The thing about Piracy is that you’re never going to stop people who weren’t going to buy the game anyway from pirating it, but you can pursuade people on the fence by offering a service that’s more convenient than piracy I don’t know why companies don’t realize this
It's usually because they're stuck in their ways, and so daft that they'll dig their heels in when they're standing in quicksand. And when that happens, it's our moral duty to free them from the quicksand by sawing their legs off. The more they dig their heels in, the more of their legs get stuck, and the more of their legs we'll have to saw off.
Because they know that piracy doesn't actually affect them to any noticeable degree, but it *does* make a very good excuse to push shittier, more intrusive 'anti-piracy' measures into their games to harvest your data and work out how better to bludgeon you into forking out for further monetisation. Plus, its a great scapegoat to the shareholders for when a game flops. It wasn't *our* fault, it was the pirates leaking it!
One thing that most people don't seem to understand is that most games that are pirated, end up actually selling well. Most people that pirate a game actually end up buying it at one point when it's convenient for them. Another thing is, pirating serves a way to have a "demo", especially for PC games nowadays where Demos have become **rare**. Personally, I've done my share of pirating, and the only 3 games I never bought afterwards were Shenmue 3, Mighty Number 9 and Doom 2016. One was a disappointment, the other was trash and the other was just Generic Shooter 2016.
I jailbroke my Switch and put Mappy-Land on it like a year ago. I simply could not wait on Nintendo to have access to such a milestone in gaming history.
@@SimoSensaiUK It's not hard at all it takes like 15 minutes to set up. There are some great tutorials online. The only thing is you need to buy a jig but they are like 6 bucks on Amazon. Also a sizable SD card is good to have as well.
It would be one thing if the people who made these games were continuing to be compensated for the labor they put into making these games, but they aren't. They got their pay day back in the 80s, and now Nintendo gets to be the digital landlord who gets paid to own things.
I heard a rumor once that the members of Nintendo's board of directors are so old and decrepit, they genuinely have no understanding of things like online functionality and game preservation. Like if someone tried to propose new online-centric ideas to them, they would respond with "what is that, what are you talking about," and any new ideas or products of that nature have to be very carefully snuck in under their noses. Probably isn't true, but it would explain a lot. Side note, loving that winter coat, boss. Looks very good on ya.
Well, if that is true, then it shouldn't be long until nature does it's thing and we'll have someone that knows what online functionality is in control of Nintendo.
*Work smarter, not harder* -- Scrooge McDuck Random NIntendo CEO: **snore** **snore** *FANGAMES ARE THEFT!! GET OFF my...lawn...* **snore** - **waits patiently the reply's inevitable deletion by RU-vid's algo-with-no-rhythm**
While exaggerated that's completely true. Japanese corporate culture is ruled by old men using decade old flip phones and utilizing business tactics from the 80's. There is change happening, but it's glacially slow.
Hey Stephanie, I heard from Inside Gaming that Insomniac was not properly giving credit to people who worked on Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, and one of those people was the writer that pretty much created Rivet. I don't know if you already talked about it on Twitter, I try not to use Twitter for my own mental health, but I'm would love to see a future Jimquisition tackle this
Gabe Newell: "One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue." If Nintendo did their service right you wouldn't be pirating. This is their choice. I'm paying for the Nintendo multiplayer features because I'm hooked on Monster Hunter... but I wont forget that the feature used to be free, and that both Sony and MS provide more with their similar services.... and that on my PC I don't have to pay for multiplayer at all unless it's an MMO with a subscription fee.
Nintendo: "We are shutting down the eshop for the WiiU and 3ds in 2023. You will no longer be able to add funds at the end of August" Also Nintendo: "Why are you pirating Xenoblade Chronicles X? Their is a perfectly good beat to hell copy available on ebay for $200!"
this is a point I ALWAYS make when discussing emulating discontinued games. you can only buy them from random people online, not the company themselves, so they see zero dollars whether you pay for it or pirate it. buying from joe from ohio has the illusion of looking better bc you're forking over money, but in practice there's no difference. if they won't offer me a convenient and affordable way to officially pay for a game, I'm not gonna.
If Nintendo had their way it'd be illegal to sell that copy on eBay. This is only slightly a lie - Nintendo lobbied the shit out of Congress to ban videogame rentals and had the balls to sue Blockbuster for renting out - *gasp* - copies of *game manuals*! What they'd much prefer is a world where when they stop selling the game, the game disappears, so they can keep their customers on a perpetual purchasing cycle.
