Funny thing is I would have bought these soundtracks gladly if the option had ever been there. Instead I've had a rip of the JP Galaxy 1 soundtrack and a gamerip of 2 for over 15 years and they're currently on my own streaming server. Nintendo Music is a cool app but it arrived way too late for my use and still doesn't support Android Auto. But this is cool for people who have to rely on spotify for everything.
Feature complete doesn't mean finished polished and otherwise flawless, for anyone smugly asking why it has bugs then.
But yeah, it's very Nintendo for them to sit on things and wait for the opportune time. Remember how long they held back Advance Wars far past the speculation that it was because of the military conflict at the time. Or y'know, sitting on that Earthbound Beginnings rom fully translated and localized for decades.
Accuracy is a ridiculous concept when it comes to Legend of Zelda though I'm sure that won't stop people from scrutinizing all the most minute details. It has been established over and over that there's no singular definitive Zelda, Link, or anyone for that matter. There's unlimited numbers of these elements occurring. Which makes any entry valid on its own and not beholden to Link being just like any of the Links in previous games.
A slightly smaller device isn't worth it when it could be locked out with a future firmware update. I already have the dock, I know it'll work 100% of the time, and it's really not that big to put in a suitcase when I travel. If I'm traveling for work long enough to where I want tv play, then I'm going with a full size suitcase anyway.
Make it like Rogue Squadron. Arcadey with missions in open but contained deployments, and have a variety of ships to choose from. Have some on rails missions for old times sake. But for the love of God, not ship building with farming materials, not some giant open world between missions, and no on foot crap except as a last stand when shot down especially in multiplayer.
And bring back the garbled SNES voices. I never liked the Star Fox 64 voice overs, bunch of whiners.
Reviews sound about right. It's not a game for people who want a massive bale of content so they'll never see the same funny thing twice, or people who want an overload of customization options. For the right audience it is looking to be gold.
I'm glad it's totally standalone. Anytime sharing or connectivity enters the picture there comes the restrictions. Animal Crossing being restricted to one island per system with no local saving is ridiculous for a family with kids who want their own space. Tomadachi having completely self contained islands per user is perfect for this house. And personally I find it refreshing anymore when a big title has zero ties to the outside world, especially one all about getting away from that.
My oldest kid clocked about a hundred hours into the first game and still plays it occasionally. My youngest has played the demo for this game for ten hours. Ten hours on a demo that I wrapped up in 30 minutes. I'm thinking most adults and somewhat adults are far from the target audience for these games. And that people who played the first game when they were ten are going to be sorely disappointed that it's Tomadachi Life again and not what they've built up in their minds.
It's very low stakes, small world, simple little loops that revolve around a small stable of jokes and quirky moments. My kids will play Breath of the Wild and just spend all their time in the village and be happy with that. Or play with my Stardew Valley farm for a few days and never leave the house. Or playing Mario Odyssey solely for the concert hall, jump rope, and radio controlled car in New Donk - countless times.
Tomadachi Life is kind of perfect for their gaming personality types. Day one purchase for sure. Just not for me.
No way it'll satisfy the gaming masses considering Zelda means so many different things to people. Personally I'd want that Link's Awakening adaptation because that will always be the most compelling story they've ever told.
But that's not happening so I just hope for a sweet spot between having a good tie to the property without being just a flimsy excuse to put the hallmarks on the big screen. Somewhere between Spirits Within and Advent Children. Glad it's live action too. It's not Zelda proper because Link isn't a direct link for the player, it should be presented in a different visual style to any of the games.
Only real hard disagree I would give is to Skyward Sword. Even if someone loves that linear 3D Zelda and get a dungeon item to slay the boss with an obvious weakness format, that sterile sky world should keep it from a perfect score. There was absolutely no excuse for limiting it to daytime flying only, having almost nothing but empty rocks with treasure chests as islands, and having Skyloft load as a separate zone when Wind Waker had a contiguous open world with a day/night cycle, big enemy encounters, cool events, and islands with at least a tiny bit of depth. Everyone always wants to gripe about Fi or motion control or linearity, but them completely blowing all the sky world potential when that was the big centerpiece to begin with, is SS's biggest black eye and should always keep it from being revered with the other big titles.
As if review scores and gamer outrage really mattered when it comes to Pokemon. Even the biggest backlash the online community can muster would be a feeble cry in the hurricane of that brand power. That they've gotten a continuous free pass for selling multiple versions of a game with incomplete content & superficial differences says it all, especially when they sell double packs for the ultimate convenience of buying the same game twice.
Safe to say now that Nintendo's gambit of a gentle iteration and delaying a substantial price hike has paid off massively. The steamdeck and all the emulation portables couldn't put a dent in the Switch with any level of superior hardware, and Sony caved to the economic pressure with a price hike. Now Nintendo runs largely unopposed on the market and is the cheapest option, while scooping up the ports and sitting on Disney level brand power. Of all the times they've been doomed this is definitely the doomiest.
People acting like the disc version actually plays from the disc and isn't little more than a game key disc. In no way is my xbone disc a complete physical copy of Elden Ring. And the price is close to in line with the game + dlc. But yeah, totally should have been 39.99 and on a cart in full, lol.
Nintendo really needs to hire some better product designers. Those shirts look fan made with a home iron on kit. And it's like every reward for years has been a pin set, a sticker sheet, or something equally underwhelming. Club Nintendo had such cool stuff, and useful things like the 3DS card storage cases and travel pouch. And the posters were big and vibrant. It's not rocket science to come up with something slightly more creative. Make a Zelda treasure box with slots to store micro SD cards or something.
Critics and the Nintendo haters trying so desperately to torpedo it because that worked so well last time. At least people aren't trying to go after Chris Pratt with the purity test again. Looking forward to seeing this today and it being a Mario movie, without a deconstruction of the hero archetype or scathing commentary on the state of the US economy or a deep antihero character study of Bowser Jr or an allegory of Toads to the conflicts in the Middle East or whatever people inexplicably expect Nintendo to shoehorn into it because they just can't stand people having plain simple fun.
Tickets are purchased for my kids and friends. The Galaxy games are by far my favorite 3D Mario games so I'm looking forward to it way more than the first one. I figure it'll be on par with the first one: a fun movie with some cool references and a wonderful score. That with the Galaxy aesthetic on a big screen will be probably well worth the price of admission.
Sad thing is, they could turn this into a fun little game if they stripped out all the garbage. It would probably do decent numbers if priced right. But that would require a modicum of effort instead of just packing up with the ill gotten gains like a travelling circus as so many mobile games do when the jig is up.
X men arcade is a bit overrated. It was a huge draw back in the day but it's ultimately an okay quarter muncher, same as The Simpsons which also gets a vaunted status for the license and history. And Maximum Carnage is killer, especially for the time they got the source material down well and worked in so many heroes as abilities. It's weirdly fitting that Green Jelly stole from Black Sabbath for the soundtrack.
In any sense, I rock all these games on the docked Analogue Pocket+more xmen goodness like the Genesis titles and other arcades + the LRG ick, so I'll pass on this.
People seriously acting like Nintendo's not going to patch this, sharing features or not. Especially with everyone broadcasting how they are making a Nintendo game say dirty things.
Someone must have forgotten to set the comments to closed before going to bed. Or it's an experiment to see if this would turn out exactly as it always does.
Anyway. Nintendo can fight the good fight where the far majority can't. They're out to protect their cash, nothing more. And this country needed a hard reboot decades ago to fix the problems that now can't be brushed off or ignored. For better and worse though the founders pulled up the ladder when they set everything up to harden against another revolution, so that's never happening. Especially when everyone is keen to forever go after the symptoms instead of the disease. At least we have some cool video games.
Everyone rushing to proudly say they won't play this probably missed that DQX is still Japan only.
Couldn't be any more handholdy and bereft of player interaction than what WoW has become. I tried the free play recently and that is some serious handholdy on rails crap, where every new player is constantly locked into events and NPC stuff. A far cry from what it was back in the early days when the starting areas were piled up with chatter and people following one another to get the hang of the flow. This slime sounds like crap too, but MMOs and frankly most games are so candy coated anyway these days, might as well just go the full nine and provide the in-game chatbot.
Original Nemesis. No other RE villain comes close to what he brought to that game. The other games raised tension and had some jump scares and comic booky villainy, Nemesis was the first and one of the only times a game in this series legit stressed me out.
Glad Starship Troopers is finally getting what looks like a decent adaptation, hopefully the rest of the movie's spirit makes it over because the action is just a small part of what made it so good. Stuff like Bronski going from casual stroll to whooping on Kitten, Rico screaming medic at Breckenridge taking a spray of bullets to the face, pretty much every Jake Busey line, the entirety of Zim, the ridiculously on the nose visual of NPH walking in wearing that yahtzee jacket, Mazzy Star playing during a bar fight with discount Rob Lowe, that's the real fun of Starship Troopers. If there's more of that kind of stuff, I'll be doing my part.
@ToDaisy I'm with you. I'm done with noodling around with third party solutions of varying quality (discord is garbage but no one wants to admit it). I'm all for Nintendo streamlining and simplifying those features, and opening accessibility to them for younger/internet timid players. It would have been nice on the Switch 1, but the next best time to do something after yesterday is today.
