Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Pastellioli
The BC of Switch 2 sounds embarrassing when compared with BC of their previous Nintendo machines such as GBA BC with GBC, NDS BC with GBA, 3DS BC with NDS, Wii BC with GameCube, Wii U BC with Wii.
They are just straight BC emulation without issues like Switch 2 BC.

@Mariotag Yeah I felt like that FE Warriors was very similar to Hyrule Warriors a lot, sometimes with the pacing too compared to Three Hopes, from what I remember playing almost a decade ago. It’s been a while since I played the first FE Warriors, also since I returned the game after finishing it and I can’t really remember a whole lot about FE Warriors besides some of the levels and the opening part with the two blonde twins getting separated from their mother. Three Hopes was more memorable for me, but I do prefer FE Warriors pacing and how fast you can play the levels, compared to how in Three Hopes it takes some time to complete them since you have to level up units and form bonds with them in comparison.

I am happy digital is accessible, especially since getting into drawing (especially traditional) can be pricey if you want to get more supplies and color instead of just using a plain pencil and eraser. I am like that, but I have wasted money on items I never really used. Paints being one of them.

Yeah, I really am not a fan of how they kind of want to charge for simple features and stuff. Luckily the prices of the games and console in the US didn’t go any higher after they announced a new US preorder date, but they raised the prices of the accessories by $5 each, which tells me tariffs are unfortunately playing a part in the pricing in some of the items, not the games or console though. Thank gosh older OG Switch controllers are going to still be usable…it’ll save a lot of money. Oh yeah, I enjoy GameStop’s pre-owned game stuff and deals they offer, and I am hopeful some of the Switch 2 games will be pre-owned later on and cheaper through that.

Ah, DRM, it’s so badly managed by some companies now. Getting hacked is also a big concern of mine. I used to freak out about it a lot and got super anxious about it, I have calmed down about it, but the thought of getting hacked on a gaming console, the console manufacturer not helping and instead recommending me to erase my account and progress sucks. It remind me of a story I read on Pure Xbox, where someone’s 15 year old XBLA account got hacked and while Microsoft locked the hacker out of the account, the original owner got locked out too and Microsoft basically went “Sorry, we can’t get you in cuz the password was changed and we have NO idea what it is. How bout you make a new account since this one is going to be permanently banned and all your 15 years of games, game progress and gamerscore is going to be permanently gone?” Summed up like that. That story is what sent me into freak out mode and had me take cybersecurity seriously, but the way Microsoft handled it was awful. Everyone also thinks the OG account owner didn’t set authentication but they never confirmed it or not. Anyone can get hacked but I guess stuff like how old the account is and game progress do increase the risk of getting hacked. And then there was a similar one that happened with a Push Square user but it had to do with him getting locked out of his PlayStation account because of his age and less because of cybersecurity concerns, when the user said he was middle-aged and not extremely young.

Oh, I didn’t know you used to play some MK8 with a group! Was it sorta fun? I never played with a group, I always just played with my family.

I understand. Dont apologize for not being up to replying. I haven’t been on top of replying to others, also because I’ve been busy, trying to do hobbies and just not feeling up to it. I think why is because I haven’t really been having any discussions with people on here as of late, and when I try to start a conversation the discussion goes nowhere and dies off fast, but it’s also because a lot of the people I tend to talk to on the site haven’t been active lately. Most of my fun on NL comes from talking to others, so I have been a bit bored lately, but also because I’ve seen other users being rude to others lately and attacking others for wanting to get a Switch 2 despite the price of the console and games combined. I find it pretty dumb for others to insult others for what they want to buy.

@Pastellioli Yeah, 3 Hopes dragging on, and feeling like you can't take a break while moving on with the game are two big things I have against it. Not quite the same feeling as the end of FE Engage, where the last maps actually take longer to finish than it does my switch to run out of charge...but still.
I spent a lot of time on Hyrule Warriors, as well as OG FE Warriors. I remember FE Warriors bothered me in comparison to HW, partly because some prominent characters weren't playable, and partly because it didn't feel like it did as much meaningful as HW with characters and lore. But I did enjoy it all the same, right down to my shock when I found out there was an extra secret playable character if you truly pushed it.

