AugustusOxy

all boycotting the game will do will hurt the overworked programmers who can't make tens of thousands of dollars doing conventions or cameo gigs. I don't feel bad for her, Bayo1 was a new IP and Bayo2 was a massive risk on an underselling console with a young IP that didn't make a lot of money first time around.

I got friends who run conventions, voice actors make craploads of money there and are worshipped like gods by shutins. She has insane opportunities to make money that none of the programmers will ever have.

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Lol the obligatory "WHERE'S SUPER MARIO RPG COMMENT"
Screw you, nes pinball is my jam.

What first world problems is this. The idea that that we need new consoles every 4-5 years has always baffled me.

Console sales are only down because almost everyone owns a switch at this point lol. It was bound to plateau sometime.

I don't know about you guys but I'm kind of tired of Reggie hottakes being passed of as news.

With that said, Rare did enough harm to donkey kong with dk country 3 and dk country 64, I said what I said.

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Konga, and King of Swing helped me renew my love for the franchise and retro made me love the country games again.

No.

Its just cheaper to do it this way and you can curate it easier.

I currently have around 150 games in my backlog between consoles, steam, and retro games.

I started compulsively buying games starting during the wii-u's generation after I saw how some games from the ps2-thru-ps3 generation would become insanely hard to find and get massive mark ups. So my brain started to rationalize--if I have a fleeting interest in this game, buy it while you can and play it someday and if you don't like it, sell it if its rare and make some money.

regardless though, I've had to stop myself around 2020 because money was tight.

Still though, I'm glad I bought the games that I did when I could, I own some seriously rare games now, including one for the original DS that sells for 200 bucks without all the special edition stuff that I still have.

So there must be some logic to my madness.

I need this in my life.

Please companies, please bring back more saturn games. Stop leaving them in the dust of time. Just because something wasn't successful in the US doesn't mean it didn't have amazing games.

Jim is great in the role of Robotnik, however I feel like Paul Giamatti was literally born to play that role.

Just glad it wasn't Kevin James like the rumors originally said it was going to be. We really dodged a bullet with that one.

There's a lot more going on with this than its just 'a change in the way we get information'.

EW Jim is a pleasant surprise, though I saw the Japanese get the OG Harvest moon.

Also if they're gonna keep going this route of throwing random stuff on there the chances of Fire Striker making it seem fairly good.

Honestly I'd rather just have another Link's Awakening style game. Same art style, same mechanics, different settings.

I dunno, I'm quite happy to play more hidden gem like games on these services like Demon's Crest and Ignition Factor. I get it if it bugs someone who just wants the same like 30 or 40 SNES games on each compilation like this, but I'm quite charmed with the weirder game selections. People need to get the stick out their butts and try some of these games instead of waiting around for games they've already beat 800 times.

There's some fairly decent games on all repped consoles. You're doing yourself a disservice if you're skipping Ristar or Alien Soldier or Fzero for the 64 because you're butthurt angry waiting for Mario RPG.

All I want out of this service moving forward though is Banjo Tooie and Chameleon Twist. Maybe a couple of the Rush games too.

Yes the wealthiest company in Japan could learn from how the failing gaming division of another company basically gives games away in the hopes to recoup all the money they put into entering the games market.

I love gamepass, but its not born of Microsoft's good business sense, its born of desperation. Gamepass is to xbox as the early 3ds price drop is to nintendo.

Also I know how these things work, remember netflix in the early days? It had so much stuff, then over time it lost those shows/movies as companies began making their own services. As these other companies create their own game pass style services, you'll see gamepass lose a lot of its hard hitting titles.

So enjoy it while its good, wish I could go back in time and tell myself that about netflix.

@Buizel

This. this this this this this.

Also, its one thing if a game is tense because the gameplay is limited like old resident evil games, but there's ways to make games where you're badass and you can still feel tense and even scary situations.

