I am so tired of action RPGs. There's some that are absolutely great, but mostly they just feel like they are very hard and not relaxing. It is great when you want a challenge, but that's a sometimes thing and yet there's so many action RPGs. Can we get some more RPGs that are relaxing?
Earthbound could be played with one hand and that was freaking amazing. I want more of that.
This is not what I hope to see, but I think they are going to tease Odyssey 2 and show a SMB remake. Basically making the entire original game look like Wonder but add flourishes that make the original game in line with movie Mario. But the game will allow a one button return to the original and this is their 40th celebration, leaving the 50th open for the massive collections as well as remakes of every single game that has been made in the 10 years past.
The direct will also mostly be Prime and a few more teasers. I suspect a few surprises for Christmas that won't shake the world as well. This will be about 40% Metroid 40% Mario give or take 5% each. The rest will be Christmas stuff.
@Alex79uk Does the S come with a screen and battery? Those aren't free.
People seem to think dollar equals quality. Dollars spent go towards hardware that are not 1:1. The power is not there. The Switch 2 has a lot of added expense for a 120hz screen that the other systems offload on you to purchase. The switch 2 is really like buying a system and a TV at the same time. So unless you want to spend 1000 dollars there are compromises.
That's my point. Stop complaining about the compromise. It's an upfront aspect. I feel like this is a person who wants to live in the mountains with no neighbors and also on the beach. You can't have both.
If you want high frames you need to spend a lot of money and/or sacrifice resolution and/or performance. These things aren't good compromises with a handheld system. Calling it a hybrid is just pure bs. The dock can provide some overclock cooling and some upscaling tricks but it's not a new system. It's a handheld that can output to tv. At this point we are 90% of the way to that being the same as a console and that's wonderful. But in that 10% the issue remains that we can't have frames, resolution, and cheapness.
I will stand behind my statement that the 120hz screen was a mistake. Nintendo should have stuck with OLED 60Hz and had the screen component cost 60% of what it does now. Mainly because a lot of you tech crazy folks would have had your expectations limited. The only game that takes advantage of this is an indie that's like a Gameboy game.
I hear there's a handheld that's going to cost 1500, go get that and then complain every hour when the battery runs out.
But what we don't need is reviews that say a 9/10 game gets a 6 because the frames are locked to 30. 30 with no dips is solid and what you need to expect on the Switch 2. If that's not good enough for you, I recommend selling your system and chase that dragon elsewhere.
I can't believe you wrote that many words to say 'I only like games that are 60 fps.'
This is a handheld sir. I think you need to transfer off Nintendo Life to save yourself the horror of playing games at the same frame rate all movies have been played at. (Actually that was 24.)
I am so absolutely sick of people making graphics their primary concern, and it's been like this for my entire life. But it's doubly concerning when you're complaining because the cheaper handheld can't do what the absurdly expensive systems can.
You praise this cash grabber and then slam it for something that's not even realistic to request from a game at the start of a console life cycle.
In my mind the system has DK, Kart, Cyberpunk and some Switch 2 editions because I am not counting games without true physical editions. If you're going to include the Switch games the library is 10/10. If you're including licenses for games you will eventually not have any right to play it goes up to 8. But as of right now there's a couple of very high quality games and a couple of good games available in physical so I can't say the library is bad. It's not bad.
Always remember that we used to have like 2 games for months with a new system.
But I must say that I am just playing Balatro and other older games. My dollar per hour value is good still.
If you're the type of gamer that can't handle 30 fps, you shouldn't have a Switch 2. So many of the ports are going to require that.
This is why I don't understand why Nintendo wasted money pushing the machine to 120 when it's going to be like 15% of games at best that use it. The system could have been cheaper or had OLED if they just kept it down at 60hz and that refresh ms problem probably wouldn't be there.
If you pray to the alter of high frame rate you probably should stick to playing on very expensive machines. I'll be happy with a non soap opera effect machine.
You can't do non mouse controls and this game still be this game. You would break the small player base in two and it would end. The controls are the strongest and weakest part of the game.
