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Blackmist, do games w Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Official Nintendo Switch Trailer

SMG2 is probably the best 3D Mario game, but since I already own them I’ll just keep what I have.

Dolphin can play them both just fine. If it’s anything like the last pack, it’ll be the laziest possible emulation anyway. This shit should have been in the NSO subscription if they’re not actually going to remake it.

carotte, do games w Nintendo Direct announced for September 12

even if you’re a nintendo fan, you don’t have to tune in to 1 hour of advertisements, you know

i promise, once it’s over you’ll find out about all announcements you care about in other ways

SteakSneak,

Did Nintendo directs used to be better? Was it iwatas touch? Am I just nostalgic?

carotte,

nintendo directs were always advertisements, it’s kinda their goal: to advertise to you upcoming nintendo products

I guess Iwata and Reggie made them more pleasant to watch, but they were still ads

mienshao,

Screw that—that 30 minute premiere for Kirby Air Riders was pure bliss. If it’s a game I love, I want all the detes I can get.

november,

This is the same fanbase that dropped $500 for a slightly better Nintendo Switch, there's no reasoning with them.

scrubbles,
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This is a company that will sue you if you even watch this press release incorrectly, but they’re still coming at the bit

arudesalad,

I don't understand why people have issues with shows like this, it's not like ads on annoying news websites, people want to watch them, I'm not watching but I think it's quite exciting waiting for a trailer you want to see (silksong for example) compared to seeing it in a news article afterwards.

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Watching new trailers is fun.

Carighan,
@Carighan@piefed.world avatar

Yeah but while it ain't for me at all (I prefer written news), I know a lot of people do enjoy this format.

BuboScandiacus,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

Putting it on while doing something is fine

You don’t need to tell people what to watch

Phelpssan, do games w Digital Foundry is backing up the claims that Nintendo seems to be discouraging switch 2 development from third parties
@Phelpssan@lemmy.world avatar

The Switch 2 launch felt oddly rushed.

Lack of details, initial backward compatibility list having only ~20% of games with basic testing finished, the need for SD Express cards that are hard to find. Even the GCK situation is probably due to cost/availability issues that will improve over time.

This DevKit situation looks to me like another example of this.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

The Switch 1 launch was also a shitshow. Their big launch title was literally a Wii U game and they had the same hodge podge of “what if wii sports but now”. They just had “the nindies” and… yeah.

Considering that Nintendo have actually always genuinely innovated in terms of marketing and more or less set the gold standard for the modern “just communicate direct to consumers”? I increasingly don’t believe that they have this secret vault of finished games that are ready to go whenever. They are just as fucked as everyone else. They just figured out they can tell Leakers that they actually totally have twelve games ready to release Whenever and that gets regurgitated since basically all of the remnants of games media grew up on Nintendo.

prole,

Yeah I was wondering why the Donkey Kong game didn’t come out until a month later when it should probably have been a launch title

Romkslrqusz, do games w BattleBit - Operation Overhaul: Teaser Trailer

Very excited for this! Honestly, I don’t understand all the negativity surrounding the devs going dark. I thought the game was fine the way it was shortly after launch. I don’t really get the need for an unending flow of content and updates.

Zahille7,

Because G*mers need a constant stream of news telling them that their current chosen favorite game is actively being worked on lest they forget and “move on” to something else.

I swear, the sheer amount of bullshit (complaining about character models, character pronouns, character creators, literally anything else) I see from gaming communities and subreddits is actually ridiculous. G*mers are literally the most entitled people on the goddamn planet.

simple,
@simple@piefed.social avatar

Or the developers created a roadmap of updates in 2024 for their early access game then disappeared without any warning and didn't deliver on their promises. It's not the end of the world but writing negative reviews because the developers didn't deliver isn't entitlement.

Katana314,

This happened for me with Back 4 Blood.

Turtle Rock said “Okay, we’re done developing content. We’ll move on to new things now.” And people took that to mean it was a failed, dead, and worthless game. Whereas the active state where they left it was pretty solid, still runs, and I have a lot of fun with it. It just wasn’t built to be endlessly live-service.

