Not big on their dpads at all. If that's improved I may finally bite. Otherwise the only 8bitdo in my house will continue to be the pretty okay PCE 2.4G.
I'll still take the firehose over the sparse Wii shop days. Which still had plenty of crap (though hilariously named) like Big Kahuna Party. Gotta take the good with the bad.
@Pak-Man The seal of quality was little but a marketing tactic to conceal their controlling the means of cart production. The NES library was loaded with garbage proudly bearing the seal.
The great game key card boycott is going swimmingly, I hear it's on track to someday approach the dent made in the sales of the game who shall not be named.
@dew12333 exactly! Selling cards in random packs is artificial scarcity and we deserve access to all of them. Someday those card printers will be offline.
People voting with their wallet on these game key cards are going to find out it's as useless as voting third party in the US. The needle is immovable when the vast, vast majority doesn't care.
Me, for example. I don't care. More publishers were moving towards code in a box which is way worse than a game key card. This at least slows their roll on one-time use codes on a piece of paper for full price or offering zero non-digital options for big titles. Which is also probably inevitable and it's not like one can just buy Ys from the other long running company also producing Ys games to support their cart making.
The phrasing reeks of going against the grain for parting the noise, because the love for Nintendo is riding fairly high right now. Shame, because Nintendo going further like Apple and the auto industry to discourage self repairs is a valid point (though ultimately futile because that ship sailed long ago). But they had to muck it up with some petulant foot stomping and minimizing the obviously good things about the controller.
Not to mention that huge conflict of interest in using this to sell their own crap.
The discourse is so funny. It's morally right to steal from big companies/why would big companies make cuts to workers? Unless they're the exceedingly rare Iwata, the bigwigs at the top are getting their money regardless of one's righteous crusade to steal games.
@progx Finally some reason rather than all this romanticizing & implying that if Iwata was still alive we wouldn't have key cards and NSO wouldn't have happened that way and games would be $60 forever and Welcome tour would be free (Iwata fought Reggie on making Wii sports a pack-in, as everyone seems to forget) and he'd be giving me free games every Friday. The man was one of a kind and an amazing leader & innovator. But he was certainly fallible and ultimately was there to manage a giant corporation. Yamauchi didn't pick him solely because he was a nice guy.
Have to imagine it's a massive mixed feeling for whoever did this to have their mistake preserved and mocked for all time, while now pulling a big sum for charity. I've made some super silly mistakes when overworked, and this whole thing makes me glad none of them have ever been given this treatment.
Longtime toy maker for long running toy company believes toys are products. Sound the alarm.
Miyamoto is great. I prefer guys who have no delusions about what they're doing in the world and keep their ego in check. "Art" is in the eye of the consumer. The man makes a damn fine product.
Why I gradually moved away from PC gaming in a nutshell. Consoles obviously can't do everything a PC or Steamdeck can do and are outclassed in many ways but the ease of use and having games optimized for a standard set of hardware wins out for me every time. I don't have time anymore to fiddle around with settings. Give me that sweet plug and play.
Shame there's no new content, but it's still a solid take on MK. I've put a ton of hours into it and only spent a few bucks in the gacha days more or less to throw some money for all the free enjoyment I've gotten. It's a way better game than everyone who joined the dogpile let on.
Appreciate the effort but NintendoForce beat them to the punch 12 years ago, which has no ads and includes a poster at about $5 an issue. If they offer something notably different I might bite but the concept alone doesn't sell me.
Not buying or playing games as a service is more effective than any petition or foot stomping on the Internet. Nintendo continuing to make full single player experiences didn't happen because of those things. They do it because it still makes money. The performative boycott of the game who shall not be named which went on to do huge numbers clearly illustrated that hot air doesn't move any needles. It's always money. The numbers on Pocket Camp will determine if Nintendo does something like that again, just like the numbers on Mario Run determined why they didn't do that again. But hey, the petition is popular on kiwifarms so keep up the content.
@OrtadragoonX well said. Weirdest thing with Romero is he already demonstrated he has no business running a studio in one of the most well known stories of spectacular crashing and burning.
I've been enjoying a slow burn replay of DK64 on the Wii U, it would be great to see it on the NSO app finally. The mistake people always make with this game is trying to play it straight through and burning out on the mass. It's a game best served in sips and with that it lasts forever and never feels stale.
