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@Right_Said_Brett where does it say traditional techniques? I can't find any mention of it, and all the 2D animation in Eurovisual's portfolio consists of heavily computer tweened/vector manipulated animation. 😢

Sega truly are the Alex Kurtzman of gaming.

A Simpsons game full of 15 years of references to terrible episodes, some of which I have subjected myself to? No thanks.

At least it had that one scene where it went first person. Definitely won it points for me over some of the other pish that has almost nothing to do with the game it's about (freaking monster hunter!)

@mariteaux My recollection goes back as far as 1993 when they bought Origin and forced them to rush out Ultima 7: Serpent Isle, which managed to still be successful. But then they rushed Ultima 8 even more and it was a complete mess.

Then the Devs created a massively overhaulled version to apologise to the fans and on the day it was supposed to launch EA canned the whole thing. It was even in print.

@Eocene84 somebody please stop these sick criminals! I'm trying to commit crimes against humanity here and it's putting me right off.

I am shocked! Shocked and surprised!

Hey friends! Fancy playing some games? Get ya flaps out! (Bad name 🤣)

I never took the time to look up the Dragon Quest 8 localisation team even though I appreciated it so much. This man is one of my gaming heroes now.

Not only is it some of the greatest RPG dialogue (maybe not for it's overall depth, but for it's personality and craft) but I get so tired of, and barely relate to, the common, sometimes transliterated, awkward American-centric dialogue, now often voiced in the style of Pokémon episodes. Especially when the fantasy setting is born from Europe and more often specifically England.

All DQ games, even builders, are bloody delightful to read. And who doesn't love Yangus? I never thought I would be playing a fantasy RPG with Bob Hoskins! (Soundalike)

The original model had a problem with the analogue sticks going crazy. You could fix it via a custom patch. I wonder if this has the same issue.

Fou-lou from BoF4 Vs Sephiroth seems like a no brainer to me. Both would have amazing movesets

I always knew the ending would be about as satisfying as Game of Thrones. But boy, it was a fun ride.

There's plenty of silliness in the FF games, but there's stuff for adults to enjoy. FF8 was edgy teen angst, FF9 was a cute homage with some cool themes. FF10 was the transition into full shonen dubbed with embarrassing American voices like watching an episode of Pokémon. Blech.

The combat was good though.

@Sketcz @Daniel36 The way I always heard it was there was much more plot planned that was eventually scrapped.

Boy I hope somebody got fired for THAT blunder!

If there were physical copies of this, I'm sure they'd be buried next to ET 😂

@MSaturn i don't even know where to begin with trying to understand what the point of any of this coming out to us 😂 They truly are on another planet

One of the great developer personalities. Not some copy paste semi corporate speak guy. Didn't always agree with him but he saw the creation of some amazing and memorable games. RIP Papa of gaming's big tatas. May the afterlife be full of jiggle physics.

Fond memories of renting this on Mega Drive back in the day 🙂

@Martin_H This kind of stuff happens all the time. The police are used as revenue protection officers for big corporations.

Meanwhile if you call the police for incidents they tell you to sort it out yourself. A shopkeeper was on the news the other day saying he was told it wasn't worth their time when people were frequently stealing from his shop. Now he has to chase them off with a bat.

I always like the look of this form factor until I remember it causes horrible hand cramps. Plus having the power to play analogue games with no analogue stick limits you to 1% of the library of games on those platforms.

@OorWullie yes it takes about 10 mins work online to play it at this quality emulated (and possibly better with better achievements) than this 'Wow HD look at da grafix!!" Effort 😂

@Andee oh god imagine if they chose an interesting style like that instead of plain, hyperrealistic "let's not repeat the spirits within again" like ff7

Woah I was really excited but I can't see any difference between this and running it on Emu. Even still has the poly wobble.

CEX prices are all over the shop.

Absolutely battered copies of retro games at MINT prices.

When you don't think your own product is worth buying, you gotta get creative 😂

@La5734 My town got a new high street and shopping centre (entirely owned offshore of course). Our only local games shop tried to renew their lease but were actually denied by the landlord.

They don't even want the indies around. All the indies exist around the perimeter in property not owned by the corp. All they want is beige chains. And now they are desperately seeking a buyer.

Just another case of sociopathic, sycophantic parasites that leech communities and pass the blame when their idiotic ideas fail.

@NinChocolate Our entire lives have been squeezed so others can get rich. A cross between Black Mirror, Cyberpunk , and Ready Player One is what awaits us all....

