Going by the cold reception of one Anthony Higgs (remember him?) I doubt race representation is going to be a focus in the Metroid franchise going forward.
I think the point of the article is to call attention to a lot of gamers that outright dismiss games like FF XV Pocket Edition, Metroid Prime Federation Force, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Zelda Triforce Heroes, GTA Chinatown Wars or Persona 5 Strikers.
Many gamers dont look at this games and say: "cool, let me try this weird spin on the same old core franchise" they look at this games and say: "what a piece of crap, give me a game in the old core franchise or bust".
I think It makes sense. The story might start with the older games AND mover toward the now Classic plot. And characters like Spike are meant to be recognized by the more hardcore crowd and say "Ah, I got it". Same thing if we see someone named Stanley using bug spray.
Well color me surprised, none of the ads or trailers I have seen of this movie gave me.the impression this movie had anything to do with videogames, I thought it was just another basketball comedy among Tunes and a big sport celebrity in two animation styles, classic and cgi.
Perhaps in my region they thought videogames were not a selling point.
I work in a Mental Health institution, and I love videogames...the survey might work but the poll in the site will be a complete landslide in favor of videogames hahaha. There is an inherent bias in the fanbase for this industry (and most others of course) to idealize and overestate the positive effect their hobby and passion had in their lives.
Seems simple enough, will try. Already done all the regular fixes, calibration, reconnection, cotton swab, WD cleaner, compressed air, only thing that helped me was to replace the sticks, but hopefully this will work.
I have little doubts about Wayforward worth as a developer. But precisely because they were not much a "high profile publisher" that was the reason Shantae 1 was published by Capcom, Shantae GBA never saw the light, and they just started to release their own games without bigger partners in the Dsiware era, like many indies since.
At any rate, my point was, companies like Capcom, Konami, Microsoft, Ubi Soft (owners after all of Dante, Bomberman, Goemon, Dragonborn, Vaultbouy and Altair) most certainly would ask for extra money in order to license a single song for Ultimate. On the other hand, the owners of Sans, Cuphead and Shantae, big or small, probably consider their characters being included on Smash (even if only as costumes) such a big honor that they freely and gladly give away a music piece for the game.
True that, finished Celeste and totally forgot about the actual name of Madeline and Badeline. Kinda like calling the playable character of Gris, Gris or Grisgirl.
As for the mii, I wish developers took into account Sans tremendous popularity back all the way to 2019 when it was released, I would bet my entire Switch collection that it still is the mii costume with the best sales. Taking that into account, it would be the role of the Smash team and third parties to actually pick and suggest third party and indie characters that fit the most with the Mii sizes, movesets and likeness. Take for example Dante and contrast with Viewtiful Joe, both are Capcom characters and both first appeared back in the same gen...but for one of them, the size is perfect, fits the brawler mii moveset, and the ginormous helmets helps to hide the mii face...too bad we have a problem of lack of current popularity.
True true. It is the same with the included mii costumes, Yiga Clan Warrior, Black Knight and Skull Kid are the best precisely because they completely cover the mii face, and in the case of Skull Kid, the character proportions are spot on. Same with some DLC mii costumes.
In an ideal world, we would get mii costumes from Shovel Knight, Hollow Knight and Quote, that can produce full costumes because they are wearing a helmet, a mask or is an emotionless robot respectively, and all them would come with a kikass song. On the other hand, as fantastic indie characters as they are, characters like Celeste or Hat Kid like Shantae would need to show the mii face.
After this announcements I now see that the only mii costumes that can come with a song are indie properties (Sans, Cuphead and Shantae), most likely the big third parties ask too much money for a single track X(
Well, we will never know for sure. There is a very vocal section fo the fanbae who keeps criticizing Nintendo for having too many Wii u ports, too few new games and too many safe choices in the first party lineup... perhaps people are getting less console games after all, is just that no one ever blames the mobile games because they are so insignificant.
It makes sense, the Labo garage tools were surprisingly good, and this looks to expand on that...too bad owners of the VR set can't get an update with sharing features, but I can get the reasons to entice with this new product.
@Damo Being free to play matters because everyone has a chance to try the game on Switch and see how bad it looks before making any payment. It would require a very advanced level in idiocy to download a free to play game and start spending on it before even trying a single match...or in the case of kids all too desperate to skip 4 seconds of disclaimers, surely they would be also all too desperate to start playing asap instead of traversing multiple menus of payment options and features.
At any rate, it is a despicable practice, particularly with regular sold games lacking demos, reminds me of a case in which EA promoted a Tiger Woods game was promoted in a mutant nonexistent version with the HD version on screen and the payer using a Wii controller.
What surprises me in this particular case is that it was Nintendo UK themselves the people who did the whole fallacy, not the publishers themselves. Sorta like when fanboys share specific shots or half true factoids to promote their versions of a certain game.