Digital is very accessible, I'll give it that. In more regards than just for art at that. I guess one of my modern frustrations is a juxtaposition between the overly accessible digital games actually creating an easy to make backlog, and the way game companies can just make all that disappear...same with other media.

Switch 2 has been a nightmare for pricing and anticipation. I was honestly well and truly angry that Nintendo tried to point a political finger, then said they'd already determined the price points beforehand. They're already facing a similar situation the Wii U had with the high tech, and they wanna just go greed and point fingers? I was relieved it was just the accessories that went up though. I rarely use them these days. The nickel and diming is unacceptable too. Gamestop locally has been kind to me. Though notably, they grew wise to some of their best deals. ($30 for any 4 used games, no restrictions was by far my favorite.)

I've been somewhat wary of DRM as far back as when I got a ps3. The disclaimer very clearly said that the buyer does not own the console, and I was rather taken aback. Yes. My friend lost all his progress, all his trophies, and all his digital purchases just like that. I heard of Microsoft's incident too. I'm very afraid of it happening to me. The dude literally had to wipe his console before making a new account, cause otherwise, he was console banned.

It was a MK8 Deluxe group that played on Wednesdays. I only joined a couple times before the discord server went poof. I get the strong impression they made a new hangout spot, and specifically kept me out of the loop. Other than that, and random online play, there was Miiverse back in the day. And the rare family gaming. My family does not play with me often. It's usually me playing Mario Party or Smash with a bunch of AI. And Smash ult decided to reduce single player viability, sooo, I just don't play it so much anymore.

I see. Typical online behavior I guess. I've been finding more and more that OCD plus Autism is just begging for people to boot you. For me, the symptoms naturally come off as toxic. Talking too much? Check. Pushy? Check. Asking questions and not taking hints? Check. Trying to find some way to talk things out when the other person has decided off with your head? Check. Unable to move on from things? Check. People seem to enjoy torturing me with silence when I upset them. Which just gives me that push of anxiety having me compulsively trying to get answers.
And this comes to bear offline as well, with people, and basic tasks.

@Pastellioli Yeah, those ambiance videos can get me in a better mood. My depression comes and goes at times, and it hits me really hard. I like playing games that are easy or relaxing too, those can help me mentally too. But I am feeling all right upon writing this post.

Yeah definitely, you're no longer at the mercy of microtransactions in Pocket Camp Complete, lol. The Leaf Tickets were pretty much deleted after the original servers shut down. And yeah, getting those tickets were pretty hard to get, especially for someone like me who is not a fan of spending money on free-to-play games. I've had quite a few incomplete item sets too. I remember I have at least one complete set, maybe two, been a while since I last played.

Yeah, it'd be cool, just not sure if or when that will happen. I'm perfectly fine with just working with what you're given. I remember seeing that Donkey Kong render when I went to add your friend code, my current one is the Super Mario 3D World render of Mario. I've almost always had Mario as my Switch profile icon, though I did have the Star Cup icon one time.

That's cool, I've heard of Goin' Quackers before, just didn't know it was a Crash Bandicoot clone. I've also played DuckTales Remastered way back on the Wii U, and that was a good game for sure. Still have it downloaded on there. Oh yeah, I also wanna try out Magical Quest and Great Circus Mystery, they're both Mickey Mouse games, and they both look fun. They haven't been rereleased in recent years though. Quite a few of the games based on Disney's franchises are some of the better licensed games around, I find.

Ouch, sorry to hear about your 2DS charger. It's been so long since I played New Leaf. Nice, it sounds like you'd like Happy Home Paradise quite a bit.

Yeah, Diddy Kong Racing has basically been in limbo for years now. There indeed hasn't been a sequel, it didn't get a Virtual Console release since Rare doesn't belong to Nintendo anymore, and it's not on the Switch's N64 catalog as of now. That is interesting on the Conker thing you mentioned... starting out development as a sequel, but ended up being a remake instead. Maybe they made it a remake since it was on the Xbox instead of the GameCube? Probably would've carried on with making a sequel if they were still with Nintendo.

Oh that's awesome. I'm not sure if I'll like it as much as a lot of the 3D Mario games, but I will give it a shot. Yeah, a lot of modern Nintendo games have been getting leaked for some strange reason... probably best not to go on YouTube when that happens. I'm guessing, for the next Mario platformer, they'd announce it on SMB's 40th anniversary.

