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@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.

@DKG-85 Ninja Gaiden would be great. I hope we see some announcements for Capcom games like Pragmata and Onimusha, too.

@KidRyan Those are all at least partially funded by Nintendo so I don’t think we’ll see them.

@IronMan30 The core gameplay on the first one was good but it seems they didn’t have the budget to really build up the world and the storyline. Maybe with the sequel they’ve been able to

@MeatSauce Thanks for the info. Sounds like a great time. I'll probably pick it up.

@MeatSauce I haven’t played a wrestling game since the PS2 era. What exactly do you like about this one? How microtransaction-ridden is it?

I don’t have much experience with this generation of D&D games, though have always been curious. I played the games in the early to mid 90s a bit, though. Probably my favorite was Fantasy Empires

@Wisps A lot of S1 games play significantly better on the S2. You just won’t have some of the upgrades that the S2 version has. But for a game like this, I probably wouldn’t care. They’re gonna want to treat S1 owners well too because there are far more S1 owners in Japan than S2 owners.

@IronMan30 NVidia's CEO is an engineer so not your typical corporate type. Granted not all engineer CEOs are genuine, but a lot like him (and Iwata) are.

@StyrofoamCup SE should be blamed. They know Forever has a bad reputation for quality and went with them anyway. Likely because they are cheap. I am still surprised Nintendo invested in them despite the low quality. There are much better port/remaster studios.

@BoomingEchoes I had the opportunity to go the home of a CEO of a major corporation in Japan for dinner before and it was a bit surprising. It was just a middle-class home. He bought the home probably in his early 30s and just stayed there. That would be unthinkable in the US. But things work differently in Japan, and you have to view everything through a different lens. Though those in IT like Masayoshi Son tend to be more like the type of CEO you'd see in the US.

@Arawn93 it depends where you live. If you are in Montana you can live in a castle with 6 figures but if you are in Silicon Valley, you’ll be in a roach filled apartment

@JohnnyMind Nintendo is a Japanese company and it’s not a good look in Japan for a CEO to make so much more than employees. And Nintendo’s CEO fairs better than a lot in Japan relative to the median employee wage. For all the flack Japan gets in regard to working long hours, employers tend to have much more regard for employees than in the US.

@axelhander I'm old enough to remember all the really bad CG art that people tried to peddle in the late 90s and early 2000s. The world was not as globalized back then so it wasn't quite what it is now, but eventually people tired of the novelty and quality won out.

@chapuH Did you play MK8 when it was first released (not MK8 DX)? MKW has a lot more than MK8 when it first came out.
MK8 had

• 8 cups
• no real battle mode
• far fewer characters
• no 200cc

Since Splatoon, Nintendo has taken the path of gradually adding content. But still in comparison, MKW has quite a bit.

@Paper_Yoshi I like the intermission races too. I imagine most people really don't care and just want to play something fun.

But this particular article is written for people to vent, and a lot of gamers struggle with change.

@BlaizeV Japan has a large population but not the percentage of young people is low and the percentage of old people is quite high. That’s kinda sucking the life out of the domestic market.

I’m hoping for 16 since I haven’t played it yet. Not that interested in 15. And the 1 remake doesn’t interest me too much

@LikelySatan Yeah. I forgot about the movie. I don't know if I want the movie to connect to the game. Maybe I'll change my mind after seeing the movie, though.

@Dhaladog Nintendo tends to release one Zelda game a year. This year it is Hyrule Warriors. I’d guess next year will be a remake of a 3D title, though I really have no idea.

@Strumpan @JokerCK He said the Series S, not the PS5.

Even just in terms of the raw numbers, it is much more powerful than the PS4, and close to the PS4 Pro.
But that doesn't take into account being able to use DLSS and having better hardware, which gives it an even greater edge and puts it closer to the Series S, and above the PS4 Pro.

@Paraka Okay. The WiiU was actually backwards compatible with the digital library for the Wii, though. But the WiiU backward compatibility functionality sucked to use because you had to restart the system and go into "Wii mode".

@Johnny44 I don’t know about other countries but here in Japan a lot of people weren’t able to but a Switch 2 that wanted one. It’s probably 75% or so that couldn’t get one

@Paraka Both the Wii and WiiU were backwards compatible.

ARMS was great. But I think to really get big as a fighting game these days it needed more frills. The core experience was really solid. Also, it was not as addictive as Splatoon so that maybe hurt it. I hope Nintendo gets back to developing new IPs.

I feel like between 2015 and 2019 Nintendo was doing more innovative stuff than now.

@rjejr I'd prefer someone like Keishi Ohtomo to direct it. I can't think of a Western director who'd do it justice now other than perhaps Villeneuve.

Garland's best screenplay so far was by far Never Let Me Go, but that was an adaptation of a Kazuo Ishiguro novel so probably doesn't count.

I think advanced AI will be the next "leap" rather than graphics, since graphical differences are producing diminishing returns.

This may put Nintendo out of the game for truly "next gen" titles.