SalvorHardin

@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.

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.