Amazing find and well worth the read!

Yeah, broadcasting to the world that you’re playing a game that hasn’t been released yet isn’t a great idea. Particularly when it’s Nintendo. It’s pretty common knowledge how petty they are even with stuff that’s less flagrant

14 isn’t old, it’s not even legal age to buy cigarettes.

I’ll do some weird math.

The first computer game could be argued to have been released in 1950, and the first commercial video game was released in 1971. Let’s call it either 70 or 50 years ago.

14 years is 20~28% of the entire history of video games.

The first feature film came out in 1906; let’s call it 120 years old. So let’s calculate what 20~28% of this history of film is.

20% of 120 years is 24 years, and 28% is 33.6, rounded to 34.

So if you compare them by the “commercial video game vs. feature film” definition, a 14-year old game is like Beauty and the Beast, Hangin’ with the Homeboys, or Showdown in Little Tokyo.

If you want to use the “youngest” ratio, then we can compare Skyrim to films that are just 24 years old, like Shrek, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, or Spy Kids.

I dunno, I think 14 years old is an old game! Haha

To clarify, I don’t think the writers did anything wrong. The headline will be misleading because Nintendo’s being somewhat misleading.

I don’t know how much the headline could be improved, if at all.

Nintendo says NS2 GC controller will only “officially” support GC games

Or if they can’t quote “officially”, they could quote “only”. Which could arguably be more clickbaity, but also clue in a casual reader that there’s more to what Nintendo officially says.

It’s somewhat misleading. It’s not providing the additional background information, and it leads the headline with the claim (not that Nintendo is making a claim).

I don’t think it’s a bad headline. It’d be hard to include all the information in the headline. But if someone only reads the headline (something like 73% of people), they could end up with a mistaken conclusion. And those people will have been lead in that direction (so, mislead).

The games don’t drop in price, but the consoles do. There’s even a chance the price could go down for the holiday season, even if it’s something miniscule. This launch price is the early adopter tax.

laws

Damages

guilty

morally convict

crime

…lol

What are you going on about?

The reason I kept showing you the same comment is because you said things like “I’m deeply confused” and asking me what I’m saying.

I’m not even arguing with you. But you seem to be putting a lot of effort into reading an argument into what I’m saying. Is this how you enjoy spending your time on social media? Lol

Why do you keep using words like “accuse” and “guilty”? Lol

Nintendo benefitted financially from piracy and made no efforts to hide the fact that they obtained games through the exact same methods that pirates use.

This is what I’m saying. I’m not even sure why you seem to be trying to make this a fight or an argument or something. “Tire you out”? Lol

I’m asking you to clearly formulate what it is that you’re accusing Nintendo of.

For the third time…

Nintendo benefitted financially from piracy and made no efforts to hide the fact that they obtained games through the exact same methods that pirates use.

Which part is unclear to you? Lol

Source, in case you’re unfamiliar with this funny thing they did

What are you confused about?

I don’t understand what your angle is. It feels like you’re really trying to win an argument, except you seem to be the only one arguing.

I’ve been trying to sort out a misunderstanding, and it looks like you’re trying to win something. The misunderstanding is sorted out. So, I guess you win, too?

Unfortunately, I use some software that’s Windows-only, and can’t be bothered to set up a VM or anything

No, I’ve understood this whole time that you’re saying “Nintendo is legally allowed to do this with their own games”.

What I’m saying is “Nintendo benefitted from their game having been pirated because they downloaded and sold the exact version of the game that someone illegally pirated”.

Nintendo didn’t do anything illegal. Someone did something illegal, and Nintendo saved time and effort (and therefore money too) because of the illegal thing that someone did.

Ok, I see now.

I was saying that they benefitted from other people pirating their games.

You thought I meant that they benefitted from pirating their own games.

I can see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way. But no, I meant that they benefitted from their games having been pirated in the past by pirates.

What I said in my last comment was

Nintendo benefitted financially from piracy and made no efforts to hide the fact that they obtained games through the exact same methods that pirates use.

I’m not sure why this didn’t satisfy your pedantry before, but maybe you didn’t read it when you replied to it last time.

