Darknyht

hmm.. So IGN is having a video game popularity contest and we are surprised that their audience (mostly trending younger) love games they grew up with....

It would be like running a poll on Atari Age and being shocked that Pitfall beats out a lot of competition from the modern era.

I'll pick this up eventually as I enjoyed the game and it probably as close to Fallout that I am going to get on Switch. But to be honest, I am playing another cycle of Dragon's Dogma and still enjoying it so I am not really in a hurry at this point.

The NES had the best startup sound. Silence.

Let's not make the bar too high, just bring the games that are first party that are missing from the service. Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, Mario Paint (USB Mouse Support), Mario & Wario, and anything else I am forgetting that Nintendo owns. But even Nintendo cannot help themselves in neglecting the service in order to see titles at a premium price.

We are at the point in Nintendo’s hardware cycle where first party hits cruise control because they are secretly working on the next thing. As soon as they started on the Switch, the Wii U titles vanished except quick releases, finishing projects and the swan song title (that was years overdue). The same thing happened with GameCube and the Wii.

Investors are oblivious to this for some reason even though there is a very well established cycle that goes all the way back to the NES to SNES days. Either that or smart investors are clued in and attempting to manipulate the market by prey on those that aren’t. At the end of the day to day stock prices rarely reflect reality.

@RadioHedgeFund Most of the hate I think comes from the fact it was an SD console released when HD televisions took off. The fact that modern TV's smug the graphics and introduce input lag colors people's perception.

The Wii was an amazing piece of hardware, but it did lag behind in the power department. Competitors pulled out very tired arguments against it (as did fanboys) saying that it was a "kiddie" console because it lacked whatever edgelord game they were looking for. Third Parties just dumped stuff on it to make a quick buck instead of building something unique to the console (sort of how the Switch is starting to get "remaster" dumps of older games).

But like most Nintendo consoles since the SNES, it suffers from design decisions made that were out of sync with what the public thought the wanted/needed. All of them were not bad consoles, just either not supported or hindered by their design limitations.

I think the failure of the Wii U and Wii Sports Club probably fated any idea of expanding to Sports Resort to doom. Maybe the next Gen when they are hard up for games, they will plunder the Wii library some more.

The opening of FFVII that was included on the demo disc probably got played an ungodly number of times. But probably the caravan stage of Super Star Soldier has the most plays

I’ve purchased a lot over the years, sometimes multiple ways so I don’t feel overly guilty for downloading those ROMs. I purchase legit when I can (hence a Wii U, SNES Classic, Steam ROMs and even some games on Switch) but I want the version I grew up with, not some mobile port of it.

There isn’t much in life worth paying those prices for. In my opinion, Little Timmy can be disappointed on Christmas because it teaches him that life is full of disappointments and setbacks.

Scalpers exist because we worship profit like a Ferengi. So people are not paid what they are worth here because corporate profit and CEO pay matters more than employees or society. So the bored rich people start looking for new ways to make more money they cannot really spend (and poorer people emulate them with money they don’t have).

So I hate the culture that makes scalpers happen. The only fix I see is to hope that the IRS and local state equivalent tax the crap out of their probably their profits. But really we need to stop and look at the carnage our culture is wrecking on humanity and make some tough decisions. Making the world all about “me” doesn’t ever work long term.

My first memory of Zelda was getting the first NES game around the age of seven. I read the manual front to back in the car on the way home, and when I got home I decided to fill in all the characters with names Link, Ganon and Zelda. I was quite surprised when I realized that Zelda came with a sword and the game was different. It was months later before I learned that it was the second quest.

But… they Switch Pro has only been rumored since at least 2019 (maybe 2018, but couldn’t find an article). Basically need a few clicks on your site just post a Switch Pro rumor.

So eventually they will either be right or the next gen will come out and they will claim it is the “Pro”. Sort of like a guy saying today he will die everyday until it happens, people will foolishly call him a prophet too.

EDIT: Maybe this year will be the year of the Linux Desktop and Half-Life 3 too.

I get Peacock because I am forced to use Comcast for internet. It isn’t worth paying to subscribe to, just purchase or rent the movie. You’ll be doing yourself (and everyone else) a favor by not encouraging Comcast.

And this is the time deviation that starts Breath of the Wild 2

@HalloHerrNoob they release yearly and generally little more than recycled corridors with new bitmaps applied with plots that generally involve around you mass murdering an infinite number of faceless soldiers while claiming you’re one of the “good guys”. They could have twenty studios making them, but they innovate little and mostly are annualized like Madden.

