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Re: Nightdive Studios Just Won't Stop, Announces Yet Another Remaster

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I already have the old remaster, it seems I have 66% discounts if I buy this re-remaster, which translate to about $5 for the upgrade for me, which is cheap enough I guess. Sure, I'll buy this again 😃

Microsoft and bethesda is more generous though, it's had been ages since I bought quake 1 & 2 on steam but microsoft gave me the upgraded quake 1 & 2 remaster for free. Oh well, nightdive studio is a small studio so I have no problem supporting them by buying this remaster, and their other remaster too, which I enjoyed greatly.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th September)

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Playing hollow knight silksong and just got the run and float ability, I think I'm beginning to understand the flow of the game, although it seems hard but the bosses telegraphed their moves really clearly so it's just a matter of learning and anticipating their movement. I think it's harder to fight a mix of warrior enemy (like the warrior ant that throw knife mixed with warrior ant that jump and plunge at you using big bone) rather than just one boss enemy.

Sometimes I feels like the game really has it for me though, like long run after defeated by a boss, then after defeating it I can't find even a single save point, and when I found it, the chair is booby trapped, all I can do is just laugh 😂

ps. Also why everything is payed in this game, after defeating a boss I have to pay for activating save chair and pay for activating bell beast transportation, stop nickel and diming me game. I'm okay with it though because it's not real money lol.

Re: Team Cherry Explains Hollow Knight: Silksong's "Steep Difficulty"

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Just beat the ant rush battle (with shakra help) in the hunter march, it's kind of annoying the save chair is far away and it's a bit scary that after beating the fight there's still no save chair lol. Later I found it after another (thankfully an easier) ant rush battle, but I have to pay for it, I'm glad I have the necessary 30 rosary.

Re: Romero Games Reportedly Shut Down Following Xbox Layoffs

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@HeadPirate According to grok: The game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was developed by a core team of 30 people at Sandfall Interactive, an independent French studio. In addition to the core team, over 50 additional staff contributed in areas such as animation, music, and quality assurance (QA). Therefore, the total number of people involved in the game's development is estimated to be over 80 people.

The AI already gave it's verdict, too many human is not needed to make a game of the year contender lol.

Re: Romero Games Reportedly Shut Down Following Xbox Layoffs

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@HeadPirate Search google and you'll find:

The core development team for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 consisted of approximately 30 people.

You don't need 300+ core people for making games, along the way the corporation just add more and more people while gamers get worse and worse games. Only gta6 need 300+ people, for other games the rest of the people just doesn't matter. Just get 30 really talented people to make games and let them use external contractor for the grunt works (making terrain, tree, textures, etc).

Re: Romero Games Reportedly Shut Down Following Xbox Layoffs

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@HeadPirate Maybe not made by 33 people, but the core team is only 33 with the most of the grunt works outsourced. So the game can be made cheaply and I heard it only need to sell about 1M to be profitable.

I think this way of making games are more reasonable compared to company that hired 300+ people and fired them when the games fails.

Re: Romero Games Reportedly Shut Down Following Xbox Layoffs

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I think the gaming bubble has burst, everyone thought gaming will become bigger and bigger even after covid yet that's not what happened, there's too much money invested in gaming so this is just the market correct itself.

I think the future of gaming is smaller AA indie games that feels like AAA games, like expedition 33 and tainted grail the fall of avalon combined with few big AAAA games like gta 6.

And yeah, if expedition 33 can be made with only about 33 people, it looks really bad for everyone else that making a games with 100+ more people that's not as good as expedition 33.

Re: Of Course Mario Kart World Is Being Review Bombed

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Of course not, I'll talk to the server that the chicken is too dry and next time please make it not too dry. But I can't talk at nintendo and if I gave mkw only 7 in metacritic it won't change anything.

This won't happen if nintendo has mkw forum where players can talk about the games patch direct to nintendo.

Re: Of Course Mario Kart World Is Being Review Bombed

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@Dr_Lugae If I eat food at some restourant and didn't like it I'll gave it bad review too, I don't care about respect to the chef, all I care is whether the food is good or not. Like when I review games.

The reason gamers gave bad review score to mkw is because this is the only thing they can do to tell nintendo "hey, I didn't like this update".

Re: Of Course Mario Kart World Is Being Review Bombed

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I don't like the term review bombed, if gamers bought it and don't like the update, they're free to change their reviews. And let's face it, it's the only way to make nintendo know the fans didn't like the latest update, they can't refund the game on eshop.

Re: Level-5 CEO Sees AI As 'Tool For Communication And Efficiency Improvement'

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As long as the game is good, looks and sounds good, I don't care about ai. I'm not a game developer and I don't know what they have to do to make games, I can only judge the end result.

@Otimus Capitalism give us nintendo, without capitalism there will be no nintendo, sony or xbox, only tetris will be available for gamers. So it's pretty hard for gamers to hate capitalism lol.

Re: Third-Party Launch Games On Switch 2 Reportedly Sold "Very Low Numbers"

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I don't think many people buy switch 2 to play some games like elder ring or cyberpunk 2077 since most gamers already have pc or ps5 to play it, and at a discounted price too since it's an old games for other platform.

Some games are just better on switch 2 though, like fantasy life i, bravely default and other AA games.