Booty and gold, of course

Ok, then Nintendo benefitted financially from piracy and made no efforts to hide the fact that they obtained games through the exact same methods that pirates use.

It’s probably almost nearly 100% of emulator users who pirate games.

Even Nintendo pirated their own games before releasing them on the Wii’s Virtual Console.

Canadian here: What’s the difference? /s

100% agree. Also 99% emulator users pirate games or do you dispute this part too?

Do you mean pirating games that are still for sale? Because plenty of emulator users only pirate old stuff that isn’t currently for sale.

MMOs are probably a good indication.

I think researchers (or just casual investigators) studied MMOs to see how people might react in a plague situation (I want to say WoW, but it might’ve been EverQuest).

They ended up discarding/writing off their findings because they figures that there wouldn’t ACTUALLY be trolls who’d go around spreading the virus on purpose, and also that because the virus only had negative effects, no one would be doing actions that would nearly guarantee infection.

Of course, 2020 showed us that we really should’ve been looking at what people do in MMOs…

When you have maybe 40 exclusive games after close to 5 years, then of course you want to see what third parties have to offer! Lol

I think the PSP versions have more content than the Pixel Remasters

I didn’t mind the graphics of the Pokemon games. Aside from the occasional framerate drops, my only gripes with the graphics has been the animations (moreso in Sw/Sh) and the slow speed of the battles.

I get why people want the games to look better, but as someone who still plays the originals on occasion, it’s probably not even in my top 10 wants for the series.

Oh man, if they have a cross as a wearable, this is GOTY

The game needs to be modded to make Jesus and his cross the main character

Some people say Pokemon Go is already P2W. But as long as Community Days/shinies are still as available as they are with F2P, then I’ll stick around and even give them some of my Google Play money, lol

That sounds bad. I like Pokemon Go. What kind of ruining are we talking about?

Steam is for paying for games that never get played. Most of us have hefty libraries.

Civ 6 was the biggest one for me. I missed GTA V though

I don’t think anything about the launcher would have to change for them to get my money. Hell, one of the reasons I like GOG is because I don’t need to use their launcher.

Yeah, I feel like the story had potential, but it needed to be presented better.

It’s like they thought the post-modern aspects of FF7’s story (that made it complex and a bit confusing) was what made it great, so they turned it up to 11 for FF8. But instead of having hints everywhere, I think it ended up being more sort of…blind-siding surprises.

Yeah, FF8 is one of my least favourite in the mainline series.

The card game is great, but the actual RPG aspect ended up being dreadfully boring to me. The battle system was bland and easy, playing through the game casually (without even transforming any cards). I think I had one game over in the entire game, and maybe one other close call.

It has a lot of great elements, but the core gameplay left much to be desired.

I’m usually a big proponent of reasonable expectations, and certainty can be a funny thing…

But launching should be the bare minimum, and this sounds terrible as an official announcement…

Oh, I didn’t realize that, thanks for the knowledge!

Yeah, I agree! I rarely see people talk about CvS2, though!

LGR is great, and this is one of his niches

Included Games:

• Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro
• Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
• Capcom Fighting Evolution
• Street Fighter Alpha 3 UPPER
• Power Stone
• Power Stone 2
• Project Justice
• Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein

These may be more “underdog” games, but the two Power Stone games and Project Justice have sold me on this! (… eventually, when it’s discounted, lol)

(Cross-commenting because I worked real hard for this formatting…lmao)

I’ll do it to support indie devs. Though I haven’t ever done it through Steam – just Kickstarter

I think the better question might be what series should you start from game 1, brcause thats a much tougher question.

Trails in the Sky.

2 picks up immediately after 1, and expects the player to already be proficient with the battle system from the start.

3 would be confusing and boring without having played the prior two games.

And yes, it’s a subseries, but still. Lol

4 is better if you want an old school fixed-class character-driven JRPG. But 9 and 10 do that in a more modern way.

6 is better if you want an old-school blank-slate character-driven JRPG. But 7 and 8 do that in a more modern way.

7, 8, 9, and 10 are all retro themselves though.

5 is great if you want an old-school “character class” JRPG. And if you want it to be character-focused, you’ve gotta look at something like 10-2.

Recommending specific games from the franchise really depends on what someone is looking for.