And it'll be fun to hear the collective misery of a whole new crop of gamers gnashing their teeth over Beaver Bother, the second Lanky race, Diddy's jetpack, the Donkey Kong Arcade/Jetpac challenges, and that one room in the ice cavern cabin.
Japan is fine, but the NA/EU cover screams the fun of Star Wars, and the game lived up to that 100%. This was my first N64 game and it blew my socks off. Still have my copy CIB.
@Ganner no rant needed. I know exactly what you mean and agree wholeheartedly.
Pulling off a console launch which is more or less resting on laurels is pretty impressive. They pushed it out as far as possible so people would be itching for an upgrade and most would have worn out Switches. They didn't overshoot the goal by having another Breath of the Wild or jumping to a new Mario but leaned on the old reliable IP. Most early Switch adopters probably bought MK8 immediately and again, were itching for that new entry after so many years.
Going ahead with a launch on the tariff uncertainties probably helped them even. In stressful and uncertain times, people want distractions more than anything and here's a shiny new Nintendo with new Mario Kart and all your buddies from the Switch 1 with a pile of Super upgrades.
There's time when there's an unfortunate axing, but this isn't it. Not every studio deserves to stay open forever just because they make games. And as at least some people are pointing out, John's being his usual slippery self with how this is framed.
"Broken every milestone", yet haven't produced anything above mid at best. Romero hasn't been on a big hit since 2001 (and honestly Anachronox being a big hit is probably debatable), yet people act like with his pedigree he has some golden touch when it's more of a brown thumb at this point. Ion Storm should have proven he was only good when working under Carmack and didn't have a head ten sizes too big.
Only some kind of masochist buys a current generation Nintendo product to use in ways the company doesn't approve. Wait a generation and have fun with all the mods. Or don't and enjoy the agony, I guess. It's not like they haven't been doing this stuff since the NES, it should be expected when buying a Nintendo product.
Hopefully it cashes the potential a little better. Dredge had an incredible opening couple of hours but failed to do anything other than repeat the same template over and over. The endings were pretty great, but stuff like the Devil's Spine was such a slog that it negated a lot of the atmosphere and buildup. Reminded me of how PT's vaunted tension unravels wholly with how easy it was to get stuck in that one loop.
Adding an advanced option to uncheck games you don't want to have on the service would be great. Leave the app at the current default for novice users. I've no problem with picking and choosing like that and don't have the typical compulsion of keeping absolutely every game I can play accessible at all times.
That's like the most bare minimum top list I've ever seen. They're all pretty decent games past Wind Waker which of course takes #1. I'll give that Fire Emblem another shot someday but will probably once again just be wishing they made more games like Gaiden/Echoes.
Metroidvania is way too bloated of a genre with games that can't resist the subtle handholding of appearing to be tough while having loads of helping hands to erase any real risk or challenge. But this interests me, shameless Castlevania DNA aside. I miss games that actually ask something of the players and don't pad their supposed challenge with instant unlimited respawns, too obvious breadcrumb trails, and overly generous fast travels. Hopefully the game isn't overly chatty because that crap also drives me up the wall when exploration and isolation has to be constantly interrupted with inane chatter.
Not a shocker, any time I've been at a company that was rapidly expanding I knew unless things reach unprecedented highs, a lot of these new faces were coming in on borrowed time. With acquisitions it's just as much to blame the owners who cashed out without caring who was buying because it was no longer their concern.
Also, I haven't kept up with Romero's work lately, and wow. Legendary guy who has been legendarily mid for decades. Homeboy hasn't had a good one since Anachronox in 2001. Definitely isn't making anyone his B word anymore.
Always love people who want to pretend the card doesn't enable piracy except for some extreme fringe. Yeah, just like homebrew, I'm sure 99.9% of people are only doing entirely legal things with this. Won't someone please think of the poor well to do definitely real legions of travelling businessmen who absolutely need to carry a collection of 100 carts and are so terribly inconvenienced by having to pack multiple tiny switch carts in their bags? At most I've taken the single Switch case with 8 carts with me on trips. Usually, it's just whatever is in the slot.
Maybe if people didn't get so hung up on hypothetical scenarios and Nintendo hate B's, the actual conversation could move forward which is regarding whether or not game makers as a whole should be able to dictate usage. Answer is they shouldn't, but Sony got away with wiping OtherOS and people can't play WoW outside of Blizz's servers so the precedent is never going to be on that side.
