Hey all! I'm Dr. Spectre! (can call me spectre if you wish.) 22 years old, very big yapper and love to discuss topics relating to Splatoon and other franchises I'm into at the current moment.
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(also a big callie fan i love her so much omfg ghfjdjsjsj shhhhhh!!!!! Don't tell anyone tehehehe....)
That Nintendo Direct SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD IT WAS BAD LMAO!!!
THAT'S ALL YOU GOT? THIRD PARTY PORTS TO THE BRIM? SWITCH SPORTS RESORT WITH THOSE BITCH ASS SPORTSMATES BACK? Sure we got Wuhu Island BUT THE SPORTSMATES ARE THERE!! A Xenoblade PREQUEL? sure man, whatever.
AND THE OCARINA OF TIME REMAKE LOOKS LIKE AN UE5 REMAKE!!!! THIS WAS AWFUL!!!!!! NO GAMEPLAY AT ALL BTW!!! UNREAL ENGINE SLEEPING LINK? "Focus, L" AHH GAME!
HOW IS THE BIGGEST ANNOUNCEMENT GAMEPLAY OF KINGDOM HEARTS 4??? AND DELTARUNE??? COME ON!
I'm not even angry, I'm just laughing my ass off.
Look I'm glad the Switch 2 has third party ports, BUT IF THAT'S ALL YOU GOT? WHAT'S THE POINT?
A BITCH ASS DK LIMITED TIME EVENT? LIKE MARIO 35? YUCKKKK!!!!!!!!!
This was so fucking funny. Oh my god.
NO MARIO KART WORLD DLC STILL!!!!!!!!! Barely ANYTHINGGGG new for Splatoon Raiders.
Fuck OFF Nintendo. You're washed, Xbox beat your ass!
2/10 direct. Idc. The new joy con colours suck dick too. Awful. Boring.
I just wanna say, after the amount of announcements we got and news we've been given, my hope in the medium of gaming has been restored. The gaming industry does have a lot of issues but with the Summer Game Fest and the Xbox Showcase my god bro, holy fuck, I LOVE VIDEO GAMES!
I cant believe im gonna say it but that Summer Game Fest was actually fucking amazing.
Resident Evil: Code Veronica reimagining, Alien Isolation 2, two new Cuphead games in development, fucking Tupac in Stranger than Heaven, Stellar Blade 2, FF7 part 3, a new Saw game, new Virtua Fighter, SF6 DLC, A TMNT GAME DEVELOPED BY PLATNIUM GAMES! OH MY GOD!!!
I am getting SO TIRED OF GAME REMAKES! IT'S JUST NEVER ENDING! WHY DO WE NEED A REMAKE OF RAYMEN LEGENDS? WHATS THE POINT? MONEY? WHY NOT MAKE A NEW GAME WITHOUT THIS FUCKING UE5 SLOP ART STYLE?
This shit looks like a 2000s realistic adaptation movie of an animated show that would get a 6/10 and be forgotten about.
Why are people excited for this? For the idea that Rayman COULD come back?
You can play Rayman Legends RIGHT NOW for like 15 bucks and it'll only take up 3gb. Meanwhile this ugly ass shot for shot remake is gonna cost 100 dollars, have a digital deluxe that costs 140, AND it'll take up quadruple the storage space and run like shit.
Stop supporting these remakes in the hope of something new, if these studios actually gave a fuck they would make a brand new game. They are making a remake because its easy to make money with. You don't need to come up with anything new.
I wanted to ramble about something kind of not serious but at the same time something ive been thinking about for a little bit now, and its something I talked about to some friends on discord.
So I watched this video from some youtuber who talks about animation and anime, and it was basically 10 to 20 minutes of Princess Bubblegum slander. It made me remember that there used to be this giant hate campaign for Princess Bubblegum and it was INSANE. Or at the very least a few years ago more people started to say some wild stuff out of nowhere. People saying "she manipulated an under-age kid to doing work for her for free. Gave him a son without his consent (FUCKING STORMO FYI) and put his son in an endless battle to prevent annihilatation from Goliad. She doesnt deserve a happy ending. Finn risked his life for her and he got nothing in return."
And then people compared her to MAKIMA!!! ONE OF THE MOST EVIL WOMEN IN FICTION, LIKE EVER?!?! I havent seen or read Chainsaw man but I know shes one evil son of a bitch. That is one of the most diabolical comparisons I've ever seen in my life. Like what are you even talking about? Because one of the storyboard artists who worked on Adventure Time made an art piece of Princess Bubblegum as Makima we're gonna take that seriously like its making a statement?
My brother in christ its like calling Princess Peach an evil bitch because "oh Mario risked his life to save Peach and he got nothing in return." BRO!!!! ITS A FUCKING CARTOON FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILES WHY ARE YOU READING SO HARD INTO THIS? YOU'RE READING SO FAR THAT MOLECULES CAN SEE YOU AND WAVE AT YOU!!! YOU ARE LOOKING TOO DEEP THAT PEOPLE FROM THE OTHERSIDE OF THE GLOBE CAN SEE YOUR EYEBALLS OUT OF THE GROUND!
