People are saying that no one’s ever owned anything and they could always come take your stuff. That is just not true. I don’t even know where this is coming from or where to start with this… like I sell paintings as part of my living. When I sell a painting I am not selling the copyright, or what is sometimes called the reproduction right. Unless otherwise stipulated in a contract, the artist is retaining those rights. Actually this comes up from time to time… I mean not for me but for more important artists, lol. Yeah, buying the physical object is not buying the copyright, obviously. But it’s not a license. I can’t go take the painting back. I can’t block it from being sold. In the case of art I can’t block it from being exhibited either. I CANT EVEN BLOCK IT FROM BEING MODIFIED. If they wanted to paint over it they can. And if the painting is ever sold I’m entitled to nothing, because that’s how objects work. It’s called right of first sale… after I sell it the first time I lose all rights over the OBJECT. Well what about objects that contain copywriter works inside them, like books? Same thing! And guess what this is the only reason many books survived because people kept them. I don’t mean from the Middle Ages I mean books from a hundred years ago that maybe weren’t that popular. Then later they reprint the book in facsimile editions. It’s not like the publisher from a hundred years ago preserved a master copy of the text, the “real” copywrited work. I actually have some of these books connected to painting, like an obscure treatise on painting by Kenyon Cox, I was able to buy the facsimile reprint. The point is it is the same for vinyl records, CDs, vhs tapes, DVDs, and yes video games. Even though the copywriter work is stored or encoded on the media, BECAUSE they are encoded on physical objects they are not like revocable licenses at all. If they were NOT encoded on the media - as in a physical disc that actually just functions as a license key, which is already how a lot of ps5 discs work, then the situation is totally different… because you bought license key rather than an actual copy of the data. I don’t know where people learned this myth that physical media is no different than digital.
Entirely expected. Clearly they were all just waiting for someone to go first and sort of draw the first fire. That someone turned out to be GTA 6, lol. But they had these announcements ready to go. And almost certainly rockstar fully knew about this. Their decision makes more sense now, in a way.
@turmeric16 Eh, I was simplifying (maybe oversimplifying) and I think it’s fair to criticize that. But in most ways I don’t agree with what you’re saying at all. Video games are not consumables, they’re durable goods. I think you make fair points about movie theaters and public libraries (and actually a movie theater is another pretty good analogy for what digital-only games will be). But the point I was trying to make is that it has always been the case that “buying” an artwork is more expensive than viewing or accessing the artwork. Digital games try to sustain physical prices by eliding that distinction, using misleading terms like “purchase” and “your library” etc. I don’t think piracy is a stable solution - actually, rampant piracy is a big part of how we got here. Laws could change but that would change the whole incentive structure surrounding whatever industries are affected, so whether a law change is good or bad depends on the exact details. It would be easy to actually destroy the industry. In general capitalism and private property laws work well. Certainly video games as we know them would not exist today without “capitalism”. If this is a bad development, as I feel it is, the blame goes to the consumers who are accepting it. As Sony themselves say in their statement, most of their consumers already buy games this way. But I think people under-appreciate how big of a change this will wind up being. The comparison to the physical version kept guardrails on the digital stuff to some degree. Once that comparison is impossible we’ll see what happens. It takes a long time for things to develop, but I wonder where we’ll be in another twenty years.
@Teksette owning the physical object is why it costs money. I can’t believe how many people don’t seem to understand this (I’m not talking about you, just other people). I was talking to a coworker the other day about a book and they said something like they wanted to read it but they never did because they didn’t think it was worth paying for. And I said, you don’t have to pay to read a book you can get it from the library. They looked at me like they hadn’t remembered that libraries even existed. They said well probably the library doesn’t have it. I said there’s something called an interlibrary loan. Unless the book is pretty rare they can almost certainly get it for you. People this has always been the case. You do not have to pay to read the book, or hear a song, or in many cases see a movie and even video games - you do not have to pay full price just to experience the artwork (maybe a rental fee or something). This being the case, what have we been paying for? For OWNERSHIP. This is the logic (and legal structure) around buying objects. With this transition games become more like experiences. You can think of them as similar to concert tickets, or amusement park passes. This is a massive transformation in the ontology of video games, lol. Not to get too highfalutin.
