I think FF VII would probably be my answer for all the reasons listed by @SammyJ9. But I'd also wanna shout out another 1997 game: Little Big Adventure 2. You have a nice, emotional FMV movie with the great music by Philippe Vachey, and then you start the game and the kind of tutorial is really well done, you start to collect your belongings from your house so it really feels like a sequel, and immediately you can see the differences with the first game. Can't wait to replay it on Switch.Geography 101: What is the best opening level in gaming? This can be answered multiple ways. It could be from a tutorial perspective, game design perspective, most fun sequence. It’s up to you to decide and explain why.
Something that still exists with PlayStation but should be brought back for Nintendo would be the speakers on the controllers. It adds so much to the immersion.Archaeology 101: What hardware/software feature from the past needs to be brought back to modern consoles or future consoles? This can be a controller setting, design philosophy, or operating system level function. It’s up to you to decide and explain why.
Did they confirm them for Switch? A quick search shows they intended them for consoles but there are no updates on the remakes. Apparently they promised to show off PC version in June but they didn't, on top of that they cancelled the third game which was in concept phase.Can't wait to replay it on Switch.
Did they confirm them for Switch? A quick search shows they intended them for consoles but there are no updates on the remakes. Apparently they promised to show off PC version in June but they didn't, on top of that they cancelled the third game which was in concept phase.
I'm not counting on this remakes will ever see the light of day.
They just said “PC and consoles”, but I am just optimistic that they will target Switch if they want to release the game on consoles. They had a pre-alpha playtest for the remaster last month, so it’s definitely still in development, but my understanding is that the progress is slow since they are still looking for some publisher money. I think it’s very plausible that we see a Kickstarter for the remasters in the upcoming months.Did they confirm them for Switch? A quick search shows they intended them for consoles but there are no updates on the remakes. Apparently they promised to show off PC version in June but they didn't, on top of that they cancelled the third game which was in concept phase.
I'm not counting on this remakes will ever see the light of day.
They did? Can you give a YouTube link? I'm not searching it correctly, I think.Depends on what you mean by showing it off? Because it did have a demo/playtest released on Steam in June. I did not play it, but there's videos of it on YT.
Where they supposed to have a showcase of it?
Gonna go for the boring answer here and say: Super Mario Bros 1-1. It subtly teaches you everything you need to know to start playing Mario: Go left, jump on enemies, mushrooms good. And that without a single textbox and within less than a few hundred seconds.Geography 101: What is the best opening level in gaming? This can be answered multiple ways. It could be from a tutorial perspective, game design perspective, most fun sequence. It’s up to you to decide and explain why.
I'm not sure... do Hall Effect Joysticks count? Sega used them back in the Saturn and somehow nobody else used the technology, would certainly help with the drift issues modern controllers are all prone to.Archaeology 101: What hardware/software feature from the past needs to be brought back to modern consoles or future consoles? This can be a controller setting, design philosophy, or operating system level function. It’s up to you to decide and explain why.
The clock tower opening of Bayonetta. It has everything: invincibility, amazing set pieces, no matter which button you press you do amazing stuff, incredible narration which sets you up for a great story, mind blowing soundtrack. It really sets you up for one hell of a ride!Geography 101: What is the best opening level in gaming? This can be answered multiple ways. It could be from a tutorial perspective, game design perspective, most fun sequence. It’s up to you to decide and explain why.
I would love a follow up, I guess more of a new entry and not a direct sequel. Cause there is a ton of mythos to play with.
I know we hear that SE wants to focus on bigger games but fingerscross they greenlit this one
surprised its not number 1, 2d mario sells like crazyMario Wonder Direct putting in work. The game shot up to #5 on Amazon's best sellers list for games.
surprised its not number 1, 2d mario sells like crazy
Holy shit, thank you for the heads up! I'll want to keep a sharp eye on this; Hotel Dusk may never return but the story telling and puzzles were always top notchNew game from the writer of Hotel Dusk and Trace Memory/Another Code. I know some people here are fans of those. Also, very weird premise...
IzanagiGames and Hotel Dusk: Room 215 writer Rika Suzuki announce mystery adventure game Dark Auction: Hitler’s Estate for Switch, PC
IzanagiGames has announced Dark Auction: Hitler’s Estate, a new “authentic mystery adventure” game featuring a story written by Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Trace Memories writer Rika…www.gematsu.com
Edit: didn't see there was a thread https://famiboards.com/threads/dark-auction-hitler’s-estate-switch-pc-announced-by-rika-suzuki-hotel-dusk-and-izanagigames-coming-2024.7350/
Did they confirm them for Switch? A quick search shows they intended them for consoles but there are no updates on the remakes. Apparently they promised to show off PC version in June but they didn't, on top of that they cancelled the third game which was in concept phase.
I'm not counting on this remakes will ever see the light of day.
This trailer from May has PC and Switch logos, but literally everywhere else you look at it either mentions only PC or it mentions PC and non-specific "consoles".They just said “PC and consoles”, but I am just optimistic that they will target Switch if they want to release the game on consoles. They had a pre-alpha playtest for the remaster last month, so it’s definitely still in development, but my understanding is that the progress is slow since they are still looking for some publisher money. I think it’s very plausible that we see a Kickstarter for the remasters in the upcoming months.
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Youtubers:
10 things I wish I knew before I started
20 things you need to know before playing
15 things to do first
10 tips for Day 1
Who is getting Wonder?
