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@Max_the_German There is no excuse when Sony and Microsoft were fast with updates for the first year, especially when XCX:DE released this year. The selling point of the Switch 2 should be new games, not trickled out updates for old games.

To think, they could have just remade the whole region instead since it was linear to begin with. I would have preferred that over an “open area” city.

@Smithicus This is not an accurate take. Zelda, for example, was not a case of fans making up connections and pressuring Nintendo, but rather Nintendo doing it themselves. Whether in manuals, interviews, but in most cases the games themselves, they built out a sequence of events. Zelda II states that it is after Zelda. ALttP states that it is before either of those. OoT was explicitly said to be a prequel to the “imprisoning war” mentioned constantly in ALttP. Wind Waker, Majora’s Mask, and Twilight Princess all make heavy reference to the events of Ocarina of Time having shaped the world in each respective game. Skyward Sword is very clear as an origin story for the struggles in the series.

Yes, there are the obvious oddball titles that are standalone and seemingly forced retroactively into being part of “the story,” but there is also a legitimate sequence for console titles until BotW, which itself has been said time and time again to purposefully be vague in order to act as a soft reboot.

This all feels very WiiU/3DS (early adopters). Nintendo got a big head after the Wii+DS/Switch, and so they go full throttle with weird, tone-deaf, and anti-consumer practices all without looking at what the current demands gamers have in their own sphere as well as the broader sphere. The third party support is pretty lackluster. Hardly any big hitters from other consoles, no real exclusives outside of From Soft (which wasn’t featured), and no upgrade packs announced for any major third party games where you would expect it.

I don’t see this working out in Nintendo’s favor.

@Cikajovazmaj Interesting perspective. As time has moved on I find myself preferring older games to modern ones. Everything seems like low-effort slop now with poor writing and subpar gameplay. Prices are over-inflated, yet visuals, gameplay, and replayability have fallen off of a cliff. That is all without talking about agenda controversies and propaganda taking pride of place instead of making games that are appealing and fun first and foremost. Statistics show that going back to older games is the general direction Gen Z has been moving towards because of recent trends.

I’ve been having a lot of fun with Bananza. While I have major criticisms over Nintendo’s current anti-consumer trajectory, their games tend to still be diamonds amongst coal.

The game is honestly too easy. Needs more friction.

@Dhaladog Microsoft and Sony have motivated it by releasing their first party releases on PC.

The fanboys are overjoyed about this, but anyone with a lick of sense or an understanding of scholastic moral philosophy would know that the preservation of these things is to be desired, and the distribution of them as a common good to the public when no longer sold or available is a must.

Whatever existed of Nintendo’s consumer friendly side went away with Iwata. Now it’s a corporation that makes good games but is vicious and vindictive in all other matters.

8 Deluxe was awful. The zero gravity didn’t add to the gameplay, the items sucked, and the courses were mid. Double Dash is still the best imo. It actually adds something to the standard gameplay, has a great variety of items, the shortcuts are good and proper, and the courses and music are top-notch. World comes behind Double Dash for me because it at the very least has better items than 8 and doesn’t use the tedious “make a kart” system.

I thought this would be an informative video on the specs and how they compare to the competition. What a waste of an article.

You guys would get more traction if you used X.

@TrogdorTheBurninator It is industry standard to make the remastered version of a game on a new system a complete experience with all DLC. Go to any other console competitor and you will see that the price of their big hitters falls down each year. Nintendo keeps the price the same. Their competitors improve textures, resolution, and features of the games from the previous console and release it as a complete package at the price of a standard game on the new system. Nintendo keeps the old game at the same price while making the new release incomplete at a higher price. Both games will not fall below $10 off on the eshop for the rest of the lifespan of both consoles.

This is indefensible.

@sanderev Every other company is capable of selling their upgrades next Gen versions with all the dlc.

Why defend incompetency from a company that does not even give industry standard sales and price cuts but instead nickels and dimes as much as they can?

It’s the same cycle with them. They got high off of Wii fumes, they crash out with the 3DS price and everything the Wii U, they get high off of Switch fumes, and then make the similar mistakes. With the 3DS it was just the console price, which they sobered up and cut. With the Switch the real issue is not the console price, but that they want to find a way to monetize everything and anything. This would all be forgivable if they did sales that rivaled their competitors, but they don’t even do that!

@OtterXPT Lol, Nintendo’s “sales” during the Switch era on their major titles were always $5-$10 off the asking price and no more. With how bold they are with their Switch 2 hubris, I don’t see sales ever being like their old eshop sales for the Wii U or 3DS. They are definitely going to double or triple down on the “premium product gets slight price chip.”

