| The Internet has a funny way of distorting people's perceptions. Skyward Sword was always a great game - it reviewed as much at the time! - but the (very) vocal minority convinced everyone otherwise. The same thing happened with Wind Waker. Classic Zelda Cycle, innit? |
| I think there's something to be said about the types of games people play, and how those games groom them into playing in certain ways. For example, the idea that you need to kill every enemy and loot every chest. Approach BotW like it's Dynasty Warriors, and you're going to have a bad time. |
| SquEDGEnix |
| And thus, Kane was deified. |
| Is this what they mean by "levelling-up"? |
| Guess this will be the beta phase! |
| @Ninetailed Indeed. |
| Been saying Stargate would be a perfect match for the X-Com template since the show was still running. Visit alien world, solve problems, acquire shit to research, learn of further worlds, repeat while slowly building up teams, off-world bases, and trying to keep the government happy... |
| I hope we don't end up with the "Diplomacy expansion in 2023! Colonisation expansion in 2024! Warfare expansion in 2025! Espionage expansion in 2026!" model, but I'm not optimistic :/ |
| @rustybroomhandle But was it Clotho, Lachesis, or Atropos? |
| Needs more Ringo S.T.A.R.S |
| If you can't sell (enough of) a game at Ł70, maybe it's time to step back and work on something smaller, cheaper, less ambitious - something you can comfortably sell at a smaller price point, whose quality will improve your reputation enough that you can sell games at top price... |
| You'd have thought someone would've turned the standard "holodeck malfunction traps crew in popular fiction pastiche" episode into a video game by now! It's Final Fantasy, but all the NPCs are Data sort of jazz... |
| Unfortunately, Sony's own update bricked my PS3, because it couldn't cope with a broken wi-fi card, despite having an ethernet connection. I guess that means I was ahead of the game! |
| "It's those BLASTED Turtles!" |
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Would've been interesting if they'd gone for a deliberate marionette style - Final Fantasy always had some Anderson/Henson in its veins - but, eeeeeeeh. Doesn't help that, when I played the demo, the cutscenes were almost all played out in a sort of void, like watching actors on an empty stage. |
| IMario 64 realised you don't need a run button when you have an analog stick for movement. |
| @the_ewan It's just over two quid a week. If someone is getting, say, five hours of enjoyment out of that, is it really "bad value"? |
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Plenty of visually impaired people - myself included - don't have a problem with the term "blind playthrough" (or, indeed, blind-anything), but it feels like our opinions are only relevant if we're part of some self-appointed Social Media Aristocracy. I studied Eng.Lang. I've read enough Orwell. This sort of language policing creeps me the fuck out. (Hilariously, I've had the term "twitch" used in a mocking/condescending matter, because my own visual impairment causes my eyes to constantly twitch...so I assume the service will be eager to completely rebrand itself!) |
| The PS4 version removed one of the world's moons, presumably to save resources...but didn't remove the effect of its eclipsing the sun... |
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Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 246 Progressive causes are good for business. Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 247 Never let a progressive cause get between you and your profits. |
| Guessing the old staple mission of scanning containers to find prisoners, then protecting the rescue operation from a sudden Star Destroyer appearance isn't going to be a priority. Too much time spent not shooting things! |
| @MrTomFTW Was saying to a friend the other day that gaming journalism/the "community" has a bad habit of ignoring games that aren't a part of its self-determined "canon". If it's not predominantly played by twenty- to thirtysomething men, it may as well not exist! |
| I blame Waluigi. |
| @Rodimus-Prime "Please D i e Carefully" |
| Anakin really wants a new X-Wing/TIE Fighter game, Mace Windu is warning him there's got to be a catch, but Palpatine is insisting it's all okay - look, he's turned over a new leaf! |
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"You have my sword!" "And my bow." "And my axe is a 1% drop in this week's premium draw!" |
| @LordDemigod It's basically the equivalent to old mariners spotting whales and thinking them Biblical leviathans, or people finding the bones of dinosaurs and assuming DRAGONS. |
| Setting it in a single city, with humans and aliens co-existing, gives off strong Apocalypse vibes. I'd much rather they remake that than Terror of the Deep, personally - it had a lot of interesting ideas that never made it to the final game. |
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If they had pedigree when it comes to writing this sort of thing, I'd trust them with it, but their track record is poor to say the least. Kindgom Hearts, Dissidia, Bravely Default, World of Final Fantasy, as well as the main series itself with FF13 and 15 - all of them overloaded with time-loops and alternative dimensions and meta-narratives. It's like they saw the (relatively simple) time-travel plot in the original Final Fantasy and decided they had to keep going one louder, to keep out-clevering the audience - as if SHOCKING TWISTS were the root of good storytelling, rather than relatable characters and grounded conflicts. David Lynch can pull this shit off, Tetsuya Nomura and friends not so much. |
| Loitering around a rural raid lobby for two minutes when you know no one is going to show up was always rubbish - and that's assuming the raid was even possible to win by yourself in the first place. Shame it's taken a global crisis to clue Niantic in to these things! |
| Matsuno ought to be a far bigger name than he is. |
| "We may be problematic, but look how stylish we are!!!" seems to be the credo of Atlus games. What's interesting is which of their games get called out on it... |
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So, you want a trip down Street Fighter 2 memory lane, eh? https://youtu.be/69f_o2Mn1uU |
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That darts section has me hopefull for a full-on Bullseye mini-game, complete with Bully summon materia. "Let's see what you could've won...a state-of-the-art Shinra submarine!" |
| @MaFlippinHeadHurts There's a 'mon on the bus? |
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The amount of gamers able-splaining accessibility to me, a visually impaired person, over the past week has been a hoot. My life already has the difficulty mode jacked up. I don't think it's a big ask to suggest an escapist medium give me a break from that. |
| Was expecting Alan Partridge, am now disappointed. |
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Disappointed they went with Ritcher over Trevor. Really wanted a "Trevor and Simon join Smash" headline. "SWING YOUR VAMPS!" |
| Truly, the spirit of Dale Winton lives on in Fortnite! |
| @Gamblix A new generation would feature enough Pokemom to bring us close to - if not over - the #1000 mark. That's great for hardcore fans, but will be a massive turnoff for the casual, mainstream player. Better to lure them in with nostalgia, then release a proper new game once the hooks are secure. |
| Does this mean we can get Jon Snow in Smash? |
| Amazing how FFXV can be so big, and yet in terms of actual game content it pales in comparison to, say FFV or FFVI, which were only a few megabytes. |
| Did Big Boss press "up up down down left right left right B A start"? |
My eyes see "Boss Level Labs", but my brain keeps reading |
The game is impressive overall, but compared to the pristine works created by Nintendo itself this year, Xenoblade 2 feels like a step down in many ways.To be fair, it's working with a much smaller budget. This isn't a major franchise - neither of the previous games broke the million sales barrier - and a lot of Monolith's talent was busy with BotW. For what is effectively a mid-tier RPG, however, it's a pretty impressive feat, and I imagine a lot of those rougher edges would have been smoothed out were this the tent pole franchise some presume it to be. |
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There's a boss late in the game that comes so out of left field, and is so opposed to the Mario aesthetic (even more so than realistic humans), that I had to pause the game so I could stop laughing. So many games frontload their best content, afraid that people will never play through to the end. Odyssey doesn't have that fear. Just when you think you've seen it all, it springs something you never saw coming. |
| 25th? The first Megaten game was released in 1987... |
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@carrotcake In Pokémon's case, I think there's some justification for it: game saves are stored on the cart, so what happens if you use your cart in a 3DS that doesn't have the update? |
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