I feel like I've been hearing about this FUZE game for ages, one thing I'm confused about is whether it's possible to create art assets for the game? Or will you have to make do with the assets from pack-in games like Dizzy and such?
@Blizzia I understand that train of thought, that people finding out about emulators through NL articles may then download the emulator. I personally don't think that makes reporting on the emulator unethical. The notion that NL shouldn't report on a development in the Switch community because of the business interests of a company that they are not owned by, such an idea is more problematic.
@Cosats Yeah and that's super awesome, sue me. I emulated No More Heroes 2 because you can only buy it pre-owned anyway, no money goes to the devs. Then I bought it when it came out on Switch. But sure, get worked up about the illegality (or lack thereof) about people who care more about preservation than Nintendo do with their 3D all-stars BS. Ever wonder why it's always Nintendo fanboys doing their moral grandstanding?
FWIW they aren't even supporting it, just reporting on it non-judgmentally.
I totally get why people would be offended. In the real world it'd be sexual assault and playing sexual assault for laughs is like, one thing if it's just your mates, but another thing if you're promoting a videogame. It's obvious from how out of character all this is that the idea revolves around getting to see SNK girls' asses get slapped. If idk, Persona 5 got promoted in the same way it'd be a cheap way to promote a well-crafted cast. There's a scene in Steins;Gate where the protag gropes a girl's breast without consent. Sure it's played for laughs, but it's cringe that the developers contrived that plot point for the sake of some obvious fanservice, playing for laugh the girl's distress.
It'd honestly have more of a leg to stand on if it was like, pornography IMO.
I played the trial today and Im very impressed by how well it works. Framerate is consistently good, graphics are top notch. Not mad about paying for a cloud version of a game but it's a pretty solid way to play it imo.
@SwitchVogel You said everything I wanted to. i also felt like Lv5 had expectations for all their properties to become juggernauts in the west and settled for no less, when in reakity much of what made them work was Japanese in an obtuse way. Nobody was impressed when Satoru Shibata did the Gera Gera Po dance to convince people that Yo-Kai Watch was this Japanese phenomenon
One thing about this article is that it leaves out the quote from his instagram post in which he directly responds and gives his own account for the accusations involved, which would be the most fair thing in this situation.
@playstation_king The gameplay and combat is well thought-out, but I think one big issue is that you can get through the campaign without knowing the intricacies of the mechanics, so your playthrough may not be as fun as it should be. PvP forces you to engage more with the game's mechanics, so the PC version might be best of you want a more active community.
@ninoishi You aren't owed an update, or even a game for that matter, you haven't put money down on anything. Just give them some time and peace to make the game the best it can.
What are those visuals? And what is that background music? How does this communicate Ben 10 to you, or even what vaguely might be special about the game?
It's absolutely lazy. EA refuses to put resources into their Switch games, vastly overprices them then cries foul, blaming Nintendo's own domination of the Switch market. 2K at least has a shred of consistency and provides serviceable ports, for all their cartridge shenanigans.
@Arkay If you're upset about it then, perhaps support the devs who've beared the brunt of what you deem unnecessary criticism instead of boycotting them?
@Razer People were saying ever since Bayo 2 that Playinum was in a state of decline. Suddenly everyone did a 180 when Nier Automata came out. If you look at what we've had since Nier, it's much better than the TMNT/Korra games, hell, even the Transformers G1 game
The trend of people saying a game is cancelled when devs have said development is going well, just because it isn't in their precious little hands right now, is really starting to grind my gears. It's the same with SMT V. I was never promised that either of those games were close to release, they were always TBD. So I'm not gonna complain, and I'm glad that they're taking their time to make a kick-ass game.
@jaymacx 2K doesn't own Rockstar, rather Take-Two owns both companies (also Private Division of Outer Worlds) so I'd imagine that that has something to do with why some of those companies are more quick to release Switch games than others? Though maybe that's the common thread because they both release half-assed physical versions
I tried to look up Nintendo's worst-scoring Metacritic games to see if any of them appeared particularly rushed and contradicted this statement, but it would seem that most of Nintendo's worst games weren't so much rushjobs as they were failed experiements, cynically motivated products, or the very special case of Devil's Third where so many moving parts didn't come together. Seems they have the games to back up what they were saying.
