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I'd been trying to get my hands on this for months (before all of this happened), after hearing how people said it actually was a good workout. Looks like it might be a very long time before I get one now. People are crazy.
Also, watch out on Ebay. There are people selling (most likely knockoff) accessories with no game, for a huge markup as well.

Nintendo ought to be PROUD that they aren't like Disney. I like to think that Nintendo has a heart and a sort of core moral code. Disney is just... "buy everything, crap out some soulless content, make money. Rinse and repeat" now.

Ehhhhhhhh..... Hyperkin is always such a mixed bag with their accessories. Sometimes they're decent, other times they're just modern MadCatz.
Plastic on their stuff always feels so incredibly cheap. Going to wait for some user reviews on this one.

Black Flag is the best game in the series IMO. Played it through three times.
Would consider buying it on sale.

Whelp.... I guess I'll be buying this for a third time.

Well, I guess I'm buying it for a third time. We'll have to see how it runs.
For anyone that hasn't played this before, this game is 100% worth the full price tag. Don't even hesitate to jump on it. The DLCs are full on games by themselves

IS THIS REAL??? As pathetic as it sounds, I'm almost crying I'm so happy right now. Day one!
One of the few awesome licensed games from that era along with the Spongebob Movie Game and the first Harry Potter games.

Finally getting around to playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey. 20 hours in and I'm addicted. One of the best games Ubisoft has made, IMO
I wish they'd have just made this a stand-alone historical epic RPG instead of attaching it to the Assassin's Creed brand though. It's not much of an AC game. It pulls even further away than Origins did. More like "Witcher Effect: Zero Dawn", which I am totally okay with.

Also have to give them credit for putting some real thought into the stories that are told in the side quests. Huge improvement.

These online memberships aren't really the most consumer friendly thing on the planet, but I wouldn't say they are doing anything super illegal. I was easily able to cancel auto-renewal on PSN. Last time I was a PS Plus member, they notified me a couple times via email to say that my membership was going to expire soon and that I could renew it or set it to auto-renewal or whatever. Haven't used any online services outside of that.

But that said, I am a believer in being able to get a refund on digital content. It's a real grey area and it differs from company to company. I'd say there needs to be a standard set that says you are eligible for a refund up to X number of days/hours after purchasing or something like that. It's becoming almost too common for kids to purchase a bunch of games/add-ons without their parents knowing until they get the credit card bill.

@Ikana64 I've had a lot of luck with Walmart. Depends on if they are "allowed" to ship the game before release.
I got Shadow of the Tomb Raider two days early.

Reminds me a bit of Hotline Miami?

Could possibly be what Retro was working on between DKCTF and their recently announced shift on to the development of Prime 4. Development may not have been going well, and any assets ended up getting handed to Ubisoft to use in Starlink.

Let's be realistic here folks.... a new F-Zero would sell better simply because it's established as a racing franchise. Besides, think of how many people would be screaming in rage if Star Fox came out of left field with a sci-fi racing game, yet F-Zero is sitting on the shelf.

A surprisingly good console port. After all these years, developers have seemingly been able to come up with a winning formula for console controller controls. Glad to hear that it has done well for them. Also good to see they had realistic expectations for it, and not like EA's pie-in-the-sky numbers.

The absence of GTA V is perplexing. The Switch could easily handle the game since it was a 360/PS3 title, and if you believe the rumours, there was a working Wii U port at one point. This leads me to wonder if they're having technical issues with porting it to the cartridge.
That said, there is a laundry list of games 2K could bring to the system, now that they know they have a stable base to sell to.

Metroid Prime Trilogy or Skyward Sword HD.

I'm completely okay with this. Not many companies would come out and publicly state that the development has not been going well and it is not up to their standards so they're starting from scratch. Most companies nowadays would just push it out anyway.....

Actually a bit stunned by Nintendo's forthcoming honesty on this one, but glad that they have a quality standard. If anything, this is proof that Nintendo cares about Metroid (more than many of us thought). But with this delay, I don't expect to see this game until the end of the Switch's life.
But at least we finally kind of know what Retro is doing.

This means I'll finally be able to get my hands on Star Fox 64 3D on a decent price point. I couldn't justify the purchase when it came out, and then it went out of print and the price of used copies skyrocketed.

I don't think this really means anything other than "We're aware that a shift in the market could happen and we're prepared to make that shift if need be. We're prepared to do whatever is necessary for survival".
It doesn't mean they're done making systems. He's just saying that they're ready for anything should the home console market go to pot.