At most Nintendo will pay some pennies out on a class action lawsuit and they'll just find another way to squeeze people and their foolish need to fight the powah instead of just enjoying the games and waiting until the generation is over to do the homebrewing.
Of course no one wants to get their hands dirty on this story, but obviously Nintendo is going to show Amazon occasionally that they don't hold all the cards and can't make Nintendo blink regardless of who is in the right, especially when the Big N is riding their highest times right now.
Still no info of what's on those soundtrack CDs. The Limited Run copy had a worthless selection on a single disc, but this one has 4 discs. That may not be enough space to cover all the games. These companies are lousy but I'm not above buying one of their products anyway to get a good copy of those soundtracks in their entirety on professionally pressed CDs. But y'know, who cares about posting details like that when a lot of their buyers will probably never unbox this thing.
I sure wish I had that sweet naivite in thinking objectivity or games "journalism" actually exists outside of that very brief period between the heydey of print magazines and the rise of big gaming sites. It's all Nintendo Power. Nothing wrong with that. The information is valid and some articles are fun, but it's all the same few big companies putting up the capital and protecting their investments to make money off people who play games, while doing their best to mimick those few days of the small independent gaming blog. Just ask zombie Destructoid over there.
Man, what the hell are people doing with their units to warrant such an ugly obtrusive case in the name of overkill protection? I guess I never take my Switch rock climbing or spelunking so this really isn't for me. My launch switch has only ever had a tempered glass protector, it has thousands of hours between me and my kids has traveled the country, and the only damage it has ever taken is a crack on that protector and losing one of the plastic pieces over the fan vent.
@Misima except when it comes to the game who shall not be named.
Article reads like the regular Anniversary Collection doesn't have the full collection of games, which presumably isn't the case since all those games are in the standard digital copy.
No note on the article or listing if it also includes the JP versions which were added in later. Also no details on what the soundtrack CDs include (or, singular CD as noted on the listing despite multiple showing in the concept image). Almost like they know their whales don't really care about minute details like what's in the box and what's on the cart and just want to buy the sealed box for their supposed investment.
That dpad for ants can take a hike. Otherwise it's an alright controller. Good for its own library and not much else while mostly replaceable by any modern pad. Highly doubt I'll get one.
Should have called it Wheels. And had a story/quest mode. Someday the sports and sports adjacent games will learn we just need more ridiculous sports x Dragon Quest like World Court Tennis on the TG16. Give me that evil king Wheelchair Basketball monster who is stealing all the world's basketballs.
Good write up, even if I sit at odds with most of the sentiments. Chapter 1 definitely felt like doing things on autopilot, with zero progression in battles from start to finish. Rude Buster is the only thing that saves it from being a total slog. The whole mystery box and here comes something ultra dark and shocking following a lighthearted setup was also very tiring. That stuff was played out with Lost long ago (not that other media isn't still doing it all over the place). Like Undertale, I've played way worse games but Deltrarune also didn't hook me in any significant way. The characters just shout motivations and serve as vessels for fairly okay jokes which at times feel like a waiter doing their aspiring stand up routine for a captive audience. Funny these games get compared to Earthbound, which was a masterclass in brevity and something Toby Fox's writing style could never approach. Music is mostly solid though,I'll check out the music even if I don't play the later chapters. I'm also probably not the right player. I lived and loved the glory days of 8 & 16-bit RPGs. Playing games that are like when Porky made his Earthbound museum in Mother 3 just puts me off and makes me want to play the real deal. To that end, the music is probably only great to my ears because it's like chewed up repurposed material from Shimomura/Kikuta/Mitsuda/Ito/etc. But the guy clearly found his audience and good on him for that and his success.
Lazy store can't take five minutes to verify the console they're potentially taking in as fully functional, this is on them 100% and they should eat the cost. This means they probably aren't checking for other issues as well.
As for direct resell options, hell to the naw dawg. I'd just as soon not buy a console if I can't get it brand new with how squirrelly things have gotten since the offline home console days. There's no telling what chicanery might have happened now that most everything is softmods and there's no real barrier to entry.
More Final Fantasy? Bag that. Give us the Enix Quintet collection and Secret of Evermore port already. I'd rather have the red headed stepchild Seiken Densetsu collection like Heroes/Children/Dawn of Mana before yet another FF port particularly any of the braindead pretty hallway games.