Me too!20 Things I didn't know
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Day one!! I hope there are a lot of secrets/collectibles to get too (i.e things they haven't shown).
Oh I totally get it. While I enjoy VNs, not all of them land for me. Some I have binged, while others have taken me months lol. Also, at least for me, its all about the mood I am in, that can make or break my enjoyment.I sometimes get the thought that i do miss out on quite some good games due to my not-liking of Visual Novels.
But man, everytime i tried to play one that's not Ace Attorney, i fall asleep while playing. Just not a person that enjoys reading lots of text in slow paced games.
Ok. Free online is the best one (though the functionality is still there). Great opening level choices.It's hard to pick between the Great Plateau from BotW, the village from Resident Evil 4, the slow reveal of WTF is going on in Prey (honorable mention to the Half Life opening sequence that inspired it), and the stormy night of A Link to the Past.
For consoles? Free online
Disagree to agree
Let us compromise.Disagree to agree
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Looks awesome! I really like the look of the orange A5 sized one covered in Mr. SaturnsIt's Hobonichi day and I secured the Mother 2 cover yay
Yeah it's expensive! But maybe order through official US retailers like JetPens or Yoseka?Looks awesome! I really like the look of the orange A5 sized one covered in Mr. Saturns
I don’t think I like the look of the ~$150 Canadian price tag though personally haha
Getting stuff from Japan to Canada is, weirdly enough, often cheaper than getting stuff from the States, in my experience.Yeah it's expensive! But maybe order through official US retailers like JetPens or Yoseka?
and time for Fox to bring back:With Wonder sure to be a hit, it's time for Nestle to bring back the Wonderball.
but that one's barlehyyIt's a beautiful day for hay.
I've just picked it up again so I can do wave 3 DLC and then Future Redeemed this month. I enjoyed it so much that I did absolutely as much as I could before hitting the end of the main narrative... but that took my playtime up to about 130 hours over the course of 5 months.Inching towards the end of chapter 6 in Xenoblade 3. I’m still enjoying it but I’ve already passed the 70h mark so I’m feeling the urge to finally see the ending instead of doing every sidequest.
haunting to see a reference to fucking Wonder Falls in 2023and time for Fox to bring back:
but that one's barlehyy
It's all about finding that balanceLet us compromise.
Boo, I've been doing my best to follow up with this but yeah it seemed like it really wasn't going anywhere after the initial claim. Do you know if there's still any value LK99 could still hold for either practical or theoretical purposes? That's the one thing I can't seem to find if it actually has any use beyond laboratory settingsAlso I don't know if anyone else is keeping up with LK99 superconductor news, but so far no one has been able to replicate it and the researchers who made it can't seem to properly to explain how they created the original material (though this could also be translation issues with the Korean). At this point it's either the scientists stubbornly believing their theory or it's all an elaborate hoax for reasons unknown.
Do you think Lee Pace has an Italian evil twin who is also named Lee Pace?
I don't wanna be too predictable but every time I thought about this question my mind went straight to Green Hill Zone. It's such a perfect distillation of Sonic as a whole that it became a symbol of the overall series, having replayed the series recently with Origins (and playing through Sonic 1 multiple times in that run due to some dumb mistakes) I can say it kinda overshadows its own game. I gotta say, if someone tells me they'd like to experience Sonic 1 for the first time I'd be comfortable telling them to just play Green Hill Zone and then quit. There ya go, you've basically experienced Sonic 1 upon completion of that level. The levels after it may as well be filler. It's that perfect a representation of the concept of what the point of the game is.Geography 101: What is the best opening level in gaming? This can be answered multiple ways. It could be from a tutorial perspective, game design perspective, most fun sequence. It’s up to you to decide and explain why.
Chrono Trigger.Archaeology 101: What hardware/software feature from the past needs to be brought back to modern consoles or future consoles?
What got me thinking about this question was the interesting ways the Wii used the message feature as laid out in this Jon Cartwright video:So now that I've thought about it some:
I don't wanna be too predictable but every time I thought about this question my mind went straight to Green Hill Zone. It's such a perfect distillation of Sonic as a whole that it became a symbol of the overall series, having replayed the series recently with Origins (and playing through Sonic 1 multiple times in that run due to some dumb mistakes) I can say it kinda overshadows its own game. I gotta say, if someone tells me they'd like to experience Sonic 1 for the first time I'd be comfortable telling them to just play Green Hill Zone and then quit. There ya go, you've basically experienced Sonic 1 upon completion of that level. The levels after it may as well be filler. It's that perfect a representation of the concept of what the point of the game is.
And that's really what a first level aughta be, imo.
Chrono Trigger.
Hey, you said "software" too.
Seriously though, I can't think of much. It seems like this gen has really nailed it in terms of features. The only stuff I can think about is either something one console lacks but the others have (coughthemescough) or something I've been missing for a while that this gen finally brought back (visually creative console designs). About the only thing I can think older consoles had that new ones don't is add-ons like the Expansion Pak or the 32X, and I'm not sure if stuff like that would even be viable nowadays because of the latency it could introduce by not being integrated into the main system. This one has me genuinely stumped but, much like when I was in school, I'm trying to pad my answer with as much talk as possible to make it seem like a much better response than it really is. I hope it's working.
What got me thinking about this question was the interesting ways the Wii used the message feature as laid out in this Jon Cartwright video: