The Wii Us most underused feature gets a little attention.
Reggie says: “I’m surprised that Xbox has not yet fully embraced the Switch 2”
Their business practices aren’t perfect, but Nintendo makes games like nobody else. But they also have their fair share of games that nobody played.
PlayStation platformer Astro Bot impressed former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé.
Oh yeah it’s certainly a special one. I think Astro Bot 2 is gonna be a big one, the one for the books as they say.
I also hope Team Asobi expandes thanks to the massive success of Astro Bot and works on another IP, they are just too good.
"I also hope Team Asobi expandes"
That's kind of a double edged sword for me. On one hand it would be good for Team Asobi. On the other, Sony shut down and laid off all the other devs at Japan Studio. It would just kind of piss me off that they shut down the rest of the studio only to now build it back up after screwing over those devs.
They probably should have kept Japan Studios, they could really use them now that they realised they need to revitalise some old IPs, or make something other than Live Service/GaaS.
They recentered japan studio around asobi because some of the main staff left after sony wanted to increase their budgets to make bigger aaa games, I thought this was well known.
They need to give us a PSVR2 version.. the first one is still glorious to this day on PSVR
I think Astro Bot outdid Odyssey in terms of pace and level of interactivity immersion it gave.
I mean look at how many charming animations they make for each of the 300+ Astro Bots in the game scattered around at crash site home base, just the sight of that alone never fails to give you a huge smile and joy.
Astro Bot is also the first ever platform game I played that never made the post-game activity felt like a boring drawn out collect-a-thon challenge mode feel and was actually still as fun as main game to collect them and played them all throughout.
Even Odyssey felt like a collect-a-thon in post-game after credits rolled.
Agreed honestly. Odyssey’s mechanics/gameplay wise was the best Mario’s been. But the moon collecting became hella tedious down the line.
I'm fine with collect-a-thons so long as there is an actual platforming challenge to overcome in collecting the thing. Those are fun. I feel like Odyssey had such a mix of interesting to collect moons compared to just moons on the ground you grab -- they could have done a lot better.
Astro Bot and Odyssey both shine for different reasons. I agree with you on the interactivity immersion of Astro Bot -- but the skill wall of Mario's move set, for me, makes it a bit more interesting as a platformer and game to speed run through.
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Easier said than done. Plenty of imitators of successful games out there. It rarely stands on its own.
That's not easy though. If you remember during 360 days mahy tried copying halo and especially gears of war and came up short
The best game that did anything remotely close to Gears, was the incredible game Binary Domain.
It's true! Sony literally took the very best of what Nintendo did and put their own take on it. I have acknowledged that, but Sony fans act like Sony came up with it all on their own. It's hilarious! I'm going to get a bunch of down votes for being honest. Astro Bot, is AMAZING, but come on now! Hey, I don't care, Astrobot is a fantastic game, and I replay it, because it's fun.
Yeah, just like how Nintendo saw the Outfoxies and were inspired to do Smash Bros...
OH WAIT...if we go by your logic then Nintendo just copied them, right?
There was even a couple of kart racing games out before Mario Kart, I know you may like to believe different but even Nintendo found inspiration or weren’t the first to do something, they just put their spin on it and did it better.
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watch the show last night the whole thing was scripted Reggie looked like he was afraid to open his mouth.
question i would of asked : MR.FIL-AIMS have you heard CRASH BANDICOOT returning to Sony what will you do about it?? producing the same ol same ol mario,zelda,donky kong.