Dezzy

Probably won't mean much for the Switch version. Most of the new features in UE5 are aimed at the next-gen platforms, which the Switch won't be able to take advantage of at all.

It'll be hilarious if it's like Game of Thrones level of dark.

Guess I'll have to play DQ5 at some point then.

If people are willing to buy it, there's ultimately no point in complaining.
Nintendo fans do seem more willing to go along with this stuff than other gamers though, which is a bit disappointing. When it's microtransactions in an EA game, people get far more vocal in opposition. Battlefront 2 being a clear example, where the audience really did force them to change their approach.

This is definitely one of the most cynical cash grabs Nintendo have done for a while. A Wii port should be selling for $40 maximum.

I have major NO plans in response.

'Mild naughtiness' is staying up late on a school night.

Lol you can't ask questions like this when the comment form is formatted to not allow one-word answers.

There's a tetris community?

That's just dumb. The publisher should treat them based on the quality of the work, not on how well it sells. There's too much randomness in what sells and what doesn't.

@ThomasBW84

Yeah that's not an issue then. I should've checked what the awards were first.
I'm fine with them having different categories for things like 'social impact' or whatever it is.
It only becomes a problem when that stuff takes over the entire awards, as it seems to have done with the Oscars now, at which point they seem to become completely disconnected from what the general audience enjoys.

Not that I watch the BAFTAs but I hope they're not going in the same direction as the Oscars and only nominating depressive self-obsessed artsy stuff that only a few dozen people want to play/watch. No offense to these devs, I'm sure it's a great game. But it is depressing when this is what awards shows turn into.

The only real reason to buy a Wii U now (to softmod it) is one you're not allowed to mention Lol.

Well that will be worth very little in a decade, so he'll have to sell it all pretty much immediately

Probably none of them really. Dig was my favourite, but I think they pretty much did everything they could in Dig 2.
Heist was great, but a sequel would probably struggle to do anything new.
Just make something new. Maybe a pure platformer?

You did all of this over an argument of semantics?

@nessisonett

I'm 90% sure they're not gonna change the core story. The silly KH ending was just a way of creating uncertainty going forward, so there would be more tension and curiosity about what happens.

I remember the world being lower contrast in the past.

Buy a new piece of clothing once a decade. That's my solution to "sustainable fashion".
It sustainably annoys people who care about fashion too, which is a nice bonus.

You can't really have your main programmers for any piece of software being temporary contractors. That's something the project leaders really need direct control over.

MCC on Switch seems like the most likely to me.

The fact that he plays the "seducer" in his own game is so creepy and weird. I'd prefer letting everything get published though, no matter how dumb they are.

@PikaPhantom

That's a short childhood!

Well I appreciate at least having a date for when we can expect major things (Botw2 and Halo Infinite mostly)

It would've been without the temple of infinite replays.

Lol well this was quite a disappointing stunt from Platinum. Coulda just shown us Bayonetta 3.

They should try expanding their reach with some good games

I need to see convincing evidence that it has a notable impact on sales before I buy this explanation. It no doubt does over the short term, but if it was available permanently, then quite a lot of those extra sales would just be pushed back over the next few years, surely?

Is this including ports and remasters?

Lol this series doubled its audience size by just giving the heroine nice legs.

50 hours isn't that long when you have to select 4 different options before performing any action.

The running animation made me have a seizure. I think that's what it was.

@SwitchVogel

Do you know how big the budget is for it?

@UltimateOtaku91

Those are Square Enix. I'm talking about Mistwalker, Sakaguchi's company. They made 3 console games then permanently switched to mobile.

I kinda stopped paying attention when they abandoned console games really!

Thanks, but I can't view 8K. My screen won't display it. I'm not even sure if my eyes will register it.

It says this financial year, so Zelda could be next March.

Only a digital controller in Europe though

@NEStalgia

Yeah, but a lot of developers have said working from home has caused major delays for them. I don't think we can just assume to know that they'll all be just fine with it.

All I know is that with my own working from home experience, it is caused a pretty big hit to productivity, because people don't work as hard, and don't communicate as efficiently.

@GrandScribe

Capcom is publicly traded. Its owners are thousands of different people, many of which are likely middle class, and possibly even work at Capcom. Many of them were likely in the exact same amount of danger (which given that the death rate for covid in Japan has been tiny, is not much danger at all)

@GrandScribe

What on earth are you talking about? Nearly everything you just said is wrong. The owners are the only ones who pay directly for any loss a company makes. Workers can lose a job sure, but that's not money they already have that's been invested. That's future money that they just won't be paid.
For workers to actually lose money from a company doing badly, they'd have to have their wages retroactively taken back off them if the company doesn't profit, which is simply illegal, that doesn't happen.

@Heavyarms55

You risk your life everytime you walk outside. Risk is a relative concept, not a binary. Covid poses almost no risk to health young people, so it's not reasonable to expect a company to respect that for any longer than they need to. If you want to talk about old people or people with pre-existing health conditions, then it would be a different issue. But I assume most of their staff are under 50, and therefore in very low risk. Especially in Japan, where the death rate has been absolutely tiny. Not much different to the yearly flu in Japan.

@GrandScribe

Of course you don't get a share of the profits. You only get a share in profits if you're also taking a share in the risk and losses, which your average worker isn't. If they want to do that, they can buy stock. Capcom is publicly traded.

@Heavyarms55

Unions are no help if a particular practice (e.g remote working) is heavily damaging the company's revenue. That's a practice that's going to be forced to end either way.

@NintendoByNature

What does "forced" even mean in this context though? If they want people back in the office because the productivity was too low with remote work, obviously they're going to have to "force" it, otherwise too many people will just choose the easy option, and the business will suffer.

So I'm not clear what's actually being claimed here. Is Kotaku just misleading people over the fact that everything they're doing is totally fine and normal for a Japanese company? Or is there some actual law they're breaking here?

Hang on, is this against the law or not? You say it's against the "rules", but don't say what rule it's against.

If there's no current law forbidding it, of course a company is free to get their staff back into the office. There's almost definitely a big productivity cost in having everyone work from home, that businesses aren't going to want to pay for any longer than they need to.

Final Fantasy is really the only gaming music that I'd ever want to listen to outside of the games themselves.

Looks good. Capcom always seem to make the most attractive third party games on Nintendo systems.

His nose has fewer polygons, Lol.

So is it good on Switch yet?

Samus Returns for sure. They'd probably have to remake most of the game though because the graphics are quite crap. Might as well just make a new Metroid.