Dezzy

The Wii U was massively valuable for me because I didn't have a Wii, so the backcompat was important. It also plays Gamecube games unofficially. So it's something I'll hang onto for decades. As long as it works.

It's a false dichotomy. Indie is about whether they're independent of a big publisher (mostly in terms of funding).
AAA is about budget. Completely separate issue.
There are plenty of games are neither indie OR AAA. Something like the Tales or Ys series is neither.

Lol, in other words "no way in hell would we have been able to manage it with God of War"

I was gonna mention this but isn't it against your own site rules to promote any modding on current consoles?

This is the video game equivalent of having Jesus appear on some toast.

That's great but we're still waiting for a sequel to Rayman Legends, one of the best 2D platformers ever made.

@nessisonett

No, we have tax payer funded healthcare. People are still getting paid if they do a job. They're not offering to open a "gaming addiction" clinic purely staffed by volunteers. They're gonna take tax payers money for doing it.

Sorry but what a bunch of crap. If you're 13, you shouldn't be getting addicted to ANYTHING, because your parents should have complete control over how you spend your time.

This is just another example of how bureaucrats love to create problems so they can demand to be paid for offering a solution. It's just a classic extortion racket.

"Fortnite revealed our own lack of parenting skills to us. They must pay!"

What on earth is that word in the title?

They do need to actually create something new for the 2D Mario series. The last 4 games have been basically the same thing repeated.

What if you never take the bus?

He is slightly just trying to advertise his own company's services.

Lol they're nearly all women. People are just choosing waifus aren't they?

You'd think Nintendo would help them out given that their failure was largely to do with the console generation change.

A lot of that is probably just the difficulty of quickly upscaling a team. Once they get used to making HD games as the norm, they'll probably optimise their team a bit and reduce the number of people.
1000 is way too much for something like this. Breath of the Wild had fewer people.

I've already finished the damn thing. Too slow Nintendo.

@JuiceMan_V

You've been pre-banned for saying it's a mess. Lol

I need a framerate and resolution analysis from Digital Foundry!

@JayJ

I think it's just copycat behaviour really.

@Zyph

I've only ever experienced it on Switch. No other consoles.

@BarefootBowser

How is a user poll poor journalism exactly?

@JayJ

What engine produces this art style? I don't think that's the reason at all.

Unreal and Unity are the 2 most popular engines by far, and both have programmable shaders (meaning it can have any art style you like)

What is it with this particular art style in indie games at the moment. There've been like 4 games that look exactly like this in the last week.

That's exactly what I'd guessed in the forum thread. I bet they're trying it out to see if they could develop it into a standalone game.
It may need a bit more work...

@Patron

It's incredibly similar to 8. Just better graphics.

@Level_Up

LTTP has a much darker style to it though. Don't think it would really work with this exact art style.

FF9 is standing in the background looking all "Hey, what about me?"

The lack of a TV adapter is the only thing that stopped me getting one.
I don't understand why remove that entirely? Why not just have it sold separately, so it could essentially be sold as a handheld.

Doesn't really sound any different to me. Except the increased capacity.
"Influencers" already went to E3. As far as I know, it was generally decided based on your userbase until now. If you have a big audience, they didn't care who you are.

Well done to Greedfall. I don't think that developer has ever had a release in the retail charts like that before.

@WynnThornton

The problem with your definition is that it fails to account for the fact that very large organisations are made up multiple entities and groups of people, that are often in competition with one another, or at least have different interests.
If you're saying that Nintendo can't censor Nintendo because it's technically the same group, then you're also committed to saying the US government can't censor the US government because it's the same group. So if the US president told the EPA they can't release climate change data to the public, you would have to say that it doesn't count as censorship. They are both just part of the government, and therefore it doesn't count.
Hopefully you'd see why that would be disingenuous. That WOULD be censorship. It's only NOT censorship if they're part of the same interest group and have the same intentions. The legal organisation they belong to is less meaningful.

@WynnThornton

Yes I agree with that definition.

Although it seems unlikely you'd change something after it released based on nothing but their own change of heart. Developers don't tend to do that. It's not a messy practice.

@JayJ

If you haven't noticed how debate on the internet works: People redefine words so it only applies to situations where they agree/disagree with it or not.
In the case of censorship, a lot of people redefine it post-hoc so it's only censorship if they dislike what's been done. If they agree with it, it magically never counts as censorship.

Why bother include an abusive backstory at all if you're just gonna back out and censor it?
Either leave it fully or take it out. And preferably BEFORE release.

I don't generally trust media sites when they're writing hitpieces nowadays, because there are so many liars in the modern media who get a power trip off trying to ruin people, but the evidence is fairly good to support the general point of this investigation.
Using private chat logs seems a bit dubious though. How on earth can we know those are real?

The presenters felt like they were being held at gunpoint.

There's an insane number of good JRPGs on the Switch at this point. This one is gonna struggle to compete for me.

@GrandScribe

No but it was more likely given the current popularity of the series. Skies of Arcadia is very niche.

I'd love to see Skies of Arcadia get the HD treatment that Xenoblade is currently getting. I doubt it'll happen though.

Why would they spend so much time and effort on the battle models but do nothing with the ugly worldmap? Makes no sense.

@Matthew010

The size of what?

It's annnnn ExClUsIvE

Those are quite bad sales for Astral Chain's first week. Especially given that it's incredibly japanese in its style.

Can't believe they did nothing to update the world map model. It looks hideous.

@Aaron101

Yep, that's the ideal. Although people on Steam still review bomb games.
I think that's the most useful review in general though. There is no perfect solution.

@Scorchio

Scrapping user reviews would be a terrible idea. It would give far too much power to "professional" reviewers, who also behave ridiculously on occasion, and often don't represent the opinions of the audience.
Having both scores is the best way of doing things.

@JasmineDragon

It's a heavily stylized sci-fi game where you control a monster as a weapon. You're looking for realistic clothing styles in the wrong place.
(Also, you can change the clothes in-game)

Lol there's always a basketball court in their modern ads.

It's rather dubious how many supposed competitors are actually part of the same media company (The Gamer Network).