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@Ashina SOTN is not a DS game .-.

@Yosher Nowadays it's more tied to Xbox, they have had the marketing rights for the most recent games.

I have low expectations, so here is my predictions:

Indie Showcase:
Silkong
Hades 2
Lethal Company
Baldur's gate 3
Fear and Hunger 1 & 2

Partner direct:
Call of Duty(the old ones)
Rare Replay
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Helldriver 2
Concord
Sonic Frontiers 2
Cyberpunk 2077
Persona 6
GTA 6

I just don't like the redesigns, the original ones looked spookier.

It also got PEGI 18, so that M rating seem to be the real deal and not just an american exaggeration.

@Darthmoogle This is not a remake, the production was downgraded to remaster a while ago.

@Lightsiyd I mean, you don't really need to grind for those things to beat the bosses. I did grind them in my playthrough and ended up being overleveled in the hard difficulty.

"In any case, bosses and even mini-bosses are interspersed between lengthy areas of exploration, which is most definitely not my cup of tea."

I don't thing you will like any of the party members era ys games(Ys seven, Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, Ys IX: Monstrum Nox), these games are way more lengthy and they introduced materials.Ys Monstrum Nox is basically Lacrimosa of Dana 2: Electric Boogaloo.

You should try the Napishtim engine era games instead, they have a more frantic pacing and you only play as the MC. From that era, Ys Origin is currently available on Switch and Ys The Oath in Felghana is getting a switch port early next year.

@Lightsiyd Didn't they suck at that?

@Lightsiyd Regular encounters are always like that in Ys games, bosses and exploration are usually the focus of those games.

Anyways, you don't need to grind in Ys games, so you don't need to kill every one of them.

@silver-crescent Fall guys being surpassed by Stumble guys isn't really that unfair. I think the ip was missmanaged, they never ported the game to mobiles and they didn't add local multiplayer. Plus, Epic games also laid off a big chunk of the studio.

Honestly, I think the indie gaming landscape has just changed. People is no longer that interested in early indie games, the indie platformers market is oversaturated and the competition is really tough.

I think games such as Limbo and Cave Story would never perform as well as they did if they were released this year. And most of the early indie studios weren't able to reach mainstream success in the current market.

Those games definitely overstayed their welcome, so it's cool that they are letting the franchise rest instead of releasing another crash game. Thou who knows, maybe the license was just too expensive.

It's just an OK game anyways.

@Lady_rosalina "1: The innicial controversy with Bayonetta 3's og voice actor...."
How is that an issue with the game? .-.

Nah, I don't have tiktok-gen attention span. I like slow starts, they make more exciting the parts where everything goes wrong. It's the classic "the calm before the storm"

I hope the story isn't mediocre, the original generation was pretty uninteresting.

WTF!? This game is getting more post-release support than Mario party titles!?

Well, it looks like it was actually an in-character announcement from Nintendo.

@Serpenterror Nah, it's just Sega mismanaging their IP, Nintendo is also a AAA company and they are able to release high quality titles of their most iconic ips.

Being able to gift games would be cool

@jowy_sw As far as I know, Sweet Baby Inc isn't a charity, so of course they are charging money, and considering they have big companies such as Ubisoft and EA as clients, I doubt they are cheap.

The money that they used to pay Sweet Baby Inc for pointless consultation should have go to the real development of the game instead -_-

Honestly, I don't get the point of including Alan Wake 2 and Baldur's gate 3, games that obviously can't run on the switch shouldn't make the cut.

@PtM Leaks doesn't necessarily comes from the development studio, especially the ones that doesn't leak material, so it's hard for companies to even know where to take any sort of action. I think those are just the most extreme scenarios.(Also, I don't think Leakers have all the blame for Nintendo cancelling those projects, it was just Nintendo way of doing things)

I don't get why people is so overdramatic when it comes to leakers that only leaks the existence of something. I don't think that really hurt the multimillion dollar company, it even makes more exciting the announcements. I think being mad at that is just silly.

That aside, I also don't get why these leakers are turning themselves into some sort of internet celebrities with dramas and that kind of stuff. This is the second drama related to a leaker in this month, this is getting silly.

@Bobb I think it was later revealed that there was no real development progress on Bayonetta 3 when it was announced, aside from the logo. XD

It may be a side-game, but it kinda interesting to see this take on a game where Zelda is the main character. It seem more puzzle-centered, but with BOTW approach to them.

