@Vivianeat

"A song stuck in your head is a con?"

I think this can be a really different experience, depending on the individual. And maybe the song 😂

I had to turn off the balatro music for example, because I went to bed and woke up with it "playing" in my head at a VERY high volume. I mean raging. I don't imagine other people have this same experience but it happens to me.

"Well gosh, GKCs suddenly don't look so bad, right?"

GKCs are exactly as bad as they were before.

This is like when the Steamdeck went up in price and suddenly the fanboys think Switch 2 is a good deal. Or when they raised the price of carts 10-20 dollars, and people framed it as lowering the price of digital.

PSA - Have a little objectivity, it's good for your brain and your esteem among peers.

@Ristar24

"Finding the time," indeed. speaking of, how do you feel about so called "retro" handhelds? I recently acquired an Anbernic RG cube XX, and I've been "finding" 15-20 minutes here and there to finally play Gran Turismo 1, and it's SO satisfying! the thing wakes up instantly, exactly where I left off, auto saves and loads states as you play different games, and has great battery life! and fits in my overalls pocket 😎👍 obv Tekken runs great on it as well.

fwiw I had no idea when I bought it that GT1 would end up being "the game," but here we are! 😅

@Ristar24

I highly recommend Tekken! imo Tekken 2 is the peak, though I realize this is a fairly uncommon opinion.

SF2Turbo was the only fighting game I'd owned prior to Tekken and I found the transition pretty natural. certainly a lot more similar than Virtua
Fighter with it's odd stiff motion and block button (love those games too though 👍)

whichever you choose, have fun with it! and report back 😊

@Serpenterror

pt. 1, you are probably right about that 👍

pt. 2, yes, I agree completely! it's a very elegant system, and the correlation between limbs and buttons is so much less abstract than just about any other fighting game I can think of.

@Uncle_Franklin

"Why on earth wouldn't they make this available on Switch 1?"

I have had the same thought, like unless Nintendo is specifically incentivizing them to release only on switch 2, what is the upside for Hamster of doing so?

@MrPeanutbutterz

"Pressing both punches to perform a move with both arms or both kicks to perform with both legs is implicit due to how the control scheme is set up."

it's not implicit in the slightest, it was an intentional feature they had to design and program, that couldve easily been skipped and/or never thought of in the first place.

for example, when playing Street Fighter II Turbo on SNES, does pressing X and Y at once cause Ryu to perform a light punch and a medium punch at the same time? what about a light kick and a light punch at the same time? is it implicit that he would?

FWIW confusing "implicit" with "familiar" or "logical" is an easy mistake, no worries.

"Do you say "well akshually, Street Fighter has eight attacks because you can jump and crouch kick/punch"? (you don't because performing a crouching kick by pressing crouch + kick is implicit to the control scheme)."

I could say that, but it wouldnt make sense because we are contrasting the two games here, and Tekken has jumping and crouching maneuvers as well. 👍

and there's that word again, implicit. it's a toughie! I think we are way beyond that however, as the manual for any fighting game will explicitly instruct players to perform those moves, and exactly how.

(PS - I've only ever gotten the "well akchully" slur from someone "well akchully-ing" me in real time in comments. just a kinda funny aside I thought ✌️)

"Rather than having separate inputs for light, medium, and heavy attacks, each of the four face buttons corresponds to an individual limb."

This is how everyone describes Tekken, and I find it lacking. both punches and both kicks at once essentially are two additional commands, bringing the total to six (equalling street fighter,) as well as at least two different "kick+punch" inputs which for most if not all characters are different grapple type techniques.

Hard to imagine what Namco saw in wii U over Switch to the extent that they refuse to even port TTTU to at least make a little money off that game. Seemed like a no-brainer to me at launch and I'm disappointed it never happened.

PS - "That said, there’s definitely a lack of signature moves, and it won’t take too long to memorise what little is on offer."

if you memorized every maneuver and 10 hit combo for every character quickly then I'm kind of amazed. And, I don't believe you 😂👍

PPS - "definitely a lack of signature moves" implies that there are absolutely none, as in zero. obviously that's not true, just in case someone is reading this that has never played Tekken. ✌️

@Gamer_Griff

Probably! It's whichever one lives in my head 24/7 lol 😅👍

Doop, dibba DABBA doo bip!

@Banks

the gameboy one is my favorite! it has basically everything I like about every home MM game I've played, and translated perfectly to the gameboy controls, display, and sound.