But acting like a smug defiant teenager for not pushing a button is cool too.
The most important question I have about this game seemingly doesn't have any definitive answers yet, are they pulling the same thing as with Animal Crossing where there's one island per system? I hope it's by profile since it's an offline game but that's going to make a huge difference in a house with two kids who both want to play this. Just want to get ahead of having to come up with sharing rules for another virtual island.
It's an unwritten rule of the Internet that any mention of Starship Troopers in any form must summon smug comments about people not watching it the right way.
Stuff like this always makes me think of this clip where a fan tries to knock the microphone from Henry Rollins. Some people just like courting a beating I guess. https://youtu.be/-uQB4pyTrmc
So disappointed. This could have really pushed the Mario ethos forward by doing a deconstruction of the disposable helper archetype, as the popcorn bowl is filled with consumables and then discarded. Instead it's just a popcorn bowl, as this film will be just a Mario movie. It's like they don't want to grow this universe at all.
Forever gamers not wanting to understand Nintendo's marketing strategy from day one has been to position their products as premium and evergreen, always worth more than the competition. They will never, ever do discounts like Sony or especially Steam because it would run counter to their narrative of premium evergreen games. Pining for what will never happen is exercises in futility. Go listen to that killer Mgla album instead of complaining.
What I really want to know is how they decide which games do and do not get the discount with promos like this. It always seems so arbitrary.
Probably shouldn't even call themselves Team Meat when the heart and soul is gone. Refenes was only good when Edmund was there to rein him in. Losing Danny B for the music didn't help either. Hard pass on zombie Meat Boy.
People sure do hate fun. It's a silly desk player, it's not meant to be a practical way to play music. Just like the Game and Watch devices were not ideal ways to play those games. Humans are funny creatures, things tickle us like highly impractical vinyl. But evidently a lot of gamers forgot how to be human.
Looking forward to seeing how ambitious the Lego insiders are going to be cashing in their windfall tomorrow. I'm guessing around $200, a dollar per piece seems appropriate.
This looks like one of those custom sets sold at a local shop. I'd say it's worth maybe, I don't know, $20?
Can't imagine living a life where if $5 spent doesn't pan out, I don't shrug my shoulders and go onto something else and at most sending a message of dissatisfaction to the company. Especially when it's something that works but is maybe slightly less than an untempered expectation.
But throwing a tantrum at in the public sphere and at everyone and anyone not also picking up their saber is always fun too. For me, I enjoy a good gamer rage.
This article is a very fine example of why touting machine translation as fact is incredibly irresponsible, that little shoulder shrug aside of maybe it's not accurate? Doesn't count. As pointed out already the brute force translation mangles the original tweet. Even x's web translator offers a different take than Google and it's less harsh. There's a ton of nuance in this language. It's why proper translations take time and why in the world does this need to be pointed out on a gaming website that primarily covers a Japanese company. It's 2026 and people probably still think Japanese to English is a 1:1 swap this word for that word operation.
The indginance is funny. Of course people will preload GBA roms. People pay hundreds of dollars for Pokemon carts. People spend hundreds of hours resetting said carts to get slightly different looking Pokemon. I've been cool to load up one of these games on the Everdrive or Analogue Pocket when I feel like bombing round Kanto, but it really doesn't bother me when other people want to drop their money for what they feel is the better genuine experience. Perceived value is in the eye of each gamer but that will forever elude most people.
Six years old, though mostly vicariously because my babysitter's 11 year old son would always be playing it and he'd occasionally let me have a go. Most families in the block didn't have a Nintendo let alone the newly released Zelda, so kids would be gathering there every day after school. The first attempt at Ganon was an exiting disappointment as the silver arrows weren't found yet, vindicating the kid who said from the start that he heard you need the 'magic arrow'. It was pretty glorious when we all felt like we beat it together.
Years later I finally got my own copy, a $5 closeout from Kaybee toys. Grey cart (wish I kept the box), but still all the glory just as I remembered it. I've gotten just about every port and rerelease because I can never get enough. I still muscle memory through the game in a couple hours on the AVS once a year or so. And I've read the Legends of Localization book probably a dozen times. Fair to say it's my favorite game of all time.
People and Pokemon are fools with money. That's why the carts are resold so high, not because they're actually rare. Those price trends surely are not going unnoticed by Nintendo and TPC. If people had any modicum of restraint with this brand it wouldn't be like this, but that's never changing. Might as well fleece while the fleecing is good.
Love that the duality immediately happened. Subscription for retro games? Anti consumer. One time fee to own a digital copy forever? Anti consumer.
