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Fun fact: Video game production cycles have gotten so long that if a big-budget game studio started working on a brand new project today, it would likely be for the PlayStation 6
Remember everyone; always share your streaming accounts with friends and family. It is in fact a very good and moral thing to do, and as an added bonus the big corpos don't like it.
The password is: Don't share. Netflix, Disney+ and other streaming are hoping to discourage people from sharing their passwords without alienating subscribers. Password sharing is estimated to cost them several billion dollars a year in lost revenue.
There's a common misconception that Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario, also does the voice for Wario, which is factually not true.
In reality, Wario is played by Martinet's evil cousin Charles Wartinet.
People often ask why games "aren't considered art". And I think this guy and a lot of the replies perfectly encapsulates part of it. A lot of gamers and the industry itself simply treat games as products to be consumed, and nothing more. They don't give a shit about art.
Nintendo are closing down the 3DS and Wii U digital storefronts and people are getting real weird about it. If you're planning on spending a pile of cash on digital purchases the next week, solely because of some perception of preservation, I think maybe you should reconsider.
Some youtuber: "Sonic was the last fighter to be revealed for Smash Bros Brawl. Very cool that they kept him secret all the way to the end of the story mode."
The back of the box:
It's absolutely wild that Mega Man has one of the most iconic pacing structures of any game series in history, one everyone will happily expect, and Capcom are like "don't know what to do".
I'm gonna be blunt and straight to the point, these games have already been dumped and are figuratively floating around in all kinds of places. Throwing money at Nintendo now will lend you little more than a personal sense of righteousness, be fully aware of that.
One Piece's serialisation is literally right now in this very moment about why replacing a man with a machine is a horrifying tragedy. I don’t know what's more incredible, the tone deafness or the timing.
Imagine picking up a dollar bill, but it's actually a poorllar bill and it instantly drains ten bucks from your wallet. Yeah, that is a little bit sad.
What the fuck do these options even mean?
What does "Retry from This Battle" mean when you've just given me 68 separate battles? Apparently it doesn't mean "THIS battle right now", but rather "THOSE battles an hour ago".
I seriously think you guys should reappraise this game because it has so much in common with Tears of the Kingdom. It’s been 15 years, it’s fine, you don’t have to be angry anymore.
However, what is more so accomplished by this is actively rewarding Nintendo for their behavior. I don't have any actual data, but I think it's a fair assumption to say they most likely see a boost in sales before their grand shutdown finale.
Like, don't get me wrong. I would love to see a Chu Chu Rocket film as much as the next person, but let's not kid ourselves. Only twelve people would watch that, and one of them would be Alicia because I dragged her with me.
I genuinely think one of the best courses of action we've collectively done is memifying the ease of 3DS jailbreaking, making it into an utter joke, an idea easily transmitted among people. It's a loud widespread call of defiance and at this moment should be repeated even louder.
Cloud: Yeah, I always used to play Wario Land on my Playstation.
Tifa: You sure about that? Who's the main character of Wario Land?
[Wario Land]
Cloud: It’s Wario Land, right?
Tifa: No, he’s just Wario...
[Your relationship to Tifa has weakened.]
Sephiroth vision: Yeah Cloud wtf?
People need to stop saying that they were "traumatized" by innocuous shit like Dorrie in Super Mario 64 when what they actually mean is that it was a bit scary for them as 4 year olds.
Quite frankly, as an ordinary person you shouldn't be made to feel stressed out and pressed to spend money on digital games because an arbitrary supply is being strangled. Have no qualms about hacking your 3DS or Wii U, do it for yourself, you deserve to not feel bad about it.
Thinking this is the be all-end all death of these consoles' output is feeding into the narrative Nintendo wants you to believe. That they're the sole provider of this material and that they control what we can and cannot play. Because it's not true and you know that.
This isn't even the first time they've done this, the closing of the Wii storefront was just the same. Clearly we didn't roar loud enough because they didn't pull any punches on repeating the same thing all over again. They're evidently not afraid of our response.
We've said this before and we'll say it again, the Playstation 5 has been the most pointless console purchase in our lives. If they suddenly shove out a Playstation 6 in three years I see absolutely no reason to buy it. Absolute joke, doesn't even fit in our TV furniture.
So anyway, TLDR; Did you know it's surprisingly easy to hack your 3DS?
Also, you should watch our video on preservation because we think it deserves a lot more views!
SONY no longer calls games with a budget of $100 million as AAA games, and now calls them medium-budget games!
The high costs of games have reached a truly catastrophic situation!
Consider how bizarre it is that some guy has to manually buy every game, spend tens of thousands of dollars on this, so it can be donated to one singular place. This shouldn't be a regular person's job, it should be provided by Nintendo itself. We should be angry that they don't.
