SupremeAC said:

Yes, but this wasn't a side mission, it's an affinity mission.  And there is a marker, they just made it so that it was entered as a seperate quest, without any notification that you had accepted it as being such, nor with automatically setting it as your next destination.  All in all, it's sloppily executed.

Nothing from the first quest leads to the separate part? Like Oblivia trailblazing part 1, 2 etc etc?

Takahashi, Eguchi, Koizumi will decide what NX games are made Not like in the past when it was Iwata and Miyamoto

Nintendo working to foster younger developers introduce them to the public

They damn well took their time.  Miyamoto's in his sixties by now, isn't he?  

Since everyone is in to puzzlers thanks to The Witness, I figured now was a good time to mention that English Country Tune, an abstract puzzler I loved, is currently 90% (€0.49) off on Steam.

Nintendo making a lot of good decisions lately.

gamingeek said:

The Wii Sports guy. The Animal Crossing guy and the Mario Galaxy guy. You sure you're happy.

At the worst its going to be the same stuff as usual. At least these guys are not the usual suspects & would seem more willing to branch out and take chances. Miyamoto is a great developer but in terms of him leading an entire company's direction and library, he's never impressed me.

What if Animal Crossing was an NX launch game?

Personally I wouldn't know what franchise would be best to launch the NX with.  All their franchises are a bit niche these days, save for Pokémon, Mario Kart and NSMB.  Perhaps a full-on 3D pokémon game would be the most impactfull, as it'd sell well to the previously only handheld owning crowd.

I'm still hopefull for a  new F-zero or Wave Race at some point.

I'm sure it won't happen, but how about launching with a goddamn Metroid? Some kind of modern Metroid with a big budget. I don't care who its made by. Let Bungie make it.

New Gameplay Previews, Videos, & Impressions from Quantum Break:


GamesRadar Video "Quantum Break Powers & What They All Look Like": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pikh6UrRe0k


IGN Video Preview "Quantum Break is a Shooter with Brains": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9OaGMi4RaM

GameStar Preview Video (foreign language, but has new footage): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9920pUcS1c


40 minutes of straight gameplay with a foreign commentator for Dome.fi :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAIqnbJ__vs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXJ28mushic


Gameplay Video "So Time Suddenly Has Malfunctioned": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRvU0DmMMDM

Gameplay Video "Frozen in Time": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uwxzwsYL0k

Gameplay Video "Ambush in the Car": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22DjLhxKk1Y


IGN: http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/02/...er-with-brains

Quantum Break represents a bold step for Remedy Entertainment and a high profile console exclusive for Microsoft. Having spent several hours playing and re-playing the opening four acts of the game, exploring its time manipulation powers and collecting pieces of its optional storytelling items, I’m certainly more encouraged than I had expected to be. The show offers an interesting take on the trans-media experience, which has not been very well represented in the past, and looks like it could be capable of some smart uses of its central themes. It may have suffered numerous delays during its development but Quantum Break could yet turn out to be worth the long wait.

Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...al-blockbuster

Lake describes Quantum Break as “Remedy’s summer blockbuster movie” and that’s definitely what it feels like – a big, slightly silly, sci-fi popcorn flick, with lovely visuals and a neat line in meta-humour (there’s a superb Alan Wake easter egg in one of the university lecture theatres). Microsoft clearly called in Remedy because it needed the studio’s brilliance with narrative, but in the bid to make a mainstream thriller, the old idiosyncrasies have been ironed out. So far, Joyce seems kind of vanilla, maybe even boring. He’s no Wake and he’s certainly no Payne – the weird, psychological wonkiness of those guys is gone. And, hey, how about a female lead for a change? It seemed originally that Beth was going to be playable alongside Joyce; there may even have been early plans to have her as the main protagonist – but all that was jettisoned.

Gamespot: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/kil.../1100-6434682/

Quantum Break seeks to marry the interactivity of games with the passive storytelling of TV shows. It’s the culmination of an idea Remedy first flirted with in Max Payne, then again in Alan Wake. Smartly, the Finnish studio has anchored its wild narrative ambitions on third-person shooting that feels empowering and thrilling. Will it be able to pull the whole thing off though? Time will tell.

GameReactor: http://www.gamereactor.eu/previews/3...Quantum+Break/

Quantum Break is going to be an extremely interesting game. The mix of our time spent hands-on with the game and the live-action left us with a good feeling. The long wait and the delay from last year had cooled our expectations, but the preview event rekindled our hopes. It seems that Remedy has used that extra time well and Quantum Break looks like one of the most visually and narratively ambitious video games in a long time. It's a fascinating hybrid of a sci-fi action game and live-action storytelling, but it's almost impossible to gauge how well everything will lock into place by the end. There is also no avoiding that for some people the live-action scenes will feel like an unnecessary gimmick. Remedy seems to know this, but has chosen this route with the intention of breaking new ground in video game storytelling. We can't wait to get our hands on the final game in April.

GamesRadar: http://www.gamesradar.com/quantum-br...ax-payne-game/

It’s testament to just how much fun that core gameplay is that you’ll feel tempted to do so. Remedy may well have failed to reinvent the digital wheel here, but did anyone really want the studio that almost exclusively makes twisted takes on third-person shooters to do so? Behind the bluster, we seem to have a worthy new-gen expansion of Max Payne’s core ideals; of gunplay and time manipulation, and pulpy genre fiction - the very stuff that made Remedy famous in the first place. If that’s to be Quantum Break’s true legacy, I’m more than happy to get behind it.

Financial Post Sam Lake Interview Part 1: http://business.financialpost.com/fp..._lsa=8099-438a

Financial Post Sam Lake Interview Part 2: http://business.financialpost.com/fp..._lsa=8099-438a

SupremeAC said:

Personally I wouldn't know what franchise would be best to launch the NX with.  All their franchises are a bit niche these days, save for Pokémon, Mario Kart and NSMB.  Perhaps a full-on 3D pokémon game would be the most impactfull, as it'd sell well to the previously only handheld owning crowd.

I'm still hopefull for a  new F-zero or Wave Race at some point.

Zelda or Mario of course. Should be Zelda.