Looks like I'm in for one of those quality PS1 JRPG translations !monke-beepboop
Apparently Wild Arms 2's English localisation was famously bad and it definitely feels like it so far. I've already seen bizarre, non-sequitur exclamations and what are clearly intended to be comedy punchlines fall completely flat because they make no sense. Conversations are also just generally hard to follow. There was a hilarious instance where a character had a name that was obviously a very obvious English word but the translator just gave up and transliterated the Japanese pronounciation, making it unpronouncable in English.
I also saw someone mention that there is a gay relationship that the English localisation helpfully ungays, so I'm looking forward to that
Pretty sure Valve talked about this 20 years ago and Alyx's design and personality was remarked upon in reviews at the time
He isn't actually dead
Well that's my day ruined 
I just dug out my old HL2 Collector's Edition tin box out of my closet. It's got the Sierra logo stamped next to Valve's, wild to think Valve had a publisher
Half-Life 2 collector's edition t-shirt, sat 20 years in a box, never worn
how do we know that Bowser isn't straight in real life and gay in kayfabe?
So long, gay poser
What about when Nintendo affirmed every gamer's gay identity in the 2000s
18 years ago
Holy shit. From the title I assumed this was just going to be another Half-Life SFM meme video, but it's an ancient AMV 
This even predates early viral Gmod videos
I don't think you can wear headphones over one though. Life's really unfair sometimes
The thing that initially got the gamer demographic onto the conservative bandwagon in the first place was when right-wing influencers got them convinced that it was the feminists that were coming for their games instead of the conservative and religious activists that had spent like 2 decades railing against heavy metal, D&D, rap and video games. Like 5 years before GamerGate the biggest gamer boogeyman was Jack Thompson. Maybe if someone finally actually did come for their treats for real there'd be another shift.
It'd sadly also lead to a lot of adult content creators getting financially hurt which still sucks though :/
The porn and violent video game bans are bad enough, but it gets worse. As I understand it, the plan goes something like this
- Make porn illegal
- Define anything LGBTQ-related as pornographic, thus essentially criminalising being visibly queer (the real point of the porn ban)
Some have warned it could get even worse
- Define exposing children to pornography as CSA
- Apply the death penalty to CSA crimes
Like the Republicans lean too heavily into enforcing their Christian culture war bullshit, ban GTAVI and obscenity and alienate the porn and video game-loving young dude demographic. Also Trump blows up the economy and then dies, Vance becomes president and conservatives become the lame fuddy duddy nerds that everyone hates again
Alternatively, Gen Z men have all become NoFap wahhabists and welcome the bans
spoiler
this speculation is very unserious
Is it necessary to water a lawn in November
Tbh not a fan of how they wrote black characters in bioware other than admiral anderson.
Being voiced by Keith David helped immensely 
brainwashed harem runner
Oh christ I forgot about that part. I just remembered he abandoned Jacob when he was a kid. You can really feel that 2010 EA edge in ME2 
I did like Jacob better than whoever the meathead guy in ME3 was so he's not the blandest soldier guy in the series. Though if I'm being honest, I mostly just kept Garrus and Tali on my team for most of that game (and the third game too)
I think that was the argument- some people felt that having the only black party member in Mass Effect having his personal storyline revolve around an asshole absentee father was leaning into an unfortunate trope
Yesterday I posted a Polygon article about a guy being sued by Nintendo after he deliberately provoked them by sending them taunting letters after he got several accounts suspended on several different platforms for streaming pirated Nintendo games on emulators.
I mainly posted the news to just marvel at a guy just deliberately setting himself up to get his life destroyed by Nintendo's legal team for no apparent benefit, but there's an element to the suit I didn't notice.
Apparently one of the things Nintendo is suing him for is using Switch emulators and they're dusting off their legal arguments from the Yuzu case earlier this year, ie, all that shit about circumventing their TPMs violating the DMCA. If this goes to court Nintendo could get the legal precedent for making emulation illegal they didn't get from the Yuzu case since they settled
VERY COOL
I remember people arguing that his personal quest was racist
I will copy paste a ROM of Super Mario Land until I fill my hard drive and become a millionaire
I can handle 30 fps when emulating old games since often there's no way to go higher or existing 60 fps patches break stuff.
Lower than that just feels really bad
Is that a quote from the dude? Still, all he managed to do was get his life fucked. It's not like he was causing any lasting harm to Nintendo (though I'm sure they're claiming this guy's streams caused them to lose googolplex dollars)
The gamer taunted Ninendo, saying he could create burner accounts ‘all day’
>Keighin reportedly told Nintendo he had “a thousand burner accounts” and that he could “do this all day,” Nintendo alleged in the lawsuit.
In response to DMCA takedowns this guy apparently sent emails to Nintendo telling them he was just going to link people to mirrors of Yuzu and Ryujinx
Fuck Nintendo and the DMCA, obviously, but what a fucking dumbass
multiplayer horror games like Lethal Company (and presumably Phasmophobia idk, haven't played it) are actually comedy games, not horror.
