Zarya? What? Since when does zarya not need to aim, being good at tracking to keep her beam on target is pretty much equally important to judging when and who to bubble to optimally build energy. Mercy aside, three characters(rein, symmetra, Winston) in a roster of 20 something don’t emphasize aiming in the…

They still make single player games?

People who prefer the PS2's “quality” visuals are the same people who think VHS offers an experience you can’t get with Blu-ray and that the distortion and low fidelity fuzzing sounds on ancient LP’s are better than than crystal clear audio where you can hear all the instruments.

This. While Undertale isn’t a platformer, I think it shows that good retro graphics and actual creativity can lead to massive sales. Shovel Knight is also stupidly successful. The problem is that a lot of retro styled indie games are just extremely derivative.

Retro style games are completely overdone at this point. An art style that used to make games (especially indies) stand out now makes them all bleed together.

Its because Uematsu and Sakimoto have different styles in how they compose music.

That doesn’t negate the fact that Nintendo doesn’t give a shit about timelines, and timelines don’t factor into the creation of their games. They just shoehorn each new game in wherever it more or less fits, if they even bother to consider it at all.

To everyone walking out the knee-jerk “arrogant Sony” line, understand that it isn’t arrogance motivating this decision, but shrewdness. Or at least prudence.

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia normally provides a solid challenge

That’s a noble sentiment and all...but it’s completely incompatible with Overwatch. It’s a multiplayer shooter that can only tell its story through superficial things like voice lines and skins, rather than deep conversations or cutscenes. Yes, there are comics and videos and shorts and other pieces of lore, but most…

“how can they justify that?

“people acting like being able to play a game in a language they don’t even speak and at most have a slight grasp on over their native tongue are just being douche canoes.”

Well - you certainly don’t speak for me with your idiotic hot take on this subject. Zelda is a masterpiece - and the Japanese language track would be the way the developers originally intended the experience to be had. The emotion , the inflection - etc. The original language is cultural - and this is art we’re…

there is a difference between not being able to stream through the console or if you can not strream it at all. Namco never has threaten people who wanted to stream their game.

As much as I would say “sure”, I have to say “no way.” There are two problems with this kind of localization. First, you would have to localize it for each and every region you release the game. The “English” translation, for example, would no longer work in England if you tried to localize all Japanese questions to…

Where have you been these past few months? Almost every exclusive (not on an MS console) that came out on the PS4 has been met with extremely positive reviews. Playstation’s dominance over the market isn’t just from the Xbox’s terrible reveal.

So at what level of story-driven-ness are you suddenly fine with it? The LPs clearly all killed FFXV’s and Nier’s sales.

“On Time”

“This gets released on time”

Real full fledged gifts probably don’t account for a big chunk of sales anyways, especially with limited supplies. it’s not like with a TV, if you buy someone a TV as a gift you know they are going to use it and enjoy it, buying someone a console is a bit risky and people that are just buying gifts for their families…