Seems to be kinda the wrong time to be confirming any 2020 events. People are too impatient to jump the gun asking about when this lockdown stuff's gonna be lifted, it's best to be cautious.
@Octane Point being that Nintendo revealing Prime 4 is a prank is absolutely not the same and this Flipnote stuff isn't worth getting worked up over, if at all you were trying to make a point.
I'll hand it to Sapkowski that some of the questions were very boring, but damn does he do his best to come off as a prick in those other non-gaming-related questions.
"Besides, this time Japan gets the ‘censored’ version too, so it’s not like there’s a special uncut Switch version the west is missing out on."
Japanese gamers had their very Japan-centric videogame, which is clearly aimed at a squarely Japanese audience, censored to fit a Western demographic. I'd take simply the Western version having cuts over both versions being censored. I'm indifferent to the changes myself but it's not rocket scientist to see how it's a little insulting to censor both versions. You can still like the game and condemn the censorship.
I don't really like all the God of War art director's takes on Nintendo characters, honestly. They are impressively well-made and I repsect his creativity, but there is a reason these Nintendo characters look cartoony, and why making them realistic is unappealing.
@tekknik I logged out of my account, checked and I am literally not seeing the downvotes, but whatever, if they're there, that's cool, people aren't banned from disliking my comments.
My goal isn't to say climate change is real or not a hoax, it's not to get anyone on my side, it's just to speak my mind and idle thoughts, if it adds nothing, then I honestly don't care. And if that sucks and you think the comment shouldn't exist then you're entitled to that and, well, cool, it's still gonna be there, that's life. I'm not looking for meaningful exchange on climate change here.
@tekknik Well if you haven't made it known what "side" you're on and I haven't expressed any animosity towards any individual "sides" of the climate debate, then surely there is no need to be arguing :]
I checked the downvotes on my comments and I can't see whatever you claim to be seeing, but seeing as how the worth of a comment to me is in its contents rather than up/downvotes, I'll not fret too much over it 👍
@tekknik Well, not to put too bluntly a point on it, but it was simply that obvious it was a joke. Like it's not even a jab at your ""side"", you're just self-inserting there. It was a light-hearted comment about how the comments is gonna be a climate change argument. That isn't even a particularly attacking your "side" in particular.
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Re: Mini Review: Five Dates - An Amusing Dating Sim That Doesn't Seem To Know Its Audience
Reminder that this company did that Gamer Girl trailer.
Re: Nintendo Convinced XSEED To Bring Sakuna To Switch, Pre-Orders About "2-To-1 Over PS4"
Seems like XSEED has forgiven Nintendo for ***** them over with Devil's Third? 🤔
Re: MiHoYo Accused Of 'Carelessly Putting Players At Risk' In Genshin Impact Data Breach
@nessisonett Selling data is one thing, having your phone number publicly available for scammers and hackers to exploit is another thing entirely.
Re: The "Brand-New" Dizzy Game Is A Remake, And It's Included Free With FUZE4 Nintendo Switch
I feel like I've been hearing about this FUZE game for ages, one thing I'm confused about is whether it's possible to create art assets for the game? Or will you have to make do with the assets from pack-in games like Dizzy and such?
Re: Switch Emulator Adds Online Support, Then Loses It Double-Quick In Embarrassing U-Turn
@Blizzia I understand that train of thought, that people finding out about emulators through NL articles may then download the emulator. I personally don't think that makes reporting on the emulator unethical. The notion that NL shouldn't report on a development in the Switch community because of the business interests of a company that they are not owned by, such an idea is more problematic.