You say that, but when we were playing, we had a couple of moments where we'd tell each other we'd quickly go upstairs to fetch something, then come back down, calling out to them only to discover them dead on the floor. Perfect horror beat right there, and something that could only work in a multiplayer context. The proximity chat really makes the experience
I think bringing down the intensity levels would make moments like that even more effective
As someone who was into paranormal stuff when I was young and who used to watch way too much ghost hunting TV slop, "ghost hunting simulation but ghosts are actually real" is a great concept. I just don't like how quickly it escalates from bumbling around in a boring suburban home with a thermometer or EMF detector in your hand to a glitchy Unity store asset snapping your neck while playing creepylaugh.wav
From the jump you know you're dealing with a violent supernatural monster that WILL kill you and you're basically on a timer to find out which one it is using a simple process of elimination before you all die. I get that it's a game so you need Things To Happen but I would probably enjoy a slower, more methodical game that more closely emulated a paranormal investigation. Like you show up to a house and have a list of the paranormal activity that's been reported in specific rooms, then you go and set up your equipment to try to document it for yourself.
There definitely should be a threat of physical harm but IMO it should be less overbearing. Investigators being killed on the job being a completely regular and expected occurrence feels a bit absurd
From the Silent Hill wiki's profile on him:
>Age: >Around 24-26
I had always assumed him and Claudia (who was apparently 29) were solidly in their 30s. Like the dude is a priest in the Silent Hill cult's order and influential enough that he's managed to have a huge church built with money from donations
What's up with Japanese media and all these hyper-accomplished young people
When you're a rightwing slop generator and you gotta generate slop out of anything
IGN didn't like a game? It must be because it wasn't gay enough. IGN liked a game? It was too gay!!!
Thank you, but I discovered I could just use the "Subscribed" feed after tweaking my joined comms 
I don't want to see non-stop coverage of these grotesque characters and what they're up to for the next four years 
I'm just going to peace out of news and current events, and if any of my RL acquaintances try to inform me of whatever's going on, I'll knee em in the balls
If anyone's looking for me, I'll be squatting over at c/games. Wasn't there a way to curate your comms
I think most people would argue that at least when it comes to console games, the peak was attained a little later, in the PS2 era
While looking into this game I immediately noticed gamers trying to turn it into another front of the culture war by pitting it against the new AC game with the black samurai.
"See, Ubisoft? This is what REAL respect for REAL Japanese culture looks like," they say smugly while gesturing towards a game set in the United States that's a deliberately over the top and silly mashup of 80s and 90s Japanese pop culture and zombies in a ridiculous alt history premise made by a Chinese studio who explicitly said they are constructing the game purely out of stereotypes.
Who cares that Yasuke was an actual historical figure? This game has a replica of the inside pool that thousands of Japanese pornos were filmed at !so-true
I hope the game doesn't get too co-opted by these people though, it looks a bunch of genuinely delightful garbage and is the first time in ages I've actually wanted to try a game that's coming out.
Also it's funny to see gamers now calling China and Chinese developers based after games like this and Black Myth Wukong. We're like one Chinese game with big anime boobs in it away from every gamer declaring their undying loyalty to the CCP !deng-salute
I love biking through sleet and getting my pant legs wet !agony
For all the noise gamers, gooners and grifters made about Angela's face looking distractingly ugly, fat, masculine or just vaguely "weird," literally no one I've seen playing the game for the first time has noticed any of these supposedly blindingly obvious qualities. Just goes to show how this shit is just mass peer-inforced self-hypnosis
Sometimes you see streamers reading comments in their chat from gamers complaining about how ugly she looks and they're just confused
Dungeon Chill is back with another 1 hr+ long review mere weeks after the last one!
I played Rule of Rose earlier this year and I recommend you grab a ROM and give it a shot. It's got an incredible soundtrack and an emotionally effective story that had me legit sniffling in the end.
Sadly the gameplay is severely clunky and undercooked even by PS2 survival horror standards which might prove too much of a barrier for many
The shemaghs I got were labeled "PLO-Tuch," German for "PLO scarf" !data-laughing
I assume wearing one in Germany gets you life in prison
This commenter provided some really interesting context:
I could obviously never pick up on these sorts of details when I played the game since I don't speak Russian but it's cool to see Rockstar put in some serious effort in their NPC dialogue.
Also "They are strangers here." !ussr-cry
His company name even had Super Mario in it !data-laughing
No photos because I'm not a cop, but full support for this guy for appropriating Nintendo IP !07
I've been playing GTA Online again after a couple of years away and the game chat is absolutely brimming with casual Russophobia. GTA Online has always been a giant trash fire due to the toxic nature of the game and the fact that the vast majority of its players are children and maladjusted adults, but it's interesting to notice how hostile Europeans have become to Russian players, randomly calling them orcs or animals and asking them why they haven't been sent to die in Ukraine yet.
Of course, because everyone playing the game is an asshole, most of the Russian comebacks are snide remarks about Europe having a lot of African immigrants, but it's almost always NATO-brained Westerners picking fights with players with Russian names and not the other way around.
I'm sure the situation is very similar in most other multiplayer games, but to me it's interesting how Russians have taken the place Chinese players used to hold in GTA some years back before they were region-locked into their own servers as otherised enemies whom you vomit random talking points you picked up on the news at
Takes some gumption to even touch a notorious broken flop like that
There's something about all these millennial and younger gamer chud culture warrior diphits smugly cosplaying as Christians that just fucking irks me
I'm surprised to hear this since from what I recall the publisher forced Creative Assembly to continue the series in some sort of mobile slop format instead which then predictably fizzled out
