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@Elbow To be fair WH40K is involved, so relatively everything else will be puppies and sunshine in comparison on the grimdark scale.

Goddamn Randy Pitchford is so greasy.

Inb4 Nintendo's lawyers get wind of this.

@PosterBoy Ah yes, as opposed to Italian stereotype in a jumpsuit with no discernable character or backstory at all.

Nintendo? Caring about backwards compatibility and releasing old titles that people actually want that aren't tied into a subscription service?

You expect way too much.

@HeftyLaces So I played through Integrade a couple of months ago, enjoyed it and did have a lot of fun exploring Midgar in high detail with modern graphics but the ending to the game left a really bad taste in my mouth with what they did to the story.

That all changed when they clarified things with the trailer for Rebirth though, so now I'm really curious about what's changed in Rebirth. Sadly I'm waiting for it to come out on PC.

I still have to say as much as I liked Integrade I still prefer the original FFVII to it. They're very different games and I just love the original more.

In general people really need to stop confusing emulation and piracy. Emulation software is perfectly legal, unless the emulator itself uses protected code. Dolphin fell into this trap recently when it was shown that they were using code from Nintendo in the emulator itself.

It can be a bit more complicated so for a much better, much more balanced look at the legal issues around emulation and how this might affect Yuzu (because people just screeching EMULATORS BAD gets very tedious) see Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/how-strong-is-nintendos-legal-case-against-switch-emulator-yuzu/

Move on with your life, NintendoLife...the constant Palworld articles are just getting sad.

Some of the puzzles in the original DS game were absolutely fiendish, I still remember this one puzzle I was stuck on for days before someone finally put me out of my misery and told me I needed to close the DS lid enough so that you could use the reflection of one screen on the second to solve the puzzle.

Really smart use of the hardware though. It sounds like the Switch version should live up to that.

It's a massive shame those minifigs look utterly goddamn cursed because I'm used to AC's body proportions. They just don't work with the Lego minifig proportions.

Can we please keep Ed Sheeran out of Pokemon? For god's sake, I love this game series and adding Ed Sheeran in is like sticking needles into a cupcake.

@liljmoore For all of Scarlet and Violet's faults (and there are plenty of them) I can't fault the final dungeon Area Zero at all. Ok, there's not much of a challenge in the battles, but to be honest there's never been much challenge in the story battles in Pokemon.

But the design, aesthetic and music of Area Zero are just goddamn perfect, gave me chills the first time I got to it. It truly felt like you were exploring somewhere mysterious and dangerous.

@Sisilly_G Even an accidental performance upgrade for Scarlet/Violet is too much to expect from Game Freak by this point 😂

@GoldenSunRM It was a non-serious comment to begin with, but nowhere does the former employee explicitly state they only meant the development team are full of geniuses. They just state that the whole of Nintendo is full of geniuses, which includes the team responsible for the eShop.

Lol which superhumans and geniuses were responsible for the eShop and the fact that the Nintendo Account is only just catching up to what Xbox Live and PSN have had for years by this point?

"nasty blemish on the Switch eShop"

You guys have got to be kidding with this anger at a bad or distasteful game being on the eShop like the eShop is some paragon of quality. Let's be fair here, this game is one miniscule drop in the sea of garbage shovelware on the Switch eShop.

I love my Switch but the eShop is just absolutely awful. There's no point even looking at the reduced category because you can't move for hentai puzzles, Unity asset flips and other electronic garbage designed purely to trick kids into buying using their parent's bank cards.

@ZeldaFan83 Eh, I know different people are into different games but even still, said the Zelda fan.

No Man's Sky is what you'd get if you ordered Starfield from Wish.com.

I kid, I kid. It's far better now than it was at launch but it's still a little bit empty feeling.

Every NSO announcement just makes me so much happier I've got a jailbroken Switch I can run emulators on.

@Mgalens I'm not really frustrated or annoyed, I actually enjoyed playing through Scarlet. I'm just taking the piss out of the fact that they've been announcing all this new stuff for S/V when they've completely ignored the elephant in the room.

@BrazillianCara There's absolutely nothing smug about expecting a company to fix a broken product they've released.

@Snatcher @CharlieGirl Yeah to be fair I'm clearly expecting way too much from Gamefreak here.

Will the news be "We're finally going to patch the god-awful performance issues in the base game?"

I just want Doomguy in an MK game. Is that too much to ask?

@SpeedRunRocks Ha! Yeah that got me 😂

Christ what next, a spiritual successor to St. Anger?

Every damn time I play a ROTK game I'm jealous that apparently ancient fantasy Chinese people could grow facial hair and here I am stuck with fluff.

So I really enjoyed Scarlet despite the technical issues and there is no denying there are still serious technical issues with Scarlet, but did anyone else notice that even in their trailer, their own promotional material, the framerate was awful at parts? Like that bit with the crowd jumping in front of Clavell was basically a Powerpoint presentation 😂

I think that bit specifically was from the current build, which is, as noted, awful technically but you could see some of the new footage they put in was still a bit janky.

I bought this last night and I am having the best goddamn time with it. Proper nostalgia trip.

My only complaint is that so far I haven't found stages with the original background music in them yet.

I've been playing it and I'm absolutely hooked, it's an amazing remake!

Thing is it's been a long time since I played the original GBA games so I'd forgotten the plot. When Nintendo first delayed the release because of the invasion of Ukraine I was with pretty much everybody else going "what a ridiculous reason to delay the game".

Now that I've played it...and the initial story is the unprovoked invasion of a country by a literal Russian stereotype apparently based on Stalin...yeah nah ok, that might have been a little too on the nose at the time. Fair shout, Nintendo.

>Employee releases private, privaleged information.
>Employee gets fired because of the consequences of his actions.

It's hilarious that so many people see this as a misstep by Nintendo, when this is really just a breach of basic job etiquette. You'd be fired in any job for releasing what is probably confidential information under an NDA.

Given Dr. Mario's solution to most medical problems was to endlessly shove an excessive number of random pills down the patient's throat I'd say no, I don't want to be treated like the US medical system...

God I honestly can't wait for this game. Absolutely loved the original Puzzle Bobble games, that background music is burned into my brain.

@Handy_Man Please don't remind me about SHH, it gives me flashbacks to having to learn about it for my degree.

If I remember right the worst bit was that they initially found like 5 sequential proteins, so they named them SHH1 - 5, but then they discovered new proteins that fit in the process but just carried on naming them sequentially so the order ended up being SHH 1, 2, 7, 3, 4, 6, 5 or something equally annoying to learn.

Ugh.