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These games are awful, but ya know what? This kind of stuff should be included in the ongoing efforts in game preservation.
Sales might not be stellar, but there's always the 'I saw this on AVGN and I want to see just how bad it is' crowd.
Hell, I'd get Plumbers Don't Wear Ties just because it's that bad.

They're all pretty good, except the Fusion Suit, IMO.
I like the bulky, heavy look of the suit, like in Super Metroid. It makes Samus look more intimidating and a walking arsenal. Samus is a tech contrast to the biological things she usually tends to fight.
I've always disliked the Fusion Suit (though the game was great). It just looks boring and tight fitting for agility instead of the arsenal aspect of others. I was so relieved to see the Dread one got back to a more tech look, though I'd prefer if they went back to her traditional colours.

GBA SP was ideal for true portability. The Switch is portable, yes, but can I just put it in any pocket, without worrying about scratching or damaging it? No. The SP could stand to be a bit bigger, as it's not exactly comfortable for those of us with larger hands, but as a functional portable it was great.
The DS/3DS were good too, but the form factor was too big for just shoving them in any pocket (The ones I had anyway, I can't remember if there was a smaller DS in that ideal size range).
In any case, clamshell is best for a portable IMO.

I find it so odd you guys put collections on these lists. Sure, notable mention them, but why give them a spot and then also give spots to the games within?
The collection should be #1, in this case, since it includes the #1 game plus many more.

@Giancarlothomaz The way I see it, Nintendo does work like that. The NES changed and saved gaming, but then had an improved successor with the SNES.
They then shifted into 3D and changed that with the n64. The NGC was a better 3D system follow up.
The Wii was a another shift, then the Wii U was supposed to be a better successor of that with unconventional input.
The Game Boy line follows suit with better successors before doing something new. GB to GBA. DS to 3DS.
Now we have the Switch. The way I view Nintendos history, they'll do a more refined and better Switch before moving onto their next shift.

Most of them are worth replaying anyway, if it's been a while.
Specifically for TotK? Just a BotW refresher. Zelda games aren't exactly known for their super-connected stories between games. You could jump into most of them with playing any of the others.
I've no doubt TotK will be the same (except directly connecting to BotW)

Having lived through them all, my pick would be the SNES with Switch as a damn close second.
The NES era was great, but there was a lot of garbage games, and things weren't refined yet. The SNES era refined the industry and we saw great game after great game. The Genesis/MD injected a real competition which gave us a console war like no other.
The Switch era now was like a Nintendo rebirth of great games on a popular Nintendo console, with Nintendo getting 3rd party support they haven't had since the SNES era.

I'm only focusing on the home consoles here. Why the handhelds were lumped in too is weird to me. They are their own thing (up to Switch, of course).

It really depends....some long running series are a continuous story, so it makes sense for start with a good entry point. Others are pretty unconnected, so it doesn't really matter.
This is the biggest factor for me. First thing I'll check if a new game comes out in a long running series I have yet to get into is to see if it's a continuation of another game in the series.

Neither of these are good, so it's a matter of picking the least ugly one, and that red on the EU/JA one is too much. Looks like they are trying to sell a Virtual Boy game.

I'd love to see a port of this to have the whole series on Switch.

Many of the issues people bring up about porting just seem like not actually issues besides the cost involved. I emulated the Japanese version (relax, I own and played the NA version) and everything was functional with an Xbox controller. The GamePad stuff was a screen switch, like bringing up a pause menu and the online features were patched for solo play (everything that required other people was scaled down to be able to be completed solo).
If the emulation community can do this, there's no reason they couldn't legit port it. The biggest difference being the cost of actually porting and patching it.

Given Sonys past of paying for exclusives, this is pretty humourous.

Initiatives and enhancements? Instead how about basic functionality from 2 decades ago and then work on enhancing it.

Odyssey 2? Or you mean Mario 64 3?
Odyssey just felt like a 64 sequel to me. Sure it expanded on the 3D some and looks pretty, but it didn't feel like it did anything really new.
Lets go back to Subcon for the next game, it's been far too long

European with that black border always loses. It looks terrible, like they didn't know how to scale the picture so they just threw a boring, black border around it.

@Realness Couldn't agree more. It looks pretty good, but the animations really killed it for me.

