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i sniped this page now someone has to post that dkc2 disco train recreation where the screams are just actual scary human screams
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FractalSandwich posted:They just wanted to follow in the footsteps of the film and broadcast industries before them. I admire their commitment to tradition. What you're missing is digital storage was really loving expensive in the 90's and early 00's. That 1TB drive in your PC, or even the 512GB SD card in your phone, would've cost thousands back then and for the size of the studios at the time it was just plain necessity to wipe drives and reuse them for the next game after one was released.
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Mar 7, 2021 03:58
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They shouldve printed out the source code and kept them in a binder.
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Mar 7, 2021 04:08
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Neddy Seagoon posted:What you're missing is digital storage was really loving expensive in the 90's and early 00's. That 1TB drive in your PC, or even the 512GB SD card in your phone, would've cost thousands back then and for the size of the studios at the time it was just plain necessity to wipe drives and reuse them for the next game after one was released.
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Mar 7, 2021 04:15
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Neddy Seagoon posted:What you're missing is digital storage was really loving expensive in the 90's and early 00's. That 1TB drive in your PC, or even the 512GB SD card in your phone, would've cost thousands back then and for the size of the studios at the time it was just plain necessity to wipe drives and reuse them for the next game after one was released. my dude, the source code for FFX did not require a 1TB drive to preserve, even if you kept completely uncompressed assets and poo poo. even at the time of release it would have been a tiny rounding error in square's budget to buy a couple of 50GB drives to throw in the archive, and no company that released even a single successful game couldn't have done the same. they just flat out did not give a poo poo.
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Mar 7, 2021 04:16
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I’m shocked that the XIII trilogy never got a PS4/XB1 release. I wonder if it’s planned for the new gen. It did for Xbox. Its a remaster too with 4k cutscenes and a resolution doubling on FFXIII.
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Mar 7, 2021 04:20
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I’m shocked that the XIII trilogy never got a PS4/XB1 release. I wonder if it’s planned for the new gen. they upscaled and updated the whole trilogy on xb1 bc iirc. i remember people saying it was the best way to play them now, even over the pc releases.
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Mar 7, 2021 04:21
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They could've just thrown it on tape and put it in a box, it just wasn't a priority
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Mar 7, 2021 04:23
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Its me, Im the person constantly talking about the re-releases on Xbox and how fantastic they are. Its good stuff people! They're not even expensive!
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Mar 7, 2021 04:23
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and since games generally rose in size at pace with availability of storage, this is true in basically every era of game dev you can think of. no successful studio, or even solo dev, couldn't afford enough storage to keep a copy of that successful game's source. you do, after all, generally have to be able to fit the whole drat thing on a consumer-grade or slightly-above-consumer-grade PC for compilation at the very least, which means that it probably fits on a drive that isn't very far outside the mainstream. storage was absolutely expensive in those eras, for projects that required tons of storage. source code preservation is almost uniformly not one of those projects, unless you were looking to archive the whole VCS history instead of just the final source.
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Mar 7, 2021 04:27
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I still like that story about the guy at Guerilla finding the backup tape with the source for Killzone 1 in a box under his bed
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Mar 7, 2021 06:08
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Last Celebration posted:Tbh 10 probably has one of the better dubs of a triple A Square production, they really don’t set a very high standard for themselves if you include Kingdom Hearts’ VO.
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Mar 7, 2021 06:46
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that said whoever casts the KH dubs deserves your scorn even so, because apparently Billy Zane loved voicing Ansem and would have loved to do more stuff for the series, but Square just straight-up never contacted him. He wasn't busy, he would have been willing to take a slight paycut because he liked working on it, the phone just never rang. And Ansem and Xehanort have the same VA, so if they had brought Zane back, he would have voiced Xehanort too. Imagine KH3 with Billy Zane. This is what we lost.