Sad to hear the passing of Pope Francis today. While I am not religious as a world leader He did alot to help others. May He rest in peace and thoughts go out to his family, friends and followers.

@Eel woooooooo those are so super adorable!!!!!! I also need to check out the 3d printer for my 3d printing needs (which I don't really know about yet, but I'm sure I'll print a TON of everything)

@Sunsy haha, horror movies are so great, also liking them is such green flag, people who dig the atmosphere are easy to talk to My favorite horrors are Blair Witch Project, The Thing, Hause on the Haunted Hill (remake, I always want to watch the original and I end up watching the remake again lol), Silent Hill 1 + 2 (movies), Reincarnation, Jacob's Ladder and more.

And what are yours?

@Sunsy I'd like to say that I love your new profile picture. Poppy is so cute! Would love to give her a hug too, haha. Glad you had a nice birthday, as well.

Gotcha. I will also admit, I am a bit interested in playing tennis at some point. I took a tennis class in school a while back, and I do like the Mario Tennis games (Aces on Switch is actually pretty good). Oh goody, thanks for the heads up on the airplane ambiance. That's another thing I like about YouTube ambiance, there's a huge variety of them, and there's always gonna be something for everyone. Like how I enjoy the train and oldies ones I mentioned a little while back.

Yeah exactly, by that time there won't be a huge amount of people updating their newly-acquired consoles and stuff like that, lol. The last time I got a console for my birthday, it was the Wii. It was quite the memorable experience playing the Wii for the first time, Wii Sports was a lot of fun. Yeah... I will be honest, I'm not thrilled about the $80 price tag, either. Mario Kart World looks great and I'd love to play it, but I'm not comfortable paying that much for a single game. Plus it just makes it harder for consumers to get more games, and things like that. There is a Switch 2 console bundle that comes with the game, but I think that's just gonna stick around until sometime in the fall, while supplies last. I dunno... why couldn't that be around during the holiday season? Maybe it will, but I don't know for sure. This is purely speculation on my part, but I would imagine that certain games costing $80 would hurt Nintendo themselves, too. Since the Switch 2's hardware and software sales could be limited. Hopefully, we'll see the game prices change for the better. As for what you're saving up for, that's cool. Looks like you've had that laptop for a good while now. Do you build PCs, or maybe replace certain PC components? I do know what it's like, but never done it myself.

That LAN feature for a few of the GameCube games would definitely be cool to implement. I don't expect it to happen, but we will certainly see. I remember Kirby Air Ride had that feature, too.

This is a random thing to bring up, but I think you'll like this. On Valentine's Day I saw Lady and the Tramp (the 1955 original), and I liked it a lot. Even wrote a mini-review of sorts on the movie thread a little while back. I can quote my thoughts to here if you want.

Today I am sad because Pope Francis passed away right during the Easter. He was a great man who tried to unite us despite the conflicts going today.

Hey Sega! How about you put your games on the cartridge and not make them game-key cards? Embarrassing since Sonic X Shadow Generations for Switch 1 was ALL on the cart (yup, played it without the update when I got it).

I swear, this game-key card nonsense is making me want a Switch 2 less and less. Again, I have no problem with digital games. I'll buy digital games, but when I want a physical copy of a game, I want it all on the cartridge.

I expect this kind of behavior from EA, not Sega. I play third party games too, I really hate how third party publishers are going the game-key card route.

@Anti-Matter That's cool. Sounds like an experience given special gloves needs to be worn in order to play the game.

@Pastellioli Indeed. Sales are always fun events, especially on PC. Both Steam and GOG have annual Summer and Winter sales where I buy games super cheap. Even sometimes good deals in general. Just got DOOM 2016 from GOG for $4. All I need is a USB stick to back it up given GOG is DRM-free.

Seeing GTA VI's potential price going over $100 makes me glad I'm not really into the series. I have GTA Vice City on Steam, I played it for about seven hours, and never touched it again. I feel the same way, I've been mostly playing older titles. The only new games I've played were Princess Peach Showtime (which is over a year old at this point) and Sonic X Shadow Generations. I do play free-to-play games too, Disney Speedstorm has been the most recent one I played.

