Game

[hampster]

 

[Yeti]

Some people compared the sailing speed of the original Wind Waker to the new HD version.  Takes about a 1/3rd of the time it used to and the wind changes direction automatically.  Fewer triforce charts, down to only three.

Sounds a lot less tedious

[hampster]

Monster Hunter Ultimate on sale until 9/22 (Wii U = $29.99, 3DS = $19.99)

To hunt or not to hunt

[Tasty]

Monster Hunter Ultimate on sale until 9/22 (Wii U = $29.99, 3DS = $19.99)

To hunt or not to hunt

HUNT

[Trent Dole]

Yeah, man, get your hunt on if you have either of those machines. I tried playing Tri but couldn't really stand the shiite res visuals on a HD set.

[Shaka Khan]

Go for it. I might cop the 3DS version myself.

[Tasty]

Go for it. I might cop the 3DS version myself.

[radioheadrule83]

I'm absolutely fucking skint at the moment or I'd be getting on MH3 myself... as the offer expires in a couple of days I might have to put a fuel/mileage claim in work or something


Picked up one of those Elgato game capture thingies.

Me as a Zombie, ZombiU

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Rayman Legends: Grannies World Tour, 8 Bit Edition (spoilers)

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Anyone want to join me on Wii Chat sometime so we can draw penises on each other?

https://vine.co/v/hnM7MtnwAe2

[Damian79]

“I thank Miyamoto for that, but he’s falling down on the job. And for the past five years that job has been taken over by a dead guy from Cupertino. We’ve asked for too much time, too much skill, and too much money, sometimes all at once. Customers today… are generally looking for a single fabric of play. They want their game where they want it, when they want it, and at a price they can defend to other people.”

-Richard Hilleman from EA.


This is delicious i wonder how GAF is taking this.

[Sho Nuff]

That right there is a fantastic quote

[radioheadrule83]

I don't have a problem with the gateway-gaming idea he's positing per se, but with "dead guy from cupertino" he couldn't have sounded more ignorant and douchebaggy

Also, what he's essentially espousing are short, easy, cheap games. Not something I'm entirely sure EA are actually making themselves -- on the one hand you have things like FIFA free to play on mobiles, on the other you have their ridiculous full price legacy editions. They've got a handful of mobile games cashing in on a few franchises (real racing, simpsons, sims etc) and then the huge bulk of what they're investing in is AAA Frostbite 3 games. They're saying one thing and doing a lot of other things IMO. So really, I read quotes like that and just think 'bollocks'. And I've no idea what he means by 'single fabric of play'.

[Tasty]

“I thank Miyamoto for that, but he’s falling down on the job. And for the past five years that job has been taken over by a dead guy from Cupertino. We’ve asked for too much time, too much skill, and too much money, sometimes all at once. Customers today… are generally looking for a single fabric of play. They want their game where they want it, when they want it, and at a price they can defend to other people.”

-Richard Hilleman from EA.


This is delicious i wonder how GAF is taking this.

Judging by Twitter, very badly.

It's a good ol' case of painful truth, though.  The whole quote is.  Not just the part sliced out to make Nintards have a conniption.

You follow other Ninthings on Twitter? I feel so betrayed. :'(

[MCD]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=83814977&postcount=704

Speculation but Donkey Kong could be delayed to next year.

Pending...

[Tasty]

So I'm the only one you follow with your IRL Twitter?

[Rufus]

How well behaved is Cheesemeister on Twitter? He strikes me as awfully - proper? Unless it's about PC and gender roles.

[Tasty]

So I'm the only one you follow with your IRL Twitter?

Well, I think I follow Cheesemeister, Vooks, and Reno on there, too.  But sure, you're the specialest.

[Tasty]

You don't ever mute me do you Oscar-dono?

[Tasty]

OK I have to follow him now. If you're making that big a deal out of it...

[hampster]

I can't ever recall reading a Cheesemeister joke on twitter He went a little crazy with region locking after the Persona Arena thing. I mean I'm against region locking too but wow. I almost unfollowed him at that point but eventually he put himself back together and moved most of that to another twitter account.

Speaking of Cheesy, where the fuck is my post TGS episode of RedSunGamer I demand answers DCharlie Is DJ in the hospital again :'( Guess everyone is too busy with MH4 and the new kiseki game to podcast

[hampster]

I can't ever recall reading a Cheesemeister joke on twitter He went a little crazy with region locking after the Persona Arena thing. I mean I'm against region locking too but wow. I almost unfollowed him at that point but eventually he put himself back together and moved most of that to another twitter account.