No game key cards are still terrible. I guess if you have multiple systems, like if your kids each had their own system, or if you’re the sort of person who sells a game right after you beat it… then maybe they provide some value in that case I suppose. But clearly the people who want physical media (like me) are mostly thinking about how to keep their games past their official corporate usefulness, and that is what both all digital and game key cards eliminates.
To me this Sony announcement is unfortunate but really we’ve seen it coming for some time. At this point I don’t see why I would ever buy a ps5 or ps6. And I assume switch 3 will be the same and… anyway, I reckon I’m basically done with paying attention to new games. It would take wildly reduced prices to keep me interested and they’re actually going in the opposite direction so…
What ever Nintendo does Sony eventually does too. Four face buttons, analog stick, rumble pack (force feedback), motion controls, now this. It smacks of desperation, but also it’s just how they compete. Nintendo stakes out new territory, then Sony comes in and offers a more refined, high-end version of the same thing. They do it to other companies too, not just Nintendo. See: PSVR.
I have a 1.5 tb card in my switch, and it’s over half full… ideally I would transfer all my switch stuff to switch 2, but with switch 2 games being larger and with almost all of them requiring downloads (except first party games… for now) I basically don’t think even 1TB is enough. So I’m waiting to see if a 1.5 comes out. If not it means keeping everything on switch which means that I would probably be smarter to replace my aging launch model with an OLED, rather than buy an inadequate memory card.
@Uragaiden holy cow! This must have been what I saw! I’m amazed to see it again! As a kid I did not understand the nuance and I spent years believing that this game existed, and this is what it looked like, and I remember telling other kids about it and stuff. It is wild to see the picture again after all these years! Thank you!
I have an apparently hallucinated memory of reading about a planned Mario 64 sequel that would have allowed you to play as Luigi as well as Mario… and I even recall a screenshot! It was the magic carpet rainbow level, but there was Luigi and Mario both standing there. Years later I tried to look up information about this canceled game only to find that nothing like this was ever announced or shown at all. I’m guessing it is either a completely false memory, or maybe a magazine reported on a rumor and made their own mock up screen shot.
I think the game key cards are worse but what do I know? To me the pros and cons are such that a game key card is basically all the cons and none of the pros of either option. But yeah, in the case of gta 6 I’m sure file size is a big factor. Anyway physical games are going to disappear soon. We’ve all seen this coming for years. Just the other day I was at Walmart and out of habit I went to look at the games… and then I remembered that they were almost all keycards so there is no point in buying them.
I always thought it was pretty good. However, the GameCube controller is the most ergonomic controller ever made I think. I think the switch 2 pro controller is very nice as well.
I thought it was pretty good. The negativity seemed unwarranted. And it was the only presentation I actually watched. With E3 dead, I have basically stopped paying attention to the larger gaming world.
I gotta say I played the demo last night and I thought it was just okay. Looks good, and the controls were snappy (too snappy? I almost wanted to turn the sensitivity down a bit). But I hate the characterizations. I don’t even like the voice acting in some cases. They made Fox and Falco annoying. They injected, even in just the demo, a weird bit of tension between Fox and General Pepper. And there’s far too much yapping. These characters talk way too much. A lot of what I don’t like about modern games has been injected into this one. I’ll probably still get it though.
It might be an AI error but it equally might not be. It’s crazy to see all these people w ting like human artists never make mistakes, lol. It all depends on deadlines and who is involved (how experienced, well trained, etc). Hands and faces are notoriously difficult (and feet!) and errors are frequently made there. Look at the hilarious articles ripping apart the many egregious anatomy errors made by Rob Liefeld, once one of the highest paid professional comic artists in the world. I bet if you posted Rob Liefeld art today people would be insisting it was AI because “no human would make this mistake,” lol.
Edit: I didn’t read the comments and apparently people are already talking about Liefeld up there, lol. I guess he is the most obvious example.
It looks fine. I do agree that the head looks a little large but there’s nothing that makes me concerned really. It’s not a disaster or anything. I think the idea of a photo realistic OoT could be interesting if done well. But I do wonder if the environment maps/layouts will change at all. If not, photo-realism will actually accentuate how close together everything is.
