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Handicap... "And if a character is too weak, like say...." DON'T YOU SAY PICHU DON'T YOU DARE!!!!! ".....Bowser" OOOOOOOH YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 points for you!

People sure do love those Mario Karts.

See ya! Bye bye....

I haven’t subbed yet because I haven’t really played online much. I was playing Spla2n a lot when it first released and that’s basically been my online presence.

All this will change when smash comes out. Who is that guy dominating with pichu? Yeah that will be me with my annual sub. 😁

I just don’t know if I can do it another generation. The pro controller feels good in my hand, and I have an 8bitdo snes controller that just feels “right”. Why can’t I learn to just fight with those controllers, not keep cherishing the GameCube controller like it is the only option?

Pleeeease let me break the cycle this time around and play with the pro controller, I beg of you smash gods!!!!

I got both my PSP and Vita day one. They held so much potential in my eyes... “oh the PSP is like a ps1.5!” Oh good! Maybe I can relive the glory of the ps1 era again yay! Sadly it just became my ps1 emulator machine....

Vita was going to be my ps2.5! No, was basically the bearer for my final fantasy 1-9/dissidia museum. If only it had proper R2 and L2 buttons I would’ve even used it for remote play. Alas

Oh well. I will still miss Sony’s attempts at the handheld market, but Nintendo will always be king on that front.

Take a stab at a 3D Donkey Kong game. We all know what dk64 did wrong. Just take what it did right and expand upon it.

Meh, make what ever game you want. I will throw money at you regardless.

Don’t you dare die on me!!! I NEED YOU IN MY LIFE!!!!

Get better SOON!

Geez....just get a psp or vita and hack away. There, portability and can add snes etc. oh you want to play on big screen too? Get an nes or snes mini and hack that instead. Why risk your Switch??

“Play NES games!” Meh.
“Play those NES games online with others!” Eh??

Question.....does online with others mean just your own friends, or like random people as well?

You guys should just be thankful that Pichu is back!

Yay Pichu!

@Balta666
Yes I know, but I wanted the analogy to work. Which is why I didn’t use typhoon as well. It was very understandable why they postponed the Direct because of the earthquake. Very sad and devastating.

I will watch the Direct no matter how bad the hurricane gets, even if it’s on my phone through data.

So they’ve rescheduled the Direct due to a hurricane to a day when I will be hit by a hurricane. Fantastic.

Great, Apple must’ve purchased them.

Introducing the new and improved iNtendo

You guys keep on hating this game. I’m looking at it as more of a nostalgic jaunt.

This game poetically does 2 important things for the future of this franchise. It brings in the Pokémon Go crowd to the core franchise, and it gives the veteran player base a reminder of what makes us love Pokémon to begin with.

I have faith that the let’s go games will only make the main game coming out next year even better. Get the handholding out of the way now, and blow us away with gen 8.

I think it would only constitute as an “oops” if these icons (with the games) ended up on a consumer Switch. Mine please

No, I don’t see the pessimism surrounding Smash. I can get people being upset over lack of other games in the Direct, but even still, they will have more focused Directs throughout the year.

What pleases me about this iteration is the culmination of the entire roster that has been building since I begged my dad to buy me the n64 version decades ago. Playing Brawl, I felt a little disappointed that I couldn’t play Pichu or young Link. Playing Wii U, I was stripped of my beloved ice climbers and Pokémon trainer. That lingering disappointment had muddled my enthusiasm for each new installment, UNTIL NOW.

FINALLY, I can have literally ALL my favorites duke it out in one single game. Pure bliss for me.

Oh, and the Smash team made my wife super happy to be able to play as Daisy. Well done.

I crossed my fingers hoping for bomberman to be a playable character, and then they went and ADDED PICHU BACK AS A PLAYABLE and what’s this about bombs....???? I get my lil PICHU back yay ahaha yay!!!!!

BOMBERMAN

Sounds like a stinky game.

