Come to Austin for Pokkén Tournament Action

There's actually a big gaming tournament/convention coming up in Orlando this summer called CEO Gaming. It's actually a pretty big deal. One of the first sneak peaks of Pokken was done at it last year. My friends own a giant comic book shop, and they're hosting a preliminary tournament for it at their store, and I was considering entering for Pokken right up until this weekend. I got my ass completely handed to me. Definitely humbled me to what my true skill level is. So I'll be saving my $10 entry fee and spend it on crack or something.

Angry_Beaver said:

Anyone know if the free digital downloads of Dark Souls 1 that come with Dark Souls 3 contain the Artorias of the Abyss DLC, or just the base game?

Not sure, but make sure you read a FAQ of how to even enable the DLC in game. It isn't like most games where you go through it via menu, you have to do it in-game and it's very cryptic to say the least.

phantom_leo said:

I find it kinda ironic that people would flip out over the thought of a PS4.5 in the middle of a system's generation...

...but if Nintendo does it, it's just fine.

NX is basically Wii U 1.5...

Nintendo system with a controller with a screen and remastered ports of their only popular titles...

If it has the option for Ultra HD, it's pretty much exactly the same concept.

I feel the same about the NX. Fuck them both. RIP console gaming etc. Xbox One is the secret best console this gen etc.

And, on NX. Let's at least pause to see what it is before we decree it the Wii 1.75. Yeah, the Wii U was a simple iteration, maybe NX will be a leap forward. One can only hope.

edgecrusher said:

Day-um.

That brings me back.

gamingeek said:

Day-um.

That brings me back.

Your blogs are still on the corpse of 1up...I found them last night.

GAF NX rumour:

10k deleted the tweet after people here could not recognize that it was a rumor from just one source that he could not corrobate yet compared to the information he posted on NeoGAF which was confirmed with multiple sources.



The rumor he heard is that the gamepad does indeed have a screen and is able to connect with the console via remote from anywhere. It's not a fully functional handheld but you can take it with you and play your games from with any WiFi connection.

EDIT:

This^ also meshes with what the Wall Street Journal said before:

The exact shape of the NX hardware isn't yet clear. People familiar with the development plans said Nintendo would likely include both a console and at least one mobile unit that could either be used in conjunction with the console or taken on the road for separate use. They also said Nintendo would aim to put industry-leading chips in the NX devices, after criticism that the Wii U's capabilities didn't match those of competitors.

Also:

Originally Posted by 10k

"From my understanding, the new (NX) architecture will allow for more compute unites at lower clock speeds, but theoretical performance will be twice as PS4 GPU. Which is the rumored raw spec of PS4K. That's what was said."

Originally Posted by Eiji Aonuma:

Wind Waker 2

Let me backtrack a little. As I was busy working on the connectivity project, it wasn’t as though the Wind Waker 2 project that I spoke of earlier came to a halt. Not at all. As some of you know, at E3 2004, we unveiled the game that would become Twilight Princess, the realistic Zelda game, and we announced that it was developed by the team that had been developing Wind Waker 2. Actually, there was a reason that that decision was made at the time. At one point, I had heard that even Wind Waker, which had reached the million mark in sales, had become sluggish in North America, where the market was much healthier than in Japan. I asked NOA why this was. What I was told was that the toon-shading technique was, in fact, giving the impression that this Zelda was for a younger audience and that, for this reason, it alienated the upper teen audience that had represented the typical Zelda player. Having heard that, I began to worry about whether Wind Waker 2, which used a similar presentation, was something that would actually sell. In addition, because we knew how difficult it would be to create an innovative way of playing using existing GameCube hardware, we knew what a challenge it would be to develop something that would do well in the Japanese market, where gamer drift was happening.

That’s when I decided that if we didn’t have an effective and immediate solution, the only thing we could do was to give the healthy North American market the Zelda that they wanted. So, at the end of 2003, I went to Miyamoto and said, “I want to make a realistic Zelda." Miyamoto was skeptical at first. I was so focused on changing the look of the game as being the solution we were looking for without coming up with a breakthrough game idea, and he advised me that “If you really want to make a realistic Zelda, you should start by doing what you couldn’t in the Ocarina of Time. Make it so that Link can attack enemies while riding on his horse using the Wind Waker engine, and make your decision based on how that feels." This is something that went against everything that the staff had been working on and I expected to come as quite a shock to the team. Surprisingly, my entire staff was enthusiastic about this change, and the project on which progress had slowed was given a much-needed jumpstart.

Four months later, development had progressed to a point where Link could swing his sword in battle against enemies while riding on his horse in a realistic looking environment. When it was announced as a surprise trailer at the 2004 E3, it received a standing ovation by the media audience. This was a very exciting moment for us, but we were still very much in the early stages of converting the game into something more realistic. We knew that we had to create a Zelda game that would live up to expectations of fans in North America, and that if we didn’t, it could mean the end of the franchise.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/f...f-wind-waker-2

travo said:

Wow!  I love those thoughts by Aonuma.  Amazing that they were so reluctant to make a realistic Zelda when they've always received a great reception from those games.

"That’s when I decided that if we didn’t have an effective and immediate solution, the only thing we could do was to give the healthy North American market the Zelda that they wanted"

That's the thing, Nintendo is always trying too hard to do different things, when sometimes they just need to do this^

I remember Skyward Sword took ages to develop because they couldn't nail down an art style. It shouldn't take that long. Wish Nintendo would have a conceptual team working while the production team did the grunt work and get the Zelda production rolling more smoothly so we didn't have to wait 4-5 years for a new one.

Punk Rebel Ecks said:

Not sure, but make sure you read a FAQ of how to even enable the DLC in game. It isn't like most games where you go through it via menu, you have to do it in-game and it's very cryptic to say the least.

That's true.  There is a passage in Darkroot Basin where you kill the Hydra on the wall next to where the Golden Golem appears.