Me before Three Houses released, full of hubris: God, Revelation was terribly written and cheapened any dramatic value Fates still had in it, I’m glad it looks like this new game isn’t going to have some cheesy forced golden route shit
Me, 240+ hours into playing Three Houses, clanging pots and pans together loudly: YES HELLO My name is Byleth Eisner-Hresvelg-Blaiddyd-Riegan-Whatever the fuck Rhea’s last name would be and I’m pleased to announce that after a long talk about our feelings and trauma and dreams over tea the leaders of the Empire, the Alliance, the Kingdom, the Church and I have agreed to a five-way bisexual polyamorous marriage. We are all very happy together. We’re going to beat up the magic UN and nothing will ever hurt again--
An Arizona couple have been ordered to pay Nintendo a whopping $12.23m (£9.5m) in damages for running a pair of sites which offered pirated ROMs. Jacob…
Today in “Nintendo is a bunch of sweaty corporatist goons who want to be Disney so fucking badly but never will be”:
Nintendo creates artificial scarcity of its products, and the medium of digital games is especially susceptible to this. They make no effort to make any significant portion of their massive catalog of previous-generation games available and accessible to the public, at best only selecting piecemeal titles here and there restarting every console generation but now seems to have abandoned even that. And they release products like the NES and SNES Classic because they know this, they know their games are in such high demand because they don’t make them available on a wide scale. And when they do make these products, guess what? They’re sold in extraordinarily limited quantities and if you don’t act fast you can only buy them from scalpers.
To think Nintendo is doing this any of this unintentionally is just closing your eyes to the facts. It’s obvious Nintendo tries to create a mystique around their products by holding them back, just like Disney used to do with its “Disney Vault” scheme of making old movies limited time purchases.
Is it really strange people turn to ROMs and emulators for these games? If they’re not available, what else are people supposed to do if they want to play these games? Pay exorbitant multi-hundred dollar prices to get the original versions of the game used and scrape up money to try to find a functioning old console to play them? The money isn’t even going to Nintendo at that point. This holds especially pertinent for games on systems near the middle of Nintendo’s history like the N64 and Gamecube which have seen the least distribution since their original releases. Nintendo’s paltry system of remaking a handful of titles like Wind Waker and Twilight Princess and then selling them at or near current gen full price absolutely is not enough and is more abuse of the fact they hold such a tight control over the games in their catalog.
And even putting aside games people want to play for fun, there’s the entirely separate issue of historical preservation! Taking down massive ROM sites and forcing the people running them to pay millions of dollars they can’t afford means less and less places old games are cataloged and preserved. Not just the big titles, but every little game that came out during that time period, disposable or high quality, popular or obscure--how will we ever study our own cultural history if we do not know it? There’s a much wider discussion to be had about digital preservation in general in the internet age but Nintendo is just obliterating huge swaths of their own history for short term financial gain.
Twelve million dollars is just a tiny drop in the bucket for the multibillion dollar multinational corporation Nintendo but will almost certainly ruin the lives of this couple who engaged in defying shortsighted capitalist greed. Please stop thinking of this company as anything other than another than another soulless ball of wealth generation for a particular elite. Nintendo clearly employs many talented and creative artists who aren’t to blame for stuff like this but that shouldn’t distract from the complete lack of morality underpinning the institution as a whole. Fuck Nintendo.
Listen I know everyone is busy fixating on her silly midriff window some people to the point of compounding new sexism on top of IS’s sexist design but honestly Byleth is really cute?? I support this teacher...
I love her hair n stuff and can only hope she gets a nice girlfriend who is NOT her student (plz IS I’m begging you)
Today some friends on Discord introduced me to cut content in Tellius and lemme tell you we were robbed, I am distraught, specifically in the area of supports
POR seemed to have quite a few supports originally intended that were never written or implemented, and some of them sound like they would have been really interesting....Ike and Zihark? Titania and Lucia? Elincia and Jill, Nephenee??? I would have killed for some of these...
Of course the far bigger tragedy is Radiant Dawn which has NO supports to its name.....Yet there is evidence that wasn’t always the case. In fact, in a file similar to POR’s support file, the game lists literally HUNDREDS, which seem to have been A rank only to be compatible with RD’s altered support system, kinda like FE Warriors supports. Seriously, take a look at these, it’s absolutely nutty what we could have gotten
It’s a real shame that all this character writing potential just went to waste...especially for the RD characters who got not nearly enough development
So I played the randomizer run I posted about to the end...
Turns out, even though my team had killer defenses, they also had shit hp growths and I had only two units who could survive the dragon’s fixed 42 damage.
One did 0 damage per hit, one did 1.
needless to say, I ended up with all my healing items used up with the dragon still at 98 hp, even suiciding with units wouldn’t have done it
This wasn’t remotely a serious run and I didn’t feel like going through endgame again with different units, so I thought aw hell, I’ll just cheat
But if I was going to do that...I was going to do it with my main lord, and in style
Fun fact, this is the highest a stat can possibly get in this game. I know, I tested.
