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I didn't even know you could use camera phones. I even clicked on "connect regular webcams and even camera phones" in the first sentence and read that whole article, but it didn't mention camera phones once.

It will NOT stop showing me a game called "Floppy Knights" no matter how many times I swipe it away in the "Dislike" direction. What is even the point of telling it you dislike a game?

Trying to use the web version, and it just seems awful. The instructions for some reason are behind the active card, so the only way to read them is to keep clicking the deck to make the card go away and read it little by little during the brief moment there is no card covering it. The cards in the "loved" section are also underneath the active card for some reason. And I have no idea how to actually drag the card where I want to drag it. It seems to only sometimes work. It's even been putting cards I already told it I dislike back into the active slot sometimes, and just now it automatically put the active card into "loved" before I even saw what game it was. Maybe the app is better. The web version is fully unusable for me.

good friends who kiss each other

That explanation is definitely just sexist, right?

It's just like Power Rangers

Wait, I’m confused. What does this mean for the Amico? Is it no longer affiliated with Intellivision? Because it’s clearly meant to be a new console based on the original Intellivision. Can it even exist without being an official Intellivision product?

Accidentally the most versatile pose of all time

It blows my mind that Mischief Makers is, to this day, a Nintendo 64 exclusive. That was one of the sickest games I played when I was a child and I'm sure it would still be awesome if I played it today

There is absolutely no way it will have the word "Switch" in it. The Super Famicom/Super NES having the word "Famicom/NES" in it caused it to be less popular because its name was too similar to its predecessor. Nintendo recognized this and didn't make that mistake again with their home consoles until the Wii U, when the same thing happened again but even worse. If they make that same identical mistake a 3rd time, they are incapable of learning

I have serious memory issues that have caused me a lot of problems in my life, but on the plus side I am able to re-play Super Mario Bros. 1 every single year as though I’ve never played it

I remember reading an Iwata Asks AGES ago in which a Nintendo developer said something like, “Have you noticed how Miyamoto-san always talks about time in 5-year increments?” It’s crazy to hear that he still does that

Has he never played Mario Maker? It doesn’t force you to be creative. You don’t even have to make levels if you don’t want to, there’s like a million different things you can do to choose from

Reading his own words, I've never been more convinced that Mr. Aonuma genuinely has no understanding at all of what good game design is. He thinks that any limitation on what the player can do is inherently bad. Not only is that untrue, but it is especially untrue for a puzzle game. The fact that 100% of the puzzles in BotW and TotK are easily cheese-able makes them not even puzzles at all. He also is saying that anyone who disagrees with him on this are confused because of nostalgia, when actually we just liked Zelda and we don't appreciate the fact that he completely removed the "essence of Zelda" from the series and just made an entirely different video game instead. How did he spend his entire professional career working with Mr. Miyamoto and still end up like this?

I'm very glad that BotW and TotK are losing the poll so badly, but I'm also very surprised that 141 people (as of me writing this) voted for Breath of the Wild, a game that has no story.

Miyamoto is involved, so I'm all in. His lack of involvement is the reason Breath of the Wild is so bad, so I'm glad the original creator of Zelda is involved in the movie

anyone who plays a 2D platformer with a Pro Controller needs to just try playing it with the Joy-Con instead. There is a 90% chance you will like it better

I've been looking for a video game system with 2 screens to buy since Nintendo doesn't make them anymore. I was going to buy an Intellivision Amico, but I'm not convinced those actually exist

The single player mode is very fun, you have to clear each course by yourself in under a certain amount of time. The first 4 were pretty easy, but the last 3 took some serious critical thinking to figure out how to get through them fast enough

If I remember correctly, the 3DS Tetris games were de-listed. Nintendo of Europe had announced it ahead of time, but Nintendo of America made no such announcement, so I assumed it didn't apply to the American eShop. But then they got de-listed from the American eShop on the same date as the European one with no warning. I hope they don't plan on doing that with Fitness Boxing, too.

I haven't played any of the games on the list so I'm not sure. I know Breath of the Wild is the only Nintendo game to ever win Game of the Year despite the fact that other games were released that year. If Tears of the Kingdom somehow wins this time, I think I will never watch the Game Awards again

@ZealMajin That's smart. I just checked all of mine and it looks like they all have cartridges in them. Stores should start doing this before they accept returns

The Nintendo branded cellophane must be a regional thing. Here in the United States, I've only seen Switch games (including first party games) wrapped in clear cellophane with no logo. I even have 5 still-wrapped games right now, 3 of which are first party, and they are all perfectly clear cellophane (with the exception of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, which has a pink sticker on it indicating it's a launch edition copy).

