@GameOtaku You won't get much argument from me there. Atlus releasing all of the Persona spinoffs inevitably leaves us questioning why the mainline series can't also be there. Also, Joker appearing in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is another weird thing, but remember that Cloud appeared in SSB4's DLC when the mainline FF had not been on Nintendo consoles in like two decades (and Cloud himself had only appeared on Nintendo systems through small cameos on KH:CoM and Theatrhythm).
I can't understand this behavior, but it happens.
...But history dictates that mainline Persona is a PlayStation series. That's the fact at the end of the day. However much stubborn it seems that Atlus would release spin-offs for Nintendo but not the mainline series, the mainline series does have a clear history and it is understandable because of that.
@GameOtaku For whatever reason, SMT is treated completely different by Atlus. The fact of the matter is that the mainline Persona series, which began over 25 years ago, has been almost entirely Sony exclusive, with a couple of them released on PC in addition (the very first one, and then Persona 4 Golden came to Steam a year or two ago). Mainline Persona has a very clear and defined platform history, and coming to a Nintendo system would be a large delineation from that.
Of course, I'd love to see it. But I just don't think that the chances are high. We can continue to hope, but as I said originally, we shouldn't act too surprised or feel slighted. Persona mainline is essentially a PlayStation series.
"Persona 5, a game that — lest we forget — released on PS3 back in 2016, is still not available on a Nintendo system."
Persona 5 has not been released on any non-Sony system, and mainline Persona has always been Sony exclusive save for a couple of PC releases. Please, lets take that context into account before saying that Nintendo has been slighted.
@MysteryCupofJoe Well, I find sprites and blocky environments to be archaic. They are the result of the limited hardware of their time.
People can have their opinions. (I can understand enjoying archaic things, like I prefer the harpsichord over the piano, regardless of the fact that the piano is an technical improvement.) But... a 2D/3.5 game should not be out here on a modern console for $60. Plus, Pokemon had to move on, and I'm glad that it finally has.
I know the graphics are eh (but still wayyyy better than BD/SP) but I'm just so happy to see a Pokemon game in true 3D. No more remnants of blocky 2D design left. Realistic 3D environments. That makes it great.
@Darknilious I have a feeling that the decision to make BOTW a duel release was not one of "we've done this before" but instead because the Wii U was so unsuccessful and the Switch had to be brought out quickly, and BOTW was right there.
Remember that while Twilight Princess did release on the both the GCN and the Wii, both systems also had their own Zelda independent of TP (GCN had Wind Waker, the Wii had Skyward Sword).
Seeing as the Switch is successful like the Wii, there's not much reason to believe they have to rush out a new system and correspond BOTW2 with it. In addition, BOTW2 is clearly reusing a lot of BOTW, making it a prime candidate for a quicker release than your average Zelda game.
The mounted Wyrdeer is shown traversing a mountainy area. That is neat. I notice that in so many open world (or similarly designed landscapes) games, mounts can not traverse such areas and thus are pretty useless for a lot of exploring.
Weird that Pokemon of all things would understand that problem and work to improve upon it.
Legends: Arceus is a heck of a lot more than can be said for pretty much any January in the Switch's history, so we're definitely off a strong start here.
@NielsNL None of that matters much to me if it's a fun game. I find it bizarre that's what people look at and not the content, but to each their own, I guess.
Whenever some greedy method of making absurd amounts of money at great cost to the consumers is introduced, you can bet it's going to eventually spread to all of the big gaming corporations in time.
Be forewarned: Nintendo is rarely an exception, ultimately.
Nothing wrong with dress-up games, it's just when I want that, I gravitate toward The Sims games where there is a large wealth of variety, and tons of that you can get for free from CC creators.
@Ludovsky Yeah, I'm aware of the issue. I play FFXIV. There for a while, the servers got very overloaded after the release of the newest Expansion Pack, Endwalker.
It's only been the last several days that I've seen a substantial decrease in the queues. Even then I still get queues upward of 900 in the evenings. It's better than the 4,000+ I was seeing a couple of weeks ago, though!
@dew12333 And I mean, NSO subscribers are supposedly paying for this. I hear all of the time about how NSO needs to cost money for servers, but yet, the "servers" suck.
@octokid ACNH not getting enough content? It got an incredibly large update last month and great paid DLC. Sure, I wish they were continuing to release more, but you can't say that they didn't put a great effort to make this HUGE update.
