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THQ Nordic must be the king of 7/10.

@Axecon It’s strange. I wasn’t excited about this until last week. Now looking at these ads, it looks like it should be awesome. Nintendo really screwed up the marketing for this.

@Lizuka I suggest you take it slow with Bayo. Maybe you don’t need the advice, but avoid falling into the trap of button mashing and check out some YouTube videos on how to get good. Platinum’s games have really great combat if you get good at it.

I haven't played Expedition yet, but watched it a bit on YouTube and think it looks great, but Bananza is by far the most novel of those that have been nominated this year. Unfortunately, The Game Awards prefers narrative-oriented games.

@IOI I wouldn’t say the director is great. He is competent, but a somewhat unfortunate choice for something like Zelda. It’ll likely end up feeling a bit generic like the Maze Runner films. Hope I am wrong though. But I would have preferred a director like Yu Irie. Probably cheaper too.

@JohnnyMind I think Snipperclips might have sold a million, but that was also pretty awesome. Should have released a sequel for Switch 2.

The North American one looks good but nothing special about it. The Japan one stands out more.

@AussieMcBucket Yeah. I think calling a port of a PS4 game a miracle port is a bit odd. I could understand using that term for a PS6 game. But Switch 2 is pretty close to the Series S so I think people just have low expectations due to the og Switchh.

@Samalik it does, though. Especially with text generation. For example, it has the potential to bring computer RPGs far closer to their tabletop cousins. Increasing the role playing far beyond what can currently be done.

@WheresWaveRace I am working on a machine learning/AI framework, and I find that it is really a mixed bag. It works great when your code is mostly boilerplate, but it really struggles if the software design is non-linear with anything more than low-complexity.

I think that is why it works well for machine learning research or data analysis. You can easily impelemnt the spec and the experiment because the design tends to be fairly linear, and that's not where you want to spend your time anyway.

Generative AI can be used to generate assets more cheaply to reduce staff and it can also be used to enhance gameplay. Like I honestly think the next gen should be the AI gen since graphic improvement returns are diminishing, but I wonder which route EA is going.

My favorite NES game was probably Baseball Stars. It was quite revolutionary for the time in terms of role-playing team management and player creation along with the actual game. I also quite. Base Wars was also really interesting mixing fighting games, mech games and baseball. I wish someone would do a more modern take of it that irons out the flaws.

Rest in peace. Too bad he wasn’t able to redeem himself after Devil’s Third.

@Lony85 Yeah. It was a solid game. I wish they would make a sequel for Captain Toad.

@BrazillianCara I think there’s still quite a bit , especially if you include Japan-only games. Like Ken Griffey, Uniracers, and more. Though I think Ken Griffey has no chance due to licensing issues

Oh no! 30fps! It’s the end of the world. I’m gonna pass like gas.

Reggie always came off as a bit fake to me. Reggie was also responsible for a lot of games not getting released in the US.

She seems a bit better from the way she sounds, though. I never really had much of an impression of Bowser.

I do wish they'd build up NST a bit more, though. They used to put out some good games but now only put out Mario vs Donkey Kong games.

I wish Furukawa’s term would end and they’d bring in an engineer, designer or artist to be President.

@RupeeClock So you mean a card that only serves for storage but is not used for playing the game and it requires installation? That would be an interesting option where they wouldn't have to worry about speed so should be much cheaper.

@jojobar Octopath Traveler 0 is an enhanced port of the mobile game so I think the assets are old.

I watched it. There is more new content than I was expecting. People will compare it to 3d All Stars, but that was just an emulated Wii game. This has had far more TLC put into it.

@Mz3player No. the Galaxy 5 years ago was just an emulated Wii version. This time it seemingly was built for the Switch. Maybe not a full remaster, but apparently a light remaster with some QoL improvements among other things. Not sure if it is worth 40 bucks, but it’s worth more than the 3D All Stars one.

It’s strange seeing so many assumptions based on this one trailer. People need to take a chill pill.

@Crockin There were quite a few more than 3 Switch 2 games announced. Which Direct did you watch?

@OldGamer999 They've released some kind of game for each 5 year anniversary since at least 2010. I think they'll do something again this year. I just hope it is a proper remake or remaster this year if it is not Mario Maker.

@Anachronism I imagine they must have some framework for how they work. Like the ideal way to run a software project is through giving engineers objectives and constraints not through assigning programmers user stories.