Context matter a lot. $60 for a Madden roster update is stupid to me (yet, people pay it yearly). Same for CoD and other annualized games. Metroid Dread looks interesting, but I will wait for reviews to see if it is worth it. From what I’ve seen, it looks like a GBA game with updated graphics and not worth it.

I love Link’s Awakening, and it was one of my favorite GB games, but it wasn’t worth $60 for the remake. $40 or less was about right and I purchased it when that was the price. Nintendo is free to ask whatever price they want, and we decide if it is worth it. Enough of us disagree and the price will either drop, or more they will assume it was a bad game and kill the series. The issue is that Nintendo never stops to ask if the price was the problem or put games on sale often enough to test the theory.

Any bets on how long before someone posts video of themselves beating Dark Souls with it?

The Wii U still gets use in the house and even got a new game pad battery not long ago. I have debated replaying Metroid on it, but to be honest I still need to finish Prime 1 & 2.

And it’s missing my favorite Metroid game: pinball.

Metroid is a series that is never going to make the fan base happy. No matter what they attempt someone will complain. People forget that Metroid never moved more than ~2.5 million copies of any game in the series and frequently only sells a little over 1 million. It is a risk to develop a game for the series.

Metroid is a B series for Nintendo, much like F-Zero, Star Fox and Pilotwings. They are loved by fans but they don’t sell huge numbers.

The issue I have with leaks is that people take speculation or rumor and run with it as if it is gospel truth. Take the last two years of Switch Pro rumors for example. At this point it is reaching the point of Duke Nukem Forever level of vaporware.

So finally it was so stable it destabilized reality around it.

I am looking forward to this and while the graphics are in the same direction, the difficulty between the two spiked. I cleared the first with little trouble, but the second (like curse of the moon 2) upped the difficulty.

Super Mario Bros 1-4 had variation because we had the USA 2. There was very little difference between SMB1 and SMB2 in Japan, just palette swaps and increased difficulty. And outside of graphics and power-ups (to show case features) not that much between 3 and world in my perspective.

Sure, it's worth a million dollars if someone is willing to pay for it. I would say that it isn't likely that someone will pay that price for it, but then NFTs were a thing for a while. As Hungry Joe probably once said, "There's a sucker born every minute," and this dude is just hoping to cross paths with them.

I've enjoyed the time I've spent with the four available fighters. Eventually I will pick it up on a sale.

More game choices are always good, but I have little interest as I have an Apple One subscription and already have access to them. I just wish they would implement Switch Pro controller support on the Apple TV.

I own Uno but do not play it often because the loading times and speed that it moves is horrible for a simple card game. I bought it with Gold Points during a sale and while it is fun, it is quicker and easier (in my opinion) to just play Last Card on Clubhouse Games.

I feel this way about a lot of games. Trying to step into any sport game by EA feels just overly complicated, while I just want to play hockey or play a football game for example. Sometimes the simplicity of older games is just nice and the early harvest moons were like that. Play the game how you want and something interesting might happen (or not).

There are classic games that I replay for nostalgia (Super Mario World, FF IV, FF VI, DQ 1). There are those that are like good books (Mass Effect, Dragon Age 1, Xenoblade Chronicles, Batman Arkham City/Origins). Finally there those that just suck me back in for another playthrough (BotW, XCX).

But I also re-read books a lot. I had a tradition that I would read all the books of The Dark Tower series and Harry Potter series before starting the next one. I read the Riftwar Saga multiple times and same with a lot of other books. Good stories are worth revisiting.

I was wondering when the next "New Switch" rumor would pop up. I wish someone would keep a counter to track all the times Bloomberg made this claim in the past.

I mean eventually there will inevitably be a followup to the Switch that will qualify as a "New" switch. They will then claim they broke the story, but ignore the fact they claimed it monthly (sometimes weekly) for the past two years.

I downloaded it and tried it this morning. Not my cup of tea, as I was never a big Bomberman fan, but it looked fun for those that do.

When I owned this on SNES, the fun was playing with a custom team built to a purpose, and the ability to manipulate the CPU to do a lot of dumb things. All that said, I am looking forward to playing this again as modern baseball games (and a lot of sports games for that matter) have become too complicated for me to just pick up and play, and I will enjoy the old school arcade style gameplay that is at the root of this.

