@Peilonrayz found this on Reddit

Who is he anyway?

Oh, Valve guy.

@Otaku Yeah, possibly the major reason Valve is such a good company for consumers. Almost every time I hear about Valve in the news, Valve is in the right and on the consumers side.

(Now the lawsuit news story a month or two ago... not so much, but we all have exceptions)

@Peilonrayz which more often than not actually means "a way to even be able to BUY the thing in the first place"

Totally agree. Sometimes I wonder if companies actually want to make stuff for the consumer. But then again Western game companies actively hate the consumer... so IDK any more. I think our economic models aren't right.

Wasn't even thinking about gaming specifically.

There is plenty of old series that have simply been forgotten.

Others than simply aren't available outside Japan

etc etc

take for example Square.

Not only they bought Enix to shut down competition.

They killed off their brands too.

Now you get the 100th bad port of your average FF but things like this are still Japanese exclusives

I'm going to be honest I don't really know any Enix games... However looking through the list and seeing PAL NP (Not Published) for like 90% of the games, I'm really not surprised.

@SPArcheon-onstrike You know a lot of these forgotten games of the past. I like the cover art.

So I did a trial rip of my first ever 4K anime, and there's still a lot of stuff to learn. Thanks to DRM, these yak shaving will take up a lot of my and other people's time.

There's like 0 complete guides online that explains how to do this thing the right way. I might be the first one to write it in the future.

@Gao and it was utterly adorable.

on a separate topic, I'll have to check out the ongoing comments on reddit about Texas going Fahrenheit 451

@SPArcheon-onstrike they can make games like this in 1996? the animation is fluid.

@Memor-X will get upset for this but...

@Gao a reminder: one of the latest Neptunia games looks like this.

utterly lazy textures, flat ground, the general feeling of little love.

the only other 1996 game i'm aware of that has stunning animation is crash bandicoot, which i think is the best of its time.

but it's a different style of animation

YEARS before, Ni No Kuni looked like a Ghibli anime

You don't need thousand polygons and ultra hd 120fsp graphics.

now this has a sort of uncanny valley effect for me: if the gameplay looks like anime, i don't think i can enjoy it

You mostly need love and artistic design

@SPArcheon-onstrike This. Which is why I'm fine with modern games not having the best graphics, but I need to see the love the developers have for the game.

mumble... let me see...

secret of Mana, original SNES game

@SPArcheon-onstrike don't know where your getting "lazy textures" from but considering the kind of game it is (store.steampowered.com/app/1836860/…) the flat ground makes sense

the indecent Square remake

How a remake should have looked, courtesy of an artstation member

@SPArcheon-onstrike is this ai generated?

@Gao no, drawn by some guy annoyed at Squaresoft

none of those really fit my aesthetics, which peaked around the year 2000.

Ulrick Wery, but the original page is a dead link now

@SPArcheon-onstrike annoyed at what?

the re-master of Secret of Mana came out in 2018

i can find that image as far back as 2017

how can they be annoyed at something that wasn't released

@Memor-X you are right, it was the guy that reposted it that was annoyed.

@SPArcheon-onstrike so with this, keep in mind they are 2 different kinds of games where the game world has to accommodate different systems. Ni nu Kuni transitions to a separate area for combat so there is no need to think about the player jumping, running and attacking in the game world

meanwhile

this is Ni no Kuni's combat

and there is an invisible wall to enclose the area

better yet

@SPArcheon-onstrike boss battle in that same location

you can see the difference even at the start because combat in real time systems is actually easier when you got a flat ground

when you don't have a flat ground, you have to warry sometimes about hitboxes getting stuck in inlines. as is the case in Cold Steel 3 when sometimes when you transition into combat, your character positions can push someone in just the wrong way that they can not move in combat (happened with Juna in the Isthmia Great Forest once)

@Memor-X my bad, I wasn't very clear.

I wasn't exactly lamenting the fact that the ground is "flat" as in "no hills"

I was lamenting that the ground is a board with a green/brownish (somehow blurry) texture.

could use some love to make it feel a little more alive, even if that is supposed to be a virtual world.

mind you, it is a very common problem, but some designs make it more blatant than others.

To put it into frame, playing Zelda BOTW / TOTK I feel like Link is walking on grass. Many JRPG you feel like you are walking on a brown board with some occasional grass spot

This is very random, but... Luffee or Looffee?

@Otaku Luffy.

@SPArcheon-onstrike Ok good, because people online keep saying it's pronounced Looffee and...

yeah.

@Otaku I've always thought it's Looffee, coz that's how the Chinese localized the pronunciation.

@Gao Just go with the bad Italian dub name, "Rubber"

@SPArcheon-onstrike Actually the Chinese dub name is more like "Roof".