Nintendo knew they could never abandon the handheld market. It will always be a massive component in their homeland. Sony was absolutely stupid to abandon their stake in handhelds, and with this launch they will have the most steep of uphill battles should they try to claw back into the game. Nintendo only has to compete with phone games now and clearly has shown the dedicated portable game console is far from dead. Kind of brilliant they dipped into the mobile game market with basically free tastes of the drug. It only has become more laughable that Zynga and King were at one time posturing about their stuff being the future of gaming.
Neat, but no way am I taking the time and money to make more cases for games already in reliable containment and then having to hold on to a pile of empty cases. I just don't know why they didn't stick with a DS sized case. There's no need for them to be this tall unless they were including manuals again. Or just use the standard CD sized cases, like the Turbografx had for the Hu cards. Give me that storage efficiency.
Eh, he didn't work on this game and they own the property. I don't see the issue here. And as you noted, he's definitely not hurting for recognition and acclaim in the larger gaming world. It's nice we are in a world with automatic music databases and lastfm and such, because it wasn't so long ago we got things like the DK Jamz release which has zero credits in the j card outside of a Nintendo copyright.
I rather like that Nintendo just does whatever with their lore, especially with regards to all the Donkey Kong stuff. It's like the old days where we rolled with whatever came in the next NES game. Before everything had to be wiki'd, wrapped in tight package, and picked apart into dust. Not that their doing this will stop any of that, but it does make all that nitpicking and speculating absolutely pointless.
And I definitely can't take seriously the opinion of a person who willingly presents themselves as the most annoying Zelda character to come down the pike in a long while, lol
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Re: 8BitDo's 'Pro 3' Controller Boasts Magnetic ABXY Buttons And A Charging Dock
Not big on their dpads at all. If that's improved I may finally bite. Otherwise the only 8bitdo in my house will continue to be the pretty okay PCE 2.4G.
Re: Square Enix Rules Out Switch 2 "Upgrade Path" For Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake
lol modern squeenix. And this is the company people want to trust in remaking FFIX and Chrono Trigger.
Re: Nintendo Has Seemingly Taken Further Steps To Combat 'eSlop' On Switch 2
I'll still take the firehose over the sparse Wii shop days. Which still had plenty of crap (though hilariously named) like Big Kahuna Party. Gotta take the good with the bad.
@Pak-Man The seal of quality was little but a marketing tactic to conceal their controlling the means of cart production. The NES library was loaded with garbage proudly bearing the seal.
Re: Rumour: Major Third-Party Devs Reportedly Sitting On Multiple Switch 2 Announcements
The great game key card boycott is going swimmingly, I hear it's on track to someday approach the dent made in the sales of the game who shall not be named.
Re: Random: It's Civil War As One Pokémon Trading Card Store Robs Another
@dew12333 exactly! Selling cards in random packs is artificial scarcity and we deserve access to all of them. Someday those card printers will be offline.
Re: FBI Shares Official Statement After Seizure Of Major Switch ROM Site
@WiltonRoots lol. That bingo card is on a speed run.
Re: FBI Shares Official Statement After Seizure Of Major Switch ROM Site
Article: the FBI seizes website hosting illegal activity.
The comments: big bad Nintendo at it again
Lol, gamers.
Re: Ys X: Proud Nordics Reportedly Includes 120fps Performance Mode On Switch 2
People voting with their wallet on these game key cards are going to find out it's as useless as voting third party in the US. The needle is immovable when the vast, vast majority doesn't care.
Me, for example. I don't care. More publishers were moving towards code in a box which is way worse than a game key card. This at least slows their roll on one-time use codes on a piece of paper for full price or offering zero non-digital options for big titles. Which is also probably inevitable and it's not like one can just buy Ys from the other long running company also producing Ys games to support their cart making.
Re: iFixit Performs A Full Teardown Of Nintendo's "P**s-Poor" Pro Controller
The phrasing reeks of going against the grain for parting the noise, because the love for Nintendo is riding fairly high right now. Shame, because Nintendo going further like Apple and the auto industry to discourage self repairs is a valid point (though ultimately futile because that ship sailed long ago). But they had to muck it up with some petulant foot stomping and minimizing the obviously good things about the controller.
Not to mention that huge conflict of interest in using this to sell their own crap.
Re: The FBI Has Seized A Switch ROM Site As Part Of A 'Law Enforcement Operation'
The discourse is so funny. It's morally right to steal from big companies/why would big companies make cuts to workers? Unless they're the exceedingly rare Iwata, the bigwigs at the top are getting their money regardless of one's righteous crusade to steal games.
