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Re: Nintendo Asks Wii U Owners To Refrain From Using "Unauthorised" Online Services

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@dr-ghost
Honestly, yeah. When switch came out, I saw this clearly, and was very upset at how they were handling things. When Wii came out in Europe, they ran a promo campaign with a significant reward. When they price dropped 3ds, people who bought it from before the drop were compensated. From Wii U's collective loss from their mistakes to switch? Nothing. Absolutely nothing, with the added bonus of "oh here, we made most of our library for the immediate future out of Wii U games, but we added extra features that you can't get on Wii U, so you gotta buy them again.".

Re: Castlevania Dominus Collection Lands New Update, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

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@smolsauce This. This would be wonderful. Granted, I already effectively have 3 of the 4 games, but it'd still be nice.

@mlt This is almost certain to not happen unfortunately. Apparently, Sony themselves took part in getting the rondo and SotN games onto more modern platforms. To an extent, they have the right to deny a possible collection to others if true.

Re: Reminder: Sonic X Shadow Generations 'Sonic 3 Movie Pack' DLC Now Available

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@SalvorHardin
Eh. It's what I've been doing. Long and tedious process, especially since I want to 100% the game.
And yeah. One stage, 5 dollars. Like, Wii U era, DLC bundles were more $20 for immense amounts of content. A fourth of that now only equals one stage?
It reminds me of the Pokemon DLC, and how I can't help but compare it to the special edition games back in the day.

Re: Review: Fairy Tail 2 (Switch) - Hurt By Its Breakneck Pace, But Still A Step Up

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@-wc-
Heh. I played it much later on, as a Wii U VC type game. The far north thing was like, iirc, in lategame, I foolishly chose to fast travel to where, I think Jeff started out. And uhhh. Getting back was a bit much. There wasn't enough room to actually fast travel back. I still need to play Origins, and am contemplating how might play the elusive Mother 3... As much as I want an official English release, they've had plenty of chances and provided nothing. But I also don't want to just grab it off the internet.

Re: Book Review: An Unendorsed Anthology Of Club Nintendo - A Terrific Tribute Tome

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I miss Club Nintendo. To me, the change from CN, to My Nintendo is one of a number of representations of how Nintendo has gone from being a gaming company for the consumers, to more a flat out business in it much more for the money than before.
I only got a handful of the rewards initially. But I did eventually get to splurge on goodies at the very end.

Another unfortunate thing is that it took far longer for Club Nintendo to reach here in the US.

Re: Opinion: Chrono Trigger Isn't The Only Great Time-Travel RPG On DS

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I remember this game! At the time, I had been enjoying a few different time travel games, Chrono Trigger among them. (And FFXIII-2, which imo, vastly improved over the original)
Radiant Historia was glorious. I forget why I never tried replaying it. Maybe cause 100% was pain? Perfect Chronology was one I wanted, but I never had the money while it was around for a fair price. My younger bro DID get it however, so I have the DLC...

Re: After Almost 30 Years, Japan Finally Has A New Best-Selling Pokémon Game

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Rather bothered by this. I enjoyed Scarlet, but not like, top seller enjoyed it. I remember a number of months I didn't dare touch it because of a save data erasing bug they introduced after launch, and didn't bother saying when it was fixed. After Pokemon Home integration was brought in, raids became overly difficult to do.
The dlc is also a fair bit more expensive than I'm willing to pay.

Re: Sonic Team Producer Says Revivals Of Older Entries Remain Appealing

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I'd love to see a Sonic Adventure bundle, or Sonic 06 remake. Remaking Sonic 06 would be about more than just the game itself. I gather that game was why the devs stopped letting players play as characters like Silver and Blaze. If that gets fixed, we can only hope.
As for the game itself, P06 improves the gameplay, though I've not played that myself. They could potentially make some story beats less cringe. Maybe open up for a sequel. (Because, uhh, PLEASE remove the kiss scene. Come up with a better way for events to unfold.)

Re: Sega Delisting 'Mega Drive Classics' On Switch eShop This December

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Wow. This is an unpleasant surprise.
Glad I already got this.
Also, I'm hearing about input lag for this, and the Megaman collections. How bad was it? I played through the two classic MM collections, and the fist MMX collection, but never really noticed anything. (Hadn't played MMX before, but had played MM2 on VC. I got the psn version of the classic collections if that matters.)

Re: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door On Switch Has Already Outsold The GameCube Original

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Huh. I'm surprised the Gamecube version didn't sell more, given its popularity. Then again, this is switch we're talking about. Nintendo's golden goose. I occasionally have the perception that they see anything that brings them money, meaning any switch entry in a major franchise, as the "definitive entry" in a series, or a definitive model to use, and in most cases, that worries me a great deal. But here, it's encouraging.
As for the people who didn't like TTYD, part of its appeal was the fact it was a simple, turn based RPG. Accessible, yet sometimes challenging. There was humor, lore, and darkness to be found, and it was genuinely interesting.
I'm also rather surprised that Super Paper Mario the the series biggest seller. It was my first, and I greatly enjoyed it, but I gather it was hated.