AnnoyingFrenzy

The Tyrant just looks...bad to me.

On the wii, this series would have been considered shovelware. Cool that its not.

Looked like 5 hours max to me. Maybe 8 if you really take your time.

Like he'd ever get on a column to talk about a game he hated.

Disappointed to see so many people complaining about the article. I found it funny. Yes, Xbox does not have a very strong presence in Japan, but the fact that they launched a brand new console and it still couldn't even beat the 3DS, which was dropped from production, makes it even more hilarious.

The only really surprising thing here to me is FFVIIR not breaking 1 million.

As if we ever stopped thinking that.

A better Calamity boss than BOTW!

I played Super Mario Party at a friend's house and the most fun we had was with the Rhythm game modes. And I mean we had a TON of fun with it and a decent amount of fun with the rest of it. If the next Mario Party expands on this first one they could have a winner on their hands.

I figured something like this was going to eventually happen.

But when will they release on N64?

GameCube is still my favorite Nintendo console, but Switch is an easy second.

@superguy123 Doesn't read like that, quoting the Wikipedia article on Monolith soft, "Nintendo's purchasing of the majority of Monolith Soft's shares from Bandai Namco Holdings was publicly announced in April 2007. Nintendo became the majority shareholder of Monolith Soft with 80% of shares, while Bandai Namco retained 16% and remained as a development partner. Namco Bandai stated that the exchange of Monolith Soft shares would strengthen their relationship with Nintendo. The remaining shares were divided between Takahashi, Sugiura and Honne. Nintendo's acquisition of Monolith Soft contrasted against the company's previous publicized approach of not taking part in mergers and acquisitions of other studios and companies. In a statement on the matter, Iwata said that the deal was initiated due to the positive relations between Sugiura and Nintendo, and the two companies' parallel design and development philosophies."

@Minfinity Oh yes I'm aware that they actively don't do that, as far as I can tell that has been their strategy since before they even bought out Retro Studios. But then, why did they buy out Retro and Monolith? Clearly, there are some conditions on which they buy studios, I'm curious to see when the next one comes up.

This makes me wonder if Nintendo will ever outright buy another studio. IIRC the last time they did that was back in the late 2000s when they bought out Monolith Soft.

I mean, yeah. I never thought this wasn't the case honestly.

@BulbasaurusRex Oooh, I recently got into the Ace Attorney games, i'll have to check that out thanks.

What's weird is that there are so many video games I feel would make awesome movies, but somehow directors keep screwing it up. Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog are the only genuinely good video game movies somehow.

I also thought Zelda's voice acting (well voice acting for most of the characters) wasn't particularly good. In fact, I'd say some of the voices were full-on grating to my ears and one of the worst parts of BoTW, but I would never NEVER harass them for it, that's uncalled for and contributes nothing.

@Specters Don't get me wrong, I found Geno to be boring as well. I agree Mallow had more personality than Geno, who was mostly a stick in the mud, but he just didn't have a personality that I liked. At no point in the story did I ever find him particularly likable. Both Mallow and Geno were kicked out of the party in favor of Bowser and Peach, not because those two had better stats or anything, but because I found those characters far more likable.

They can't fool me! Obviously, Fighter Pass 9, Botw 2, Prime 4 and a new F-Zero, Rhythm Heaven, and Golden Sun will be featured in a surprise ending. My very irresponsible hype train has left the station! Next stop, soul-crushing disappointment station! WOOT WOOT.

@Specters Not sure if your sarcastic or not, but Mallow might be my least favorite party member in any RPG I've played.

@KingBowser86 Yeah, it was a spur of the moment thing though, my plan going in wasn't to win that way, i just sort of did. I will say that I have beaten Sephiroth "legitimately" (ie: gotten his stamina to zero) since then though. Most recently with Byleth.

@Thexare Thank you, I love doing the pronoun game.

@KingBowser86 Yeah, most likely. I beat him with Chrom and managed to get him with Aether offstage.

