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I listened to this whole thing, and I'm not really sure why, because for the entire 53 minute video (though I listened to it at 2x speed, so really only about 26 minutes for me), they're doing nothing but talking about the inane minutiae of games, primarily Nioh 2 but also some Monster Hunter, that I have never played and will almost assuredly never play, but there was just... something about that, and I don't know what it is, really... it was almost kind of soothing, in a weird way.

In my post here, I'm going to veer off on a bit of a tangent away from what they were mainly talking about in the video, though. The thing they said about people who, when a new game in a series comes out, want to go back and play/replay all the old games in the series before getting to the new thing, but then never actually get to the new thing... that's kind of me, honestly. A very good example of this as of a few weeks ago or so was that I said "Hey, I want to play Terranigma again. But... first, I'll play Soul Blazer and then I'll play Illusion of Gaia." I made it through Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia, but by the time I got to Terranigma, I was kind of burned out, and I only made it as far as GreCliff before just kind of stopping.

It's also like every time I've said "I want to give Mother 3 another try," I always start that process by replaying EarthBound Zero (it's actually called EarthBound Beginnings in English now, but that wasn't out yet the last time I did this, and the bootleg prototype ROM I was playing via emulation at the time was still called EarthBound Zero) and then EarthBound first, and then, by the time I actually get to Mother 3, I make it maybe halfway and then just stop. Last time I played Mother 3, I think I actually made it as far as New Pork City, with is basically the end of the game, but... just stopped. With Terranigma, at the very least, I've actually made it all the way through that (once, about 15 years ago). Not so with Mother 3.

And yeah, all of that is also why I've barely stepped even a pinky toe into long running series such as Tales (aside from a few singular, abortive playthroughs of Phantasia, Vesperia and Symphonia), or Atelier (as I've mentioned before), or Ys (though I actually own several of those on Steam now), or The Legend of Heroes including the offshoot Trials games (all of which is apparently part of yet another overarching series called Dragon Slayer, which also includes Xanadu/Faxanadu... kinda ridiculous), or many, many others. Even if in most of those cases each individual entry may be stand-alone. Doesn't matter.

But then, it all ties into my whole "play any new (or at least new to me) game really far, but then just drop it without actually finishing it" thing. E.g. Control and Hollow Knight, both of which are games I played really far into, recently, but have just kind of stopped playing, even more recently. I still have them installed on my computer, so there's still a chance I may get back into them, but the last time I played Hollow Knight was... *checks Steam* ...November 27, and the last time I played Control was actually before that, but I booted it up once and made it as far as the title screen on, Steam says, December 9, but I didn't actually play it any, at that time, so that doesn't count. Septerra Core is my current "I'll probably play really far into it but never actually finish it" game of the moment. ¬_¬ (In that, I'm currently to the Wind City area, having just gotten Corgan in the party.)

Also, on another issue, Woolie saying Persona starts at 3 and Castlevania starts at Symphony of the Night or whatever... yeah, that's pretty fucking asinine, truly.

Hmm.

Dec. 27th, 2021 08:47 pm
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Well, I haven't touched Minecraft since long before Mojank was bought by Micro$hit, and this obviously doesn't make me feel an urge to do so anytime soon, either.
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"A FILM BY MEGA64

"Nearly a decade has passed. The most powerful video game machine ever built, the Mega64, still dwells underground, in a dungeon... beneath an apartment building. The experiments around it, their subjects, and its keepers, all but a distant memory... until today, when the world's biggest tech company unveils a device prototype that is wanted by the most mysterious of figures..."




Not sure if it's going to be free to view forever, but it's free to view right now, at least.
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Even ignoring the fact that FFXIV is a MMO, meaning that I already had zero interest in it to begin with, any game that requires you to wait in a fucking line for an hour or more before you can actually play it is a game that I will never be buying, let alone playing, I don't give a fuck how ostensibly good said game may be, especially if they are literally saying that, no, you physically cannot buy the game right now even if you wanted to, because they apparently have too many players already. Also, unlike these guys, I don't see it as a sign that the game is wildly successful, I see it instead as a sign that the devs/pubs royally fucked up and didn't properly plan to have enough capacity to let the people who wanted to play the game, you know, play the fucking game. If they can fuck up something that important, who's to say they won't fuck up other shit in the future.
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It's about an hour and twenty minutes long, split into three roughly equal length parts.



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Honestly, with the bit at the end, this almost feels like it could be a series finale, if Mr. Rolfe wanted to stop making these. I wouldn't blame him if he did want to move on from the Nerd, but I hope he makes more.
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"What are the *worst* arcade ports to appear on 8- and 16-bit consoles?"



As much as I played the hell out of the NES port of the TMNT arcade game as a kid, yeah... no, it does not in any way, shape, or form hold up at all to the actual arcade game.