They deserve it. I’m slowly making my way through it and it’s very good. I’m finding it much more difficult than shovel knight so far, at least in the early game, but maybe that’s just me. But anyway that just makes victory that much sweeter when I finally accomplish something, lol.
I’m nitpicking but there’s something off the guy’s posture in that illustration. His head is slightly too far forward. I can’t help seeing it because I’m an artist myself…
Anyway! Really looking forward to this! Hope it releases before I’m 50.
Reengaging with artworks over time is crucial for developing a love, appreciation, and interpretation of the artwork itself and the art form in general. This is true of books, movies, music games, whatever. This is one reason that I prefer shorter games. It’s possible to replay a 10-20hour game pretty easily.
AI is useful at a lot of things but it’s not that good at generating videos from scratch yet. Still and all, the AI-ness of the video hardly matters, the real problem is that this open world third person action game thing that has taken over final fantasy and nearly all other game design is terrible, so I think THATS what we need to kill with fire. A real game that can played the way this looks would be a travesty.
The mainline Mario games are SMB, SMB Lost Levels (although from an American perspective it would have been SMB 2, but we were deceived!), SMB 3, SM World, SM64, Sunshine, Galaxy, Galaxy 2, 3D World and Odyssey. They are the big console games that at the time of their release represented the state of the art in Mario game design, the games that move the series forward.
In the post-digital world they should just stop doing licenses altogether. The artwork (I mean the game) is more important than the license. Car licenses have been an issue in the past. Outrun 2006 is one of the best arcade racers ever made, and you can’t legally buy it anywhere (thankfully I still have my original physical copy, not that it’s at all convenient to play it…) Imagine if every movie with product placement had to be deleted! That’s what we’re doing with video games. Stupid.
@Whoever that’s a relief if that’s true. Definitely I could see if this does well it could make Nintendo more interested in a new game even if they aren't already considering it. But on the other hand the concerning thing is that the opposite is true too. Another remake of a game that most everyone interested has had ample opportunity to play may sell poorly, and then Nintendo may say, “See there’s just no interest in Starfox.”
It’s a remake and it’s coming out in just over a month? I mean, does this tell us that Nintendo themselves don’t see this game as very important? It didn’t deserve a proper marketing push, etc, I guess? I don’t know, I love starfox 64 but this is actually a little disappointing…
I prefer the directs for sure. Actually I voted for bringing back E3 and I’m dismayed at how many people didn’t vote for that! It’s much more exciting and convenient to get gaming news in big waves, rather than constant, monotonous drips.
This was the biggest reveal in the movie. My kids of course didn’t see the significance, as they’re pretty young, so it’s all just new information to them. So I turned to me wife and I was like “This is a big deal, we never knew this before,” and she was like “so?” lol, it’s hard to convey to non-gamers how one feels about trivial information you’ve been wondering about for twenty years…
I mean I guess I’m in the middle. The movie was kind of weak, but in a way that’s very specific to illumination. All of their movies are like this, kind of. So I wouldn’t say it was particularly worse than other kids movies I’ve seen from that studio. At the same time the criticisms seemed especially harsh, as if this movie in particular was offensively bad, which I just don’t get. Especially complaints about too many Easter eggs or that feels like an advertisement… a lot of the so-called Easter eggs I wouldn’t even count, they’re just things from Mario games I mean, come on. As for the whole thing being an advertisement, I guess so but again more so than any other kids movie with all the merchandise tie-ins? I mean I guess we can say right now that the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies will be giant advertisements for Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, right? You see, it’s true trivially but it’s unavoidable, it’s baked into the concept. It’s like some critics were bashing the Mario movie for being a Mario movie at all.
One of the more egregious rip-offs I’ve ever seen. Character designs are so stunningly similar it’s crazy. I am an artist and I can say it is trivially easy to differentiate more than this even if really you’re just following a template/model. Therefore, to me, this goes beyond mere laziness. This seems like it’s actually intended to come off as Nintendo related.
One of my most hoped for ports! I know people don’t like the game, but I will definitely be buying this on switch, assuming it meets at least acceptable levels of performance (my standards aren’t that high).