"Now, I don’t know who at Codemasters came up with the idea of sharing an N64 gamepad, but they are an absolute anarchist genius."

while I don't disagree, I wanted to point out that Micro Machines games have had this feature going back to at least the excellent game boy version. I only know this because I had that one when I was a little kid. I understood the purpose, but when I was bored i would try to drive both cars at the same time 😂

on (i think) genesis they also had the insane multitap-a-la-cart feature that I always wished they'd licensed out to other companies, or had just caught on in general.

videogames used to be so cool 🥲✌️

@Grim

Homogenic was my first! 👍👍 cant go wrong. it's so good, honestly.

I'm listening to Post now 😄 this is incredibly nostalgic music for me, and I'm only learning right now that I'm actually ready to listen to it again. 🥲 so, thanks haha.

@Grim

I haven't given unsolicited Björk advice since I was a much younger man, but IMO you should definitely NOT start with that album 😂✌️ I would probably start with Post 👍

FWIW my favorite Björk albums in order are

Homogenic
Medulla
Post
Debut
Vespertine
Volta

and then I fell off after Volta. The top five are excellent albums and honestly it's very close!
Post is my favorite on another day, and strangely is one of her most musically adventurous and commercial albums in my opinion. I feel like Post is why Björk is Björk, and also when her music was least anachronistic slash idiosyncratic, i e she almost kinda fit in when "in" was Radiohead, Blur, Busta Rhymes, Beck, and Tool.

Anyway have fun! 😊

@SuperBro64

no lol, I was being hyperbolic partly, though it does reflect how I feel about the series over the decades, loosely.

honestly, it's more the level design and how it relates to the powerups than the powerups themselves, if I really think about it.

Generally, I miss when powerups were just kind of there, and it was up to the player to figure out how to use them. Starting with Yoshi's Island and continuing in 64 and through to the present day, the powerups are just kind of like part of the level, more of a "ride" than a buff, if that makes any sense.

anyway, I'm always kind of hoping someone will challenge me on my ludicrous statements (call it baiting if you will, I just like to be brutally honest as a shortcut to thoughtful exchange, id say) and I'm glad you did! I like some of the ones you mentioned just fine, certainly they are "not not good" especially compared to the bees and elephants etc 😂 but I do think mushroom, flower, feather was a great set of mario powerups and hasnt been beat yet 👍

@Grim

dude!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bjorkvolta.png

I think of it every time I see one of your comments 😂✌️

(edit - I can't get img embedding to work, EVER

edit 2 - I DID IT!🥳)

PS - "I used to drive a minivan" is the among finest non sequiturs ever posted to Nlife comments, well done! 😂🏆

@Grim

btw I've been meaning to ask you, is your avatar a Björk album cover but with a car seat in place of Björk? 😂

@Captain05crunch

that's a tanooki mario statue, and it looks great!

what I'm wanting is a tanooki statue mario statue 😁👍

@Tayrailbridge

did I say the greatest or did I say good?

@BAN

Nintendo ran out of good power up ideas for Mario approximately 35 years ago.

Wake me up when they make a Tanooki Statue Mario statue.

@JohnnyMind

I never noticed the difference! how odd.

thanks JM! ✌️

hang on dont these charts usually have 1 entry per title, and then a breakdown of the sales % in a column for multiplatform games?

the real question: can it display gameboy games at integer scale?

@ioev

actually as much as I like the controller, I resonate with almost all of your issues to some degree. especially the bright white LED on the face, sometimes that really bothers me. 👍 and while the xbox style domed buttons are not my actual favorite, I do enjoy a bit of variety these days and try to be less stringent with my preferences. the ultimate 2 tends to be my "dual analog" controller, and I find that the tightly spaced, bumpy buttons are good for quickly finding and pressing a button that then getting back to the stick with my thumb. my pro 2 and pro 3 are for games where your thumbs "ride" on the dpad and/or buttons.

incidentally, the dpad on the 3 is one of the strangest ive ever used, and either works perfectly great or is borderline awful depending on the game.

@notreallyhere

I'm gonna do it!!

thanks for the encouragement! 🥳♥️

@ioev

im curious, what do you dislike about the "ultimate" shape?

ive been using an ultimate 2 for about 6 months, and while I initially was a bit skeptical of it's size (its a tad compact for my hands) after 120+ hrs of Cyberpunk 2077 it now feels like part of my body. ✌️

the 64 controller feels amazing too, imo.

