On the one hand, toys-to-life is such a consumer unfriendly genre that it deserves to fail.
However! 300 humans losing their jobs is a total bummer. Plus, I fucking love Disney and their characters and it pains me every time one of their ventures into video games fails because Mickey Mouse deserves better, goddammit.
Hmm. I'm very happy to read that the dual screen/motion controls angle of this thing can be ignored, and I think that I'm okay with another Star Fox 64, so I'll probably pick this up. That said, I want so much more from this franchise. Nintendo has this strange array of iconic characters that are also bounty hunters and/or mercenaries (Star Fox, Samus, Captain Falcon, maybe more) but none of their games play to that. If ever there was a franchise to open up and branch out and really embrace such a thing, it should be Star Fox, and it could be amazing.
No Christie in a DOA sexy girl island game? Truly Zack Island deserves to be destroyed by a volcano.
Don't forget about Tina. Oh, but they were sure to include the goddamn loli character. *flips Team Ninja the bird* That's kind of the only problem that I have with this game conceptually. Oh, also the pole dancing thing. I could have done without that. Otherwise, sure. I'll take some hawt, scantily clad anime ladies.
@trilogy: It's like they have never interacted with other humans. The stuff in the show was no worse than some of the stuff I witnessed/been part of at work. (The shit talking not the pranks, Dan is almost peerless on that front) It's just harmless banter.
Fuck, this happens every time a live show gets "awkward," and the GB community never fails to recognize what I think are pretty clear social cues: everyone here gets along and is just having a good time reminiscing.
Hmm. I was going to say that Jason should have sat in on this instead of Dan, but it looks shallow enough to where it didn't really matter. I guess that I would have preferred that this game was designed for the older, long time Pokemon fan rather than the actual target audience of the franchise. Seems alright . . .
I don't play LoL, but fuck if a PC exclusive League of Legends fighting game with a simplified, keyboard focused control scheme isn't the smartest business move on the planet.
If that isn't what Radiant Entertainment winds up working on, then this is all some weird news.
I'm pretty much where Jeff is. I know exactly what my bad habits are and know when I'm doing dumb things as I do them, yet I do them anyway because I don't know what I should do instead. It's pretty crazy, getting into your own head like that. I personally just have really poor fundamentals, and Street Fighter really amplifies it because of how simplistic it ultimately is (compared to other fighting games).
I don't think that I've ever liked a game that I was horrible at as much as Street Fighter V. It's a really great game. A shame that their initial lack of content is generating so much negative press.
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