Why are you treating a literal pile of biologically immortal bubblegum on some high moral standard from the real world? You cannot tell me that using Finn's DNA to make a rival to Goliad so that they dont destroy the entire Land of Ooo is some immoral action when Finn was clearly content with Stormo's existence and Finn is fully aware that Bubblegum does experiments and scientific things. Finn making the comment that Stormo is like his son is something a young boy would say, rather than saying "oh hes like my clone" instead. You cannot treat that as something truly evil and fucked up because Bubblegum did it to stop the world from being destroyed by an incredibly powerful creature who can control people's bodies. She didn't break Finn's consent for anything. Don't treat this like its some gross action when what she did was pluck a single hair strand from Finn and thats it. By all accounts all what Bubblegum did was make a being that used Finn's heroic DNA to counteract Goliad. Thats it.
Also i wanna say about how Bubblegum doesnt reward Finn. Finn just loves adventure? He does what he does because HES A FUCKING HERO!!! Do you think Spider-Man helps people because he wants rewards? Look at what happened when Spidey wanted money... Do you think Superman wants a reward because of his heorics? Do you think Link wants 50 chests full of rupees when hes done saving the world? Do you think Sonic the Hedgehog demands 10,000 rings in his paypal account when he's done? No, he saves the world or he helps someone's problems and leaves. Finn helps out Bubblegum because they are friends!!! And hes a good guy!!! THATS JUST A COMMON TROPE! THE HERO HELPS THE PRINCESS!!!! FINN JUST LOVES ADVENTURE AND FIGHTING EVIL!!! THATS THE REWARD FOR HIM! HAVE YOU PLAYED AN ADVENTURE GAME BEFORE? HAVE YOU WATCHED ANYTHING?! AT ALL?! VERY COMMON TROPE!!!
People treating a CARTOON character's wacky actions to initiate the plot to occur as something really really serious and like its an actual real life person or a character for an adult show is genuinely INSANE!!!! I DONT EVEN KNOW IF ITS IRONIC OR THESE PEOPLE ARE BEING FR LMAO! I genuinely dont know if these people are joking because ive seen some AWFUL takes in my lifetime. You think Marceline would fall in love with the kind of person these people describe Bubblegum as?
Now look, i havent finished all of Adventure Time as ive only gotten to season 6 and i really burnt myself out of watching the show because there is so much show to watch and i got other things to do. She could have committed a fucking genocide in season 8 and I wouldn't know about it until someone told me. I barely remember how the show ends and ive watched Together Again from Distant Lands and fucking cried so hard.
And remember, this is coming from the guy who went to war for Callie Cuttlefish and wanted people to respect the depth that was poorly explained by the writers.
What is with me and pink characters? Why do I gotta go into ultra defence mode for them? Maybe I just REALLY like pink.
People really despise a pile of pink bubblegum who has hobbies that badly huh?
It is a miracle that this game succeeded during one of the worst eras that Nintendo has ever been in. Hell it is still played today via Pretendo. This game spawned a PHENOMENAL franchise, including two sequels that expanded upon the first game in different ways, millions upon millions of units sold, gyro aiming becoming mainstream and a viable way to control shooters, bringing in new life to the shooter genre, multiple live concerts with the idols, a crap ton of merch, a really bad manga series we need to never talk about ever agian... so, so much more.
Splatoon helped me out during a very rough mental period in my life a few years ago and was there in times of rapid change and growth. During the messiest of times, the best of times, it was there. Right there. Giving me a helping hand.
But still tho Jesus fucking Christ 11 years old, i think i was around 11 when this game came out. So much has happened since then... I still remember some memories i had during the days of Splatoon 1 and 2 clearly... My god i was so different...
We need to bomb ai centers NOW! A PS5 shouldn't be 1000 dollars, a Steam Deck OLED shouldn't be this much. This isn't a greed issue, this is a worldwide industry implosion.
I need all ai data centers gone from the planet, i need this bubble to burst in a specular fashion and these billion dollar corporations who invested in ai to suffer.
With the rise in emulation and interest in older games, many people play these classics in different ways, whether it's emulation or playing games on their original hardware on a CRT TV. For me personally, I prefer the way retro games look on their original hardware/at native resolution compared to emulating them at a very high resolution and in some circumstances not using widescreen hacks and running old games in 4:3. I think that is the best way to play games pre 7th generation (PS3 and Xbox 360) and it will give you the best experience possible.
It really does irks me a lot when i see these people who make videos on emulation and they just upscale everything to 4k and it looks very very weird. These content creators complain that a handheld android device can ONLY upscale a PS2 game to 720p, when the PS2 was only able to do 480i and RARELY 480p on a select few games in some countries. These games were designed with very specific resolutions in mind and changing those resolutions can most of the time damage the art direction and graphics. It really does boil my blood seeing people try to "fix" older games by cranking up resolutions and going "okay now it looks WAY BETTER!" Because god forbid an older game has jagged edges and blurry imagery that the game designers took account of and actually used the low resolution to make a very interesting and distinctive art style that uses cool visual techniques that only work on a low resolution....