Yeah, it's really mind boggling since you'd figure "it's old, so it wouldn't cost as much." I use to buy older games too, I was buying GBA games up until 2018. Last ones I bought were Puyo Pop and Mario Kart Super Circuit. The higher prices is why I like re-releases. As much flak Super Mario 3D All-Stars got, at least I didn't need to pay $100+ for Super Mario Sunshine. It's good for popular games, but so many older games get left on older systems.

The 3DS (and 2DS) IIRC did have support for all DS games. As for Wii U, it actually had DS games as part of its virtual console (I don't have one, but the fact DS was an option, was really, really cool). I think the reason why Labo might be unplayable has to be the system size. Remember, the Labo stuff was made to fit the Switch 1 system itself. I hope so too, I think it might be better than Xbox, but again, there's a lot of Switch 1 games that need to be tested out. Rights issues is weird since the point of emulation is to emulate a game system. In theory, if the Switch 2 uses a Switch 1 emulator for its backwards compatibility, then plugging in a Switch 1 cart or downloading a Switch 1 game should work.

@Princess_Lilly To be honest, I'm not huge on horror. I just don't like the feeling of being scared. With that said, I do have some horror themed things I do like, mostly with zombies. Like the House of the Dead games, I liked watching Shaun of the Dead (which is more of a comedy), and I liked an anime called School Live, though I think I may have spoiled it, since it's best experienced blind.

@MarioVillager92 Thank you! It's from the series of YouTube shorts called Trolls Fun Fair Surprise, in one scene Poppy had flowers, thought it would be good for spring. BTW if you're interested, Trolls Band Together is leaving Netflix come May 15.

Tennis as video games has always been fun, I LOVE Sega Superstars Tennis on Wii and DS. I think I played that old test they had for Mario Tennis Aces, always wanted to pick up the title. You're welcome, it's like sounds you hear while actually flying. Indeed there is. Thanks for reminding me, I just put RailCowGirl on now. I needed some background noise.

Yup, I don't need to worry about the rush of people updating, and I can just update and enjoy the new system. Nice, Wii sounded like a great birthday gift. I loved how Wii Sports got everyone playing. My elderly neighbor got one just for the bowling and Wii Play. Sadly she passed away, but her family gave me the Wii and games, so I have two Wiis now. I have a feeling if I ever plug it in, I'll see the memories we had playing together.

Indeed, I think many are not keen on the $80 price tag, even if the game does look good. I've seen people who are excited for the game also be critical over the price. I could imagine $80 games could hurt Nintendo as less people may buy games. I did find out recently that $70 did hurt sales for some companies. Having a lower price allows more to buy games. Though, I'm more concerned about the third party stuff being game-key card only. Shame since the Switch 1 version of Sonic X Shadow Generations is all on the cart.

Surprisingly I never built a PC. A long time ago I got a custom built gaming PC from a local PC shop, and loved it. Now I use a gaming laptop, and honestly, I'm leaning for saving up for another one. I don't use it to play games and only games on it, I do use it as a portable PC too.

Whoa, I should look up to see Kirby's Air Ride's LAN mode too. I forgot that game had the LAN option.

You can share your thoughts, it's a good movie. That reminds me, I bought myself Disney Doorables last month and Lady was one of the figures I got out of the pack.

@Sunsy
About Switch 2 3rd party games, I think it was Nintendo's fault by not providing proper GB size of Switch 2 cartridge and providing the game key cartridge instead so the 3rd party developers will mostly jump on the bandwagon by choosing game key cartridge to sell their games.
If Nintendo still want to keep physical games alive, don't provide that BS cartridge option and Nintendo must lowering the cartridge cost so the developers can put their games on proper size cartridge with low cost cartridge production, also preventing the lazy developers / publishers to choose BS option to sell their games.
With current situation of 3rd party games on Switch 2 which some developers choose game key cards, it's a direct disrespect toward customers who still value the physical games.
Guess who ever thinking game key cart is the future, they are really dumb people that ruin the whole gaming industry.
And because of that, I will have less engagement with Switch 2, only will consider the games that have game data inside their cartridge.
The majority of multi console 3rd party games I will pick PS5 version instead, will not support game key cart on Switch 2,let those BS games died.

