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I just assume every AAA game will skip Nintendo until confirmed otherwise.

@Dr_Corndog There are legitimate gripes. Spotty customer service, relatively high prices for often very short and/or low quality games, etc. But it's mostly just whining about niche collectors' products with high price tags. People whine about the long times between preordering and delivery, but manufacturing doesn't even start until after the entire preorder window closes, and even as big as LRG has gotten, Nintendo is going to prioritize making Yakuza cartridges for Sega over making Jaws cartridges for LRG. Lower priority, higher turnaround time. It's, at BEST, only partly lax work on LRG's part.

I, personally, LOVED playing Jaws on my NES as a kid. I'll be skipping the big edition, but I'll def pick up the regular physical.

I'm pretty early in - just beat the Volt Towers or whatever it's called - and while I don't think it's as good as the previous Prime games, I'm still having a GREAT time with it. I gave it a 9.

The DLC for Assassin's Creed III on Wii U was completely unplayable for me. There was a bug about an hour into the DLC where you had to crouch walk through grass to sneak by some soldiers, but it would ALWAYS and CONSISTENTLY bug out and not let me stand back up or attack or sprint or anything. I even uninstalled the entire game including the DLC and redownloaded - no dice. Ubisoft just doesn't bother with QA on Nintendo ports, I swear.

@Kingy Mario Kart 8 is the best MK game ever made imo. World is fantastic, but I'd put it at #4 behind 8, Double Dash, and 7, respectively.

@TruestoryYep You must not be a long-time Silent Hill fan. That was the best new Silent Hill experience we've gotten since Shattered Memories, and that's been 16 years.

@RenanLK It kind of makes sense considering that, since the Wii, Nintendo has intentionally released hardware much weaker than other consoles' to beat their prices. I never really heard it much before Switch; there were definitely a few games on Wii and Wii U I'd say could justify it, but nothing like Panic Button's work to get Doom and Wolfenstein II to run on Switch. We definitely don't have what I would consider to be an "impossible port" on Switch 2 yet, but I do think that Cyberpunk and AssCreed Shadows come close. I reckon I'll feel the same about the upcoming Resident Evil ports.

@Jimmy_G_Buckets I get it - the game should be in a 100% fully playable state on cartridge, and these patch notes suggest that amiibo support isn't in the version of the game on cart making it not 100% playable as that's a heavily advertised feature - but they're also so ubiquitous in gaming these days that people really need to get over it and stfu imo.

I totally agree with their #1 pick, and while I personally would have put Donkey Kong at #2, I agree with putting if over MK World. That said, I think MK World should have been higher, and Silent Hill f should have been WAY higher.

@Jumwa I've said the same for years. I played Dread and beat it, but it was a tough one in some parts. I'm just, as you said, too old to have the time, patience, or energy to "git gud;" but I still want to experience a great story and adventure

@Quarth They also have more than just the NFC chip in them; there are magnets to snap the characters into the karts, and both pieces have a chip in them independently since you can mix and match (put Waddle Dee in Kirby's kart and vice versa).

I am a Nintendo shill. I must maintain my complete amiibo collection.

@arabiansanchez Not to mention that those smaller games often look and run better than the gigantic third party games. Given how stunning Metroid Prime 3 looked on Wii, I expect 4 to be similarly mind blowingly beautiful.

You also get some Safari Balls if you get to Rank E. I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned in the article as they and Sport Balls are the rarest Pokeballs.

Hoooleeeeey crap. That's a beefy game. Biggest file size on Switch 2 so far, isn't it?

My respect and admiration for Panic Button and its talented staff is infinite.

@ElRoberico Reminds me of every Boomer calling Zoomers Millennials.

@ShadLink I assume you're talking about comparing Roblox games to AAA games. That's like comparing a Winnie the Pooh book to Salem's Lot.

@Sonicka Comparing a Roblox game to AAA games is just...wild.

"Gen Z doesn't care about slop" is not only untrue but also ignores that Millennials are the generation born into gaming with the most purchasing power at the moment; they'd be remiss to ignore us. It's Gen Alpha that seems to live and breathe AI slop, and the oldest Gen Alpha kids are still in high school.

I'd love to say Donkey Kong, but Expedition 33 is definitely the best of the lot in my opinion.

I think it looks perfect. It's basically exactly what I imagined Zelda and Link looking like in a live action movie.

They should have skipped Switch and just ported it to Switch 2.

I'm not a fan of the design personally - too much like regular Starmie just stretched out - but I love that it's become a queer icon. As with all icons, the best ones are those that get adopted as queer, not intentionally designed as queer.

