Lone_Beagle

US law is pretty clear --> you have to protect your IP or risk losing it. What Nintendo is doing is just what they have to do in the current business/law climate.

Great game, excellent price point, and very imaginative use of BotW-like mechanics...so imaginative, you can't really say they "stole" or copied, it is similar but fits in well with the game.

If you want to "beat" the game, you could "finish" it in about 30-45 minutes. But the real joy is going around, exploring, and meeting the characters...I spent about 5+ hours, and loved every minute of it! I keep meaning to go back, and try to get more of the hidden items. Next holiday, maybe.

@Anguspuss That's one way to get the kids to pick up and clean!

So, last year they were hiring product testers, and this year they are hiring a story board artist? Sounds like they are building the game in reverse, LOL

@BionicDodo Looking at Metacritic reviews can be very informative. I usually look at the average of the critics and the average of the users, and see if there is a discrepancy...if there is a difference, it can be very telling as to why, i.e., it appeals to a certain kind of player.

@jump "This looks cool..."

I see what you did there!

@TheFrenchiestFry they're gonna have to pry my DS and my 3DS's (all 5 of them) from my cold, dead hands LOL

Well, I guess we all know now why they sued that online multiplayer Mario game, lol

@Azuris but then they couldn't fling even more advertising at you

@Heavyarms55 Somehow, the more pointless or useless a computer app is, the cooler it is...I mean, he definitely didn't do this for any profit, LUL

@Cevil Try telling that to your 12 year old self!

I get that PS4 console sales are so low because the PS5 is coming...but when did the XBox start selling so many consoles in Japan? Is it because people are bored while waiting for the PS5 to come out?

Looking forward to the Zelda Anniversary 3D Compilation coming to Switch --> OoT, Majora's Mask, & Wind Waker!

At least, I'm hoping!

Well, Gods & Monsters was a movie title from the late 1990's, so glad Ubisoft got off their lazy asses and spent a little energy coming up with a new title.

Although "Fenyx" sounds like one of those idiotic car names that is a mispelling or combo of something else...looking forward to the sequel "Prius : Nova of the Mind's Opel Eye" kappa

@komodo182 Every morning, I get up and wonder, "What unbelievable thing is going on today?" That article pretty much shows how far down we've gone...glad that dude won.

@link3710 more to the point, why would anybody buy anything from Bethesda, after all their recent crap releases and crapping all over consumers...

@Tyranexx if you are a recent adopter, then obviously all the Mario games and Zelda games are your first stop & best bets...after that you still have a lot of other top rated games to go through. I happened to pick this up just because I really don't play any FPS games at all, and wanted to try one...heard this was one of the best, so, gave it a whirl...it will tide me over until my copy of the 3D Mario remakes arrives in (gasp) 1 week!

@Tyranexx Bioshock is better than most FPS shooters, but it definitely is NOT close to a Metroid game. There is a bit of a story, and they have hacking "puzzles" but I find the game to be about a 7/10, at most...if you have nothing else to play, and can get it at a good discount, then go for it. USD 40 is expensive, I got the physical copy on Amazon for USD 31, and I plan on selling it back to get my money back when I am done. Having said that, it is probably better than a lot of the other FPS shooters, ymmv

I got Bioshock on a cart cheaper on Amazon...not much of a "sale" when it is more expensize digitally, AND it is tied to your console AND you cannot sell it back...

Truly AC is a phenomenon. Combine pent-up demand (no home console release since the Wii) with nostalgia and a pandemic lockdown...here we are.

I heard they used Kyoto as a model / way of gauging distance and area in the game, but didn't realize they did it this way! Very cool!

@PrincessAzunyan meanwhile, books have been getting outrageous!

Never ceases to amaze me how game publishers can screw over developers.

I really wanted to like it...I tried it during a mild sinus infection, and instantly got naseous...so badly, in fact, I've been too afraid to try it again since. I should try it again, when my perpetual sinus problems remit a bit.

As much as EA abuses their consumers, they just keep selling games. Their shareholders must be happy!

Best solution (as others have mentioned) --> don't leave your credit card info on anybody else's server.

@patbacknitro18 ikr? There's a bigger story here that needs to get followed up on!

@Nourldean ikr? Remember the time Sony installed DRM that was a virus? And what about the time the Sony marketing-suits spray-painted graffiti in the city as part of their ad campaign? I could go on...

@tgchan yeah, the game is hard to describe, isn't it? But it thoroughly sucks you in, sooner or later, and then you are hooked.

Maybe it isn't a game, as much as it is an "experience"?

That's interesting, in that I thought the launch games with the Gamecube were much much better than the Xbox. I bought Luigi's Mansion and Rogue Leader and was pretty happy for months.

https://gamicus.gamepedia.com/List_of_video_game_console_launch_games#Nintendo_GameCube

heh, more like the frostBiteMe engine.

"Beloved franchise..." does that mean something they can suck money out of?

@Damo True! Just don't get rid of them, those magazines are fairly important chronicles of the way video games used to be.

@Damo Great work! I need to set up an alert with ebay then...

Any plans to scan them? It seems there is a definite lack of GF and GR on archive.org ...

@Damo You have old Gamer's Repbulic magazines? I've been looking for some back issues...what issues do you have? I miss that magazine!

Reminds me of the old Bungie game "Myth" if anybody else can remember back that far...of course, no magic or other races (the dwarves were a blast...get it? ha ha).

@westman98 The offer might have been "Get the hell out of an EA-owned company and work with people who appreciate quality" or some such...

Poor Luigi! Fated to always be #2...

I've heard it is better to try to play these in the order they were originally released, at least the first 3.

@Zeldafan79 let's just say it is 5.95 years old then...

"Character conversations are **littered** with constant wordplays"

I see what you did there! lol

I love reading about Itoi-san and Iwata-san! & Miyamoto-san! It never gets old! Here is a link to a manga about his story:
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/english/180109

I still sometimes want to cry about Iwata dying so young...

Wow, this would be great on the Switch!

@ummyeahnintendo I had never beaten it on the Gameboy either...I started playing in February, then in April found out it was going to be released again, so I tried to "hurry up" and finally beat it on 9/19, the day before the Switch release. Needless to say, I beat the Switch version quite a bit faster, ha ha.

@Aquamine-Amarine The reason you don't make crap up with hurricane predictions is because you don't want to "cry wolf" --> you don't want to needlessly warn people to evacuate when there is no danger, or else people will get "fatigued" and not evacuate later when there really is danger.

Fascinating person...his obituary was worth a read, this bit was very interesting:
"...he was most proud of his time working at the Department of Justice as the special assistant to the head of the Civil Rights Division, John Doar, during the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. At the Department of Justice, where he first worked as a summer intern, he gathered voting records throughout the South that demonstrated evidence of wide-spread discrimination against African-Americans. His discovery of methods such as literacy tests specifically designed to exclude African-Americans from voting helped form the basis of the Voting Rights Act of 1965."

Is that the Animal Village choir singing this? lol

@JasmineDragon Or, you can play the Gameboy version...again!

PSA — if you are following a guide (like this) instead of exploring and figuring things out on your own, then you are losing out on an incredible experience.

Also, if you use a guide to race through the game, and then complain about "how it is so short, it isn't worth xx" then shame on you!

Just go away, EA.

Wayyyy back in the early early 1990's there was a game called Chip's Challenge that this reminds me of...I'm sure they have nothing in common.