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45 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

The biggest thing you can do about crime is give poor people money, but that's not sexy.

"I'd rather nuke our own country from orbit and have my children eaten alive by wolves." -The average US voter

56 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

Hochul says subway crime ‘not statistically significant, but psychologically significant’

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The New York governor's supporters say the specter of National Guard troops checking bags will make New Yorkers feel safer, but activists say it’s just a militarized version of stop-and-frisk.

 

Wild to basically just say in plain terms "we're doing this to feed a moral panic."

That's all political theater about "crime rates" ever is. Crime is reported more even though there's far, FAR less of it, and dipshits need someone to do something because they're fucking babies.

Haven't read any of this thread, to avoid spoilers, just wanted to say that while I found Remake quite lacking where others seemed to love it (aside from characterizations and Wall Market) -- this game feels to me how I assume Remake felt to everyone else. It's superb. It actually started out a little boring, that first open area and part of the second felt very formulaic to me and kinda like a Ubisoft game. But ever since Junon, it's been excellent. There's such an insane amount of content, they really went all out on absolutely everything.

They also fixed all the issues I had with the first game: the insane railroading, the hard locked parties at all times, the stiff ass combat with enemies that barely responded to anything, the very few combat options per character, the fact that it was pretty boring when you had no ATB, the overly serious tone (again, aside from Wall Market), the endless streeeetching of such a small amount of content, the complete lack of minigames outside of, like, breaking boxes and... darts, I guess?

They went in the entire opposite direction here. Tons of freedom (but not so much that you're directionless), tons of combat abilities, plenty of options when you have no ATB (synergy skills and abilities rule), enemies respond a helluva lot more to attacks and don't feel as needlessly tanky, the synergy stuff actually encourages you to actively play each character in your party more to build synergy points as the attacks and effects are super powerful and fun, there's more minigames in the first 2 areas than all of FF7 combined, and they're high quality and just keep coming, most of them being very fun. They went all in on the silly bullshit that makes Final Fantasy what it is. Yes, FF always has a somewhat serious main story, but part of the charm is that outside of big moments, it's usually a lot of dumb bullshit going on to keep things interesting.

The amount of bespoke music alone is absolutely absurd. It has half as much music as FF14, which has been lauded for its excellent and super varied soundtrack for a while now -- but FF14's been building that music up for almost a decade and a half and multiple expansions. They made so much goddamn music that individual minor side quests get their own unique songs with vocals at times. Individual card matches can have their own music! Multiple minigames have different music depending on what stage you're on! And it's all great music!

To me, Remake felt like New Super Mario Bros., and Rebirth is like Mario Wonder. One tried to mostly "appeal" to some vague wide audience, while the other dug up the soul of what made people loved the original and just poured it into absolutely every facet of the game. And they also like to fake you out with "oh I guess they didn't include [feature]" and then later on they're like "HAHA BITCH HERE IT IS AND IT'S EVEN BETTER"

It sure as shit ain't perfect, and both graphics and performance mode are compromised (But I'll chop my dick off before switching to that choppy ass 30 FPS nonsense) but it's still been a helluva blast. And there's just so much of it!

Just have whatever weird shit is in my mind on any given day and if I become desensitized I just do the same search but add "+1" to make it a little weirder.

Not watching any trailers since like every fucking game trailer in existence these days has a mandate to give away any little fun surprise, and half the fun of a game like this (for me at least) is seeing all the unique little power-ups and finding out what they do. Pretty sure I got an email from Nintendo that tried to explain like 8 of them, which sounds like probably all of them? I'm good, it's already pre-ordered, don't need to see more.

Leaving and going home.

Freedom lovers, huh?

It's incredible how so many Japanese games follow the exact same trailer cadence to where if I swapped the audio, I bet most people wouldn't even notice. 

I mean, this is kind of true of most trailers from most places, but Japan really gets that "everyone is talking complete nonsense and saying cheesy bullshit" combination juuuust right.