Re: Anniversary: 10 Years After His Passing, Satoru Iwata's Thoughts Are More Relevant Than Ever
@progx Finally some reason rather than all this romanticizing & implying that if Iwata was still alive we wouldn't have key cards and NSO wouldn't have happened that way and games would be $60 forever and Welcome tour would be free (Iwata fought Reggie on making Wii sports a pack-in, as everyone seems to forget) and he'd be giving me free games every Friday. The man was one of a kind and an amazing leader & innovator. But he was certainly fallible and ultimately was there to manage a giant corporation. Yamauchi didn't pick him solely because he was a nice guy.
Re: GameStop Is Auctioning Off Its Infamous Switch 2 Stapler For Charity
Have to imagine it's a massive mixed feeling for whoever did this to have their mistake preserved and mocked for all time, while now pulling a big sum for charity. I've made some super silly mistakes when overworked, and this whole thing makes me glad none of them have ever been given this treatment.
Re: Miyamoto Views Games As 'Products', Not 'Works Of Art', Says Ex-Nintendo Dev
@BanjoPickles
Likewise!
Re: Miyamoto Views Games As 'Products', Not 'Works Of Art', Says Ex-Nintendo Dev
Longtime toy maker for long running toy company believes toys are products. Sound the alarm.
Miyamoto is great. I prefer guys who have no delusions about what they're doing in the world and keep their ego in check. "Art" is in the eye of the consumer. The man makes a damn fine product.
Re: Video: Switch 2 And Steam Deck Face Off In Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmark Test
Why I gradually moved away from PC gaming in a nutshell. Consoles obviously can't do everything a PC or Steamdeck can do and are outclassed in many ways but the ease of use and having games optimized for a standard set of hardware wins out for me every time. I don't have time anymore to fiddle around with settings. Give me that sweet plug and play.
Re: Mario Kart Tour Grants Access To A Track Unplayable Anywhere Else
Shame there's no new content, but it's still a solid take on MK. I've put a ton of hours into it and only spent a few bucks in the gacha days more or less to throw some money for all the free enjoyment I've gotten. It's a way better game than everyone who joined the dogpile let on.
Re: A New Nintendo Magazine Is Seeking Your Support On Kickstarter Right Now
Appreciate the effort but NintendoForce beat them to the punch 12 years ago, which has no ads and includes a poster at about $5 an issue. If they offer something notably different I might bite but the concept alone doesn't sell me.
Re: "It Will Have A Chilling Effect On Game Design" - EU Group Responds To 'Stop Killing Games'
Not buying or playing games as a service is more effective than any petition or foot stomping on the Internet. Nintendo continuing to make full single player experiences didn't happen because of those things. They do it because it still makes money. The performative boycott of the game who shall not be named which went on to do huge numbers clearly illustrated that hot air doesn't move any needles. It's always money. The numbers on Pocket Camp will determine if Nintendo does something like that again, just like the numbers on Mario Run determined why they didn't do that again. But hey, the petition is popular on kiwifarms so keep up the content.
Re: Final Fantasy 9's 25th Anniversary Is Here, But There's Nothing On Rumoured Remake
The love this game deserves is that gentle port with fast forward, and not having modern Squeenix fumble it all up.
Which is what Chrono Trigger deserves, as people continue to speculate that they may so something for that anniversary too (hugely unlikely).
Re: Romero Games "Is Not Closed" Following Xbox Layoffs
@OrtadragoonX well said. Weirdest thing with Romero is he already demonstrated he has no business running a studio in one of the most well known stories of spectacular crashing and burning.
Re: Blurred Art In Nintendo's N64 Switch Online Trailer Suggests Exciting Upcoming Additions
I've been enjoying a slow burn replay of DK64 on the Wii U, it would be great to see it on the NSO app finally. The mistake people always make with this game is trying to play it straight through and burning out on the mass. It's a game best served in sips and with that it lasts forever and never feels stale.
And it'll be fun to hear the collective misery of a whole new crop of gamers gnashing their teeth over Beaver Bother, the second Lanky race, Diddy's jetpack, the Donkey Kong Arcade/Jetpac challenges, and that one room in the ice cavern cabin.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Japan is fine, but the NA/EU cover screams the fun of Star Wars, and the game lived up to that 100%. This was my first N64 game and it blew my socks off. Still have my copy CIB.
