@Kirby-in-Kirkby this is unlike other turn based battlers because you have to watch the battle and time button presses to avoid damage and increase the power of your attacks. So it plays as much like a rhythm game as turn based in that respect. It's much more engaging than just watching stuff happen.
@Equinox Developers understand making money. Your "core gamer" demographic is great for selling £60 shooters too, but the real money's in things like Pokemon go. Core gamers are increasingly irrelevant to the games industry. Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.
I don't have a problem with this. So people who do must be idiots. Or different to me. Well, I could do some research and find out why people are complaining.... No, far easier to just call people stupid!
@andywitmyer "neoliberal PC SJWs" ha! One of those words you have no idea what it means, the other two abbreviations just say "I'm intolerant" Grow up.
This isn't number of copies sold it's money made. So given that games on switch tend to be priced higher than on other platforms is be interesting to see how many units generated that money. My feeling is that Devs are flocking to switch because the profit per sale is massive compared to the other platforms.
Never understood while this awesome concept, an on rails shooter where you can go forwards and backwards at will, never caught on. On rails shooters were a thing for a while on Wii but none that allowed you to control your speed forward.
Couldn't follow the story in Killer 7 mind, but it's so stylish that it kind of doesn't matter.....
It's a performance review. Mistakes about how many stages are included aren't really relevant. They do show that df is not the best at the details of Nintendo gaming but that doesn't mean they don't understand frame rates and textures.
@AlternateButtons the earth being flat used to be common knowledge. You need a better source than that if Guinness are handing out records for new voice work on the game.
Props to chaz though, Mario wouldn't be the same without him!!
I too am easily influenced by a snippet of an interview reprinted in an article. There's no way this could have been taken out of context or mistranslated. I'm going outside to stamp on my copy of no more heroes now!!!!
Why don't the male characters blush? Males never get embarrassed? This is sexist and it's completely appropriate to call it out.
There's no reason for this disparity between the characters and it's ridiculous to assume that no female can handle spicy food.
@AlternateButtons It's sexist. That's covered by social politics so it clearly belongs. What you meant was "Stop trying to make me consider other people's feelings".
@dourfram "less dating sim and j-drama filler garbage." Persona isn't the game for you. Dating sim j-drama is what differentiates Persona from pretty much every other RPG out there. Why not play one of them instead of complaining that Persona isn't the same as them?
Put over a hundred hours into the first one on XBox. Never managed to get any of the girls into the tiniest of the bikinis though. To all the people complaining this is just soft core porn, if it's anything like the first then there's a lot more to it than that. To all the people complaining that this is better than violence, it's the one sided nature of it that's offensive. If it was possible to perv on the hunky men of DOA (and watch their packages jiggle) then it'd be fine, but it's sexist to just objectify the girls and not the boys.
Nintendo shouldn't make controllers like this, they should officially support these ones. The last thing the user needs is two similar but different setups they have to switch between when changing consoles.
"Pointless article" generates comments, means ads are being served, means money is being made. So presumably you all love this sort of article and are just posting to keep them coming?
@TeslaChippie I'm so sorry for you. You think you're enjoying this game. It's clear from the comments that if you were clever enough you'd realise you've been suckered by game freak into buying a bad game. Poor, poor you.
@Heavyarms55 the unrealistic men are muscled and powerful, the unrealistic women are sexy and servile. Don't pretend there's no difference. Played the original loads on xbox, quality games and nigh on impossible to get the girls to accept and wear the smallest bikinis, so not as much of a perv fest as it looks (which isn't saying much).
They're talking about infrastructure. 5G is just the bit between the tower and the phone. The infrastructure is also the bit between the tower and the game server. 5G won't touch that.
@HorridCrow "But this a live action movie" So were "Space Jam" and "Who framed Roger Rabbit?". You don't have to have realistic pokemon to overlay them on the real world. This was an artistic choice not the only option.
Social media makes good sense if you're a business, even more so if you're in entertainment. I'm a wrestling fan and my local promotion teases upcoming bouts and feuds on Twitter. It's a great way to generate a bit of excitement for an upcoming show.
