@iboshow said in That's News!:

https://hmkd.sega.com/ Hype for sega

It's a new console.

Is...is Pokemon Masters a good game? It's sounding like it might be a good game.

Or is it the successor to the 3DS?

There are unfortunately many communities on the internet where this level of misogyny is acceptable; I just want to try to do what I can as a member of this community to keep it safe for everyone.

Please don't use terms like THOT here. Or anywhere, really.

Yeah, and the current hint was like, "Look for the boss that can fit in tiny places," which is for something different. There was never any mention of the ID or its destination. They also never replay these scenes, so if you forget any of it or accidentally skip it, you're on your own.

Side note, though: These scenes are hilarious. Miriam is a fantastic protagonist. She is so much more well-rounded than her weird gothic lolita design implies. I really wish they designed her as less of a caricature than they did.

I just got the stupid ID, and spent two hours looking for where to use it. I finally gave up and looked it up, and I'm not even upset; as far as I know, they gave absolutely zero indication on where to go to use the ID. This post has no purpose other than me venting about it; the game is pretty great otherwise.

Super duper janky on Switch, though.

I mean, you could at least be like, "We could potentially add them in as DLC." I guess Pokemon releases too often for DLC, though.

Also, shoutout to this very funny tweet:

Fully realizing that nobody asked for this, I've been looking for excuses to practice pulling datasets from the internet and working with them. So I give you this:

Game re-releases and how they are named

Before I go on with commenting on the charts, there are a few things about the data that you should know:

• All of this data is being pulled from the igdb.com database.
• For two of the terms, deluxe and hd, I hit the cap of requests to the database. This means that I could only pull 200 games, but there are more games in the database that aren't included in the analysis. HD, in particular, fell victim to me not putting a space before the term, so words that just had an "hd" in them were returned. While those games aren't included in this analysis, hitting that 200 cap pretty seriously skews the data. This is a relatively easy error to fix, but with such a stupid analysis, I'd rather just take the hit than go back to work where my Python compiler is, haha.
• Especially for deluxe and dx, many games are titled in a way that makes it hard to tell whether the term is meant to indicate the game was re-released, or just to put a fancy word in the title. More on this later!
• 124 games were missing release dates. There's no way of telling how the 124 missing dates would skew the data without going back and filling those in!
• I removed 2019 and later from the analysis; not all games have been announced for those years, so I didn't want to make it seem like the terms were trending downward just because there are fewer games overall.

The first chart is just a column chart of each term; the more games released with that term in the title in each year, the higher the column. The lines take the average between that year and the year before (so at 1990, the line will be at the average between 1989 and 1990).

The first thing that pops out to me is a huge validation for @kevboard ‘s comment about how HD fell out of style once HD became the norm. There’s a large spike around 2012, which falls off pretty quickly; even falling off completely at 2015! (PS4 released in 2013) With this much missing data, we can’t say that there was never a game released after 2015 with HD in the title, but it would stand to reason if that were the case.

I'm also surprised by the spike in deluxe at 2017. Like I mentioned earlier, it's hard to tell with a lot of these titles whether the "deluxe" was because they were re-releasing the game, or just putting a word in the title that makes the game sound interesting. A lot of this seemed to happen around those games that you would see for $5 at Walmart; hidden object games, Bejeweled clones, etc. My guess is that around 2017, there was a phase where developers would throw "deluxe" in the title of games (especially on Steam) just to make it seem loud and dynamic and interesting.

Without checking all of these games (igdb actually has a field that might make this easy to do, but again, Python is at work), there's no way of knowing, so they're just included as-is. Also, it does kind of make sense to include them; developers name their games "deluxe" to make it sound better than "normal," so it's not completely incorrect. It does skew the relationship to the other terms; you can't use "Remake" in the same way, for example.

I think it's interesting that HD and remaster have a sort of inverse relationship that starts around 2013. It's really why @lakest started this thread! Even though, yes, HD is now the norm, I think this supports the idea that developers are using "Remastered" for the same purpose they were using "HD." Remake has a bit of a different connotation, so I'm not sure it will share the same relationship with remastered, but it does seem that nobody used Remake until recently.

Now for the second chart:

The second chart is a clustered column chart that compares across the terms. It's really meant to give you an idea of the "naming culture" of the time. For instance, if you walked into a game store and looked at a shelf labeled "new re-releases," what words would you expect to see the most? Of all the games re-released that year, the size of the bar represents the space on the shelf taken up by each term.

Again, deluxe seems entirely over-represented. But with this chart, the impact at 2017 doesn't seem as intense. In fact, in the 2010s, deluxe is taking up less space on the shelf than ever before, since all terms are now being used.

The remaster gap from 2002-2007 I think is mostly due to the missing data. I can't imagine they stopped making remasters completely, although to be honest, 2000 is way earlier than I was expecting that to start. (PS2 released in 2000) I also expected definitive to show up a lot earlier.

That's all I got for you today; let me know if you ever want to see something like this again!