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Shovel Knight’s great; this game looks good as well. I hope it works out. I’ll definitely be getting it day one.

But, as I’ve said repeatedly on various articles, developers have got to get a handle on development time. Shovel Knight released 11 years ago. They spent years working on the stretch goal campaigns and now this game has blown past its original schedule. There’s every reason to believe Yacht Club could do great things, but not if they only manage to release one proper game per decade…

But anyway, I’m rooting for them and I’m looking forward to Mina!

Glad it’s getting a release. It’s important that even these less well known games get preserved and presented to modern consumers in some form.

Looks awesome! Hope it turns out well and releases on Switch.

@Tasuki But it could very well be in the post credits scene… if you wait to find out for sure then you’re walking out of the theater anyway because the movie’s over.

Looks pretty good so far. I like the costumes. They look cool and faithful to the games at the same time. I still have doubts about the story… but time will tell and I’m excited regardless!

Whoa! So I said on the other article that the top 5 to me were SMW, SM64, Zelda ALttP, Zelda OoT, and Super Metroid (not necessarily in that order). Four of those five were in the top 10, so I feel good about that. That said the actual ordering is bananas. Tears of the kingdom is mediocre at best, and DK Bananza is far too high as well. Mario Odyssey is fourth best Nintendo game? I’m not sure it’s even the fourth best Mario game. I hope I don’t sound too angry - I’m smiling as I type this. Bickering about the list is of course the most fun part! Sociologically it’s very interesting. I can see the taste difference of younger versus older gamers.

I liked this game better than the original red dead back in the day. I think I would replay this if it had a rerelease or something.

OoT, LttP; SMWorld; SM64; Super Metroid. That’s your top five right there. How I would order them changes depending on the day but that’s the top 5 I think.

Fingers crossed! I will remain optimistic until I can’t anymore, lol. I think there are many reasons that this will be hard to pull off, but I’m excited to see it anyway!

The flagpole fireworks in Super Mario Bros. Was I think the one that got me the most excited. I remember those little fireworks being just a delightful surprise! I was four at the time.

This game is legitimately excellent by the way. It would have been a big hit if it had come out sooner.

Love the old ones, definitely getting this one. I hope the music is as good as the old games, that was always part of the charm too.

Was cool at the time. Quickly overtaken by Tekken. Was there a cheesy anime for this one as well or am I confused on that? You know, with these mediocre b-tier games only a certain kind of player is going to enjoy them, but I for one am glad they are being made available. The best thing for the industry I think would be for every game ever made (yes, I said what I meant) to be made available to conveniently (and legally) purchase and play. So every step in that direction is welcome.

Yeah the slowing down of development time is excessive in my opinion. Maybe I’m wrong but I suspect there’s a limit to how far you can get with rereleases and spin-offs, when it comes to keeping an IP in the public consciousness. There are children in second grade (in the US) who were not born when Mario odyssey came out.

I mean, if this delay fixes the issues that’s fantastic. I’m concerned though that this game may simply be beyond what Switch 2 can handle, which would be very disappointing.

I was always a fan of this guy. He seemed very authentic - kind of wild and crazy. I remember in one interview he demanded to be asked if he intended to run for public office. So they did and he said “YES!” I believe it was an Edge magazine interview from years ago,

The Dead or Alive games are fun enough, I think they get a bad rap now. Ninja Gaiden ‘04 is to this day the best 3D action game I’ve played. Only the Bayonetta franchise comes close. I always believed he had more great games ahead of him.

RIP.

If we’re counting e-shop games I buy well over twelve a year. If we’re counting only full priced boxed games I buy probably 6 or 7 a year, but that is overwhelming concentrated on birthday and Christmas when I usually get quite a bit of extra spending money/gift cards. Outside of those occasions I maybe buy one or two full price new games a year…

For anyone surprised by this you should know it’s been this way for a long, long time. I worked at GameStop in 2003/4, which was the PS2 years, and I was shocked back then to learn from a corporate market research report that the average console owner only owned three games. They were overwhelmingly Madden or other annualized franchises (mainly sports games) and a couple of flagship titles (like halo for Xbox owners). Even back then as a high school kid with a part time job I managed to acquire about 80 PS2 games, and I had a Xbox and GameCube as well. I was way, way, way in the one percent in terms of overall purchases and expenses.

