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@LavenderShroud they get excited to see their opinion get validated on a big stage and then get online to complain about it afterwards when something else wins

Edit: I just remembered. This is a lot like when Splatoon 3 won best shooter. The response wasn’t “Really? Splatoon? I never really thought to try it, but apparently it’s good enough to win an award. I guess I’ll give it a shot.”
Most of what I saw online was “Really? Splatoon? That lame baby game for kids who aren’t allowed to play COD? The Game Awards are so lame now.”
It doesn’t really sway opinions at the end of the day.

This is fine, but a DLC category would have been grand

This game seems like it is actually technically impressive, but on the surface it’s “the silly kids version of Sony’s graphical showcase for grown-ups that wish they had BOTW.” I’m convinced it was intentional that this version was ported to Switch. “See? Look at that! Switch can only play baby games. Why don’t you go ahead and buy a PS5 Pro so you can play games for grown-ups?”

“I can do this all day!” I don’t think you can afford to, big dog

@Anachronism they really do need it. They have Beginner & Experienced queues, but you get full control over which one you play in and how long you want to stay in it.

I’ve never played the Pokémon TCG so I picked Beginner, but I’ve gotten in quite a few games over this first week. When am I supposed to stop being a beginner? 10 games? 100? 1000? How should I know? I mostly get even matches in Beginner, but sometimes I really kick butt. Should I feel good because I’m getting better or should I feel bad because I just destroyed little Timmy who just tried his first PvP match?

On the other hand, skill based matchmaking may bring me face to face with the reality that I’m really not that good. But the current system of showing how many wins I have and not how many losses makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside.

Side Order pretty please 🥺

@AlexanderDaniels I missed the part where I said I was cool with any of that

Not only do I already have a NSO subscription anyway, but I at least have to do the right thing and put my money where my mouth is. I have ALWAYS said I’d pay up if they simply offered a legal way to experience their music, and here we are.

Let’s get the Wario World pause music added as an alarm ASAP

You gotta choose your battles, man. Censorship that makes us miss out on story content or even whole games in the West is very uncool, but this is…not that. You’re kind of making a fool of yourself when you post publicly about your personal desire to bimbofy all the female characters and undress the minor.

Um, ACKtually Splatoon (1) never got a Switch Port! But after Team Past’s smashing performance, I guess we can look forward to the remaster on the next console haha

“The Biggest Challenges Yet” in Pokémon GO? Am I going to have to tap the screen even faster?

Everyone who disagrees with this statement seems to forget how dramatically underpowered the Gameboy was compared to the other handhelds available at the time. They had SNES era graphics while the Gameboy didn’t even have a backlight.

As far as home consoles before Wii go, NES had no legitimate competition since Atari was already totally washed, SNES was slightly below its contemporaries graphically, and N64 and GameCube both encountered storage space difficulties with third parties because of their choice to not use standard disks (which proved to be a pretty good anti-piracy measure in the GameCube’s case).

Nintendo has never been about the arms race and they don’t intend to be. Third parties can choose to be on the name-brand of videogame consoles, or they can choose not to. The choice is theirs.

I wouldn’t mind if it ends up being iterative like this, but I still wonder if they’re brewing something crazy different (still a hybrid). I’d still be quite happy with the Switchi, 3DSwitch, 3DSwitch XL, New Switch, and so on, though.

If it truly is just bigger and better, that’s fine. It was never meant to be a pocket console like the GBA SP or the DS Lite. The original Switch fits just fine in my backpack and this new one will too.

@Tober I agree with you, but let’s not forget that a game called “The Plucky Squire” is somehow what everyone is talking about, despite its strangely forgettable title.

Just tried Big Run. Didn’t see even one Salmonid!

The Melee folks are gonna want to know if there’s any input lag, even if it’s just a couple of frames

Nintendo, creator of Happy Home Designer: “Oh yeah? Watch this!”

That crane game that leans too heavily in the one player’s favor is payback for Smash and Crab in Super Mario Party.

French Narrator: “Ah, Goo[mba] Lagoon…”

@Bunkerneath to actually answer your question in a helpful way (in case you were genuinely wondering), Story Mode was pretty universally panned as a bad adaptation of the Minecraft IP, but seeing this new trailer has sort of put into perspective for a lot of people that it was not as bad as people originally treated it. I remember a similar thing happening with a lot of backlash to Byleth’s character design in Three Houses only for people to have a change of heart after Alear was revealed in Engage.

Other rumored features include: online play, sd card slot, controllers, etc

The designs look great, so there’s no complaint there, but will we ever get the fierce young butt-kicker Impa again from OoT or SS?

@Lightsiyd Yes! You pick one of the teams to represent for the weekend and the games you play contribute to that team’s final score. The metrics that determine which team wins are:

Popularity/Number of Votes

Conch Shells Turned In (A currency you get for playing matches, so essentially which team had members playing the most amount of time).

Win Rate in Open (Mode where you can invite friends and choose to stick with the players you just played with in the previous match).

Win Rate in Pro (Mode where you can only play solo and cannot keep the same teammates between matches).

Win Rate in Tricolor (Special Splatfest only mode where all three teams are on the map at the same time, since Splatoon is otherwise always a 4v4).

It reminds me a lot of camp games. People participate and get can get very passionate about their teams depending on the Splatfest topic, but it’s ultimately all in good fun and friendly competition, since members of the winning team do get a slightly better in-game prize when it’s over, but the prize simply for participating is still really valuable in-game.

Good to finally have the original on Switch after having to settle for that cheap knockoff called “Fall Guys” for so long.