I think people want something out of Metroid that Metroid has never been. Yes, Super Metroid has a horror like feel in parts of the game and an isolated feeling, but overall, you're still fighting bright green big bellied crocodile men and Zorak looking aliens. Not everything needs to be made into some gritty pseudo-psychological horror experience.

I honestly don't understand modern horror game fans, they're some of the most pretentious people in the world. Some of the most scared I've ever been playing a video game was like doing the Green Demon challenges in Mario 64. Fear is subjective, and if I know a game is trying its hardest to scare me, it often time has the opposite effect.

@smithyo

While I appreciate the obvious 'this i for the fans' style of game that the fan made metroid games are, I think what Mercury Steam has done for the metroid franchise is invaluable. The original concept is there in full but they added enough new stuff that it feels like a modern game.

Where what the fans did was create this expansion upon the original with a bunch of fan pandering stuff that no one outside of super fans will care about. They both have their merit, but its nice to have a samus that plays as badass as she is after all these years.

No. The emmi encounters added something to cat adn mouse gameplay that has been sorely lacking-- a sense of speed and some level of skill to maneuver through. Its not just hiding and waiting, its literally needing to understand the environment.

The only people I've seen complain about it are people who don't enjoy those kinds of movement puzzles or things that require fast reflexes.

Also not every video game needs to be some farm of negative emotions, sometimes games can, and should milk your ego instead. It feels nice to avoid emmi with your movement skills, its a different kind of rewarding. You feel like you earned it when you take one down, not like you're just running from some over powered thing that you can't fight back against like in every other cat and mouse style gameplay mechanic.

I love when someone says "nintendo is pushing me toward piracy". No one is pushing you towards piracy, you're doing it out of your own selfish desires and even if nintendo did remaster half these games you'd still probably pirate them. Shut the hell up.

With that said, its not as easy as just remastering a game, people have no idea the politics that go into this nonsense. My friends in the industry explained how much of a nightmare it an be to remaster an old game, especially if its a licensed property and the game engine owned by some company that doesn't exist anymore.

its not just as easy as dumping the game's content into unreal or something and then all the legalities involved.

Also the game didn't even sell half a million units. I can understand why nintendo would be like....eeeehhh maybe we shouldn't pour upwards of 10 million into remastering a game that not that many people bought in the first place.

And before anyone jumps down my throat, yes I want this game remastered as much as the next guy, but I also understand that doing things like this is a lot more complicated than just 'lol remake it'.

@Medic_Alert

Or license the IP out to other companies in general. Let them front the cost of development and then give konami a portion of the profits. That way Konami doesn't have an upfront cost and the power of the IPs could potentially help a smaller company make a name for themselves.

But hey, that'd require konami to care.

You coulda ended the title at "Please Konami, do something" cuz they aint doing diddly anything lately and when they do do something, its f2p and pay to win.

@RasandeRose

This.

These people don't understand how letting one person get away with one thing can open the gates to letting millions get away with it.

Example; my mother was an enabler, rest her soul. She enabled my brother and his drug habit. It didn't take long before his drug addict friends were over to the house asking her for money.

Other examples would be how phone scammers will literally keep scamming the same people over and over when they realize they can get away with it.

These kind of laws that protect nintendo protect me and my intellectual properties from thieves and they've saved my ass more than a few times from piracy.

@CharlieGirl

Imagine you had your best year of work ever, you made another half a time more than you normally would.

Then I break into your house and steal all your crap.

When you start complaining about it I say "HEY! You made way more money this year than you ever have! You shouldn't be complaining!!!".

Its amazing how much the eat the rich type are willing to eat people richer than them but how much they wouldn't wanna be the one having a poorer person eating them lol.

Me eating grapes at walmart without buying them: THIS IS FOR GRAPE PRESERVATION! YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE ART OF GRAPE GROWING.EVERYONE TRYING TO STOP ME HATES PRESERVATION.

Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go preserve my neighbor's car.

Pressure makes diamonds.

Sony potentially losing its biggest third party support will force them to stop being so complacent and actually go out of their way to make things to fill those gaps.

With that said, they aint buying up these companies for the console ware, they're buying them for the opposite reason.

