I think it’s extremely likely that many, if not all of those games, had pre-production and design planned for the Wii U, and then Nintendo dropped support for it cold. The Paper Mario game they released in the last year of the Wii U’s life had apparently been completely done for months before it was actually released,…

Legality and the moral high ground have never been mutually exclusive. The idea that they are is one of the major problems in the world today.

It’s a dick move if Stardock said they have no intention of getting in their way, and then after a disagreement about something financial on the old games, turn around and say “actually, no, now you will have to get our permission to release your new game”. But again, this is both sides saying they’re not at fault, so…

And this got dirty after all, as expected. I had a feeling that “respect” and being “huge fans” was going to fall apart the moment any potential monetary issues came into play. If Stardock legitimately has the rights to distribute the old games, that’s where you involve the lawyers and any documentation you possess to…

And this is the same ESRB that’s playing dumb about rating addictive gambling style systems in games because accurately rating them would keep them off the shelf in many retail stores. This is just god damn stupid and anti-developer and anti-consumer. The wolf has been watching the hen house for a while, and now…

This actually looks more entertaining than the original game, but given how little I end up playing mobile games I’ll probably wait for a sale to pick this up. I’ve become increasingly wary of buying mobile titles that then sit on my phone indefinitely. At least someday down the line I could choose to sell my PS4/3DS…

How is the fact that it will cause cognitive dissonance and annoy the hell out of me the entire game not an argument? There may not be a better argument for it than that.

And that none of that changes the fact that it’s an entirely different name between the audio track and the subtitles that will bug me the entire game. Also, this kind of constant leaping to Nintendo’s defense when almost no one else in the industry still does this stuff just makes me even more annoyed at it now. Well…

I see Treehouse’s localization is at it again, already changing the sword girl’s name from Homura to Pyra. Presumably that’s either based on the kanji used to spell the Japanese name, or to play on her being the living personification of the fire sword, but it’s still pretty dumb and it’s always disconcerting to hear…

As I’m still waiting for a Switch price drop or a bundle that isn’t Nintendo trying to scalp an extra $20 for a joycon color variant, a plastic case that probably cost them $.50, and also removes any physical costs of including the game since it’s a digital code included, I’ll be passing on a pre-order of this. I can…

As I’m still waiting for a Switch price drop or a bundle that isn’t Nintendo trying to scalp an extra $20 for a…

Agreed, I was actually rather frustrated that the Breath of the Wild guide that most closely matched the previous hardcover Zelda guides was massively larger than the previous ones. It’s large enough that not only does it not match, but it would be very awkward to put on a shelf. I am really not a fan of books like…

I have a hard time sympathizing with NISA over a platform holder not wanting to work with them when they keep releasing buggy, poorly translated games, and then almost never patch them, even if the bugs are potentially game ending. If I was a representative at Microsoft and looking at their releases, I wouldn’t want…

Eh... I don’t know if I’d want it remade. What would actually make me buy a Switch is if they were to put all three Mother games translated in a collection with the pixel art upscaled as well as the minis have been doing. I feel like you’d lose a lot of the charm of Earthbound if you tried to do a modern HD remake of…

Is it just me, or does anyone else read this as “We have a really narrow definition of gambling so that we don’t have to rate games as adult-only and upset the big publishers.” This is the problem with a rating board that is funded heavily by the very people they’re rating; these systems are designed to abuse people…

There’s no point in continuing this conversation when your entire basis for this argument is just your idea that Nintendo will succeed rather than any basis in fact or comparison to a historical trend. Refusing to acknowledge outliers is also a red flag that you are just not going to have a reasoned conversation here.…

Except that you are choosing to ignore that exact same market and competition when discussing the Switch. The competition already have a combined 100 million console install base lead on them, they both have very similar infrastructures for devs to work with, and Nintendo is launching fresh with an underpowered system…

Thanks for the tips. I don’t intend to join an FC until I decide to make an effort to raid, as my attention is heavily skewed toward WoW still, but I do plan on leveling a crafter. I have noticed that bag space very quickly becomes an issue if you’re trying to craft though, which is kind of annoying.

Yes, I have found and purchased a couple pieces, as well as a couple crafted 115 pieces that were apparently cheap enough to make that that the market was flooded with them. I’m going to start leveling again soon, so it’s good to hear that the gear scales up quickly with the new expansion as well. Mostly what I was…

I am not at all writing off the Switch, I am saying that these overly optimistic claims of its success before it has actually happened are ridiculous. Just because a large number of Nintendo fans were excited about the Switch up front does not mean that it is on track to beat the PS4, much less the Wii, which is an…

I was kind of wondering about that. I just finished the ARR main quest line a couple weeks ago and so not only am I really really far behind in the story, but I’m super poor (I admit that I’ve been buying gear from the market that’s in the 2k-15k range just because I like to be as powerful as my level allows). I’m…