Would be fantastic if we got Pokemon Legends: Arceus, the new Kirby, and BOTW2 all in one year. It would be the Switch's best year by a wide margin in my eyes if that actually happens.
@tkdboy1889 There are some things I think are beyond people's opinions. Like I don't think the visuals are up to par, and I know you could just say "that's your opinion", but I don't feel like it entirely is, because you can compare this to other games on the Switch that retailed for the same price, including Pokemon titles. The standards are higher than what BD/SP gave us.
Someone could like that style for some reason, but can you really tell me face to face that BD/SP really match up to the standards of other games of the same retail price, system and company? Every time I see footage of this game (the battles themselves look okay, I will say that) the environments and models scream "cheap". They are not crisp, they do not match the standards of other Switch games. They do not even match the standards of LGP/E. To be blunt, they don't even come close to LGP/E.
And then we have something like the Exp Share All feature. There are people who don't care that it's forced, but I think it's silly to give their opinions too much, because Exp Share can be completely optional, and always was before Sword/Shield. The fact of the matter is that Exp Share being optional would benefit more people, whereas the people that don't care about it or want it always on are shutting down the other peoples' playstyle for no reason.
At the end of the day, the company could have produced a better game and all of the same people would have still bought it, but people like me who are more critical, also would have been able to. That's the problem with cheaply made games like this... Things could be better, and more people could be happy. And it's not even rocket science in a case like this. Some games do little bad things and get a lot of flack from some people, but you can't look at them as a whole and feel like they are just cheaply made games that don't deserve their price (BOTW is a great examplee of this, some people bring it down for the weapon durability system, but the game itself was held to much better standards than BD/SP). But BD/SP were clearly just made with pure profit in mind, and that's a bad thing for all of us.
@Arawn93 The individual that I responded to didn't say anything about the people who bought it, they said that because it's sold so well it can no longer be considered a 7/10 game. That is straight-up "sales = quality", and that's why I responded.
Again, with reviewers being people, they can end up being biased to overlook the objective flaws of the game that are just bad design. This happens a lot, especially in communities that are biased toward one company/franchise (like this one is Nintendo). Reviewers are always people. I'm not even saying that the 7/10 rating is accurate, but it is better than what many other people gave it.
Notice, what I said in the last parts there was that the games can not change. You just said that they can change because of other peoples' opinions. That makes no sense. The games will always be the games they are, peoples' opinions can not change a game, because that's not how reality works at all. lol. (Yes, sometimes patches can come out and fix flaws, but overhauls like that are rare, and BD/SP are poor quality beyond repair. And even with that said, that is still not opinions changing a game, it's developers changing the game. Games can not be changed by opinions. That's reality.)
@Arawn93 Where on earth did I say that? I said that quality =/= number of sells/popularity.
What I am saying is that this game's 2 million purchasers wouldn't all argue with this rating, not all of them like it. Now you literally did say that the 2 million purchasers do disagree with the rating, which is a generalization.
I put BD/SP and LGP/E both in the very same category: Cheaply made, rushed 2.5D games that are not worth even half of their asking price. LGP/E suffers from gameplay issues that BD/SP doesn't (forcing motion control for catching and not having the traditional catching mechanics, for one) BUT LGP/E also had a lot of care put into the visuals compared to BD/SP, which look like they were made far more cheaply than LGP/E (which says a lot).
Either way, both games are poor experiences altogether and are not worth my money.
Inconsistent reviews? LGP/E were released back in 2018, BD/SP in 2021. Do you think that all reviewers on NL are all the exact same person of the exact same mind at all times in the past and current?
I do think that the quality is set in stone, because there is no amount of people that can purchase this game that can change that. There is no amount of people saying that these games are amazing that can change that. At the end of the day, they are the same overpriced cheaply made remakes with ridiculous flaws for no reason (like Exp Share not being optional - seriously, there is absolutely no reason for that) and nothing can change that. Because the games themselves can't and won't change and they're all that matter.
@Arawn93 That doesn't change a single thing about what I said.
Besides, it's quite a generalization to say that about all of the purchasers. A lot of them were probably parents who just bought the game for the children because it said Pokemon and knew absolutely nothing else about it. Others might have purchased it not even expecting to think it was amazing, just that it's something to do.
Also, lets break down what 7/10 even means. It could go two ways: If it's like the US school grading system, that means average, which is really kind to this game. If it's more standard, where 5/10 is average, then 7/10 is an even higher score, meaning well above average, but also saying "this game has some issues and could have been better" (which is even more charitable to a game that doesn't deserve that).
