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I say just report it if you feel it breaks any rules.
I think it's the reason why most of what he says reads like a hot take to me regardless of whether or not it actually is one. lol
The silence is just really confusing to me. Like, would it really have been impossible to do a Direct this month like they normally would have anyways? Other companies are getting things together, why can't Nintendo? It's just weird, although I won't pretend to know what's going on behind the scenes with them: There probably are factors we're not aware of that is causing them to be so sporadic with news.
I don't think it actually does break any rules but it would be nice if they decided to contribute to the discussion instead of constantly repeating the same stuff. Either way I don't really want to derail anything but thanks anyway.
I honestly can't explain it in public, cause that'd just be making an example out of a user. And that's not cool nor ever was. But that's a given that nobody should be dogpiled on or used as a punching bag. We should be better than that.
Wow, I really need to get off this sinking ship. The state of speculation is so horrible rn.
I think it was PushDustIn on twitter. I think we've had that more than once too? Like last year as well.
I hope no one thought I was dogpiling. I accidentally wrote sensible instead of same so I edited that into the post. Either way I think they should try not to repeat the same stuff at least a little less. Sorry for derailing discussion before but I just wanted to clear that up.
Eh, I still think they could have at least benefited from someone who knew how to develop for the Switch (I believe Koei Techmo's engine for Fire Emblem Warriors was used for Fire Emblem: Three Houses). It certainly wouldn't have changed the content, but it may have improved the game's optimization and/or presentation.
I've known this for a while now. I just hope we'll get a great Pokémon RPG that doesn't make me "what if" it to death. Were I the owner of the biggest multimedia franchise in the world, I'd install a revolving door of dev teams so that we can have our yearly releases for the anime, and an actual 3 year dev cycle to keep up the quality. I know it already has an A team and a B team, but the B team only works on smaller projects it seems.
You make it sound like they had the time to implement this stuff. They didn't. It wasn't just the number of employees. That hurts a bit, but they couldn't do more than clean up a few bugs with extra people.
Yeah, there could be cool spin-offs, but a new dev team won't do much of anything. Remember, the dev team isn't responsible for it having little time to be worked on.
Don't get us wrong, we are frustrated, but I'm pretty sure all occurrences of "this wait is ruining my life" is hyperbole.
It's too dry is the problem. We don't even have secondary discussion topics like new spirits or ads to talk about.
To be fair, a lot of people can't even work due to the pandemic, so it's far more stressful on some than others.
Optimization is based on code structure, which means it's not something you just do afterward. I believe adding people who know how best to go about this right from the start would sitll improve optimization even given the same amount of time, as there would be less issues to begin with. It wouldn't solve all the problems, but I think it's reasonable to expect that it would make at least some of them less aggressive.
I don't think you get what I meant. My line of thinking is that if you have 3 different dev teams work on 3 different generations at a time, the first dev team would still get one year, but the second one would get two since the first team had their game released to meet the quota, and the third team would have three years. After that, all three teams would get three years of time to make their games, and you'd still meet the quota. Sure it'd be costly, but considering how wealthy The Pokémon company is and how they can make millions on barely different "ultimate" versions of the games they just released, I feel like they could afford something like this. (Also, I believe I've been told that this is how Assassin's Creed works.)
We literally had massive riots, protests, and gatherings a few weeks ago and everything is opening back up.
All the more reason to be stressed.
Not to get too political, but I kind of feel that "for now" is the key word here. I don't know what's going to happen in the near future, but I don't think the problem is solved (on top of people still needing to get their jobs back), and it's definitely understandable to worry until it is. Don't overdo it, that only hurts you, but it's still understandable that you do.
That still takes time, to be fair.
Well, they can't really split up the "anime" itself, to be fair. That follows a pretty strict timeline. The games, yes.
It doesn't really... work that way. Not that easily. You'd need twice the size at least to get anything similar.
It won't work. Filler is massively hated too much to ever try again. Pokemon Chronicles and Pokemon Orange Islands went over super poorly. The former went over a bit better only because the other characters were used. The latter was scoffed at for adding almost nothing but some development for Charizard at best.