@Ganner no rant needed. I know exactly what you mean and agree wholeheartedly.
Re: Talking Point: One Month On, How Did Nintendo's Switch 2 Launch Go?
Pulling off a console launch which is more or less resting on laurels is pretty impressive. They pushed it out as far as possible so people would be itching for an upgrade and most would have worn out Switches. They didn't overshoot the goal by having another Breath of the Wild or jumping to a new Mario but leaned on the old reliable IP. Most early Switch adopters probably bought MK8 immediately and again, were itching for that new entry after so many years.
Going ahead with a launch on the tariff uncertainties probably helped them even. In stressful and uncertain times, people want distractions more than anything and here's a shiny new Nintendo with new Mario Kart and all your buddies from the Switch 1 with a pile of Super upgrades.
Re: Romero Games Reportedly Shut Down Following Xbox Layoffs
There's time when there's an unfortunate axing, but this isn't it. Not every studio deserves to stay open forever just because they make games. And as at least some people are pointing out, John's being his usual slippery self with how this is framed.
"Broken every milestone", yet haven't produced anything above mid at best. Romero hasn't been on a big hit since 2001 (and honestly Anachronox being a big hit is probably debatable), yet people act like with his pedigree he has some golden touch when it's more of a brown thumb at this point. Ion Storm should have proven he was only good when working under Carmack and didn't have a head ten sizes too big.
Re: Switch 2 USB-C Chip Might Be Breaking Compatibility With Third-Party Docks
Only some kind of masochist buys a current generation Nintendo product to use in ways the company doesn't approve. Wait a generation and have fun with all the mods. Or don't and enjoy the agony, I guess. It's not like they haven't been doing this stuff since the NES, it should be expected when buying a Nintendo product.
Re: Dredge Developer 'Black Salt Games' Isn't Working On A Sequel
Hopefully it cashes the potential a little better. Dredge had an incredible opening couple of hours but failed to do anything other than repeat the same template over and over. The endings were pretty great, but stuff like the Devil's Spine was such a slog that it negated a lot of the atmosphere and buildup. Reminded me of how PT's vaunted tension unravels wholly with how easy it was to get stuck in that one loop.
Re: Talking Point: With Bigger GameCube File Sizes, Should Nintendo Let Us Download Individual NSO Games?
Adding an advanced option to uncheck games you don't want to have on the service would be great. Leave the app at the current default for novice users. I've no problem with picking and choosing like that and don't have the typical compulsion of keeping absolutely every game I can play accessible at all times.
Re: PSA: You Can Play One Of The Greatest Platformers Of All Time In Street Fighter 6
Those of us who know 3 is the far superior game generally just keep quiet and let people be happy in their wrongness.
Re: Every Nintendo Switch Online GameCube Game On Switch 2, Ranked
That's like the most bare minimum top list I've ever seen. They're all pretty decent games past Wind Waker which of course takes #1. I'll give that Fire Emblem another shot someday but will probably once again just be wishing they made more games like Gaiden/Echoes.
Re: Review: Chronicles Of The Wolf (Switch) - A Spot-On Castlevania Tribute That May Test Your Patience
Metroidvania is way too bloated of a genre with games that can't resist the subtle handholding of appearing to be tough while having loads of helping hands to erase any real risk or challenge. But this interests me, shameless Castlevania DNA aside. I miss games that actually ask something of the players and don't pad their supposed challenge with instant unlimited respawns, too obvious breadcrumb trails, and overly generous fast travels. Hopefully the game isn't overly chatty because that crap also drives me up the wall when exploration and isolation has to be constantly interrupted with inane chatter.
Re: Romero Games Hit With Layoffs Following Microsoft Xbox Cuts
Not a shocker, any time I've been at a company that was rapidly expanding I knew unless things reach unprecedented highs, a lot of these new faces were coming in on borrowed time. With acquisitions it's just as much to blame the owners who cashed out without caring who was buying because it was no longer their concern.
Also, I haven't kept up with Romero's work lately, and wow. Legendary guy who has been legendarily mid for decades. Homeboy hasn't had a good one since Anachronox in 2001. Definitely isn't making anyone his B word anymore.
