@Flatlinerking Thanks but the site is offline again. Those scalpers are back on. Loads of listings on ebay for £150 plus. Hopefully everyone with any sense will not pay that price for a paperback and a steel book.
@GVIL I don't understand how they can't take pre-orders as surely they know how many copies they are making? I thought XC3 was going up shortly after the site came back up but obviously not. Now announcing the this the day of release is shocking. How did they not warn people sooner as clearly it would have needed to be in stock a few days ago for shipping in time?
At least it is coming or it would make the special edition of 3 seem silly with a cover for the first game that never released. What is with the My Nintendo store in UK? Do they not understand how to pre-order any more? Still waiting on Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Special Edition to go up for order.
@bluemujika Surprised it got a remake as it is only going to be for those with nostalgia for the original. The box art stinks on the remake as well so I assume they didn't get the rights to the original art.
@Tempestryke Maybe someone at Nintendo sees these predictions so keeps putting them to back of the queue. I can imagine Nintendo has got a few remakes ready to fill the release schedule when needed.
At least the jokers can carry on wheeling out the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess rumours into 2023. Saves them coming up with new material. People only like the greatest hits anyway.
I would like to be surprised and for them to show stuff that none of these educated guessers parade out every time a direct looms. In fact I would love it if everything was a surprise and no predictions at all were correct.
They're now thinking how soon they can get Splatoon 4 out without feeling like they are milking the cash cow too hard. Not bought it yet. Thinking I will fire up the Wii U and play through the original campaign that I never got round to and hold off until Christmas for this one. Not like the online community will be dead by then.
I knew someone who worked a 4 day week with Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays off until someone complained that they didn't get any benefit from the Good Friday bank holiday so they went to a 5 day week so they got a benefit from Good Friday. There is always one person who spoils it for others. Hopefully no one at this company has the same idea.
The only live action version of this I would watch is Chris Pratt in a rubber suit. I'd book time off work and watch all available showings and even buy tickets for showings at the cinema that I can't attend as I will be watching it for the 65th time on one of their other screens.
The original Splatoon campaign needs to come to Switch as a budget release. No need for the multiplayer but would be nice to have the full set on Switch.
It's not the best 3D Mario game but if you compare 3D Mario games to a bag of Revels, there are no orange or coffee ones to be found. I don't like those flavours just for clarity, feel free to chop and change the flavours for your preferences in my terrible analogy.
@LittleGhost When people polish these old classics it is partly for their love of the games and partly to get some attention. Hopefully this person uses this attention to move onto something original that he can actually share with people without fear of lawyers jumping on it.
@Aezetz To get super rich people probably have committed some form of crime or at the least exploited a bunch of people, which should be a crime, to get there.
Talking of days before online walkthroughs. I remember years ago at school one of my teachers, the one everyone was afraid, asked anyone with a Megadrive to stay behind after class. We though he was a Nintendo fan boy and wanted to punish us. Turns out he needed help with a level on The Immortal. I have never felt so relieved in my life. I helped him and asked for his help a few weeks later.
I remember the good old days when virtual outfits were not a selling point for DLC. Can they sell a story/mission DLC pack and a superfluous gubbins DLC pack so folks that don't care what colour trousers the characters are wearing can save a few pennies?
I have visions of Doug Bowser trawling the Nintendo archives listening to all the music while sending out copyright claims with a smug grin on his face.
All very catchy terms. The fact the French use the term weekend has always baffled me when they don't use the term week. This makes it even more baffling.
I didn't like the game and gave up after about 15-20 mins. Did I give up too soon? I do like reading articles about games I didn't enjoy though as I get to enjoy them vicariously through articles.
@Bunkerneath You could use it for DLC as that rarely gets a physical release. I personally would prefer a monetary reward rather than a dust gathering trinket. I wouldn't even graze the top 1 million playing this though so they could give away whatever for this for all the good it would do me. Maybe they should have polled the players to find out what they would prefer first to gauge overall reaction.
I played it for an hour or so on a cinema screen back in the day. It wasn't the optimal way to play as we had to sit on the front row due to where we could connect the N64.
@Dragonslacker1 It's already finished but are being held up by the logo. They are only on logo version 26 at the minute. They should get there before the Switch Pro releases.
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Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
@Flatlinerking Thanks but the site is offline again. Those scalpers are back on. Loads of listings on ebay for £150 plus. Hopefully everyone with any sense will not pay that price for a paperback and a steel book.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
It's now out of stock!
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is Finally Available To Pre-Order, If You Can Access The Site
What was that maintenance for a week or so ago for? Making sure the message will load when the site crashes?
Re: Meet The Nopon Archsage, Coming In Wave 2 Of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 DLC
Maybe the European Collector's Edition will include all the DLC by the time they let us order it.
