Matty1988

Why can't Sega just get it together bros

@Gamergirl94 You mean you're not looking forward to Mario twerking and/or flossing?

That's a shame. I finally got round to buying 1+2, was disgusted by the Activision style menus and achievement systems (really wish that reviews pointed this out as I hate it). Honestly the remakes are pretty meh. The core gameplay is okay but all the lighting effects, cluttered world and subdued colour palette makes it difficult to see the collectibles and stuff. Prefer the originals.

Also when I got round to the second game it quickly dawned on me that the tongue in cheek humour and best levels didn't come until THPS3!

@GoldenSunRM My man that's a GOAT tier avatar

@Pillowpants personally I feel Martinet is very one note. It's an Illumination film so it's going to have a very different tone than the games (for better or worse) I just can't imagine Martinet emoting particularly well in an "all is lost" moment, or the more tender moments (that are literally in every Illumination film, even the gutdang Minions film). Getting a proper actor is a good thing imo

Chris Pratt is a pretty good actor and honestly his casting is the least of my concerns. Illumination rarely make good films and they're very "memey". Nintendo being over controlling isn't likely to improve things imo as the Japanese take on Mario humour has always been a little off.

I think in light of the 2 Sonic films being successful (and having very different tones to illumination films) you've got to wonder if Nintendo are trying to course correct. They ideally should have handed the project over to NoA as let's face it, it's going to make 90% of it's box office in the west anyway.

The Summer Game Fest/State of Play, etc, announcements were laughably bad bros

Love this game, gotta wonder if the ending will be altered giving the change in direction with the FFVII rebirth thing

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Well done to these guys I'm surprised controller diversity isn't more widespread

The dollar sales thing is very surprising

Emily Rogers

Stopped reading here lmao

They've done a remarkably poor job at hyping the game

Lol I wonder how this is going to play out in the modern world. Duke is an ultra macho meat head and those tropes just don't fly in a world where a vocal minority on Twitter dictate what is allowed on TV, etc.

His event was somehow worse than E3 normally is

I didn't watch it (not falling for it, Geoff) but based on the announcements so far he had no right hyping this as much as he did. Absolute crap and I hope based on his continual over-hyping/under-delivering every year for the game awards, and subsequent attempt at an E3 competitor, people get wise to his nonsense.

@Banjo- The actual compositions are pretty naff, they're all built on 20-30 second loops

Going by his work on Sonic 4 that's a bit questionable

@HammerGalladeBro Music copyright was a bit funny in the 90s, and with video games the compositional copyright was different from a usual copyright because the music wasn't replayed by the on board chipset, it was replicated. A lot of people in the 80s and 90s video games ended up retaining copyright over the composition unless they were employed by the publisher.

I think a good 1/2 of the OST has already been found to contain musical queues to various 80s/90s music. The Jetzons one is mind blowing.

https://youtu.be/H2OWC5Hosv8

Why are they refusing to confirm/deny the Sonic 3 OST lol they're really gone out of their way to hide the OSTs

Are the negotiations still ongoing or something?

I hope there's not a healer class in the game, I liked how in X/2 the healing was implemented in to the battle rather than taking up a character slot

It looks fundamentally flawed from a design and engine perspective. The game clearly uses canned/situational momentum which is unbelievable for an open world game. The combat and exploration "first looks", which should be building hype, painted an image of a game that didn't have the correct design document, especially if...this was what they used to say "hey, buy our game, here's the core mechanics!". Hopefully Sonic Team cancel the project because goddamn son if that's your best then expect critical mauling (again).

Geoff really trying to make this thing the E3 replacement. I bet it'll be cringe incarnate, like E3.

Sega been riding the success wave of the Mega Drive for as long as I've been alive

I don't understand why this article is on a Nintendo site. An article to confirm the SF series is skipping Nintendo seems silly

There are ongoing stock issues for next-generation consoles, but the PS5 is hanging in there, and with tonight's State of Play, perhaps there will be even more reason for people to pick up Sony's console.

Or any at all amirite?

laughs in Nintendrone

Still see a lot of core problems associated with the Sonic series.

Situational momentum for wall running
Art style clashes
Boring level design
Floating platforms for no reason
Dull combat (from the other snippet)
No cohesive level design from A to B

I don't know what the solution is to the Sonic problem, but marrying him with Death Stranding ain't it, chief.

I didn't connect with Night in the Woods at all but I find it a bit strange that it makes a lot of lists in video game media for a multitude of reasons.

The saddest game I have on Switch is Anodyne 2, even the "happy ending" is mostly an emotional gutpunch.

Not falling for it Geoff! You've been over hyping and under delivering everything you've been part of for your entire career. Never watched a Game Awards, never watching this.

Haven't enjoyed a single one of their games, but glad to know how to pronounce their name now

"What should we use to highlight our new game?"

"5 seperate short clips where we show the combat is spamming homing attacks"

"Genius."

The premise for this is pretty humorous, it comes highly recommended

@Daniel36 Considering Knuckles is a bad guy for 3/Knuckles...yeah.

Knuckles also won't be playable in CD at all, for some reason
Have you played Sonic CD?

@WeLiveInASociety A lot of them are historic, probably why Reggie is being brought up. Some were from around 2015. We'll probably never hear resolution to it. What's probably going to happen is most of them just fade from public memory, and the few that caused murmurs will see settlements.

Interesting gimmick, might give it a go. Seems like one of those concepts that would benefit from a more robust combat system. I bet a sequel would be amazing.

The community showing signs of body shaming here.

Smdhmd, smgdh

@ZZalapski Yup, the Succubus in most folklore interpretations drains a male of his essence through..."relations", sometimes even literally by absorbing his..."stuff". The female targeting equivalent would be the lesser known Incubus.

Lol I heard about that, it sounds creepy as all hell. Boiling characterisation down to a series of points doesn't seem very progressive.

This article reads like comment bait and/or satire

If it's not a cloud version this is day one for me

The first two chapters were really good

Oh no, not Twitter

Haven't been in to speedrunning in like 5 years but the Zelda ones back then were pretty impressive, particularly OoT which got real weird. My favourite run is the Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon ones due to all the weird techniques only found in the Japanese version

Never used any of the Nopon characters voluntarily. Skipped most comic relief scenes in X with Nopon. Ignore them to the best of my abilities. Simple as.

@Sonos Poor quality article imo

Xenoblade 2 is the third game in the series, not the second. X is the second game and is probably the most inaccessible Xenoblade game. Basically has a 15 hour tutorial

As for "accessibility" I think the gaming community does a disservice by calling certain options for certain disabilities automatically accessable. True accessibility would be a CERO style rating system that breaks down physical, visual, auditory, learning disability, developmental disorder, etc, in to their own categories. Your game isn't "accessible" because you implement font size options. It's accessible to those who have certain visual impairments. True accessibility would make games essentially movies imo.

The most accessible game I can think of is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. It has large fonts, very little in the way of difficult mechanics, most of the menus have audio/visual elements for sign posting, it encourages a low skill ceiling by body anything above 50% a "victory" by having your character celebrate, and the auto-accelerate and auto-pathing options make it extremely easy to enjoy for a multitude of disabilities, physical or mental. I've a friend paralysed from the shoulder down and by utilising velcro and a glove, he can hold his own in our group nights.

It's a really good game and I'd like it in some kind of compilation for completeness same