You mean “Tentative 2-hour lead-up to Smash Bros DLC fighter announcement”.

The millennial snark is practically palpable in this podcast. Yeesh. Not that I disagree that most major awards are just publicity stunts, but you just know the people who are thumbing their nose at the concept are the same people who love to argue about same thing. We all do. We love debating the merits of game X and…

Idk. Sekiro wasn’t a massive hit sales wise and is in the middle of From’s catalog in that regard.

That reminds me. I’ve been thinking about finding the right Amano piece to put on canvas and hang in my game design classroom. Any suggestions? The first one that comes to mind is the FF6 box art with Terra in her magitek, but he has so many great works it’s hard to decide!

What a coincidence! I just started re-reading dream hunters yesterday. His artwork is exquisite. The re-print with a different artist is great too, but his work adds so much to the dreamy aspects of the tale. 

God willing, said man-babies will be put in time out for a very long time. 

God. Remembering back to how people freaked about some poorly detailed character models bumping into each other to porn music. What a time. 

I think the problem is, everyone expects AAA studios to push the hardware and utilize every modern graphics technique. Imagine if the next CoD had the graphical power of a BotW (not the style, but tech), even if looked really nice, people would lose their shit. “OMG this looks like a 360 game! Lol wtf! such trash!”…

My biggest issue was that most of the cast didn’t grab me outside Laguna and a few others. And visually it wasn’t as interesting as 7. But yea, fuck that magic system with a rusty crowbar.

What exactly is Cardi qualified to teach besides pole dancing?

Don’t forget gang floozie!

Totally agree, the devs clearly worked their asses off, but I feel like they may have bit off a little more than they could chew given how ambitious the game means to be; and that ultimately led to a decade of development and put the people in charge between a rock and a hard place to do right by their employees and…

Usually when a game takes a very long time to make, especially the most ambitious ones, it means there were major hurdles and missteps in development and not just bad time management. Given what this game was attempting to accomplish, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that numerous core mechanics were scrapped or…

It’s not so much the quality of the graphics as it is being able to run a giant open world smoothly. There’s plenty of tricks for more linear games to limit how much rendering has to be done and boost performance. Racing games in previous gens used to lower or remove the textures of the chunks of the track that were…

I’ve always been of the mind that there should be opportunities for the community to engage with police officers outside of getting a traffic ticket. Maybe not town hall meetings, but like a PD-hosted Barbecue where citizens can actually get to know them and just as importantly, the cops get to know the people they’re…

I admire their dedication and am still fascinated by the anomaly that it is and continues to be for nearly 20 years. Yet, It now feels like a Star Trek convention, but only for the classic 60’s show where everyone insists their favorite iteration is the best and none of the other series is worthy.

As a smash fanatic, It’s hard to muster a lot of sympathy for the melee community for all the obnoxious crap they’ve pulled over the years. 

I don’t believe Smash is a unique case in this. If the FGC community at large decided to implement something similar to this panel, you’d never hear the end of the horror stories. It’s kind of a dirty secret, but Japan specifically has similar problems with its pro-gamers taking advantage of their fans.

Thing is, the game has already sold millions of copies. The only negative is all the bad press and outrage. Which could be quelled soon enough with a hefty patch. If I know gamers, they’ll quickly do an about face after screaming “Fuck CDPR! I’m never giving them money again!” and then cream themselves when a Witcher…

Agreed. There’s no reason to shoot yourself in the foot like this after hyping the game for almost a decade. At least wait till your about to begin preorders. Every time a big Nintendo game gets announced it usually comes out within a year.