Jim Sterling (The Jimquisition)

I'm two days late on the matter but Jim gave his thoughts on the Switch and the split between whether all the ports for the system are a good or bad idea.

For his part he said he's happy to see all these ports (well... most of them) because they're all ports of good games, but he can see why some people would find the announcements of these games lackluster. His theory is which perspective you have depends on what you view the Switch itself as- someone like him, who uses it primarily as a handheld, will be ecstatic at the idea of playing Dark Souls on the go; meanwhile someone who mostly uses the Switch as a home console will view the games as redundant when they have other consoles they can already play said games on.

Going forward I think Jim's insight is going to be interesting to keep in mind. The Switch is whatever kind of console you want it to be, but for it I never really thought that people who use it differently would also view what it should be differently.

Jim talks about the very recent controversy where BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is trying to pawn off half of its 40 character roster as DLC.

I guess someone wanted to one-up capcom in bad business decissions concerning fighting games.

The irony is that Capcom is trying to be better at DLC characters. At least when it comes to SFV.

"Why the fuck should we buy it at launch, for god's sake?"

Well, Jim, here's the racket: If you don't buy a fighting game on launch day, you might as well not bother. If you buy it a couple months after every one else has, you are going to get absolutely destroyed online because fighting game systems are generally full of overly complicated bullshit that can not be figured out without a month of practice and several guides, but are very important to getting anything done, especially if the game in question is by Arc System Works. So if you are the kind that entertains the idea of taking competition seriously and attacking the leaderboards (which, let's face it, is pretty much all fighting game fans), you've got to take every head start you can get, or you'll be painfully outclassed and there's no one online anywhere near your level to practice against.

Fighting game producers know this, and are thus perfectly fine with pushing out half-baked games, because the hardcore fanbase feels like they don't have much of a choice.

edited 13th Jan '18 11:17:46 AM by Kayeka

That is why you use the scorched earth method if you hate this kind of behavior from fighting games. Don't support and sway others who are feeling the game way.

Why is Blake DLC she's a main fucking character that would be like locking Gui... oh right.

Hey, speak for yourself. My household and I play fighting games and we don't give two shits about what the online community's like. There's more to a game than just wrestling over whose Internet Dick is bigger, which is what all that leaderboard nonsense amounts to.

edited 13th Jan '18 6:41:16 PM by TobiasDrake

I took up MK 9 two years after it actually came out(I had the game, but I didn't have the internet speed to go online), and I managed just fine maining Reptile. Not the best, of course, just kinda 50%-ish win rate in general, but still.

It's about the same performance I've had as Harley Quinn in Injustice 1, and I picked up that one on release day.

edited 14th Jan '18 6:40:45 AM by Luminosity

It's not impossible to catch up with a meta once you're late to the party, but if you aren't familiar with fighting games already it'll be trickier to do.

That, and online communities for games are always more active in the early days. For fighting games in particular that means more variety in characters and playstyles you fight, over later in the lifespan when you'll start to see the top tiers more often than anyone else.

Video need context and a short blurb FYI.

Today's Jimquistion: Jim Sterling blasts a local South Australian news station for making shit up about an indie dev's game that they claim promotes violence in the city it's based off of and refused to correct themselves when the developer tried to correct them.

(*cue the appropriate expression for times like these*)

With mainstream media outlets who act like Nine News Adelaide (basically a tabloid TV station?), no wonder there are more people willing to believe "alternative" news channels instead (not that they're any better).

I feel sorry for the developer having to deal with that kind of s**t from these mainstream yellow journalists. And he wanted to use his work to promote his home city, too.

(Slightly off-topic: I wonder if he can use those assets—or replicate them in Unity—for VRChat?)

edited 15th Jan '18 11:21:58 PM by IncognitoNinja

Why is Australia so strict on video games anyways?

Youtube is effectively demonetizing channels that have not reached a certain threshold in subscriptions and view time. Fell just shy of the mark? Too bad, no money for you. Naturally, smaller and struggling channels are hit by this the most and this will cause people to just not bother making content anymore. Of course, the "get a real job" crowd is out in full force in this video.

edited 17th Jan '18 8:18:32 AM by Steven

Back in the 90s it saw everybody else go through a Jack Thompson moral panic craze and decided "What if we like... NEVER move on from that?"

Isn't funny how You Tube shits on small channels in response to BIG channels like Pew Die Pie and Logan Paul causing it trouble?

edited 17th Jan '18 8:22:17 AM by Luminosity

Jim's comparison to Patreon is accurate but at the same time different. Plenty of Patreons make thousands per month using only 1$ contribution. So Patreon punishing those was a significant issue. Internet Comment Ettiquette makes 2.6K entirely out of 1$ donations, for examples). Patreon was taking people's livelihood away.

Here, the vast majority of those channels make less than 100$ per year, 2.5$ per month. And yeah, that's no one's livelihood. But yeah, for youtube this does add up to literally millions.

Yeah, it makes it harder to start a career on youtube, but guess what? That's true of any artistic career,

To quote Dan Olson:

Dan Olson, Profane Pretzel Eater ‏

edited 17th Jan '18 10:10:03 AM by Ghilz

So, it happened. Jim Sterdust attended tonight's Pro Wrestling EGO show in Jackson, Mississippi. He obviously didn't enter a match himself, and due to his back problems he very likely never will, but he put up a glorious pre-show gag. As we speak there's only the official PWE Facebook livestream, but You Tube footage should be online, soon.

He sure sounded like he had a ton of fun with it.

He makes for a glorious heel. An arrogant, cowardly cheater, all the good stuff.

I laughed my ass off when David Cage countered the accusations with basically I can't be sexist because I worked with this person... whose no-nudity clause I violated... oops.

It's like these people were never taught not to cause any sexual misconduct and then they act surprised when they get in trouble.

edited 22nd Jan '18 6:28:49 PM by Steven

I can't believe Cage is dumb enough to invoke Some of My Best Friends Are X like that.

Believe it because people CAN be that dumb.

Backlash to this is bigger than I expected but I should have expected it in hindsight.

I suppose the recent sexual miscondict allegations have made people bite back at the allegations themselves instead of...you know, the current conditions and climate of the entertainment industry, and how bad a deal it generally is when you aare a woman working within them.

Also some choice commenters are accusing Jim of being a shit slingijg allegation thrower, when he explains both sides and only really snarks it hard when it comes to how Cage responded to the claims.