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Wow. What a visionary. Me, non-journalist plebeian that I am, I was expecting a follow-up on 2025.

Excellent news. I'll be there for it.

Personally I bought the black one, I guess as a kid I thought it looked best. Still do. The purple one's fine, however.

Soapbox: I Prefer This Game Over That Game. Really Makes Ya Think.

Feeling safe is exactly what a horror game needs. Hope the ghosts hand out candy too.

@Ocaz Unclear, but I'm sure NL will let us know if anything turns up.

The printed feedback makes for very serious toilet paper.

"Taking away the visible count is an attempt to avoid aggressive and potentially harmful campaigns making use of the metric."

Wow. Just lapping up the big nice corporation's sweet talk, huh?

Dislikes will still exist, they just won't be visible to the public. Meaning that thin-skinned creators will still get the same amount of 'hate', especially because comments are still a thing - so that's irrelevant.

Anyone with a couple functioning brain cells realizes this is a move to protect companies, which are the ones whose terrible products keep getting disliked en masse, and the ones that actually care about having an 'image' to maintain. The option to manually hide or even disable dislikes is already there - just ask yourself why they want to skip the step where "users" need to do it themselves.

This update is also awful for small channels, by the way. The two main ways for people to give a chance to videos from unknown channels are a high viewcount and a high like ratio. Small channels will never be able to compete with bigger ones on the former, so they rely on the latter to draw people in. That'll be gone now and along with it their main avenue of growth. Look up "social proof" in marketing and you'll realize this change does nothing but screw over the startlings.

Only if we introduce in a widespread fashion the far more accurate "***** management" phrase.

Predictably enough, all of the garbage tier companies are drooling at the thought of exploiting NFTs via gaming. Pretty sure Ubisoft said something along the same lines.

Had me at the female lead's design, lost me at the chibi artstyle gameplay.

Both look awful, to be honest - be it the drawings or the dollar store Meat Boy gameplay. I don't think either group of players is missing out on much.

Wow, what an honor. eyeroll

@BloodNinja Interesting way of spelling death threats, too.

Must be nice living under a rock, though. The rest of us in the real world should try from time to time.

@BloodNinja Interesting way of spelling harassed.

@BlueOcean That's not an 'or', it's what I was implying.

More accurately: It Has Now Been 1,000 Days Since We Were Told Metroid Prime 4's Development Would Be Restarted

At the point where Takahashi Shinya made the announcement, Retro Studios probably still were in the phase of scrambling to organize themselves, assemble a base team and even plan for who else they'd need to hire during development. This is consistent with the studio's constant hiring of key positions throughout the months as well as their change of office, among others.

Huge difference between that and pretending they were all on their seats already and getting work done. In other words, '1000 days' is sensationalist and this has been in the oven for a shorter time.

That's too bad, but better late than rushed.

The bare minimum of bare minimums, as can be expected from scum.

@CharlieGirl This 'fan favorite' series has historically sold poorly on extremely popular systems. So yeah, this is a big deal and a very positive step for the IP.

Been eyeing this for a few days. I'll probably buy it.

Good cover made even better.

Aaand there goes whatever little interest I had in playing the Summer spin-off...

Always enjoyed Kamiya's no-nonsense approach.

Sheesh. I know Balan was awful, but this entire article reads like a whole lot of just kicking someone while they're down.

"So yeah, Balan was just super bad. Terrible, I tell ya. Just the worst. Unparalleled."
"Also on a less important note Naka is moving on with his life and he had the following to say: (...)"
"ANYWAY remember Balan? It's BAD and we gave it a BAD score, wanna see it again?"

Oh hell yeah.

The first BloodRayne is a very nostalgic game for me, as I played it at a really young age. First third with the giant spiders and whatnot was meh, but the second was awesome with the nazi kill list and the parasite monsters scared the scheisse out of me back then, and then the final third wasn't as solid but still pretty awesome.

There aren't many games I bother to replay since I'd rather use that time on new ones - yet somehow I've played through BR multiple times. And I also never got a chance to play the sequel, so... Yeah, needless to say, I welcome this collection.

That's cool, I expected to not hear about this game for longer. Still will wait until all chapters are out, though.

Loved the original Bloodrayne as a kid. Still need to play both 2 and Betrayal.

My playthrough of Hello Neighbor basically ensured that I'll never play another game from this team. Without exaggeration, it was one of the worst games I've ever played.

Celeste's music is really memorable. Sometimes I'll just be doing some unrelated task, then suddenly any one track from the game pops into my mind and it'll be stuck there for a good hour or two.

No wonder they didn't accept a collab, they'd been planning to rob them blind for months anyway.

Epic is absolutely ***** disgusting.

I'd rather catch a cold, frankly.

Epic being the exact opposite of their name as usual.

That price made me snort.

@Snatcher If by people you mean borderline stalkers and by asking you mean repeatedly demanding, then yes, I remember.

Feels like there's a Masuda in almost every Nintendo team.

The world looks gorgeous but the character design for Link (and presumably for all human characters if it follows suit) is a million times less charming.

I think Wind Waker HD is rather timeless graphically and probably as perfect as that game's vision will ever get.

Kind of relieved to see Miyazu talking to the transformed MC. Maybe she doesn't actually die at the start or something? I like her design so that'd be too bad.

First thing I did. I do love a good "Objection" in court, but knowing the game has full cutscenes my choice was clear.

"We have Flight Simulator at home"

"the Ace Attorney Trilogy on Switch is currently sitting at an 81 on Metacritic, making it the 62nd best Switch game of 2019, and none of the other games in the series have ever achieved higher than that score — most are in the high 70s or very low 80s."

Really tells you all you need to know about the pointlessness of aggregate scores.

Such a great tune.

I've been hearing this for years.

Can't wait to read a book by a glorified PR guy with not a single creative bone in his body.

Truly, when I think of standout people at Nintendo, it's not the devs breaking their backs that come to mind, but rather the dude babbling about "consumers" and "products" and "legacy content."

I must have missed the part where it became Nintendo's responsibility to go out of their way and revitalize the mineral industries of other countries.

Companies are disgusting and the bar is set very low - seems good enough to me that they're not actively contributing or benefitting off abuse.

I'll try it once I actually have something I want to play on Switch - so September or October.

Way better an alternative compared to giving Nintendo even more money for faulty products.

Give me Squidward and I might consider it.

@Meteoroid That's what I'm saying. It's an obvious issue that playtesters ought to have noticed and yet it was omitted, either by them or by those they report to.

It's insane that made it into the original game at all.

Most of us only played through the game once and it was already tiresome to have those descriptions on every single pickup - so just imagine what it was like for the playtesters.

... And yet, it made it in. Absolutely mental.

Thanks for the heads-up, might watch it later while having lunch.