The Wednesday letters page is impressed by Sally Field’s dedication to Zelda, as a reader wonders why there’s so much controversy around Mixtape.
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Too little, too late
While it’s good to know that Sega is giving up on live service games I still worry they’ve left things too late to start reviving their classic franchises. Even something like Sonic Adventure is over 25 years old at this point, let alone any of their Mega Drive or arcade games.
Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance wasn’t a hit and who can be surprised given how long it was since the last one and the fact that it kind of still looked like the old games anyway. The problem for Sega is they don’t have any old 3D games to remake, so they can’t follow the trend of doing Capcom style remakes.
Most of those games are PS1 titles but the Sega equivalent to that was the Saturn, which hardly anyone had. I’d love them to do a remake of Panzer Dragoon Saga but there’s no way that’s going to make financial success.
Maybe they could try NiGHTS but, really, everything is either too old or too obscure for the big budget treatment. Decades of neglect are starting to take their toll.
Ronson
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The Legend of Krystal
So there’s a rumoured Star Fox ‘adventure’ game planned for next year or after, but what do we all hope this will be? I’m going to assume that when they say adventure they mean not just on-rails and probably where you can get out of the ship, which brings to mind the awful Star Fox Adventures.
It doesn’t have to though, it could be more like an actual space combat simulator or maybe a sort of Nintendo version of Elite. I could easily see that working well, if Nintendo adds some on-foot sections and a decent amount of humour.
You’d still have the excuse for lots of dogfighting and could even throw some on-rails sections in there. It could expand it into more of an action adventure kind of game, but rather than just copying Star Fox Adventures and trying to be a bit like Zelda this would be its own thing.
Paul
Lost decade
I really fear for Rocksteady with this Warner Bros. buyout. If some bean counter looks at their records, they’re going to see the only thing they made in more than a decade was a massive flop. Back in the Batman: Arkham era they seemed like one of the biggest developers in the world, one of the real up-and-commers, but now the best you can hope is that they don’t get shut down.
I liked the idea of a Batman Beyond game but if they don’t go for that there’s a billion other versions of Batman they could go for. Maybe they’ll try and tie it into the DCU, but I think that would be a mistake given how difficult that would be to organise. Much better to make a connected game universe, if you ask me, so the different characters can appear in other games. Maybe starting with this new Injustice style game.
Tamol
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9999 AD
That story about the gamer that got banned for 7,973 years from playing Forza Horizon 6 completely baffles me.
I’m really not tech savvy enough to know how they can accomplish this.
For me it’s the equivalent of being banned from ever eating Snickers bars again, What’s to stop him playing it round a friend’s house or pretending to be someone else online?
Who is actually going to monitor it and are they really going to take him off their naughty list in 7,973 years’ time?
Or is it just good publicity for them? Hence, I’m talking about it on your website.
freeway 77
GC: They just increased the ban date to the highest it would go, which was the year 9999. They’re also currently threatening to ban people from the entire franchise, not just one game.
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Under new management
Katsuhiro Harada is starting his own studio under SNK?! Now that is a news story I didn’t expect to see. He must’ve really begun to hate it Bandai Namco because I would’ve thought they would’ve given him his own studio and let him do whatever he wants, especially after Tekken 8 was a big hit.
I guess sometimes you just want to move on. Good for him, but I hope he’s made the right choice with SNK, because The King Of Fighters was an embarrassment, in terms of the amount of interference in the game. I really don’t want to be playing not-Tekken 8 starring Ronaldo.
I’d say it’d be interesting to see him make a non-fighting game but even the name of the studio tells you it’s not going to be that. That’s fine, I just hope it works out for him. Now who’s going to make Tekken 9?
Winston
Losing patience
I can 100% relate to not being ashamed about looking up solutions in games. As someone who will be 50 next year, but still enjoys playing video games, I have found time to be more finite but also I am doing more chores than ever. Something else I have noticed in older age is having less patience to replay the same level over and over again to get past a certain point, or trying to work out a puzzle.
An example are the Resident Evil games, I always enjoy them but going back and forth to find out how to unlock a door gets tiresome really quickly. In my youth I would not have minded doing this, but I don’t have the luxury of time anymore that most young people usually enjoy.
I want to progress and enjoy the game, it becomes too much being frustrated every so often. I am not one of these people who brag on social media or forums, ‘I completed the whole game without dying’. Who cares? Games are to be enjoyed and that is it. The only thing that I still don’t agree with is online cheating and pay to win mechanics, because I always believe in fair and balanced gameplay.
orionz25
The Legend of Sally Field
Those comments from Sally Field about Zelda were hilarious (and boy has she aged well, good for her!). I don’t know who this dweeb is she was in the film with but if he’s 33 that means he’s a millennial so how did he manage to not ever hear about Zelda and think you could play it on a PC?
If he was a Gen Z I could kind of understand but this is a grown man who’s been shamed by someone about to enter her 80s on his gaming knowledge. I might watch Mrs. Doubtfire again after this, as a tribute to both Robin Williams and Sally Field – people with good gaming taste.
Hacker
Same old, same old
Man, I wished I hadn’t of looked up why people were getting upset about Mixtape.
You have the DEI message hating lot that seem to have lumped it in with that argument. Not sure why, it’s pretty bog standard teen stuff.
Then it seems there are those that see the game as a corporate lie, a game passing itself off as indie but is financed by billionaires, thus sucking out the indie room oxygen from real indie developers. The cost of the licenced soundtrack being the primary evidence of the sort of thing a normal indie couldn’t afford.
In that frame of mind some see the whole 90s nostalgia vibe as an angle and plastic.
Due to being financed by a big publisher. I remember Dave The Diver got similar criticism and at the BAFTAs, I think, when winning an award, they thanked BAFTA for not putting them in the indie category.
It sparked the usual debate of what exactly is indie these days. Is it budget, team size, is it sensibilities? No one knows to this day.
It seems also that IGN’s, admittedly crazy, 10/10 makes some suspicious of that backing money being used for influence.
To be fair there are legitimate criticisms like the characters not being relatable. I wouldn’t go that far but I did find them a bit too self aware for my liking. Also, that it’s not a game but an interactive experience, which is true.
But mostly it just seems like the usual rubbish of social media types creating controversy for clicks.
Simundo
GC: It’s just sexism and weird conspiracies, the same as always.
Inbox also-rans
All this speculation about Capcom is fun but unfortunately we might not get an answer on what they’re doing next until next year. The new Onimusha still hasn’t got a date and they’re not going to want to start hyping anything else up until it’s out.
Flowey
Personally, I’d like to see the next Soulslike be not open world. I miss the tight level design of the earlier games and feel that Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne were plenty open enough. Not that Elden Ring was bad, but I didn’t like it as much.
Korey
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