@Dom_31 What makes 2 & 3's combat better than X? Just asking as I personally loved X's combat and would be very happy if later entries really did improve on it.
Lot of "The Customer is Always Right" mentality here. Team Cherry can realistically afford to price it at $20 because as long as the core game was solid the hype would guarantee its success. Any newbie trying to get attention basically is worried that they cannot put a fair price on their own labour hours.
Honestly while I don't like these responses at face value, the fact that he openly admitted how the situation sucks suggests to me that it's genuine and may go SOME way to explaining the game-key card phenomenon among devs. DOESN'T explain why Square and SEGA went so all-in on game key cards for last-gen games though. Well, we know why, £££, but yeah.
I remember this "Indie" Dev Roundtable interview in EDGE magazine from 2014 where the devs were prompted to ask "What does Indie mean to you?" Except the devs in question included the creators of Elite Dangerous and LittleBigPlanet...
I have no need to re-buy Yakuza 0 and dishonestly calling it a Director's Cut doesn't change that. There aren't even that many Switch 2 exclusive games you can buy right now and the ones that do exist, everyone already bought ages ago.
Fair enough that they want to beat people trying to get a hold of things illicitly, but surely it's gotta be a legal issue to sell a console that can't play a single game without connecting to the internet at least once. I'm ignoring streaming consoles or whatever for this example.
If you're defending Epic's right to make money or think a dead man's consent is a white card to let ai eat more and more of workers' pies, you need straightened out
I'm actually shocked that the Western boxart won by such a large margin. Looks cheesy, unclassy, like the call-of-Duty "Man with Gun" covers but for snowboarding. Japanese one has the vibe down a lot more. It may look like an ad, but it's a damn good ad!
It's got the same colour theming as the Switch Online app on the Switch Home menu so idk it feels weird so use rhe same big primary colour for two separate sub-apps
Shuhei IS right. He's usually first to praise Nintendo's work. The fact that Nintendo's marketing Switch 2 by leaning so heavily on its beefy specs , while efforts to push the mouse feature are hushed & subdued, suggests that they're afraid to get too experimental. It's different from the Iwata philosophy. Besides first-party games, I see little reason to build my third-party library on Switch 2 instead of Steam Deck.
Yes many other Nintendo consoles pre-Iwata were defined largely by their graphical horsepower, but it's Iwata's philosophies that defined Nintendo as the Innovation Guys. Wii U and 3DS were upgrades, but they used their technological advancements to try things that were cool, even if theybwere doomed to be cast aside for the next console.
Honestly I see the vision. It:s goofy; a player turns into a dinosaur to eat the enemy at one point. I don't want a Nintendo-publisjed FromSoft game to be another Souls entry, doomed to be locked behind one console. This is a good opportunity to experiment with something new. Provided that From isn't pivoting towards a doomed Live Service future.
All of the incentives to try sweeten the deal for gated-off Online have always felt super slimy. I would happily take no Retro games, no Tetris 99, no free game upgrades or DLC expansions, if it meant that I could play Splatoon online for free.
Consoles requiring paid online is the most successful swindle in gaming and for me it free online was a legitimate selling point for the Wii U.
The evidence seems to be that it's due to weak yen rather than the tariffs (bc EU and UK prices match the USA one); otherwise the cheaper Japanese system would be scalped.
As someone who's had a Samsung foldable phone, please don't. Once dust gets in the folding mechanism my phone broke instantly. Duak screen is better all the way.
NGL I'd absolutely buy a Swotchbport of Devil's Third. It's practically a cultural artifact that's made by a fella that dresses like Tommy Wiseau. And on top of that its multiplayer mode (which was clearly meant to be thebmain selling point) looked extremely developed and fun!
@Spider-Kev they kept making ps2s even into the year of the PS4's launch it was a massive success in latin america. We still see 3ds sales in the Japanese sales charts at the very bottom so yea 160 million PS2s, not impossible
Isn't Walmart like... a department store?? Why would they be selling hacked roms?? Like, this is a place where you'd go to buy groceries and maybe a copy of Madden, yeah?
Have to say I made the right choice betting on a rerelease. V on Switch also has really annpying input delay in menus whivh jusy makes the experience of cycling thrpugh menus - very frequent in this game - a lot.more cumbersome than in IV. So yeah, this'll be a Steam Deck purchase for me.
Are kids actually watching stuff that's on BBC iPlayer? It's pretty cool that iPlayer has such a wide range of vontent beyond BBC stuff now. Just wonder how accessible it is to kids nowadays. Like I don't bother with the TV license these days.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was really good honestly, and Wes Ball does have a lot of respect for Japanese media so I am sure this won't be awful at the very least.
