It would make ZERO sense to launch it the same day SF Nintendo store opens. You’d want that running smoothly, know you don’t have any point of sale issues, etc, before doing a system launch
I need someone to tell me how to enjoy Hollow Knight. I love metroid style games but HK is so incredibly annoying at the start. When you die it’s such a big punishment it puts me off playing further.
System has sadly become WAY too much of a JRPG machine the last few years. And the crumbs Nintendo gives those of us not interested are like 'here's a Donkey Kong game for literally the 3rd time'.
Not 100% convinced Metroid comes out this year. I’m sure they want it on the next system so maybe it launches with it, but we’ve only seen a small amount of it once
Loaded release schedule, lol. 3 games and no one who likes those franchises would need to buy a system to play them, so that’s not going to help them move more systems
So many bad choices made at the start of this. Dr. Mario has absolute bangers and they give you the game boy versions. No punch out which is one of the most iconic Nintendo songs ever. The Zelda songs are just the ocarina short clips or whatever is in the Switch games which are the least music centered ones.
Played this on PS5 and it was bad on there as well. Froze multiple times when I’d try to use the outside the book powers. The actual game itself left much to be desired as well
I am playing on PS5 so I can’t speak on the Switch version performance but the game is not very fun. It’s charming but there’s not much actual game to it
Interesting this is just the refresh console price. What will the PS6 cost? Also inflation pricing comparisons are so dumb. If you asked someone in 1995 or whatever to come up with $250 it still seemed reasonable. The actual number still weighs into the value proposition in people’s minds. I wonder if consoles will find a way to be like cell phones where you get people paying on installment plans with upgrade options every few years
I honestly expected a lot more times to be glitch related because when I did the events I hadn’t seen the news about Nintendo stopping you from doing so many. While it still felt unfair when i saw this i also never expected to be super close to the top anyway.
Absolutely insane price. I’m kind of confused on who this release is even really for. It’s not a bad game but i can’t imagine a lot of people are desperate to play it again and most of the people who are probably are the kinds of Nintendo fans that still have a wii or wii u to play the original.
The only thing that makes sense is that Nintendo realized if all their remakes are $40 then the vouchers have no value
Do we think the bits that were supposed to resemble gameplay were actually gameplay? I wondet if the whole thing wasn’t just pre-rendered footage. I don’t really have a problem with just the way it was put together and with a vague release window has me wondering
Donkey Konga I sleep, Jungle Beat I eat. Game is so underrated as i think most people missed the incredible amount of depth and replayability when trying for high scores
No one will see this buried comment, but does anyone know if Sports Story got any updates that made it better? I was turned off from buying it because the initial reviews were not good, but I don’t know if it’s one of those games that got better later
I don’t mind 30 fps at all, but the idea that it’s a sacrifice for the better graphics is kind of crazy. It’s 3 console generations removed from the original. The gain in console power should cover the graphical upgrade
2 of my maybe 12 total wins have come during cups and amazingly both were on my first match in the cup. Gotta love an instant 100 points instead of grinding my usual 4-5 matches to unlock the theme
Be a real shame for it to win game of the year. It’s fun and worth $15, but with so much of the gameplay requiring luck it isn’t more than a little time killer. It’s a very solid 7 out of 10, but a perfect game for streamers because they can just chat the whole time they play. Anything that’s can catch on with streamers will sell
Let it go. If in 10 years you can no longer play some mediocre game, that’s ok. There is no loss to society when non-seminal piece of work is lost to time. The truly important things will last. All you’re doing is creating waste on a planet past it’s limit of plastic pollution
Nintendo hasn’t had enough to fill out a year for a couple of years now, this will just really be the bottom of the barrel. Looking forward to Thousand Year Door but there’s really nothing else coming before the new system
Jungle Beat has so much depth that most people probably never even scratched the surface of. It’s not a great game if you’re just trying to get to the end if the level, but if you’re a perfectionist trying to keep a combo going it’s arguably the best game ever with DK. So fun
I’ve bounced off Hollow Knight a couple of times. Everyone praises it but the punishment for death is enormous, the lack of direction is frustrating and is made worse by everything looking the same. Maybe there is a great game in there, but it starts so terribly i don’t want to give it a shot. Both Guacamelee games are far better and I’d love a third
Hollow Knight is just straight up not fun at all to start playing. I hear such great things about it all the time but I’ve bounced off it multiple times because it does so much wrong at the beginning of the game. Way too high of a penalty when you die and commits my biggest gaming sin of wasting a player’s time. ‘Oh I died at this boss, let me spend 8 minutes getting back there’, no thanks.