It is there, position 18 right now. The list moves dynamically based on the user score, so perhaps it shifted positions while you were going across the different pages.
There is a demo...and I was not a fan of it, in truth I deleted it in short notice. The flashiness and the busy visuals get in the way for me to enjoy a runner like this.
I was not aware of the whole racial issue with the development of the game, but all the more power to him, I hope the game manages to be successful.
I couldn't care less for the first three kits, but the VR set I got were 40 well invested bucks with the ammount of hours of fun I and many of my family and friends got. I even did the "extra" toys not included in that set and came with a cardboard camera and a cardboard elephant. Hopefully the fact that the VR set is still being promoted on the Nintendo website means that more games could be compatible in the future. A man can only dream.
Was going to say that the trailer looks really below what Fast RMX does (which I suppose its part of the charm, trying the original Wipeout game vibe) but the I saw the VR option.
If the Switch port comes with Labo VR support (almost no chance I know) I would try this no doubt.
Always curious how the announcement of a game late released to another system signals worse sales for the original Nintendo version. And the announcements of a multiplatform game late released to a Nintendo system...also signals worse sales for the upcoming Nintendo version.
Seems other platform users are better at the waiting game than Nintendo fans XD
On one hand, I think it is silly to go around crying about "by the time the game comes, I will have lost all interest, etc etc" I for one can pride myself on being patient with most videogame products, if it comes, it will come.
And yet...I can't deny I just love some good hype. A good hype machine can embiggen even the most niche of releases. Just from the top of my mind, I can remember Rune Factory Frontier, Arc Rise Fantasia, Trauma Team back on the Wii days, had me revisiting their webpages daily (the first two in complete japanese) just to see a new character, a new pic, a new music sample. And all three of them delivered completely at least to my expectations, some bad localization gaffes aside. Now on the other hand, I did the same with a liitle known stinkbomb called Ohgon no Kizuna...I was hyped, I was mad the game was japanese exclusive, and I was also utterly dissapointed when the game was such a catastrophic dud...and still, I still remember those golden hype days with fondness and nostalgia.
If a game can bring me hype and quality, that is perfect, but even if it ends being the biggest pile of failure in videogame form, if it gave me a good month or more, of pure hype, that is still a source of enjoyment by itself.
Considering everything, I'm surprised with how long this game took to reach the Switch. Being a passion project mostly promoted between Nintendo gamers and all, it is a shame that it missed the gold rush window on the Switch by a year or two.
I think the release will be the same day...after all, he is coming before the month ends, might as well get extra fanfare with the always nice "get it right now" announcement.
I'm also curious about the upcoming mii costumes. Chocobo and Geno seem a given considering the main event, but I hope for another one with a music track, Hollow Knight, Hat Girl or Quote (from Cave Story) would be my top picks.
You are underestimating the fanbase of each particular franchise. Not every FF VII fanboy jumped on board with Smash at the sight of Cloud, if that had been the case, Smash for Wii U/3DS would have sold far more than it did. And yes, not every FF VII fanboy will jump with Sephiroth, but the fact is MANY more will do. I for one know one early PS5 adopter that is salivating at this announcement more than with any upcoming next gen game...except perhaps the still too far remaining parts of FF VII remake.
It is like with Byleth, Fire Emblem is overrepresented, but Byleth was still a hit with many of the people who played Three Houses and they were all onboard getting the character.
In the end, as you say, is all business. As they see it, a bigger more sizeable chunk of the loyal FF VII/Three Houses fanbase is worth more money to them than the entire Crash, Tomb Raider or Waluigi fanbase.
I too thought it would be something about a smaller card with a required download.
But now that I remember the release, it came in a boxed edition with a map, a booklet and a couple of stickers. This light edition might be just that, the same game dlc and all, but without the (admittedly few) physical goodies included in the first release.
People are happy because they will be able to play with Dante which until this news released seemed impossible...and of course, now they can crack jokes about the whole Dante, and Knuckles and Funky Mode.
In the end, it makes sense. Getting the approval from Capcom for the license costs money, but not everyone is interested in Dante. So it seems fair to pass the cost of having it exclusively to the people who care about Dante. Because of that, it makes perfect sense for this to be optional DLC, why should everyone pay the price for having a Capcom license if not everyone care about him?
Well, then the system works. As they say, the trick with the 90% off sale is not just increasing the sales right then, but precisely to put the game on the best seller chart and remain there a few days or even weeks after the sale ends, to scrap as few or as many sales as they can at full price.
Right now, in my eshop games like Ultimate Chicken Horse, Mark of the Ninja Remastered, Bad North and the Deer God are in the top 30, and they are all full price, but they also had steep discounts in the recent days. In a couple of weeks Moto Rush GT, Super Bit Blaster XL, Seeders and Toki Tori will be in the same position.
