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I loved Starcraft so much, such a great game back in the day.

@Cashews Definitely an interesting choice indeed, because it's why I will be boycotting this game... well definitely not buying it anyways lol.

It's funny when people complain about people complaining.

I think by far the biggest omission is Sonic and Knuckles, that feels like it should have been essential. Knuckles Chaotix needs to get added to one of these collections as well.

@Freek I don't think we are going to get a COD game built specifically for the Switch from the ground-up lol.

The Wii will always be a uniquely appealing piece of hardware.

Very odd considering how the Switch is by far the sales and marketshare leader.

Eh, I think I will just stick to Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Overly difficult and no decent multiplayer? Yeah, I'm out.

Great article, one of the few I fully read around here and happen to totally agree with. It's about the nicest way of saying "TotK isn't as good," and that's all down to personal preference.

I think sometimes, we have so much pressure to love the latest hot new game, that it takes a bit of courage, or some good explanation, to address how it might not be as great of an experience as some make it out to be. Once again, that's kind of down to personal preferences.

I think I can relate to the writer here as I too just get overwhelmed by these open world games these days that just try to throw as much at you as possible. That, and I just don't have the time to be dedicating to these games that they seem to demand. Like my main interest isn't games like this, it's usually games like GT7, Forza Horizon 5, and Session that get my consistent interest. Games like this tend to be more or less just a distraction for me, something different for me to get into, between racing game and sports game sessions. I mean I just really enjoy video games and checking them out, but with TotK, it feels like something that I have largely already seen before.

@Baler Should call it the Split Pad Lite.

Day -1 patch, cool!

@jump Sounds a lot like Hollywood Boulevard in LA, except there all the gift shops are selling tacky Hollywood tourist stuff.

@Roibeard64 The way I always look at it is that it's hard to claim someone is stealing something when it's not being taken away from anyone and it isn't being sold anymore. Not that I'm saying go out and pirate stuff, but if these companies want to be making an argument that people are stealing video games when they download them, well then they ought to be available for purchase.

It's like I don't doubt for a second that someone is stealing if they pirate a Switch game, because they are still being sold new and anyone can download them legally if they have the money. However, when you have these old games that haven't been sold anywhere forever, where piracy is the only alternative to paying some private seller a small fortune for it on Ebay, there becomes a good argument for preservation and public access.

@TruthisRare Yeah I know, it's kinda funny how Nintendo has this whole war against piracy when they offer no legal alternatives.

So how does this even work? I mean over 72 hours, he must need to eat, drink, and go to the bathroom.

This is definitely for someone who's live revolves around Nintendo to the point where I question how healthy it is.

Knew this would happen if they kept being complacent with outdated hardware.

I remember fans telling me "it doesn't need an upgrade, it's still selling great, sales aren't slowing down" and then they tried to act like I was trolling when I said it desperately needs an upgrade or successor before long.

Well here we are, no upgrade or successor, and sales are hitting a real slump, and only going down further.

Not sure why anyone bothers with this kind of work anywhere that Nintendo has an ability to enforce legality. Like if you're doing this work, do it in a country where Nintendo's lawyers have no real effect.

Eh, I mean I guess they could.

Funny how Nintendo thought some simple 2 frame animated Tiger Electronics pokedex was a threat to the Game Boy

Delaying it forever because politics definitely didn't help.

Since when was the CMA experts on video game development?

Tempted to buy one of these as I don't have an OLED, but then I remember how I have two regular Switches and two Switch Lites. My rev 2 Switch seemed to address the issues I had with the launch Switch, and the OLED is just a better screen on a console that I think is in desperate need for some more power.

Seems pretty obvious to everyone who isn't in denial how the Switch needs a successor.

@IndoorEnthusiast I don't see how that in any way changed the situation. Whatever Microsoft's motivation could have been, they're the reason why COD got announced for the Switch with a 10 year deal. No Microsoft, no deal, no COD for Switch. End of story.

@RainbowStarFlower Sorry but today has objectively proven you wrong on all accounts, and it's blatantly obvious how you are just a Sony fanboy trying to defend their ruthless industry monopolization tactics as they further expand their dominant marketshare advantage over all competition.

Sony personally killed any chance of COD coming to a Nintendo platform today: fact. I have no reason to celebrate a Sony victory that costs me any chance of being able to play a Call of Duty title on a Nintendo platform.

@RainbowStarFlower Sony is by far the closest thing the gaming industry has to a monopoly right now, and today has proved that as a fact. They have by far the biggest marketshare: fact. They have control over regulators and can make them block competitors deals if they start to threaten their industry lead: fact. They are aggressively buying up smaller studios: fact.

