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@MirrorFate2 ”A certain situation”.

Likely some red tape from the company where he couldn’t divulge company dealings publicly.

Nintendo has guidelines (which one could argue might be a bit heavy handed) and AdHoc decided to add the most in your face solution to the problem.

This is on AdHoc 100%. Nintendo didn’t choose the solution.

Maybe let devs create whatever they want to create?

This is tiring.

The opening hours are a 10/10, and before the end credits roll it’s easily down to 3/10.

Glad to hear the performance and port is great, but man. I’m not even a super-fan of the original, but they really made a bad decision at nearly every corner, with annoying characters, Sephiroth-milking, extreme padding and a flashy-over-fun combat system.

The character models look great and the soundtrack is fantastic. That’s about it.

I’m casually optimistic about this one.

Not a fan of premade heads over character customization and the humor they showcased before is… not great, in my opinion.

I also miss the style of the old games.

This makes a lot of sense.

The reveal was exciting, but then showing the game… every time it’s looked bad. They had the blueprint, and how they messed it up is almost mind boggling.

They likely already spent way too much here for PoP to have a business case… might as well just up-res, to be frank.

A re-structuring was inevitable, but a massive shame that it came to that.

Dyack… lol.

Hard pass, based on that alone. I wonder who he will blame and what excuse he’ll conjure up if this one fails?

@HistoricKombat That’s the point.

They look classy, and only super-fans (and you, yourself) would know. The best kind of collab.

Hamilton watches do fetch these prices. No different than Louis Vuitton or Chanel.

I’m very happy when I see good merch, which looks good and isn’t obviously game merchandise. Most crap has the logo printed everywhere and looks like convention freebies.

This is good.

I should probably give it another go after all of the updates.

I love my farming sims, the old Harvest Moons and in particular Rune Factory. For some reason I've never clicked with Stardew though.

If they reel it back in to make it the military power fantasy it once was, I'll bite — even if it'd be a re-release of one of the actually good Call of Duty games.

Not the Fortnite direction they're trying to take with Beavis & Butthead, ugly sci-fi skins and all of that jazz.

Kojima recently said he advised on a military action game, and that there's a problem that developers haven't even gone hands-on to learn to use, assemble and disassemble guns (as an example) and I believe he's 100% right, inferring that people who just Google their references and watch Youtube videos on how these things won't be able to create a decent/believable games.

Day one. Pre-ordered. Good to go.

Happy to add another GKC to the collection.

I hope that the port of Dynasty Warriors is solid.

It’s such a good game, genuinely.

Oh, Game Key Card? I wasn’t going to buy it, but now I will.

Don’t need the plushie though. It looks like a sock puppet.

I mean, I've never been a fan of the Prime games to begin with — but was going to give this a shot as I like Metroid games well enough.

Seeing the dialogue from the characters was enough for me to not buy this. The Netflix/Marvel-esque writing has to go.

I got the Fist of the North Star version and this game sucks so much buttcheek.

I rather shadowbox or go to the gym. These fitness games are a really bad half-measure.

Oh God… I don’t have enough time…

I hope for a cross-platform Switch 2 port. It sounds like this is being sunset…

I love the port, just wish it would’ve taken off with Switch owners.

Age of Imprisonment is pretty nice, but so far I feel that the original Hyrule Warriors is the best in the Zelda-spinoff series. I think I might just be fatigued on the BotW universe.

@Yodalovesu Same. I picked up Kirby Air Riders as my wife loves Kirby, but after a few hours I don’t see the point. It feels like half the game is missing and I’m playing some proof of concept. We’re not having fun, unfortunately.

I fired it up yesterday to check the difficulty of the Japanese as it’s one of those games I always wanted to play as a kid.

Surprisingly, I seem to know enough to get by after… years of on and off again studying (almost a year’s hiatus until I started again in November).

I was planning to check 10-15 minutes out, but ended up playing for two hours. Then I got bombed to high hell and back from four girls I had no interest in and realized I should’ve gone to bed ages ago. 😅

Switch 2 also has the Switch library which is stellar.

It’s probably the least exciting console iteration, but the amount of quality games can’t be denied.

I’ve put Dragon Quest II 2DHD on the back burner in favor of testing my waters of fully Japanese sessions with Pokémon: Shining Pearl, Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road and Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar.

Getting the gist and understanding what to do, but maybe about 50-60% understanding of each sentence.

It’s very rewarding, but I’m ways off firing up Toki Meki: Memorial I picked up for the Switch in Japan. Not a big childhood dream to play one day, but a dream nonetheless.

I asked for an actual FF7 remake, and harken back to the days when FF was actually good.

This is hilarious and sad in equal measure.

They still haven’t figured out why Marvel Rivals is swimming in money?

@darkfenrir Yes, a heavily skewed article with a few cherry picked example makes for a great source.

If they’re told to use AI and how to use it, it’s bound to be counterproductive. If they’re -allowed to- it’s a different story. More tools in the belt.

And yes, there are generic assets — which generally cost money for an asset library or per asset, with AI there’s free reign.

Again, it’s definitely not a silver bullet — but it is a tool. Tools can be used in good ways, and bad ways.

The reviewing I’m talking about as well wouldn’t work with a sketch. The games are gradually built and iterated on. Placeholders are put in the actual game to quickly represent the idea final outcome, but made quickly and cheaply to make any changes at certain stages less costly.

The use of AI is about chasing efficiency at lower costs — with varying results.

