@John_Enigma Most likely. There has been few and far in between examples of a Japanese company just buying an intended IP compared to absorbing/buying out smaller companies (I've never heard of Nintendo actually absorbing IP's from other companies, and they have a difficult time in maintaining them). You can hear mergers there but that's about it IIRC.
But until Konami's pachinko and slot machine business goes bust, it will most likely hold on to all its IP as well as Hudson Soft's which is sad because once the company stagnates into oblivion, most of the stuff that they have will only be left in the memories of fans and in history books unless they hand out licenses to other companies to make their games. If licensing isn't an issue, I could see other developers taking up the slack with a very minimal investment needed from Konami itself. Actually, I think they wouldn't have to spend a dime on their licensing, step back and let the others do the dirty work. Granted, profits would be smaller but hey, more money with less spending is always a good business decision.
@John_Enigma From what I recall, no. They don't usually buy IP from dying companies, they just straight up buy the company/development team instead. A good example of this is Monolith Soft and Nintendo's acquisition of them from Bandai Namco. That way, they can get the IP with a development team who knows their IP well enough and use them without having to redirect their own resources to the acquired IP's that they just bought.
@PlywoodStick Sadly, Cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the bile duct) has very poor prognosis even after surgery. There's only a 30% chance of a 5 year survival rate.
I can not even begin to think of what was going through Iwata's mind as his doctor has said to him how very little chance he has to live past 5 years even with Surgery.
Can anyone honestly tell me if they would do the same? To continue to work with what he loves despite the fact that something is slowly killing him? Imagine the pressure of what he had to endure against his investors fervently demanding shifts to the mobile platform even if he was against it, the outrage of fans and the cancer eating away at his life.
Death, may have been a sweet release to him, but I don't know. The man was probably the most optimistic of the lot, probably more so than gamers themselves these days. He was the complete anti-thesis of what gamers are. His legacy will live on, and the man's optimism will stick with me even past my time.
So you gamers better get your act together and hope for a better tomorrow.
@ultraraichu Histrionic and Borderline people and some depressive disorders. The comments are always a colorful place filled with the loudest of turds and some people trying to convince an idiot to turn right in absolute futility when he keeps turning left. Nobody in the internet who is insane enough is going to admit that he/she has a problem. The conversation will just devolve into a ****fest via Godwin's law while people throw labels like sexist, racist, nazi, etc.
AHAHAHA! Not going to America? Then not being handled by Nintendo? Hell, I know that I haven't been caring about rumors, but this is just hilarious how paranoid slack jawed idiots ate the rumors up like a fat kid to pizza.
@Kirk If you want Zelda to have voice acting, then I want that voice acting to be complete Hylian gibberish with translations on the bottom screen to act as text boxes. If I want to play a compelling, living, breathing environment that is, essentially a different world, I want it to be a complete immersion, go big or go home.
If we're just going to argue about this power BS, then I'm going to quit console gaming as a whole and go for PC. Console gamers need to understand this; that console gaming should not go for the easy PC malleable route, because if they did, the whole competition is going to be completely unsustainable with services like STEAM and GOG. The console market will die if they compete with the PC route because the PC route offers more than just a gaming experience as it has become a box of important utilities as well as a multimedia device. It is completely stupid to argue that power is a definitive thing for console gaming these days.
It is not and the only thing that awaits console gamers from here on is a desolate wasteland filled with old consoles and games that PC already has. Trying to keep up with PC's these days with consoles is utterly futile. If Nintendo is going to match their specs on PC, they might as well release games on the PC and regularly upgrade their machine with parts instead of a whole package and cannibalize themselves for it.
It's a conundrum, actually. Fans generally have 2 opinions on such things especially Nintendo.
On one hand, you have the fans clamoring for more remakes which is why Nintendo has been dubbed with derogatory remarks as the "rehash" empire. Remakes are low scale budget quick cash grabs in my opinion and let's just leave it at that.
On the other hand, you have fans calling for more new IP, even when Nintendo has been doing so for quite a while, the problem is when new IP are presented, people tend to ignore the new IP and just head straight to what is familiar. Splatoon got a good reception when it was presented, I just wished Eternal Darkness, Geist and Disaster: Day of Crisis received as much as well as they were interesting for their time.
And fans expect Nintendo to listen to them? Laughable.
@Ryno LOL if you mean by hoodwinking shenmue fans by having them fork out dosh for development even with the backing of Sony as "catering to the fans", then I sincerely wish you remove your nostalgia tinted glasses.
Honestly, I would expect Nintendo to fail at some point. There is only so much tactics that they could create in the situation they were in before it all goes to hell. And right now, it's just one of those failures.
Adulthood has made me realize how terribly childish it is to sperg on things that matter so little to me in the end and it won't make me happy just harping all about the horrible stuff that can happen with Nintendo with what I deal everyday in the hospital because that would utterly affect my work. People are understandably angry and that's fine, but this is just one of the failures that happen.
Remember folks, **** happens, it's part of life. Nintendo isn't going to be great most of the time and it's funny people try to both defend and bury them to the ground.
Hey what can you do? Keeping all those lingering emotions does nothing but make you more sour. What I propose is for people, in typical form, "to just let it go." and just let it take its natural course.
If things end up bad for Nintendo in the end, then like Reggie said, "not my problem".
I bet if freakin' EA would ask for a crowdfunding scheme for something like Command and Conquer, they would quickly demolish it as a money grubbing scheme. LOL
@Peach64 So, if I were to say that Metroid Prime 4 was going to be made by crowdfunding, published by Nintendo but not funded while you see Tanabe on the video saying, "If you don't fund this game with x amount, this game won't ever be made", you're still saying it's okay?
If you're a publisher, it's on or not at all. I know that people wanted Shenmue 3, but to be backed up by a big name publisher AND STILL ask for money? That's asking for exploitation of the worst kind just like how Nintendo does it with Amiibo.
@abe_hikura I know right? And Shenmue fans, tormented by the cliffhanger ending of the last game are salivating at the mouth while Sony laughs all the way to the bank.
And people go for this "muuuhhh PS4" bandwagon. How sorry am I to see people be conned to invest in something they will buy for another time because the publisher doesn't want to and still expect the money from the sales.
By assistance, only partial payment? Why not produce the whole damn thing? Why the whole kickstarter approach? This whole E3 has been nothing but a waste of time in my opinion. Sony needs to set its goals closer and have its killer titles on more promising dates (we don't want another last guardian scenario), Microsoft needs to look for better ventures and invest in more risky moves (make Rare do something) and Nintendo needs to come clean if it still wants to produce content with the Wii U or not.
If you think this E3 was a wonderful year, then you're piss out of luck. This year, I thought I would never hear this coming from a show floor meant for AAA development, "It's gamers who are funding game developers for a project that they will eventually buy because publishers don't want to."
Stop patronizing, people, and maybe one day these companies will get all of their collective **** together.
@WreckItRyan The blame lies solely on marketing. The reason why gaming is ultimately a male dominant hobby is because males during the 80's and 90's usually are the ones who are drawn to the hobby itself thus establishing the demographic. It's all about the numbers given to them to make it a lucrative investment. Blaming the white man for the inequality in this community is hogwash. If people want to attract more women, gear the marketing enough for them and the remarks of ill-gotten folk would fade into the background.
If women are objectified in the gaming community, then meek and kissless virgins of the community are labeled by the same people like @hYdeks to be anti-social when they are more likely having anxiety or avoidant personality disorders.
In any rate both sides of this debate are being irrational. The moment you give anyone labels is the moment you turned into something you hate.
@whodatninja I would argue that there are people who fall to the obvious bait of trolls just to incite a fire within a certain community due to my cynicism but that is neither here nor there. That is what trolls want, inciting controversy and Lilian has shown how to handle it with logic, finesse and arguments that will win anyone over. For that alone, she's a great person in my book.
Lilian is someone I can respect, she plays it cool and produces good counter points.
@SethNintendo Agreed. Interactive media is individually reliant not mass reliant like movies.
Video Games are meant to be played not watched. I don't watch Let's Play videos by this principle alone because not only does it spoil the game for anyone, it also dumbs down a demographic. It's nice to have user based content, but Let's Play are something I would ignore on my list to watch on YouTube or other streaming sites like Twitch. I watched an SC tournament and it bored me to death, the same goes for the MOBA tournaments like DOTA 2 and LOL and even fighting games like MvC3 etc.