@BladedKnight Because, as we all know, the fun in games gets used up over time. A fun game seven years ago will be boring and dull now because the code will have become tarnished and dusty.
Plague Road's been doing this a lot. Goes on sale at 90% discount, appears in the "most downloaded" chart, goes back to full price. I don't have a problem with this, if you're buying games purely based on them being in the chart then you deserve the games you buy.
Sounds like the joy cons are using a different api to the classic controller meaning support doesn't come for nothing. Even if it's the same API the ui still needs extending to add in a configuration screen. As soon as it starts to cost to support the pro controller questions will be asked about exactly how many sales this feature would add compared to how much it would cost. How many sales do you think it would add? For a game like this i can't see it having a significant enough impact to be worth the effort.
I can't believe these game stop people! Come round your house, take your old switch, give you a diablo special edition and charge you $160!!! Oh, it's a deal you can choose to take if you want? Ok.
If you give something nice away there's always some jdibdubdubftub ready to try and monetise it. Most of them won't credit you if they can avoid it. Not impressed with Dark Horse on this, a simple citation is all that was required.
@Heavyarms55 better in terms of price no doubt, but better in terms of educational value is less certain. It's definitely not Nintendo's job to fix the American education system. It's a rich country that could easily afford good education.
@Zuljaras It's clearly not non-sense. It's a deeply analysed wide ranging study that is very careful to avoid saying "Video games make you violent" whilst noting "Violent videogames do have a measurable effect on some people". It's science, not an opinion. You could find evidence to counter it but just calling it non-sense is, in itself, non-sensical.
When you strap a phone to your face to do vr it divides the screen in two and renders separate images for your right and left eye. Why would you think strapping the switch to your face would make it do that? It won't. VR involves stereoscopic 3d. Switch's strap on headset isn't VR.
@OorWullie "Screw the 99.5% of normal folk as long as the 0.5% are happy." 99.5% of people are not on your side on this. Most players of this gamep are now genuinely "normal folk", the vast majority of them don't know what jiggle physics are nevermind care about them. More to the point a significant female proportion of the player base may well find this sexism off putting. (If there were jiggling cod pieces then this wouldn't be sexist but there aren't.) Your assertion that every one agrees with you is the product of what they call a social media bubble. Epic have a very successful game on their hands that has achieved mainstream success, they need to go beyond the core "horny teenager" demographic.
Google, Amazon and ms are three of the big cloud service providers. Nintendo would be foolish to try and put their own cloud servers in place for this, they're a games company. Much more sensible to use a cloud provided by a market leading tech company like Google, from a global perspective anyway....
@JasmineDragon is cos it's a port of a title that doesn't have touch screen support. You need to write code to at least hook up the new drivers for this even if you can then have all your mouse code handle your touch screen interactions ( which you can't because a mouse always has a pointer and a touch screen doesn't. For example if Hovering the mouse pointer over things shows important notifications then you have to find a new way of showing that information for touch screen.) So just being on a device with touch support isn't enough to give you your touch screen sprite drawing.
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Re: Switch eShop Glitch Leaves Customer Facing $239 Charge For Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
@sanderev If we all click and comment on the story maybe that'll stop them!
Or maybe that's exactly what "they" want......
Re: Review: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey - A Worthy Remaster Of An RPG Classic
@Kirby-in-Kirkby this is unlike other turn based battlers because you have to watch the battle and time button presses to avoid damage and increase the power of your attacks. So it plays as much like a rhythm game as turn based in that respect.
It's much more engaging than just watching stuff happen.
Re: Some Fans Are Calling For A Boycott Of Pokémon After Creatures Inc Shares Controversial Tweet
@Equinox Developers understand making money. Your "core gamer" demographic is great for selling £60 shooters too, but the real money's in things like Pokemon go.
Core gamers are increasingly irrelevant to the games industry.
Oh dear, what a pity, never mind.
Re: Some Fans Are Calling For A Boycott Of Pokémon After Creatures Inc Shares Controversial Tweet
I don't have a problem with this.
So people who do must be idiots.
Or different to me.
Well, I could do some research and find out why people are complaining....
No, far easier to just call people stupid!
