Supper Mario Broth posted:

In Super Mario Odyssey, the Cascade Kingdom can be seen in the skybox of the Cap Kingdom. Zooming in on the Cascade Kingdom texture using the game’s camera function, we can see a small graphical error where a rectangle above one of the bushes is mistakely colored in with a gradient. Note that this is not a cliff, as the texture is made from Cascade Kingdom assets and no such cliff is present in that world’s skybox.

However, this finding is really minor and is not the real reason I wanted to show you this. Please read the attribution line on the bottom of the image. I have taken this screenshot myself, on original hardware.

Thanks to the incredible support I have received after starting the Supper Mario Broth Patreon, I was able to purchase a used Nintendo Switch from a reader who offered me to pay for it in installments. I now, for the first time in many years, own a Nintendo video game console; and for the first time in the history of the blog, I can write “screenshot taken on original hardware” in the attribution.

I cannot express how much this means to me, and how grateful I am to all of you - every single reader who has been with me along the way - to be able to play Super Mario Odyssey, a game I have dreamed about playing since it was announced, but was never able to. I will do my best to find as many unknown details about the game as possible, and post them on my blog - I am certain there are thousands of findings to discover.

Thank you so much, everyone. I could not have made it this far without each and every single one of you. I hope you will enjoy the upcoming Super Mario Odyssey content as much as I will enjoy discovering it for you.

Ariong posted:

Since this month's thread title references the excellent Supper Mario Broth, I'd like to share my favorite Supper Mario Broth post. I had been following Broth for a long time prior to this post, but only recently had the reclusive blogger begun sharing tidbits about their personal life. It came to light that the reason the blog occasionally experienced month(s) long hiatuses is because the person running it could not always afford to keep their internet connection, and sometimes not even electricity. In fact, despite their love for the Mario universe, Broth had sold all of their Nintendo games and consoles just to help keep the lights on.

In response to fans' subsequent demand for a way to provide financial support, the runner of Supper Mario Broth agreed to open a Patreon. Then, a month or so later, this post arrives.

cheetah7071 posted:

The most likely scenario is Bioware dissolves but EA gives Dragon Age and Mass Effect to some other internal team, possibly with many of the same people on it (at least in the creative positions for continuity purposes)

Real hurthling! posted:

They need them for mobile games that spit in consumers faces

cheetah7071 posted:

The most likely scenario is Bioware dissolves but EA gives Dragon Age and Mass Effect to some other internal team, possibly with many of the same people on it (at least in the creative positions for continuity purposes)

DLC Inc posted:

Bioware and Bethesda Softworks fizzling out after both of their poo poo-tier MMO games hit a new low for their respective studios would just be a course correction imo. For years I've heard "well nobody else can make Dragon Age/Mass Effect/Fallout-esque experiences so we're stuck with these messy games" and now not only are the games getting worse but this statement is no longer true with stuff like Cyberpunk 2077, Apex Legends, and The Outer Worlds coming into prominence. I really think Fallout 76 was the extinction-level fuckup that showed developers you can't be too big to fall and now with Anthem it's even more true.

cheetah7071 posted:

The most likely scenario is Bioware dissolves but EA gives Dragon Age and Mass Effect to some other internal team, possibly with many of the same people on it (at least in the creative positions for continuity purposes)

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

Two games that haven't released and a battle royale.

DLC Inc posted:

loving yikes https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-25-anthem-physical-sales-half-mass-effect-andromeda

Half of Andromeda, not good for Bioware

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Holy poo poo, Devotion has been removed from Steam worldwide because of the Xi Jinping thing

The White Dragon posted:

i thought making political jokes about a tyrant has been protected speech for centuries

Barudak posted:

Microsoft should buy the IP rights to bioware games once EA murders them and then force obsidian to make spinoffs to every game in Biowares catalog.

Grapplejack posted:

I mean enderal came out on steam recently ("came out") and it's better than anything Bethesda has ever done and it's by a team of German weirdos with no money.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

They wanted Anthem to be a Bob Dylan but it ended up more of a Jacob

corn in the bible posted:

it also makes heavy, heavy use of assets made by bethesda. there's no way that game exists without bethesda game studios.

I said come in! posted:

The developer is based in Taiwan, I am not sure what their censorship/free speech laws are like over there. The dev claims this was an accident but that is a load of horseshit. The whole thing is funny and the devs shouldn't have budged from insulting China's lovely dictator.

I said come in! posted:

In before Bioware management moves on to create lovely kickstarter games, following in tradition of showing that EA was correct in murdering dev studios they previously owned.

Grapplejack posted:

I mean enderal came out on steam recently ("came out") and it's better than anything Bethesda has ever done and it's by a team of German weirdos with no money.

Tardcore posted:

Well the thing about being in Taiwan is that the chinese government does have some reach there and can get you, best to try and not get disappeared

I said come in! posted:

The whole thing is funny and the devs shouldn't have budged from insulting China's lovely dictator.

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

It was funny the other week when everyone pretended they were concerned about developers losing their jobs.

The White Dragon posted:

does it really? i thought they were entirely independent but china insists on acting like they own the place on the world stage. like if you get disappeared in taiwan by the PRC then that's equivalent to getting abducted by north koreans in japan, it's not supposed to happen but it does very rarely because someone decided to break international laws

I said come in! posted:

I mean I really don't care if management gets kicked out, they make so much money they can handle it. But in reality I hope this doesn't spell doom for Bioware and i've seen no indication that such a thing is a possibility. Working at Bioware, despite the quality of their games, you are going to be massively employable. So everyone working there should have an easy time finding new jobs in the industry.

It bears repeating though; game industry needs a union.

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

It was funny the other week when everyone pretended they were concerned about developers losing their jobs.

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

lol why would the management ever get kicked out when you can just boot the actual workers?

I said come in! posted:

I mean we've been talking about Bioware being dissolved outright, wouldn't that take management with it?

oddium posted: