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I wonder how the pressure-sensitive functions of the Poltergust will be implemented (if they are at all). Hopefully this being the age of 2DS doesn't cause Grezzo to lazily exclude this as well as optional stereoscopic 3D. They did decide to milk the 3DS instead of releasing this on Nintendo's currently most accessible platform, after all, so, they'd be fools to make something that could've otherwise easily been developed for Switch.

@Dang69 "Mega Man 2 is just a refined version of the Mega Man 1 experience"

Please elaborate in as much detail as possible.

@Dang69 Couldn't disagree more.

@retro_player_22 I'd take a re-release of Powered Up, now that you mention it.

Here it is, the 30th anniversary of Mega Man (1), and instead, Mega Man 2 and X get repros. For $100 each.

Disgusting yet hilarious, Crapcom.

@mikegamer 2 SNES games + 5 PS1 games + extras. They could've just re-released that, and it would still be a better buy than this.

Sony losing something exclusive to Nintendo. What timeline is this?

a.k.a. Chris-Chan: The Movie

@mikegamer Being optional doesn't change how terrible it is. It's an inexpensive and lazy excuse for not (minimally) remastering the games. Capcom is well known for exploiting their fans in such ways like this.

@MegaStoneSmash91 Underrated comment.

@gaga64 Probably not, though it is worth playing. We'll have to wait and see how much extra content will be in the final product.

@Moroboshi876 >all games on one card
>one
Bro, do you even Capcom?

@Expa0 Fine, as long as its butchered arranged soundtrack isn't there. It (and some of the added cutscenes, frankly) ruined the entire feel of the game.

@KingdomHeartsFan The inconsistency only began with X5 (which I also found a chore of an experience to play). X1-X3 were progressively better, and X4 had its own sort of magic.

@Expa0 If both aren't included, then I'd be happy to forget the PS1 port ever existed.

@KingdomHeartsFan Haven't played X8, but X6 (though very challenging and somewhat broken and unfinished) is underrated, feature-filled fun with a nice aesthetic.

I also played X7 once, unfortunately.

@sauce Your pic tho

It's a sad time when the last great source for Nintendo news and reviews has begun to deteriorate into clickbait Kotaku-ism. Pointed political articles and desperate attempts at humour are what destroy a venerable gaming community.

@Old-Red The point you're trying to make is using paper-thin reasoning lifted up by fear-mongering. You're projecting your passion against guns onto me refuting your false claims with the facts.

Nevertheless, I dearly appreciate your civility in the manner you ended this discussion. Take care.

@Old-Red Your continued emotional hysteria still isn't an argument against the facts: that guns prevent more crime and save more lives than they take. Were American schools not "gun-free zones", teenagers with guns (or knives, or trucks, or fists, or bombs) would be far less likely to do harm to anyone, especially when the governmental law enforcement willfully choose to watch people die instead of saving them, such as in the recent Parkland Florida shooting (when they knew beforehand that the gunman was planning on doing this).

Blaming your personal favourite inanimate object of contempt will never stifle murder or crime, nor has it ever done so. On the contrary, it tends to feed them.

@Old-Red Exactly. If you trust facts over feelings, this should give you peace rather than rage.

Inanimate objects (such as trucks, video games, and guns) don't have power in themselves. Actions do. Murder and crime is already subject to the law in any civilised state. In America, criminals and those medically judged to be mentally ill already cannot legally (note that word) obtain or use a firearm. This means that believing controlling non-criminals' access to guns to protect themselves and others is either an infantile (ie, extremely uninformed) or sadistic notion. And surely you don't believe that handing over guns to a "racist" police force is going to solve the issue of gun crime, right?

Are you implying that possessing a gun makes you violent (thereby making guns inherently violent) in an article about how violent video games don't make you violent? Think carefully about how ridiculously irrational that sounds.

@Maxtremors Also, there is no clear definition for the terms "assault rifle" or "mass shooting". Those are buzzwords, used to propel a narrative of fear into the uninformed.

By "assault rifle", you may be trying to say "semi-automatic weapon", which fires at the same rate as a handgun (ie, one bullet fired for each time the trigger is pulled; as opposed to an automatic weapon, which fires bullets for as long as you hold the trigger down). Automatic weapons were not used in any of these "mass shootings" you're referring to. Semi-automatics were, meaning the gunmen pulled the trigger each time a bullet came out of the gun.

"Mass shooting" is often a disingenuous term that has been used to make gun homicides sound far more numerous than they are. The term has very broadly been used to describe "any time a gun has been fired in a public area, even accidentally or for sport", such as the claim that "there have been over 18 mass shootings since the beginning of 2018", a claim of obfuscation in order to advance a particular goal, not to accurately report reality.

@Maxtremors How is factually responding to a fear-mongering claim also fear-mongering?

Again, you're misreading the statistical reference. The Kleck and Gretz estimate was the highest of those three, giving the "80x" number. Even if you choose not to accept that one due to ideological reasons or for any other reason, the lesser estimates they gave also give an exponentially high number of lives saved by guns vs. crime caused by them. This proves that you're fear-mongering, since your emotionally hysterical claims against gun ownership are contradicted by the facts.

This popcorn is so good. So much irony here with all the character attacks and emotional appeals against guns in the comment section of an article decrying character attacks and emotional appeals against video games.

@River3636 I elaborated on some of them above. Which others did you need elaborated?

@River3636 On what?

@Maxtremors Citing BBC News, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal is "gun lobby propaganda"?

You're omitting the fact that three different contrasting estimates were given for the first asterisk in that link. 1. The "80x more lives saved than taken" stat says for you to refer to the Kleck and Gertz stat referred to underneath the second asterisk. 2. The 1994 Clinton White House stat gave a more conservative "47x more lives saved than taken" number. 3. The Bureau of Justice statistic, applied with either the above Kleck or Clinton stat, gives the "5.7x or 3.4x" number for 2008.

Meaning, even if you only accept the most conservative estimate from above, it is an objective fact that legal gun owners save exponentially more lives than the crimes legal or illegal gun owners cause.

You are merely fear-mongering.

@NIN10DOXD It might benefit you to learn what "ad hominem", "appeal to authority", and "poisoning the well" mean.

In this comment section:

People who know nothing of guns except that "they look scary", nor understand that preventing legal ownership of them doesn't prevent obtaining one nor any violent crime at all (eg, Australia's homicide rate never decreased as a result of their buyback).

Most gun crime in the US is due to illegally obtained weapons, and there have been exponentially more lives saved by legal gun owners than lives taken: http://americangunfacts.com

As far as I know, there is no evidence that playing violent video games causes violent actions (it's probably more likely the other way around, if at all). But to say that video games should never be banned and that guns (which are also inanimate objects) should be is incredibly inconsistent and inane.

A sign of things to come, perhaps?

Brilliant game!

Space sounds so terrible, especially since the people voted for it and the elites elected to snub and mock the votes of the people the whole way. We can hardly manage to pull up our own trousers without taking those our peasants' hard-earned pounds to pay our servants to do so for us. You expect us to journey to a speciesist, biophilic, unfair etc, etc, etc, etc sea of stars and actually be able to survive?! No, we're DOOMED!

But only the politicians I DISLIKE made a mess of things, which is why I am glad our feckless, unelected Prime Minister that I usually hate and typically has nothing to stand for decided to ignore the voice of the people and heed to the vain, crying, reality-scoffing aristocrats by effectively making the people's vote worthless in changing the terms of what was promised them when they voted to leave, because LOVE! It is far better this way, because the Tolerant® Empire that owns and controls us will make sure that even our front doors are not allowed to be locked, that peaceful acid caressing our pores is abundant and a human right, and that we should be forced to fight for them in their wars and be forced to genuflect to every moral statement their unelected leaders make, regardless if they suffer no consequence from any of their royal decrees toward us.

Our oppressive queen actually cared about what the people asked for, which is why she deserves to replaced and have Our Great Economically-Ignorant Leader replace her. May it be very soon.

How lovely that we can endlessly play cheeky video games in order to mindlessly enslave ourselves and have no concept of what "tomorrow" means, since we're actually loving and incredibly intelligent, unlike MOST Britons, those racist Nazi scum! Democracy is a word!

Perhaps the inspiration for Clocktown's "Milk Bar".

Chris Slate is involved? Wonderful. As with the magazine's demise, so with this podcast's.

The slope has been slipped.

Not surprising. Dopamine is released according to enjoyment, potentially bringing with it addiction and withdrawal side-effects from very often doing things that release it. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy such things, but it's helpful to understand the potential consequences behind them, in case you need to recover from them (or don't want experience them at all).

I miss you already, Tom.

Hopefully this turns out to be like the pre-2007 NP rather than after the Future US takeover, with all of their cancerous "talent" steering the magazine's demise.

@JayJ I hope this one isn't just going to be "Megaman 2 in 2.5D", which is what I'm expecting (or else you risk making the '80s kids mad). I hope they add a lot of fun, new features and mechanics to it, like they did with Megaman 6-8. Regardless of any the flaws those three games had, they each added something unique and fun to a series that was starting to get really stale prior to 6. 9's legacy is really the point where Capcom's (or Inafune's) incredible laziness got really apparent.

Cannot wait to play this!

Awesome, my favourite entry!

@JayJ I think 9, at least, was a really enjoyable game in general (after getting used to its forced and hokey "retro difficulty and graphics"), but yeah, the demagoguery of a few "Mega Man 2 only!" drones silencing the rest of the series' fanbase has really pushed back the series' growth and fun factor.

Both covers featured here look great. That "3D anime" look of the first game is indeed indicative of its time, but it looks like...anime, just as with the content of the game. The Forsaken 64 cover looks appropriately edgy, unlike the failed attempt to be so by this article.

@JayJ It's about time, too. The "retro nostalgia" direction of the last two was pretty cheesy, overall, besides being creatively limiting.

Capcom's laziness problem is always getting worse and worse.

PLEASE revive the Kirby 64 one! Dancing Kirby and dat screensaver...

They should have asked Maegawa-sama to supervise any such project like this from the beginning. Not including Gunstar Heroes was just one of AtGames' huge oversights for this.

Nothing out of the ordinary for Japanese media. Just see Shin Chan or Dragon Ball.

That said, leave it to a mere mention of nudity in a non-Western culture to cause the religiously nudist to go on a tirade about it.

@thesilverbrick You really should, sometime. Despite its "particular" controls (which impeded the sensibilities of many a rash journalist), it's very fun.

Star Fox 2's complete form, then Sonic 3D: Director's Cut, and now this? Has there been a secret memo going around between developers about releasing/updating classic games specifically during this month? Or is this all just inspired by Star Fox 2's release?

Now, if only VMUs would make a comeback...

This is incredible. Kudos to the brilliant team behind this! The level of detail and polish behind this is amazing. And, perhaps it's just me, but the enemies seemed to have improved AI compared to the original game (making 00 Agent even further agonizing).

Welp. Time to get a Switch.

EDIT: "It's not known if it will make it out of Japan."

Oh. That saves me thousands of hours, then.