This is a "confirmed" rumor, but if it is true, it's not good news for the game, certainly. Oh, it could be great, but... Namco? They make some good games, sure, but I've never been much of a fan of Namco. They make some good games, but more that don't interest me much... and this game is going to be held to a VERY high standard, considering how unbelievably great the original Metroid Prime is. The original is one of the greatest console games ever made, after all! I will withhold judgment on this one until the game actually releases, but this definitely reduces the hype, for me at least.
The other part of the rumor is that the Switch will also be getting a Ridge Racer game. Huh. Ridge Racer is alright, but definitely isn't a series I have ever loved, so I was fine with it going away... but if it does come back I hope the game is good.
Here's a hateful fool that just so happens to have been a huge fan of Sierra. That's got to be some high grade cognitive dissonance, a misogynist that all the same loved a game company with an internal culture supportive of women. By the end, every last person he asked for an interview turned him down, and all for the same reason, his hateful views of women and his past rants on Anita Sarkesian.
This is kind of embarrassing. So, about two years ago we went on a trip to visit some relatives. I brought some console stuff with me, including my Wii and some Gamecube stuff for it as well. As I'd need them for that, I brought my five Gamecube memory card 251s with me as well. But because I couldn't get them to stay in the disc holder case thing, I put them in a bag, put them somewhere... and then they vanished, I couldn't find them anywhere when we got there and I thought they were all gone. After having most of my original GC save files die with my Memory Card 1019 when that thing failed on me years back, with this I then had none of my original GC save files left at all, sadly, including many saves for games I've gotten over the years and a few original saves for games like Eternal Darkness (including a file at the end of the second loop) and F-Zero GX.
Some time later, I got some GC memory cards to replace the lost ones. I played a handful of GC games, but most of those cards have just sat around unused, as I haven't played much GC in some years now, partially because of this but also because I played a lot of Gamecube for quite some time, but more recently have moved on to other things.
But then a couple of days ago, I was going through the pockets in my coat looking for something. I emptied the inside pocket of the coat, which I used to use all the time but haven't more recently, and ... along with stuff like some pieces of paper and a few old clementines, was a ziploc bag with those five memory cards in it. So, to not lose them I'd put them in my coat, which makes sense... only to forget about that completely later, and never think to look there. Well, oops, but at least the story has a happy ending, I have those memory cards back now! And now I have like ten Memory Card 251s, which is as many as anyone would probably need unless they play sports games.
So, MS announced a new version of Windows 10, codenamed Polaris, which is going to be their new main consumer version of the OS... and it won't natively run Win32 applications, it's UWP-only. Other "unimportant legacy features" are also going to be disabled. What this means is that people who only use their PC for web browsing and such will be fine, but for gamers is catastrophic!
I think that if Microsoft sticks to this path they will have signed Windows' death warrant as a gaming platform. Because no UWP-only, Microsoft Store-focused OS will ever be the amazing gaming platform that the PC is. I wonder, will Microsoft come to their senses (or be forced into it by user criticism), or will they stick to this awful, AWFUL idea?
I don't want to have to go to Linux; I mostly like Windows, its issues aside. I'm used to it, it has a good interface, it's got the largest software library of any platform, and so much more! I have some issues with Windows 10, but for the most part it is still Windows. But THIS? If this is what it sounds like, this thing is not Windows, and it's not an open computer operating system the way all computer OSes need to be. It's one more step towards turning PCs into a walled garden and requiring developers pay MS for the privilege of releasing software on the "PC", while turning Windows into a service you pay for yearly for the privilege of continuing to use. Anyone who thought MS was not going to do that should have their confidence seriously shaken now, because it seems to be happening.
This ResetEra post by Jams775 sums up quite well why this is such a big issue:
Quote:Yup, companies do it all the time. I used to have a checking account that got bought out by a bigger one. They promised to keep the free checking for grandfathered accounts. They did... for like a year. Then they didn't.
This is how it'll go. They promise support for win32 and keeping normal 10 updated. They'll do it for a year or two. All the while win32 apps will be in compatibility hell either right away or after "updates" that'll keep breaking compatibility. Over time, companies like Adobe can switch over. But stores like Steam will probably not be allowed to. Eventually they'll just come out with some statement saying it's been long enough and now they're dropping support completely. By that time though, most people have been forced over because they're not knowledgeable enough to Linux or have the dough for Apple. The conversion will be assisted by apologist or whatever you'd want to call them. They'll continue brow beating and calling people who dare question Microsoft crazy or ridiculous.
Exactly, this is very well said! And that's why people saying "but Win32 and real Windows aren't going away, you will still be able to buy Win10 Pro!" are so wrong. This is just one step in a process, and keeping Win32 or non-UWP Windows application support are not a step that will stay in that process forever. Microsoft doesn't make money from Win32.
People are way WAY more different than I ever knew. Now I know what this one old teacher I had insisted that thought was "impossible" without language, which seemed so bizarre to me since I don't usually think in words at all but rather connect the raw ideas and logic in my head instead. I can "picture" things, but I guess some people do it like, literally and not metaphorically?
Seriously, this site has a bunch of lingering issues which need fixing!
- This text is on the top of the screen on every page in Tendo City:
Quote:Warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead in ..../includes/class_bootstrap.php(430) : eval()'d code on line 118
Sometimes it's only that one, and sometimes you also see this one (below) below it, either once or several times, but it's kind of annoying and should be fixed.
Quote:Warning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead in ..../includes/class_bbcode.php on line 2958
- As of a few days ago the "Edit Post" button stopped working for in-line post edits. Now all I can do is center-click it to open the full edit window in a new tab, but cannot do an in-line edit as you are supposed to be able to. This is annoying!
- The new or edit post screen is a jumbled mess, with text overlapping text and checkboxes underneath buttons. I don't know what happened here but it's not good.
- It automatically double posts pretty much every time I post. Having to then delete the extra post after posting, every time, is kind of a pain.
- And lastly, once again, the admin panel does not have the export database feature in it anymore, so there is no way to back up the database without FTP access that we do not have! I really, REALLY want a more up-to-date backup of the database, instead of the now years-old one that I have...
This seems like what Amiibo and other toys to life should have been from the start. It's a toy you actually play with to play the video game, and its a cardboard kit you can probably just make yourself if you don't want to pay for Nintendo's own kit (excluding the needed software of course).
So, to not lose them I'd put them in my coat, which makes sense... only to forget about that completely later, and never think to look there. Well, oops, but at least the story has a happy ending, I have those memory cards back now! And now I have like ten Memory Card 251s, which is as many as anyone would probably need unless they play sports games.