Yeah. It's great to be a multi-millionaire, retired, with the only work you have done is making video games.  He's a child.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

DON'T PLAY THE LAST OF US.

There's an autosaving bug. When you go to your pause screen it says: Autosaving... Please Wait. It won't let you save. It won't let you restart your encounter. It won't let you quit to the main menu... and it is MOST DEFINITELY ---NOT--- saving your progress. I just lost over an hour and a half of gameplay. Naughty Dog is aware and is working on a patch, but no telling when that is coming.

Some Wind Waker info:

Wind Waker is played mostly using the GamePad’s face buttons and control sticks, but there is a bit of touchscreen integration beyond simply displaying a mini-map. The good news is that none of these additional elements were necessary, so you aren't forced to engage in touch-based minigames just to proceed. However, the ability to manage and swap out items directly on the GamePad is both an effective and useful addition. The other major feature of the GamePad – and something that we know many gamers are hoping for — is that it does support off-screen play, and everything looks just as crisp when scaled down to the smaller screen. The GamePad’s gyroscope can also optionally be used to aim or look around through Link’s telescope, an unsurprising addition as similar controls were implemented in 2011’s 3DS release of Ocarina of Time

HOMER!! <3

darthhomer said:

Fuck, I JUST BOUGHT A COPY!

Also, greetings from Los Angeles! I meant to get back onto here beforehand, but E3's been pretty goddamned nuts. Remind me next year to stay at home at watch the trailers, kay? Much less exhausting than travelling all over the LA Convention Center for meetings and waiting in lines for stuff.

Awesome!  Where can we see your coverage again? Hoping to go next e3.

Dvader said:

Awesome!  Where can we see your coverage again? Hoping to go next e3.

newgameplus.tv - none of it is up yet (the dudes with the footage are still in the US), but should be up within the next few weeks or so.

It's worth doing at least once! It's tiring as all hell, but you get a lot out of it. And there's plenty of people to meet, run into or see rushing to appointments.

For instance, I happened to see Kaz Yamamuchi and TRANSLATOR GUY, meet Michael Pachter and some of the Supergiant guys.

I heard Pachter is a really nice guy, true?

translator guy is still around!!! I rather interview him.

With DLC becoming a huge standard in the video game industry, particularly for fighting games, many are no doubt wondering if Smash Bros. producer Masahiro Sakurai plans to take a similar approach. Sakurai told me in an interview that his sole focus right now is making the best possible game he can, and that currently he has no plans for DLC.

"At the current time we have no plans," Sakurai told me. "I consider my job at this point, and my main responsibility, to make the Wii U and 3DS versions the best and the fullest experience possible. That said, once finished, it's the type of thing we could take into consideration, but for now, you could consider DLC as not being in the cards."

Sakurai also confirmed to me that tripping, a significant and frustrating element from Super Smash Bros. Brawl had been removed. The series creator described the gameplay direction of Super Smash Bros. Wii U and Super Smash Bros. 3DS as being somewhere between the faster, more competitive style of Melee and the slower, more casual design of Brawl. No doubt that will be good news for those wanting a better compromise.

The Multiplayer is FANTASTIC, but I have no idea what I am doing! They don't explain it --AT ALL-- in the digital manual... This one's gonna last a while, still! That seems to be unaffected by the bug --BUT-- if you play Online, then go to play Single Player, sign out first!

Aonuma on triforce quest:


"As for the Triforce quest, it was basically a process of finding maps and then following that map to another location, but I think what some people didn’t like is that sometimes you would find a map and it would take you to another map. It was a series of steps you had to take in order to get to the Triforce. Maybe people felt like they were getting the runaround a little bit. I thought that whole process of adventuring was kind of fun, but it also did take a while to get to some of the maps.


We’re planning on streamlining that a little bit. Maybe you’ll get a map, and it’ll lead you to the Triforce and then you’ll get it and move on to the next one. The longer it took to get to your destination, the more disconnected, I think, the players felt. It’s not that we’re cutting out all of those steps, but we will streamline them."