“Except for all the people complaining, why is no one complaining?”

Misinformation has been one big game of telephone. There’s been a lot of legitimate confusion around VRR, I know Nintendo did claim it was supported docked at first but then had to retract it. FWIW, this is probably something that wasn’t ready for launch but will be patched.

But I’ve seen far more cases of misinformation used to bash on the Switch - I’ve lost count of the number times I’ve seen people claim Mario Kart is $90 somehow.

Regarding game prices, I’m not thrilled about it, but I also feel the need to point out that any AAA with DLC has already been more than $80 for a while now. If you don’t like it, don’t buy AAA.

Me, I don’t often buy games at full price, or basically any AAAs outside of Nintendo for that matter. For the handful of IPs I really love that badly, I’m honestly okay with paying a premium. It’s the price I pay for having niche tastes that have narrowed with age, it’s fine because I’m saving a lot on the games I don’t buy. If I have to pay $80 for Kirby Air Ride 2, I will because I’ve waited 22 years for this sequel.

There’s a lot that’s fucked up in the game industry, and I just don’t think Nintendo is anywhere near the worst right now. The circlejerk here on Lemmy in particular has become especially tiring, and I wish some of y’all could direct that energy towards companies that constantly screw over their workers, push gambling-based business models onto kids, or keep collapsing under their own weight when they expect every game to be the next Fortnite and speedrun shutting down any game that doesn’t meet unrealistic investor expectations.

I think we’ve reached a point where you’ve got the backlash, the backlash to the backlash, the backlash to the backlash to the backlash… and all of that keeps amplifying toxicity. Everyone needs to step back and chill.

I’ll give you characters that started on PC, but several of the characters you listed were always multiplat.

Never be fooled into believing that corporations are your friend. They are always just looking to chase profits.

But if corporations believe that Pride is profitable, that is a sign that society is headed in the right direction. Whereas if they turn around because Pride is no longer profitable, that is a cause for worry.

Projection is when you said “I guess you’re just upset because someone was critical of something you like.”

If you must know, I’m actually not a Mario Kart fan, played the older ones but haven’t touched the series since DS. More of a Kirby Air Ride and F-Zero GX kinda guy. But I can still understand the appeal well enough to not post this kind of thinly veiled “I’m mad that other people like something I don’t” thread.

I got to see him live for the first time last year, absolutely incredible show.

Are you really unable to understand why other people enjoy things? Is this a serious question?

But none of those are entire industries crashing. Audiences change, media changes how it targets audiences, business models change, but the medium still lives.

Loved the first four games, but I skipped 5 after hearing nothing but bad things. Glad to hear this is a return to form.

Them’s Fightin’ Herds has one of the best tutorials in the fighting game genre, but on top of that it also has a story mode cleverly designed to act as a second tutorial. Enemies and bosses are designed you on specific concepts like anti-airing or getting past zoning. It even has platforming segments to get you used to fighting game movement.

Sadly, the published pulled the plug so chapter 1 is all we’ll ever get. But that chapter 1 is still better than any other fighting game singleplayer.

The Atari crash was just Atari. In North America - and only North America, things were quite different elsewhere in the world - Atari was virtually the entire game industry at the time, but that isn’t the case today.

We already do see individual developers and publishers crash the way Atari did. All the time. But for every flop, there are a dozen hits. The industry is big, and it is not a monolith. And the audience is far far far larger. People will always be buying games. It’s not possible for the entire industry to crash the way Atari did.

It’d be like expecting the entire music industry, movie industry, or book industry to crash.

Right monitor is 16:9 and VRR, left is a 16:10 monitor my work gave me during covid. So games go on the right.

Bear in mind that ActivityPub is so much more than just Lemmy. Mbin and Piefed both exist as alternatives.

A worthy opponent for all of my favorite niche games that I’ll never convince my IRL friends to play.

I just don’t think the complaints about Nintendo are half as bad as some of the abuses coming out of the rest of the industry. Nintendo treats their workers well, they don’t exploit addicts with gambling-based business models, they sell complete products on day 1 rather than rushing out unfinished disasters. And yes, I like their games, I like them a lot more than pretty much anything else coming out of the mainstream AAA space.

No corporation is perfect, and there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but they really could be so much worse and I just don’t get how the level of vitriol directed towards Nintendo is only directed towards Nintendo and not anyone else.

Most of all though, I’m just tired of whenever the circlejerk turns from “I personally don’t like Nintendo” to “I will actively insult anyone else who has the nerve to like something I don’t like, how dare they.” I’m tired of being talked down to for the unforgivable sin of liking something. Can we at least fucking stop with that shit? Please?

The FGC?

Versus an increasingly crowded market of new fighting games.

For what it’s worth, we’ve had non-Hall Effect sticks for generations, and they’ve mostly been fine on everything else but JoyCons. We won’t know whether these actually are as fragile as original JoyCons were until we start hearing reports of broken sticks.

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