Re: Switch Emulator Adds Online Support, Then Loses It Double-Quick In Embarrassing U-Turn
@Cosats Yeah and that's super awesome, sue me. I emulated No More Heroes 2 because you can only buy it pre-owned anyway, no money goes to the devs. Then I bought it when it came out on Switch. But sure, get worked up about the illegality (or lack thereof) about people who care more about preservation than Nintendo do with their 3D all-stars BS. Ever wonder why it's always Nintendo fanboys doing their moral grandstanding?
FWIW they aren't even supporting it, just reporting on it non-judgmentally.
Re: Aussie Gamers Are Locked Out Of Switch's Cloud-Based Future, It Seems
@EarthboundBenjy idk man I just wanna play in bed tbh.
Re: No More Heroes 1 And 2 Are Both Available Now On Switch In Uncensored Form
@SilentHunter382 this article is about the EU version of NMH1 being uncensored on Switch.
Re: SNK Apologises For "Offensive Ad" Featuring Fatal Fury's Terry Bogard
I totally get why people would be offended. In the real world it'd be sexual assault and playing sexual assault for laughs is like, one thing if it's just your mates, but another thing if you're promoting a videogame. It's obvious from how out of character all this is that the idea revolves around getting to see SNK girls' asses get slapped. If idk, Persona 5 got promoted in the same way it'd be a cheap way to promote a well-crafted cast. There's a scene in Steins;Gate where the protag gropes a girl's breast without consent. Sure it's played for laughs, but it's cringe that the developers contrived that plot point for the sake of some obvious fanservice, playing for laugh the girl's distress.
It'd honestly have more of a leg to stand on if it was like, pornography IMO.
Re: Hitman 3 Is Coming To Switch, Just Don't Try To Play This One Offline
I played the trial today and Im very impressed by how well it works. Framerate is consistently good, graphics are top notch. Not mad about paying for a cloud version of a game but it's a pretty solid way to play it imo.
Re: New Pokémon Video Series Explores The UK Areas That Inspired Sword And Shield's Galar Region
Glad Sam & Mark are still getting work, they used to be my Saturday mornings
Re: Popular Twitch And TikTok Star Pokeprincxss Has Been Sued By Nintendo
poke is like, a word yknow
Re: Professor Layton Dev Level-5 Has No Plans For Future Games Outside Of Japan, Says Report
@SwitchVogel You said everything I wanted to. i also felt like Lv5 had expectations for all their properties to become juggernauts in the west and settled for no less, when in reakity much of what made them work was Japanese in an obtuse way. Nobody was impressed when Satoru Shibata did the Gera Gera Po dance to convince people that Yo-Kai Watch was this Japanese phenomenon
Re: Random: Jet Set Radio Composer Hideki Naganuma Tried To Be An Employee Of Nintendo Twice
He deserved to be Splatoon composer tb.
Re: Michel Ancel Responds To Accusations Of Toxic Leadership During His Time At Ubisoft
One thing about this article is that it leaves out the quote from his instagram post in which he directly responds and gives his own account for the accusations involved, which would be the most fair thing in this situation.
Re: Random: Some 3D All-Stars Players Aren't Happy About The Visible Debug Cubes In Super Mario Sunshine
@Snakesglowcaps I think your kneejerk reaction to a shred of criticism for this rerelease is more telling.
Re: Daemon X Machina Is Getting A First Anniversary Update This November
@playstation_king The gameplay and combat is well thought-out, but I think one big issue is that you can get through the campaign without knowing the intricacies of the mechanics, so your playthrough may not be as fun as it should be. PvP forces you to engage more with the game's mechanics, so the PC version might be best of you want a more active community.
Re: Video: No Straight Roads Trailer Gives Us Our First Look At Switch Gameplay
If it ain't close to 60 most of the time, I'd rather a locked 40 or 30
Re: Carrion's Controversial Nintendo Switch Menu Icon Has Been Changed
@6ch6ris6 It looks like a vagina basically.
Re: Hideki Kamiya Insists Bayonetta 3's Development Is "Going Fine"
@ninoishi You aren't owed an update, or even a game for that matter, you haven't put money down on anything. Just give them some time and peace to make the game the best it can.
