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@EriXz Even more, I would imagine that given the same voice lines, Enzo Fortuny would have earned way less than the 2000-3000 USD the Revali English VA did.

@arabiansanchez She's definitely not ok. She may most certainly be lying or delusional about everything else but one should Never lie about "been suicidal", and Even if she also lied about that, we still should consider that bit as true, and Twitter, faulty as it is, has a tool/means to at least trying to send help to they who might be considering that exit route.

@jowe_gw I didn't knew that phrase/idiom before (English being not my primary language) but have been reading that A LOT (but only after the SchReport, mind you) and while I wanted to agree with it, the "In the middle" or even "in between" didn't quite seem... "right".

And thanks to your Earth analogy it finally downed on me: "Truth is in the BARYCENTER"

Strictly speaking, two bodies orbiting each other actually orbit the barycenter: the Center of Mass of both. If both objects have the same mass (bear with me and let's call mass 'weight') they orbit around a point in the middle ("she said he said"). However, when one body has a greater weight, the barycenter gets near to that body's own CoM. In the Moon-Earth example, the barycenter is within the Earth's circumference.

So, back to the TaylorGate (xP), the SchReport evidence outweights Taylor's claim, placing the barycenter, and the truth, within the circumference of the former.

I love analogies.

@Astral-Grain Well, Journalism in general has changed: People (myself included) expect quick information and can get it from tons of sources in seconds, but this also means these sources have to be churning out content constantly, so Rumors, UE Fan creations, and things like this are fair game, so now it's like "look at this cool/interesting/funny videogame-related thing" about the same thing across multiple sites.

@westman98 Well, we know she thought that thanks to her initial "450 million" claim. Now this makes me think she had that misconception since way long before, so she based her 6-fig request on that.

@Axecon Several voice companies work for different games and Producers (Platinum worked with Formosa Group for Bayonetta 2, but with other for 1; Xenoblade 3 and Elder Ring worked with Liquid Violet, and so) but in the end the Union is supposed to standardize the rough edges equally. In the end, we can't assume wrongdoing form Platinum on Bayonetta 3 while righteousness with Nier Automata, or wrongdoing from Formosa on Bayonetta 2 while righteousness with Resident Evil Village. Even with 3, we can't dismiss righteousness towards the rest of the cast.

I Do think you want to do the correct thing, but you haven't convinced Yourself what the correct thing is, because if you were sure, you won't even consider waiting for more information.

And finally: "Jenna Coleman [...] got paid well otherwise she could have easily skipped out and have been replaced by another voice actor."

I cannot fathom the irony.

@Axecon But why skipping the entire series because the VA thing, though? I wouldn't find strange if after this you decided skipping either 1&2 (Taylor), or only 3 (Hale).

And what about other voice-heavy games (by Nintendo's standards) like the Xenoblades?

@Koda1000 He's not different from NintendoLife's rules on commenting on languages other than English

@Wexter This is solid information but I just wish we had had it from the news sites themselves, not having to rely on bits and pieces of info painstakingly gathered from across hundreds of comments.

@fenlix I'll be fair and say that an actual VA dropping this figurative gold into the Kotaku's comment section is so perfect than it goes around and makes me suspicious BUT what is sadder is that this is what all these sites should be doing: Actively trying to reach people actually in the know.

@nimnio actually, while I do understand English (and British English) well enough to play the game, I don't have the option to do so in my native Spanish (much less neutral/"latino" Spanish) so even though we do have options, these are still very limited.

@Bayjax when companies don't earn as expected, devs and other personnel in the technical side (including digital artists) are the first to fall, and the remaining ones are more likely to suffer crunch.

Also, remember that if not for Nintendo's $ input, Bayonetta would have remained as a niche XB360 Sega title (and awful PS3 port)

@Fath that "spoiler" is like literally in the first ever teaser of Bayo3 we got, if memory serves.

My unsorted thoughts:

1) So, Jennifer Hale, an arguably Bigger personality in the VA field, was either offered the same 4000 and accepted, or, as a Bigger personality, was able to negotiate more.

