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I'm just struggling to understand why it needs to be so oddly specific. Like I touched on earlier, if the point was to "spark a conversation" why post to the platforms sub-forum and limit the discussions to games on one, retro console? That's not sparking a conversation, it's throttling the conversation. Because of those limitations, most people reading this have nothing to say as they likely haven't played a qualifying game. If this had been more generalised, there would be far more opportunities for people to contribute. So why do it like this?

@killamch89 You have been doing this alot lately and I can't help myself anymore, I have got to know. It concerns all these types of topics that are themed around what could be a fairly general query, but you decide to limit it with some oddly specific stipulation, like on games console or gaming IP. Take this thread for example. A discussion about multi stage bosses. An interesting enough topic, but the you limit it to SNES games. Why? If you asked me, I'd say such topics offer way more potention for replies and offer more pootential to grow if people could talk about any game they want. This is just bound to alienate people, especially when that aforementioned limitation is speaking only about a retro console than many people, especially younger members, may not have played. I mean, why do this? It just doesn't make to me. Is this your way of posting a barrage of new topics without getting them locked or merged by making them so specific? Like there is a topic already a topic about favourite boss battles but this topic "totally different" because it's about your favourite multi-stsge boss battling in an SNES game? Can we expect another topic soon entitled "What’s your favorite Sega Genesis title that features a “giant boss” requiring multi-phase strategies?", then another on on Playstation, Xbox, Atari Jaguar? Give me another reason buddy, because I'm struggling here.

@Heatman I tried to send this to you via PM, but for some reason your account is unable to receive them. Please check your account settings and clear out messages from your inbox that you no longer need. The title to this topic has been changed. This is because I messed up and mistakenly merged this thread with another thread. I was able to separate the topics again, but the original title was lost. I tried my best to recreate and paraphrase the original title and create a suitable new one based on the thread topic. I would to happy to change the topic title again if you wish. I can assure you that nothing in the post's text has changed, only the title and time stamp. If you followed the original thread, you may have to do again. I apologise for this error and will take more care in future to prevent this happening in the future.

Been hearing a lot on this the last week or so. Simple problem to fix, pay the artist, amend the credits to include the artist, that's the end of the matter, that's it fixed. What really bothers me about this is the fact this has happend before at Bungie. That tells me that there is something wrong in the culture of the company that makes this accepable. So I don't care if this is was the actions of a former employee or if that's just Bungie saying something to distance themselves from this, they still have a serious problem.

ATTENTION VGR COMMUNITY! I call the attention of @Ja sa bong, @Knight Baridaand @Heatman especially, but I ask that everyone please take notice. I have just locked (and may continue to lock) several threads that have recently been posted on the Sports sub-forum. I have locked them because they discuss transfers, mostly football/soccer related. Wether they be factual, speculative, rumours or discussion on "who should transfer whare", they can all be classed as discussion on transfers. This post is polite reminder we have this pinned thread called "The Transfers Thread" for a reason. These threads on transfers limited to one specific sportsperson. We can't have a new thread for every player that transfers clubs, for example. If we allowed this, the sports sub-forum would flooded with hundreds of threads that are nothing but that. We just can't have that because if bumps down other discussions and is hoplessly impractical. Like I said, we have this thread for a reason. It's for you as much as anyone so you can find the latest discussion on these things in one, convenient place. Please stop posting new, individual threads on transfers. If this continues, we will have to consider more serious action for people who keep posting such threads. And to the members that I have mention, can you please like this post to indicate you have read and understood this.

