I had only seen the trainwreck of a boxart from Konami’s castlevania double pack on GBA.

But the actual cartridge is hilarious too. Silly cartoon title wordart, baby blue background with funky sunburst pattern, not a single mention of the two titles that are included…

Perfect, the way IGA intended.

Oh yeah, these terrible execs from other companies who veto female protagonists on principle, insist on implementing the same list of a thousand terrible features in all games regardless of genre, and harass their employees while being protected by HR and the CEO.

Wait, no, those are not the bad ones. You know the bad ones because they’ve worked for toothpaste companies.

In Hollow Knight there’s an accidental one at a pretty climactic moment. Hornet shouts something to get you ready for the big fight. It’s in her usual gibberish language, but lots of people hear it as “GIT GUD!”

There is a spot in Space Quest 6 where you can skip a puzzle and go to the solution immediately… If you already know what to look for. I tried that once, since it was not my first run and I remembered the last step.

At first the narrator wonders how you did that, then he assumes you’ve been using a walkthrough. He shames you and punishes you by slowly draining your score counter… Before reverting it and telling you not to do it again.

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Regarding how quickly Instagram started sending them personal stuff… Letting an app access your location, especially if it’s not a one-time authorisation, is basically telling it who you are.

There was a newspaper investigation recently on data brokers, they approached one to get a sample of their data. It was “anonymous” data, only in the sense it didn’t contain names. Using Apple’s advertiser ID, they had no problem building profiles from specific devices and could easily identify a lot of their own employees, simply because their routine around a location made it clear it was their workplace. And from there, it was not hard to find out on the data what their home address was.

It probably took only location for the burner phone Instagram to know that this is either the same person, or someone closely related to them.

Basically the only positives of getting a key card rather than getting the game from the e-shop is being able to lend the game to anyone or resell it. Nothing else.

Most people I could lend the game to are in my online group so I could do this with virtual cards of e-shop games too, including DLC, and I basically never resell games. One could remark that you need online and a functioning e-shop server to lend a virtual card…but you’ll also need it to install a game from a key card anyway.

If a game is going to require the internet to install/reinstall and is going to sit entirely in my console’s memory, I am not carrying around an extra empty bit of plastic just to be able to start it. I used to get the games I could in physical form, but to me, they finally made it. They essentially made physical cards worse than full digital in every way.

Not sure, but I understood that comment to mean “it would be worth getting angry against YouTube if the videos they removed were about rufus”, not that rufus itself is wrong.

It’s obvious that demo was 99% fake and the eventual end product would have been way more scripted and simple than what he hyped it to be (I mean, it’s Molyneux). But he’s also been backstabbed by Microsoft on that one.

The Kinect prototype he was working with was not the Kinect that was eventually released. At one point Microsoft cut corners and removed the internal processor that was suposed to make Kinect work, leaving the console to deal with all the extra computation. It was barely possible to make a simple Kinect game not run like shit, making something relatively smart and responsive would have been a pipe dream.

Congratulations on not having an addiction problem. If you can “not notice it” and still play the game, you’re not the target.

Dead Cells had one for me, in the boss fight against the Giant. Spoiler.

As usual the worst part is the title (by design, of course. Gotta farm those clicks).

“there are too many but keep dreaming if you want big sacks of money” is not the guy’s quote. The frankenquote is ambiguous on purpose, it could sound either like sarcasm or like a semi-cautious encouragement.

In the article, he sounds way more negative toward live services than that. There’s no “but”, he just says it’s an “illusion” and it “mostly doesn’t happen”.

I love that game, but if you are not enjoying it at that point I am not sure I can see it getting better for you for the rest of it.

Though if you just beat Orochi, that’s more like a quarter of the game if memory serves. Ōkami is quite longer than your classic Legend of Zelda game, I’d say for me it took a bit more than twice as long to complete the first time compared to, say, Twilight Princess.

Its story is more like a series of legends rather than a unified storyline, which didn’t bother me since it fits the mythology theme.

Quest is cheap and good hardware, but its software layer is dystopian hell. Obviously, I mean, it’s meta.

I love the cheap access to decent PC and embedded VR on my quest 3, I absolutely hate this OS and its constant corporate spam. I know, this is kinda why its so cheap. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

“and you can buy that exact SD card model for the low, low price of $62.99 on Amazon RIGHT. NOW!!!”

That might not be the weirdest, most awkward product placement I ever saw, but close.

EDIT : for those not seeing it, yeah, the article actually mentions that price and has a direct link to Amazon.

We have at least one dev from Motion Twin, who explicitely wanted to stay there and work on new games, being told to leave the company after trying to get them to do something for months.

https://deepnight.net/blog/going-rogue/

So yeah, even the part of Motion Twin that wanted to move on seems to have been messy post-Dead Cells.

Friday’s what now?

“A great AI-generated game before the end of next year”

Mark those words, and prepare to have a good laugh.

Probably not. Even the thing that was shown several years ago, and that hasn’t been mentioned again since, wasn’t a sequel. It was a completely different style of game, and a prequel with different characters.

The first game ended on a sequel hook, and left a lot unresolved. People who asked for a sequel mostly wanted to know what happens next. They weren’t asking for a procedural multiplayer open world with different characters in another time frame.

BGE ends like the Empire Strikes Back. It’s a bittersweet ending in which main characters have evolved, but the conflict is not resolved at all… and there’s even a good guy still in deep shit. Obviously it needs the sequel to wrap everything up.

BGE2’s announcement is like we got nothing after Empire Strikes Back for a decade, so no Return of the Jedi, and George Lucas came back to tell us “we’re doing the prequel trilogy now, no plan on ever concluding the old storyline”.

Castlevania 3 sounds quite better on FDS indeed, but cartridge Metroid is by far the worst case of this in my opinion.

Part of the soundtrack is missing channels that contribute to the main melody. Even the now iconic item fanfare was barely recognizable in that version.

Also of course there’s the fact the FDS Metroid had actual saves on the disk, and they just didn’t implement them in the cartridge version, unlike Legend of Zelda. Instead we got that painfully long password system.