Toy_Link

Can't wait for them to spend two hours on the Mops and other Cleaning Supplies Stuff Pack for the Sims 4!

@RPGamer
I don't know why even call it the Game Awards, they barely care about the awards, most awards don't get a significant buildup or an acceptance speech. They care more about the B-Tier announcements, pandering to the movie industry and advertisements than celebrating the previous year's achievements in the gaming industry.
Fire Emblem got two awards and both were presented in a quick fire format with no fanfare. I can't imagine that happening at the Oscar's or the Emmy's. I think even the Razzy's is better at pacing than the Game Awards.
Geoff will never have his award show as respected as most other industry award show (as he so much desire), until he starts respecting the award element of his show.

Geoff should really be trying to improve his other E3 competitor, The Game Awards, before trying to create another one.

I watched it for the first time in 2019 and I felt like I wasted my time. Only good part was the Muppets and Reggie's speech.

This is the first FNAF game to use real time 3D models instead of prerendered sprites, right?

Really this just all proves that Stadia is the new 3DO. Touts itself as the future of gaming, stupid commercials, not that popular, and EA loves the thing.

Oh boy, golly gee. Can't wait to relive memories of my favorite sporting events of the current year, 2020, thanks to the Electronic Angels at EA, and with the amazing never before done streaming technology of Google Stadia, I can play at 4K with negative latency, whenever and where ever I want.

/s

@somebread
The anniversary edition of Duke Nukem 3D was rated by the ESRB back in October for Switch.

Unless if it got cancelled, I expect it to be announced and released soon (possibly in a Nintendo Direct?).

Surprised no one here has mentioned the lack of facial animation, that and the odd proportions make them look like marionettes.

Maybe 2k will make them real wrestlers, once the game releases!

@Yorumi
I haven't time traveled at all, and not counting the first visit outside of the boat where the painting you buy from him is always genuine. He's visited my town in his boat two times already.

How would that be possible if he only appeared monthly?

@Yorumi
Didn't Crazy Redd's work exactly the same way in NL? 4 pieces of art every week, try not to get scammed.

According to Nookipedia, there's 15 more pieces of art, but it doesn't seem like it should take years more to complete the collection in NH than it did in NL, unless if you are really bad at identifying art (which is easier this time around anyway, since you can now take a closer look at everything) or just buy art randomly without taking a closer look at it.

@MortalKombat2007
At least according to this article from Polygon, they successfully bought the royalty rights to MS. Pac Man from General Computers Corporation:
https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/26/20886032/ms-pac-man-lawsuit-bandai-namco-atgames-rights-royalties
@DrDaisy
I should make a small correction ATgames bought the rights in 2019, but Bandai Namco was already having a feud with the original owners over royalties since about 2015.

@WoomyNNYes
Namco doesn't fully own Ms. Pac-Man, Atgames is the one who owns the rights to it. And after Atgames falsely advertised the Namco Flashback as having arcade games, Namco si not on a good relationship with the company.

@Amin_Parker
"with poor graphics"
Game looks fine considering what it is, what kind of graphics were you expecting from a top down maze Pac Man game?

EDIT: Also it would take a lot less effort to make this game that was already released 2 years ago on Switch free, than porting Soulcaliber, Tails of Arise, etc.

You have to use your hands to play this? That's like a baby's toy.

@retro_player_77
I believe if you prebuy the remake right now, you can get Collection of Mana for 70% off.

"Each Maker can upload one Super World to Course World."

Nintendo being Nintendo again when it comes to online.

@brunojenso
A "perfect" prototype master planed city of the future was far from a safe bet. There was a reason why the idea died when Walt died and "East Coast Disneyland" (the part of the plan that Walt cared least about) became the main focus of the Florida project .

Nintendo and Disney both have always been crowd pleasers. I don't think there's anything wrong with that as long as you make a good product and you take a good amount of risks. Nintendo has its own fair share of "Cinderellas" such as NSMB and all the Wii series games (that came after Wii Sports was a proven success) and also their "Fantasias" such as the examples you cited above.

Walt wasn't just a businessman, there was already another Disney at the studio that was much better business man than Walt. There was a reason why the company almost collapsed after Walt died. Walt wasn't the most creative guy around, but I think he knew how to fix a story, and how to enhance an initial vision.

