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@Royalblues Yeah. I hope they continue to put titles on Steam. Microsoft might be a little more cautious than most companies when it cones to antitrust suits because they actually faced one about 20 years ago and if i am not mistaken it was quite costly to them.

But my original point was that Sony is not their only direct competitor. I think people forget that XBox isn’t just a gaming console.

@Royalblues I have a really hard time imaginging Microsoft doesn't care about Steam with this purchase. Steam holds a large majority of the PC gaming market share. And this purchase should change that. With this purchase, Microsoft will now have Diablo, StarCraft, WarCraft, Elder Scrolls etc exclusive on their platform, all hugely popular on PC.

"Microsoft's direct fight is with Sony". You are forgetting Steam and Epic Games.

How much potential does Activision/Blizzard have? It seems to me like their properties have all peaked. Though it should help XBox Series X sales quite a bit.

@arekdougy I bought Tomb Raider on the Playstation back in the day. Think I didn’t make it past the first level.. maybe the second level. Playstation was pretty bad for true 3d polygon games. N64 was much better.

I remember people thought there’s no way it’ll even get close to the Wii’s 100 million but now it’s poised to beat the PS4 and the Gameboy and challenge the PS2 and DS.

@Dezzy70 I think think they probably learned from their mistake. The WiiU was a mess without a clear vision that the developers believed in (i still loved it though)

@Strafe The problem probably isn’t money as much as it is human resources. Game Freak probably just doesn’t have the human resources to develop something like BOTW or Xenoblade X. This title may be a step in the right direction though to develop their staff.

@anoyonmus I think the Switch is already way passed the Wii.

@NintendoWife Nintendo released a lot of titles last year but yeah, other

He’s a workaholic so if he’s not already working on something, he’ll probably be soon. Though maybe in a different capacity.

@Salnax I was a little surprised not to see games like Fortnite, Overcooked and Human Fall Flat as I think they are all quite popular in Japan… but maybe not as popular as i thought.

They had an interview with Miyamoto on the TV show. It was a pretty good show overall. I wasn’t really expecting BOTW to be number one.

@BlackenedHalo I think the reason why the sidequests end up being boring is the developers don't become immersed in the world unlike with games like Witcher 3, Disco Elysium, Divinity, etc. Sidequests are the main opportunity to really get to know the world the game inhabits.

If they are truly immersed in the world, I imagine they'll have more great sidequest ideas than they could possibly use.

@AstroTheGamosian I think adopting Fair Use policies is being debated in Japan now so my guess is it will be instituted in the next couple of years.

@Medic_Alert Drug use isn't common in Japan, though. So it's not even really a war. It is honestly, kinda nice, even though there are upsides to some drugs that are illegal in Japan.

The drug war was never really about stopping drug use anyway. It was about voter suppresion, military endeavors including war in Central and South America, among other things. It was just the precursor to the "War on Terror"

> Despite being powered by technology that, even back in 2017, could hardly be described as cutting-edge

The Tegra X1 was only two years old when the Switch dropped. It wasn’t really new tech but it wasn’t old either as this statement implies.

@SwitchForce As long as Nintendo is primarily an engineering company with a large work force they aren't going to be able to bring too many women in. The pool of women talent is just far too small. And Nintendo can select from top talent in Japan.

@Mr_Fox It's a game about politics. The setting seems suitable to me. It's not a fantasy adventure or anything.

Eh.. Them thinking this is legal is wishful thinking. Transpiled code is protected under copyright laws. This will get taken down.

@electrolite77 Great engineers are problem solvers who want to invent new technology. Dealing with old hardware can be just as much of an opportunity to do that.

Plus, Armature’s a rather middling developer, not exactly breaking any ground.

I wonder if he regrets his decision. Armature hasn’t really done much exciting.

@TheWingedAvenger It’s not a remake. It’s s sequel that was fairly well received.

But that’s possibly part of the problem. People perhaps didn’t know it was a new game.

What was the last good game Bethesda developed? Fallout 4? Hope Starfield will be good, though?

@anynamereally How do you figure it'd be a 7 for a "regular review"? It has an 87 on Metacritic so 90 is pretty on par with what others are giving it.

@120frames-please Metroid 5 is definitely a horror game. It has all the elements of good horror.