@Setery I'm reminded of when MS & Sony were buying studios left & right, and investors were pressuring Nintendo to buy up other studios to compete. But Nintendo seems to have always been cautious on growth. Instead of buying Studios they seem to outsource a lot of 1st Party games to companies like Bandai Namco, and foster those relationships with the companies. Sony's not as guilty as Microsoft for snapping up random studios desperately, but they are indeed hellbent on growth and expansion to their own detriment.
Really doesn't surprise me, who's th3 kind of person who really shells out for this game? The exact kinda guy who doesn't 'follow' games. They really shoulda called it something knock-offy like FEFA or FIIFA lol.
Yeah, don't see how 30fps wasn't at least possible on Switch. Come on Konami my dudes.
@koekiemonster these are two different reviewers tbh. I don't think people look to reviewers for an objective mathematical ranking of games that oversgadows each reviewer's original impressions.
I wish for a non-Smash Sakurai game, it's been more than a decade now... he's capable of so much that we may never get to see. Y'know he was really interested in VR for a while right?
If he's concerned about having no proteges, become a game design professor or something maybe. His YouTube channel is already used in game design colleges to teach people.
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Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Switch 2 Compatibility Update Released
@Dom_31 What makes 2 & 3's combat better than X? Just asking as I personally loved X's combat and would be very happy if later entries really did improve on it.
Re: "I Can't Afford To Give It Away For Free" - Silksong's Low Price Is Causing Devs To Re-Evaluate Their Own Games
Lot of "The Customer is Always Right" mentality here. Team Cherry can realistically afford to price it at $20 because as long as the core game was solid the hype would guarantee its success. Any newbie trying to get attention basically is worried that they cannot put a fair price on their own labour hours.
Re: Ubisoft Employee Explains Why Star Wars Outlaws Is A Game-Key Card
Honestly while I don't like these responses at face value, the fact that he openly admitted how the situation sucks suggests to me that it's genuine and may go SOME way to explaining the game-key card phenomenon among devs. DOESN'T explain why Square and SEGA went so all-in on game key cards for last-gen games though. Well, we know why, £££, but yeah.
Re: Evil Exes Join The Fight In The Latest 'Scott Pilgrim EX' Trailer
its 2004! Roxie Richter sure as hell aint sippin boba!!!
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Drag x Drive?
no way have the voters actually bought this game
(context edit: at the time 60% of the votes were 1's)
Re: Dave The Diver Director Says "There's Nothing Indie" About Hit Game
I remember this "Indie" Dev Roundtable interview in EDGE magazine from 2014 where the devs were prompted to ask "What does Indie mean to you?" Except the devs in question included the creators of Elite Dangerous and LittleBigPlanet...
Re: Star Fox Designer Was Relieved To Leave The "Amazing People" At Nintendo
The guy looks a lot like John Romero
Re: Third-Party Launch Games On Switch 2 Reportedly Sold "Very Low Numbers"
I have no need to re-buy Yakuza 0 and dishonestly calling it a Director's Cut doesn't change that. There aren't even that many Switch 2 exclusive games you can buy right now and the ones that do exist, everyone already bought ages ago.
Re: Rumour: Zelda Live-Action Movie Eyes "Popular" Princess Pick
not seen any of the stuff she's been in but she looks the part
and thank you mods for making this comment section barely readable
Re: Pokémon Legends: Z-A's Switch 2 And Switch 1 Prices Have Been Revealed
@canaryfarmer Switch 2 version runs at 60fps and can get higher resolutions than Switch 1. That's it really far as I know.
Re: Switch 2 Units Are Allegedly Out In The Wild, But You Might Need An Update To Play Games
Fair enough that they want to beat people trying to get a hold of things illicitly, but surely it's gotta be a legal issue to sell a console that can't play a single game without connecting to the internet at least once. I'm ignoring streaming consoles or whatever for this example.
Re: Random: Miyamoto Can't Talk About Switch 2, Talks About Switch 2 Anyway
Kind of telling when the most exciting Switch 2 feature Shiggy leads with is "upgrade patches to existing games"
Re: Fortnite Devs Hit With Unfair Labour Practice Filing Following AI Darth Vader Fiasco
If you're defending Epic's right to make money or think a dead man's consent is a white card to let ai eat more and more of workers' pies, you need straightened out
Re: Yes, Nightdive Is Aware Its Games Would Be "Great" With Switch 2 Mouse Support
Glad mouse support seems to be catching on with devs
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: 1080° Avalanche
I'm actually shocked that the Western boxart won by such a large margin. Looks cheesy, unclassy, like the call-of-Duty "Man with Gun" covers but for snowboarding. Japanese one has the vibe down a lot more. It may look like an ad, but it's a damn good ad!