Aside from Mortal Kombat (which did indeed suck on SNES), I haven't really played a lot of the other ports they talk about (or the original games either, in some cases). I vaguely remember the arcade Ikari Warriors being cool, but the only experience I have of the NES version is the AVGN video about it.
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"Ubisoft announced their Quartz NFTs to major backlash. We discuss this and others grossly bringing NFTs into gaming."



Before WATCHING THE VIDEO, I'd just like to say that I REALLY WISH they'd stop using ALL CAPS in their VIDEO TITLES, because it just makes it look like SHITTY CLICKBAIT.

Now, to watch the video, which I feel like I'll agree with, despite the clickbaity title...

Well, damn, they could have ended the video right after Ian's initial statement within the first 40 seconds or so of the video: "NFTs are dogshit. Fuck off with your NFTs."

Yeah, even though the vast majority of people either have no interest or (like me) have severely negative interest in NFTs, it's only the people dropping dumptruck-loads of money on them that really matter right now.

I legitimately love how angry Ian and Pat are getting about this. "It's a fucking sham." I fully agree.

If Will Wright is into this shit now... *weary sigh* ...god damn it. I'd never heard of this "play-to-earn" thing before now. "Play-to-earn" can eat my ass, entire. Fuck Will Wright and Peter Molyneux and everyone else involved with this horseshit.

Anyway, yeah, I agree with Ian and Pat 100%. I mean, shit, they came up with some additional plausible nightmare scenarios that I hadn't even considered before now.

NFTs need to die and go back to the hell they spawned from, and the sooner the better.
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Huh, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is coming to Steam in March 2022, well I guess that's coo-

...what? It has Denuvo? Oh... well... never mind then, I guess. Just forget I said anything. *shrug + weary sigh*

I'm being a bit facetious there, to be honest, because checking to see if it was contaminated with that malware was the very first thing I did. I wasn't surprised at all, since Persona 4 itself is still infected with that dogshit, too. Disappointed, maybe, but not surprised at all.

I will, at the absolute very least, give them some minuscule credit for admitting that it will have Denuvo now, three months prior to release, rather than being even more scuzzy and not revealing it until the day of release (or at all, as with DA:I).

Oh, and while I'm on the subject of that badware and because I don't feel like it warrants a separate post, here is another game that initially looked interesting, for about five seconds, but in which I lost all interest once I saw that it was infested with that shit. This one is published by Square Enix, naturally.
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"Intellivision Amico discussion has been removed from the AtariAge forums -- we discuss what happened as well as comments from Tommy Tallarico and the site's owner."



I have no dog in this race, as I'm not an AtariAge member nor am I even remotely a potential customer for the Amico, but I still find this whole shitshow morbidly fascinating, mainly because Pat and Ian keep talking about it (as otherwise I wouldn't be hearing about it at all). What little I know of Tommy Tallarico is that his music is okay, I guess, but aside from that, he's been kind of a douchebag for at least a decade or three now.
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"John Oliver explores the lost world of snack-sponsored video games, and pitches some ideas to today’s snack brands."



This video exists, but doesn't once mention either Sneak King or I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator. Fail. (To be fair, technically, neither of those are "snacks," nor were they made in "the 1990s," but still, I'm a little bit disappointed.)

Also, I learned today that KFC is apparently making a video game console (complete with "a proprietary 'Chicken Chamber' that can store and warm chicken"). WTAF. o_O

Oh well, I guess they're saving those for the now required, inevitable "Fast Food Video Games" follow-up video.
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I'd be okay with a remake or remaster of Chrono Cross (and/or Xenogears). Do I think it's going to actually happen? I won't believe it until I see it.

That said, in any case, I almost assuredly would not buy it on PC (meaning that I wouldn't buy it at all, given that I don't own any consoles), given that it would be a modern Square Enix game, and as such, the likelihood of it being infested with Denuvo (or something equally terrible) is around 99.9999%. After all, it wouldn't be the first time that a remake of an old-ass Square Enix game was contaminated with such dogshit.
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Link to comic
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They suck. Like they always do.

I don't care how good the episode would have been otherwise, the constant, excessive crowd noise all but ruins it, at least for me. But this is one of the "in the actual campaign" episodes, and it's also right before/during a major boss fight, so it's not like I can just skip it. (I mean, sure, I could just skip it, but... meh.)

(EDIT) The audience here is especially annoying, randomly yelling out """funny""" comments and shit. *weary sigh* (/EDIT)

(EDIT 2) And, yep, they're also doing the "Nein!" shouts every time someone rolls a nine. **WEARY SIGH** (/EDIT 2)

(EDIT 3) Okay... ignoring all that shit (as difficult as it was), it was still a pretty okay episode overall. Mostly combat the entire episode, though, but then, they can't all be winners, I guess. (/EDIT 3)
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This was a pretty interesting clip from their podcast (outside of maybe the middle third or so, when they started talking for a bit explicitly about Arcane [about which I have roughly zero interest, mainly because I have less than zero interest in its source material, League of Legends] and how good it supposedly is or whatever).