Speaking of Cheesy, where the fuck is my post TGS episode of RedSunGamer I demand answers DCharlie Is DJ in the hospital again :'( Guess everyone is too busy with MH4 and the new kiseki game to podcast

he only goes for the lowest hanging fruit.  typically if he can make obvious puns involving nintendo games or back to the future, that's what he'll go for.  and yeah, the region-locking thing was annoying.  he has a tendency to special fellow out on things like that, but it's easy enough to filter out.

as for RSG, i think miz wanted to record the other night, but everyone's too busy playing MH4/Kiseki/FF14 as you guessed.  and dc is probably pretty busy with his new jerb.

Red Sun Gamer, Warning a Huge Podcast, The Nichiest Podcast Ever... all my podcasts are abandoning me. Am I really doomed to listen to nothing but 8-4 Play from now on

[Tasty]

So I'm the only one you follow with your IRL Twitter?

Well, I think I follow Cheesemeister, Vooks, and Reno on there, too.  But sure, you're the specialest.

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i wasn't aware you still wanted to be classified as a nintard, wrath.

Once a Nintard, always a Nintard.

[hampster]

all podcasts die sooner or later.

but rsg isn't dead by any means.  i have a feeling it will go dc-less more often now, but the podcast probably won't die until miz gives it up, and i can't see that happening with so much exciting sony news he'd like to share.

wahp sadly died with nick's desire to live

Most depressing twitter account I follow :'(  I hope he tells his story in-depth one day

[Tasty]

all podcasts die sooner or later.

but rsg isn't dead by any means.  i have a feeling it will go dc-less more often now, but the podcast probably won't die until miz gives it up, and i can't see that happening with so much exciting sony news he'd like to share.

wahp sadly died with nick's desire to live

Most depressing twitter account I follow :'(  I hope he tells his story in-depth one day

i'm guessing his hollywood personality rubbed one of the japanese higher-ups the wrong way and he got the boot, and jp is probably the one who had to deliver the boot.  but that's just my guess from the various twitter acocunts.

JP?

[bork]

...Wow.

I wish I still worked at Platinum. I knew the people, the culture. Now I am nothing. I’m a stupid weeaboo stuck in limbo.

Some of his twitter posts almost read like old Gamefan articles.

JP?

He works at Platinum Games.

[Tasty]

Most depressing twitter account I follow :'(  I hope he tells his story in-depth one day

i'm guessing his hollywood personality rubbed one of the japanese higher-ups the wrong way and he got the boot, and jp is probably the one who had to deliver the boot.  but that's just my guess from the various twitter acocunts.

JP?

ehn, it'd be like trying to catch you up on wrestling storylines, andy.  if you haven't been following the platinum/nick/jp/shidoshi/etc saga from the beginning, you're probably better off not bothering.

But knowledge is better than ignorance.

Also I only recently (~8-12 months ago) found out Shidoshi was a person outside the somewhat... combative personality that's always in threads about trans/gaming issues.

[Tasty]

First I get made fun of for not knowing stuff.

Then you guys don't tell me stuff.

I'm fucked either way. :'(

[Huff]

dudes been posting semi suicidal thoughts for a while now about his exit from the industry. had to defollow him months ago

surprised this is still going on

[bork]

First I get made fun of for not knowing stuff.

Then you guys don't tell me stuff.

I'm fucked either way. :'(

Check out Twitter.  I didn't know what was going on, but a quick glance gave me a pretty good idea.

[hampster]

First I get made fun of for not knowing stuff.

Then you guys don't tell me stuff.

I'm fucked either way. :'(

Nick Rox (used to write for gamefan) was fired/let go from Platinum Games and is super depressed about it (this also forced him to leave Japan and come back to the US). He was also on a podcast I liked which is dead mostly because he is too depressed to record it.

My impression was the long work hours and isolation in Japan made him depressed which caused him to screw up at work somehow. Even before he was left he seemed pretty unhappy

Hopefully he works through his issues and comes to terms with what happened

[Tasty]

First I get made fun of for not knowing stuff.

Then you guys don't tell me stuff.

I'm fucked either way. :'(

Nick Rox (used to write for gamefan) was fired/let go from Platinum Games and is super depressed about it (this also forced him to leave Japan and come back to the US). He was also on a podcast I liked which is dead mostly because he is too depressed to record it.

My impression was the long work hours and isolation in Japan made him depressed which caused him to screw up at work somehow. Even before he was left he seemed pretty unhappy

Hopefully he works through his issues and comes to terms with what happened

Thanks. I gathered the first part through this thread/Twitter (I do try to research this stuff before asking, guys.)

