Cool, now they just need to figure out what the fuck yordles are.

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Yes, I'm aware that it's missing a hell of a lot of standard features and that irritates me, but I'm also aware that there are plenty of other games that don't have any of those features and are still good. Yeah, they can't be directly compared like a direct sequel can be, but if the game has enough new stuff in it to…

A troll after my own heart.

Good deal then. I'll await it with great antici...

Make it red and green so that they can confuse people into thinking they have color blindness. When the forum mods are asked on it, they can be all 'uhhhh what are you talking about? Screenshots please?' and 'What do you mean that's not red?'

Actually, one of the problems with anti-piracy tricks of this nature is that they do have the occasional tendency to produce false positives: IE - the game will run in pirated mode when the copy was legit. This was a much larger problem back when everyone had to actually buy CD rom drives and such though. Stuff is a…

If you read the article, they already have fixes for it.

So there's really just one thing I want to know...

Cute dog. Not sure why it's the poster-animal for indie-ness.

The funny thing is, some pirates looking for fixes to this bug are trying to play it off as ~some random glitch~ that happened to them. Of course they do: the pirates don't initially know the bug happens because they torrented the game:

Heh, if you read some of the replies, you might have noticed I'm not actually wanting an SMRPG 2 necessarily. I mean... I certainly would welcome it if that were the case. But I'd kind of rather see them apply the same sort of treatment to another Nintendo IP. Zelda is an obvious franchise that might work well as an…

Test to see if a game is an endless runner:

This article doesn't do much to explain the basics though. It's just telling people about conditioning. How people end up stuck in a combo is something that you have to examine from the standpoint of any given fighting game, but it's almost always down to not having good awareness of how to block a combo starter and…

This never works for me because I have an odd tendency to pick characters that are all about traps and mindgames. For emphasis:

Thing is, I'm not sure they'd be able to win Japan over even if they did everything right.

Iwata is just making excuses there. It doesn't hold up under scrutiny. If parents ignoring parental controls was really such an issue, they wouldn't allow anything rated higher than a T in the library to start with.

I'm sorry that I'm not as amused as you are by mindless references and constantly yelling the word 'badass'. I guess not liking the shallow humor that came with a shallow game makes me a contrarian.

By that same token though, if the parents aren't bothering to set their parental controls in the first place, what good does it do if they have region locking as a safeguard? It's a whole lot easier for a kid to get a hold of a game sold locally without their parent's permission than it is for them to get an imported…

So let the parental controls lock out foreign games (or dare I say... allow the ratings to be set for those countries)? Seems like a no-brainer to me.