PV for Megaton Musashi's anime adaptation. It'll start airing October 1st, the game is scheduled for November 11th.
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Originally posted by dataDave View PostDid you manage to play it?
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Playing a game with the best specs money can realistically buy doesn’t negate the dog poo coding of cyberpunk whatsoever. That only leaves the other what? 98% of players who can’t brute force some of the bugs into submission to put up with them.
The game will never likely be sorted properly and i can so the “next gen” updated only making things worse.
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Originally posted by dataDave View PostBack in the 90s I used to look at THQ the same way I looked at LJN. Their logo on a cover was basically a guarantee that the game was a huge turd. I've no idea how they lasted as long as they did.
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Originally posted by briareos_kerensky View PostPV for Megaton Musashi's anime adaptation. It'll start airing October 1st, the game is scheduled for November 11th.
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Originally posted by shinobi7000 View PostI miss retail days for a lot of media because just a logo or certain packaging would warn you even as a kid, 'do not buy this.'
As a result, I usually do a lot more research than necessary before buying anything now. At least returns work a lot better, back then you were absolutely stuck with a duff purchase under most, if not all, retailers.
Speaking of THQ again I even felt ripped after merely renting any of their games. I was never reckless enough to try buying anything from them, thankfully. Once I moved over to console gaming I would only buy games from choice developers such as Nintendo, Sega, Capcom, Konami, etc. It just wasn't worth the ****ing gamble risking a £60 punt on anything else. I'd discover off-shoots thanks to magazines and rentals, and maybe decide on purchasing them later. I was lucky to discover and appreciate Natsume's range of SNES output all by myself by doing that.
*I know I'm sounding hard done to. A lot of kids go through all kinds of abuse, so I'm quite grateful that being subjected to Spectrum games is probably the worst part of my childhood, that and occasionally being forced to play football.Last edited by dataDave; 03-09-2021, 22:22.
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I think THQs moderate success during the years following was mostly due to fresh gamers who came in with the PSX during the 32-bit era. These unknowing, uneducated, muppets were easily led astray by movie licensing and fancy game covers, and the like. If not for Capcom, SNK, and Namco absolutely belting it that era would have been just as dark as the 8-bit home computer days. Sometimes when playing something like Actua Soccer with friends I'd have to shout out "WHAT THE **** ARE WE DOING PLAYING THIS GARBAGE!?, CAN WE PLEASE GO BACK TO STREET FIGHTER!??". Such a huge waste of important time. I know the Wii gets stick for tons of shovelware but ****, like it wasn't the PSX that started that racket. I really wish I lived in Japan throughout the PlayStation's rise to fame - I'd have had way more fun.
I got a taste of it again the other night. I made the mistake of scrolling down on Facebook after replying to a message and it was UniLAD GAMER or some ****ing urinal that had the question "What was your favorite video game based on a movie?". You can imagine the answers, right? It was a sea of PSX Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Disney tie-ins, Kung-Fu ****ing Panda... I had to actively dig to find a single mention of Goldeneye which was buried because it had so few likes, and even when doing that I noticed that more people listed PSX Tomorrow Never Dies.
I know some people get a lot of fun out of playing obviously **** games for laughs, but for some of these poor souls PS2 Enter The Matrix is genuinely their Super Mario 64 moment.
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It's late or I'd write a longer response. I've mentioned on here before how putting Amiga and St screens on 8 bit boxes was legally very dodgy and morally messed up. I agree in a way with a lot that you wrote in that I spent a lot of money on 8 bit games here that were just crap. I appreciate the Speccy for introducing me to technology.
Even the Amiga all I look back to were the demos and a few games like Monkey Island or Pinball Dreams etc. Once I saw the Master System, NES and PC Engine, for quality software the home computers were done for. Although carts cost a lot more.
I think the media have a lot to answer for and I know they were young and underpaid but they pumped out a lot of bull****.
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The sheer blatant false advertising that went on back then was literally criminal.
Now days because of people like DF if the dev even breathes the wrong way with version shots or vids theres raised eyebrows from gamers.
THQ somehow managed to sell high volume garbage for there entire existence, no idea how they stayed in business.
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THQ managed to stay in business for ages thanks to the Spongebob Squarepants cartoon episodes on GBA carts apparently. They sold like crazy and gave the company a stupid amount of money which they invested into that Udraw thing which was a huge flop and caused the company to collapse. Then Nordic bought the company name and a bunch of the IP.
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