ChaoticIgnorance

@Dringo That's because it's been released in waves at each store. Hence the reason I was able to get my hands on one 40 minutes into the launch window.

I was a Nintendo apologist with the Switch's battery life, but potentially two hours for the Steam Deck? Woof.

"The Nintendo Switch OLED might not have quite as much excitement behind it as the next-generation Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5"

What OLED pre order launch were you a part of Nintendo Life? I had five different websites on my desktop and three on my phone. I was mashing that refresh for near 40 minutes before I could get an order in and I'm still surprised I was able to. Seems gamers are pretty excited to get their hands on it.

Honestly, I think it's rather scummy to put the amiibo functionality as a con in a games review. The original game didn't have the teleport feature, and the feature is borderline game breaking, so it shouldn't even be a part of the conversation when reviewing the game. Can anyone actually give a reason why the game NEEDS fast travel from anywhere, besides the fact that the functionality exists somewhere in the world? No, they can't. Because there are plenty of statues around the world and it's not that hard to get to one. They're essentially a check point in the game.

Why are we STILL making assumptions here? They don't say it because they don't want to acknowledge drift. At all. This does NOT give us an answer of whether drift has been fixed or not. It gives us the answer of whether Nintendo is poorly trying to hide a huge ***** up on their part.

I've always been bothered by special editions that try to incorporate something unique, but then they still have the jail and free parking spaces. Takes me right out of it.

This still doesn't prove anything though. I don't mean to spread rumors after Nintendo supposedly clears up the possibility of rumors, but come on, do you really expect them to come out and say "Yes, you can use your old Joy Con controllers or the new OLED model Joy Con which no longer drift!"? No, they will hide that close to their chest and possibly never bring it up outright because they don't want to admit their failure. And can you blame them, when they have on going court battles over it?

Honestly now I hope this isn't real and instead the last Smash Bros character is AiAi.

Man, just watching the comparison footage of motion controls and buttons controls, I can't understand why anyone would be excited for button controls. It looks AWFUL. Motion controlling the sword to hit enemies in a specific way was such a cool mechanic that felt incredibly natural. Moving an analog stick to do that feels like a tacked on gimmick.

I guess if it gets more people to experience the precursor to BotW, then I'm all for it, but such a disservice to such a great game.

I mean, it can seem cruel to some people, but this is exactly why Nintendo is not incentivized to come out with a more robust Game Pass like system. Why do they need to when they command the top ten?

I have to be honest, when I saw this shown in the direct I thought "Oh, that's neat. I may look into that at some point.". However now that I'm seeing a full trailer I'm noticing things that remind me of Burnout, like the destruction of opponents on the track, and I'm fully on board with this! Looks like a ton of fun.

For the love of gyroids give me gyroids!

"The ratio of new games to remakes"

For the love of god stop bringing them up and they'll stop making them! I want some actual software to purchase later in the year and into 2022, not up priced games that I played to death eight years ago!

A DLC pack accidentally going out for free is definitely newsworthy, but I'm not sure how I feel about the language of the article here. Basically telling everyone to take advantage of a clear mistake and screw developers out of money.

Well we know now that someone who is "usually right in the past" will be wrong in the future since this rumor says late November while the other rumors have been saying September-October. Good luck to the rumor sources!

I really hope this becomes a common thing now. We need Nintendo Picross or even more specific things like Zelda Picross. Or a sequel to Mario Picross. That was a thing back in the day, right?

I'm not entirely against this idea and I understand the immediate benefits of doing it, but I'm also not entirely for it either. I play tank 50% of the time, but that's because I love running around as Roadhog to switch up my usual damage heroes. If there can only be me on a team then I won't play Roadhog anymore because I would hate the pressure. I don't play MMOs because of this role lock stuff, so I won't want to do it here either.

I was enjoying the first one back on PS3, but in the end it was a combination of the PS4 coming out and my getting annoyed with whatever boss battle I was on. Never finished the game in the end, but now I'm wondering if it would be worth it to pick up both games on the Switch.