Take a look at Super Mario Galaxy 1&2 for example, those games were made with the Wii's hardware in mind and as such focus on delivering a image with 480p in mind, either in anamorphic widescreen or 4:3. If you change that resolution, certain effects get messed up and the whole vibe of the game completely changes.
This is what a luma looks like on the Wii.
And this is what it looks like on the Switch remaster.
It is kind of hard to tell the difference due to Tumblr's image compression but if you watch a video on the differences between the remaster and the original, you will notice a difference in how the game is presented. The Luma on Wii has a really good glow effect thanks to the low resolution blurring the layers and the model itself looks smoother. But on Switch the glow effect is ruined and broken up and the model of the Luma looks more blocky because of the resolution increase.
Even Mario Galaxy 1&2 itself looks different and the whole vibe of the game changes when increasing the resolution.
Now let's take a look at an older console like the PS1 where increasing the resolution is more egregious and messes up the entire image.
This is Crash Bandicoot running at native resolution on the Duckstation emulator.
Now look at it upscaled to 1440p.
While it is easier to see things at 1440p, the entire image is smoothed out and stuff like the text and textures are still pixelated. Meanwhile at the original native resolution, all of the crunchy pixels on the models, ui and textures make for a more consistent image that also hides "imperfections" more.
Now lets look at a very great example at how resolution increases can seriously mess up an older game's visuals.
This is Ocarina of Time running on it's PC recomp at the native resolution and aspect ratio of the N64.
Now look at it at 1440p and in widescreen.
Notice how weird it looks. The very low resolution 2D background and ui mixed in with the really sharp model of Link makes for a very odd and distracting image. Meanwhile running the game at it's intended resolution creates a more consistent image even if it's blurrier and more chunky on the pixels. The consistent image is less noticeable to me than the weird clear model with the insanely blurry background and muddy textures.
I'll do one more.
This is RE3 running on the Dolphin emulator at native resolution.
Here's it running at 1440p.
The background is exactly the same due to it being an image but the character models are smoothed out and look more out of place. It's like a bad green screen in a movie.
I wanna briefly brush on aspect ratios too and how they can change an entire game's feel and vibe. People often just willy nilly change aspect ratios and just think "widescreen is objectively better" when in some instances it's not better and sometimes 4:3 in older games is THE way to play them. Sure playing old games with widescreen hacks doesn't remove or detract anything from the experience and for some game genres like racing games it can be beneficial, but it can change the vibe. Look at movies for example, 4:3 movies FEEL different than widescreen ones. The aspect ratio changes everything, from the way certain things are framed, how objects and characters move around, and other things like that.
Some media like The Grand Budapest Hotel uses certain aspect ratios intentionally to create certain feelings within the viewer.
In video games it's the same thing, even though the graphics haven't changed, the way the game is presented feels very different and the subtle emotions you experience are not the same. Aspect ratios have a powerful impact on media.
Hell in some games and remasters, turning a 4:3 game into a 16:9 game can fuck up the whole thing, as is the case of the RE1 remake and it's HD "remaster" on modern consoles where they cropped the game to fit a 16:9 image because people are scared of black borders.
Honestly i don't trust people who play N64, Sega Saturn and PS1 games in widescreen and upscaled, those games from the 90s look worse and inconsistent with those "enhancements." (I'm semi joking when I say this.)
It's perfectly okay to use inbuilt widescreen options in retro games, but widescreen hacks? I would just personally avoid them as sometimes the ui and menus can get seriously messed up and objects outside of the original 4:3 aspect ratio will unload and then reload when in view. Unless you have a really good widescreen patch that can adjust the ui and menus.
Anyways i wanted to ramble about an interesting topic when it comes to retro video games and this thing has been on my mind for a while. What i said in this post is just my own personal opinion and how i personally like to play retro games. The really cool thing about these old games in modern times is that they are very customisable thanks to emulation. If you wanna go full old school you can, if you wanna make your own personal remasters of games then go ahead, but this is just how i feel and how I've gotten upset at some people saying that increasing the resolution automatically makes a retro game better when most of the time, it doesn't and you just need to learn to adjust your eyes and expectations when returning to a 20 to 30 year old game.
It's so crazy that the world has gotten so chaotic and overwhelming that video games are now considered a healthy and productive hobby that cures attention spans and heals you. I remember how villainized games used to be growing up, like people compared that shit to drugs that killed your brain cells and turned you into a violent killer because you punched a man in GTA. But now due to current social media trends of short form content and insanely flashy editing destroying attention spans, games are now being seen in a completely different light that can rewire your brain to help your attention spans and get you away from the chaos.
Imagine going back in time and telling your mum or dad that playing games is actually good for you. They would give you a death stare. They would be so perplexed! Confused! Bewildered! Baffled even! But there's studies out there that say that video games can genuinely help you in some ways. Air traffic control centers WANT gamers, Surgeons who are gamers perform better, hand eye coordination gets improved, reaction times increase, puzzle games help problem solving skills, games can sharpen your fucking vision, playing games like Ring Fit Adventure, dance games, Wii Fit and others can actually help your physical health, it's crazy.
