Einherjar

Probably one of my fav games in general and the support over all those years is truly astounding.

Still one of my favorite character designs of the series.
Imho, it's a great "bookend" design bringing the super saiyan transformations back to its Oozaru roots.

I'm really glad that the games and especially the Heroverse never let go of the GT transformations ^^

@BloodNinja Every console port has been this way because the arcade version runs on a double-display cabinet.
The PC version allows for a dual monitor setup in arcade mode and it's absolutely glorious!

Still, lord knows why they chose to port the standalone arcade version when a perfectly good console port of Chronicle Savior (Which features the arcade version, roughly 190 stages of CS Mode goodness, even more stages in DLC Mode and not to mention quite a lot more ships) already exists which can run on a freakin Vita...

Heck, even the price is similar!
This is simply a massive ripoff. If you have access to a decent PC, a PS4 or a PS Vita, get Chronicle Savior on one of those.
Costs the same, infinitely more content for your money.

It's astonishing how salty people can get whenever something about Bloodstained is mentioned...

@Ardisan
"Stop looking into these games as though they are some spiritual sequel to Zero/ZX/X, ask Capcom for that."

Well, technically Capcom asked Inti for that to begin with xD

But i'm totally on board with you here. And truth be told, tagging was the one feature that took me the longest to wrap my head around as well. It just goes against the muscle memory build up by said MegaMan games.
But it's learnable and it's great fun once you do.

@Travisemo007 Copen? He also used the tagging system by tackling into enemies.

@SalvorHardin Do you mean the tagging system? That has been the series main mechanic since the very first entry, why should they ditch that?

After all this time, you'd think that the studio gained enough experience to at least produce a technically sound title...
It's not their first rodeo on the switch, they already worked on weaker hardware, it's not their first 3D game...

When's the point where someone sits down and goes: "Optimization and polish...we could use some of it!".

@Dirty0814 "Not really" what exactly?
I wish NL's quote system would copy or at least link to the respective message...

@JasmineDragon @BloodNinja @Ryu_Niiyama
I'm starting to sense a market niche for gamer eye patches...hmmm xD

But it's great to see that none of you are losing your passion or hope! And fingers crossed that your cataract is treatable Jasmine!

Still makes me wish the Darius collections were a little more..."complete" than they are for their ridiculous asking prices.

I love Darius to bits but i'm perfectly honest, for these prices, you better offer something emulation doesn't...

@BloodNinja Oh, i have no issues talking about it, no worries ^^
We actually haven't found the source of it yet.
The best guess so far is Multiple Sclerosis, but that could never be officially diagnosed (You need proof of inflammations in either the spine or brain, and neither was found in me).
All we know is, that my nerves tend to spontaneously get inflammated which severely damages them over time.

That makes things like martial arts a bit...tricky
But i'm getting by just fine so far ^^

@BloodNinja Ayup, i sadly can't properly play Garegga due to its small bullets.
My optic nerves are damaged (Only one working eye) so everything with low contrast is a no-go for me.

@BloodNinja Absolutely correct.
With "moving all over the place" i specifically meant the "frantic dodging" most people instinctively think they have to do, while in fact, most games expect very deliberate, minimal and precise movement.

You're not dodging most of the bullets, you're literally telling them where to go while you go somewhere else

But all in all, what the Ninja just said! ^^

@NinChocolate Which is ironic, since you often move a lot less in a well made Danmaku than a regular Shmup ^^
It's the one thing that games like Touhou teach you: The more you move, the harder things get.

For anyone interested, the good Mr. Wendal over on YouTube made a great little video on the matter ^^
https://youtu.be/pbHv-s4CMHM

"Mario Kart Won't Follow The "Racing Sport Simulation" Trend Seen In Recent Racing Games"

@SmaggTheSmug That would make much more sense if we were not talking about games and IP's that sell tons by name alone.

As much as i hate it personally, but Sunshine has been one of the most requested rereleases for decades. You couldn't possibly increase interest in that even more if you could.

And if its purely money, a far more sustainable business decision would be to push Nintendo Online subscriptions with exclusive games like an official FE translation.
That's fixed, calculable (long term) profit, not miniscule proits by an artificially scarcified NES game sold for pocket money.

Same with Mario35. It's a game you could milk with DLC.
5-10 buck packs with new themes, or even shenanigans like battle passes and such.

"It's all about the money" is all well and good as an explanation, if it would actually be the more profitable decision :/

Limited time, limited stock offers of physical collectors goods celebrating the anniversary of something many people consider their childhoods during a global pandemic which can make shipping difficult to impossible.

Yeah, i also fail to see the issue here to be honest.

As for the digital games. There has to be some kind of a spin to it. This is just way too arbitrary.
If it was just the Mario stuff, sure, anniversary over, done.

But that Fire Emblem game kinda throws a wrench into that.
They went the extra mile to translate an old NES game only to have it vanish on an arbitrary date for no apparent reason?

