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@somebread Nintendo fanboys would sooner cry foul about Daisy not being in the Mario football game than a nauseating display of corporate aggression.

Exoprimal (I bet they’ll have renamed it Dino Crisis), Street Fighter 6, Resident Evil 8 DLC, Sunbreak, Fighting Collection and maybe a surprise announcement.

Loving all the Final Fight love lately. I hope the Capcom ransomware leak is true and a proper follow up is on the cards.

A Smash or Power Stone clone would be a fun fit for the Crashverse. Alas, much as I love the Bandicoot, I’m not at all comfortable with giving my money to Activision Blizzard as they currently are.

@MajinSoul Street Fighter V’s development was half in house and half outsourced. Makes for a wildly inconsistent presentation.

Loving all the Final Fight stuff in the trailer. Is Mike Haggar finally going to be a playable character? Just relieved they learned their lesson after V and, you know, content in the game.

@Jgangsta187 I think is the nail on the head. Nintendo still sees video games primarily as toys and not as art. It would also explain why their approach to preserving older titles is so woeful.

Another limited release, flippin heck

Why does this company has such bizarre contempt for its fans and legacy?

@Travisemo007 the NFT market seems to have collapsed. This is just comically bad timing on Level 5’s part. That, or good old sunk cost fallacy.

Nyooming across wide open areas sounds like a blast. I’m absolutely not interested in though. Sonic’s been bad longer than he’s been good now.

I’m torn. It’s obvious this game has way more polish and effort put into it than Mario’s other sports titles on Switch. I wouldn’t call the game unfinished, but bad practice is bad practice. Nintendo’s strategy to support games post launch are a mixed bag. They’ll do it for maybe a year and then pull the plug, draining the games of any meaningful incentive to come back to them. Characters are irritating when missing at launch but are ultimately superfluous additions that don’t anything that substantial. But that seems to be what Nintendo’s hedging it’s bets on, and based on previous games, it’s not going to work. Mario Golf is dead, Mario Tennis is dead, Animal Crossing was cut short well ahead of reaching its full potential. Smash is the only exception I can think of. Maybe Splatoon 2 with its splatfests.

Dead Rising seems like a no idea brainer on the RE Engine but I think many of Capcom’s IP would do better if the company released them at lower price points. Not everything needs to be triple A Resident Evil.

Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 and Zero/ZX Collection are some of the best action platformers money can buy. The Classic collections are also very fun for what they are.

@Primo40295 I just read up on him. Poor guy. At least he’s in high spirits and surrounded with support. Hope he gets well soon.

There’s something oddly commendable about the Sonic brand’s ability to redeem its many missteps them by running them through Dr. Robotnik’s Meme Bean Machine. You won’t see Illumination referencing Hotel Mario.

Nintendo set this level of expectation themselves when they initially released DLC for Mario Kart 8. The tracks released in those packs are some of the best content in the game imo, or at the very least, took full advantage of what was possible in the base game. The retro tracks, especially the GBA ones, were given a tremendous overhaul in scale and presentation. That’s the bar Nintendo set on the Wii U and that’s the bar people expected them to meet on the Switch. We know what DLC content for Mario Kart 8 looks like. Slightly zhuzhing up tracks made for a mobile game is a well below what they’re capable of.

I have a feeling the voices are going to irritate me but otherwise I can’t wait.

A Konami executive winds up in Silent Hill and must do battle with demonic nurses that look like Hideo Kojima as well as the dreaded Cryptohead.

I have never played Minecraft, nor have I ever played GTA V. The UK charts will never take me alive!!

This game looks like it would be hilarious to do commentary for. Hopefully it gets good post launch support and a decent community.

One of F-Zero’s claims to fame is being a technical showpiece for the hardware it’s on. If Nintendo ever does play catch up with the competition’s processing power, they’d be mad not to revive the IP.

Rick Dalton pointing at the TV

Oh heck yeah, I’ve always wanted to try this!

@Abeedo Bug Fables was a chore for me. It so rigidly imitates Paper Mario that it literally only exists to be compared to it. Same with Yooka Laylee and Banjo.