@@SuperSmashDolls yeah, iirc they went after the manuals because going after the game rentals themselves failed. so blockbuster and the like just started writing and printing their own manuals. nintendo really is the worst in a lot of ways. rarely any sales on first party games, virtually NO price drops even years later, and of course the worst online infrastructure of any major gaming platform. they have the gall to not only make you rebuy digital games you already bought, but now they're just renting them to you through a monthly service. come the fuck on.
Not gonna lie, the hat and winter jacket combo rocks. One Note: They aren't "giving us" Mappy-Land (had to scroll up and check), they are renting it to us.
While ever other creator keeps reminding me that I am a thief for downloading roms, it feels good to see someone like Stephanie tell me it's okay. Maybe I am a thief, my moral compass about this specific topic is so broken at this point that I cannot be sure
@@snonyabeeswax It's certainly a gray area, but I agree with you. Then again if they offered all the old stuff but it wasnt affordable I would still likely download the roms
Theft implies that for whatever you took, the original owner is now deprived. Downloading a rom of a 20 year old game is not depriving the license holder (rarely is the developer even around or the same so they're not benefitting) of their ownership of the IP nor their ability to market it and sell it. Piracy is not theft, no matter how many times grandstanding moralizing busybodies try to tell you otherwise. Piracy is, much to the chagrin of multi-million and multi-billion dollar gaming conglomerates, a natural outcome of the system THEY perpetuate. They don't want to compete in the market, they want to be comfortably unopposed in the market.
Hey, man, it's okay if you pirate games. Even if it _is_ wrong, you're entitled to a few things just for you. Society will always only ever tell you what is best for itself, never what might be best for the individual.
The people who made the game, the programmers, the game testers, the designers, the people whomade the scores, etc were paid during the production of the game. Once its launched they do not get any royalties or benefits if the game is succesful.
Mappy-Land and Dig Dug 2 were some of the best NES games they've added for months (with the exception of Earthbound Beginnings). That's not a compliment.
@@rolfs2165 Yep. There are two Namco Famicom/NES collections. Got the 2nd volume since it had Legacy of the Wizard but both Mappy Land and Dig Dug 2 are on there as well along with a few others.
@@TheKonamiMan is their emulator any better than the stock Nintendo one? Because at somebody that grew up with emulators, the switch's emulators is so barebones. Like even the one for the Sega collection you can get in the same system is far more feature packed.
I can't help but get the feeling that emulation is a better use of my time and/or money than paid services from most game publishers. Also, Mappy is the least cop like name I've ever heard. It sounds more like the mascot of an early '90s edutainment game about geography.
Same with torrents and streaming services. People will do it better in their free time, if given the chance than these multinational companies for profit. Depressing isn’t it?
Thing is with emulation you get access to Rom Hacks and the like. Sure, I could play the vanilla version of The Legend Of Zelda using NSO, orrrr, I could acquire a rom, use an IPS patcher and have a much better version of the game. My current favourite is modern classic edition, which replaces the NES sprites with Link's Awakening sprites. Very cool. Better than NSO by miles.
Yes, emulation is better in every regard. I modded my wii and 3ds ages ago and can now play pretty much every worthwhile snes, nes, gamecube and nds game. And the the romhacks are amazing. They're basically just slapping roms in that service anyway. When they put actual work into it, like the upcoming live a live remake, THEN they can get my hard earned money.
I hear the N64 games Nintendo's running on the Switch (an extra tier of expense above the normal iirc) run much worse than the emulator versions too. Pretty shameful. If it was a solid product, I could be convinced, but why would I pay for an inferior service?
Emulated and pirated versions usually run better than the original versions. The problem was there were running worse than the original N64 versions. They have been updating them and they are at least comparable in comparison in the worst of cases. This video is mostly about the new games that were added to the 20 bucks yearly subscription, not the expansion pass, which costs less than 5 bucks if you abuse their easily abusable family system.
And not financially exploiting children. And artificially contriving "scarcity" of its products by limiting production. And region locking content and merchandise. And probably some dodgy tax tricks. And probably verbally, physically, and sexually abusing it's workforce (cause every major corporation seems to think that's just socially acceptable behavior since not one that's done it ever actually faced so much as a single consequence. proletariat uprising? Why yes, I think I will join the movement.)