Never any love for DKC3. I freakin’ love that game. Yes, Kiddy Kong is not great, but I was never a big fan of Dixie so I got used to him. And man those backgrounds were beautiful. I am always ready to play that game.

If there is a princess involved and her name is Nutella, count me in.

BOMBERMAN

A kid has one heck of a time going into a store and buying cigarettes/alcohol. You need ID proving you are 18/21 plus. If we put that much emphasis on enforcing the ratings of games to make sure kids don’t play violent games, then that would solve this silly finger pointing at the video game industry.

And also, parents should be held accountable if their kids are in possession of mature games. If we are REALLY going to get serious about this mess, treat the ratings like cigarettes and alcohol.

I won’t even care if it’s just an updated port of the Wii U version, as long as one of the updates are to be able to turn off stage hazards. So many beautiful levels that I don’t play because none of my friends and family want nabbit to be an excuse why someone lost.

Or better yet, bring Corneria back.

Just please put bomberman in this time. Or a chocobo. Eh, both.

@Krisi Happy birthday!

If only botw had an umbrella...I swear it rains 80% of the time in that game!

@MikeWill I think the consensus is that since the Kokiri were able to transform into koroks for Wind Waker, it’s not impossible for them to do the same for botw, especially since there is at least 10,000 years difference between it and any other potential game.

In the end though, I highly doubt Nintendo cared about timeline placement. There are just too many nods to all of the timelines. Trying to pinpoint where botw goes within it is truly futile.

@Rubbercookie I get your point about amiibo being like dlc; however, normally if I want dlc I go to the online shop and purchase the dlc. With amiibo I have to (or mainly HAD to when it was all the craze) go scavenge around, competing with other collector-crazed individuals and be disappointed that I could’nt find one, or be tempted to purchase them for way more than they are worth from scalpers. To me, Nintendo took dlc and made it a hassle to obtain. That’s fine and all if they would just give me an option to purchase dlc without them, or put an in-game way to obtain the items (which I know some games do).

My point is that with this whole cardboard thing, I’m not forced to get this stuff and can still enjoy my love for Nintendo. Which to me is an amazing step forward.

This cardboard thing gives me terrible memories of Nintendo’s penchant for wacky ideas that are so far fetched (Dux ftw) and gimmicky that I get worried that this idea could be forced into the games I do care about.

Then I remember that this is just another outlet for them to let consumers have fun with. I’m not forced to participate like with the Wiimote, or be locked out of added fun because of my lack of amiibos. I couldn’t be happier that this isn’t forced on me. Bravo Nintendo! Carry on

Super Mario Bros 3 is by far the best Mario game (TO ME). It’s so complete. It’s one of the only games that I will beat 100%, see the “the end” screen and immediately play again.

Next would be Mario 64, because it pushed the limits of what consoles could do at that time. Oh, and nostalgia fogs my view. Odyssey is much much much better than Mario 64, but AT THE TIME when Mario 64 came out, with the crazy cool 3 pronged controller and seeing that spinning 3D “N”, I honestly can’t see how any Mario game from that point on can compare for me. It’s truly not fair at all. I still get giddy thinking about the first time I turned my N64 on...

Mario Osyssey is a wonderful love letter to the entire series as a whole, but it didn’t have a core focus. I still love it but to me it’s not 10/10. It’s maybe 9.5/10.

Oh. Also, Super Mario World is amazing too, it just always felt incomplete to me. Maybe it just felt too short, perhaps?

Mario Galaxy gamewise is good, but the wiimote ruins the whole thing for me. Can’t get into them sadly.

I would hate to wake up one morning and find out I was being sued by Nintendo. That would be depressing to say the least. T_T

I’ve been playing MM with my wife for the past few days. I start out liking the game, then I get tired of the redundancy, then I hear the Indogo-go’s playing old Zelda tunes and I begin to love it. The atmosphere in this game is top notch!

New or ported Smash Bros (collection of all previous in one???), Super Mario Maker with waaaay more extras, and Skyward Sword hd because my tv makes the Wii version look like a muddy mess. Oh, and reveal more about the Pokémon Switch game! Oh? This is an article about 3rd party? Eh, all that too then.

