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I think I’d rather be disliked online and left alone to make games than taken for granted and treated by hordes of strangers as if I exist for their personal gratification.

Online discourse skews toxic as a rule. Being a public figure automatically makes you a target for that toxicity. Most online communities act as feedback loops that froth up individual grievances into an enormous storm of collective madness. If you produce something that people hold as part of their identity, there’s an even greater risk that your vision equates to someone else’s ‘betrayal’.

I feel there’s a certain wisdom in erecting a barrier of irascibility so people don’t push their luck. You can’t please everyone no matter how hard you try, so it might be best to make clear that you are absolutely not trying.

Personally speaking, I can’t say I like Kamiya.

But really, I don’t need to (and he certainly doesn’t need me to).

In a strange sense, so feel it’s really quite a healthy relationship for a creator and consumer to have.

I hope he keeps making games. And I hope I like them. Ultimately, I’m more interested in playing good games than becoming chums with the chap who made them.

@Whirlwound CEX sells.

GAME?

…GAME over.

Getting rid of pre-owned games was a baffling decision. Maybe they can’t compete with CEX as a specialist, but you’d think the secondhand/retro market would be a good secondary source of income and lure in gamers interested in something other than the latest AAA games — which are moving towards a digital ecosystem and can be bought cheaper on Amazon anyway.

It’s hard to out-new the new, but by having a good selection of old stuff, you get a wider variety of wares and a wider variety of customers. I love window shopping second hand shops, and often come away with something I would never have thought of buying if I hadn’t seen it in front of me.

A Comcept of a plan, out which did not pan.

The studio is gone but the pizza flames will burn forever in our hearts.

@sikthvash You could well be right, but I was wondering if it could potentially have the opposite effect.

Opponents tend to push forward into your area when they have map control, as that becomes the front line. This has the effect of bunching them together and putting them on the back foot in terms of stage design (there’s an elevation advantage near one’s own base in addition to multiple pathways).

With a bit of luck, a player may be able to take out a few members of the other team who are pushing too deep, and then use the resulting momentum from Flow Aura to make a comeback.

…Maybe.

Really I have no idea, and won’t until I play the game post-update!

@IronMan30 Sweats appreciatively.

I’m hoping we get a ‘Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2’ + ‘Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park’ Combo Pack so we can experience some Mario’s best platforming in 2D and 3D.

I believe it also contains pretty much all the face buttons on the Switch controller, + and - included.

Final Fantasy VII: Revenue

It’s almost certain to make Square bank.

I really hope they add Biff the Widgeriwog from Sonic and the Seven Celestial Spheres and Douglas the Wombat from Sonic and the Crepuscular Sandwich.

It’s okay, but not quite Bavarian enough for my tastes.

@Dang_69 Try this link:

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/super-mario-bros-wonder-nintendo-switch-2-edition-plus-meetup-in-bellabel-park-upgrade-pack-switch-2/

It’s right at the bottom. If you Ctrl+F for ‘4K’ you should find it!

This looks like a really substantial, thoroughly fleshed-out update.

For those who aren’t interested in multiplayer (a significant but not exclusive part of the package) I think it’s perfectly reasonable to question whether you’d want to pay $20 for it. And perfectly reasonable to conclude that the answer is ‘no’.

But let’s not pretend this is just a ‘resolution bump + mouse mode support’ tinkering-around-the-edges level upgrade. There are many, many more bells and whistles than that. (Well… certainly plenty of bells at least!)

@JayJ The U.S. has always done tariffs. They were typically lower, fewer, and less erratic, but they were there. It’s certainly not a new concept.

Now they’re higher, more frequent, and more erratic than most people can remember.

When the world’s largest economy starts making massive, sudden changes to the structure of the global financial system, the effects are widely and profoundly felt.

How you feel about these effects is one thing, but I feel it’s disingenuous to understate their magnitude.

Hasbro what Nintenhasn’t.

…

Needs work.

@Lizuka

They did get around to it eventually!

The older games were the result of ample time and limited resources.

The modern games are the result of ample resources and limited time.

Nostalgia is obviously a big factor, but I know which I prefer.

@Dee123 https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/09/nintendo-of-europe-announces-leadership-changes-as-president-resigns

“There's some gnarly bosses”

She should know. She’s already toppled Bowser!

This is why adults were a bad idea.

Sonic “Gotta Go Fast But Not Quite As Fast As Mario” The Hedgehog.

@Alcea Your ghost impressions are solid. You sound just like the ghost I met last Tuesday.

I predict a Switch 2 2 by January 2022 at the earliest.

Either that or the long rumoured Switch ONE Pro Lite Series X Advanced OLED Super Hyper Fighting Lighting Edition with Blast Processing.

It means don’t do this.

Safety starts with knowing the difference between a Switch and a sandwich. Some consumers have been known to take the term too literally.

Remember gamers: Practise safe gaming. Keep your console away from your mouth hole.

Brilliant piece.

I’m generally in the ‘let the devs have their vision, even not everyone gels with it’ camp.

But like… it’s really hard to see any ‘artistic merit’ in omitting in-game button remapping, even if it’s buried somewhere deep in the game’s settings menus.

I don’t believe everything should be for everyone. I don’t believe Dark Souls should necessarily have an ‘easy mode’ (although if the devs want to include one, fine). But this isn’t really about game design itself, so much as an easy to ignore option in the settings menu.

@SurprisedRobinChu I believe the Natural History Museum does indeed posses a fine collection of (fossilised) scalps.

@notreallyhere You could say the same of any human feat, really. Was Roger Bannister really the first person to run a sub-4 minute mile? We don’t know. But he was the first person to get it verified.

It’s impossible to fact-check something if the facts against which to check it don’t exist.