People griped about the VC and griped about NSO, but what they really want is stuff to be free or close to it. Which is a weird position considering the roms have been floating around since y'know, forever. If you want to play FireRed for free there's only unlimited options for that including the device used to whine about twenty bucks.
It's a premium because of course it is. People charge the crap out of secondhand carts not because they're in any way rare, but because people pay top dollar for Pokemon anything. That's the breaks. No decently smart person isn't going to take advantage of a fool and their cash.
Been playing with it since the app dropped on the Japanese store. It's top notch, and looks brilliant on the OLED. Red Viper is an amazing reproduction, but it's not even close to how crisp these games look on the app. This is like the fever dream if Analogue made a VR32. If they would have made the VB controller and could have secured the full library it would be definitive, but getting this close to perfection is cool too.
It's probably not going to win over a lot of people, and people are going to complain when they don't follow the usage directions & end up with cramped necks or strained eyes, but this is probably the best thing that could have happened for a VB fan.
Sega pretty much showing why they lost the fight with such a savvy business move acquiring a real winner of a company. Anyone else remember in 2012 when Rovio's head was harping about them being the future of video games and that console gaming was as good as dead?
Really hope it has at least some freshness. Bloodstained was nothing but stale chewed up pieces of every Igavania game. Likewise if it looks and plays like every modern bloated Metroidvania then I'll pass.
Defiance is pretty cool but they are really milking a relatively short series here. I suppose the Blood Omen games will come in yet another collection. Par for the course though for how much they repeatedly manhandled the golden egg laid by the first game.
In other words, 1200 people just wasted a few days drawing targets on their backs for a company all too eager to make cuts. They should leave altogether. Ubisoft isn't getting any better or releasing anything good. No amount of trying to teach them some lesson with pointless time-limited strikes is going to fix this company. Same with all the big bloated giants.
I mean they did put fear of missing out right in their company name. Oh, I mean Limited Run. Because they're on the side of games preservation, not selling overpriced adequate at best ports of mediocre at best old games for abbreviated purchase windows because they couldn't care enough to keep the licensing longer than needed to milk their whales.
Spin the NES soundtrack and watch in amusement Grant shooting down dinosaurs with his cannon. Play the readily available roms on any device with modern bells and whistles. Don't panic buy this.
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Re: Okay, So The Mario Galaxy Soundtracks Are Officially On Spotify Right Now
Funny thing is I would have bought these soundtracks gladly if the option had ever been there. Instead I've had a rip of the JP Galaxy 1 soundtrack and a gamerip of 2 for over 15 years and they're currently on my own streaming server. Nintendo Music is a cool app but it arrived way too late for my use and still doesn't support Android Auto. But this is cool for people who have to rely on spotify for everything.
Re: Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Was Reportedly Feature-Complete A Year Ago
Feature complete doesn't mean finished polished and otherwise flawless, for anyone smugly asking why it has bugs then.
But yeah, it's very Nintendo for them to sit on things and wait for the opportune time. Remember how long they held back Advance Wars far past the speculation that it was because of the military conflict at the time. Or y'know, sitting on that Earthbound Beginnings rom fully translated and localized for decades.
Re: We Might Have Just Got Our Best Look At Link In The Legend Of Zelda Movie
Accuracy is a ridiculous concept when it comes to Legend of Zelda though I'm sure that won't stop people from scrutinizing all the most minute details. It has been established over and over that there's no singular definitive Zelda, Link, or anyone for that matter. There's unlimited numbers of these elements occurring. Which makes any entry valid on its own and not beholden to Link being just like any of the Links in previous games.
Re: Ditch The Dock With Brook's New Switch 2-Compatible HDMI Converter
A slightly smaller device isn't worth it when it could be locked out with a future firmware update. I already have the dock, I know it'll work 100% of the time, and it's really not that big to put in a suitcase when I travel. If I'm traveling for work long enough to where I want tv play, then I'm going with a full size suitcase anyway.
Re: Talking Point: What Would You Want From A New Star Fox Game?
Make it like Rogue Squadron. Arcadey with missions in open but contained deployments, and have a variety of ships to choose from. Have some on rails missions for old times sake. But for the love of God, not ship building with farming materials, not some giant open world between missions, and no on foot crap except as a last stand when shot down especially in multiplayer.
And bring back the garbled SNES voices. I never liked the Star Fox 64 voice overs, bunch of whiners.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream
Reviews sound about right. It's not a game for people who want a massive bale of content so they'll never see the same funny thing twice, or people who want an overload of customization options. For the right audience it is looking to be gold.
I'm glad it's totally standalone. Anytime sharing or connectivity enters the picture there comes the restrictions. Animal Crossing being restricted to one island per system with no local saving is ridiculous for a family with kids who want their own space. Tomadachi having completely self contained islands per user is perfect for this house. And personally I find it refreshing anymore when a big title has zero ties to the outside world, especially one all about getting away from that.
