by Filippo DinolfoOn this episode of the Day 0 Update: We debut a more in-depth analysis format for the show! Capcom thinks Marvel vs Capcom Infinite will be #1 in the fighting game community. The fighting game community doesn’t seem to think so. These two sides will clash. Nintendo brings back the Nintendo World Championships. Finally, Hellblade sparks a discussion on whether or not it’s okay to rage review, and how Jim Sterling handled the whole unfortunate situation.
8/13/2017 Show Notes
- Intro
- What Are We Playing?
- F: Mostly the usuals.
- P: Ys vs [Trails]: Alternative Saga, usuals.
- B: FFxiv
- D: Overwatch, Rakuen, Splatoon 2
- Leaked video establishes Capcom’s esports aspirations for Marvel vs Capcom Infinite
- The assumption has already been made that MvCI will be the FGC centerpiece.
- Top 14 names on in-game leaderboards get Capcom Cup berths.
- P: What could possibly go wrong?
- Plans to shut down non-CPT majors running MvCI unless Capcom gets a cut.
- Nintendo-like plan to cut in on streaming/VOD revenue.
- Capcom’s outlook of how MvCI is currently seen is extremely unrealistic.
- P: I’ll gladly withhold my purchase to put Capcom in their place.
- Let me tell you about a little event called ECC4…
- Fertile ground for SNK to release a new fighting game to usurp SF’s place?
- Ghost Rider announced, playable at Gamescom
- The Nintendo World Championships are back for 2017
- A Kimishima initiative? This would imply an influx of competitive games to Switch.
- D: October is a weird time. There has to be an announcement.
- P: I think this is part of something bigger, and it all comes back to Smash.
- Used to be just Smash, now we have Arms, Pokken, etc.
- Melee is going to die and Nintendo is going to kill it.
- Watch for Nintendo to strike a Power Stone 3 deal (think SFV/Sony).
- Nintendo doesn’t like participating in things it doesn’t control (ie: the FGC).
- Watch for them to start strongarming TOs and streamers again.
- As necessary as streaming has become, that’s all it would take.
- We have arrived: Sony announces 500 GB and 1 TB Sen no Kiseki III PS4s
- That’s Trails of Cold Steel III for the uninitiated.
- Possible bundle for North America?
- Let’s talk about the current JRPG landscape…
- Final Fantasy is still alive and successful, just not as a JRPG.
- Best kept secret to some.
- Eiyu Densetsu/Legend of Heroes has jumped to the front of the genre.
- Second-best-kept secret except to our listeners.
- SE keeping one foot in the door (Dragon Quest, Tokyo RPG Factory).
- Next big wave of talent likely to come from the indie scene.
- Final Fantasy is still alive and successful, just not as a JRPG.
- That’s Trails of Cold Steel III for the uninitiated.
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Incident
- Ninja Theory’s attempt at “Indie AAA” is a dumb name for something we’ve been asking for on the show for a while.
- Jim Sterling hits a game-breaking bug and rage-reviews the game a 1/10. Thinks better of it a couple hours later.
- How do you handle a review situation when you hit a bug that is so obscure you may be the only one that’s ever triggered it?
- If you’re Ninja Theory, how do you test for that?
- The Toshihiro Nagoshi Mystery Project
- Nagoshi is working on a yet-to-be-announced Switch title, reveal TBA.
- Also working on a title to be revealed 8/26, maybe the Switch game, maybe not.
- Nagoshi’s body of work runs from Shenmue to Yakuza, Virtua Racing to F-Zero.
- Nagoshi is at the center of Sega’s “Amazing Sega” initiative and the road to 2020.
- The Shrapnel – stuff that won’t make headlines but we care about too much to ignore
- Atari and Jeff Minter bury the hatchet, announce Tempest 4000
- P: And all this talk of the AtariBox of late…that’d get me to buy.
- Atari and Jeff Minter bury the hatchet, announce Tempest 4000
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