Either way 7/10 is not at all something to complain about. As I said, I don't think the game even deserves that. I don't care to think these things, but I'm really beginning to think that some people just don't like any criticism toward their favorite franchises at all. 7/10 isn't harsh any way I look at it.
@IronMan30 Eh, I like to think there is some objective quality here. It doesn't really have to do with people's opinions. But even if you think otherwise, my point is that sales and quality are independent of each other.
Haven't played any full new Switch games this year. I look forward to trying SMTV. The game that is number one on my list is The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles collection which I have never played either game. Those are my big Switch games to try from 2021 when I have money again.
I don't really know how to take this. For me personally, the first party output that I've been interested in has been very low this year. In fact, in the end, the surprise Animal Crossing DLC was the largest by far.
Objectively, it was a little better than I'd rate it personally, largely because of Metroid Dread. It's a title that I have absolutely no interest in, but I'm happy for Metroid fans. But first party-wise aside from Metroid and Animal Crossing DLC, this wasn't the strongest year for Nintendo. The Pokemon remakes are a major disappointment that I will not be purchasing. Aside from that... what is there? Wii U port in the beginning of the year, a mediocre Mario Golf, and Mario Party Superstars, which looks fun, but is overpriced for what it offers. WarioWare as well, that's okay. (Edit: I always forget about New Pokemon Snap. There's a reason. It was too much the same as the 1999 game and I mean, the 1999 game was already too simplistic. NPS might fun if it was like a $15 eShop game, but $60? please)
I think I'd give it somewhere around average (so maybe 4/10, 5/10, or 6/10). It's hard to know how to rate this year. Animal Crossing DLC and Metroid Dread were objectively fantastic, but aside from that there just isn't much. Is it fair to rate a year above average with only two standout releases? And the majority of the year was dry, and in terms of first party offerings, I only really played maybe two-three months out of the year (third party releases evened it out a bit better, but we're not talking about them here). And with that, it's pretty standard for the Switch, a lot of Switch's years have been like this.
To not end on such a low note, I will say that next year is shaping up to be very strong. Perhaps the Switch's finest. I hope it holds up.
@Captain-Cluck Pretty sure the show has been "woke" (note: a buzzword that says more about the person using it than it does anything in of itself) for a very long time. The reason the show hasn't been doing too well in recent seasons has been writing.
It's a darn shame because Jodie is great at acting the Doctor. She deserved better written seasons.
Most played game was Animal Crossing New Horizons with 102 hours. This is in great part due to the major November update and DLC, which skyrocketed my playtime.
#2 was Fenyx Rising and #3 was Pokemon Shield (because I got the DLC early on in the year). No surprises there.
My playtime on the Switch overall saw a huge decrease from last year. Last year I had 532 hours, this year 198 hours. May, June, August, and September I had 0 playtime. For some reason there was 1 hour in July, I don't remember what that was all about.
@JustMonika Yeah, I dearly hope not and don't think it's very likely to exclude the Switch if it is real, but we all must keep in mind that mainline Persona has never made the jump to a Nintendo system, so this would be a first.
I would love to play it. I adored the game on the N64, and I was really looking forward to the idea of Paper Mario N64 portable. But this was not how I envisioned getting it. I don't want a horribly overpriced subscription just to play one game. Just let me purchase it individually.
I haven't played any new games on the Switch this year... Of the releases I want to try SMTV and eventually get Mario Party Superstars when it's on a good sale. Other than that, there wasn't much of anything for me this year, IIRC.
If we want to count the Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise DLC, I guess that's the automatic winner so far.
"Ever wondered what happened after Persona 4 Golden?" Well, I'd like to know what happened in Persona 4 Golden to begin with, if you'd let me play it on the Switch, please.
A number of them I haven't even played, so I don't feel like I can give a good answer. My least favorite 3D Zelda is Skyward Sword, and even then I think it has some neat things about it. 2D is where I haven't played most of them. I've pretty much only played ALTTP, the Oracle series and Four Swords Adventures (that was the one on the GCN right?).
The only really good memories I have with the Wii was Mario Kart Wii. That was a very fun game to play with friends and online. I really liked the addition of bikes.
Otherwise, I didn't have a lot of great memories with the Wii. The vast majority of the games disappointed me versus the GCN and the forced motion control was simply not fun. The Wii will always go down in my mind as "innovation just to be innovation". That's a problem Nintendo regularly has. Games need to be fun, Nintendo. That's what matters. That's all that matters.