Zahille7,

That’s kinda my point with my previous comment. If the devs say they’re done working on a game, most g*mers will take that to mean “stop playing our game and find something else” which makes literally zero sense.

You presumably spent money on this, let alone however many hours playing and having fun, and now just because the people who made it say they aren’t adding anything new in the foreseeable future you totally drop the game. But I also kinda meant in another sense for stuff that’s actively in development.

Take Elder Scrolls 6 for example (or even Cyberpunk 2077): the announcement trailer came out 7 years ago, and yet there have been other projects in the pipeline as well, such as Starfield and other updates for other games. You will get a constant stream of posts from impatient G*mers complaining, bitching and whining, coping and seething about “the fact that there’s been no news of Elder Scrolls 6 for years.”

My response always has been and always will be “then go make your own game and see how easy it is to make it do all the things you want”

Katana314,

Downvoted for censoring “Gamers”. Go back to TikTok.

AmazingAwesomator, do games w Please Don't Preorder This...

there isnt a limited stock; these are digital goods. there is no point in preordering.

Venator,

What about horse armor though? 🤣

ICastFist, do games w 70% of games that require internet get destroyed
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Gotta save up for some hard drives to download and keep my GOG games, plus some pirated totally legally acquired titles

Fiivemacs,

I call em full version demos. Specifically because I buy when it’s good. The 2 hour steam thing sometimes, just isn’t enough to really know. It usually is tho.

kosanovskiy, do games w The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer

Are they doing some release or something? Or is this just a special commemorative video?

mesamunefire, do games w Palworld Lawsuit

Looks like there has been an update: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKFUr1867U0

I just dont like laws that support things like this…

Kelly,

Looks like there has been an update

TLDW?

anamethatisnt,

The update seems to be about www.pocketpair.jp/news/20241108

anamethatisnt,

polygon briefly mentions what the patents are about
polygon.com/…/palworld-developer-nintendo-pokemon…

ImplyingImplications, (edited )

The “update” is from a month ago. Pocketpair shared the patents they are accused of infringing and the payments Nintendo wants.

The patents are for “throwing an object in 3D space to capture a target” (throwing a pokeball) and “moving characters to a virtual field when an event is triggered” (entering a battle) the payment requested is 10 million yen or 64,000 USD. A paltry sum for a billion dollar company suing over a game that made tens of millions.

The patents were awarded to Nintendo after Palword had already released a trailer for their game showing gameplay. Pocketpair also released an earlier game called Craftopia which is Palworld but the pals are just straight up animals. It has the same systems Palworld does but didn’t sell very well.

A newer update is that Palworld has since released a patch that modified how their capture and summon system works, likely in an attempt to make Nintendo happy.

Palworld Update v0.3.11 Notes:

Player: Changed the behaviour of summoning player-owned Pals so that they are always summoned near the player

UI: The reticle will now only be displayed when aiming

Edit: there are actually 3 patents. The third one is for the player character being able to ride on another character.

Prunebutt,

“moving characters to a virtual field when an event is triggered” (entering a battle)

How is that a legit patent, when there are so many obvious instances of prior art?

KoboldCoterie,
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social avatar

Even if there weren’t a million examples of prior art, the fact that patents on game mechanics are even allowed is just awful for the industry as a whole, and we as players should absolutely rail against this. Every game borrows from other games’ ideas and mechanics - I’d bet money that there hasn’t been a single fully “original” game in 20+ years. If companies are allowed to patent every little mechanic (even ones they didn’t come up with), the industry as a whole will just become impossible to operate in.

Prunebutt,

the fact that patents on game mechanics are even allowed is just awful for the industry as a whole

Yes, definetly.

Infynis,
@Infynis@midwest.social avatar

Every game borrows from other games’ ideas and mechanics

It’s not only games, this is just straight-up how art works. Culture develops over time. Of course capitalism had to get a middleman in there lol

ImplyingImplications,

It’s a Japanese patent. I’m not sure how it would hold up internationally, but Pocketpair is also a Japanese company and this lawsuit is entirely within the Japanese legal system. That probably gives Nintendo a bit of an advantage since they’re such a large and iconic Japanese corporation.