Unopened consoles or even consoles with their original boxes will always fetch a lot of money. If you're dumb enough to buy it for that price, you deserve to be scammed.
I still have my white basic 8GB model (with external hard drive, of course) hooked up next to my Switch and PS4. I hardly use it, but I don't have the heart to put it away.

The game takes up two whole blu-ray discs. It's massive. It'll never happen. It'd be nice, but it won't happen. I mean, the game seems to have a hard time running on PS4/XB1 to begin with, but it somehow manages to work.

Now, the original Red Dead Redemption, that'd be something that I'd be interested in seeing again. Also surprised they haven't brought GTAV to the Switch yet.

Won't be getting this until Christmas, but I've played every other game in the series.
These lists are usually garbage. Any character can be good if you know how to use them. I used Wii Fit Trainer a fair bit on Wii U. I originally was using her as a joke, but I kicked a lot of butt with her. Might use her again.

It's not a big stretch of the imagination. The Ezio trilogy was released for PS4/XB1, and Nintendo has a good relationship with Ubisoft. I don't see why the Switch couldn't have a shot at getting that release.

If it's something different (like a new compilation collection), I could see AC3, AC4 and Liberation/Rogue getting an all-in-one re-release. I mean "The Americas Collection" did come out on last gen systems, so it could just be a simple repackaging of that release for PS4/XB1/Switch.

I didn't even know that this game was still in development lol

Yeah, because Nintendo's PR team is totally going to confirm something like this.

Aonuma mentioned it, so it's either happening or they're looking into it.

Now I miss Club Nintendo. I mean, yeah it kind of sucked, but at least you were offered physical items. I still have the Hanafuda cards, the Majora's Mask soundtrack, the Majora's Mask puzzle and the ALBW poster set. I have several game downloads from it on my Wii U as well.
My Nintendo is a free complimentary service, but when you replace your rewards program with a lesser program, how can people not complain?

I'm personally really enjoying my time with the Eevee version... and yes, I've been around since gen 1. SHOCKING! Gamefreak tried something different and I'm okay with it!!! GASP
I hope they make "Let's Go Johto" in the future, because there is something very charming and refreshing about this game.

But seriously, I'm going to just assume most of the people bashing the games are over 20 years old. You're an adult getting salty about a Pokemon game, what are you actually doing with you life? You could just not buy it? But that's too difficult, I guess.

Still chugging away at Red Dead Redemption 2.

I'm surprised Nintendo hasn't done anything with Nintendogs in recent years. I (like many other 12 year olds in that era) loved those games on DS.
I think they could potentially do something kind of cool with it on the Switch.

No online really isn't going to hurt my feelings. I hardly play online in general to begin with, and I can be pretty terrible at Civ games (especially considering I haven't played Civ in years...). Not even giving me the option to go online and embarrass myself is just fine and dandy with me.

This and that Gameboy add-on patent thing could be a hint at what is to come. Perhaps Nintendo is currently looking into how their older handheld games could be brought back? Either some kind of expansion on their subscription service, or as individual sales. Let's be realistic, the DS Zelda games would be pretty simple to port to a smart device.

This would be a good change both creatively and professionally. This guy still has plenty of time left in his career, but it'd be good to see him take on a more... supervisor-ish role.
Nintendo has been having a great deal of luck allowing their new and younger talent to have more say. I mean, Pokemon has been in this weird backward stasis state ever since the end of gen 4.
I didn't care for gen 5 at all, gen 6 was forgettable and gen 7 was the definition of handholding.

The Pokemon world is just an untapped hotbed for creativity. There are so many stories and types of gameplay that could be explored. Colosseum and Gale of Darkness are some of my favourite games in the whole series, and they didn't follow the traditional path. I think they need to look at concepts like that more while moving forward.

Video is now unavailable because of Warner Brothers copyright....
That's confirmed it. It's real. Expect a true reveal very soon now.

Yes. YEEEES!
But it better be done right....

Deserves a ten. One of the best Dragon Ball games in years, if not, THE BEST. And one of the best general fighting games in recent memory.
I haven't gotten into a fighting game in many years, but I have been glued to this. I regret nothing.

I'm all about Shadow of the Tomb Raider right now. Thus far, I think it's the best out of the three.

I love PS, but I didn't have a PS1, so I don't really have any strong feelings attached to it whatsoever. I played Crash Bandicoot and Spyro on my cousin's PS1 a fair bit when I was little, but that's as far as my memories go. I'd sooner buy an N64 Classic.

$130CAD for 20 games seems a little too dear for a system I have no connection to. You could buy a used PS1 system and the games you want to play for less.
I don't play my Nintendo Classics as much as I'd like to. I just put my SNES Classic away a couple weeks ago. So I take that as a sign of what to do. Besides, everyone knows the PS1/N64 era games have aged like milk in more ways than one.

Quite a surprise.
Great game, I have it on PS4 already. The controls on console are surprisingly decent.
Good game for anyone looking to fill the SimCity void, though I find it lacks the difficulty those games had (though I think the DLC packs may remedy this, as one adds natural disasters). Once you get your population over a certain number, I think it's near impossible to get a Game Over.

I also suggest Surviving Mars to anyone into these sorts of games, if it also comes to Switch eventually. It's a bit more challenging.

Easily some of the better Harry Potter games in general, and they're also some of the better Lego games, along with Lord of the Rings and the original Star Wars games.

I have them on PS3 from years ago, and I recently got the collection for PS4 out of the bargain bin. Don't think I'll buy again, but maybe someday I will if I get a deal on it. I do love Harry Potter.

Seriously guys, if you're looking for a theme park game, don't buy Atari's modern junk. Planet Coaster should fill the void just fine. Great game. Love to see some kind of console release of it. Cities Skylines and Surviving Mars on PS4 proved to me that these types of games CAN work on console.

SimCoaster/Theme Park was a good game too, though it wasn't AS good as RCT2 and it had that blue b**** in the bottom right corner popping up and yapping at you every 30 seconds.

All of Arkane's games seem plausible ports for Switch. Prey was severely overlooked last year. Easily one of my top games from 2017 and this gen in general. Worth a second purchase if it comes to Switch. It was like Bioshock meets Metroid Prime. Great game. I think it's way better than Dishonored.

People need something better to do with their time.

Spiderman the Movie Game for OG Xbox. Played this on Gamecube as a kid, still love it. Bought the Xbox version recently at a yard sale so I can play it on my 360 with HDMI.

Might play some Pokemon Omega Ruby as well, we'll see. It's going to be an insanely hot and humid weekend here, so I don't see myself wanting to leave the house much.

Basically corporate lingo for "WE KNOW! Shut up. Stop asking. No promises, but we'll see". I think I'd get annoyed with being asked all the time about Mother 3 and other franchises.

Nintendo has proved a few times in recent years that they are listening to us. I think they're listening now more than ever, but you can only do so much and things can take a long time to come together.

People still don't even know that the Wii U existed, or if they did, they didn't know it was its own console. Everyone thought it was an overpriced add-on for the Wii.
I think they'd have sold twice as many units if they'd just named it something else. Even something as lazy as "Super Wii" would have been better.

I love my Wii U, but once you go from holding the Switch in handheld mode to the Wii U gamepad, the difference is amazing. The gamepad feels like a Fisher-Price toy in comparison.

The media has always singled out games, and this is just the latest attempt to beat a dead horse. In the 90s/early-00s it was violence and mature themes. In the mid-00s some kid ran away from home because his parents took his 360 away from him, and the media told everyone that he MUST HAVE been picked up by some stranger he met on Xbox Live, so online gaming services are bad.
Now we're going to treat people that play games like they're an alcoholic. Way to freak out all the parents again.

ANYTHING can be an addiction. But I don't know how being addicted to gaming is any worse than being a cellphone zombie? I think we have more of a wide-spread issue with people gazing at their phones for hours on end and having a symbiotic relationship with it. They can't go to the washroom without it. I've seen people have panic attacks after losing their phone. Why is that acceptable?

Just remember,
When you think your life sucks... there is some grown adult out there that sent a threatening email to Nintendo because they took demo kiosks out of their store.

It was definitely more of a Nintendo Direct presentation than an E3 one.
They said they'd focus on Smash, and they did. But it just kept going on and on and on. It looks like a super doped up deluxe release of the Wii U game (not a bad thing). Which would be fine if it were a Smash Direct, but this was E3. Was expecting "one more thing before we go.....", but it never happened.
Where was Metroid, Yoshi, No More Heroes, Bayonetta etc?

Nintendo does announce some stuff through their Treehouse presentations as well, but this just seemed like a huge missed opportunity. Microsoft and Sony also had fairly underwhelming shows this year, so it's not a huge deal.

Happy to hear that Dragon Ball FighterZ is coming to Switch though. Almost bought it the other day for PS4, glad I held off.

I still kind of think this is Smash 4 Super Deluxe Edition. Nothing wrong with that.

Underrated racing games. I think I played and enjoyed Transformed more than Mario Kart 8.

I'm going with Eevee once preorders go live in Canada.

Getting this for sure. Held off on buying it for my PS4.