Good call out! The touch screen is generally pretty unpleasant to me now as well.
Wii and some Wii U stuff too, there’s a whole era of games on Nintendo platforms where devs felt it was necessary to use input or display gimmicks. Once in a while it was essential to a game, but frequently it was shoehorned into an otherwise pretty traditional game.
Some of that could be fixed by smaller scale mods or cheat codes, but you’re right that some might take big changes that need a decomp.
On the flip side, there are still projects out there that don’t (or at least claim not to) use AI approaches. Here’s a list I saw the other day: https://backloggd.com/u/WumpaGem/list/game-decompsrecomps-that-arent-vibe-coded/
For sure, I get that. I started off very much in the “it’s just a tool” and “AI as normal technology” camps, and over time I’ve become more and more jaded.
Ultimately what I appreciated about decomps was moreso the effort that went into it, rather than the result. But it totally makes sense if sometimes people care more about the result.
I used to think the decomp projects were really cool, even tho I didn’t really play them. But lately, the influx of AI-driven decomp projects, the whole concept has lost its luster to me.
Sure, tl;dr as I understood it:
“You gotta never do that ever again” is a great line, gonna have to enter that into my vocabulary lol.
existing users who haven’t used it for six months will also be barred.
Wow, that really is awful. If I don’t use Reddit every six months I’m permanently kicked out of it? (Am I reading that right?)
I rarely go there, but when I do want to look up something I like to have the option.
(pls don’t pretend like new reddit exists, thx)
One of the worst stretches so far!
I get why that’s so annoying. But I’m not sure why it would drive new signups here. Isn’t that more of an issue for people who don’t want to create an account?
Feels like we need a really strong Fediverse/Threadiverse search engine to fill the gap left by Reddit ending open access.
The worst is when you see something you’re curious about and ask for clarification, and they just paste your question into the LLM and paste its response back to you.
Having not played them in a while, I don’t remember - do the open-air Zeldas have separate settings for text language and voice language?
Sometimes games, even ones with voice acting, will combine those options into one choice and it’s kind of annoying.
The one review I read said it’s kinda worth it:
I even picked up on things I hadn’t realized would become more important later on through this playthrough, such as the Reinford Company name-dropping or the references to Crossbell’s political situation at this narrative juncture. Replaying the story was a great refresher for me, too! It allowed me to appreciate just how much detail Falcom poured into the overall Trails narrative.
Can you enjoy this remake if you’ve already played through SC? I can wholeheartedly say yes, as replaying the story again illuminated some plot points for me in ways I hadn’t expected. From a storytelling standpoint, even the remake’s 3D graphics and voice acting help present key story reveals, shedding additional light on things.
Source: https://www.rpgfan.com/review/trails-in-the-sky-2nd-chapter/
Tho for my part, I struggle to say I’d want to spend dozens of hours replaying most story-focused JRPGs. I could imagine considering it only with my handful of favorites.
You already mentioned passwords and warps stood in for saves most of the time (also cheat codes I guess).
Beyond that, I think most games were not as long as they seemed? Feels like a lot because they’re hard, but most of them, if you’re good and well-practiced, could be beaten in a sitting (a couple hours on the high end).
Did you have some games in mind that don’t fall under any of those patterns?
I had totally missed the news that the last part of FFVII remake wouldn’t get a functional physical edition. So disappointing! Especially in the last year of discs. Don’t see why it can’t be on 3 discs, or have been made with 2 discs in mind.
Not doing physical is a way bigger compromise to me than anything else they could have landed on.
Left the headline mostly in tact to avoid over-editorializing, but I think the idea that there was no other choice is absurd.
Right? It’s tempting at first to think “at least they did something”, but they kinda didn’t…
“Sorry we overcharged you, if it makes you feel better you can buy more of our stuff!”
Yup!
Good excuse to switch banks. Every once in a while you can get some kind of sign-on bonus for the trouble too.
Great moment when he tore out of the world.
I’m kinda getting over them promoting anniversaries tho. Call me back when it’s 10, 25, 50, 75, or 100.
We just had all the stuff for the Zelda 25th anniversary like… a year or two ago tops? And then yesterday they kept talking 40th anniversary. T.T And poor Metroid never gets an anniversary acknowledged.
I thought this trailer was really great! Looking forward to the game, especially after how good Dread was.
Looks like the air dash can go in four directions now, not just horizontal? And I think I saw missiles that went up at an angle and dropped. Anyway, what I’m getting at is that I hope the game has more along that line, of new or significantly modified abilities.
It’s not exactly the same, but I do feel like it’s almost always worse in the console side these days (excepting Nintendo here).
On console you’re juggling patches and updates, installing to drive, you have concerns about whether games will play well on non-pro versions of the system, Xbox is traditionally hostile to physical media while PS is ending it.
If you’re going to install digital games and download updates, worry about compatibility, might as well play on PC. Those issues are less on console, but present on both.
Meanwhile most games are getting PC ports (since modern consoles are very PC like and games need the extra sales), you’re not as locked down to a single store, you have more room to upgrade incrementally (in theory). Operating system is also in favor of PC.
Ease of use I’d still grant that consoles have advantage, sure.
I don’t argue all this to put down consoles, I love consoles and played only/mostly on consoles for many years. But I think there’s a lot of truth to saying modern PS and Xbox have moved so close to PC that they’re losing the pros and embracing the same cons.