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@Cakefish yes, all these developers and especially big publishers will remember being left out of the Switch 2 launch, with little time to prepare for the holiday 2025 season. Where have I heard this before?? cough*Saturn*cough

Come on back to planet earth, Nintendo.

@Cakefish seems like N want precise control of having pretty much the only big AAA experiences early.

In their roadmap, they stated that it’d start with first party for months before third party was part of the next window, which I recall we all thought was strange.

Among other things, I’m waiting for solid third party support and system seller games before I consider purchasing. A bunch of S1 games and a couple N S2 games are not impressing me just yet. MKW and DK are not selling me on S2. I was expecting announcement of the next 3D Mario, and that’d help do it for me.

Seems N is tightening the grip of control in ways that a lot are not find of.

I’m interested in this.

Seriously, this does look pretty sweet and you get a lot for the asking price. I don’t NEED it, but I do want it.

Now Konami, make another 2D Castlevania, pretty please!

EDIT: Side note - I just finished Chronicles Of The Wolf and it was excellent. If you like the SCIV and Rondo Belmont controls with the villages and clues of SQ and the castle exploration of SotN, it’s an absolute must play. I had low expectations and was blown away. It’s my game of the year at this point. Also, the soundtrack kicks!!

@rvcolem1 I agree, but am trying to give it a chance. It almost looks parts raging justice and the takeover, oddly (I think). Neon as well, which is definitely not my favorite in the series (that’s Advance, and I really enjoyed my time with Gaiden). We will know in October!

Bimmy and Jimmy, revived! This reminds me of Double Dragon Neon and that’s not a bad thing. I am going to call up my beat ‘em up buddy for some arcade action!

No 3D Mario no buy. That’s the one game that would push me over the edge. I have a huge backlog so I’m good.

@FormerGameAddict Play-Asia has a placeholder page for the game, and a week ago it said "announcements coming soon." A couple days ago it changed to "out of print / out of stock." Either way, I hope it becomes available soon. I hope it's a retail release.

Just got my copy of The Messenger and began playing. It's rad!

“Xbox Mii” crossed with mobile character design aesthetics. I’ve not met a person who liked this.

As mentioned above, why not get Silent Hill 2 on the Switch 2?

Or SotN…

Nintendo, now the Apple of video games.

@MeloMan Oh I see. I've not bought anything since I updated today. Thanks, I'll look out for it next time!

@antlion and on another platform lol.

With all this controversy over the Switch 2's game key cards and expensive consoles, new high game prices and the anti-consumer precedence it's already setting as enacted by other publishers and manufacturers, it seems Nintendo is pricing out the casual gamer market, their bread and butter. Heck, I could give them my money, but I don't agree with how much more expensive all of this is compared to Switch. It seems like Nintendo is going for a much tighter grip on your access to what you pay for. I certainly don't trust their intentions anymore.

@MeloMan That would be great! I updated and checked my wishlist, and some of my purchases have been removed, while others are as they were, grayed out and listed as purchased.

Has this happened with anyone else?

I must say, I wish these "in preparation for Switch 2" updates were OPTIONAL The whole virtual game card thing on my other Switch is a total PITA. Not planning on buying Switch 2, either.

@DaSwitcher I’m not buying it until it costs $6,666. Might not be too far off lol

Ship date on point 👍

These cards sound bad enough.

But now a required internet check? Wth Nintendo. This is Ubisoft bs. This is very disappointing.

Limited Jokin’ Numbnuts, you say? 😂 yes, luckily we can sometimes find these in a JP or Asia release. Thanks, I appreciate the reply!

@YANDMAN I’m probably going to do this 👍

This is the route I go any time there’s a choice, but sometimes you preorder from LRG, then later it’s announced there’s a wider retail release.

@Truegamer79 just put in an order over the weekend. I have bought many switch games from them, no problems (luckily).

Now for a criticism: the new shipping increases are 100% bullxxxx!!!!

Sounds like a mess. Still no buy.

Wow, that does look fun!

Nintrickle Switch Online. Similar to Virtually Dead Console. Oh well, better now than never. I’d never pay for this tier!

Doubt this is real but I just want more of te same experience from Nintendo with more power, Nintendo Power!!

I just want 1080/60. Can we do it?

The school playgrounds, 1992: “My piece of plastik is betta then yers!!!!”

Also, the entire internet. Ever. 😃

If Sega is doing a mmo aspect to ANY of these new games, please also offer a comprehensive classic Arcade Mode where appropriate. I’d much rather play that way 😃

@NeonMullet this news is disappointing. I was hoping to get this one but now I’m thinking I may not. Very strange in a genre where things can easily get stale to not give each ranger their own unique moveset. They’re already just character palette swaps. Strange decision, no?