2) It would be nice to have a full transcript of this.

3) Taylor is the only one that we know won't return, so this means everyone else reprising their roles did accept what they were offered. The nerve! How could they! All the joy of the world for them, though.

4)"X franchise is millions-popular, they're being cheap" argument always overstate how actually financially things works: Metal Gear Solid is a way more gigantic franchise and still gave Konami (figuratively) just a handful of pennies that they decide going full Pachinko was a better strategy.

5) I f only there was some kind of profession that could investigate a) How much work a certain VA would do for a role, b) How it compares to, say, Mio's VA in Xenoblade Chronicles 3, both in account of work and $, c) How it compares with other languages VAs... Where's Schreirer when one needs him the most?

The unspoken truth is that this, if not a dead end, will be used for piracy. Any black or white area can be seen as gray with the correct dithering.

@rushiosan That's exactly the issue: these images are no longer just icons, but Covers; If it would look bad as a CD cover, it will look bad as a Switch Icon

@ChromaticDracula Good to know NoA protects our wallets

"Everything which is not forbidden is allowed"

This is why some "real" sports have anti-stalling rules: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_of_game

If there is a moment to use "you had One job", is this.

@AlexSora89 And all the DLC would be nice, too.
Then news on the remaining amiibo.

"it seems", "expected", "unclear", "potential"
...
Regardless, all the descriptions sounds like obvious graphic things that can be have a picture taken of. Why aren't there pictures?

As a standalone game for newbies, it deserves a 9/10, but as the 4th one, 8/10 it's... OK

What I didn't like was the story mode (sorry Tibby; nothing personal) since (IMO) slows unnecessarily the flow of the game (pun intended) and the way the levels are accessed: in all the previous ones, you had a grid with the 10 sets of 4 songs + the remix, and here you go with 4 "statues" first, then the towers + remixes, then statues again, then 'towers' again. And in the museum/hall, it's not even as good layout as any of the previous.

And the menus' interface! Good grief! If you are in, say, the Perfect Kiosk, and you want to change the audio to japanese or the input to stylus, you have to do a lot of steps!

Most of the new songs are really good, but I missed a couple from the GBA and DS.

It just pains me that such a good and complete game has such bad menu design ideas.

And by the way, did anyone noticed the NX that guy is holding?

@Wyk126 Language selection. This is the UK video, and games released in Europe have to be inEnglish, Spanish, Italian, etc...

@Billsama De seguro era un FamiClone. El mío parecía un SNES...

Still waiting for the Twilight Princess Figma.

The rumor of the NX being x86 was closely related with the "easy to port games to it", and with it, "better chance at 3rd Party support", so this worries me.

@RainbowGazelle I played the Wii (wide-screen) version on a 32" LCD on composite cables for the first time long ago and it didn't look that pretty (very jagged aliasing since it was Anamorphic wide screen and Bloom to the max, like watching with Vaseline-coated glasses). I'm afraid of how would it look now on a 50".

@Captain_Gonru It was the "Director's Cut", and while the 2nd-screen-features were attempted in the 360 and PS3 versions (Smartglass and Vita) it wasn't so well implemented as with the WiiU.

@rushiosan Not even Mexico, and it's right there :S...

Best analist I've read in a while.

Stock Market is a harsh mistress; it depends both of what the investors think of the company and of external influences.

Also, Nintendo is (or was until less than a year) a very "simple" company that made games only, while Microsoft has the Office and Windows office/IT businness, and Sony has all the Electronics in the world but washing machines and printers... and still, Sony is doing well on their Image Sensors business only, and Microsoft is very behind iOS and Android...

People who say "looks the same":
a) Probably played the original(s) in a <27" CRT through composite cable, and not in a >32" HDTV.
b) Overlook the fact that this is a 10-year-old Gamecube game (for comparison, the first iPhone came out one year later, Android one after that, and the top phones had a 1.3MP Camera and sub-QVGA screens), so:
c) Should be doing comparisons with the HD ports of Okami, Ico, MGS3 or Banjo Kazooie, not Uncharted or The Last of Us.