Face it, Sony are not the good guys anymore. They're the ruthless business that is out to dominate everything for themselves and force anti-consumer conditions because why should they try or care anymore? When one company can dominate an entire industry, it's the people who lose.

@IndoorEnthusiast Except for the fact that the Microsoft deal was the only reason they ever made any intention to release COD on the Switch. Thanks to Sony's ruthless monopolization tactics, where they will get regulators to shut down any deals that might threaten their industry domination, Nintendo will no longer get a COD, because the proposal that would have made Activision do that no longer exists.

Why would you expect Activision to suddenly start releasing COD with Nintendo without any incentive? Sony wanted to ruin this deal for everyone so they could capitalize on it themselves.

@Edu23XWiiU It's funny how Nintendo fans have been trying to sit this one out, but we've all been dragged into it now thanks to the way COD was going to come to Switch if this deal happened. So basically Sony's ruthlessness and anti-consumer tactics have resulted in them hurting Switch fans in their effort to hurt Xbox.

I guess that's when you know things have become serious, and how Sony has become a tyrannical force in the industry that won't stop with Xbox.

Yay, no COD on Switch thanks to Sony!

Oh wait... THIS SUCKS!

They're missing the essential Sega games.

I'd give it a solid 7 as a big fan of the GBA originals.

While it's fun to play and nails the Advance Wars gameplay, the lack of online matchmaking is a huge blow to this games longevity. I mean they had it delayed for an entire year, seems like they could have easily added some online matchmaking.

Just picked up my copy earlier today. I'm too big of a fan of the originals to pass on this.

That delay was the stupidest thing ever.

This game has been out since November and they are still just trying to fix basic issues. This reminds me of Cyberpunk.

@bonjong23 Yeah, especially given how cartoonish it all is in this series, it's hardly the most graphic depiction of war out there. If you want to get into the "making something that could be gruesome look nicer with it's cartoony art style" argument, you could say the same thing about Super Mario games how he goes around stomping his enemies to death and incinerating them with fireballs. At the end of the day these are just video games and you have to ask what their goal is for them. Can't have them just being about holding hands and singing about rainbows and unicorns.

@antisumo Yeah the support for this game across all platforms has been nothing short of impressive. Heck there is so much that has changed since I originally played the launch version on PS4, it's almost like I'm playing a sequel by now. It's also one of those games like GTAV where it's spanned generations for me by now, where I just play it on Series X, PS5, and Steam Deck, and won't even bother with it on last gen consoles anymore.

This Switch version is basically one of those miracle port games, where I am surprised they actually got it to run and work.

Nintendo desperately needs something exciting happening to their hardware, I think Tears of the Kingdom is going to be one of the Switch's last headliner titles along with Metroid Prime 4.

@Hunter-D Last time I played COD was Black Ops 2 on the Wii U. I think Ghosts was the first "next gen" COD at the time, for Xbox One and PS4 consoles, while Black Ops 2 was just a 360 or PS3 title otherwise. The Wii U version is probably the best way to play it, even though it lacked the DLC. The online community was always smaller but dedicated, some people kept playing that long after everyone probably moved on from the other platforms.

Ah yes, Nintendolife, a center of sophisticated reading for people who have a basic grasp of Latin.

I am still not sold on the voice acting.

@antisumo Yeah honestly, a lot of my favorite movies growing up were hated on by critics, especially comedies, and they became cult classics regardless. I could never take movie critics too seriously, the audience always seems to be far more relatable.

So it's not a masterpiece, and Nintendo fans really overhyped it.

Shocked! I am shocked!

Honestly though, it really felt off to me when I saw the extended previews. The voice acting just felt poorly done or poorly suited to the characters. They made everyone sound far too... American.

@SonOfDracula They also tend to be subjective.

I'm at the point where the Switch needs a real performance improvement to get me to buy another one.

@bonjong23 Well LRG basically exists to rip people off.

Honestly, I could see this releasing for mobile devices.

Funny enough, thanks to the re-released Sega CD FMV games, this is actually believable lol.

@MegaVel91 If Nintendo started doing that I would become a massive fan in an instant. I miss those days, it's what I liked the most about the N64 and Gamecube gens, my personal favorite era of theirs as far as the games went.

I've grown tired of the "more of the same" approach myself. I miss the days when Nintendo had more variety to their first party titles, getting games like F-Zero, 1080, and Waverace.

@J-Manix98 I am willing to bet a Switch 2 or Pro is going to be announced before long. The reason I never bought an Oled is because while it might have a nicer screen, it's still essentially the same hardware I have been using since 2017 that is really showing it's age these days.