@KayFiOS loathe as I am to admit it, I don’t think Mega Man is a priority for Capcom anymore. Probably still a weird vibe around nominating a successor to Inafune. Dude wrecked the gaff and then dipped.

Medal of Honour!!

I’m hoping Capcom begins to diversify its portfolio again. Ghosts ‘n Goblins and the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles were fun surprises.

Us Mike Bison/Balrog mains are sweating bullets now.

Looking forward to jumping back in. Made a new character and all to refamiliarise myself.

@Pupuplatter no one asked you to click on the article, let alone post a pointlessly negative comment.

The small roster is a disappointment but let no one ever accuse Next Level Games of putting anything less than maximum effort in their art department.

I’ve bought the pass so I’ll happily play the rest of the tracks but the first wave has left a bit of a sour taste. It really just seems they’re grafting content from Tour onto 8 without any effort to integrate them mechanically (no anti gravity) or graphically.

Hmmm, it’s almost as if he has a new book and public speaking gigs that might be affected by reports of his leadership being potentially rubbish. Sorry, Reggie, you were a good meme, but I’m doubtful this culture in your company just happened to spring up after you left.

@Snatcher the main one that everyone references are the Magypsies: an ancient tribe of fairies who are described as having no gender but appear as middle aged men in drag. Much of their characterisation and dialogue is rooted in Japanese okama stereotypes. I don’t think it’d be impossible to localise them but I also see why no one has attempted to in an official capacity.

The simple fact of the matter is that Mario has to change in order to be adapted for film. The setting is so abstract and broad in the games that you could never translate it 1:1. People are lauding the Sonic films all of a sudden as if they didn’t have the world’s most uphill battle to garner that favour, so I say give them the benefit of the doubt for now. Not a fan of Chris Pratt but Miyamoto being heavily involved gives me optimism until I see some footage.

Never underestimate Sega’s ability to take a sure thing and botch it when it comes to Sonic

Nintendo’s going to Coconut Mall everyone until everyone’s all Coconut Mall’d out

I can’t really envision Nintendo, whose already slow enough to adopt industry standards, going for something as obtuse as the blockchain. I somehow doubt that crypto bros align with their demographic.

I cannot believe Nintendo has managed to illicit nostalgia in me for motion control safety infographics

This is Miyamoto. Star Fox Zero is actually a misunderstood hidden gem. In this essay I will…

Really enjoyed it for what it was. It’s dumb, and it’s weird, and it’s way too long, but Sonic fans will get a kick out of all the fan service. I’m shocked their utilising the series’ lore as much as they are.

There’s a middle ground to be struck between immediately decrying any sexual content in gaming as tasteless, and defending the big boobas in XC2 as anything more than shallow pandering.

I don’t mind, but it’s not my preferred direction for the series, given how interesting yet grounded the character designs in XC1 were.

If you truly love Nintendo, you’ll have the maturity to accept where they’ve gone wrong and want for them to embody whatever fantasy you have of them.

Got it the other night. It’s going to be my summer game along with Sunbreak. Very fond of PS1 JRPGs.

Considering that a big part of Nintendo’s brand is making the executives (especially Reggie back in the day) appear like loveable goofs, this seems particularly icky to me. Hope it’s not true, and Nintendo firing for a breach of NDA sounds about right, but we’ve seen enough stories of companies abusing their employees in this industry for me to really be surprised.

That logo and art direction really make this come across as a Crash 4 clone. Trailer left me pretty cold too. And why would you make a platformer about a kangaroo and not make the jumps super bouncy and boingy? God I’m ranting.

I’ll get it when it’s on sale. Even the standard edition is too rich for my blood. I’m a casual Sonic fan interested in having the classics in one easy collection, but the bells and whistles driving this up to a premium price tag mean nothing to me.

I was thinking to myself recently that Kid Icarus Uprising sort of became what a dream Star Fox game would look like. Blistering and cinematic rail shooting, married with excellent ground combat that’s high on variety. All in a big budget but delightfully campy story where the characters are constantly bantering with one another. It even had an awkward control scheme too lol.