xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@beardalaxy You should at least try each game, but why waste time doing that when the vast majority of every platform's library is shovelware garbage? Digital collections are different. It's all just information at the end of the day, and it's no different than not using every feature in a game. I'd rather just play games that I find on recommended charts on /v/ or something.

Though the N64 collecting you did, was certainly no where near the levels of collecting you see on YouTube. Just watch some of their home tours and just look at the disgusting houses/apartments they live in.

John Hancock is probably the fucking worst. This guy has a wife and kids and built an extension to his house just to hoard more video games. He doesn't even let his kids play his newer consoles. The guy has a full time job as a teacher so either he isn't playing these games or he is and is neglecting his children when he is off-work. Not to mentioned, that he begged a lot of money for a video game museum that I think still hasn't happened.

@beardalaxy >I think he is typically a great game dev but holy shit he gets a stick up his ass whenever someone interacts with his work the "improper way."

A lot of game developers do it. It's called "creator's backlash". I honestly don't know why people worship this guy. He's really only known for Smash and Kirby. Is it because he worked on games fresh out of high school? Is it because he takes no days off when working on Smash?

>Although, this mindset of Sakurai's at least freed us from the hell that was smash 4 Bayonetta in ultimate. Too bad we just got Steve instead and he'll never be fixed.

I don't know what you are talking about here. Granted, I never played either version of Smash 4.

>So many Nintendo devs are infuriating man. They're geniuses, but they all have some weird hang up on something. Miyamoto needs to shove gimmicks in everything. Sakurai holds weird grudges. Itoi thinks he reached perfection and doesn't want to do anything else. Aonuma thinks people only like old games more because of Nostalgia.

Itoi isn't even a game designer. The Mother series, along with his fishing games were just one of his many works. Given the rough development cycle of every single MOTHER game, along with Itoi lacking any knowledge when it comes to computers and programming, I completely understand why he doesn't want to develop games anymore.

Now, that I think about it, with the exception of Sakurai, all the people you mentioned never intended to be in the games industry in the first place. Miyamoto wanted to be a manga artist, but was forced to work with Nintendo by his father because he knew the president, and this was still back when it was a toy company. Itoi is a copyrighter who wanted to make a video game series for his son that he rarely got to see, and Aonuma made wooden puppets, and got hired by Nintendo because Miyamoto liked his puppet work. Granted, only Sakurai actually grew up with video games, but I still find it ironic.

Aw, What a baby! Are posters and box-art also too spoilery for you, Mr. Sakurai?

No wonder he refuses to put a proper adventure mode in Smash after Brawl.

@Hyperhidrosis Case in point:

I really don't see the point in video game collecting. Long ago, I thought it was cool. I remember being 12 or 13, seeing James Rolfe's video where he shows off his NES collection, and thinking to myself "wouldn't it be cool to have a full-set DS collection in 20 years?" It honestly felt like a little slice of pop culture history on a shelf.

Now, I see it as nothing but hording or just investing. Not only is it impossible to get into, thanks to Youtubers like PatTheNESPunk, Metal Jesus Rocks, Happy Console Gamer, and LGR, but there is simply no point, especially if you are not going to play all those games. It's clearly impossible to do so. It's clear that this hobby is either an investment or an addiction.

I mean, just look at these YouTubers. Some of them openly admit to sleeping on mattresses without bed-frames just so they can afford more games. How pathetic is that? Think about how all that money could've gone to something useful. Imagine having a huge video game collection while having kids. You have this moral dilemma because you have this nice collection of video games that you don't want ruined, but you also have a bunch of games that your kids would want to play. This is probably the reason why you don't see that many collectors having children.

And don't get me started on the fact that video game collectors are enablers of the cancers of the modern video game industry because they have to buy EVERY SINGLE GAME of their favorite company or franchise, regardless of whatever shitty business practices they are making. To me, having a complete collection of a series, company, or a console does not make you a true fan. A true fan would want to avoid the bad stuff (at least buying them directly) because they want to see their favorite company or franchise actually improve. But no. These people think that they need to own every single game to show off how big of a fan they are.

The only way I feel like video game collecting is justified is if you are actually preserving rare or prototype games that either haven't been dumped or can't be emulated yet. I will give MJR credit for this though, in that he did dump the BIOS for the American 64DD prototype.

But I just can't see the appeal anymore. I never had a big collection, but I bought two WonderSwans and a couple of games years ago because I thought it would be cool to have Japanese imports, but the novelty went away real fast. Most of the games I can't even play anyway because they are text-heavy RPGs and don't have fan-translations.

Can we please drop this mentality that you need to collect everything of your favorite company/franchise to show your love for something?

@beardalaxy @graf Mod submissions have been implemented along with a view mod page. Though mods can't be search, yet.

@LukeAlmighty Don't get me started on the e-celebs. Nearly every single one of them ON ALL SIDES has been exposed as a grifter and the drama around each of them can fit an entire book. It also shows what happens when you build your entire identity around this crap.

Why are animal crush videos illegal but cockfighting videos aren't?

Not defending either of them, it just doesn't make sense to me.

@waltercool Maybe this will finally be an excuse to use LibreTaxi.

https://libretaxi.org/

Purchasable items have now been implemented.

#gamedev #SFML

@GD5426 @Tadano @PurpCat @Vril_Oreilly @hazlin Okay, I'm with you.