Re: Physical Edition Of Bayonetta On Switch Unexpectedly Delayed (EU + UK)
@GVIL I don't understand how they can't take pre-orders as surely they know how many copies they are making? I thought XC3 was going up shortly after the site came back up but obviously not. Now announcing the this the day of release is shocking. How did they not warn people sooner as clearly it would have needed to be in stock a few days ago for shipping in time?
Re: Physical Edition Of Bayonetta On Switch Unexpectedly Delayed (EU + UK)
At least it is coming or it would make the special edition of 3 seem silly with a cover for the first game that never released. What is with the My Nintendo store in UK? Do they not understand how to pre-order any more? Still waiting on Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Special Edition to go up for order.
Re: Random: Kit And Krysta Claim They Were Nearly Fired Over Nuzlocke Pokémon Run
Surely speed running is worse than this?
Re: Switch's Officially-Licensed Micro SD Card Collection Expands With New Fortnite Designs
It's almost like a gift buying season is upon us and they are trying to fleece people out of more money than they need to spend.
Re: Poll: So, How Are You Pronouncing Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom?
@bluemujika Surprised it got a remake as it is only going to be for those with nostalgia for the original. The box art stinks on the remake as well so I assume they didn't get the rights to the original art.
Re: Poll: So, How Are You Pronouncing Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom?
The title has me wanting to play Key to the Kingdom now. Need to dig it out of storage. There will be tears if there are tears in the board.
Re: 'The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom' Launches In May 2023
@Tempestryke Everyone is screaming Zelda and Metroid and Nintendo give us Kirby instead. It's like they are toying with everyone.
Re: 'The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom' Launches In May 2023
@Tempestryke Maybe someone at Nintendo sees these predictions so keeps putting them to back of the queue. I can imagine Nintendo has got a few remakes ready to fill the release schedule when needed.
Re: 'The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom' Launches In May 2023
At least the jokers can carry on wheeling out the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess rumours into 2023. Saves them coming up with new material. People only like the greatest hits anyway.
Re: Talking Point: What Do You Want To See At Tomorrow's Nintendo Direct Showcase?
I would like to be surprised and for them to show stuff that none of these educated guessers parade out every time a direct looms. In fact I would love it if everything was a surprise and no predictions at all were correct.
Re: Splatoon 3 Becomes The Fastest Selling Nintendo Switch Game In Japan
They're now thinking how soon they can get Splatoon 4 out without feeling like they are milking the cash cow too hard.
Not bought it yet. Thinking I will fire up the Wii U and play through the original campaign that I never got round to and hold off until Christmas for this one. Not like the online community will be dead by then.
Re: Fisti-Fluffs Publisher 'Rogue Games' Moves To A Four-Day Work Week
I knew someone who worked a 4 day week with Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays off until someone complained that they didn't get any benefit from the Good Friday bank holiday so they went to a 5 day week so they got a benefit from Good Friday. There is always one person who spoils it for others. Hopefully no one at this company has the same idea.
Re: Cleaning Up Takes A Backseat In Splatoon 3's New 'Biggest Mess Wins' Trailer
How long before this advert gets banned for promoting graffiti?
Re: Oops! Nintendo Almost Leaked The Splatoon 3 Direct A Day Early
I can leak to you that in this game paint will be fired.
Re: Brace Yourselves, A Pac-Man Live-Action Movie Is Currently In Development
The only live action version of this I would watch is Chris Pratt in a rubber suit. I'd book time off work and watch all available showings and even buy tickets for showings at the cinema that I can't attend as I will be watching it for the 65th time on one of their other screens.
Re: Video: The Unsolved amiibo Dilemma - Boxed Or Unboxed?
All but 4 boxed in the loft. Others opened but hidden away in a larger box out of sight. Not really sure why I bough them.
Re: Watch: Is Five Years Between Splatoon Games Too Short A Wait?
The original Splatoon campaign needs to come to Switch as a budget release. No need for the multiplayer but would be nice to have the full set on Switch.
Re: Soapbox: 20 Years Later, Super Mario Sunshine Is Still The Best 3D Mario
It's not the best 3D Mario game but if you compare 3D Mario games to a bag of Revels, there are no orange or coffee ones to be found. I don't like those flavours just for clarity, feel free to chop and change the flavours for your preferences in my terrible analogy.
Re: Soapbox: Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie Is Still One Of The Greatest Adaptations Ever
I recently threw my VHS of it in the bin along with many others. Ebay tells me I should have probably tried to sell it for a few pennies.
Re: Soapbox: Games Go Down Better When Paired With Books, Movies, And TV, Just Like Wine
Twin Peaks should be paired with Deadly Premonition all day long.
Re: SEGA Genesis Mini 2 Confirmed For North American Release This October
Waiting for that official European announcement which is surely just a matter of time now.
Re: Talking Point: What's Your Favourite Nintendo Switch Screenshot?
I am too busy laughing at anything worth taking a screenshot of before my brain even kicks in and thinks that would be worth taking a picture of.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel #104 - Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
@JohnnyC Nintendo need to hire you now as I'd be all over that bundle.
