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@Dr_Corndog “ It's sad how no one cares about crabs anymore.”

You sound like my actual doctor.

@KeeperBvK Ouch! I wonder if the early euro changeover affected the price there? I spent a lot of time in Vienna over those years and when the euro came in, things became very expensive overnight.

Edit: Actually, if you consider the euro was averaging 1.5 to the pound in 2004, it’s not all that different.

Thanks to my backlog, it turns out that all of my game of the year contenders are at least a year too old to be contenders!

Anyway, Super Mario Bros. 3 gets my vote. Have you played that yet? Classic.

@Markatron84 Making a noise on social media makes the biggest difference of all.

If this is true, then well done to everyone who voiced their dissatisfaction with key cards at every opportunity!

…and booooo to anyone who wrote that they were fed up of hearing about it.

Will never understand how people stick up for this; it’s embarrassing for Nintendo. Treat me mean and keep em keen?

It’s a game that was heavily advertised on the build up to the Switch 2 launch, even though they knew the emulation was awful.

@RoboCube You’re right and I hope they do. I really dislike how modern games are hyped up for ages, then release in an unfinished form. I don’t buy many new games for that reason.

Given the number of delays, I wonder if they had to take it out of the oven before it was fully baked. Judging by the reviews, it seems like a good game that might have been great.

I’ll definitely be giving it a go when it gets an inevitable and sizeable price drop.

It’s not a game, it’s an expensive e-manual.

@datamonkey “ If they already know “precisely” what fans want, why haven’t they given what fans want?”

Obviously you’re not one of the 132 true fans.

The Switch 1 version honestly looks better imho.

@Jumwa “ Zero Mission is way better than Fusion. Will die on that hill.”

Agreed. Whilst the exploration is on a par, the difficulty is all over the place. Yakuza spider boss is arguably the hardest (and most unfair) in the Metroid series. I guess if it had been released in modern times, it would have received a patch or two.

MP4 worse than Hunters? OOF!

@Spider-Kev I think the main point is to give it a cinematic run, plus I also have the Japanese release and it doesn’t have the full anime, though it’s more complete than the western release.

@Spider-Kev It’s the films back to back, with the whole anime included and in colour. Basically the film that he intended to release, but wasn’t able due to censors and producers. There’s no way he would re-edit Sally Menke’s work.

Porch 550? Isn’t that where people keep their coats and shoes?

@Hawkes142 I hope I like it and it’s not going to stop me from playing. She’s already got a spaceship that would be great to fly around in and failing that, I’m not against a jet pack or something. I would say that nobody likes change, but clearly from the comments here, that’s not true if the change is a cool manga motorbike.

I do wish they’d make her smoke like Duke Nukem or Solid Snake. Maybe a pipe. Now that would make her look cool.

@SpaceboyScreams Make me a power suit and I will.

@B3RTAY Kris Akabusi drives a Suzuki… also looks kind of creepy when his suit explodes to reveal his bra and thong.

I just can’t get over how someone with a suit that lets them run at 80mph, roll up into a ball and fly through the air like sonic on special sauce would need a motorbike? Why?!

@ElRoberico “ Early gaming is full of companies suing other companies over patent and copyright infringement.”

Yeah and that was standard business nonsense. Modern Nintendo will sue you for opening a grocery shop called Supermario when Miyamoto was still 14 years of age.

How do you fill a hole the size left by this man and Iwata? I don’t know the answer, but for sure it definitely isn’t sue everything.

“ the love and care that went into each Pokémon game I was part of”

Very carefully selected words there, Reggie.

@Charlirnie You’re confusing Leisure Suit with Power Suit.

This looks so much more fun to play than Mario Kart World imho.

“ the key gimmick that the action plays out on more of a 3D plane than strictly 2D.”

Respectfully, I’m not sure I understand. Haven’t most beat em ups since the mid 80s used the Z axis?

I definitely think the number of online subscriptions could be much higher. I cancelled mine, not because of the price, but because the online experience was pretty bad.

Then they made it a two tier package (three tiers if you consider that Switch 2 has exclusive content) so it’s also pretty confusing as to what you get for your money. “Online Expansion Pack” is meaningless.

Just charge me one price and make the online connection solid and I’d subscribe without a second thought.

What is this? At least I could pretend that Link never rode a motorbike by not purchasing the DLC.

It looked like Suda51 had popped into the office for 25 minutes and they asked him to make a contribution to the game. I’m not looking forward to the lawn mowing side quests.

This comment section is a hive of gaslighting. If you don’t use the games in the same way as those affected, then that’s great. Enjoy your gaming.

But what if your main is Scorpion and you only wanted to play UMK3? That’s a pretty big deal breaker if the game reboots with every fatality! They’re not “so called issues”, because they exist and will dampen the experience for a few. Online was clearly a mess at launch, which all of the reviews alluded to.

Personally I would like to see games released without dozens of bugs, just as they generally used to. It’s not at all fair to use your paying customers as free game testers.

@Pillowpants “ My biggest issue with the app is the lack of credit for the songwriters/composers, or a way to listen to their work. It would be awesome to have a Koji Kondo list, or something.”