@spiderman0616

could be, but you care a little more than most though, eh? 😘

ugh, those haunted mannequins just do NOT entice me to want to play. one thing I NEVER wanted from a GTA game was photorealism, yuck.

@Smithicus

i owned and played all three as they came out, and I did really enjoy 3, but 2 remains my favorite for its tighter scope, slightly grittier tone, and clearer graphics. I also prefer some of the character designs over 3's (though i thought some of the changes were neat at the time, for novelty's sake.)

I like a smaller, more balanced roster, which used to be a more common perspective it seems like. 👍

I've bought my last Nintendo retread, thanks.

(it was super Mario all stars on SNES if anyone's wondering.)

@RiasGremory

"thankfully you dont speak for everyone"

that would be rather boring, wouldn't it? 😊👍

fwiw i don't speak for ign either 😆

these are just so ugly and unfun looking. ive never felt as "no thanks" about a videogame controller as this.

OTOH I want one for Tetris 😂

It's not that I don't believe the reviewer enjoyed himself, but (in my opinion) 9 is extremely high for the same damn game with "a fresh coat of paint" as vg journalists like to say.

2p asymmetrical co op is an absolute insult extremely disappointing when the canonical 4 pilots are right there. This would be a system seller for me if they had just done 2-4p campaign co op and added some missions (say, another entire starfox 64's worth stuck right on the end.) I don't think that would be too much to ask.

(edited for bitchiness.)

@solarwolf07

I'm also not interested in Splatoon 🥳

"we just worry about plugging so many different things into one piece of kit all at the same time"

why is this a worry? care to elaborate?

exclusive to an app = it doesn't exist

@YANDMAN

its amazing to me that they dont seem to ever ask themselves "are existing fans of 2D Shinobi games going to like this?" during development.

if the game resembled Shinobi 3 I'd have bought it day 1. 😆

yeah, im a huge SEGA fan but neither of these titles are/were what I want.

also that chart that says stuff like "TV advertisement —> social media" is so embarrassing I can't believe they even let us see it.

@notreallyhere

this controller is SO much more iMac than n64, 100% right! especially with the translucent white back half. 😂

incidentally, they already make a "retro" colored n64 controller, that comes in classic grey and also some translucent colors and also works with switch so this is an odd move for sure.

EDIT - OMG I now want an old blue iMac and this controller to play games on 😆 ✌️I havent stopped thinking about this since reading your comment 😂

"8BitDo Celebrates N64 In Style With New Controller And Keyboard"

I got excited by the headline for a second, but these are just the same old controller and keyboard in new colors.

PS - without a pic of the dock, are we certain that this is the ultimate 2 controller, and not the cheaper 2C? I couldnt find any more info at the "source," which also had the MSRP at 39.00 which would indicate that it's the budget model.

@mandlecreed

if you by chance haven't played Witcher 3 yet, it's 3.99(!) right now on Steam. 👍👍

(in the US anyway, ymmv ✌️)

PS - for the record, the all time low for this game on Switch is 9.99, according to deku deals.

it's hard to imagine Nintendo being OK with the fugliness of going Full Aardman.

but yeah judging by the pic, I'd never have recognized this as their work. big fan. 👍

@kmtrain83

I'm so not aware of Minecraft, it's not even funny.

I'll bet you are right, though. plenty of industry execs probably saw the success of Minecraft and wondered why they'd wasted any time at all putting out artful games that challenge the player on an emotional level.

Incidentally I have seen beauty in what some players have created in Minecraft. ✌️

@mattitudemf

"This article says nothing about AI slop, it just mentions using AI to speed up the tedious aspects of software development and that’s a perfectly fine use for it."

We love when AI people hand wave away other people's jobs as "tedious aspects." 😂

@kmtrain83

"Elliot" is a fine name IRL, but it goes in a certain category of names along with Bob, Steve, and Kevin. Maybe to Japanese audiences it sounds more dashing and exotic?

I don't need every hero to be named Slash or Flik or Jak, but c'mon. Elliot should NOT have made it past localization (remember 'localization?' 😂 good times.)

@PeteyPiranha

sometimes i feel like the rest of humanity has flip flopped on the issue of objectivity, and even bringing it up is like shouting into the void at best.

thanks for the reply 😊 made me smile.

"Switch 2 is still leading the pack, though overall sales figures are understandably down at the moment."

"Understandably?"