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  1. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    By completely deleting a message (or a few of them), somebody reading the topic a few days after the incident may get the wrong impression.

     

    This has happened recently in a famous topic: many messages with personal attacks were removed, so people who came later thought that some users were paranoid about some mysterious "haters" that almost never appeared in the topic. The reality, as revealed by the mods, is that the topic was actually about 30 pages longer including the deleted messages.

     

    I think the best approach would be to leave the page structure intact but replacing the moderated message with "This message has broken the forum's rules and therefore has been deleted."

     

     

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  2. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    33 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:
    4 hours ago, 1stplayertokens said:

    i'm so hyped for this reveal on the 4th that i'm planning on watching it on stream with my viewers over on twitch! the podcast i am a part of, the streamer talk podcast, actually did a segment on the amico last week as well, that episode is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/683005431 timestamp 26:42

     

     

    Very cool!   I don't think your partner is convinced.  :)

     

    Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about our August 4th Special Event.  Thank you for helping us spread the word!

     

    I watched your debate with the guy who wasn't convinced and... well, I'm sorry if it sounds rude, but your friend was here a perfect example of how people debate not to find the truth, but to justify their preconceived ideas.

     

    Don't get me wrong, the guy seemed nice and all, but I felt it was impossible to remove the "Nintendo is already doing that" idea from his head. Even when you mentioned the huge number of mobile players Vs. the people who bought the Switch, he kept repeating how "everyone loves Nintendo".

     

    Of course, it would really have helped for you to let him know that

     

    1) The Amico only needs to sell about 200K to break even

    2) The console, unlike Switch, will not allow violent or sexual content at all

    3) Switch players are officially considered hardcore, so the Amico is not really competing with them either

     

    The "I think it's a great idea but I don't think it's going to succeed" he says at the end is an opinion based on a few details that he just discovered about a product introduced to a market that he wasn't even aware it existed. Maybe I shouldn't get so deep with this, but sadly the world is becoming a worse place to live because of precisely this attitude: people refuse to think.

     

    If only people were wise enough to understand that, in most cases, they just don't know enough about something.

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  3. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    I've never been a Halo or Xbox fan and I find the new Halo memes hilarious (1, 2, 3), but at the same time I feel out of place when even Xbox fans are nitpicking on Halo Infinite's graphics.

     

    I feel like I'm in an alternative reality when people look at some HD 3D environments that look pretty much realistic and have no fog or popping and complain that "the light is not reflecting as it should" or "the expression on the face is not human enough".

     

    But then again, I'm still impressed with the first Dreamcast games that were shown, so I'm not exactly an expert in this field.

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  5. Posted

    Hey @Tommy Tallarico... Ironically (considering most messages here are NOT questions), you missed my last question! 😆👉👈 Here it goes again:

     

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    Hey Tommy, I have a semi-hard question: what do you think has been your biggest mistake since you started this project?

     

    And here's a second question, now that you're at it: has Coronavirus affected the content of any of the games? I. e. more references to masks in edutainment games.

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  6. Posted

    After both Sony and Microsoft have shown some games, it looks like we're heading to a slow start of the next generation: the graphics are not too impressive and the videos appear to show more trailers than gameplay, which seems to be more of the same when shown.

     

    Sony appears to have shown slightly better graphics and seems to have more ideas, including the new elements in the controller, but it all seems a bit forced, miles away from the revolutions that were PS1 and PS2 (even if PS2 clearly over-hyped its capabilities, but I kind of miss that hype too).

     

    I'm not impressed by any of the new consoles so far... are you?

  7. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    Since NASA is the topic and as an example, the youtuber who opens this page says that NASA was wasting too much money until you-know-who came in and limited their budget.

     

    It's one of the many things that were said in the video, just like the part when he says that all IE employees are volunteers. Really difficult to keep track or make a list, and I don'r really recommend trying it.

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  10. Posted

    I have a cool feeling when I look at the Dreamcast graphics (or any other platform of that era, but the Dreamcast was the first console and theoretically the less powerful system).

     

    I will never consider the Dreamcast and those other machines "retro". The cool feeling I have is that I still find the graphics impressive and the thing is, this was the last generation where I played "current" games and, to be honest, I only bought a PS2 and didn't play too many games compared to other systems.

