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Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

i guess nintendo is trying to bring back translucent plastic as a look again

# ? Jan 24, 2017 23:05

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 16:55

Phantasium: Dec 27, 2012

It never left, drat it

# ? Jan 24, 2017 23:07

Dr Cheeto: Mar 2, 2013; Wretched Harp

You can take my translucent purple plastic from my cold, dead hands

# ? Jan 24, 2017 23:11

TheScott2K: Oct 26, 2003; I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

LoveBoatCaptain posted:

If the Switch gets a port of The Witcher 3 will it be called The sWitcher?

We'll never know.

# ? Jan 24, 2017 23:12

Fame Douglas: Nov 20, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

Megasabin posted:

The Xbox Pro controller is really nice. The switch pro controller also looks much better than hooking 2 joycons together.

The Xbone Pro controller is uncomfortably heavy and absurdly expensive, considering the shoddy quality.

# ? Jan 24, 2017 23:25

Modus Pwnens: Dec 29, 2004

punk rebel ecks posted:

So we have the backlash of BOTW only having JPN VO and JPN text but no JPN and ENG txt option?

Source?

# ? Jan 24, 2017 23:28

FPzero: Oct 20, 2008; Game Over
Return of Mido

Rexroom posted:

More launch day games announced.

*3 Tomorrow Corporation games*

Tomorrow Corporation is a really good company and their games are all fun. I wonder if World of Goo will have touch screen controls in addition to pointer? Also World of Goo's soundtrack is real good so getting that along with the game is a nice bonus.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:02

punk rebel ecks: Dec 11, 2010; A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.

coffeecup posted:

What did Nintendo say about this? Do you mean the english release won't have the option to turn on Japanese VO/text?

I feel similarly that it's a really silly thing to be mad about, but a slightly more legitimate consideration is that regardless of when actors were recorded, the narrative and dialogue were conceived in Japanese. So I'd believe it if people cared about having access to the story as it was originally written, in case the translation to English or other languages is somehow less accurate.

My personal stance, though, is "it's only a video game" and I'll be happy without BOTW Zelda's "original" moe wail.

My issue is that the Japanese VO is great while the American is lacking.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:25

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

I'm a little annoyed that I can't just flip to the Latin Spanish dub of BotW, but litigating the Switch over that is up there with "muh cheevos" in terms of how little care I can muster. This is not a direct response to anyone.

Jonas Albrecht fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Jan 25, 2017

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:29

MorningMoon: Dec 29, 2013; He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?

Jonas Albrecht posted:

I'm a little annoyed that I can't just flip to the Latin Spanish dub of BotW, but litigating the Switch over that is up there with "muh cheevos" in terms of little care I can muster. This is not a direct response to anyone.

Yeah, that's pretty much where I stand.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:36

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

punk rebel ecks posted:

My issue is that the Japanese VO is great while the American is lacking.

We haven't even heard very much voice acting.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:38

bef: Mar 2, 2010; by Nyc_Tattoo

Lemming posted:

My deepest, most fervent hopes

Edit: well, delusions, but you get my point

Word

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:44

Soul Glo: Aug 27, 2003; Just let it shine through

Instant Sunrise posted:

i guess nintendo is trying to bring back translucent plastic as a look again

And I am so loving down

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:57

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

Soul Glo posted:

And I am so loving down

Gimmie that clear purple plastic.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:58

ethanol: Jul 13, 2007

Stux posted:

lets remember that nintendo's history in home consoles at this point is one of repeated mistakes and failures and any successes have come in spite of themselves.

the NES was fine, but it was also running unopposed. it had no other real competition in the home console space. but it was a fine console, it did well and nintendo marketed the thing intelligently in the US. this is literally the high point of nintendo home consoles. 62 million units sold.

the SNES was a nothing machine. it was literally a new NES. despite coming off of a generation that they had dominated, they somehow lost ground to the genesis of all things and ended up in a worse position than the generation before. already they have slipped. 50 million units sold, a drop from the NES, which itslelf isnt an issue, but the market for consoels grew at the same time. luckily for them sega was even dumber and self destructed in the following years.

next they made the dumbest loving move in the history of games and courted sony to make some dumb poo poo hybrid machine. this move was completely inexplicable. what was even more inexplicable was that after having put in so much work, they dropped sony, tried the same thing with phillips, then decided actually theyd just make their own console again. this move was akin to microsoft bailing out apple in how much it hosed them over, only somehow worse.