Just no more Gen I Pokemon please, they have had their time to shine, many, many times, and there's already two (at least?) featured with new forms in the game already.
I'm all for more love for Chatot. It's a fun design.
This is neat. I remember the original GCN had a Black Friday holiday where Redd came and Tom Nook's store sold packages with gimmicky handheld items like balloons and pinwheels.
While this may not be that, it's neat to have a Black Friday holiday again.
@Dragonite89 Did my reply confuse you? I was telling him that he was being rude and he had no right to tell you to shut up. It was your responses to him later, insulting him that prompted me to open that reply by saying that you have been rude, too.
@Anti-Matter Dragonite is being rude and I don't condone that, but I do want to point out that everyone has the right to express their opinion here, and you just need to find a way to quit letting it bother you. You can't be telling people to shut up because they're posting opinions that disagree with you, that is very rude. You have no such right to silence people here.
@Devlind Legends: Arceus looks great and I look forward to it. It is one way to look at it, that they outsourced D/P remakes to make something new themselves. But I don't want the quality of the mainline remake series to be sacrificed on the alter to make it happen. Out source it to someone who isn't going to make a DS-level 2.5D game, please.
@Mauzuri Also, lack of Platinum features (which I never played to begin with) has absolutely nothing to do with my dislike of BD/SP. Please stop lumping everyone who disagrees with you together like we're all a hivemind.
@Mauzuri looks at prices for Platinum No, I pretty much can't. Never got the game and I'd be spending more for it than BD/SP cost (which is outrageous in of itself) to get it.
BTW, making fun of someone for taking Nintendo games seriously on a Nintendo site is silly. I have my opinion, and I am allowed to express it.
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Re: Feature: 14 Nintendo Switch Ports We'd Still Love To See
@GameOtaku You won't get much argument from me there. Atlus releasing all of the Persona spinoffs inevitably leaves us questioning why the mainline series can't also be there. Also, Joker appearing in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is another weird thing, but remember that Cloud appeared in SSB4's DLC when the mainline FF had not been on Nintendo consoles in like two decades (and Cloud himself had only appeared on Nintendo systems through small cameos on KH:CoM and Theatrhythm).
I can't understand this behavior, but it happens.
...But history dictates that mainline Persona is a PlayStation series. That's the fact at the end of the day. However much stubborn it seems that Atlus would release spin-offs for Nintendo but not the mainline series, the mainline series does have a clear history and it is understandable because of that.
Re: Feature: 14 Nintendo Switch Ports We'd Still Love To See
@GameOtaku For whatever reason, SMT is treated completely different by Atlus. The fact of the matter is that the mainline Persona series, which began over 25 years ago, has been almost entirely Sony exclusive, with a couple of them released on PC in addition (the very first one, and then Persona 4 Golden came to Steam a year or two ago). Mainline Persona has a very clear and defined platform history, and coming to a Nintendo system would be a large delineation from that.
Of course, I'd love to see it. But I just don't think that the chances are high. We can continue to hope, but as I said originally, we shouldn't act too surprised or feel slighted. Persona mainline is essentially a PlayStation series.
Re: Feature: 14 Nintendo Switch Ports We'd Still Love To See
"Persona 5, a game that — lest we forget — released on PS3 back in 2016, is still not available on a Nintendo system."
Persona 5 has not been released on any non-Sony system, and mainline Persona has always been Sony exclusive save for a couple of PC releases. Please, lets take that context into account before saying that Nintendo has been slighted.
Re: Kirby And The Forgotten Land Scores March Release Date, New Trailer Appears
@Ninchiku But Kirby needed this. Kirby needed this so bad. The series had been stagnant for a very long time.
Re: Gallery: Nintendo Shares More Screenshots Of Pokémon Legends: Arceus For Switch
@MysteryCupofJoe Well, I find sprites and blocky environments to be archaic. They are the result of the limited hardware of their time.
People can have their opinions. (I can understand enjoying archaic things, like I prefer the harpsichord over the piano, regardless of the fact that the piano is an technical improvement.) But... a 2D/3.5 game should not be out here on a modern console for $60. Plus, Pokemon had to move on, and I'm glad that it finally has.