Selfishly, I would love for all their big games to come to switch 2. Objectively, I don’t see how they sell a new console without exclusive games. I was honestly surprised to learn they had a new console in the works. I thought all these games going to other platforms was the start of winding down Xbox as a hardware option. In the future I suspect Xbox will be a service that you subscribe to. That’s the direction this is ultimately going I think. But in the medium term, if they intend to sell a new console they will need exclusives.
Fingers crossed! Teaser pretty soon I bet, trailer maybe later in the fall? Unless they’re planning for a late 2027 release. But I'm guessing they’re planning on releasing it about a year from now…
I am happy to say that only about 15 of these got by me. I own and played the vast majority. And of the ones I don’t have, several are on my wishlist, so in the end I will have played almost all of them.
An Ocarina of Time remake has been rumored (or just wished for) for a long time, and would definitely be cool to see. I just hope they do a good job, treating the game faithfully, and not trying to modernize the game design or adjust the difficulty or anything.
New Star Fox is very surprising. They haven’t really done a good one since the n64, but hopefully they’ll get it right this time.
I don’t know. If the rumor is true the year sounds okay but not amazing. We’ll see.
The optimist in me thinks that a proper Nintendo direct is coming the following week, now that every other kind of direct has taken place. The pessimist in me thinks this it until June.
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Re: Nintendo May Be The Last Bastion Of Physical Games As Xbox's Project Helix Is Set To Ditch Discs
People are saying that no one’s ever owned anything and they could always come take your stuff. That is just not true. I don’t even know where this is coming from or where to start with this… like I sell paintings as part of my living. When I sell a painting I am not selling the copyright, or what is sometimes called the reproduction right. Unless otherwise stipulated in a contract, the artist is retaining those rights. Actually this comes up from time to time… I mean not for me but for more important artists, lol. Yeah, buying the physical object is not buying the copyright, obviously. But it’s not a license. I can’t go take the painting back. I can’t block it from being sold. In the case of art I can’t block it from being exhibited either. I CANT EVEN BLOCK IT FROM BEING MODIFIED. If they wanted to paint over it they can. And if the painting is ever sold I’m entitled to nothing, because that’s how objects work. It’s called right of first sale… after I sell it the first time I lose all rights over the OBJECT. Well what about objects that contain copywriter works inside them, like books? Same thing! And guess what this is the only reason many books survived because people kept them. I don’t mean from the Middle Ages I mean books from a hundred years ago that maybe weren’t that popular. Then later they reprint the book in facsimile editions. It’s not like the publisher from a hundred years ago preserved a master copy of the text, the “real” copywrited work. I actually have some of these books connected to painting, like an obscure treatise on painting by Kenyon Cox, I was able to buy the facsimile reprint. The point is it is the same for vinyl records, CDs, vhs tapes, DVDs, and yes video games. Even though the copywriter work is stored or encoded on the media, BECAUSE they are encoded on physical objects they are not like revocable licenses at all. If they were NOT encoded on the media - as in a physical disc that actually just functions as a license key, which is already how a lot of ps5 discs work, then the situation is totally different… because you bought license key rather than an actual copy of the data. I don’t know where people learned this myth that physical media is no different than digital.
Re: Nintendo May Be The Last Bastion Of Physical Games As Xbox's Project Helix Is Set To Ditch Discs
Entirely expected. Clearly they were all just waiting for someone to go first and sort of draw the first fire. That someone turned out to be GTA 6, lol. But they had these announcements ready to go. And almost certainly rockstar fully knew about this. Their decision makes more sense now, in a way.
Re: Talking Point: As Sony Bins Physical, How Long Until Nintendo Follows Suit?
It will diminish over the course of Switch 2 and be completely gone by switch 3.
