I *really* want to buy this game, but I've got some stuff to finish first - La-Mulana and Ys 1 (and if I like Ys 1, then Ys 2). Luckily, it's working well as a motivator for me to finish those. Unluckily, La-Mulana just keeps getting tougher.
Played the demo, loved the combat system, heard about the controversial endgame, thought it was probably a great idea plot-wise, can't wait.
This is good to hear, I was excited about Toast Time! Loved the color-overlay-on-black-and-whi te look. I'll have to nab it - quite a few glowing reviews.
It is kinda like *actually* calling Megaman "Jump n' Shootman" instead of Sequelitis doing it as a joke, but I'm still fine with the title.
Their argument has more to do with the initial enticement of an audience, not what it means later on - and in that way, I think it works.
They had said "Bravely Default sounds like something a person might say as they are having a stroke." I'd rather argue "Bravely Default sounds like a bad option someone has when they pass their student loan grace period," but whatever, Wired.
You have to click on the fullscreen button to get their reasoning. For X-2:
"What's the name of the sequel to Final Fantasy X? Final Fantasy XI? Ha ha, that's just what a simpleton like you would say! No, the sequel to Final Fantasy X is of course Final Fantasy X-2. This of course introduces confusion: Is the character X a Roman numeral 10, or is it an ex? This is not nearly as difficult a conundrum as what awaits, though."
This was the fir...
Hey, at least they had the brains to remove "Flying Fairy" as a subtitle - for a while, we thought we were getting "Bravely Default: Flying Fairy," which to me is kinda like saying "The Last of Us: Ladders," or "Bioshock Infinite: Anachronistic Songs."
Day 4's already up, and there's a snowflake icon in the box. It's the new Donkey Kong. Sooooooo surprised, Canada, good one.
It's about time to approve this - it's Bloomberg, that's pretty trustable as a source.
And yes, you can treat this information differently than Nintendo's losses or Microsoft's, because Nintendo primarily sells games and consoles; Microsoft sells corporate/enterprise/home office software, operating systems, and consoles, with a few game studios; Sony has a profitable games company with a fractious and decomposing group of TV/PC/music hardware/movie divisi...
The thing about PCs is that current-gen consoles have done their best to emulate their architecture. This makes it easier for PC developers, or developers on another console, to easily transition their games from PC to console, or console to console. It's cheaper, and therefore less risky, to put your game on a platform. It was a huge advantage for X360 over PS3 for a while, and a big reason (alongside the cost of parts) why the PS4 didn't see a Cell processor. I think Sony made the r...
It's definitely a leap of faith for Kickstarter backers. The demo video really does have that cheap Flash feel in regards to animation, and there were only a couple of enemies shown - zombie thing, dinosaur thing, other dinosaur thing. They've got some work ahead of them...
Development studios have actual choices when it comes to this stuff: Fill the screen with more things, make it locked at 30fps, optimize it for speed, make it 60fps. Power only matters on scale: if The Order really looks amazing, then that's what they chose to do. If it *doesn't,* then I have no idea.
Even the PS3 did 1080/60, but only on games where the developers prioritized framerate. I happen to like that kind of choice most of the time, and I wish more studios sh...
Maybe you're a Sunoco fan? Shell, maybe?
He's talking about that mobile move making a lot of cash, though. It totally would, as the unique buyers there aren't us. They don't care that virtual buttons are stupid and you can't speedrun SMB2JP that well with them. They're not concerned with image. They just want to see Mario again without buying consoles or... well, figuring out what ROMs, input, triple buffering, and interpolation are. It would involve so little staff power for so much money.
Movin...
I always thought that was called Alt-Tab. I typically run a music streaming service in a browser and then open up something using the vanilla Steam client, no issues whatsoever.
This is especially good for amateur livestreamers, who often would like music playing in the background of a game they've been grinding for months, and very easy access to the controls for that music so there isn't all this Windows-sharing dead air. Some of the bigger ones on Twitch have a plugin for a particular game or through their hardware, but most of the little guys don't. It's an offer that's going to make things a little easier.
Everything gets lost in translation for Dark Souls, because the concept the guy is working on has a largely American term that doesn't have a complete analogue: user experience. Changes were made to the game to reduce unnecessary confusion on stuff that doesn't have much to do with the challenge itself - rather, it was stuff that got in the way.
What I've heard: They're not eliminating the steepness of the difficulty, they're giving you more rope so you ca...
@Metallox, regarding:
"@Snookies12 Those games (Metroid, Star Fox) don't sell. People have been claiming them since the SNES era, and NO MANY people buy them. If you want to move more Wii Us, that's not the solution."
Well, yes, they mostly didn't sell. There's a reason for that.
Star Fox 64 sold really, really well for its year, and was especially a hit *outside* of Japan. After that, Star Fox was run ragged over ho...
They can only do so much to get third parties to localize their stuff, sadly. Maybe they can dig into the war chest and hire 8-4 for... like, everything ever. They did Fire Emblem: Awakening, and that was amazing work.
It's a good, albeit short, argument. It's all about the AAA titles, though, and I've felt that those aren't where the great gaming is happening right now for a while. I mean, I have a lot of choices of what I could play, but I keep going back to Spelunky, roguelike-likes such as Rogue Legacy and Risk of Rain, and new 3DS titles like the new Zelda, the Bravely Default demo and soon the full game, SMTIV, Fire Emblem: Awakening, etc.
Also, Dark Souls 2 will be ou...
Oh, I can't wait until Intelligent Systems takes what they learned from Fire Emblem and makes a new Advance Wars. Here's hoping, at least.