@vio it means master, or dominant, and the word dominus begins and ends with DS. That’s all the sense I can make lol ✌️

@EarthboundBenjy my Advance Collection got delivered, but to someone else! So I opened a ticket and the service was quick and responsive, and in a few days I had my copy. Best of luck!

@Teksetter I haven’t yet played the others, but Ninja Saviors is excellent!

I’m interested, but I hope they’ll fix performance and load times and release a physical with all it that on cart. In the meantime I’ll play my other tmnt games 👍

@Ralizah Just found my copy of Power Stone. I missed it so badly!! If this port supports online play… and is a physical retail copy, I will be busy all year lol

Could be fun if I had any time this week, and lived in Europe.

I don’t want to be negative but this feels a bit stingy, but at the same time I understand that it helps protect the bottom line of these developers. I guess for younger players this could be a nice chance to hop on and try out some games.

This game is Atooi’s Paprium, but I bet the manual with the game won’t be as mean spirited and odd though…

@Oppyz666 Dude, that’s so awesome! 😎 I currently have my Wii, Wii U, Switch, PS3, Xbox, Xbox One, Genesis 2, Mega Sg, Super Nt, Duo, R Pi, and mini PC hooked up to one TV. Most of my original retro consoles are hooked to another or are in the closet.

Discovered CotA on PlayStation soon after it launched and snatched it up. Love this game!!!

Anyone have the antidote for this comment section?? I’m not feeling very well lol

Both games on a Switch game card or it didn’t happen!!

Please, of course 😃

Looking forward to trying the new game

@LikelySatan I thoroughly enjoyed your comment, lol.

@Solomon_Rambling Wow, thanks for the reply. I’ll dig into this list when I have the chance! I enjoyed my play through of Oxenfree and the odd atmosphere and feel of Paratopic. I’ve been considering Little Nightmares for years…maybe it’s finally time to play it!

@Solomon_Rambling Could you make any suggestions of games you’ve liked? I never know what to try in terms of horror games these days, though the last one I really enjoyed was Remothered: Tormented Fathers (the first one in the series).

@JohnnyMind If you like classic arcade games then you’d like this. I just randomly started playing the first Volgarr and then this article popped up!

Also just want to thumbs up your positive posts (all of them), specifically your above message about the needless hate in comments sections. I think people tend to spend too much energy focused on things that don’t matter or that they dislike instead of celebrating the things that make them happy.

I loved Goblin Sword and really enjoyed Mercenary Kings. I’m looking forward to trying this one!! Physical edition and it’s a no brainer as long as performance is okay on switch, but those other two games don’t have one, so I wouldn’t expect one for this game.

Limitedpop Chainsaw: ReRUN

Considering grabbing a Play-Asia copy this time 😱

@HeadPirate I was referring to my complete in box copy of the game that I get to enjoy to this day. Manual, game, case, box art.

Your opinion is also much respected, but you’re coming from an analytical side where I was expressing joy surrounding a video game. Not sure why a difference in perspective makes me naive for having a different opinion. Oh well.

When I was 12, I wasn’t thinking about budgets and balance updates. I enjoyed the little I had.

Yes, if one wants to think of 76+ characters in a game as beating out a game from 30 years ago, that’s perfectly fine. Smash is a polished game, I own it, but it’s not my favorite kind of fighter.

@Scollurio I hear that - enjoy your retro games! 👍 That’s what I was going for in my above comments…

@axelhander I’m quite happy with my complete Genesis copy of SFII Special Champion Edition, my SNES SFII Turbo, and my other ports. I guess what I was trying to express is, as a kid, I only had the Genesis game and was happy with it. When I became aware (much later because the internet wasn’t really a thing) that other expanded versions came out, I never felt ripped off. I’m certainly not saying I had it better, but I am sharing a happy memory from a different time in gaming. I like to have a finished game on a card I can go back to and enjoy, that’s really all I was getting at. It’s harder now in this gen with downloads.

I hope everyone who has this game can enjoy it, but I’m also glad I grew up in another era of gaming where you bought it once and it was complete, worked, you owned it forever, etc. This business model makes me glad I’m not super into fighters ✌️

Rolling Thunder, Alien Syndrome, etc. ports to the NES! I still have a few of these Tengen carts.

I’ll just play my copy on Dreamcast. Not everything needs an online open world focus. I wonder what they’re doing with the other IP.

@Poodlestargenerica interesting, I hadn’t heard that Ancel story. Thanks for catching me up 👍

On a related note, I guess flops these days don’t have the advantage of getting a sequel that often as even games that make multi millions are sometimes cited as failures by the publishers. Crazy! Seems unsustainable.

So…the first game flopped(?) And now we have a sequel in development for several years. All good signs.