Quoting: nenorothat's Battle Royale Bomberman not a solo bomberman :cry:

This is a full Bomberman game with the usual suite of story-mode plus battle-mode, along with unlockable cosmetics and characters. :smile: The solo game in this one is more exploration-focussed (it draws from an old spin-off branch of the series called "Bomber King"; 1 [External Link], 2 [External Link] ), with tower-defense/invasion and puzzles to break that up. There's also a level-editor because the tower-defense is available as a multiplayer mode too.

There was a battle-royale game called Super Bomberman R Online [External Link], but that was closed down and delisted in 2022 and was rolled into this new game as one of the multiplayer modes, but one mode doesn't make the whole game a battle-royale title on the basis of a Steam tag. :wink:

Of course, if you're after something more traditional, then the first Super Bomberman R [External Link] from 2017/2018 is still out there, too - that one's structured very similarly to the SNES games that it's a sequel to. :grin:

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualBleem!, the Playstation emulator for the Dreamcast, was sued by Sony.

Just to add to this, it was for Windows first. I was a Bleem! user, and I remember a lot of discontent about the "Bleem! 4 Dreamcast" version draining resources from improving the main product, even though if I remember rightly it was necessary to have it there to bring in funds to deal with the legal stuff.

And, for everyone else since I know you'll already know this one, that suit wasn't about the emulator itself, but the marketing side of it as a commercial product.

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI don't own a Switch or play any Nintendo games, but this case will certainly set a precedent.

Anyway, I donated to Yuzu today because fuck Nintendo.

I used to be as passionate a fan of Nintendo as you guys know me today for my love of Bomberman (it was formerly a concurrent and almost symbiotic thing, since Bomberman's Nintendo installments were particularly popular and I got started with the series there). You know the drill - the sort of marketing companies can't buy.

They lost me as a fan several years ago (they took the few series I liked off in directions I didn't enjoy or stopped making them altogether, released badly-made hardware that requires frequent repairs due to design-defects*, and various other missteps), and I wholeheartedly agree with the "Fuck Nintendo" sentiment!

*These weren't covered under warranty in the UK (unlike other regions where Nintendo treated it like Microsoft treated the Xbox 360 defects) in spite of it being designed in, and they charged as much for the repairs as you'd pay for a replacement. It changed eventually, but that was years after I'd already come to the conclusion that a user shouldn't have to constantly repair carefully-used in-warranty equipment, got sick of it, and took my proverbial entertainment-dollar elsewhere.

Nintendo is now just like the other options that they used to be positively contrasted against, and this feels like the next step down that road - they're now even further from what they once were than I ever could have imagined. They can go to hell. And that's the sort of marketing that companies don't want to buy. :tongue:

Quoting: EternalBlueFlameMaybe instead I should just use that money to purchase the indie games on Steam that are basically the same things Nintendo's putting out, but with actual innovation, which Nintendo hasn't done since the GameCube.

That was what I did after I ditched the Switch and all of my cartridges in late 2021. It was easily one of the best gaming decisions I ever made and it's worked out really well. :grin:

There's SO much more available on Steam (and that's before even touching on GOG.com and Itch.io), and gaming there is far better value in general than in Nintendo's ecosystem, even when it comes to buying the same indies.

Welcome, by the way! :smile:

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Quoting: elmapuli was busy thinking if switch2 would have an retro compatibility at the begining then get it axed later on, but you are right, i completely forgot about that.

I wouldn't be surprised if they did that too, to be honest! :sad:

Quoting: elmapuland want listen to something dirty? well they hold pokemons hostages nowadays.

if you want to transfer then to the new games you have to pay an online subscription to host then, you have an maximum ammount of pokemons that you can transfer each day, and no guarantee that they will be playable in the next game meaning you may have to pay even more time until they relase an game where they are playable again.

Yeah, my other half is into Pokemon and has had plenty of frustrations with that whole setup. :angry:

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Quoting: ElectricPrism(In recent history Nintendo paid Japan Influencers __NOT__ to cover PalWorld in Japan -- you know ... instead of actually make a **good** Pokemon game that has the same features.

Rumour has it that a talent agency in Japan may be forbidding those working for them from mentioning Palworld [External Link] "out of consideration" for The Pokemon Company, too.

Quoting: ElectricPrismNintendo can't even fathom that their fans are (1) not children and (2) 30 and 40 years olds. As if everywhere outside their xenobubble is exactly like Japan where adults don't have time for fun.)

And Nintendo has always been very well aware of that - even back in the 1980s, 40% of Nintendo's market were in the 24+ age-bracket [External Link] (this link comes from the memoirs of the first editor of Nintendo Power magazine - the whole thing is a very interesting and eye-opening read, and quite a bit of it is still relevant to the best of my knowledge).

Quoting: ElectricPrismAnd then what happens when a multi-million dollar disaster "AAAA" game (as ubisoft calls it) is unable to compete against Baldurs Gate 3, Stardew Valley, Earthbound or some other garage made game? ** Poof **

That wouldn't surprise me one bit - we already saw, with Palworld, the press siding with the industry and openly stating that it shouldn't have succeeded without them getting behind it, instead of celebrating an indie success-story that's done phenomenally well [External Link].

Quoting: D34VA_`fsck Nintendo`

Quoting: hardpenguinSome bad sectors will be found for sure

They're rotten to the core.

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Quoting: wurschti"unlawfully hacking a Nintendo Switch console"

It is my console, I bought it, I can hack it with a fkin Katana if I want.

Over in Japan, you can go to jail for up to five years and pay fines of up to ~$46,000 [External Link] for modifying save-data on any games-console. No doubt Nintendo wants this to be a global thing, hence that language.

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Quoting: elmapuli dont doubt nintendo will do the same in the future.

Technically speaking, they already have - they've closed the stores for several past consoles at this point, with plenty of games now completely lost to time for legitimate buyers.

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Seems like the perfect time for a reminder that the last time that Nintendo lawsuited someone, their victim ended up indentured to them for the rest of his life [External Link], with $10 million owed and 25-30% of his income to be taken by Nintendo forever. He's in his 50s, so it's never going to be paid back, and the entire thing is unrealistic and heavy-handed.

After the passing of Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president between 2002 and his death in 2015 who genuinely loved his job (he was actually uncredited on hundreds of games, and he simply enjoyed the programming challenges) and, importantly, was a gamer himself, Nintendo, its output, and its PR changed significantly. I miss what they once made and did, but I'm really glad that I'm an ex-fan - and stuff like this is part of why.

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Quoting: udekmp69You won't get functional Game Mode from what I can tell. Intel GPUs that are not ARC dGPUs do not have the required Vulkan extensions for gamescope-session, sadly. You can run the desktop version but you will have to use Steam's Big Picture Mode.

Oh damn. Thanks so much for the info! :smile: I guess I'll leave it as-is for now.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWait a minute (tots up on fingers) . . . 20 million sales in the first 6 years, 10 million more in the last 2 . . . it's speeding up?!

It's a real proper long-tail seller. :smile:

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Assuming that Bazzite is ok with the Intel version of the GPD Win Max 2021, I'd love to try it on mine. It's been used less since I got my Steam Deck, and I'd like to give it a more appropriate OS than just using plain Mint Xfce on it. :smile:

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