@HoyeBoye if you want to do motion capture on the cheap then a second hand 2nd gen kinect is one of the only options.

The other option is using a second hand iPhone (one with the face capture cam) as it's supported by Unreal Engine.

@slider1983 haha yep, fair enough. It's tough. Being poor helps haha.

@slider1983 Yeah I already admitted it's almost impossible to live in the modern world 100% ethically. The only option is off grid and some countries make it almost impossible as unlike places like Norway, they don't have a law that allows anyone to live in the wilderness. It's incredibly difficult financially.

Windows 10 came out in 2015 when my CPU was only a few years old. I'm running a stolen copy of that and soon I will be moving entirely to a Linux build with a stolen copy of windows 11 on dual boot for the incredibly rare moments I may need to use it.

I was running games like the last Devil May Cry on an Nvidia 980 I think it was? Might have the model wrong. Barely turn the thing on anymore. Last game I played was Monster Hunter 2 on Emulator last year. And at the moment I'm watching Kaiju movies from the 60s haha.

I don't really see anything new in modern gaming except scale and graphics. Mechanically it's the same or even sometimes less interesting than older games.

@slider1983 correct. Obviously modern necessity means you can't avoid it entirely. I have to have a phone for work and productivity. But I sacrifice playing new games and new hardware. It was really hard at first tbh and I was kinda depressed about it for a while but it got easier.

@firenze @slider1983 I don't buy any of those products. I'm almost completely done with games unless it's indie. I keep my spending on unethical hardware to a bare minimum (my PC is 14 years old, I still use a Pixel4a, I cycle don't drive, buy second hand clothes) Surprise! I actually do have morals I follow through on haha

(Edited to remove snide remarks haha)

So sad that being owned by human rights criminals isn't a problem but having Ronaldo in it is where some people draw the line. The human race really is despicable.

Company is owned by a known murderer and torturer. Will never buy a single thing they ever make.

This is a pretty exciting development! Maybe kne day then game will be complete.

Now let's try and find those Zelda 64 prototypes haha.

Didn't they just say they were going to stop all shipments to the US?

@Lowdefal makes sense to me. The world of modding and programming is filled with insane petty ego disputes 🤣

As Hans Teeuwan once said "Don't think so complicated."

Not sure I trust it. Now if the owner could show up on video driving a Ferrari and smoking cigars then maybe they'd have my money...

@retrogamer1 This is how I feel. Not protecting your customers before investigating is poor service in my opinion.

@axelhander This is more common than you may think in Japan, with games and anime adapted for the stage. There's things like Hunter x Hunter musicals 😂

@profkross Their responses take about 5 seconds to write. I'm sure he doesn't care about his reputation. This is the easiest tens of thousands of Euros I can possibly imagine making. If I had no morals I would do it in a heartbeat over working a job for 2 years 😂

Yeah a guy who's made videos in a completely threadbare apartment somewhere in Spain definitely didn't just rent/borrow a Lambo like all those YouTube scammers renting private jets for 20 mins to make them look legit 😂

I think you need to amend the title to "a Lamborghini" haha

I guess the consolation is that only 200 out of the entire population of the internet are mugs 😂

@LiquidSevens Wow, those translations are terrible.

Just saw VideoGameEsoterica's video on it and apparently it says when you preorder it you agree to them charging your card the full amount at any time. So there's the scam.

@AJB83 everything since maybe RE3 has been total dross. Clearly his MO is "Find funding from anywhere, don't care, ***** out a movie and funnel half of it into my wife's paycheque." He's gone beyond bad-good into just basically a money laundering thing. I could pull a better script out my arse.

So they actually just admitted their last video was faked 😂 Grab the popcorn indeed!

@UK_Kev

Here's the story I've written.

The guy in charge is an eccentric Sega fan (is there any other kind?) from a rural town in Spain. I think although he knows it's a scam, he's convinced himself what he's doing is ok. Maybe he's even lied to himself so much he's convinced himself he'll actually end up making the device and it's all just proof of concept so far and that eventually he'll actually make it.

Either that or he is so naive (like a lot of scammers) that he thinks he'll genuinely get away with a big score, and he's promised his friends, the others involved, of a huge payout.

What an A-hole. But this world is built for people like him so I guess he'll be alright. I wish someone with the clout and determination like GamersNexus would run this story and build some momentum and pressure.