Re: Nintendo's Ability To Ban Switch 2 Consoles Has Landed It In Hot Water
Always love people who want to pretend the card doesn't enable piracy except for some extreme fringe. Yeah, just like homebrew, I'm sure 99.9% of people are only doing entirely legal things with this. Won't someone please think of the poor well to do definitely real legions of travelling businessmen who absolutely need to carry a collection of 100 carts and are so terribly inconvenienced by having to pack multiple tiny switch carts in their bags? At most I've taken the single Switch case with 8 carts with me on trips. Usually, it's just whatever is in the slot.
Maybe if people didn't get so hung up on hypothetical scenarios and Nintendo hate B's, the actual conversation could move forward which is regarding whether or not game makers as a whole should be able to dictate usage. Answer is they shouldn't, but Sony got away with wiping OtherOS and people can't play WoW outside of Blizz's servers so the precedent is never going to be on that side.
At most Nintendo will pay some pennies out on a class action lawsuit and they'll just find another way to squeeze people and their foolish need to fight the powah instead of just enjoying the games and waiting until the generation is over to do the homebrewing.
Re: After Croc, Argonaut Games Wants To Remaster This N64 Cult Classic
I'll always remember this game for when someone wrote into Nintendo Power so offended that a reviewer gave it the same score as Ocarina of Time.
Re: Nintendo Reportedly Pulled Amazon US' Switch 2 Sales After Beef Over "Unauthorised" Sellers
Of course no one wants to get their hands dirty on this story, but obviously Nintendo is going to show Amazon occasionally that they don't hold all the cards and can't make Nintendo blink regardless of who is in the right, especially when the Big N is riding their highest times right now.
Re: Gallery: My Goodness, Superdeluxe's Castlevania Anniversary Collection Is Proper Lush
Still no info of what's on those soundtrack CDs. The Limited Run copy had a worthless selection on a single disc, but this one has 4 discs. That may not be enough space to cover all the games. These companies are lousy but I'm not above buying one of their products anyway to get a good copy of those soundtracks in their entirety on professionally pressed CDs. But y'know, who cares about posting details like that when a lot of their buyers will probably never unbox this thing.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry Tests Out Switch 2's Free Switch Game Upgrades
I sure wish I had that sweet naivite in thinking objectivity or games "journalism" actually exists outside of that very brief period between the heydey of print magazines and the rise of big gaming sites. It's all Nintendo Power. Nothing wrong with that. The information is valid and some articles are fun, but it's all the same few big companies putting up the capital and protecting their investments to make money off people who play games, while doing their best to mimick those few days of the small independent gaming blog. Just ask zombie Destructoid over there.
Re: Review: Dbrand Switch 2 Killswitch Case - Teething Troubles Aside, This Case Is Killer
Man, what the hell are people doing with their units to warrant such an ugly obtrusive case in the name of overkill protection? I guess I never take my Switch rock climbing or spelunking so this really isn't for me. My launch switch has only ever had a tempered glass protector, it has thousands of hours between me and my kids has traveled the country, and the only damage it has ever taken is a crack on that protector and losing one of the plastic pieces over the fan vent.
@Misima except when it comes to the game who shall not be named.
Re: Missed Out On Castlevania Anniversary, Advance & Dominus Collection Physical Editions? Fear Not, As Pre-Orders Have Gone Live On Play-Asia
Article reads like the regular Anniversary Collection doesn't have the full collection of games, which presumably isn't the case since all those games are in the standard digital copy.
No note on the article or listing if it also includes the JP versions which were added in later. Also no details on what the soundtrack CDs include (or, singular CD as noted on the listing despite multiple showing in the concept image). Almost like they know their whales don't really care about minute details like what's in the box and what's on the cart and just want to buy the sealed box for their supposed investment.
Re: Review: Nintendo Switch Online GameCube Controller - The Return Of The King
That dpad for ants can take a hike. Otherwise it's an alright controller. Good for its own library and not much else while mostly replaceable by any modern pad. Highly doubt I'll get one.
Re: Nintendo Confirms The Release Date For Drag X Drive On Switch 2
Should have called it Wheels.
And had a story/quest mode. Someday the sports and sports adjacent games will learn we just need more ridiculous sports x Dragon Quest like World Court Tennis on the TG16. Give me that evil king Wheelchair Basketball monster who is stealing all the world's basketballs.
