Jayenkai

We shouldn't need a spreadsheet to plan out how much we may or may not have to pay for a game.

I preferred it when I could just walk into WHSmiths, pick up a cassette, pay for the cassette, then go home and play the game.

**angry man at clouds**

Cool.
Nice to see something other than Unreal/Unity.
There's still life out there, in the world of actual Development.

Spurred on by this app's "Loop" capabilities, I thought to myself "Hey, maybe I should add that to my own music creations!"
I started adding loop-points to tracks. It's about 2 months later and I've done about 3 albums out of 50-odd..
.. So that's going well.

Yeah, it takes time to do this stuff, and ensure it sounds right. Having said that, they should already HAVE the loop point data.

The more Mario games the better, IMHO. But that "Bah-bah" sound? Really? Am I the only one who thought that was a really obnoxious, incredibly repetitive sample?
It's like if a normal jump sound went "Boing!!!" all the time. There's a reason that standard jump sounds became more of a "floooff" than a boing.

Coming soon : Deluxe Paint - A.I. Edition!

My only complaint with this game was the "It's the same in Mario Odyssey, Zelda BOTW and TOTK" issue of .. Circular Boss Fights.
Why must Nintendo insist on Boss Fights being in circular arenas, with the camera constantly swirling around and around and around. My goodness, the nausea that that creates.

All four of those games, I haven't gotten much further than about the 3rd or 4th boss fight because I simply can't stomach it.
BOTW is my most played Switch game with hundreds of hours of game time, but I ain't going anywhere near that castle, because I am NOT in the mood for a vomit-o-matic..

Dear Sonic Team.
Focus on gameplay, please.

I don't think I know nearly enough about the team, here. Is there a "meet the team" page, set of YouTube vids or something?

QTEs are ok .. when you're expecting them and are ready.
They become frustrating when they randomly spring out at you, and you have ZERO time to rapidly read what's onscreen, never mind fumble with the controls.
It's like seeing a QR code on a TV advert. Sure, makes perfect sense to the creator, but I am NOT ready with my phone, nor will I have it switched on and camera ready before your advert's over.

Warn us this is coming up, we'll be ready, we'll enjoy it more.

Baby Mario played Tennis against Bowser years before he even found his first warp-pipe that took him into the Mushroom Kingdom. Let's just not even try here, huh?
Frankly, it's a miracle that the Zelda timeline makes as much sense as it does!!

Nice!
Gameplay!
yeay

Used to play the heck out of Forsaken on the PS1. Me and my sister would play rounds of multiplayer, and .. Gosh it was fun.

How odd and clunky were the N64 controls?
Guess there's only one way to find out!

This is a wonderful looking game, and concept, but ...
... Yeah, that's not gonna be easy to translate, is it!!?
I wish them the best of luck in even trying to convert about 25% of the game in a reasonable way!

Yeah, stupid overused HD-2D.
You know what else is overused? 3D. Stupid overused 3D. Like, nobody bothers making proper art anymore, and just relies on "models" and "rendering" and "polygons".
They should make more 4D games.
Where's my eighth dimension, dagnabbit. **shakes fist**

@gcunit Yep, been there since May 2019, and works great on Switch 2.

My new framework for SmileBASIC seems to be coming along well enough, without breaking, so far! I'm hopeful that I can make use of it to write a myriad of Typically AGameAWeek games within a single download, instead of ending up with 150+ games that all end up having their own download code. .. That's a bit of a trek to expect people to trawl through!!
The first game will just be a standard Snake clone, but that's only because I'm having to build the framework at the same time, and realising just how much more stuff I need to add to the framework before it's ready to go live.

P.S. This is what I'm "Playing" ... I already got bored with MKWorld, and Bananza ended up having too many "spin spin spin spin spin" boss battles that it made me nauseous.

JNKPlat's 2-button-jump mechanic, FTW!!!

... They definitely should've used a joystick in that advert.

What's is wrong with his face...?!

"NO. We don't like making 2D pixel games".
... But you aren't making them, they are. You're making the 3D games.
"NO!!! But we don't like making 2D pixel games!"
etc, etc..

Bring back YDKJ. The frequently updated Facebook edition was the BEST!!!! I would 100% pay a subscription to that.

@Ooccoo_Jr These definitely count.. And so do the rapidly diminishing coins in my bank.

Those little blocks are so cute. Desktop ornaments FTW!!
I shouldn't, though. I have way too much stuff as it is. Had to buy MORE shelves, the other day.
When one large Ikea Malm drawer is choc full of Star Trek Starships that won't fit on your shelves, it's probably time to stop buying knick-knacks.

I SO wish I could get along with this.
Instead, I've started from scratch with SmileBASIC again, am having a ton of fun writing a new framework for future AGameAWeek games, and have already abandoned both MKWorld and DKBananza.. Oops!!

It is very much the Mario Galaxy 2 of Odyssey, though, isn't it?
There's so many "it's the same" instances that I've noticed while playing it, many more than I expected.
And when you see that "goomba test" thing they showed off, it makes it all the more apparently that this probably WAS going to be Odyssey 2.
It really does make you wonder how ready "Switch Pro" actually was, back in 2020.