What are their issues in regards to accessibility? They are not industry leaders in that aspect by any means, but you could say that their "easy modes" and such in their first-party games make them relatively accessible, for example the auto-steering and auto-driving in MK8 Dx. Or do you mean in terms of accessibility to legacy content?
the fact that nintendo took time out of their regular schedule of attempting to send emulators to jail for multiple years to dribble out Mappy Land just proves the video's point.
@@dwaynezilla Mappy-Land is actually a really awesome game. You just don't give it a fair chance. I've played lot of NES classics and Mappy-Land is one of the best.
Top quality video as always, also I've gotta steal that "remember kids, you can't steal from a corporation, it's call reclamation" quote for a patch on my punk pants or punk shorts.
I still hate the expansion pack. If it was a little bit more then sure, but doubling the cost is so stupid. Literally nobody buys nso to play the nes and snes games. They pay for it because they need to so they can play games like splatoon, mario kart, smash etc. Online. The s/nes stuff is bonus.
I upgraded because I was looking forward to the N64 games added. But then I realized you can't re-map the button configurations for the games, got pissed off trying to figure out how to play Star Fox 64 on the damn thing, and I haven't touched it since. Yeah the Mario Kart 8 DLC is cool I guess, but trying to play Star Fox 64 on the Switch without being able to change the controls to something that makes sense given the controller? What an absolute waste that can/should be easily fixed but very likely won't because Nintendo doesn't give a damn.
@@TheD1995B the mario kart dlc costs about as much as buying the expansion pass so unless you really like animal crossing and don't have a controller you can hook up to a computer for emulation then you really should just buy the expansion pass for mario kart rather than upgrading nso. It costs like a couple of bucks more but at least you won't have to pay for it again next year
@@devastatheseeker9967 Yeah I know but like I said I was also looking forward to the N64 games, and even Genesis games they were offering so I upgraded. I know I could always emulate, but I went through my years of emulating since middle school into my early 20s and frankly I'm just too lazy for it these days.
@@TheD1995B There is a way to remap buttons on the switch. On the home screen, you go system settings -> controllers and sensors -> change button mapping. I haven't really worked with button mapping on switch, and I don't own the expansion pass, but maybe you could figure something out from there
I understand licenses and stuff but drip feeding games that would unironically take around 1 second for most people to download a rom of isn't the best way to get people to pay for something. In fact NES games are so small you can have literally every one ever including some hacks and translations and still be using less than 1.5gb.
said before and i say again: these should've been public domain already. what the fuck are we waiting for?! it is apaling to no end that there is still copyright on games that are 15+ yo. i mean, some of them are so old they are legally allowed to drink.
It's funny when gamers today riff on a drop in framrate like it's poor emulation when that's the way NES games were 😂 it's like bullet time, it's not a big, it's a feature 🧐
It's unfair how much I laugh from the ironic stock videos of jovial dancing people to the sarcastic news about Mappy-Land coming to NSO. It's just such a purely funny juxtaposition.
Yeah, corporations don’t like the fact their tacit control is easily undermined, and they invoke morality while ignoring any such considerations on their end for their actions. Corporations need to be put in their place, they don’t dictate to consumers what they’re allowed to want, their selfish greed needs to be called out and checked.
That's the thing, I won't have corporations talk down to me and speak of morality when they wouldn't know the first thing about it. The idea of a corporation having to fall back on the concept of morality because their product sucks compared to other easily acquired offerings from the market speaks volumes you how desperate they are to try to dissuade people from doing the obvious.
It's just like the finance industry. When a household defaults on its mortgage, goodbye house and you should've been more responsible. When a major financial institution knowingly gambles with half the economy and loses, slap on the wrist and a giant bailout, it was too complex to predict (even though people predicted it), these things happen, etc etc, anything to deflect accountability and keep the broken system intact. That's why stealing from a corporation is reclamation. Because you know a corporation doesn't blink at stealing from you, and they're empowered to do so by the economic system.
@@Rich_P_Anya I’m speaking to the majority of corporations that all act the same way, sure there are exceptions, and obviously I’m not talking about them. It’s cringe to hide bad actors behind good ones.
Just gotta say, JSS, that the past month or so has been so damn refreshing! A new topic every week! A little bit of representation talk, some discourse on accessibility, another spotlight on a shitty monetization scheme gone awry, even a bit of good old fashioned game design talk about Elden Ring’s open world design! This has been a real wealth of topics, and while I agree that workplace abuse does need to be talked about and still needs to be talked about, these past several episodes have kept an excellent balance of that shitty shit vs more mundane or even silly shit like nerds screaming at each other over lipstick on the internet. Thanks!
