Yeah... stick a fork in Platinum now. It's done.
That said, as for Hideki Kamiya, in wanting to avoid doing Modern Video Game Industry Bullshit™ over at Platinum, leaving Platinum and returning to Capcom and making Clovers Studio or whatever... I'm not sure if that's actually the best thing in the world, because Capcom hasn't really been all that great lately when it comes to Modern Video Game Industry Bullshit™ themselves, either.
Yes, hopefully, Okami 2 or whatever they end up calling it will be at least as good as the original. On the other hand, Dragon's Dogma 2 is a thing that exists, which I still haven't touched because it is still to this day infected with Denuvo. And pretty much every new Ace Attorney re-release is also contaminated with that shit, too. And so, you just know this new Okami sequel, assuming it ever actually sees the light of day, will be infested with that horseshit, too. As such, I'm not going to get super hyped about Okami 2 at this point in time. Until and unless I see it released, for PC on Steam, and, eventually, without that malware attached to it, I just don't plan to give much of a fuck at all.
Denuvo vs Enigma
Sep. 30th, 2024 08:12 pmWas looking at the Apollo Justice trilogy on Steam. Seems like they removed Denuvo, which is good... only to replace it with Enigma Protector, which is bad. They may as well have just kept in the fucking Denuvo, as far as I'm concerned. I'm guessing they'll probably do the same with the Edgeworth games collection when the Denuvo license expires on that, too. I'm just glad they haven't shoehorned that Enigma Protector shit into the original trilogy I already bought (yet, at least).
Well, I'll say this much, it certainly "protects" Crapcum from getting any more of my money, if nothing else.
Well, I'll say this much, it certainly "protects" Crapcum from getting any more of my money, if nothing else.
Full headline: "Don't like $70 games? Monster Hunter Wilds and Dragon's Dogma 2 publisher Capcom says wait 5 years and they'll all be $5"
"Price reductions are always on horizon... unless it's a Nintendo game"
That gets a hearty "No shit, Sherlock" from me. I've been doing that for twelve years now, and I've had very little problem with it at all. If a game that used to be in the $50-$100 range falls to the $5-$10[1] range, that's way more palatable to me than if it was, you know, still in the $50-$100 range, even if it takes five-plus years to get there. And some games hit that threshold within a fraction of that "five years" figure. But even then, that's not a guarantee that I'll definitely buy it.
With that said, though, I'm not sure what Capcom is actually on about, because as of right now, six year old Monster Hunter World is still $29.99 USD on Steam, and that's just for the basic "base-game" level shit, with the actual full game (i.e. including all DLC, presumably) still at fucking $69.97 USD. (It is, admittedly, currently on a Steam sale, for the moment, with the "base-game" at $9.89 USD and the most expensive "full game" version at $24.77 USD, but still.) Also, there are literally 200 separately listed DLC items on the Monster Hunter World Steam store page, almost none of which are on sale, that total a whopping fucking $508.27 USD, though most of that dumbfuckery is probably rolled up into the "Master Edition Digital Deluxe" shit with the $70 USD price tag. In any case, I have not bought any version of Monster Hunter World as of yet. Maybe if that "Master Edition Digital Deluxe Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" version ever hits sub-$10, I might bite on it.
Also, though it is no longer the case now, Monster Hunter World originally shipped with fucking Denuvo, same as just about every other Crapcum game these days (the newer of which are still infected by that shit), so I don't care if the game costs $700 or $70 or $7 or $0.07 or $0.0007, I will not knowingly/willingly buy anything with that shit infesting it.
[1] - For only a very rare few games would I be willing to buy even at the initial "$20-$30" range that I noted in that 12 year old post there. For me, now, today, with 99% of games, it's "either get down to $5-$10 or less or else continue to fuck off."
"Price reductions are always on horizon... unless it's a Nintendo game"
That gets a hearty "No shit, Sherlock" from me. I've been doing that for twelve years now, and I've had very little problem with it at all. If a game that used to be in the $50-$100 range falls to the $5-$10[1] range, that's way more palatable to me than if it was, you know, still in the $50-$100 range, even if it takes five-plus years to get there. And some games hit that threshold within a fraction of that "five years" figure. But even then, that's not a guarantee that I'll definitely buy it.