We don’t know that shredberg was the first person to complete SMB deathless, just as we don’t know that Nicaragua wasn’t actually the first country to put man on the moon (but didn’t bother telling anyone). Without wishing to get too philosophical, we don’t really know anything. To live in this world is to navigate an ocean of ignorance; we can only make educated guesses (and more often than not, uneducated ones).

All we can say is that shredberg was the first person to demonstrate this accomplishment, and so surely the kudos belong to him. You’d think if anyone else had managed it, they’d at least share a picture of final ‘0 deaths’ completion screen.

@RumandCohibas The biggest development in the UK Christmas Top 40 over the last ten years was when FIFA changed its name.

Metroid Prime 4: Neither Above nor Beyond the Call of Duty

…Really quite far behind, in fact.

But Boxing Day was last week!

Word just in from the portly man in red, who slides down your pipes while you’re tucked up in bed.

“It’s-a me! Merry-Old Nicholas! Mamma-Mia to all! And to all a good Christ-o-mas!

Nintendo should release Mario Kart Galaxy and along with remakes of Mario Karts 1 through 7 to see if they can’t claim the entire Top 10 using just Mario Kart alone.

How do you get balls into a goal?
…
Kikmin.
…
Kick ‘em in.
…
Into the goal.
…
With your feet.

“It’s about to get reeeeal wordy in here.”

The Switch 2 can just about push 4K with the right game and perfect optimisation.

Don’t know what the devs were thinking trying to get 40K out of it.

@Handy_Man Let the man enjoy a drink!

I don’t think we can definitively rule out that Sakurai is having a cheeky tipple.

I mean, it wouldn’t surprise me if that were the case, but he could well be holding a whisky high-ball or lemon sour, both of which are popular alternatives to beer in Japanese watering holes, and similarly alcoholic.

I enjoyed Star Fox Zero — both in spite and because of its rather novel controls.

_hides

@AlanaHagues I like to think of December the 1st as the festive equivalent of April the 1st and Greg-san_ta has given us all a great big HO HO HO to fill us full of merriment and Christmas cheer (and mild embarrassment) this festive season.

@AlanaHagues While the fax itself is probably legit, the ‘splendid game’ bit is seemingly an additional ‘artistic flourish’ drawn in what appears to be MS Paint. @Dogorilla has kindly posted the… ‘correction’.

In the age of AI, there’s something quite refreshing about being fooled by good old MS Paint!

@Dang_69 I’m trying not to pass too much judgement at this point, because despite by gut feeling that this isn’t going to be very well done (and doesn’t really fit with what I like about the franchise) I can’t say I actually know. But ‘generic’ does seem to fit the bill at this stage.

Imagining a worst case scenario as least gives me something to compare the final result against and say, “well at least it’s not this bad!”

Hey guys. Official head of script direction and word writing for the new Metriod game here.

We know you’re excited for Mentroid’s newest adventure and we just wanted to give you a glimpse into the world and words of Metoird Prime 4: Beyonetta before release. Here are some of the dialogues for the new cast of characters that will accompany Meltood on his adventure across the Galaxy.

Myles Morales: “Wow Mantoad! You’re such a swell and powerful guy! And what enormous shoulders you have!”

Tobaki Kusoyama “My tiger senses are tingling. Something twinkly this way comes!”

Private First Class 'Armstrong': “My arm is strong, but your brains is stronger, Meltord! Way too go!”

Android 'VUE-995': “I can’t wait to get home and see my family!”

This is just a taste of the kooky companions who will keep you company in the completed product. Please look forward!!!

They should just give you a few lines of code for the main menu and you have to program the rest of the game yourself. Anything else is pandering to the normies who can’t code.

And pandering helps no one.

…Apart from the people being pandered to, who no doubt appreciate it.

…But it doesn’t help me.

…Which doesn’t really matter as my needs are already met.

…

…But it’s still bad.

Yes, Sony’s current generation console managed to sell more than Nintendo’s last generation console, but the real news here is that Microsoft’s current generation console sold more than Sony’s last generation console. Both Xbox Series X and S outsold the PS4 by a margin of many dozens!

It’s a spicy race at the bottom of the charts!

If your music doesn’t constantly oscillate between 13/4 and 15/4 time signatures while the vocalist describes a film’s core themes and story beats in painfully literal detail… is it even really music?

I don^ut see a resemblance, personally.

This is the worst it’s been in memory!

Seems like the “What’s that, huh? Air Riders!” commercial didn’t have the desired effect.

The British response seems to have been, “Air Riders? …Huh? …What’s that?”

I didn’t expect it to overtake Mario Kart World, but I thought it might be able to pull ahead of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in its opening week — an 8 year old rerelease of an 11 year old Wii U game.

In my head, Wild World is one of my favourite games of all time, but I don’t dare go back and play it in case that’s no longer true.

The AC games became more polished and fully featured with each interaction, but with each round of polishing, a little of the grit that gave the original game its unique texture was lost.

For me, WW was the sweet spot. It’s a touch less weird and quirky than the GC/N64 original, but largely maintains that game’s spirit while folding it into a neat, portable package. There’s not nearly as much as to do as in the modern games, which means you’re forced to just… chill. It feels much less task based, and much more at ease with its own vibe.

If I’d go fishing, it wasn’t because I was particularly desperate for money or fish, but because fishing provided an excuse to listen to the music, to walk along the beach, to watch the clouds float past and the sky turn from blue to orange.

The modern games give you much more scope to change the world, but the appeal of the older ones was just in watching the world change.

My biggest worry is that they’re calling this game Metroid Prime 4 but 4 isn’t prime.

It’s square.

They should have called it Metroid Square 4 or Metroid Prime 5.

@Johnny44 I’m not saying your exasperation is unwarranted, but I also can’t say I suffer from it personally, thanks to… certain buttons!