I was gonna say it, but the commenter above me just did: do you *really* love Nintendo, or do you love the games they make? Because I don't really see what there is to love about the business.
That's the problem - these old games are forbidden pieces of software because they offered complete products for a one time purchase. There's a damn reason they're only available legally on SUBSCRIPTION based services. Because they're not monetizable. You can't charge people microtransactions or force them to grind on these old games because their economies (if they even had any) were built to maximize player fun, not additional income streams for the publishers.
But if we pirate the old games, how are companies like Bethesda going to re-release skyrim for the 20th time while fixing nothing and adding more microtransactions?? Obviously we have to stop emulating games so that we can fail to play Mother 3 because they decided not to localize it again instead of just playing a 16-year-old game that they openly refuse to give us.
@@Wiimeiser Technically.... no they weren't. Though not to the extend of movies....... (where the famous '90 minute mark', is a market-researched, minimum to make sure movie-goers didn't feel ripped off, while allowing for more shows per day) They were build to get 'enough playtime out of them to secure(not neccesarily warrant) the sale', but preferably 'not too much playtime, to prevent the sale of the next one' 'technically, defending the point attacked with a technicality' When recognising the existence of competition, especially in the 'entertainment'-business: if you aren't 'the most entertaining option available' your 'play-time' is 0. Though not the end-goal Jukantos' statement holds. And yes the 'old' games where 'if you want to make twice the money, you need to convince twice the number of people you are the more entertaining option', relied on this more than the 'if you want twice the money, lower the odds on lootboxes. you might lose a few of the whales, but trippling the profit on those who remain, make up for it' batch. (see also 'fines for willfully poisoning people < profit from said poisoning'....... )
I hear the current meta for handheld emulation is to use a homebrewed 3DS. I'm still kinda scared of modding my own 2DS, but once the e-Shop closes down for good, I'll say all holds are barred for me as well.
I modded my 3ds ages ago. There's almost no chance of bricking and it takes about an hour at most. Plus, you can still buy games on it. Heck, mine ran smoother after I did it. The themes i bought never worked right until I modded my 3ds. But, a major step in the process is downloading a certain free game from the eshop and using a randomly generated friend code. So I'd do it at least a month before the shop closes if I were you. It's way easier than videos make it sound.
Thankfully, that dickweed isn't involved in the new show. The official Twitter account confirmed that, before proclaiming that trans rights are human rights.
@@ince55ant I think I heard somewhere that all earthworms are technically female and only one small part has the ability to inseminate, which they can live without. So we don't even need to pretend!
Doug was just an illustrator, I play Earthworm Jim for the soundscape by Tommy Tallarico and the design talent of Shiny Entertainment. Doug can eat ass and die. He also did the claymation for Skullmonkeys and The Neverhood, the latter of which is heavily lined with his style of aggressively hostile catholic ideology, recontextualized into a quirky secular friendly clay world for evangelism purposes.
i didnt know that thing about the earthworm jim creator. There's a lot to keep track of in the "person you used to respect is openly transphobic now" market
@@jamesrule1338 oh yeah that seems reasonable. Everyone over 40 is an innately malicious and bigoted human rather than being the product of a different environment or simply disagreeing with you ideologically. What an unbelievably pig-headed thing to say. Aren't you supposed to be grown up when you hit 40?
@@cosmosofinfinity whether he meant it literally or not, it doesn't change the fact that it's a very telling and horribly ignorant thing to say. And to all of you agreeing with it, I wonder what sort of relationship you have with your parents.
3:43 Trademark issues. Harvest Moon has to be called Story of Seasons over here now because Natsume held on to the trademark when Marvelous switched NA publishers to their own subsidiary, Xseed. I guess they either don't have the resources to edit the rom to replace all the logos or don't want to go through the trouble of editing the rom to replace all the logos. Even plenty of fans of the franchise still haven't figured this out (Nintendo advertised the Friends of Mineral Town remake like once with a trailer) and I'm not even among them.
That's another element to this that also gets ignored when talking about publishing classic games. Throughout the years many of the trademarks and license rights to these titles often have changed hands multiple times and even just trying to determine who has the right to publish what making the whole thing a giant mess of legal red tape and is an utter nightmare of achieve via legal channels. As the laws stand as they are now, there will likely never be a legitimate complete archive of any game library in general.