Quarantine is definitely not "over". There's still some hard rules on the extra stuff you need to wear. There's many places that aren't open up fully yet. A lot of dine-in areas are still closed.
To be fair, while Three Houses is excellent even it had its own cut corners. For instance, one route feels like it got cut off with another having a completely dropped plotline, assets are reused quite a bit with two routes having nearly the exact same structure, and there some animation quirks here and there (though thankfully they're better hidden). It's still a phenomenal game, but even with the help from Koei and delays IS did have their own struggles when moving to an HD console.
Its a Gen 8 Pokemon anyway, its not worth getting upset if we don’t see FP7
From PushDustin's twitter:
Soo it looks like excerpts of Sakurai's column might've leaked a full day early. It's about COVID-19, and the potential impact of Smash's development.
— Will (PushDustIn) (@PushDustIn) March 17, 2020
Take it with a grain of salt as it's not the full column so things might not be fully contextualized.
(Thread)
Not confirmed.
I'm more curious as to why it's already almost the end of June and we don't know what this year's holiday title is. Like, after Paper Mario next month, we know absolutely nothing about anything, and there's no way BotW2 and Metroid Prime 4 are anywhere close to ready.
That would have struck me as unlikely at one point, but I'm coming around to that as a possibility more and more. Showing off the ARMS fighter on the 30th and then not getting anything till late July or early August hardly feels out of step with the rate and significance of Nintendo reveals as of late.
That was probably hit harder development-wise than some things. That or they're spreading out their information for the year due to being impossible to have a Direct. Zelda needs an outright showcase like Pokemon does to work. You can't drop a main game like this over Twitter. TOK is not a big deal since PM isn't as popular as it once was. It's not a core game at all.
I don't necessarily think the Spirits are hard deconfirms, but I do wonder if Nintendo cared enough for the IP to blindly promote it with a character before they had any assurance the series would be a success. Part of the reason why ARMS may have gotten a fighter is because the game had decent sales and Nintendo knew they'd be doing something with the IP in the future. Nintendo may have not known whether or not they'd do anything with Ring Fit going forward if the game bombed, which may have made them hesitant to commit to a character.
*Us outside Nintendo HQ, July 2020, Colorized: *
Would have to re-check things, but I personally wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo follows a "Summer of" schedule a la what Keighley is doing. Partly because reveals have been sparse, partly because they might not have enough confidence they can pull off an ordinary Direct after the March mini.
Yeah but now they have 8 whole games to take their filler from. Instead of having "more of the same, but now I don't care", they could easily make a cool story that fleshes out some legendary or mythical Pokémon. Though I suppose the lighthearted tone of the series could keep them from doing too particularly interesting or wide-scale...
The anime is made strictly to advertise the games. It has to be filler content from the specific games being advertised.
This makes sense. They had one made for March before the pandemic hit them hard. They can't do a Mini-Direct easily anymore.
Hey look, it's a 2020 joke I can actually relate to. lol
Eh, they could do something with Zarude that isn't just...having it exist. Or Cubfu or Cylarex or whatever if they don't use them in the main story/slap them on a movie and call it a day.
Isle of Armor/Crown of Tundra is the main game, so it wouldn't be filler anyway.
Yeah, I was referring to the next Pokémon Go exclusive with Meltan as the example. You know there's going to be another one to go with the next Let's Go games.
I think there's an assumption that Game Freak/The Pokemon Company march to the beat of their own drum, somewhat separate from Nintendo in terms out output and/or reveals. Whatever one can say about the innovation or polish of Pokemon titles (or lack thereof), the brand does seem to put out news or updates at a decent pace and consistency.
I think it's safe to say that the movies aren't stopping either. Though to be fair, what's the last Sun/Moon movie? Haven't they cut down on the advertisement movies a bit? I know there's some Gen 1 movies to push Let's Go/Go in general, though. So it might be plausible. But you're going to need a lot of Pokemon to justify an entire year long filler arc.