Every game does NOT need fast travel. Some games are designed around the travel feature and a game that takes place in the sky, with a skyloft, would OF COURSE be designed around traveling with your skyloft. Thus Skyward Sword is not the kind of game that would benefit from a universal fast travel all the time. Which means this is an extra 'cheat code' for those that wish to use it. It is NOT a scumbag move on Nintendo's part, but providing a fun thing for the young kids that would buy this amiibo. Now lets move on from this asinine complaining.

Still salty about Fuser taking Dropmix away from me. I would be hundreds of Dropmix cards if they would simply release them to me.

Most people would rather watch simple videos on YouTube or twitch, but I think they could make this a lot of fun digitally. I picture something like the expo hall map of a PAX convention where everything is labeled by company and/or publisher. You can zoom in on the map and it auto updates to show more detail, and when you zoom all the way in on a booth you get different "pop-out bubbles" for different aspects of the booth. Company/publisher/game info, videos (live or not), merch list, maybe an ad or two, etc. Zoom back out and scroll around to see what else interests you. The map could be organized logically (as I imagine most convention show floors already are) putting similar games or companies near each other. You could tag a booth that you want to check out later on. Maybe there's a way for you to add booths to a schedule list of upcoming live demos.

But of course we'll get a boring ad invested website with simple links to different locations and a clusterf**k of a message board.

@BulbasaurusRex You're right that I can keep enjoying my Wii U copy of Mario Kart 8, but I would like to enjoy a copy on my Switch and not have to buy it again. Hence wanting something new to purchase.

I mean, 'a new line-up' sounds like it's literally not going to be DQXII or Builders 3. It sounds like it would be something entirely different and my money is on it being something mobile, unfortunately.

But my dream game would be a sequel to Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime from the DS. One of my favorite DQ games and top three for the DS for me personally. Not sure why a sequel never happened in the west.

I still own my original copies so I hope there's enough other people purchasing re releases if that's what the do to prove the need for a third entry. I loved these games.

@BulbasaurusRex "Their incredible replayability is why franchises like Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. are strictly one per system releases."

Right now Mario Kart is going on zero games for the Switch, so I would love a Mario Kart 9.

Man, I don't mean to be a Debbie-downer, but back in the day I felt this game was hot trash. Still surprises me to hear that I was basically 100% alone on that thought.

I remember being in love with Diablo 2 and Baldur's Gate, and then looking at this game and thinking "sooo which game are they trying to be? Because it looks like they failed to realize what was great about both games and gave us a Gauntlet 64 rip off instead."

How many first party games are coming from Sony and Microsoft? A lot of people here are saying this list looks pathetic, but to me it looks larger than the competition. And it doesn't include third party support.

I don't know how you would do it, but I would love to see the stats on the number of people who purchased MK8 on the Wii U and then also picked it up on the Switch.

I'm probably one of the last remaining earthlings that has not double dipped and really wishes people would stop buying 8 so Nintendo would make 9.

Last played Need for Speed on the Gamecube. Haven't enjoyed a game in that series since. Last enjoyed the Burnout series with Burnout Revenge. Would love to see the series return to it's arcade racing roots and go big on the destruction again, which was literally the reason I tried Burnout 3 at an EBGames demo kiosk and then bought the game on the spot. The destruction has since gone on to be an afterthought it seems.

This move literally does not compute with me. I feel like you save virtually nothing when you remove the box of an NES game and I had the mindset to save all boxes when I was ten years old. Heck I still have all the boxes for my Lego sets and Transformer action figures.

Even back in the 80's and 90's you could see collectors of 60's/70's toys regretting throwing away boxes to products. This shouldn't have been some massive secret.

I thought the DS version should have had monthly updates of new furniture items and new villagers. I thought the same thing for the Wii version. And then again for the 3DS one. I knew going into this Switch game that it would be the same and I also knew that all the new comers were going to wish for what I gave up on years ago.

Hopefully it doesn't play out as predicted for a fourth time, but so far it seems like it will.

