Markatron84

Colour me interested. This looks gorgeous and I'm always down for games like this.

@Krambo42 SHHHHHHH!!!!

Donkey Kong 64 is proof that bigger isn't always better. The constant backtracking to switch characters just to back-backtrack to collect different coloured bananas or some other nonsense was so egregiously boring. Rare had a great balance with Banjo-Kazooie, but completely botched it with Tooie and DK64.

I haven't played a Mario Party game since the Wii. I forget which one it was. The original release of Mario Party Jamboree wasn't on my radar but Jamboree TV looks really fun.

@Pillowpants [Removed - unconstructive feedback] 🤣

Everyone calls Raikou, Entei, and Suicune the legendary dogs, but they're cats surely? I mean, look at them.

I've never understood why people fawn over Kaze and the Wild Masks. It's really not great.

@AndreyBoarao I know what you mean. I'm heading out to work in 10 minutes and the urge to call in sick is strong, not gonna lie 🤣

@Solomon_Rambling it is pretty easy so far. Although, I imagine that the actual challenging stuff comes after the credits roll. Odyssey had some pretty tricky stuff after you "beat" the game.

So far, about 5 hours in? Easily a 9/10. And it might very well end up a 10/10. This is just the most fun I've had with a game in years and the next 3D Mario game can take all the time it needs, as far as I'm concerned.

It hasn't made me motion sick at all, but I think I'm really lucky in that I've never suffered with motion sickness; not in moving vehicles, VR, nothing. I sympathise with those who do though. This game in particular looks like it'd be a nightmare if you're sensitive to sudden or erratic camera movements.

@The_Pixel_King

but let’s hope DK has a tail

He doesn't. He's an ape. 😜

This is one of those games that, over the course of the next six or seven years, will end up selling ridiculous numbers. You only need to look at how many old Switch games are still consistently in the top 40 to come to that conclusion.

They're both bad.

This DK Artist mode is the stuff of nightmares, truly. I may never sleep again.

@unoclay They can't do that; they source a good third of their news from there 🤣 They should boycott Twitter/X, but they won't.

@Kiyata welcome to the Internet.

Nintendo is so naïve sometimes, it's adorable.

@gcunit ok, I'm going to have to look into that. I'm a huge David Jason fan and I'd like to know whether I shouldn't still be 😐

@MJL if it was based on the original and they got David Jason to record VO, that alone would have been worth the asking price.

@Kingy more importantly, he played "schoolboy" in Emmerdale episode #8125.

@axelhander HYUUUURGH!!!

@ButterCashier

But... Link's hair is the wrong colour!

Please, please, PLEASE tell me you're joking. 🤣

If you go on Spotify, or YouTube Music, or whatever music streaming service, I absolutely 100% guarantee there are countless Tony Hawk's Pro Skater playlists for every game in the series. Turn the in-game music off and listen to one of those 🤷

It's definitely faster than Switch 1 but nowhere close to hitting the download speeds I should be getting.

On Steam, with a wired connection, I get 850-920mbps (depending on what else I've got going on), whereas with Switch 2 it caps out at around 150mbps (wired). Switch 1 (wired) I was lucky to get over 100mbps though, so it's an improvement.

The only saving grace is that Switch 2 games are never going to reach the 150GB+ ridicu-sizes

@Yosher

I saw a video that shows all of the characters react to blue shells. Every character looked on in shock or surprise... while the NPC drivers just had a blank, boring stare.

Blank boring stares are no good. Let the NPC characters utilise the Luigi Death Stare™ and those blue shells will turn right around 😁

@Dev-N the way Nintendo has gone all out with the ridiculous characters in MKW, I'd honestly be surprised if we don't get characters like E. Gadd and Florian. I for one would main the f**k out of Toadsworth if Nintendo puts him in there.

My only gripe with MKW is the character select screen. Why do all the individual character costumes have to have their own slots on the roster? Would it have been so hard to let us select Mario and then select our desired costume from a drop-down menu?

@milonorth There are definitely lower scores.

Final Minecraft Movie Trailer Still Makes Film Look Ugly As Sin would've been a more accurate headline.

By that point there will be a Pokémon that looks like a stapler, you mark my words.

@nhSnork don't criticise the articles. Trust me, it's not taken on board or acted upon. 😉

[surprise]Huuuhhhh??????!!![/surprise]

They'll probably relaunch the program as a Nintendo Switch Online perk or something.

@Ulysses they'll wait 3 years then just switch it on out of nowhere, like they did with Bluetooth.

We're just straight up ignoring the game being called Lylat Wars in some markets, huh?

@Olliemar28

Or $50 trade-in at GameStop

I legitimately cackled at this.

@JohnnyMind

fingers crossed that's the reason why Nintendo and Amazon went after these and that the former will leave alone reproduction cartridges for no longer officially supported systems etc

Wait right there, I need to go dig out that clip of J. Jonah Jameson laughing. Be right back.

@WhiteUmbrella you're reading too much into my initial comment and my reply to yours. You might be a bit too sensitive to be using the internet.

@WhiteUmbrella

and/or

As of the time of writing, we still don't really know what the new USB slot does.

I'm going to go out on a limb - and call me insane, if you want - and say that it's probably some sort of port used to charge the Switch 2 and/or for plugging USB devices into.

@Sonicka

simply leap between different acts/worlds from each game series (like Storybook / Lost World / Boost / Classic / Adventure / Movie / etc...)

Ooooh, I like your thinking there.

GAME is the gift that keeps on giving. Every time I see that name in a headline, I rub my hands together in anticipation of something juicy and/or stupid.

@Lord that's legitimately disgusting.

Wario World, the epitome of mediocrity.

LUIGI IN SPAAAAAAACE!!!

Ask all the companies still releasing PlayStation 4 and Xbox One games in 2025 if it was a given that Nintendo would still support Switch in some capacity after Switch 2 comes out.

I'll never understand Nintendo. Port of DKC Returns? £50 mate. Remaster of Metroid Prime? Yours for only £35.

I mean, yeah, it's been nearly 8 years since the Switch released; sales were bound to slow down somewhat by now. Still, 3 million copies of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold in September-December at this point in the game isn't shabby in the slightest.

Has anyone here bought/played Pokémon Scarlet and Violet recently? Are they good now?

I hate it here.

I'm sorry, but "the artist Limp Bizkit"? Who did the research for this article? My nan? 🤣 Limp Bizkit is a band, my guy.

@Rainz I played Mario Wonder for the first time late last year and oh my god what a game!!

@Krull oh, I envy you, playing Portal for the first time! I actually replayed it a few months ago and it still slaps. Hope you carry on enjoying it. It's only about 2-3 hours long but what a 2-3 hours that is. Jump straight into Portal 2 when you're done; you won't be disappointed.