Game Articles and Videos Thread

[Chimpzy]

Honestly, valid. I never played that one but I see the appeal of it.

I just really like how the use of the wiimote as a pointer for aiming feels natural and adds this more tactile connection to Leon, especially if you use the Zapper peripheral, so you're holding a 'gun'. Overall it does make the game significantly easier because your aim is faster and more accurate than the analog stick, but only really when you're doing well and can calmly line up your shots. When shit hits the fan tho and enemies are right up in your face is where it imo shines, because now missing shots because your aim is not as steady since you're rushing, and while I guess a lot of folks would find that frustrating, I think the whole panic flubbing is very appropriate. It brings a little horror back.

 

[Ezekiel]

Who cares they went overboard in making everything le dark and scary, and actually cheapened the air of unsettlement the original had in the process?

Oh, and this stood out to me in the RE2 remake as well, after finally playing the original in late 2024. Why is a police station so dark? It was well lit in the original. Dawn of the Dead, one of the best zombie movies, was well lit, but modern Capcom thinks horror has to be dark.

Why is it so dark? Just turn on the light. I haven't played the RE4 remake, but am now thinking back to the reveal that much of what took place in daylight in the village is now at night.

 

[BrawlMan]

Why is a police station so dark?

Not all of the power is on in the station, and it's implied the Lickers smashed more than few crawling on the ceilings. You would know this, if you lazy butt actually played the game properly. I wouldn't expect anything less than negative Ned troll and total pawn of the grifters.

 

[Ezekiel]

You can make up a reason for an alteration, but that doesn't mean you should actually go ahead and alter it. The original RE2 had a stronger atmosphere.

 

[BrawlMan]

So any way...

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[Chimpzy]

Some folks are doing a N64 port of the og Tomb Raider

 

[Ezekiel]

Watching the "RE4 is timeless, RE4 Remake is a product of its time" video a second time, it really hit me how remakes have this problem of the developers not understanding the original because they did not have to build it up from scratch and figure it all out, and for that reason even more than before I don't want more remakes of any games. The only appeal of remakes is that they present game design, storytelling and linear scope that publishers won't risk putting in their costly original games (thanks largely to the photorealistic clutter and checking off too many boxes for wide appeal), but it's all twisted up by inbred modern sensibilities, realism and lowered standards for difficulty. "Inbred" meaning ideas that hardened and became inflexible with decades of copied game design.

The video became age-restricted. Too many rabid Capcom fanboys must have reported it.

 

[Bedinsis]

An article describing how to invest in the video game industry

The article is from an economics news website, in Swedish and interviewing a representative of the Swedish Games Industry. I thought it could be worthwhile to see what aspects are emphasized, and they provided a neat 7 point list. Use translation software if you are curious about the full article.

She highlights that investors have a hard time understanding video games as a product, that the development process can change quickly and it is therefore hard to combine with quarterly reports. She further states that it is relatively late in the development process that they actually know if they have a working (=fun) product.

The seven principles list for investors:

1. Separate video games from gambling; they have different business logic.
2. Start with games you understand yourself
3. Look at lifetime and active userbase
4. Look at historical releases and coming pipeline.
5. Value profitability and organic growth
6. Understand distribution
7. Think long term

 

[meiam]

An article describing how to invest in the video game industry

The article is from an economics news website, in Swedish and interviewing a representative of the Swedish Games Industry. I thought it could be worthwhile to see what aspects are emphasized, and they provided a neat 7 point list. Use translation software if you are curious about the full article.

She highlights that investors have a hard time understanding video games as a product, that the devlopment process can change quickly and it is therefore hard to combine with quarterly reports. She further states that it is relatively late in the development process that they actualy know if they have a working (=fun) product.

The seven principles list for investors:

1. Separate video games from gambling; they have different business logic.
2. Start with games you understand yourself
3. Look at lifetime and active userbase
4. Look at histircal releases and coming pipeline.
5. Value profitability and organic growth
6. Understand distribution
7. Think long term

Yeah, but how about

1. Put all your money in a live service game cause they just print money
2. Profit

 

[Ezekiel]

I just remembered that DMC5 too has flesh environments like RE4R and (from what I saw in Crowbcat's video) RE Village. What's Capcom's problem? In DMC3 it was restricted to the sky fish.

 

[BrawlMan]

No one cares, and you're full of shit like always.

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[Ezekiel]

I'm watching his first RE4 video again after three years and had to stop at 18:31. Verdugo DOES wag his finger No. It had been so long since I'd seen it in any of my playthroughs that I wondered if it ever really happened. I must have not been looking at the video last time. Fucking badass! And the idiots replaced it with him ducking and waving for Leon to come. Why would the nearly invincible monster duck before such a gesture?


Edit: No, I didn't finish the video last time because I only first played the remake in 2025.

 

[BrawlMan]

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[Ezekiel]

Jim Ryan fired former CEO Shuhei Yoshida because he wouldn't pursue live service games. He's the asshole who closed Japan Studio.