Honestly I think the furniture lineup is disappointing as it is already so they really do need to give us a giant Ikea catalogue update in early summer.

@Blooper987 Awesome. I LOVED The Stanley Parable, so I will definitely have to check this one out.

Is this basically The Stanley Parable?

What I hear more often is "Why in the world would you spend so much money on just a box!?" (I pick up boxes for old NES games almost more often than I do the games themselves).

@cyrus_zuo Endless Ocean was my JAM back in the day. I would love to get a new one of those, but ABZU and Subnautica will have to do for now on the Switch.

Man, I haven't played Fez in ten years so replaying it felt like the first time (I had forgotten a lot of the puzzle aspects, so it was fresh again). And I must say, I'm nearing the end and I have that feeling of depression after finishing a really good book. I'm trying to figure out what game is going to fill that hole and I don't think there is one. Fez is like nothing else and I'm looking at the video game industry in disgust right now because of how lame everything seems in comparison...

Get better guys!

The US an European versions are so similar that it's tough to pick one over the other. It really comes down to color preference and I feel most would pick the blue over yellow. But for me, I'm bothered by the smaller head with a pointless circle around it. The US version doesn't have that useless circle and fills the entire box with the head. Color aside, I think it's a much better design with less wasted space.

Would love to see the Mighty Max version too! Polly Pocket was a much simpler design for the exterior, while Mighty Max would get crazy with things like a coiled up snake. For Zelda I could see this little world being placed inside a Triforce shaped box. Or a tiny world inside a korok. Awesome art either way!

"You'd hope that Isabelle and Tom Nook are locked in, but who else would you like to see?"

Sure, if you're a fan of Isabelle. Give me Tortimer back!

This is the best looking one of late, but it's still not the style I'm hoping for. Call me when it looks like a sequel to A Wonderful Life!

@KateGray Ahh OK, that is a really high number and seems unnecessary.

There definitely seems to be more 'makers' here than in Stardew Valley, but I'm honestly surprised more comparisons were not drawn. In Stardew I have quite a few of them taking up a lot of space on my farm and it can be frustrating, but this article calls out the space hogging in Story of Seasons like it wasn't done in SV. Same with the chests that take up a lot of room.

Does Stardew Valley have a fix for this that I'm not aware of, or is there something different with the way SoS does it? Maybe SoS has less farm space overall?

A Wonderful Life is honestly the last time I really loved a Harvest Moon game. It was such a change from the previous games in the series and those graphics at the time were incredible. And then they went back to the 'meh' graphics and lost a lot of the unique aspects of AWL and I just couldn't enjoy the series anymore.

They were going in such a good direction and they did a 180.

I absolutely adored the first game, but I had to restart so many times because I was in too early before the official launch. Eventually finished it, but I swore I wouldn't play Below Zero until it was complete. Now I'm not sure if I want the Switch version or the PC one.

Did we get the pins, though? Did we!?

@Absol And what is the actual definition of "whitewashing"? Do you have proof that that was the designers intent? Because there could be a thousand different reasons for the card looking lighter, most of all the fact that it's not literally in your hands yet.

Also, it's just lovely that you quoted someone improperly.

I have to be honest, this was my most hyped game from the direct and I didn't expect it to NOT be released physical. This is such a huge blow for me...

Neat! Can I have PlayDate info now? Please?

Originally I was expecting a Mario Kart roller coaster. Especially with the crazy tracks of Mario kart 8, I think this would have worked out great. But as it is, this ride still looks pretty awesome and I sometimes forget that Nintendo is a company for all ages and not simply those that would be able to ride a roller coaster. The height requirements are unfortunate in that regard...

I have not watched WandaVision yet, but I would imagine they used Gamecube and Wii controllers because they were different enough to get the point across about the time jump. If you put a PS2 controller next to a PS5 controller, they're really not that different. Especially at a quick glance. The OG Xbox controller may have worked in a side by side with the current Xbox controller, but they're still not as different as the Gamecube and Wii controllers.