When we read renaissance literature, we don't dig up invaluable historical treasures, we use copies, we understand that the vessel is new, fabricated, but that the content is genuine. We must allow that for video games too, and know that eventually emulation is all we have left.
If Nintendo has a problem with that, they will have to sensibly adress the problems of their actions, face that this is their own doing and provide real alternatives for us. They will not do this, however, and we should never expect them to. That's not how capitalism operates.
This leads us to Jirard Khalil buying every single currently available e-shop game and donating them to an institution. For the intents and purposes we're forced to operate under, I think this is a good thing, good on him. However, it shouldn't ever have to come to this.
In the last few days I've seen an argument that in-official means won't help museums, archives and academics. That they need the real deal or they're getting nothing. This is a real problem, a broad societal one of laws that favor corporations over culture.
My favorite bit of Zelda timeline lore nonsense is people insisting the description of rock salt is referencing Wind Waker when it's just how rock salt is formed in real life.
Your personal purchase of Dillon's Rolling Western will not make the game more available for those institutions, neither should you be incentivized to somehow donate your entire unit for that cause. We should rather adress the absurdity of it being the only legitimate option.
What really gets me about this is how it is received as some great resolution. Hurray, the Completionist saved all of the e-shop. The problem has been fixed, preservation has been solved. Because he hasn't, he has merely exposed how garbage the situation actually truly is.
We are seemingly treating these computer systems as natural organic beings outside of our controls, endangered species to be protected and documented in a backwards manner. We are treating Nintendo as an unmoving monolith to whom we should bend over backwards to appease.
If we are to move beyond this situation, I think we seriously have to make peace with the loss of authenticity. That something has to be sacrificed on the way to the future, that the body must die but the soul live on forever. Because that's how we've always preserved culture.
It's important to donate to archives and the like, but it's equally (if not more) important that we dump roms, develop emulators and document paratext so it's easily available to everyone and not just a select few.
It's such a tell that the algorithm art bros are all about instant results and efficiency because they cannot comprehend the idea of such a thing as joy in creation. That people who make things perhaps do it because they find it fun and fulfilling and not as a profit incentive.
And then what? These brittle units will sit in one bunker on the planet and only help a sliver of people. One day they will break, their data corrupt and their essence disappear. Do we preserve for five years into the future? 50? 500? These physical artifacts deteriorate.
Preservation is complicated and multi-faceted, and in our current system the companies who own the rights are actively opposing and working against it. We must be conscious of this and recognize what power we have against them, so we don't just stubbornly play by their rules.
I once had a Super Mario 64 dream in which I found a secret ending to the game where Mario suddenly starts walking on his own, leaving the player behind as he slowly steps into an FMV ocean with the parting words "I shake control... Join the swimming people..." written on screen.
I want games to lean way more into this stuff. Have a big loud GO ⬆️ prompt shout at the player. When the road branches I want signs saying BONUS ROOM and NEXT LEVEL. Weak points on bosses should flash red. Anytime I do something wicked I should get 10 000 points.
This meme-post has reached so far outside of our follower base that we are now getting lots of nitpickers. And before you reply with something like "not worse, but simpler" I need you to sit the heck down. We know what it means, friendo. We all get it. We get the nuance. Shut.
I shouldn't even have to say this, but no, Hal Laboratory making another Kirby game doesn't override F-Zero and Pikmin being made instead. It's fucking Hal, what other franchise would they work on? Adventures of Lolo?
We thought this was especially funny considering how we vividly remember Sonic being revealed on the Smash Dojo way before the game was released. Actually Olimar was revealed after Sonic even.
@lNTRUSlVETHOT
Reading some of their further comments it seems like they thought euphoria in this case meant arousal. Which is certainly a stretch one of these people would make.
With
@LEGO_Group
revealing four more Kongs to the upcoming Donkey Kong expansion of their Super Mario line, it's clear that this is far more ambitious than we anticipated.
What other characters and baddies would you like to see? Or what about level sets?
Paris Promenade confirms that France exists in the Mario universe, which means there was also a French revolution. So the Toad's inhabiting the streets should be aware of beheading monarchist leaders as a concept.
Anyone with the slightest amount of literacy already understood this to be the case, but I suppose it doesn't hurt that the people in the back get absolutely wrecked.
This tweet is just spreading misinformation. Doug Bowser said that they're entering uncharted territory with the Switch, not a new console. And when he says they're aiming to "surprise and delight" he means it as a general statement about how Nintendo operates about everything.
The EU has ruled that all handheld gaming devices will require replacable batteries by 2027, meaning Steam Deck or Switch follow-ups will require this: