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Dezaemon 3D JP release: 26th June 1998 NA release: N/A PAL release: N/A Developer: Athena Publisher: Athena N64 Magazine Score: 82% For the N64’s first sci-fi scrolling shooter, this is a bit of an odd one, as it isn’t a specific game, but rather a creation kit for making you own sci-fi shoot-’em’-up game. The software itself is quite complicated and isn’t easy to use, even with a translated manual and Google Lens – although I don’t think it’s the game’s fault. There is a whole host of editing features, you can modify textures, modify models, modify the level layouts with effects and enemies and even design your own music. There are a bunch if icons and I imagine you can do a fair amount with it once you got used to how it worked. The best I could do was do was some kind of takeaway food (the model is already in the game) shooting above water that moves around in waves. I did try to do a bit more, but I somehow accidentally reset all the custom data. Dezaemon 3D does come with a couple of built in games, presumably made using the creation software of the game as examples of what you can do. This is a vertical scrolling shooter and near the start you come across a boss and an immense amount of bullets, but the detail is quite impressive. The second game changes viewpoint depending on what stage you’re on, with a top down view on stage one and a side view on stage 2. This is rather fascinating software, and it seems like it could do a lot. Remake or remaster? I don’t really know enough about games creation software to see how this sits now of if there’s anything similar available. Official ways to get the game. There is no official way to get Dezamon 3D
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Dcubed replied to Julius's topic in Nintendo Gaming
That’s Falcon Mk2 unlocked! Just Fighting Comet left to go now… -
Still reading the books so I'll avoid the show for a while.
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Anyone else watched it? I was thinking the same, but haven’t watched it yet.
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Just checked my DQ Monsters images and they have them. Very weird.
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Not sure about that. Theatrhythm definitely does it.
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Just had a look at my Octopath 2 and Bravely Default 2 images and they don't have it either. I wonder if they've ditched doing it now? Star Ocean First Departure R is pretty old in comparison.
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S.C.G replied to Julius's topic in Nintendo Gaming
Thanks for the games. Here's a link to this week's stream... - - - - - F-Zero Maximum Velocity on the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack - N-Europe Multiplayer (19/04//2024) -
Huh, now that I notice it, Second Story R doesn't force that Square Enix trademark on screenshots like they do with almost every other game. Weird, but appreciated.
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Watched The Expendables 4 this evening. Awful movie. Stallone is hardly in it, the story is garbage, next to no big names are in it and the special effects/CGI are some of the worst I have seen in a modern movie. The other films use a lot of practical effects for explosions and such but here everything looks cheap and fake. I enjoyed watching the other two movies this week though. The second is my favourite but the third is probably the funniest. It's there where they really lean into the cheese and their action movie history. Arnie yelling "Get to the choppa!" and Stallone saying "I am the Hague" (a take on "I am the Law") were fantastic to hear. Shame this last one was a trainwreck.
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Nintendo have curated an expectation of quality of gameplay over fancy shmancy graphics as soon as they realised they wouldn't be able to compete directly with Sony and Microsoft after the Gamecube, and it's paying off in spades. Now that graphical leaps are subject to huge diminishing returns with inflating costs, Nintendo are coasting along relatively smoothly on their reputation of "Hey, our games function at launch, and you know they'll be fun". Very much, the long con, there.
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My adventure begins. Loving the pixel graphics. Only put a few hours into it but it's been a fun experience so far. Found a nice area to grind levels in and so done plenty of XP farming for a while. Early story seems intriguing. Looks like theres going to be some time travel shenanigans going on.
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Nor do I but if they ever were it would certainly weaken the sales of their hardware. Again, it may be seen as gatekeeping but its how the console business is ran. Xbox only started putting their games on PC because their console business was tanking. Sony have followed the same path because their current strategy is unstainable and they need another source of revenue. Nintendo have no such problems, especially now that they are diversifying their business with things like movies and theme parks.
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Kudos to Sony for still believing in 3rd party exclusives. I honestly think that's a main pillar of delivering an enticing console experience. I've seen a lot of MS fanboys hating on them for taking this approach, but it is the bread and butter of the console industry, so if MS isn't willing to stump up the cash (as they did to a great extent in the OG and 360 days), they can pound sand. But outside of that, I really do see very little. PC and Switch is the place to be at the moment, and Sony seem to be losing ground and mindshare in a substantial way. You mention CoD, but that's likely to be "best experienced on Xbox" from October/November moving forward. And I do not believe that Nintendo games will ever be available anywhere but on a Nintendo system, and that's exactly the way I want it to stay. They are the only dev left in the industry and that builds their software to a specific hardware.
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I forgot to comment on their games goingto PC. Yeah, this is a tricky one and IMO, it's something that hurt the Xbox brand platform. As soon as you start putting your games on other platforms you weaken your own. It may be seen as gatekeeping but exclusives help sell your console. You think the Switch would have sold as well as it did if Nintendo games were available else where? Not at all. There's power in having exclusives. It forces the consumer to buy your product in order to play the game. It may be the old man in me talking but I honestly miss the amount of exclusives platforms used to get. They gave consoles their own identity and purpose.
