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Maybe next time they go back to February Directs and being more engaged with the fan base in general instead of being the soulless post-Iwata corpos they have become.

The system price is not the problem. It is the software price and the lack of sales that rival their competitors. No one wants to pay $80 for a game that is good but not new and innovative enough to be GotY. Heck, no one wants to pay $70 for that.

If no one wants to buy games because they cost too much and offer too little, no one will invest in the system that has those games. Even I am having buyers remorse to some degree. I love DK Bananza, but that is the only game that screams “buy this system!” And even then the DLC was overpriced and a ripoff. Nintendo is making money grubbing mistakes that they did not even try with the Wii U and 3DS after being high on the Wii and DS.

Quite a few possible outcomes which I find agreeable and good.

What are you even on about? The Pokédex has been “reset” ever since Dexit.

@TerribleTerabytes Companies do not care about complaints. They care about money. You want your voice heard? You have to hinder the flow of cash.

@kmtrain83 It is too barebones.

I hate post-Iwata Nintendo. Greedy and soulless.

I picked the three most likely yet groan-inducing options: mobile app additions for the usual three suspects. Best not to get your hopes up above the usual disappointments. Keep everything at the usual baseline.

@purple_shyguy Eh. Rise is too arcadey. As much as I hate the loss of gathering whetstones and tracking down the monster with paintballs, World at least had the tracking to some degree and both World and Wilds do a better job with ecology and actual hunting. World is better than Wilds, but Wilds is better than Rise in terms of actually having you hunt living organisms with behaviors and environmental places.

I still like Rise, but as a Veteran hunter I prefer World. It seems like a fulfillment of a lot of the basic concepts that fueled the older titles. I just miss the mandatory pre-hunt prep. All current titles lack that though. I don’t like that it started the gimmick obsession with Iceborne. Clutch claw wasn’t bad, but a lot of the combat issues in every title after can be chalked up to shoving in gimmicks that hinder specific weapons or influence Monster moves in a way that makes them a chore to hunt. They are always half baked.

I love a lot of the new monsters in Rise, and I am not automatically against the wire bugs, but the insane hit boxes in the air or behind the monsters combined with things like Zinogre rarely having openings can be eyeroll inducing. Those things exist though because of the increased player mobility due to the gimmick though. It just doesn’t click as well as classic combat does. A lot of heavy weapons suffer. For a while Charge Blade was just a pizza cutter until the Sunbreak rebalance.

I’d honestly prefer a port of World or a remaster of Tri/4. Still playing through Rise Sunbreak, but I prefer my Monster Hunter games to be slower, more deliberate, and ecology focused. I want to hunt, not zip in and out against cocaine fueled monsters.

@Protion9 If buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing.

@Dom_31 Bruh, this is one of the best monster collecting JRPGs to come out in a long time. The artstyle is beautiful, the story is great, the gameplay is solid, etc.

And this is without mentioning that you travel between areas later on. You are not locked out of the lush areas. Furthermore, the story’s grim direction should already make it clear that beauty is fleeting when war arises.

Gaming is easy with the first. The second makes finding time more… strategic. As a Trad Cath, there are many more on the way, but I look forward to introducing them all to some of my favorite games. Mario Kart is going to be insane too lol.

@the_beaver If Nintendo cannot take criticism and improve on its formula and only sees criticism as a reason not to make more games in the franchise, that is on Nintendo and not the consumer.

@the_beaver That was a list of what was core to Metroid and what all entries should focus on. It was not a compare and contrast between past games and Prime 4.

Metroid Prime 4’s problem has nothing to do with past games being too good. It has everything to do with forgetting what a Metroid game is about. Dread is so good because it took the core of the series and advanced it. What is the core? Exploration, isolation, fear, and a steady growth in power as new abilities are discovered.

@Sindayl It has an interesting premise, fun characters, and an atb combat system. Yes, classic Final Fantasy is obviously “more” Final Fantasy, but nothing has come close to catching that in recent times. The last Final Fantasy game to truly scratch the Final Fantasy itch for me was FFX. Everything after is hardly Final Fantasy, even when you use the whole “FF never had a clear identity or combat style” arguments. Both of which are silly and flat out wrong. The series has abandoned its identity and somehow fans defend it or gaslight those who notice it.

@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.