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| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-02-14, 08:55
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 Post: #242 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 12 hours |
Posted by Screwtape That's hardly fair. I just tell them how great Metroid 2 is. I ignore the remakes, official and otherwise, unless prompted. :P Also, I'm not actually sure Samus Returns is a good game in its own right. While I admit to a certain level of bias, I think if it were standing on its own merits instead of being a poor remake of one of the best games ever, I'd call it interesting but flawed. I find the map design poor(and illogically random at times), and the counter-attack feature rapidly falls from really cool to really tedious as they made every enemy hyper-aggressive to ensure you could use the counter-attack button as often as possible. Really, the enemy density is enough to drag it down even if everything else was perfect. KOHOLINT ISLAND IS BUT AN ILLUSION. HUMAN, MONSTER, SEA AND SKY, A SCENE ON THE LID OF A SLEEPER'S EYE. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-02-14, 17:14
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Posted by Nicholas Steel No kidding. If they're sacrificing 60fps for that god-awful depth-of-field effect I won't buy it. |
| Covarr |
Posted on 19-02-14, 19:19
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Posted by Nicholas Steel This is, in fact, the best thing Nintendo announced yesterday, by merit of being more Super Mario Maker, the original of which was already the best game of the decade so far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-02-15, 01:32
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Post: #244 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 12 hours |
It occurs to me that Zelda 4 is ALSO a game about genocide, albeit unintentionally. Link doesn't set out to kill everyone. Also, it is interesting that the nightmares are almost all from Link's mind, not the Wind Fish's. RUINED EVERYTHING, HERO! --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| Broseph |
Posted on 19-02-15, 02:03
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Posted by Screwtape Yep, that looks like a Link's Awakening remake alright (also I didn't even know about this Nintendo Direct Event, so I thought it was kind of weird they would announce this right now) I tend to prefer the originals' look in those cases, but this looks plenty fine to me. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-02-15, 02:42
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Post: #245 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 12 hours |
Honestly, it depends how it plays out. Zelda 4 did have a cartoony nature to it, but it kinda doesn't sustain through the entire game. I likely would've made it with more of a loose, floaty painting aesthetic rather than the polished cartoon look they've chosen. But I don't think they're doing this from a place of love. It is a shameless cash grab, and that's what it looks like to me. I COULD BE WRONG. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| BearOso |
Posted on 19-02-15, 05:34
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Post: #40 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1451 days Last view: 1451 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce The aesthetic looks ripped off from 3D Dot Game Heroes, or the lighting model, at least. ALBW had a lot of effort put into it, so I’m hoping it’s going to have production levels along those lines. The developers need to have awareness and understanding of the source material. |
| Kakashi |
Posted on 19-02-15, 11:28
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DX was good enough, wasn't it? I really would have liked a Metroid 2 DX. Or heck, even a Metroid 2 SGB pallette. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-02-15, 12:01
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Post: #248 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 12 hours |
Posted by KakashiHonestly, Zelda 4 DX is colored somewhat haphazardly. I think Nintendo tried to make it as colorful as possible, and this overrode tasteful color selection. At times, it looks quite nice, but at other times, it looks like they used ALL THE CRAYONS. I grant, however, that this works with the game's eventual setting revelation. I also wish there had been a Metroid 2 DX, if only because more people would be willing to actually play Metroid 2. I suspect it not be near as cacophonous as Zelda wound up, because the tile set doesn't lend itself to that sort of rainbow spill. The game's graphic design effectively forces a more subdued colorization. It would still likely be oversaturated, just because one of Nintendo's major requirements for GBColor games was that they had to show off the colors. Metroid 2 DX was actually in the works for a while, but Nintendo eventually cancelled it. Having seen the frankly bizarre glitches that the fan colorizations have had, I wonder if Nintendo didn't have some difficulties themselves. Metroid 2 has some odd behaviors at times. Nintendo actually offered several suggested Metroid 2 SGB palettes in the Super Game Boy Players Guide(which was packed in with the Super Game Boy in the US), and the SGB actually recognizes it and auto-selects a palette. As I recall, neither the default palette nor any of Nintendo's proposed options were any good. But it does have an official SGB palette. Several, even. https://metroid.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Game_Boy_Player's_Guide See what I mean? --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| Broseph |
Posted on 19-02-15, 22:08 (revision 1)
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Post: #55 of 166 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 1561 days Last view: 1238 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Well, as much as would ideally prefer a 2D, hand-drawn (maybe even pixel-art style closer to the original), less cartoony style, I've come to expect that pretty much any remakes we're getting is going to use this sort of style (or something close to it). So I think about horrible remakes like Rocket Knight or Sonic 4 and all things considered feel it's not that bad. Basically, it could have been worse. |
| Kakashi |
Posted on 19-02-16, 08:35
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Posted by CaptainJistuce chosen by some lackey at Nintendo with his finger |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-02-19, 15:50 (revision 1)
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Post: #260 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 12 hours |
https://medium.com/s/story/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb The lengthy tale of Pan Am's California Clipper, the first commercial plane to circumnavigate the globe... which they only did because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor shortly after they left Hawaii for New Zealand. So their California-Hawaii-New Zealand-back route became California-Hawaii-New Zealand-India-Africa-Brazil-New York. And they are little more than historical footnotes because they were buried under war news at the time. No one even knew it happened. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-02-20, 01:24 (revision 3)