The top 5% or so of enthusiasts spend so much more than the rest that we keep the whole industry solvent and it’s been that way for decades.

I bought this game, desperate for a good rpg on N64. But I didn’t understand it, and could not get past the third mission or something like that. I mean I wasn’t able to get far at all. Tactical RPGs like FF Tactics or Fire Emblem I fare a little better at, but not much. Not sure why I just can’t seem to really understand this genre despite many tries. Anybody else have that experience?

But anyway, despite not getting far, I could tell this was a top tier game.

I liked the original. An upgraded version for a nice discount is pretty appealing. This game is all about the vibes though - don’t go in expecting intricate gameplay.

If you read between the lines of all these conflicting statements I think we can see the truth: everybody wants them. Nintendo wants them and the sales folks want them and the developers want them, and what NOBODY wants is for the consumers to actually have control over their games. No more used games sales, no more rentals/lending. Yes, game cards do permit this but only for the duration of the servers, which I assume means approximately ten years. Fundamentally: no more competing with gamers for control and influence over their own properties. Now they can kill the game whenever it suits them, the better to resell it to us later. They can memory hole the failures or anything that ages poorly. They make short term licensing deals, because it’s not like the game exists apart from the servers anyway. Ultimately they will have perfect control over the cultural narrative around games. Things like “hidden gems” won’t exist because it won’t be possible to discover games after the fact. There will be no legal way around this system and at the same time the system itself will make copyright claims stronger I suspect. In other words I don’t expect even emulation to really exist once we go “full digital.” This is the future. Maybe there’s no way to stop it but I find it depressing how many gamers seem to be happy about it.

@jojobar I completely agree! Just trying to keep it succinct!

Maybe I’m the only one but this is just another con on the AAA pro/con list.
Pros: graphics look good.
Cons: too expensive to make, focus on graphics causes gameplay to be sacrificed, everything must be live service, only two or three viable genres, AND they can’t load fast enough off physical media.

The Rocko’s Modern Life game is really frustrating. The G.U.T.S game is notoriously terrible. Ahhh! Real Monsters mediocre if you’re being generous. Not a terribly impressive collection unless you have some personal history with these games.

It’s obvious that we are heading towards an all-digital but I think this idea that digital products last forever or are somehow inherently easy to preserve is bananas. It seems to be the exact opposite of the truth to me.

I mean it’s cool because it’s unexpected but it’s also cruel game design. I like games that are challenging but I’ve never like the souls games because of unfair ***** like this. I don’t know. I hesitate to say they shouldn’t have done it but I think designers should be very careful with stuff like this.

Wow! This one is too vague. The courts will have to weigh in on this patent. In US patent law you have to meet the standard of novelty and non-obviousness - in other words you can’t patent a common practice or an obvious/intuitive step or evolution in practice. As a result, because Nintendo permitted various Pokémon copycats for years, it’s too late to patent any of it now.

Yikes! I haven’t played the game in a long time but this a bit harsher than I remember at least for the first game. That said it was never anybody’s favorite game, and I was never planning to get this. There are other much better retro collections to buy.

I really want to play this game, I hope it turns out well… I don’t have much confidence.

Edit: I agree with those saying the first game is not that bad. They improved it A LOT with patches. I would feel more confident t if it weren’t for that House of the Dead Remake, but maybe they’ll patch that game too.

As a long time fan of mech anime, it’s is sad how difficult it has proven to translate the style into an actual good game. Despite this score I will probably still get this… because… there’s not a lot of choices, lol.

@World I think the problem is as much his hair and expression as the actual features on his face. James Bond is more put together than that scruffy haircut and I don’t know that he should smirk like that either…

Great price. The game itself is flawed but very weird/quirky. A true cult classic. Easily worth this price if you like this kind of thing. I still have my old original copy but I’ll be picking this up for sure when I can.

Now do fear effect 2!

Lol, if true this is madness. I don’t maybe I’m not seeing something, but AAA is Sony’s brand. A handheld PS6 would either have to be ridiculously expensive or significantly inferior. And what about storage space? These AAA games are massive. Are you going to be able to fit like five games on it? Who benefits? Sony die-yards I suppose… otherwise what’s the point? It’s not like PlayStation has very many exclusives anyway. The whole reason to engage with the brand is because you value the cutting edge graphics and what not, right?