As for the price: retexturing (lots more than WW), 2nd screen perks (off-tv play, inventory, new control schemes like the added gyroscope), lowering the load times while upping the textures, miiverse implementation, re-doing the manual, making it available also through the eShop and testing all that has a cost, too.

Well, that announcement was the origin of this meme after all...:

Some of the questions made me sad; some others made me feel guilty...

So... this is the same survey that this ad I've seen lately?:

I'm a little bit paranoid with ads that have the old "survey" word there, and I thought "If it was legit, they would ask us in an article" so... I guess it's ok?
Edit: looks like I can't get the image to work

While I would like a TP HD as much as anyone else (i.e. A lot), why are we not discussing the New Nintendo Account/Loyalty Program and Smartphone Mii "MiiTomo" that is in that same slides?
Edit: Never mind, I should have sorted it by Oldest First.

I guess Apollo will stay in Japan/America and solve cases with Trucy and Athena regarding the mysterious ancestor of Mr. Wright that learned British Law.

Wasn't there something similar with the movies SFX people some years ago? Or the Simpsons?

How will affect this non-US dubbing (e.g. Spain or UK?)

Why do the voice actors have to do stunts for motion capture? Mr. Earl Jones wasn't inside the Vader suit, was he?

Do you have to be in that union to do voice acting? What prevents studios from hiring newcomers instead of the big names? Of if you have to be in that union, wouldn't that be a monopoly?

Can we as gamers make an union so we don't get games with bugs? What's the difference between "boycott X developer/publisher" and a strike, since both intend to coerce something from someone?

Phoenix Wright, obviously: B Down? Desk Slam. Left/Right Smash? Pointy Finger Move. Regular B? Evidence Throw.Taunts? Hold It!, Take That! and of course, OBJECTION! Final Smash? That thing when Mia appears, or Pshyche-locks, or the Judge Hammer. Alternate Costumes/Colors? Apollo, Edgeworth, Godot, Hobo Phoenix, Student Phoenix (even if the actual characters are not possible because constraints, the colors would be amazing enough!)

"Are you allowed to use Mario's voice in your daily life (like when ordering pizza)?"

I think it will be easier to get a Palutena Figma than this Amiibo...

LOL, no. The render is ok, but the technical aspect leaves much to be desired, specifically and as pointed before, the weight distribution, the ports and their future damage, the lack of buttons, the weird modularity...

Let's hope whoever "replaces" him, had been a developer like him, a gamer like him, or someone that loves games as games, and not just as a product to sell.

Please please please finish Link's Logbook!

I really hope they can make it; just imagine every Sanity Effects they could do just with CEC (if the Wii U added compatibility with an update)!:

System Standby: "Enables users to switch multiple devices to standby mode with the press of one button". - This could be used to actually turn off the tv, and "blind" the gamer, who could only hear the monsters in the gamepad...
OSD Display "Uses the OSD of the TV set to display text" - This could be used to display creepy messages...
Routing Control "Controls the switching of signal sources" - Used to switch back to the TV signal. See first point.
Device OSD Name Transfer "Transfers the preferred device names to the TV set" - Can be used to name the Wii U input on your TV something like "your worst nightmare" or "ERROR".
System Audio Control "Allows the volume of an AV receiver, integrated amplifier or preamplifier to be controlled using any remote control from a suitably equipped device(s) in the system" - This can be used to mute the TV or crank up the volume for those Scare jumps things.

I'm more concerned about Fox's tail being solid bone/metal:

I wish Nintendo finished the 4-koma Wind Waker Manga...

If this is like RE: Revelations, it will be Motion Control from the beginning till forever.

Why can't we get Portal on Wii U? I would love a Wii-mote control scheme, or a gladOS POV on the gamepad...

@Kasplat Oh, the memories... I used to fight with Bayonetta, Joanna Dark and Arale thanks to those texture swaps...

Needs work on the lights, tho.