edgecrusher said:

You guys who played Dark Souls, do you find it harder than Demon's Souls?

No I think Demon's was harder cause of the death penalty.

Dvader said:

edgecrusher said:

Watch Dogs, Dragon Age 3, Dark Souls 2, The Order. Are those basically the 4 biggest games coming out this year?

Batman will sell better than all those.

I forgot that one.

I've heard that a ton about the game, may have to check it out.

Glad we could cheer you up leo, that was fun. Had a great time chatting with all you guys tonight.

edgecrusher said:

Foolz said:

aspro said:

link

The other notable omission is in the cast of characters’ diversity. After 30 years there are still zero Mario characters of color, a problem that Mario Kart 8 highlights by lining up all the characters on a single screen. When it comes to human characters, Mario Kart 8 is overwhelmingly white. Of the 29 drivers, 14 are human (including Toad and Toadette), and every single one of them is white. While it’d be atypical of Nintendo to introduce new characters into a Mario Kart game, it’s also where the deficit is the most obvious, and during play I found myself disappointed that Nintendo’s stable of characters so painfully fails to reflect the diversity of its audience.

Laughs the guy who called anyone who didn't like San Andreas racist.

I just find it hilarious that they are accusing a bunch of Japanese guys of having too many white characters.....JAPANESE GUYS! Would it be an issue if all the characters looked Asian? Or would this suddenly not be an issue because AT LEAST THEY'RE NOT WHITE?

Society is strange these days in some places, in how some people like whoever wrote this crap, seem to act like its almost bad to be "white", or "white" is evil, etc.

It's the internet. Whoever shouts racist or sexist first is clearly in the right. What struck me about this one was the utter bullshit of the guy caliming that he just could not enjoy himself as he played it, what with all this racism going on.

I finished up Dragon's Crown last week, and what a bunch of horseshit that brouhaha was (the whole this-game-is-sexist thing). I played as an amazon, a strong female characther that was a true hero to all aruond her.  She was admired for her strength, honor and bravery.  When she walked into a room it was not like, "A woman can't be a hero, get outta here".

How she appeared did not affect her character or my opinion of her (nor the opinions of the characters in the game). In fact, wouldn;t it be sexist to assume that because she was attractive she should not be a hero?

travo said:

Dvader said:

The day it comes out.

Most games do this now so it isn't really a sign of something bad.

It was kind of funny to see Mario Kart reviews a full two weeks before it releases. I really did begin to believe the date was bumped up.

Yeah that was a week too early I think (coud have kept the hype hot). I like it when companies release a game from embargo a week ahead, it's universally a good sign of it's quality.

Day of is still iffy IMO. If they knew it was "Last of Us Mario Kart" great then they would be priming the pump by releasing the embargo in advance.

Foolz said:

aspro said:

It's the internet. Whoever shouts racist or sexist first is clearly in the right. What struck me about this one was the utter bullshit of the guy caliming that he just could not enjoy himself as he played it, what with all this racism going on.

I finished up Dragon's Crown last week, and what a bunch of horsehit that brouhaha was (the whole this game is sexist thing). I played as an amazon, a strong female characther that was a true hero to all aruond her.  She was admired for her strength, honor and bravery.  When she walked into a room it was not like, "A woman can't be a hero, get outta here".

How she appeared did not affect her character or my opinion of her (nor the opinions of the characters in the game). In fact, wouldn;t it be sexist to assume that because she was attractive she should not be a hero?

The Amazon, like everyone in Dragon's Crown, was grotesquely ugly.

You are right, in fact Tom she was grotesque (in the truest form of the word). As were the so-called "sexy" characters.

Foolz said:

... But I always find it bizarre that Japan gets so much flack as being sexist in this context, when Japanese heroines are usually heroines with no qualifier; unlike Western ones who are generally still subservient or overtly physically weaker than their male counterparts, even if they're wearing a hijab instead of a bikini; even if they're written for women: because it's not sexist and doesn't perpetuate cultural sexism by overtly emphasising the differences in prescribed cultural taste and demanding that the differences be even further exaggerated through this discourse, and the subsequent manipulation of the discourse's subject and consumers...

Ex-ACT-ly. Nail on the head. Even the "toned-down" Lara Croft (I loved the game Raven, this is not about the game) was still the developers saying, "Hey? Hey? See, Woman. Strong Woman Character. Huh-Huh? See What we did there? We made a strong female character. That's FE-male for all you ladies out there, Aren't we liberated?" Read same for Chloe in Uncharted 2.

White western men are just too self-aware of their own prejudices to not be prejudiced. (yes, yes, I get what I just said also).

aspro said:

Hey Fz, I am at the Euclid is wrong level where someone just became a big statue. How close to the end fo Paop y Yo am I?

No idea.

gamingeek said:

WTF???

Hyrule Warriors could have been a Tecmo developed (Real) Zelda title.

“The Legend of Zelda has a history of 27 years, and the way it is played has already been well-established,” says Hayashi. “So at first, we went in the direction of wanting to make something that could follow the way The Legend of Zelda is played.”

“However, that is something you could experience by playing any game of The Legend of Zelda series, and even if we could imitate the surface of it, it’s not something we could actually make. In the end, we realized that it would be best to make a Warriors title that has elements from The Legend of Zelda series.”

Aonuma adds, “There wouldn’t be a reason for making it a Warriors [game] otherwise, right? I wanted Tecmo Koei to make a Zelda game that I can’t make. And for this reason, I asked them to ‘give it more of a Warriors approach’.”

Read more at http://www.siliconera.com/2014/05/22/hyrule-warriors-part-aonumas-plan-break-away-zelda-traditions/#Vb8qKt0R6dzXqToV.99

I read that differently from how you do. I read the emphasis on the "that I can’t make".

aspro said:

I read that differently from how you do. I read the emphasis on the "that I can’t make".

It says they started making a game like a traditional Zelda, then realised they couldn't do as good, then Aonuma pushed them to make it more like Warriors.

aspro said:

I re-read it. I still don't think that is the reading. If read kindly it could be, "Nintendo could not handle the workload of making all their franchises into HD so asked us for some ideas. They realized our concept of Zelda was shit aand said, "Well maybe you can make this a Warriors game?" We said, "Ye$ plea$e!".

No, if you read the earlier articles yesterday or before you'll see that the Warriors games have had about 5 or so crossover games and this seems to be the latest. Team Ninja's work on Other M probably sweetened the deal.

"At first, we went in the direction of wanting to make something that could follow the way The Legend of Zelda is played.”

To me this reads like they started off, conceptually wanting to make a zelda game in the traditional way Zelda is played, i.e puzzles, dungeons, open fields etc Then they realised they couldn't make that as they weren't good enough:

“Even if we could imitate the surface of it, it’s not something we could actually make."

So they decided it would be easier to make a Warriors style game:

"In the end, we realized that it would be best to make a Warriors title that has elements from The Legend of Zelda series."

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