With that said, though, I'm not sure what Capcom is actually on about, because as of right now, six year old Monster Hunter World is still $29.99 USD on Steam, and that's just for the basic "base-game" level shit, with the actual full game (i.e. including all DLC, presumably) still at fucking $69.97 USD. (It is, admittedly, currently on a Steam sale, for the moment, with the "base-game" at $9.89 USD and the most expensive "full game" version at $24.77 USD, but still.) Also, there are literally 200 separately listed DLC items on the Monster Hunter World Steam store page, almost none of which are on sale, that total a whopping fucking $508.27 USD, though most of that dumbfuckery is probably rolled up into the "Master Edition Digital Deluxe" shit with the $70 USD price tag. In any case, I have not bought any version of Monster Hunter World as of yet. Maybe if that "Master Edition Digital Deluxe Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" version ever hits sub-$10, I might bite on it.
Also, though it is no longer the case now, Monster Hunter World originally shipped with fucking Denuvo, same as just about every other Crapcum game these days (the newer of which are still infected by that shit), so I don't care if the game costs $700 or $70 or $7 or $0.07 or $0.0007, I will not knowingly/willingly buy anything with that shit infesting it.
[1] - For only a very rare few games would I be willing to buy even at the initial "$20-$30" range that I noted in that 12 year old post there. For me, now, today, with 99% of games, it's "either get down to $5-$10 or less or else continue to fuck off."
They don't start talking about the thing in the video title until almost 19 minutes into this, but once they do start talking about it, that's pretty much the entire rest of this 1:15:47 video. And I agree with pretty much all of it.
The gist:
- Stocks, the stock market, shareholders and all that shit suck scabrous scrotum, full stop.
- Square-Enix, and companies on the same path as Square-Enix, spend way too much fucking money on making their games, because the line must go up, always and forever. Except... the line can't and won't go up, always and forever.
- Square-Enix, and companies on the same path, must now compete not just with each other but also with live service games or GaaS/"gas games"/whatever the fuck we're calling them now, such as Fortnite and all that other dogshit.
- AAA and AAAA (and however many more A's you want to use) game development is innately unsustainable and will die, sooner or later. The modern video game industry (or at least that part of the industry) will crash eventually.
- Companies like Larian and Nintendo and Valve who don't have to answer to stockholder bullshit will weather the storm of the modern video game industry crash just fine. As will, apparently, the companies that make all the dogshit "gas games" now (and I don't necessarily disagree with that, either, but I sorely wish to hell it wasn't true).
- Some stuff specifically about Square-Enix and how they should stop taking profits away from the "good games" like (ostensibly) Final Fantasy XIV (you know, a MMO game about which I personally do not give the first, single shit at all) to waste on developing dead-on-arrival shit like Foamstars or Babylon's Fall or fucking Nosgoth or whatever. (What the actual shitting fuck even is Foamstars? Makes sense that I never heard of it before now, because it sounds like complete garbage, just like all the other "gas games.")
No, it doesn't.
Mar. 25th, 2024 12:30 pmFor clarity's sake, the headline for this article on the Google News app on my phone (as well as on the browser tab in Firefox/Chrome/etc.) shows as "Dragon's Dogma 2 gleefully rejects modern game design rules," which conjures a vastly different initial impression than "All the ways Dragon's Dogma 2 will fight against you" does.
So... let's see, then.
Draconian DRM in the form of a Denuvo malware infestation? Check.
Worthless, predatory DLC? Check.
Game-breaking, progression loss bugs? Check.
Bad optimization/performance, even on high-end computers (which is very likely at least partly the fault of Denuvo)? Check.
Dubious design choices? Check.
So... no. Looks to me like Dragon's Dogma 2 gleefully embraces modern game design rules, not rejects them. In fact, Dragon's Dogma 2 looks like a perfect storm of the absolute worst of modern game design. A textbook example of what not to do. (At least if you don't want to be perceived as incompetent, greedy asshats, anyway, which Crapcum seems to not really care about anymore, I guess, like so much of the rest of the modern video game industry. *shrug*)
...
