mohab
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- Comment on ‘I’ve never used it and probably never will’: Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says he won’t use AI to make music [VGC] 3 hours ago:
I think it could be useful in edge cases and the user needs to be skilled at whatever they’re using it for.
Reality is it is predominantly used by rich assholes to cut corners and get around hiring and paying workers.
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden 4 | Review Thread 12 hours ago:
Thank you for putting this together.
Consensus seems weak environmental design, mediocre graphics, and awesome combat—more Platinum than TN, which fans more or less predicted from the pre-release footage. As a Platinum fan myself, I don’t mind that, but I see why this can annoy the Itagaki faithful.
I’ve seen Steam reviews bring up some performance issues most critic reviews didn’t, but apart from that, I’m satisfied with the reception enough to add it to my wishlist. It’s such a nice feeling knowing there’s a new action game waiting to be bought and played. We don’t get to experience this feeling nearly enough.
Hopefully, Onimusha and Okami 2 will follow suit and we’ll get a DMC6 announcement soon.
- Comment on Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it 2 days ago:
From Software could kill the entire soulslike genre with one lawsuit. Like, just pick the biggest non-From Software soulslike and sue the publisher.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 3 days ago:
I feel like this shit is cyclical. Like, we’ve been here before and we’ll be here again.
The question is: are we ever going to evolve past this nonsense before we go extinct. Historically speaking, the answer has always been “probably not”
We’re just getting closer and closer to the end so it’s more frightening now, I feel.
- Comment on Legendary developer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden 2004, has died 5 days ago:
Reportedly, Itagaki was an alcoholic and chainsmoker. I don’t think he cared much to live long and, TBH, his games reflected it. I can’t think of anything more YOLO in gaming than that staircase fight in NGII. Man designed a fight to break the console and bragged about it.
- Comment on Legendary developer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden 2004, has died 5 days ago:
Controversial figure. IDK if I ever liked him, TBH. Even though he was cleared of the sexual harrasment charges, he still admitted to having an affair… and he gave us one of the best action games of all-time. Weird guy.
Hopefully, he’s at peace now and whoever was affected by his weird life decisions is at peace as well.
Now that he’s dead, will Team Ninja and Tecmo stop holding vanilla NGII hostage out of spite?
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 1 week ago:
Fuck, I don’t like most video games so I can throw a rock and hit one, but I’m gonna go with the genres I like just to make it interesting.
Fighting games: Mortal Kombat—I’m sorry, I like the hyper violence as much as the next guy, but the gameplay doesn’t do it for me at all. Entertaining to watch, but it stops there for me.
Action games: Suda51 overall. Like, play No More Heroes but steer clear of the rest. It’s mediocre combat wrapped in nonstop nonsense.
Shmups: ZeroRanger. I can’t stand that game.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
It has been getting better though, no? Hasn’t Under Night registration numbers been higher than MK for the last two Evos? I don’t necessarily wish failure for MK as a competitive game, but it seems they’re happy cashing in on the casual appeal more than anything else.
Maybe this new Warner Bros. gaming division shake up will lead to a new direction, who knows what the future holds.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
It so did not. Publishers re-released the same game over and over again and consumers paid more money overall.
Heck, they’re still doing it to this day 😂
Smash is still a top seller on Nintendo platforms and has never had a season model.
Nintendo sells hardware—entirely different business model. Capcom, Bandai, and Arc System Works sell games.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
I don’t even know how to respond to this, like, you’re wrong, but show the graph. I wanna see what kind of numbers you’re looking at because MK competitive numbers have clearly been nosediving for at least half a decade.
Like, even if you go back a decade to MKX just to prove a point, you’ll at best get a nice bell curve that clearly shows a divorce with the FGC when compared to the steadily rising competitive numbers of other fighting games.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
MK and the FGC divorced long ago. When people say fighting games, they’re mostly talking about Japanese fighting games and a few indies.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
That’s not financially feasible in fighting games. Guilty Gear -STRIVE-, for example, currently has 32 characters even though it launched with 15 and that’s thanks to DLC selling well.
The current version of the game as we know it took nearly 10 years to develop. If you’re asking a mid-range developer to put 10 years of development into a self-published fighting game without seeing a single cent, you’re obviously disconnected from the market’s economics and are OK with the game potentially never seeing the light of day because it’s “not complete”
What does the “whole game” even mean in fighting games? It sounds like you’re applying non-fighting games standards to fighting games while ignoring any and all nuances related to the genre, which’s uninformed at best.
There’s “protect the consumer” and there’s “nuke the genre"—you’re calling for the second here.
- Comment on Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Sounds shady, TBH. I wonder who they are and why was this deal done in the dark. Every piece of info I found online was deliberately vague.
I guess only time will tell.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Unfortunate for the people laid off, but this game sucks and this developer has been a dick since day 1.