But that's not a knock on e-sports players though as I just find watching someone play video games, even if something big like Starcraft II or something quick like DOTA 2 are difficult for me to pay attention to.
Being in an e-sports career is a tough call, although I can understand these people, they should have had backup plans in their lives to their career choices. Putting everything at stake with not fall back is absolutely an atrocious life choice and only filled with undeserved romanticism.
Going after what you love is good, but being smart about it is better.
>Implying that metroid was a system seller to begin with.
Hahahahahaha
No seriously, stop deluding yourself thinking that Metroid can move copies. The problem we have as to why Metroid never sells is because of people having no interest despite fans pushing for it to be made. Metroid Prime, the best of the series to date didn't even move units for the GameCube era, what makes you think it will move now?
Ah Pacquiao vs Mayweather... Never in the history of boxing has there ever been a more hyped up fight that could stand in the same league as The Thrilla' in Manila.
Why do they keep pushing Yuri and Flynn into this? It'd make more sense if it was Lloyd and Genis or Lloyd and Zelos. Heck, maybe Shing and Kohak are better choices but Yuri and Flynn? But eh, it has Dante and Vergil, DMC never made it to Nintendo consoles anyway (shrug)
I'm hoping Nintendo finally lets their franchises crossover to this. Would be glad to see Link and Zelda, Fox and Krystal/Falco, Samus and Captain Falcon, Ness and Lucas, Robin and Chrom heck Mario and Luigi interacting with X and the crew with dialogue for once.
I usually withhold my judgement on DLC depending on how much content a game can have. Everybody gets angry for inconsequential DLC yet when Valve does it on their games like TF2 and DOTA2 nobody complains and proceeds to meme the poop out of them most probably because of their community opening up shops and designing the same costumes to make a quick buck too but in the earlier days of "Heavy has a new hat meme" microtrans full retail purchase of games, everybody loses their shite over it.
So really, I don't understand why some are upset over it. People wanted Nintendo to get with the times and they did. They offered DLC because they're "modernizing" and that they're not "trendsetters" anymore.
Going to buy the pink one for my girlfriend and one for me and my desk. She loves Yoshi so much that I think she'd go bonkers when I get her one of these and one for me for my desk for when children visit my clinic. That little thing would probably distract a lot of kids.
@Moshugan It's the same as eating your greens. But cancers are very specific in terms of origin, cell type, invasive nature and metastatic potential. Hodgkin's Lymphoma is, according to the cases reported, infectious in origin (30% of Hodgkin's Lymphoma cases have history of Epstein-Barr Viral infections) but most of the time we're still baffled as to what the cause of the disease is but we do know it has a strong genetic predisposition.
The study that I've read on cherries are so far inconclusive but we can't exactly recommend it yet because there's no study developed on actual humans and as we only know, Anthocyanin is more or less a phytochemical with antioxidant properties. Emphasis on antioxidant properties because that is probably why it was researched in the first place and why people concluded it may have use against cancer by targeting oxygen free radicals that make cancer cells thrive.
@SupremeAllah Innoculating cancer with specific viruses is the new treatment researchers are currently looking into. If I'm not mistaken, this is currently in their human testing phase with volunteers. Unfortunately because it's in testing phase, we won't be seeing this form of treatment en masse for another half a decade at least. My hope is that it comes out sooner because this would be a big help for many of our patients who can't afford chemo.
@Dolphin64 What is the basis of your assertions? Has there been a study conducted on cancers concerning the effects of natural supplements to a cancer gene like CA125?
That is the kind of dangerous thinking that people like you do without reading the proper materials. If you're going to assert treatment options, become a doctor first. I'm speaking this as a doctor who does research on medicinal plants.
As someone who is about to go to General Practice and thinking of what kind of residency training I need to go to, I think I'll allow myself a little entertainment with this controller.
They don't want to take away games, huh? Not the moral police, right? She has merit in what she says, but she ought to commentate on her country's problem first before going after something so superfluous in the impact of culture. Sweden, fix your problems, please.