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<sarcasm> Oh, wait, they were talking about the actual game that's hidden under all that huge pile of garbage listed above? Well, then. Never mind, I guess. </sarcasm> *eye roll + smdh + weary sigh*
So... let's see, then.
Draconian DRM in the form of a Denuvo malware infestation? Check.
Worthless, predatory DLC? Check.
Game-breaking, progression loss bugs? Check.
Bad optimization/performance, even on high-end computers (which is very likely at least partly the fault of Denuvo)? Check.
Dubious design choices? Check.
So... no. Looks to me like Dragon's Dogma 2 gleefully embraces modern game design rules, not rejects them. In fact, Dragon's Dogma 2 looks like a perfect storm of the absolute worst of modern game design. A textbook example of what not to do. (At least if you don't want to be perceived as incompetent, greedy asshats, anyway, which Crapcum seems to not really care about anymore, I guess, like so much of the rest of the modern video game industry. *shrug*)
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<sarcasm> Oh, wait, they were talking about the actual game that's hidden under all that huge pile of garbage listed above? Well, then. Never mind, I guess. </sarcasm> *eye roll + smdh + weary sigh*
Dragon's DLC 2
Mar. 22nd, 2024 10:12 amIn addition to the ignominious Denuvo infestation, here is another huge reason not to buy Dragon's Dogma 2 right now. I'll be waiting for a "complete" version, with all the DLC included, Denuvo removed, and for that to hit a $12 sale ($12 being what I paid for the original game+all DLC). If that takes five to ten years, then so be it. (And, maybe, by then I will have a computer beefy enough to actually play it, too.)
Also, I normally hate "joke" reviews for games on Steam, but in this case, I will make an exception. I love that that is the current "most helpful" review.
Of course, none of that is going to matter, the game's going to sell like gangbusters, and video game consumers are going to once again prove that they're blithely willing to attach their lips to the sewer pipe and consume whatever the modern video game industry shits into their willing mouths.
Also, I normally hate "joke" reviews for games on Steam, but in this case, I will make an exception. I love that that is the current "most helpful" review.
Of course, none of that is going to matter, the game's going to sell like gangbusters, and video game consumers are going to once again prove that they're blithely willing to attach their lips to the sewer pipe and consume whatever the modern video game industry shits into their willing mouths.
"Resident Evil: Revelations update on Steam is part of a pushback on piracy and mods"
Hey, Capcom, I really appreciate your efforts to help me save money by giving me reasons to never buy your shit.
Hey, Capcom, I really appreciate your efforts to help me save money by giving me reasons to never buy your shit.
Yep, this is roughly around chapter 93 or so in the Reasons I Will Never Get Into Youtubing or Streaming book.
Denuvo Justice: Ace Denuvo Trilogy
Nov. 30th, 2023 01:11 pmHey cool Capcom is making an Apollo Justice bundle with the two 3DS games and it's infested with Denuvo.
Really, though, whenever Capcom decides to stop foolishly leaving money on the table and gets around to removing the malware infection in a year or three, I'll still probably get this, eventually, if I see it on a good enough sale. But until and unless the contamination is cleaned up, the game may as well not exist, as far as I'm concerned. (See also: Street Fighter 6, and Dragon's Dogma 2, since the previous two sentences can be applied to those games, too, without changing a word.)
Really, though, whenever Capcom decides to stop foolishly leaving money on the table and gets around to removing the malware infection in a year or three, I'll still probably get this, eventually, if I see it on a good enough sale. But until and unless the contamination is cleaned up, the game may as well not exist, as far as I'm concerned. (See also: Street Fighter 6, and Dragon's Dogma 2, since the previous two sentences can be applied to those games, too, without changing a word.)
Full subject line: "Every time a new shooter launches, I start a countdown until it becomes a clown show of brands and hideous skins"
It's not just shooters, of course. Between crossover skins like TMNT and butt-fugly shit like this in Street Fighter and then Mortal Kombat with all the non-MK DLC characters and the farting and other such inane crap, it's infecting fighting games, too (and those are just the two games that I even remotely know/care about).
Meanwhile, over in open world exploration game land, they have shit like this. I mean, in that last case, at least he still kind of looks like Spider-Man, and not like SpongeBob or something, but still.