I'm in the same board as @Kennysplash, only use Android and I have no intention to change. I'm sure that day to day iPhones and iPads are perfectly fine to use albeit with subtle differences, that's not the issue. The reason why I won't even try Apple stuff is because I can't trust Apple. They bank on the trendiness of thier products rather than the quality and that's not good. I want to believe that my next phone, computer or tablet is designed to be reliable and fair on price and Apple just don't have that trust from me. They charge $1000 for a monitor stand with no monitor on it for fuck sake! They also charge out the ass for repairs to issues they know from the begging would crop up, sue people for fixing the issues as a third party and are always at the forefront of every new anti-comsumer move in the tech' industry. At least with Android (And conventional laptops and PC's with Linux or Windows) you know that the companies that make them are in competion with other companies making Android devices, so they are under pressure to do better. I can trust that a hell of a lot more that Apple's stuff who hold a monopoly over thier own tech. The cross compatibility that Android devices have both in hardware and software I feel also makes these devices more free and easy to live with. If me and my partner had one and the other, we wouldn't be able to swap chargers at a pinch, for example.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild This gold sold well, reviewed well and was well ecived and I have no idea why. There is so much wrong with it that I don't know where to start. Breakable weapons: I can what they were trying to do. Have a system were players have to use a variety of weapons instead of relying on the same ones all the time, but this was the wrong way to go about. Forcing players to explore gameplay elements through necessity is only going to make a game feel more restrictive, not freeing. Then there's the fact that break after just a few hits. This doesn't give the player much of a chance to develop statigied with the weapon types, so it defeats it's own purpose. You also spend half of the time in combat going in and out of menus, and that's annoying. People have defended this system to the health, but there is no excuse for it. It sucks, and that's it. The Climbing Sucks: Yes, it's cool that you can climb literally anywhare, but what's the point when the climbing mechanic itself is tedious and boring? It's the same animation with Link slithering up a surface like some weird result of "relations" between a Gecko and a Sloth and it's full to play with. And frustrating, because you move so ridiculously slow, but the stamina bar also depletes very slowly, so it's impossible to judge whether or not you will make the top of that cliff untill you have already spent a solid couple of minutes trying to climb it. Wirse still, the game uses this to "block areas off" whilst holding up the claim you can go anywhere in the game right from the start. And that brings me neatly onto the next issue, and thus is probably the biggest one... The Exploration is Bullshit: Because of the aforementioned issues with climbing, this game is not nearly as free and open as people say it is. It just isn't, and that was it's big selling point, and it was lies. You have to, I I mean have to attain some serious upgrades to your stamina bar before you can go anywhere. So for the first several hours and thoughout much of the game, what you're doing is shrines. These motherfucking, god damn shrines! Don't get me wrong, some of them are pretty cool with som fun puzzles and platforming, but they feel like a chore rather than a treat because of how the player is forced into them. I swear, the first 10 hours of my time with the game, almost all I did was shrines, and I still couldn't get to certain areas if the map. This hurts the combat as well because you simply can afford to invest in your health, it has to be stamina. And in what is actually quite a hard game in terms of combat, that just adds to the frustration even further. The Way they Told the Story did not work: It was fragmented, confusing and to little to it. I admire Nintendo for trying something different, but it didn't work. It was to easy to loose interest or just flat out forget what is going on amist the game tedious, repetitive gameplay cycles anyway, so the story was pretty pointless. I know that if, as the player, you stick at it and push through the games frustrating elements the game would deliver eventually and reward you with more characters, a better understanding of the story, more areas to explore and better combat. For me though, this game asked too much and showed it's worst in the begining, and that's a mistake. I don't get why people liked it and I likely never will.

People need to get over the fact Half Life 3 is NEVER going to happen. Valve print money through Steam and they know that. It makes no sense from a business standpoint to make games anymore. It's a stretch to even call Valve a game developer at this point. Even if I'm wrong and these rumours turn out to be true, the Half Life fanbase has so hyped a game that doesn't exist that it would be almost impossible for Valve to make Half Life 3 and not disappoint eveyone. It would be like bringing Michel Jackson back to life to tour the world only for him to sit on stage and talk about the weather. Put it simply, Half Life 3 can't be justified. It's a waste of people's hope and the sooner everyone just accepts the loss the better.