@Kirby_Fan_DL3 Direct sequels very rarely do happen in Nintendo. Zelda only has 2 from its main line. Mario has about the same amount of sequels in its main line. Then again, it doesn't exactly have a story to begin with.
It's the other franchises that do have the sequels like Starfox and Metroid.
Thomas Was Alone has the best writing. This one panders to something else but it is not something for me. Actually, I enjoyed "Papers, please" more than this one.
Eternal Darkness is the game I want. We already have so much Zelda remakes this gen, that we'll probably have franchise fatigue after the latest one gets released.
Eternal Darkness deserves another chance. Not only was the game relatively obscure, it came at a time when the GC was on its last legs. They need to port this. That or give it an fresh HD remake and slap it on the Wii U. The only problem is, are gamers willing to buy that game?
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Re: Nintendo Is Licensing Hudson Soft IP From Konami
@John_Enigma Most likely. There has been few and far in between examples of a Japanese company just buying an intended IP compared to absorbing/buying out smaller companies (I've never heard of Nintendo actually absorbing IP's from other companies, and they have a difficult time in maintaining them). You can hear mergers there but that's about it IIRC.
But until Konami's pachinko and slot machine business goes bust, it will most likely hold on to all its IP as well as Hudson Soft's which is sad because once the company stagnates into oblivion, most of the stuff that they have will only be left in the memories of fans and in history books unless they hand out licenses to other companies to make their games. If licensing isn't an issue, I could see other developers taking up the slack with a very minimal investment needed from Konami itself. Actually, I think they wouldn't have to spend a dime on their licensing, step back and let the others do the dirty work. Granted, profits would be smaller but hey, more money with less spending is always a good business decision.
Re: Nintendo Is Licensing Hudson Soft IP From Konami
@John_Enigma From what I recall, no. They don't usually buy IP from dying companies, they just straight up buy the company/development team instead. A good example of this is Monolith Soft and Nintendo's acquisition of them from Bandai Namco. That way, they can get the IP with a development team who knows their IP well enough and use them without having to redirect their own resources to the acquired IP's that they just bought.
Re: Nintendo Is Licensing Hudson Soft IP From Konami
Nintendo should get Suikoden, Silent Hill, Castlevania and Zone of the Enders! DO EEETTTT!
I don't want another Metal Gear Solid without Kojima and I doubt Konami would relinquish that lucrative title anytime soon.
Re: Video: New Japanese Splatoon Advert Teases New Weapons, Gear, Map & Rainmaker Mode
Inb4 The Heavy jokes.
Re: If Nintendo Did Decide To Make A Smartphone, We'd Want It To Look Like This
I'd buy it if it's made of the same material as the DS and Gamecube: Nintendium
Re: Obituary: Satoru Iwata
@PlywoodStick Sadly, Cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the bile duct) has very poor prognosis even after surgery. There's only a 30% chance of a 5 year survival rate.
I can not even begin to think of what was going through Iwata's mind as his doctor has said to him how very little chance he has to live past 5 years even with Surgery.
Can anyone honestly tell me if they would do the same? To continue to work with what he loves despite the fact that something is slowly killing him? Imagine the pressure of what he had to endure against his investors fervently demanding shifts to the mobile platform even if he was against it, the outrage of fans and the cancer eating away at his life.
Death, may have been a sweet release to him, but I don't know. The man was probably the most optimistic of the lot, probably more so than gamers themselves these days. He was the complete anti-thesis of what gamers are. His legacy will live on, and the man's optimism will stick with me even past my time.
So you gamers better get your act together and hope for a better tomorrow.
Re: Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Passes Away Aged 55
Thank you, Iwata-san, for sailing Nintendo through rough waters.
Here's my sendoff to you, sir.
salute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBrwceBdDQQ
Re: Nintendo of America Confirms Plans to Bring Devil's Third to Region
@ultraraichu Histrionic and Borderline people and some depressive disorders. The comments are always a colorful place filled with the loudest of turds and some people trying to convince an idiot to turn right in absolute futility when he keeps turning left. Nobody in the internet who is insane enough is going to admit that he/she has a problem. The conversation will just devolve into a ****fest via Godwin's law while people throw labels like sexist, racist, nazi, etc.