Yep, having the likes of Apex of the World, Battle Hymn of the Soul, Bowser Castle and many more in Final Destination makes the whole crossover thing shine, I do enjoy this new option.
I suppose after seeing Donkey Long Tropical Freeze, and many other examples from different companies, they thought it was a requirement to sell games with an extra 10 bucks on the price.
@MattAllsopp
In all fairness, I have Asphalt and liked it a lot, but the game while it might look good enough it doesn't run well at all, it might look nice, but the framerate tanks all the time, this game seems MUCH better in performance.
Anyway, my issue with this game is the limited multiplayer. Going by the eshop listing Burnout only has online multiplayer and not split screen. That is a big NO in my book right now. How ironic that a free to play game like Asphalt includes it but not this. Such a shame.
Sorry Pal, but your scale is still bonkers. You are giving three whole points for the great achievement of not being able to get past the title screen (1/10) to not being able to play the game past the first stage because doing the main action required to progress causes a glitch (4/10). Almost a third of the whole
0-100 scale is awarded for improving a completely broken useless game into a completely useless broken game.
As I see it, if a game cant be played to the very end, then it doesn't deserve a score at all, if the game can be cleared from start to finish then we can grade it and use the whole scale from 0-100.
You people need to correct the comma between jet and black in question 6: "Which Nintendo console was available in Indigo, Jet, Black and Spice colour variants (among others)?"
Jet and black were the same color in the GameCube ("jet black" was it called in all official papers) and thanks to the funtastique series the N64 also was released in orange, black, gray, purple, green, etc. So with that and the whole "among others" is somewhat confusing as it is right now.
I got and liked New Leaf, but not going to get New Horizons. Too much to play right now. Played NL daily for around three months, then weekly for around two years, then monthly until I just stopped in 2018.
At any rate, I think this game could very well use some companion mobile app. Log each day in order to make a "mini visit" to greet your neighbors and clean the town, but you can only "really" play, progress, terraform, fish, etc with the Switch game. This way, people obsessed with the game could still log with their cellphones in order to avoid the dreaded syndrome of "the longer I don't play the less likely that's I play again".
The Sonic movie put some heavy pressure on this goons. It would be terribly humiliating for Nintedo if Sonic surpass Mario in ticket revenue and/or critical reception.
I get your point, but the game have everything to do with it. The projected sales will dictate the cartridge expense.
The Witcher3 original release on current gen consoles was a sales success, it was recent (no old gen version to begin with) and was still selling well even by the time the Switch edition appeared, and what is more, the Netflix series (which was a hit) was just around the corner. The expected sales were high, and CD Project Red went with it. But speaking of the same company, where is the physical version of Thronebreaker Witcher Tales? Is a small spinoff, if the expensive cart was such a myth, they surely would release said game at retail...but instead, they obviously believe the projected sales are not worthy of that.
It's the Same with Nintendo, Capcom or 2K...if they bring decade old ports that pretty much anyone interested can play on half a dozen of systems, the sales projected are far lower than the ones with the Witcher. Nintendo thought the same with Bayonetta, and so and so.
I.E., you can see how a game like BioShock trilogy is already expected to sell more copies than either Borderlands or Xcom, because it gets the 16 GB card, instead of the smaller 8 one. If the games themselves were not the deciding factora, the three packages would get a 8 GB card.
Nintendo Is not free of guilt either. My physical copy of Bayonetta 1 + 2 required a sizeable download to enjoy "half" of that package. The decision on this matters is game dependant, not company dependant.
Definitely Min Min, either alone or with Ribbon Girl/Ninjara as alts. Spring Man is already in the game as Assist and Ribbon Girl Mii costume reduces her chances of being the main face of the Challenger. Twintelle is popular, but her design would make difficult to include the other Arms fighters as character skins. As for the other characters, none seems popular enough.
Everything could be or not be better than it is, there is never a "should be better".
But if you are insistent in looking for numbers, what is considered top of the line is common games is basically the combination of two elements: native resolution (720p for switch portable, 1080p for Switch docked/ps4/xbone and 4K for ps4pro/xbonex) and performance of 60 fps. But again, that would be an oversimplification of their job, there are many things that cannot be so easily quantified, like post effects, antialiasing, draw distance, loading times, input latency, texture and audio quality, and a very long etc. So no, there is no "gold standard" they seek, there will never be a "perfect" scenario...but many fantastic, incredible and great scenarios like the one in this video, games that do miracles with limited hardware, or fantastic showcases with the most advanced and recent hardware, or examples of incredible feats in the past with old hardware.
They analize, and show the ups and downs. There is no perfect for them and there shouldn't be. Better res produces worse performance, better performance produces worse resolution, improved AA creates less sharpness, improved sharpness means less AA and so and so.
Digital Foundry is not a resource to say "this graphics suck" or "this graphics are the best". It is a resource to analyze all the little details, all the compromises, all the exchanges, etc.
