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@BANJO Oh, is it? I was under the assumption nobody really cares for it nowadays, except for a few pricey games like Shadowkey.

@BANJO A fellow Ngage collector? Nice. I also have a full set. Love that little device. Used to be my actual phone for a couple of years. Even took it to E3 2005, playing Pathway to Glory on the bus to the exhibition center.

"anyone who owned an NES or a SNES will have likely had multiple Sunsoft games in their collection"
I had a sizeable collection for both systems as a kid and didn't even own a single Sunsoft game on either. Their SNES output was hardly anything to write home about...

I love 80s & 90s anime style, but the JP cover looks just super cheap, flat and boring. Plus, it doesn’t fit the series at all, as it was always leaning heavily into 80s Hollywood action flick aesthetics.

Chrono Trigger getting overrated once again?

@Ryu_Niiyama Not sure what game you are thinking of, but Braid was never on WiiU.

@X68000 What? That’s quite an exclusive opinion, there.
Usually, Saturn is better for shooters, yeah, but not in case of Donpachi and Dodonpachi.

@Serpenterror
„That's cause the t at the end of Namcot stands for Tengen. Tengen was not just a subsidiary of Atari but Namco as well which is why there's unofficial versions of those games“

None of that is true.

Nearly got a job at Itochu Germany earlier this year.
Nintendo would be even better of course. ^^

„Nintendo has just added four more games to the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive app“

Four?

The saltiness in the comments section is amazing. People really expect e.g. a more-or-less direct port of an admittedly great game from 20 years ago to be nominated for GOTY, but they complain about a meaty DLC being nominated? If that DLC was released separately, then suddenly it would magically be ok?

@Farts_Ahoy „The worst part seems to be the lack of respect for his superiors telling him to stop.“
Nowhere in the article does it say anything like that.

EU easily as it shows how you can alter nouns in fun ways. That’s what the game is about. US cover is ok but generic.

@JohnnyMind When it‘s slated to open in late 2024, you expect them to present it in early 2025? Why would they present it after opening?

I like the drawing style of the JP cover, but not what they did with it. Not a pretty cover by any means. I prefer the Western one as is at least shows the mix of realism and Mario wackiness subtly in its background composition.

@Not_Soos „I think most of us would agree Superstar Saga is a masterpiece“
Back when SS released, I had played RPG and Paper before, and I was utterly disappointed in SS by comparison. To me it was ok-ish, I guess, but nothing more.

@PKDuckman I know I am late, but: There were even four of those collections. Just, 2 of them were only released in Japan. Love them so much I bought them all.

@Aiodensghost You can still download any 3DS game that you bought before.

@Not_Soos
I know I am late, but:
„3D World felt like the worst of both worlds to me, where it didn't fully commit to being either a linear platformer or an open sandbox; it was just an awkward middle ground to me“
That’s exactly why I never liked Mario Galaxy 1. It had plenty of open spaces that were just empty. It often felt so pointless and sloppily designed.
Galaxy 2 fortunately rectified this, by really leaning into being more focused and linear.

Last time I trusted this site with their recommendation of a „very British game“, I ended up buying Horace, and yeah, that was a blunder…

@CupidStunt Hahaha, sounds like you are dressing up perfectly for the occasion.
I will be there on 11/Nov with my wife and son.
Enjoy your day there. It’s surely a magical place, and I can’t wait.

@CupidStunt It‘s finally open and I got the tickets! They still seemed to have tickets for plenty of dates available.

Wow, the green US cover is really ugly. Easy win for Europe.

@CupidStunt Open purchases for Oct and Nov are still not open for me. It still says „preparing“. Is it different for others?

That title would completely lose the double meaning (tear as in crying and tear as in tearing apart). So, TotK is definitely better.

@CupidStunt Never feel sad for what we enjoy. I might follow in your footsteps here as a 40-year old man.

@CupidStunt Oh yeah, I have been to Japan probably more than ten times, both privately and for business, as I work for a Japanese company.
USJ is in our list, and our son is too young for the rollercoasters, so I guess we will be mostly fine, as rides for kids tend to not be as crowded in all of these kinds of parks.
I will consider getting the Exprwss pass for the Nintendo part, though. Thanks for the recommendation.
And I have also been checking the status of the DK ride again and again, alas to no avail yet. They keep the opening date really secret after the delay. ^^

@CupidStunt Thanks. Yeah, that’s what I am hoping for. Let’s see. We are rather flexible within roughly 2 weeks, so hopefully we can still get a ticket there.

@CupidStunt Congratulations!
No, none of my three entries was chosen.

I wonder why so many people like the pixel cover of the US, saying that it helped show what the game really looks like…that’s what the screenshots on the back are for. The front cover is supposed to look nice, and those pixel covers sure don’t achieve that. Just pointless.

@WiiWareWave I know I’m late, but: Ironcore wrote „poblem“, dropping the „r“. Seems like you had missed that punchline.

What is „xPM“ supposed to be?

@betterthanvegas CS:GO never had NFTs. Just plain old digital items that could be sold and traded.

@AndyRogan Look closer. It‘s the four (correct) colors on the cover. Red, orange, blue and purple.

@piecez They have four different colors on the US cover. It‘s not the original „all are red“ design.

@Daniel36 Interesting. I thought the beehive level was the clear highlight of the trailer, and to me it doesn’t even remotely look „silly“. Bees, wasps, hornets can be genuinely terrifying. So walking through an oversized hive sounds like proper horror material to me.

These are lowkey great games. Loved MySims Kingdom and Racing on Wii. The latter has an adventure mode similar to Diddy Kong Racing.
MySims Party was terrible, though…

@rough-machine01 But two of these were on the Mega Drive / Genesis.

@CupidStunt That is so kind of you! Thank you.
But I am going with my wife and kid, so a single ticket wouldn’t help. I could not possible go by myself. XD

@CupidStunt I am also in the drawing for 13/Nov. what a coincidence. XD

@wolvesboy „It might’ve not been a PC game as I had Pandemonium on it as well.“
Pandemonium was a PC game, though. It was officially released on several platforms, among them also PC.

It‘s it’s own platform, as it has games playable only in it.
Problem is it was never a good platform. I had the original GB since 1990, loved it, but then never felt compelled to get the GBC because pretty much all good games were also playable on my Pocket. The GBC severely lacked worthwhile exclusives. I couldn’t care less for Nintendo‘s slight DX updates of the time.
The GBA was magical then. Having an F-Zero on the go at launch? Incredible.

People like this Dredge suit? It looks like a sports jersey. Worst design of the bunch by far.

And there goes all interest I initially had.

@Ryne-Gaia You didn’t say which one you had in your childhood. How are we supposed to know which part of the world you are from? ^^

@rotekps_aniger Now I am curious which games you had a hand in. Is it possible to disclose it?

„Why would anybody want to go back from playing a video game to playing with Lego bricks? From a perspective of nostalgia, I guess I can sort of understand.“

Even though I own the Japanese version, I gotta vote for the Western art.
The drawing style on the Japanese box just looks surprisingly simple and cheap.

If this is what Aonuma has to say, maybe it’s for the best he was cut short at the TGA…

@RadioShadow I‘ve been ardently collecting N64 games from all regions, diving into different versions and obscurities for over 20 years, and I can tell you there was no PAL version of this game.