Thomystic

@Mando44646
I don't want Nintendo taking note and putting out game key cards. Although I suppose they're opening up that Pandora's jar already with Pokopia.

I think I'll definitely need a demo for that one. The trailer didn't really help at all. It's like if Infini by Nakana.io was tossed in a blender with every single Ratalaika game.

He's only 62. Perhaps MP4 was pretty demanding for him.

Losing Rare was a huge gut punch for Nintendo, akin to if Disney had lost Pixar. Early Retro Studios got its seeds from Acclaim / Iguana which is a decent but not amazing pedigree. For him to help turn that into a studio that would make the loss of Rare bearable is quite an achievement.

Their 40th anniversary is in 2 months. They might not have much to celebrate that soon.

I'd love to see Davide Soliani get the reins to a new proper Rayman someday. Perhaps some bigger studio with money and wisdom can make that happen.

The game is now HDer.

I guessed 32% for "nothing for me this week" but was way off. It's currently at 15%, but it's early.

I've always thought American football should be more popular in Europe since its "down" system invented by Walter Camp resembles WW1 style trench warfare.

It's all because of the reaction to the Skyward Sword amiibo functionality.

Estimated 52% "nothing for me this week." Actual percent: 47.

Was this the first exergame? It seems hard to justify the gameplay otherwise. (Maybe Track and Field on NES counts.)

You would think the anonymity of the Internet would neutralize the human tendency to jump on bandwagons that cost money. NO ONE KNOWS WHO YOU ARE TO SEND RESPECT POINTS YOUR WAY. Smh

@BeefCatStudios Yeah, that random factoid at the end seemed so shoehorned in. It added nothing to the article.

Guys, Mario's mouth is supposed to stretch that way. 🙄

I suppose it would be helpful to know if there are other Ubisoft studios with members in that union.

The non-modular button at the bottom right shows a red outline in some pics but a blue outline in the other. Is this another impressive feature or just a weirdly-placed battery indicator?

Can you detect which couch cushion lost pieces disappear under using an app now?

"Non-readers need not apply."

This made me think of little tikes at first, but it's rated M. I suppose that means my friend who won't watch foreign movies with me because of having to read subtitles.

If Nier Automata gets any cheaper, I'll have to double dip.

Prince of Persia is 60% off of its already reduced MSRP of $30. Relative to its original MSRP of $50, it's 76% off. I'm torn between assuaging my guilt of paying too little for it $32 at retail by double dipping and signaling through such a purchase (since they won't know it's a double dip) that they were right to eventually discount it that low.

It's not my kind of article, but I'll click, skim, and comment anyway just to say it's always good to see you, @KateGray.

Perhaps more marriages would be helped if more narrative media had that as a plot point. Rom coms typically focus on new love interests which probably hurts marriages by encouraging shiny object syndrome.

If it's gonna be a game key card, let it be $40 like FF7R. That might be my first. That's one reason I'm not as concerned with day and date. I don't mind if they've already made their money elsewhere and can discount it a bit on day 1.

So I guess the 2 extra dollars is just to account for the inflation since 2014 and anticipate inflation during the new console generation. And probably to make up for more obscure titles that won't get as many units sold. Or even perhaps because they have data now on how many people only by at 50% off.

I predicted 60% "nothing for me this week." It was 57%.

I liked Mom Hid My Game. I think I recall when About an Elf was announced. Very odd game.

@Ornstein Created an account today and already figured out how to make a profile gif! Maybe you should apply for Felix's position with your tech wizardry.

Dang, how hard is Alex to work for? 😋 I was just thinking that his latest look makes me think he's leaving to become a pirate, and then Gavin had to use a disembarking ship metaphor to solidify my fancy. 😆

Since it wasn't stated, the amount of the sale is 25% off.

@CaleBoi25
I'm surprised you didn't mention Splasher! It's a bit like Splatoon combined with Super Meat Boy. Perhaps you already know about it, but it's $2 right now on very deep discount.

Also, does this mean you like Paper Mario: Color Splash? 😬

And thanks for the tip on Ink

I still get Lance Barr and Lance Bass from N Sync mixed up.

