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@Kalmaro I agree, I hear 'cards', 'credits', 'unlock, and 'shop' and my suspicion is raised. Could be totally benign but those terms are all tainted to me now.

@MajorasLapdog thanks for the tip, I'll do just that. I love RPGs but can't seem to balance progressing the story with levelling my team, then I'll hit a difficulty spike and be woefully unprepared >_<
I loved bravely default for that- being able to 'automate' and speed up the grind battles (although then I ended up way overpowered and steamrollered most of the rest of the game)

@Alundra-1998 nice collection you got there!

@chardir mine’s still live too, as far as info from shopto shows anyway. I know a lot of people who ordered got concerned at the slow speed at which pre order confirmations were sent.
If mine gets cancelled then I wont be chasing around looking for a replacement, £43 was the absolute top of what I felt the package deserves.

@Steelhead I’m at about 30 hours and I think I’m coming up to where I left off on Wii all those years ago. I’m wondering how much time I have left with this awesome game, did you do a lot of side quests etc?

@Crockin disappointing if that is the case, did they mention where they got that info from?

If there is a new game to be announced, wouldn’t pushing the sale of the older game risk annoying the customer base/ eating into sales of this rumoured new entry?

Now I wonder what the average age is of Nintendolife’s user base. I’d always assumed it skewed younger but perhaps not as much as I thought

@noswitchbutidc “nads” as in “North American Dual Screen” or..?

@idtgatt “ They're all unique titles but a majority of them doesn't feel like steampunk themed rhythm based strategy games.”

No thanks, Activision, I can happily live without Call of Duty

@Cosats @sanderev @Oswald either Oswald ninja’d their post or you both need to work on your reading comprehension. Oswald said “at first glance looks like shovelware” and, frankly, anyone who recalls the Wii era would know what they mean.

@rockodoodle I am an idiot at strategy games so feel I am qualified to offer an opinion. Fire Emblem played on casual was a fun time and I was able to finish it. Civ 5 is a good bet too but Ghandi is a bloodthirsty man

@rockodoodle haha! Well obviously I will be a dutiful father and give her some assistance but only on the condition she helps me with Ghosts of Tsushima

Yes, in fact it’s already arrived. I hadn’t planned to get it but something about the ads appealed to my 5 year old daughter and she asked if we could get it.
Edit- not trying to say I think this is a kids game, I just haven’t played Paper Mario since TTYD and planned to finish Xenoblade before buying any new Switch games.

Guess they thought we’ve suffered enough already this year

@Damo as far as I can work out he’s upset that NL has run an article that doesn’t meet his arbitrary bar for newsworthiness and also that NL isn’t a non profit site happy to eat it’s own maintenance costs and be staffed exclusively by volunteers.

This is the Monado’s pow-...oh

I’m not a David Hayter, I’m a David Lovyer

Good... good! Let the savings flow through you!

@AmplifyMJ as I understand it- ray tracing is a technology to simulate the behaviour of light in a more realistic way than has been possible in the past.

@shaneoh I know! i’ve told him a million times that people get triggered by hyperbole!

@dartmonkey wow... be careful what you wish for, huh?

Where. Are. My. Dungarees?

It’s all fun and games until you land up in a Nook Inc. jail for turnip smuggling!

Nintendo’s missing out on selling furnishings based on what’s available in game

Outlook->New Rule->Send All Subject “Ban Appeal” to->Junk

Disclaimer: I have no idea if that’s how that works

@Aurumonado expansion packs have been around for a long old time now and, when done well, can extend the lifespan of a game significantly. DLC, as a term, lumps them in with micro transactions (which I agree can get in the sea) but I see them as a positive.

@kukabuksilaks Corporations ruining individual’s lives doesn’t sit right with me either, but it’s the court’s role to decide what is reasonable compensation and I can’t really blame Epic (as the wronged party) for setting a high upper limit (most likely with the full expectation that even if that is the damages set then it will come down through appeals etc. and even after that it’s unlikely the full award would ever be paid by the respondent).

@mlj11 Fellow PC gamer here, almost entirely digital on that platform too.
I do like that there are, usually, multiple providers and a more competitive market.
On console, where it’s more locked down, I’m often shocked by the prices digital sellers expect for older titles when compared to their physical counterparts.

@Yalaa to be fair- JP xenoblade X’s scantily clad 13 year old should not have been a thing to begin with

@Nin10tony I’m going to go ahead and assume it’s okay to put the link up (since i found it by going to the site at the end of the video NL posted in the article). Apologies if I’m rule breaking, feel free to delete of course
https://gamejolt.com/games/TMNT-Rescue-Palooza/39658

@Wavey84 yes, stop complaining and just pay more money!

@farmer_humpf I was so close to buying this deal but I got suckered in by the glow in the dark steelbook (which will sit on a shelf in my spare room being appreciated by nobody... but I'll know it's there!)

Contact Cleaning Spray!
I cannot recommend this enough in the case of drifting joycons.
My blue stick was drifting up almost constantly until i used some WD40 Contact Cleaner. Since then it’s back to flawless.

Not reading all 128 comments to see of this is already mentioned.

@HobbitGamer yes. Sikthvash did. It was the third comment.

@Mr_Muscle for what it's worth- I was getting a bit irritated by Bernie's 'overreactions' and perpetual anxiety, after this dialogue and the conversation it was from I saw her character in a whole new light.

@MH4 nice work! I think almost any line could be a winner... except the obvious trick bottom one- you thought we'd believe there's a game called Daemon X Machina?

@personauser93 Delfino DLC would be amazing! You've probably just ruined this Direct for me!

Women looking upset whilst their clothes come off. No thanks.

Nintendo is aware that two years ago it released a pretty successful little console called “Switch”, yes?

It’s a shame that didn’t all get integrated into the base game but I expect it will sell well enough given the state of new releases for the 3DS

I had so much good stuff from Club Nintendo over the years, my favourites were my Question Mark block, my Mushroom Cup trophy and my 3DS game case.
I don’t mean to sound ungrateful but My Nintendo just doesn’t compare.

Edit- I have enjoyed Zelda Picross and getting an unexpected £7 off of the BotW DLC after I realised I could register my games was nice though.

@chardir agreed, “Content creator” is so self aggrandising. It makes my skin crawl.

@BulbasaurusRex you make fair points. I just think the combination of incremental updates (branded as new games) together with an an unhealthy obsession with the meta rating is a bad path for gaming overall.
That said the indie scene seems healthier now than it ever did during the times that AAAs seemed to be more willing to innovate so maybe I’m being unfair.

@Preposterous “There's this school of thought, but with this logic, a game could be rerelased every year with minor improvements and additional content, while asking the full price every time and "deserve" a score at least as high as the original entry.”

You’ve distilled EA’s and Activision’s ultimate goal down to a paragraph.

@GreenMonkie that wasn’t Dominik, it was the guy that won. Or at least I think it was- hard to tell with 90s quality video

@Crono1973 I don’t get annoyed by port beggars but on a related note, the Switch owners who actively advocate for the death of the 3DS so that Nintendo can “focus solely on Switch” really peel my onions

@BensonUii if you refuse delivery then it’s a swift refund at least

Octopath Traveller- out of my whole backlog this is the one I wanted to start the most but I’m now 10 hours in and have barely scratched the surface.
I want to get at least one ending before Pokemon releases... could happen