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Frocto · « **Reply #4100 on:** August 28, 2013, 10:36:09 AM »

Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils Greenlit.

Also some gay-looking game called Knytt Underground.

Smiler · « **Reply #4101 on:** August 28, 2013, 02:09:35 PM »

Classic · « **Reply #4102 on:** August 28, 2013, 05:09:08 PM »

I have no idea what's being referenced and who's being made fun of...
:keikaku: ????

Brentai · « **Reply #4103 on:** August 28, 2013, 05:24:06 PM »

There's a new (slightly) cheaper variant of the 3DS coming out called the 2DS, which removes the unnecessary 3D feature (okay) and also doesn't fold and moves all the buttons to the top (what).

Also, when they said just last month that there won't be a Wii U price drop? They actually meant "There will be a Wii U price drop next fucking month."

Brentai · « **Reply #4104 on:** August 28, 2013, 05:41:09 PM »

Slight bit of digging around reveals that the 2DS actually has a single screen covered up to look like two, which kinda makes sense for technical reasons but also is confusing because WHY WOULD YOU COVER UP ALL OF THAT SCREEN SPACE? As Ars points out there's one unsubstantiated but very believable explanation: they were going for a standalone tablet gaming system, like a Wii U tablet that's not tethered to a console, with the ability to be cross-compatible with the 3DS, and then eventually realized they would essentially be creating a three-way competition between their already floundering touchscreen based systems (and they don't have enough software output to even support the two they have). The tablet design actually makes sense because, if you're going to have a big ol' flat screen anyway, that would be the right spot to put the buttons (putting them on the bottom would have made it top-heavy). Anyway, so instead of just scrapping the prototypes they decided in their infinite wisdom to slap some plastic bits over the screen, lock it into 3DS mode, and announce that they just made an entry-level 3DS that happens to look goofy as hell. It's... definitely, definitely something that Nintendo would end up doing, historically.

The obvious question at this point is what can be done with it once the plastic's been pried off and a decent homebrew installer's been hacked up. The thing might actually become immensely popular in certain circles.

Niku · « **Reply #4105 on:** August 29, 2013, 08:50:45 AM »

To my knowledge, the 3DS hasn't actually been hacked open yet to any homebrew-runnable degree. I think a flash cart that can play pirated games (and no homebrewed stuff) only hit like this month. Eventually it'll happen, but by the time the 2DS is out? Eh.

Also Parish says the button placement is way better comfort-wise for D-Pad games, but of course, you can't selectively put all your virtual console games onto one system and your 3D games on another, screwing over anyone who might want to double dip for comfort reasons.

Bal · « **Reply #4106 on:** August 29, 2013, 11:13:19 AM »

Natural Selection 2 just had a huge update. Pretty awesome.

Natural Selection 2 Reinforced Trailer

Intel Update - B253

Smiler · « **Reply #4107 on:** August 29, 2013, 12:32:49 PM »

Nice, they finally let people eject out of exosuits. I've had a hilarious amount of games end with half the marine team unable to repair the power station because they were apparently welded into their dumb giant robots.

Thad · « **Reply #4108 on:** August 30, 2013, 01:44:25 AM »

Quote from: Niku on August 29, 2013, 08:50:45 AM

To my knowledge, the 3DS hasn't actually been hacked open yet to any homebrew-runnable degree. I think a flash cart that can play pirated games (and no homebrewed stuff) only hit like this month. Eventually it'll happen, but by the time the 2DS is out? Eh.

Well no, not by the time it's out; it seems to me that it's the release of the 2DS that's likely to incentivize hackers.

I haven't done a whole lot of research into the current state of handheld hacking; it looks like the Vita's got a solid hacker community but the 3DS hasn't attracted that kind of attention. A tablet model seems like exactly the sort of thing that will get hackers more interested in tinkering with it.

Guess we'll see.

Lottel · « **Reply #4109 on:** August 31, 2013, 12:45:48 PM »

Megaman man makes mega Megaman.
Maybe.

Niku · « **Reply #4110 on:** August 31, 2013, 01:43:49 PM »

this allows me to maintain my "only back spiritual successors to mega man" streak

Frocto · « **Reply #4111 on:** September 01, 2013, 05:56:46 AM »

Except it's almost literally a Megaman game!

Niku · « **Reply #4112 on:** September 01, 2013, 06:26:15 AM »

no way. as parish eloquently put it, mega man is a total astro boy rip off. this is clearly a cyborg 009 rip off

Romosome · « **Reply #4113 on:** September 01, 2013, 07:25:18 PM »

it's actually more like

François · « **Reply #4114 on:** September 04, 2013, 06:54:07 PM »

Haha wow.

Mongrel · « **Reply #4115 on:** September 09, 2013, 04:50:04 PM »

A history of Final Fantasy

Thad · « **Reply #4116 on:** September 09, 2013, 04:58:05 PM »

Wait. What the fuck is that FF5 screenshot?

FF5 never got a PSP remake, did it?

TA · « **Reply #4117 on:** September 09, 2013, 05:06:26 PM »

No, but like it says there in the caption, it got an iOS and coming Android remake.

Gotta say, I prefer the sprites.

Thad · « **Reply #4118 on:** September 09, 2013, 05:17:41 PM »

Pretty disappointing choice of character models. I'll give the PSP FF1 remake this much, at least: it had gorgeous fucking sprites.

Up until they started moving and you saw they hadn't actually bothered to add any more frames of animation than they had on the NES.

Brentai · « **Reply #4119 on:** September 09, 2013, 05:45:28 PM »

They're probably operating under the advice that mobile game developers ought not to make their graphics too detailed. Bright, solid colors are easier to see on various screen sizes/lighting conditions and scale more easily.

And then SE goes and makes a game like Demon's Score, but that's really probably the least bizarre thing about Demon's Score.

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