The game isn't even as significant as their marketing wanted people to believe. "First time ever this story is told in the west"...while apparently completely forgetting that they remade the title on DS before with a world wide release...

Oh well, we'll see.

Already got it, but due to delivery issues caused by our lovely doomsday scenario it won't get here in time.

I've avoided as much spoilers as possible and only hope that is has less smartphone game-esque nonsense than the original.

Without streetpass, the whole town building aspect falls flat on its face. That means shops, gear and even bonus bosses are lost.

I really hope BD2 is a tad more future proof...

It might just be a local issue (Sadly doubtful) but for me, overall performance has actually become worse.

Now the camp has massive frame pacing issues and stutters immensely. Stages like the swamp which had problems before are now neigh unplayable. It still freezes a lot and, which is new, the camp now has plenty of broken textures.
Several ribbons on the shops are just plain black.

I really like the game overall, but technically it is a gosh darn mess that needs to be fixed soon...
We're two(!) season passes in and to think that a DOOM or a Witcher 3 manage to run while Minecraft Dungeons struggles and freezes... It's a sad sight...

@SoManyHaveDied Let's leave it at "You still don't know anything" ^^ While it does dampen a surprise or two, it's not as spoilerific as it seems ^^

@mezoomozaa Why not? It's a very stereotypical design for Heater shields.
The overall design is probably inspired by the knights templar, although the color scheme is off.

Basically, someone over in Japan looked into medieval European designs, found a templar shield and liked the design.
Plus, personal shields were a rather rare thing in medieval Japan if i remember correctly.

@OorWullie Darn, that's super neat!
Thanks for the info!

Ryu looks fine if a little on the slim side but man, Chun Li is competing with her MvC:I counterpart in who's looking more off-model...

And seeing that they're genuinely asking ~22 bucks for a set of skins is baffling...
Well, not as baffling as the fact that people are actually willing to pay these prices...

@OorWullie "The original songs" as in the actual songs, lyrics and all or just the game version in better quality?

I probably never get the sensibility towards stuff like that.
Sure, there's no need to glorify regimes and their iconography specifically, i get that.
But instances like that, where it's simply an iconic style element found in a plethora of classic Japanese art, i really don't see the inherent connection to the navi.

It's a bit like we Germans banning/altering pictures of Buddhist temples sporting a manji because it was later misused by the 3rd reich.

I think what's bothering me is that context seems to become more and more irrelevant.

No idea how anyone managed to get Doomsday Warriors to be put onto the service...

I just gave it a shot and...well, it's playable i guess...
It's as basic as it gets for a sidescroller and overally pretty unremarkable.

This round of additions to the Nintendo Online Service is truly...baffling...

So they "more than doubled" their profits when their EGS exclusivity contract ended?
It's almost as if EG's "throw money at the wall and see what sticks" method doesn't really draw customers... curious...

@VIIIAxel "The developers have insisted time and time again that they will never add microtransactions"
They said the same about Nitro Fueled and look where we are now...
They added it quite a while after the release so it won't hurt sales.

Someone is getting an envelope with a red wax seal soon...

Its combat looks atrocious.
It's this "action combat system" we as kids used to build in RPGMaker...
There is a good reason why Link's attack range spans at least another "tile" and isn't directly tied to its sprite...

@Ralizah Agreed. Although it's somewhat of a special situation regarding Cold Steel IV, as it literally doesn't just wrap up the CS sub-series, but the entire saga as a whole.

But yes, it shouldn't stop anyone from at least getting into the Cold Steel sub-series, even though it's grand finale might lack the "grand" part for them.

@Ralizah Technically, the PC is the only platform where you can get the entire series in one place.
But @nessisonett has a point. While the games / sub-series' are good enough to stand on their own, it is a tightly connected, ongoing narrative from "Trails in the Sky" all the way to "Cold Steel IV"

It's a shame Falcom didn't make sure one of their most excellent creations stays easily available considering its lifespan (And their obsession with porting Ys Book 1+2).

Bundle the older games together, get someone to finally officially translate Zero / Azure (Or license the phenomenal work done by the Geofront) and port it to everything with a current!

It's a series that deserves to be enjoyed from beginning to end ^^

Based on the fact that no one seems to have heard about this game before even though it's trying to ride the cyberpunk coattail, i'll go out on a whim and guess it's a marketing gimmick to fish for "Now i'm going to support these guys!" people.

And let's be real here, we had plenty of cases like this in the past. ResetEra, one of the internets biggest and most wretched hives of scum and villany that still gets attention form the industry somehow, is infamous for such outbreaks.

But these outbreaks are petty and vocal. You'd have heard about it.

Also, making a Cyberpunk styled game and not using the yellow text meme to propose PR statements...weak PR game

Nah, i think this is a case of a boy who cried wolf.

Let's all hope that once their done with uni, McDonalds salaries will be high enough to make it all worth it!

@StinkyHat Kamiya blocks everyone on social media. So much so that it has become a meme now.
One of the stretchgoals for the Wonderful 101 remake was to get blocked by him.