Damn, I hope DQ 1 and 2 have major changes, otherwise I'm most likely skipping them.

DK and Diddy kong models definitely looks different, but I don't, everything else looks a little too wii-like.

@Kienda I think most gamers being male is pretty basic knowledge .-. Higher percentages of female gamers in some studios is mostly due to including the mobile market.

I want to scream WOKE!

But I'm actually asleep at this one.

It's nice to see sites providing the announcements of these smaller showcases, it was annoying when no one covered the guerrilla collective showcase.

3D or non-pixel art 2D, HD-2D games looks pretty samey.

For anyone still interested, Kotaku confirmed indie games actually don't have to pay for the slot.

"After the publication of this story a handful of indie publishers and developers contacted Kotaku and explained that some “free slots” are provided to smaller, non-AAA games and studios. It appears that Keighley is sometimes pitched games to include and he provides some free airtime for these projects as part of the “earned editorial placements” previously mentioned."

@larryisaman @larryisaman It's a fair comparison when you consider Yooka Laylee had 60 times the budget of Hollow Knight.

Damn, I didn't know the studios that made Lies of P, Party Animals and Palworld had that much money, those games had a 1-minute-long trailer in last year Summer Game Fest.

But I'm way more suprised at lesser-known tittles such Lysfanga The Time Shift Warrior, Fae Farm World and Yes, Your Grace, that price doesn't sound that unattainable when you see smaller studios like those getting a spot.(Thou considering I had never heard of them until looking for titles featured in last year showcase, maybe those weren't good investments)

@larryisaman It's hard not to think there was a serious mismanagement when Team Cherry made Hollow Knight with only a 2% of the budget of Yooka Layle.

I've always seen The Impossible Lair more as the studio finally being able to adjust the scope of their project to something more appropiate for an indie game. The Impossible Lair was a smaller yet very polished title.

@larryisaman "it was obvious that they just didn’t have the time or budget to really do it justice"

More like just they were just rusty and didn't have experience making indie games, because no way one of the most funded kickstarter projects didn't have enough budget.

Does this game really needed a remaster? .-. All the new features sounds like things that could have been easily added to the original one. It doesn't even looks that much better, it looks a little too UnrealEngine-like to my taste.

@Tupin " I only ask you to look at the YouTube comments, the steam forums, some of my QTs and even in the comments of the video itself. This, paired with the emails, messages and beyond make this assertion that harassment isn’t happening, or the requirement that we need to prove it, extremely hard to take on board."
He's actually also counting the hate toward the game itself as harassment, and didn't really mentioned harassment toward the other staff members. He's more talking about people saying "No harassment at all" while my comment is about 'how big these harassment campaigns actually are.

You can call it "being too cynical", but if someone with opposite beliefs said something similar without offering proof, one wouldn't have the same supportive reaction.

Reading the article and the comments, it's wild how many people are omitting the fact that most of the controversy came from the game being associated to Sweet Baby Inc.

Honestly it has always been kinda hard to tell how big are these "harassment campaigns", maybe they are just being blew out of proportion to boost their image and promote their game. Like, I get it, at least a couple of people most likely went to send him private messages, but did a considerable amount of people do it? Or is he also counting internet conversations mocking him as harassment? He also Included the studio workers, I don't think there was that many people wanted to harass them considering the creator was the one that was on the center of every headline, but who knows.

I'm just saying, people in internet is quick to accept anything as a fact to validate their beliefs.

@CutchuSlow The same case applies to Retro Studio and I don't see anyone complaining.

If even Satan himself(Activision) sold the Crash N same trilogy for 40 bucks, then there is no way a Nintendo re-release is worth 60 bucks

@philwhite Yeah, but rushing through a game doesn't sound fun.

@Banjo- You know, the third game is a actually a prequel to DQ 1 and 2. So "The legacy begins" could just refers to Dragon quest 3 being the first game in the timeline.

It's cool that you finally get metroidvania games, lol.

@Toastmaster I think most of emulators have patreon, Nintendo was only able to sue Yuzu because the devs were using leaked games to improve the emulator(Citra was just caught in the crossfire)

@locky-mavo I think this is like the third/fourth pc port of nintendo 64 games. Mario 64 and Zelda Ocarina of time were ported years ago and the devs seem to be doing fine.

It'd be cool to see a Fire emblem game with real-time combat despite of it probably requiring more skills, there is barely any modern real-time tactical jrpg out there.