@Sunsy Oh. Sega's doing that? Really sucks.
Nintendo's secrecy may be at work here though, or maybe cart production costs? Last time I remember a major price spike from Nintendo was N64. Which notoriously had far more expensive to manufacture carts.

Having said that, I preorded the MKW bundle. I'd saved up for it for years, only knowing at the last minute they were going greed again.

Also, you mentioned Gog. I kinda wanna try them out. Any recommendations on how? Any way to get their games onto a handheld or console?

@Anti-Matter I really cannot help but agree. Nintendo are the ones who made game-key cards an option for publishers to use. If the option was not there, then they would either have to put the games onto actual Switch 2 cartridges, or sell it digital only.

This whole game-key card thing just feels like a scam. Yes the box is warning you it's a game-key card, but still, it's a cartridge with nothing on it and you still need to download the full game to system memory or SD card to play.

Thing is I play third party games on Switch, not just first party Nintendo games.

Would be cool if you could download the game to the actual game-key, like I do with GOG PC games to CD-R and DVD-R, and make that physical copy, but that's wishful thinking.

@Mariotag Yeah, it's even more embarrassing as Sega usually puts the games on the cart for Switch 1 too. It's concerning since I do play a lot of third party games on Switch as well.

Gosh, hope you had no issues with pre-ordering, I imagine it was hard to do. Enjoy when it arrives.

As for GOG, it's PC gaming. One way to try them is sign up, and grab the few free games they have (not free-to-play, actual free full games), but they only work on PC. If you have a Windows PC, it might be worth checking out. One recommendation from their free selection is Tyrian 2000. It's a shoot 'em up that plays well with a mouse, and it's low-end enough to work on most PCs. I recommend choosing the offline installer, since it gives you the game, you can back it up, and install it without ever needing Internet.

Whoa I made some tapioca pudding and it tastes like literal marshmallows. I’m never gonna be able to recreate that.

@Sunsy My worries about the preorder are just that they'll mysteriously not have mine available. It happened with the Wii. Managers and employees would buy up the stock before it went on shelves.

I'm finding out more about the keycard releases. They're basically just Sony/Microsoft physical. That's it really. Which is really scummy. I'd thought they had some data from the game on them, meaning you'd download some, but not all of the game, but nope. These companies have been pulling this over a decade now. Just, Nintendo took this long to provide them the option of fake physical.

What kind of shoot em up? I'm aware Gog is DRM free PC gaming, but know little else about them.
I don't want them storing a credit card or anything at the least.

Wow, I have been so bad at replying to people on here as of late. Sorry I’ve been super inactive on here. How’s it going? Hopefully well…haven’t been too productive lately. Was trying to draw all week but my perfectionism is making art so unfun. I did buy something from the Xbox Spring Sale for cheap, but I honestly don’t know when I’ll start playing it.

@Mariotag I did find more memorability with Three Hopes, but again, it does have a lot of stuff that you have to do before you get into battle, not that it’s an extremely bad thing with stuff like bonding with students and having stronger friendships with them and making sure you get them to an appropriate level so you don’t go into a battle losing, but with games I definitely like to progress without stopping and like when games don’t have any level systems in place. The OG FE Warriors felt like it progressed faster, mainly because there wasn’t a bonding system; all you really had to do is have your characters level up as you play and defeat hordes of enemies.

Yeah, although I haven’t really played a lot of the past FE games, some character omissions did surprise me, and initially, when making Three Hopes, they planned for it to be a direct sequel to the first Warriors and characters omitted from it were supposed to be in it, such as Roy, before they decided it was going to be a spin-off of Three Houses and have no relations to the first game. And there was a secret character in FE Warriors? That’s cool! I don’t think I actually did much in the game to see the secret character haha.

It is, I do think digital has upsides, given its, like you said, more accessible for others, and I do like that with digital games you don’t have to worry about it going out of stock. It helped a lot when I initially wanted ACNH and finding out it was sold out everywhere, funny how I proceeded to not play the game a lot afterward though…Yeah, digital from what I am seeing is mismanaged a lot. It’s kind of sad to think about how you don’t truly own a digital game and you’re rather buying a license to play it, and then that license can be revoked at any time. Luckily I haven’t had issues like that, but I am hoping me or no one else has to deal with it. I’m sure I heard something similar happened with someone’s EA account, which I think got banned and the guy couldn’t use his account or play his games on there anymore, but it happened for another reason and not because the account got hacked. That just shows that companies at any moment can remove your game licenses and never give access back.