Re: Sony Ditches Physical Media - Suddenly Game-Key Cards Don't Look So Bad
@turmeric16 Eh, I was simplifying (maybe oversimplifying) and I think it’s fair to criticize that. But in most ways I don’t agree with what you’re saying at all. Video games are not consumables, they’re durable goods. I think you make fair points about movie theaters and public libraries (and actually a movie theater is another pretty good analogy for what digital-only games will be). But the point I was trying to make is that it has always been the case that “buying” an artwork is more expensive than viewing or accessing the artwork. Digital games try to sustain physical prices by eliding that distinction, using misleading terms like “purchase” and “your library” etc. I don’t think piracy is a stable solution - actually, rampant piracy is a big part of how we got here. Laws could change but that would change the whole incentive structure surrounding whatever industries are affected, so whether a law change is good or bad depends on the exact details. It would be easy to actually destroy the industry. In general capitalism and private property laws work well. Certainly video games as we know them would not exist today without “capitalism”. If this is a bad development, as I feel it is, the blame goes to the consumers who are accepting it. As Sony themselves say in their statement, most of their consumers already buy games this way. But I think people under-appreciate how big of a change this will wind up being. The comparison to the physical version kept guardrails on the digital stuff to some degree. Once that comparison is impossible we’ll see what happens. It takes a long time for things to develop, but I wonder where we’ll be in another twenty years.
Re: Sony Ditches Physical Media - Suddenly Game-Key Cards Don't Look So Bad
@Teksette owning the physical object is why it costs money. I can’t believe how many people don’t seem to understand this (I’m not talking about you, just other people). I was talking to a coworker the other day about a book and they said something like they wanted to read it but they never did because they didn’t think it was worth paying for. And I said, you don’t have to pay to read a book you can get it from the library. They looked at me like they hadn’t remembered that libraries even existed. They said well probably the library doesn’t have it. I said there’s something called an interlibrary loan. Unless the book is pretty rare they can almost certainly get it for you. People this has always been the case. You do not have to pay to read the book, or hear a song, or in many cases see a movie and even video games - you do not have to pay full price just to experience the artwork (maybe a rental fee or something). This being the case, what have we been paying for? For OWNERSHIP. This is the logic (and legal structure) around buying objects. With this transition games become more like experiences. You can think of them as similar to concert tickets, or amusement park passes. This is a massive transformation in the ontology of video games, lol. Not to get too highfalutin.
Re: Sony Ditches Physical Media - Suddenly Game-Key Cards Don't Look So Bad
No game key cards are still terrible. I guess if you have multiple systems, like if your kids each had their own system, or if you’re the sort of person who sells a game right after you beat it… then maybe they provide some value in that case I suppose. But clearly the people who want physical media (like me) are mostly thinking about how to keep their games past their official corporate usefulness, and that is what both all digital and game key cards eliminates.
To me this Sony announcement is unfortunate but really we’ve seen it coming for some time. At this point I don’t see why I would ever buy a ps5 or ps6. And I assume switch 3 will be the same and… anyway, I reckon I’m basically done with paying attention to new games. It would take wildly reduced prices to keep me interested and they’re actually going in the opposite direction so…
Re: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Launches August, Physical Edition Confirmed
I am officially very interested.
Re: Mini Review: Arcade Archives 2 TEKKEN (Switch 2) - A Welcome Throwback To The Iconic Original
The soul still burns! Wait, wrong game.
Re: Persona Is Reportedly Getting A "Live-Action" Netflix Adaptation
lol, live action?? It’s a bold strategy etc.
Re: It's Looking Likely That Switch 2 Will Have A Handheld PS6 Competitor
What ever Nintendo does Sony eventually does too. Four face buttons, analog stick, rumble pack (force feedback), motion controls, now this. It smacks of desperation, but also it’s just how they compete. Nintendo stakes out new territory, then Sony comes in and offers a more refined, high-end version of the same thing. They do it to other companies too, not just Nintendo. See: PSVR.
Re: Talking Point: Have You Bought A 1TB Micro SD Express Card Yet?
I have a 1.5 tb card in my switch, and it’s over half full… ideally I would transfer all my switch stuff to switch 2, but with switch 2 games being larger and with almost all of them requiring downloads (except first party games… for now) I basically don’t think even 1TB is enough. So I’m waiting to see if a 1.5 comes out. If not it means keeping everything on switch which means that I would probably be smarter to replace my aging launch model with an OLED, rather than buy an inadequate memory card.
Re: Feature: 10 N64 Games We Played In A Wondrous Alternate Timeline
@Uragaiden holy cow! This must have been what I saw! I’m amazed to see it again! As a kid I did not understand the nuance and I spent years believing that this game existed, and this is what it looked like, and I remember telling other kids about it and stuff. It is wild to see the picture again after all these years! Thank you!
