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Re: Talking Point: What Would Make You Happy To Give Up Physical Games And Go 100% Digital?

AstralSoul

Ive often jumped immediately to "absolutely nothing would ever get me to go digitally" but I've thought about it and most of my reasoning has to do with money. 90% of the time I can and will buy physical copies for cheaper than digital. I wait for sales, I hunt eBay for used copies. Very rarely do I buy a game at launch and at full price these days. But the other big thing is I resell certain physical games. Either I don't like them or Ive gotten everything I want out of them and could use the money. And honestly that's the biggest reason for me. Steam is the one digital platform I don't hesitate to buy something from because they give you a generous leeway on returns. If Nintendo did that I'd buy a lot more digital games. Sure some id return and pick something else but it would give me freedom to try a lot more games and ultimately I would buy something. Right now I only buy digital on Switch if it's available literally nowhere else, not physical, not in any other platform and if it's $20 or less, and if it's more I wait for a sale until it is under $20.

Re: Talking Point: What's The Most Difficult Mainline Mario Game?

AstralSoul

Anyone voting anything other than SMB Lost Levels clearly has not played it. There is no comparison. It is excrutiating to play. It's like it was designed to punish players. I consider myself very good at Mario games, and really the only game I struggled at was Lost Levels. If you haven't played it and think Mario games are too easy, go play it.

Re: Video: Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Side-By-Side Graphics Comparison (Switch & GBA)

AstralSoul

This game feels like a complete waste, Nintendo didn't want to create something new, didn't want to expand on an existing game so they rebuilt the exact same game (as good as it is) and called it a day and with a full price tag. If they were so intent on bringing this game back it should've been at a heavy discount. This is a game that could've easily been ported to GBA app on Switch. Absolutely no need to remaster it and charge us full price, even as good a game as it is.

Re: Poll: What Was The Best Wii U Launch Game?

AstralSoul

I'll go with ZombiU because it was the most surprising one. With Mario I knew what I was getting, Nintendo Land was a cool experiment but much like Wii Sports it's charm fizzled out really really quickly. The rest of the lineup was old 3rd party ports I could've had on PS3. But ZombiU was the one fresh new game in the lineup and was way better than I anticipated. I honestly avoided it for several years because it looked like a throwaway title but later found it for like $10 and decided to try it. Highly recommended especially for that price.

Re: Random: Undertale Creator Wanted To Help Shigesato Itoi Make Mother 4

AstralSoul

EarthBound is my favorite game of all time and I consider myself a huge Mother fan, but we're in 2022 now and people need to understand the series is done. I hoped for a Mother 4 or a Mother 3 official translation for many years but it's not happening. At this point I'm just happy to have rereleases of EarthBound and EarthBound Beginnings.

Re: Review: Mario Strikers: Battle League - Simply The Best Sports Game On Switch

AstralSoul

What I don't understand is how next iterations of Mario sports titles have the same if not less content than the previous installments and people still pour over them like they're the next greatest thing. Mario Tennis Aces, Golf World Tour and Strikers Battle League all have exactly what the Wii and Gamecube versions have, if not less. I continually find myself wanting to go back to Mario Power Tennis or Golf Toadstool Tour on GCN or Mario Strikers Charged on Wii. Nintendo should be ashamed. It's blatantly clear that they're just churning out a new game because, well it can be labeled as new and people will buy it. But it's the same damn game we've been playing for 15+ years! And on top of that, the whole "trickle DLC" thing. Just launch the game with all content to begin with. When all content is released 6 months from now I won't care anymore. At that point don't even waste your time giving us more characters, just give us more content in the next game.

Re: Sega Releases New Sonic Origins Gameplay Footage, Out On Switch This June

AstralSoul

This looks fine and all, I'm certainly going to buy it, but this collection has been released over and over again with really nothing new. Something like this should have every old Sonic game at this point. And I hate bringing this up every time a new Sonic collection is announced but...where's Knuckles Chaotix??? When will that get a rerelease? When???

Re: Poll: What's The Best Star Fox Game?

AstralSoul

Star Fox is, for me at least, one of those franchises that has one really stellar game (SF64) and the rest I just don't care about. SF Adventures was pretty good but it's never been a true SF game to me and a lot of other people. Starlink was also pretty good but, again, not a Star Fox game.