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It's funny to think this was enough to launch an entire franchise back in the 90s

I was scrolling through a list of PS1 roms and realised I'd never actually played the original DOA, having started with the series with the PS2 port of DOA2. I gave it a go in DuckStation and the boob physics are distractingly funny on these low-poly models

The game feels pretty clunky and primitive (which is not that surprising since it came out in arcades in 1996) and it looks like most of the things that make these games fun to play (the four button punch/kick/throw/counter system, interactive multi-tier stages with hazards, breakable walls and objects & fast-paced combat where most attacks send your enemy flying at mach 2 right into the things I just listed) were introduced in Dead Or Alive 2

Hope the image host works, not sure where to put mp4s now that imgur requires a login

They name their game PALWORLD and it doesn't even run at 50hz?

Playing games on Duckstation it just clicked with me that I only ever see this screen on bootup in the few PAL roms I keep around when I remember seeing it in most PS1 games as a kid. (Being a dumb kid I thought PIRACY in all caps was some kind of sinister organisation) The spellings of "offence" and "unauthorised" definitely point to this being something coming from Sony's UK branch.

I wonder why only PAL games have a warning like this and whether it had something to do with the UK and Europe having a pre-existing thriving culture of copying, downloading and cracking games thanks to the popularity of computer gaming where those things were trivial to do.

Imagine calling Sony's Customer Service in 1998 to tell them that you suspect that the copy of Metal Gear Solid that's a CD-R with METALL GER SOLID CD 1 scribbled on it you got off your classmate isn't genuine

have any other information about pirate product

It's completely inconsistent with traditional Windows design language and there's no "Cancel" button or an X in the corner to click on so you can't cancel out of it with your mouse and have to reach for Esc on your keyboard

It also tries to funnel you into a shitty Microsoft service

I see people asking why this is happening. I figured I’d give a quick update.

For those who don’t know, Capcom is a family business. Has been for a very long time. It’s a father/son combo with many of their leads being part of this circle of trust.

About 5-10 years ago the dad started passing more and more tasks off to his son, grooming him to be the successor. This got jumped forward when a lot of the dad’s projects which involved western studios failed.

The son is the one who brought the company forward, he’s the guy behind MonHun. He’s the one who pushed for new Street Fighter/DD2/return to the roots.

And things were going well!

And then during a major tournament one of the hosts/streamers was using a naked Chun Li mod. And it showed up everywhere.

Now for a normal company you’d expect a ha ha whoops and the streamer might get banned. This however blew up in Japan big time. The dad and the board apparently stripped the son and his friends of most of their ability to influence things. They’ve had a few behind the scenes since where it’s all but said they will not allow modding in any of their games going forward.

The father has completely taken control of the company again and apparently has zero faith in the younger leads anymore. Fully expect Capcom to go back off the rails again until things cool down. But having one of their major IPs/characters get disgraced in this way killed all the goodwill/progress.

I would not be surprised if Capcom games get removed from GoG in the near future also. Or at the very least stop showing up on GoG.

This isn’t about DRM. Capcom doesn’t care about that. He’ll, their old games are already cracked. They want to destroy the modding community, and make it so yeah you could download the pirated version but nobody is going to be upkeeping these mods anymore because they won’t work. There has also been rumblings they may attempt to sue many of the mod creators. So expect mods to go down mysteriously.

Don’t expect Capcom to make good business decisions for awhile, and I hope you didn’t like any of their IPs.

It could very well be some redditor's Capcom exec fanfic, as they had a whole long presentation last year about how they want to have more DRM solutions in their games, but it would be really funny if the Chun Li incident going all the way up the chain to some crusty old Japanese executive caused all this

For context, Lidl also had Nintendo and PlayStation mugs come in before Christmas, both of which have long since sold out

I just want to dump on Microsoft for their shitty mug design. Whereas the Nintendo mug had Mario on it, this mug is dedicated to... the Series X console, not the general Xbox brand or iconography people might have nostalgic feelings for.

How is this design even evocative of the Series X or Xbox? What do the monochrome green Corporate Memphis landscapes have to do with either?

The mugs should have probably just have had "Game Pass $10/mo" scribbled on them with a sharpie

They always give you a scare since it looks like Windows is booting into a recovery environment. Just had one, and the only options I had were "Remind me in 3 days" and "Continue".

It's always about Microsoft wanting you to set Edge as your default browser as well as trying to get you to log in on a Microsoft account and you have to individually decline every suggestion since you can't just skip the fucking thing.

Piss off, Microsoft

Still losing to Vista and Windows 7 though

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

Why would you still use Vista

ie things you'd think the gammons scaring themselves shitless about the concept would care about

When I order something online (as long as it isn't something huge like a grand piano), it gets delivered to a nearby corner shop or supermarket, either to be held by staff or placed into an automated locker that opens via code you get sent via text message

Very convenient and I don't need to worry about being home when the mailman's at my door and there's less need for delivery vans to drive to specific addresses

This was mostly a thing in the PS1 and PS2 eras. The first genre was the point and click PC adventure game, ie the thing we still think of when we hear the words "adventure game" to this day. The second definition was much less well defined and encompassed games like Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Colossus, the Ubisoft Prince of Persia games and Soul Reaver.

I think it was just used as a catch-all term for any kind of console third person 3D action game with platforming elements that couldn't be easily classed into other genres

I nominate Home Alone