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Mar 7, 2021 06:49
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i think some day they should do an hd remaster of adventure of tokyo disney SEA
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Mar 7, 2021 06:50
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Endorph posted:that said whoever casts the KH dubs deserves your scorn even so, because apparently Billy Zane loved voicing Ansem and would have loved to do more stuff for the series, but Square just straight-up never contacted him. He wasn't busy, he would have been willing to take a slight paycut because he liked working on it, the phone just never rang. And Ansem and Xehanort have the same VA, so if they had brought Zane back, he would have voiced Xehanort too. Oh for gently caress's sake, he was one of the few people whose voice acting had any gravitas to begin with, and that's perfect for your villain. Goddammit Disney. loving No Fun Allowed Megacorp
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Mar 7, 2021 06:59
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RareAcumen posted:Oh for gently caress's sake, he was one of the few people whose voice acting had any gravitas to begin with, and that's perfect for your villain. Goddammit Disney. I'm pretty sure that's on Squeenix, not Disney.
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Mar 7, 2021 07:00
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yeah i doubt disney was pushing for the 'the guy who voices bobobobo bobobo' to play the main villain.
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Mar 7, 2021 07:05
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Endorph posted:yeah i doubt disney was pushing for the 'the guy who voices bobobobo bobobo' to play the main villain. Skwirl posted:I'm pretty sure that's on Squeenix, not Disney. Yeah that one's on me, Endorph said Square straight up in her post and I was just amped for any chance to slam Disney I was blinded to who I should actually blame.
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Mar 7, 2021 07:20
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I think the voice acting in Kingdom Hearts is fine, for the most part. It's cheesy and melodramatic, but that's what Kingdom Hearts is. It doesn't do subtlety.
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Mar 7, 2021 07:37
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Endorph posted:that said whoever casts the KH dubs deserves your scorn even so, because apparently Billy Zane loved voicing Ansem and would have loved to do more stuff for the series, but Square just straight-up never contacted him. He wasn't busy, he would have been willing to take a slight paycut because he liked working on it, the phone just never rang. And Ansem and Xehanort have the same VA, so if they had brought Zane back, he would have voiced Xehanort too. gently caress. Wonder where the rumor that he just said it was dumb cartoon poo poo beneath him came from then? At least we got Nimoy for Xehonort Sr? WrightOfWay posted:I think the voice acting in Kingdom Hearts is fine, for the most part. It's cheesy and melodramatic, but that's what Kingdom Hearts is. It doesn't do subtlety. Tbh when I think “bad VO in Kingdom Hearts” it’s mostly how stilted half the cast sounds in BBS-onward.
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Mar 7, 2021 08:06
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I believe BbS was voice directed remotely from someone on the Japanese side which is never a good idea
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Mar 7, 2021 08:10
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WrightOfWay posted:I think the voice acting in Kingdom Hearts is fine, for the most part. It's cheesy and melodramatic, but that's what Kingdom Hearts is. It doesn't do subtlety. it's really loving bad from kh2 onward, like some of the worst voice direction in jrpg's considering its budget you get a few exceptions but they're mostly from actors who have been in the business for so long that they were able to power through the incompetent direction and awkward script, and i am rending my garments at the knowledge that we could have had billy zane instead of richard epcar's tapioca baritone for the rest of the series
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Mar 7, 2021 08:14
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HELLO CLEVELAND, WE'RE TAPIOCA BARITONE AND THIS IS A SONG ABOUT A WHALE
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Mar 7, 2021 08:16
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Blockhouse posted:I believe BbS was voice directed remotely from someone on the Japanese side which is never a good idea My favorite anime/JRPG thing is when someone who’s not fluent in English tries telling everyone how they should sound. There’s like one show I can think of where that turned out okay.
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Mar 7, 2021 09:42
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Kingdom Hearts gave us Paul St. Peter as Xemnas and that man has the best voice. Just the best. I started Bravely Default for the first time earlier this week and hearing him as the random innkeeper right at the beginning was fun.
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Mar 7, 2021 14:15
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I do like that each Master Nort VA we got plays him differently so we got 3 good takes on the same character.
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Mar 7, 2021 17:14
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Talking about Kingdom Hearts VO made me remember that the one evil sniper guy in 2 got elevated to being super loving important cause apparently Nomura liked his dub voice and hell, there are worse reasons to make “generic gun guy” retroactively one of the most consistent figures in the franchise than “sounds like a cool dudebro surfer dude”.
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Mar 7, 2021 19:03
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in command mission i defeated a hidden bonus boss to unlock zero's secret limit break and it looks sick. welcome to the team, absolute zero
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Mar 7, 2021 19:40
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:I do like that each Master Nort VA we got plays him differently so we got 3 good takes on the same character. I feel like Nimoy and Lloyd knew what kind of games they were in, but Hauer went full menacing with it, and they were all awesome.