It’s far more a horror game than Luigi’s Mansion 3 or Dark Souls.

Did I miss something? No Metroid Dread?

@Tendogamerxxx As an artist and an engineer, I disagree. Constraints are not stifling. Constraints challenge ones creativity and lead to innovation.

Development was restarted before 1000 days ago. That was just the announcement. Retro had developed a prototype by the point of the announcement.

It’s a fairly large project with a lot of personalities. And unfortunately male dominated workplaces tend to be a little toxic

None of this sounds too bad to me, though.. like complaining about getting different directions from different supervisors. Sounds like an entry level employee

I think the following are essential for a good Metroidvania

• Well-designed map (that needs to be used)
• Good exploration and discovery
• Interesting locks and keys (these are power ups in Metroid) to uncover new areas

Don't think anything else is essential.

@Wesker There is a mod of Other M called Maxximum Edition that looks pretty good, though I haven't tried it. They took out the annoying elements.

@Meteoroid Samus Returns and Dread did take elements from Other M. It would be nice if they gave another stab at what they tried in Other M

The issue with the first person perspective in Prime is that it makes vertical movement hard to pull off, but that is important in the side-scrolling Metroids. I think the perspective in Other M makes it much easier to do vertical movement.

@westman98 DLSS uses a gpu to run so it would need an external gpu if they implemented it on the dock.
NVidia uses so-called tensor cores for DLSS2, which are a type of specialized gpu. But you can implement similar technology on a regular gpu.

@westman98 Nah... You're wrong about that.

Nintendo even has a patent for a "supplemental computing device" from a few years back. So it's something they are considering.

DLSS does not require two-way communication (it would be implemented as a pipeline) so your argument about the bandwidth doesn't matter. The GPU on the dock would not need to communicate back to the unit.

You can check out the paper here https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Neural-Supersampling-for-Real-time-Rendering.pdf

I don't know how or if it will get implemented in next iteration of the Switch, though.

@Samwise7 Nintendo is a tech company. A lot of companies called tech companies aren’t but Nintendo definitely is.

@Hinade Well. It depends on what they value. Ultimately, I think giving games like Last of Us 2 or God of War major awards is bad for gaming. It's basically like giving the Avengers "Best Picture". I don't have anything against the Avengers by the way.

@Kiz3000 At least on Metacritic it does have some 8s and 9s. So there are some people who really like it. But seems like it’s a niche audience of people who really like leveling and customization from what i gather

Everything looks nice but pretty uninspired. It seems to be a game without a vision.

@Meteoroid Furukawa seems pretty conservative so he will probably want to time the release of the next iteration of the Switch with the releases of BOTW2, Mario Kart and the next 3d Mario.

@EVIL-C I don't think Nintendo would let Limited Run make a physical version of one of their games.

@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed Not to mention the Mario Kart team. They've been quiet since Arms. The 2D Mario team has been quiet since Mario Maker 2 (which I imagine only required a small team since it was an expansion on 1).

The 3D Mario team did work on Captain Toad and Bowser's Fury, but those were relatively small projects.

@Grumblevolcano Metroid Prime 4 restarted development 3 years ago so probably won’t hear about it for another year. Seems like a pretty big project.

Why not just make a real chocobo racing game and not a MK clone? If I could race on chocobo’s through FF inspired tracks, I’d have probably bit.

@MS7000 The first Astral Chain sold well so Nintendo will probably give us a second one with a bigger budget so they can improve upon the gameplay... like making the sidequests more interesting.

Isn’t Dracula X for the SNES a pretty different game from Rondo of Blood just with some shared assets?

@ecco6t9 Probably has to do with their arrangement. They are in the same building so I imagine there's a lot of communication that goes on between them.

@VoidofLight I’d consider saving the world to be cliche. Though there are exceptions like Octopath

I like them more for their settings, which tend to be more unique than Western RPGs.

I hope they give the sequel a little more budget. The first one had a solid core but lacked the frills and variety to really go beyond being a niche title.

@Solomon_Rambling I don't think you should expect this to review really well on the whole.

It's a low to medium budget title and this type of game is not really popular anymore so a lot of reviewers probably won't be able to appreciate what it does.