Like many others, I wonder how it compares to Xenoblade X.
XCX had an amazing world that I truly loved exploring, probably my favourite open world to explore.
And truth be told, I didn't like it when I got my Skell and didn't use it unless I had to. I just loved walking through that world.

I don't really care. I rarely ever watch them, because there's a lot in them I'm not interested in. I just catch the breakdowns after and pick out the stuff I am interested in.
So, really doesn't make a difference to me if they do or don't, I'm getting my Nintendo news in short snippits anyway.

I always find in curious people are okay with seeing the inside of people, blood, guts, gore while at the same time and in the same game/movie, are appaled at seeing the outside of people, even if its just bumcheeks.

At least it's optional and has a fitting name.

I'm getting closer to my dream of having every Mega Man game on Switch

Fantastic game, passing only because I already have it on Steam.

Too much missing for this price point. Master System and Game Gear games could/should have been on this, even as just roms.
Coupled with Sonic 3K having different music, it's just not worth it to me.
I love these games, but I'll stick with the versions I have.

Oddly, the 'bad' point of not being able to play Sonic 3 or S&K on their own doesn't bother me at all. They were technically released separately, but they are one game together as was the original intention. Sonic 3 A.I.R. is the, IMO, the single best way to play Sonic 3K. It's a mod on PC (that requires a Steam obtained legal ROM) that allows you to go even further and put these games back the way they were before the split (levels in the original, different order, that actually flows better). Highly recommended.

I am so excited for this game. This series has become my favourite in recent years and I can't wait for this. I love the worlds, the lore, the characters, the battles, how deliciously complicated they can be.
XC2 was a masterpiece, IMO, best game on the Switch thus far, so this one has the bar set high for me.
Can't wait to see how this ties in with the first two.

I hate that every open world game gets compared to BotW now. BotW neither did it first, nor was it the first to do it right, nor is it the de facto gold standard. I loved BotW, but jeez...

Otherwise, I dunno, Sonic looks like Sega wanting to get on the open world bandwagon with Sonic. The realistic look is what kills it for me. Why doesn't the world look like a Sonic world? This looks like Sonic in a modded Skyrim or something.

The realistic graphics are a big turn off for me here. Now if this looked like Green or Emerald Hill zone with bright colours and a Sonic aesthetic, I'd be far more pumped.

@Wilforce Tails operates more or less like Sonic, so he's easier to put in. Knuckles has different mechanics, not least of which is a lower jump that aren't easily transferred to a game made solely for Sonic. Any reworking to make him usable is further compounded because the stages in Sonic CD all have 3 different versions (past, present and future) and all would have have to have the rework done. It'd be a big undertaking to put him in a game that was never designed with him in mind.

The reason Knuckles isn't playable in CD is apparent if you've played CD before

I am not one of those people. It's just not worth it. I get expansions for games I don't play (MK8, I do, but I just bought the tracks) and emulation that's far inferior to whats been available for free for years (I'm speaking of the emaultors available which are legal, not the ROMs themselves).
There's just no value in it at all for me. The basic online still lacks even basic functionality, so why would I get this?
I love Nintendo and the Switch....but they are woefully behind in online services, in my opinion.

@BloodNinja Couldn't have said it better myself. Games are being preserved, by a community of fans that do so. And not just the games themselves, there are alphas, betas and other various versions of games preserved forever within the emulation community. And without intention of profit.

I'll check it out before buying it. Honestly, I got so tired of waiting for Sonic 3+K to make it to modern consoles, I just got it on Steam and then got Sonic AIR to go with it, which as far as I'm concerned is the ultimate way to play these games. Even remaking these games in a modern engine doesn't cover what Sonic AIR has done for them.
That being said, the only temptation here is the Switch itself and having them portable.

This is over the top, Nintendo needs to relax a bit when it comes to this stuff. Their IPs being used in games is one thing, but come on, this is an out of print, old guide being preserved.
If they really wanted to stop this stuff, they'd offer it up themselves as then there'd be no need for anyone else to do it.

Wow, something I never thought would happen, being fantastic games with licensing issues. What a fantastic collection, with the arcade versions to boot! I'll be grabbing this for sure!

Shutting down the eshop, online play and those features are one thing and fully expected. A redownload server should be up indefinitely. This is the sole reason i haven't and won't embrace digital anywhere near the extent of PC. I prefer digital for the convenience and ease, but why would I buy a game on a Nintendo console digitally if that game is available on PC and I will have none of the limitations?