@Trajan
Improving the quality of life and popularity of your island to get KK Slider to have a concert on your island isn't an objective?

@brunojenso
I don't know, Walt Disney went from an animation studio making 5 minute cartoons with funny animals to almost building a city of the future in Florida.

I can't think of anything as left field as that from Nintendo.

Would anyone be surprised if he's a Death Stranding fanboy that got angry at not everybody thinking it was a perfect piece of art and is releasing his frustrations at AC and Nintendo fans?

I mean, I already see the biggest Death Stranding fanboy on this site is already frequently posting about "AC being boring" quite frequently.

@Euler
SMM2 is an evergreen game, just like past Mario games. Sunshine, Galaxy 2, 3D Land, NSMB2, NSMBU (original version), and 3D World all took more than 6 months to reach 5 million.

And this ain't the lowest selling Mario game, most of the other spinoffs (which SMM2 is) sold way less than this: most Mario Parties, all the RPGs, all the sports games, and all the spinoff Wario and Yoshi platformers sold less than 5 million.

This must be like the thousandth time that Patcher has said a variation on "console creators and developers would/will be much more successful if they moved to mobile,". And then predicts that this will be the last generation. Yada yada yada

@Euler
It sold a bit over 5 million copies in 6 months, how is that considered "bad"?

I do find it interesting that they specify it's the last "major" content update and not the last update with new content.

Possible that Nintendo may dip feed one or two new elements every so often? Probably not, but its fun to dream.

Lot of great looking elements!

Not going to lie, I would've preferred for the SMB3 style to get the hammer suit instead of the frog suit, but I'm excited for everything else.

I liked Unraveled 2 on Switch, so I'll probably get this eventually. Just surprised that EA is just starting to (kinda) support the Switch now past FIFA + 1 indie every year.

Hopefully we'll see Sims 4 in the future on Switch.

Not sure why so many people are surprised that FF7 didn't sell a million on launch weekend, only one game on PS4 has done that so far in Japan, Monster Hunter World.

DQ11 got very close to breaking a million on launch weekend, like its 3DS counterpart, at 950,000 units sold.

@mesome713
This is a very dishonest comment, MATE
The question you're referring to from yesterday says: "Do you think Nintendo should make villagers available via DLC, given that the cards are so expensive?"
It makes no mention of it being randomized, in packs, or even being paid packs. And before you say "OMG bro, everyone knows that NL meant loot boxes when asking the questions, MATE"
You don't know what other people were thinking when they answered yes and please (language warning):
https://youtu.be/oGUQLrkX4AE?t=36

@mesome713
Can't you also block those "crybabies" that you like complaining about?

@mesome713
OK, gloomer.

@mesome713
Please take a look in the mirror if you're going to call anyone else a crybaby. You are one of the biggest complainers on this site especially when it comes to complaining about the most pointless things.

@mesome713
If people love them so much, why do Activision and EA both make a lot of hoopla whenever a game from them doesn't have lootboxes? (Battlefield V, COD, etc.)

Nice the controller remap should fix should be able to fix the running controls in Trial's of Mana and DQXI. I'm actually surprised how at how flexible it seems to be for Nintendo with the capture and home buttons can be turned into actual useful (in-game) buttons.

@mesome713
There's a big difference between lootboxes and supply and demand:

Supply and demand is not based off purely off luck, unlike lootboxes which are 100% luck based and have items blocked behind odds as low as .000001%.

EDIT: Original first paragraph was edited out by moderators, so I replaced it with a nicer version.

@mesome713
Pinball was considered gambling for decades in the United States, despite receiving no rewards from the machine itself. It was considered gambling because people were basing bets on it and was considered a game of luck. Only reason that changed was because it was proven to be a game of skill.

Plenty of people "cash out" their lootbox goods in CS:GO or PUBG for real cash. So yes loot boxes can be considered a category of gambling.

@mesome713
Please tell me what makes you immune from criticism for complaining, but others aren't?

At least you admit that everything you write on here is a joke, MATE.

@mesome713
So when you complain, it's a fun thing? But when others complain, they're "whiny"?

"What are double standards"?

