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Re: More Amico Games Release On Switch & Steam, As The Company Still Insists Hardware Is The Goal

carlos82

@slider1983 they knew full well at the last round of crowdfunding that they had no chance of delivering the product and they never got remotely close to releasing anything.

All they have sold is the rights to most of their games and their only selling point with the Intellivision brand and have limped on with that Amico home app which has a few thousand downloads and nobody is buying garbage like Cornhole in any significant numbers.

Quite why anyone believes a word these chancers say in 2025 is beyond me, when we've had half a decade of nonsense from them

Re: More Amico Games Release On Switch & Steam, As The Company Still Insists Hardware Is The Goal

carlos82

@slider1983 it certainly started out as a legitimate project but it very much became a scam when they realised a long time ago that they couldn't deliver but still kept asking for money. It wasn't bad luck, they just had no clue what they were doing and had Tommy making stuff up.

If they do have a few employees, I'd be curious how they're paying them given they don't sell anything

Re: Nightdive Reveals More About Its Failed GoldenEye 007 Pitch, But Its Answers Only Raise More Questions

carlos82

'Yeah, no third party’s ever going to touch any Nintendo stuff, ever'

That sentence alone makes no sense in a world where Capcom have made multiple Zelda games, Ubisoft had access to Mario and Donkey Kong for the Rabbids games, Sega made the best F-Zero and they've just shown off the Switch 2 with yet another Zelda Warriors game made by Koei Tecmo but apparently James Bond (which they themselves licenced) is where Nintendo draws the line 😂😂😂

Re: Japanese Gamers Just Picked The 30 Best PlayStation Games Of All Time

carlos82

Not surprising given the market, still better than IGN's list though.

Thinking about it, I can't think of a single PS5 only game that I'd put in the top 30 Playstation games but from those on that list, I'd put Resident Evil 2 over the original, the 1st is iconic and still a good game but RE2 is much better in every way. FFVIII is my own personal favourite of that PS1 trilogy and I much preferred Metal Gear Solid 2 over 3. I'd also have Ridge Racer V or Type 4 over the original and for Gran Turismo, I'd be choosing GT3

Re: "Absolutely Horrid" - Is Nintendo Switch Online's Emulation Really That Bad?

carlos82

The latency is noticeable to me but not to the point where it would stop me playing most of the games, although R-Type and Wild Guns don't feel good to play. It's certainly not on the level of the Megadrive collection on Switch, which is simply unplayable to me. That said I do tend to play my retro games on my PC where they feel much better to play and largely indistinguishable from the real thing.

If anything, the joy cons stop me from playing such games in portable mode, more so than the latency

Re: "A Slap In The Face Of All Creators" - YouTube Terminates Popular Retro Gaming Channel Without Warning

carlos82

Unfortunately this has the been the state of YouTube and others for years, who are all too eager to rely heavily on technology to do their jobs and then blatantly lie that people have actually being involved. I've long since lost count with how many times I've seen that copy and pasted response to issues like this or the rampant fake copyright abuse.

I've had a similar issue with Facebook recently which simply won't let me make a new account (my old one long deleted). Every time I try it immediately says I've broken community guidelines and then upon appeal (which they claim a human looks at it, spoiler they don't), my appeal is rejected in an exact amount of time that never changes and it never gives me a reason

Re: Don't Hold Your Breath For A Tekken Collection

carlos82

I completely disagree with him here, I think many of the early 3D fighting games still look fantastic and in some ways more visually appealing then modern ones can look as they clutter the screen with effects. The early Tekken games still look nice, as does Virtua Fighter 2 and Dead or Alive 2 is another looker.

If anything I actually play these earlier games more as I find them more enjoyable to play

Re: Poll: What Do You Think Of Jo's New Look In Perfect Dark?

carlos82

I like the new design, it's much more realistic. I always thought the Perfect Dark Zero design looked silly but the original was pretty good. More importantly the game is looking very promising and it's first person so you won't be seeing her much anyway.

In any case, where's the Doom guy comparison articles?

Re: Atari Purchases The Intellivision Brand, But Not The Delayed Amico Console

carlos82

Smart of Atari to keep away from that nonsense that is the Amico.

Also let's be honest, that will never see a commercial release, it's digital only with no way of distributing games, they no longer own any games, they have no money to build the thing and they have huge debts, one of which is tied to per unit sales of it should it ever come out.

Amico Home on the Play Store shows only 1K+ downloads, so overall they have no money, no games, no staff and no market

Re: Limited Run Games Apologises For Shipping 3DO Games On CD-Rs

carlos82

I don't buy their excuse, there's nothing unique about about a 3DO disc and even if they were having issues, well first of all why aren't you checking you can make them before trying to sell them? Secondly they should have communicated this to customers in the year between taking their money and shipping some CD-R's and offered refunds

Absolute disgrace of a company