Sony hate thread

[TVB]

It wasn't. The launch sucked, it was hard to come by a console, the games at launch included crap like The Bouncer and Summoner. From 2003 onwards it caught a stride and by late 2004 there was a glut of incredible games, but it was never smooth sailing throughout.

It didn't help that, considering the Playstation namesake was popular throughout the mid 90s through late 2000s, both PS1 and PS2 have a mountain of shovelware, usually licensed ones (some are good, but the majority are just lazy).

 

[Two Dollars]

How does it mean nothing? It can be released whenever the rights holder feels like it. Preservation is important so that things that society as a whole might view as important don't get destroyed and can be released in the future if demand should ever arise. Any one individual having access to purchase something doesn't mean shit. For that, piracy exists, but not as preservation- call it something else.

The vast majority of the time, the rights holder will never feel like it. Look at Pokemon Picross on Game Boy Color: announced, then cancelled despite being nearly finished, then leaked about 20 years later. Sure, it’s possible Nintendo could have eventually pulled a Star Fox 2 and released the finished game after a few decades, but how many other cancelled games are out there that will never be released simply because the publisher decided to keep them for themselves? It’s Schrödinger’s preservation, not completely lost but not preserved.

Let’s give it a more concrete definition: I’d argue that a work is preserved when it is accessible to the public and will never be lost within reason. In other words, once something is preserved, it can’t be unpreserved. If a rom is floating around on the internet, enough people have already downloaded it and it’s being redistributed in enough places such that people years from now will still be able to access it. But if the rom only exists on a single server and it gets deleted - that’s it. If that one guy holding that one prototype happens to lose or break it - that’s it.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Public Preservation also helps developers of emulators as they can make their emulators reach top performance in regards to how they would work similar to real hardware.

Look at the 32X for example. The only "best" way to play 32x games was on Kega Fusion, a closed source emulator that hasn't had an update since over a decade ago ( March 7th 2010 ). In 2021, a new emulator called ares featured 32X support, and while it seems to be doing better than Kega Fusion, it's still not perfect. Lot's of missing graphic/sound issues ontop of other game specific breakages.

Knuckles Chaotix, specifically its MANY betas, relied on VERY SPECIFIC builds of Kega Fusion to even run properly because how they were coded. Thanks to ares, that issue is finally bypassed and any version of Chaotix can be played on it

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

It wasn't. The launch sucked, it was hard to come by a console, the games at launch included crap like The Bouncer and Summoner. From 2003 onwards it caught a stride and by late 2004 there was a glut of incredible games, but it was never smooth sailing throughout.

Console launches were just like that.

The absolutely worst part of the PS2 launch was the lack of memory cards.

 

[The Last Stand]

How does it mean nothing? It can be released whenever the rights holder feels like it. Preservation is important so that things that society as a whole might view as important don't get destroyed and can be released in the future if demand should ever arise. Any one individual having access to purchase something doesn't mean shit. For that, piracy exists, but not as preservation- call it something else.

Ask yourself why DO people pirate. If the publisher is making it harder to obtain their product, people will take other means to obtain it.

 

[Pissmaster]

You're right, they would steal it.

Imagine getting popped for stealing a fucking PS2 horizontal stand

 

[BananaSplit²]

I'm taking the leaked pic with a grain of salt until it's fully confirmed but, assuming it is later revealed to be true, I'll continue to be impressed at the extent Sony has spooked off JP publishers and developers. Enough to become an afterthought.

 

[SiccDicc]

I'm taking the leaked pic with a grain of salt until it's fully confirmed but, assuming it is later revealed to be true, I'll continue to be impressed at the extent Sony has spooked off JP publishers and developers. Enough to become an afterthought.

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So they're releasing remastered versions of these?

 

[whatever I feel like]

Is there really anything objectionable in those games?

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I don't know how to feel about folks being so young as to not remember how nintendo acts when they're at the top.
I do remember them trying, and failing, to take down game rentals. I also remember their bullshit sputum on their propaganda rag nintendo power. "bAcKuP dEvIcEs ArE tHe tOoLs oF BeeZeLbuB!"

Nintendo did manage to get game rentals banned in Japan.

 

[Super Hans v2]

Is there really anything objectionable in those games?

The Mara demon is a penis obsessed with rape.

 

[rareblacklobster]

That's a pretty epic fail, dear libtard

But all kidding aside, American Dad, The Orville and the first Ted movie will always be better

I miss The Orville.

 

[mrs thickness]

Is there really anything objectionable in those games?

there's a part in IVa where one of your underage party members just straight up has an orgasm because she's trying to seal a horny curse or something. i think a demon calls you a fag in the 3DS games too if you pick certain dialogue options during recruitment.

 

[ShitlordroltihS]

Imagine getting popped for stealing a fucking PS2 horizontal stand

It's probably happened before

 

[ShitlordroltihS]

it was never smooth sailing throughout.

Alright retard. You know I didn't mean it was perfect. No launch is.

 

[Baboeshka]

Naughty Dog uses this monetisation scheme to psychologically manipulate online players into spending real money on cosmetics and boosters.

Let's go whaling

This caused me to suspect something else as well. I think Uncharted 4's multiplayer actually does something to players (under the game's hood) when their winning rate gets too high and nerfes their stats so much that the match is almost a guaranteed loss. Unless of course you spend money and gamble on some loot chests with boosters.

Anyway, I hate both Sony and Naughty Dog to it's core. I will never forget what crap this pathetic soy-latte manbun crybaby pulled to his own fanbase. And how he tried but failed to apologize for it in his video back then:

A special message from Neil Druckmann

And the obvious censorship they support:

Neil Druckmann on female representation

 

[BananaSplit²]

So they're releasing remastered versions of these?

SMT4 is supposedly the one getting 'remastered' due of originally being a 3DS game, while others seem to be simple ports.

 

[marvlouslie]

Instead of reviving SOCOM (a much beloved game from the PS2 era, as army bros can atest), Jim Ryan is kvetching over Call of Duty. Imagine being that much of a faggot.

 

[TVB]

I miss The Orville.

But it's still on the air

 

[rareblacklobster]

But it's still on the air

I want a new season