Not a bad episode but I find it really funny how Nate talked about Idris being “packed” - it’s a space ship and a military one at that, shouldn’t “packed” be the goal here?!

The official answer seems to be: CIG trying to get as many people to the Manchester office and he may or may not be unwilling to relocate. That’s just my guess though.

GamesIndustry has additional comment from CIG on the matter.

For what it’s worth, he’s been replaced by Richard Tyrer (director of Squadron 42).

Iirc moonie also quoted legal statue and stuff on his video but was rebuked my Karl as well

Yeah, that’s why I’m planning to look into whether that was a screw up or not, thanks for the link too.

I’m familiar with HBG but it’s always good to mention him.

Yes, it is insane. That case is also a great showcase of how trying to make example out of a single guy doesn’t really work since, as you mentioned, rest of the team is still doing their thing.

I’d like to think (well, hope anyway) that no one looks at Bowser’s story and thinks “yeah, that’s a reasonable conclusion”.

Oh no, I completely agree no one should be completely screwed over piracy. Just wanted to add some context as I saw a lot of discussion about him ending with “poor innocent dude” without digging into details. That’s all.

Nintendo has a lot of problems that should absolutely be called out. I hope me trying to add more details didn’t imply otherwise.

No idea, I’m only familiar with some of his videos so can’t say one way or another. Is there any place I could read about it?

Edit: Also, I believe the video I mentioned has links to specific legal documents surrounding this case so it should be easy to fact check. Still, I’m not trying to whitewash the situation you wrote about would love to learn more if it happened.

Edit 2: A’ight, while I didn’t have time for a deep dive I did manage to confirm that situation happened.

I sucks since the videos I’ve seen seemed reasonably researched and now I’m wondering whether that was a one-time screw up or a normal thing that simply wasn’t caught more often. Guess I’ll try to look into it more when I’m free.

As much as I dislike Nintendo and wish Yuzu devs all the best I’d like to point out that Bowser wasn’t some innocent guy who was caught by big bad company - Moonie has a video that goes into specifics about his involvement with a pirate enterprise worth a shitton of money.

Other than that yeah, I hope they can survive this situation. I wonder if Ryujinx devs are next.

I’d agree about P3R if not for the fact that despite remaking the game Atlus still couldn’t be bothered to make a definitive edition of P3.

Besides that, you could also argue P3P doesn’t really belong here due to being available on Steam but the question was about our favorite games played on an emulator and PSP version is what I’m playing right as I’m typing this :P

Parasite Eve is great, isn’t it? I wish we got more RPGs like this set in modern times.

I don’t expect anything will come out this but I really appreciate Ross trying to give it an honest shot. I can’t help since I don’t own the game but I can at least cheer from the sidelines an lend my power for a spirit bomb.

Go Ross Go!

I’ve been using emulation pretty much since I started playing games. It’s actually one of the main reasons gaming became my passion (and eventually major money drain).

My favorite thing? I don’t have to shuffle different devices to play everything I want - it’s even more importent now, since I have a Steam Deck and can have all of them on the go again.

Here’s a short list of titles I love that don’t show up too often in threads like this one:

• Tetris DX (GBC / mGBA)
• Fantasy Golf Pangya (PSP / PPSSPP)
• Persona 3 Portable (PSP / PPSSPP) - just started NG+ with female protagonist
• Puzzle Quest - Challenge of the Warlords (PSP / PPSSPP)
• Ridge Racer 2 (PSP / PPSSPP)
• Parasite EVE (PSX / DuckStation)
• Captain Toad Tresure Tracker (Switch / Yuzu)

I’m not going to dump my whole library here but these are fun and rare enough worth mention.

I mean, they’re adding big box delivery so…

Jokes aside, non-aggressive unlawful gameplay could be focused on pure stealth, for example: to steal or plant something without being seen as an intended goal of the mission giver. Maybe add racing on a private property? It’s definitely something more difficult to come up with and implement than just shooting people in a different location but they will have to do it if they really want to make the game into a sandbox for everyone and not just action players.

Sure, as the name suggests unlawful gameplay will always skirt the law, I just don’t think everything has to be about murder. That’s just me though, hopefully peaceful game loops will make their way into the game at a more reasonable pace after recent development shift.

Sure but they specifically talked about non-aggressive approach to unlawful play style.

Besides, it’s not really a huge deal. Just making fun of how everything in SC has to be related to combat in one way or another.

I love how good chunk of “non-aggressive” unlawful gameplay consisted of killing without rising alarms. Very cool…

It does! They showed it off during CitizenCon and talked about it in this video.

It also suppose to have a list with various POI located in the system (stations, moons, planets), custom markers (not sure if they’re targeted for 3.23) and some other stuff I’m probably forgetting right now. It should be way more usable than what we’re used to.

I checked out the demo and you can actually select one of the few speed settings in the options menu. Some of them felt pretty fast but I’m not an expert on racers so you might want to check out the demo to see if any of them gets close to what you’re looking for.

Just wanted to mention that just like with any other F2P games, there are gacha titles that are fun without paying anything. Not as many as the predatory kind but still.

My point is that however you feel about microtransactions they are successful and that’s why they’re so common.

With subscription services you and me can think “I want to own it and play whenever” but a lot (not only casual) players see it as “I pay a few $ and get access to a huge library of games I can try out for the next month”.

As I wrote initially, just because more dedicated audience doesn’t like the direction industry is moving in doesn’t mean majority will care enough to stop it.

As much as I agree with his sentiment, this title is bullshit - he never wrote “gamers don’t want subscriptions” but that they shouldn’t want that due to where it might lead.

“Gamers” aren’t some hivemind entity that wants a specific thing. Many people don’t worry whether an idea pushed by the publishers will have a long term negative effect on the industry, they just want to have fun with their hobby.

Look at microtransactions - there’s a lot of negative discussion about them and yet they bring huge amounts of money, who’s to say if the same won’t happen with subscription services? We might not like it but majority doesn’t necessarily care.

Sorry for being pedantic about a title but third-parties changing someone’s words is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.

Oh, totally. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.

Personally I’d love to see a new take on Daggerfall using AI for features you mentioned (though it would have to be an “all in” affair as Bethesda’s approach to randomly generated content these days is… not particularly impressive).

It’s not like they can really avoid it. AI assisted tools will become a standard in the future (“productivity has to go up” after all) and there’s a good chance Valve already received some feedback from AAA publishers on that matter, since they’ll be the main players utilizing such tech.

The good thing here is the exsitance of a disclaimer on store pages, as it will allow people to decide for themselves, and the ability to report content straight from in-game overlay.

Full on ban was never a realistic option.