More than twenty years and five home consoles later, you'd think Nintendo would get this "third-party support" thing by now.
An executive of Electronic Arts Japan has criticised the Japanese video game ratings board for allowing upcoming action game Stellar Blade to be released uncensored while EA's own Dead Space was banned in the country.
He’s got a point. If a game is M-Rated, which is the equivalent of an R rating, I don’t get why you need to censor anything. The rating is the indicator of the content and the age appropriate. If it’s appropriate for adults… why treat them like children? 🤷♂️
I don't know if the EA executive is going off the one close up of an arm being cut off in the demo. Maybe it's uncensored because it's the arm of a cyborg or it doesn't happen that often (didn’t see EVE dismemberment when killed in the demo) .
In the states there's a certain amount of swear words allowed to a PG13 movie before it is deemed R. So maybe it's the same in Japan for gore?
The remake teased an expanded universe, but now a sequel has no chance of delivering on it.
Honestly i believe it was mainly as retaliation for the original devs breaking off and making colisto protocol. They've done this a few times, ignoring fan demands for the return of a belived ip until someone does it for them, then they retaliate by only then announcing an entry. Colisto protocol was announced and EA announced the remake shortly after, Session finally hit consoles and skate 4 was announced, shortly after Undisputed was shown off, talks started happening about a new fight night.
It was a solid game and we'll have to move on and accept it for what it is. Just because we're not getting a sequel (original or remake) doesn't mean there's no point anymore in what is a great, tense, well-paced single player experience. No one's taking Dead Space Remake away.
I just hope that the game isn't so technically stitched together on PC that driver updates render the game unplayable like what happened with me and my RTX 4070 last year, requiring a driver downgrade just months after the game came out. If you're a console player then you've got no worries.
Most likely for EA to cash in on the remake craze that followed Capcom when they started remaking RE games. I am glad EA did it I enjoy the game. DS is one of my favorite franchises love the sci fi horror shit. What I don't like is EA not remaking DS2. So DS1 remake did not do well with the numbers so what. DS2 has a solid fanbase and is probably the best entry in the franchise depending on the fan. DS2 remake would have been a day one for me but I got a reminder on why I hate EA. Scrap the DS2 remake for a shitty Iron Man game.
It's because the gaming community want remakes and remasters over new games.
I think that is for the best of the franchise o be left alone then to be turned into a game as a service or something like that, EA has the awful habit of trying to monetize everything.
Isaac Clarke of Dead Space fame has appeared in many games, both as a playable character and an Easter Egg. Have you played them all?
no, 3rd party studios need to learn how to support themselves, like getting your game known, theres a thing called marketing which i rarely see for 3rd party efforts on the Wii, EA is beyond capable of spending some $$$ on marketing. I never saw a DS:E advertisement except when im on IGN & gamespot, never seen a MW;Reflex trailer or ad, never saw a Muramasa advertisement, I better be seeing some FFCC CB advertisements. I saw 1 Conduit & Madworld advertisement, and thats about it.
Nintendo: Why must I babysit these----?!? D:
Third Party: Whhhhaaa! WWWWWhhhaaaaaa! DX Baby Third Party want milk! Nintendo, go fetch me a nipple! DDDDDX
"What kind of "support" are third parties like EA looking for? Most likely, third parties are looking for co-opted marketing opportunities provided by other first-party platforms, like Sony's PlayStation.Blog or Microsoft's MW2-branded hardware. Unfortunately, Nintendo appears content with its hands-off approach to third-party marketing, offsetting all the blame for the failures of GTA: Chinatown Wars and countless other games at the hands of their respective publishers."
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Are you effing kidding me?
You think blog entries really sell that many games? And you can count the number of third-party branded hardware releases on one hand.
Publishers have to market games. Period. Doesn't matter what console it is. And you can't expect the hardware maker to do that for you.
The Wii is souped-up tech from last gen, yet no third party has made a game that gives first-party Nintendo games a run for their money. That's not on Nintendo. It's on third parties for not taking any time to make a badass game on technology they already know how to develop for.