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Looking back on MGS2, it's interesting to see how it was criticized for so many things that are now pretty commonplace nowadays, specifically being meta.Well, I've been off Planet Earth this whole week, so who knows?
But YT could have gone nuts again. But I'm at least grateful for it. I didn't touch MGS2 for so many years, it's awesome to see this again, specially these days.
The first three Solid games are in a whole other level.
I don't think I've ever seen such a prophetic meme game in my life.
I see Metal Gear and I get super happy. Also lucky about exams, I'm pretty sure I failed my mid-term LOOOL
NANOMACHINES, SON
It's like it took everything about the Metal Gear series, cranked it up to eleven, put it in a blender and then injected it with a ton of nanomachines and self awareness. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
I feel like Joker has been the longest waited character ever now! We've known about him for like what, almost 4 months now AND still no actual sign of a gameplay trailer. The only wait for a character I can remember being this long for was for Cloud, but even he had some actual gameplay shown off when he got revealed. I know it takes time to develop a character, but this slowness is getting ridiculous. This drought may be even longer than Roy and Ryu's reveal to when we even got Cloud!
I seriously hope they don't do this with the remaining 4 DLC characters, geez…
It's honestly making me wonder if they're trying to do some other stuff behind the scenes. This kind of wait is a little silly, especially if we're supposed to get five characters by February...
It could also be taking long (at least for gameplay and stuff) because of something atlus doesnt want them to reveal yet.
That could be it, but if that was always meant to be the case it's still weird that Joker was revealed so early.
Yeah wasn't there some talk among insiders about Joker being revealed at the game awards being a last minute decision? That would certainly make sense if that were the case.
Maybe to stir up hype for the x-mas season ?
It's a bit odd, though. How last minute are insiders talking here? After all, an animation like that with the voice actors involved isn't something that can be shoehorned in last minute. Animation takes laborious time.
Japan's pretty good with animation. But yeah it still should've taken at least a few days to ready everything, not to mention the voice actors and all.
Given the process of getting the footage proper to Nintendo from Japan and recruiting the English voice acting cast, contracting them for the work, etc., I'd frankly place the best amount of time they'd worked on it at about two weeks. I've seen people speculate that it likely took about a month, and... yeah, honestly, I could see it more like that myself.
Two weeks is reasonable. If they rushed a little i could see it within a week. More likely between 1-2 weeks tho, imo.
That's the thing. I wonder if Nintendo was expecting the last announcements to be way better received, then either panicked or saw less preorders than they were projecting, and revealed Joker to do the job Piranha Plant couldn't.
I mean, I personally love Plant, but... yeah, I don't see why anyone would be rushing out to preorder Smash or buy it early to get it. A more powerful first party probably would have done the job better. Heck, look at Mewtwo for Sm4sh. He did the job well by being highly requested by fans AND being a very popular character for casuals. He stirred the hype and marketed the game very well.
Maybe that animation was initially intended to be shown with a gameplay trailer after, and they had the animation made earlier, but then decided to say screw it and show the animation much earlier without a ready gameplay trailer?
Personally, I think the animation was tailor-made for the Game Awards. Even without the references that could have been redubbed, the idea of keeping the fact that it's a Smash trailer a secret for as long as possible, to me indicates that it was never meant to be on a Nintendo Direct. No matter what, if a nondescript trailer shows up during a Nintendo Direct during Smash season, people will automatically assume Smash trailer, so there's no point in keeping suspense.
When do you think this will happen? Because honestly, I think the only venue we can get two characters revealed is E3, but I'd expect us to know character #2 by the end of April.
Well it's popular enough so that Atlus has shifted the majority of its marketing and focus to Persona 5 content and is on the main-stage for their whole SEGA event going on in 2 weeks.
Exactly. While Persona was already popular in the JRPG community, P5 was the push into the mainstream.
Ehh, I'd argue that Persona 4 was its first push into the mainstream. I remember that game being all over the place and being so huge that many people wouldn't stop talking about it. (Myself included, haha...) That being said, Persona 5 definitely helped it draw further out of its hole as a 'niche' JRPG.
I love Persona 4 to bits but I see it as kind of like FF6. To me Persona 5 is the FF7 equivalent just like how Dragon Quest 3 is the FF7 of that franchise.
Apart from Joker already having multiple civilian names, none of which are Jack, they wouldn't have announced the character with the name Joker at a big event if they weren't going to call him Joker.
If EA has taught me anything, is that sales can be amazing and still not meet internal projections. Not that I really think that's what happened, but it's still a possibility.
