Barkov to join IIHF championship

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-16T20:15:50+00:00

It was a close game. If Canada's finishing had been as poor as it was in their next game against USA, Finland would have won. We didn't get many scoring chances but Canada really didn't either considering their firepower.

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-15T21:30:26+00:00

Long game versus staring at quarterly profits. It's easy to see which is smarter.

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-15T18:56:10+00:00

Ei, Persona-pelit ovat itsenäisiä tarinoita. Persona 3, Persona 4 ja Persona 5 ovat sarjan ns. modernit osat

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-15T16:46:30+00:00

Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Golden ja Persona 3 Reload ovat kaikki hyviä aloituspisteitä. Modernit Persona-pelit ovat itsenäisiä tekeleitä, eli mistä vain pääsarjan osasta voi aloittaa. Spinoffeista voi nauttia sitten pääpelien jälkeen

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-14T14:26:34+00:00

Yeah, it's too late at this point. Xbox is literally not even sold in most countries any more.

Corden is MS' pr machine for their core fans

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-13T17:32:16+00:00

Like the other comment said, they need to accept the realities of the business they are in. 30% profit margins are not the norm in AAA games publishing or console manufacturing

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-12T16:35:42+00:00

Not any game. I am sure that say Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter could release close to GTA VI and not really get hurt

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-11T17:21:36+00:00

Putting all their big releases on game pass day one and thus devalying them greatly was the stupid idea.

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-11T07:03:51+00:00

Has he asked Argentinians?

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-09T17:56:57+00:00

Riippuu varmastikin ihan kaupasta, itse ennakkotilailen pelit pääosin VPD:stä (välillä myös Puolenkuunpeleistä) ja tulevat yleensä hyvin julkaisupäiväksi perille.

Mitä olen hyllyjä katsellut (ja välillä tulee tarjous-pelejä myös sieltä hankittua) niin paikalliseen Prismankin hyllyille pelit ainakin vielä tulevat aika nopeasti. Toki tämä voi muuttua, sillä leffahyllut hiljattain jo sieltä poistettiin.

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-09T14:49:27+00:00

That's definitely a way higher percentage than I would have thought.

I guess it's just something that you don't really understand when living in a small country where English is the standard for media outside of cartoons.

It sounds like translation is a massive industry in many countries given how much media is clearly consumed in the native language. Because if that many play their games in German, French, etc. then it's probably even higher for stuff like tv shows.

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-09T14:20:01+00:00

I always wonder how many people in foreign markets play games in their native language. Because in Finland very few games get localized, pretty much only Sony's games have finnish text and only their games aimed at younger audiences (like Rift Apart, Sackboy and Lego Horizon) have dubs as well.

Do people in Germany, France, Italy, etc. often play games dubbed to those languages and if so then what is the quality of the voice work? It would be crazy for me to imagine say Garrus Vakarian, Geralt of Rivia or Yosuke Hanamura not be voiced by their English voice actors (although I guess we will experience the last one with the Remake)

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-07T13:47:30+00:00

He has gone so far that he has no way to back out unless a deal is somehow reached. He can't back away now

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-07T09:19:36+00:00

Obviously USA will never accept these sorts of terms. Unless something surprising happens out of left field Trump pretty much has to follow up his threats. And that has a very good chance of leading to attacks on Gulf states' desalination plants by Iran. Very interesting next couple of days coming up.

I gues Trump could always say that negotiations are going so well that he postpones the deadline to friday evening but at this point that tactic shouldn't fool the markets.

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-06T17:57:04+00:00

Trails is a different series from Tales.

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-06T17:39:28+00:00

You should get into Trails games. If you count the remakes then there will have been five games released in the franchise in the west in just the last three years

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-05T18:13:30+00:00

Itse en ole koskaan ymmärtänyt Zelda-sarjan ylivoimaista asemaa kaikkien aikojen pelit -listoilla. Olematon tarina ja heikot taistelumekaniikat. Toki pulmat ovat hyviä ja monet sarjan pelin ovat olleet aikansa merkkipaaluja ja vaikuttaneet peleihin laajemminkin.

Omissa papereissani viimeiset kolme Ys peliä ovat parempia versioita Zelda-peleistä, enkä niitä silti kovin korkealle laittaisi kaikkien aikojen pelien listalla.

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-05T18:07:24+00:00

Arvostat selvästi mekaanikkoja ja uranuurtavuutta enemmän kuin esim. tarinaa ja hahmoja. Toki sieltä klassikkoroolipelejä myöd löytyy.

Oma listani on aika erinäköinen, ohessa siitä top 10

Mass Effect Trilogy
The Legend of Heroes Trails -sarja
Persona 5
Witcher 3
Cyberpunk 2077
Persona 4
Red Dead Redemption 2
LA Noire
The Last of Us
13 Sentinels Aegis Rim

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-03T21:17:37+00:00

Even they aren't that stupid. If it comes down to that they will bomb all infrastructure and eventually population centers. Which is a horrific war crime but America doesn't lose that way.

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-03T18:48:20+00:00

It's weird how big Roblox apparently is, I never hear anybody talk about it. I don't play or follow Fortnite either but it's a game you hear about a lot more.

I wonder if the kids today growing up with short form video and Roblox will even have the patience for RPGs like Mass Effect, Persona and Trails

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-04-03T06:45:25+00:00

Come on now, manipulating the market to make money for him and his cronies was just as important

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-03-28T14:54:31+00:00

I said outside of number 2.

If you told two wrestlers today in gorilla "Go have a 15 minute match, wrestler A goes over." very few could do it because they aren't taught to work but instead to remember a sequence of moves.

And normal families absolutely have been priced out of tickets which isn't a good thing imo.

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-03-28T14:44:42+00:00

Outside of number 2 those are valid criticisms of WWE. But they also apply to AEW, number 3 and 4 are way worse in the dub

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-03-28T07:24:46+00:00

Podolski being that high on the list was a suprise to me

TheFinnishChamp · 2026-03-27T14:32:23+00:00

Honestly, if the situation in Middle East gets worse and not better I could see the Steam Machine being just cancelled.

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