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@GOmar
No biggie. I'm surprised at how many in here think a subscription fee is a better idea, when that would quite literally eradicate adoption of Unity. Not saying an install fee is a good idea. But it doesn't immediately kill the platform.

@GOmar
You quote me, but I'm the one saying this WOULDN'T affect the people I mention, but that a monthly subscription fee WOULD.

@blindsquarel
I understand. But that is kind of a no-go if you want hobby developers on board early. Unity has been free this whole time. If they introduce a monthly fee now, children, schools, clubs, hobbyists and indie studies with 10+ seats would immediately switch to using Unreal instead.

@blindsquarel
The idea is to monetize the success, not the experimentation and the development. Which by itself is a noble enough approach.

Unity and Riccitiello looking to stick a fat arm into the "user acquisition" expense that many mobile developers are already sweating bullets over. That's nice.

@Exerion76
You WISH.
We're getting Home Circuit Deluxe.

And so it begins.
Lars Wingefors might enjoy collecting game companies, but like everyone else, he can't keep them operating if they aren't making money, it would seem.

My condolences to Volition, its staff, and its fans.

@Ironcore
I remember being excited about that one, but reading up on it, it seems like the sort of project that would've been hard to salvage. :x

Santa Cruz never got to publish any of their own IP, but here's the proof that they were working on one! :v

Looks pretty fun and intricate as well!

The Madworld vibes are here. :v

That's a nice handful of newly announced titles!

It's commecially accurate if people are willing to pay.
If they aren't, it isn't.

Pretty hamfisted with the bloom in the new version, and the normal maps seem dialed up a tad too far for me, but then I never thought it was a pretty game to begin with.

@mlt
Do let me know if it's in there.
I've been pretty surprised how, after all shooters on the Wii -had- to work that way, I haven't found a single one on Switch that even offers it as an optional choice.

Terrific read, this whole thing!
Fantastic that you finally had a good context for sharing it.

I should wish I could play games with my kids and be "the old guy" when I'm 60. ^^

@mlt
Autoturn means the player will turn left, right, up, and down without analog stick input, the further off the reticule is from the safe zone in the center of screen.

In all of these games you have to turn manually, meaning that the gyro controls in these games are an addition to dual analog, without replacing either stick.

And... I'm really bad at dual analog controls.

I call THAT a bowel movement!!

None of them have gyro-aiming with autoturn, so I am not interested.

I'd had quite enough of that game even before I made it to the end of the demo, so this isn't a personal concern of mine.

I'm just worried that once again a large team of skilled people have wasted years of work on something that will never see release, as has become a bit of a recurring theme with Ubisoft. :x

Getting to play as Homelander in Mortal Kombat??!
Someone's been doing their research on "things a lot of people would find VERY attractive".

The cutscenes in Pikmin 2 are most likely NOT upscaled with AI for the Switch release.
In 2004 it was already common practice to render out films at a much higher resolution than they would be displayed at on the target device, so they were easier to use in promotion material.

Considering this, Nintendo has likely had high quality versions of these sequences lying around ever since production of Pikmin 2, and could shove them into the HD rerelease with little effort needed.

That's precious. :3

I'l be honest that I don't really like the original game.
But at least the visuals have a certain clarity to them, where you can easily tell the character from the background.
Everything sort of bleeds together in a way that makes my eyes hurt in the new game. But. The game might actually be more fun to play. ^^

Yeah, this is the production scoop that got Daedalic a buyout deal with Nacon.

But it's likely also the reception of this game upon completion that has forced Nacon's hand in telling them to shut down internal development. :x

So... it's a skating and dating game?
That's one of the more clever genre mash-ups I've seen lately.

@nhSnork
Oh, I just mean that, for at change, it would be nice to be wrong. ^_^;;

He says that, but I'm fairly sure they won't be looking to allow carry-over of game purchases.