Here is the best example, ACNH looks fantastic, the game looks great, and they say so at every chance in the video. But some people seem miffed because they are mentioning (as they should since it is what the do) that the framerate is 30.
Got a little impulsive, but I was glad to get a few discounts in the season: -FE Three Houses. -Ring Fit Adventure. -A Hat in Time. -Surge Wireless Controller. -Hyper Light Drifter (eShop). -Sonic Mania (eShop).
Later than sooner, but I feel I finally reached the dreaded "paywall"...right now I cant really make more progress in the career mode without better cars, and said cars need a very high amount of blueprints that I can't get right now in a consistent basis and regular basis.
BUT, reaching that point I still got more than 30 hours of pure fun racing, with 30% of career progression, +15 cars, and I can still regularly play the offline challenge mode and the split screen multiplayer. A ton of fantastic value for the amount of money that I spend, which was nothing at all.
In short, a terrific racer that can easily sit on your Switch to play in single and multiplayer at any time for Free...given that you are ready to:
a) Never reach 100% completion.
b) Play online for many hours in order to get a sizeable and diverse roster of cars.
Even without new modes, I can only hope we get some nice nifty upgrades:
-My music: Being an to use your playlist in the game, any place you want. Being able to mix and match music (Mario songs in Yoshi's Island, more songs in boxing ring, etc).
-Tournaments: Being able to set "doubles" tournaments at the very least, with the obvious possibility of going all around with bigger team or handicap tournaments, being able to set specific stages and music for each bracket (regular stages for the first rounds, final destination in the final, etc).
-Squad strike: Play with more than two players simultaneously.
And more little details that could make for an ever better product like more VR stages and features (hey, I like it), being able to completely arrange your character selection screen, more features for the stage builder, etc.
45 minutes wouldn't be enough for Terry and all that.
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Re: Smash Bros. Ultimate Adds Doom Slayer And Splatoon Characters As Mii Fighter Costumes
A music theme would make the suit much better. But again, I suppose is the final bane of the Mii costumes that come from "big" third parties.
Re: Video: Metroid Dread's Latest Commercial Puts An EMMI In This Poor Woman's Lounge
@Shiro28 @Ryu_Niiyama
Going by the cold reception of one Anthony Higgs (remember him?) I doubt race representation is going to be a focus in the Metroid franchise going forward.
Re: Marvelous Celebrates 15 Years Of The Rune Factory Series With A Special Anniversary Video
@Synecdoche
Don't see how you couldn't be if you so wish.
Now on the other hand, there are any gay or bisexual marriage candidates NPCs in the game?.. apparently there are none.
Re: Soapbox: Spin-Offs Can Be A Way In Rather Than A Sell-Out
@Lyricana @BrazillianCara @MARl0 @k8sMum
I think the point of the article is to call attention to a lot of gamers that outright dismiss games like FF XV Pocket Edition, Metroid Prime Federation Force, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Zelda Triforce Heroes, GTA Chinatown Wars or Persona 5 Strikers.
Many gamers dont look at this games and say: "cool, let me try this weird spin on the same old core franchise" they look at this games and say: "what a piece of crap, give me a game in the old core franchise or bust".
Re: Stand-Up Comedian Reveals His Role In The Upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie
I think It makes sense. The story might start with the older games AND mover toward the now Classic plot. And characters like Spike are meant to be recognized by the more hardcore crowd and say "Ah, I got it". Same thing if we see someone named Stanley using bug spray.
Re: Soapbox: Space Jam 2 Is A Video Game Cash-In That Doesn't Quite Get It Right
Well color me surprised, none of the ads or trailers I have seen of this movie gave me.the impression this movie had anything to do with videogames, I thought it was just another basketball comedy among Tunes and a big sport celebrity in two animation styles, classic and cgi.
Perhaps in my region they thought videogames were not a selling point.
Re: Nintendo And Oxford University Want To Know How Animal Crossing Players Are Doing Mentally
I work in a Mental Health institution, and I love videogames...the survey might work but the poll in the site will be a complete landslide in favor of videogames hahaha. There is an inherent bias in the fanbase for this industry (and most others of course) to idealize and overestate the positive effect their hobby and passion had in their lives.
Re: Someone Thinks They've Resolved Nintendo's Joy-Con Drift Problem With An Incredibly Simple Fix
Seems simple enough, will try. Already done all the regular fixes, calibration, reconnection, cotton swab, WD cleaner, compressed air, only thing that helped me was to replace the sticks, but hopefully this will work.
Re: Sonic Colors: Ultimate Switch Trailer Removes 60fps Perk Of Original Video
@inenai
Going in a dollar per frame basis, Sonic is a lesser deal than Zelda 😅
Re: Dante, Shantae And More Join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate As Mii Fighter Costumes
@BulbasaurusRex
I have little doubts about Wayforward worth as a developer. But precisely because they were not much a "high profile publisher" that was the reason Shantae 1 was published by Capcom, Shantae GBA never saw the light, and they just started to release their own games without bigger partners in the Dsiware era, like many indies since.