Re: Feature: 10 N64 Games We Played In A Wondrous Alternate Timeline
I have an apparently hallucinated memory of reading about a planned Mario 64 sequel that would have allowed you to play as Luigi as well as Mario… and I even recall a screenshot! It was the magic carpet rainbow level, but there was Luigi and Mario both standing there. Years later I tried to look up information about this canceled game only to find that nothing like this was ever announced or shown at all. I’m guessing it is either a completely false memory, or maybe a magazine reported on a rumor and made their own mock up screen shot.
Re: "This Is Even Worse" - GTA 6 Code-In-A-Box Reveal Reignites Game-Key Card Debate
I think the game key cards are worse but what do I know? To me the pros and cons are such that a game key card is basically all the cons and none of the pros of either option. But yeah, in the case of gta 6 I’m sure file size is a big factor. Anyway physical games are going to disappear soon. We’ve all seen this coming for years. Just the other day I was at Walmart and out of habit I went to look at the games… and then I remembered that they were almost all keycards so there is no point in buying them.
Re: Here Are The "Top 200" Best-Selling Nintendo 64 Games In The US
@daftmagician I don’t notice that! That is a complete travesty. That game is awesome.
Re: Opinion: 30 Years On, I've Finally Come Around On The N64 Pad
I always thought it was pretty good. However, the GameCube controller is the most ergonomic controller ever made I think. I think the switch 2 pro controller is very nice as well.
Re: Latest Nintendo Direct Reportedly The Most-Watched Of The Summer Showcases
I thought it was pretty good. The negativity seemed unwarranted. And it was the only presentation I actually watched. With E3 dead, I have basically stopped paying attention to the larger gaming world.
Re: Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Description May Suggest A Faithful 1:1 Remake
I think that description is very vague. I don’t think it says anything clear at all. So we’ll just have to wait and see I guess.
Re: Star Fox 64 Art Director Says Remake's Visuals "Bring Tears To My Eyes"
I gotta say I played the demo last night and I thought it was just okay. Looks good, and the controls were snappy (too snappy? I almost wanted to turn the sensitivity down a bit). But I hate the characterizations. I don’t even like the voice acting in some cases. They made Fox and Falco annoying. They injected, even in just the demo, a weird bit of tension between Fox and General Pepper. And there’s far too much yapping. These characters talk way too much. A lot of what I don’t like about modern games has been injected into this one. I’ll probably still get it though.
Re: Kingdom Hearts Collection Key Art Has Fans Sleuthing To Work Out If AI Was Used
It might be an AI error but it equally might not be. It’s crazy to see all these people w ting like human artists never make mistakes, lol. It all depends on deadlines and who is involved (how experienced, well trained, etc). Hands and faces are notoriously difficult (and feet!) and errors are frequently made there. Look at the hilarious articles ripping apart the many egregious anatomy errors made by Rob Liefeld, once one of the highest paid professional comic artists in the world. I bet if you posted Rob Liefeld art today people would be insisting it was AI because “no human would make this mistake,” lol.
Edit: I didn’t read the comments and apparently people are already talking about Liefeld up there, lol. I guess he is the most obvious example.
Re: Talking Point: What Do You Think Of Link's New Ocarina Of Time Design?
It looks fine. I do agree that the head looks a little large but there’s nothing that makes me concerned really. It’s not a disaster or anything. I think the idea of a photo realistic OoT could be interesting if done well. But I do wonder if the environment maps/layouts will change at all. If not, photo-realism will actually accentuate how close together everything is.
Re: Mina The Hollower Has Now Sold Half A Million Copies
They deserve it. I’m slowly making my way through it and it’s very good. I’m finding it much more difficult than shovel knight so far, at least in the early game, but maybe that’s just me. But anyway that just makes victory that much sweeter when I finally accomplish something, lol.
Re: Nintendo Direct Announced For Tomorrow, 9th June 2026
Finally! Can’t wait! And I’ll get to watch it live for once? Okay guys, time to start speculating wildly!
Re: Switch 2 Absent From Persona 4 And 6 Trailers, And Fans Are Concerned
It would be insane if they didn’t come to switch 2. It makes me think a Nintendo direct may really be coming up soon.