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The PlayStation brand is very strong, especially in Europe. Plus, as we mentioned, 3rd party games do the heavy lifting and as far as consoles go, all the big 3rd party games usually hit a PlayStation console. Historically it's always been like this. It's really the 3rd party support that attracts the customers to the platform and not so much the 1st party support, the complete opposite of Nintendo platforms. Granted, that started to change last generation with the PS4, thanks to the likes of God of War, The Last of Us and Spider-Man doing big numbers. Outside of the 360 generation, the PlayStation platform has always been seen as a mass market console. Games such as FIFA/ EA FC and CoD draw in the masses, despite being available on other consoles. JRPG fans often get served very well on the PS platform as well, especially when the Xbox seems to get sod all. Basically it's the console to get to play 3rd party games. PC gaming has come on leaps and bounds but the price and complexity (when compared to consoles) still alienates the mass market. I've said it many times on here that the PS5 and Xbox Series X weren't really needed. They were needed in the sense that both companies wanted a new product on the shelves but not really needed in terms of being able to deliver new and exciting experiences. The PS4 Pro was more than enough and the fact that developers are still making PS4/cross gen games shows that they were fine with it as well. As for 1st party exclusives that aren't cross gen, there aren't many. Ratchet, Spider-Man 2, Demon's Souls, Returnal and Astro's Playroom are all I can think of.
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I don’t really get the point of PS5. Full disclosure: I haven’t owned a Playstation since around 2008 (PS3), so I may be a little biased, but what’s its unique selling point, outside of it essentially being a PS4 Pro+? It barely has any exclusives and has been mired with cross-gen titles from Sony 1st and 2nd party for the first 3 years of its life. I agree that 3rd parties have been doing the heavy lifting, but Sony as a dev and a publisher seem to be in a really bad place. The fact they’re launching another console this year is laughable to me. They’ve already said there are no big 1st party hitters coming in 2024, so why are they doing this? PS4 Pro++? I can’t understand why the base model is selling so well on the back of basically nothing. Both Sony and MS have really dropped the ball this gen. Demon Souls, Astro, what else is a 1st party PS5 exclusive? I heard on Sacred Symbols that they are making ~6% profit on the PlayStation brand at the moment, which is very low. I don’t really get what their grand plan is. TLOU2 and Spiderman 2 seem to have fallen below expectations, and Ragnorok and Forbidden Wastes were both cross-gen titles that could have been so much more had they not been. Seems things are getting very stale in Sony land. Insomniac being tied to Marvel content until 2035 is a very, very bad idea IMO. 4th year of a console launch and under 10 1st party exclusives is absolutely terrible form tbh. What’s going on over there? The fact a decent gaming PC costs roughly double the price of a PS5 is interesting too. I have picked up quite a few Sony games in the past 2 years and they are giving me absolutely zero incentive to buy another PlayStation, considering releases on PC to be happening sooner rather than later these days. Ghost of Tsushima is dropping in a couple of weeks or so and I will definitely pick it up, but if PS games are going to be dropping within 12-24 months of release, and are likely to run better on a mid-range PC, what incentive does anyone have to buy a PS5/pro?
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Glen-i replied to Julius's topic in Nintendo Gaming
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S.C.G replied to Julius's topic in Nintendo Gaming
Yep, I'm about now, if you all want to play F-Zero for a bit. -
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Glen-i replied to Julius's topic in Nintendo Gaming
Just a heads up for @BowserBasher and @S.C.G if you're still up for some F-Zero tonight. -
Literally me starting to watch that. "Oh, that's not too bad, I've definitely play... OH GOD!" If that doesn't get improved, I may have to just convince you to get the PC one and mooch off of that.
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Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios
BowserBasher replied to Serebii's topic in Nintendo Gaming
There is a small chance we may get one. Universal Studios are in very early talks to build a theme park in Bedfordshire. There were open meetings with anyone that wanted to attend over the last few weeks in Bedford and it seems from all accounts that the people that attended had no objections. there's still a long way to go and they need approval from government or something and then they can start building (they already have the land earmarked, and a bit of extra land they can purchase too.) If they get the go ahead, it could be around 5 years until opening. -
Aye, saw this going around the other day. Based on my time with Suikoden I can't stress enough, if you're trying to get everyone, even if you track down a guide to do so: there are 20 save slots besides your auto-save slot; use them! Yeah, it looks mighty rough on Switch at the moment, and that feels like a massive understatement; definitely makes some sense why they originally had it labelled as gunning for the Switch successor until it decided to not turn up to the party. A few updates have dropped throughout the week as I've been chipping away at it, don't mind the locked 1080p at all on PS5. Important to remember that some people who have their hands on the game might have got them a bit earlier than the devs expected, but in the case of the Switch, physical copies obviously are being saved until next month, so what we're seeing on the Switch is people who likely got the game in the last day of so via their digital Kickstarter code. Very unlikely anyone (besides maybe press?) got that code early. Fingers crossed they've been plugging away and some of the early updates at it's official launch put the game in better shape, but man, this blows HARD for people who backed the game on Kickstarter and decided to pick up a Switch version of it in particular.
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Looks like one of the characters you can recruit is currently bugged and it’s possible to lock yourself out of the ability to recruit them… Fortunately someone seems to have found a workaround here. Also, the PS5 version is locked into running at 1080p only and the Switch version seems to run really badly currently… Let’s hope those patches come in thick and fast.
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Should have opened it in the UK where spring and "late" in the year is the same thing.
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