GAMING NEWS PART DEUX

No pun intended.

Balladeer wrote:

No pun intended.

Really bad jokes aside and being serious for a moment, I don't view this whole Rapp thing as a feminism issue.  Nor do I view it as a sex worker issue.  I view it as all sides being caught up in their moral high horse debates and failing to see the facts of it.  

Spoiler:

Before anyone opens that, be aware I'm not interested in a debate on the subject.  I'm simply stating my view on the matter, venting my main annoyance of the matter.  Debates, or arguments, are about changing the opposing party's opinion, as I am utterly unshakable with these views I'd advise people to if they disagree not let this turn in to one.  I'd much rather just sit back and laugh about the whole daft situation, that was mostly my getting my one grievance out in the air.

I do mostly agree with Athrun; what she was doing was inappropriate for someone in her position, and Nintendo would have been right to fire her... if all of this existed in a vacuum. Like I said, the abuse did happen, and they were utterly unsupporting, and the fact that this is how everything came to light makes their handling of the issue much worse than if it had just come out because she'd not been careful. If they had to let her go, which unfortunately in the real world they kind of did, they should have been more subtle about it, and spoken out more forcefully about the nasty business that preceded it.

I said. I bloody said.

Do the people who made Starfox 0 have any side in this? No. Just go and buy Starfox 0, and let's forget any of this ever happened. (hides under blankets)

Everyone who's spoken so far is right to some extent, in my humble, unsubtle and often wrong opinion. I feel that it's right that Rapp was fired; regardless of her nom de plume whilst in her other job, it's still her, and she couldn't do both. At the same time, Nintendo - and many other major games companies - should be strongly condemning any and all abuse given to their employees by GamerGate (or anyone). I have had enough of that horse interefering in the gaming scene.

Finally, Jimbob is right to want everything to move on. Please let SF0 be ace...

Well the Human Race sucks well the gamergate part of it as apparently, they've now moved on to Miss Rapp's family by doxxing.

Also Narcissa Wright (I'm using wiki for some of this info) speed-runner and co-founder of the website SpeedRunsLive, which allows speed-runners to race with one another in real time. Wright has previously held the records for the fastest completion of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker on the GameCube, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the iQue Player, Paper Mario on the Wii using Virtual Console, and Castlevania 64 on the Nintendo 64.

Wright was invited by Nintendo to attend the Nintendo World Championships along with fifteen other players. She managed to reach the final round of the competition, where she competed with John Numbers to get as far as possible in a series of four Super Mario Maker levels. Wright placed second in the Championships after facing difficulty with a section of the final level, and received a New Nintendo 3DS XL signed by Shigeru Miyamoto for her efforts.

Well Wright has been active since 2006, well in November Cosmo at the time came out as a transgender woman and changed her name to Narcissa and guess what thanks to abuse online from a certain group, has now deleted her twitch streaming etc.

Now I never watched this directly may have watched her due to some speed-running and of course the world championships last year. But again a certain group of the internet causes trouble yet again also I'm not just anti-gamergate, I'm also anti-sjw as well as people should be able to be who they want, play what they want without abuse.

masofdas wrote:

people should be able to be who they want, play what they want without abuse.

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you are an sjw then

Okay but not as far as we shouldn't have DOAX3 in the West SJW.

They don'y exist, apart from in the paranoid head of mad Japanese conspiracy theorists.

While it's obviously quite sad that this line of thinking exists at all, I do find it funny that some people think that fighting for social justice can be a bad thing.

And street fighters! What do they fight?!

YES

YES

YES

OH GOD PLEASE YES

And it's a Xbox One exclusive, Balla goes and crys in a corner.

Now that was industrial strength #bantz .

It's not even a lie to say it would be more likely to appear on a non-Nintendo home console

Yeah but Balla would more likely get the other big box which would be the mostly likely to get it as it would have that along with the 100's of games from Japan.

Where the Xbox One, I can't see him touching with a barge pole.

If that happens I will catmance Squeenix's HQ.  With all of my catmancy.

Fortunately the NX is going to be an unmitigated success, so that shouldn't be a problem. And it'd appear on PS4 before X1 anyway, it's too Japanese to do otherwise.

Hence the #bantz Balla, as a game from japan on Xbox One just don't do well where on PS4 they all do fairly well and the console had picked up in Japan as well that if we do see a console Bravely, it will likely be PS4 and you hope NX especially if the rumors are true that Square & Nintendo are becoming pally again.

The Xbox 360 has been discontinued after 10 years 5 months on the market, hopefully online stays up for a good while like the OG Xbox and it still gets the odd game unlike the OG Xbox but something like FIFA 17 could very well be one of the last games on the system.

The system has three versions the Original, Slim and E which has sold a combined total of 85.45m SKU's making it the 7th best selling system of all-time.

The best selling game is Kinect Adventures! with almost 22m units sold but that may help as it was bundled in with the Kinect at one point.

Best selling game not bundled in a 24m+ selling Kinect is GTAV with 17m and best selling exclusive Halo 3 at 12m.

It's best game by score on Metacrtic is GTAIV, with the best exclusive being Gears of War. The worst game on the system is Yaris which you can't actually get any more, so the dishonor may go to Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons instead.

What is this please? West Ham United sign an eSports player to represent them in tournaments? I hope he shows up to training every day and enjoys considerable financial reward too...

Disney are stopping Infinity and ceasing game development, now they will license out there IP's which does add fuel to the Spider-Man rumor.

Sticking with toys-to-life Infinity is stopping, Skylanders and down each year and LEGO is meant to be taking a bit off a hit as well but with only one LEGO game so far that might just because there is only the one game.

amiibo seems to be the only lot doing okay, as someone pointed out on Twitter is that because it's Nintendo merch not because it's a toy-to-life thing.

I was sad to hear that Disney are stopping internal game development but if that means their vast array of licenses can get into other hands instead of being swallowed by Infinity, that feels like a good thing. I won't be sad to see the racks of toys to life decrease in size in shops up and down the land.

Final point: another example of games companies thrashing a fad to death (maybe?), like the guitar controller-based games before it.

Well, that certainly explains their absence from E3! Makes me think the idea of E3 dying was perhaps a bit pre-emptive in my honest, humble, and superbly articulated and respectfully put opinion