Bondi_Surfer

I used to be good when controllers had a proper joystick and a single button…

I’d pay $100K for a McNugget that actually contained chicken…

So it’s gone from being 104 minutes too long, to 125 minutes too long…

So it’s a poor-man’s Dreams?

Fantastic news. Loved this series

Why is everyone’s list wrong? The correct answer, in no particular order is:

Sensible Soccer (Amiga 500)
Diddy Kong Racing (N64)
Goldeneye (N64)
Dirt 2.0 (PS4)
Decathlon (Atari 2600)

These are not the games you are looking for…

@Folkloner why do you have to put it up to your face? A steering wheel plus accelerator, or a keyboard, or a fishing reel, or whatever? Or is your dumb take that we’re only talking about a VR headset? In which case, I’d use a machine actually capable of VR, and not a Switch. But thanks for your comment...

I can’t stand Metroidvanias, so I might check this out

Expensive cardboard didn’t really do it for me. A similar range of fun peripherals made out of standard Lego bricks would pique my interest...

crda = Cradle Aula????

Wow, what a stretch! Maybe it means Core Data, or Console Register Device A, or Can’t Really Decide Anything, or...

This is the first I’ve heard of it. Why couldn’t NL give us an article warning about this earlier...

My favourite controller of all time was the Atari 2600 - back when one button was all you needed for games; a simpler time

And my favourite Nintendo controller is the N64 - it just felt right, and none of my controllers ever broke

I thought the original trailer looked pretty bad, so for me they snatched defeat from the jaws of defeat

Fall Guys is sus

Honestly, I’d settle for redesigned joycons that didn’t have issues (or existing joycons massively reduced in price). Anything that allows me to play my Switch.

After that, pretty much anything Mario - Kart, Odyssey, Galaxy 2. I’ve given up on hoping for a Wave Race or 1080

It’s a bit pixelated on my 8K TV...

Surely N64 titles are on the Nintendo Online Service by now...

[Tumbleweed blows past]

What’s a ‘wholly unliveable character’? [The end of the first paragraph]. Is it supposed to perhaps be ‘unlikeable’ or ‘unbelievable’?

Hopefully we get something happening in Australia too. I’ve not bought a Nintendo game for over a year as my joy-cons are rubbish (and I can’t even start any games requiring split controllers, like Ring Fit Adventure)

I’ll not buy expensive replacement joy-cons as they’re prone to the exact same issue

Come on Nintendo, sort it out!!

It’s a shame that travelling across Lake Lapcat is the closest we’re going to get to Wave Race on the Switch...

My five year old plays AC once every two months, so we missed all these events except the Easter one. I wish you could somehow trigger any events you missed

HotGoomba_Rebrand is the imposter!

Worth the wait ...? ... No

BotW 2 and a new Switch; hopefully where the weapons in one don’t break as often as the controllers in the other...

Hopefully BotW-2 borrows some ideas from Fenyx - durable weapons, marker points telling you where to go (as an option)

@SwitchVogel They’re definitely all solvable through logic alone - no guessing required ... and no hints required either

So if Bale is in the game, do you get to play golf on matchday?

Why will they need to change the name? Drac is romancing across Transylvania, hence the Romancelvania. Castlevania is easily different enough.

That aside, I do think the name is terrible...

It’s not a good as Burnout Paradise, and I think paradise is a terrible game (whereas I loved Burnout 1and 2)

I live in Australia and I never knew there was a Nintendo eBay page. If they sold reasonably priced joycon, I’d have been all over it...

I loved Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast. Man, what a system that was...

I loved the Atari 2600 joystick. It gave me the sort of control I just don’t get from a thumb-sized joystick. I used to hunt around second-hand stores in London looking for these, as my mate and I used them to play Sensible World of Soccer on the Amiga, and each one would only last a few months. Good times

I’d buy a triple pack or a Pikmin 4

A Netflix-style subscription for cloud games might work well - then you’ve got no ownership issues

There’s a few things worth mentioning:

If you have two karts, you can’t use both sets of gates to make bigger courses - it’s four gates only!

The other virtual racers can go through solid objects (as the game doesn’t register real-works objects).

The kart can go on small pile carpet, but may struggle with going up and down rug edges.

If you get hair wound around an axle, your kart may be buggered - so bye bye a hundred bucks.

Still not cheap enough. I’ve got one joy con drifting and the other has a non-functioning shoulder button when separated from the system - so no two player Mario kart, no Fit Boxing or Keep Fit Adventure

Reduced features should mean a reduced price. I’ve got FIFA 18, and it was pretty good. I’m tempted by FIFA 21, purely because after a two year absence the mighty Fulham are back in the Premiership (and bottom of the table) ... but I’ll get it on the PS4, depending on the level of micro-transactions

I’ll definitely grab this - a two hour playthrough is perfect, and I love a little N64 nostalgia

At least it’ll be easy to drift the kart with those joycons

If you zoom in real close on the chart to a month ago, you can see a slight dip - that's me unsubscribing

I grew up playing Game and Watch games, so if this had all of them pre-loaded, I’d purchase in a heartbeat. But with only one G&W game, it’s an easy pass

It looks friggin’ awesome. But the price is too high for me, and I question the gates being made from cardboard. It’d be interesting to know how well it controls and what its range is - if I can race around my company’s warehouse that’d be amazing. Consider my inner-child’s interest piqued

Micro-transactions fundamentally affect the way a game is designed, so are impossible to ignore. Well, that’s not quite true, I can ignore them by not purchasing the game

Goldeneye was sublime. But Diddy Kong Racing has to be my favourite Rare game - the perfect kart racer with an excellent single-player adventure, fun courses, a great weapon system, and no rubber-banding.

The one game that piqued my interest, you dismissed within seconds - My Universe, My Baby. It sounded like perfection for my five year old daughter, so I was disappointed not to see more

They haven’t copied the Switch controller until they really nail the drift...

People play games for different reasons: challenge, fun, distraction, entertainment, social. So choose the difficulty that matches your reason for playing.

I love easy modes, sometimes with a bit more challenge thrown in, but frustration turns me off completely

I played one game a couple of months ago where it essentially said, ‘looks like you’re a bit crap - shall we lower the difficulty?’ What a blessing!

What is a short hour? Fifty minutes?

I believe the review was written with one hand...