In a situation such as that, you need to make everything else as well polished and engaging as possible. They simply didn't. Miis might have helped, but honestly they needed to go bigger and tried to make this game like fortnite. (Despite the fact that I am not a fan of that, many are ) Start with a great character creator and lots of charm in levels, with added variety in game mode and flourishes. Then introduce the Nintendo IP once people get comfortable with the game so no one accuses Nintendo of making light of wheel chair users.
They could even have shown Mario hanging out with characters who switch from a standard wheelchair to a sport wheelchair to signify they use this as sport and mobility, and they invite Mario to play with them and he eagerly jumps into the chair. Then it's about inclusion and not exploitation. They would have been celebrated for it. Then a few years later they might have Darth Vader dunking on some meme character and no one would have batted an eye.
It's shocking to me that there's only two quality games in the top five and the other are AAA slop.I mean, I am not trying to account for taste. It just feels like only two I feel really hot the level of quality I would consider necessary to be evergreen titles.
@SalvorHardin Mega Man X Mega Man X: Deus X Machina X Deus Ex Human Revolution X Invisible War X Maverick X Monster X Hunter X Crusader Kings 3.
My favorite new game where Zero hunts monster hunters who have been using augments to become more than monsters and human via a conspiracy theory, but your busy getting Mega Man to have arranged marriages to keep the Light family tree from being absorbed by the Sigma family tree. The best 4x, sandbox, platformer, romance simulator, slash em up game.
X is definitely a brain rot effect.a very, let's just invent an emoji to express a vibe rather than use language. It feels like no one cares if it's just a caveman grunt, as long as you get it is IP crossover, or at least the vibe of it.
This feels like a marketing team is trying hide that there's any art here to be had. This is thing you want times other things you want to make 'big number excitement- must buy!'. I just don't understand being inside a program as the code is changed, but I feel it in these little idiosyncrasies. It feels like finally seeing the Matrix, but not gaining an ability to fly... But just an ability to process ***** more and either decide to consume less or more in accordance with you esoteric principles.
Ultimately this will never factor into my decisions about a game, it will only mean there will come a time where someone says, "no that's actually pronounced differently". Okay, sure, fine, I am not versed in you language. I only speak English and bad English. The game only speaks 0 and 1. So I guess this is all just a fan translation.
Someone call Jacob Geller, this feels borderline philosophy and I know he can handle it with gravity.
Shovel Knight is a game I keep expecting to be able to get on sale for like 5 bucks but I never seem to see it go down. Instead more games and subtitles get added and now I'm not even sure what I wanted to buy in the first place.
I would have rather had this game then Kart to be honest. But I won't be buying it because I know without NSO it's going to be a worthless game for me personally.
Kart is the same tbh for me. I haven't played it since week 1.
This is not a high resolution or extreme texture game. Id this is the best they can do... Yikes.
I've said a bunch that I'm fine with stable rates as low as 24fps as long as it doesn't ever drop further down and has a clean resolution. This doesn't a accomplish any of my target goals. It's all negative and no positive.
I really liked the demo, but learning it's short and there's no team up levels makes me sad. It feels one dimensional but unique in two overlapping genres I like, Turtles and tactics.
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Re: Mario Movie Domain Names Surface Online Ahead Of Mario's 40th Anniversary
They wouldn't jump straight to Galaxy, would they? It feels like you would do Super Mario World....
Re: Sunsoft Has A "Major Announcement" To Share Next Week
Sunsoft is back... Again ... Just like Slim Shady... You can tell a friend if you want.
Re: Warframe Devs On Switch 2 Version: "Thanks To Our Friends At Nintendo, We Are On It"
I am so tired of action RPGs. There's some that are absolutely great, but mostly they just feel like they are very hard and not relaxing. It is great when you want a challenge, but that's a sometimes thing and yet there's so many action RPGs. Can we get some more RPGs that are relaxing?
Earthbound could be played with one hand and that was freaking amazing. I want more of that.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Direct September Predictions - What Do You Hope To See?
This is not what I hope to see, but I think they are going to tease Odyssey 2 and show a SMB remake. Basically making the entire original game look like Wonder but add flourishes that make the original game in line with movie Mario. But the game will allow a one button return to the original and this is their 40th celebration, leaving the 50th open for the massive collections as well as remakes of every single game that has been made in the 10 years past.