Edit: lol, sixty seconds after posting this direct confirmed for tomorrow!
Re: Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition Will Finally Rise On Switch 2 This August
I hope it runs well. I'd like to play this game.
Re: Mina The Hollower Sold 300,000 Copies In Its First Three Days
I bought it. Love it so far. Due to me crazy busy lifestyle I’ve only played a couple hours so far but it’s great. Congrats to yacht club!
Re: Square Enix Has "No Plans" To Sell A Switch 2 Upgrade For Dragon Quest XI S
Yeah I already bought this game twice. No need for this then.
Re: Dragon Quest XII Gets A New Title Following Complete Development Reset
I’m nitpicking but there’s something off the guy’s posture in that illustration. His head is slightly too far forward. I can’t help seeing it because I’m an artist myself…
Anyway! Really looking forward to this! Hope it releases before I’m 50.
Re: Review: Mina The Hollower - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (Switch 2) - Yacht Club Is Back With Another Masterful Love Letter
Alright! So much waiting! I had a lot of confidence in these guys and it sounds like they delivered! Can’t wait to play it!
Re: Sega's Crazy Taxi Revival Shows Signs Of Life In New Five-Second Teaser
Massively multiplayer? No thanks. Disappointing.
Re: Opinion: Replaying Games Is Better Than Playing Games
Reengaging with artworks over time is crucial for developing a love, appreciation, and interpretation of the artwork itself and the art form in general. This is true of books, movies, music games, whatever. This is one reason that I prefer shorter games. It’s possible to replay a 10-20hour game pretty easily.
Re: Review: Yoshi And The Mysterious Book (Switch 2) - Charming Enough, But Ultimately Lacklustre
Sadly, this is what I expected. This is how it seemed from the trailers.
Re: "That's Amazing!" - Final Fantasy Creator Approves Of FF6 Video Created By AI
AI is useful at a lot of things but it’s not that good at generating videos from scratch yet. Still and all, the AI-ness of the video hardly matters, the real problem is that this open world third person action game thing that has taken over final fantasy and nearly all other game design is terrible, so I think THATS what we need to kill with fire. A real game that can played the way this looks would be a travesty.
Re: Mailbox: Tomodachi Teachings, 'Mainline' Mario, The Artist Formerly Known As Waluigi - Nintendo Life Letters
The mainline Mario games are SMB, SMB Lost Levels (although from an American perspective it would have been SMB 2, but we were deceived!), SMB 3, SM World, SM64, Sunshine, Galaxy, Galaxy 2, 3D World and Odyssey. They are the big console games that at the time of their release represented the state of the art in Mario game design, the games that move the series forward.
Re: LEGO 2K Drive Is Being Delisted From Digital Storefronts Next Week
In the post-digital world they should just stop doing licenses altogether. The artwork (I mean the game) is more important than the license. Car licenses have been an issue in the past. Outrun 2006 is one of the best arcade racers ever made, and you can’t legally buy it anywhere (thankfully I still have my original physical copy, not that it’s at all convenient to play it…) Imagine if every movie with product placement had to be deleted! That’s what we’re doing with video games. Stupid.
Re: Star Fox Is Finally Getting Another Game, Out June 2026 Exclusively On Switch 2
@Whoever that’s a relief if that’s true. Definitely I could see if this does well it could make Nintendo more interested in a new game even if they aren't already considering it. But on the other hand the concerning thing is that the opposite is true too. Another remake of a game that most everyone interested has had ample opportunity to play may sell poorly, and then Nintendo may say, “See there’s just no interest in Starfox.”
Re: Star Fox Is Finally Getting Another Game, Out June 2026 Exclusively On Switch 2
It’s a remake and it’s coming out in just over a month? I mean, does this tell us that Nintendo themselves don’t see this game as very important? It didn’t deserve a proper marketing push, etc, I guess? I don’t know, I love starfox 64 but this is actually a little disappointing…
Re: THQ Nordic Announces Open-World APRG 'Gothic III Classic' For Switch 2
@Reaast thanks, that’s helpful.
Re: THQ Nordic Announces Open-World APRG 'Gothic III Classic' For Switch 2
I’ve always wanted to play these games but I understand they’re only so-so. I’m not sure which one is supposed to be the best.