Kamiya has always been like this. He simply doesn't like PR.

"Being an intense, memorable experience up front is more important than replayability"

I have to strongly disagree. To each their own, but i prefer my videogames to be replayable and my movies to be intense, memorable experiences.

And i'll probably never get the appeal of these things either.
I fail to see the fun in watching a movie with an unnecessarily complicated "Chapter select" menu...

Again, if you like it, more power to you, i just don't get it.

While i'm not particularly fond of the artstyle i have top to say, that remix is pretty dang amazing though

Whatever that CalArts abomination under the Cuphead one is, i hope i'll never see it again...

@NEStalgia Very well put together! Perfectly understandable, even though i don't necessarily share your views, being one of the people where it clicked.

But i can definitely see what you mean.
While DMC and Bayonetta offered a similar selection of weapons and moves, W101 does so all at ones and has enemies that flat out require you to use certain things (Whip Vs. spiky enemies) exclusively and break up your bread-and-butter.

The thing is, when it clicks, this is also its biggest asset, as all these shenanigans can turn the table around and make it exceptionally easy.
But yeah, it has to click, these unite forms need to come naturally and fast, you need to be able to grasp the battlefield quickly and analyze enemy composition, where to put what team unite, watch out for incoming attacks etc.

You know, the more i think about it, the more it sounds like an RTS

@WoomyNNYes It's "F1 Race Stars" by Codemasters

To be perfectly fair, Codemaster lost their touch after DiRT Rally anyways. They made some really off-putting decisions after that one.

But no one deserves the fate of being in a tug-of-war between two of the most greedy and corrupt corporations in the industry.

Much like others said, we probably see a handful "Need for Speed: DiRT" titles and see yet another long standing dev go the way of the Dodo...

@NEStalgia What is the problem if i might ask?
The platforming can be a bit iffy due to the forced perspective, the QTE's are fixed and thus, learnable and the overall combat system it actually closer to Bayonetta / DMC than many realize at first

One hint i can give you, that i didn't quite realized back on the WiiU:
Make use of the independent Unite attacks (Draw the form and press X instead of Y).
Not only do you dish out more damage, they also contribute to your combo rating, thus, giving you more money which makes the game easier ^^

Also, there is no shame in grinding out older levels again and again. You level individual Wonderful's (Yes, they all have levels...), gain money and mixer components.
Plus, you practice combat ^^

Games like these become way easier the more comfortable you get with their controls and your available move set.
When those split-second decisions become muscle memory and you develop your own "bread and butter" combo routine, lower difficulties become a cakewalk ^^

Looks like a slightly remixed version of the "Capcom Classics Collection".
It now all comes down to price.
Don't overshoot it Capcom and you might have a sale here ^^

@bobzbulder Funnily enough, i never had any issues with Minecraft on Switch myself and i tend to be pretty excessive with farming (Lots of crops and animals) which was a performance killer on older console versions.

And i usually have a pretty high tolerance for bad performance.
I'm an absolute Musou game (Dynasty Warriors and Co.) fanatic, i'm used to poor performance xD
But Minecraft Dungeons genuinely stutters in a way that makes me sick and gives me headaches for some reason.

And, well, the swamp stage stutters so bad that it regularly crashes my game as well.
With certain seeds, the game just stutters to a screeching halt, forcing an app shutdown.

And it's quite a fun game too! I underestimated it due to its relatively low amount of content in the beginning.
But i just can't enjoy it sadly.

And general performance is still abyssmal...
It's quite astonishing to see such a simple game stutter (and inevitably crash) so badly...

So no, no DLC for me until the switch version stops making me sea sick.

@NGNYS What i also never quite got about that argument:
Even if it's "just" a port...there's a big chance that it's the games first release on a handheld platform as well.

It's not just a console port for another console.
It's a console game potentially reaching a new audience, in this case, Nintendo's avid handheld gamers.

At the end of the day, people will complain about everything anyways.

Imho, the focus on a younger audience is one of Nintendo's more defining traits overall.
It starts becoming an issue if you start to treat kids like idiots, a.e., you dumb down your software, you insist on almost condescending restrictions etc.

While kids don't need to be exposed to certain types of media, they definitely should be exposed to media that teaches them to use their own brain.

@Kirby_Girl "It's OK when we do it! It's totally not X when we point out X first!" A true classic

Again, only thing left to say is: Please get in contract with certain cosplayers and tell them about their "ridiculous" bodies because it clearly isn't the female form if the council of totally not sexism isn't greenlighting it

And there are plenty people who already don't care about it.
Believe it or not, there are people out there able to look at everything else on the screen besides those dastardly scary "anime tiddies meant for boners". It's shocking, i know.

But oh well, you do you, there are far more important things to do and care about than scary videogame hip-to-boob ratios.
Hope you have a great day. I have to find out who lost my delivery... sigh I'd much rather stay here and bicker on xD