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@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.

@Dev-N agreed, there are many things broken about this game without having to resort to extremes like this. Man, really wanted to like MKW, but it's just a far inferior game to MK8. Making me appreciate what a masterpiece MK8 is now. its really the uninspired track design and the amount of tedious straights that are killing it for me mostly

@Blofse cant say i am a fan of LRG, but to be fair there is a bunch of other games by different devs/publishers that are not available and i imagine LRG are correct in saying there is something about the Switch 2 coding prohibiting these games from working. Prob an easy fix on Nintendos side

really hoping a FlipGrip for Switch 2 turns up soon. from what i can tell nothing on the market yet...

'However, there is one fly in the ointment (and it's a fly that's been marinating in there since previous gen versions) in that fights in World Tour Mode drop to 30fps in action. I don't mind this, personally — I am very old and anything over 20fps feels like you are spoiling someone who played through all of Oblivion at 4fps — but it's a fairly big deal, let's face it.'

Are we to take from this that Switch 2 is still really only on the level of previous gen tech despite the high praise of this new Nvidia chip?

@Olliemar28 man, i figured being in the games industry you would have at least got early access for having reviews in place or something. Nintendo dont give much away lol

i understand getting a game onto a cartridge is not easy for certain publishers, but i still dont see why bother? its just a digital game with an unnecessary piece of plastic. Either have the game on the cartridge or dont. I actually kinda dont get it. Is it to satisfy collectors or people who insist on having something 'physical' so they feel better about having the game that way (even though its a totally empty gesture of sorts)?

can we get any reviews?

@JohnnyMind ah right, ok, makes sense

the game goal is 60K (reached), but they need 150K to bring Imamura on board to design one boss character. Is he getting paid 90k for one character design?

@Smug43 the fandom around this one game does get tiring. there are better MV's out there there. people act like it is some insane tier of game. the fact it has taken 6 years to make a 2D game is silly as well. I remember when a game used to get toward the 4/5 year mark that is was considered insane and 'development hell'

@RainbowGazelle i was talking with my brother about it last night and he agreed totally. Glad to know we are not the only ones...

Switch 2 doesnt have 'beefy launch line-up'. I am gonna be playing Ridge Racer because there aint much there. Take mario kart wt out and its very weak for a console that has been so long in development. All that time and Nintendo couldnt even get the new DK game for launch. Still no date on elden ring. Its actually an extremely poor launch line up

@Ichiban ikr. this aesthetic is horrible. it has generic slop game written all over it

All Konami had to do was lean into one of their major IP's and it would have been hype. good grief, could they have not got the Silent Hill 2 remake simply ported over as a massively appealing launch title? Instead we get this generic everyday kids game aesthetic that already feels 5 years out of date and that literally no one wants.

@SwitchplayerJohn i know right. There is a kind of line being crossed here where this just feels kind of lame. Its when a company tries to integrate itself too much with your life. All most people want is the ability to filter shovelware/gamespam out of the eshop searches.

isnt Castle of Heart basically a kind of shovelware switch title? credit it to them if they have turned it into something good and it features as a low cost (perma-sale) staple in the no doubt huge Switch 2 Souls like catalogue (really hoping Lords of the Fallen makes its way onto Switch 2)

its funny that he appeals to 'the truth', which is a fair enough assessment that everything costs more to produce and extra taxes on top dont help. But this is just a partial truth, and if someone were to go into the whole 'truth' then you would have a several hour long lecture. Bottom line is that wealth has broadly been stripped away from the populations and transferred almost all to an ultra elite. This process accelerated with covid. Now everyone is struggling except those who have had massive amounts of wealth funnelled to them. our governments, left and right all helped with this wealth transfer. The 'system' enabled it. And now everyone is broke and has to watch prices continue to rise on pretty much every commodity and Randy Pitchford is by and large right that this is just how it is now and people have to cope. That he doesn't say it in a 'sensitive' manner is neither here nor there. the facts remain the same

Forsaken finally needs to make its way to console as well

idk if i can keep pretending a joycon is gonna function like a normal mouse. From feedback of people that have used it, its kinda is, but not really. that wheelchair basketball game has people just reporting they were getting serious wrist and joint fatigue after just a short while playing

@tobsesta99 what comments do you have in mind?

@Hee-ho-master this all seems very baseless to me, and he got dragged for 'Russian sympathies' on fairly baseless grounds. Some people have it out for him, and this sick purity testing where if you slightly step out of line on an ideological issue has to stop. He makes good games.

Honestly think thats pretty decent sales for a late Switch game. Its a stellar DKC game to be fair. Way better platformer than something like Super Mario Bros Deluxe

imagine excluding Elden Ring

chances of anyone not totally obsessive and wealthy getting a hold of a booster box are ZERO. they wont be gone soon as they 'hit the shelves', they will be gone even before that.

@pikachupikachup what do you mean 'caught up' in them? you are relieved not to be getting sued by Nintendo?

@DennisLofgren yeah, i think Jeronan is getting confused somehow...

honestly just Nintendo gate keeping every single little thing for a super late reveal is tedious.

I am rooting for Genki tbh

i hope for Pacmans sake it does well, but there is something about these games that feel passe now. Like they feel like 2018 era or st. a kind of overworn formula in the way 'souls likes' are becoming very tedious now

@MrGawain i think thats the bottom line. a studio full of talented staff and lower tier staff needs to pull in a heck of a lot of income.