If you are 13 and practicing NES Tetris 4 hours a day then you do in fact need to touch grass, same as if you are 13 and practicing football 4 hours a day you should try reading a book. A single hobby shouldn’t consume every waking moment of your life.
Baldur’s Gate feels so incredibly niche to me, like what percentage of people want a dice roll game? But I think Eldin Ring is also incredibly niche and it won (and I think would have an easier time winning over TotK than anything this year)
I’m pretty surprised by these scores honestly. It looked so easy in the previews that it would be boring. I think it’s 100% fine for it to be easy since the characters and style lend itself to a game for children, but reviewers rarely seem to take the target audience into account when scoring, so I wonder if this is actually a decent game for anyone
I have this mental block with these games that if i lose pikmin it will then make it even harder as i go and so i never get anywhere near completing them because i quit after a bad try.
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Re: Retailer EB Games' New Retro Service Offers Some Unsurprisingly Rough Trade-In Prices
Of course ebay sales are higher. A store isn’t going to give you what it sells for, how would they make money?
Re: Rumour: Latest Switch 2 Theory Suggests Release Date Might Be Right Around The Corner
It would make ZERO sense to launch it the same day SF Nintendo store opens. You’d want that running smoothly, know you don’t have any point of sale issues, etc, before doing a system launch
Re: Talking Point: Will Metroid Prime 4 Get A Switch 2 Release?
It’s more likely it doesn’t get a Switch 1 release than it is that it doesn’t get a Switch 2 release
Re: Hollow Knight: Silksong Briefly Vanishes From US Switch eShop, But It's Back Now
I need someone to tell me how to enjoy Hollow Knight. I love metroid style games but HK is so incredibly annoying at the start. When you die it’s such a big punishment it puts me off playing further.
Re: Can You Name These Zelda: Majora's Mask Masks?
Nice to get thru 20 questions and have the page reload and get rid of my progress
Re: Talking Point: Why An LCD Screen Isn't The End Of The World For Switch 2
The thing about the bezels is, to me, it’s super noticeable side by side but if I’m playing a game I’m looking at the screen not the area around it
Re: Nintendo Announces The First Tetris 99 Maximus Cup For 2025
There really need another “unlock themes you’ve missed” event
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Wario World (GameCube)
Japan’s would be a cooler case to have in a collection but not better box art
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (25th January)
Busted out the WiiU to play a little tropical freeze and my god this system is almost unplayable. The loading is awful.
Re: So, Have You Pre-Ordered Donkey Kong Country Returns HD For Switch?
Probably the laziest port of a game no one was clamoring for Nintendo has ever done
Re: Nintendo Highlights Multiple Switch Games Launching In 2025
System has sadly become WAY too much of a JRPG machine the last few years. And the crumbs Nintendo gives those of us not interested are like 'here's a Donkey Kong game for literally the 3rd time'.
Re: 35 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games To Look Forward To In 2025
Not 100% convinced Metroid comes out this year. I’m sure they want it on the next system so maybe it launches with it, but we’ve only seen a small amount of it once
Re: The Plucky Squire Will Provide "A Less Hand-Holdy Experience" In Future Update
@somnambulance I’m getting value out of the VR games
Re: The Plucky Squire Will Provide "A Less Hand-Holdy Experience" In Future Update
@somnambulance i was so glad this was included in my ps plus catalog because i would have bought it and been so disappointed
Re: As Switch Closes The Gap, Sony Officially Confirms PS2 Has Sold "Over" 160 Million Units
Loaded release schedule, lol. 3 games and no one who likes those franchises would need to buy a system to play them, so that’s not going to help them move more systems
Re: Random: Iconic 'DK Rap' Song Has Been Remade 25 Years Later
@YoshiTails came to share this same video
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Latest Financials Make One Thing Abundantly Clear
They are not even going to come close to 12.5M.
