well well
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and anyway it’s not like the problem of being asked to have sympathy for the middle class is a new one – they have in their favour that they’re advocating for expectations that everyone should ideally get to have, but this chafes against the reality of them being fairly comfortable and potentially being seen as entitled as a result – it’s just interesting the way it maps so closely onto game developers and their audiences
(this might seem like a stretch to fit this frame but I really don’t think it’s so far off)
Another unspoken factor is that Sony and especially Sony Europe was pulling all indie support and shuttering their indie publishing at this time. This is purely speculative, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Nex Machina was partially funded as a PSVR project and, after a tepid response from Sony towards a next pitch, they were hoping to bring the public in, to demonstrate that they had wells of support beyond their last poor-selling titles.
unfortunately Sony knows the numbers inside and out
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I’m not saying I don’t have sympathy for them (I do), but I also wonder like, what is going on there. Their press for their next game has the CEO basically already talking about it as a failure, which OK, weird way to go about it.
the real racket is to make your main business doing a thing apparently no company is halfway decent at and then funnel that money into your weird vanity and dream projects
on an unrelated note, M2 got that ESP Ra.de port out this month
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This week even! Gotta get on that Japanese eshop, since unlike Ninja Warriors, gonna bet no localization here.
i bought Heavy Burger on the Switch because it’s on sale for $1.99 right now. i would say it is worth at least that much. it’s a weird game - kind of like a mix of Warioware (not as creative, though) and Nidhogg? but as a twin-stick shooter.
it’s also weird in that it is soooo loaded with Data East nostalgia and honestly, i don’t know who they made this game for. me, i guess, because i get the references. maybe people who read Something Awful, too, because Karnov, but
yeah, i think it’s kind of neat. definitely not fun against the CPU, though. looking forward to trying to convince some friends to play the game, but knowing they will probably not care very much.
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I just want to say that Data East is actually a good game company group and also they’re responsible for the best game ever made, The Cliffhanger Edward Randy
if Johnny Turbo really cared, he would have had the game on sale last month for Karnovember
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Yeah as much as I love Yoshi’s Island it started a trend of collecting in platformers that kills all the momentum and takes a lot of the fun out for me. A few hidden items are fine but the amount you need in each Yoshi stage is a bit much.
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The stages in general in that game are too long. It takes speedrunners 1.75 hours to beat the game without warps. Takes another 40 minutes to beat it 100%. Too long of a platformer with too shallow a difficulty curve.
I was certainly enchanted by it when I was young, though! And I think it still looks great. It’s just kind of a slog in general.
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It’s a one-level-per-day kind of game for me.
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I think I should have approached it this way. When I stretched out play sessions, I found myself impatient to get through the level, sometimes making blind flutter-kicking leaps of faith across the field just to see how much I could skip. Playing the game on those terms is not really playing at all.
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I meant to try Wattam for a few minutes before going to sleep and ended up playing it for more than two hours.
I only stopped when it crashed.
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I tried Lonely Mountains Downhill on XBGP for PC and bounced off of it pretty quickly.
First of all, change the default “screen based” control method is AWFUL. But I still did not enjoy the game.
I mean, it might be ok when you finally have a decent bike which doesn’t activlly try to make the game awful. But they start you out with a bike which just feels like crap and that’s not a fun way to pad the game. I did not feel like suffering through BS to enjoy the real actual game.
i tried to stay up till midnight, but knew this would happen. can’t wait to finish work and jump in.
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I’ve never gotten very far with it, though I did pick it up again recently. It’s a play-the-first-two-stages-every-three-years kind of game for me.
It’s damn pretty and the movement is fun enough–and maybe stage design and encounters get more interesting as it goes on–but I find myself bored with the game roughly halfway through a level.
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I enjoy a Kirby game or two, but I really don’t like the platformer stage design strategy (shared by Kirby games and Yoshi’s Island, perhaps moreso in the former) that strings together loosely connected areas through a linear series of doors or other gates. It makes the rhythm of a stage really difficult to sense and make the experience feel meandering.
At that point, the division between stages often feels arbitrary and begins to lose meaning. It’s an endless series of screens of indeterminate length and focus with occasional checkpoints and returns to map screens.
I like levels with strong identity, which is mostly a strong point for most Mario games (a problem with some later games’ castle and fortress stages perhaps). I think Yoshi’s Island is a bit better than the average Kirby game in visually unifying its stages at least, but the pacing still feels bizarre and the stages feel unfocused–which is maybe less of a problem to others than it is to me.
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Sonic 1 is a pretty different feeling game from 2,3,k.
Mania grabs the best bits of 3+k but the newer levels are the best part. I really wish they would get a sequel full of just their original content. But I think sega’s sonic people got big mad at the game’s success.
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i started playing yakuza 6. i wanna walk round kamurocho and go to arcades and don quixote on a sunny day in real life ;_;
even though a sunny day in japan would probably make my flesh melt
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