Modo 7

🔴 Este domingo, en vivo 🔴 Repasamos las noticias más relevantes de enero: industria, lanzamientos, cifras y algunos temas que dan para debatir. Los esperamos para comentarlas juntos. 👉 youtube.com/live/aqWbGG3aj…

@FinalFantasy I have to say that when I first saw images of this game, I hated it because it moved away from everything I thought a Final Fantasy should be. Later I gave it a chance, and now it’s my favorite in the series along with VI ❤️

Final Fantasy XII turns 20! From Rabanastre’s bustling streets to the Great Crystal. From setting the first Gambit to taking down Yiazmat, the journey with Vaan, Ashe, Basche, Penelo, the leading man Balthier and Fran lives on even today. Artwork by Ryoma Ito.

@akio_1963 That’s why it’s important to have a good partner by our side!

仕事が趣味で引きこもりがちの私は、数ヶ月外に出ないことがざらにあります。 そんな私を日光に当てようと、妻が定期的に外へおびき出すアイテムを買ってくれるんです。 そのアイテムは、カメラや洋服みたいな、外に出たくなる物で、今回はトレッキングシューズでした。 外反母趾で歩くのが苦手な私には、もってこいのシューズで、つま先に余裕があるベアフット系だから患部がどこにも当たりません。 真っすぐ歩いてるつもりなんですが、足元がおぼつかないのは持病の目眩のせいですね。 また、親族が揃って人工股関節という家系で、予備軍である私は、その呪いが原因でこの通りの内股です。 かつては5分と歩けなかったのが嘘のように、この靴ならいくらでも歩ける気がします。 ただ、気がするだけで体力はゼロ。 まずはウォーキングしてる爺さん婆さんより早く歩けるようになって、会社勤務してる頃の体重に戻りたいですね。

@Castlevania_EN Took you long enough, but I'm glad that Super Castlevania IV's whip is back!

Satisfying Whip Action ⛓️🏰 The iconic whip returns with renewed purpose. More than a weapon, it now serves as a vital tool for traversal, allowing players to swing across diverse areas to uncover hidden rooms, and reach previously inaccessible areas. #Castlevania #CastlevaniaBC

Though once human, they're now mere shadows of their former selves... Today we're looking back at 30 years of zombies - a staple of the Resident Evil series. Can you name all the games featured in this clip? #ResidentEvilRequiem #ReturnToRaccoonCity

@Genki_JPN I get where some people hesitation comes from, but the team has been clear from the start about what this revision is meant to be. The title “Reimagined” leaves no room for doubt. If you don’t like it, no one’s forcing you to buy it. Just don’t go after those who do.

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined Famitsu review score - 9/9/9/9 [36/40]

Richard Honeywood says it was his idea to introduce British voice acting to Dragon Quest to differentiate it from Final Fantasy, but he received pushback from Square and Yuji Horii: "Final Fantasy in the West was basically cyberpunk. You can get away with using American English even in sometimes classical settings, because it's got that cyber element. While Dragon Quest is more traditional fantasy. In fact, the original translations on the NES were sort of done in a faux-Shakespearean feel, even though it was American translators. The development team wanted to change that, but I knew we needed to be careful because sometimes we're going to have references across games, and we need to keep the names consistent. So again, I needed to solve those types of issues. Because it was a comical, lighthearted fantasy, I really wanted to use British humour, which didn't fly with the American office; they couldn't understand it, and they really hated it. Even Yutaka Sano was adamant against it. He says, 'If you let British English in, it's going to change everything, and it's not going to sell in America.' He was adamant about it. So I said, 'I respect that, I'll make it British English lite." So he was like, 'Okay, punctuation, spelling, phrasing, you can have two of the three for an American audience,' which is like the dumbest rule ever; it's either British or it's not. So if you look at some of the later games like Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime, for instance, he didn't allow us to use British spelling, but the punctuation and phrasing could be British. So we'd avoid the word colour, because it has a "u" in it, and say 'hue' instead. So they [Level 5] were totally on board when I asked, 'Can we add voices to a game? But Yuji Horii was adamant, 'No, we're not going to add voices to Dragon Quest.' He said, 'Dragon Quest is a traditional old-school game. We don't need voices.' So we had to say, 'Even like Final Fantasy has voices. We've got to keep up with the times.' He basically signed off, just see how it went, with the idea being that if it doesn't work, we won't do it again, but then Dragon Quest 8 went out and sold really well. After that, [Koichi] Sugiyama, Akira Toriyama, and Yuji Horii met, the musicians and Sugiyama-san said, 'Adding voice to the game really makes it feel different. We should do that going forward.' So they totally turned around 180 degrees when they saw the success. And that's why, on Dragon Quest Swords, they added voices to the Japanese version of Dragon Quest for the first time." timeextension.com/news/2026/02/t…