Re: Poll: Orange Or Red Switch eShop - Make Your Choice
It's got the same colour theming as the Switch Online app on the Switch Home menu so idk it feels weird so use rhe same big primary colour for two separate sub-apps
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 On Switch 2 Is "Best Way" To Play Handheld Says CD Projekt Red
I... would also say that if I was promoting a game!
Re: Sony Vet Shuhei Yoshida Says Nintendo Is "Losing Their Identity" With Switch 2
Shuhei IS right. He's usually first to praise Nintendo's work. The fact that Nintendo's marketing Switch 2 by leaning so heavily on its beefy specs , while efforts to push the mouse feature are hushed & subdued, suggests that they're afraid to get too experimental. It's different from the Iwata philosophy. Besides first-party games, I see little reason to build my third-party library on Switch 2 instead of Steam Deck.
Yes many other Nintendo consoles pre-Iwata were defined largely by their graphical horsepower, but it's Iwata's philosophies that defined Nintendo as the Innovation Guys. Wii U and 3DS were upgrades, but they used their technological advancements to try things that were cool, even if theybwere doomed to be cast aside for the next console.
Re: Duskbloods' Winged Rat Is FromSoftware's Attempt At Doing Something "Nintendo-esque" And "Cute"
Honestly I see the vision. It:s goofy; a player turns into a dinosaur to eat the enemy at one point. I don't want a Nintendo-publisjed FromSoft game to be another Souls entry, doomed to be locked behind one console. This is a good opportunity to experiment with something new. Provided that From isn't pivoting towards a doomed Live Service future.
Re: PSA: Switch Online Includes Switch 2 Edition Upgrade Pack Access At "No Additional Cost"
All of the incentives to try sweeten the deal for gated-off Online have always felt super slimy. I would happily take no Retro games, no Tetris 99, no free game upgrades or DLC expansions, if it meant that I could play Splatoon online for free.
Consoles requiring paid online is the most successful swindle in gaming and for me it free online was a legitimate selling point for the Wii U.
Re: Nintendo Is (Kinda) Returning To Region-Locking With A Cheaper Japanese Switch 2
The evidence seems to be that it's due to weak yen rather than the tariffs (bc EU and UK prices match the USA one); otherwise the cheaper Japanese system would be scalped.
Re: UK Charts: WWE And Monster Hunter Hold Strong In Quiet Week For Nintendo
WWE 2K25 at the top of the chart with WWE 2K24 at the bottom is funny to me
Re: Review: Freedom Wars Remastered (Switch) - A Fair Reprieve For One Of PS Vita's Best
@Overzeal If the type a/b thing "ruins" the game for you then you probably don't like videogames.
Re: Patent Suggests Samsung May Create Its Own Foldable Handheld Console
As someone who's had a Samsung foldable phone, please don't. Once dust gets in the folding mechanism my phone broke instantly. Duak screen is better all the way.
Re: Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Free DLC Update (Version 1.0.3) Goes Live - New Demon & 6 New Navigators
I'm surprised they just added extra side content to this game. Is it like any standard subquest in the game, or more like the DLC quests?
Re: Reaction: With Xenoblade Chronicles X On Switch, The Wii U's Demise Is Complete
NGL I'd absolutely buy a Swotchbport of Devil's Third. It's practically a cultural artifact that's made by a fella that dresses like Tommy Wiseau. And on top of that its multiplayer mode (which was clearly meant to be thebmain selling point) looked extremely developed and fun!
Re: Sony's PlayStation Vita Exclusive Freedom Wars Is Getting Remastered For Switch
@TotalHenshin Been on my Wildest Dreams bingo card for the past ten years my friend
Re: Level-5's 'Vision 2024' Showcase To Share Multiple Project Updates And Announce Brand New Title
Watch Layton get NOTHING
Re: Pac-Man Sure Looks Different In Amazon's New "Adult-Animated Anthology Series"
Bold of them to assume I have any attachment to Concord
Re: Switch On Track To Surpass PS2's Lifetime Sales In The US
@Spider-Kev they kept making ps2s even into the year of the PS4's launch it was a massive success in latin america. We still see 3ds sales in the Japanese sales charts at the very bottom so yea 160 million PS2s, not impossible
Re: Capcom's Investors Want Monster Hunter Wilds On Switch, Because Of Course
Switch 2? Yes Please. Switch 1? Please no.