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Amazing story there! I'm no airplane nerd, yet I enjoy reading about these things from time to time. It's a shame none of those Clippers survived, because the Nowadays aviation is a history of numbers, airline closures, and unsellable planes. Wonder if Pan Am had survived well into the 21st century, they could have saved the Airbus A380 from its sure doom (remember: it was Trippe's Pan Am who essentially gave birth to its Boeing counterpart, the mighty 747 jumbo jet). Or maybe not, considering what happened to SSTs (the 2707 went nowhere for oh-so-many reasons -mostly political BS-, the Tu-144 was a unmitigated disaster -it was a miracle that the thing managed to fly, considering its shoddy Soviet engineering-, and the only successful design, the Concorde, barely made into this century, only to have its spotless service history ruined by The Crash™, with 9/11 wiping any chances of a revival not long after that) --- In other news, RMS just realized the ultimate fact of his lifetime: paranoid nerds with dubious personal hygiene customs will never be able to get laid. He managed to convince someone at the FSF to blame evil Javascripts at dating sites for that: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/02/16/012249/free-software-foundation-dating-is-a-free-software-issue Stay classy, RMS! I guess he doesn't shave because Gillette pays "insurance" to some guerrilla in Africa to protect their precious metal mines to make their razors or some similar BS. No, it totally has to be those evil Javascripts on their homepage that take away his rights to have a clean beard. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-02-22, 17:32 (revision 1)
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Post: #23 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by tomman We're going backwards in airplane technology. Nobody wants to work with it now. It's intended to disappear, to get taxed to hell and get replaced by trains or whatever because of the emissions or something like that. There's no way anyone would want to touch a modern Concorde with a ten-foot pole, even if it were profitable. The goal is to decrease plane travel, so any innovation in the field that makes it more pleasant would be fought with tooth and nail, perhaps even outlawed. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-02-23, 10:54
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Post: #265 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 12 hours |
Posted by sureanemThat's not the actual goal, it is a side-effect of other goals unrelated to aviation. Rising income inequality has placed air travel out of the reach of more and more people, and the lack of competition after a couple large air travel companies devoured all the others has led to a very unhealthy industry that is increasingly unable to adapt to change. So now they're seeing a world where an ever-increasing perecentage of their potential customers can't afford their prices, and they're unable to adapt because they have built a rigid business structure that requires high prices to survive. Now, civilian aviation, THAT was intentionally ended. The then-new FAA, charged with striking a balance between commercial and civilian aviation interests, decided that civilian interests were in the way of commercial interests and erected a series of regulations that were intended to force civilians to the ground. In other news: Bowser now controls Nintendo of America. King Koopa has won, all hope is lost. Also: I totally want a PiDP-11, but 250 for a really fancy Pi case is a hard expense to justify. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| nyanpasu64 |
Posted on 19-02-23, 14:24 (revision 1)
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Since: 10-31-18 Last post: 1189 days Last view: 1116 days |
>https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11 oh god, this is a Wix website: Took 4 seconds to load on Firefox, hijacked my browser back history (had to press alt+left 2-5 times, and Wix has 2 identical history entries), and doesn't load without JS enabled. All wix sites won't load because of visibility:hidden bullshit, but Firefox Reader manages to extract text from that page. (Disabling CSS via umatrix works too.) |
| DonJon |
Posted on 19-02-23, 16:17 (revision 2)
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Posted by CaptainJistuce sorry,but...do you have source on that? Not regarding the fact that many airlines are struggling right now,as this is no secret,but that civilian aviation was somehow deliberately crippled. Also can you explain what you mean by "commercial and civilian aviation"?Civil aviation is normally defined as any non-military flight.That would include private, commercial, cargo and such So I'm not sure what you mean when you differentiate those two... |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-02-23, 22:27
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Post: #25 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce As far as I can remember, plane tickets have been getting cheaper and cheaper. Are you talking about US domestic travel? I wouldn't know anything about that. Anyway, I'm taking about international travel. Every political party these days seems to have "sustainable development" as a core concern, and the main target of that concern is aviation (and also, automobiles and meat). Resulting in various taxes levied on plane tickets, and in general making it a stigmatized industry. Of course, in such a scenario, nobody would want to make it easier or cheaper to travel, since the goal is the opposite. The same goes for the meaningless security checks. If they'd just get rid of them and make it as frictionless as boarding a train, it would be better for everyone. But of course that would increase travel. So it would be taboo, just like going against the dogma of "we should eat less meat" would engender heavy criticism from various "experts" in the media. The goal of them isn't at this point even security theatre, it's literally to make it more uncomfortable to travel. If Western carriers were to start employing security measures similar to the Israeli carrier El Al, an airline which is forced to take security much more seriously, wait times could probably be cut by around 80% for around 80% of passengers. Why isn't this done? It would be controversial, in a way that goes against the dogma of almost every major political party, that's true, but it's not like those kinds of methods aren't already being used. The answer is of course yet again that the goal is to kill aviation, and not security or whatever other ostensible reason they come up with. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| DonJon |
Posted on 19-02-23, 23:47 (revision 1)
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Post: #32 of 88 Since: 11-04-18 Last post: 1882 days Last view: 1882 days |
Posted by sureanem Israel airport security knows where it's at despite being one of the, if not the most, targeted country for terrorist attacks including of course those involving planes, it's amazing how well they're doing on that front. Though I don't think this model would work for U.S or other countries |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-02-23, 23:52
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Post: #28 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Alexa, call the police! Smart assistants should come with a 'moral AI' to decide whether to report their owners for breaking the law, experts say Big sister is watching you? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