At any rate, my point was, companies like Capcom, Konami, Microsoft, Ubi Soft (owners after all of Dante, Bomberman, Goemon, Dragonborn, Vaultbouy and Altair) most certainly would ask for extra money in order to license a single song for Ultimate. On the other hand, the owners of Sans, Cuphead and Shantae, big or small, probably consider their characters being included on Smash (even if only as costumes) such a big honor that they freely and gladly give away a music piece for the game.
Re: Dante, Shantae And More Join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate As Mii Fighter Costumes
@Clod
True that, finished Celeste and totally forgot about the actual name of Madeline and Badeline. Kinda like calling the playable character of Gris, Gris or Grisgirl.
As for the mii, I wish developers took into account Sans tremendous popularity back all the way to 2019 when it was released, I would bet my entire Switch collection that it still is the mii costume with the best sales. Taking that into account, it would be the role of the Smash team and third parties to actually pick and suggest third party and indie characters that fit the most with the Mii sizes, movesets and likeness. Take for example Dante and contrast with Viewtiful Joe, both are Capcom characters and both first appeared back in the same gen...but for one of them, the size is perfect, fits the brawler mii moveset, and the ginormous helmets helps to hide the mii face...too bad we have a problem of lack of current popularity.
Re: Dante, Shantae And More Join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate As Mii Fighter Costumes
@Clod
True true. It is the same with the included mii costumes, Yiga Clan Warrior, Black Knight and Skull Kid are the best precisely because they completely cover the mii face, and in the case of Skull Kid, the character proportions are spot on. Same with some DLC mii costumes.
In an ideal world, we would get mii costumes from Shovel Knight, Hollow Knight and Quote, that can produce full costumes because they are wearing a helmet, a mask or is an emotionless robot respectively, and all them would come with a kikass song. On the other hand, as fantastic indie characters as they are, characters like Celeste or Hat Kid like Shantae would need to show the mii face.
After this announcements I now see that the only mii costumes that can come with a song are indie properties (Sans, Cuphead and Shantae), most likely the big third parties ask too much money for a single track X(
Re: Dante, Shantae And More Join Super Smash Bros. Ultimate As Mii Fighter Costumes
The Shantae song justo doesn't do it for me. On the other hand, Dragonborn and Dante music would made them both must haves.
Re: Dragon Quest Creator Teases Exciting Announcements For 35th Anniversary
At the very least we will get confirmed platforms and release date for Dragon Quest the Adventure of Dai.
Re: Mobile Dev DeNA Wants To Make Its "Relationship" With Nintendo "Even Better" Going Forward
@DTFaux
Well, we will never know for sure. There is a very vocal section fo the fanbae who keeps criticizing Nintendo for having too many Wii u ports, too few new games and too many safe choices in the first party lineup... perhaps people are getting less console games after all, is just that no one ever blames the mobile games because they are so insignificant.
Re: Random: This Guy Makes Incredible, Wearable 8-Bit Cosplay
When saying 16-bit is guilty of not having enough commercial appeal.
Re: Nintendo Announces Game Builder Garage, A Quirky Programming Game For Switch
It makes sense, the Labo garage tools were surprisingly good, and this looks to expand on that...too bad owners of the VR set can't get an update with sharing features, but I can get the reasons to entice with this new product.
And perhaps this is the "last tiny announcement" Labo related that the rumor mentioned last month ( https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/04/nintendo_explains_why_it_took_down_the_labo_website ) but I hope not, a Pokemon Snap update with labor VR camera support would be sweet.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Apex Legends: Legacy 'Gameplay Overview' Trailer Is Questionable
@Damo
Being free to play matters because everyone has a chance to try the game on Switch and see how bad it looks before making any payment. It would require a very advanced level in idiocy to download a free to play game and start spending on it before even trying a single match...or in the case of kids all too desperate to skip 4 seconds of disclaimers, surely they would be also all too desperate to start playing asap instead of traversing multiple menus of payment options and features.
At any rate, it is a despicable practice, particularly with regular sold games lacking demos, reminds me of a case in which EA promoted a Tiger Woods game was promoted in a mutant nonexistent version with the HD version on screen and the payer using a Wii controller.
What surprises me in this particular case is that it was Nintendo UK themselves the people who did the whole fallacy, not the publishers themselves. Sorta like when fanboys share specific shots or half true factoids to promote their versions of a certain game.
Re: Feature: Every Mega Man Game Ranked
@Gamer_Griff
It is there, position 18 right now. The list moves dynamically based on the user score, so perhaps it shifted positions while you were going across the different pages.
Re: Feature: Why Aerial_Knight Put His Name On His Game
There is a demo...and I was not a fan of it, in truth I deleted it in short notice. The flashiness and the busy visuals get in the way for me to enjoy a runner like this.
