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I immediately thought of Gris

SMT V is out in a couple months and only had a brief spot? Hmm

@Poodlestargenerica I agree with that. Some people are just offended by others making money.

@Poodlestargenerica, if it's true that people who work for the company are submitting these bids and NOT ACTUALLY PAYING, that is not a free market thing, that's fraud. if true, they're lying about actually selling games at those prices. I'm a huge free market advocate, we don't you giving it a bad name

As someone who's always seen these Atelier games and wondered about them, but looks at this list and is overwhelmed, where would people recommend I start to try out the series?

I'd say handhelds aren't consoles because I've always used that distinction myself, but I'm not going to get mad at anybody who disagrees.

I did find it interesting that more people think a handheld is a console than think a mini is a console. Could somebody who voted that way please explain your thinking?

Deep discount the second it comes out? Yeah must be a real quality product.

"And the responsibility for keeping those games available" Come on, that's silly. Nobody has a "responsibility" to keep games available. Nobody has some ephemeral duty to spend their own money bringing these games on to modern platforms or in remakes or on new hardware that plays classic games.

There is money out there to be made for old games.... IF there is the demand for them. Not every game has enough demand to justify the expense of doing so. The vast majority of them don't. Nobody should be expected to lose money just to bring these games up for the few people who are interested.

And just because a game has a high resale price on the second-hand market doesn't NECESSARILY mean there would be the demand to actually buy it to PLAY. Much of the price is for pure speculation, and the person who would pay $300 for Game X because they suspect it'll be worth $400 in a year is not likely to pay $50 for Game X Remastered.

Great list. Glad to see Sunshine is very low on it (although it shouldn't on the list at all) - that game was awful. Never build an entire game around a gimmick like that. It's as if Nintendo had built a sequel to Mario 3 where you wear the kuribo shoe (a fun diversion) the entire game.

There are many things I think should have been higher when I first look at them, but then I realize that the top list of games is so jam-packed with incredible quality that it doesn't really make much difference.

I enjoyed it, but it wasn't particularly memorable. As in, I can't remember too much about it.

@Whitestrider I do appreciate somebody sharing information like that, I'd be interested in learning more, but I also don't want to watch 13 minutes of video, hah. I'd rather read the same content (which would probably take me less than 5 minutes).

To put it more simply, if this operates more like an emulator, that's perfectly legal.

This may not even be a fair use question, this may not violate copyright at all. What are they ACTUALLY doing? Nothing is clear about this. If they are writing code or creating a device that allows a legally-purchased copy to be played on something else, that's not a copyright violation. It MIGHT (and I say might because it's not clear these licensing provisions are even enforceable) violate the game's license if somebody uses the re3 project to play GTA 3 on Switch, but that's on the user, not on re3.

@Ambassador_Kong The little person who is banking $300k using somebody else's creations?

For everybody talking about other unofficial guides, just because someone else has been breaking the law and other companies don't challenge it doesn't make this legal or right.

Yeah, this doesn't look like a good argument for fair use

#1 - Commercial use instead of reporting, educational, or parody. Very different than fan guides on gamefaqs
#2 - The character designs are Nintendo's IP. Looking at the covers they're extremely close. Also different than fan guides on gamefaqs (text only).
#3 - I don't know this, but if they're using in game-art, including maps, that's protected IP too. Again, you don't see that on fan guides.

@60frames-please Huh, that just reminded me I had that game at some point. I can't remember if I finished it, gave up on it, forgot it, or what.

I'll need some more proof that red vs. blue seal is actually meaningful, which is missing from the Twitter "reporting"

Hey Atari, owner and CEO are two completely different things

Is there a demo for Monster Train available on any platform?

One way to think of it is that if every game contains, say, everybody possible gendered/nongendered romance option you can think of, then there is no diversity among the games themselves. Players will have more choices in games but less among games.

I'd like to introduce you to the Streisand Effect.

@GrailUK Definitely a personal preference thing, I looked at it and enjoyed the animation.