So he was a translator? And the tweet linked earlier makes me skeptical he was unhappy at Platinum, dude talks like his life revolved around it. Oscar's theory makes more sense.

Where does Shidoshi work into this, aside from also being from GameFan?

[Huff]

Shouldn't have been a furry

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I too liked WAHP and wondered what the heck happened.  I almost thought about unsubscribing since he came out as a furry but looks like I didn't need to.

I really want to get into RSG since I want to listen to a Japan game themed podcast but I can only listen to about 15 minutes at a time.  Maybe it is the accents, I don't know.  Sorry DC

[bork]

First I get made fun of for not knowing stuff.

Then you guys don't tell me stuff.

I'm fucked either way. :'(

Nick Rox (used to write for gamefan) was fired/let go from Platinum Games and is super depressed about it (this also forced him to leave Japan and come back to the US). He was also on a podcast I liked which is dead mostly because he is too depressed to record it.

My impression was the long work hours and isolation in Japan made him depressed which caused him to screw up at work somehow. Even before he was left he seemed pretty unhappy

Hopefully he works through his issues and comes to terms with what happened

Thanks. I gathered the first part through this thread/Twitter (I do try to research this stuff before asking, guys.)

So he was a translator? And the tweet linked earlier makes me skeptical he was unhappy at Platinum, dude talks like his life revolved around it. Oscar's theory makes more sense.

Where does Shidoshi work into this, aside from also being from GameFan?

He also seems to indicate that he got no credit for his work on The Wonderful 101 and is bitter about it.  I kept checking his tweets until I hit one saying something like "time to go to the local Gamestop up the street and apply for day to day work."  That seemed incredibly depressing.

[hampster]

First I get made fun of for not knowing stuff.

Then you guys don't tell me stuff.

I'm fucked either way. :'(

Nick Rox (used to write for gamefan) was fired/let go from Platinum Games and is super depressed about it (this also forced him to leave Japan and come back to the US). He was also on a podcast I liked which is dead mostly because he is too depressed to record it.

My impression was the long work hours and isolation in Japan made him depressed which caused him to screw up at work somehow. Even before he was left he seemed pretty unhappy

Hopefully he works through his issues and comes to terms with what happened

Thanks. I gathered the first part through this thread/Twitter (I do try to research this stuff before asking, guys.)

So he was a translator? And the tweet linked earlier makes me skeptical he was unhappy at Platinum, dude talks like his life revolved around it. Oscar's theory makes more sense.

Where does Shidoshi work into this, aside from also being from GameFan?

Shidoshi is just the co-host of the podcast I mentioned (WAHP). He also kinda passive-aggressively mentions on twitter every once in awhile Nick is the reason the podcast is done (just things like "Well *I'm* ready to record," etc...)

Thinking back on the podcast episodes recorded while he was still employed he seemed super stressed. I'm sure now he regrets it but I wouldn't be surprised if depression/stress made him snap at someone. Either way its not really that important or interesting but I do hope he gets better. In part because I'm selfish and want more podcasts but also because it sucks to see anyone so broken after loosing their dream job

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

First I get made fun of for not knowing stuff.

Then you guys don't tell me stuff.

I'm fucked either way. :'(

Nick Rox (used to write for gamefan) was fired/let go from Platinum Games and is super depressed about it (this also forced him to leave Japan and come back to the US). He was also on a podcast I liked which is dead mostly because he is too depressed to record it.

My impression was the long work hours and isolation in Japan made him depressed which caused him to screw up at work somehow. Even before he was left he seemed pretty unhappy

Hopefully he works through his issues and comes to terms with what happened

Thanks. I gathered the first part through this thread/Twitter (I do try to research this stuff before asking, guys.)

So he was a translator? And the tweet linked earlier makes me skeptical he was unhappy at Platinum, dude talks like his life revolved around it. Oscar's theory makes more sense.

Where does Shidoshi work into this, aside from also being from GameFan?

He also seems to indicate that he got no credit for his work on The Wonderful 101 and is bitter about it.  I kept checking his tweets until I hit one saying something like "time to go to the local Gamestop up the street and apply for day to day work."  That seemed incredibly depressing.

Maybe he has too much pride (although being a furry negates that lol) but I figured he could have his parents pull strings and get him a job at some NYC music wank rag if he is considering working at Gamestop instead.

Also shidoshi made a couple posts here and stopped a couple years ago.  He should come back.

[Tasty]

He also seems to indicate that he got no credit for his work on The Wonderful 101 and is bitter about it.  I kept checking his tweets until I hit one saying something like "time to go to the local Gamestop up the street and apply for day to day work."  That seemed incredibly depressing.