Mine too. Even if the dubious issue of it being normal Japanese culture is true, it would still be a joy to be able to dive into someone’s career without having to do all the googling for yourself.

Well, it’s a rare event that I find myself sticking up for Nintendo’s comments these days, but I’ve been a professional sound engineer for nearly 30 years and my log has something to say about this. It’s not simply a case of uploading your folder of tracks to a server and adding a link to the app.

If you want to do it properly and without AI, it is the kind of tediously slow work that makes you grind your teeth and question what you’re doing with your life. Plus how big is the team doing that work? Two people strong maybe? And is it a priority for Nintendo to get their entire music catalogue uploaded as a free side-perk for subscribers by the end of the week?

Depending on which format the games display in, you might be able to use the virtuaboy accessory to view 3D content from YouTube, which is pretty cool if you’re into that sort of thing…

@DanElectrode “ A little like claiming Yoshi's Island was not a mainline Mario game because Mario is not playable in it.”

Nintendo themselves don’t consider it to be a Mario game at all, let alone a mainline Mario game. Here’s Nintendo’s list of all Mario games (released in Japan.)

https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/mario/en/history/index.html

@roy130390 Yeah, I do think it will fade out gradually, or just be used more practically over time , much like the DS stylus. I don’t think many switch 2 games will be using the mouse function as imaginatively as Drag X Drive in 7 years time.

Nintendo traditionally push a new feature with each console generation and then stop supporting it pretty sharpish, because developers aren’t interested. You just know that mouse mode is going to be that feature this time around.

@cvrator I saw a video on Reddit before I posted. It claimed that it was waking switch 2 (although I don’t think I saw the console) and there was a beta available from the website? Haven’t verified anything myself though.

Edit, here it is…. https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch2/comments/1nw9jmu/8_bit_do_pro_3_and_ultimate_2_now_have_shake_to/

@tektite_captain

The ultimate 2 does, but has a weird thing where you have to shake the controller to wake the console. Their previous controllers couldn’t wake the switch, so I’m guessing the shake thing is implemented as a workaround.

@Truegamer79 “ Remember when extra content was unlocked for free in game? Pepperidge farm Remembers”

One of the many reasons I love Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. The unlockable content in those games was immense and worthwhile. The reward of unlocking new levels etc. gave you the incentive to keep playing.

Now we just get a patronisingly useless slap on the back in the form of “achievements”.

Looks like all they hacked was a web server? If so, it’s likely that nothing important was on there. Most importantly, not our private data such as payment details, passwords etc.

Some of those screens remind me of the infamous Wii vapourware title “Sadness”. Looks great, trailer aside.

That’s particularly crazy, given the Galaxy games were seemingly coded by actual wizards. Galaxy 2 for instance is only a drop over 1GB in size on Wii! When I consider that there were music files and fmv’s included in that, my mind is officially blown.

I rarely buy brand new games at full retail price. TOTK would be the last time I did that and only because it was heavily discounted to preorder.

Now that prices have risen to the realm of silly (or completely reasonable if you consider inflation, as some people have told me) I’m given the opportunity to focus on my backlog, which I’m really enjoying.

The statement doth protest too much, methinks…

It’s nice to get a completely random statement (because they definitely didn’t try to privately lobby someone in government) that they would take action against IP infringement, as most of us probably thought they were too passive about that sort of thing.

The monsters without arms look like they’re really desperate to use the loo.

@Friendly “ which ‘content and features’ are hidden behind an amiibo?”

Yeah, the ones you mention were what I had specifically in mind. I especially dislike that the fast travel feature was amiibo locked in skyward sword. It kind of takes some joy out of the game for me.

There is at least one Nintendo console game I can think of that had micro ransactions. Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball. That one even had a mechanic where you had to haggle the prices of the micro transactions, so some players paid more than others! Nintendo Pocket Football Club also hid some features behind a pay wall, You got more training sessions if you coughed up extra cash and those training sessions really do make the game less of a grind, although that was just published by Nintendo.

And yes I agree that Nintendo have a ways to go to stoop to the level of EA!

@Friendly “ how many micro transactions and gamble lootboxes does Nintendo have in their games?”

Animal crossing: pocket camp, fire emblem heroes, Mario Kart tour all have gacha … Their console games hide content and features behind Amiibo purchases, which isn’t strictly micro transaction, but amounts to the same thing.

On top of that, it’s getting much more common for them to hold back ready made content for DLC. Bananza, which is already a pretty short experience, asks for another $20 to unlock the full game.

I can definitely understand why some people see their current strategies as anti consumer and cynical.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant

Greatest pun ever; I salute you.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant “ just focus on breathing through your nose slowly”

Tried this and realised that if you practice, you can change the whistle noises your nose makes by fluctuating your breathing speed. I’m currently learning the guitar solo to master of puppets.

I do enjoy how the comments section becomes a philosophical debate whenever price is factored into a review. How do you measure a unit of fun and what’s more, how much rupees should a fun cost? Hmmm strokes chin.

@PinderSchloss “ Just Nintendo gatekeeping good performance for their own games”

Yep, once they release some…