@@Draginhikari Not to mention abandonware, a concept that Sega is a little _too_ familiar with because they only ever port the same ten games over and over.
"[illegal copying] is almost always a service problem" - Gabe Newell (it's more than that but it is a large part of the problem, something Nintendo doesn't seem to care that much about)
For all this talk about “who has the worst online experience?” between Series X/S and PS5 (which apparently is all what console war people seem to discuss when not having pointless arguments about exclusives), Jim happily reminds us that there is a crowning jewel that everyone seems to completely forget. A shame too since you would think if Nintendo was more “haphazard” with their retro library (rather than drip feed with a few games each month), they could have a retro service that could give game pass a run for its money (even if by a little bit).
It would be awesome to play Gamecube games online trough Switch or eventual Switch 2 but I'm not going to hold my breath. But hey, at least we have Dolphin emulator.
@@LuffyMcDuck Dolphin is amazing. So easy to use, and it absolutely delivers. I've been getting into emulation recently, and Dolphin is among the more impressive pieces of software I've encountered doing that.
For no particular reason, I'd like to point out that I've heard the Steam Deck makes it extremely easy to conveniently download every emulator that exists.
I do think it would be convenient to have the old Nintendo games alongside the new stuff and all the Switch functionality, but Nintendo sure makes it as inconvenient as possible; making these archaic, very small games (that could easily be downloadable roms) only playable while you're online, when one of the selling points of the Switch is portability is just baffling, but profit over convenience I guess
One thing I think I'd worth pointing out is that it isn't easy to necessarily make a straight comparison between community made emulators, that have been developed over many years by hundreds of different people for free, Vs something developed internally that needs to make commercial sense. The best emulators our there are freeware so corporations can't just plug those in and call it a day. At best, they can use open code (which many do) but that is usually only a starting point.
Not that it makes it much better, but Tennapel doesn't hold any rights to Earthworm Jim games anymore and the people who do are trans allies, much to his very public annoyance on twitter
Give it some time, and Nintendo will start adding nothing but AVGN-tier games to the roster, and it'll only be one release per year. If that doesn't finally break the rabid part of the Nintendo fanbase, I don't know what will. They're probably beyond hope anyways.
Capitalism has failed. The idea that leveraging competative markets to increase competition and entrepreneurship is not intrinsically terrible. However, companies and governments have shown time and time again that they are not interested in preserving the guardrails that would make such a system worthwhile. Monopolies and monsoponys abound. Companies preside over abusive, discriminative, and exploitative cultures and get a slap on the wrist at best. Workers face ridiculous hurdles to unionize never mind organize and negotiate. Meanwhile, companies don't feel any obligation to provide enough recompense to live on, never mind save money, never mind raise a family! Everyday essential goods and services that people need: shelter, water, energy, education, transportation, communication, healthcare... are carved up for corporate vultures to feed on. Meanwhile our political, legal, policing, and media systems are almost wholly captured. The whole framework is not only broken, its completely beyond repair. The situation is so bad that the supposed payoff of capitalism: increased material wealth for everyone, is increasingly no longer true except for a rentier sociopathic elite. An elite which likes to pretend that the system is meritocratic rather than hierarchical (despite ever-decreasing social mobility), and that everyone else deserves to be impoverished. What a joke.
@@hashaskinner Oh, it'll change eventually, when the market grows unsustainable enough. We've seen it several times before; Rome, China, Egypt, and several other legacies all collapsed but managed to rebuild into thousand-year empires because they made the last-minute switch from a capital-only economy to one that offered more social services to their citizens. Of course, whether it'll happen in our lifetimes, or rather, before global warming or other massive disaster kills most of us, is another discussion entirely.
If one is unconvinced of Jim Steph's argument i recommend RU-vidr Nerrel's videos about the subject, showcasing direct comparisons between switch emulations and variants and direct high quality emulations
Imagine if copyrights expired in a sensible time, like 30 years. Mappy Land would have gone off copyright in 2013, Earthworm Jim 2 would go off in 2025.