Also, efficiency and creativity don’t go work well together. Nintendo probably tolerates the inefficiencies because they lead to better outcomes.

My guess for Mario is Galaxy 2 HD. Though it’d be better if both Galaxy games were included.

@RainbowGazelle If you think most games are cynical, you need to grow more appreciation for game developers. I could argue that Silksong is cynical as well.

@Airsqueeble Yeah. Dread is different from the 3DS one. Typically a sequel should try to be a little different without being too different, implementing some new mechanic that shakes things up

I don’t know anything about Silksong though so can’t say if it’s more of the same

@MarioBrickLayer It’s a long shot but I would like Super Mario Allstars 2 with World, World 2, Land, Land 2 all remastered for the 40th

@CJD87 Other than consoles, the price of gaming hasn’t increased much over the past 30 years. If anything, it’s a lot cheaper nowadays with all the sales. It was about 50 dollars for a new NES game, which took a far less effort to make than big titles do today and often not if great quality.

@Arawn93 I think it was a good fit between the concept and director. The director hadn't made or written screenplays for any horror films before, but most of his works have been related to noticing things.

Saw the movie. It’s quite impressive how they turned this game, which doesn’t have much of a story into a really well-thought-out horror film.

@Zeebor15 That’s interesting. It’s not so much that I don’t trust Atari. It’s that I think a narrative heavy JRPG like Child of Light would not be a good fit for them.

@PeterTomlan86 Japan makes better movies than Hollywood so it does suck. Instead they’d prefer to get the Maze Runner director to direct Zelda. At least they should do collaborations.

Grow Home was pretty fun. I wish someone would acquire Child of Light. Though not Atari.

Hollow Knight is great in terms of art direction, but in terms of gameplay, there is much better in Metroidvania genre.

@MSaturn Not to mention, Team Cherry already has had a ton of organic advertising for Silksong, so I think they may not need to spend much on advertising.

@eldersnake Which other games have been rough? This is the only one I know about so far and it hasn't released yet. Donkey Kong may have had some framedrops, but it wasn't really "rough".

@rushiosan Because optimization in general is hard. You try to improve one thing, and it might cause something else to become worse for instance.

This is especially true if the core software design is not sufficiently modular. You'll have a hard time improving the performance/fidelity. I'm guessing FromSoftware's game engine has serious design flaws.

@Krull I found that weird as well, but they wouldn't make this a Black Friday game if they were sending it out to fail. Plus, I wasn't sure what to expect, but from what I've seen so far, it looks pretty awesome. Also, the next big first-party game is technically Pokemon, albeit cross-generational.

@carlos82 This seems closer to Road Rash than Mario Kart to me. It appears it has a much stronger emphasis on combat than Mario Kart

@Nintoz Yeah. I’m wondering that, too. Keep in mind though that MP4 is also a Switch 1 title and Pokemon is the only other big Switch 1 game coming.
My guess is MP4 and Hyrule Warriors come in October. If Super Mario Allstars 2 or 3D Allstars 2 comes, that’ll be in September.

@Coffee-Waffle The problem is that what you like is more niche and that strategy was bringing financial trouble to Capcom. I imagine Capcom wants to satisfy the hardcore fans as well and is trying to strike a balance.

But Capcom is far more successful now than it was before Resident Evil 2 Remake and World.

Capcom did a great job of rebuilding. I hope they are successful now at expanding the IPs they release.

I'm a bit surprised that Nintendo proper developed it. It lacks Nintendo charm and polish. Even compared to their budget titles before like Game Builder Garage or Star Fox Guard, this really just lacks something.

I'm guessing they originally planned more for this, but then just decided to package it up and release it as-is.

The highlight for me was Moji Yugi. A game that only uses kanji, hiragana and katakana for graphics.

Anyone studying Japanese might want to give it a try

The anniversary is for Super Mario.

So it will be a Super Mario game. The 25th had Galaxy and All Stars, 30th had Mario Maker. And 40th, 3d All Stars.

My money is on Mario Maker 3

@FX102A A big part of the problem is Nintendo. They likely don’t want to offer 32gb and 16gb game cards to save on cost.

It would be hard for Square to justify going the 64 gb route with a game like Octopath. For large games though, I can blame it more on the 3rd party publisher

I thought it was a good Direct. There were a lot of announcements. But based on the comments, it was not the Direct that people need right now.

But there will more than likely be another Direct in September, less than 2 months away.