@gaga64 Welp, nostalgia is a great money making machine, and it seems going back to the golden age, and hoping for a revival will be a money maker for SE.
Personally, I doubt many of these old franchises will be the money makers Square hopes them to be, but we will see.
Lol, I swear this site is afraid of being critical of Nintendo and Gamefreak.
At this point Gamefreak or Nintendo could release the most boring, bland, repetitive game with technical issues and zero effort and NL would give it a 9.
@tsdenizen Eh, don't let it get to you. People just like yelling woke now because it's the new buzzword when you don't like something. If you were to ask someone to actually point whats woke about games like takes two and games like deathloop, you won't get an answer lol.
@Crag92 Uhhh mate...Sonic 3 came out in 1994. This may shock you, but not everyone grew up with the original sega games. Depending on the year most likely some fans grew up playing the 3d titles.
@InvisiBulbasaur To be fair Sonic was a mediocre movie. So of course top actors are going to phone it in. It's a cheap movie made to appeal to children. Actors are rarely going to give top notch performance for something as low as a video game movie. They aren't exactly jumping into these franchise for the hopes of winning an Oscar.
Videogames movies are a tier or two below comic book films. A quick paycheck is a paycheck.
@Arawn93 I think the PSP was just one unlucky system. I personally don't support piracy but I mean you can't blame them for everything if the psp wasn't so easy to hack in the first place. PSP just had poor security the moment it shipped.
@Ocaz Funny thing is piracy hasn't effected anything. Metroid Dread came out with strong sells despite being available on pirated websites no soon after it's release.
@MrHonest I'm not sure how caring about a toxic work environment is being woke. Sure it doesn't affect you, doesn't mean you aren't allowed to care.
I mean support whoever you want if you don't feel anything over it, but if someone who does care and doesn't want to show support then it has nothing to do with wokeness...like at all...
@Would_you_kindly Does Nintendo even know their own limits? They are more than willing to even let their games sneak by with issues. Quality control ain't what it use to be.
@NWC Hey, don't give in. Let people be offended. You are entitled not to like something. I certainly don't praise everything Nintendo through out.
Also good on you for sticking with you principles. Seem most are offended because Meteoroid is their favorite game and don't want any negative around it. Seen many times with other gamers and bad studios.
@Styrophoamicus I agree. i don't get the pessimism with some of these comments. This fan game's existence in no minimizes, erases, or devalues the original trilogy. It's completely optional.
I swear people hold something they love so dear that something as harmless as a fan game is seen like a threat.
@Classic603 I feel the same way. I don't know how to quite describe origami king. There is a great game somewhere in th ere but the overall package is just so-so.
Now that Nintendo has placed creativity limits on the team, we won't get some of the unique ideas we saw in first 3 games.
@Fededx Well you can't get people interested with honesty. Best way is to hype it things up as far as it can go and then let everyone come crashing down with disappointment.
@victordamazio Doesn't matter what you want. Either create something better or grow old and bitter about it. It is what it is. Unless you have enough cash to persuade Nintendo to give up the IP, then nothing is going to be done.
@Ocaz That's the entertainment business for ya. Take a beloved IP, give it the lowest budget possible, hire a cheap writer, pick any random famous person and watch as millions roll in while the film is a steaming pile of cinematic failure.
@johnvboy Hah I agree. It's funny they say it's not a "proper" Zelda game when breath of the wild is very much like the very first Zelda game. The devs themselves even stated they wanted a return back to the series roots and took inspiration from the nes title. If anything, Breath of the Wild is the truest proper Zelda sequel of them all.
@Einherjar Well if Bob Iger's claim is to anything to go by, there were no plans to make a black panther nor captain marvel. Marvel films were going to stay as nonexclusive as possible.
So in some ways she's right. I recall the outcry at just idea that spider-man might be played by a black person years ago.
What makes me happy though is BP became the highest grossing solo superhero film and it did all that on the first try.
While a Spider-man starring a black/latino kid when on to become one the best spider-man films right up there with spider-man 2. Beating out Pixar and Disney for an oscar.
Wow, I guess some people do play SMT for story. Personally I found most of them to be forgettable simply because where it excels in setting and ideas, it fails in the storytelling department.
I just focused on the best part of SMT games. Collecting demons and fusing them.
@HamatoYoshi I'm going to say that's ok. At the end of the day unless a game is 100% broken, a reviewer can't determine it's monetary value as that's only something a consumer can decide.
It could be worth 60$ to you, but not me. Or vice versa.
@BloodNinja There's only 89 reviews on steam with the ration being 52/40 which is pointing towards mixed feelings. That's not quite the huge majority praising it.
Also taking the word of only steam reviews is just as terrible as taking the word of one person. Steam reviewers have to shown to be just as bias with overly praising a game or bombing it.