Re: Review: Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream (Switch) - BREAKING NEWS: Mii Life Is Still Bizarre, Hilarious, And A Bit Samey
My oldest kid clocked about a hundred hours into the first game and still plays it occasionally. My youngest has played the demo for this game for ten hours. Ten hours on a demo that I wrapped up in 30 minutes. I'm thinking most adults and somewhat adults are far from the target audience for these games. And that people who played the first game when they were ten are going to be sorely disappointed that it's Tomadachi Life again and not what they've built up in their minds.
It's very low stakes, small world, simple little loops that revolve around a small stable of jokes and quirky moments. My kids will play Breath of the Wild and just spend all their time in the village and be happy with that. Or play with my Stardew Valley farm for a few days and never leave the house. Or playing Mario Odyssey solely for the concert hall, jump rope, and radio controlled car in New Donk - countless times.
Tomadachi Life is kind of perfect for their gaming personality types. Day one purchase for sure. Just not for me.
Re: The Legend Of Zelda Live-Action Movie Has Officially Wrapped Filming
No way it'll satisfy the gaming masses considering Zelda means so many different things to people. Personally I'd want that Link's Awakening adaptation because that will always be the most compelling story they've ever told.
But that's not happening so I just hope for a sweet spot between having a good tie to the property without being just a flimsy excuse to put the hallmarks on the big screen. Somewhere between Spirits Within and Advent Children. Glad it's live action too. It's not Zelda proper because Link isn't a direct link for the player, it should be presented in a different visual style to any of the games.
Re: Feature: A Look Back At Every Game Nintendo Life Scored 10/10 Over 20 Years
Only real hard disagree I would give is to Skyward Sword. Even if someone loves that linear 3D Zelda and get a dungeon item to slay the boss with an obvious weakness format, that sterile sky world should keep it from a perfect score. There was absolutely no excuse for limiting it to daytime flying only, having almost nothing but empty rocks with treasure chests as islands, and having Skyloft load as a separate zone when Wind Waker had a contiguous open world with a day/night cycle, big enemy encounters, cool events, and islands with at least a tiny bit of depth. Everyone always wants to gripe about Fi or motion control or linearity, but them completely blowing all the sky world potential when that was the big centerpiece to begin with, is SS's biggest black eye and should always keep it from being revered with the other big titles.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Pokémon Champions
As if review scores and gamer outrage really mattered when it comes to Pokemon. Even the biggest backlash the online community can muster would be a feeble cry in the hurricane of that brand power. That they've gotten a continuous free pass for selling multiple versions of a game with incomplete content & superficial differences says it all, especially when they sell double packs for the ultimate convenience of buying the same game twice.
Re: Japanese Charts: Switch 2 Hits Another Milestone As Pokémon Pokopia's Reign Continues
Safe to say now that Nintendo's gambit of a gentle iteration and delaying a substantial price hike has paid off massively. The steamdeck and all the emulation portables couldn't put a dent in the Switch with any level of superior hardware, and Sony caved to the economic pressure with a price hike. Now Nintendo runs largely unopposed on the market and is the cheapest option, while scooping up the ports and sitting on Disney level brand power. Of all the times they've been doomed this is definitely the doomiest.
Re: Looks Like 'Elden Ring' Will Be A Pricey Game-Key Card Release On Switch 2
People acting like the disc version actually plays from the disc and isn't little more than a game key disc. In no way is my xbone disc a complete physical copy of Elden Ring. And the price is close to in line with the game + dlc. But yeah, totally should have been 39.99 and on a cart in full, lol.
Re: My Nintendo Store Restocks Super Mario 40th Anniversary Reward (North America)
Nintendo really needs to hire some better product designers. Those shirts look fan made with a home iron on kit. And it's like every reward for years has been a pin set, a sticker sheet, or something equally underwhelming. Club Nintendo had such cool stuff, and useful things like the 3DS card storage cases and travel pouch. And the posters were big and vibrant. It's not rocket science to come up with something slightly more creative. Make a Zelda treasure box with slots to store micro SD cards or something.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's NES Library With Three More Games
One classic, one hidden gem, and one random. That's my kind of drop.
Re: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Is Already Breaking Box Office Records
Critics and the Nintendo haters trying so desperately to torpedo it because that worked so well last time. At least people aren't trying to go after Chris Pratt with the purity test again. Looking forward to seeing this today and it being a Mario movie, without a deconstruction of the hero archetype or scathing commentary on the state of the US economy or a deep antihero character study of Bowser Jr or an allegory of Toads to the conflicts in the Middle East or whatever people inexplicably expect Nintendo to shoehorn into it because they just can't stand people having plain simple fun.
