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Re: "These Short Games Mean Nothing To Me" - Retro-Bit Translator Denies Wrongdoing In "Baffling" Rant

PinballBuzzbro

@RextheSheep oh no worries I have no doubt there are good sides of it and that it’s not all bad, I’m mainly saying this because of the people who let their love for retro games cloud their judgement for this kinda crap XD. Also I feel ya two on the getting screwed over by companies as someone who had to put up with strictly limited and the bullsh1t they pulled for the Turrican Anthologies💀

Re: "These Short Games Mean Nothing To Me" - Retro-Bit Translator Denies Wrongdoing In "Baffling" Rant

PinballBuzzbro

@slider1983 that may have been the intention behind Paprium but between the game taking 10 years to come out, people not getting their cartridges even now, Fons constantly going on psychotic Joker mental breakdowns online, and the EXHORBENT price tag the game has ESPECIALLY if trying to buy it second hand completely ruin the whole thing. Why should I give this game and it’s horrible creator my money when I could get streets of rage 1-3, final fight cd, hyperstone heist, golden axe, and SO many more on the same console for (mostly) 5x less the price? Not to mention all the AMAZING modern beat em’ ups nowadays like streets of rage 4 and shredder’s revenge that similarly cost less too.

Re: "These Short Games Mean Nothing To Me" - Retro-Bit Translator Denies Wrongdoing In "Baffling" Rant

PinballBuzzbro

This BS is why i ALWAYS choose emulation rather than giving these psychos my money. Theyre all just a bunch of sick in the head grifters who view old video games as some bizzare get-rich-quick scheme rather than as the cherishable pieces of art they are, and it blows up in their face spectacularly. We saw it with Paprium, we saw it with SuperSega, we saw it with Strictly Limited games, we saw it with Piko interactive, and we’ll continue to see it until the end of time. Idc about the “physical authenticity” if I have to obtain said authenticity by forking 80-100 bucks over to an irl Silent Hill villain who likely won’t even deliver on their promises, it’s just not worth it to me.

Re: WaterMelon Insists Its Terminally Delayed Brawler Paprium Isn't Dead

PinballBuzzbro

Even if it isn’t dead there’s no reason to be interested in this game. It’s just a bog standard beat em up that does nothing to push the genre forward and is headed by one of the biggest clinical psychopaths in the gaming industry, that’s not even mentioning the ludicrous price tag attatched to the thing and the near decade long wait for ppl to even GET their cartridges. Dont see why I should give this my time of day when infinitely better games like streets of rage 4, shredders revenge, fight’n’rage, final vendetta and all the countless openBOR projects exist, not to mention all the sega genesis homebrew projects that ARENT complete dumpster fires for WAAAAYYYYY less.

Re: Talking Point: Is There A Home Port You Prefer To The Arcade Original?

PinballBuzzbro

@NinChocolate The Genesis version of caveman ninja is better too since it maintains the ghouls and ghosts styled gameplay of the arcade game making for a more faithful experience than the snes one, but also gets rid of the god-awful adventure island styled hunger system that completely ruined the flow of the coin-op original, thank godđŸ˜”â€đŸ’«

Re: The Genesis Just "Broke Another Myth" By Replicating Classic Castlevania Tunes

PinballBuzzbro

@GhaleonUnlimited Exactly! It’s why it frustrates me when people say the genesis was the best console for beat em ups purely for streets of rage and refuse to look at any other brawler that ISNT bare knuckle or final fight, there’s a really huge problem with shortsighted preferences in online gaming discussion and it’s always frustrated me, lol.

ALSO FELLOW BLOODLINES SIMON THEME TRUTHERđŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„

Re: Talking Point: Is There A Home Port You Prefer To The Arcade Original?

PinballBuzzbro

Salamander and gradius 2 on the pc engine, for having better sound, an actual reasonable difficulty with the ability to continue, and extra content like adjustable options and an extra stage in the latter port. The sega cd version of final fight too for toning down the bs enemy ai of the original game and having less overwhelming waves of enemies, as well as having a more pleasing warm color palette and the obviously amazing redbook audio.
I think the best one tho has GOT to be double dragon 2 both on pc engine and nes. The og arcade game is just a weak retooling of the og game with weird level themeing, whereas the console versions(barring Genesis LMFAO) turn it into a completely different and fantastic game with great visuals for their systems, fun intuitive combat and pretty good level variety, especially with the pseudo-platforming stages in the nes game. AND, both games still keep in the good elements from the arcade game, like the creepy shadow self boss fight, the surprisingly dark story, and the lovably goofy boss characters like Burnov and the overweight Terminator lol.

