Video Games / Re: What upcoming title are you most excited for? (Kingdom Hearts III?)

« on: July 18, 2017, 01:05:34 pm »

Uhh let's see:

Fire Emblem Warriors (Pretty much hard-gay for FE at this point!  Guess you could lump FE Switch in their too)
Indivisible (by Lab Zero Games, that's Skullgirls BTW, I've never been more passionate about an Indie game than Indivisible)

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Marketplace / Re: Selling a lot of collection. UK buyers only.

« on: July 18, 2017, 11:25:32 am »

One of only a couple people here from the UK... I don't own any of these consoles

Dammit