I was not aware of the whole racial issue with the development of the game, but all the more power to him, I hope the game manages to be successful.
Re: It Looks Like Labo Is Being Put To Rest As Nintendo Takes Down The Website
I couldn't care less for the first three kits, but the VR set I got were 40 well invested bucks with the ammount of hours of fun I and many of my family and friends got. I even did the "extra" toys not included in that set and came with a cardboard camera and a cardboard elephant.
Hopefully the fact that the VR set is still being promoted on the Nintendo website means that more games could be compatible in the future. A man can only dream.
Re: Wipeout "Love Letter" BallisticNG Is Speeding Onto Switch
Was going to say that the trailer looks really below what Fast RMX does (which I suppose its part of the charm, trying the original Wipeout game vibe) but the I saw the VR option.
If the Switch port comes with Labo VR support (almost no chance I know) I would try this no doubt.
Re: QubicGames Is Back With Another Ridiculous Switch Sale, 17 Games Discounted To Just $0.17
From the ultra cheap group, I can recommend Rekt and Not Not.
Re: Monster Hunter Rise Officially No Longer A Switch Exclusive, Coming To PC In 2022
Always curious how the announcement of a game late released to another system signals worse sales for the original Nintendo version.
And the announcements of a multiplatform game late released to a Nintendo system...also signals worse sales for the upcoming Nintendo version.
Seems other platform users are better at the waiting game than Nintendo fans XD
Re: Soapbox: The Modern Games Industry Has A Hype Problem, And It Needs To Stop
I can see both points.
On one hand, I think it is silly to go around crying about "by the time the game comes, I will have lost all interest, etc etc" I for one can pride myself on being patient with most videogame products, if it comes, it will come.
And yet...I can't deny I just love some good hype. A good hype machine can embiggen even the most niche of releases. Just from the top of my mind, I can remember Rune Factory Frontier, Arc Rise Fantasia, Trauma Team back on the Wii days, had me revisiting their webpages daily (the first two in complete japanese) just to see a new character, a new pic, a new music sample. And all three of them delivered completely at least to my expectations, some bad localization gaffes aside. Now on the other hand, I did the same with a liitle known stinkbomb called Ohgon no Kizuna...I was hyped, I was mad the game was japanese exclusive, and I was also utterly dissapointed when the game was such a catastrophic dud...and still, I still remember those golden hype days with fondness and nostalgia.
If a game can bring me hype and quality, that is perfect, but even if it ends being the biggest pile of failure in videogame form, if it gave me a good month or more, of pure hype, that is still a source of enjoyment by itself.
Re: New Pokémon Snap Pricing, File Size And Other Key Details Revealed
Labo VR camera would make this one a day one purchase for me.
Re: Brawl In The Family Creator's Award-Winning Music Game Tadpole Treble Is Coming To Switch
Considering everything, I'm surprised with how long this game took to reach the Switch. Being a passion project mostly promoted between Nintendo gamers and all, it is a shame that it missed the gold rush window on the Switch by a year or two.
Re: Sakurai's Smash Bros. Sephiroth Broadcast Will Run For About 35 Minutes
I think the release will be the same day...after all, he is coming before the month ends, might as well get extra fanfare with the always nice "get it right now" announcement.
I'm also curious about the upcoming mii costumes. Chocobo and Geno seem a given considering the main event, but I hope for another one with a music track, Hollow Knight, Hat Girl or Quote (from Cave Story) would be my top picks.
Re: Final Fantasy VII's Sephiroth Gets Added To The Smash Bros. Ultimate Mural
@backup368
You are underestimating the fanbase of each particular franchise. Not every FF VII fanboy jumped on board with Smash at the sight of Cloud, if that had been the case, Smash for Wii U/3DS would have sold far more than it did.
And yes, not every FF VII fanboy will jump with Sephiroth, but the fact is MANY more will do. I for one know one early PS5 adopter that is salivating at this announcement more than with any upcoming next gen game...except perhaps the still too far remaining parts of FF VII remake.
It is like with Byleth, Fire Emblem is overrepresented, but Byleth was still a hit with many of the people who played Three Houses and they were all onboard getting the character.
In the end, as you say, is all business. As they see it, a bigger more sizeable chunk of the loyal FF VII/Three Houses fanbase is worth more money to them than the entire Crash, Tomb Raider or Waluigi fanbase.
Re: How Well Do You Know Pikmin?
Last question got me totally unprepared. The other 11 were too easy.
Re: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Light Edition For Switch Surfaces Via German Retailer
I too thought it would be something about a smaller card with a required download.
But now that I remember the release, it came in a boxed edition with a map, a booklet and a couple of stickers. This light edition might be just that, the same game dlc and all, but without the (admittedly few) physical goodies included in the first release.