It just seems to have a lot of confusion surrounding it and no clarification. I still am relieved the accessories were priced up and the games and console were left untouched, and it’s a relief to hear that OG Switch controllers can be used on the console, but it does make me feel a way when it turned out the game prices were chosen by them and not influenced by anything or anyone else. I am glad that not all Switch 2 games will be expensive (I’m sure that $80 are going to be only on occasions, and a lot of third-party games are way lower than $80-$70) but I honestly think I’ll probably be playing older games on there more than newer games if or when I get it. I don’t think I’ll have it on launch day either, also since I heard getting your hands on a preorder right now has been difficult. Websites crashing and loading slowly, long lines at stores, and people getting their orders confirmed just for it to get cancelled because of low stock.

I only took DRM way more seriously after I read that story on Pure Xbox about the person losing their 15-year-old account to a hacker. I was aware of hacking on consoles but I became wayyy more anxious and fearful about it because I felt like it could happen at any moment, even if your account isn’t big or has much progress made on it. That whole PS3 thing sounds awful. I’d be so upset if I had to deal with that. All that time, all those games, and all that money spent gone in an instant because of poorly managed DRM…I’m hoping it doesn’t happen to anyone else at all, I’d be seriously demotivated if I had to wipe my console data because the console manufacturer messed up on DRM.

Ah, I see. The only times I played with people was with random people online, but I did it alone and only played on occasions. It was hard to win against people though, but it shows I barely played with actual people. Oh yeah, I agree with your point on Smash a lot actually. It’s maybe my most favorite fighting game ever and has polish to it, but it’s honestly more enjoyable when you have actual players with you. I used to play it so much back in 2023, and my family would always join me, but eventually they lost interest and didn’t want to play, so any time I did single-player against CPUs it got boring so fast. I did try online play last year out of curiosity, and it has some of the WORST internet I’ve seen for a Switch game ever, so I can’t enjoy online play. It’s one of the best-selling Switch games ever (and the best-selling fighting game of all time) so it’s surprising that 6-7 years later they still don’t have the online play sorted out.

Not surprised to see people act like that, but it’s annoying to see people get shamed for things they either like or want to have. I see, I do sometimes act a bit like that when I am usually worried and can’t stop thinking about pretty much anything that bothers me. It doesn’t really make super negative reactions, but it annoys people a lot and I need to stop doing that, but my pushiness and the questions I always ask mainly come from how I am worried something will go wrong, which is all the time unfortunately because I feel like if my day is going well, something bad is going to happen later on in the day.

Wow I just noticed that my 15th anniversary joining this site was the other day. 15 years that's a long time. I remember first finding this place when I was looking for release dates for VC games for the Wii after reading the articles here and some of the forum posts a few weeks later I joined. Alot had changed here. Some for the better some not so much. Alot of people have come and gone. Here's hopefully to another 15 years.

@Tasuki your account can have a quinceañera now

Mine will be celebrating it’s sweet sixteen in November.

@Sunsy I booted up my Xbox yesterday and it was so surprising seeing Microsoft discount so many games for so cheap in their Spring Sale! Especially with the triple-A games. I did buy one game included in the sale, and I’m glad I did, since last time I did buy something from one of those sales was two years ago. It does make me wish Nintendo did sales like that with some of their Switch games. And cool that you got Doom 2016 at a good price! It feels really good getting games during sales.

I do think think GTA VI will get good reception and i definitely think lots of people are going to have fun with it, but it’s going to be really bad if the price the game gets will result in more companies following suit, since reports are saying that’s what some companies are going to do if they see GTA VI sell well. I haven’t exactly played any newer games in a while, I tend to be more interested in older games. The last newer game I played was Marvel Rivals (since it came out December), but it’s been two months since I last played it.

Yeah, it’s so crazy to see older games go up at high prices even despite some of them being officially re-released for cheap or the fact that the game is old. But I think older games on their original cartridges do get overpriced mainly from the fact the console the game was originally made for was discontinued or the value of it. I definitely do like re-releases as well, also because they tend to be remastered and come with improvements with the graphics and controls.