@LXP8
Close! But you forgot an important detail about Ocarina of Time: It's fun. It has thought-provoking dungeons, items you collect throughout the game to make it always feel new, a story, likable characters, and oh yeah! MUSIC. Even if you take out the hours of tedious padding, Breath of the Wild still would be nowhere near the quality of a real Zelda game.

I believe it was announced a long time ago that Niantic would be working on another Nintendo IP after Pikmin Bloom. I wonder if that’s still happening

Well I’m not sure, but it seems like this is just an educated guess made by the presenter and not something that came from insider information.
Also, I don’t think it’s accurate to say “E3 is now run by ReedPop” when ReedPop hasn’t run a single E3 yet and in fact may never. But we’ll see

we have to protect that caterpillar

People who use unofficial emulators often justify it by saying that the emulator itself is not technically illegal. It must be a big blow to the community to learn that one of the most well-known emulators is actually illegal after all.

Well they certainly can’t make a new game with their talent

The dungeons (Divine Beasts + Hyrule Castle) were the best part of Breath of the Wild. I haven’t played Tears of the Kingdom because the first game was really bad, but I’ve watched other people play and I’d be hard pressed to call anything in the game a dungeon

That is the target audience, after all

Just as I feared. The original Zelda series has died and been replaced. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. At least we’ll always be able to replay those first 18 or so games

So it’s a game where you build cars?

I’m sorry if this is a hot take, but it’s not a puzzle if it has many different solutions

I followed Reynolds's ideology and only checked the one item I actually want to do: Do something about that Ganon fella. I got the game on launch day and I've played it a LOT. I dedicated tons of hours to the game because Zelda used to be my favorite game series of all time. Eventually I managed to max out my Stamina, get a respectable number of Heart Containers, and tame all four Zords. My interest in playing faded over time as I realized just how non-traditional it is as a Zelda game, but I still would like eventually to actually beat the main story and then be done with it.

Imagine if your job title was "Global VP of Gaming". What a chad

My favorite part about Breath of the Wild is when I had to put the controller down and stop playing whenever the game decided that it's raining. I hope they bring that back

but why was the first one so bad? Like, did anybody ever figure that out?

I disagree, to an extent. I think the company won’t change much if and when Mr. Miyamoto leaves because he already doesn’t work on video games anymore. I do however think it noticeably changed when he stopped working on video games. Just look at Breath of the Wild. Mr. Aonuma had essentially been training his whole career for the day he would have to make a Zelda game without Mr. Miyamoto’s help, and the end result doesn’t resemble the Zelda series at all. There are other great talents at Nintendo besides Mr. Miyamoto, but Mr. Miyamoto himself is unique and irreplaceable.

It surprises me that Nintendo would do this. Not because I think Nintendo is better than other companies or anything like that, but because I’ve played Nintendo remakes in the past and they did have the full original credits. I wonder why they wouldn’t do that this time

@Mr_Gamecube If we assumed the hours on the website of each game are accurate, then you can just add them all up.
EDIT: Just checked mine, and the Switch says 40 hours on Nintendo Switch Sports, but the website says 45. Then again, the Switch does say "40 hours or more", so maybe the website is actually more precise

That's awesome

Why 15.0.0? The big whole number? It doesn't seem like the kind of update to warrant that

Adventure is a masterpiece of gaming. I'm glad it's included.

I think this is pretty likely to be a mistake. It only serves to encourage literally all other video game companies to alienate them given that piracy hurts the entire industry. I expect it not only to be taken down, but for them to issue an apology. It could also just be a PR stunt though

Super Mario Maker 2. It’s just the worst/one of my personal favorites

I chose The Minish Cap because it's really simple and does a good job of introducing the themes and gameplay mechanics of the series. If you are only doing the 3D ones, then I'd choose Wind Waker for the same reason.
If you've never played Zelda before and for some reason are committing right now to playing all of them, then I might choose Breath of the Wild just to get it out of the way early since it's so bad.

I don’t know why you included the phrase “there's no doubt that Kit and Krysta's story is true”. They’re just two people who said something, and as far as I know, nobody has even made an attempt at verifying their claim.

I’m not sure how it works in a legal sense, but in terms of doing the right thing, it seems very simple to me. If staff members who worked on the game aren’t credited, it’s plagiarism. If this story is true, I hope Nintendo takes it off the eShop until Bandai Namco fixes it.