Re: Gallery: Nintendo Shares More Screenshots Of Pokémon Legends: Arceus For Switch
I know the graphics are eh (but still wayyyy better than BD/SP) but I'm just so happy to see a Pokemon game in true 3D. No more remnants of blocky 2D design left. Realistic 3D environments. That makes it great.
Re: Poll: So, Do You Think Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 Will Actually Release In 2022?
@Darknilious I have a feeling that the decision to make BOTW a duel release was not one of "we've done this before" but instead because the Wii U was so unsuccessful and the Switch had to be brought out quickly, and BOTW was right there.
Remember that while Twilight Princess did release on the both the GCN and the Wii, both systems also had their own Zelda independent of TP (GCN had Wind Waker, the Wii had Skyward Sword).
Seeing as the Switch is successful like the Wii, there's not much reason to believe they have to rush out a new system and correspond BOTW2 with it. In addition, BOTW2 is clearly reusing a lot of BOTW, making it a prime candidate for a quicker release than your average Zelda game.
Re: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Gets A New Six-Minute Overview Trailer
The mounted Wyrdeer is shown traversing a mountainy area. That is neat. I notice that in so many open world (or similarly designed landscapes) games, mounts can not traverse such areas and thus are pretty useless for a lot of exploring.
Weird that Pokemon of all things would understand that problem and work to improve upon it.
Re: Poll: It's The Year Of Splatoon 3 - Are You Excited?
I'm not interested. I have never been interested in this franchise. The ugly character designs threw me off from the instant the first game came out.
Re: Video: 7 Exciting New Games Coming To Nintendo Switch In January 2022
Legends: Arceus is a heck of a lot more than can be said for pretty much any January in the Switch's history, so we're definitely off a strong start here.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Lining Up A Huge Year Of Gaming In 2022
@NielsNL None of that matters much to me if it's a fun game. I find it bizarre that's what people look at and not the content, but to each their own, I guess.
Re: New Pokémon Snap Took 'Many Years Of Trial And Error', Core Concept Could Have Been Changed
A concept took this long that was ultimately just the same thing as the original?
Re: Square Enix President Knows You Hate NFTs Because You "Play To Have Fun"
Whenever some greedy method of making absurd amounts of money at great cost to the consumers is introduced, you can bet it's going to eventually spread to all of the big gaming corporations in time.
Be forewarned: Nintendo is rarely an exception, ultimately.
Re: Feature: Game Of The Year 2021 - Nintendo Life Staff Awards
All I know is that BD/SP not appearing on this list was the right choice.
Re: Rare Founder's New Project Isn't What You Might Expect
Nothing wrong with dress-up games, it's just when I want that, I gravitate toward The Sims games where there is a large wealth of variety, and tons of that you can get for free from CC creators.
Re: Nintendo Advises New Switch Owners To Complete Setup Before Christmas
@Ludovsky Yeah, I'm aware of the issue. I play FFXIV. There for a while, the servers got very overloaded after the release of the newest Expansion Pack, Endwalker.
It's only been the last several days that I've seen a substantial decrease in the queues. Even then I still get queues upward of 900 in the evenings. It's better than the 4,000+ I was seeing a couple of weeks ago, though!
Re: Nintendo Advises New Switch Owners To Complete Setup Before Christmas
@dew12333 And I mean, NSO subscribers are supposedly paying for this. I hear all of the time about how NSO needs to cost money for servers, but yet, the "servers" suck.
Re: Nintendo Minute's Kit And Krysta Say Goodbye In Their "Final Episode"
@octokid ACNH not getting enough content? It got an incredibly large update last month and great paid DLC. Sure, I wish they were continuing to release more, but you can't say that they didn't put a great effort to make this HUGE update.
Re: Don't Worry, Zelda: BOTW 2 Is Reportedly Still Aiming To Launch Next Year
Would be fantastic if we got Pokemon Legends: Arceus, the new Kirby, and BOTW2 all in one year. It would be the Switch's best year by a wide margin in my eyes if that actually happens.
crosses fingers
Re: 'Kanto Reboot' Brings 36 New Pokémon Shirt Designs To Original Stitch's Lineup
Gen 1 merchandise. Wow, how very original.
Re: Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch And Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Continue To Dominate
@tkdboy1889 There are some things I think are beyond people's opinions. Like I don't think the visuals are up to par, and I know you could just say "that's your opinion", but I don't feel like it entirely is, because you can compare this to other games on the Switch that retailed for the same price, including Pokemon titles. The standards are higher than what BD/SP gave us.