@NikHogan Well it's not that a Hybrid of the two is bad, it's just low quality of animation that makes the 3d cut scenes terrible. I'm pretty sure if alot of effort was put into we could have a wonderful 2d/3d hybrid and the best of both worlds.
@iaLgan Well RE at it's core is too ridiculous to make into any serious film. The only way I can see it ever being anything good is if it becomes campy horror film or abandon the games, becomes an entirely new franchise that is RE in name only.
The games plot are just too silly. A bunch of solders break into a trapped filled mansion led by a douche wearing glasses at night with a god complex who wants to unleash a super virus onto the world.
There is just no way any serious writer or director can make such a premise into anything that's not ridiculous.
@Wavey84 Remake Leon actually is better than old Leon. Capcom finally got rid of that cringe 2000's era of bad boy persona and actually gave him some depth. Too bad we still have old Leon for every other piece of media though.
Seems like it would be a good match. Suda51's history of average games combined with Disney licensing of games for as cheaply possible, it would be the Deadpool game we all deserve.
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Re: Video: Masahiro Sakurai Talks About Frame Rates In Games
@Bomberman64 I notice the difference and in all honesty it's quite minor and way overrated.
Just like 4k is overrated when half the games, even with DLSS need be to scaled down or some options lowered just to maintain a steady framerate.
Re: Netflix Cancels Resident Evil Series After First Season
@JayJ Quite ironic as others shame people for liking it.
Re: Embracer Group Completes Acquisition Of Various Square Enix Studios And IPs
@gaga64 Welp, nostalgia is a great money making machine, and it seems going back to the golden age, and hoping for a revival will be a money maker for SE.
Personally, I doubt many of these old franchises will be the money makers Square hopes them to be, but we will see.
Re: Zelda Is The Franchise Fans Want To See Next At The Cinema, According To Poll
No thanks. Will be a cheaply made movie that looks like a Diet Lord of the Rings thanks to a shoe string budget.
Re: Review: Pokémon Legends: Arceus - One Of The Greatest Pokémon Games Ever Made
Lol, I swear this site is afraid of being critical of Nintendo and Gamefreak.
At this point Gamefreak or Nintendo could release the most boring, bland, repetitive game with technical issues and zero effort and NL would give it a 9.
Re: The Game Awards GOTY For 2021 Is 'It Takes Two' By Hazelight Studios
@tsdenizen Eh, don't let it get to you. People just like yelling woke now because it's the new buzzword when you don't like something. If you were to ask someone to actually point whats woke about games like takes two and games like deathloop, you won't get an answer lol.
Re: Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Official Movie Trailer Released
@Crag92 Uhhh mate...Sonic 3 came out in 1994. This may shock you, but not everyone grew up with the original sega games. Depending on the year most likely some fans grew up playing the 3d titles.
Re: Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Movie Poster Revealed Ahead Of A First Look At The Game Awards
@InvisiBulbasaur To be fair Sonic was a mediocre movie. So of course top actors are going to phone it in. It's a cheap movie made to appeal to children. Actors are rarely going to give top notch performance for something as low as a video game movie. They aren't exactly jumping into these franchise for the hopes of winning an Oscar.
Videogames movies are a tier or two below comic book films. A quick paycheck is a paycheck.
Re: Ouch! Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Hit With Additional $10 Million Fine
@Arawn93 I think the PSP was just one unlucky system. I personally don't support piracy but I mean you can't blame them for everything if the psp wasn't so easy to hack in the first place. PSP just had poor security the moment it shipped.
Re: Ouch! Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Hit With Additional $10 Million Fine
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/piracy-actually-increases-legitimate-sales-of-video-games-according-to-eu-commisions-report/
Re: Ouch! Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Hit With Additional $10 Million Fine
There goes legends! They will be missed.
Re: Nintendo Loses German Court Appeal Over Switch eShop Pre-Order Cancellations
@Ocaz Funny thing is piracy hasn't effected anything. Metroid Dread came out with strong sells despite being available on pirated websites no soon after it's release.
Re: Rumour: Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection Is Coming To Switch
@MrHonest I'm not sure how caring about a toxic work environment is being woke. Sure it doesn't affect you, doesn't mean you aren't allowed to care.
I mean support whoever you want if you don't feel anything over it, but if someone who does care and doesn't want to show support then it has nothing to do with wokeness...like at all...
A ***** company is a ***** company.
Re: Talking Point: Great Game, Poor Performance - When Does A Bad Frame Rate Not Really Matter?
@Would_you_kindly Does Nintendo even know their own limits? They are more than willing to even let their games sneak by with issues. Quality control ain't what it use to be.
Re: Metroid Dread Developer MercurySteam Announces Its Next Game, Codenamed "Project Iron"
@NWC Hey, don't give in. Let people be offended. You are entitled not to like something. I certainly don't praise everything Nintendo through out.