Re: 'Nintendo Music' Update Adds Super Mario Bros. Wonder Songs
So many bad choices made at the start of this. Dr. Mario has absolute bangers and they give you the game boy versions. No punch out which is one of the most iconic Nintendo songs ever. The Zelda songs are just the ocarina short clips or whatever is in the Switch games which are the least music centered ones.
Re: The Plucky Squire Lands New Update On Switch, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Played this on PS5 and it was bad on there as well. Froze multiple times when I’d try to use the outside the book powers. The actual game itself left much to be desired as well
Re: Review: The Plucky Squire (Switch) - Enormously Charming, But Not So Plucky On Switch
I am playing on PS5 so I can’t speak on the Switch version performance but the game is not very fun. It’s charming but there’s not much actual game to it
Re: Devolver Digital Confirms The Plucky Squire Won't Run At 60 FPS On Switch
I’d have gotten it on the Switch anyway if it wasn’t free with the PSN plan I’m on
Re: Soapbox: Sony's Insane PS5 Pro Price Highlights The Delicate Balance Nintendo Must Strike With 'Switch 2'
Interesting this is just the refresh console price. What will the PS6 cost?
Also inflation pricing comparisons are so dumb. If you asked someone in 1995 or whatever to come up with $250 it still seemed reasonable. The actual number still weighs into the value proposition in people’s minds. I wonder if consoles will find a way to be like cell phones where you get people paying on installment plans with upgrade options every few years
Re: 50 Best GameCube Games Of All Time
Chibi Robo at 47 is insane. Top 10 GameCube game easily, maybe top 5
Re: Braid: Anniversary Edition Sales Have Been "Utterly Terrible", Says Creator
I can’t imagine there’s a large group of people to whom, “the same game but with commentary” sounds appealing enough for a double dip
Re: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Player Uses Glitch To Top Donkey Kong Leaderboard
@Coxula it is wild how people act like he’s not one of, if not the top, greatest 80s arcade game players of all time.
Re: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Player Uses Glitch To Top Donkey Kong Leaderboard
I honestly expected a lot more times to be glitch related because when I did the events I hadn’t seen the news about Nintendo stopping you from doing so many. While it still felt unfair when i saw this i also never expected to be super close to the top anyway.
Re: Atari 50 Game List - Every Playable Game In The Anniversary Celebration, Expanded Edition
The best Atari games were made by Activision and they are really the only ones that hold up at all
Re: Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Costs $60 On Switch
Absolutely insane price. I’m kind of confused on who this release is even really for. It’s not a bad game but i can’t imagine a lot of people are desperate to play it again and most of the people who are probably are the kinds of Nintendo fans that still have a wii or wii u to play the original.
The only thing that makes sense is that Nintendo realized if all their remakes are $40 then the vouchers have no value
Re: Video: Here's Everything You Missed In The Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Trailer
Do we think the bits that were supposed to resemble gameplay were actually gameplay? I wondet if the whole thing wasn’t just pre-rendered footage. I don’t really have a problem with just the way it was put together and with a vague release window has me wondering
Re: Talking Point: What We Expect From The Upcoming June Nintendo Direct
Donkey Konga I sleep, Jungle Beat I eat. Game is so underrated as i think most people missed the incredible amount of depth and replayability when trying for high scores
Re: Balatro Special Edition Physical Release Announced For Switch
This is a solid 7/10 game. Worth the $15. Nowhere near a game of the year type of game.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (18th May)
No one will see this buried comment, but does anyone know if Sports Story got any updates that made it better? I was turned off from buying it because the initial reviews were not good, but I don’t know if it’s one of those games that got better later
Re: Poll: Are You Bothered By The Frame Rate For Paper Mario: TTYD On Switch?
