People who like when I do math to demonstrate why a game's design is so awful will enjoy it when La Valeur comes up in my videos.
I'm debating whether or not it is the worst initial grind in an RPG that I've ever encountered.
After the U7:SI video I tried to play Pagan again since I've tried a few times over the past thirty years. After a few game breaking bugs and just getting insta-killed for walking in the unmarked death zones a few times I decided it just wasn't worth it. I'll play notorious games, but U8 hurts.
My wrath is for Bethesda specifically because I bought Daggerfall on launch day and I still hold that grudge.
FWIW, I'm looking for a flight sim (not Flight Simulator) that includes a Boeing PT17 biplane. If its from the 80s or 90s, there's a good chance I own a copy and it was a military craft in WWII that got wide civilian use afterward so it's plausible that something exists, but google fails me.
It's really annoying that Microsoft titled their flight simulator Flight Simulator since it makes it impossible to search for other flight simulators.
I've got to say, of all the things you can drop, a full two-quart glass pitcher of lemonade ranks pretty low on the list.
The only thing Skyrim should be in is a dumpster!
Tokimeki vote is in.
If Skyrim wins I riot.
I've got a copy of that somewhere...
That kind of emulated re-release is it's own complication. The underlying game software is the same, but emulation adds its own wrinkles since it can change the game.
I'd lump those with ports for the sake of linguistic simplicity, but there aren't easy cut and dry answers.
And it gets fuzzy there since in 1982, people were used to VCS arcade ports being a bit abstracted. It was one of the things that was just accepted at that point. So they were buying it as a port and enjoying it as a port (and yes, it was enjoyed), but was it a port?
A real Ship of Theseus thing.
It's something that's been on my list of potential video ideas forever and today I've been playing an arcade port that threw out 50% of the game and made their own back half. It's kind of pulled that back into my mind.
I'd say Atari VCS Pac-Man isn't a port because the maze design is so radically different and the ghosts are completely unlike the arcade version. Doesn't mean VCS Pac-Man isn't a Pac-Man game, just that it shouldn't be lumped in with ports.
The NES one, OTOH, is copying the arcade, so that's a port
One of these days I'm going to need to do a video on "What is a port?" because it's a challenging philosophical question for games. How many differences are needed before a game is no longer a port?
Easy example: is Atari VCS Pac-Man a port of arcade Pac-Man, or a new game based on it?
Of course it's in the unusable footage where I suddenly start playing amazingly.
FWIW, two of the games on that chart are there because I had trouble getting the game I wanted to appear in the search and just picked something close. See if you can guess which two and what they should be!
Wow, that's honestly tough. I feel like the docks in Thief 2 are the ultimate expression of the game's concept, but there's hardly a bad level in the first two. Yes, even the cathedral.
I played a bunch of fan levels twenty years ago but don't remember enough to call out any in particular.
A nice, normal set of nine games.
I was being flippant, but it's a lot more accurate on the outbreak of the US Civil War than most high school textbooks.
Worth pointing out the fun of Atun-Shei Films' Checkmate Lincolnites series where he responded to lost causers who were clogging up his comments.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Flipping through it, I must have been thinking of another catalog that had the ineffectual seal on the adult section since the Overfiend is right there alongside other titles. But a few people did this kind of catalog during the 90s...
I had this, though I don't remember where I got it! As a I recall, it had a section for adult videos that was sealed with a sticker that you had to tear open.
This morning someone got mad at me for describing the US Civil War as "people getting so mad at the outcome of an election, that they quit the US to make their own country that mandated slavery".
I'm pretty sure that their problem wasn't that I wasn't being mean enough to the confederates...
If you haven't played, it's the final upgrade for the characters and he requires roughly four times the job xp to meet the requirements compared to any other character.
Complaint about Metaphor ReFantazio that only people who have played it will understand: what the fuck is up with the requirements for Heismay's royal class? Everyone else kind of makes sense, but you pretty much have to play with a guide in hand and grind like mad to have any chance of unlocking it
My understanding is that it's one of those things that's easier said than done. And it is kind of obscure; a recent game re-release was the first time I've heard of a US company using it.
My guess is it's hard to make it profitable.
The law is for any copyrighted work, not just games. So, yes, it could be used for anime.
From my layman's understanding (get an IP lawyer in Japan if you were serious about it), you'd need to prove that you can't find the owner and then still need to hold funds for paying for the use of Cookie's Bustle in a trust just in case someone comes forward later with proof that they own it.
FWIW, Japanese copyright law (which would be what's applicable here) has a carve out specifically for these situations. It doesn't remove a financial obligation, so someone can't just grab it and throw it on Steam without going through hoops, but it would shield people from significant penalties.
Pepsi has the opportunity to do the funniest thing with that AI generated Coke commercial since it's not copyrighted...
Spin Pair for the PC Engine is one of those puzzle games where they looked at Tetris and went, "Oh, this is easy. Just throw things down a hole and make them vanish." And then they got everything wrong.
youtu.be/yeoROokWJEY
