MinervaX76

They should just try to work with Sony, Microsoft, Steam and Nintendo to try have some “verified time played” flag. If the player has not accrued a required play time (let’s say, 2 hours) let them post a review but don’t count it towards the average, and don’t make the review text public.

@Bruh i think the point is only the main Mario team (working on the big 3D or side scrolling series) gets to create derivates and do modifications. Teams working on side content are stuck.

What confuses me is the mobile Doctor Mario, that has created quite a few Doctor variations of characters, like Doctor tower of goombas

@RPGamer Always thought you were more of an FPS Gamer.

@sanderev same!

@sanderev There is a lot of overlap among all markets, but if there is a bias, I have always had this [non research funded] feeling that the markets are more divided with the following bias:

European - Bias towards realistic story focused narrative games
American - Bias towards multiplayer and shooting eachother
Japan - Bias towards RPGs (and make it mobile because our public transportation is awesome!)

@westman98 I know it might feel that way from a global perspective, but in the US, right now, the race is a lot closer than you would think.
31.22m XBox Ones in the US vs 36.86 PS4.

They just need a small boost in sales to "win" in America. That is, of course, only America. There is no chance in hell they will gain much traction in Mobile Friendly Japan, and Europe has quite a different history with consoles than the US (Europe liked Sega over Nintendo for some reason...)

One day after I finished the game 😅
Although I had zero complaints with the experience, and still got to start the new extra content.

@Pod I’m calling the next gen war results already:

Japan -Nintendo wins
America - XBox wins
Europe - PlayStarion wins

@Aaron00 yea... who would guess Ring Fit Adventure would outsell The Last of Us 2!

@Reprise I guess it’s just marketing. Limited run games are extremely well done, other similar publishers are not as known. Only other one I actually know off the top of my head is special reserve games.

At this point anyone knows collectors will buy up any new title for either console to keep their collections “complete.” And it can also be profitable for some creators to keep a few copies stashed around to personally eBay a few years from now.

Not that I think that’s a bad thing, more power to them! I actually love seeing old consoles get new physical games regardless.

@Cool_Squirtle or not long enough, some of these people maybe should be in quarantine for life....

I guess in pokemon games, badges have always served as “trainer level”, no?

@COVIDberry you miss the point: this service is primarily used for piracy.

I’m pretty sure these individuals could come up with a mod that only allows the balding up of save data and not the playing of unauthenticated games. But then they would not have anywhere near as much business.

@COVIDberry the paid service discussed in this article is mostly used for piracy. If you think it’s mostly used just to backup save files, I have a bridge for sale you might be interested on.

@COVIDberry no excuse for piracy.

What the fffffried chicken??

@MysticX I’m sure, if they really wanted to just offer that functionality, they could offer a mod that only allowed that and not to play pirated games.

This brings back some memories. Back in the day I used to work on this store that would sell (not install) PSX mod chips. We were very clear that the version we sold was only designed to bypass region locking. We sold this mostly because we also sold imported games.

We had to clarify this to almost every customer because EVERYONE would ask about playing piracy. Every so often some dumb customer, that assumes we were just covering our own reads by saying it would just play imports, would walk in and say we cheated them because they could not play game “backups”. 😒

So, let’s be real: people doing these mods want to steal games.

@Haida this game is so big, I’m shocked they don’t have these issues more often. I just can’t blame their server infrastructure for this, it’s insane they can handle as much as they can already.

What I can point fingers at, is the choice to run events like this only once, at a specific time, and then never again.

These events should have re-runs (if they don’t already, I don’t play the game) at least for a week. That alone would alíviate the issue, by distributing the server load.

Can’t wait to get my digital preorder so I, too, can experience the joy of deleting it!

@sanderev to be fair: Atlus of America community rep basically told the community they had to beg louder if they ever want the series on the switch.

If there is a licensing lockdown, it seems to be kept kinda secret between Sony and Atlus in Japan.

@Entrr_username Q was on a handheld, seriously doubt we will see a Q3 on Switch, but who knows.

Scramble, might have canon connections but it’s at the end a licensed Warriors game.

I’m sure there is some financial deal going on between Sony and Atlas locking this series exclusively on PS, at least as far as consoles goes. We all should know by now the industry sees PC as a separate thing and not as console competition.

64,Sunshine, Galaxy 1+2

I’d leave a 3DLand remaster for a different package (Super Mario 3D Land & World.)

Also would yet another compilation of all NSMB titles (except U, obviously, since it’s already available for Switch.)

It still surprises me that MS continues to offer brand new Minecraft game’s on competitors platforms. I know it was part of the deal when they bought the studio to always maintain core Minecraft, but titles like this could be XBox pushers.

Mind you, not complaining, on the contrary: admiring their dedication to keep all things Minecraft cross-platform.

Preordered from Amazon. Still trying to finish Assassins Creed Odyssey last bit of DLC, but once that’s out of the way, it’s Xeno time!