Yoshida became CEO after the launch of the PS3. He was forced to take over Sony's indie games in 2019. I thank him for producing the original Ape Escape and Spyro the Dragon, and for overseeing as CEO Demon's Souls, Gravity Rush, The Last Guardian and, to a lesser extent, Bloodborne. Uncharted was alright once; nothing great. Never cared much for The Last of Us and hated the God of War reboot. Spider-Man wasn't very good either. Enjoyed Until Dawn, but was frustrated and stopped playing when the same kid died again towards the end of my second playthrough. One day I'll go back and try to cause chaos. I can't give Yoshida high praise because he still degraded the brand before the idiot took over. He blew up budgets and pushed longer and longer development cycles.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/f...ked-him-to-do-ridiculous-things/1100-6539492/

Former PlayStation Exec Shuhei Yoshida Says He Was Fired After Top Boss Asked Him To Do "Ridiculous Things"

Shuhei Yoshida, the 30-year PlayStation veteran who left the company in 2025, has shed more light regarding the situation that culminated in his eventual exit from the company. He said at the ALT: GAMES event recently in Australia that after 11 years leading Worldwide Studios, he was "fired from the role."

As reported by This Week In Video Games, Yoshida said he was fired from that job in 2019 in part because he refused to listen to PlayStation's top boss, Jim Ryan. He retired in 2024.

"Jim Ryan wanted to remove me from first-party because I didn't listen to him," he said. "He asked to do some ridiculous things, and I said, 'No.'"

Hermen Hulst, the co-founder of Killzone and Horizon studio Guerrilla Games, succeeded Yoshida in that role, with Yoshida taking over as the leader of PlayStation's team heading up support for external independent creators.

"Everybody in the company knew how much I loved indie games," he said. "I really enjoyed the role of promoting and evangelizing indie games."

Yoshida previously talked about how he had "no choice" but to take the new indie-focused job at PlayStation, because it was either take the job or leave.

Ryan reportedly gave a mandate that Sony's studios build live-service games to capitalize on the trend, and this was said to have upset a number of developers. The blame apparently fell on PlayStation legend Connie Booth, and she left the company. She now works at EA.

Sony was at one point planning to release 12 new live-service games, but the company later halved its expected output. While Helldivers 2 and the MLB The Show series have been called out by Sony as bright spots for its live-service releases, the same cannot be said for Concord. That game launched in August 2024 and had such a troubled launch that Sony shut the game down and closed the studio.

Following that, Sony implemented a system with "more rigorous and more frequent testing" to help avoid another Concord-like failure. Sony's latest live-service release was Bungie's Marathon, but the company has not yet shared any details about the game's performance. Sony's next earnings report will be released on May 8, at which time the company may provide new details.

Yoshida did not elaborate on what those "ridiculous things" that Ryan asked him to do might have been. However, Yoshida previously said he would have resisted Sony's live-service push if he were in charge.

I think this YouTuber misunderstands a few things about what Yoshida made, but I did very little research.

 

[Ezekiel]

Crowbcat is a lying biatch and grifter.

Crowbcat is dumb biatch who lied so hard in his original video for RE4R, had to take it down, because he got lying big time by everyone. Even the griters who would have "agreed with him".

Nearly finished with the first video, I don't understand how it has so many Dislikes. Aside from the title, it does not even give an opinion; it merely shows the two side by side, objectively. There's nothing to argue with. You probably singled out the audio section, like everyone else, and for that you might want to check out the audio section in the second video, where a bunch of streamers observed the same problems. You were the liars.

 

[BrawlMan]

think this YouTuber misunderstands a few things about what Yoshida made, but I did very little research.

Dreamcastguy does not understand shit to begin with. He's nothing more than a gossip chaser and partial grifter. All he does is look up the wikipedia and copy what other people say.

Nearly finished with the first video, I don't understand how it has so many Dislikes.

Figure it out. Otherwise, you are nothing more than a true pawn of the grifter like you always make yourself out to be. It is good to see actual people, think for themselves not like you. Feel happily, kiss the feet of drifters and racist/sexist assholes everywhere and have no problem hanging around with nazis on certain form sites or act as if they're not a big deal. From record, you revealed that to us. So that's on you. Congratulations.

 

[Ezekiel]

Yup. You don't have anything.

 

[BrawlMan]

Yup. You don't have anything.

That's basically you all the time and expecting everyone to agree with you. And you've always had less than nothing.

 

[Ezekiel]

You call people liars and refuse to explain. You have no credibility. I usually just ignore it, but it's such an ugly personality.

A more reasonable response about why the original video got so many Dislikes:

"What's really bizarre is that the guy is just doing what he has been doing for years. One of his most popular videos is comparing GTA 4 to GTA 5, showing 5 having less detail than 4 despite being a game milked to death. Same format, same complains, same side to side comparisons. You would think that video is more hated but no, most people agreed to it because it's supported by evidence. And yet is this remake that is a sacred cow for some reason."

 

[BrawlMan]

usually just ignore it, but it's such an ugly personality.

You really haven't ignored it much, and you're talking about yourself again. Spoken like a true miles puppet that follows assholes with zero credibility.