Remember when Nintendo introduced the 3DS Ambassador Program, which put 20 games including Metroid Fusion, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, and LoZ: The Minish Cap up on the 3DS eShop for early adopters of the 3DS? Remember how the 10 GBA games released through the program were never made available on that system to anyone who wasn't an "ambassador", effectively proving that they absolutely could have made plenty of these games available to the public but actively chose not to? Edit: I want to be as clear as possible here that the ten GBA games I'm talking about were completely free to ambassadors but not available AT ALL for anyone else. If you wanted to play them, you had to find other means of access. Anyway, Nintendo's handling of its digital sales platforms has always baffled me. I know they like to position themselves as innovators who don't follow trends or whatever, but outright refusing to sell your back catalog of games as one of the longest-standing publishers in the industry strikes me as a bizarre business model.
they are indeed more bizarre and stupid in that regard than outright scummy... Also, this is valid for their own game, because third party has licences issues... so the problem may also be with the licencing laws.
I hate how almost every single discussion on Nintendo's shitty business practises of the month always have to start with people saying "I love Nintendo, but-" It just drives home the point time and time again that Nintendo will absolutely keep getting away with it, because everyone refuses to make the call to just say "Nintendo is bad". They always have to make up this idea that the Nintendo making games and the Nintendo selling games are two different entities entirely just to avoid having to carry the guilt of playing/enjoying their games and perpetuating the cycle of them getting abused as customers again and again
Not everyone, just Nintendrones...Nintendo hasn't unquestionably dominated gaming since the Genesis made a statement that freedom was still an option, and the Nintendo that sells Nintendo games has noticeably bled into the Nintendo that makes Nintendo games for quite some time now, making anti-consumer decisions that snarl up the actual product and tarnish their Nintendium-clad reputation (Joy-Con drift and Pokémadden, anyone?).
1:59 "I mean, the last time an NES game made it's way to switch, it was June 2021" Stephanie, I am not disagreeing with your other points, but Earthbound Beginnings says hi.
@@retrofan4963 I can explain, sweetie, don't worry! I was referencing a joke Stephanie made in this video! I don't really have an opinion about the quality of Mappy as a game, I've never played it. Hope this helps!
@@yourpalfred Mappy games are actually really awesome and extremely underrated. Jim Sterling talk like the Mappy games are bad, but they're really not. They're genuinely really great. Mappy series have tight controls, really fun and addicting gameplay, and also has great music. I recommend trying them out if you have the chance. there's the original Mappy, Hopping Mappy, Mappy-Land, Mappy Kids, and Mappy Arrangement. So Mappy is successful enough to have sequels and spinoffs going on.
I was just thinking the other day, “I am glad I am subbed to Sterling’s channel, but where the hell is the Mappy-Land news!” Apparently, I was too naive to understand the timing. Once again, Thank God for James Stephanie Sterling.
Mappy was one of those games you saw in those 302-in-1 bootleg carts constantly, along with Circus Charlie, perfect for playing for 5 minutes and leaving no impression on you.
@RhinonChips Respect the classics you ignorant. Mappy series is one of the best classic series ever made. And the Mappy games overall are really great and fun games even to this day. Without the classics, modern gaming wouldn't be a thing.
2:59 Does TenNapel even get royalties for that? Interplay made upcoming EJ cartoon, Beyond the Groovy without him and there's an upcoming game for Intellivision Amico with him only as an _"unpaid_ consultant" (which will either never happen or get ported off to another console because it's the Amico, really) so I'm guessing not.
I had someone, in full sincerity, tell me that NSO's game offering was better than both GamePass and PS+, because nothing ever gets removed from NSO. But like would anyone have noticed if they removed things?
Nintendo apologists are some of the most incredible people as far as delusional levels. Anyone that could see that with complete sincerity and really mean it is a complete lost cause.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Nintendrones, Sony Ponies, Xbots, and PC Master Racers all make the fatal mistake of worshipping corporations as gods and trying to befriend them as people. Corporations, like governments and fire, are dangerous servants, and fearful masters; never for a moment should they be left to irresponsible action.
I recall when they re-released Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow in the 3DS shop in like 2016-ish and people were so excited. Who hasn't been emulating gameboy games since 2002?
I think they were excited not because the games were available for the 3ds, but rather that you could obtain stuff from those games to the (then) newest games without having to like, own every game and console released up to that point, as they were announced to be compatible with their shiny new system of dealing with transfers. But that brings up another question, why the heck wasn't that content available in the new games themselves already?
