Madao

Love when games add little details like that

Lots of whataboutism in here.
Reality is, he sold hacks, distributed pirated software and raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars doing so. Like it or not, these are crimes. Fact he was at Dominican Republic also proves he knew he was committing crimes.

This looks really rough. But so weird seeing a Sony game on the Switch.

This is what elevated the direct from decent to great. Can't wait!

Really impressed by how good this looks considering it is running on Switch. At first I did not think it was Switch footage, but the resolution is very low to not be.

Damn I was hyped until I realised it was Warriors.

@FishyS It is not that bad, the town has quite a few quick travel points

MHS2 is an OK game imo, nothing special but not bad either. Kind of like the various smaller DS/3DS RPGs with very basic mechanics. The story was also nothing special, but it did do a good job presenting it.

For me it dragged on longer than its mechanics could support. I did manage to finish it in the end but I had to force myself to do it. Combat was just far too basic and it never got more complex.

"So I think we're at a place where we really want to continue to make content together"

But wait, the psychology experts of the internet told me that they hated each other and that Kit was abusing Krysta.

ThIs HaS NoThInG To Do WiTh NiNtEnDo WhY ArE YoU PoStInG IT

It is a chonk, but looks really comfortable to hold.
Even handheld I only play at home so I don't mind the size. Those bezels are massive though.

The key here is that they were selling their hacks/mods and they were also distributing pirated games.

People can legally hack/mod their consoles and provide said hacks/mods for free to others. If you start making money out of it though and you also distribute pirated software, you are in for a nasty surprise.

The mainline titles of most big 3rd party companies are not even released on Nintendo consoles. There would be no point buying any of them, their main market is elsewhere.

I am really enjoying the game. Glad it is doing well, hopefully they will start building on top of this instead of going back to the old tired formula.

I am just here to read the comments telling Reggie what he should be doing with his life.

It is not just MS and Sony that are buying up companies. Others are doing it aggressively as well and have been for the last year or two.

This is not a random occurrence, sadly this is happening because they are all chasing the "metaverse".

Charlie Day might be the best possible choice to voice Luigi. His default voice is how I would imagine Luigi's voice to be IRL.

Got to play the game a bit today. Graphics are serviceable. Nothing to write home about, but good enough to not detract from the experience.

Sadly it follows the paradigm of the majority of exclusive Switch games we are getting the last 2-3 years where there is noticeable technical issues (Monster Hunter Stories 2, SMTV, NMH3, etc).

The Switch is showing its age, especially as the games coming out for it get more ambitious, so it is what it is.

The overall good sentiment from people that pirated it and now the positive reviews seal the deal for me.
I was waiting (10 years) for GF to spice up the games and it seems they finally delivered.

If I remember correctly, at one of the initial presentations they mentioned that it was the new direction for pokemon. It was pretty clear that it is a mainline game, it is just that the mainline is changing style (finally).

@Bizzyb Gamefreak is finished

@WhiteUmbrella Any kid I know that grew up with Pokemon, grew to love animals. Loving and caring for the Pokemon is one of the messages the game promotes. Pokemon are not real animals, what a Pokemon likes and dislikes is defined well in the game's universe.

Are you pretending that this is comparable to blind gun violence? Like really?

Makes sense. Characters of a franchise made for 5 year olds have no place being associated with gun violence.

While I am not a fan of a huge company with so many popular franchises getting bought up and becoming an exclusive company, in this case I think it is for the best.

Activision-Blizzard's games were getting worse and worse, Blizzard was rotten to the core and Bobby Kotick trying to sweep everything under the rug without any accountability.

A new leadership and a new vision was needed and this might provide it. MS has done a really good job lately with their first party titles, so I am hoping they manage to get Activision-Blizzard to also turn for the better.

Props to Samsung, they know their mobile OLEDs.

I like the idea of Mario Kart including characters from many franchises, only if each character has unique abilities. Otherwise I don't really see the point.

Looks very similar to BotW visually. Up close things look as good as you would expect from a Switch game. In the distance they should have tried to be more aggressive with trying to hide the ugliness, like BotW. BotW has fog and low brightness on distance objects so you can't make things out clearly, hiding things like what we see here with trees sticking out like sore thumbs.

Perfectly happy tbh with the visuals and performance (assuming it is not carefully picked to look better than it is). Now to wait for reviews to see if the game is actually any good.

