God Hand doesn’t look playable, which is sad. But maybe this is a good way to revisit MGS3.
damnation. how am i supposed to keep my pimp hand strong without emulated god power?
God Hand runs fine in PCSX2, what are you concerned about?
I played through god hand in pcsx2 back in like 2012 and had a whale of a time
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That video is just showing off the state of 60fps patches. Which I have to say are hideous. If I wanted pc ports or late 90s arcade games I’d play those. I’m here to relive the glory days when I was squinting at crt tv’s trying to make out details thinking “we gotta come up with some clearer display technology” not realizing how good I had it
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i’d say it’s case by case, ico 60 fps looks sublime for instance. it was an option in the original’s debug mode but broke a bunch of gameplay stuff, i guess the current patch fixes that?
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the big contentious issue when I think about 3D game emulation is going above the original aspect ratio. I like framerate patches and added anti aliasing and higher res textures (most of the time), but I’m a purist about the original 4:3 aspect ratio for most games.
The PC port of Killer7 defaults to a 16:9 widescreen hack, which looks nice, but noticeably undermines the visual presentation of the game imo. It’s actually pretty weird I think that it’s the default.
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Yeah I feel that is a real “ignoring the developers vision.” Shenmue 1 does it as well.
People love hideous borders for games though!
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This game is real good. Make this game a “lifestyle” “service”. For a reasonable fee: endless new doo dads and continually revised competitive meta balance tweaks. Turns out Nintendo’s previously-hushed Apple Arcade competitor is a digital Hanafuda deck design subscription service.
In defense of Lines and Boxes (and, from there, Renegade, whatever it is they’re calling Connect Four, and some others) - I am a dingus and can’t really plan my strategies out, so I’m constantly getting completely crushed by the AI.
Ludo is kind of amazing. It’s an incredibly simple board game, but has one of the most cruel and devious “absolutely fuck over your opponents” mechanics I’ve ever seen.
I tried playing a set of Texas Hold 'Em online and the lag is incredible. Stuff like mancala is fine! But four player games seem to buckle
I really wanna learn mahjong and hanafuda, but holy shit there are so many hands to try and remember.
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Ludo is such a fucked game, I love it. Like, as a kid I was like “This game is entirely luck, what a pointless piece of garbage.” As an adult I’m like “Yeah GET OUTTA HERE motherfucker EAT SHIT” as I send pawns back to their garbage dump of a home. Pointing and laughing at my brother-in-law as I utterly destroy him at Fucken Ludo
Good game
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Hanafuda is a lot more manageable than Mahjong in my experience. Does Clubhouse come with tutorials? I played Koi Koi Hanafuda on Steam to learn and it wasn’t too hard to pick it up (however automation means that you tend to miss a lot of the steps that would help you learn the rules in the physical game).
I learnt Mahjong in Yakuza 0 but only with having a knowledgeable player of the game watching me play. I don’t think I remember much of it though.
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Yes.
Also I am disappointed the Curling game is just single-round, whoever’s closest last wins.
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Yeah I can’t stress enough how rad Clubhouse Games is. Some of the games are junk (I guess Toy Boxing is cool if you wanna play like, a fighting game with someone with zero concept of how to play fighting games), but the ones that hit are totally solid.
Their fake Uno plays at such a breakneck speed.
I just wish Nintendo’s online was better, because goddamn some of these four player games are rough to sit through.
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God Deal or No Deal (wii) sucks shit. Why is this a game? How is this a game show? In the show you’d have to be an idiot not to take the first offer the banker gives you. It’s like the perfect encapsulation of greed. Then the DS version is that with zero production values. Just choosing suitcases until the number is good/bad.
The minigame announcer definitely charges 5.99 after the first 5 minutes though.
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it’s actually shockingly complicated!!
main things:
- you have to take into account the utility of money in people’s behavior. so, if the banker offers me $1,000 but the $1mill case is still in play, EVEN if my chances are godawful i’ll almost certainly turn that down because the utility of $1,000 is not worth the chance of getting a million bucks. But if I have a 50/50 chance of getting a million bucks, and the banker offers me even like…$250,000, I will almost certainly take it because the utility of $250,000 is huge
- The banker loses less money the longer people play, since if the game ends quickly more people play per show. Early offers are very low in order to encourage people to push on.
- People are inherently dumb so the fact that you get to touch and hold on to one case makes you believe it is likely more valuable than it really is. So there’s that in play too, and it’s pretty fascinating!
source: Introduction to Game Theory/Deal Or No Deal - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
But in the end, all of this is pointless when you turn it into a video game where literally nothing is at stake, so at the end of the day i still agree with you
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i don’t know bout the versions in other countries, but the guy who hosts the uk version of deal or no deal is infamous for being a weird crackpot who thinks he invented a magic cancer-curing machine and that you can become rich and powerful by wishing for it every night.
so to him at least, deal or no deal isn’t just opening numbered boxes at random, but the very important manifestation of destiny itself
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the only way Deal or No Deal would be interesting as a video game is if you played as the banker over a longer series of games, and the win condition is getting people to take offers less than the value of the case when YOU don’t know the value of the case.
Or if you played 2p and alternated being player and banker.
That would be KIND OF interesting
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Deal or No Deal is pretty fun to play at a Dave & Busters where the cash prize equates to (with conversion) how many tickets you get out of the machine.
I’d… probably play a version of that arcade game in a casino for real money
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my favorite thing to do at dave and devilbusters is get a drink and play the sit-down racing games because you can compete against other players and stuff, and see how well i do the more drunk i get. i usually perform pretty well.
(of course, not condoning drunk driving. i don’t drive, and i wouldn’t drive drunk, but i do condone drunk video racing).
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