SalvorHardin

Sounds like we have some “ethically” used ‘surprise mechanics” that that guy at EA would salivate over.

His bitterness is most likely because of the response to Yooka Laylee a game that was so incredibly faithful to Banjo that it exposed how much the game design itself of Banjo is as deep as a puddle with incredibly boring platforming, unfortunately despite that fans would reject a new Banjo that attempted to address this so it would be screwed either way.
@WhiteTrashGuy
That’s some 90s/00s games industry logic that Microsoft has stopped using for years and they have no reason to care to now.

@Pillowpants
Yeah that part really kills investing much into battling, makes it too luck based with how much the meta is built around decks like Mewtwo EX and Pikachu EX where you’ll always know incredibly early if you’ll win or lose.

We need a new Star Wars game with arcadey combo based combat, the character action combat that somehow made its way into the last Lego Star Wars shows there’s a lot of potential for it.

I’m curious to what they do with this one, have a love and hate relationship with Eternal but it’s condescending fans have soured me on it over time, they love to hammer people into the ground for not getting the game the way they do and went absolutely rabid over the changes made when the second DLC dropped. I think they’ll either double down or mistakingly just turn it into Serious Sam rather then attempting to rebalance things to be less about spamming weapon swap combos while dealing with resource /cooldown management.

Nintendo hire this man

So when are they going to start pulling ads in America during NFL games where athletes do similar heinous acts like this or even worse than this on a regular basis and are rarely if ever actually held accountable?

@danzoEX
Sounds exactly like the type of mandate he’d make.

@roy130390
Banjo’s diehard fans tend to be like this they don’t see it as a dated, extremely corny and very much a dead IP outside of cameos and merchandise but instead still buy into the Mario-killer hype they were spoon fed by magazines in the 90’s.

That’s a whole lot of probablies but all signs point to no.

His fighting style doesn’t do the MK animation and game feel any favors like hollllly ***** is this dull. I’d rather have this Conan in a beat-em-up.
@MirrorFate2
MK is perpetually screwed they all sell well so they’ll always have the same boring look and feel despite some changes to character designs and story, they’ve also properly screwed themselves out of hitting the reboot button again.

@N00BiSH
They have no way around not needing enhanced Switch 1 ports to bulk up their release calendars so I’d be surprised if BC don’t play and look nearly identical, they could do what Sony’s done where they do both but I think Nintendo would prefer just doing one.

“ Items must be consumed in order to trade.”
Of course, they picked the timing of this exactly to milk people who are on the cusp of completing Apex.

Seems like PR speak like they’d follow their statement if pressed on it by saying they believe the port is it’s on separate game so the people who created it are properly credited.

The floodgates for a new generation of cheap plastic overpriced junk have opened.

Dopey Kong Returns

@Siskan
They look better on Nintendo’s site but they still give off poor color profile vibes, I always associate that salmon shade with poor color reproduction as it’s how red would usually look on a lot of LCD screens in the 00’s

Not really a good look like they want people to get excited because another Mario Kart exists for the sake of it so we get some very bland footage that you could easily trick people into thinking that as MK8. It doesn’t help that MK8 already hit the peak of what the series can look like visually so it’s not surprising that we’re seeing the diminishing returns. Going with that is very safe instead of giving a hint of something that would make people freak out seems a bit telling but maybe it’s the only thing they’d budge on showing for a reveal trailer they were forced into releasing now.

@tourjeff
I don’t think they planned to do reveal it this early but the leaks pushed their hand.

Looks like something they’d toss in to appease the key people in the company who don’t want them to make purely iterative consoles which this otherwise is.

@Waveboy
Videos John actually cares about tend to have more colorful presentation and transitions, his DF Retro ones have a ton of this or games he feels strongly positive about.

“ The pair also claim Nintendo has been somewhat naive over the years in terms of its "mentality" - thinking it's "different" to the rest of the competition when it comes to leaks of a certain scale, and it simply wouldn't happen to a company like it.”
The Switch Pro stuff would have been a wake up call to them if they was the case. These leaks by accessory makers are identical to what happens with iPhones and other Apple products every year.

"Richter Belmont is done running”
So let me guess the first season has Richter F’n Belmont running away constantly and not being proactive so the show can stall until the season finale where they promise the next one will be about him kicking ass? I’ve only watched the first two seasons of the first series and got tired of the endless bickering and general mean spiritedness, is this one any different?

@OorWullie
They’d rather give us Virtua Fighter………for the Genesis.
@PinderSchloss
I wouldn’t describe Ecco as cozy at all the tone is very creepy and you have to deal with time pressure oxygen/food meters along with incredibly cryptic game design.. The beginning is very cozy though makes it hit harder when things go to hell.

