I'm still finding Arms to get excited for as anything but a good few hour distraction to be honest. Nintendo is pretty good at great gameplay but bare-bones games (aka Mario Kart).

Mount & Blade is temporarily free on GOG.

Good guy Puggsoy, always looking out for us.

The free version of Shadow Warrior on Steam got updated to include beta versions as a bonus.
First one is the same as the leaked one, but the other is an earlier build from 1996.
There's even plans to release six more betas in the future.

So it appears that Mario and Raving Rabbids crossover is real. I'm just baffled over these preview images.
Yes, they sad "ass" in official Mario promos. O_o

Negative points from me also for the Rabbid taking a selfie. ("Were still relevant god dammit!")

How well does a Nintendo Switch cardridge burn, I wonder.

guess i can skip the nintendo digital presentation, there's nothing left to be surprised over. thanks

(05-24-2017, 05:07 AM)Dolphman Wrote: So it appears that Mario and Raving Rabbids crossover is real. I'm just baffled over these preview images.

So I feel like Ubisoft approached Nintendo with this idea like "Well, after the Wii U...ZombiiU, Watch Dogs...we don't...know if we're gonna develop any AAA titles for your platform" and Nintendo's letting them use these characters out of good faith so that Ubisoft will even consider the Switch as a platform that even exists.
Like this is a hostage situation. And this leak was intentional to try to further humiliate Nintendo, giving their Digital Spotlight even less steam this year (because this would've been a huge surprise)

(05-24-2017, 05:07 AM)Dolphman Wrote: Yes, they sad "ass" in official Mario promos. O_o

That's not an official promo though. This is an internal leak from a company with the loosest lips ever. Did you see the one that talks about convincing media/gamers? Why would anyone in their right mind in their marketing campaign refer to their company have to "convince" anybody so candidly?

the only time you've gotta convince people it's gonna be good is if it's awful

(05-24-2017, 05:07 AM)Dolphman Wrote: Negative points from me also for the Rabbid taking a selfie. ("Were still relevant god dammit!")

this whole thing is terrible and that's where you're taking points off??
i feel like this game's going to just present the Mario characters as comedic straight men while the Rabbids jump all over and scream like bad OCs squealing in delight like they've finally been canonically accepted into the Mario universe


honestly though, Ubisoft is just a game mill and I don't even know why Nintendo wants their support so badly. their games are alright but this just seems like the ultimate sellout move. like this just seems abusive, and this leak even moreso dragging them through the dirt. i really hope some heads roll at ubisoft after this, or better yet, Nintendo magically cancels the whole thing altogether due to an NDA violation

or maybe the leaker intended to completely botch the sales of the core player base on purpose, just to see how it would actually affect sales

(05-24-2017, 06:27 AM)NICKtendo DS Wrote: How well does a Nintendo Switch cardridge burn, I wonder.

first off that's a good waste of $60 and secondly i probably wouldn't suggest it, what if the flavoring agent used to prevent kids from eating the cartridge puts off some noxious gases and becomes an actual health hazard. "angry purchases intended solely for incineration" still support the company that's popping out the trash in the first place.

for this to even be worth it (and make the appropriate "political statement") you'd have to burn a review copy provided to you by the company

I would be very excited and interested if they didn't have the Rabbids. I really wish they had just kept them in the Rayman universe. A Mario battle game would be so neat if they had just kept it to that universe, or crossed it over with literally any other franchise.

They were fun at first, but now, they're just an obnoxious fad. Not helping is how they spawned imitators.
Minions, the Happy Meal box guys, and a few that have probably flew under my radar.

Beside that elephant in the room. How about the fact Mario and friends are using guns?
Last time they did that was in Yoshi's Safari.

I like Mario's Bullet Bill arm cannon. It looks pretty cool. It's just... Rabbids... why?

I hope they have a new F-Zero and/or Metroid (2D or Prime, though all of the above is preferable) to show this E3. If not, I really don't like where their priorities are right now.

P.S. If I was serious about burning the game, I'd have a pile of molten copies of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric right next to me.

I honestly thought Ubisoft had learned from their mistake and rightfully killed off the Rabbids... Why would they want to try and bring them back in any capacity. Oh Ubisoft, when will you ever learn?

I just wish the Rabbids weren't wearing Mii Costumes of the playable Mario characters. That just feels redundant.

I have no clue what Rabbids even are but they're kind of giving me a Minions vibe so that's not good...

(05-24-2017, 09:42 PM)Jermungandr Wrote: I have no clue what Rabbids even are but they're kind of giving me a Minions vibe so that's not good...

They're a lot like the Minions, but the Rabbids actually came first (by about four years). They're basically an undefinably aligned species of pranksters who originated in Rayman video games at a time when Rayman was having an identity crisis and wanted to be WarioWare. Somehow they've become wildly popular, spinning off into their own video game series, guest starring in a Ninja Turtles fighting game, and even starring in their own cartoon show on Nickelodeon.

Rising Storm GOTY Edition is temporarily free on the Humble Store.