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How can they afford all the legal fees?

Just Animal Crossing most likely. Also might start playing Grim Fandango Remastered. Loved it 20 or so years ago, so I’m curious to revisit it.

I’d like certain sections of the game to be a bit more linear while still retaining the sandbox approach to combat. Having to take the road in Zora’s Domain in BOTW is a good example of best of both worlds.

Would like to know what aspects of RDR2 they are being influenced by. Being able to shape the world through multi-part sidequest would be something they could try to implement more. Terry Town was a highlight because of that.

@kickerofelves Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll start with the first one then.

Yeah, it’s a slugcat. Really liked the controls in Rainworld, so some jank is fine by me.

@kickerofelves That sounds really great actually. I’m definitely going to pick this one up.

Not many require you to get invested in the story and pick up on context clues to proceed. The last one I can remember was Obra Dinn, which was fantastic.

@kickerofelves I’m curious about the puzzles in this game. How do they compare with other games in this style? Usually it’s just a matter of getting a certain item to proceed, but here it sounds more point and click style adventure game. Not sure what to expect.

Btw, is that a gbv reference in your screen name?

Might be pretty good. I’ll put it on the wish list and try it out at some point

@bimmy-lee Hey buddy. I see you over there hoarding all those nacho iron nuggets. Just wait till your shovel breaks. It’s on! 😛

@Tyranexx I agree with you 100% there. Probably touched on this before, but it’s really annoying to see people so grossly misuse a platform like this. I mean they bought the product without knowing anything about it. It wasn’t like a sneaky microtransaction thing Nintendo did at the last minute.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has finished downloading. Maybe Doom 64 but I’ve got next week to try it out. No rush now 😀. No rush for a while.

These are on sale every week now. Cool sale though. Some great games.

Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony are just fine.

Developers are smart and find ways to use the hardware in effective ways in due time. I’ll go with either PS5 or XBOX whatever based on whatever software is on the machines.

Nintendo has proven itself already with strength of the games available on the system. There will be a direct in the next several weeks and the games will be worth the wait.

@AlexOlney Hi Alex. Great review and am looking forward to playing it on the 20th.

Looks like people are already bombarding you with questions, but mine was concerning the flavor of the dialogue on offer. Were the conversations with the NPC townsfolk interesting? I don’t expect it to touch on the more adult themes of something like Stardew, I was just curious how much thought went into that aspect of the game.

Yeah Japan wins it for me. Looks like the opening shot of “The Conformist” . Very cool.

@Maschinenmensch Well we agree there.

@Maschinenmensch Alex Jones? Is that you?

I know I don’t need to read stories like this, but nonetheless I feel like you’d have to know the people for this sort of thing to be interesting. I’m happy they were entertained by it though.

Ohh boy. I want to see what Devolver has planned for this year.

@Wavey84 Spawnwave may have some silly things to say about the coronovirus. Not sure. But he seems to do some interesting videos every now and then.

RGT85 I haven’t watched in over a year because he just dredges up tired talking points on the internet and speeds through them at 100 mph., without an clever opinions or insight. It doesn’t surprise me he would say those things because he has just been leaching on other people’s info for a while.

@redd214 Looking forward to more on Watchdogs.

That being said who says there isn’t a little room for a “Just Dance” and a lot of Tom Clancy. Dogs are cool too!

@ThanosReXXX Yeah I agree with you. It was fun following the event and Nintendo, Microsoft, and that PC games event can shed some light on stuff you’ve never heard of before. Microsoft will likely do the big stage show thing another time anyway, but I’ll miss the Nintendo Treehouse if they end up not having something like to replace it this year.

People complain about how boring the Ubisoft and Bethesda shows are, but how are they going to make memes without Todd Howard and that “Wooo, Yeah” guy? They are going to need to try harder this summer.

@Cyberbotv2 Wow. Just saw your post and did a search. That’s a shame.

Stuff like this has happened before from big companies. I’d be surprised if one isn’t coming on Thursday the 12th.

Reggie’s getting on the boat, as soon as it’s sinking.

I really like brick and mortar game shops, but I’m afraid there aren’t going to be too many still around. You’ll have to go to Target or Walmart to buy games, unless you’re in a big city with a dedicated game store.

@Razer I mean it’s not as dire as you make it seem. Even if you don’t have a backlog there has been a very good port of Metro, Kentucky Route Zero (one of the groundbreaking games this decade), Two Point Hospital (if you like building sims), a good major RPG release with TMS, an okay port of the newest Samurai Shodown, bloody good fun with Bloodroots, the newest Darksiders spin-off, an above average port of DMC 3 that will eventually be 15 bucks in a Capcom sale...

Along with a new content rich AC game, The Outer Worlds, and an eventual release of Doom Eternal.

It’s leagues ahead on Switch compared to previous Nintendo consoles. I think at least.

I give a slight edge to the Japanese version. But the NA box isn’t bad at all for the time.

This game actually has a cool setting despite faults with the controls and some goofy enemies. It has a cool title sequence too, with that violin really setting the mood.

Probably for the best. A WHO report says that the amount of new cases cropping up in China has declined. But the only way that happened, was by allowing basically the whole country to stay at home for a while. So that’s what everyone should be doing...