Richard Honeywood says working on the localization of Xenogears was a nightmare: "You have to remember that the content was quite formidable: it's not only packed with references to Jungian and Freudian psychology, but it's also a game about killing god. At the time, I was a Jehovah's Witness, so that part of the subject matter was already kind of hitting my conscience, but some US staff were also scared about what the response would be. For instance, they wanted us to remove the word Church, with a capital, because it might appear to be the Catholic Church. So I was even having to go to the development team before the Japanese version launched, and I was telling them, 'Please tone down some of this stuff.' Initially, Brian and Nobby were working on the project in the US, along with Michael Baskett. While this was going on, there were some other changes in the US office. As I said, Final Fantasy VII had sold crazy amounts, and I think Michael wanted a bit more respect inside the company, but the Japanese management wasn't having any of it. So there was a falling out that I wasn't fully aware of, and I wrote to Nobby to find out what was happening. He said, 'It sounds like Michael's quitting.' Although they had only finished the first batch of text to translate, both Brian and Nobby made it clear that, for various reasons, they wanted off the project at that point. We moved Brian onto Chocobo Dungeon 2, I believe. I let Nobby help out on some other projects that needed to be done (but I later brought him back on Xenogears to help with QA), and that's where I had to become a lot more hands-on with the translation myself. Because I was in Japan, I didn't have access to English books, let alone German books, so I had to go to the National Library, where some of these foreign books were housed, to research these concepts and try to find out what they were in English. Remember, the internet was only just becoming a thing at Japanese companies back then. At that time, we had just gotten an intranet at the company, so we could email our American office, but we still didn't have fast data sharing. Even our QA bug reports had to be done by fax! We couldn't just go on Wikipedia and research some of this stuff, so, as you can imagine, it was a total nightmare! In the end, I nearly killed myself on that title, and people knew it. People saw me sleeping in the office every night and coming up like a zombie. We got to the point where I hardly ever went home, and I was just trying to get that out. At that point, they realized, 'This guy really is passionate about our titles and cares about them.' So we're not giving it to some foreigner who will just turn around a shoddy translation." timeextension.com/features/inter…

@YujiHorii Hopefully it eventually gets released in other languages like Spanish or English. This is definitely going to be pure gold!

恥ずかしながら、まんがになりました。まんがなので多少もっている箇所もありますが、笑って読んでもらえると幸いです。さあ、これを読んでキミも明日のゲームデザイナーだぜ！　あたたっ！

¡En una hora!

@NXTXZXW @Genki_JPN 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Genki_JPN Most Japanese devs aren't ruining games to serve an ideology and the criticism they get is different

Yoko Taro says Hideki Kamiya's social media blocking sprees and snarky comebacks are a net positive for the game industry! “When you’re a game creator and a public-facing personality, you draw attention from a lot of people, including some real weirdos. Some of them say things that are seriously absurd or out of line. But since they’re your customers and your audience, you can’t really clap back at full force.” “But Kamiya does clap back. He just tells them, 'Go away, you insect!' (laughs). Just like how there are people who will tell you off in real life when provoked, I think it’s a net positive to instill the fear that are also game creators who have that edge. (…) That’s why I think having Kamiya-san around as a game industry peer is super reassuring.” automaton-media.com/en/news/hes-a-…

@supaflavin @_Gemuki Played the demo on the highest difficulty and honestly, the QoL improvements feel like a fair trade-off for those of us with less time to play. I don’t mind spending a whole year on one game, but I won’t say no to being thrown a bone every now and then.

@_Gemuki We don’t live in those times anymore. You have to appeal to a whole new group of people. We’re old heads for a reason.

If I'm being honest with myself, I'm kinda sad that they're overthrowing some series' staples like having to rely on Chimera Wings until you unlock the Zoom spell or Evac being rendered useless by Zoom gaining the ability to go throught ceilings I know it's QoL but eh ...

@hoytehablode Guacala.

Uff, remakes con graficos asi es lo que me encantaria ver. Se que es IA, pero creo que la idea y el concepto son logrables, es mas hasta cierto punto Dragon Quest VII Reimagined esta tirando por alli.

@ZeldcastPodcast El encanto de Minish está en su Pixel Art y sobre todo su dirección artística. Algo que la potencia gráfica jamás va a poder compensar.

#Zelda Imaginense tan solo un segundo un remake de Minish Cap o cualquier otro Zelda 2D así. Me gusta más que el estilo pinipon actual. Créditos a Hothead GM

New galaxies. New friends. Yoshi joins the adventure. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is only in theaters April 1.

Una galaxia entera espera por ser explorada. Super Mario Galaxy: La Película llega solo a cines este 1 de abril.

@ArmandoRamosQu4 @thomasmahler No he tocado los Jak & Daxter, pero solo hay que ver lo que le hizo a Amy Hennig para sacarla de ND y así poder hacer el Uncharted 4 a su manera. El juego está bien, pero tiene detalles que me hacen ruido.

@Modo7Pod @thomasmahler Haha. I think the same. Es bastante irrespetuoso con las sagas que toca y me refiero sobre todo al Jak & Daxter de PSP. Qué horror. Jugablemente pasa, pero se deshizo de todo lo que hacía especial a la historia de la saga, personajes y worldbuilding incluidos.

How are people still not grasping this? 'Ubisoft' didn't create anything, that's just a brand name. Patrice Désilets and his team were the creators of Prince of Persia Sands of Time. None of these folks work at Ubisoft anymore. So we're back again to my Beatles analogy. If you own the Beatles, but replace John, Paul, George and Ringo with a bunch of bozos, but then ask them to write the next Beatles album, maybe the sane expectation is that they might not be able to do it? By now it should be clear that a brand name means absolutely nothing, it has literally 0 practical value. It's the people, the actual talent that matters. And yet, a lot of gamers are still falling for the old publisher trick of 'developer or publisher X created this game!'. Brands are worthless. You want to invest into talent, not brands.

@ArmandoRamosQu4 @thomasmahler I’ll just say it outright: Druckmann is a pretentious prick.

@Modo7Pod @thomasmahler Agree! Hence, even as a game designer he is not that bright, at all.