Someone could like that style for some reason, but can you really tell me face to face that BD/SP really match up to the standards of other games of the same retail price, system and company? Every time I see footage of this game (the battles themselves look okay, I will say that) the environments and models scream "cheap". They are not crisp, they do not match the standards of other Switch games. They do not even match the standards of LGP/E. To be blunt, they don't even come close to LGP/E.
And then we have something like the Exp Share All feature. There are people who don't care that it's forced, but I think it's silly to give their opinions too much, because Exp Share can be completely optional, and always was before Sword/Shield. The fact of the matter is that Exp Share being optional would benefit more people, whereas the people that don't care about it or want it always on are shutting down the other peoples' playstyle for no reason.
At the end of the day, the company could have produced a better game and all of the same people would have still bought it, but people like me who are more critical, also would have been able to. That's the problem with cheaply made games like this... Things could be better, and more people could be happy. And it's not even rocket science in a case like this. Some games do little bad things and get a lot of flack from some people, but you can't look at them as a whole and feel like they are just cheaply made games that don't deserve their price (BOTW is a great examplee of this, some people bring it down for the weapon durability system, but the game itself was held to much better standards than BD/SP). But BD/SP were clearly just made with pure profit in mind, and that's a bad thing for all of us.
Re: Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch And Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Continue To Dominate
@Arawn93 The individual that I responded to didn't say anything about the people who bought it, they said that because it's sold so well it can no longer be considered a 7/10 game. That is straight-up "sales = quality", and that's why I responded.
Again, with reviewers being people, they can end up being biased to overlook the objective flaws of the game that are just bad design. This happens a lot, especially in communities that are biased toward one company/franchise (like this one is Nintendo). Reviewers are always people. I'm not even saying that the 7/10 rating is accurate, but it is better than what many other people gave it.
Notice, what I said in the last parts there was that the games can not change. You just said that they can change because of other peoples' opinions. That makes no sense. The games will always be the games they are, peoples' opinions can not change a game, because that's not how reality works at all. lol. (Yes, sometimes patches can come out and fix flaws, but overhauls like that are rare, and BD/SP are poor quality beyond repair. And even with that said, that is still not opinions changing a game, it's developers changing the game. Games can not be changed by opinions. That's reality.)
Re: Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch And Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Continue To Dominate
@Arawn93 Where on earth did I say that? I said that quality =/= number of sells/popularity.
What I am saying is that this game's 2 million purchasers wouldn't all argue with this rating, not all of them like it. Now you literally did say that the 2 million purchasers do disagree with the rating, which is a generalization.
I put BD/SP and LGP/E both in the very same category: Cheaply made, rushed 2.5D games that are not worth even half of their asking price. LGP/E suffers from gameplay issues that BD/SP doesn't (forcing motion control for catching and not having the traditional catching mechanics, for one) BUT LGP/E also had a lot of care put into the visuals compared to BD/SP, which look like they were made far more cheaply than LGP/E (which says a lot).
Either way, both games are poor experiences altogether and are not worth my money.
Inconsistent reviews? LGP/E were released back in 2018, BD/SP in 2021. Do you think that all reviewers on NL are all the exact same person of the exact same mind at all times in the past and current?
I do think that the quality is set in stone, because there is no amount of people that can purchase this game that can change that. There is no amount of people saying that these games are amazing that can change that. At the end of the day, they are the same overpriced cheaply made remakes with ridiculous flaws for no reason (like Exp Share not being optional - seriously, there is absolutely no reason for that) and nothing can change that. Because the games themselves can't and won't change and they're all that matter.
Re: Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch And Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Continue To Dominate
@Arawn93 That doesn't change a single thing about what I said.
Besides, it's quite a generalization to say that about all of the purchasers. A lot of them were probably parents who just bought the game for the children because it said Pokemon and knew absolutely nothing else about it. Others might have purchased it not even expecting to think it was amazing, just that it's something to do.
Also, lets break down what 7/10 even means. It could go two ways: If it's like the US school grading system, that means average, which is really kind to this game. If it's more standard, where 5/10 is average, then 7/10 is an even higher score, meaning well above average, but also saying "this game has some issues and could have been better" (which is even more charitable to a game that doesn't deserve that).
Either way 7/10 is not at all something to complain about. As I said, I don't think the game even deserves that. I don't care to think these things, but I'm really beginning to think that some people just don't like any criticism toward their favorite franchises at all. 7/10 isn't harsh any way I look at it.