Also good on you for sticking with you principles. Seem most are offended because Meteoroid is their favorite game and don't want any negative around it. Seen many times with other gamers and bad studios.
Re: Mother 4 "Unofficial Fan Project" Revealed, Here's Your First Look
@Styrophoamicus I agree. i don't get the pessimism with some of these comments. This fan game's existence in no minimizes, erases, or devalues the original trilogy. It's completely optional.
I swear people hold something they love so dear that something as harmless as a fan game is seen like a threat.
Re: Nintendo Takes More Risks With Prototypes, Says Metroid Prime Developer
@Classic603 I feel the same way. I don't know how to quite describe origami king. There is a great game somewhere in th ere but the overall package is just so-so.
Now that Nintendo has placed creativity limits on the team, we won't get some of the unique ideas we saw in first 3 games.
Re: The Game Awards Has A "World Premiere" It's Been Working On With A Dev For 2.5 Years, And One Guess Is Zelda
I'm rooting for Deathloop this year and Metroid.
Re: The Game Awards Has A "World Premiere" It's Been Working On With A Dev For 2.5 Years, And One Guess Is Zelda
@Fededx Well you can't get people interested with honesty. Best way is to hype it things up as far as it can go and then let everyone come crashing down with disappointment.
Re: Zelda 64's Game Code Has Been Successfully Reverse-Engineered, Making Mods And Ports Possible
@victordamazio Doesn't matter what you want. Either create something better or grow old and bitter about it. It is what it is. Unless you have enough cash to persuade Nintendo to give up the IP, then nothing is going to be done.
Re: Mario Movie Producer Defends Chris Pratt's Casting, Says The Voice Is "Phenomenal"
@Ocaz That's the entertainment business for ya. Take a beloved IP, give it the lowest budget possible, hire a cheap writer, pick any random famous person and watch as millions roll in while the film is a steaming pile of cinematic failure.
Re: Anniversary: Zelda: Twilight Princess Is Now 15 Years Old (That's 105 In Wolf Years)
@johnvboy Hah I agree. It's funny they say it's not a "proper" Zelda game when breath of the wild is very much like the very first Zelda game. The devs themselves even stated they wanted a return back to the series roots and took inspiration from the nes title. If anything, Breath of the Wild is the truest proper Zelda sequel of them all.
Re: Random: Brie Larson's Back In A New Metroid Dread Instagram Ad
@Einherjar Well if Bob Iger's claim is to anything to go by, there were no plans to make a black panther nor captain marvel. Marvel films were going to stay as nonexclusive as possible.
So in some ways she's right. I recall the outcry at just idea that spider-man might be played by a black person years ago.
What makes me happy though is BP became the highest grossing solo superhero film and it did all that on the first try.
While a Spider-man starring a black/latino kid when on to become one the best spider-man films right up there with spider-man 2. Beating out Pixar and Disney for an oscar.
Re: Random: Waluigi "Invites Himself" To Super Smash Bros. In This Emotional Fan-Made Trailer
@victordamazio Sorry , but Waluigi is not going to be the final smash character.
Re: Feature: 30 Years Of Sonic The Hedgehog - The Many Faces Of Mario's Biggest Rival
Well he WAS Mario's rival. Now he's just Mario's shadow who occasionally throws him a bone by appearing in Olympic games.
Re: There's More Crash Bandicoot Coming "Very Soon", According To Toys For Bob
@PBandSmelly Wow you mean everybody? As in every single living human being alive right now?
Re: Review: WarioWare: Get It Together! - More Magnificent Microgame Mayhem
@StephenYap3 I just want Wario land back..
Re: Shin Megami Tensei V 'Nahobino' Trailer Showcases More Gameplay And Story
Wow, I guess some people do play SMT for story. Personally I found most of them to be forgettable simply because where it excels in setting and ideas, it fails in the storytelling department.
I just focused on the best part of SMT games. Collecting demons and fusing them.
Re: Round Up: The WarioWare: Get It Together! Reviews Are In
@chipia 76 is good though. That's on the high end positive scores.
Re: Pokémon Teams Up With Oreo To Launch Limited Edition Cookies
Now all we need is limited edition Pokemon themed pizza rolls.
Re: Review: WarioWare: Get It Together! - More Magnificent Microgame Mayhem
@HamatoYoshi I'm going to say that's ok. At the end of the day unless a game is 100% broken, a reviewer can't determine it's monetary value as that's only something a consumer can decide.
It could be worth 60$ to you, but not me. Or vice versa.
Re: Random: Donkey Kong Blows? Of Course, And It's All Down To Shigeru Miyamoto
@Giancarlothomaz Alright then explain why Star Fox Zero sucks? After all you seem to think the Man can't do any wrong.