Guys, he never had a shot. He wasn't the main character of a beloved retro series like Banjo, or a major villain of multiple games like Ridley and K. Rool. He was just a side character in a single game that you could remove from the party and never use again. Face it, Barret was never going to be a fighter.

@sanderev My current record with Very Hard Sephiroth is 41 seconds. Took many attempts and I will admit I got a little lucky.

Edit: Lol, went on twitter and saw so many people beat him in under 15 seconds. Yeah, not good enough to do that.

I know it's due to hardware shortages, but there's something funny about seeing the PS4 ahead of the PS5 on this list (not factoring in the separation of the digital-only one of course).

@rjejr To be fair, he does have people above him. He may be the president of NoA, but I'm pretty sure he still answers to NoJ in some way as that's where the answers to most of these come from. If Furukawa says Doug can't talk about this, then he can't. At least, I'm pretty sure the CEO has that kind of weight over the COO.

You guys know what real FOMO is? It's having that monster breakfast cereal being only available in October. That's the real tragedy.

They should have made 3D All-Stars physical only and locked behind MyNintendo gold points. Like the Zelda collection on Gamecube.

I, for one, am absolutely shocked. The head of NoA didn't unveil BoTW 2 at an interview with an online publication. This is my shocked face.

Well, that's official acknowledgment it exists at least. A step in the right direction? I personally haven't experienced any drift on my switch yet (had it bad on my Wii U's left stick and Xbox One's right stick though, so I know how awful it can be). I'll probably just invest in a pro controller when it does happen though.

Wow, about time. I remember when this was first announced some years ago.

@Crimson_Yoshi Ah, okay. Thanks for the info.

Okay, but do we need NSO to play it? Is voice chat limited through the phone app? Is it Cross Platform? Need more deets please.

@westman98 They mention that in the article. This is about the tweet Retro Studios had about the position today.

@HotGoomba___Rebrand I know right?! Don't worry me and the gang already have our pitchforks and torches and are marching as we speak.

@IronMan30 You are so off with your timescale it hurts me physically. Metroid Prime 4 is a 2077 title at the earliest.

I wonder what their plan is when they release the Switch 2. At the rate they're going they won't even have all of their first-party titles on the Online Service by then, let alone all of the C tier ones they pad the service with.

Get whoever designed the 4 major bosses for Prime 2. Best bosses in the series imo. Especially Quadraxis.

I'm playing the great game called "Studying for finals". It sucks, but I'm going to try to complete it anyway.

@TheRedComet The Covenant is a great level, probably the best one in Halo 3. My personal favorite level in the original trilogy has got to be Cairo Station from Halo 2, but that's most likely my nostalgia goggles talking since Halo 2 was my first Halo game.

@TheFullAndy Sorry, couldn't resist a little jab. I agree the marketing opportunity is strong, and if any series needs better marketing its Metroid, but still I remain skeptical of Nintendo being willing to do it. We shall see in a couple months probably.

@TheFullAndy Ah yes, because Nintendo is on a roll with looking great recently.

@TheFullAndy My hangup is that Kratos and Master Chief are appearing in Fortnite on Switch, but I'm not sure Nintendo will allow Samus or whoever to appear on PlayStation and Xbox, just doesn't seem like something they'd do. I guess they could make Samus exclusive to Switch, but is that something Epic Games would want? Stranger things have happened, so we'll just have to wait and see.

@TheFullAndy Ah, I should specify I meant specifically for the Game Awards. That said I kinda doubt any Nintendo rep will get in, but stranger things have happened, who really knows.

Remember when everyone said Samus would get in at the Game Awards?

@TheFullAndy That sounds like the Library to me. Worst level in the entire original trilogy. Even us Halo vets (first played Halo 2 back in 2004!) hate that level for its tedium.

@backup368 I bought Nuts and Bolts. So I get to complain right.

@KayFiOS I could never forget Killer Instinct, I just didn't include it because that was at the start of the last generation compared to Perfect Dark and Battletoads which were this year. Killer Instinct 2013 is actually my second favorite fighting game. If you check out my profile I have an image of Sabrewulf (my main) as the banner.