I've mostly limited myself to things no one above has said:

• Since Switch 1 games should be aimed at casuals a year in to Switch 2, the most logical choice is Ring Fit Adventure 2. The Switch 2 Joy Cons don't fit in the Ring Con, and at this point, they still had people buy a huge peripheral for one game. The game sold 15 million units!
• I do expect Mario Maker 2 Switch 2 upgrade w/ mouse controls and Mario Wonder stylings (but not Wonder effects as that'd be too hard to program).
• Nintendo acquires Grezzo.
• Metroid Prime 2 remaster now that Retro Studios is more available.
• SNES Remix by indieszero.
• When is Square going to do something with Parasite Eve?
• We probably won't get Wind Waker HD since we have the original in NSO. But Twilight Princess HD would plug the Zelda anniversary gap, and Tantalus Media ports games for Nintendo at pretty regular intervals.
• I hope there's a return of Nintendo-published indies sometime. It hasn't happened since Good Job in March 2020. I'd say SwitchMo, but Intelligent Systems is busy with Fire Emblem. Maybe HAL utilizing the full resolution of the Switch 2 with 4-player BoxBoy + BoxFam.

How did Star Tropics not come up once? Has that game already been memory holed?

Wow, I didn't know he was such a hardware guy, too.

16/17! I guessed wrong on the Pokemon city, but I guessed right on one or two others. If I had realized it's timed, I would have done it on a full computer.

How much AI are the game engines using? I suppose this issue would be blurred further if the engine itself was using it. Then its use pervades but is hidden.

I have long wondered how devs get around the catch-22 of making assets to post to get funding so that they can fund assets and programming. You have to have some upfront money or free labor it seems. It takes money to make money. AI could help someone get over this catch-22 or at least draft their vision so that a real artist knows what they're looking for with less back-and-forth error.

I'm sympathetic to its use early in the dev process but not for ideation. Ideation is literally what justifies the owners having ownership. Who would respect a Chief Prompt Officer over a Chief Creative Officer?

Why can't Forever Entertainment improve as rapidly as Bloober Team has?

Some CDPR employee's friends are real happy.

It'll be back for every Black Friday.

@TobiasAmaranth Those two genres diverge wildly in popularity and time commitment. RPG gamers with the same amount of free time have time for fewer games. With that being said, my roommate put 100 hours into the first Hollow Knight.

More importantly, people comparing games to Silksong needs to stop. The game is severely underpriced.

Since they don't rank them, I figured I'd rank them by number of nominations:

4 - DK Bananza
3 - Silksong, Kirby Air Riders
2 - FF Tactics, Hyrule Warriors, Metroid Prime 4, Street Fighter 6, UFO 50

@metaphysician True. I think the Wii achieved it with GameCube partially by not evolving the hardware very much and throwing in the towel in terms of horsepower. And backwards compatibility was the biggest difference between PS3 and PS3 Slim, making me picture that big hump in the middle being a little PS2 inside it.

Has backwards compatibility ever been so labor-intensive? I'm really impressed with the commitment they're showing with Switch 2. And yet somehow this isn't slowing down their game release pace. This suggests they really will try to get 8 years out of this console generation too because they sure as heck won't want to do this again that soon.

I'll call this art style "Peeps." Speaking of which, can we get some Good-Feel remasters in 4K, please?

How does it compare to the 3DS version?

The kind of AI usage in game dev I could totally get behind is if Egg Console used it to add some language options. Just have AI translate if you don't have the resources to get people to do it. Otherwise, we're having AI translate it anyway by holding our phones up to the screen.

Your explanation in the article makes it sound like the six games average one million sold. Your headline makes it sound like they average six million sold. That's quite a difference in meaning despite only a subtle difference in syntax. In the one case, they'd be absolutely right to be disappointed.

Why don't the new Switch 2 dock or camera include sensor bar tech?

Because of the execution of the awards show, we already knew when it was being announced that it was either DK Bananza or Clair Obscur. Silksong had already eliminated Death Stranding 2 for best action adventure game, and Clair Obscur had already beaten Silksong and Hades 2 for best indie game. Then Clair Obscur beat Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 for best RPG. DKB hadn't yet lost and so could have been the winner still in theory.

Fighting games nowadays: pay more, get less. Soul Calibur 6 is frequently 90% off on Steam, I don't know what percentage of a video game I'm getting. I'm just out on the modern versions of the genre as a whole.

@anoyonmus They usually do that.

Maybe because I'm a console gamer and old school, but I'm confused: 25 million sold while in Early Access? Early Access for 5 years? At least 5 years and 25 million sold go together.