     

    I played this generation roughly from 2002 to 2006, but video games were not my main priority during this era (they were during the 2 previous generations with MS-DOS and PS1). I didn't feel them so intensely, even if some games (Ico, SotC, Katamari Damacy, GTA3, San Andreas) were pretty impressive.

     

    So every time I see the screenshots and the videos I still get that "wow, textures without pixelation!" feeling, and somehow I prefer to look at the graphics from this era or the PS1 era rather than looking at current video games because I like what they were trying to do with those 3D environments, where interactivity was the key element and realism did not get in the way.

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  13. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    P. S.:

     

    Interestingly, the last "big" (meaning with marketing and not homebrew) text adventure was probably from my country, Spain: Chichen Itza, released in 1992.

     

    Not sure if this is a good or a bad thing because, honestly, I wish Spanish companies would have moved to graphic adventures earlier.  The first Spanish point & click adventure didn't appear until 1994.

  15. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    The video has caught both fans and haters off guard. It is great because:

     

    - It shows the positive energy and creativity behind the Amico

     

    - It shows that Tommy is serious about it

     

    - It shows that Tommy has the money to do this properly

     

    - It also shows that controllers are unusually resistant

     

    A great video for the fans and a terrible one for the haters.

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  17. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    In the late 80s and very early 90s, most kids in my class had either a ZX Spectrum or an Amstrad CPC (I live in Spain).

     

    Nobody had a C64 (even if tens of thousands were sold in my country, apparently), and one kid had something called an MSX.

     

    I never got to play it, but years later I learned about it. Apparently, those kids were basically playing ZX Spectrum ports, as the best games were Japanese and these used to come in cartridge and were too expensive.

  19. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    I think it's amazing what Mattel came up with in 1980, 9 years before I started playing video games: the original Baseball game looks fun even for someone who doesn't like the sport.

     

    The strategic decision to choose Cornhole as a pack-in is also surprising and it looks like it could work pretty well, at least in the US. It looks like, in many European countries, pétanque is the "European Cornhole", while bowls is a very similar sport played in the Commonwealth countries, and someone recently said here that curling would be the Canadian equivalent, so I wonder if Tommy and team can use Cornhole's engine, change the terrain, change the balls and release other similar titles in other parts of the world.

     

    The thing with pétanque, however, is that it's not a popular sport at all and is mostly played by elders (this video is filmed in the city where I live in Spain, lol) Cornhole looks more fun.

     

    Also, a great thing about cornohle is that kids can beat adults in official matches.

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  22. Posted

    10 hours ago, Steven Pendleton said:

    lol I just plain didn't vote, but I still have yet to play my Dreamcast since the analog stick seems to have some issue with it. Eventually I'll either buy a screwdriver that is long enough to reach the screws in it so I can try to fix it or just buy another controller since I'd need another one for multiplayer anyway.

    I think you can safely vote the negative option after your experience. ;)

  24. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    Hey Tommy, I just found your first hater in my country. I think this is good news! It means you're growing. 😆

     

    It's interesting how the arguments are always the same and none of them makes sense:

     

    - Tommy is not professional

     

    - The project is a kickstarter

     

    - Fig.co is the main money collecting method of Intellivision Entertainment

     

    - Fig.co is for kickstarters

     

    - The virus has not affected Intellivision Entertainment in any way, it's only that they're not being honest with release dates

     

    - The $50 prize increase is a deal breaker

     

    - Wii Sports looks SO much better than these games. I mean, like SO much better. Like you can't compare.

     

    - You can't buy the console in the company's website and that's a terrible sign (with PS5 and XSX is the same but that's not a problem)

     

    - We haven't seen the menus or eShop and that's suspicious (again, same with PS5 and XSX, but only a problem for the Amico)

     

    Add a few "I used to like Tommy" and "this is not a way to manage a project" here and there and... voilà! First Tommy hater in this famous European country.

     

    I explained everything to the guy and he still didn't believe it was not kickstarter (he then brought up fig.co and said that the Amico "should not need that according to my version")

     

    But each hater has its own original trademark and in this case this guy was comparing this project with the Evercade, where, among other stuff, all games are already programmed. 🤓

     

    I guess some people just have the need to tear down other's projects for no reason. It makes them feel powerful and special, somehow.

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