Burning_Spear

"I know a lot of people looked up to us, Jackpot, and me personally."

Ummmm ... get over yourself. We all play games. You're just like us, except racist.

Balatro and Splatoon!!!

@KillerTan98 Nice! I may be the only other person who has both of those games.

Splatastic. Just SPLATASTIC!

Balatro and Splatfest!!! Balatro has completely sunken its teeth into me. I'm still trying to unlock all the decks.

@Nagi Me too. I ordered it July 30 of last year.

Beach man all the way. Cabbage Beach on Paradise Island. Dickinson Bay in Antigua. Palm Beach in Aruba. Prove me wrong.

Just learned I won't be going to an event that would have taken most of Saturday, so it figures to be a weekend divided somewhat evenly between Balatro, which has completely sunken its teeth into me, and Splatoon, because ... well ... it's Splatoon.

OCD and ADHD can make gaming or anything a slog. Doing things repetitively to unnecessarily perfect or complete a particular objective, obsessing to the point that one game takes many hours away from others, losing interest after dozens of hours and merely a boss or two short of the game's completion. Sheesh, I'm getting tired just writing this.

I tried Balatro for the first time this week and have not been able to stop. So addictive!

For those who are too young to have experienced those days, GameBoy Tetris was THE thing in the early '90s. If you saw someone playing a GameBoy in public, more likely than not it was Tetris. In the minds of some of the uninitiated, Tetris was the actual product and the GameBoy was just the plastic it came in. I remember bringing mine into work when I got it, and though I left it in my bag to play during my commute, one of my friends would take it and play at the office. Not surprisingly, his tenure there didn't last long.

@Cut3Panda-SNES64DD Why keep referencing the Wii U? Microsoft is also in stronger position than the Virtual Boy and the Dreamcast. But it's miles behind Nintendo today and still chasing Sony. The point remains: If MS is moving former exclusives to other consoles, the Xbox creeps toward irrelevancy.

Let's face it, Microsoft's future is Game Pass and PC. Anyone who can't read the Xbox writing on the wall needs glasses.

Amazing game. I put more than 200 hours into that. Time to turn to the sequel.

Wii and GameCube games just don't seem retro to me. I would say, for now, the dividing line is the N64, PS1/2 period — before we had robust online, downloadable games, rechargeable controllers and DLC. I think of those as modern conveniences and hence, all games before then retro.

Toward that end, I think putting a time frame on what's retro doesn't work. To me, it's more of a feel of modern versus old, and that can change according to the progress of technology.

"Teeming commercial hub of the city."

Open toilet is more like it. Bring a mask ... and not for Covid.

Is there anything original about this company?

"I am going to preorder this game at the nearest gamestop just to be safe."

@Papery0shi Get there quickly on release date to make sure they don't open it and play it first. Remember, that's considered "new" at GameStop.

Could this be a concern about breaking street date? Or perhaps a punishment for past transgressions in that regard?

Not mentioned in the review is that the missions frustratingly often don't register as completed. It's so inconsistent that I rarely even bother with the missions: What's the point of taking a risk if I'm not even going to get the reward?

I remember buying EA's Tiger Woods series with the motion controls on the Wii. Those games were expertly produced to create a super-realistic experience and were also packed with content. It was clear the developers were solely focused on creating the best game possible.

And since then it has been all about bleeding gamers for every penny in their pockets. And so when they say, "We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that," my interpretation is that roughly zero percent of that thought will be about the gamers or the experience.

@Darthmoogle A year or two ago, Nintendo applied for a patent on a cart that would do just that. Maybe we'll see it for Switch 2. Would be nice.

Good news for me, but can we please see about getting the entire game on the cartridge and in a version that functions fully without the now-customary day-one patch?

I spent a couple of hours with the Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle last night. I won 10 times, which I attribute to a combination of a decent skill level and a lot of people messing around without any idea as to how to play.

@Hirsbrunner Curious as to what "s****y game" he was referring to."

Sounds to me like Nintendo Switch Sports.

Remember when Nintendo ran sales in the States?

My consoles are observing a "weekend of silence" in respect for the passing of Splatoon for Wii U.

His latest game is priced at $70 because he is "concerned audiences will associate anything cheaper with a
'poor quality' product."

I associate that with a big heaping pile of bulls---.

Great job! Don't give that scammer the satisfaction of having the only unbeaten level!

For the ninth weekend in a row and the last time ever ... SPLATOON FOR WII U!

And yet another theme with a background that makes it difficult to see the gaps in the stack. Does anyone play-test these?

Sorry, Ubisoft, but I'm still trying to get used to the idea of not owning anything.

And the servers are down for maintenance tonight. I got in four or five matches before they went offline.

Right alongside the last days of Splatoon online for Wii U.

I'll be playing until they pull the plug!

Gotta love it when a developer releases that first huge patch that fixes a bunch of things that should have been addressed before the game released. It's that EXACT SAME warm, fuzzy feeling of buying a pre-2005 game, unwrapping it, popping it in the console and happily playing until the credits rolled.

Splatoon for Wii U! Nine more days of fun, fun, fun 'til our Daddy takes our T-bird away. (Sorry for the non-reggae reference. Spear does not endorse the Beach Boys.)

@dartmonkey I was on Mario Golf Super Rush a couple of times yesterday. Motion controls matches have been dead for months.

I've been playing Splatoon nearly every day for weeks. The lobby is usually full, so I guess a lot of folks are also trying to get every last minute out of this.

Finally! My Korean stepmother can ditch the Rosetta Stone English CDs.

@BandeeOfTheStars Thank you! I must have been absent from the playground the day they discussed TAS!

Splatoon for Wii U

@Joeynator3000 It seems like this turned when Reggie left.

Put me down for Splatoon for Wii U through April 8. Anyone who tries to talk me out of it is getting splatted with a Carbon Roller Deco.

If these are GameStop restocks then just make sure you have paper towels and Lysol handy to wipe off the Cheetos and spit. Interesting definition of "new" at GameStop.

"Who actually still plays the Wii U?" I do! Splatoon, specifically! In fact, the lobby is pretty active these days. I bought the game around launch, played the story campaign a bit, then forgot about it ... for eight years. I picked it up again about six weeks ago to try online for the first time, and I've been hooked. I think I'm up to about 65 hours.

Suyu "is openly against any suggestions of piracy." What do you think people will do with your emulator?

I'm openly against robbing banks, but here's the combination to the vault.

Splatoon for Wii U!

Frankly, I don't understand the big to-do over icons anyway. I use my Mii from way back in the Wii days and don't think about it.

Splatoon for Wii U.

I understand that some folks rip Switch games they've legally purchased for emulation, to upscale or whatever. But let's face it: The other ninety percent of folks emulating Switch games are thieving.