2:56 I can't overstate how disappointing it is to hear that Earthworm Jim was made by a homophobe/transphobe. "Well, is it possible that Doug TenNapel is just being taken out of context?" He doubles-down on every one of his hateful comments. He's said that transphobe and homophobe are made-up words used to "slander conservative people of faith". "Well, could it be that he didn't actually have that much control over the Earthworm Jim games?" He's credited as the creator, writer, designer, and voice of Earthworm Jim. "Well, Shiny Entertainment sold the IP to Interplay ages ago. He surely couldn't have too much influence on the series these days, right?" He's been writing Earthworm Jim comic books as recently as 2021. And for the record, these questions aren't being asked by some hypothetical strawman. I was asking them to myself as I was grasping at straws to exhonerate a franchise that I used to like. The more I researched, the more hateful shit I found.
You know, by gendering Earthworm Jim he technically transed the character, as all worms are hermaphrodites (they have both genitalia, and use them both for reproduction simultaneously making both partners pregnant). Bet Doug didn't think that one through. Wait, does that mean that Messiah and Sacrifice two of my favorite original games are also tainted by this douchecanoe? :(
@@Syurtpiutha Lol, transphobe makes a trans character, that's hilarious! Doug TenNapel left Shiny Entertainment in 1995, so he's not credited for working on their later games like Messiah and Sacrifice. (Congrats on being one of the five people in the world who remembers Sacrifice!) There are a few other developers at Shiny who stayed with the company all the way from Earthworm Jim to Sacrifice, like David Perry. So, y'know, at least a few of them must not have been assholes, right?
@@FizzleBurger Sacrifice is one of the few RTS-games I actually enjoy. It was ridiculously quotable (especially Charnel and Stratos), and the character design was proper bonkers while still making some semblance of sense within its world. Pity it never took off. It was really groundbreaking but probably too far removed from what people expected from an RTS.
He just created the character, you make it sound like a way bigger deal than it is. Shiny programmers and designers actually made the game itself and put his assets in, that's literally it for his involvement.
@@Syurtpiutha Sacrifice failed entirely because having a computer at the time that could actually run it was extremely expensive. It was reviewed very highly, there just wasn't enough people out there who could theoretically buy it to make up for the huge investment. Sadly it was its extreme ambition that killed its chance of success, it was literally too good for its time.
My favorite part is they're getting so confident in just saying the goal is neofuedalism out loud that the Federal Reserve is openly calling increasing wages the biggest threat to the economy and calling on Congress to help keep them down.
This needs to be mentioned more. The Switch UI is so bare minimum and shitty. The store has no life or personality to it yet it chugs like it is about the crash the console. I miss the days when Nintendo gave a shit about anything.
Two thoughts: 1. The emulated Switch games running better on a PC makes sense given the Switch is made out of graham crackers. 2. Batman would be way different if his parents walked down Ass-Fuck Alley.
So.. did you know that there is a town called Intercoursein Pennsylvania? Its right between blueballs and paradise (real towns). Sounds like a good place to film an intro.
I never understood how Nintendo just hordes all the games. It has hundreds of games that can be imported to switch. It has soooooo many amazing game that young and old would play and spend money on.
Exactly. I'd like to *not* spend 70 goddamned dollars on Smash Bros. 64, but the only other option is emulation, which means I can't use my gamecube controllers on it and it just... feels weird using Xbox/PS controllers on a PC to play an N64 party game.
As one of the few dozen Mappy fans, this is still absurd. Needing an internet connection to play Mappy-Land is ridiculous. I like this game; it's a fun sequel to the Mappy arcade game, but anyone acting like this is a perk of NSO worth mentioning is wrong. You don't even own it! You just rent it! That's even worse! They aren't even trying to outcompete emulation. It's pathetic. If Nintendo and Bandai Namco really wanted to make an actually notable NSO release, why not put up Mappy Arrangement? That, as of now, is arcade exclusive. Why not release Mappy Kids in English? A game with its only English release exclusive to the Evercade handheld. At least in those instances, there could be a genuine argument that accessing these games is made more convenient. But Mappy-Land? It's already on Switch too! As part of Namco Museum Archives Vol 2, along with Dig Dug II and a few other games! This release is laughable. NSO, in many ways, is a joke. Also: fun fact, in the ShiftyLook web animation adaptation of Mappy, he loses his badge after shooting a painting and spends the whole show trying to bring Goro (the big cat) to justice. Things go to shit because of Mappy's hasty actions. At the very end, a character fourth wall breaks to describe the plot as "a dramatization of the dangers of unregulated capitalism." Even they know it's bad. (Though, the show was not written by Bandai Namco staff but by writers employed by their ShiftyLook initiative) (I just thought it was funny trivia to mention).
