Gosh I hate to think about that. But 12/13 years old me sold a TON of GBC/GBA games to Gamestop for Pokémon Diamond... Since all of them were loose, GameStop just gave me 3/4€ each and I had to reach 40€.
We're talking Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages. Zelda ALTTP, Minish Cap, all of the Mario Advance Game, Fire Emblem etc...
@N8tiveT3ch I understand the sentiment. But to be honest, as of now you could probably spend 300+ hours just to complete all the Main Quests and side-Quest without even noticing that you can spend any money on it.
About time they gave us more Zelda BotW/TotK avatar.
They disappeared after 2 weeks and I couldn't get the first wave.
While games like XENOBLADE 3 had entire year straight of new waves coming out constantly. 🗿
Hoping to not get people come at me for this... But didn't have this much fun with a Pokémon game since B&W.
Same goes for Arceus. From B&W2 onwards I have always put the game down immediately after the PKM League, I just wanted to beat them and call it a day.
Never cared to complete the Pokedex and didn't even see the post game of X/Y, S/M and Sw/Sh.
But both Arceus and Violet really ignited again my passion for the franchise. The performance might not be the best and the graphics could be much better, but everything about the gameplay itself was there and actually well made, as far as I'm concerned.
Completed everything in both games, happy for the good sales. Can't wait for the DLCs.
@Takoda yeah, feel the same. I did play Atelier Sophie and the first Ryza and I liked them both, and I always had the idea of getting into the series... but when I saw 1 or more title every year, for the past 15 years, I feel overwhelmed and I just can't find the will to do it.
@sketchturner I love them the same, but I have replayed Seasons several times through the years. Tried to do the same with Ages but never finished again.
Both game are equal in quality, but Seasons is clearly a more streamlined experience that doesn't try to do anything too odd.
Ages have some parts that feels like a chore on a 2nd run. Like the entire island segment before the third dungeon, where you keep on exchanging your items with the NPCs.
@Mrkittyhead nah. There's ton of puzzles and some dungeons have an extremely complex layout.
They're really fun to navigate and finding your way is in itself a big puzzle.
Don't really know how the review has that negative point really. It's just has less puzzle than Ages.
Btw this game was an absolute miracle on the GBC, like seeing a game this massive on that tiny console was absolutely groundbreaking for the time.
An 8/10, while not a bad score by any means, clearly don't take account on the year this game was made, and for a wich console.
@YoshiF2 you are entitled to your opinion. But I think you should stop with the "you all like the game only because there's Zelda written in the title" attitude.
Golden Sun is the bigger offender here. Not for my obvious bias, but simply because it had an actual story that was ended with a cliffhanger with milions of plot holes everywhere.
I mean, if you're not 100% sure that a new one is coming out in a short time, PLEASE don't make and entire game building up to many different big events.
Just replayed it last week, the first run was on release.
Good game of course, but there's a bunch of problems that drag the whole experience down.
The entire game could be half the lenght and actually be better, it's just padding and more padding, dungeons seems to never end.
the Main Villain is an absolute nothing, it barely has any defined trait.
The story is almost nonexisting, especially for a game this long. Barely anything happen.
enemy attack and Bro Attacck lasts for a ridicolous amount of time. And I mean more than half the Battles are just seeing enemies attacking you/chasing you through the same attack for the 10th time.
Or you using a special Attack and having to go through the same glorified minigame for the 100th times.
and of course the entire game is one big tutorial that never ends.
@TryToBeHopeful Usually the ones that sold really bad.
Found multiple times game like Metroid Other M and Federation Force. Or Zelda Triforce Heroes. Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival and StarFox Zero as well. Or Sushi Striker Ecc...
I'm not saying they shoudn't be credited, I asked an honest question because the logic behind that statement made no sense.
If you search for a job you can safely say that you worked on Metroid Prime, the employer will search online if that the truth, and he will find out that you worked on the original.
That thing about "helping with getting future jobs" make sense only if we were talking about a competely new game.
I understand if someone want to be credited because he did the original work, just use argument that are actually in favor of that, no need to make up further stuff.
@SonOfDracula
But they're are credited in the original.
This honestly make no sense. Is there people out there who don't get a job because "Yes True you made the original Metroid Prime but you were not credited in the remaster so we can't hire you"?
@Jiggies Well they made Peach into an immortal God that can take on the entire army without ever be in a real danger. So I guess they did something on that regards lol.
A bunch of moments were especially ridiculus by how they made her perfect at everything.
I honestly have no idea what people were expecting. This movie is fun, engaging, has a lot of carisma, good fights and a lot of funny moments. It's not a masterpiece by any means, but overall I feel reviewer have been too harsh on it.
I strongly disagree on this one being recommended to newcomer.
Bosses are really Hard and there's multiple part of the game were you are given for granted that you know how a Metroid works. It's also probably the one with the biggest amount of hidden paths that are VERY hard to find.
People are focusing too much on the "Call of Duty" part.
He's talking about Xbox games as a whole. Maybe we'll see Conker Live and Reloaded and Banjo Nuts and Bolt, who knows... That would be amazing. Or even Perfect Dark.
I found the entire cast of P4 a little too childish for my taste, and disliking the main characters in a game with this much emphasis on dialogue and story means that you don't really enjoy it.
Persona 3 is a bit TOO edgy at times, but overall the darker tone really hooked me.
@sketchturner They even removed the rank at the end of each Battle and the characters can't damage each other if they are too close.
Also, the game is a bit shorter than the First One and half of the Playtime are sidequest that add nothing to the game (did we really need those "Kill 3 Rabbids" kind of sidequest?), when in the First Mario Rabbids we had a ton of interesting challenges that made you really have to learn the Battle System.
Really the game itself is fine, but it's just so unbearably easy that ends up not fun at all. And I'm surprised that no reviewer mentioned that.
@rockodoodle more Characters? Tennis Aces has something like 30 characters if I remember correctly. That roster is really cool and the bigger one for a Mario Spin-off beside Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
@MetalMan it's what I try to say to people on Twitter, every time they say that those who likes japanese ecchi game are pedophile.
People have completely lost any reason. At least in America. The moment you talk with someone outside of that country you can mostly have a rational discussion.
@GrailUK they made it because people are stupid enough to think that if you play this game, you're gonna go around massaging random girls in the hope they'll get turned on and make them like you.
Luckily, those who enjoy this kind of games are unable to speak to real women so there's nothing to worry about.
@Moonsorrow999 that's because the vote scale doesn't make any sense for some games imho.
Some are really interesting and out of the norm but not really well refined to be considered great games. That doesn't mean they're not worth playing.
It's like when you try a food with a very different flavour from what you're used to. It's not gonna be the best food you have eaten, but the unique taste is gonna be interesting to feel anyway.
I still think people (and critics)are overrating the game quite a bit.
It's not bad by any means, but it feels more like a bunch of tech demos (or concepts) of many different games than something that can actually stand on his own legs.
It's still interesting and deserving to be played for it's uniqueness tough, but the critics are definitely too generous.
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Re: Capcom Is Releasing An Offline Version Of Mega Man X DiVE
Played this for 3-4 months regularly and it was an extremely fun game.
Really excited for this.
Re: Talking Point: The Games We Got Rid Of - What Were We Thinking?
Gosh I hate to think about that.
But 12/13 years old me sold a TON of GBC/GBA games to Gamestop for Pokémon Diamond...
Since all of them were loose, GameStop just gave me 3/4€ each and I had to reach 40€.
We're talking Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages. Zelda ALTTP, Minish Cap, all of the Mario Advance Game, Fire Emblem etc...
Honestly that is my biggest regret as a gamer.
Re: Genshin Impact Zelda "Clone" Accusations Had Dev Team In Tears
@N8tiveT3ch I understand the sentiment.
But to be honest, as of now you could probably spend 300+ hours just to complete all the Main Quests and side-Quest without even noticing that you can spend any money on it.
Re: Soapbox: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom's Thunderous Callback To The Great Sky Island Is Perfect
"Sadly", I launched myself from a stone falling after I used recall to send it back into the Sky.
I launched directly into the last Island and went directly to Mineru's Mask lol
Skipped the entire quest before that and the entire archipelago.
Went back to that later of course, but still...
Re: Quick, Grab A Purah Icon With New Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom NSO 'Mission & Rewards'
About time they gave us more Zelda BotW/TotK avatar.
They disappeared after 2 weeks and I couldn't get the first wave.
While games like XENOBLADE 3 had entire year straight of new waves coming out constantly. 🗿
Re: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Has Now Sold Over 22 Million Copies, Closing In On Gold & Silver's Sales
Hoping to not get people come at me for this...
But didn't have this much fun with a Pokémon game since B&W.
Same goes for Arceus.
From B&W2 onwards I have always put the game down immediately after the PKM League, I just wanted to beat them and call it a day.
Never cared to complete the Pokedex and didn't even see the post game of X/Y, S/M and Sw/Sh.
But both Arceus and Violet really ignited again my passion for the franchise. The performance might not be the best and the graphics could be much better, but everything about the gameplay itself was there and actually well made, as far as I'm concerned.
Completed everything in both games, happy for the good sales.
Can't wait for the DLCs.
Re: Koei Tecmo And Gust Announcing New Atelier Game Next Week
@Cordyceps Nobody cares when half of those titles are rythm game, mobile gatcha games, or silly little games like that.
For the Atelier series they're almost all mainline series.
But I'm sure you already know that, but for some reason decided to ignore it.
Re: Koei Tecmo And Gust Announcing New Atelier Game Next Week
@Takoda yeah, feel the same.
I did play Atelier Sophie and the first Ryza and I liked them both, and I always had the idea of getting into the series... but when I saw 1 or more title every year, for the past 15 years, I feel overwhelmed and I just can't find the will to do it.
Re: Soapbox: These Everyday Items Trigger Me Now, And I Blame Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
I never went to such extent, but after BotW I started seeing stuff in real life, as I walked, that was "clearly"in a pattern to hide a Korok Seed.
Same happened again with TotK.
Re: Review: The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle Of Seasons - An Underappreciated Old-School Adventure
@sketchturner I love them the same, but I have replayed Seasons several times through the years. Tried to do the same with Ages but never finished again.
Both game are equal in quality, but Seasons is clearly a more streamlined experience that doesn't try to do anything too odd.
Ages have some parts that feels like a chore on a 2nd run. Like the entire island segment before the third dungeon, where you keep on exchanging your items with the NPCs.
Re: Review: The Legend Of Zelda: Oracle Of Seasons - An Underappreciated Old-School Adventure
@Mrkittyhead nah. There's ton of puzzles and some dungeons have an extremely complex layout.
They're really fun to navigate and finding your way is in itself a big puzzle.
Don't really know how the review has that negative point really. It's just has less puzzle than Ages.
Btw this game was an absolute miracle on the GBC, like seeing a game this massive on that tiny console was absolutely groundbreaking for the time.
An 8/10, while not a bad score by any means, clearly don't take account on the year this game was made, and for a wich console.
Re: Castlevania: Nocturne, Netflix's Upcoming Animated Series, Lands New Teaser Trailer
Sad that they didn't go with the original design for Richter, that is still his best look.
Re: Video: We Share Our Thoughts On Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom After 100+ Hours In The Game
@YoshiF2 you are entitled to your opinion.
But I think you should stop with the "you all like the game only because there's Zelda written in the title" attitude.
Re: Poll: Which Dormant Nintendo Franchise Would You Most Like To See Return?
Golden Sun is the bigger offender here.
Not for my obvious bias, but simply because it had an actual story that was ended with a cliffhanger with milions of plot holes everywhere.
I mean, if you're not 100% sure that a new one is coming out in a short time, PLEASE don't make and entire game building up to many different big events.
Re: Feature: That Time Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Made Mario Bros. Go Full Inception
Just replayed it last week, the first run was on release.
Good game of course, but there's a bunch of problems that drag the whole experience down.
Or you using a special Attack and having to go through the same glorified minigame for the 100th times.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions
Never liked the boxart trend of this series after Bowser Inside Story.
SSS and PiT boxart were so colorful and fun.
Then they became something similar to Final Fantast Cover.
The new Game logo + Mario and Luigi + something related to the new gimmick. Nice, but so boring.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Everybody 1-2-Switch!
@TryToBeHopeful
Usually the ones that sold really bad.
Found multiple times game like Metroid Other M and Federation Force.
Or Zelda Triforce Heroes.
Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival and StarFox Zero as well.
Or Sushi Striker
Ecc...
Re: Yoshi And Kirby Developer Good-Feel Reveals New 3D Action Game For Switch
When you want to make a new Goemon, but you don't have the right to use that IP.
This is cool and sad at the same time.
Re: Legend Of Zelda amiibo Might Be Getting Reprints Soon (North America)
@DarkTron I searched on Amazon for a couple of days and could never find anything.
They run out of stock so fast...
Re: Legend Of Zelda amiibo Might Be Getting Reprints Soon (North America)
Always in America? Europe when...?
Re: Review: Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection - A Rock-Solid Compilation
@Krambo42 yeah these games have Amazing Battle System but the encounter rate is atrocious.
If you really can't stand random encounter stay away from this.
As for me, always liked the franchise and can't wait to get this.
Re: Metroid Prime Engineer Calls Out Nintendo, Says Not Crediting OG Devs In Remaster Is "Petty And Ridiculous"
@SonOfDracula
I'm not saying they shoudn't be credited, I asked an honest question because the logic behind that statement made no sense.
If you search for a job you can safely say that you worked on Metroid Prime, the employer will search online if that the truth, and he will find out that you worked on the original.
That thing about "helping with getting future jobs" make sense only if we were talking about a competely new game.
I understand if someone want to be credited because he did the original work, just use argument that are actually in favor of that, no need to make up further stuff.
Re: Metroid Prime Engineer Calls Out Nintendo, Says Not Crediting OG Devs In Remaster Is "Petty And Ridiculous"
@SonOfDracula
But they're are credited in the original.
This honestly make no sense. Is there people out there who don't get a job because "Yes True you made the original Metroid Prime but you were not credited in the remaster so we can't hire you"?
Re: Super Mario Movie Secures Most Successful Opening Weekend For Any Animated Film, Ever
@Jiggies
Well they made Peach into an immortal God that can take on the entire army without ever be in a real danger.
So I guess they did something on that regards lol.
A bunch of moments were especially ridiculus by how they made her perfect at everything.
Re: Bandai Namco Wants Your Feedback On Tales Of Symphonia Remastered
Will never buy unless they release a fixed version with 60fps and actual better graphics.
This was such a wasted opportunity.
Re: Video: Let's Discuss The Super Mario Bros. Movie
I honestly have no idea what people were expecting.
This movie is fun, engaging, has a lot of carisma, good fights and a lot of funny moments.
It's not a masterpiece by any means, but overall I feel reviewer have been too harsh on it.
Re: Review: Metroid Fusion - An Infectious, Portable Pleasure
I strongly disagree on this one being recommended to newcomer.
Bosses are really Hard and there's multiple part of the game were you are given for granted that you know how a Metroid works.
It's also probably the one with the biggest amount of hidden paths that are VERY hard to find.
Re: Mario Strikers: Battle League Scores New Update, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@NotTelevision I actually agree with you.
But that is more of a reason to be disappointed with this game.
The base gameplay is sooooooo good that is absurd that it's so barebones.
Re: Countdown: 3DS eShop Spotlight - Dillon's Rolling Western
This is THE hidden (and underrated) Gem for the 3DS.
The sequel is even better.
Re: Microsoft's Commitment To Bring Call Of Duty To Nintendo Is Now Legally Binding
People are focusing too much on the "Call of Duty" part.
He's talking about Xbox games as a whole.
Maybe we'll see Conker Live and Reloaded and Banjo Nuts and Bolt, who knows... That would be amazing.
Or even Perfect Dark.
Re: Editorial: Don't Worry, We'll Be Avoiding Zelda: TOTK Spoilers On Nintendo Life
@Giancarlothomaz well that really nice of them.
They got 2 years of content just by theorizing on almost nothing concrete.
I thought they would jump at the occasion, as it would have brought A LOT of views.
EXTREMELY glad to hear that.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden?
I always liked Persona 3 far more than 4.
I found the entire cast of P4 a little too childish for my taste, and disliking the main characters in a game with this much emphasis on dialogue and story means that you don't really enjoy it.
Persona 3 is a bit TOO edgy at times, but overall the darker tone really hooked me.
Re: Ubisoft Share Price Tumbles After Dire Sales Report
@sketchturner They even removed the rank at the end of each Battle and the characters can't damage each other if they are too close.
Also, the game is a bit shorter than the First One and half of the Playtime are sidequest that add nothing to the game (did we really need those "Kill 3 Rabbids" kind of sidequest?), when in the First Mario Rabbids we had a ton of interesting challenges that made you really have to learn the Battle System.
Really the game itself is fine, but it's just so unbearably easy that ends up not fun at all.
And I'm surprised that no reviewer mentioned that.
Re: Konami's Earnings Report Reveals A Substantial Profit Drop In The First Half Of 2022
Well I guess it happens when you stop making games aside a new Yu-Gi-Oh every year.
An HD remaster of Mistical Ninja Goemon 1-2 for the N64 would be awesome.
Re: Nintendo Expands Its Switch Online N64 Library With Two More Games
@Perryg92 probably because it's the North American version, wich was faster than the PAL one.
Re: Pilotwings 64's 'Birdman' Stage Is Significantly More Stressful On Switch
Waiting for Nintendo to patch this by making everything 30FPS again.
Re: Random: Modders Recreate Super Mario Sunshine Stage From Space World 2001
@Eel he pretty much makes 10+ minutes video that could be 3 minute because he add A LOT of narration to what happen on screen.
But he's a good entertainer.
Re: Review: Tunic - Old-School Adventuring With Nods To Zelda, Unforgiving And Ingenious
@Araquanid
Well, people usually don't look at an entire playthrough of a game they want...
Re: Mario Strikers: Battle League Second Free Update Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@rockodoodle more Characters? Tennis Aces has something like 30 characters if I remember correctly.
That roster is really cool and the bigger one for a Mario Spin-off beside Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
Re: Talking Point: What On Earth Is Going On With Square Enix?
@KevinP
Most JRPG player has no social life and need as many time sink as possibile.
Re: Controversial Rhythm Game 'Massage Freaks' May Have Been Canned On Switch
@MetalMan it's what I try to say to people on Twitter, every time they say that those who likes japanese ecchi game are pedophile.
People have completely lost any reason. At least in America. The moment you talk with someone outside of that country you can mostly have a rational discussion.
Re: Controversial Rhythm Game 'Massage Freaks' May Have Been Canned On Switch
@Tobiaku
I'm sure someone with a porn game as a profile Pic would enjoy a game like this, no doubt.
Re: Controversial Rhythm Game 'Massage Freaks' May Have Been Canned On Switch
@GrailUK they made it because people are stupid enough to think that if you play this game, you're gonna go around massaging random girls in the hope they'll get turned on and make them like you.
Luckily, those who enjoy this kind of games are unable to speak to real women so there's nothing to worry about.
Re: Zelda-Inspired Turn-Based RPG 'Gale of Windoria' Coming To Switch Next Month
@johnedwin
I'm sure that pretty much 99% of the people complaining have played none of them.
Re: Bandai Namco Asks Digimon Survive Players To Not Spoil The Story For Others
@ModdedInkling
> ProsafiaGaming on his way to try to make a YouTube thumbnail as spoiler as possible
Re: Review: Live A Live - A Brilliantly Faithful Remake Of A Unique And Influential JRPG
@Moonsorrow999 that's because the vote scale doesn't make any sense for some games imho.
Some are really interesting and out of the norm but not really well refined to be considered great games.
That doesn't mean they're not worth playing.
It's like when you try a food with a very different flavour from what you're used to. It's not gonna be the best food you have eaten, but the unique taste is gonna be interesting to feel anyway.
Re: Review: Live A Live - A Brilliantly Faithful Remake Of A Unique And Influential JRPG
I still think people (and critics)are overrating the game quite a bit.
It's not bad by any means, but it feels more like a bunch of tech demos (or concepts) of many different games than something that can actually stand on his own legs.
It's still interesting and deserving to be played for it's uniqueness tough, but the critics are definitely too generous.
Re: Mario Movie Producer Defends Chris Pratt's Casting (Again), Says Movie Is 75% Complete
Someone should tell him that in Italy literally NOBODY cares about all this "representation" thing from America.
Re: Nintendo Confirms It Will Not Attend Gamescom This Year
@TexanBanjo we still lack the yearly Zelda game.
Re: Poll: Which Dormant Capcom Franchise Would You Like To See Return?
Glad Viewtiful Joe is winning!