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@techdude You mean remake Castlevania to be self-serious, have a lot of handholding and bad dialog?

Seems Koei Tecmo dropped the ball by not putting Nioh 3 on the Switch 2 also.

@NolandC It has a 77 on Metacritic. That means an 8 is completely in line with that. But you have a bias. You are judging it despite not having played it.

@calbeau Currently, AI is not very creative. In order to do creative things with AI, the person steering it has to be creative or just be really lucky. AI is trained to just produce average results. That's why its writing is average. But for a lot of fields, average yet competent is preferable.

@nessisonett The obvious reason is so everyone can have a chance to experience the Virtual Boy the way it was meant to be experienced.

Takt of Magic would be another interesting one to remaster as it’s a hidden gem with a bit wonky controls.

@EarthboundBenjy I think if Nintendo were to give them the funds to remake it, they probably would. A remake doesn’t seem likely, though.
And for just an HD remaster with some slight QoL improvements, Nintendo could have another developer handle remastering. They often do.

@TripleJump I was the opposite. I couldn’t wait to get out of Midgar and loved it when I did. That’s now been decades ago, though. Don’t know how I’d feel now.

I wish they got an auteur director for this. Wes Ball isn’t that great. Kind if a disservice to Zelda.
Also, the age of streaming sucks with its exclusives.

> None of the people complaining about the dialogue better be Xenoblade fans, though

I'd say God of War fans is even better. The recent games have terrible dialog and are even more disruptive

@IceClimbers This is Camelot's first game in 5 years and it looks like it was worth the wait. Aces was a step in the right direction, but rushed.

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT Well. They’ll probably decide to spawn the DLC off into a sequel just like they did with Silksong

@HugoGED I imagine he makes a ton of money on Smash, though. He's not an employee of Nintendo. Nintendo just contracts him, so if he wanted, he could work on anything. Nintendo also just paid him to work on Air Riders.

@Zeebor15 Apparently, it was created by ex-Ubisofters. Their games look to be pretty well-rated overall, usually around 80 or so on Metacritic.

@Arawn93 Didn’t Persona 5 already tell the industry turn-based wasn’t dead? Baldurs Gate 3 is also turn-based, though not in the JRPG style.

Wow. I was thinking this wouldn’t be the year for Nintendo to win a game of the year award.

Awesome. Looking forward to giving Wario World a spin.

For anyone that likes film, Netflix buying them is terrible. Netflix has deprioritized film in favor of soap operas and their business model is largely anti-cinema. We'll end up with a bunch of Harry Potter and DC soap operas if Netflix's purchase goes through. Plus, there already has been a consolidation of film studios over the past 20 years.

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.