Probably by 2030, most smaller countries will have adopted cloud gaming, or game streaming if you will. There wont be a need for microsoft or sony to lose money on building hardware. Instead they'll get all their cash from hosting or licensing out their games on streaming services.

Physical consoles will never die out in places with bad internet or unreliable internet, but they'll become more akin to like dvds and blurays today. Something only for the hardcore crowd.

This isn't about winning the console war, this is about surviving the console extinction.

And before anyone says anything, there's nothing I want more than for game streaming to fail, and I think it'll never be universally viable.But you're kidding yourself if you think it isn't going to be a major part of gaming in the near future.

I personally want nothing to do with it, but I remember when Netflix started streaming stuff and people were sitting around like "this will never replace DVDs", how wrong they were.

@MatoFilipovic

if you want an mmo, your best bet is to buy this game and show gamefreak that you support evolution, not devolution. You'd do more for the franchise to pick this game up than to skip it. Trust me. This game has to do well or you'll never get your mmo.

Because if Shining and Brilliant outsell this game, gamefreak is literally just gonna stick to that formula from now on.

Jesus christ if you care about the franchise you'll buy this game and not buy Brilliant and Shining.

I'm buying it for myself and 3 of my friends and preaching it to all my other friends to get it. This game needs to do well, we need to send a clear message to Gamefreak and Nintendo crap like shining and brilliant is not what the fans want.

@PushMyGran1986

Them buying Activision will help the game industry and here's why.

Once sony stops depending on third party ***** to sell their systems, they might actually have to make something other than an over the shoulder third person action game.

Seriously some of the best news in gaming, ever. We can get a more out there and experimental sony, like they were between the ps1 and ps2 days, instead of the modern sony which is just make the same game a thousand times with different skins.

@Don

And then maybe they'll put legend of zelda breath of the wild on the ps5 and someone will invent diet pizza with all of the flavor of regular pizza and none of the calories.

Keep on dreaming.

Virtual console aint coming back and honestly I'm okay with it being replaced with this netflix like service.

I'd rather pay 10 bucks a year and get access to this boatload of games than pay 10-15 bucks for a n64 port that I'll have to rebuy when the next nintendo system drops.

And yes, the expansion pack is only 10 bucks a year if you have a social life and split it with a bunch of your friends.

@Specter_of-the_OLED

The coping on this.

You're literally saying the crappy quality gave an illusion that was never intended thus makes it better?

I once had a dream about a Wario and Waluigi themed conquest game (like pokemon conquest) where they used different random villain lackies from the mario series that they roughed up and convinced to join their side to conquer some random continent in mario's world.

I'm still sad that game isn't real.

I dont wanna be that guy but did people actually like this game?

It just warmed shelves at every video store in the 90s. The cover art looked so generic even my friend wanted nothing to do with it.

Is htis one of those so bad its good games?

Or is it just genuinely a hidden gem that I'm being a jerk about?

I feel like of all the PS1 games that have gotten remasters and all the ones that SHOULD get remastered, this game just doesn't feel like it deserved one.

Einhander deserves this kind of love. Don't @ me.

I hate the guy as much as the next person but I hate thieves more, to think someone got that much money scamming anyone, even if its someone I don't like, is disgusting to me.

Two wrongs don't make a right and here's hoping Paul learns a lesson and the person who did this gets in trouble for it.

*Due to how much cheaper it is to have a digital conference

I fixed it for them.

E3 was already dying before Corona. Mark my words, there will never be a physical E3 again. Other similar tech shows will pop up, sure, but this is about saving cash. There was rumors the about E3 going digital long before corona anyway.

ah yes, the game backed by kickstarter that has a clear anti capitalist, pro socialist message in the form of a really bad strawman in the first like, 10 minutes of the game. the comedy writes itself.

i'm not even all that pro one way or the other, but when a game makes a really bad strawman in the first half hour, its hard to take it seriously. It took me out of the experience, god forbid anything be about escapism.