Re: So, Will you Be Watching The Super Mario Galaxy Movie?
Tickets are purchased for my kids and friends. The Galaxy games are by far my favorite 3D Mario games so I'm looking forward to it way more than the first one. I figure it'll be on par with the first one: a fun movie with some cool references and a wonderful score. That with the Galaxy aesthetic on a big screen will be probably well worth the price of admission.
Re: Rumour: Pokémon GO May Soon Render Auto Catchers Obsolete
People sure forgot about that moral outrage in Niantic selling the games & geo data to Scopely and spinning up a geospatial AI wing.
Re: The Elder Scrolls: Blades Is Shutting Down This June
Sad thing is, they could turn this into a fun little game if they stripped out all the garbage. It would probably do decent numbers if priced right. But that would require a modicum of effort instead of just packing up with the ill gotten gains like a travelling circus as so many mobile games do when the jig is up.
Re: Review: Marvel Maximum Collection (Switch) - A Decent Nostalgia Cake With A Konami Cherry On Top
X men arcade is a bit overrated. It was a huge draw back in the day but it's ultimately an okay quarter muncher, same as The Simpsons which also gets a vaunted status for the license and history. And Maximum Carnage is killer, especially for the time they got the source material down well and worked in so many heroes as abilities. It's weirdly fitting that Green Jelly stole from Black Sabbath for the soundtrack.
In any sense, I rock all these games on the docked Analogue Pocket+more xmen goodness like the Genesis titles and other arcades + the LRG ick, so I'll pass on this.
Re: Random: Uh Oh, Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Miis Are Already Swearing
People seriously acting like Nintendo's not going to patch this, sharing features or not. Especially with everyone broadcasting how they are making a Nintendo game say dirty things.
Re: Feature: Nintendo May Win Its Case Against The US Government, But Tariffs Are Here To Stay
Someone must have forgotten to set the comments to closed before going to bed. Or it's an experiment to see if this would turn out exactly as it always does.
Anyway. Nintendo can fight the good fight where the far majority can't. They're out to protect their cash, nothing more. And this country needed a hard reboot decades ago to fix the problems that now can't be brushed off or ignored. For better and worse though the founders pulled up the ladder when they set everything up to harden against another revolution, so that's never happening. Especially when everyone is keen to forever go after the symptoms instead of the disease. At least we have some cool video games.
Re: "New Players Won't Feel Alone" - Square Enix Partners With Google For AI-Powered Dragon Quest Companion
Everyone rushing to proudly say they won't play this probably missed that DQX is still Japan only.
Couldn't be any more handholdy and bereft of player interaction than what WoW has become. I tried the free play recently and that is some serious handholdy on rails crap, where every new player is constantly locked into events and NPC stuff. A far cry from what it was back in the early days when the starting areas were piled up with chatter and people following one another to get the hang of the flow. This slime sounds like crap too, but MMOs and frankly most games are so candy coated anyway these days, might as well just go the full nine and provide the in-game chatbot.
Re: Poll: Who's Your Favourite Resident Evil Villain?
Original Nemesis. No other RE villain comes close to what he brought to that game. The other games raised tension and had some jump scares and comic booky villainy, Nemesis was the first and one of the only times a game in this series legit stressed me out.
Re: Review: Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! (Switch 2) - Kill Or Be Killed In This Gloriously Entertaining Boomer Shooter
Glad Starship Troopers is finally getting what looks like a decent adaptation, hopefully the rest of the movie's spirit makes it over because the action is just a small part of what made it so good. Stuff like Bronski going from casual stroll to whooping on Kitten, Rico screaming medic at Breckenridge taking a spray of bullets to the face, pretty much every Jake Busey line, the entirety of Zim, the ridiculously on the nose visual of NPH walking in wearing that yahtzee jacket, Mazzy Star playing during a bar fight with discount Rob Lowe, that's the real fun of Starship Troopers. If there's more of that kind of stuff, I'll be doing my part.
Re: Nintendo Shows Off Icon Design Proposals For Switch 2's 'C' Button
@ToDaisy I'm with you. I'm done with noodling around with third party solutions of varying quality (discord is garbage but no one wants to admit it). I'm all for Nintendo streamlining and simplifying those features, and opening accessibility to them for younger/internet timid players. It would have been nice on the Switch 1, but the next best time to do something after yesterday is today.
But acting like a smug defiant teenager for not pushing a button is cool too.