Re: Review: Deltarune (Switch 2) - A Superbly Subversive RPG That Defies All Rules
Good write up, even if I sit at odds with most of the sentiments. Chapter 1 definitely felt like doing things on autopilot, with zero progression in battles from start to finish. Rude Buster is the only thing that saves it from being a total slog. The whole mystery box and here comes something ultra dark and shocking following a lighthearted setup was also very tiring. That stuff was played out with Lost long ago (not that other media isn't still doing it all over the place). Like Undertale, I've played way worse games but Deltrarune also didn't hook me in any significant way. The characters just shout motivations and serve as vessels for fairly okay jokes which at times feel like a waiter doing their aspiring stand up routine for a captive audience. Funny these games get compared to Earthbound, which was a masterclass in brevity and something Toby Fox's writing style could never approach. Music is mostly solid though,I'll check out the music even if I don't play the later chapters. I'm also probably not the right player. I lived and loved the glory days of 8 & 16-bit RPGs. Playing games that are like when Porky made his Earthbound museum in Mother 3 just puts me off and makes me want to play the real deal. To that end, the music is probably only great to my ears because it's like chewed up repurposed material from Shimomura/Kikuta/Mitsuda/Ito/etc. But the guy clearly found his audience and good on him for that and his success.
Re: Smash Bros. Pro Loses 11-Year Sponsorship After "Inappropriate Conduct" At Mario Kart World Tournament
Behaving exactly as I would expect from a Smash Bro at this point. And people get mad at Nintendo for not just letting fans run things lol.
Re: Nintendo's Strict Policy On MiG Carts Is Creating A Problem For Secondhand Switch 2 Buyers
Lazy store can't take five minutes to verify the console they're potentially taking in as fully functional, this is on them 100% and they should eat the cost. This means they probably aren't checking for other issues as well.
As for direct resell options, hell to the naw dawg. I'd just as soon not buy a console if I can't get it brand new with how squirrelly things have gotten since the offline home console days. There's no telling what chicanery might have happened now that most everything is softmods and there's no real barrier to entry.
Re: Rumour: Final Fantasy Devs Supposedly Hint At Another Nintendo Release
More Final Fantasy? Bag that. Give us the Enix Quintet collection and Secret of Evermore port already. I'd rather have the red headed stepchild Seiken Densetsu collection like Heroes/Children/Dawn of Mana before yet another FF port particularly any of the braindead pretty hallway games.
Re: Switch 2 Has Already Overtaken The Combined Lifetime Sales Of The Entire Xbox Series Family And PS5 Pro In Japan
Nintendo knew they could never abandon the handheld market. It will always be a massive component in their homeland. Sony was absolutely stupid to abandon their stake in handhelds, and with this launch they will have the most steep of uphill battles should they try to claw back into the game. Nintendo only has to compete with phone games now and clearly has shown the dedicated portable game console is far from dead. Kind of brilliant they dipped into the mobile game market with basically free tastes of the drug. It only has become more laughable that Zynga and King were at one time posturing about their stuff being the future of gaming.
Re: Video: Right, We Need To Talk About GameChat On Switch 2
Honestly it looks great. If I were ever in the mindset of wanting my chill time to be interrupted by talking and other people, this would be the way.
Re: Random: Don't Like Switch 2's Physical Game Cases? Try Some Cool Cassette-Styled Ones Instead
Neat, but no way am I taking the time and money to make more cases for games already in reliable containment and then having to hold on to a pile of empty cases. I just don't know why they didn't stick with a DS sized case. There's no need for them to be this tall unless they were including manuals again. Or just use the standard CD sized cases, like the Turbografx had for the Hu cards. Give me that storage efficiency.
Re: The DK Rap Is Back In Donkey Kong Bananza, But Nobody Told Its Composer
Eh, he didn't work on this game and they own the property. I don't see the issue here. And as you noted, he's definitely not hurting for recognition and acclaim in the larger gaming world. It's nice we are in a world with automatic music databases and lastfm and such, because it wasn't so long ago we got things like the DK Jamz release which has zero credits in the j card outside of a Nintendo copyright.
Re: Pauline's Age In Donkey Kong Bananza Has Been Revealed
I rather like that Nintendo just does whatever with their lore, especially with regards to all the Donkey Kong stuff. It's like the old days where we rolled with whatever came in the next NES game. Before everything had to be wiki'd, wrapped in tight package, and picked apart into dust. Not that their doing this will stop any of that, but it does make all that nitpicking and speculating absolutely pointless.
Re: Say Hello To Pauline In Donkey Kong Bananza
Looks awesome!
And I definitely can't take seriously the opinion of a person who willingly presents themselves as the most annoying Zelda character to come down the pike in a long while, lol