Re: Visual Novel Song Of Memories Has Been Cancelled On Switch, PS4 Version Still Going Ahead
Maybe they should have a word with Panic Button.....
Re: Feature: 14 Classic Nintendo Winter-Themed Levels to Play This Christmas
All of silent hill: revelations! The falling snow casts shadows! Admittedly not particularly festive.....
Re: Nintendo Releases Printable Animal Crossing Calendar Showing Characters' Birthdays
@Kainbrightside you can plant flower seeds, water them then pick them and sell them! That's kind of light farming....
Re: Random: Facebook Rejects Super Meat Boy Advertisement Due To "Explicit" Nature
@andywitmyer "neoliberal PC SJWs" ha! One of those words you have no idea what it means, the other two abbreviations just say "I'm intolerant"
Grow up.
Re: Thimbleweed Park Dev Ron Gilbert Shares Fascinating Breakdown Of Sales By Platform
This isn't number of copies sold it's money made. So given that games on switch tend to be priced higher than on other platforms is be interesting to see how many units generated that money.
My feeling is that Devs are flocking to switch because the profit per sale is massive compared to the other platforms.
Re: Suda51 Would "Love" To Bring Killer7 To Switch, But It's All Up To Capcom
Never understood while this awesome concept, an on rails shooter where you can go forwards and backwards at will, never caught on. On rails shooters were a thing for a while on Wii but none that allowed you to control your speed forward.
Couldn't follow the story in Killer 7 mind, but it's so stylish that it kind of doesn't matter.....
Re: Mom Hid My Game! Gets Limited Time Sale On Switch And 3DS
@frabbit The best way to show you're not interested in a story is to click on it and post a comment.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Technical Analysis Of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
It's a performance review. Mistakes about how many stages are included aren't really relevant. They do show that df is not the best at the details of Nintendo gaming but that doesn't mean they don't understand frame rates and textures.
Re: Nintendo Unlikely To Bring Original Marvel Ultimate Alliance Games To Switch
@GrailUK botw is a"mobile" game, I've played it on the bus.
Re: Charles Martinet Receives Guinness World Record For Voicing Mario 100 Times
@AlternateButtons the earth being flat used to be common knowledge. You need a better source than that if Guinness are handing out records for new voice work on the game.
Props to chaz though, Mario wouldn't be the same without him!!
Re: An "Epic" No More Heroes 3 Could Be On The Cards If Travis Strikes Again Sells Well, Says Suda51
I too am easily influenced by a snippet of an interview reprinted in an article. There's no way this could have been taken out of context or mistranslated.
I'm going outside to stamp on my copy of no more heroes now!!!!
Re: Random: Japanese Smash Bros. Fans Are Now Obsessing Over Curry-Induced Female Blushing
@MS7000 Fair play.
In that case perv away!
Re: Random: Japanese Smash Bros. Fans Are Now Obsessing Over Curry-Induced Female Blushing
@Shane76 How would the male characters blushing ruin your fun?
Re: Random: Japanese Smash Bros. Fans Are Now Obsessing Over Curry-Induced Female Blushing
Why don't the male characters blush? Males never get embarrassed? This is sexist and it's completely appropriate to call it out.
There's no reason for this disparity between the characters and it's ridiculous to assume that no female can handle spicy food.
Re: Random: Japanese Smash Bros. Fans Are Now Obsessing Over Curry-Induced Female Blushing
@AlternateButtons It's sexist. That's covered by social politics so it clearly belongs. What you meant was "Stop trying to make me consider other people's feelings".
Re: The New BittBoy Can Play NES, Game Boy And Game Boy Color (Ahem) Games
SouljaBoy-Boy, surely?
Re: Rumour: Joker In Smash Bros. Ultimate Triggers Speculation That Persona 5 Is Coming To Switch
@dourfram "less dating sim and j-drama filler garbage."
Persona isn't the game for you. Dating sim j-drama is what differentiates Persona from pretty much every other RPG out there. Why not play one of them instead of complaining that Persona isn't the same as them?