Re: Nintendo of America Confirms Plans to Bring Devil's Third to Region
AHAHAHA! Not going to America? Then not being handled by Nintendo? Hell, I know that I haven't been caring about rumors, but this is just hilarious how paranoid slack jawed idiots ate the rumors up like a fat kid to pizza.
Hahahaha!
Re: Rumour: Nintendo Isn't Bringing Devil's Third To North America
Better confirm this first in NOA before spreading rumors. At this point, I won't even pass the salt for this one.
Re: Talking Point: Raw Power Isn't Vital to Nintendo's NX, But It Does Matter
@NTELLIGENTMAN PS2 was the weakest of the consoles on its time, the GC was stronger, it wasn't power that mattered but the hardware, derp.
Re: Talking Point: Raw Power Isn't Vital to Nintendo's NX, But It Does Matter
@Kirk If you want Zelda to have voice acting, then I want that voice acting to be complete Hylian gibberish with translations on the bottom screen to act as text boxes. If I want to play a compelling, living, breathing environment that is, essentially a different world, I want it to be a complete immersion, go big or go home.
Re: Talking Point: Raw Power Isn't Vital to Nintendo's NX, But It Does Matter
If we're just going to argue about this power BS, then I'm going to quit console gaming as a whole and go for PC. Console gamers need to understand this; that console gaming should not go for the easy PC malleable route, because if they did, the whole competition is going to be completely unsustainable with services like STEAM and GOG. The console market will die if they compete with the PC route because the PC route offers more than just a gaming experience as it has become a box of important utilities as well as a multimedia device. It is completely stupid to argue that power is a definitive thing for console gaming these days.
It is not and the only thing that awaits console gamers from here on is a desolate wasteland filled with old consoles and games that PC already has. Trying to keep up with PC's these days with consoles is utterly futile. If Nintendo is going to match their specs on PC, they might as well release games on the PC and regularly upgrade their machine with parts instead of a whole package and cannibalize themselves for it.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Approach to Transforming Franchises Clashes With Fan Expectations
It's a conundrum, actually. Fans generally have 2 opinions on such things especially Nintendo.
On one hand, you have the fans clamoring for more remakes which is why Nintendo has been dubbed with derogatory remarks as the "rehash" empire. Remakes are low scale budget quick cash grabs in my opinion and let's just leave it at that.
On the other hand, you have fans calling for more new IP, even when Nintendo has been doing so for quite a while, the problem is when new IP are presented, people tend to ignore the new IP and just head straight to what is familiar. Splatoon got a good reception when it was presented, I just wished Eternal Darkness, Geist and Disaster: Day of Crisis received as much as well as they were interesting for their time.
And fans expect Nintendo to listen to them? Laughable.
Re: Nintendo Is A Slave To Its Past Success, Says Gearbox President Randy Pitchford
@BlueNitrous Disaster: Day of Crisis, Geist, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, The Last Story, Pandora's Tower...
All of these games were published by Nintendo during the GC-Wii era.
Re: Editorial: Cheer Up, There Are Some Exciting Games on the Way
@Ryno LOL if you mean by hoodwinking shenmue fans by having them fork out dosh for development even with the backing of Sony as "catering to the fans", then I sincerely wish you remove your nostalgia tinted glasses.
Re: Editorial: Cheer Up, There Are Some Exciting Games on the Way
Honestly, I would expect Nintendo to fail at some point. There is only so much tactics that they could create in the situation they were in before it all goes to hell. And right now, it's just one of those failures.
Adulthood has made me realize how terribly childish it is to sperg on things that matter so little to me in the end and it won't make me happy just harping all about the horrible stuff that can happen with Nintendo with what I deal everyday in the hospital because that would utterly affect my work. People are understandably angry and that's fine, but this is just one of the failures that happen.
Remember folks, **** happens, it's part of life. Nintendo isn't going to be great most of the time and it's funny people try to both defend and bury them to the ground.
Hey what can you do? Keeping all those lingering emotions does nothing but make you more sour. What I propose is for people, in typical form, "to just let it go." and just let it take its natural course.
If things end up bad for Nintendo in the end, then like Reggie said, "not my problem".
But if it's good then good.
