Jim Sterling (The Jimquisition)

That's fair, but as I noted, that's the fault of idiots slapping the term on anyone that pisses them off.

I mean, I mentioned I still hold onto the term, but I've maybe pushed that particular button a grand total of once. And that's kinda the point: it's supposed to carry a lot of weight, especially in the current sociopolitical climate, so use should thus be cautious.

Meanwhile, Jim and others noticed that Hyrule Total War (a *free mod* featuring the Zelda universe) is trying to go through Steam Greenlight, except it's being done without the original mod author's permission. Worse still is that the uploader claimed he *did.*

The original mod author's statement of the matter.

It's a damn shame. That guy clearly put a lot of work into his mod.

I knew immediately that whoever put it on Greenlight wasn't the actual creator. I thought "No, this trailer is too good. Whoever made it couldn't be dumb enough to think he could get it on Steam."

After the Bleach Twitter fiasco some time back, I can fully believe that a fan of the mod would throw the game on Steam in some deluded attempt to help make it more popular. The only questionable thing is that he lied about having the creator's permission, and even then one could assume he felt that asking permission would be too time-consuming and that lying would give it a better chance.

So good job on single-handedly putting a mod at risk of takedown by putting it right where Nintendo's lawyers are most likely to find it. And good job providing a link to the creator's page, so said lawyers know exactly where to aim at.

And now someone's trying to put Minecraft through Greenlight. Or are they?

edited 4th Dec '15 5:21:27 PM by Nettacki

I swear that Minecraft pops up there at least once per week.

Valve really needs to get their shit together before one of these blatantly illegal games gets approved and they have some big company breathing down their backs.

Jim suggested that the Minecraft entry that spontaneously changed to FNAF overnight is a deliberate middle-finger to Greenlight's lack of quality control and I actually believe that. Someone put that up not because they're actually expecting to get Minecraft through Greenlight but to make a point.

edited 2nd Dec '15 7:41:23 AM by TobiasDrake

http://www.thejimquisition.com/2015/12/podquisition-55-miley-cyrus-twerk-stick/

On Jim's new podcast, he talks about Game FA Qs community and Undertale winning as long as it did on the ongoing "Best. Game. Ever." contest about 44 minutes in.

Y'know, a couple weeks back I managed to randomly stumble on a documentary about the gentrification issue in San Francisco, caused primarily by an influx of workers wanting an easy commute to Silicon Valley. And I remember a particular part regarding an Hispanic community whose local businesses were getting replaced by hipster cafes in order to generate revenue from said S.V. types.

So my point is that this game shouldn't be based in Brooklyn.

But on a more serious note, yeah, it is a fairly interesting topic that you don't see tackled in the gaming industry, and it's a shame this tries to boil that down to "KILL TEH HIPSTER FAGS GRRRRR!"

I pretty much agree with what Jim's saying, though I don't think keeping things multiplayer-only is entirely due to trying to peddle DLC. I actually think there's at least a partial attempt to cut down cost and/or reduce overall effort while banking on fans' general hatred of single-player to excuse their actions. Companies like EA probably see the success of games like Team Fortress Two and League Of Legends and are playing Follow the Leader without actually understanding why games like those are so big.

Also holy fucking shit Konami you stupid motherfuckers.

Well, the thing is that TF2 worked because its updates were totally free. Y'know, more like Splatoon, and much less like Battlefront 3.

edited 7th Dec '15 11:04:19 AM by ShadowHog

Yup. IMHO it's an opportunity for publishers to fork DLC, because they can and many will fall for it anyway. You're not gonna see free updates like what Fatshark did with Vermintide to celeberate good sales, why not get more cash right?

Is it me or Konami wants to execute thier digital division so bad?

edited 7th Dec '15 11:07:36 AM by YoKab

Alright, that Megalovania bit at the end had me smiling like a little kid.

Legit points are legit, which now makes me wonder if they will do that with the Call of Duty series. The last release only had multiplayer for the last gen systems, but that could become a reality for even next gen consoles in the future.

That would be pretty disgusting if they went that route. At least they can sort of justify yearly releases as it is with having new campaigns with each one. If it went multiplayer-only, but they still expected you to buy each installment and the respective DLC every year, because nobody's gonna be playing that old version... Call of Duty will very, very quickly find itself turning into Madden, particularly as far as used sales go.

Fortunately for all of us (well, those of us who play Call of Duty, anyway - can't say as I'm in that subset), Activision seems quite intent on keeping the single-player half of their formula around.

edited 7th Dec '15 2:10:09 PM by ShadowHog

I dunno about that. People do generally seem to like the Call of Duty campaigns, to some extent. Alternatively, you have things like Battlefield 3. Now that game's campaign was the most miserable experience I've ever had in a first-person shooter.

Funnily enough, Battlefield 4's campaign was surprisingly good, yet people still didn't like it.

Yeah. Having played both MW 3 and Battlefield 3, the former's campaign is far more involving than the latter's. And it seemed to take a bit longer to do as well. Which is nice as I enjoyed it a lot.

I'm surprised Jim managed to get Hatsune Miku to fill in for him.

I'm glad to know that Jim is on my side for this particular debate. I'm still rather sore that the FFVII remake I was teased is going to be a completely different genre (or sub-genre, at the very least). Those people constantly parroting how turn-based battles are a relic of the past (for reasons) to anyone who's upset at FFVII suddenly being an action game aren't helping matters, either.

Personally I'm a bit more annoyed at the whole "split into multiple parts" thing. I can live with a remake changing stuff; I mean, we still have the original available through Steam and the like.

But anyway, I'll have to actually watch the video.

I am not. She is a program. All Jim needs to do is to buy the software. What I am surprised is how realistic this rendition was! It veryt very real!

Personally, I am not even a fan of traditional JRPG combat, but I certainly hate the fact they are making a traditional FF into an action game. If they wanted to change the system, they should update it to more modern variations, not turn it into something else entirely. It is kinda bizarre to make a remake and change the gameplay genre.

But I do agree it is silly to say such system is a relic of the past. It is still fine, working and have fans. I can't understand why so many people shit on it.

Heheheh. Jim's a fellow FF9 fan.