HLD still doesn’t have cloud save support BTW.
- Comment on Absolum is a beautiful, slow-progressing, arcade-ass Roguelite | Rogue 1 week ago:
Can we not use “roguelite” and “arcade” in the same sentence? Roguelite is the anti-arcade.
Arcade games don’t reward you with permanent power ups for losing runs, that’s just modern gaming nonsense, which you can enjoy, just get your terminology right and don’t mislead people.
Beat’em up != arcade.
- Comment on SS4 Goku and new balance patch revealed for Dragon Ball FighterZ 1 week ago:
I couldn’t believe my eyes seeing this update pop up in my library a few hours ago. Madness from Bandai.
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 2 weeks ago:
Hot take: it shouldn’t be. Guy has great ideas, but he’s never really been a good writer. Nothing he ever writes is cohesive or makes total sense.
Good comedy bits though… he should still write the comedy bits.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 2 weeks ago:
I have a hard time believing there are many people willing to spend 360$ to play games that will disappear as soon as you stop playing.
I hardly spend $100 on games a year. Subscribing to Game Pass means I’m overspending by April, and for games I don’t even own. Insane proposition.
- Comment on Fans Left Speechless as Capcom Locks Street Fighter 6 Finals Behind Paywall 2 weeks ago:
New Lemmy pasta?
- Comment on Fans Left Speechless as Capcom Locks Street Fighter 6 Finals Behind Paywall 2 weeks ago:
Love Darkstalkers! Capcom better be working on bringing it back!
- Comment on Fans Left Speechless as Capcom Locks Street Fighter 6 Finals Behind Paywall 2 weeks ago:
This isn‘t some huge event with mainstream appeal.
It is in Japan, but the whole idea is archaic anyway. Reeks of old, greedy executive BS. So short-sighted in terms of both profitability and goodwill.
- Comment on Fans Left Speechless as Capcom Locks Street Fighter 6 Finals Behind Paywall 2 weeks ago:
I agree with what Max said: this only makes sense for Japan, which’s bizarre because they made a ton of effort to broaden the audience of SF6 outside of Japan and it’s a shame to have that jeopardized out of greed.
Some old, evil executive saw all the goodwill they’ve been building up and got upset, probably.
- Comment on Fans Left Speechless as Capcom Locks Street Fighter 6 Finals Behind Paywall 2 weeks ago:
Yo, open world RPG folks, stay home on this, it’s all button mashing nonsense to your “elevated” brain anyway 😂 We got this.
Just maybe read the article first next time.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 3 weeks ago:
It’s so bad, OMG. For +30 games on my wishlist, not a single difference from the Summer sale, and about half of them were already on sale for the same price before the Autumn sale began.
Why even bother with seasonal sales at this point.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 3 weeks ago:
Saudi owning FIFA is hilarious seeing most of its profit comes from gambling. Muslims my ass 😂 Not that they ever practiced what they preached anyway—Islam or not, religion has always been nothing but a tool of oppression to rulers.
- Comment on Fun yet unknown gameplay MECHANICS? (POLL) 3 weeks ago:
Yet another Mikami game. Incredible legacy.
- Comment on Fun yet unknown gameplay MECHANICS? (POLL) 3 weeks ago:
It’s not unknown, but I think it’s an underrated mechanic: in God Hand, the better you do, the more the difficulty increases. If it gets too much and you want to lower it back down, you can grovel and beg enemies to go easier on you.
I wish more developers tied difficulty change to in-game actions like that.
- Comment on Asus ROG Xbox Ally Gaming Handhelds Cost Up to $999.99, Preorders Open Now 3 weeks ago:
What is that price tag 😂 Someone drop the Donte white wig meme please.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 3 weeks ago:
Hmm… newest game in my library is Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes from last year, which is a re-release anyway.
I bought 13 old-ish (pre-2022) games this year for less than $100. I have no reason to spend %60-80 of that on 1 game I probably won’t even like, and that’s if it clears the seemingly impossible “playable” hurdle.
Let me count upcoming games I look forward to playing/am curious about:
1. Ninja Gaiden 4 (Happy to wait for a deep sale)
2. Onimusha (Happy to wait for a deep sale and may even refund if I don’t enjoy it)
3. Okami 2 (Happy to wait for a deep sale)
4. Marvel: Tokon (Will definitely wait for a deep sale—$10 base game)That’s it.
I definitely went to see more new movies at the cinema this year than I played new games. IDK where the industry is headed and I feel for all the underpaid, overworked developers at risk, but there isn’t much I can do if publishers collectively decided to abandon my favorite genres.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 3 weeks ago:
Hey, if you’re OK buying a game that looks worse than the original for QOL improvements that could, and should, be patches, you go ahead and support exploitative business practices.
And don’t forget to continue to freak out at online strangers for not joining you on your bootlicking adventures. That’ll make your life better, I’m sure.