Most (not all, but most) of this shit is just a subclass of fatuous DLC/microtransactions, of course.
It's not just shooters, of course. Between crossover skins like TMNT and butt-fugly shit like this in Street Fighter and then Mortal Kombat with all the non-MK DLC characters and the farting and other such inane crap, it's infecting fighting games, too (and those are just the two games that I even remotely know/care about).
Meanwhile, over in open world exploration game land, they have shit like this. I mean, in that last case, at least he still kind of looks like Spider-Man, and not like SpongeBob or something, but still.
Most (not all, but most) of this shit is just a subclass of fatuous DLC/microtransactions, of course.
(EDIT) Or anywhere else, for that matter, since I'm not buying a console just for Dragon's Dogma 2. Not that being on a console would stop it from potentially being infested with Denuvo, anyway. (/EDIT)
Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Anti-tamper
5 different PC within a day machine activation limit
Fuck off, forever, Capcom. Or, at least, remove this shitty taint from your game, and then, maybe, I'll consider buying it at some point several years from now, if I ever see it on sale for 75% off or something.
Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Anti-tamper
5 different PC within a day machine activation limit
Fuck off, forever, Capcom. Or, at least, remove this shitty taint from your game, and then, maybe, I'll consider buying it at some point several years from now, if I ever see it on sale for 75% off or something.
"The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core"
Oct. 8th, 2023 04:09 pmFound this video via
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scissorsevered, here.It's pretty god damn spot on.
"The irony that we're automating the production of art instead of the jobs everybody hates shouldn't be lost on us."
(But then, what's funny/weird is that they actually are trying to use AI to automate the shitty jobs, too.)
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Out of all the games made by PlatinumGames, the only ones of them that I own are the first Bayonetta (I bought it on Steam a couple years ago for $5.33 [tax included] and have yet to even install it, let alone play it) and that kind of shitty The Legend of Korra game that doesn't even have a Steam page at all anymore (I got it for $3.74 on Steam back in 2015 and played it for a total of around two hours, according to Steam).
Basically, all I know about Platinum is the shit I've heard from the former Super Best Friends Play guys like Pat and Woolie here, and also Matt and Liam, talking about how great Platinum supposedly is/was.
That said, of Hideki Kamiya's Capcom/Clover games, Okami was great (enough so that I bought it three times for three different platforms over the years), and Viewtiful Joe was... ...uh... okay, I guess? And I played the first Devil May Cry game. I didn't and don't have any interest in playing any of the subsequent Devil May Cry games. And... I guess I played some of the earlier Resident Evil games back in the day, too? *shrug* They were all right, I suppose. I own a shit ton of the more modern RE games on Steam after buying them for dirt cheap, but I haven't felt bothered to play any of those. *shrug again*
"And doesn't think a recession will stop people spending money on games."
Come on, modern video game industry crash.
C'moooooooooooooooon modern video game industry crash.
Seriously, I am so fucking sick and tired of that banal, worse-than-worthless "oh back in the old days we used to pay hundreds of dollars for video games (if you account for disgusting, ridiculous inflation) so really it's an absolute steal that new video games today 'only' cost $60-$100-plus[1] if you think about it actually" argument that keeps getting trotted out like some diseased, malformed show pony at least once every year or more.
Especially when "back in the old days" they had to pay for physical cartridges/discs, packaging, manuals, and other supplementary physical material, whereas today, they're just slapping some code up on Steam or GOG or their own proprietary online shops or whatever (and I don't give a flying fuck if it's code that "thousands of people spent billions of hours working on," it's still just fucking code).
Well, Capcom can charge whatever the fuck they want if they really feel the "need" to do so, I suppose, but I sure as flying fuck ain't paying it and haven't been paying it for over a decade now.
[1] - Which, of course, does not include any additional nickeling-and-diming-and-dollaring-and-"price-of-an-entire-full-ass-game-all-on-its-own"-ing microtransactions/DLC that is probably also involved after the initial too expensive purchase of the game itself, given that it's the goddamn modern video game industry after all. (And yet, morons stupidly buy that shit for that price, so why wouldn't they sell that shit for that price?)
Come on, modern video game industry crash.