Re: Sony Is Assisting With The Creation Of Shenmue 3, Chances Of A Nintendo Release Significantly Lowered
@OMC79 Right, wrong example my bad.
I bet if freakin' EA would ask for a crowdfunding scheme for something like Command and Conquer, they would quickly demolish it as a money grubbing scheme. LOL
Re: Sony Is Assisting With The Creation Of Shenmue 3, Chances Of A Nintendo Release Significantly Lowered
@Peach64 So, if I were to say that Metroid Prime 4 was going to be made by crowdfunding, published by Nintendo but not funded while you see Tanabe on the video saying, "If you don't fund this game with x amount, this game won't ever be made", you're still saying it's okay?
If you're a publisher, it's on or not at all. I know that people wanted Shenmue 3, but to be backed up by a big name publisher AND STILL ask for money? That's asking for exploitation of the worst kind just like how Nintendo does it with Amiibo.
Re: Sony Is Assisting With The Creation Of Shenmue 3, Chances Of A Nintendo Release Significantly Lowered
@abe_hikura I know right? And Shenmue fans, tormented by the cliffhanger ending of the last game are salivating at the mouth while Sony laughs all the way to the bank.
And people go for this "muuuhhh PS4" bandwagon. How sorry am I to see people be conned to invest in something they will buy for another time because the publisher doesn't want to and still expect the money from the sales.
Re: Sony Is Assisting With The Creation Of Shenmue 3, Chances Of A Nintendo Release Significantly Lowered
By assistance, only partial payment? Why not produce the whole damn thing? Why the whole kickstarter approach? This whole E3 has been nothing but a waste of time in my opinion. Sony needs to set its goals closer and have its killer titles on more promising dates (we don't want another last guardian scenario), Microsoft needs to look for better ventures and invest in more risky moves (make Rare do something) and Nintendo needs to come clean if it still wants to produce content with the Wii U or not.
If you think this E3 was a wonderful year, then you're piss out of luck. This year, I thought I would never hear this coming from a show floor meant for AAA development, "It's gamers who are funding game developers for a project that they will eventually buy because publishers don't want to."
Stop patronizing, people, and maybe one day these companies will get all of their collective **** together.
Re: Interview: Lilian "Milktea" Chen Talks Smash Bros., Sexism and a Brighter Future
@WreckItRyan The blame lies solely on marketing. The reason why gaming is ultimately a male dominant hobby is because males during the 80's and 90's usually are the ones who are drawn to the hobby itself thus establishing the demographic. It's all about the numbers given to them to make it a lucrative investment. Blaming the white man for the inequality in this community is hogwash. If people want to attract more women, gear the marketing enough for them and the remarks of ill-gotten folk would fade into the background.
If women are objectified in the gaming community, then meek and kissless virgins of the community are labeled by the same people like @hYdeks to be anti-social when they are more likely having anxiety or avoidant personality disorders.
In any rate both sides of this debate are being irrational. The moment you give anyone labels is the moment you turned into something you hate.
Re: Interview: Lilian "Milktea" Chen Talks Smash Bros., Sexism and a Brighter Future
@whodatninja I would argue that there are people who fall to the obvious bait of trolls just to incite a fire within a certain community due to my cynicism but that is neither here nor there. That is what trolls want, inciting controversy and Lilian has shown how to handle it with logic, finesse and arguments that will win anyone over. For that alone, she's a great person in my book.
Lilian is someone I can respect, she plays it cool and produces good counter points.
Re: Here's A More Detailed Look At Nintendo's E3 2015 Schedule
@she_gamer All of my jealousy...
And here I am stuck in ward work for about 12 hours on that day. I would miss the live event on Tuesday.
Re: Video: The World is a Better Place Thanks to These Rhythm Tengoku: The Best Plus Commercials
No wonder the lady in the third commercial looked familiar, it's Fumika Shimizu.
Man seeing her made me remind of her adorkable acting in Kamen Rider Fourze.
Re: Japan Is Suiting Up For Another Super Robot Wars Title On 3DS
@CanisWolfred W was a fine series though. That thing was all sorts of awesome and it used 2D sprite animations that was really good for the DS.
Re: Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Is Skipping E3 Again This Year
@Gerbwmu We can never be overly cautious. Only not cautious enough.