The direct will also mostly be Prime and a few more teasers. I suspect a few surprises for Christmas that won't shake the world as well. This will be about 40% Metroid 40% Mario give or take 5% each. The rest will be Christmas stuff.
Re: Metroid Prime 4 Rating Spotted On Nintendo's Website
Wake me up, before you morph ball. Don't update me anymore without a launch though!
Re: Review: NBA 2K26 (Switch 2) - Brilliant B-Ball Has A Disappointing Debut On Switch 2
@Alex79uk Maybe if they didn't push for a 120hz system they might more money for the system to push for solid 60 with all the graphics.
I seem to be the only person who was pointing that out. Are people that incapable of 4d thinking?
Re: Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake Resurfaces, Will Be Playable At TGS 2025
@Bobobiwan No source code. Means someone would have to legitimately remake it. It definitely should be remade.
Re: Review: NBA 2K26 (Switch 2) - Brilliant B-Ball Has A Disappointing Debut On Switch 2
@Alex79uk Does the S come with a screen and battery? Those aren't free.
People seem to think dollar equals quality. Dollars spent go towards hardware that are not 1:1. The power is not there. The Switch 2 has a lot of added expense for a 120hz screen that the other systems offload on you to purchase. The switch 2 is really like buying a system and a TV at the same time. So unless you want to spend 1000 dollars there are compromises.
That's my point. Stop complaining about the compromise. It's an upfront aspect. I feel like this is a person who wants to live in the mountains with no neighbors and also on the beach. You can't have both.
If you want high frames you need to spend a lot of money and/or sacrifice resolution and/or performance. These things aren't good compromises with a handheld system. Calling it a hybrid is just pure bs. The dock can provide some overclock cooling and some upscaling tricks but it's not a new system. It's a handheld that can output to tv. At this point we are 90% of the way to that being the same as a console and that's wonderful. But in that 10% the issue remains that we can't have frames, resolution, and cheapness.
I will stand behind my statement that the 120hz screen was a mistake. Nintendo should have stuck with OLED 60Hz and had the screen component cost 60% of what it does now. Mainly because a lot of you tech crazy folks would have had your expectations limited. The only game that takes advantage of this is an indie that's like a Gameboy game.
I hear there's a handheld that's going to cost 1500, go get that and then complain every hour when the battery runs out.
But what we don't need is reviews that say a 9/10 game gets a 6 because the frames are locked to 30. 30 with no dips is solid and what you need to expect on the Switch 2. If that's not good enough for you, I recommend selling your system and chase that dragon elsewhere.
Re: Review: NBA 2K26 (Switch 2) - Brilliant B-Ball Has A Disappointing Debut On Switch 2
I can't believe you wrote that many words to say 'I only like games that are 60 fps.'
This is a handheld sir. I think you need to transfer off Nintendo Life to save yourself the horror of playing games at the same frame rate all movies have been played at. (Actually that was 24.)
I am so absolutely sick of people making graphics their primary concern, and it's been like this for my entire life. But it's doubly concerning when you're complaining because the cheaper handheld can't do what the absurdly expensive systems can.
You praise this cash grabber and then slam it for something that's not even realistic to request from a game at the start of a console life cycle.
Re: UK Charts: Mario Kart World Takes The Lead While Cronos Sees Weak Sales On Switch 2
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Re: The Best Nintendo Switch 2 Games
Quick someone go back and take the best lists for every Nintendo system and drop off every game that wasn't out 3 months into a systems life.
Re: Ubisoft Employee Explains Why Star Wars Outlaws Is A Game-Key Card
*****.
Cyberpunk had no problem and neither did DK. This is just a lie to try and reframe their greed.
Re: Nintendo Life Reader Survey 2025
Several questions have don't have a none or n/a option.
Re: Poll: Three Months In, How Would You Rate Switch 2's Library So Far?
In my mind the system has DK, Kart, Cyberpunk and some Switch 2 editions because I am not counting games without true physical editions. If you're going to include the Switch games the library is 10/10. If you're including licenses for games you will eventually not have any right to play it goes up to 8. But as of right now there's a couple of very high quality games and a couple of good games available in physical so I can't say the library is bad. It's not bad.
Always remember that we used to have like 2 games for months with a new system.
But I must say that I am just playing Balatro and other older games. My dollar per hour value is good still.
