SalvorHardin

@JR150
Dream Team counts whether you like it or not, it’s got almost as much if not more content than Colors and more genuine 3D platforming than the boost era games. I’d have to know more about their metrics like how many people exactly were playing this beta and their demographics before using it to consider the demand for this character, on the character select screen she’s right below Sonic and i’m guessing the results would be different if she was on the other side of the screen instead if we assume people were just flippantly selecting characters who weren’t Sonic and Shadow.

@ChakraStomps
Did you play the beta because it’s obvious what the problems are. This being made by a arcade racing dev shows unfortunately, one would originally get hyped over this considering the history of Sega’s arcade racing games but this isn’t a arcade racer this is a arcade kart racer so it’s designed to be chaotic and claustrophobic in terms of track design and how you can never put much distance between yourself and the rest of the pack, If the final game is unchanged people will get bored with it quickly because of this compared to Mario Kart 8 where its finer balance has likely played a significant role in its evergreen status.

@Thwomp_Stomper
He always had a bad feeling about this.

“update scheduled to be implemented by the "end of autumn 2025".”
Sounds like they have their best people getting this done as soon as possible and totally aren’t milking the current system as long as possible.

@IceEarthGuard
It’s because it’s part of the adult geared creator car line which have an enormous amount of small pieces and sometimes fiddlly building techniques using technic pieces, they are basically scale model quality cars just look at their Lamborghini Countach uses 466 less pieces than this MK set
a kid that has built a lot of sets and knows to keep the parts organized in bins shouldn’t have any issues but a kid who just dumps them all on their bed will.

The western box art for all three is also in tune with the style of the modern 3D era of NG, a very rare example of this happening for a game series.

@progx
The allure of a discord and patreon will probably be too strong to avoid eventually.

Miyamoto is probably at the stage of his life where this stuff appeals to him on some level and the Mario movie opened the flood gates for that going forward, not sure If its as simple to say it’s about ego it could even be something like feeling like this validates his life’s work which wouldn’t surprise me it’s not uncommon for people to think outrageously highly about Hollywood to the point where they see other mediums as inferior or unable to surpass it in perceived credibility, this makes sense when you consider that he basically views games as toys.

The last two Xenoblades look like those parodies of game UI where it takes up 90% of the screen with hundreds of different systems but I don’t think any of them ever had a 7 character party to manage in them. Both devs have the problems on each side of the spectrum.

@larryisaman
Seems like a sign they’ve made a lot of annoying concessions and changes to get this greenlit after it was originally axed years ago, all the talk of making additions reminds me of the infamous Tony Hawk HD which was all about that on top of being awful.

The sides of building just being flat textures with no geometry is pretty hilarious.

This guy was the original zany Zelda NPC.

This looks really cool here’s hoping it doesn’t fall into the trap that almost all rogue do where the bosses have a bazillion HP and effortlessly spam bullet hell and full screen AOE shockwaves but I’m guessing it will as it’s as ingrained into as genre as much as irreverent tone and humor. Guard Crush working on it though is a great sign though, SOR4 has incredibly solid fighting game style fundamentals that made its rogue survival mode a joy to play.

That picture really shows how painfully wide and narrow phones have become, they are awful to use in landscape for games because of that especially with how the edge to edge screen means your palm will touch it constantly hence the awkward grip in that photo. The 16:9 era of giant phones had the best ergonomics.

@LadyCharlie
This is blatantly false.

It looks so similar to SV that it exposures these legends games as being half measures where they make them to do things that they’re unwilling to do for the main ones, a different art style goes a long way into selling it as its own thing.

It’s over for a huge chunk of the “AAA” industry people enjoyed so much in the 00’s and 10’s, whatever happens with Ubisoft this year will probably be the moment where people finally start to acknowledge this in mass.

@Wisps
The data is clear it’s not open for interpretation. The problems here are largely similar to the much more technically ambitious Dragon’s Dogma 2 which lots of people were vocal about and Capcom spent months trying to address, so the data says don’t buy these open world Capcom games at launch.

Never heard of this but good lord look at that video, were people viciously defending this one as a proxy battle against TPC as well?

It’s less like the previous games or Mario Kart 8 it’s more like a mobile F2P game that constantly bombards you with feedback to keep you engaged that’s why there’s nonstop chaos with its items and never really being able to create much separation from opponents, you’d think having some of the Sega racing vets working on this would mean more of a focus on rewarding skillful driving but for now at least there’s less of a focus on it than Sumo’s trilogy or even MK8 which found a great balance.
The music is pure bland noise, the “epic” choir for the final lap sounds AI generated.
@BlueBCA
Hopefully they listen to the feedback but with the things the gear system rewards doing I’m afraid they’ll consider everything working as intended and won’t really alter it much.

Don’t listen to them but listen to us so like, comment and subscribe and make sure to click the notification bell.

@m0i
Its no surprise that the crowd who built their whole personality around mocking and belittling people who had trouble with Eternal are going nuts over that and are using that angle as a proxy to wage war on what they feel is a personal attack against them, they absolutely lost their minds over the changes Eternal got around the time of it’s second DLC episode.

@SalvorHardin
If anyone is wondering about this here’s people from the 90’s Nintendo newsgroup doing this
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video.nintendo/search?q=%E2%80%9C%20Seal%20of%20Quality%E2%80%9C
The earliest example being form 1993:
“The original Baseball Stars was not an official Nintendo licensed product (in fact, I forget the manufacturer). The updated version is by a different company (in name at least) and has the coveted Nintendo Seal of Quality (sarcasm intended!).“
Here’s one from 1990:
“ I for one am tired of Nintendo's crummy attitude and their way of business. Nintendo's seal of quality ended up being downright meaningless with the junk they were spewing out and calling games for the NES. They inflate prices, threaten the stores that sell their products, and they think they can steer any company they deal with in any direction they please... I'm tired of their lawsuits against companies with innovative ideas, tired of dealing with them in any shape or form.”

