I don't think the lack or absence of PS4 or PS5 games is surprising since PS pretty much died in Japan with those generations, especially 5. I'm actually far more surprised to see TLoU up there.
It looks genuinely amazing. I wish I lived in Leicester now. My city never seems to get anything like this despite being the second biggest in the country.
@Daniel36 People typically don't use "damn" in a religious sense or with any religious connotations, though. By that logic, people shouldn't say "good-bye" in a game without gods because that phrase is a contraction of "god be with you". I mean, to take it further, they shouldn't be speaking English in the first place since there's no England in the setting; clearly it's in English so we can understand it, as if it's been translated from whatever language they actually speak, so they can use whatever English idioms make sense for the meaning. If there's an explicit, unambiguous reference to something from our world, I agree that shouldn't be in it - like if Tifa said she likes French cooking.
Interesting how two of the reactions are from Nintendo fanboys and the third specifically mentions the Switch in the comment. Feels like He-Man saying he's 6'3" and the only people that that take issue with it are Skeletor's henchmen.
Very nostalgic stuff. Interesting to see Sony mentioned since it was always clear to me and my friends that Sony took over from Sega in the way they seemed like the cool one whereas Nintendo were, to quote the article, the disco vicar.
Talking as a Sega kid, it's obvious in retrospect that 8- and 16-bit Nintendo were way better than Sega, yet Sega did have a far more appealing image in the 90s. Nintendo kids were the ones that had to be in bed early, you had to take your shoes off at their door, there was this atmosphere in their house that you were in a US sitcom type of household. That stereotype held up very reliably.
Plus, it didn't hurt Sega that many of the things that made the SNES so good weren't released in the UK, like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, etc. But then Sony came along and beat Sega at their own game, and the Saturn might as well have not existed. I didn't know a single person that had one.
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Re: Japanese Gamers Just Picked The 30 Best PlayStation Games Of All Time
I don't think the lack or absence of PS4 or PS5 games is surprising since PS pretty much died in Japan with those generations, especially 5. I'm actually far more surprised to see TLoU up there.
Re: Retail Therapy: Super Game Shack Powers Up With "Level 2" Arcade Coffee Shop And Store
It looks genuinely amazing. I wish I lived in Leicester now. My city never seems to get anything like this despite being the second biggest in the country.
Re: Saturn Cult Classic Princess Crown Is Getting An Uncensored Translation
@Daniel36 People typically don't use "damn" in a religious sense or with any religious connotations, though. By that logic, people shouldn't say "good-bye" in a game without gods because that phrase is a contraction of "god be with you". I mean, to take it further, they shouldn't be speaking English in the first place since there's no England in the setting; clearly it's in English so we can understand it, as if it's been translated from whatever language they actually speak, so they can use whatever English idioms make sense for the meaning. If there's an explicit, unambiguous reference to something from our world, I agree that shouldn't be in it - like if Tifa said she likes French cooking.
Re: How Do You Improve Street Fighter II? By Adding RPG-Style Experience Points, Of Course
@Leynos It's not grinding, it's simply playing the game. What else are you going to do while playing SF2 apart from repeatedly fight people?
Re: Popolocrois Monogatari 2 For PS1 Gets New English Fan Translation
This looks really nice and charming, I'll check it out.
Re: Outgoing PlayStation CEO Claims PS2 Has Sold 160 Million, Yet Some Don't Believe Him
Interesting how two of the reactions are from Nintendo fanboys and the third specifically mentions the Switch in the comment. Feels like He-Man saying he's 6'3" and the only people that that take issue with it are Skeletor's henchmen.
Re: Stories From Sol: The Gun-Dog Is A Visual Novel With A PC-98 Vibe
Added to wishlist. If anyone wants to try out some of the classic VNs/ADV games this looks to be based on, check out https://tss.asenheim.org/
Re: Fan Translation And ROM Hack-Sharing Site CDRomance Forced Underground After Legal Threat
The thing in that tweet doesn't seem to work anymore. Going to cdromance.com just forwards you to the .org site.
Re: Feature: How Pirate Television Helped Sega Beat Nintendo In The UK
Very nostalgic stuff. Interesting to see Sony mentioned since it was always clear to me and my friends that Sony took over from Sega in the way they seemed like the cool one whereas Nintendo were, to quote the article, the disco vicar.
Talking as a Sega kid, it's obvious in retrospect that 8- and 16-bit Nintendo were way better than Sega, yet Sega did have a far more appealing image in the 90s. Nintendo kids were the ones that had to be in bed early, you had to take your shoes off at their door, there was this atmosphere in their house that you were in a US sitcom type of household. That stereotype held up very reliably.
Plus, it didn't hurt Sega that many of the things that made the SNES so good weren't released in the UK, like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, etc. But then Sony came along and beat Sega at their own game, and the Saturn might as well have not existed. I didn't know a single person that had one.