That’s good to hear, it’s great that the 3DS and 2DS and the Wii U supported the full DS and Wii library respectively. That does make me hopeful they’ll try making the full OG Switch library playable on the Switch 2, since it sounds like they are trying to by trying to fix the game issues and listing the issues publicly. Oh yeah, they did say the Labo wouldn’t work because of size issues, and a lot of people here suspected that already before they officially announced it. I do wonder if rights will limit the games they’ll add on there, because Microsoft said licensing issues is what limited them from adding certain games alongside technological issues and limitations, but it seems like Nintendo, at least with the Wii U and 3DS handheld, they didn’t encounter licensing issues at all. Here, it sounds like technological issues is what might limit Nintendo from adding games rather than licensing. It sounds like Nintendo and Microsoft’s backward compatibility programs have different processes from that fact.

@MarioVillager92 Good your feeling better! Yeah, for me, it’s videos, movies, drawing, and even sleeping and napping that make me feel better when I’m down. I especially have a lot of fun when I watch YouTube film reviews of bad films. They are so hilarious and fun to watch.

It is nice microtransactions are gone from it. I definitely think other companies should do what they did with Pocket Camp, where they release a full version of the game without microtransactions and keep it open when it closes. The only time I saw something like that happen was with Club Penguin Island, where the game’s servers were closed, but you could still play normally, albeit the locations were empty and the voice acting from the NPCs were removed completely. What those two games did was definitely better than what Kingdom Hearts Union X did when it closed…

My older Switch avatars used to be Splatoon characters since I was really into playing it when the Switch initially came out. Then when they released the NSO avatar elements, if I remember in order, I had Noah from XC3 (even though I’ve never played it), then Miraidon from Pokémon Violet, a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe screengrab of a Golden Mario driving in Tick Tock Clock, and currently a DKC render. I like all of those avatar elements a whole lot, and the new stuff they have been adding is great.

Yeah, I definitely agree that licensed Disney games actually tend to be better quality than most licensed games nowadays. I definitely think the Disney Infinity trilogy was the best out of the Disney games I’ve played, plus it encourages players to be creative and roam around on top of being a gigantic crossover. It’s a shame the series is dead though, given the toys-to-life concept was left behind during the Wii U-era. Yeah, I watched that video out of curiosity, and I think out of all the Crash clones in it, the guy said he thought Goin’ Quackers was the best. It did look fun though.

It’s fine, I could try buying a new charger, plus I don’t think I have a lot of other games to play on there right now. I was using my handheld for a second playthrough of Yo-kai Watch 2, but I didn’t get much progress in it and I gave it to my sister since she wanted to play it. New Leaf was great and probably my most played game on there!

DKR was fun from what I played, and I saw plenty were hoping MKW was going to feature a story/adventure mode like it too, which would have been cool. I am wondering when or if DKR is going to be added to NSO, because NSO has some pretty surprising game omissions, especially with the N64 library. Yeah, the ideas for the sequel were interesting, but I don’t know what the full development story for the remake was, but it’s believed it started out as a sequel on the GameCube, then the sequel swapped to the OG Xbox and then got canceled, and a remake was made as a replacement for the cancelled sequel instead. I am wondering if they would have kept working on it had they been with Nintendo by the time development on that started, but I think the director said himself he was uninterested in a sequel and got it cancelled. Compared to other game developers, Rare’s employees disliked making sequels to their games and reusing old IP. I remember they actually didn’t want to make Banjo games after Tooie was made.

I am definitely interested in Bananza, it’s absolutely different from the previous DK games, but it looks interesting and I am curious about how it will turn out. I am disappointed when Nintendo games get leaked only a few weeks before release. I know an artwork Nintendo’s Korean branch posted for Bananza spoiled an unrevealed character, and i unfortunately stumbled upon it…I will definitely avoid spoilers for Bananza when it comes out. I do think they definitely have another Mario platformer in the works, and I am wondering when it will get revealed. If so, i am wondering which team is working on it, since it’s believed the Odyssey team is working on Bananza. I think Bananza is a decent substitute for a new 3D Mario game since they didn’t reveal one in the Direct, not to mention people said Bananza looks and feels kind of similar to Odyssey.

@Tasuki Really? Congrats!
says the person who joined two weeks ago