That said, looking at the actual gameplay here, I really can't tell what to think. It looks kinda low budget. Gonna come down to how it feels. Also is it an RPG? It just kinda looked like an action game.

13 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

All Ass Creed needs is a more focused experience compared to Spawlhalla (there is a lot of good stuff to be had, there's just way too MUCH of literally fucking everything) and the return of the "press X to have your lady death squad emerge from random, nearby hiding spots to merc up whoever you target while you walk on casually" from Ass Bro.

I feel like instead of that we should set up some therapy courses for neurotic gamers, letting them know they have permission at any time to stop doing something they don't want to do and move on at any time.

Well, this'll be a fun one!

Nobody shot them in the back as they were fleeing unarmed, so they got off easy compared to the justice they dole out.

Every sentence I read about this is like Christmas.

3 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

Having a patreon that unlocks builds is skirting the line a bit.  No idea if they could legally go after them for that.  The emulator itself could be squeaky clean but they’re still using the Switch ecosystem to make money essentially.  But hopefully you’re right.

Bleem established legal precedent ages ago that you are entitled to be paid for your emulator, nothing to skirt. 

You know, I normally get worried about stuff like this. But some part of me knows Yuzu has been huge and has had a steady flow of income for years, so I'd like to say to Nintendo: "Good luck with that." If the Yuzu devs actually take this to court instead of instantly caving (which I think is what Nintendo is hoping for) then I don't think Nintendo has a fucking leg to stand on, and would get humiliated. Would the Yuzu team go to court? I don't know, but they should, would be fun to watch Nintendo set legal precedent that they fucking suck.

It all comes down to what the Yuzu folks do. People act like winning this kind of thing is impossible, but it's not. It's just expensive. And that's why you sue for legal costs! Yes yes, all easier said than done, but again, Yuzu's steady income over the years has me at least somewhat hopeful they say "fuck off Nintendo, we're calling your bluff."

Got to "battles are played automatically" and just noped out. I don't even like AI partners in actions games, I don't want to see AI duke it out with each other, that's boring as shit to me. Setting FF12-style priority orders beforehand just abstracts actually playing the game to more menus and takes away agency in combat, meaning there's no reacting or doing anything interesting once an actual battle takes place.

Just completely not my thing.

4 minutes ago, Biggie said:

I do agree but honestly I just love Pokémon and I’m part of the problem. 

1 minute ago, best3444 said:

 

Even on Switch 2 you think?

There was no reason for any Pokemon game to run or look as bad as they did. The Switch wasn't the problem, Gamefreak was.

4 minutes ago, XxEvil AshxX said:

Pokemon in the city? Will it feature roadkill?

No but it'll run like roadkill!

3 minutes ago, Brian said:

Game Freak has no problems releasing trailers that has frames dropping to single digits and showing off the pop in. The lack of any graphics here means it’s a Switch 2 game (though it will definitely be cross platform since GF gives zero fucks about performance issues).

No, Game Freak just makes their games in such a crunchy amount of time that this is standard fare for them. I can't remember which game it was, but remember the previous game being announced with just fucking sketches? I think it was Scarlet and Violet.

6 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

According to Jason Schreier, the Twisted Metal live-service game that was in development at Firesprite was cancelled.

At least something good came out of this.

Set entirely within the city, huh? That sounds like it's gotta be Switch 2. The only way that stays entertaining for the length of a Pokemon game is if it's a really big city with varied locations.

40 minutes ago, chakoo said:

The times I was looking forward to going to the office is because I had plans to meet up a friend over lunch.

Just invite your friend to your house for some Helldivers 2!

I feel like anyone that actually enjoys going into the office just kind of needs a more robust social life and outside-work community. The few odd days I've had in my life where I actually wanted to go to work were because I pretty much had fuck all going on outside of work, so it was more interesting than sitting on my ass. 

You should just be able to register that you're married online, and do a ceremony if you feel like it.

5 hours ago, ort said:

Hopefully this puts the network out of business.

How very un-American of you to want to SILENCE the only network out there BRAVE ENOUGH to just make shit up for money!