Oh boy, can't wait to be the owner of a link to a png that will also stop working after a year or two.

It was a decent game imo. Just a direct sequel with a lot of improvements, but no innovations. Not worth the full price, but that is the Pokemon tax.

People that are into NFTs for games are strictly people that chase moonshots in cryptocurrency. They might tell you otherwise, but they are just lying to you and possibly also to themselves.

NFTs offer nothing that we couldn't do already. Look at steam marketplace for example. NFTs do the same with a much higher impact on the environment.

"But I don't really own my TF2 hat, while with NFTs I would". Sure, but if valve brought down TF2 even if it was using NFTs you would still have no use for your damn hat, so what is the difference? You still rely on the companies to support your NFTs.

Also to add to the above. You technically own a piece of text that links to the hat (so it relies on a regular DB to link to it). So if TF2 went down you would just own a piece of text and no hat.

The only part that has aged really poorly are the controls. If they add 2 stick support, the game will be a banger.

I am confused, is the article satire?

I can't help but feel second hand embarrassment every time a third party makes better alternatives to Nintendo's poor non-game software offerings. Things like dekudeals and now this, which just uses Nintendo's existing functionality but better. Nintendo really needs to increase their investment on their non-game software.

I really want to see Sakurai work on something different. I feel like he is being wasted working on Smash. I love the game, but I feel like the core of it is mostly set in stone now, other people should be able to take over and even bring fresh ideas.

A new IP by Sakurai or a revive of a dormant one would be great. I would not mind seeing him work on a new gen game as well, he is a 3rd party developer after all.

I don't like Logan Paul, but there is literally nothing wrong with what he did in this case. The end result looks great as well.

Ubi was already on a tight rope. Dipping into the NFT scam was probably the last straw for many of the employees.

Definitely a step up compared to the disastrous last year. Hope the momentum carries over to the next year.

A Nintendo game with no voice acting, shocking.

Well the company behind the Wiimote tech did pitch it to Sony and MS first and they declined. So I guess Bill Gates did have a good reason to be pissed off.

Hope this turns out well. Trailer has me a bit worried. Aside from the ruins, it feels like the open world is basically what you would get if you were to use UE4's defaults only blurrier.

I don't see how Smash could work as a 3D fighter. Is there a good example of a 3D fighter where up to 4-8 players can play in the same arena? Or any 3D fighter with huge arenas with a lot of height variation like smash?

All 3D fighters I can think of have 2 players that are mostly locked looking at each other with the camera in the middle and most of their maps are small and circular.

Anyway, for me smash just needs a better single player experience. I think most of the 3rd party characters will be gone in the next entry and I don't mind the roster being smaller.

Huh did not expect selling roms to be that profitable that they accept paying 10 million without a lot of fuss.

Good to see Reggie in the game awards again!

Also, what's up with the occasional manchildren in the comments thinking they are in charge of other people's lives? Seems they show up in every news piece involving people that have left Nintendo specifically.

Good luck to them. After making the 3rd best Metroid game of all time, they deserve it.

Not surprised that a tech engineer wanted to move to something better hardware-wise. There was a really big shift in techniques with 360/PS3 that was not possible before, which is very exciting for a person working close to the metal. Wii being underpowered and similar to the GC meant they would just do refinements on what they had already instead of moving to new tech.

I enjoyed the Wii as a console overall, but it was also the console that made Nintendo my secondary choice to game on, PC becoming my main. I think Nintendo knows it is that way for most people since then so they don't need to complete on tech, since the majority of owners can get that on their main machines.

Nintendo focuses on offering a different experience instead while keeping good profit margins on hardware and lower game development costs. As long as they keep that different experience compelling (like they did with the Wii and Switch) people will always pick Nintendo for their secondary gaming option.

I would give it a 8.8/10
Not great not terrible.

Damn Tencent must have invested into half of the whole industry by now. Hope this helps Playtonic expand on their vision.

Sounds like the review is spot on, congrats to the reviewer.
Making a remaster of an old Nintendo DS game with less features and asking for more money than the original deserves no more than the score given.

@themightyant Ah you are correct forgot about the last release date push back.

Cyberpunk released September 2020, weird that they decided to put it on the awards this year since it would have definitely been considered for last year. Then again these awards are just a marketing show so no point thinking too deeply about it.

Quite a weak year overall for the industry, I love Metroid Dread but this GOTY list is poor.