I don’t mind 30 fps at all, but the idea that it’s a sacrifice for the better graphics is kind of crazy. It’s 3 console generations removed from the original. The gain in console power should cover the graphical upgrade
Re: Nintendo Announces First Tetris 99 Maximus Cup Of 2024
2 of my maybe 12 total wins have come during cups and amazingly both were on my first match in the cup. Gotta love an instant 100 points instead of grinding my usual 4-5 matches to unlock the theme
Re: Balatro Has Officially Sold 1 Million Copies
Be a real shame for it to win game of the year. It’s fun and worth $15, but with so much of the gameplay requiring luck it isn’t more than a little time killer. It’s a very solid 7 out of 10, but a perfect game for streamers because they can just chat the whole time they play. Anything that’s can catch on with streamers will sell
Re: Talking Point: What Would Make You Happy To Give Up Physical Games And Go 100% Digital?
Let it go. If in 10 years you can no longer play some mediocre game, that’s ok. There is no loss to society when non-seminal piece of work is lost to time. The truly important things will last. All you’re doing is creating waste on a planet past it’s limit of plastic pollution
Re: Talking Point: If 'Switch 2' Isn't Coming Until 2025, What's Nintendo Got Up Its Sleeve This Year?
Nintendo hasn’t had enough to fill out a year for a couple of years now, this will just really be the bottom of the barrel. Looking forward to Thousand Year Door but there’s really nothing else coming before the new system
Re: Best Donkey Kong Games Of All Time
Jungle Beat has so much depth that most people probably never even scratched the surface of. It’s not a great game if you’re just trying to get to the end if the level, but if you’re a perfectionist trying to keep a combo going it’s arguably the best game ever with DK. So fun
Re: Random: It's Been Five Long Years Since Hollow Knight: Silksong Was Officially Announced
@AJWolfTill i didn’t use a guide the other couple of times i started it, so I’ll have to give it another go
Re: Random: It's Been Five Long Years Since Hollow Knight: Silksong Was Officially Announced
I’ve bounced off Hollow Knight a couple of times. Everyone praises it but the punishment for death is enormous, the lack of direction is frustrating and is made worse by everything looking the same. Maybe there is a great game in there, but it starts so terribly i don’t want to give it a shot. Both Guacamelee games are far better and I’d love a third
Re: Best Super Smash Bros. Games Of All Time
Melee’s unique target games for each character were more fun than any solo player content in any other game by a long margin
Re: Best Nintendo Switch Metroidvania Games
Hollow Knight is just straight up not fun at all to start playing. I hear such great things about it all the time but I’ve bounced off it multiple times because it does so much wrong at the beginning of the game. Way too high of a penalty when you die and commits my biggest gaming sin of wasting a player’s time. ‘Oh I died at this boss, let me spend 8 minutes getting back there’, no thanks.
Re: Soapbox: "Go Outside, Get Some Fresh Air" - Why Won't Outmoded Gamer Stereotypes Die?
If you are 13 and practicing NES Tetris 4 hours a day then you do in fact need to touch grass, same as if you are 13 and practicing football 4 hours a day you should try reading a book. A single hobby shouldn’t consume every waking moment of your life.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 9th)
The Wrestlequest review got me wondering if Sports Story ever got patches or updates to make it better
Re: Review: WrestleQuest - A Wholesome RPG That Struggles In The Ring
The review certainly read more like a 4 than 6
Re: Best Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Games On Nintendo Systems
Shredder’s revenge just showed how badly that style of game has aged. The first NES game and game boy games should be higher
Re: Talking Point: Zelda: TOTK Isn't A Shoo-In For GOTY 2023, And That's A Good Thing
Baldur’s Gate feels so incredibly niche to me, like what percentage of people want a dice roll game? But I think Eldin Ring is also incredibly niche and it won (and I think would have an easier time winning over TotK than anything this year)
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Disney Illusion Island
I’m pretty surprised by these scores honestly. It looked so easy in the previews that it would be boring. I think it’s 100% fine for it to be easy since the characters and style lend itself to a game for children, but reviewers rarely seem to take the target audience into account when scoring, so I wonder if this is actually a decent game for anyone
Re: Review: Pikmin 2 - Still A Sublime Time, Even Without The 7-Up Bottle Cap
I have this mental block with these games that if i lose pikmin it will then make it even harder as i go and so i never get anywhere near completing them because i quit after a bad try.
Re: Poll: What Did You Think Of Today's Nintendo Direct?
I was really surprised by the announcement of games for “next year” like i don’t know how much longer the Switch can go