He must have been fired recently? If he did W101's translation. Damn that sucks.

I'm going through old GAF threads and I can easily see why he thought he was a roxstar (lol ok sorry) but seriously, pages and pages of worship for this guy. I don't get it, didn't he just write articles for some obscure Euro mag? 

Shidoshi is just the co-host of the podcast I mentioned (WAHP). He also kinda passive-aggressively mentions on twitter every once in awhile Nick is the reason the podcast is done (just things like "Well *I'm* ready to record," etc...)

Thinking back on the podcast episodes recorded while he was still employed he seemed super stressed. I'm sure now he regrets it but I wouldn't be surprised if depression/stress made him snap at someone. Either way its not really that important or interesting but I do hope he gets better. In part because I'm selfish and want more podcasts but also because it sucks to see anyone so broken after loosing their dream job

Yeah sounds pretty crappy. So you think he just wasn't prepared for the long hours in Japan? Hmm, Japan should try to fix that. But I guess it's cultural. *shrugs*

But I'm just a lazy American weeaboo, what right do I have to judge.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

He wrote for Gamefan, which was a magazine that ran until 2000 if I recall correctly.

If you want to familiarize yourself with the history and have several hours to burn/waste, check out this thread:

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/threads/33808-The-GameFan-history-thread

A lot of the stories there will show why (warranted or not) people seem to lose their shit over Nick Rox.

[Tasty]

He wrote for Gamefan, which was a magazine that ran until 2000 if I recall correctly.

If you want to familiarize yourself with the history and have several hours to burn/waste, check out this thread:

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/threads/33808-The-GameFan-history-thread

A lot of the stories there will show why (warranted or not) people seem to lose their shit over Nick Rox.

Awesome, this is exactly what I was looking for.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Also to note that his parents were these people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Des_Barres
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Des_Barres

With that kind of pedigree, you'd figure he would be writing crappy articles for Spin or Rolling Stone, not being a furry and contemplating working for a Gamestop.

[Rufus]

Maybe he has too much pride (although being a furry negates that lol)

Well, his 'fursona' is a Lion, so...

[bork]

There was some "drama" back in the Gamefan days, too- "The shadows are not blue" (Giving a lower score to the Saturn Street Fighter Alpha because of this -and it wasn't even true-) and "Monkey Boy Rox" (Admission that he reviewed Lunar II without having finished it -I think it got out that he played like halfway- and getting called out by Victor Ireland for it) immediately come to mind.   

You don't know about Gamefan, Andrex?  Are you in your early 20s?  That was the 'hardcore' gaming magazine for a time in the mid 90s.

[Rufus]

He is "Aokage" on GAF, aka Blue Shadow. His tag alludes to it, too.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/member.php?u=19067

[hampster]

Shidoshi is just the co-host of the podcast I mentioned (WAHP). He also kinda passive-aggressively mentions on twitter every once in awhile Nick is the reason the podcast is done (just things like "Well *I'm* ready to record," etc...)

Thinking back on the podcast episodes recorded while he was still employed he seemed super stressed. I'm sure now he regrets it but I wouldn't be surprised if depression/stress made him snap at someone. Either way its not really that important or interesting but I do hope he gets better. In part because I'm selfish and want more podcasts but also because it sucks to see anyone so broken after loosing their dream job

Yeah sounds pretty crappy. So you think he just wasn't prepared for the long hours in Japan? Hmm, Japan should try to fix that. But I guess it's cultural. *shrugs*

But I'm just a lazy American weeaboo, what right do I have to judge.

Long work hours but also maybe a feeling of isolation. No matter how good is Japanese is I'm sure it was hard to connect with people and if you're working all the time you can't socialize with other expats. Plus I've heard a lot about journalists having a tough time going from writing to development. One day you're the big fish in the small pond and the next you're starting over. All the old GFW Radio guys have talked about it

Of course this is all speculation based on what I remember from old WAHP episodes. I'm probably completely off base

[bork]

Shidoshi is just the co-host of the podcast I mentioned (WAHP). He also kinda passive-aggressively mentions on twitter every once in awhile Nick is the reason the podcast is done (just things like "Well *I'm* ready to record," etc...)

Thinking back on the podcast episodes recorded while he was still employed he seemed super stressed. I'm sure now he regrets it but I wouldn't be surprised if depression/stress made him snap at someone. Either way its not really that important or interesting but I do hope he gets better. In part because I'm selfish and want more podcasts but also because it sucks to see anyone so broken after loosing their dream job

Yeah sounds pretty crappy. So you think he just wasn't prepared for the long hours in Japan? Hmm, Japan should try to fix that. But I guess it's cultural. *shrugs*

But I'm just a lazy American weeaboo, what right do I have to judge.