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Mar 7, 2021 20:30
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:I do like that each Master Nort VA we got plays him differently so we got 3 good takes on the same character. I'm not so fond of the fact that it seems to be a death sentence. Waiting on the Lloyd news any day now.
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Mar 7, 2021 20:32
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I decided I could use some goofs in my life and picked up Xenoblade 2. So far it is extremely anime and very good. The characters are adorable and the buttrock is great as always. It looks and runs worse than I was hoping, though. I really thought Monolith Soft would have learned their lesson from Xenoblade 1 (gorgeous assets that the console it's on absolutely cannot support) but it kind of feels like a repeat of that again. Even in significant, dramatic cutscenes there have been times where things were majorly pixelated and running at like 10 fps. It's bizarre.
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Mar 7, 2021 23:52
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Cephas posted:I decided I could use some goofs in my life and picked up Xenoblade 2. So far it is extremely anime and very good. The characters are adorable and the buttrock is great as always. It looks and runs worse than I was hoping, though. I really thought Monolith Soft would have learned their lesson from Xenoblade 1 (gorgeous assets that the console it's on absolutely cannot support) but it kind of feels like a repeat of that again. Even in significant, dramatic cutscenes there have been times where things were majorly pixelated and running at like 10 fps. It's bizarre. in retrospect it probably wasn't a great idea for the combat system to be based around there being a minimum of six characters on screen at any given time either
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Cephas posted:I decided I could use some goofs in my life and picked up Xenoblade 2. So far it is extremely anime and very good. The characters are adorable and the buttrock is great as always. It looks and runs worse than I was hoping, though. I really thought Monolith Soft would have learned their lesson from Xenoblade 1 (gorgeous assets that the console it's on absolutely cannot support) but it kind of feels like a repeat of that again. Even in significant, dramatic cutscenes there have been times where things were majorly pixelated and running at like 10 fps. It's bizarre. You running docked or undocked? Docked made a huge improvement but I was willing to deal with bad frame rates and hilariously bad pop in texturss to be able to play in bed
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FF15 is a real weird dub. Everything that is just the boyband and Ardyn is gold. Some of the best VA I've seen and rock solid dialogue polished to a gleam in the localisation. Everything a secondary character says seems to have gotten orders of magnitude less writing effort and like two takes. And the generic npc barks may as well be harried interns reading machine translations. I've never seen a game with such stark and obvious tiers of performance. RareAcumen posted:Yeah that one's on me, Endorph said Square straight up in her post and I was just amped for any chance to slam Disney I was blinded to who I should actually blame. I mean almost everything else wrong with the Kingdom Hearts games probably goes back to Disney. Edit: fwiw while ideally they'd have made it all good I imagine they probably had to make hard decisions about resource and time allocations localising FF15 and whoever made the decision to divert everything to making the boys relationship as well acted and written as they could at the expense of everything else being a bit stilted and awkward... probably made the right call. A Sometimes Food fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Mar 8, 2021 |
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waah posted:You running docked or undocked? Docked made a huge improvement but I was willing to deal with bad frame rates and hilariously bad pop in texturss to be able to play in bed I've been playing docked, but I got a huge TV as a hand-me-down a while ago so I think maybe it's just not the best resolution for the game. Some of the gifs I've seen of it at smaller resolutions have looked gorgeous
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Mar 8, 2021 01:07
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keep in mind like half the xb2 team was basically kidnapped to work on breath of the wild so stuff like optimization and some bugfixes and stuff got put on the backburner. it was way worse when xb2 launched, too.
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Mar 8, 2021 01:16
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beaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaans
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Mar 8, 2021 01:23
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Endorph posted:keep in mind like half the xb2 team was basically kidnapped to work on breath of the wild so stuff like optimization and some bugfixes and stuff got put on the backburner. it was way worse when xb2 launched, too.
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Mar 8, 2021 01:37
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As someone who doesn't currently own a Switch, I'm really hoping the Switch Pro rumors are true as the poor performance on even 1st/2nd party, let alone 3rd party games is one of the things that's turned me away.
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Senran Neptunia crossover game. video games are saved
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