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I dont think losing 2 illustrators/character artists and a 'narrative designer' is gonna be fatal, or even much of a blow at all, to Capcom. Japan has more than its fair share of mega skilled concept artists/illustrators

this whole key card thing is really stupid. just do game on cartridge or dont.

twitter being rebranded to X is one of the worst renames ever

anyone remember Herdy Gerdy on PS2?

I never got this series. I tried a couple of the games and it is literally rolling everything into a ball within a time limit. its there more to it? I never played long enough to find out

Knight Rider? they done that once

Man, if they revived Shadow Man that would be epic though

@Krull hmmm, I am not so sure. I think this could be a hit. Drag X Drive however was dead on arrival

my conspiracy is they made MKW intentionally a bad MK game so Kirby Air Riders will be the new racer and franchise on Nintendo systems

@Orwellian87 for sure, but realistically I dont see Nightdive getting ahold of any Nintendo IP. Nintendo want all their legacy titles on an online subscription service.

@Questionable_Duck not long back they did express some desire to move toward remasters of PS3 games, with the FPS game Haze being a title they mentioned in particular. I am in the camp that really loves what Nightdive does and want them to stay that way though. There are a ton of PS1 and earlier PC titles that need remastered, and of course PS2 titles. Some of the titles they have remastered are historically important titles, and really they are resurrecting those historically important games (games like PO-ed for instance) and bringing back to life something really important in gaming legacy/history. I notice their choices are very careful. But I mean they seem to be growing strong and steadily, and they are involved in an impressive amount of stuff. I imagine a fair bit of PS2 stuff/early 2000's PC stuff will arrive in the next few years.

@Orwellian87 Most of those are not really the type pf remasters Nightdive go in for. I can see Timesplitters happening sooner or later though.

hmmm, having to read massive chunks of text on the switch lite screen....def not for me

@KayFiOS the thing is if you didnt play these back in the day you will prob find them very hard to get into. these games have elements that many find very tedious, although those things that are tedious were a great novelty back in the day (something like 'woah, thats so realistic' kinda thing). Basically Yakuza is an evolution from the Shenmue series but much more 'playable', unless you really like your games old school.

it feels like Ren and Stimpy or something

@Big_Round_Robin TR6 was the most slated of the CORE developed PS games and I think is considered to have killed off TR in its initial form before being rebooted and re-branded. I think it was the only CORE developed TR title for PS2, and it was like TR didnt make the transition to next gen well. At least thats how things were framed. Always wondered if it was as bad as people said.

@Suketoudara DD was a disappointment and was far from a classic GC at the time, and is not considered so now. Considering how much people loved MK64 that enthusiasm was just not there for the GC title.

well this is epic

a large expansion of the map and tasks would have been better tbh. but nice it seems the map is getting some new points of interest

man, when it said a game 5 years in dev I thought it was gonna be some rich graphical universe, ideally in a PS2 aesthetic or st. turns out it has Commodore 64 graphics...

Into the Breach 2. realised in full 3D

@GrailUK these games are by and large unplayable imo. it's heavy on nostalgia for those that grew up with Atari era games, but honestly, most these games have no aged well at all.

@MeloMan yeah that makes a lot of sense tbh...

I just hope they dont screw the story like they did with Age of Calamity. Making all the heroes survive on an alternate timeline was lame. They should have stuck to the BotW timeline and not feel to need to give e a cosy happy ending to everything where everyone survives and is all lovely and happy. Just stick to the universe and its actual story for goodness sake.

@Mocznik the first 2D Duke Nukes released in 1991, not Duke Nukem 3D. Duke Nukem 3D came out in 1996, 2.5 years after Doom.

Nice the Bloodless features in this. Just for those that dont know or have forgotten, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a literal masterpiece. everyone should play it, and now that it got a perforce boost on Switch 2 I would say it is good to play on Switch now

I knew there was something not right about the remake, but couldnt pin it down. good to know

@CaleBoi25 haha yes, also wondered why I had to keep re-reading that

MKW is not perfected, it is a downgrade from MK8.

@Rentaro are you happy with frame rate dips? pure hedonism and pure filth!

@Exerion76 waiting for a Switch 3 performance boost before I play

@Jack_Goetz right. Odyssey was good but it has many faults (moon tedium) and is not even the best Mario game or anything. If this is considered to be worse than odyssey then I am bracing for disappointment

seems like decent casting, but cannot escape the feeling that this movie is an extraordinarily bad idea

@Lizuka ok, thanks for the info!

I hate visual novels, and is the reason I havent gone in for this. But I heard the turn based gameplay is great. I winder how the balance is? is it still a heck a lot of narrative?

@LEGEND_MARIOID well no, I mean as someone who is not a Trump fan myself, I am not gonna lie and say Bluesy is quite impartial. it is not at all. In fact there are a lot of politically broken people there and they have a lot of rage, and I get that, but a lot of them have simply detached from reality, and are posting as much misinformation (those kind of fake quote things and fake newspaper cuttings) as you will find on X. Its just that X is overall still very politically diverse, where's with Bluesy its not so much about controlling disinformation (which X also hardly does at all), but about keeping it 'ideologically pure', so to speak. by 'watch these things' I simply mean watching the political dynamic as it plays out across both platforms (and others).

@GinMiguel yeah, it was a bit like the Jussie Smollett farce/hoax, but less extreme

@LEGEND_MARIOID you are far more likely to be banned on Bluesy these days than X, X almost anything goes now tbh. you have to be quite extreme to get a permanent-ban. I say this as someone who is on both and watch these things. Twitter/X is more of a mess, Bluesy is more of an echo chamber.

@Yalloo honestly its just a power trip for these people, they get to play politics and are 'sticking it to the man' and showing those big bad corpos who is boss. they are gonna force those servers with 5 users to stay active 5 years after the game released, because, you know, muh 'consumer rights' (everyones new favourite term). As someone above said, this is spearheaded by a YT 'personality' who is no doubt enjoying his new role as unionist boss in this petty drama.

@CANOEberry this reminds me of 'just create your own banking system bro' lol. no one needs to create a counter petition just because they have an opinion on something.i love that you think all vid game companies that run online games are 'billion' dollar companies

@CANOEberry you really think a company taking off a service that is no longer fiscally viable, and which only a handful of people are using, equates to 'multi-nationals taking more and more power?

@PROPS indeed. imagine making an organisation because online games become no longer viable.

honestly who cares? I am not gonna be able to play some online game 5 years from now. yeah, I would expect that. nor would I expect some aspect of it is going to be kept alive just for the sake of it. Online gaming was always a temporary thing depending on the longevity of the game/franchise

@HeadPirate Yep, people worship Romero but honestly the guy is for most his career in the failure, not success category. His role in Doom is obvs legendary and that has gone a long way, but the man should not be getting credentials for game creation post Doom or company/games dev management.

it looks a like a lot of heart and care went into this. I like that old school obscurity tbh. I have massive Metroidvania fatigue, but this one appeals to me

@hiptanaka thats for the Switch 1 and its a great thing, I wish they would hurry up and get the switch 2 one made

@CammyUnofficial I always felt Mario Odyssey felt more like a well built tech demo for the cap premise than a truly successful game

it is heartening to see this push back against AI. Everyone thought they were just gonna be able to use it and get away with it, because, you know, it's the future and all that. So lazy and no regard for the identity of the game

@Anti-Matter MK8 is a far superior title to MKW

well, its pretty bad when someone says your game should really 'have been a visual novel'. Feels like a polite way of saying the game should never have been made.