Re: Ben 10: Power Trip Announced For Nintendo Switch
What are those visuals? And what is that background music? How does this communicate Ben 10 to you, or even what vaguely might be special about the game?
Re: Talking Point: Is EA's Switch Strategy Lazy, Or Simply Common Sense?
It's absolutely lazy. EA refuses to put resources into their Switch games, vastly overprices them then cries foul, blaming Nintendo's own domination of the Switch market. 2K at least has a shred of consistency and provides serviceable ports, for all their cartridge shenanigans.
Re: Nintendo To Cut Back On Mobile Games After Animal Crossing Success, Says Report
@dugan I usually never play mobile games, but I got hooked on Super Hexagon. Basically the perfect game on mobile, costs about £2.69
Re: Yep, The New FIFA Game For Nintendo Switch Will Be Another Legacy Edition
People here mad like they even play FIFA
(I'm probably jinxing myself here)
Re: NGPX Post-Show Streaming Schedule Revealed, Featuring SNK, Atlus, SEGA And More
Anyone wanting SMTV, probably best not to get your hopes up, more likely gonna reveal P5S localisation.
Re: Game Originally Planned For Wii U, Then Switch, Winds Up As A PS5 Timed-Exclusive
@Arkay If you're upset about it then, perhaps support the devs who've beared the brunt of what you deem unnecessary criticism instead of boycotting them?
Re: Ubisoft's Gods & Monsters Really Does Look Like Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
@graysoncharles Somebody finally said it
Re: Hacker Group Not Happy About Nintendo's "Censorship" And "Legal Scare Tactics"
@Kalmaro Difference is that Team Xecuter make money off it, whereas other methods of hacking the Switch do not.
Re: Yes, Sega's "Revolutionary" Announcement Is To Use Its Arcades As Cloud Gaming Data Centers
@SuperWeird To be fair, SEGA never told you to get hyped for this. a Japanese journalist addressing a Japanese audience did.
Re: Hideki Kamiya Is Sick Of Fans Asking Him If Bayonetta 3 Has Been Cancelled
@Razer People were saying ever since Bayo 2 that Playinum was in a state of decline. Suddenly everyone did a 180 when Nier Automata came out. If you look at what we've had since Nier, it's much better than the TMNT/Korra games, hell, even the Transformers G1 game
Re: Hideki Kamiya Is Sick Of Fans Asking Him If Bayonetta 3 Has Been Cancelled
The trend of people saying a game is cancelled when devs have said development is going well, just because it isn't in their precious little hands right now, is really starting to grind my gears. It's the same with SMT V. I was never promised that either of those games were close to release, they were always TBD. So I'm not gonna complain, and I'm glad that they're taking their time to make a kick-ass game.
Re: 2K Says It's Eager To Release More Games On The Nintendo Switch
@jaymacx 2K doesn't own Rockstar, rather Take-Two owns both companies (also Private Division of Outer Worlds) so I'd imagine that that has something to do with why some of those companies are more quick to release Switch games than others? Though maybe that's the common thread because they both release half-assed physical versions
Re: Random: Rockstar San Diego Founder Reveals What It's Like To Be Rejected By Miyamoto
We're just going to gloss over the fact that Miyamoto told this dude "You’re going to throw away most of that sh*t"???
Re: The Reason Why Nintendo's Games Are So Good? Devs Are Given "As Much Time As They Need"
I tried to look up Nintendo's worst-scoring Metacritic games to see if any of them appeared particularly rushed and contradicted this statement, but it would seem that most of Nintendo's worst games weren't so much rushjobs as they were failed experiements, cynically motivated products, or the very special case of Devil's Third where so many moving parts didn't come together. Seems they have the games to back up what they were saying.
Re: EGX, The UK's Biggest Games Show, Confirms 2020 Event In London
@elpardo1984 Damn you're right, I forgot about that. Surely the Excel Centre shouldn't even be taking bookings right now.