Also, the games not that good either.

eggman is ready to punch a boi

I see people constantly bashing games that aren't even remotely close to being as awful as they think they are, games like Sonic Boom; which in my opinion is more bad because it feels like it was super rushed. you can play the game and if you turn off your 'i gotta riff on everything cuz I want people to love me like they love the game grumps' goggles you can see where the foundation of a good game exists in sonic boom.I feel like if it had another year or so of game dev time it'd be a classic.

With balan, it just feels like someone trying to make a game with ideas first and gameplay second. The ideas sound fine, but they aren't refined, they aren't implemented right. Look at something like Splatoon, where they came up with the gameplay first then modeled the ideas and aesthetic around that.

Balan feels like they just got so hype to have this art style, this director, and these ideas for a game that they just green lit it without thinking how they could implement it and arguably put a team on it that aren't exactly great for a 3D platformer.

Gonna be that one, or two, or fifty eight idiots in the comments "BUT GAME PRESERVATION", switch games will be well preserved, they don't need to be distributed for free on rom sites that profit from the piracy to be preserved.

I've never played a mother game.

When I finally sit down and play it.

It better be the best thing ever. It better feel like kissing Kate Beckinsale after winning the lottery after how much people have hyped this game up.

@Jayenkai

Yes imagine that, people would rather have the non-pay-to-win compiled version of a mobile game on a platform that easily allows you to play with a controller of your choosing.

Its almost as if playing these games on a tiny screen, with your finger smudging said screen up, and then dishing out money to unlock anything worth a damn is less enjoyable than getting the entire product at one price and with a better control scheme. Who would of thunk it?

I wish Nintendo cared about smash as much as Bandai Namco cares about like 3-5 year old dragon ball games.

If they did we'd be on the fourth fighter pass by now, playing break the target again, and getting god knows how many alternate costumes. Just when we'd think they'd be done they'd drop something like paper mario or dixie kong.

Also NB4 SMASH IS 3 YEARS OLD AND JUST GOT ITS LAST UPDATE.

That's nice, xenoverse 2 is like 5 years old and it's still getting dlc. At this rate the power rangers fighting game has had more DLC fighters added to it than smash has. Sakurai should be embarrassed.

NB4 HE WORKS HARD: so does all of his fans, and they give up their money to pay his bills. I get so tired of being reminded of how hard someone works when we all work hard. Shut up. He also doesn't have to helm it, other companies have made competent smash clones. Smash doesn't need sakurai, sakurai needs smash.

I cant wait to play pokemon asfdlaksfj;adslkfjasdl;gajd;lgaj;sdlkgfj;adlsfadfdsgr

Imagine if you're a digimon fan drawing a digimon a day since Survive was announced. You'd have like god know show many digimon drawings.

@Doofenshmirtz

Its modern sonicteam/sega

You'll be lucky if it runs on anything well at launch.

Other M suffers from pedigree standard.

Had it been some quirky, new IP made by some random company people would be calling it a hidden gem.

But because it had to live up to the insanely high standards of the metroid franchise, it was doomed.

I liked the Other M. Its certainly not the best metroid game, but for what it was it was fine.

The average american makes 11 dollars an hour before taxes.

After taxes its closer to 8 something an hour.

A normal work day is 8 hours a day.

Meaning that in those 8 hours, one full work day, they make enough to buy ONE pokemon game.

Eight hours of their lives they can never get back.

So when they take those eight hours, in the form of 64 dollars, and exchange it for a buggy, unfinished, hastily thrown together cash grab of a game-- they have every right to be upset and complain about it.

"Game developers work hard!" So do people who buy their games. Difference is, the game dev on average makes way more money than the people they call toxic for having standards.

Can we please stop this toxic gratitude nonsense? You show your gratitude to the game dev when you buy the game and you continue that gratitude by buying future products as long as they continue to keep up that level of quality. There doesn't need to be any of this white knighting for game devs and anytime you put your work out there for the masses to pay for, you better be damn ready for criticism.

Especially if you release unfinished messes.