Isn't this basically the same as this thread you posted on Monday? And almost daily your posting a new thread in the vain of "In looking for reconditions for *insert genre* type games and just abandoning the threads you already have. Two days maximus and you abandon your own threads like you give a damb. People see that you don't care about what you post, so they don't care either. Slow down. Don't just litter the forum with new threads because you can, post stuff you actually care about and give people a chance to respond before burying your own content. Because this thread serves the basically same purpose as the other thread, I'm locking this one.

I never thought I'd see somebody compare "Leisure Suit Larry" to "Monkey Island", "Sam and Max" and "Grim Fandango". I'm also a little confused, are you looking for recomendations of point-and-click games or are you recommending point-and-click games?

Moving this to the Video Games sub-forum as the topic is about asoefic game and not a gaming related topic.

Posting this asking for advice on resources and tools to help with the search is fine, but wouldn't it make more sense to post whatever details about the game you're looking for as well? Give us details you remember on whatever game it is you're trying to find on the chance we've heard of it? Why ask what forums we would use when you're already on one?

I can't speak from personal experience, but I did find this Reddit thread that might help. Overall, it seams like the games run fine with a few issues here and there. I'd say go for it.

This is a complex issue. There are licenses, local laws and contracts involved with selling games in a specific country. These factors of course change from country to country as well. This isn't big, mean Microsoft stopping people getting good deals on games, this is Microsoft trying to stay on the right side of thier contractual and legal obligations. Even so, banning individual accounts over this seems like both an extreme and lazy way to go about this. The right thing to do would be to detect users using a VPN (Something they clearly are able to do) and cutting off access to the store while a VPN us active.

I think the long development time for games these days is a a factor here. Third party developers get dev' kits maybe about a year before a console's launch, but if a game being developed specifically for that console or console generation takes 6-7 years to make, this sort of thing is bound to happen.

Let's face it, even if it was not these modders' intention, it's only a matter of time until somebody makes a version of this mod that will work with downloadable roms. I wouldn't be shocked that it could work with downloadable Ron's right now if they are in the correct format, such as an ISO. Regardless, this is great stuff. Great for game preservation as a lot of publishers/developers who made 360's have gone under since then. I don't see Microsoft wasting thier time taking issue with this, but I do see some publishers (Such as, I'm afraid to say, Sega) not liking this.

What's the point on creating this thread just answer your own question? Locked.

Again, this is thread that makes sense in reference to the current generation of consoles, not the previous one. In this state, this thread is worthless. So this thread is also getting locked.

@Scorpion We're going back to this weird thing whare you post as if it's years in the past. We've been through this before, and I asked you stop. And to your credit, you did. But now it's back. There is no reason to have a "next-gen" discussion involving the PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo WiiU in 2025 with thier successors all having been out for years. Hell, the successor of the successor of one of those consoles is coming out later this year! This is nonsense and it ends now. I don't care for your excuses, there is nothing you can say that will make this anything but these thread a ridiculous waste of time. Stop it. Thread locked.

