Gaming News So Small It Gets a Second Thread

[QualityChimp]

The Game Boy-themed horror adventure “Fishing Vacation” is now available for the Nintendo Switch

[nonny]

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg Shares Details on What You Can Expect from Xbox Game Showcase

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The good news about this is:

- No movie/TV segments
- All first party titles confirmed to be either gameplay, in-game engine footage and will be subtitled as such for clarity

[QualityChimp]

Phantom Blade Zero Won’t Have Microtransactions; Will Feature Souls-like Elements But More Approachable



"Following last month’s Phantom Blade Zero Q&A where the devs at S-Game shared the game’s length and more, S-Game has today revealed that Phantom Blade Zero won’t feature microtransactions along with more gameplay-related details.


In a new Q&A conducted on the game’s Discord, the studio once again took to answering some of the burning questions around their upcoming title, Phantom Blade Zero. Amongst those questions were the likes of whether the game would feature any microtransactions or gacha mechanics, as well as some related to whether this title would have similar difficulty to a Souls game, and about the DualSense features, and more.


Here’s a quick and easy breakdown of what was revealed, as well as the full QA:

• Weapons featured in the trailer are all in the game and have unique moves and combos. Studio is open to weapon suggestions.
• No gacha or microtransactions.
• Features soul-like elements but is approachable as they aren’t leaning fully on difficulty or punishment.
• Will make full use of the DualSense, with haptic support confirmed.
• Might release an art book for Phantom Blade Zero
• Might do a dev diary around the inspiration of the game.
• Soul is in the main character’s name. He is an agent of the order, trained in espionage and assassination.
• Phantom Blade is a miserable place in general, though after breaking free of manipulation, Soul leaves light of hope everywhere he goes."

[Cassius_Smoke]

The good news about this is:

- No movie/TV segments
- All first party titles confirmed to be either gameplay, in-game engine footage and will be subtitled as such for clarity

Yeah that's good. It's something Sony is good at... Except for the last showcase which was a little grey on what was what.

[Lebowski]

The good news about this is:

- No movie/TV segments
- All first party titles confirmed to be either gameplay, in-game engine footage and will be subtitled as such for clarity

i must of missed something? did Microsoft get hammered recently for showing to much TV Stuff? I thought they had learnt that lesson with the xbox one showcase.

[Brad]

The good news about this is:

- No movie/TV segments
- All first party titles confirmed to be either gameplay, in-game engine footage and will be subtitled as such for clarity

Talking of clarity I think they said gameplay or game engine footage didn’t they? I’m prepared to be corrected though. Game engine footage is a bit crap. We’ve all seen crazy stuff that the unreal engine can do that will never make it into an actual game.

[fishbowlhead]

I’m looking forward to all the controllers ms will show personally.

[Neon Ignition]

MS Employee:
"So, our consumer research has come back saying that they feel like the Xbox platform has become stagnant in the last decade. Essentially that we aren't releasing enough games across enough of a diverse range of genres to support the platform and to drive new users to the platform. The outcome of the study is that we need to invest billions of dollars into bringing in additional content and increasing our portfolio of IP, producing enough new key titles to support the system and subscriptions moving forward:

MS Executive:





MS Employee:
"Umm... so I've spoken with the teams and they've come up with some designs for games. Based on this level of investment we believe that we could also support the marketing of these titles with as many as 25-30 new Limited Edition Xbox Controller designs per year in addition to our existing output"


MS Executive:

[fishbowlhead]

Bit longer and less sarcastic than how I put it, but I like the effort 😁

[Lebowski]

I’m looking forward to all the controllers ms will show personally.

controlers you say, id like one of them sea of thieves controllers New of course,

Not sure why the Blunderbus DLC code is worth a grand but the controlers very nice.

[Nu-Eclipse]

https://bordersdown.net/threads/130439-Nintendo-Switch-Thread-10?p=2475981&viewfull=1#post2475981

[wakka]

controlers you say, id like one of them sea of thieves controllers New of course,

Not sure why the Blunderbus DLC code is worth a grand but the controlers very nice.

I had to check Ebay for this. Hilarious way to spend a grand.

[briareos_kerensky]

Iron Saga is getting a beat'em'up spin-off, with Mazinger Z, Boss Robo, and Dancouga as guest characters.

[briareos_kerensky]

Fans have released a video of Final Fantasy IX Memoria Project, a remake of FF9 done in Unreal Engine 5 .

[Cassius_Smoke]

Fans have released a video of Final Fantasy IX Memoria Project, a remake of FF9 done in Unreal Engine 5 .

That looks lovely. I just hope whatever remake Square are rumoured to be doing looks as good.