Nice vid, but still heavily politically motivated and disrespectful. No wonder I've skipped your Jimquisitions every Monday now. Same ol' dribble to take pot shots at opposing political ideals by using the game as an excuse to bash Police as if it's cool with all your audience. You had one job JSS, one job.
I'm generally opposed to piracy, but when there's no legal copy available for purchase (or the legal version is unplayable), I don't really have any convincing argument against it. The demand is there; someone is going to fill it, so if Nintendo chooses not to , the pirates will.
My switch has retroarch. if I want I can run all games that run In retroarch with the power of the switch. Also someone right now is working in porting the psvita os to the switch to run natively, this means that I will be able to play my psvita games on the switch natively. The switch right now is becoming the best way to play all of nintendos software and also the best at being the promise the vita showed. And it all required someone to hack it.
That's why I believe that the "Piracy I'd a service problem" quote is wrong. There is no legal way Nintendo can officially offer that is in any way close to that.
@@onewingedgamersephy modern vintage gamer has a vid on it, while its still in early stages, they have been able to run a couple of apps on it. To me this is a good thing as I have a shit ton of psp, psv and psone classics that I will be able to run on switch without needing to run retroarch, which is good but need more work to get ps1 and psp games to run on the switch. Also being able to play ps vita game on it would put the switch ahead of pc in one department.
Creator of RetroArch helped harass a trans coder to near-suicide. Might want to consider looking into a different emulator collection, or just using them standalone.
If Nintendo were smart they’d realise they could be in a position to be the Netflix of games. They could very easily emulate and upload their entire 30 year plus library to their online service and use it as the hook to get subscribers. “Here’s every Nintendo published game from every Nintendo console and portable prior to the Switch. In exchange for a subscription you get all that plus regular updates with any third party games we can license”. That’s be an impossible deal to pass up. But Nintendo would rather leave all that sitting in an archive collecting dust, and doll out one measly ROM every 6 or so months.
Doesn’t help that Nintendo is shutting down the WiiU and 3DS e-shops soon, where you can buy various different retro game, which means you can actually own them as opposed to your ownership being tied to a subscription service meaning your access to the games is dependant on what Nintendo has decided to include (RIP anyone expecting Game Boy (Color) games anytime soon), and can always be removed at a later date. On a different note, what cartoon is that at 4:12? I love the character designs.
"...actually own them". I've long come to terms with the fact I don't "actually own" any of the digital games that I pay for, whether on Steam, PS, Xbox, iOS, etc. Same thing on Nintendo. What helped me reach that acceptance was primarily only ever buying them on deep discounts, and then hoping they don't get taken away for any reason - my worst experience with that was when at least half my iOS library didn't get updated during the shift from 32 bit to 64 bit a few years back. If there's a game I want to actually own on consoles, I buy a physical copy and then still have to hope there isn't some phoning home to servers that may eventually be gone for it to launch, or some always online condition for single player which is more often seeming to be the case. We are shifting away from the ability to actually own the new generation of games, just as they've planned.
@@collin1240 Fair point. To me being able to re-download a game I bought is better than nothing…but it’s still a very precarious situation as you pointed out.
"Take police badges from people, and give em to mice! We'd see just as much policing, and fewer beatings!" That's gold, but I also feel like we'd see an appreciable rise in lyme disease and plague with a cadre of mice cops just as eager to abuse their newfound power as their human predecessors. That or mice turn out to be far more moral and respnsible with the systems of authority and law enforcement, and our world is swiftly changed by a drastic shift in who is truly subject to our laws.
Corporations should not be treated like a person. They are practically immortal and often possess more wealth than most of the people they're regarded alongside. Keeping corporations as a "person-like" entity could be fine, but it should be legally separate from meatbags and have their rights come _after_ the rights of flesh-and-blood humans. Because if you put corporations and meatbags in the same bucket, the corporations snuff everyone else out through their amassed power.
Before this episode I was playing super Mario on my toaster using fucking dials. Now thanks to you Jim I'm ordering an Anaernic so I can finally play while taking a dump. God bless you.
I've been playing Nintendo games literally as far back as I can physically remember, and I can tell you that NSO has been a comical disappointment since day 1 and it's only gotten worse.
