doublepepperoni

joined 4 years ago
 

It's just the old bus stop billboard ads from May but plastered with perfect review scores instead of a tagline.

I don't think I've ever seen a secondary post-launch ad campaign for a video game, especially a single-player one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There was even a third game just called 3rd Birthday on the PSP, presumably because of licensing issues- Parasite Eve was a Japanese novel to which the first game was actually a sequel of sorts.

3rd Birthday was awful by all accounts

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It was on the front page I swear ;_;

 

You never know what kind of demented takes you'll see when you open a thread now michael-laugh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Many people shit on Parasite Eve 2 for not being Parasite Eve 1, which is completely understandable, but it's a completely decent survival horror game in its own right. Would recommend a playthrough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't know all boomers were Mormons

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just ascend into a being of pure energy

 

Didn't realise Yahtzee had ever only completed 4 JRPGs, in total miyazaki-laugh

While they definitely have their fanbases in the West, there's something about the genre's trappings and storytelling that's basically poison to a lot of Westerners

I guess it's that they're largely squarely aimed at Japanese youth

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If I remember correctly, Nightdive(?) completed remasters of both NOLF games and was ready to release them as soon as the rights issues were sorted out. Due to Monolith having changed ownership multiple times, no one was sure if the rights to the series belonged to Activision, Fox, or Warner Brothers. From what I recall, Nightdive's quest to find who owned the franchise eventually led them to Fox, who told them that the potential profits from the re-releases would not be worth the hassle of digging through paperwork to find out if they had any claim to the rights. They then told Nightdive they could not go forward with releasing the games because they would raise a legal stink on the off-chance they ever found out they DID.

Copyrights are bullshit, just pirate everything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was being a bit facetious since what Finnish does have is cases, and tons and tons of them

I would imagine trying to memorise the dozens of ways every noun can be modified would be a fucking nightmare for a non native speaker

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Finnish has no articles troll

1
"1997" (hexbear.net)
 

I continue to seethe at Youtube thumbnails rage-cry

 
 

Like in Stalker where the mutant dogs will turn tail and flee if they take too much damage or if you kill enough of their pack members. Red Dead Redemption's animals also ran away if a fight wasn't going their way.

Actually, Rockstar games are pretty good with this sort of stuff in general. I'm pretty sure you could shoot guns of of people's hands in RDR to make them put their hands up, or cause a fatal gunshot wound that would make them crawl around on their belly and call for help. Both GTA 4 and 5's enemies have injury states where they will take potshots at you with a pistol while bleeding on the ground or just passively clutch their wounds until they die.

I guess it wouldn't work in arcadey or linear games where the point is to kill everything on screen, but for anything more open-ended that tries to go for something approaching realism it'd be nice if the enemies you faced felt more alive and/or showed some basic survival instincts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Who even cares about how sleek a phone is when the vast majority of people put it in a protective case anyway?

 

eu-cool obviously, but stuff like this is still neat sicko-jammin

Now it seems Apple will need to figure out how to allow access to the battery inside future iPhones, as will every other smartphone manufacturer.

powercry-2

Eat shit and drink piss, Apple. I have a desk drawer full of old phones with removable batteries, we had this shit figured out 20 years ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

:bloomer: I want to work on the cool stuff you guys make

:doomjak: Sorry we only make shit now