@Orpheus79V $60 for an eight year old game. Every other console puts their big IPs on sale for $35-$19 after about a year. Steam sales often have games that are five years old at $19-$15. Nintendo used to put their big IP games on sale through the selects line near the final years of their consoles.

This is nothing but pure, unjustifiable greed. It is the same greed that almost tanked the 3DS, and the greed that DID tank the Wii U.

@Arawn93 It’s Miyazaki though, let him cook.

@Greatluigi Nah, the glitches in Skyrim are so hilarious and good that the main reason to play the game is the jank. Scarlet and Violet are just bad.

@Spider-Kev It’s crazy how this topic is about these two games, but if you discuss them and say you don’t think one is good for legitimate reasons, your comment gets zapped. It is well within reason to dislike Assassins Creed for going out of their way NOT to make Japanese culture the focus of the game, and to point out the clear reason why they did what they did. I’m Japanese, of course I’m going to care about this stuff.

Xenoblade is great, Assassins Creed has issues.

Can a moderator get in touch with me?

@LadyCharlie Uh… they make you pay extra for access to half of the VC library. It is definitely at least half of the selling point.

@LikelySatan Username checks out with that opinion, big L

I feel like the battling is a step back from Legends Arceus. At the very least I don’t like how zoomed out the camera is.

@Cathalm That was proven false. The guy claiming it even admitted that he faked all the images and was just doing it because he was a Pokemon fan boy.

This is the best way to go for both Nintendo and consumers. When you make consoles that are wacky for the sake of it you ruin backwards compatibility and virtual console compatibility. People who purchased virtual console games attached to their Nintendo Accounts with the Wii U couldn’t carry them over to the Switch.

Consoles need to look at Steam as the model for their online purchases. Each console should be able to do what the previous one did. Names that aren’t [Console] (number) should be avoided. Otherwise you get the confusion associated with the 3DS/2DA/New, Wii/Wii U and whatever the heck Microsoft has been doing with its awful console names.

Just up the power, keep the Nintendo Switch name and just change the number at the end, and make good games that show off the improvements well. That is all you have to do.

Who cares about that, the real issue is that Sony would have From Software, meaning any future Dark Souls/Elden Ring/Sekiro games could all be exclusives from now on. We already saw how bad that with what happened to Bloodborne (they still refuse to remaster/port it, even though Miyazaki is up for it).

@VoidofLight There is even less of a case then. The game is an Ark styled survival game. You can catch the monsters, but you can do the same thing in many games. I also do not think that anyone should be able to have a patent and claim sole ownership over “guy throws ball at animal and it becomes his animal.” Look, the company is shady, but I don’t like the precedent this would set.

It was already disproven that anything was ripped from Pokemon games. The people claiming it fabricated the evidence and then admitted to it.

All of the designs look distinct enough that they should not count as infringements. People here getting mad because the designs are “rip-offs” are being silly. The point of the game is to be a semi-silly, semi-serious parody of Pokémon.

Furthermore, copying ideas should not be seen as wrong in the first place. Classical composers would copy and build on each other’s arrangements all the time. There is also no such thing as originality, as every creative process in the mind and every idea is built in a previously learned idea. The whole point of technological progress is that you take something someone else made and you alter it. Same thing with competition and variety in business.

@Pillowpants It is definitely a Nintendo decision. LEGO knows that minifigures are one of the best selling points and easily recognizable aspects of the brand. People will buy a set just for a single figure. They’ll even make a normal minifig and a bigfig counterpart so that people who hate bigfigs can still get the character in the standard format.

Nintendo has the whole weird: “how can we sell this product in an unconventional way” thing going on, and they’re also super protective and controlling of their IP, especially when they license it out. I can only assume that LEGO approached Nintendo saying they wanted to make Mario sets, and Nintendo said “okay, but it can’t be like normal LEGO, we’re quirky(tm) and Mario is a game series, so make it a game.”

Nintendo is like the girl in middle school who would always say “I’m not like other girls!” and act weird because she made quirky her sole personality trait.

Nintendo sucks now that Iwata is gone.

@AstroTheGamosian Certain software is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

The 3DS was a good console. When life gives you lemons, you make Lemonade. It was a nice run Wii U, maybe one day I’ll Cemu again.

@martynstuff The frame rate sucks. No one needs to listen to DF to form such an obvious conclusion themselves.

@Sisilly_G Dark Souls is as gameplay focused as it gets, yet it crafts an amazing world full of intrigue and wonder. Heck, Elden Ring came out before TotK and after BotW.