so they come out with the n64. it has a dumb controller, which will be a trend moving forward, it steals ideas from the sega 32x with expandable hardware (why?), it uses carts still despite them being gently caress dumb expensive and not worth it, it cant handle 3d well, the list of gently caress ups are endless. possibly the worst console they ever made on a purely technical level. along with this sony release a console, however they;re a new name in gaming, its their first real attempt at a console that will see release. this shouldnt have been a compeititon for the company that had revived a dead market in the US and was still the market leader. unfortuantely nitnendo is institutionally dumb: they sell 32 million units while the ps1 moves over 100 million, eclipsing everything theyve done in one go. all because nintendo hosed them over. good move. this is the foundation on which their future failure will be built.

next is the gamecube, probably their best attempt at a modern console. unfortunately despite actually having a technically solid console with a controller which isnt that stupid (its still pretty stupid) they failed to market it at all, they failed to get any proper software support and they failed to properly learn any lessons from the embaressment of the n64. they sell just over 20 million units while sony shifts 155 million ps2s. sony in two generations has completely and utterly taken the market from them.

then you get the wii. this shouldve been what saved them in the home console space. it had a dumb controller and gimmick, but it came at exactly the right time when people were open to it, and its implementation was great for attracting brand new gamers that no one had been able to get before. luckily these people havnt played nintendo games since the snes so their usual copy paste mario etc games sell. sony made a really dumb loving move with the ps3 and was fighting off the 360, giving nintendo a great chance to regain lost ground. unfortunately it turns out this was a complete accident, and sony arent as dumb as sega. despite selling around 100 million units and winning the generation, they had no plan or ideas for how to keep this influx of gamers on their platforms, while sony turned around the ps3 and grabbed second place. the wii succeeded in spite of nintendo and not because they expected it to.

this leads directly to the wii u, which has the worst marketing of anything ever made, leading people to think its dumb gimmick controller was just a wii add on. everyone who bought the wii moved to either sony, mobile or pc beacuse they forgot to leverage their new playerbase. they release it while everyone is anticipating the new sony and microsoft consoles which couldve been a masterstroke had they given it modern hardware and got proper third party support. unfortunately it was barely more powerful than the ps3/360 and more expensive than them, but no where near as powerful as what people were expecting from the new ps and xbox. compounded with that they forget that they need to actually make games for it and dont bother for two years. they move 10 million units, and by the time they start making games for it sony releases the ps4 which destroys it on every single level.

the NX will do exactly the same thing again. we already know it has a dumb gimmick (hybrid handheld console lmao), except this time the gimmick is "lets sacrifice our actually successful hardware to try and save our dead hardware". it'll have poo poo hardware, its alreayd been said it'll be around xbox levels, so it will be less powerful than an established console which is currently selling ridiculous numbers. it'll have no third party support despite the fact that they already know the market for their first party shovelware is around 10 million people. it will have some dumbshit name, probably one that confuses the general public, because apparently the only company in gaming able to simply pick a name and incredment numbers on it is sony. its coming out in a shortened time frame, much like the dreamcast did after the failure of the saturn. everything about it and nintendo themselves mean it will fail, and it will fail hard while taking down the DS brand with it. they cannot just make hardware no one buys forever, especially when their main competition is making a console that is profitable on every sale and more powerful, with better software, better support and better brand recognition. they will move to software, which they shouldve done after the n64 and finally die. namaste.

close this thread, its not needed anymore. put this post in the OP and pin the thread until the NX releases. RIP nintendo.

same

# ? Jan 25, 2017 00:59

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

Please don't ghost quote Stux.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:02

Crawfish: Dec 11, 2012

Finally decided what I want to get at launch.

Console in boring colour, carry case/screen protector combo and Zelda come to $NZ 700. Place i'm pre ordering doesn't charge until it's ready to ship though.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:08

punk rebel ecks: Dec 11, 2010; A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.

Cojawfee posted:

We haven't even heard very much voice acting.

You don't need to. The voices from all the main characters sound off. The Zelda sounds like she's 30, the Great Deku Tree doesn't sound "mystic", etc. Though the Goron sounded good from his single voice clip.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:09

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

^^double lol ^^

Mahoning posted:

That's how I held it.