Prunebutt,

Copyright is already cooked, no matter where it’s located. But the way japan acts as if Pokemon invented JRPG battles is simply ridiculous.

otp,

the way japan acts as if Pokemon invented JRPG battles is simply ridiculous.

Am I missing some bit of context? Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy still exist (and came first).

Prunebutt,

That’s what I meant with “prior art”. Nintendo’s second patent basically explains how any old JRPG worked.

narc0tic_bird,

So…Red Dead Redemption infringes two of these three patents?

  • Throwing an object (lasso) to capture a target
  • Player character being able to ride on another character (horse)

Is Nintendo afraid because Rockstar can actually afford the lawsuit?

ComradeMiao,

Don’t let them know that!

CosmoNova,

It‘s likely a japanese patent so I doubt Nintendo can sue Rockstar.

Jaderick, do games w The Witcher IV — Cinematic Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2024

Ciri hyyyyypppppeeeeee

Blackmist,

This trailer is why I can’t really get into the Netflix series version of Ciri. She just doesn’t have this.

muhyb, do gaming w A New Law Just Forced Valve To Change Steam. (Steam is still the same but now they have to state that it is a license and not ownership)

It was always licenses on Steam, nothing changed in their ToS. Though there are some DRM-free games on Steam, even free from Steam-DRM.

brsrklf,

It was technically always licenses for every video game ever commercialised. It’s just that a publisher has no practical way to control what happens to someone’s floppy/optical disc/cartridge/whatever physical media.

Kichae,

Same for almost every book you’ve ever read, every CD you’ve ever listened to, and every movie you’ve ever watched. You owned the leaves of paper the book was printed on, or the plastic disc the music or movie was stamped into, but never the words, the songs, or the movie itself.

We’ve only ever had licenses to consume.

muhyb,

Like Kichae mentioned, every media we buy is technically a license. License to use. However we own the physical part of it and we can use (read, watch, play etc.) it whenever we please. Should be like this with games as well. At least GOG does this. As long as an installer is in our hard drives, it’s a physical media.

Shadywack, do games w Starfield: Shattered Space - Official Launch Trailer
@Shadywack@lemmy.world avatar

I didn’t even get past the mid point of the story, game’s too boring and the loading screens are too ass.

thisbenzingring,

The ending is stupid. It’s fuckin dumb.

IronKrill, do games w Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam.
@IronKrill@lemmy.ca avatar

Better alternatives? That is highly subjective. Itch’s store-front experience sucks balls and they lack 98% of the features Steam has. I appreciate their existence and have bought games from them, but language like that will only serve to alienate people that know how much Itch lacks compared to Steam.

Maven,

Dear god I just wish itch had the ability to sort games in literally any way at all… Please let me sort all the games I got from bundles holy shit it would make me use the store way more…

Honestly even sorting by platform would be enough just fucking anything please

Veraxus, do games w PVKK Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant - Official Announce Trailer | Games Baked in Germany Showcase

Wow, and it’s made with Godot!?

bungle_in_the_jungle, do games w Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser

Shut up. 6 years!? 👴

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

The beforetimes

afk_strats, do games w Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser

It was 5 years and 8 months between the release of Oblivion and Skyrim. Oblivion was released on March 20, 2006, and Skyrim was released on November 11, 2011.

Katana314,

Yes, but we didn’t have AAAAA gaming standards back then. Do you think they could have made a masterpiece like Skull & Bones in those days?

AlexWIWA,

Skyrim is almost three times as old now. I’m going to be honest, I’d rather just have another Skyrim expansion than a modern Bethesda game.

explodicle,
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Check out Beyond Skyrim

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

…which is 9 years old.

explodicle,
@explodicle@sh.itjust.works avatar

Still gonna be done before ES6

AlexWIWA,

This looks awesome

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