Niyeaux

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  4. Posted

    For the record, I'm not necessarily against the concept of this bill provided the following (very unlikely) concessions

    1) All media, including music, books, movies, TV, and games have to submit to this scrutiny

    2) There is no charge for the rating

    3) The rating is done by a government entitiy, not a private or non-profit organziation

    4) There remains legal ways to sell rated R and X content to those adults who desire it

    Yeah, this would address pretty much all my issues with the bill. Make it apply to all media, cost nothing, and be run by the government.

    Most importantly, nothing should be refused a rating. Rate it R or X or AO or whatever, but absolutely nothing should be refused a rating and effectively banned from sale.

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    I did a forum search to see if anyone had ever mentioned this game before, but it appears it's been sadly neglected. It's one of my favourite indie games ever, and there's a browser version of it now, so you can play it for free here.

    Basically, it's a super timing-specific platformer (sort of Meat Boy-esque), done in the graphical style and colour palette of the original Game Boy. There's more shades of green here than you can shake a stick at. The gameplay is super fun and difficult, the controls are quite good, the music is absolutely fantastic, and what minimal story there is is super well-presented and interesting. It might be the only browser game I've ever played that made me catch some feels.

    It's only like an hour long, if you're bad at games like I am, or shorter if you can refrain from dying constantly. Hopefully you guys like it as well, and I'm not just crazy in thinking this game is incredible.

    Bonus: here's an

    of the game. It sounds like a Game Boy as well, which is cool.

  8. Posted

    The whole bandwidth argument makes me think that discs disappearing "soon enough" is also unlikely. Even with good bandwidth, it still takes a hell of a long time to download 10 or 15GB especially at peak hours when all your neighbours are watching their 720p Netflix streams and clogging up the pipe. That's why you're seeing 4K movies being distributed on dual-layer blu-rays and hard drives - even if Sony or LG wanted to send you 25+ GB movie files over the web, 8K televisions would swoop in before you even downloaded your first 4K copy of Casablanca.

    Yeah, it seems like the size of our media will continue outpacing the bandwidth of our networks for quite some time to come. We've gone from having most games be less than 1GB to having tons of 10GB+ games in under a decade, and bandwidth has definitely not kept pace. I don't imagine that increase in game size is going to stop any time soon, either.

  9. Posted

    I hope it's just an HD remake, sequels to "retro" games that haven't had a game in ages tend to have "retro-hardcore-goggles"... Expect at least one bullet hell boss. :|

    They could just add a bullet hell boss even if it is just an HD remake...

    XCOM was okay.

  10. Posted

    I don't believe films are regulated in this fashion within the US, nor is any other medium.

    This would very much be singling out video games.

    Correct. There's no legal requirement that films are rated by the MPAA. It's mandatory if you want to put them in theatres, because the theatres are in cahoots with the production houses that run the MPAA, but there's no federal law or anything. Theoretically, you could release a movie digitally or on DVD without an MPAA rating.

  11. Posted

    Nintendo has actually already, completely voluntarily, been submitting old games to the ESRB for new ratings when they go up for sale on Virtual Console. (It is my understanding that the costs associated with the ESRB rating process are actually a big part of why those Virtual Console games cost so damn much. Seriously.)

    Even so, the proposed law would require the rating to appear on the physical packaging of games, so NES carts would be retroactively illegal for sale. No one would ever be able to sell used retro games again.

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    What I find most laughable about this bill is that it means that we can no longer sell or resell any games created and published before the ESRB existed. Does that mean floppy disks and NES carts will become some kind of contraband?

    Holy shit, I didn't even think of this aspect of it. That's a really funny idea, actually...people hoarding NES cartridges under the floorboards, Equilibrium-style.

  13. Posted

    Wind Waker graphics, CPMA movement, music by Lifeformed (the guy who did the fantastic Dustforce soundtrack), and procedurally generated FPS levels. What's not to like? As soon as I saw the announcement, this game became one of my most anticipated future releases. It looks like Hitbox is setting themselves up to have a seriously impressive - and diverse - catalog of finished projects.

  14. Posted

    What's the general verdict on those revised 360 controllers? I've still got my original controller that came with my first-gen 360, but it's starting to get pretty creaky. Is it worth stepping up to the new one before this one dies, or should I just ride it out?

  15. Posted

    I imagine a lot of people will have heard the noise about this already, but if you haven't, here's the deal: the American government is in the process of trying to pass a law that would require all games to have an ESRB ratings in order to be sold, either physically or digitally. It's a pretty flagrant attempt at censorship, and one that doesn't apply to any other forms of media, so people are pretty up in arms about it. On the other hand, many people are saying that such a law would get tossed out by the Supreme Court (and that similar ones have before) because it's a violation of the First Amendment.

    Here's a decent summary of the bill and its possible ramifications.

    Thoughts? Opinions?