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@Whitestrider Yeah, and If it’s bad for developers, that will affect gamers. The quality of music has declined tremendously since YouTube and Itunes came about... Games take much more work to develop so I can’t imagine how much it will affect gaming.

@anoyonmus What kind of restrictions would there be on an American company buying a Japanese one? Like Sharp was bought by a Taiwanese company and Toshiba was recently in talks of being bought out by an English company.

@westman98 1-2 Switch just used the joycons and there is a lot more that can be done with joycons that hasn’t been done. Nintendo may not have the personnel to really make use of them though

They’d have to evolve upon the Sports franchise though or it may go the way of brain training like you say. The difference is mobile is awash with brain training apps. Games like Wii Sports are not easy to recreate on mobile.

@Caryslan Microsoft seems more likely to me. If they bought Square Enix they would vastly improve their market share. Right now, people who buy Square Enix titles are much more likely to own a Sony system. Also Microsoft has been making huge purchases of late

Though Tencent is a possibility too.

Nintendo seems least likely to me.

@Kanbolara The dev stumbled on a hit with Ring Fit, though. Labo was an interesting experiment that looks like something that was released too soon after R&D was finished. I don’t understand why they don’t create a Switch Sports, though

@johnvboy It is incredibly hard to get a PS5 in Japan still. You have to do either a lottery or You’ll pay about $1000

It sounds like a lot but then you find out their stake is only 1.4%. That's much smaller than what Nintendo owns of Cygames yet you don't see Cygames discussed on this website.

@tourjeff Yeah.. ND Cube worked on Clubhouse games after finishing Mario Party rather than working on DLC.. But Clubhouse was probably their best game so far. Hopefully the next Mario Party will offer more in terms of content

@Wavey84 A new Kid Icarus that develops on what Uprising started would be exciting, but I think Pikmin 4 would also be exciting.

Pikmin is a much more solid franchise. The first two Kid Icarus games were somewhat mediocre at the time, which is probably why Nintendo abandoned the series.

@Wavey84 Pikmin 3 DX has sold much better than Kid Icarus Uprising, though.. And Pikmin is a more interesting series.

@cdmac I think my major qualm with C# is that it kind of forces you into object oriented programming but I don't really like the idea of programming paradigms in software engineering and think they have held the field back greatly.

But I think the concepts introduced in OOP can be quite nice when applied well. The problem is for some reason too many programmers just don't do OOP well. Abusing inheritance or not making proper use of aggregations. Now you see people migrating away from object oriented programming and going to more a functional/relational style, especially in JavaScript. But from my perspective it has made code even harder to read because so many people lack good fundamentals, just hack together code and are too reliant on frameworks.

My specialty is in machine learning so for me memory and compute is a huge issue so I use C++ primarily for performance optimization of matrix operations. Though performance optimization is by no means my area of expertise.

@Lord demo feedback probably isn’t going to make a really bad game good.. especially with just one round of feedback that is late in the development cycle.

@cdmac Yeah, I agree. it’s an opinion. that’s why I said “i think”. I use both C++ and C# and don’t have a really strong preference. But C# came after C++ and Java so it was able to build on those languages with a better design and has less historical baggage. If a game like this doesn’t perform well, it’s cause of the programmer, not because of C#.

@cdmac C# is a really nice language, though... Better than C++. But not nearly as good for performance optimization, which means it’s fine for indie titles.

Doesn’t sound like he really wants it to be his last. I hope Nintendo gives him one more chance at greatness with another project.

Not familiar with that title, but I hope they make a Simpsons Arcade spiritual successor

I don’t think any of the titles in the list fit AR well.

I think Mario Golf or Nintendogs would be more interesting.

@everynowandben I named several and listed several other mechanisms for character growth, but you have already made up your mind and keep bringing up experience points.

1) RPGs are defined by advancing your character(s).
2) So-called experience points are not necessary for doing that, since I named several other mechanisms for advancing your character that can be used which contradicts your point that experience points are required for character growth.