Re: Valve's Unshackling Of SteamOS Could Give Switch 2 Some Welcome Competition

PinballBuzzbro

Literally the ONLY thing Switch has going for it anymore in terms of actual games is the stuff Nintendo themselves puts out imo. Everything else is either better on other platforms or is slop like “kids puzzle boobplooza hentai girl waifu puzzle” with ai generated artwork used for the store icon. There are barely ANY non-Nintendo developed Switch exclusive games, and even FEWER that aren’t some of the most miserable gaming experiences ever, lol.

Re: Fan Game 'DC Task Force' Features 82 Different Playable Superheroes And Is Free To Download

PinballBuzzbro

@calbeau as someone whos played a ton of vitors games, don't worry, its not as bad as it sounds. His games are essentially streets of rage 2 brawlers with simple levels that focus on including a ton of villains as midbosses, and the large cast plays fairly similar to eachother like in a typical brawler, think those lego dc games where the large casts all play mainly the same and its moreso just about playing as ur fav character!

Re: 36 Years Later, Sega Genesis Is Finally Getting A Proper Port Of Shadow Dancer

PinballBuzzbro

@X68000 I want to like MD ESWAT so badly but once you get the mech suit the game becomes rly irritating since you have a giant hitbox and lose a lot of the agility you had in the first two stages, especially in the 4th stage where you have to dodge constant tiny slime drops jumping at you at seemingly random intervalsđŸ˜”â€đŸ’«

I personally think Shadow Dancer on Genesis saught to make a more faithful arcadey bite sized sequel to the original Shinobi while ironing out the weird clunkiness of arcade Shadow Dancer, as opposed to Revenge and 3 which aimed for more home console suited intricate platforming games, and I think it succeeded well in that regard.

Re: Sega Has Been "Losing Confidence" But Its New Boss Wants To "Make It Really Shiny Again"

PinballBuzzbro

@Guru_Larry LITERALLY!!!! like, it doesnt help they're super dickish when it comes to their legacy stuff too, taking down streets of rage remake and that golden axe openbor project, forbidding lizardcube from including joe musashi in streets of rage 4, making the MegaDrive mini 2 a limited release, not to mention how psychotically stingy they are with Sonic writers even ACKNOWLEDGING the classic side cast like The Hooligans in the modern stuff. They're one war-on-emulation away from being just as bad as the likes of Nintendo imo, if not a little bit worse since at least they like. TRY to make all of their console libraries available even if not always succesful. Sega's just been sitting on a majority of their old arcade games, literally the entire Saturn library barring Nights, the entire game gear and master system library barring the sonic games, and a significant chunk of the Dreamcast library for almost 10 years now!

Re: Sega's Western CEO Isn't Interested In Saturn And Dreamcast Mini Consoles

PinballBuzzbro

"We are not a retro company"

Meanwhile, every Sonic thing released since 2009: "WOAH TAILS REMEMBER SONIC "GREEN HILLS ZONE" 1 WOAH THIS REMINDS AME OD FONIC 2 WHEN I WAS IN CHEMICAL PLANBT ZONE GOING 1992 SUPER SONIC (TM) TO STOPP THE DEATH EGG ROBOT(TM) IN THE DEATH EGG MARK I (TM) BACK IN 1992 GEEZ REMEMBER WHEN EGGMAN, WHO IS ACTUALLY NAMED DR. (TM) IVO(TM) ROBOTNIK(TM) TRIED TAKING OVER LITTLE PLANET (TM) OK SHADOW CAN YOU GIVE US THE 500000000TH MARIA GETTING SHOT BACKSTORY WHILE MONOLOGUING ABOUT BLACK DOOM AGAIN OK THANK YOU WOA REMEMBER CHEMICAL PLANT??????111111"

Re: Retro Indie Title "Moons of Darsalon" Is Headed To Consoles, Complete With Icky AI Art

PinballBuzzbro

@bluemage1989 yeah god forbid people want to get paid and be able to keep themselves afloat what a preposterous thought🙄

this isnt just about this one dev, its about how companies and rich pigs in general will start more and more relying on ai so they dont have to pay any of their workers while still being able to abuse them, and choices like this just further encourage that crap to happen.

Re: Retro Indie Title "Moons of Darsalon" Is Headed To Consoles, Complete With Icky AI Art

PinballBuzzbro

@axelhander I dont care that he used AI art thats not my focus, I'm just pissed he didn't hire an actual artist to do these for him instead. As someone who may or may not be into doing lewd art myself i can say there are a LOT of us who would love to do similar looking pieces to what he generated for really affordable prices, so him just resorting to a machine that slaps preexisting art together instead of using the money his game makes to hire actual artists who could use the money is incredibly frustrating to see, especially with the way the world is nowadays where ceos and rich people are already trampling us artists under their feet every chance they get.