Re: Devil May Cry's Dante Returns As DLC In The Shin Megami Tensei III Remaster
@noutBr
People are happy because they will be able to play with Dante which until this news released seemed impossible...and of course, now they can crack jokes about the whole Dante, and Knuckles and Funky Mode.
In the end, it makes sense. Getting the approval from Capcom for the license costs money, but not everyone is interested in Dante. So it seems fair to pass the cost of having it exclusively to the people who care about Dante. Because of that, it makes perfect sense for this to be optional DLC, why should everyone pay the price for having a Capcom license if not everyone care about him?
Re: The State Of The Switch eShop Is "Heartbreaking" Says No More Robots Boss
@BenAV
Well, then the system works. As they say, the trick with the 90% off sale is not just increasing the sales right then, but precisely to put the game on the best seller chart and remain there a few days or even weeks after the sale ends, to scrap as few or as many sales as they can at full price.
Right now, in my eshop games like Ultimate Chicken Horse, Mark of the Ninja Remastered, Bad North and the Deer God are in the top 30, and they are all full price, but they also had steep discounts in the recent days. In a couple of weeks Moto Rush GT, Super Bit Blaster XL, Seeders and Toki Tori will be in the same position.
Re: A Closer Look At The Small Battlefield Stage In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Yep, having the likes of Apex of the World, Battle Hymn of the Soul, Bowser Castle and many more in Final Destination makes the whole crossover thing shine, I do enjoy this new option.
Re: Smash Bros. ARMS Presentation To Take Place From The Comfort Of Sakurai's Home
PlayStation Home confirmed for Smash.
Re: Can You Name The First Game These Famous Characters Appeared In?
15/15, way too easy.
Re: Review: Burnout Paradise Remastered - Thrilling Open-World Racing Tempered By Blurry Visuals And A High Price
I suppose after seeing Donkey Long Tropical Freeze, and many other examples from different companies, they thought it was a requirement to sell games with an extra 10 bucks on the price.
@MattAllsopp
In all fairness, I have Asphalt and liked it a lot, but the game while it might look good enough it doesn't run well at all, it might look nice, but the framerate tanks all the time, this game seems MUCH better in performance.
Anyway, my issue with this game is the limited multiplayer. Going by the eshop listing Burnout only has online multiplayer and not split screen. That is a big NO in my book right now. How ironic that a free to play game like Asphalt includes it but not this. Such a shame.
Re: Review: Summer In Mara - Alluring Presentation Hides A Fundamentally Flawed Adventure
@sanderev
Sorry Pal, but your scale is still bonkers. You are giving three whole points for the great achievement of not being able to get past the title screen (1/10) to not being able to play the game past the first stage because doing the main action required to progress causes a glitch (4/10). Almost a third of the whole
0-100 scale is awarded for improving a completely broken useless game into a completely useless broken game.
As I see it, if a game cant be played to the very end, then it doesn't deserve a score at all, if the game can be cleared from start to finish then we can grade it and use the whole scale from 0-100.
Re: How Well Do You Know Nintendo Hardware?
You people need to correct the comma between jet and black in question 6: "Which Nintendo console was available in Indigo, Jet, Black and Spice colour variants (among others)?"
Jet and black were the same color in the GameCube ("jet black" was it called in all official papers) and thanks to the funtastique series the N64 also was released in orange, black, gray, purple, green, etc. So with that and the whole "among others" is somewhat confusing as it is right now.
Re: Square Enix Announces Infinity Strash - Dragon Quest: The Adventure Of Dai, But Is It Coming To Switch?
Loved this anime back in the 90s. I really hope this a) Is released on Switch b) Covers the whole storyline.
Re: Talking Point: Are You Suffering From Animal Crossing: New Horizons Fatigue?
I got and liked New Leaf, but not going to get New Horizons. Too much to play right now. Played NL daily for around three months, then weekly for around two years, then monthly until I just stopped in 2018.
At any rate, I think this game could very well use some companion mobile app. Log each day in order to make a "mini visit" to greet your neighbors and clean the town, but you can only "really" play, progress, terraform, fish, etc with the Switch game. This way, people obsessed with the game could still log with their cellphones in order to avoid the dreaded syndrome of "the longer I don't play the less likely that's I play again".
Re: Illumination's Mario Movie Still Making Good Progress, Despite Current Lockdowns
The Sonic movie put some heavy pressure on this goons. It would be terribly humiliating for Nintedo if Sonic surpass Mario in ticket revenue and/or critical reception.
Re: Buying BioShock, Borderlands Or XCOM Physically? Expect Huge Download Requirements
@ThanosReXXX
I get your point, but the game have everything to do with it. The projected sales will dictate the cartridge expense.
