News Thread 10: Beautiful Posts

more FMV trash (complementary) on the Big Switch, please

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Time for a dual mouse Sin and Punishment sequel

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They should bring the eye toy back

my guess is they don’t have an obvious use case for the mouse, it’ll just kind of be there as a ‘why not’ feature. I realize nintendo has historically highlighted their gimmicks, but, well, switch 2

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Maybe it has some kind of built-in web browser app.

Oh wait it’s probably because Halo is going to be on Switch 2 now that Xbox games are going platform agnostic or whatever.

They’re probably also anticipating 2-player mouse games where each player gets one of the joycons. Watch it launch with a co-op version of the Mario Paint fly swatter minigame.

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I would love a new Mario Paint. Make it a pack-in.

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If they brought back Wii style pack-in applications, Mario Paint would be perfect!

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The only way ‘using a mouse’ as the gimmick isn’t disappointing is if it launches with a, newly re-spunoff, R&D1-developed full productivity suite entitled Wii for Workgroups

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I have no interesting in buying this game for a…4th time but I do like that this unnecessary remake everything looks like a computer render from a PS2 FMV.

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The way indies and other devs are talking about giving GTA such a wide berth in terms of release date is kinda depressing imo. I think it makes practical business sense but it’s like the entire industry is just admitting that their entire livelihood depends on this huge roulette wheel spin. Like GTA6 has reviewer scores, GOTY, free real estate to maximise sales all in the bag, going off of just vibes I guess? Like I get it’ll be successful but it’s become self-fulfilling prophecy with barely any information shared.

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well GTA6 is going to be a hundred dollar game so it’ll be the only game the best and most important audience can afford this year

with any luck, all the struggling studios will chomp at the bit to be support devs for GTA6 Online and the next wave of Shark Cards becomes the new crypto

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okay I’m not broke brained

https://rq87.flyingomelette.com/RQ/A&E/EE/proto.html

are you a bad enough multi-sprite dude to steal the Necronomicon for President Coolidge

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I wondered if Hasbro would be trying to spin up more internal video game dev since they can’t get another release out of Larian and it turns out I missed they formed a AAA studio called Skeleton Key under WotC in 2022 and they’ve been hoovering up some ex-Bioware people.

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Newly minted Baldur’s Gate fans are gonna be hilariously disappointed in the step down from Larian to Bioware

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i did some work on this one, they hired me to do one of the little interactive fiction sections that nobody likes in this kind of game but which used to be included so people know that the developers have heard of twine.
you start out as a 10 year old boy who grows older in realtime as you play. if you get WASTED or arrested by the police it gradually arrests your growth due to malnutrition. the choices you make will determine your character’s final height, which comes into play in the ending (need to pull a lever that’s high up on the wall). the playable map is small at first since you can’t drive but gradually gets larger and larger, due to globalization. jumping around ingame will slowly level up your Jump Level, allowing you to go from clearing small ledges to being able to clear slightly taller ledges. the token british guy that rockstar have to put in all these games to remain eligible for uk arts funding is named harold nice but is not really very nice at all. there’s also an “easter egg” shout out to the company’s past making british commodore titles in that every one of the vehicle minigames is the worst most joyless shit you’ve ever played. your mission throughout is to acquire seed money to create the world’s first home blood testing machine, which will avert Dark Future. natasha lyonne is in it playing a ghost. it seemed pretty good i predict it’ll sell 100 million copies and you’ll never hear anyone talk about it a year after it comes out but there’ll be a winsome videogame photography exhibit featuring the one shot of a deer on a freeway which is always in these things and people who grow up with it on their friends ps5 will remember it with the same mix of fondness and contempt their parents had for simpsons road rage and spongebob battle for bikini bottom. the remnants of games journalism will get into a bitter civil war about whether the inevitable annoying pronoun joke cutscene counts as “labour” and all will perish in the tumult. a thousand years pass…

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Did you know there was a AAA quality semi-Afrofuturist steampunk US Civil War-meets-WWI soulslike with Neo God of War characteristics based on the Mesopotamian pantheon by the same people that made Ashen, another derivative AAA soulslike that absolutely nobody played?

If it hadn’t been for my least favorite youtuber, I wouldn’t have either

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Happy Black History Month everybodyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

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All I remember was watching trailers and the YouTube comments being full of gamers wailing and gnashing about WOKE