That would open way too many questions of compatibility, and would deny focus on early games utilizing any new input/output capabilities of the Switch successor.

I could be wrong though.
Which would be nice for a change.

The absense of pointer controls has meant I haven't played shooters on Switch at all.

I went from enjoying them thoroughly on Wii and Wii U to straight up eliminating them from my diet.

HOLD THE PHONE
Good-Feel doing a spiritual successor to Goemon?!!

DANG THAT'S SOME GOOD NEWS!!

Sounds great!
The absense of motion controls is a dealbreaker for me, personally though. And even if they added gyro controls, they probably wouldn't add auto-turn. No-one so far on Switch has. And to me, gyro controls are useless without it.

Looks super interesting!

And I'm happy to see Jeppe wearing a 140 shirt.
It's a nice little game, celebrating it's 10th anniversary this year. ^^

Just exactly managed 15. :v

I'm pretty excited to finally play Tilt 'n' Tumble!

Oo wow, as an avid journaler, this is inspiring. :v

If they don't announce DLC for it, I will get the physical release eventually.

@Cashews
In this particular case, the money isn't funding the game.
The game is apparently almost done, but needs testing, launch prepping, and marketing. But I understand what you are saying.
Plenty of inexperienced or completely unproven hacks out there thinking they can coast on other people's hopes while making their game.

Switch is likely the console I've bought the most software for, albeit mostly in digital form, ans it is also the console on which I have BY FAR the most play hours.

Well done Nintendo!

Haha, Prime 4 continues its absurd limbo existence. :v

@SteamEngenius
They're merely asking strangers to help pay for the game.
Same as everyone else selling video games.

Looks super peppy!
Not sure I'm backing, but I'll keep up with it.

@Cashews
$35000 is not a lot of money.
Most of it will disappear into the campaign itself.

And they're not just begging either.
People backing will also get the game.
For a lower price than what Stardew Valley launched at. ^^

This is probably more of an awareness campaign.

I played the demo.
It's very cute and very moody at the same time.
Gets right creepy at the end too. :3

Really hoping that selecting recipes from the cookbook with auto-pick the required ingredients from your inventory.

That would be a huge load off, as your ingredients get jumbled around everytime you've been picking up stuff in the wilderness, and you have no means of sorting it. :x

I'm a little more interested in how the film was made than in what the voice actors think about the games, characters, and settings.
But it's not like I expected Nintendo and Illumination to pull a full Pixar with this, so I'm okay. ^^

@Matroska
It unfortunately doesn't.
Cooking five Mighty Carps together for their buffs is not a recipe. Cooking four of them AND a hearty truffle together for buffs AND full health +3 extra hearts is also not a recipe.
It's just a choice of ingredients with specific effects.
And it's much more efficient than following any of the game's recipes.

Cooking five Gourmet Meat together multiple times over isn't really a recipe either.
But it's the fastest way of making money off of your ingredients, as selling the resultings dishes will net you quite a few rupees, even if these dishes carry no special names or effects.

@Matroska
It's true that you could do all those with cooking, but none of it really had to do with recipes. :x

The most useless non-mechanic in Breath of the Wild. Unfortunately.
Really hoping they're doing something more interesting with it in Tears of the Kingdom.

Of course it could run.
It's just whether you REALLY REALLY want it to.

They created Modern Warfare Reflex for Wii because they wanted it out for the Wii audience. Putting the new games on Switch would take less of an effort than that.

@karlhendrikse
So, this movie has yet to make as much money as the first New Super Mario Bros. on DS did. That one game alone.
But the movie was made on a budget of more than ten times the size.

Games sell for considerably more than a movie ticket, and their budgets are often much lower.
Nintendo is not going to stop making games just because a movie of theirs is successful. ^^

Imagine at the age of 50, in the mid-80s recession, to go "I'll help these young British video game renegades do something spectacular!"

What a legend.

Super peppy version! Would go great with the test visuals that other team did. :v