Random Gaming Thoughts

[BoneSnapDeez]

Well it seems perfect for someone with no consoles. Like noise.

[noiseredux]

the fighting games are... ok. No big loss to me. But you guys are right - I wonder why they'd not included MM7 & 8?

[Exhuminator]

Because the company handling the port wrote an engine that handles the style of the 8-bit games and upscales it to 1080p. MM7 & 8 would not work cleanly with this engine and would require a lot more work on their behalf.

[MrPopo]

Right, it's not emulation, it's a complete rebuild of the games using the original assets. That thing better go through a ton of QA passes to make sure they don't cock up the physics and slowdown.

[GSZX1337]

Thinking of buying a used PSP as an emulator machine, since they are so damn cheap. Any idea if ALL firmware versions can be hacked now that Sony stopped updating it? also would be nice if I can now turn it off without having to hack it again.

Yes, choose your model. I myself have a PSP Go and have easily modded it with one of these tutorials. Only caveat is that you have to start Fast Recovery every time you boot up the PSP, but this is done so quickly that it's not really much of a problem.

remastered Mega Man 1-6 coming to PC this Summer w/ new challenge modes, leaderboards, video replays, $15...

http://www.pcgamer.com/mega-man-legacy- ... is-summer/

I saw this on Rock Paper Shotgun and am a bit excited since this'll be Mega Man's first foray onto PC. I refuse to acknowledge those DOS games.

Because the company handling the port wrote an engine that handles the style of the 8-bit games and upscales it to 1080p.

Really? This is a new engine and not in an emulator? Can I have a link to confirm this?

MM7 & 8 would not work cleanly with this engine and would require a lot more work on their behalf.

Well, there's always those fan made 8-bit versions of Mega Man 7 and Mega Man 8.

[ExedExes]

I got excited, and then remembered the Megaman Anniversary collection, which has all 8 original games.

And the two fighting games.

Hence, only good if you don't have an NES or PS2/Xbox/GC.

Still, 1) Good on Capcom for at least remembering Mega Man & 2) It's being developed by Other Ocean (AKA Backbone Entertainment/Digital Eclipse), so the games will be spot on, right down to the use of the MM1 Elecbeam pause, as I understand.

[Xeogred]

Because the company handling the port wrote an engine that handles the style of the 8-bit games and upscales it to 1080p. MM7 & 8 would not work cleanly with this engine and would require a lot more work on their behalf.

Um surely Capcom wouldn't be busy enough to maybe take it a little farther than they are...

Seriously is anyone laughing at how poor their resume has been for a long time now? Kind of funny they announce the HD ports of REmake, and now Zero, a year in advance before they even release. Like we're supposed to be super hyped for over a year for an HD port. Outside of the usual Street Fighter or Monster Hunter stuff, this is what Capcom is busy with. HD ports. I'm all for them, but it does seem a little embarassing how they're barely scraping by. Revelations 2 looked like it was on the Onechanbara budget.

Platinum, From Software, etc other Japanese devs who used to be smaller are making Capcom look like nothing right now.

But hey, guess they're not Konami.

[pepharytheworm]

One of the devs of Elysian Shadows wrote the perfect response to the accusation of racism in Witcher 3. Very much worth a read.

To people from multiracial countries, demanding racial diversity in video game might seem like something good, a progressive thing. However the game is not just any game, it’s Witcher. Game made in country which battled through history to maintain it’s own heritage and language, game which builds upon slavic mythology and promotes it internationally. You're trying to shoehorn foreign elements into their culture, enforce your own standards onto theirs. In case I haven't hammered my point down strongly enough: you have people of a minority culture that were persecuted and discriminated against in last 250 years, who made this awesome work of art that represents them, and you're telling them to change it because it's not American enough.

*Bolded segment is not my addition.

That's fine and all but Slavs were a mixture of ethnicities and last time I checked they did trade with peoples to the east, west, north and south of their areas. Is the whole world that Witcher takes place in devoid of other human races and no immigration exist or minorities exist even? I am not calling Witcher III a racist game but that's a poor excuse.

[marurun]

Konami is spending lots of money... on gambling machines.

Yeah, Capcom is really faltering.

Makes me wonder with Mighty No. 9 coming out soon and a new Igavania on the horizon, and neither game is linked to the company that started those gameplay styles.

[Erik_Twice]

That's fine and all but Slavs were a mixture of ethnicities

All of which are white. And, like the article points out, not only are Poles white, even the minorities of Poland like Ukranians, Silesians, Belorussians and Germans are white.

The issue here is that Americans see this, pun intended, in purely black and white terms and don't realize that characterizing Poles as being part of a privileged "white culture" is ignorant if not downright offensive on several levels.

Is the whole world that Witcher takes place in devoid of other human races and no immigration exist or minorities exist even?

As noted in the article, the world of the Witcher is similar to our own and there are indeed other human races, some of which appear in the game at several points. I'm don't know if you have played any of the games, you don't seem to have, but the main villain of the first game,Azar Javed, is black, for example.

Still, I don't think you realize how overwhelmingly white Poland is even today. Or how as much of a "minority" Poles are in European terms.

I am not calling Witcher III a racist game but that's a poor excuse.

If it's not a racist game, then what is there to excuse?