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DLC Inc posted:I would have bet the farm that this would 100% never ever happen so I'm really surprised.  Blizzard literally started as a console developer and literally everything the released, except Warcraft and Diablo, was on the SNES. Or the N64 in Starcraft's case. Though if they could go back in time and un-make Starcraft 64 I'm sure they would. Reality Pisser posted:https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1051819990582726658?s=19 Next Nintendo Direct: "We'd like to introduce our final new character for Smash: Diablo." King of Solomon posted:I'm saying not to buy Red Dead 2. These practices are common in the games industry, but it honestly sounds like Rockstar is one of the worst offenders. A short crunch due to unexpected issues that need fixed right now holy poo poo everything is on fire is one thing, but prolonged crunch is "management is either incompetent or malicious" or sometimes both. This goes double for publishers who can and do decide they want a game X months ahead of when it was originally requested and well if you can't meet that deadline we'll just pull funding right now and gently caress your company completely. Or the Bethesda/Obsidian issue with Fallout:NV and the metacritic score.
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Evil Fluffy posted:
well hence why I said mainline; they haven't done anything since Starcraft 64 on Nintendo. Idk how possible it would be but since Arena of Valor has a pretty good control scheme, I'd really love to see Heroes of the Storm on a console.
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Oct 15, 2018 23:54
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I can't say much about Nintendo's employee treatment in general, but I do remember an article a while back about how it's apparently super nice to work at Monolith Soft.
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Sam Faust posted:I can't say much about Nintendo's employee treatment in general, but I do remember an article a while back about how it's apparently super nice to work at Monolith Soft. Yeah the only complaint I've ever heard about Nintendo is that they sometimes go control freak on 3rd parties porting to their system (which was one of the issues they had getting big studios working on Wii U titles) which it seems they've also eased up on. Indies LOVE them. Not just for the less competitive market but apparently Nintendo's support for getting stuff ported to Switch is extremely good.
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Al Borland Corpse posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo5faKUavIQ
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Oct 16, 2018 00:04
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Is there a thread for star link yet? This game 100% is my jam.
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MarcusSA posted:Is there a thread for star link yet? This game 100% is my jam. I am curious about it, do you need the digital deluxe or is the standard version ok? What is the framerate like on the switch. Are the graphics really simplified?
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Phrosphor posted:I am curious about it, do you need the digital deluxe or is the standard version ok? What is the framerate like on the switch. Are the graphics really simplified? I don’t know numbers but the game looks really good visually on Switch.
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Oct 16, 2018 00:51
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Phrosphor posted:I am curious about it, do you need the digital deluxe or is the standard version ok? What is the framerate like on the switch. Are the graphics really simplified? From everything I have read so far if you don't care about the Toys you can buy the digital deluxe edition and get everything you could with the toys. I mainly play the Switch portable so I'm just looking at the digital version.
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Nothing will ever be quite as much fun as the original TWEWY control scheme, but I picked up a tablet stylus and I'm still having a real good time. I'm just glad my favourite DS game is getting a second round on the sunlight. Also TWEWY loving nails its aesthetic and now it's finally on a console that can make it look and sound as good as it always wanted to. Also I never have to deal with Mingle points again, praise the lord.
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I was gonna wait for a deal on TWEWY but I broke down and got it. I'm very glad I did. So far the new soundtrack is good but there is also an option to use the ds soundtrack. No stylus so I haven't tried touch screen yet but the motion controls feel pretty good in docked mode. My only issue is recalibrating the joycon every few minutes but at least it is easy to do. Is that normal for motion controls?
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YggiDee posted:Nothing will ever be quite as much fun as the original TWEWY control scheme, but I picked up a tablet stylus and I'm still having a real good time. I'm just glad my favourite DS game is getting a second round on the sunlight. Also TWEWY loving nails its aesthetic and now it's finally on a console that can make it look and sound as good as it always wanted to. Also I never have to deal with Mingle points again, praise the lord. what kind of stylus do you use? like a dope I assumed the 3ds stylus would work but of course it's a very different screen. Mokinokaro posted:Indies LOVE them. Not just for the less competitive market but apparently Nintendo's support for getting stuff ported to Switch is extremely good. indie games like Celeste do really well on Switch mainly because the ecosystem is less jumbled than Steam and the eshop puts new releases/recent uploads front and center for a week or so. the eshop needs some work in regards to how it divides things but for now it's a good deal for indie devs. speaking of which I double dipped for Into To The Breach and man it owns to have a device that will be capable of playing that, Mark of the Ninja, Hyper Light Drifter, Darkest Dungeon, Stardew, Diablo, and Broforce all on the go. 2018 was mainly a port year to stabilize the digital games on hand but they did such a good job with the selection of games being ported over. The only things I wanted but didn't get were RE4 for the 15th time and SUPERHOT.
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DLC Inc posted:what kind of stylus do you use? like a dope I assumed the 3ds stylus would work but of course it's a very different screen. Honestly I just went to the dinky tech store in the mall, said 'hey do y'all have a stylus' and I bought the one that was fifteen dollars because it doubles as a pen. Just get whatever capacitive/tablet stylus they have.
