Sunday, March 17, 2019

Controversial Steam game, R*** Day, pulled by Valve

Update: It appears that Sidalpha had a video with R*** Day and other games in it posted earlier than the time the blog article was published. There is an article from Bounding Into Comics that was posted a week later regarding R*** Day as an additional news.

This is probably a challenging news for parents, schools, game jam venues, conventions and even workplaces when it comes to setting up a new policy against inappropriate stuffs in video games whether it's about playing them or perhaps, developing them. The indie game development studio, Arcane City Game Studios, were the subjects of the public outrage and they even attracted those who were against Vic Mignogna, the famous voice actor who was fired over false allegations or whatever but I should intend to steer clear of any topic involving him as you may risk getting attacked for siding with him or going against him. It's like two sides have been fighting each other like there's no way to know which one is the real truth to the other side. The same battle takes place between people who were PISSED over whatever inappropriate stuffs depicted in the Steam game, R*** Day, that was pulled by Valve and the game developers and publishers of that game.
In that game developed by Desk Lamp, you control the "most dangerous rapist in town" during the zombie outbreak. The kind of protagonist surely says it all and no gaming platform manufacturers like Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft are going to welcome this kind of indecent shit like that. The only gaming platform that allows this shit to be published will be Nu***u game console or the Nu***u game service. It can be ridiculous if someone comes up with the copyright warning message saying that R*** Day should be used only in the polar regions like Antarctica for instance only as a replacement to the Auto-Save message as if playing it outside of those is equal to copyright infringement.
What happened what that someone by the name of Spencer had reported the Let's Play videos of the previous game, The V****n, to YouTube to have those videos taken down as well as reported the official Twitter account of Arcane City Game Studios for indecent game development. What about Desk Lamp, had that person reported them as well? Following the reports, Spencer eventually made some tweets that drew tons of attention including the attraction of critics. Unfortunately, the way the attention was drawn was going to remind you of the past gaming days as if people were ignorant about the plot or some sort according to Arcane City Game Studios but in case of R*** Day, the controversy had gone to the next level. Following the attention, Arcane City Game Studios had the guts to attack back anyone who was pissed including Spencer by calling them some type of warrior. To get the other games taken off Steam just because of something offensive is already questionable in the first place as R*** Day is not the only game taken off Steam over that reason.
To call this kind of criticism or report "whiny" or some shit is childish in my opinion and Arcane City Game Studios should be ASHAMED, not calling back out those who called them out. Sure, there might be attacks between those two groups as well as the fact that the game was pulled from Steam but the development game studio should not continue to come up with such disturbing games like R*** Day.
The cyber-scoldings delivered to Arcane City Game Studios were REAL but to dismiss the scoldings like you've done nothing wrong and reporting them as abuse is epic bullshit. Even the Q&A answer of theirs from the game's official website pissed me off as well as if they may get banned from going back to their parents' home if they have their own homes. Also, the petitions to get the game pulled from Steam had gotten a victory and bravos to those who had made ones. However, to include the hashtag related to the Vic Mignogna case is WRONG. You can't compare this controversy to whatever that has been happening to him. Funny thing is, Arcane City Game Studios is siding with him even though they are obsessed with disturbing stuffs in games and cartoons. Not to mention that they have called certain fictional characters spouses or whatever and their overall actions are enough to score a permanent block from me on my accounts.
Sure, you can be a game developer/designer when you grow up which is fine but you need to know which kind of studio to work at and especially for looking at the list of games published/developed by them before you decide. Punishments may occur on you should you get caught playing the indecent and disturbing kinds of games like R*** Day or The V***** in homes, schools, conventions or even the game jams. I hope the game jams do not condone the disturbing kinds of game like those by Arcane City Game Studios. Get caught developing the disturbing and disgusting kind of game for the game jams, and you'll be BOOTED OFF THIS INSTANT! Nobody's warning you about this but I should be sure that Arcane City Game Studios should know better. Plus, I don't support, condone nor defend that kind of game like R*** Day or The V*****. Even certain movies, books, TV dramas and cartoons have that sort of fictional offenses like what goes on in R*** Day and it's a shame that someone emulated whatever actions from some AAA game and there was a news like that in which he drove his parent's car as if the whole thing was like that AAA game and caused a bunch of collisions or something.

Some links from Bounding Into Comics website to take a look at for viewing Spencer's tweets:

Friday, March 15, 2019

Neo Geo Mini obtained

I sort of had the mixed opinion about the Neo Geo Mini even before I bought it for real. Firstly, the picture quality isn't that sharp when the console is hooked up to the TV which displays 720p. Secondly, the controller seems to be missing the click-iness as that component seemed difficult for SNK to produce but it is still fine nonetheless. Third, is the lack of the battery feature for the console. People were affected by such opinions but at least, the experience is still enjoyable.
As of this writing, I sort of enjoyed playing the Neo Geo Mini and this is probably my first step in legalized collection of Neo Geo games. Other legal ways to obtain Neo Geo games would be to buy them for PS3, PSP and PS Vita via Neo Geo Station, PS4, Xbox One and Switch via Hamster Arcade Archives, Wii and Wii U via Virtual Console, PC via Steam and so on. The Asian version of Neo Geo Mini is based on the Japanese one but the copyright warning screen obviously applies to the Neo Geo MVS games like there's no need to worry about copyright issues or something as if the stores had the rights to sell the Neo Geo Mini in the first place.
In the sea of Classic/Mini lines of consoles, the Neo Geo Mini suits me the most with tons of arcade games in stores for me although I may be a big sucker at them, mostly fighting games for instance. Needless to say, the boss fighters may be quite tough and the difference of the move lists between the games in the series may be a big confusion. Indeed, there are already differences in the command lists for the same character in the KOF series. Later KOF games have the EX-Mode that is activated by pressing certain buttons at once. Unlike the Neo Geo Station, there doesn't seem to be an official way to look up the move lists for the Neo Geo Mini system. I have to look up online for those moves and see if there are moves that I can pull of.
Controller-wise, the arcade stick felt more like the console controller's analog stick and the same goes with the buttons which are like recycled from the Neo Geo AES controllers.