Re: Video: The Game Theorists Tackle That Vital Star Fox Question - What's With the Metal Legs?
I feel like I'm back in my physiology classes.
Re: Video: The Game Theorists Tackle That Vital Star Fox Question - What's With the Metal Legs?
I feel like I'm back in my physiology classes.
Re: Feature: The Poor Career Choice of Super Smash Bros. Professionals
@SethNintendo Agreed. Interactive media is individually reliant not mass reliant like movies.
Video Games are meant to be played not watched. I don't watch Let's Play videos by this principle alone because not only does it spoil the game for anyone, it also dumbs down a demographic. It's nice to have user based content, but Let's Play are something I would ignore on my list to watch on YouTube or other streaming sites like Twitch. I watched an SC tournament and it bored me to death, the same goes for the MOBA tournaments like DOTA 2 and LOL and even fighting games like MvC3 etc.
But that's not a knock on e-sports players though as I just find watching someone play video games, even if something big like Starcraft II or something quick like DOTA 2 are difficult for me to pay attention to.
Re: Feature: The Poor Career Choice of Super Smash Bros. Professionals
Being in an e-sports career is a tough call, although I can understand these people, they should have had backup plans in their lives to their career choices. Putting everything at stake with not fall back is absolutely an atrocious life choice and only filled with undeserved romanticism.
Going after what you love is good, but being smart about it is better.
Re: Video: Catch Up With the Splatoon Direct Broadcasts
Oh God the puns in the UK direct.
Re: Nintendo and Universal Studios Announce Theme Park Partnership
Either an Anchor's Away style Zelda ride or a "dragon boat" ride using the king of red lions.
Log Jam ride for DK attraction
F-Zero coaster with the cart shaped like the Blue Falcon
Star Fox and Metroid could be a VR type of ride like back to the future. Or laser tag.
Mario Kart derby
Pokemon Snap like ride
Kid Icarus can be the same like Pokemon snap but an on rails VR feature, kids will go ballistic with it.
Heck they can just make it like Nintendo Land and every kid and adults alike would go nuts.
Re: Talking Point: Is Konami About To Exit The Console Game Business?
If you want to voice your opinion do such without vulgar language.
-Amiibo
Re: Video: Did You Know Gaming? Tackles Metroid Prime, Dread and a Cancelled 3DS Entry
@Zach777
>Implying that metroid was a system seller to begin with.
Hahahahahaha
No seriously, stop deluding yourself thinking that Metroid can move copies. The problem we have as to why Metroid never sells is because of people having no interest despite fans pushing for it to be made. Metroid Prime, the best of the series to date didn't even move units for the GameCube era, what makes you think it will move now?
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X Skell Models on the Way in Japan
Oh God this is sweet! I need this model! As a mecha and gear head I love this!
Re: Weirdness: ESPN's Michelle Beadle Gets Punch-Out!! Training
Ah Pacquiao vs Mayweather... Never in the history of boxing has there ever been a more hyped up fight that could stand in the same league as The Thrilla' in Manila.
Re: Gallery: These Project X Zone 2 Screens Give a Nice Sample of the Madness Coming in Monolith Soft's RPG
Why do they keep pushing Yuri and Flynn into this? It'd make more sense if it was Lloyd and Genis or Lloyd and Zelos. Heck, maybe Shing and Kohak are better choices but Yuri and Flynn? But eh, it has Dante and Vergil, DMC never made it to Nintendo consoles anyway (shrug)
I'm hoping Nintendo finally lets their franchises crossover to this. Would be glad to see Link and Zelda, Fox and Krystal/Falco, Samus and Captain Falcon, Ness and Lucas, Robin and Chrom heck Mario and Luigi interacting with X and the crew with dialogue for once.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Plans for DLC and Microtransactions Point to Changed Priorities
I usually withhold my judgement on DLC depending on how much content a game can have. Everybody gets angry for inconsequential DLC yet when Valve does it on their games like TF2 and DOTA2 nobody complains and proceeds to meme the poop out of them most probably because of their community opening up shops and designing the same costumes to make a quick buck too but in the earlier days of "Heavy has a new hat meme" microtrans full retail purchase of games, everybody loses their shite over it.
