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Nintendo must wear beer flavored boots with the way so many people like licking them.

@RygelXVIII Sega didn't "decide" to publish Sonic Mania, they hired Christian Whitehead to do some smartphone ports and he showed them a playable demo of the game. Sega liked what they sew and threw money at the project. the game exists because Sega paid for it.

@Haruki_NLI Nonsense! This is a zombie lie that just refuses to die. The Zelda cycle is a myth. I was gaming at the time of all these launches and every one of these games were loved at launch. The only "complaints" I remember was the cartoony look of Wind Waker (a complaint that stopped then minute the game launched) and Skyward Swords awful motion controls and boring over world (complaints that still exist).

BOTW and TOTK have removed everything that made Zelda a successful franchise and replaced it with a Roblox sandbox game. Aonuma obviously forgot what made Zelda special if he thinks that BOTW and TOTK are an evolution of the series. It's a bland open-world sandbox with a Zelda skin. If this is the future direction, then I'm done. That's okay because there are plenty of other games to play.

@BoFiS No, it doesn't look better than the PS4. Dropped frames and low quality textures are very noticeable on the Switch.

@Olliemar28 So, as you yourself just admitted, it isn't a full physical release. A significant amount of content is not included on the disk so it is not, by any objective measure, a full physical release. Why Sega chose to release the game this way is a mystery.

Also, from the review:

Sounds quite echoey, right? Granted, it's not offensively bad by any stretch of the imagination, but those who played the original releases will most certainly notice the difference.

I know reviews are subjective, but for those of us with ears attuned to music, it is offensively bad. Like fingers on a chalk board.

So generous of Nintendo to give three new versions of games already being offered on the service. Of course, they'll take a six month break thinking this update will keep the peasants happy.

Just one? The return of glass weapons makes it, at least, two failures.

@ThomasCasson I read the review and he was very clear about what he didn't like in the game. Of course, he did mention aspects of the traditional Zelda formula he missed, but that was not the entirety of the review.

@BTB20 No, I'm not advocating anyone steal from Nintendo. I'm just saying they would be morally justified if they did.

@FawfulsFury i guess you aren't a fan of Robin Hood then. I suppose you think it is better to let your family starve in the street then to steal food to survive.

Now Game Freak leeches all the fun out of the game so you don't have to.

As Jim Sterling said... "It's perfectly, morally okay to pirate Nintendo games." Nintendo proved he was correct then and continues to be correct now.

So... Microsoft is writing contracts for a game series they don't own. The only news in this "news story" is that Microsoft has apparently lost its mind.

So Microsoft has a legally binding commitment to bring a series they don't own to the Switch? How is that going to work?

@theModestMouse NL always gives a +2 for being on Switch. It's actually a 6.

The vast majority of these games would turn the Switch into a bubbling puddle of plastic. Just get a PS4 (they're dirt cheap) or Xbox Series S (which is less expensive than a Switch) and you'll be able to play all these games without the framerate issues and soft, blurry graphics that plague most Switch ports.

The original was the game everyone pretended BOTW was.

@RushDawg don't bother with @JaxonH. He's a true Nintendo "fan" and we all know fan is short for fanatic. Just look at how many lengthy responses he has on this page alone. He doesn't understand that discussions are for people offering different opinions. After all, one of his earliest posts was the traitorous critic / if you don't like it leave fallacy. He thinks these pages should be an echo chamber of Nintendo love and anyone that points out a flaw should just go somewhere else. He's not looking for discussion, he's engaging in confirmation bias. Anything that agrees with his point of view he accepts, anything that doesn't, he disregards.

How can you possibly debate someone that says there is no objective standards for evaluating a videogame? It's all subjective? That's utter nonsense. A broken game that only properly responds to player input some of the time would objectively be a bad game.

He did slam you for arguing that popularity of a thing made them more valuable and I would agree with him there. The popularity fallacy is one that a lot of people bring up and it's wrong. People used to think the world was flat and gods caused storms, but that didn't make those ideas correct. A lot of people played (and enjoyed) Elden Ring, but that doesn't make it game of the year. It's GOTY material Regardless of its popularity.