That said, I've talked about this topic at length in the past, and as such, I don't really have much new to say here, other than that I am still highly ambivalent in my stance on it.

Also, Pat at 34:31: "Should all of the studios that EA bought suffer because EA owns them now?"

Well, I mean, the studios that EA bought are already suffering (or else already long-since have been put out of their misery, like an old, sick dog dragged behind the woodshed), and this is intrinsically a direct result of the fact that they are owned by EA now, due to EA's explicit, highly visible, well known, and terrible business practices. This is completely irrespective of any other tangentially related evil, disgusting shit that EA may or may not potentially be doing behind the scenes that the general public hasn't heard about yet.
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Huh? Axiom Verge 2 is out already? Wow, I didn't know that. Well, let me check it out, because I'd be interesting in buyi-

...what? It's exclusive to Epic Games Store on PC? Oh... well... never mind then, I guess. Just forget I said anything. *shrug + weary sigh*
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"While working on episode 200, James wanted to look back at his favorite moments from the first 199 episodes of the Angry Video Game Nerd. Episode 200 will be broken up into 3 parts in the first 3 weeks of December 2021. (Kind of like how Polybius was broken up into 5 parts.) Episode 201 will probably be in February of 2022."
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It finally happened. I finally, without realizing it until now, have installed and have been playing a game that has Denuvo in it.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole. I'd played through this game in the past, a few years ago, and was completely unaware it contained Denuvo, as this was back before I really started paying attention to this shit.

The other day, I finished a second playthrough of South Park: The Stick of Truth (which does not have that shitware in it, by the way [or if it does, it's another of the cases where Steam and/or the publisher, Ubisoft in this case, are being less than forthcoming]), so I was like, hey, I'll play the sequel again, too, why not.

Well, as I've been playing it, I've been noticing random instances where the controls will just horribly lag, as in like, I'll be playing normally, without a problem, but then my character will just stop responding to inputs for like a second or two. I.e. if I wasn't moving, I wouldn't start moving until a second or two after I pressed the movement buttons. Or if I was already moving, and I released the button, my character would continue to move for a second or two before stopping. Nothing completely game-breaking (yet), as it only happens occasionally, but it's incredibly annoying when it does happen.

I was looking online for potential fixes for this, and I saw people mentioning "the DRM" as the likely culprit behind this. And I was like, oh no.... oh no. I went to the Steam store page and, sure the fuck enough, it is infected with the malware.

So, yeah, again, god the fuck damn it.

Oh, and on top of all that, this is also a game that requires Uplay (or "Ubisoft Connection" or whatever the fuck they call it now) in addition to being infested with the Denuvo dumbfuckery, so that's doubly loathsome. Everything about all of this fucking sucks because the game is otherwise pretty good. (Stick of Truth does not require this asshattery, mind you.)

All that said, I'm not going to stop playing it now, unless this lag issue becomes more troublesome than it already is, but I'm still extremely pissed off about this. This obviously doesn't mean that I'm suddenly feeling all hunky-dory about Denuvo, or that I'm going to start buying Denuvo-contaminated games willy-nilly or whatever, because fuck that shit all the way to hell and back and then to hell again, where it came from in the first place.

The only potential silver lining is that the next South Park game will apparently be created without the Ubisoft middleman this time, so maybe, just maybe, it actually won't be polluted with the shitstain on the underwear of the video game industry that is Denuvo. We'll see, I guess. If it is, though, I most assuredly won't be buying it. And, well, if it's not an open-world RPG like the previous two games were (regardless of whether it continues the same story from the previous two games or not), that will also dampen my interest in it, but that's neither here nor there. Also not sure why they're apparently going 3D with it, because I liked the 2D graphics just fine, especially since it's similar to (what little I've seen of) the show.

(To go off on a tangent, is it weird that I've played and [otherwise] enjoyed these South Park games even though I can count on one hand with fingers left over the number of full episodes I've seen of the South Park TV show? I have to admit, to end on a semi-positive note, that it kind of makes me want to watch the show at some point.)
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"We combined 275 speedruns from speedrun.com/smb1 into one single video! Custom software, sophisticated image processing techniques, and tedious manual procedures."
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Simple Rating (Kanzuki Karin's theme) from Street Fighter Alpha 3 is probably my favorite track from that game, and this remix... god damn...

I might just start doing this more often, i.e. posting random music Youtube things like this. I mean, I'm already doing it on Twitter every once in a while, but this is the first so far that felt like it deserved a post here, too.

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