C'moooooooooooooooon modern video game industry crash.
Seriously, I am so fucking sick and tired of that banal, worse-than-worthless "oh back in the old days we used to pay hundreds of dollars for video games (if you account for disgusting, ridiculous inflation) so really it's an absolute steal that new video games today 'only' cost $60-$100-plus[1] if you think about it actually" argument that keeps getting trotted out like some diseased, malformed show pony at least once every year or more.
Especially when "back in the old days" they had to pay for physical cartridges/discs, packaging, manuals, and other supplementary physical material, whereas today, they're just slapping some code up on Steam or GOG or their own proprietary online shops or whatever (and I don't give a flying fuck if it's code that "thousands of people spent billions of hours working on," it's still just fucking code).
Well, Capcom can charge whatever the fuck they want if they really feel the "need" to do so, I suppose, but I sure as flying fuck ain't paying it and haven't been paying it for over a decade now.
[1] - Which, of course, does not include any additional nickeling-and-diming-and-dollaring-and-"price-of-an-entire-full-ass-game-all-on-its-own"-ing microtransactions/DLC that is probably also involved after the initial too expensive purchase of the game itself, given that it's the goddamn modern video game industry after all. (And yet, morons stupidly buy that shit for that price, so why wouldn't they sell that shit for that price?)
Multiplayer deathmatch Resident Evil
Oct. 30th, 2022 02:42 amWho the fuck comes up with dumbshit like this and thinks it's actually a good idea? Capcom, I guess.
(EDIT) Oh, and I didn't even notice that this is also infested with Denuvo, though that's not surprising at all. I didn't even bother to scroll down enough to see that when I first saw this pop up in my discovery queue. So there's that puddle of rancid dumbfuckery slopped on top of the dumbfuckery that is the game itself, as well. Modern video game industry gotta modern video game, after all. (/EDIT)
(EDIT) Oh, and I didn't even notice that this is also infested with Denuvo, though that's not surprising at all. I didn't even bother to scroll down enough to see that when I first saw this pop up in my discovery queue. So there's that puddle of rancid dumbfuckery slopped on top of the dumbfuckery that is the game itself, as well. Modern video game industry gotta modern video game, after all. (/EDIT)
I like that, even though Pat and Woolie seem pretty cautiously excited about Street Fighter 6 overall, they still completely take the piss out of every little bit that is known about it at this time in the above video. I particularly agree with Woolie when he said that Capcom needs to not release an incomplete product like they did with Street Fighter 5, but then, that's like saying I agree with someone who says that humans need to breathe air to continue living.
As someone who played the original arcade version of Street Fighter/Fighting Street (both with the pressure sensitive punch buttons and later with the more normal controller buttons) a couple times when I was 8-10 years old, and who then played the everloving shit out of Street Fighter 2 for years when it came out, both in the arcade and then on the SNES and whatever later console versions I got my hands on, and who then played a lot of the Alpha games, mostly on the PS1 and in the PS2 collection things, and who then played Street Fighter 3 maybe once in an arcade and then a fair bit in one of the PS2 collection things, and who then played quite a bit of Street Fighter 4 when it first came out on XBox 360 (almost 14 years ago WTF has it really been that long already?), and who then, to this day, has still only played a grand total of 21 minutes of Ultra Street Fighter 4 when I rebought it for cheap on Steam, and who then pretty much gave near to zero shits at all about any version of Street Fighter 5, I can safely say that my interest in Street Fighter 6 right now is close to nil. Especially if they're going to be catering more to the MMA crowd with it, because I have no interest whatsoever in MMA.
Devil May Cry 5 and microtransactions
Oct. 4th, 2019 09:23 amSteam News or whatever it's called informed me that the Devil May Cry franchise was on sale, so I idly took a look at it, not expecting to be buying anything.
Here's what I saw.
( Behind cut for lengthy rant )
Here's what I saw.
( Behind cut for lengthy rant )
"DuckTales Remastered has been pulled from digital game stores."
Yeah... and I've pretty much already said all I need to say on this topic in a previous post. Also, I agree with Ian in that the whole "You'll still be able to redownload it later" thing is bullshit, if not now then eventually, inevitably, it will be bullshit.