Do all this and I will be just as impressed.

@Knuckles

Thanks! I will update as soon as I get off work!!!

My all time FAVORITE controller. I use it to play botw mostly so far, but I’ve been playing steam games on my pc and just LOVE IT. I literally carry it back and forth to use it for everything that I possibly can.

My only complaint, which sounds like it might’ve perhaps been fixed, is the vibration. I tried it on spla2n, but swimming in ink made the controller sound like it was going to start losing some screws.

8Bitdo rules!!!

The story could’ve been “deeper” if they just decided to add a shovel. They talk about all this ancient tech that the sheikah had, which they found by digging. We could’ve digged FURTHER and pickaxed our way to lore.

Maybe next time

@AlternateButtons
The “wild assumptions” line I used was meant to be my obviously poor attempt at some humor. I never mean offense when I post. The Zelda team can come out and say that botw is actually set in the mushroom kingdom for all I care. As long as the game is great (which it is), I won’t care in the end. So again, I apologize for coming off as the know-it-all for Zelda timeline placements.

@AlternateButtons
First off, the whole vibe screams nes Zelda to me, which in my very own opinion makes me feel like the downfall timeline is the one the developers intended it to be placed.

I’ve been reading a timeline placement theory page since botw came out, and in the hundreds of pages I have read from people trying to find the correct timeline, the game unfortunately reeks of all three.

Yes, the child timeline’s biggest connection is the Zelda speech referencing twilight. But nobody can explain the Zora tablets and how Ruto was mentioned as a sage even though she wouldn’t have been one in the child timeline.

I’m sorry my original post shot down the child timeline with poorly chosen words. To ME, the downfall timeline makes the most sense.

Definitely the downfall timeline. You have to make pretty wild assumptions to put it in any other timeline.

Yo baby,

Some people think you’re flat, but I will always dig ya. I love how you always pull me closer to you. Now, spin for me.

-Earth Romancer

Don’t make weapons break (or at least have them last longer or let me repair them).

Have themed DUNGEONS, regardless of item lock. Just friggin dungeons, man.

Some sort of hookshot/grapple. I need to feel like batman.

An extra armor slot for gloves. Make gloves that make it easier to climb in the rain.

Nintendo, do all that and you will get my money. Ah, who the heck am I kidding? You’ll get my money regardless...

Finding the picture that took me to yoshi’s house with peach’s castle in the distance was such a nostalgia high I almost shed a tear. And then getting the star with the 64 music sealed the deal.

I friggin love Mario 64...

I’m just now getting around to starting my master quest.

This time around I get to play with the AMAZING 8bitdo SF30. This controller completes me.

Oh, and botw too hehe

They can call the next service “SwitchBoard”. And our avatars can be Itches or Witches. Problem solved.

I always cringed when 3rd party support the likes of COD came to the wii. It was ALWAYS a hot mess compared to the competition.

But THIS...Wow! This is a superb version! And it’s PORTABLE! I’m very proud to own a Switch, so much so that if I were to buy Doom, it would be for it, not for my ps4/pc.

All this hype and I can’t even play it. My wife is making me wait and it’s killing me. Ugh...

I can never easily choose between smb3 and world for 2d. Smb3 usually gets my vote because it feels like a complete game, where in world I get the feeling it wasn’t completely hashed out.

Now with 3d, 64 EASILY gets my vote. When I think of my most cherished gaming nostalgic memories, the feels usually go in the order of pokemon red, Mario 64, then final fantasy vii. These 3 games defined me as a gamer.

Yoshi is invincible anyways. In yoshi's island, if he got "hurt", all that would happen is baby Mario bubbling up. Also, have you seen yoshi's demeanor when he is sinking in lava? It's almost as if he doesn't even notice...

Trust me, yoshi is doing just fine.

Yay for local multiplayer!! Now I just need to find some local friends..... sigh