Re: EGX, The UK's Biggest Games Show, Confirms 2020 Event In London
Seems to be kinda the wrong time to be confirming any 2020 events. People are too impatient to jump the gun asking about when this lockdown stuff's gonna be lifted, it's best to be cautious.
Re: Flipnote April Fools' Prank Results In Immediate Backlash And Abuse Towards Its Creator
@Octane Point being that Nintendo revealing Prime 4 is a prank is absolutely not the same and this Flipnote stuff isn't worth getting worked up over, if at all you were trying to make a point.
Re: Flipnote April Fools' Prank Results In Immediate Backlash And Abuse Towards Its Creator
@Octane Nintendo never said anything about Flipnote Studio Switch, you weren't robbed of anything.
Re: Borderlands Legendary Collection Brings Three Games From The Series To Switch
Gyro aim please thanks
Re: Random: Real Football Teams Are Using FIFA To Play Matches Postponed By Coronavirus
The football Twitter accounts are literally roleplaying, oh my days.
Re: PlatinumGames Admits Wonderful 101 Kickstarter Had Nothing To Do With Raising Funds
Considering the estimated delivery date for backer rewards was April, this is really to be expected.
Re: Comparing The Witcher Games To The Books Is Like Comparing "Spaghetti Carbonara With A Bicycle", Says Creator
I'll hand it to Sapkowski that some of the questions were very boring, but damn does he do his best to come off as a prick in those other non-gaming-related questions.
Re: Review: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore - A Pitch-Perfect, Feel-Good JRPG
"Besides, this time Japan gets the ‘censored’ version too, so it’s not like there’s a special uncut Switch version the west is missing out on."
Japanese gamers had their very Japan-centric videogame, which is clearly aimed at a squarely Japanese audience, censored to fit a Western demographic. I'd take simply the Western version having cuts over both versions being censored. I'm indifferent to the changes myself but it's not rocket scientist to see how it's a little insulting to censor both versions. You can still like the game and condemn the censorship.
Re: Random: Star Wars Rogue One Writer Wants To Pen The Script For An Animated Star Fox Movie
I like Rogue One's directing, but god damn did I hate the actual plot. I wouldn't cross out the writing team writing a Star Fox film.
Re: Random: Moonwalking Zacian Should Be The Next Luigi Death Stare, Change Our Minds
Sad that people are so butthurt that this harmless article exists.
Re: God Of War's Art Director Is Now Designing Incredibly Realistic Star Fox Characters
I don't really like all the God of War art director's takes on Nintendo characters, honestly. They are impressively well-made and I repsect his creativity, but there is a reason these Nintendo characters look cartoony, and why making them realistic is unappealing.
Re: Codemasters Acquires Project CARS Dev Slightly Mad Studios
Yeah, really curious what happens to the Mad Box after this one...
Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield's Pokédex Contains A Dire Warning About Climate Change
@tekknik I logged out of my account, checked and I am literally not seeing the downvotes, but whatever, if they're there, that's cool, people aren't banned from disliking my comments.
My goal isn't to say climate change is real or not a hoax, it's not to get anyone on my side, it's just to speak my mind and idle thoughts, if it adds nothing, then I honestly don't care. And if that sucks and you think the comment shouldn't exist then you're entitled to that and, well, cool, it's still gonna be there, that's life. I'm not looking for meaningful exchange on climate change here.
Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield's Pokédex Contains A Dire Warning About Climate Change
@tekknik Well if you haven't made it known what "side" you're on and I haven't expressed any animosity towards any individual "sides" of the climate debate, then surely there is no need to be arguing :]
I checked the downvotes on my comments and I can't see whatever you claim to be seeing, but seeing as how the worth of a comment to me is in its contents rather than up/downvotes, I'll not fret too much over it 👍
Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield's Pokédex Contains A Dire Warning About Climate Change
@tekknik Well, not to put too bluntly a point on it, but it was simply that obvious it was a joke. Like it's not even a jab at your ""side"", you're just self-inserting there. It was a light-hearted comment about how the comments is gonna be a climate change argument. That isn't even a particularly attacking your "side" in particular.