Lol no you didn't

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:09

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

stux was right

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:12

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

mostly

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:13

Dr Cheeto: Mar 2, 2013; Wretched Harp

I'm glad Stux will have another opportunity to get probed before the Switch is released.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:14

antidote: Jun 15, 2005

30!? gently caress that's old. How dare they.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:20

Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

i can't wait to bomb some dodongos

in breath of the wild

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:20

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

same. very much excited to juggle a 3rd handheld in my rotation of things to do when the tv ain't mine.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:22

ONE YEAR LATER: Apr 13, 2004; Fry old buddy, it's me, Bender!; Oven Wrangler

punk rebel ecks posted:

You don't need to. The voices from all the main characters sound off. The Zelda sounds like she's 30, the Great Deku Tree doesn't sound "mystic", etc. Though the Goron sounded good from his single voice clip.

That's not the Deku Tree talking unless he also has a daughter Link needs to rescue. It's the King of Hyrule talking, he sounds fine.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:24

LoveBoatCaptain: Aug 26, 2008; Celebrate as all our past ways wither, lead the way to an age of light

I get the impression that many american voice actors see anime and japanese games as the poo poo job you only take because it might lead to a job you want. It's gotten better in recent years, but there's usually a handful of characters that sound like their voice actors would rather be doing anything else and that just doesn't happen with japanese voice actors.

That said, I think they'd be able to get decent voice actors for a huge game like Zelda so I'm not that worried.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:25

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

LoveBoatCaptain posted:

I get the impression that many american voice actors see anime and japanese games as the poo poo job you only take because it might lead to a job you want. It's gotten better in recent years, but there's usually a handful of characters that sound like their voice actors would rather be doing anything else and that just doesn't happen with japanese voice actors.

That said, I think they'd be able to get decent voice actors for a huge game like Zelda so I'm not that worried.

its entirely a question of the voice director in that case where the language barrier could easily become a problem with the wrong people in charge.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:31

El Burbo: Oct 10, 2012

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

That's not the Deku Tree talking unless he also has a daughter Link needs to rescue. It's the King of Hyrule talking, he sounds fine.

It's both. The english voice actors sound the same but it's clear if you listen to another language

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:44

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

So I just got thinking that I've not seen an answer to this: can you turn on the system/start up a game with it docked? Where is the system power button? Can you just leave it docked and do everything with joycon or (lol) a pro controller?

# ? Jan 25, 2017 01:59

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

Phimosissy posted:

So I just got thinking that I've not seen an answer to this: can you turn on the system/start up a game with it docked? Where is the system power button? Can you just leave it docked and do everything with joycon or (lol) a pro controller?

i don't see why you couldn't use the home button on the controller. its not like its off when docked unless you turn it off. it probably sleeps like a 3ds

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:00

The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Real hurthling! posted:

i don't see why you couldn't use the home button on the controller. its not like its off when docked unless you turn it off. it probably sleeps like a 3ds

Well the home button on neither the 3DS or WiiU work this way. That doesn't mean it won't, but it certainly leaves the question open.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:05

The Duchess Smackarse: May 8, 2012; by Lowtax

Pretty sure it's gonna have a standard standby mode much like 3ds, vita, ps4, and i presume xbone and will pop on when you hit the home button

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:06

DoctorWhat: Nov 18, 2011; A little privacy, please?

The system power button is on the top of the system and is accessible when the tablet is docked.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:07

-A n i m 8-: Feb 5, 2009

This thing is poo poo yeah?

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:07

ONE YEAR LATER: Apr 13, 2004; Fry old buddy, it's me, Bender!; Oven Wrangler

El Burbo posted:

It's both. The english voice actors sound the same but it's clear if you listen to another language

Sounds identical to my ears, but I also don't care about voice acting that much so I stand corrected.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:08

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012

-A n i m 8- posted:

This thing is poo poo yeah?

No it's good.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:08

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

-A n i m 8- posted:

This thing is poo poo yeah?

did you mean to attach a picture of halo 6?

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:11

Eleeleth: Jun 21, 2009; Damn, that is one suave eel.

-A n i m 8- posted:

This thing is poo poo yeah?

This isn't the Xbox One thread.

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:13

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Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

-A n i m 8- posted:

This thing is poo poo yeah?

can you believe there's not one halo game for it?

# ? Jan 25, 2017 02:19

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