So really, I don't understand why some are upset over it. People wanted Nintendo to get with the times and they did. They offered DLC because they're "modernizing" and that they're not "trendsetters" anymore.
It's the future you chose.
Re: Yoshi's Woolly World Knits Up Some Release Details And An Adorable Range Of amiibo
Going to buy the pink one for my girlfriend and one for me and my desk. She loves Yoshi so much that I think she'd go bonkers when I get her one of these and one for me for my desk for when children visit my clinic. That little thing would probably distract a lot of kids.
Re: Animal Crossing Helped This Artist Get Through Her Chemotherapy Treatment
@Moshugan It's the same as eating your greens. But cancers are very specific in terms of origin, cell type, invasive nature and metastatic potential. Hodgkin's Lymphoma is, according to the cases reported, infectious in origin (30% of Hodgkin's Lymphoma cases have history of Epstein-Barr Viral infections) but most of the time we're still baffled as to what the cause of the disease is but we do know it has a strong genetic predisposition.
The study that I've read on cherries are so far inconclusive but we can't exactly recommend it yet because there's no study developed on actual humans and as we only know, Anthocyanin is more or less a phytochemical with antioxidant properties. Emphasis on antioxidant properties because that is probably why it was researched in the first place and why people concluded it may have use against cancer by targeting oxygen free radicals that make cancer cells thrive.
Re: Animal Crossing Helped This Artist Get Through Her Chemotherapy Treatment
@SupremeAllah Innoculating cancer with specific viruses is the new treatment researchers are currently looking into. If I'm not mistaken, this is currently in their human testing phase with volunteers. Unfortunately because it's in testing phase, we won't be seeing this form of treatment en masse for another half a decade at least. My hope is that it comes out sooner because this would be a big help for many of our patients who can't afford chemo.
Re: Animal Crossing Helped This Artist Get Through Her Chemotherapy Treatment
@Dolphin64 What is the basis of your assertions? Has there been a study conducted on cancers concerning the effects of natural supplements to a cancer gene like CA125?
That is the kind of dangerous thinking that people like you do without reading the proper materials. If you're going to assert treatment options, become a doctor first. I'm speaking this as a doctor who does research on medicinal plants.
Re: Underground Is Coming Stateside Next Week, And Even Has Its Own Exclusive Laparoscopic Controller
As someone who is about to go to General Practice and thinking of what kind of residency training I need to go to, I think I'll allow myself a little entertainment with this controller.
Re: Game Jam Tasks Developers With Creating A Zelda Title Starring A Female Link
Make it like pokemon then and have this "Are you a boy or a girl?" question at the beginning and have avatars for them ready it's as easy as that.
Or, since the game is all about, you know, ZELDA, why not make HER playable?
Re: Swedish Newspaper Questions The European Release Of Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson
They don't want to take away games, huh? Not the moral police, right? She has merit in what she says, but she ought to commentate on her country's problem first before going after something so superfluous in the impact of culture. Sweden, fix your problems, please.
Re: Final Fantasy Creator Hironobu Sakaguchi Really Doesn't Like Direct Sequels
@Kirby_Fan_DL3 Direct sequels very rarely do happen in Nintendo. Zelda only has 2 from its main line. Mario has about the same amount of sequels in its main line. Then again, it doesn't exactly have a story to begin with.
It's the other franchises that do have the sequels like Starfox and Metroid.
Re: Gone Home Console Versions Are "Not Actively in Development Any Longer"
Thomas Was Alone has the best writing. This one panders to something else but it is not something for me. Actually, I enjoyed "Papers, please" more than this one.
Re: Feature: Five Remastered Games We'd Love to Play on the New Nintendo 3DS and XL
Eternal Darkness is the game I want. We already have so much Zelda remakes this gen, that we'll probably have franchise fatigue after the latest one gets released.
Eternal Darkness deserves another chance. Not only was the game relatively obscure, it came at a time when the GC was on its last legs. They need to port this. That or give it an fresh HD remake and slap it on the Wii U. The only problem is, are gamers willing to buy that game?
Re: Iwata Remains Positive on the Future of the Wii U and 3DS Systems
@JakeOfAllTrades It's probably not a good idea to compare Nintendo games to the very maligned The Order: 1886.