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Oct 16, 2018 03:37
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They make gloves with capacitive fingers. Lets you use your hands with less friction against the screen.
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Was tempted to get Starlink and knowing now that there's also a split screen co-op mode (that doesn't require a second ship+dock since 2p can use 1p's ship?) makes it all the more appealing. Probably won't pick it up until the holidays though.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Was tempted to get Starlink and knowing now that there's also a split screen co-op mode (that doesn't require a second ship+dock since 2p can use 1p's ship?) makes it all the more appealing. Probably won't pick it up until the holidays though. just be warned that in the previews the splitscreen co-op drops to like 20fps
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DLC Inc posted:just be warned that in the previews the splitscreen co-op drops to like 20fps All I want to do is pew pew with my daughter. So that's a dealbreaker
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Lost Vikings holds up as an exceptional puzzle game.  blackthorne is good action too
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Oct 16, 2018 07:10
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Re: crunch time, the game industry is just hosed because of the endless lines of wannabe devs who think making games is a dream job. Devs who work in literally any field that 5-year-old would call "boring" can easily get a job that's "show up for at least 7 hours a day unless you have an okay excuse for showing up less".THE loving MOON posted:Speaking of grind, in Assassin's Creed Odyssey you can literally pay extra to reduce the game's grind. I would want AC2 on Switch, but I suspect that Ubisoft would retroactively put more grinding and microtransactions-to-avoid-grinding into it.
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As for Starlink, who knows. It's also Ubisoft, but the grift is right up front and you can opt out of it altogether if you go digital.
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Showbiz and gamebiz are both industries that'll do anything if it'll mean a quick buck Like how Big Trouble in Little China is being remade with The Rock Yeah. That's a thing you know is happening now.
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Just a reminder that in Nintendo, crunch time is called "Mario time."Motoi Okamoto posted:In those days, Miyamoto would come to us at 11 PM, after he finished all of his board-member work, and say, "It's Mario time." At that point, we'd start a planning meeting that would run until 2 AM. At that point, Miyamoto would go home, leaving us with the words, "You should return home soon, for your health." Over the next two or three hours, we'd write the game design documents and summarize the instructions for our artists and programmers.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's the same in showbiz, and basically any entertainment industry with an endless supply of starry-eyed young people to get used up and burnt out. Showbiz actually has unions though
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DLC Inc posted:indie games like Celeste do really well on Switch mainly because the ecosystem is less jumbled than Steam Hehe that's funny
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enojy posted:Hehe that's funny It's also true
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Andrast posted:It's also true Well Steam kinda got a 15 year head start. Nintendo's wasting no time catching up, at least.
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So who bought star link??
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enojy posted:Well Steam kinda got a 15 year head start. Nintendo's wasting no time catching up, at least. Steam has been rapidly accelerating the awfulness at a pace that Nintendo can't even hope to match. I guess they'll find the bottom at some point.
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Oct 16, 2018 12:56
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enojy posted:Well Steam kinda got a 15 year head start. Nintendo's wasting no time catching up, at least. Steam only went to poo poo in the last couple of years and so far none of the console manufacturers will let people put whatever poo poo they like on the storefront (though there are a few that make you wonder sometimes).
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Oct 16, 2018 12:57
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Was it released at midnight? I have it pre-ordered but I won't be able to get it until this afternoon, and I have a high brow social function this evening, so I probably won't get to play it till tomorrow. And I'm taking about, that classical music from a grey poupon commercial playing in the background except not broken up by a record scratch, butlers walking around a museum with silver trays of hour d'ouerves, 30% chance of a Batman villain crashing the joint social function. John Wick of Dogs fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Oct 16, 2018 |
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Sakurazuka posted:so far none of the console manufacturers will let people put whatever poo poo they like on the storefront (though there are a few that make you wonder sometimes). Man, I dunno, some of the stuff on PSN and the Switch store are just... barely games. I don't have an XBOX so not sure what their store is like.
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Yeah some of, it's not 90% RPG maker asset flips, porn games with stolen art and Russian psyops like Steam is.
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MarcusSA posted:So who bought star link?? stores aren't even open yet, calm down dude
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Oct 16, 2018 13:12
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The Nintendo FAQ on their website says that pre-loads can be played starting at 12 am EST the day of release and well... its way after that and it still says Starlink is unavailable to play. When do they normally unlock?
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Did it preload or just preorder? I find, if it is available but not showing as available, if I close whatever I have running, open something else, then close that, my console figures out what software is available now.
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Oct 16, 2018 13:26
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Al Borland Corpse posted:Was it released at midnight? Sounds like the perfect venue for the Switch.
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Ok I lied it's actually a hamburger restaurant and if I sign my receipt the local community theater gets a portion of the proceeds. I just wanted you guys to think I was fancy.
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Guy Goodbody posted:stores aren't even open yet, calm down dude Oh I didn’t know you had to wait for the stores to open do get it from the e-shop. That’s a little weird.
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