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@Ogbert So order it from someplace not Play-Asia and pay later when it comes out, in July of 2023.

Mario Surfing when?

@calbeau "Internet." It's likely twenty idiots trying to get riled up over anything.

No, 64 is still the best one.

Pac-Man on the Atari 2600. I couldn't even sit up yet. My Dad propped me up in his lap and put the joystick in my hands.

We're never going to get to see Alien versus Predator are we?

As I grew up and lived through Atari, 8-bit, 16-bit, etc... generations I'd always imagined what "Next gen" 2D games would be like. Instead we got strange animations and odd styles. This actually looks like something that is a real evolution of the older style that I've wanted to see.

"unspoken expectation" of crunch is true across all of software development. It's one of the primary reasons I have tried to extricate myself from development as much as possible these days.

@Shredderlovespizza Outside of your art-style complaint I'm confused. Your only other critique is a mechanic that outside of boss fights is 99.9% unused. There's only maybe three times it's preferable to use the parry mechanic. You can blast your way through everything else in the game as you would any previous Metroid. They literally did what you said they should do.

@smithyo You apparently don't understand how Nintendo does 3rd Party with their IP. They embed people within the teams, they're in regular contact. They reserve full right to include or remove anything they want. It's a Nintendo game.

The EMMI encounters were irritating if only because there were too many. That specific mechanic is best left for rare instances. The first two encounters were pretty intense. But once it became apparent it was going to occur in every single section it was just irritating. Plus the "difficulty" was only increased by arbitrarily applying more damage to destroy the things rather than any real skill involved in evasion.

This supports my hypothesis that a Switch Pro was actually on the docket but the lack of parts meant Nintendo would pivot to have product on shelves with the remaining parts they did have.

@JBone Outside of the camera nothing about the controls are dated.

@BlueMonk The SNES didn't come out until the 1991.

Still the greatest 3D platformer ever made. Nintendo perfected the genre with their first entry.

Hitching? No excuse on newer hardware.

@PBandSmelly I'm waiting for Metroid; Bacon. Carbs don't agree with me.

I absolutely HATE that last Dairon one. I have been trying for days.

I always knew it would blow up. For two reasons, one, I was still a gamer but because my Mother had just suffered a stroke and was in a home I was never at my house anymore. I couldn't play a PS4 on a giant TV and gaming laptops are a pain in the ass. The Switch was absolutely perfect. Second, my cousin was a truck driver and he had a fancy cab where he could plug in consoles and TV's but it was still an inconvenience. The Switch made all of that go away. I knew if it solved our inconvenience problems there was an entire world out there with similar ones Nintendo just solved. On top of that, want to play on a TV at home, you can do that too. It was perfect.

The only thing I really wanted different was that they went with the more advanced chip sets. I would not have had a problem with a $400+ version but there is a reason why Nintendo is consistently the wealthiest company in Japan and it isn't because they take business advice from me.

@Rafie I like the way you think, sir.

I feel like fans of the SteamBrick are a very loud minority.

I was interested in it and watched the trailer video and decided if the actual gameplay was going to be continuously narrated like that I just would not be able to get through it.

I think the rumors were actually true but due to various component shortages Nintendo did their usual smart business decision. They put together a relative upgrade with what was still on hand to entice new people, and the few of us who will buy any damn thing they put out, so they still have product on the shelves. Sony and Microsoft have been absolutely struggling to get their systems out, meanwhile with a minor refresh Nintendo can have stores still fully stocked during the shortage. It's a smart business move and the type of pivot Nintendo would do. They are consistently the richest company in Japan for a reason.

Not into statues. Give me REAL figures I can pose.

@WoomyNNYes You can send them to Nintendo and they'll repair them free of charge.
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/ask/ht/789

I don't necessarily agree with this entire list but I'm shocked I've only played/finished 49 of them.

I was interested in the Darius collections until I noticed how massively overpriced they were.

It's a shame it's pretty much guaranteed to be trademark protection. Excite Truck was great.

@thesilverbrick Note they said that certain areas would be affected, and not all places. EMS from Japan has been shut down to pretty much everywhere, which is the cheapest plus fastest shipping so that's out right now. Likely if you're in the US or the UK they'll do a bulk ship via FedEx/DHL to save money and have a small distributor ship from there (or they should.) Other places they won't be able to reach even with that method, such as Romania, who are totally shut down. Or they're hedging their bets EMS starts again in June and they'll try to fire them all out as quick as possible, but even still they can't be responsible if some countries are still locked down.
Retail has likely been on a shipping container on the ocean for a month and a half, and that container left China and not Japan, and when it reaches the shore that's going to third party distributors for Target/Walmart/etc... to be shipped to stores. That's a slow but proven consistent method. Depending on a lot of factors it might work out retail gets them first and it really is all because of the 'rona. Otherwise they would have easily EMS'ed them out to the world all May and would have beat retail.

@Ulysses I really don't think it's that crazy. Clearly Nintendo doesn't want to go for that split in exclusive's between sku's like what happened with the two games made specially for the New 3DS, I think proper scaling for something more powerful makes sense. The Witcher 3 already does that well on every other device.

$20 says they're made available at the same time the Switch Pro is announced...

The most unique fighter ever, The Vic Viper from Gradius.

Another Fire Emblem character? That’s disappointing.

I prefer the term Metroid-like for two reasons. 1) It's three syllables instead of five so it's easier to say. 2) This isn't an entry in the Castlevania series therefore the use of "vania" is wrong.

I wish I could get excited for this DLC but the game gives me no incentive to play it. It's the worst sort of grinding, hours can go by and you won't make any progress at all. It's worse than most grind-fest pay-to-win iphone games and you don't even get the option of skipping the line. I'm a caretaker for my Mom, I don't have 200+ hours to grind away at the same three boring Trials just to attempt to unlock a new character or costume. What this game really needs is a download that completely changes the game engine to something that is actually fun to play.

I won't touch this game. It was never properly developed for the Switch and no amount of patching will fix something that fundamentally broken.

Ghostbusters wasn't a very good game anyway.

Still won't fix the fact they didn't attempt to target the hardware correctly in the first place...

@retro_player_22 Given the problems the game has a few simple fixes will not improve it to an 8. I’d give it a four personally. And any fix putting it at an 8 would require they redo the engine correct. They obviously pulled an “import ps4 code”, cut features/framerate/effects until runs, ship it.

@Majora101 Nowhere in that quote does he say they would use exactly the same art style as Cuphead.

That description reads like what the Link's Awakening remake should have looked like.

Oh shiiiiiii, Daisuke Koizumi! Bought.

@Cyberbotv2 Serious? CD Projekt Red are freaking heroes through and through. They actually treat their customers with gratitude.

@RainbowGazelle
There are something like 32 characters in the base game.

"1080° Snowboarding / Excitebike / Wave Race" Three out of four ain't bad.

How did I miss out on the original release? I buy every shmup they put out!

Sweet, proper animation!

It's interesting from a historical standpoint but it just doesn't play particularly well.

@AlohaPizzaJack Valkyries and what?

@Dualmask @Kalmaro
That Demo entirely killed my enthusiasm for the game. I'm not even going to bother anymore.