Re: Talking Point: Do You Prefer Big Directs Or A Steady Flow Of News From Nintendo Today?
@AlonditeFE very good points!
Re: Talking Point: Do You Prefer Big Directs Or A Steady Flow Of News From Nintendo Today?
I prefer the directs for sure. Actually I voted for bringing back E3 and I’m dismayed at how many people didn’t vote for that! It’s much more exciting and convenient to get gaming news in big waves, rather than constant, monotonous drips.
Re: It Sounds Like Peach's Mario Galaxy Movie Backstory Will Be Canon In Future Games
This was the biggest reveal in the movie. My kids of course didn’t see the significance, as they’re pretty young, so it’s all just new information to them. So I turned to me wife and I was like “This is a big deal, we never knew this before,” and she was like “so?” lol, it’s hard to convey to non-gamers how one feels about trivial information you’ve been wondering about for twenty years…
Re: "It's Truly Baffling" - Shigeru Miyamoto Comments On The Mario Galaxy Movie's Critical Reception
I mean I guess I’m in the middle. The movie was kind of weak, but in a way that’s very specific to illumination. All of their movies are like this, kind of. So I wouldn’t say it was particularly worse than other kids movies I’ve seen from that studio. At the same time the criticisms seemed especially harsh, as if this movie in particular was offensively bad, which I just don’t get. Especially complaints about too many Easter eggs or that feels like an advertisement… a lot of the so-called Easter eggs I wouldn’t even count, they’re just things from Mario games I mean, come on. As for the whole thing being an advertisement, I guess so but again more so than any other kids movie with all the merchandise tie-ins? I mean I guess we can say right now that the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat movies will be giant advertisements for Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, right? You see, it’s true trivially but it’s unavoidable, it’s baked into the concept. It’s like some critics were bashing the Mario movie for being a Mario movie at all.
Re: Pokémon & Zelda Rip-Off 'Pickmos' Removed From Steam As Publisher Intervenes
One of the more egregious rip-offs I’ve ever seen. Character designs are so stunningly similar it’s crazy. I am an artist and I can say it is trivially easy to differentiate more than this even if really you’re just following a template/model. Therefore, to me, this goes beyond mere laziness. This seems like it’s actually intended to come off as Nintendo related.
Re: Switch 2 Rating For Bethesda's Newest IP Appears Online
One of my most hoped for ports! I know people don’t like the game, but I will definitely be buying this on switch, assuming it meets at least acceptable levels of performance (my standards aren’t that high).
Re: Xbox Is Reportedly Having "Very Big Discussions" About Exclusivity
Selfishly, I would love for all their big games to come to switch 2. Objectively, I don’t see how they sell a new console without exclusive games. I was honestly surprised to learn they had a new console in the works. I thought all these games going to other platforms was the start of winding down Xbox as a hardware option. In the future I suspect Xbox will be a service that you subscribe to. That’s the direction this is ultimately going I think. But in the medium term, if they intend to sell a new console they will need exclusives.
Re: The Legend Of Zelda Live-Action Movie Has Officially Wrapped Filming
Fingers crossed! Teaser pretty soon I bet, trailer maybe later in the fall? Unless they’re planning for a late 2027 release. But I'm guessing they’re planning on releasing it about a year from now…
Re: Feature: A Look Back At Every Game Nintendo Life Scored 10/10 Over 20 Years
I am happy to say that only about 15 of these got by me. I own and played the vast majority. And of the ones I don’t have, several are on my wishlist, so in the end I will have played almost all of them.
Re: Rumour: Nintendo's 2026 Plans Include New Star Fox & Zelda Remake, No 3D Mario
An Ocarina of Time remake has been rumored (or just wished for) for a long time, and would definitely be cool to see. I just hope they do a good job, treating the game faithfully, and not trying to modernize the game design or adjust the difficulty or anything.
New Star Fox is very surprising. They haven’t really done a good one since the n64, but hopefully they’ll get it right this time.
I don’t know. If the rumor is true the year sounds okay but not amazing. We’ll see.
Re: Nintendo Direct For The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Announced
The optimist in me thinks that a proper Nintendo direct is coming the following week, now that every other kind of direct has taken place. The pessimist in me thinks this it until June.