The shop is closing. This is expected for dead systems.
You can still download your purchases. Though Nintendo will likely shut that down too at some point, but that's not what this is.
That's something the consoles need to catch up to PC with for digital purchases. Shut down the storefront, whatever, just let me redownload my purchased games if I need to.

Nintendo is woefully behind on the digital front, which is why I haven't embraced it as much for their system. Their sales, comparatively, are awful. There's nothing in place for having your purchases linked to your account, and therefore carry forward to a new system. And not only that, they're tied to the specific Switch you have.
I have no aversion to digital, but until Nintendo and the others set it up like it is on Steam, it's just not worth it (and why I buy PC first). I have games on Steam I bought years ago that are still available to me (despite some of them being pulled from the storefront). It's been a couple generations, and I've had several different machines over that time frame and not once have I had any issue accessing or playing any of the games I've bought.
Consoles need to take an approach similar to that, IMO (admittedly, I'm not sure where Sony and Microsoft are on this stuff now, but I know Nintendo is nowhere even close).

I'm of the same sentiment that Microsoft buying them is the far better option than Facebook, Google, Apple or any of those other companies.
Sounds like Microsoft left the console war as well and is focusing on a new one to keep the others out. (Perhaps Activision-Blizzard will release on Xbox, Nintendo, Playstation and Steam but never on anyone else?)

So, basically what anyone would realistically think. Nintendo is going for a full console life cycle with it, so this is realistic.
Doesn't matter when they release it to me. I'll enjoy the Switch until the next Nintendo console comes out.

Does anyone really care about the plot in a Sonic game? It's about as meaningless as the "plot" in any given Mario game.
Gameplay is what matters here.

@Rpg-lover I don't think it's rash for a released game or any waiting needed. This is how they chose to release it, this is what they are charging people for, so this is how it gets reviewed.

Unless they're doing something else that's different, they'd be stupid to, IMO. If they went back to dedicated home console, we'd see another Wii U failure. They own the portable market. And they've gotten so far away from the "console wars" at this point, that I'd even appreciate seeing them in a role similar to that of PCs - a middle ground where everything ends up (Xbox Live, PS Now, etc)
I hope they expand the Switch model, rather than abandon it and move on just for the sake of moving on.

I don't know how they will, but I certainly hope so. Mario Odyssey was another Mario game. That's about all I can say about it. You did what Mario has done since Mario 64, just in a prettier package. As an introduction game to the series and to serve as a game anyone can play on Switch, it served it's purpose. As a Mario game, it's more a horizontal move than a vertical one.

The fact that EA and Ubisoft are right on board with anything should raise red flags for anyone.

If this were the Wii U era, this service would be amazing since they needed to get and keep customers.
They don't need to with Switch. It's very obvious that the entirety of NSO is now barely an afterthought for them.

Yes, this is much better option. I had no interest in packs because there's only a handful of games I wanted. Now I'll pick them up

No thanks. DLC for a game I don't care about is pointless for me.

This still doesn't fix the issues with NSO. It's missing basic functionality and is years behind. Voice chat so limited it may as well not even be there, friends list that serves no point since I can't message or talk to my friends. No discounts. No free modern games. No achievements. It's a lackluster service with the absolute minimum effort put into it that they get away with because they toss handfuls of retro games on it every once in a while.
I'd pay more for a better service with actual modern features sooner than a handful of retro games and DLC for a game I don't play.

Realistically, it's just that the older standard is harder to get now, so they used newer ones.

Not having played this at all, how well does it work as an offline single player game?
I've played quite a few MMO's and they were built for parties and well...massive amounts of people. They'd be empty, barren and boring without the other people. Does DQX already have a solid single player campaign?

I remember some of the people here who bashed the Switch constantly before it even came out. I'm pretty sure at least one notable person who was doing that is still here but has since changed their name/new account (presumably to hide from embarrassment of being so wrong).

My only concern with the Switch was the on board storage. And it still is pretty awful. Back then, I could understand not using on board SSD, but a slot in the unit for an SSD would have done wonders more than the SD they went with. Any successor models going forward should have SSD (preferably expandable).

@NightBeast That's not pessimism, it's realism. Most of the rest of these comments are building for a lot of disappointment.

I voted GBA, but it was a toss up between that and the Gamecube.

Plus pretty much all the games on your most wanted list as well.