I'm not sure how I missed this topic because I have a lot to say. But hey, better late than never... Honestly, I have no respect for the opinions of prudes and idiots who don't understand the difference between depictions intimacy and depictions of sex. Especially when said individuals use thier own prudishness and lack of undertanding as a mechanism to talk down to people. I can almost garuntee the same people wouldn't say the same thing about movies, TV shows or books. Of course, there is a line between between appropriate, even if it is explicit, depictions of intimacy and exploitative, cheep exploitation and juvenile depictions of sex to sell to twits. The first issue is very simple, and I've said the same thing about violence in video games. The ratings system is there for a reason. That reason is to alert you to the content contained in the game. If you as a parent, or even just as an individual, don't respect video games for what the are, as in that they are an entertainment medium and not toys, then that's on you. You may get shocked and shaken that precious little Jimmy saw boobies playing Mass Effect or The Witcher, but you have nobody to blame except yourself. Thier complaints ended in terms of relevancy the moment age ratings started to appear on game boxes back in the mid-90's. Frankly, I find the fact that this is still a thing 30 years later is embarrassing. Next, onto the porn... I mean the point... or maybe I do mean the porn. That is the "controversy", right? I have nothing against sex or nudity or anything like that in games, but I hate seeing as a cheep excuse to sell the to the 13 year who's just discovered what his willy does. And that is ultimately what the difference between porn and legitimate media with sexual content. Context. Nodody bought "Debbie Does Dalles" for the plot and games like Mass Effect and The Witcher series aren't loved because there's tits in them. Context, like human intimacy and relations, is complex, so it's impossible to genralise, but I think most adults can look at a specific piece of media and understand wether or not any expressions of sex are appropriate in context or not. There is even such a thing as porn games, and they have existed since the days of the Atari 2600. And you know what, that's fine too. I personally see no reason to take issue with people playing games one handed with a box of tissues on the side. Hell, people who play emotional games have a similar set up. Jokes aside, I see no reason for games like that too exist, in fact, I even see them as more morraly adapt way to create such media than more traditional pornography. Some people aren't comfortable with sexually graphic content in media, and that's fine. I want to make it 100% clear they do not deserved to judged for it, nor do they even have to explain themselves. Some folk are just more comfortable with it than others. If there is something about a game that makes you uncomfortable, don't support it. Unless the game, or even a movie, TV show or whatever, is a deliberate attempt to provoke, offend or spread misinformation, then people should leave it be. And frankly, there are people on both sides of the political spectrum who need to heed that lesson. And this is what I think @Osiris397 was eluding to. And I don't think either of us want him to be, but he's right. Gaming at it's core more about action, not emotion. In the end, playing a video game is a test of self, so media that is traditional more existentially expressive is hard to translate into it. Having said that, improvements in the technology has made line between video games and visual media, like movies and TV shows, very blurry indeed. To the point where the only real difference is between the people who will indulge in one, but not the other. Pompous bastards, in other words. Games that practically sell themselves on emotional stories, like The Last of Us or Life is Strange, have been massively successful in recent years. Not to mention that adaptations between them have also seen a marked improvement in both quality and sucess recently as well and it's because video games are, at long last, being taken seriously.

I actually disagree. Sega did well with the Mega Drive/Genesis because they beat Nintendo to 16bit, but the basic concepts and designs they implemented into thier hardware weren't that different. There was no real innovation there. Ever since the Mega Drive/Genesis, it was mistake after mistake. The rushed out the SegaCD/MegaCD when the technology was too young, not to mention it's impracticalities as an add-on instead of a separate console. Then there was the pointless 32X add-on they came out with leaving the Saturn underdeveloped compared the Playstation and N64. They never really recovered from that. It's a shame because thier next console, the Dreamcast, was the innovative, well developed console they needed instead of the aforementioned add-ons and Saturn, but it came too late. So in answer to the original question, yes. Sega's failures opened the door. Especially for Sony who made a similar console to the Saturn in that they were both CD based 32bit systems, but without Sega's split focus, Sony made it better.

If your question is "Do you suspect that that so many indie games utilse retro style graphics because they can't produce more modern graphics?", I have to say yes. It's not that these games look bad or anything, I just find it a little embarrassing when indie game developers insist that retro style graphics are a stylistic choice when, at least some of the time, it clearly wasn't.

I'm meant to say "Giant's", but it must have autocorrected to "Goats" 🤣

I was gonna say the same thing. Even by modern standards the Big Gordon's Sword is a pain in the ass. Getting the Goats Wallet is a pain as well because of how cryptic some of the Gold Skulletas are.

@Heatman, there was no reason to start three separate topics for this as these fights were all at the same event. That is why I've merged them together and given them a general title. Please stick to this format in the future.