solved the twitch problem by using streamlink, a CLI program that launches a VLC window with the stream in it
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also make sure to go grab Streamlink Twitch GUI so you can just browse Twitch like a normal person except you never have to deal with their website
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Whatever happened to Platinum?
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They were always frugal when it came to development to allow niche games and property tie-ins to just about break even but i think they struggled to scale up in the PS4 era. That Granblue Fantasy game and Bayonetta 3 both had protracted development as well as their stab at a GAAS which I canāt even remember the title of. They seemingly couldnāt adapt very well to modern development despite Automata being a big success. I think their partnership with Nintendo also didnāt really pay off since most of those projects were kinda unnecessarily complex control schemes requiring lots of practice coupled with poor pacing (Wonderful 101 and Astral Chain).
I think part of the studio didnāt really get that modernising certain design decisions would generally be a net good
Edit: Bayonetta Origins is their secret last hurrah
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Are there any handheld game things that can also double as PC game controllers?
Why hasnāt Sony made Knack 3 for ps5 and is it because it would be so peak that no one would ever be satisfied by a non-Knack vidcon again?
I mean just imagine Knack but with the power of ps5. Youāre already hating the last game you thought you enjoyed, arenāt you?
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I need an āAstro Bot devouring his Son, Knackā image. If there were a Knack 3 heād have to have a new maximum size which would start to resemble a complex protein structure model to accommodate the additional rendered objects. It would be horrific and also the most interesting Knack game as a result.
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yes
here are 3 i know of
Vita GitHub - Rinnegatamante/VitaPad: Transform your PSVITA into a PC Controller
3DS GitHub - CTurt/3DSController
Switch GitHub - WerWolv/SwitchXBOXController: Turn your Nintendo Switch into an XBOX360 controller to play on your Windows computer
an Anbernic apparently has an option to do this over USB as well
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I donāt have to imagine
Knack on the PS5 finally holds 60 fps
the three mainline Bayo games and Astral Chain have all sold 1M+ on Switch and thus qualify for the top 100 best selling Switch games list
seemingly the only game they did with Nintendo on the Switch to have not sold well (or as well) is Bayo Origins
theyāre also not at fault for Relinkās long development time, Cygames took the game internally after a year or so of Platinumās work and also the director that worked on it there went to Cygames along with it
honestly aside from breakouts, the character action game has a sales ceiling a like, 3-5 million and hitting 1M is already doing okay (I mean, not for something that languished in dev hell for 6 years and has a 20 minutes credits sequence like Relink. but Cygames got horse money so)
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I forgot about Star Fox Zero and Scalebound as well though these are arguably more the fault of their respective publishers.
I think the difference now is development times are longer and the price of these games havenāt really kept pace with inflation so a studio like Platinum presumably canāt keep relying on 1mil-ish sellers in the same way it did in 2009. Bayo 3 was in development hell for a good while and Iām skeptical it really made its money back but then this isnāt really representative of the publisher relationship with Nintendo in terms of what the financial deals are so idk.
I think moreso than financially paying off, Platinum havenāt really maintained the same critical legacy since Automata and have had an unlucky series of projects just kinda spaffing away. If theyāre helping with the next Nier game Iāll collect my stub and politely wait in the queue.
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itās kind of miraculous that sandlot have carried on as they have for so long
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Sol Cresta.
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this reminded me of a Konami(?) PS2 game (musou-style) that boasted a ridiculous number on enemies on the backside box-art, Ć la
10.000 enemies on the map at once
or so, does anyone remember that?
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Whereās that game where itās Diablo cranked down to 5 kills an hour?
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There was a PS2 game too but I donāt remember the name right now
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this was kessen wasnāt it
Itās Demon Chaos. Itās one of the coolest PS2 games. Loki wrote about it once
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That counts but it was Demon Chaos yes!
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Ah Ikusa Gami and its claim of being able to have 65,535 units onscreen at once. Got me to import it, anyway. Donāt think I ever knew it came out with an English translation in EU/AU 1.5 years later.
Oh it was Konami who published the EU/AU versions, says GameFAQs. It was developed by and originally published in Japan and Asia by Genki.
It might be more possible to count them now
than it was on original hardware
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Erdtree? (Although all I know is what people complain about about that. ^ _^)