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Starting on November 15, 2024 @Steam will no longer display games to customers in Germany if the game is missing a valid age rating.
  • Requiring new releases to provide this information going forward makes sense. But I expect a lot of older titles have no one actively paying attention to go get this paperwork filled out, and will get blocked as a result. This law should've just applied to everything new released after the law takes effect, grandfathering in legacy content.

  • The games industry is undergoing a 'generational change,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: 'A lot of games are released with high budgets, and they're not selling'
  • The biggest thing I miss from yesteryear is all the low budget straight-to-handheld spinoffs. No clear place for those to exist now that dedicated handhelds are dead, and no room for quirky little side projects when publishers are putting all their resources into just a few AAAA megagames.

  • Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune
  • Sounds like this was more of a bribe than any legal case against the emulator. In which case nothing is stopping anyone from putting a fork back up, and gdkchan gets to laugh all the way to the bank.

  • Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune
  • While I don't support pirating products that are currently for sale, I do think it's essential that emulators like Ryujinx are developed now in order to preserve titles for later. Some Switch software already has been delisted, and someday eventually all of it will be.

  • What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres?
  • While it definitely felt to me like turn-based RPGs were looked down on for a time, particularly when Final Fantasy abandoned its roots, I'd say the pendulum has been swinging back in the other direction for quite some time now.

    Persona 5 was a smash hit, Fire Emblem is doing quite well, Dragon Quest is still going. Bravely Default and Octopath Traveler were solid mid-budget titles carrying on FF's roots where actual FF won't. Mario & Luigi is getting a revival. Over in the indie space, Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes have done well. And then you have tons and tons and tons of classics that have been getting remasters or even full remakes lately.

    Oh yeah, and then there's a li'l game called Undertale that seems to have been fairly well received.

  • Looking for a Tales-like RPG without active combat
  • So, you're looking for something like Tales, but not at all like Tales?

    The only Tales-like that comes to mind is Summon Night Swordcraft Story, it's a successor to the classic 2D Tales games, but I'm not actually sure if that's what you're looking for.

  • Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title
  • Given that SE doesn't seem to want to be at all faithful with their remakes, 8 actually makes the most sense as a game they can and should make big changes to.

  • PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off
  • Anything popular enough that you can easily google anything you need to troubleshoot. Beyond that, doesn't really matter which one.

  • Core-A Gaming - Every Fighting Game Type Explained
  • Yeah, was a little odd how much it really did sound like a literal ad at the end.

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    Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld isn't just bad for the industry, it's bad for Nintendo
  • Let's go back to the start of this comment thread:

    I love how this continues to crank out articles with 0 information and everyone speculating what it might be about.

    Don't get me wrong, Nintendo are dickheads, but you can clearly see how everyone greedily clicks on these articles considering how often they get rehashed.

    That's the argument: these articles add nothing to the discussion. And you responding to that with "but can you prove Nintendo is right?" isn't the point and also isn't adding anything to the discussion.

  • Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld isn't just bad for the industry, it's bad for Nintendo
  • I am not talking about legal understanding of Japanese patent law.

    But that's what the case is about.

    I would argue it's not a bullshit article as I have yet to hear a single example of what legitimate (in the real sense, not related to Japanese patent law) case Nintendo has.

    Well then the fact that we still don't know what the case is really about is exactly why these articles are useless. No information in there.

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    What are you playing this weekend? 2024-09-27
  • Skullgirls/Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes]/Them's Fightin' Herds - clip of the week

    Splatoon 3 - 🦀

    Mahjong Soul/Riichi City - good news and bad news

    Mega Knockdown - nice

  • A new law has been passed in California which prohibits the use of words like "buy" and "purchase" on digital storefronts like Steam.
  • They'll just change the button from "Buy $59.99" to just "$59.99".

    As much as I lament the fact that we can't just own things anymore, it's not like this legislation will change anything. Storefronts aren't going to drop their DRM just so they can use the word 'buy' again.

  • Balatro is now out on Mobile. Humanity is doomed.
  • Any word on if/when there'll be a native Linux port?

  • Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of September 23rd, 2024
  • Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] - wheeeee

    Skullgirls - gottem

    Splatoon 3 - 🦀

    Mahjong Soul/Riichi City - good news and bad news

    Mega Knockdown - nice

  • What is the hardest video game(s) in your opinion, why, and what other games are you comparing against to make this conclusion?
  • Crypt of the NecroDancer.

    There are three big challenge characters in the base game:

    • Aria can only use the starting dagger, no other weapons. She has only one hit point. And she dies if the player ever misses a beat.
    • Monk dies if he picks up gold. All enemies drop gold, even ones that normally wouldn't, which turns the game into a routing puzzle where you must never step on squares that an enemy previously died on.
    • Bolt plays the whole game at double tempo.

    Once you have beaten these three challenge characters, plus the other six easier ones, your next task is All Chars Mode. Beat the game nine times in a row, once with each character. If you die, you must start the whole marathon over.

    Beating that unlocks the tenth character, Coda. Coda combines the restrictions of Aria, Monk, and Bolt all at once.

    And if you can do that, the final achievement is Lowest of the Low, which requires you to beat All Chars Mode without collecting any items.

    The DLC adds a few more hard characters, and another achievement for an extended 13 Character Mode, but they aren't considered to be as hard as Coda or Lowest of the Low. A single digit number of players have stacked the challenges for Coda low% and 13chars low%.

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 22nd
  • Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] - wheeeee

    Skullgirls - hehe

    Splatoon 3 - I may have hurt some people today

    Mahjong Soul/Riichi City/IRL mahjong - nice

    Mega Knockdown - also nice

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