The Witcher3 original release on current gen consoles was a sales success, it was recent (no old gen version to begin with) and was still selling well even by the time the Switch edition appeared, and what is more, the Netflix series (which was a hit) was just around the corner. The expected sales were high, and CD Project Red went with it. But speaking of the same company, where is the physical version of Thronebreaker Witcher Tales? Is a small spinoff, if the expensive cart was such a myth, they surely would release said game at retail...but instead, they obviously believe the projected sales are not worthy of that.
It's the Same with Nintendo, Capcom or 2K...if they bring decade old ports that pretty much anyone interested can play on half a dozen of systems, the sales projected are far lower than the ones with the Witcher. Nintendo thought the same with Bayonetta, and so and so.
I.E., you can see how a game like BioShock trilogy is already expected to sell more copies than either Borderlands or Xcom, because it gets the 16 GB card, instead of the smaller 8 one. If the games themselves were not the deciding factora, the three packages would get a 8 GB card.
Re: Buying BioShock, Borderlands Or XCOM Physically? Expect Huge Download Requirements
@ThanosReXXX
Nintendo Is not free of guilt either. My physical copy of Bayonetta 1 + 2 required a sizeable download to enjoy "half" of that package. The decision on this matters is game dependant, not company dependant.
Re: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Sixth DLC Fighter Is From ARMS
Definitely Min Min, either alone or with Ribbon Girl/Ninjara as alts. Spring Man is already in the game as Assist and Ribbon Girl Mii costume reduces her chances of being the main face of the Challenger. Twintelle is popular, but her design would make difficult to include the other Arms fighters as character skins. As for the other characters, none seems popular enough.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Delivers Its Verdict On Animal Crossing: New Horizons
@Heavyarms55
Everything could be or not be better than it is, there is never a "should be better".
But if you are insistent in looking for numbers, what is considered top of the line is common games is basically the combination of two elements: native resolution (720p for switch portable, 1080p for Switch docked/ps4/xbone and 4K for ps4pro/xbonex) and performance of 60 fps. But again, that would be an oversimplification of their job, there are many things that cannot be so easily quantified, like post effects, antialiasing, draw distance, loading times, input latency, texture and audio quality, and a very long etc. So no, there is no "gold standard" they seek, there will never be a "perfect" scenario...but many fantastic, incredible and great scenarios like the one in this video, games that do miracles with limited hardware, or fantastic showcases with the most advanced and recent hardware, or examples of incredible feats in the past with old hardware.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Delivers Its Verdict On Animal Crossing: New Horizons
@Heavyarms55
They analize, and show the ups and downs. There is no perfect for them and there shouldn't be. Better res produces worse performance, better performance produces worse resolution, improved AA creates less sharpness, improved sharpness means less AA and so and so.
Digital Foundry is not a resource to say "this graphics suck" or "this graphics are the best". It is a resource to analyze all the little details, all the compromises, all the exchanges, etc.
Here is the best example, ACNH looks fantastic, the game looks great, and they say so at every chance in the video. But
some people seem miffed because they are mentioning (as they should since it is what the do) that the framerate is 30.
Re: Talking Point: What Did You Pick Up On Black Friday And Cyber Monday?
Got a little impulsive, but I was glad to get a few discounts in the season:
-FE Three Houses.
-Ring Fit Adventure.
-A Hat in Time.
-Surge Wireless Controller.
-Hyper Light Drifter (eShop).
-Sonic Mania (eShop).
Re: Review: Asphalt 9: Legends - Likeable Burnout-Style Racing Action, If You Play The Right Way
Later than sooner, but I feel I finally reached the dreaded "paywall"...right now I cant really make more progress in the career mode without better cars, and said cars need a very high amount of blueprints that I can't get right now in a consistent basis and regular basis.
BUT, reaching that point I still got more than 30 hours of pure fun racing, with 30% of career progression, +15 cars, and I can still regularly play the offline challenge mode and the split screen multiplayer. A ton of fantastic value for the amount of money that I spend, which was nothing at all.
In short, a terrific racer that can easily sit on your Switch to play in single and multiplayer at any time for Free...given that you are ready to:
a) Never reach 100% completion.
b) Play online for many hours in order to get a sizeable and diverse roster of cars.
Re: No, Tomorrow's Smash Ultimate Terry Bogard Livestream Won't Reveal Any New Fighters
Even without new modes, I can only hope we get some nice nifty upgrades:
-My music: Being an to use your playlist in the game, any place you want. Being able to mix and match music (Mario songs in Yoshi's Island, more songs in boxing ring, etc).
-Tournaments: Being able to set "doubles" tournaments at the very least, with the obvious possibility of going all around with bigger team or handicap tournaments, being able to set specific stages and music for each bracket (regular stages for the first rounds, final destination in the final, etc).
-Squad strike: Play with more than two players simultaneously.
And more little details that could make for an ever better product like more VR stages and features (hey, I like it), being able to completely arrange your character selection screen, more features for the stage builder, etc.
45 minutes wouldn't be enough for Terry and all that.