@Erigen
Sounds close to what the actual games have been doing since 1998.

@SwitchForce
It’s just mindless white noise at this point.

@Toastmaster
People were super obsessive about Ouya just like that with many of the same talking points and rhetoric and how’d that work out?

@abe_hikura
Well reports also said stuff like this in 2021
“Nintendo Plans on Releasing Major New Games in 2021 to Boost Switch Pro Launch”
People are setting themselves up for disappointment if they keep thinking that a downturn in Nintendo’s release schedule means that they are building towards a constant flow of big games.

Which retro looking game with N64/PS1 graphics is going to be the first to struggle to hit 30fps on the new system? Bonus points if it runs on Unity, bonus bonus points if it also struggles on PS5.

The Mario kart without Mario is a pretty choice decision, they’ve gotta be tired of dealing with Nintendo at this point compared to the Sonic sets where Sega seemingly lets them do whatever they want.

It’s absolutely more about sales potential and the core gameplay being too simple for its own good, could have existed as a cheap download only series but Nintendo isn’t very interested in doing stuff like that so its dead in the water.

Fix it on existing hardware.

Another way to play the Genesis version of Virtua Fighter 2!

@Rpg-lover
Give me a ballpark figure of what percentage you think of the Switch’s total user base is in the market for a pc handheld or already has one. That article is a joke; what it’s suggesting isn’t going to shift sales in any significant way towards those things. The way it brings up Unreal Engine 5 is hilarious too, considering it’s where good image quality and performance go to die even on much beefier hardware but uh oh, Switch 2 is in trouble if it suffers the same as the rest!

Who would have ever predicted this change with PEGI would screw over smaller devs while they turn a complete blinds eye to the insidious stuff big devs/publishers are doing.
@Dr_Lugae
Bingo.

More collections incoming.

Production valves in this for the animations are very high but it’s still under 10 minutes of content for 5 bucks compared to the hours of content added for free to Frontiers.
@Mariotag
You can just cheese it by buying them from Big. The final horizon version of the island is better anyway you it doesn’t have tokens to collect but it’s a more difficult experience.

“Statler and Waldorf were on hand to reference last year's "wrap it up" criticism ”
Gotta love literal puppets being used for hollow self deprecating humor on this long corporate advertisement.

@DragotheKomodo
Sega is likely treating the idea of canon with Sonic now the way it’s typically treated in Japan, where it’s a loose concept where sub-material is often contradictory with the main part of the franchise and easily ignored by it when necessary. This means IDW and Prime can resemble the game canon and even be marketed as being the same as it for marquee value, but the actual game canon isn’t married to them beyond references and fodder for bad mobile game.
Even the Dark Beginnings short is subject to this as it does things like show part of the moon destroyed with a massive debris field, which is never shown in Shadow Generations and likely won’t be in future games while Ian Flynn will give bizarre non-answers when asked about it.

Sounds like he’s trying to sidestep the Mario comparisons that were rampant when the game released and might ramp up now with the game getting more publicity. The statement is kinda sad honestly basically saying all the PlayStation 3D platformers weren’t worthy of being a main inspiration and are instead more aesthetic and reference material compared to the meat of the game design being 3D Mario.

I’d be fine with a indie studio making the most budget PS2 or even PS1 game in existence if it still managed to capture the combat system and feel of the 3D games.

This looks less like a clever concept and more like what you get when you ask ChatGPT to mash Returnal and Pac-Man into a 2D metroidvania.

This seems massively too late but at least it exists.

@PikaPhantom
Yeah it’s a very annoying juxtaposition, they really should have toned it down especially with people being increasingly over characters that exist to be part quip and part lovingly awkward. A character can be allowed to to make quips without deflating tension or being some sorta self deprecating meta humor.

But the YouTube lawyers told me Nintendo’s claims were baseless and would fail!

About what you’d expect but good to hear it confirmed anyway.
“The game's director who apparently "wanted to make a generated dungeon game" I guess this is where the multiplayer focus came from if we assume the director was inspired by Warframe and its procedurally generated levels.

The new trailer is great they’re completely nailing what they’re going for with this.

@boxyguy
That and an unhinged rebalance that tosses out the awful limitations they’ve placed on a chunk of the cast so they can all be viable and competitive instead of letting a few rule the entire game.

Nintendo droughts don’t have to signify anything, people read too much into them especially with Switch I recall back in 2021 possibly even earlier about how one was happening because Nintendo was readying all their devs to release an onslaught of games for the mythical Switch Pro.

Sonic looks poorly thought out I’m surprised Sega would allow it not having his shoes in bot mode, looks like a happy meal toy. Tails clearly had a lot more care put into it even if he for seemingly no reason is wearing a diaper.