@JohnnyMind Oath in Felghana is great if you want try the older style, ys 8 is probably best if you want the newer style. Of course, the really really old style is yet a different thing again…

So they can make Suoer Mario Bros: The Movie: The Show. Then they can do a new toy line. Then they can have Outright Games make Super Mario Bros: The Movie: The Show: The Game. “Hold y to collect power star”

@Suketoudara yeah I like I can’t even watch that stuff live anymore because it’s so boring. I just scrubbed through opening night live. The whole show I was like… no…(skip ahead a bit) no… (skip) no… how come practically every single game is some kind of grotesque body horror/shooter thing? Where is the creativity? No new mechanics or new concepts for gameplay? I definitely play mostly indie games at this point.

Nintendo is the last company still acting on an older philosophy of video games. Everybody who has a problem with modern gaming winds up in the Nintendo camp, giving Nintendo a stable core audience. I used to be an all-console gamer but now I only play on Nintendo, simply because I’m not interested in what the other platforms are offering. The value proposition doesn’t work for me.

The reason this isn’t the norm in the industry is that it would be impossible to make a profit. Team Cherry may make a profit since they have a very popular IP at this point. But most studios, if tried to do the same thing, would go right out of business.

A lot of games that have protracted developments run into all sorts of problems. Glad to hear that in this case it sounds like they were not beset by serious issues, they were just working steadily to make it as good as it could be. That’s rare - I honestly expected the other thing, lol. I gotta say the trailer looked really strong. I wasn’t that interested in this as I never even finished Hollow Knight, but after seeing that trailer… I may have to pick this up, lol.

I will buy this. Even the mediocre Bethesda games are good for at least a few dozen hours of enjoyment.

The direct was good. A little long/tedious at times. The first game was too simplistic for me. This looks a bit more complex. Might be fun to play with my kids. It’s not exactly for me though. But anyway, it does look like a good sequel since he basically just built on the foundation very faithfully it seems.

As a kid I rented the first Bubsy and I think also the second, several times. I enjoyed sliding down the water slides, lol. My recollection is that they were fine. Not amazing, but certainly not the worst games I rented. I think this idea that they’re terrible is more an exaggeration based on bubsy 3D, which I have not played but apparently it really is quite bad. At this point I almost feel sorry bubsy! Poor little guy - why all the hate? Isn’t a mascot platformer allowed to be mediocre these days?

@Yoshi3 Nintendo: “Copyright for me but not for thee!” Sounds about right.

But actually, patent law is different and I don’t understand it as well. Did Play date never patent their design? If not, that’s kind of on error on their part. Or maybe there’s something sufficiently different about the Nintendo design, idk.

@SegaDude113 This is what I immediately thought of. Maybe Sega bass fishing is getting rereleased!? Dreamcast games on NSO confirmed!

Whoa! Okay, we’ll see. I often prefer indie games actually so I’m quite intrigued about this.

@Yoshi3 tatsunoku vs capcom is so great. Yeah it’s more basic in some ways but I actually like that. And it’s awesome playing as these old anime characters. I really hope that game can be saved from “licensing issues” oblivion!

Good! Not too surprising I guess - of course digital eclipse gets it. They know what they’re doing!

A new Katamari is cool. I’ll get the FF Tactics remake because that game is great although I’m not terribly “excited” about it since I’ve played it a lot. Finally the new action rpg looked like it had potential. I’ll get that if the reviews are good. Other than that, nothing really interested me. It is disappointing because we already know that several much better, more interesting games are coming - and so this direct means they aren’t coming anytime soon! Apparently not until next year I guess.

Well the rumors were true. Also the rumors about the structure of the switch launch seem to be true, with first few weeks focusing on first party announcements and then third parties coming in. The third phase was… big holiday first party game I think? It’s all going according to plan!

Well, unfortunately by the end I saw this coming, but it’s a shame. I believe a cozy hobbit game could work, at least in theory.

I’m not the biggest fan of the actual gameplay but as a retro game enthusiast this is a must buy. The impact of these games at the time cannot be overstated.