Honestly, I would probably go further and say you don't really have a character unless your choices for how you build the character affect the game narrative in some way, but I won't do that here.

I figure you won't change your mind but I don't really understand why you'd want such a narrow view of what an RPG is anyhow (i.e. that it needs experience points) as that limits what developers can do in the genre.

@everynowandben

I can understand why people get confused about this since the majority of RPGs use experience points. But RPGs are not defined by them as experience points is only one way that you can advance a character.

I should have qualified it slightly more in that you choose have some choice in your player’s growth. Without that you aren’t really advancing the character, the game already made those decisions for you. Like In Mega Man and Metroid, there is very little choice as you have to get the power ups in order to progress. And I can’t say anything about Sticker Star since I haven’t played it but it could be an RPG.

There are many other possibilities for character growth such as skill trees. Class changes, jobs etc are another means. Affinity like in Fire Emblem are another. BOTW uses shrines instead of experience points. Zelda 2 uses point bags. Final Fantasy Legend 2 has the monster race that eats meat from fallen enemies to level up and the robot that collects parts. It would be an RPG even if it only had monsters and robots.

@everynowandben Maybe those games are RPGs, but you'd have to name them for me to say. A lot of games these days are RPGs.

RPG means "role playing game" and is defined by character growth. It's simply not necessary to have experience points. That is just one mechanic to facilitate character growth. Like some tabletop RPGs do not have experience points.

@DaniPooo In Zelda 2 and BOTW, though, growing your character is a large part of the experience. So those are definitely RPGs. In BOTW though you have to seek out shrines (which are what gives you experience). In other Zelda games much of the growth is not really a choice so I think they are somewhat RPGs but not full RPGs.

@everynowandben Experience points do not make a game an RPG, being able to grow your character does. All Zelda games offer this to some extent or another, but BOTW and Zelda 2 offer it the most.

Honestly, this looks kinda bad compared to the real game (though I cannot view it in 8k). Shows that just adding effects does not make a game look better.

@Heavyarms55 The sensor bar is pretty old tech compared to what the Switch joycons have. They have an IR camera, accelerometer and gyroscope. I haven't played Skyward Sword so don't know if the IR camera is necessary, but the accelerometer and gyroscope will probably be used for sword camera. If it requires pointing at the screen, they'll use the IR camera for that (like Wonderful World of Goo did on the Switch).

@sanderev Yeah. No doubt. But I’d say they made it worth it with this one cause it wasn’t a straight port and added a bunch. Some of their other WiiU ports didn’t add as much. Though I’m still not sure I’ll buy it cause I have it on the WiiU.

I can someone understand the sentiment, but this really reads like a third rate youtuber-like article trying to fan the flames but not based on facts. Nintendo’s done a lot more than the article would have you believe. Nintendo put out Stretchers, GoodJob, Snipperclips, Astral Chain, Sushi Striker, Buddy Bond, probably much more

It also misses that new IP and new idea is not the same thing. Old IP can bring new ideas and new IP can just be derivative (which is often the case)

Is this game good? I never played it back in the day.

@Yorumi I can understand your sentiments. I think the Pokémon Company has different dna from Nintendo though. Nintendo tries to up the ante with each new core title, but I think Pokémon Company plays it much more safe. From the looks of it, this may be a safe title but I hope they truly try to take things to the next level.

@Yorumi I imagine it will come at the end of 2022, which still gives them 18 months, but yeah, it’s not in very good shape. It looks like they are trying to take a step forward but don’t have the human resources to do it. I guess Monolithsoft was not available to work on this with them.

@Itachi2099 Probably cause it is not coming til 2022. Most people that really want it won't wait a year for the PC version.

Detective Pikachu 2 perhaps? Though I’d like Pokken 2

@GrailUK I think it's up to people to decide if something is overpriced to them. But whether it's objectively overpriced or not will be decided by the market.
What irks me a little more is that it is an HD remaster with improvements and not just a port like some claim. I wonder how many of them will purchase it despite complaining, though.