@darkfenrir Because, in order to make calls, something fairly representative of the intended art helps when doing internal reviews. The more pieces that are representative, the easier it is to make creative calls.

Otherwise it’d leave lots up for interpretation and be all: ”Imagine this fantastical forest, but yeah all the cubes are glowing rocks, and the cones are trees. Don’t worry about the checkered floor, it’s actually going to be purple grass.”

And even ten, five different people will have five different images in their heads.

And using pre-existing images as placeholders and accidentally THAT would be legally worse than accidentally shipping AI generated work.

This is horrible news. I feel for his family and friends.

As long as it’s stable frame rate, I couldn’t care less for a turn-based game.

People be wildin’.

I mean, it truly depends.

What Larian says they’re doing sounds completely fine. What Sandfall did (quick placeholders with some unfortunately remaining in the shipped product) is fine. Arc Raiders? Great. It actually helps with accessibility. Where Winds Meet? It sounds fantastic.

People not being transparent about the use, that’s BS.

If used as a tool, meaning utilized and measured by people, I have no issues. It’s still early phases, and it’ll eventually get out of the experimental phase and find the uses where it makes sense globally.

I don’t think it’s some silver bullet or technical miracle, but it’s not NFT-level garbage either.

And most consumers don’t care. It’s a vocal minority.

@Otimus Bethesda didn't develop the Oblivion remaster though, it was outsourced.

And a bunch of the OG bugs were left intentionally, which... sure is a decision to make.

Strive my beloved.

Barely got time to play it, but it's so good.

I'm having quite a bit of fun with this one.

I just wish Zelda had her regular adventurer outfit through the game, not that ugly shower curtain. Very minor gripe, but a gripe.

I hate the game, but since it's a GKC I might buy it to support the format.

Picked this up as my wife loves Kirby and was excited about this.

We played a few races and... we really don't get what's supposed to be good about it. It feels like it moves too fast, just to grind to a complete stop from slight bumps and it's near impossible to see what happens on screen.

We'll give it some more time and try the City Trials, but... outlook not good.

I hate award shows. Industry circle jerks. The Twitch Streamer one somehow surfaced in my socials, and it's just painful.

I want the trailers though, so I'll check those out the morning after.

”To you it’s release day, but to me it’s a Tuesday.”

• Skyrim, to other games

I've seen enough videos to go "What kind of a dirtbag loser to ruin hobbies like these for children?"

Then the occasional wholesome card dealers which I end up binge-watching, despite not having this as a hobby.

@Maxz Yeah, I was just going to say. Looks like a sour to me, but some highballs look borderline identical.

@Dom_31 Oh, damn. I never pulled the trigger given the designs.

Hearing that the quality isn’t great either is… yikes.

I don’t mind paying premium for a really solid statement piece for the shelf, but it’s got to be pristine.

Love the 10 dollars off to push FOMO, as these cost an arm and a leg and I personally think their designs often look pretty bad.

After some time in Japan, followed by one of the most stubborn fevers I’ve ever had lasting damn near a week, I finally played some stuff.

I did fire up Dragon Quest: Theatrhythm which is… exactly what it sounds like. I didn’t get around to trying any of the other games I bought, like Toki Meki Memorial for the Switch, or Dragon Quest X Offline.

I did get some brief time back with Dragon Quest II 2DHD Remake and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. Good stuff.

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, I think.

Dragon Quest 1 & 2 maybe, but I haven’t finished yet.

@jsty3105 So we are in agreement. The battery life is disappointing, which is all I said until that other dude and you said it’s impossible etc.

And ”objective reality” is that a 50 dollar mod increases it. The cost of a similar battery would be less during manufacturing if that had been the decision made.

@jsty3105 How is it unrealistic when battery mods already prove that it’s very much doable? Clearly, better battery life is doable.

It’s a cost cutting measure from Nintendo, and a reason to then sell the upgraded version in a couple of years.

You’ve got to be trolling. 😅

@Res462 Well, there you go then.

As long as the end result would be decent battery life, I couldn’t care less how it’s done.

It can be done, without sacrificing power was what I pointed out.

And initially I just said that I find the battery life disappointing.

@metaphysician I'm just saying I find the battery life disappointing for a mostly handheld device.

And Apple could do it just fine with iPhone 17, with some custom components and stellar hardware design — so it's doable.

I can also promise you that the upgraded version, a la Switch OLED, will have better battery life.

Not to mention the already existing battery mods, so... it's very much doable.

It's pretty clear that AI isn't NFTs or Crypto.

Like it or not, it's here to stay. It's also used as a production tool (no, not saying creation — more for data handling, analytics, documentation etc. etc.). Now do I trust Sega to just do this? Nah.

But there are use-cases to improve processes, though they have to be carefully rolled out and the work vetted by professionals who understands how the work is done, as it's not exactly error-proof (although, neither are people).

With writing worse than Other M (yes), and that desert...

I mean, I think it won't age well. The lack of marketing from Nintendo shows that they know.

Loving it, except for the battery life which is embarrassing.

People expecting more games in the first six months though... First time getting a new console?

I got a bit curious after the divisive reviews, so I decided to check some videos and SkillUp’s review pretty much told me what I feared.

I can’t see many of the OG Retro developers being there. The ship of Theseus, trying to simply emulate what worked decades ago — tacking on a bad open world and horrible writing.

Easy pass for me. Hope the people who buy it get what they want, though.