Honestly, both "whatever" and "boo" are sassy. No idea why people see such a huge difference between the two.

Seems like the kind of thing I would've loved 20 years ago.

"Stealing is OK if it's from a big company!" <--- half this thread.

When I was a kid (in the US) I remember traveling to the "Big city" (Green Bay) mall and being so excited to shop in Electronics Boutique. Computer games! When I was in college, I worked at an "EB Games". After college, I spent a year as store manager of an EB Games right when Gamestop bought the company.

We were all really unhappy with that. I know we were biased, but we all thought EB was the better store - better prices on used games, especially. I left before the stores started changing names, that was a slow process.

I cannot see myself ever buying an SRPG where you have to pay for content.

Does this basically make The World Ends With You impossible to 100% now? Some of the pins only evolve in certain ways properly with street pass hits, right?

"Unlike Disney's live-action movies, though, the Zelda remakes are fantastic" - There's a significant difference between the tweaking of graphics and occasional substantive difference in the Zelda games and the complete from-the-ground-up changes for the Disney movies. I think they need 2 different terms, maybe remaster and remake.

@ShaneReactions 5 seconds of Googling - average U.S. salary of a doctor in the U.S. is somewhere around $209,000/year.

For anybody complaining about charity management earning a high salary, do you feel the same way about doctors? Why wouldn't the same argument apply for doctors working at a non-profit hospital or clinic?

@WhiteUmbrella Question - if the business is barely making anything off the worker anyway, how is it exploiting the worker? Surely if the worker had skills that were actually valuable to an employer, they would have an easy time finding a job somewhere else, no?

Are you advocating that they're better off not working at all?

Vesemir in the bathtub, haha.

Wow, how dare people earn a living while running charities! It's not like running a business takes skill, experience or knowledge... oh wait. It's not like a charity wants to attract talent... oh wait.

On the paying people less than minimum wage question... have you even considered that some people are completely unemployable because they don't have the skills to create enough value for an employer to even make them worth that much? This law doesn't PREVENT any employee from making more money - if these disabled workers could find better-paying work, they would. This law helps them find work at all where otherwise they couldn't earn anything.

Oh that is 100% Johnny Cee's, how cool! I don't live in Wausau now but I grew up there and I get back a few times a year and usually go to FNM. Those are the tables they use, they have boxes of loose comics over on the right and posters of the MTG dual lands up on the right by the windows.

Anybody know if there's a way to tag or directly contact Nintendo Life contributors?

@LiamDoolan, I swear I recognize that background, is that Johnny Cee's games in Wausau, WI?

A rerelease that only has 5 boards seems stupid. Why would I want this?

Liar Princess was great, my daughter and I played through it together, I hope this is as good!

I can see that. TWEWY is my favorite game of all time, I've beaten it a few times and tried to 100% it twice but both times when I got into the 99%+ range I didn't quite make it (the second time my son unintentionally deleted my game...) I had a blast playing the demo this weekend. Seems to translate well so far, although my old brain is slowing down I can't process everything that's happening in fights.

After how bad the remake was, I'm definitely demoing this first.

Never played it the first time (no wii-motion plus controllers), so excited for this. Why am I not loving the graphics tho? I'm a huge fan of Twilight Princess, including the overall visuals, but I look at this and go bleh.

$60, what? I love the first two AW games (more than the DS ones) but no thanks.

Backing? No. Buying? Maybe.

2.5D was definitely the thing. Nights into Dreams, Klonoa.

As much as this is the first amiibo I might actually be interested in getting, I'm still not going to buy it because I don't want to encourage this behavior.

But those are all GOOD games. That's not how this works.

@RobHughes Why? You can play it just fine right now, and as huge of a fan of PSO games I have been, this is a pretty bad game. It's just a barfy kludge of FTP microtransactions and 8 million confusing mechanics.

Seems pricey. Game was just fine, nothing fantastic. Basically a diablo clone w/D&D skin. Lots of companies were doing that around that time.