Re: Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch And Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Continue To Dominate
@IronMan30 Eh, I like to think there is some objective quality here. It doesn't really have to do with people's opinions. But even if you think otherwise, my point is that sales and quality are independent of each other.
Re: Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch And Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Continue To Dominate
@1ofUs Just because a game sells well doesn't mean that it isn't still a 7/10. The quality of the game is set in stone no matter how popular it is.
Re: Reminder: What's The Best Switch Game Of 2021? It's Time To Rate Your Favourites
Haven't played any full new Switch games this year. I look forward to trying SMTV. The game that is number one on my list is The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles collection which I have never played either game. Those are my big Switch games to try from 2021 when I have money again.
Re: Poll: So, How Would You Rate Nintendo's 2021?
I don't really know how to take this. For me personally, the first party output that I've been interested in has been very low this year. In fact, in the end, the surprise Animal Crossing DLC was the largest by far.
Objectively, it was a little better than I'd rate it personally, largely because of Metroid Dread. It's a title that I have absolutely no interest in, but I'm happy for Metroid fans. But first party-wise aside from Metroid and Animal Crossing DLC, this wasn't the strongest year for Nintendo. The Pokemon remakes are a major disappointment that I will not be purchasing. Aside from that... what is there? Wii U port in the beginning of the year, a mediocre Mario Golf, and Mario Party Superstars, which looks fun, but is overpriced for what it offers. WarioWare as well, that's okay. (Edit: I always forget about New Pokemon Snap. There's a reason. It was too much the same as the 1999 game and I mean, the 1999 game was already too simplistic. NPS might fun if it was like a $15 eShop game, but $60? please)
I think I'd give it somewhere around average (so maybe 4/10, 5/10, or 6/10). It's hard to know how to rate this year. Animal Crossing DLC and Metroid Dread were objectively fantastic, but aside from that there just isn't much. Is it fair to rate a year above average with only two standout releases? And the majority of the year was dry, and in terms of first party offerings, I only really played maybe two-three months out of the year (third party releases evened it out a bit better, but we're not talking about them here). And with that, it's pretty standard for the Switch, a lot of Switch's years have been like this.
To not end on such a low note, I will say that next year is shaping up to be very strong. Perhaps the Switch's finest. I hope it holds up.
Re: Review: Doctor Who: The Edge Of Reality - A Fair Adventure With Serious Performance Issues
@Captain-Cluck Pretty sure the show has been "woke" (note: a buzzword that says more about the person using it than it does anything in of itself) for a very long time. The reason the show hasn't been doing too well in recent seasons has been writing.
It's a darn shame because Jodie is great at acting the Doctor. She deserved better written seasons.
Re: You Can Get Your Official 'Year In Review' Switch Stats Now
Most played game was Animal Crossing New Horizons with 102 hours. This is in great part due to the major November update and DLC, which skyrocketed my playtime.
#2 was Fenyx Rising and #3 was Pokemon Shield (because I got the DLC early on in the year). No surprises there.
My playtime on the Switch overall saw a huge decrease from last year. Last year I had 532 hours, this year 198 hours. May, June, August, and September I had 0 playtime. For some reason there was 1 hour in July, I don't remember what that was all about.
Re: Rumour: Persona 3 Portable Is Supposedly Getting A "Multiplatform" Remaster
@JustMonika Yeah, I dearly hope not and don't think it's very likely to exclude the Switch if it is real, but we all must keep in mind that mainline Persona has never made the jump to a Nintendo system, so this would be a first.
Re: Rumour: Persona 3 Portable Is Supposedly Getting A "Multiplatform" Remaster
Watch it be multiplatform but the Switch is excluded.
Re: Poll: Paper Mario Is Out Now On Nintendo Switch Online, Will You Be Playing It?
I would love to play it. I adored the game on the N64, and I was really looking forward to the idea of Paper Mario N64 portable. But this was not how I envisioned getting it. I don't want a horribly overpriced subscription just to play one game. Just let me purchase it individually.
Re: Poll: What's The Best Switch Game Of 2021? It's Time To Rate Your Favourites
I haven't played any new games on the Switch this year... Of the releases I want to try SMTV and eventually get Mario Party Superstars when it's on a good sale. Other than that, there wasn't much of anything for me this year, IIRC.
If we want to count the Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise DLC, I guess that's the automatic winner so far.
