"So, in response to their own stupid mistake, they decided to make very dubious legal threats against customers. Customers who may be emboldened by the Distance Selling Regulations that talk of unsolicited goods being treated as unconditional gifts. Customers with access to Twitter and Facebook and any amount of internet forums and amateur legal advisors. What could possibly go wrong?"
Saif from eXputer inquires, "Despite the everlasting popularity of the genre, why hasn't there been a good AAA horror game in a while now?"
@crow
Did I give away your secret? It's okay, if you sit on your hand and numb it, you can pretend it's her playing with your little stick.
Even when they do it's first person trying to copy Outlast, Five Nights, P.T etc
I think the Dead Space / RE2 / RE4 Remake and the Evil Within 2 showed you can have a good story based, third person survival horror game.
I feel like we haven't had much in the way of horror games for years, I think it became rare after the PS2/PS3 gen. Maybe i'll pick up that Crow Country that recently came out, that looks good.
"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.
il beat you to the ski-lift,
framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?
talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr
morning rant over.
here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game
Some food for thought:
Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?
As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.
Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online
The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.
There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.
This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.
But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
i can tell you that the government or any government has our backs on this. the glo al trend goes to digital.
wait until money is digital only. we are already on the way there.
It's their fault that they sent the psvitas with the game
Yeah this is honestly a joke, I understand people's opinion that oh it was a mistake it should be sent back, yeah if it was a friend or just a small person (eBay transaction for example, private sellers) Zavvi are (well I thought) a big company how this mistake has even happened is beyond me but it was just that a mistake, cheeky for Zavvi to even attempt to do anything about it but for them
to then threaten legal action I mean what can be done they shouldn't have sent the item, the customer didn't ask for it but they are not legally obliged to return it, Zavvi are business which presumably make money they just won't make as much this month but they wouldn't still operate if they weren't making money out of us (over £40 extra on the retail price on the ps4 at launch cough cough!) so it's swings and roundabouts really they over charge us sometimes and they under charge us but it's their mistake at the end of the day, of course we would expect the money back if they knowing over charged us but the fact they've sent a brand new console with a simple purchase of a £20 game is their own stupidity and they should learn to deal with it a bit more gracefully, hey ho any advertisements/promotion is good isn't it haha, even if your company now looks quite pathetic? Surely the better thing to do would have been to just bite the bullet deal with it internally and try and keep it quiet rather than going down the hold your customers to ransom for their own stupidity route (zavvis stupidity not the consumers who were in no way to blame for this!)
It's almost like they want to go out of business.
Lol I remember when I ordered 2 copies of Mario Kart 8 and received 4 form Littlewoods as I had earned reward points through something I bought from them that paid for the games and by mistake they sent me 4 copies. I never heard anything from them so I sold them on Amazon. I buy games from Zavvi a lot and find this kind of thing shocking. It is there mistake simple as that. They can ask for it back but if the customer refuses there is not too much they can do.
I ordered a blue Dualshock4 with my PS4 bundle, and received an extra black one.
I gave this to my best friend who only had the one. It's not my fault I got an extra one, and someone is benefiting from it.