General Game Chat

[Moonface]

Well the touchpad has to be out because Switch, PS4, and Xbox all lack it as a primary feature or a feature outright. So that won't be a problem for the remaster.

[queenzelda]

The PS4 has a touchpad on it's controller. And you can touch the Switch's screen when out of docked mode. *shrug* So that's two out of three that have ways to maybe use that control scheme. :p

[Dragon Lord]

Everyone was quick to dub 2019 the year of delays, but so far I think we've seen 2020 is going to be the true year of delays. Another game slated for a March release - Fairy Tail RPG - has been delayed until June.

Which game will be next to suffer the Delaya Virus?

[ShiraNoMai]

I honestly think it's because of it being a transitional year--on the one hand, you have game development really pushing the limits of these current-gen systems, and then on the other, these new systems are coming out, why not push for them to be there?

[Dragon Lord]

I think the issue is more that developers/publishers have been announcing things far too soon the last number of years. Obviously FFVIIR was announced way too soon, but even these other games are seeing announcements too soon. Developers need to learn to wait until they actually know whether the game will be up to a certain standard of performance before announcing a release date. So many times we've seen games announced with a release date and then the dev/publisher is like, "oops, actually when we tried playing it the game is an unplayable mess. Gotta delay it."

I'd rather see companies wait a little longer to make announcements to actually make sure they can meet them. Especially Square Enix. They are getting to the point that they might as well announce the delay at the same time they announce a game.

[Moonface]

Yeah, the delays so far this year are insane. I don't think it hurts to announce the game earlier than its release date announcement, but no solid dates should be given until you know you can hit it.

[queenzelda]

I'm just surprised by the lack of a Nintendo Direct being announced this week, lmao.

[Moonface]

I'm just surprised by the lack of a Nintendo Direct being announced this week, lmao.

Was there anything to hint there would be one?

[queenzelda]

I'm just surprised by the lack of a Nintendo Direct being announced this week, lmao.

Was there anything to hint there would be one?

Just twitter demanding one in every single Nintendo post since Jan of 2020. lmao People like structure & Nintendo just tosses it out the window. 
ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ ︵ ┻━┻

[Moonface]

Eh, I wouldn't call people demanding a Direct and Nintendo not obliging to be them throwing structure out the window. Unless this time of year usually has a Direct like how June has E3.

[queenzelda]

Eh, I wouldn't call people demanding a Direct and Nintendo not obliging to be them throwing structure out the window. Unless this time of year usually has a Direct like how June has E3.

Looks like Feb is a pattern for directs to me;
[1] Nintendo Direct- February 22, 2012 
[2] Nintendo Direct- Feb 01, 2013
[3] Nintendo Direct- February 13, 2014
Nintendo Direct- January 14, 2015
Nintendo Direct- March 3, 2016
Nintendo Direct- March 8, 2018
[4] Nintendo Direct- February 13, 2019

-We're past February so either it's a late Direct or we're hitting March for a Direct this year.

[Dragon Lord]

Yeah, the delays so far this year are insane. I don't think it hurts to announce the game earlier than its release date announcement, but no solid dates should be given until you know you can hit it.

I should have clarified. I meant to say that companies need to stop announcing release dates until they know for sure that the game is going to be playable and ready for release. 

I see where the confusion came from when I mentioned Square Enix and their habit of announcing games several years too early. Although that's a completely different issue, I do wish they would learn how to properly announce a game. In addition to constantly delaying their releases, Square Enix does a great job at killing hype for a game by announcing it and then taking 5+ years to actually release it.

[Moonface]

The only two cases where I think SE were OK to announce a game way too early was FF7R and KH3, purely because those announcements served more to let people know they were going to happen, especially when everyone wasn't happy about that FF7 port the year before and KH fans just wanted any sign that a third game was coming regardless of when it would be finished. FF Versus 13 though was just an example of what not to announce too far in advance, since that game not only never ended up happening in the form it was shown as but had to be reintroduced as FF15 which then itself took a while to go from announcement to release.

[Dragon Lord]

As someone who was waiting a very long time for KH3, I really wish they wouldn't have announced it when they did. They announced it way too soon, took too long to release it and then delivered an absolute joke of a KH game that ended up being more of a giant, interactive advertisement for Disney more than anything else.

If you're going to announce a game that early and take a while to release it, you need to make sure you deliver on it, and KH3 absolutely did not delivery in anything other than decent combat (though I would argue that KH2 was still better). Of course hindsight is 20/20, but no one expected KH3 to turn out to be what it was. Especially with how many times Nomura said it would be the conclusion of the Xehanort Saga and put to rest all of the plot holes, only to then spend 95% of the game being Disney advertisements (the Frozen world is literally just playing through the movie with a couple of mini-games thrown in, very little interaction with the characters because Disney wouldn't let the story of Frozen be altered for Sora and co. to be included, and a few boss battles. Oh and of course the entirety of the Frozen song scene), and then only spending the last maybe two hours of the game actually being about the Xehanort story, only for it to receive the absolute laziest, most garbage conclusion they could have possibly come up with and then instead of answering all the questions KH fans have had for almost 15 years, it completely ignores most of them and just throws more onto the pile so they can milk more games out of it.

Okay I'm done ranting. Tl;dr version is KH3 is garbage and Nomura and Square Enix should feel bad.

[Moonface]

So GDC isn't looking too hot so far this year. Sony, Facebook/Oculus, Microsoft, Epic and Unity have all pulled out of the event citing concerns over the coronavirus. Apparently it's bad enough that a few people working in the industry expect the event to be formally cancelled by the end of the weekend.