Re: New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Footage Gives Us A Closer Look At Wild Pokémon Encounters
Had to mute the volume because the voice was grating, but the game looks neat!
Re: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Brings The Fight To Nintendo Switch On March 17th
"Ever wondered what happened after Persona 4 Golden?" Well, I'd like to know what happened in Persona 4 Golden to begin with, if you'd let me play it on the Switch, please.
Re: Random: This Super Mario Bros. Game Hack Adds Chris Pratt's Voice
"That's super disappointing"
Now you know how we all feel, Chris Pratt.
Re: Feature: How One Small Company Is Making The Switch Joy-Con You Always Dreamed Of
The pink joycons and pro controller are so cute and I would love to have them, but I don't have the money for that and don't think I ever will.
Re: Fantasy Life Online Comes Out In English On iOS And Android Today
That cover looks so much like Animal Crossing Wild World's that I even thought it was until I looked closer. lol
Re: Poll: What's The Worst Legend Of Zelda Game?
A number of them I haven't even played, so I don't feel like I can give a good answer. My least favorite 3D Zelda is Skyward Sword, and even then I think it has some neat things about it. 2D is where I haven't played most of them. I've pretty much only played ALTTP, the Oracle series and Four Swords Adventures (that was the one on the GCN right?).
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Expansion Pack Tier With Paper Mario 64, Out Next Week
One of the few N64 games I actually want to play on the Switch. But the service is a complete and total rip-off. Let me buy it via VC, Nintendo.
Re: PSA: Did You Know You Can Lift Weights In Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
I take it that everything villagers could do and hold we now have access to.
Re: Gamers Vote Nintendo DS As The Console They'd Most Like To See Make A Modern Comeback
You say it's the least likely to have its games come on Virtual Console-like services, yet it literally came on the Wii U's VC.
Re: Video: The Wii Turns 15 This Year, And Here Are Our Memories
The only really good memories I have with the Wii was Mario Kart Wii. That was a very fun game to play with friends and online. I really liked the addition of bikes.
Otherwise, I didn't have a lot of great memories with the Wii. The vast majority of the games disappointed me versus the GCN and the forced motion control was simply not fun. The Wii will always go down in my mind as "innovation just to be innovation". That's a problem Nintendo regularly has. Games need to be fun, Nintendo. That's what matters. That's all that matters.
Re: Feature: 10 Pokémon That Deserve A Hisuian Evolution In Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Just no more Gen I Pokemon please, they have had their time to shine, many, many times, and there's already two (at least?) featured with new forms in the game already.
I'm all for more love for Chatot. It's a fun design.
Re: Forget Black Friday, Animal Crossing: New Horizons' 'Nook Friday' Sale Has Begun
This is neat. I remember the original GCN had a Black Friday holiday where Redd came and Tom Nook's store sold packages with gimmicky handheld items like balloons and pinwheels.
While this may not be that, it's neat to have a Black Friday holiday again.
Re: Japanese Charts: Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Go Top In Tremendous Opening Weekend
@Dragonite89 Did my reply confuse you? I was telling him that he was being rude and he had no right to tell you to shut up. It was your responses to him later, insulting him that prompted me to open that reply by saying that you have been rude, too.
Re: Japanese Charts: Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Go Top In Tremendous Opening Weekend
@Anti-Matter Dragonite is being rude and I don't condone that, but I do want to point out that everyone has the right to express their opinion here, and you just need to find a way to quit letting it bother you. You can't be telling people to shut up because they're posting opinions that disagree with you, that is very rude. You have no such right to silence people here.
@Devlind Legends: Arceus looks great and I look forward to it. It is one way to look at it, that they outsourced D/P remakes to make something new themselves. But I don't want the quality of the mainline remake series to be sacrificed on the alter to make it happen. Out source it to someone who isn't going to make a DS-level 2.5D game, please.
Re: Japanese Charts: Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Go Top In Tremendous Opening Weekend
@Mauzuri Also, lack of Platinum features (which I never played to begin with) has absolutely nothing to do with my dislike of BD/SP. Please stop lumping everyone who disagrees with you together like we're all a hivemind.
Re: Japanese Charts: Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Go Top In Tremendous Opening Weekend
@Mauzuri looks at prices for Platinum No, I pretty much can't. Never got the game and I'd be spending more for it than BD/SP cost (which is outrageous in of itself) to get it.
BTW, making fun of someone for taking Nintendo games seriously on a Nintendo site is silly. I have my opinion, and I am allowed to express it.