I saw North America at the top and I thought it was an absolute shoe-in, but then I scrolled down and found out Japan totally blew it out of the water. I feel like that’s gotta at least be in a top 100 box art countdown or something, because that is just gorgeous.

Dragon Quest and Zelda are both at least above average in how they handle their silent protagonists, but Xenoblade X’s player character and Three Houses’ Byleth are NOT how you should do this. It is so jarring having a personality complete with one-liners in battle only for them to stand completely still and say nothing in cutscenes.

@BTB20 today I learned I do not know what damages are lol

This dude’s a total bonehead and should definitely get some serious punishment, but $44 million? Dude’s life is ruined, and maybe he deserves it, but maaaan that’s crazy.

I mean, ARK runs on the Switch in some capacity (I haven’t played ARK), so shouldn’t Palworld theoretically run as well since it’s essentially ARK but worse and with fakémon (I haven’t played Palworld either).

Very Kingdom Hearts of Retro to say “here’s the antagonist you’ve been waiting for; isn’t this super cool, given the character’s history? Wait, what do you mean you’ve never heard of them? Didn’t you play Kingdom Hearts: Stellar Night x Sy: Flux Pillar G?”

(Also, no hate, to be clear. I’ve got played and loved all of Kingdom Hearts and I love Retro Studios with a deep passion.)

@PROPS yes, I was thinking the exact same thing but without a negative comment about game developers!

@Lofoten Super Metroid by the Dread team would go HARD

If we do get WWHD and TPHD tomorrow, wouldn’t that make every home console Zelda playable on the Switch?

@Woodyshoe perhaps a world of direct mechanical sequels to TTYD would be boring, but it really depends how it’s handled. There’s a lot of room for creativity while still remaining true to the battle system. New badges, new partners and enemies with new abilities, new special moves, horizontal equipment upgrades for Mario rather than just vertical ones, new mechanics to accentuate the existing ones (ala Octopath’s SP or Elemental Weaknesses) etc. TTYD has a lot of these kinds of differences when compared to the original (new partners, superguards, significantly more badge and item variety, papercraft abilities, bowser segments, etc.) but it’s still recognizable as overall similar.

I hope TTYD performs well so that Nintendo can see that a lot of people want more games like it, but I also don’t want them to get the wrong idea and think “okay, let’s do everything exactly the same but change the partners and setting.” Innovation is still welcome.

The battle systems in newer games really aren’t all that bad either, but they are undeniably alienating. Sort of like how back in the day, Other M and Federation Force’s departures from the Metroid games we’d come to expect really wouldn’t have struck such a nerve if we hadn’t waited so long for new entries in the series only to get games that share almost no similarities to what we’d come to expect.

@jorel262 I feel like in most instances - rather than using YouTube as long-term storage - they are uploading them a few hours / the day before so that they can premier at the exact time they want rather than having to wait for the upload to finish. I feel like some part of this process was messed up on Nintendo’s end back when they leaked Castlevania in Smash.

“Man, I spent hours of my life slashing…octorocks.”

I know how crazy prices can get with more colors on custom T-shirts, but maaaan it would have been cool to see shirts with the in-game backgrounds on them.

I can’t believe it. They finally fixed Clam Blitz Kraken. This is a glorious day indeed.

For anyone here that is more interested in 4K than I am, could you explain the appeal? Maybe I need my eyes checked, but pretty much anything over 720p looks exactly the same to me.

I know he’s talking about DLC mainly, but it does get me thinking that the echo fighters with no differences really would have been better off as skins. I think Pichu, Doc, Falco, Wolf, Lucas, and Isabelle are perfect examples of what should constitute an echo fighter, even though none of them are designated as such. Ganon’s technically a good example too, even though he deserves a more fitting moveset.

Does having to create a new account through Pretendo mean that my Splatoon 1 progress will be reset? I’m cool with keeping my rank, but I would also be cool with being forced to reset and see how fast I can get back up!

I am extremely nostalgic for NA but it got completely blown out by JP on this one

@Edu23XWiiU perhaps it’s a bit apples to oranges, but I’m primarily referring to his desire to remove narrative almost entirely from Mario games after Galaxy 1 and Super Paper Mario. Maybe it’s not fair to attribute that to him alone, but I’ve heard pretty often that he was an active part of it.

To be honest, Miyamoto’s apprehension for narrative is what concerns me the most. Works well for something like the Mario Movie, which is meant to be more of an experience than a deep dive, but that same philosophy could easily make Zelda feel very watered down.

Content unfortunately wasn’t the problem for me with Battle League. They took a great system from the original and gave it layer upon layer of depth in Charged. Then they took all that away. No unique stages and no differences in characters (at least not effectively with gear switching) really hurts it too

Wouldn’t giving other regions these icons be a decent way to get a feel for the Western demand for Mother 3? Maybe ignorance is bliss for them, though.

If I was over the Game Awards, yes, I’d want this to be in the running for GOTY. I’ve had a blast with it. Still, I think Indie of the Year is the best to realistically hope for.

Seeing all this success for the series is insanely cool. It’s wild to think that none of this probably would have happened if they hadn’t listened and redesigned Sonic in the first place after that initial trailer. This is the kind of success you get when you listen and put out something the fans actually want; not just one movie but a franchise of movies and a spin-off of that franchise. I’m not the Sonic games’s biggest fan or anything, but I still think this is great to see.

Utterly outstanding, just finished a Checkered Deck run. Having this come out the same week as side order has been devastating to my productivity