Who knows what Konami is thinking... Every Metal Gear game except 5 and Survive are stuck on previous gen hardware. Same with the Silent Hill series.

They release Requiem for PS4 and nothing else, then do a really great job with Contra and Castlevania Anniversary Collections.

Now strangely SoTN appears on mobile phones before some weird mobile only Castlevania entry comes in 2020.

Hoping for some more support of their series across consoles, but you can never tell with this crazy company.

@Freddyfred Haha. Challenge accepted. My favorites are Weapon Swing Breaker, Platform Hat Thrower, and Waifu Chess Master. But those are just three examples. 😅

I love literal titles like this. All games should just be titled Gun Shooter, Sword Swinger, and Platform Jumper and straight up tell people what they are paying for. You wouldn’t even need to read a description.

@Yorumi The workers who are part of unions aren’t radical socialist most of the time though. These are regular people that don’t want to be in conflict with the power structure and board of directors at their factories, but the system hasn’t given them any choice. Unless they just want to accept working in horrible conditions or just be replaced by machinery that will put them out of work.

Companies had a choice to stay in US and UK and continue manufacturing, but they chose China because of higher productivity and lower wages. That is ultimately what this system values most. Otherwise there would be seats on the board of directors for workers. Germany has such a system, but they had to fight long and hard for that.

Ironically people who union shame others are just advocating for all modern industrial countries to follow in China’s footsteps. Shouldn’t democracy be extended to various areas our life other than every 2-4 years in a voting booth? Worker’s right has manifested itself into perhaps a slightly simplified and crude form (the union), but at this point it’s the only option people have.

@GrandScribe Agree with every point you made. This is a systemic problem. A little tweak here and there and some people boycotting these companies will do nothing.

But questioning the very foundations of this economic system isn’t comfortable or natural for most people.

Rock, paper, scissors might be more fun actually.

I only played 3 FF games, but I liked VI the best. VII was very good as well.

It’s getting worse by the day. Over 1500 in Korea as well.

Living in China now and was hoping for the best a month ago, but it’s out of control. People are definitely taking precautions, so that’s about all you can do.

@Ralek85 Fair ‘nuff, but I see Three Houses as a interesting evolution for the series. The problem may not be the added social aspects, but rather some of the cardboard character interactions and dialogue. I actually think the social systems interconnect well with the more traditional combat gameplay, but the monastery can be a little boring sometimes because the writing can be a bit bland and robotic. Also it takes a considerable amount of time for the intriguing aspects of the plot to get their hooks into you when that should’ve been there in the opening 2 hours. So yeah sometimes it seems like you are just interacting with spreadsheets and numbers with anime faces attached to them, instead of really feeling like you are developing emotional bonds with the story and characters.

But I still think it is one of the best Switch exclusives and took a risk with the formula that mostly paid off. Hopefully the next one they will step their writing game up a little more though.

That’s great news for the Switch. It really takes advantage of the platform.

Xcom 2 would be perfect on a portable.

This one must have flew under my radar. First time I’m seeing it.

Both Quest 64 (where are Quest 1-63? Hehe) and Holy Magic Century are bad titles, but the art on the European box looks great.

If you include a female cast and include some directed social commentary then “nobody wants to see it” and “the movie has an agenda”.

Everything has has some agenda one way or another, even if the creators didn’t intend. All movies are inherently social because it is seen and consumed by a society which give it value. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

Anyway, good for the Sonic movie. Hope everyone enjoys themselves.

To be fair it’s probably fine for a video game adaptation. That bar isn’t high, but it’s there anyway.

Movie critics are tasked with watching 50-100 movies per year and give their opinion. Of course it’s going to be mediocre compared to many of the films they watch, so that’s understandable.

It doesn’t look like something I need to go to a movie theatre to see, but I hope the families that check it out, enjoy it.

Unfortunately everything Eric does will be compared to Stardew by the journalism and gaming community. It’s a shame because Stardew is very much a magnus opus of a game with the amount of content and depth to the experience, and it’s unfair to expect something on the same level as that.

Whatever comes next I’ll definitely be there.

Good to see some more obscure games. Those ones on the NES sound cool.

But why couldn’t they add at least one classic to the SNES lineup. Earthbound, Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country... would be easy wins for people with the online service.

Have the people on the European cover ever been in the sun? That’s an unusual pigment for football players.

Japan gets the goal.

I really hope it is DLC. I’d hate for Nintendo to include items and cosmetics as paid content. Microtransactions have no place in 60 dollar games, no matter who is making it.

I think we are getting a little ahead of ourselves by assuming that the above is the case though. Everyone should’ve known that DLC was coming for this game.

We’ll see what happens.

@NintendoByNature Ohh boy. I’ll watch out for that. I’m already noticing a bit of a difficulty spike early on.

What weapon did you use in your play through? I really wanted to use the leather whip, but it’s too slow. Hope to find a chain whip somewhere in the game.

Got Bloodstained on that PS4 retro sale and look forward to checking it out. Been in the mood for a good metroidvania.

I can see EA wanting to port Apex Legends to the Switch but not the rest of Respawn’s games. It’s on the way.

@GamingFan4Lyf Yeah I’d like to see their 90s games rereleased as well.

@Ooyah Cool. Never played that one but might look into it.

Do you know if it is any good?