The game is supposed to be difficult so why are you docking it not once, but twice for it’s difficulty? That’s like docking a heavy metal song for being loud.
The question is whether it does difficult well.

@MaxlRoseGNR Yeah. I saw the preorder deal. Maybe if reviews come out before it’s released and it’s around an 80 on Metacritic, I’ll consider it, but without reviews, I don’t think I’ll preorder it.

I wanna give this a try but $30 is a bit steep. I’ll have to wait and see.

@Juga I agree. Zelda is a huge time investment unlike Mario. If the Switch Pro rumors are true (and seems like they probably are), BOTW2 will most likely come out this year and I wouldn't be able to play any other Zelda games on top of that.

I hope they remaster Xenogears at some point.

@JohnnyC i think that may be why it’s being ported. It probably didn’t sell enough for Nintendo’s liking so they want to make their money back on it.. But i think it got just okay reviews so I’d rather Nintendo give Ever Oasis or Samus Returns another chance.

@rushiosan I can see your point, but it depends on what Capcom wants to do with it. There’s a big enough market for games like this that they don’t really need to water it down or “modernize” it, if you will. Though it will always be niche in that case. And maybe that’s okay. Otherwise they run the risk of alienating current fans and not getting enough new fans.

@Ogbert I can understand the sentiment, but I learned to go in with no expectations after E3 2015. This one was good, probably a 7/10 or so but it didn’t really compare to the ones in 2019.
But when everyone expects a 9/10 or 10/10 every time Nintendo is bound not to meet those expectations once in a while. And this one was the first one in forever so it was especially hyped.

@Ogbert I’m not gonna say those titles are ultra exciting for the masses. it’s just the first half is better than what’s come previously cause the first half of the year usually is quite weak.

And we got Snap coming and Buddy Bond was released (though a Japanese exclusive so far) and Super Mario 3d World. Not to mention solid 3rd party titles like Rise.

Nintendo almost always saves the big titles for the end of the year.

@Ogbert I think the first half of 2021 is easily the best first half since 2017. Like none of the other years compare since the first half of the year is usually weak.

The problem is too many people watch with insane expectations and then get disappointed. Nintendo didn't really talk about any games slated for the latter half of the year and the first half is always weaker than the latter half.

There were like 5 first party announcements not counting Smash Bros: Mario Golf, Splatoon 3, Skyward Sword HD, Famicom Detective Club, and that DC Teen game. Not to mention some other cool announcements.

@COVIDberry Well, yeah. But still None of the Fire Emblem titles have sold nearly as well as Splatoon. And they are made by Intelligent Systems rather than Nintendo proper. IS probably typically has much lower targets than Nintendo proper. I honestly think Nintendo should invest in those games and that they have potential, but it is a risk for a company with finite human resources. And outsourcing has not always paid off (like with FZero and Star Fox)

@Ventilator The WiiU versions included gamepad support so are probably going to be superior anyhow. Unless Nintendo upgrades the Switch versions with some really good QOL features

@NOALink For first party games in the first half of the year there are the Super Mario 3d World, those two detective games, Skyward Sword HD, that DC Teen Power game, Mario Golf, Pokemon Snap, and Japan got that Buddy Bond game.. Usually the first half of the year is weaker than that. And on top of that, the 3rd party lineup looks much better than in previous years

@Nerdfather1 Comment boards are primarily for negative people to come and gripe.

@MS7000 Yeah, I get ya. Those other games just don't sell nearly as well as Splatoon. That makes it hard to continue those series.

@MS7000 It'll have been 5 years since Splatoon 2 came out.That is more than plenty of time between iterations.

Should easily pass 10 million on the Switch. It also provides a good companion to Odyssey since they are such different games.

Good news. I hope this means they'll finally release a new game in the series that rekindles what they started with Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana on the SNES... They've got of dormant franchises from the SNES/PS1 era that would be good to remake