From Gamer.tm: "A German newspaper has shamelessly used a massacre in Tokyo for a spot of anti-gaming scaremongering.
"The attack happened on Sunday afternoon. According to reports, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato is believed to have driven drove a truck into a crowd of people in Tokyo's Akihabara district, before jumping out and stabbing people at random. Seven people died in the attack, with ten more injured.
Although local police told reporters that "the suspect said he came to Akihabara to kill people. He said he was tired of life," this hasn't stopped the press trying use the tragic events for a spot of game bashing: case-in-point, Germany's S?ddeutsche Zeitung.
According to an article published in today's edition, Japanese correspondent Christoph Neidhart, shamelessly attempts to link the gaming with the events.
Having explained what happened, Neidhart goes on to say "nowhere else in Japan does blood flow as freely as it does in peaceful Akihabara – on-screen blood, that is.
"In some videogames that you can buy [in Japan], the player can butcher… thousands with their joystick.
"They roll over people with tanks… or rape young girls, sometimes with knives."
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?"
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.
"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.
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?
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
first they are saying that the Tokio is one of the most safe big city in the world (10 times less homicides/population than USA and 4 times less than Germany) and after that they are writing about the violence in the video games. so more violence in video games/virtual world means less violence in real live?