Re: Review: Baldo: The Guardian Owls - Exquisite Ghibli-Esque Art Can't Hide Tortuous Gameplay
@BloodNinja There's only 89 reviews on steam with the ration being 52/40 which is pointing towards mixed feelings. That's not quite the huge majority praising it.
Also taking the word of only steam reviews is just as terrible as taking the word of one person. Steam reviewers have to shown to be just as bias with overly praising a game or bombing it.
Re: Hand-Drawn Game Guide Kickstarter Taken Down Following "Legal Trouble"
@jsty3105 Tis was joke yes?
Re: Hand-Drawn Game Guide Kickstarter Taken Down Following "Legal Trouble"
@dBackLash Today, Nintendolife shutdown by Nintendo citing infringement of their IP by including the word Nintendo in the title of their website.
Re: Toshiba Sounds Alarm About Ongoing Chip Supply Issues
@BrazillianCara I do =D
Re: Toshiba Sounds Alarm About Ongoing Chip Supply Issues
Well that's ok! Atleast this year we got a 10 year old port coupled with a worthless toy and the upcoming Metroid Dread.
Oh yeah, it's a party in here!
I'm just smiling at the chaps already own a switch but are going to spend even more for the same thing just with a slightly bigger display.
Nintendo, always looking out for the consumer! <3
Re: Pokémon Evolutions, A New Animated Series, Will Air Free On YouTube This Month
@NikHogan Well it's not that a Hybrid of the two is bad, it's just low quality of animation that makes the 3d cut scenes terrible. I'm pretty sure if alot of effort was put into we could have a wonderful 2d/3d hybrid and the best of both worlds.
It can be done.
Re: Pokémon Evolutions, A New Animated Series, Will Air Free On YouTube This Month
@Flamethrower Yeah but Ash is the Mario of Pokemon so we will be with him forever. He's the mascot.
So unfortunately until one of the heads at Pokemon Company decide to take a leap of faith, we will be with Ash for the foreseeable future.
Re: Review: Sonic Colors Ultimate - The Best 3D Sonic Game Gets A Respectable Remaster
Given Sonic's 3D game history, it's kinda sad this is the best one. Not exactly a high bar.
Re: Platinum's Switch Exclusive Astral Chain Celebrates Its Second Anniversary
@Zyph Ummm, the user just said they disliked the story. Never implied it was complete garbage. Relax.
Re: Platinum's Switch Exclusive Astral Chain Celebrates Its Second Anniversary
@tech7 Yeah, game was just ok in my book. It gets stale very fast. It's a very repetitive game. Story is just terrible.
The rewards you unlock for doing Hard Mode were just extra colors. Very poor way to motivate someone to get better scores.
Re: Aztech Forgotten Gods Is Now Arriving Q1 2022
@Specter_of-the_OLED This looks nothing like God of War.
Re: Here's Your First Look At The New Resident Evil Movie, In Cinemas This November
@iaLgan Well RE at it's core is too ridiculous to make into any serious film. The only way I can see it ever being anything good is if it becomes campy horror film or abandon the games, becomes an entirely new franchise that is RE in name only.
The games plot are just too silly. A bunch of solders break into a trapped filled mansion led by a douche wearing glasses at night with a god complex who wants to unleash a super virus onto the world.
There is just no way any serious writer or director can make such a premise into anything that's not ridiculous.
Re: Here's Your First Look At The New Resident Evil Movie, In Cinemas This November
@Richnj Hey man, don't let idiots get to you. Stupid will always remain stupid. You cant fix stupid. People like wavy just want attention.
Re: Here's Your First Look At The New Resident Evil Movie, In Cinemas This November
@iaLgan Only 2 on those list could be considered good or just "okay"
But I mean we are talking a couple of rough diamonds in a pile of crappy film adaptions from the past decades, dating all the way back to the 90's
That's not exactly a great track record.
Re: Here's Your First Look At The New Resident Evil Movie, In Cinemas This November
@Wavey84 Remake Leon actually is better than old Leon. Capcom finally got rid of that cringe 2000's era of bad boy persona and actually gave him some depth. Too bad we still have old Leon for every other piece of media though.
Re: Here's Your First Look At The New Resident Evil Movie, In Cinemas This November
Oh, this is going to be so cheesy and bad haha. Such is the curse of videogame movies.
Only a few in it's history have made it above average.
Re: With No More Heroes Wrapped Up, Suda51 Says He'd Love To Work On A Marvel Deadpool Game
Seems like it would be a good match. Suda51's history of average games combined with Disney licensing of games for as cheaply possible, it would be the Deadpool game we all deserve.
Re: Digital Foundry Explores The Potential Of 4K DLSS On A Next-Gen Switch
@DK-Fan Here's the thing, I can deal with 1080p and 60fps. THe problem is many switch games can't even do that, even while docked.
Not only that, the in game quality has to be downgraded just to maintain 1080 and 60 fps which results in some games looking terrible on a big tv.