Re: Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Has Been Rated, Here's The ESRB Summary
The most important question I have about this game seemingly doesn't have any definitive answers yet, are they pulling the same thing as with Animal Crossing where there's one island per system? I hope it's by profile since it's an offline game but that's going to make a huge difference in a house with two kids who both want to play this. Just want to get ahead of having to come up with sharing rules for another virtual island.
Re: Nintendo Download: 12th March (North America)
It's an unwritten rule of the Internet that any mention of Starship Troopers in any form must summon smug comments about people not watching it the right way.
Re: Review: Anbernic RG G01 Controller For Switch 1 & 2 - Acceptable Basics, But Won't Get Your Heart Racing
Yikes. I pity the younger siblings and guests who get saddled with this abomination .
Re: New Survival Game 'Pickmon' Is Just Asking To Be Sued Into Oblivion
Stuff like this always makes me think of this clip where a fan tries to knock the microphone from Henry Rollins. Some people just like courting a beating I guess.
https://youtu.be/-uQB4pyTrmc
Re: Yoshi Popcorn Bucket Announced For The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
So disappointed. This could have really pushed the Mario ethos forward by doing a deconstruction of the disposable helper archetype, as the popcorn bowl is filled with consumables and then discarded. Instead it's just a popcorn bowl, as this film will be just a Mario movie. It's like they don't want to grow this universe at all.
Re: Several Mario Games Are Now On Sale On The Switch eShop For MAR10 Day (UK)
Forever gamers not wanting to understand Nintendo's marketing strategy from day one has been to position their products as premium and evergreen, always worth more than the competition. They will never, ever do discounts like Sony or especially Steam because it would run counter to their narrative of premium evergreen games. Pining for what will never happen is exercises in futility. Go listen to that killer Mgla album instead of complaining.
What I really want to know is how they decide which games do and do not get the discount with promos like this. It always seems so arbitrary.
Re: Feature: 30 Pokémon You Probably Forgot That Deserve A Second Chance
No way anyone forgets Jynx. The cry, the Pokemon Snap appearance, and that design which is way better than the annoying Mr. Mime.
Re: Super Meat Boy Brings Brutal 3D Platforming To Switch 2 This Year
Probably shouldn't even call themselves Team Meat when the heart and soul is gone. Refenes was only good when Edmund was there to rein him in. Losing Danny B for the music didn't help either. Hard pass on zombie Meat Boy.
Re: Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen Switch Update Censors Naughty And Offensive Names
This is like buying a car and the dealership won't let you eat it medium rare. Or something.
Re: Pokémon-Themed Mini Game Boy Announced, Though It's Not What You Think
People sure do hate fun. It's a silly desk player, it's not meant to be a practical way to play music. Just like the Game and Watch devices were not ideal ways to play those games. Humans are funny creatures, things tickle us like highly impractical vinyl. But evidently a lot of gamers forgot how to be human.
Re: Stardew Valley's Two New Marriage Candidates Have Been Revealed
Welp, looks like I'm kicking Haley to the curb for Sandy.
Re: PSA: The Pokémon Center LEGO Set Launches Tomorrow, Exclusively For LEGO Insiders
Looking forward to seeing how ambitious the Lego insiders are going to be cashing in their windfall tomorrow. I'm guessing around $200, a dollar per piece seems appropriate.
This looks like one of those custom sets sold at a local shop. I'd say it's worth maybe, I don't know, $20?
Re: Fans Are Asking Nintendo To Refund Xenoblade Chronicles X's Switch 2 Upgrade
Can't imagine living a life where if $5 spent doesn't pan out, I don't shrug my shoulders and go onto something else and at most sending a message of dissatisfaction to the company. Especially when it's something that works but is maybe slightly less than an untempered expectation.
But throwing a tantrum at in the public sphere and at everyone and anyone not also picking up their saber is always fun too. For me, I enjoy a good gamer rage.
Re: Resident Evil Requiem Leakers Deserve "A Thousand Deaths", Says Hideki Kamiya
This article is a very fine example of why touting machine translation as fact is incredibly irresponsible, that little shoulder shrug aside of maybe it's not accurate? Doesn't count. As pointed out already the brute force translation mangles the original tweet. Even x's web translator offers a different take than Google and it's less harsh. There's a ton of nuance in this language. It's why proper translations take time and why in the world does this need to be pointed out on a gaming website that primarily covers a Japanese company. It's 2026 and people probably still think Japanese to English is a 1:1 swap this word for that word operation.
Re: Every Nintendo Switch Online Virtual Boy Game Ranked
Maybe next time have someone who clearly hates the Virtual Boy write the entries, that makes for an enjoyable read.
