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April Fools 2017 Thread (Gaming)

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Play Wii U Selects on your Nintendo Switch.

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I got a hearty chuckle from PSNProfiles

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Click on it and it brings you here.
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You can click on Fine if you must to see the leaderboard again though.
Wow, that's still better then smash 4's "global smash power" system, and the "ranked play".

Alot of fun jokes today, expects alot more trailers though!
 
I WANT THIS GAME, CAPCOM AND ARIKA!
Um. In fighting game community there are posts from tweets that show it's real from an event with new screens. Still be skeptical since it's April 1st but as of 7am est this morning reports say sfex is real.
 
I hope this trend of "lets announce a thing people really want as an April fool's joke" will quickly die.

Yes of course I'm talking about the Witcher statue.
 
Um. In fighting game community there are posts from tweets that show it's real from an event with new screens. Still be skeptical since it's April 1st but as of 7am est this morning reports say sfex is real.

It says "※This video is from April Fools 2017 of ARIKA Co.,Ltd." in the video description...

Edit: Wait, is this an official channel?
 
*accidentally made a thread, will put in here instead*

https://twitter.com/SukebanGames/status/848023511771869185

Game cover:


VA-11 Hall-A is coming to Nintendo Switch in what’s arguably the best version of the game with A Good Boy Edition. This director’s cut includes many improvements over the original game such as:


HD rumble compatibility

You will be able to massage your body, mix drinks, and change lives with the latest haptic technology from Nintendo. The Jill experience has never been this real and fun for about 15 minutes!

Among other things!

http://sukeban.moe/index.php/2017/0...all-a-a-good-boy-edition-for-nintendo-switch/
 
I feel there is a line that gets crossed where April Fools jokes go from silly to mean whenever a company knowingly puts out something that people actually want.
 
*accidentally made a thread, will put in here instead*

https://twitter.com/SukebanGames/status/848023511771869185

Game cover:



VA-11 Hall-A is coming to Nintendo Switch in what’s arguably the best version of the game with A Good Boy Edition. This director’s cut includes many improvements over the original game such as:



HD rumble compatibility

You will be able to massage your body, mix drinks, and change lives with the latest haptic technology from Nintendo. The Jill experience has never been this real and fun for about 15 minutes!

Among other things!

http://sukeban.moe/index.php/2017/0...all-a-a-good-boy-edition-for-nintendo-switch/

Wonder why the devs feel this needs to be an April Fools joke as opposed to a real thing.
 
One of the three 2017 April’s Fools in DQX.

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As last year, the balloon sisters provided some hints for the fools. Poo made a comment about the live camera apparently being broken. Upon checking it, I saw it alternately showed two places, one being a field south of Tsuskul. A lot of Metal King Slimes had appeared there.

So we went to check it out. Upon encounter, the Metal King Slimes turned out to be Liquid Metal Slimes instead. At least they looked like it, but its name actually was hazure metal, instead of the usual hagure metal. (Hazure means dud, blank, as in drawing a blank; hagure means stray as in astray.)

Of course the experience was rather low, only 410.
 
I feel there is a line that gets crossed where April Fools jokes go from silly to mean whenever a company knowingly puts out something that people actually want.

Every Aprils Fools feels like half the game developers spitefully saying 'fuck you' to a lot of their fans rather than 'heh what a goof'
 
Every Aprils Fools feels like half the game developers spitefully saying 'fuck you' to a lot of their fans rather than 'heh what a goof'

Game devs deal with crazy fans all year
Not surprised they like the trolling they get to do on this day
 
Actually almost all the plain mean ones are fanmade shit by people who don't understand how jokes work, and think lies=jokes. Actual companies usually understand you either have to make it very over the top outragerous or reverse troll in that it's actual announcement pretending to be a joke.
 

Oh man that burns. I did laugh at the Hatsune Miku and classic Sonic racers (as well as the controversial Wreckit Ralph, Danica Patrick and Yogscast racers being replaced) and the Yakuza 5 track screenshot though.
Who are the characters in the silhouette? I can see Bayonetta and Sakura from Sakura Wars, but who is the person with the big boots at the bottom and the one on the left?
 
Oh man that burns. I did laugh at the Hatsune Miku and classic Sonic racers (as well as the controversial Wreckit Ralph, Danica Patrick and Yogscast racers being replaced) and the Yakuza 5 track screenshot though.
Who are the characters in the silhouette? I can see Bayonetta and Sakura from Sakura Wars, but who is the person with the big boots at the bottom and the one on the left?

Looks like Arle from puyo puyo on the left and Jack Frost in the bottom middle
 
Blizzard has "Overlord announcer" for streamers for Starcraft.
Also for Starcraft, the co-op mode server is under attack by "dark voice" (written in leetspeek which i'm not going to replicate). Basically special mutator apparently.
 
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