Burning_Spear

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.

Same as the past few weeks: Splatoon for Wii U. I played a little of the solo mode back in 2015 then forgot about it. With the servers about to sunset, I took it out a few weeks ago to try online matches and have been hooked. Nearly 25 hours in the past two weeks and approaching 40 overall. I regret having missed out on this all these years but am looking forward to catching up on Switch.

I've only played Blue World but found it super-interesting. My one complaint was that the map wasn't constantly on screen but instead had to be swapped in for the first-person view. So it was difficult to gauge where you were going. Also, the visuals here look a bit last-gen to me.

I'm likely the only person on this thread who will say Splatoon for the Wii U. I bought it around launch, played a little of the single-player mode and then forgot about it ... until a couple of weeks ago. With the online servers in their final weeks, I decided to try online battles and have been hooked. I'm kicking myself for what I've been missing all these years!!!

Also a few hours of Mario Kart Wii so far.

Splatoon on the Wii U. I bought it when it released, played a little of the single-player campaign and lost interest. With the servers nearing shutdown, I popped it in again last week and am loving it. Let's see how much I can level up in 10 weeks.

And also Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

If GameFreak had been a passenger on the Titanic it would have been running around tossing deck chairs into the Atlantic and bragging about how much more time it was buying everyone to wait for the Carpathia.

Switch 2 won't sell 135 million units. What a brazen forecast.

Think of how good FIFA Legends will look on updated hardware!

Color, yes! Larger, YESSER!

The standard edition sold out around 11:05 EDT. I was able to move it to a cart and then it disappeared. Not bad for me: I still have the original sealed.

@Vyacheslav333 Of course, a mountain of grains of salt are involved here, but this rumor is at least a reasonable conclusion. The screen manufacturer says it's doubling shipments this year of "amusement displays." It could be something else, but we're talking about a company that was involved in Switch 1 production. It's at least worth reporting, in my opinion.

Was this a different version than the launch title, which I'm somewhat embarrassed to say I still have sealed?

Late to the discussion, but, as someone in this business, it smells a whole lot like, "Call someone at that publication and have a few folks speak to them on the record so we can clean up the mess we created." Not sure I would have run this in interview format.

There goes the value of my sealed copy.

The Recharged titles I've played are good, worthy successors to the originals, but if Atari wants lasting relevancy it is going to have to begin producing truly new content. You can only remake these games so many times. There's certainly room for arcade-style experiences in 2024, but they must present fresh ideas or they'll again be written off as living off their past, which they've essentially been doing — and not so well — since the '90s.

I'm compelled to liken this fix to the proverbial measure of throwing a deck chair off the Titanic.

@CharlieFen I bought Konami Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection in January, and it arrived last week. That said, I don't really have a problem with LRG. If you don't care to wait, simply buy the digital version.

"The description on the [GameStop] website notes how these items are 'new' ..."

That means the packages have been opened, the Amiibo taken home and mucked around with by GS employees, after which everything was carefully placed in a replacement sleeve with a "new" sticker on it.

For those of us who got into this series in the earlier days — certainly well before the current Marvelous team decided 38 makers scattered across your farm was a good thing — a lot of the game's appeal was in its chill factor and the sense that a farmer's prosperity stems from hard work. For us, HM64 is kind of like rewatching a television show from our youth. @KateGray knows this series well and would not offer criticism for the sake of cheekiness or to be cavalier. If your entry point to the series was later than HM64, you might look at this game as rudimentary and overly methodical, and I couldn't blame you.

@HammerGalladeBro Wow, thirty. I've been OCD about playing all the events, so I don't have to worry about themes being unavailable later, as some apparently are. I played last night but couldn't do any better than third.

This one looks fantastic. Hopefully the dark background will play well in terms of letting us see the gaps in our stack.