There is no excuse for making a game series focused on adventure all while refusing to get some consistent writers and lore down. I can tell you FromSoft has less employees yet better world building. This isn’t Mario, and they seem intent on moving away from linear design with a puzzle focus. These are, for all intents and purposes, open world games with a focus on exploration. They need to give the player mysteries about the world to solve. You can’t tell a story by placing random mysteries WITHOUT an in-game answer. At that point it’s just meaningless fluff ready to be forgotten with the next installment or even in the next area.

@nimnio Calumny and detraction are serious things. We ought to give others the judgement of charity rather than assuming what is in their heart.

@TheAnimeditor Oh no doubt, which is why I still have my Switch. That said, I feel a lot safer having digital titles on my Steam account than on anything from the big three. All of their software becomes incompatible after a generation or two. With Steam, I can still play War for Cybertron on any PC I get no matter how many new operating systems come out, even after the game got delisted. That is how digital purchases should be. Otherwise it’s just a ripoff.

I wish Nintendo would at least put some games on Steam. Sony and Microsoft do it.

@MrModerate major companies with legal teams you don’t mess with that Unity messed with:

Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, Disney, Google, Apple…

@Cashews You have to understand that Paper Mario fans have been done dirty since the Wii. This remake is the closest they will get to a true Paper Mario Mario game. Besides, most modern games across the board are lacking in charm. That’s why remakes are better in my book. Very rarely do you have devs making new games with heart and soul. Now, Nintendo is the exception half of the time, but even then they do scummy things in regards to their legacy titles. Playing any of their older masterpieces is a hard thing to do, so I welcome remakes, especially since they always push out new stuff anyway.

I could only understand criticizing Nintendo remakes if a new console was not in the horizon, and they were not taking risks with their huge IPs.

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I think those things are best left for a different game. The game is built from the ground up for the mechanics it has, both of those things would only be able to be done in a mediocre way if put in as DLC. They require a game that has them in mind from the start if your want them to be actually satisfying.

I just want Master Mode. I want the game to force me to use all its resources while still being a big challenge. Master Mode did that in BotW.

Seems to me like they are getting a bit big-headed after their BotW success, as with that game they openly admitted being influenced by other games. Now suddenly they never take any inspiration whatsoever?

People tend to forget that men and women are different on a biological level. Even recent studies with primates has shown males and females to have very different tastes, all without coaxing or being taught. The craziest thing is that even among the primates used during the experiment, the males were attracted to traditionally boy oriented objects, while the females were attracted to female oriented objects.

The conclusion was that we were wrong about preference among Men and Women being nurture-only, and that a there is a biological aspect driving the differences between men and women. Even more interesting are studies showing clear differences in the brains of men and women and how they operate.

This is why I believe not in total equality, at least not to the point where we push everyone to do the same thing and act shocked when one sex doesn’t want to do it. We are equal in dignity, but complimentary in functionality.

@MrGawain Seems like a good thing to me. Microsoft can take on all the repulsive aspects of the gaming industry, and we can get some actually good games from everyone else.

@dew12333 I had to do some research in order to find out that you are calling him a freeloader. That… is a bad take. It is yours to have, but it is still bad. Voice work matters a lot, and often times the voice makes the character. The Joker, for example, has never sounded quite right ever since Mark Hamill stopped voicing him. Some voices become just as iconic as the character, whether it be Optimus Prime, Megatron, Shaggy, The Joker, Batman, Mario, and whoever else.

Now, sometimes you will get a voice actor that takes the work of a previous one and lives up to it or improves on it. Troy Baker did an alright Joker, various voice actors have done an alright shaggy, and Gary Chalk/David Kay did great a great Optimus and Megatron. Steve Blum’s Starscream Is one of the cases where a voice goes toe to toe and even exceeds some past voice actors for the role.

For as long as Martinet can do it well, he should be the voice of Mario. It would not be the same without him. Full stop.

@dew12333 Well, you called the guy a name, so of course we’re going to wonder what you’re referring to with it.

@dew12333 What are you talking about?

@Laserbeak1982 Definitely not too early. The game desperately needs a harder difficulty to make searching for everything worth it. Admittedly, Soulsborne has ruined final bosses in every other game from me, but I want Ganondorf to make me see the game over screen several times even with the best equipment.

BotW’s Master Mode had some real problems (enemy sponges, health regen that happened way too fast), but it really made the game’s resources necessary in full in order to beat Calamity Ganon.

The current difficulty is fine for the casual audience, but I want something that challenges me even with every heart, fully upgraded armor, and the best weapons.

Game Freak, how many times do we have to tell you that the frame rate is the biggest issue for you to fix? Get. On. It.