@mesome713
Complaining about conventions causing very small amounts of pollution, complaining that the Persona 5 UI looks like a serial killer created it" or complaining that Sakurai is being lazy because not every Arms character is going to be in Smash isn't whiny?

@sleepinglion
Watch as Arcade1up (who can't over flood the market with their cabinets) rerelease Turbo Outrun, Virtua Fighter, Daytona USA, House of the Dead etc. while Sega does nothing with them and just keeps rereleasing Sonic games for next gen. consoles.

LOL

@SalvorHardin
Other than the obvious answer of trying to get Nintendo fans to buy an Xbox to play Rare Replay, Rare Replay has a few hurdles to get over if it was to get a Switch port (XB360 BC and rather large file size).

I'm still trying to figure out how this game, that will likely be forgotten and buried on Steam in a week is going to provide any competition to AC and cause Nintendo to change things up.

Are they from some alternate universe where Temtem was some super giant game that convinced Game Freak to change things up in the week when it was the game of the week to praise?

@Grumblevolcano
Nintendo is stil going to have the "pressure" of other publishers announcements during IGN's event and the arrival of XBSX and PS5 (assuming they're not delayed) in the fall.

And unless if you think CERO's closure is going to be extended into summer or even fall(which I find ridiculous), the games that are affected will be the summer titles, not the fall titles that are the main focus of E3 Directs.

And I don't think in times such as this, it's out of the question to delay the Japanese release. Especially if its a big blockbuster title like Mario that will drive Switch sales. If they're worried about losing Japanese sales with imports, they can always slap a rough release date on it, like half of the games in the mini direct.

And E3 Directs are targeted towards the Western market anyway (Unlike most Directs, Japan does not get unique versions of E3 Directs, only subbed version). While of course there are still plenty of Japanese developers and publishers in E3 Directs, there'll be western publishers like 2K, Activision, EA, etc. (who are usually ignored in the JPN version of directs) that usually release their games later in Japan anyway, so it won't effect them anyway.

Does CERO work the same way as the ESRB, where the publishers show a trailer of the game that includes the most objectionable content contained within and then a committee rates the game?

I'm wondering why they can't employ people from the home, if that's the case? Leaks?

@Grumblevolcano
Why would no digital E3 be confirmation of no Nintendo Direct? Couldn't Nintendo just do what LRG (or what Nintendo normally does for most directs) and post the direct on their YouTube channel or just partner up with IGN if they think it'll get lost with the rest of the gaming news?

@Roam85
Nintendo not holding a live press conference ≠ Nintendo skipping E3.

Nintendo hasn't skipped a year of having space on the showfloor even in 2016 when they barely had anything to show except for BOTW.

Now the publisher is blaming the delay on the coronavirus, despite it already being finished and released on cartridge along with it previously being briefly on the Nintendo EShop.
SOURCE:
https://nintendoeverything.com/cooking-mama-cookstar-publisher-on-eshop-unavailability-the-whole-world-is-upside-down-with-delays-right-now/

I'm very offended by this...

Everyone knows the plural form of Pokémon is Pokémon, not "Pokémons".

But seriously, if he's saying offensive things like this in a professional environment, he's probably said worse things in normal everyday life.

@mesome713
If you practice what you preach, then don't use the internet to post on video game fandom websites, as the energy used to power the internet is bad for the environment:
https://medium.com/wedonthavetime/guest-blog-post-the-alarming-environmental-impact-of-the-internet-and-how-you-can-help-6ff892b8730d

Also, even if E3 was cancelled forever, there'd still be a (non-E3) convention(s) or event(s) that would be in the LA Convention Center first two weeks in June. LA Convention Center is constantly booked, cancelling E3 would do nothing for the environment.

@mesome713
How would a one week convention "worsen" the environment more than anything else in smog-covered LA?

@Deltath
Doom also hasn't received a physical reprint unlike the PS4 version, causing inflated prices for the physical version.

Wolfenstein II is a better comparison point. It's easy to snag that on Switch for under $30.

Hopefully Nintendo will bring the Nintendo Selects line back soon and include third party titles like Doom within the selected titles.

@KitsuneNight
Also odd that you mention difficulty as a detriment to 8 bit design when most of the hardest NES games were ports of 16 bit arcade games: Ghosts n' Goblins, Contra, Commando, etc.