Re: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Hololive VTuber Tournament Announced
Juat me or is this the first time Nintendo's sponsored a VTuber agency?
Re: Zenless Zone Zero Producer Reportedly Open To Switch Successor Release
Yeah we're definitely not getting Genshin in Switch 1 lol
Re: Random: Nintendo ROM Hacks At Walmart Catch Doug Bowser's Attention
Isn't Walmart like... a department store?? Why would they be selling hacked roms?? Like, this is a place where you'd go to buy groceries and maybe a copy of Madden, yeah?
Re: Review: Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (Switch) - Even Better Than The Stellar Original
Have to say I made the right choice betting on a rerelease. V on Switch also has really annpying input delay in menus whivh jusy makes the experience of cycling thrpugh menus - very frequent in this game - a lot.more cumbersome than in IV. So yeah, this'll be a Steam Deck purchase for me.
Re: Suda51 Unsure If Travis Touchdown Will Return, Admits It's Not His "Call To Make"
I love NMH but I think 3 was a fitting end to the series.
Re: Rumour: Leaker Hints At New Nintendo Codenames, Persona 6 On 'Switch 2', And More
Codenames are also a very convenient way to promise npthing and never be told you're wrong...
Re: DAEMON X MACHINA: Titanic Scion Gets A New Teaser Trailer
I always liked this game and always wanted a sequel, there are dozens of us!!!
It definitely had problems but a sequel really has the chance to fix the first's problems.
Re: Take-Two CEO Responds To Reports Of Studio Shutdowns
Never knew Take Two bought Roll7 but even I could tell you that'd spell doom for the company. What a shame, OlliOlli series was a classic.
Re: 32 Episodes Of Pokémon Horizons Are Now Available On BBC iPlayer
Are kids actually watching stuff that's on BBC iPlayer? It's pretty cool that iPlayer has such a wide range of vontent beyond BBC stuff now. Just wonder how accessible it is to kids nowadays. Like I don't bother with the TV license these days.
Re: Sony On Zelda Live-Action Movie: Miyamoto Has A Really "Strong" Vision
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was really good honestly, and Wes Ball does have a lot of respect for Japanese media so I am sure this won't be awful at the very least.
Re: Rumour: '1-2-Switch: Flashmob Frenzy' Is Apparently Coming Holiday Season 2024
I got fooled, man...
Re: Sony Lays Off 900 PlayStation Employees, Closes London Studio & Cancels Projects
@Setery I'm reminded of when MS & Sony were buying studios left & right, and investors were pressuring Nintendo to buy up other studios to compete. But Nintendo seems to have always been cautious on growth. Instead of buying Studios they seem to outsource a lot of 1st Party games to companies like Bandai Namco, and foster those relationships with the companies. Sony's not as guilty as Microsoft for snapping up random studios desperately, but they are indeed hellbent on growth and expansion to their own detriment.
Re: UK Charts: EA Sports FC 24 Physical Sales Down 30% Compared To FIFA 23
Really doesn't surprise me, who's th3 kind of person who really shells out for this game? The exact kinda guy who doesn't 'follow' games. They really shoulda called it something knock-offy like FEFA or FIIFA lol.
Re: Unity To Charge Developers A Fee Each Time A Game Is Installed Next Year
Can someone explain how this is different to their previous model of taking a prrcentsge of your profits?
Re: Nintendo Reportedly Showed 'Switch 2' Demos To Developers At Gamescom
@Croctopus This is exactly the kind if thing that happen(ed) at E3.
Re: The Autobots Roll Out On Switch Next Month In Transformers: Earthspark - Expedition
@gonzilla Sadly not, it got pulled from all platforms after Activision stopped renewing the Transformers license :/
Re: Hands On: Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1 Could Be So Much More, But Isn't
Yeah, don't see how 30fps wasn't at least possible on Switch. Come on Konami my dudes.
@koekiemonster these are two different reviewers tbh. I don't think people look to reviewers for an objective mathematical ranking of games that oversgadows each reviewer's original impressions.
Re: Sakurai Can't Imagine Future Super Smash Bros. Games Without His Involvement
I wish for a non-Smash Sakurai game, it's been more than a decade now... he's capable of so much that we may never get to see. Y'know he was really interested in VR for a while right?
If he's concerned about having no proteges, become a game design professor or something maybe. His YouTube channel is already used in game design colleges to teach people.
Re: Review: Pikmin 1 - A Bare-Bones Port, But A Joyous Adventure
@-wc- Inflation takes around 35 years for prices to double. It's been less than 16 years since the Wii ports launched.