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Re: Random: "Chunky Cute Aesthetic" In New Pixar Movie 'Turning Red' Influenced By Nintendo Games

LordPieFace

@Not_Soos Don't let the discourse get to you, it's a great movie. Very different from Pixar's other work, and it's not trying to recapture what can't be, like a lot of the past decade of Pixar films. It's a movie for a very particular demographic so it's totally okay if it's not your thing.

Also, good luck with your pitch! Breaking into that industry, least from my experience trying to do now, is ***** hard, so I hope your experience is a positive one whether or not anything comes of it.

Re: PlatinumGames CEO Insists 'Freedom' Would Be Important In Any Takeover Talks

LordPieFace

Honestly even if Platinum is not in the greatest spot right now, they more than any studio I can think of deserve and need independence. And hot take, the current tencent investment (provided they don't buy PT outright) is better than the thought of Nintendo buying them outright. Nintendo actually has taken companies that were doing cool things and forced them to work on much bigger projects at the expense of smaller projects (namely 1up studio, formerly JRPG makers Brownie Brown.) Remember, when a big game company buys a smaller one, never place your faith in any one of them being the good guys.

Re: Random: Fan-Made 'Next-Gen PlayStation Portable' Concept Imagines A World Where Sony Takes On Nintendo (Again)

LordPieFace

@TheRedComet You ay that, but when Sony turned the PS3 around with Uncharted, Last of Us and all that other stuff, they also really leaned into smaller indie games. they really pushed for Journey, Sound Shapes, the Unfinished Swan, and just a whole bunch of other strange weirdo games. The trend continued on Vita as welll, and personally that's what made me actually take them seriously as having something special to me that Nintendo didn't. Of course I am very much in a minority here, but it was great for the company and less so for some of its fans. Japan Studio dying was one of its more high profile casualties.

Re: Rumour: Persona 3 Portable Is Supposedly Getting A "Multiplatform" Remaster

LordPieFace

@VoidofLight Don't know if you played P3P But it is "the full game". It has all the same social sim mechanics, all the same real-world locations, it has clubs, everything really. Now it's top-down in the overworld and not 3D, and it's missing the anime cutscenes, which does definitely suck, but it's still an enjoyable way to play the game and experience the story.

Re: Random: Forget Dread, It's All About Metroid: Other M On Twitter Right Now

LordPieFace

@Devlind I'm still struggling with finding it myself, I learned about it from this video a couple days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTuMfsWwd0E

Like, did you know that planet Earth, as in, our Earth, not a habitable planet, exists in the Metroid series? I sure didn't, because they rename it to "Federation HQ" in English! It also suggests that the game didn't intend to discuss PTSD, but rather that there is a general theme of weakness and childishness that we do not see.

Re: Soapbox: Life Is Strange On Nintendo Switch Signals Better LGBTQ+ Rep To Come

LordPieFace

@Bass_X0 It's a non-issue because it's untrue. I tried to find evidence just to humour you, but nope. Pray tell why the white CEOs of Netflix, Disney, Sony Pictures, and their various white directors would forbid the hiring of white directors. Martin Scorcese, Samuel Deats and Adam Wingard are three of many from Netflix alone in recent years that I could name without thinking.

I won't get upset and angry about a threat that doesn't exist in my daily life, and only exists if I say it does without substantiating it for argument's sake.

Re: Soapbox: Life Is Strange On Nintendo Switch Signals Better LGBTQ+ Rep To Come

LordPieFace

The comment here that sends me absolutely wheezing is the notion that white/straight people should be threatened by representation because it means less representation for whites/straights.
I'm white. I'm straight. Why the ***** should I fight for my representation when I already live in a majority white/straight country? I'm not being marginalised. "My people" (ugh) haven't faced silencing for their race/orientation in my country. Why does representation have to be contrived to be this scarce resource we have to fight over like it's the Lord of the Goddamn Flies?

I don't necessarily agree that a pretty shlockily-written teen angst game being ported to Switch six year is worth championing as a big win for Nintendo LGBT rep. It's perhaps a weak core for an article, I can understand criticism of that. But anyone who is whining about the mere discussion of a six-year-old LGBT game, you need help. I don't even mean that disparagingly. Your life can't be going that great if you feel that you need to protect your straight white representation when you're literally already well-represented in your majority white/straight country.

oh while im at it, whoever picks the songs in the life is strange games has god-tier taste

Re: Nintendo Has Started A New 'Ask The Developer' Interview Series

LordPieFace

A quick flick through suggests that one thing that they haven't been able to replicate is Iwata's intimate knowledge of the on-the-ground-level aspects of game development. He could offer his own personal insights based on experience and ask complicated questions, as well as discuss the game's development from his perspective as CEO.