Hela looked nice.
..... .. ....?

@Markatron84 Where is my dull grey? I demand a dull grey!!

Would be nice if Nintendo did things like this.
.. And themes.
What happened, Nintendo!?

Being able to reclaim lost inventory by revisiting the place you've died has been a stable in videogames for .. AGES!!! (Donkey's years!)
I think I first encountered it in Ultima Online.

Aww, how cute. What a cute little game. That squirty mud is getting everywhere. Awww, cute..
Perhaps there'll be a sequel where you play as the house owner, and have to clean up all the wanko's silly squirty mud with some kleenex.

Wii Sensor Bar v2 with a camera+mic on it, with the option to stick it to the top of your telly, or alternatively, clip it to the dock if the dock's facing you.

And keep the sensor in the bottom of the right joycon so it can work with the Sensor Bar.

We get the camera, but also get the mouse precision without the awkwardness of holding a joycon at a weird angle.

Honestly, it's almost like Nintendo didn't have 5 years since their delayed 2020 SwitchPro to think about this stuff.

Also, if the GameShare's using WiiU's streaming tech (which it seems to be doing) .. Why the heck isn't the Switch streaming to the dock!?

Wow, it's static and useless. Awesome.

Option 1 - That little screen and tech they have in the Mario.
Option 2 - make it big enough to fit around a Switch, with the buttons pushing contact-pads down onto the screen.
Option 3 - Same as, but for phones.
Option 4 - Even a little RPi Zero would've done the job.

Really quite disappointed, here.

Can we have an update that brings back O's Alt-Voice from PPT1 please? The PPT2 one is all kinda of "normal", and I just don't like it.

Pi-Pi-Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!

@Greatluigi To buy all the DLC on the iPhone edition, it's £34.99 as a complete bundle.
Does the Switch edition have any DLC...?

@Kyloctopus https://playfivewords.com/ ?

It's ok, I suppose. Feels like 100 menus to get to 2 seconds of puzzle, though. I prefer things to be the other way around.
Game first, waffle later!

I suffer badly from physical motion sickness (brain surgery, goop in my head, waves, etc) and a lot of things trigger it off.
Mario Kart World, for example, I can play happily on 50cc, but bump me up to 100cc, and nausea-rama!

For the majority of this game, I've surprisingly been ok, but yesterday I had a couple of boss battles which seemed to start spinning the camera around and around in ways that the earlier ones hadn't. Those had to be dealt with a good hour's rest in-between them!!
Incidentally, I still haven't 100%'d Mario Odyssey, for the same reason. Towards the end, the boss battles got more and more spinny.

@MyMemory The concept of "We can't make one game to fit all three movies, so let's make three different games" is kinda the solution that I think would work better for Who. Lots of differently styled games, one for each Doctor (or .. ..There are a lot, maybe 2 Doctors per game style) but their storylines would all come together to create a larger narrative.

@MyMemory Die Hard Trilogy

@MyMemory I haven't yet found a Who game that does the show justice. There's so much variation in the show, over the decades, you'd think they could've found something that could encompass everything in a nice way. Like, each Doctor has a different gameplay mechanic, and you have a ton of variation as you play through each doctor's adventures.
... Or would that be too much!?
Probably.

I have no qualms with the revival series, and watched a good 20 or so episodes before drifting off to something else. I really should go back and watch the rest.
There was nothing wrong with it, IMHO.

Now.. licensed games based on BBC IP... That's a whole other issue.
Are there ANY good examples? .. Hitchhikers, and then.. um...

@Flashlink99 Spoilers!!!

But will it still be Open World?

I decided not to buy Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S, because I'm against Sega having charged so much just for the addition of a stupid Mouse mode, when realistically it should've been an Upgrade, not a whole replacement.
..
...
...... but having bought it, I got a very similar survey about the game, sent by Nintendo, asking my views, which I thought odd since it's a Sega game.
Honestly, I think this is just a standard survey. Wouldn't look too much into it.

Gorgeous!
I don't wear crocs, but my "don't tell the internet how old I am" year old mother does. Maybe I should get her some!!

@StuTwo Oh, it's been more than a decade.
The thing is, we keep seeing these little snippets of possibilities. Like raytracing on iPhone, and when GameCenter happened, and Apple Arcade, and more.
And you watch them, and you're like "Go on.. This time!!"
But they never do.
And it's awfully disappointing, because if they did...

Dear Apple.
You can afford to hire every single one of those laid off, and make a console using an AppleTV coupled with a controller.

Do that.
Replace Microsoft.

Next gen can be Apple vs Steam vs Nintendo.

Possibility : Nintendo has a giant list of all possible, every rom ever, complete lists of all games on their version of the app, for testing purposes, ensuring box art is collated, and other such developmental purposes.

I'm kinda miffed that I seemingly can't play 100cc or above. My motion sickness tends to kick in after about 5 minutes of playing anything above 50cc. It doesn't "feel" that much faster, but apparently my brain-goo has a differing opinion on the matter.

I've been Free-Roaming quite a lot, though. It's nice to adventure and enjoy the world.