I am looking forward to building a Super Baseball Simulator team and simulating some seasons again. Loved that game growing up.

I just wish Square would release the best Final Fantasy games (1-6) on either this service or in the eShop (more likely).

Dragon Quest was a relic of it’s time and now seems basic and short; but it was groundbreaking when released. Their is an entire genre than owes a lot to that little game. It will always be one of my favorites and it is a big part (along with DQ3) that I prefer the original trilogy.

It's a fun game, and I have killed a good amount of time trying to beat my score. That said, I already have access to it and feel very little reason to double-dip.

There is a lot of nostalgia here. Dragon Warrior, The Legend of Zelda, and eventually Bard’s Tale were staples in my NES. I think the player’s guide they included with the Nintendo Power subscriber bonus had the best artwork, but it wasn’t a choice.

I see this and then I see the families that come into work that struggle to pay bills and put food on the table. Our society is screwed up. We value cardboard more than our neighbors and those at at the top have turned everything into a competition of gloating over others.

My faith teaches that humanity is sinful by nature, and in need of a redeemer to not just save us but to change our hearts. While we who believe have a lot of institutional issues to address and clean up, things like this always reminds me of that central truth about the natural state of humanity.

@NintendoBMA You get four free characters, arcade mode and offline Vs for free. Everything else requires a $24.99 DLC pack.

I don't know if it released this week, but I just started downloading Fighting EX Layer: Another Dash for free. It is the made by the people who created the Street Fighter EX series back on PS1. I played the EX2 a lot, so I figured I would give this a try.

EDIT: A lot of the characters I remember and mostly the same fighting engine. I might pick up the DLC if it goes on sale, but the four free fighters are enough for a pickup game.

Only a single game from a series and in no order.

• Neverwinter Nights (PC, spent years playing with user created mods)
• Breath of the Wild (Wii U)
• Unreal Tournament on (PC/PS2)
• Super Mario World (SNES)
• X-Wing/Tie-Fighter (PC)

Dragon Warrior on NES will always be my favorite as it introduced me to the JRPG for the first time, but III and XI are my favorites so far. I think III sits a little above XI but that mostly is nostalgia than anything specific.

Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 was one of my first SNES games and I played the heck out of it. I will look forward to playing it again.

But this is what we get these days. Why cheaply license what you can resell in an expensive collection? We really only have ourselves to blame for it.

If it had proper Super Gameboy support I would be interested. Regardless my GB/GBC/GBA collection was stolen years ago and I never bothered replacing them outside of ROMs for nostalgia trips.

I look forward to Blaster Master Zero 3. The original sort of stuck with me after playing it at a friends house as a kid on NES. I’ve enjoyed what they have done with the series.

Epic's issue isn't that Apple has a monopoly, it is that they don't have a monopoly. They are framing everything as fighting for the little guy, and some have drank the kool-aid, but the fact is that they want to capture 50+% of the PC market. What do you think will happen when Epic does that?

The issue isn't one side or the other, they all stink. Corporations stink, they exist to extract wealth from people anyway they can (legally and not so legally). The issue is that the only entity that really can reign them in (in the US) has been bought and paid for by those corporations they are supposed to be regulating.

I love old games, especially the Intellivision, NES, and SNES ones I grew up with, but it's exhausting (and expensive) trying to chase every game down. A lot of times, I find that my expectations of what is enjoyable has changed too. There are a handful of each generation of games that I still find playable, and most of those have persisted unless Copyright/Licensing issues came into play. Even something like AD&D: Treasure of Tarmin lived on as Minotaur in Intellivision collections.

There is a deep philosophical debate buried in this article on the ability to satisfy an appetite (such as the need to collect stuff), the paradox of too many choices, and/or consumerism. If anything, it's given me something to think about.

The issue again is outside limited partners most large companies released their stuff themselves for sale. Konami and Square both have already released some of the better GB games, and so has some other companies.

I wouldn’t complain if they did it, but I think it is unlikely. Just look at the level of quality they’ve been alive to release lately with NES and SNES.

Bad Box Art Mega Man will always be the best Mega Man. He isn't the Mega Man we want, but he's the Mega Man we deserve.

I still have to finish the last game I purchased, so while I am good for now. They will eventually be discounted again.

@MysteryCupofJoe From my perspective, it's just another way to separate stupid people from their money while wasting a lot of electricity to process a blockchain that serves no purpose other than to give someone bragging rights.