Long work hours but also maybe a feeling of isolation. No matter how good is Japanese is I'm sure it was hard to connect with people and if you're working all the time you can't socialize with other expats. Plus I've heard a lot about journalists having a tough time going from writing to development. One day you're the big fish in the small pond and the next you're starting over. All the old GFW Radio guys have talked about it

Of course this is all speculation based on what I remember from old WAHP episodes. I'm probably completely off base

Those type of working conditions should have been expected though, especially if you're claiming that you fully understand the culture.     Wasn't he living over there before Platinum Games anyway?  That's kind of weird if so.  I mean, I've been around people who couldn't handle living abroad, but they would always bail after just a few weeks.  Maybe it was just the job.

[Rufus]

When he was still there he used to complain about the hours every time he was on, so it was probably a major factor. Coming home just to take a quick shower and then fall into bed doesn't sound great no matter where you are.

[bork]

When he was still there he used to complain about the hours every time he was on, so it was probably a major factor. Coming home just to take a quick shower and then fall into bed doesn't sound great no matter where you are.

Welcome to video game development and a lot of jobs in Japan?  It really shouldn't have been a surprise to him, of all people.

[Rufus]

I guess he went into it with a lot of optimism.

[Tasty]

You don't know about Gamefan, Andrex?  Are you in your early 20s?  That was the 'hardcore' gaming magazine for a time in the mid 90s.

Basically. But wasn't GameFan Euro-only?

[Rufus]

No, it was NA only.

[Tasty]

I'm really out of the loop then.

[thisismyusername]

You don't know about Gamefan, Andrex?  Are you in your early 20s?  That was the 'hardcore' gaming magazine for a time in the mid 90s.

Basically. But wasn't GameFan Euro-only?

 :'( Andrex making me feel old. It wasn't that long ago that GameFAN and GamePro were still around as a kinda-"fanzine" gamejouranlist thing.

[hampster]

I stopped paying attention to gaming mags after Sega Visions died  :'(

[Tasty]

All I remember was EGM, GamePro, and Ninty Power.

[Tasty]

I was an EGM guy cause I liked their features, Hsu and Chan and Seanbaby.

I only knew about EGM during the Mielke era and I didn't like it much then.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

for a brief window (Dreamcast era only I guess) Gamefan had a pretty damn awesome website too, they were producing an absurd amount of good articles and enthusiast material.  I frigging loved Gamefan.

[benjipwns]

I'm forever grateful for GameFan introducing me to Gunstar Heroes. One of the few games that actually entirely 100% lived up to their breathless hype.

I enjoyed when you could tell in the reviews that they realized they had given out too many 95-98 scores to games that month and started handing out 11s and stuff to boost the better games towards or over 100. And also picking out who was writing as two reviewers. And how the "articles" on the games would vary from like ten pages of endless praising or listing of everything in the game to one page with like a paragraph that barely described what the game was even about. But always every page was covered at least 60% in screenshots.

I also liked their rumor pages and trying to figure out which were semi-realistic and what was completely made up and insane to fill the pages. I had a friend who absolutely believed everything written in that section. This is probably part of why he bought a Jaguar and wondered where Street Fighter 3 and Mortal Kombat 3 were at in the "launch window."

[Damian79]

You just watch, they will make a come back.  :p

[Damian79]

To be fair it isnt just upscaled.  If it was it would have cost $40.  :p

[Positive Touch]

I'm forever grateful for GameFan introducing me to Gunstar Heroes. One of the few games that actually entirely 100% lived up to their breathless hype.

I enjoyed when you could tell in the reviews that they realized they had given out too many 95-98 scores to games that month and started handing out 11s and stuff to boost the better games towards or over 100. And also picking out who was writing as two reviewers. And how the "articles" on the games would vary from like ten pages of endless praising or listing of everything in the game to one page with like a paragraph that barely described what the game was even about. But always every page was covered at least 60% in screenshots.

I also liked their rumor pages and trying to figure out which were semi-realistic and what was completely made up and insane to fill the pages. I had a friend who absolutely believed everything written in that section. This is probably part of why he bought a Jaguar and wondered where Street Fighter 3 and Mortal Kombat 3 were at in the "launch window."

  you just described why i couldnt stand that rag

[Howard Alan Treesong]

wahp sadly died with nick's desire to live

it is the most depressing Twitter account