The Post Your Thoughts of the Moment Thread 2

[SuperFireKirby]

Slow has showered me with compliments and called me an awful person in the same week before. So I dunno

[MaestroUGC]

He's had nothing but nice things to say about me so maybe the rest of you are just doo-doo heads.

Food for thought.

[braix]

Oh wait a moment

Spoiler

IF AWESOME YEARS' PROFILE INFO IS CORRECT...HE JUST REPLACED ME AS THE YOUNGEST MEMBER ON NSM

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[AwesomeYears]

Oh wait a moment

Spoiler

IF AWESOME YEARS' PROFILE INFO IS CORRECT...HE JUST REPLACED ME AS THE YOUNGEST MEMBER ON NSM

[close]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[FierceDeity]

Looking at older posts...
Does slow just have a problem with me or is he really that snappy to everyone

I feel like slow wouldn't mind me saying he's improved significantly since he first joined (or at least since I first joined)

[SlowPokemon]

Actually it's more like I was awesome at first, then got suckish, and now I'm in an okay place again.

[KefkaticFanatic]

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/microsoft-banjo-kazooie-perfect-dark-and-more-will/1100-6424597/

MS PLS

[FierceDeity]

"Understand that what it's really about is we want to build this suite of IP that we can add to a list of, 'Let's build some new things, let's build some recent sequels, and let's do some crazy stuff like dig back into our portfolio of IP and build some games that people love,'" he explained.

This irritates me a bit

Like, they're admitting that they're just sitting on IP doing nothing with it, and, oh, maybe if we're feeling CRAZY someday we'll actually get around to reviving that beloved franchise. Fuck "the right time", it's been 7 goddamn years since the last Banjo Kazooie game, and 12 since the last one that really had anything to do with the original games. When the only games they've made in those 7 years appear to be Kinect Sports bullshit and Killer Instinct, it's really hard to justify "Oh the old IP is great and all but there are more important things for us to be working on at the moment. We'll get to them later."

[KefkaticFanatic]

Note this is MS exec talking about old franchises, not somebody from Rare.  Essentially nobody remains at Rare that worked on those old games.  This isn't necessarily bad, as they could still do something great with new talent. (I am frequently of the opinion that Nintendo's adherence to legacy concepts holds them back)

He speaks towards the entirety of their games holdings, so whatever other studios might be doing sequels to Halo or whatever other IP they license out recently, plus referencing the fact that Rare has been working on *something* for the past while.  It would be great if they had come out with something else, but I suspect that Rare was either not in any position to make such games, or just had too many failed pitches on the inside.

And not that I want to defend anything they've ever done with Kinect, but they were trying *really hard* to get people (and devs apparently with the whole Kinect-exclusive processing power locked away bit that has been news recently) to like Kinect so I understand why they would have wanted their own poster-boy studio that just did Kinect games.

[MaestroUGC]

You know, they bought Rare all those years ago knowing the team (at the time) was made of some of the best in the industry with the developer being a hit-producing machine, yet they never really did much with them or gave them any room to grow, resulting in the Rare we have today.

Either way, Rare is not what it once was, hasn't been for quite a few years now. Microsoft says they'll dust off some of their IPs in the future, but odds are good it won't have the same magic they had the first time around.

So as much as I would love a new Banjo or Conker, I'm not going to celebrate an announcement of a new game until I see who's working on it and a functional demo.

[mikey]

Fairy and Dark types are dumb and probably shouldn't have been made.

[K-NiGhT]

Fairy and Dark types are dumb and probably shouldn't have been made.

this is why people think you're a hardcore genwunner

[mikey]

Both of them seriously could easily have been filled by normal/psychic/ghost typings
We might as well add rock to the list because rock and ground are the same things
I'm honestly not even sure why dark is a type.  Fairy almost makes sense because they needed something competitively viable.  (And we've already established 3rd gen is my favorite so I can't be genwunner.)
Besides, steel was a great decision to throw in the game.

[K-NiGhT]

Dark was needed to balance out Psychic types, which were pretty broken in gen 1 iirc.

[mikey]

I didn't know gen 1 had a meta 
how come psychic isn't super effective against psychic like the cards