Re: Dead Or Alive Xtreme 3: Scarlet's First Trailer Shows Exclusive 'Soft 4D' Joy-Con Feature On Switch
Put over a hundred hours into the first one on XBox. Never managed to get any of the girls into the tiniest of the bikinis though.
To all the people complaining this is just soft core porn, if it's anything like the first then there's a lot more to it than that.
To all the people complaining that this is better than violence, it's the one sided nature of it that's offensive. If it was possible to perv on the hunky men of DOA (and watch their packages jiggle) then it'd be fine, but it's sexist to just objectify the girls and not the boys.
Re: Campo Santo Releases Firewatch On Switch eShop Later This Month
@Dazzle how will you play it on the bus?
Re: These Larger, Cheaper Third-Party Switch Joy-Con Promise Improved Grip And Customisation
@Rhaoulos surely that's Nintendo with their "release a patch that stops third party things working" shenanigans?
Re: Video: Using The Xbox Adaptive Controller With Nintendo Switch
Nintendo shouldn't make controllers like this, they should officially support these ones. The last thing the user needs is two similar but different setups they have to switch between when changing consoles.
Re: Random: Japanese Tennis Star Kei Nishikori Has Been Playing Pokémon: Let's Go In His Downtime
"Pointless article" generates comments, means ads are being served, means money is being made.
So presumably you all love this sort of article and are just posting to keep them coming?
Re: Soapbox: Don't Listen To The Pokémon: Let’s Go Haters - The Game Has Definitely Found Its Audience
@TeslaChippie I'm so sorry for you. You think you're enjoying this game. It's clear from the comments that if you were clever enough you'd realise you've been suckered by game freak into buying a bad game. Poor, poor you.
Re: Dead Or Alive Xtreme 3: Scarlet Is Splashing Onto The Switch Early Next Year
@Heavyarms55 the unrealistic men are muscled and powerful, the unrealistic women are sexy and servile. Don't pretend there's no difference.
Played the original loads on xbox, quality games and nigh on impossible to get the girls to accept and wear the smallest bikinis, so not as much of a perv fest as it looks (which isn't saying much).
Re: Guide: Best Nintendo Switch Black Friday 2018 Deals
@Paulywally unless you work there.
Re: Zen Studios Announces Williams Pinball Volume Two Is Coming To Pinball FX3 In December
I like the way they update these tables to add in new graphics and remove the sexist crap. It's a great way to treat these classics.
Re: Technical Infrastructure For Nintendo To Stream Games Outside Of Japan "Doesn't Exist"
They're talking about infrastructure. 5G is just the bit between the tower and the phone. The infrastructure is also the bit between the tower and the game server. 5G won't touch that.
Re: "Realistic Pokémon" Artist Landed Detective Pikachu Movie Job After Being Discovered On Google
@HorridCrow "But this a live action movie" So were "Space Jam" and "Who framed Roger Rabbit?". You don't have to have realistic pokemon to overlay them on the real world. This was an artistic choice not the only option.
Re: Review: Road Redemption - A Rough But Riveting Road Rash Revival
If you used to play road rash on the mega drive then crappy frame rates are just adding to the authenticity.
Re: Pokémon Developer Game Freak Opens Its Own Twitter And YouTube Accounts
Social media makes good sense if you're a business, even more so if you're in entertainment. I'm a wrestling fan and my local promotion teases upcoming bouts and feuds on Twitter. It's a great way to generate a bit of excitement for an upcoming show.
Re: Video: Nintendo Would Like To Remind You That 2DS Exists This Christmas
@BladedKnight Because, as we all know, the fun in games gets used up over time. A fun game seven years ago will be boring and dull now because the code will have become tarnished and dusty.
Re: Switch Couch Co-Op Game Bouncy Bob Is Now On Sale At 97% Off, Available For Just $0.14
Plague Road's been doing this a lot. Goes on sale at 90% discount, appears in the "most downloaded" chart, goes back to full price. I don't have a problem with this, if you're buying games purely based on them being in the chart then you deserve the games you buy.
Re: Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu And Eevee Won't Include Pro Controller Support
Sounds like the joy cons are using a different api to the classic controller meaning support doesn't come for nothing. Even if it's the same API the ui still needs extending to add in a configuration screen. As soon as it starts to cost to support the pro controller questions will be asked about exactly how many sales this feature would add compared to how much it would cost.