Re: Review: Star Wars Outlaws (Switch 2) - An Underrated Adventure, A Super-Solid Port
If you're the type of gamer that can't handle 30 fps, you shouldn't have a Switch 2. So many of the ports are going to require that.
This is why I don't understand why Nintendo wasted money pushing the machine to 120 when it's going to be like 15% of games at best that use it. The system could have been cheaper or had OLED if they just kept it down at 60hz and that refresh ms problem probably wouldn't be there.
If you pray to the alter of high frame rate you probably should stick to playing on very expensive machines. I'll be happy with a non soap opera effect machine.
Re: 007 First Light Is More That Just Spies And Style, Launches March 2026 On Switch 2
Won't even look at the game if it's on a key card.
Re: Nintendo Switch 2 System Update 20.4.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@Matt_Barber I have that patch. It's a box set of Get Smart DVDs.
Re: Opinion: HD-2D Might Be Old News, But Octopath 0's City Building Has Me Buzzing
Thought this article was going to have information on the new game.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give 'Kirby & The Forgotten Land + Star-Crossed World'?
I would give it a, why isn't the full game on the physical copy out of ten.
Re: Talking Point: Would Drag x Drive Be Better With Miis Or Non-Mouse Control Options?
You can't do non mouse controls and this game still be this game. You would break the small player base in two and it would end. The controls are the strongest and weakest part of the game.
In a situation such as that, you need to make everything else as well polished and engaging as possible. They simply didn't. Miis might have helped, but honestly they needed to go bigger and tried to make this game like fortnite. (Despite the fact that I am not a fan of that, many are ) Start with a great character creator and lots of charm in levels, with added variety in game mode and flourishes. Then introduce the Nintendo IP once people get comfortable with the game so no one accuses Nintendo of making light of wheel chair users.
They could even have shown Mario hanging out with characters who switch from a standard wheelchair to a sport wheelchair to signify they use this as sport and mobility, and they invite Mario to play with them and he eagerly jumps into the chair. Then it's about inclusion and not exploitation. They would have been celebrated for it. Then a few years later they might have Darth Vader dunking on some meme character and no one would have batted an eye.
Re: Rumour: Sony Is Gunning For The Switch 2 With A Handheld, Dockable PS6
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Re: No Man's Sky 'Voyagers' Update Lets You Design And Build Your Own Spaceship
@Polvasti there still should be a physical version.
Re: Review: Kirby And The Forgotten Land - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World - Kirby's Best Shines Even Brighter
I was going to buy this, but the fact the Switch 2 version is not on the cart killed it for me.
Re: No Man's Sky 'Voyagers' Update Lets You Design And Build Your Own Spaceship
Please release the Switch 2 version on physical with all the updates. Please. I am begging you.
Re: Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World
I was going to buy Kirby now for the switch 2. But the game isn't 100% on the card?!? That's so lame.
Re: UK Charts: Nintendo's First-Party Switch 2 Games Continue To Dominate
It's shocking to me that there's only two quality games in the top five and the other are AAA slop.I mean, I am not trying to account for taste. It just feels like only two I feel really hot the level of quality I would consider necessary to be evergreen titles.
Re: Random: Zelda: Majora's Mask Short With Ghibli-Inspired Visuals Is Breathtaking
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Re: Random: Zelda: Majora's Mask Short With Ghibli-Inspired Visuals Is Breathtaking
The fact we never got a Miyazaki Zelda film with him in full control is proof we are in the darkest timeline.
Re: Developers Reportedly Still Struggling To Get Switch 2 Dev Kits
Why is Nintendo doing this? 1000 more sales isn't going to be worth the potential losses of all their 3rdP games being switch 1 versions.
Re: Opinion: We Need To Talk About X Games
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Re: Opinion: We Need To Talk About X Games
@SalvorHardin Mega Man X Mega Man X: Deus X Machina X Deus Ex Human Revolution X Invisible War X Maverick X Monster X Hunter X Crusader Kings 3.
My favorite new game where Zero hunts monster hunters who have been using augments to become more than monsters and human via a conspiracy theory, but your busy getting Mega Man to have arranged marriages to keep the Light family tree from being absorbed by the Sigma family tree. The best 4x, sandbox, platformer, romance simulator, slash em up game.
