I'm confused by this argument. You don't think if Nintendo made a Switch Pro for $399 that people would buy it?
But let's look at things as they are now. I bought my original Switch for $300, sure. But the OLED Switch is $350 & is selling very well. The base model Deck is $399. The Deck doesn't charge to play online & comes with a case, so there's $20-40 first year for a lot of people. And the free online will even have on-device voice & text...
I'm not quite sure the industry would be able to easily navigate this. Some of these things could be worth sizable real-life dollars, and not every one of their players is an adult. So can kids own NFTs? If they can't, and they get a rare thing worth a lot, can their parents sell it and make the money themselves? We saw a taste of issues on the company side with EA employees side hustles of the FIFA Ultimate Team stuff, imagine that but worse when every little trinket holds value. ...
I was surprised they didn't have this when it launched. Wonder if they held off in attempts to see if they could get more double dips from people (this & a Switch Pro-esque controller).
If this is cheap enough, like $10, I think it makes sense. If it is like $20, you might as well get the dongle that lets you connect one of a dozen other console controllers - most people have at least one, and it would give you a wireless option to boot.
I'm torn.
On the one hand, gross, $3k in total possible purchases for digital trinkets is pretty nasty. On the other hand, a cosmetic shop is one of choices. It would be like going to a store to buy a shirt, but then giving the owner shit because you tallied up the total possible amount of money you could spend if you bought one of every shirt. You won't do that because not everything appeals to everyone.
I think the fact that a digital skin can...
Good motion controlled games were few and far between, but for a cheap console you could grab as a supplementary machine, it had some good stuff on it. Xenoblade, Pandora's Tower, Last Story, Metroid Trilogy, Muramasa, etc, alongside your Mario/Zelda/standard Nintendo fare of course. I got a lot of games for it at budget prices, and I felt it was overall a worthwhile system.
If you never had one, grab a cheap Wii U & you can get a lot of the best Wii U games for che...
Curious if this was during the initial launch or recently. I saw a LOT of issues back in the 2019 time frame & a lot of improved feedback since then. I just picked up one for $115 for use on the PC. It was a lot to stomach, but I was intrigued a lot by the tweakable analog stick stiffness, among other things. It feels great, but it's definitely a worry if these issues still happen because at over $100 per controller, these things really need to hold up better than a standard controlle...
So without the dripping sarcasm, this is what Ryan Reynolds would sound like...
I wouldn't have picked up on it, but you're right. A little higher pitched, but very similar and weirdly similar cadence (weird given the lack of sarcasm to affect the delivery lol).
It definitely was! I played it all the way through not too long after launch. I wouldn't necessarily mind more of the same, but would be more enticed if I knew there were some interesting tweaks to the formula.
It looks good, but it also looks like a reskin of Battlechasers: Nightwar. Given it is the same developer, not entirely surprising, but I'm interested to look into it a bit more to see if it's more of that, or if it has some twists of its own.
The bigger issue is you're playing - IMO - the best that platform has to offer between Odyssey & BotW. You'll get done with those & look to Nintendo for more of the same, and they have not put out a single game as interesting or ambitious as those two games since. Those early games really had me excited for what Nintendo would be putting out down the line, and somehow those were one-offs.
Hopefully BotW2 is an excellent follow up to the first, but most every...
The "welcome pack" costs money? Kinda feels akin to if you came home & found an invoice for the high five someone just gave you.
100%, and the thriving indie scene proves that. Lots of more visually simple 3D games, or even basic looking 2D games, that have fun mechanics can even outsell the most glistening of AAA games these days. And good art direction or a unique visual style tends to be worth more than pushing for flat photorealism anyway.
But I'm also a fan of games that look amazing (and play great, of course), so I'm always interested to see who's pushing the envelope. And these ki...
.........whaaaat?
It looks great, but many tech demos do.
For example, Unity has had several showcases of their big engine updates over the years, and they always look more incredible than any game that ever comes out using that tech. Even tech demos from 5 years ago look better than any game you can actually play today. Just the nature of the beast.
So maybe kind of like a 3D Headlander? Regardless, interested to see how the SteamWorld team handles the shift to 3D!
I feel like this game has only two possible outcomes at this point:
-Perpetually be a tech showcase without a full game ever fully materializing from it
-Will become nothing less than the foundation for the metaverse lol.
I truly don't think they are scamming anyone - questionable money making tactics aside - but it is very clear they were overambitious and overconfident in their ability to pull off their vision in any kind of realistic timef...
For someone who was talking about how nowadays it's all "don't hurt anyone's feelings", the fact you read CosmicTurtle's response as "personal attacks" seems puzzling. His comment was, at worst, very similar in tone to the message the Scorn dev wrote that you were indirectly defending. Perhaps I'm just overlooking something, what did you feel were personal attacks?
Yeah, that's what happens when small studios are left to do their own "PR". In this case, they just needed someone not immediately involved with development to read over & edit it. If this guy is dealing with the stress of development & trying to cope & felt the pressure to finally send out an update, it's no wonder it came out a little testy.
Definitely not absolving him, but we're all only human. Just gotta hope this guy learns to either ...
It appears from the comments in the KS post that most people are not offended, so much as they don't appreciate the tone & content of the message.
I personally only felt like "that's a bit odd/out of line" a couple of times. But that's also coming from someone who didn't back this game over 4 years ago with their own money, who hasn't been following development intently, who hasn't been waiting for some kind of update for over a year fo...
There are also 4 buttons on the underside of the Deck, much like paddles on Elite controllers, so they may be using those as well.