How many sales do you think it would add? For a game like this i can't see it having a significant enough impact to be worth the effort.
Re: GameStop Promo Wants You To Trade-In Your Old Switch For A New Switch
I can't believe these game stop people! Come round your house, take your old switch, give you a diablo special edition and charge you $160!!!
Oh, it's a deal you can choose to take if you want? Ok.
Re: It Looks Like The Official Super Mario Encyclopedia Plagiarised A Fan-Made Wiki
If you give something nice away there's always some jdibdubdubftub ready to try and monetise it. Most of them won't credit you if they can avoid it. Not impressed with Dark Horse on this, a simple citation is all that was required.
Re: Nintendo Labo Is Rolling Out In Classrooms Across The US And Canada
@Heavyarms55 better in terms of price no doubt, but better in terms of educational value is less certain.
It's definitely not Nintendo's job to fix the American education system. It's a rich country that could easily afford good education.
Re: You Can Thank The GameCube For Katamari Damacy, According To Creator Keita Takahashi
@MaSSiVeRiCaN "rabbit cult following"? yeah, those bunnies, eh? I hope they don't get rabies....
Re: New Study Suggests That Playing Violent Video Games Leads To Increased Physical Aggression
@Zuljaras It's clearly not non-sense. It's a deeply analysed wide ranging study that is very careful to avoid saying "Video games make you violent" whilst noting "Violent videogames do have a measurable effect on some people".
It's science, not an opinion. You could find evidence to counter it but just calling it non-sense is, in itself, non-sensical.
Re: Nintendo Switch Is About To Get Its First VR-Style Headset, But There's A Catch
When you strap a phone to your face to do vr it divides the screen in two and renders separate images for your right and left eye. Why would you think strapping the switch to your face would make it do that? It won't.
VR involves stereoscopic 3d. Switch's strap on headset isn't VR.
Re: Epic Says Jiggle Physics Included In Latest Fortnite Update Were "Unintended"
@OorWullie "Screw the 99.5% of normal folk as long as the 0.5% are happy."
99.5% of people are not on your side on this. Most players of this gamep are now genuinely "normal folk", the vast majority of them don't know what jiggle physics are nevermind care about them. More to the point a significant female proportion of the player base may well find this sexism off putting. (If there were jiggling cod pieces then this wouldn't be sexist but there aren't.) Your assertion that every one agrees with you is the product of what they call a social media bubble.
Epic have a very successful game on their hands that has achieved mainstream success, they need to go beyond the core "horny teenager" demographic.
Re: Random: Switch Online Service Launch Has Caused All Sorts Of Issues For Chinese Players
Google, Amazon and ms are three of the big cloud service providers. Nintendo would be foolish to try and put their own cloud servers in place for this, they're a games company. Much more sensible to use a cloud provided by a market leading tech company like Google, from a global perspective anyway....
Re: Get A Closer Look At The Awesome (And Ultra Rare) Labo-Inspired Nintendo Switch
@BigKing I think a visit to your GP may be in order......
Re: RPG Maker MV Releases In North America Next February
@JasmineDragon is cos it's a port of a title that doesn't have touch screen support. You need to write code to at least hook up the new drivers for this even if you can then have all your mouse code handle your touch screen interactions ( which you can't because a mouse always has a pointer and a touch screen doesn't. For example if Hovering the mouse pointer over things shows important notifications then you have to find a new way of showing that information for touch screen.) So just being on a device with touch support isn't enough to give you your touch screen sprite drawing.
Re: Spewart Hat And Suit Added To Super Mario Odyssey
HOW DARE THEY ADD THIS FREE STUFF WHEN IT'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT I WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Random: THQ Announces Let's Sing 2019 For Nintendo Wii
@Tiefseemiez Can you help please? I can't seem to find where to put the Wii game disc in my Switch...
Re: Gone Home Release For Switch Delayed Until Next Month
Had this on pc, couldn't get it to run properly. Will probably try again on switch when it's under a fiver....