“That seal of quality is meaningless now.” And people thinking this is a clever gotcha has been meaningless for decades,.

A lot of people learning today that this game even exists.

@The21zonz
He wanted to that was his big goal in blowing nearly or maybe even more than 100 billion dollars of daddy’s money acquiring all those devs and publishers and now daddy and his buddies aren’t happy so whatever Phil wants to do is irrelevant now.
@Bunkerneath
They’re in a better position that Sega was considering the massive amount of IPs, devs and even entire publishers they own! This is a large reason why the top execs at MS are forcing their hand in this, the console department is a top in the bucket compared to what they can get out of focusing on publishing across everything.
@The21zonz
It’s not large and dedicated enough to keep things going the way it has been not with the amount of money that division is burning.

Feels even more so that this exists to appease the sect at Nintendo who would wanted Switch 2 to weird or not even a Switch 2, making Iwata’s quality of life device dream come true probably satisfied them a lot. Timing was appropriate too in catching the public off guard with something strange that’s then followed up by the safe Switch 2.

I’m sure they’d love to start from scratch again and slowly drip feed out the same games and thus greatly appreciate his suggestion.

@SintasSays
The jobber six and knockoff Scratch and Grounder really should have been let go when they had the chance, the later’s appearance in Shadow Gen was probably the worst part of that game.

@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot
It’s as far as from G Gundam as possible, it’s basically a remix of the first two Gundam series (0079 and Zeta) with the most samey bland painfully early 00’s anime character designs you’ve ever seen coupled with that digital art look that era is infamous for, the hilarious thing is that the movie released 20 years later doesn’t really fix any of this and was still successful.

@N00BiSH
They probably don’t like the Sonic series then as it’s had adult themes of things like massive disasters and death since the Dreamcast era, even the last movie featured two on screen deaths.

"At no point did I think, “Oh fiddle, these blacks need to be more inky."
Proceeds to post a picture of the Portal and its iconic LCD trademark of washed out dull grey for low light scenes where the character becomes a grey blob with no details within it 🙃 oh fiddle indeed!

They need to consider if this gimmick really adds anything other than frustration, it’s cute the first couple times but wears off fast, maybe if it traded “do it again stupid” symbol inputs for something more free form that doesn’t feel really annoying when you have to use a stick driven cursor instead of a touch screen.

@Lightsiyd
This was coming off Gotham Knights where its premise is built around that too, WB in their infinite wisdom decided for almost a decade now that nobody wants a a new game where you play as one of the most popular characters on the planet who has a proven formula for making a great game.

@twenty90seven
The only reasonable explanation is that a few of the devs from back then might have been from that age range but it’s mostly just one of those phrases that becomes throughly beaten into the ground regardless of any logic behind it, didn’t help that that YouTubers even the actually more intelligent ones like Civvie 11 use it.

I’m still expecting GTA VI will be the most GAAS that’s ever existed, GTA V’s online you get endless spam phone calls about spending money on things and this was something bolted into the game years later while GTA VI will have this in its DNA, I don’t think expect the single player to be safe from this either considering they stopped adding anything to V’s to funnel people into Online where they can use real money to buy things.

They’ve spent over 20 years having alternatives to mice but I guess this is the new mindset for companies these days considering Apple is using physical buttons as a selling point for iPhones.

Unbelievable how long they sat on this one.

Bring some real energy to your yearly soulless copy paste jobs that only exist on this model because your customer base is too brain dead to care otherwise.

All those sales and nobody talks about it.

@Xeraphis
Maybe people should be a little upset at companies manipulating their user base with planned out stunts like, watch the next part of this is them dialing back requirements by a small chunk but that somehow placates the user base because their voices were supposedly heard.

@Indielink
It was the only thing to do with the piles of duplicates you wind up with, so I imagine a lot of people did so. There was never any hint that you would need them for this. Even when they mentioned trading was coming this week, they were vague about the required consumable item. I never bothered with flair personally, but what they did here is a dark pattern, making people spend months burning away things that turn out to have a useful application, so they’re essentially back to square one when it comes to grinding away to fuel trades.

They do this after encouraging players to trash their duplicates for useless flairs! Games as a disservice strikes again, can’t wait until they follow the next part of the script where they apologize and reduce requirements by 25%.

@Otoemetry
Yeah why aren’t they love in with critically acclaimed hits like Section 31 currently airing at your local streaming buffet?

@Jack_Goetz
They’ve done a very effective job at burying him.

Love the DS9 reference
https://youtube.com/watch?v=H6yQOs93Cgg

Since they’re obsessive over DK’s design like this because of the movie it’s really no surprise that they replaced Martinet now.

@BongoBongo
I think their best PR would be not having this guy say a word for a whole year and see what happens, even the diehard Xbox zealots are probably over him at this point too.
@Truegamer79
The writing is on the wall that upper management is forcing them in this direction, hilariously a lot of it was triggered by the Activision acquisition which is the opposite of what Phil most have been expecting years ago when he start started playing hungry hungry hippos with the industry.

@Pigeon
Looks like all their design tropes are here. 3D Ninja Gaiden has a very specific feel that sets it apart from typical character action games and Platinum Dodge™ ain’t it.