Gonna have to steal my copy back from my girlfriend

I preordered one, and I've never regretted it in the slightest. I learned with the Wii U that Nintendo's "pro" controllers are going to be comfortable, premium products. I adored the Wii U pro controller, I never used anything with my Switch except for its pro controller, and I've yet to use a controller other than the pro controller with my Switch 2. Each pro controller is better than the last. The price, while high, is very fair in my opinion.

This is a perfect reason for a delay. And as for the "what if it's a game key card"...I hope to God it's not, but if it is, I'll still take that over a purely digital release.

Man, no mention of the Atari 50 Namco DLC? As a huge Atari fan, that's what I'm most excited about.

@batmanbud2 I mean, by that logic, I should regret buying an Xbox 360 because of Ride to Hell Retribution. Being glad you didn't buy a system because of one bad game completely ignores the really fantastic games the system had.

Amiibo Festival is not nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be. It's bad, but it's bad in a boring "I'd rather play Mario Party instead" way, not an egregious "This game is broken and has no charm whatsoever" way like Chasing Dead on Wii U is.

I said 9. It's a great expansion on Age of Calamity which itself was a great expansion on the original game. Whoever gave it a 1 or 2 needs to their heads examined; not liking the game or finding legitimate faults with it is fine, but a rating of 1 or 2 would imply that the game is fundamentally broken.

I voted Europe. The actual art is the same as Japan, but I like that it included the in-game sprites. To be honest, I prefer the art in the US version, but it's just disingenuous to de-Dragonball a game that was made to be a Dragonball game.

@Anti-Matter It's worth noting that not all PS5 games are truly fully on disc. Some absolutely are, but many games require an update download in order to be playable and function. Whether 0% of the game is on physical media or 95% is, if any download is required in order to play, then it's all effectively the same.

@Don For the most part, I agree with you in remasters, but there are some that really deserve it. I think giving Mario Galaxy the HD treatment was worthwhile; it was such a beautiful game - it and its sequel - in 480i that it deserved a bump to 2160p in my opinion. Super Mario RPG definitely deserved a remake, and they did a brilliant job with. I'd love to seem them remaster Eternal Darkness, and I'd love to see the original Legend of Zelda remade in a modern style.

I don't know if I'd say "a dream come true" just yet, but it's definitely fantastic. As for those mentioning game key cards, that's not relevant; the write-up is about game selection, not preservation of physical support. Unless you're going to tell me that digital-only games aren't actually video games, that's a pointless argument to make.

Heck yeah. I love Mystery Gifts that give otherwise unobtainable Pokemon. Mythicals SHOULD be super rare to obtain. That's the whole point. If anything, I think GameFreak has been a little too loose recently with some of the mythicals.

Good. Streaming unreleased games unless you got an early review code is so blatantly illegal it's stupid, and to brag about it? Dude is lucky the court didn't impose a much higher fine.

@vio That's less a LRG issue and more what the IP owner is willing to put in one collection.

Fortunately for my wallet, I only see three or four on that list I'm interested in. Solid upcoming lineup thought.

@John_Deacon I've had it switch between day and night as I was in the process of throwing a Poke Ball. The Pokemon just completely despawned (it was a Staryu in I think area 2, so it only appears at night)

Let's be honest, I'd steal the Louver 3DSs too if I had the chance. What a gloriously quirky piece of Nintendo history.

@MTMike87 I recommend Persona 3

I'm so stoked. I can't really afford, but that's why God invented credit cards. lmao

The only thing better about the Japanese version is that "Dark Echoes" is a cooler subtitle than "Echoes"

I personally like console exclusives - they make consoles feel unique whereas Xbox and Playstation, by and large, feel super samey these days. That said, I'd absolutely buy Halo on Switch 2 if it happened.

So I see her point. From a purely pro-consumer standpoint, exclusivity is inherently negative. But I like having each console feel unique. Part of what makes the 90s my favorite era of gaming is how distinct each console felt. Saturn, N64, 3DO, Jaguar, PS1 - none of those consoles felt quite like the others. Outside of Nintendo, that's not really the case with consoles since 2013.

Pray for our brothers in Europe. They have clearly lost the way.

omg thank you for posting this. I was having the hardest time figuring out where the safe spot was for that area-wide attack in Zygarde's complete form. My Pokemon hold strong, but I kept dying lol

Jesus Christ, my inability not to buy everything Nintendo makes is going to bankrupt me

I'm having a lot of fun with it. I'm disappointed with the lack of new Pokemon or regional forms, but the new mega evolutions are cool, and the storyline is a lot of fun. I'd definitely put it at the very bottom of main series games, but I'm still having a blast. GameFreak may be lazy and/or incompetent with making Pokemon games look better than a Wii U title, but they're undeniably fun to play. I gave it an 8.