Re: Opinion: We Need To Talk About X Games
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Re: Opinion: We Need To Talk About X Games
X is definitely a brain rot effect.a very, let's just invent an emoji to express a vibe rather than use language. It feels like no one cares if it's just a caveman grunt, as long as you get it is IP crossover, or at least the vibe of it.
This feels like a marketing team is trying hide that there's any art here to be had. This is thing you want times other things you want to make 'big number excitement- must buy!'. I just don't understand being inside a program as the code is changed, but I feel it in these little idiosyncrasies. It feels like finally seeing the Matrix, but not gaining an ability to fly... But just an ability to process ***** more and either decide to consume less or more in accordance with you esoteric principles.
Ultimately this will never factor into my decisions about a game, it will only mean there will come a time where someone says, "no that's actually pronounced differently". Okay, sure, fine, I am not versed in you language. I only speak English and bad English. The game only speaks 0 and 1. So I guess this is all just a fan translation.
Someone call Jacob Geller, this feels borderline philosophy and I know he can handle it with gravity.
Re: Mario Kart World Wins "Best Nintendo Switch 2 Game" Of Gamescom 2025
Bull. Bananza and Cyberpunk are the only options for best Switch 2 game now, and I think it's clearly a default win for Bananza.
Re: Nintendo Download: 21st August (North America)
@OctolingKing13 The good news is you can reuse this comment for most of the games.
Re: Metroid Prime 4 Rating Spotted On Nintendo's Website
If Metroid isn't out for December, I think it is going to be a blue Christmas.
Re: Donkey Kong Bananza's Dig Button Placement Is All Thanks To Miyamoto
The man can be wrong.
Re: Best Retro Throwback Nintendo Switch Games - Modern Games With Old-School Style
Shovel Knight is a game I keep expecting to be able to get on sale for like 5 bucks but I never seem to see it go down. Instead more games and subtitles get added and now I'm not even sure what I wanted to buy in the first place.
Re: Official Box Art For Kirby Air Riders Revealed, Price And File Size Confirmed
Wake me up when it's 20 dollars or it's 2002 again.
Re: Preview: Sakurai's Kirby Air Riders Is A Kaleidoscopic Adrenaline Rush
@NintonicGamer I think that depends on if you have close friends that you can game with.
Re: Atari Announces Bubsy 4D From 'Demon Turf' Developer Fabraz
I have always said that what needs to be remade are the disasters, not the successes. So I approve this.
Re: Kirby Air Riders Direct: Every Announcement - How Would You Rate It?
Great direct and looks good but I won't be buying it because I learned my lesson about how little multiplayer games do for someone like me.
Re: Round Up: Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 - Every Switch 1 & 2 Announcement & Trailer
Pretty meh. Not much gameplay and most of it looks like expensive AAA slop.
Re: Kirby Air Riders Direct: Every Announcement - How Would You Rate It?
I would have rather had this game then Kart to be honest. But I won't be buying it because I know without NSO it's going to be a worthless game for me personally.
Kart is the same tbh for me. I haven't played it since week 1.
Re: Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO Switch And Switch 2 Performance & Resolution Detailed
That's absolutely pathetic.
This is not a high resolution or extreme texture game. Id this is the best they can do... Yikes.
I've said a bunch that I'm fine with stable rates as low as 24fps as long as it doesn't ever drop further down and has a clean resolution. This doesn't a accomplish any of my target goals. It's all negative and no positive.
Re: Feature: 32 Games We're Dying To See On Switch 2
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Re: Feature: 32 Games We're Dying To See On Switch 2
FTL is one of my favorite games of all time. I wish there was more.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (16th August)
I can tell you I am not playing Madden.
Re: Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown (Switch) - A Rad Turn-Based Brawler Blend
I really liked the demo, but learning it's short and there's no team up levels makes me sad. It feels one dimensional but unique in two overlapping genres I like, Turtles and tactics.
Still chasing the nostalgia of Turtles in Time.
Re: The Legend Of Zelda Movie's Official Social Media Account Goes Live
If I had social media I'd be flooding it with requests to cancel the film and make an animated film with Ghibli instead. Just hand them the keys.