Re: Random: We Need To Play This Gorgeous Fan-Made Super Mario RPG Remake Now
@LittleGhost When people polish these old classics it is partly for their love of the games and partly to get some attention. Hopefully this person uses this attention to move onto something original that he can actually share with people without fear of lawyers jumping on it.
Re: Random: We Need To Play This Gorgeous Fan-Made Super Mario RPG Remake Now
@LittleGhost He's not passing it off as his own work though. Isn't this just a very fancy equivalent of dusting off an old work of art?
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel #103 - Assault Suit Leynos / Target Earth
I always go with the one I would prefer in a frame on the wall. Japan wins this time.
Re: Here's How Much Nintendo's Directors Made This Year
@Aezetz To get super rich people probably have committed some form of crime or at the least exploited a bunch of people, which should be a crime, to get there.
Re: Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Features Over 90 Titles, Including Jaguar And Lynx Games
@Kiz3000 I was thinking the same considering I bought the Lynx collections for it just last week.
Re: Rumour: Metroid Prime Remaster Apparently Lined Up For November, Prime 2 And 3 To Follow
I won't bite until all three are out and not at full price if they do go the separate release route as is suggest by the rumour dartboard this week.
Re: Chris Pratt On Voicing Mario: Says It's "Unlike Anything You've Heard In The Mario World"
@JeanPaul Maybe if the trailers get a bad reaction like Sonic maybe they'll fall back on Charles.
Re: Random: Get A Glimpse At The Glory Days With This Retro SNES Video
Talking of days before online walkthroughs. I remember years ago at school one of my teachers, the one everyone was afraid, asked anyone with a Megadrive to stay behind after class. We though he was a Nintendo fan boy and wanted to punish us. Turns out he needed help with a level on The Immortal. I have never felt so relieved in my life. I helped him and asked for his help a few weeks later.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 To Get An Expansion Pass Including New Story Content
I remember the good old days when virtual outfits were not a selling point for DLC. Can they sell a story/mission DLC pack and a superfluous gubbins DLC pack so folks that don't care what colour trousers the characters are wearing can save a few pennies?
Re: Random: It's Been Five Years Since We've Heard Anything About Pikmin 4
Good things come to those who wait!
Re: YouTuber Ends Metroid Prime Music Covers After Nintendo's Lawyers Call
It almost seems like Nintendo want to erase some of their content from existence.
Re: Flashback Returns In Long-Awaited Sequel On Switch This Winter
Flashback squared. It's Flashback times better than Flashback!
Re: Geoff Keighley Urges Fans To 'Manage Expectations' For Summer Game Fest
Read as "Keep your expectations high and then moan about it being pants on the internet after".
Re: Another Popular YouTube Channel Pulls Nintendo Music After 500+ Copyright Claims
I have visions of Doug Bowser trawling the Nintendo archives listening to all the music while sending out copyright claims with a smug grin on his face.
Re: Random: France Bans Gaming Terms Like 'eSports' To Maintain Language Purity
All very catchy terms. The fact the French use the term weekend has always baffled me when they don't use the term week. This makes it even more baffling.
Re: Reggie Fils-Aimé Says We're All "Marching To" The Metaverse, With Games In The Lead
Really selling the idea of the metaverse. I don't need to imagine walking on sand. I can just get a kid's sandpit or travel to the beach.
Re: Random: Is This Cryptic Tweet A Hint At New Zelda Remakes?
@mariomaster96 Can you get your right sock to spill the beans then please?
Re: Memory Pak: Forget Zelda And Mario, Thumper Was The Biggest Surprise Of 2017
I didn't like the game and gave up after about 15-20 mins. Did I give up too soon?
I do like reading articles about games I didn't enjoy though as I get to enjoy them vicariously through articles.
Re: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 'Online Challenge' Kicks Off This Month (Europe)
@Bunkerneath You could use it for DLC as that rarely gets a physical release. I personally would prefer a monetary reward rather than a dust gathering trinket. I wouldn't even graze the top 1 million playing this though so they could give away whatever for this for all the good it would do me.
Maybe they should have polled the players to find out what they would prefer first to gauge overall reaction.
Re: Poll: If Nintendo Released Mother 3 In The West, What Would It Be Called?
Earthbound with a Vengeance!
Re: Random: Take A Look At GoldenEye 007 Played Across 4 Separate Screens
I played it for an hour or so on a cinema screen back in the day. It wasn't the optimal way to play as we had to sit on the front row due to where we could connect the N64.
Re: Random: Metroid Prime's Logo Went Through 53 Different Iterations
@Dragonslacker1 It's already finished but are being held up by the logo. They are only on logo version 26 at the minute. They should get there before the Switch Pro releases.
Re: Poll: Will You Play Splatoon 2's DLC Now That It's Included In Switch Online's Expansion Pack?
Bought it on sale a while ago. Still in my backlog along with the main game as well as the original on Wii U.