Re: PSA: Pokémon FireRed And LeafGreen Switch Preloads Are Now Live
The indginance is funny. Of course people will preload GBA roms. People pay hundreds of dollars for Pokemon carts. People spend hundreds of hours resetting said carts to get slightly different looking Pokemon. I've been cool to load up one of these games on the Everdrive or Analogue Pocket when I feel like bombing round Kanto, but it really doesn't bother me when other people want to drop their money for what they feel is the better genuine experience. Perceived value is in the eye of each gamer but that will forever elude most people.
Re: Anniversary: The Legend Of Zelda Turns 40 Today - How Did You First Play It?
Six years old, though mostly vicariously because my babysitter's 11 year old son would always be playing it and he'd occasionally let me have a go. Most families in the block didn't have a Nintendo let alone the newly released Zelda, so kids would be gathering there every day after school. The first attempt at Ganon was an exiting disappointment as the silver arrows weren't found yet, vindicating the kid who said from the start that he heard you need the 'magic arrow'. It was pretty glorious when we all felt like we beat it together.
Years later I finally got my own copy, a $5 closeout from Kaybee toys. Grey cart (wish I kept the box), but still all the glory just as I remembered it. I've gotten just about every port and rerelease because I can never get enough. I still muscle memory through the game in a couple hours on the AVS once a year or so. And I've read the Legends of Localization book probably a dozen times. Fair to say it's my favorite game of all time.
Re: "We Thought It Would Be Fun" - Nintendo Explains Why Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen Aren't On Switch Online
People and Pokemon are fools with money. That's why the carts are resold so high, not because they're actually rare. Those price trends surely are not going unnoticed by Nintendo and TPC. If people had any modicum of restraint with this brand it wouldn't be like this, but that's never changing. Might as well fleece while the fleecing is good.
Re: Pokémon FireRed And LeafGreen Officially Revealed For Switch
Love that the duality immediately happened. Subscription for retro games? Anti consumer. One time fee to own a digital copy forever? Anti consumer.
People griped about the VC and griped about NSO, but what they really want is stuff to be free or close to it. Which is a weird position considering the roms have been floating around since y'know, forever. If you want to play FireRed for free there's only unlimited options for that including the device used to whine about twenty bucks.
It's a premium because of course it is. People charge the crap out of secondhand carts not because they're in any way rare, but because people pay top dollar for Pokemon anything. That's the breaks. No decently smart person isn't going to take advantage of a fool and their cash.
Re: 'Can You Use Labo VR Goggles For Virtual Boy Games On Switch?' & Other Nintendo Classics VB Questions Answered
Been playing with it since the app dropped on the Japanese store. It's top notch, and looks brilliant on the OLED. Red Viper is an amazing reproduction, but it's not even close to how crisp these games look on the app. This is like the fever dream if Analogue made a VR32. If they would have made the VB controller and could have secured the full library it would be definitive, but getting this close to perfection is cool too.
It's probably not going to win over a lot of people, and people are going to complain when they don't follow the usage directions & end up with cramped necks or strained eyes, but this is probably the best thing that could have happened for a VB fan.
Re: SEGA Records $200 Million Impairment Loss As Angry Bird Dev's Performance Is "Sluggish"
Sega pretty much showing why they lost the fight with such a savvy business move acquiring a real winner of a company. Anyone else remember in 2012 when Rovio's head was harping about them being the future of video games and that console gaming was as good as dead?
Re: Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Unveiled For Switch, Launching In 2026
Really hope it has at least some freshness. Bloodstained was nothing but stale chewed up pieces of every Igavania game. Likewise if it looks and plays like every modern bloated Metroidvania then I'll pass.
Re: Two Legacy Of Kain Titles Are On The Way To Switch 2 And Switch This March
Defiance is pretty cool but they are really milking a relatively short series here. I suppose the Blood Omen games will come in yet another collection. Par for the course though for how much they repeatedly manhandled the golden egg laid by the first game.
Re: Ubisoft Staff Push Back Against Company Restructure With Three-Day Strike
In other words, 1200 people just wasted a few days drawing targets on their backs for a company all too eager to make cuts. They should leave altogether. Ubisoft isn't getting any better or releasing anything good. No amount of trying to teach them some lesson with pointless time-limited strikes is going to fix this company. Same with all the big bloated giants.
Re: Jurassic Park: Classic Games Collection To Be Delisted Just Two Years After Release
I mean they did put fear of missing out right in their company name. Oh, I mean Limited Run. Because they're on the side of games preservation, not selling overpriced adequate at best ports of mediocre at best old games for abbreviated purchase windows because they couldn't care enough to keep the licensing longer than needed to milk their whales.
Spin the NES soundtrack and watch in amusement Grant shooting down dinosaurs with his cannon. Play the readily available roms on any device with modern bells and whistles. Don't panic buy this.