@nessisonett my guess? This “Definitive Edition” is 1.1 to the 1.0 release for the Wii.

Need both Zeldas, and Xeno.
Star Fox might actually be great without the game pad gimmicks.

Would also buy Mario 3D World (although would be cooler if it was a 3DS Land+ WiiU World compilation.)

@glaemay video games, like any other art form, get its most inspired work pieces out of lower budget productions/shops.

Disney/Universal/Sony dont throw 200 million at experimental art films, they toss a fraction of that to those projects.

@JR150 If you care only about the combat mode, online or with friends locally, buying early should have given you over a year of fun. That’s what you tend to pay for when you buy early at full price, and slowly get DLC.

Compilations like this are usually done in an attempt to revitalize the online community precisely for the benefit of those that are already playing the game.

If all you care for is story modes, though, it’s best to just wait a year later and buy the games then, as they will likely always be cheaper and include all DLC (except Nintendo first party games that almost never do down in price, nor seem to ever bundle DLC.)

@sixrings it would had been ridiculously expensive and unnecessary, TBH.

Nintendo my be doing better now, money wise, but they were about to go bankrupt at the launch of the Switch. They could not afford any stupid trade-in program, especially when people could always just sell the things online themselves.

@sixrings Super Smash Ultimate is pretty much it’s own game, not a port. Tropical freeze is one of the few I’m missing on the Wii U, but NSMNU did have touch features that got removed and replaced with entirely different features (new playable characters that actually play differently instead.)

@sixrings I’m a Wii U owner, hell not only am I one, I have almost every singe exclusive Wii U game.

You want an exchange program? Sell your Wii U copy eBay (don’t trade it in to Game or GameStop.)

@nessisonett many of these games were designed with two-screen experiences, and touch screen, as essential features that mean a “port” is not just a port, and requires significant work.

Even if the Switch had something like a disk drive in the dock, it would just not be able to simply run Wii U games. Same holds true for a virtual machine for just downloads.

Easiest first party games to port over likely would had been just Breath of the Wild (that didn’t use second screen or touch at all) or Mario Kart 8 (that used the second screen only for a honk) and those happened to be the first ports we got.

Honestly, the only solution to this is one that would hurt indies: making the submission process a lot harder and expensive. Big up-front submission fee (1k?, refundable if it does not pass submission process) for instance.

Ugh, that game is garbage.

@CooperFrank given New Super Mario U Delux outsold Mario Maker, I doubt we seen the end of 2D Mario’s.

@nessisonett they can’t just legally grab any of those translations and use them. If they want to own the copyright, and not be liable for using someone else’s work, they need to pay up for their own translation, something they might not feel is worth the investment at this time.

I have lost almost all respect for Bethesda. I gave this a shot on mobile and this is the kind of garbage designed to separate inpatient people from their money, and to bring actual fun to absolutely no one.

At least Nintendo has the common sense of keeping their freemium garbage exclusively on phones, and don’t try to push that junk on console gamers.

I’m not sure if this is a game I would enjoy, the plot seems kiddy even by Pokémon standards, but man... I really dig that art style!

Based on the article, dungeon crawling is not the best, but man do I wish Mainline Pokemon had some actual dungeon crawling (with bosses) akin to traditional RPGs, that alone tempts me to give this a shot. Maybe I’ll hold until the inevitable $46 sale (Nintendo games dont go any cheaper than that...)

@Zeraki yea zero 1 is hard. Tutorial boss killed me like 3 times! And not more because I eventually remembered doing it months ago in an emulator. That save assist point right outside bosses is golden.

I have one big complaint: the non-game menus (tutorial Windows that pop up as you starting the game) have ridiculously tiny font size. Hard to read on handheld mode.

I’m liking the collection a lot, but kinda wish they gone a bit further. This is not just an emulation but more of a port, I feel (they changed it with the save points and competitive modes.) I wish one of the features considered had been to use the full screen area for a bit more viewing space. At least the Zero games feel a bit cramped, and text pop ups hilariously chunky.

Now, if they enabled this file syncing with either PS4 or XBone...

@SKTTR Lol, good one! 🤣

... that was a joke right? I think it was but these days you never know 😅

@tendonerd nah, in the gaming industry Triple A usually just means “super high budget.” Just like Hollywood likes to call movies with 200 million dollar budgets “blockbuster films” even if they flop.

Assassins Creed is one of the few series I would prefer to play on my XBoneX. Would be cool to see odyssey or Origin get the Witcher 3 treatment, but not sure I would go it them. It does not help Ubisoft won’t release the full games on cart and demands downloads.

Interesting. Always thought Sora himself belonged to Square Enix.

Easier for me to say what I dont care for:

Port of “Etrian Odyssey” series
Port of “13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim”
Port of “Persona Q”

Everything else: GIVE ME!!!!

Isn't Bayonetta 2 full of Nintendo references, similar to how the first one was full of Sega references?