Finally, I think it's absolutely absurd he accuses you of console warring and throwing your opinion around and then says that Nintendo is blowing the competition away. It's a tragic lack of self-awarness.

The Switch is my least favorite console of all time. None of the first party titles have felt like more than a lazy retread of past glories. Great for everyone that likes it though. I really don't get the attraction.

@sikthvash Your quote was true 40 years ago, but with patches and updates it isn't true anymore. No Man's Sky is a perfect example of a game that launched poorly but became great.

So... press start to win should be listed as a con.

The developers should really have added a difficulty option for people that want a challenge.

Elden Ring is the game that everyone pretends that Breath of the Wild is and

The Steam Deck is the console everyone pretends the Switch is.

@K1LLEGAL Nintendo would absolutely put out a new Castlevania - just ask F Zero, Kid Icarus, Star Tropics, Earthbound, Punch Out, Star Fox, and Pilotwings.

Oh...wait.

@Spider-Kev This is exactly right. It sickens me to see so many people on the side of Nintendo a company that has been absolutely horrible to its competitors for years. Also, the right wing "tough on crime" nonsense.

I'd be okay with it if they did. Finally have Nintendo games on decent hardware. Also, finally have access to their entire catalog instead of the slow drip feed that restarts every generation.

@dew12333 Absolutely, no other company lives 15 years in the past and embraces ancient technology quite like Nintendo does.

Why wish? Get another console and never wait again.

It's the least played Nintendo console I've ever owned. As far as I'm concerned, it is a failure.

Metroid Dread - 3 hours

That's my entire year of Switch.

Least played console I've ever owned.

@johnvboy I'm sorry but what exactly has Nintendo done to deserve the benefit of the doubt? They've been drip feeding these services since the Wii.

@Arkay I don't think entitled means what you think it means. Demanding value from a service that you pay money for is not entitlement.

@sanderev Nice strawman.

Framerate always matters.

Always.

@Teksetter Resist the temptation if you want to keeping being a Nintendo fan. I bought a PS4 a few years ago. Sony sent me a PS5 at launch. And I bought a Switch at the beginning of lockdown. The Switch has a layer of dust an inch thick. I just can't do Nintendo anymore. After 60 fps, sub 30 doesn't cut it.

@CupidStunt Pokemon gets lazier every generation because the fans are willing to buy anything. I never finished x and y and I haven't gone back since. Doubt I ever will.

Wow! Minus the Nintendolife obligatory +2 for being on Switch, this is a 4. I never thought I would see such a low score for a Pokemon game. I guess even the most hardened Pokemon fan would eventually grow tired of Gamefreak's laziness.

@Steifybobbins When I started reading it was so over the top I thought it was sarcasm. Then I realized you were being serious and...

I've got nothing.

95%+ is garbage.

"Crimes against Nintendo?" What is this? Judgment at Nuremburg?

@Postie85 Plenty of posts stating exactly why people aren't happy. I'm not sure how you can possibly be confused about this.

@RiasGremory PS+ is regularly on sale for $45 a year. You get three games a month (sometimes new releases). Nintendo (for a higher price) gives you online without chat and a few 25 to 30 year old games every three months. PS+ is clearly the better deal.

@Scapetti Nintendo does vigorous product testing? I guess that's why we have joycon drift years after the console launch.

How about Nintendo figure out stable framerates before they worry about 4K.

@Snatcher PS+ costs $10 more than the Switch family plan during a sale. Sony gives new games every month and some of those games are given for free at launch. It is an infinitely better deal than NSO.

@ObeseChihuahua2 Pretty sure I've never heard anyone saying they want Sega games as part of the Online Service. Definitely didn't hear anyone say they wanted to pay more for Nintendo to drip feed N64 games.

Only Nintendo has the gall to suggest 25 year old games are a "premium" service.

Such arrogance.

@Snatcher i don't want to be "that guy," but it's "a lot" not "alot." One of the most common mistakes in English.