Moshugan

That's just dumb. BUT I have to say that the DLC for BotW wasn't worth the price to begin with. It was fun enough to play, but not fun enough to pay that much! So don't worry about missing out on the DLC if you're new to BotW, it wasn't anything substantial.

Still pretty insane sales for such a long running generation. It's probable that Nintendo is still operating at a profit regarding console sales despite lower than anticipated sales.

These are quite cute! My (adult) sister is going to love them hehe. I'm not gonna buy any though.

Good. Enough waffling and just give us the deets.

I've started playing Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana. I bought it a couple of years ago due to NintendoLife's praising review, but at the time I was put off by it's less than stellar technical qualities and also the heavy anime aesthetics.

Now after finishing Tears of the Kingdom I finally gave it a chance and it turns out that I like it a lot. I'm still not very fond of some of the anime aspects and tropes, but the story is quite engaging and the combat and gameplay loop are pretty satisfying. I managed to look past some rough low resolution aliasing and framerate issues and I found a surprisingly smooth playing and fun hack and slash Action-RPG. It's like a game from yesteryears that cuts the fat when it comes to technical flair and focuses on story and gameplay.

It honestly baffles me that Nintendo never released the Virtual Boy games as 3D enabled titles on the 3DS. I'd love to play the Wario Land game with 3D, but not on the actual Virtual Boy.

I don't get what he's on about. The egg throwing controls in Yoshi's Island were just fine. It wasn't too difficult when I was a kid! And the motion controls in Yoshi's Woolly World were even better and easier to boot.

I don't understand what they were thinking by releasing the game with Nintendo copyrighted files included! I was surprised that the download included graphics, music and all in a complete package. Of course Nintendo would take it down.

They should have only released the reverse engineered custom code without any Nintendo-made content. Then include a compiler that would generate the game from the code and from an original ROM of Link's Awakening. This way it could have stayed up! That's how many other ports have been released!

Outer Wilds is amazing! Someone might be annoyed by this depiction, but it's basically a roguelike adventure game where the only upgrades you will get is information, and the knowledge you gain helps you progress the game in subsequent runs.

Outer Wilds managed to evoke in me great emotions of awe, fear, sadness and joy like very few games have done. It's really in a league of its own when it comes to story focused adventure games. You also need a degree of empathy and imagination, because a lot of the story is conveyed through text.

I would still love my Wii U, if the right stick on the GamePad hadn't been broken.

Reading the comment section, I'm glad I'm not the only one who think that this skin looks nothing like JCVD! It's like someone drawing a portrait that gets some individual details right, but the proportions are all wrong leading to it looking like a completely different person. Also the animations and facial expressions are done by someone else, the actual Van Damme wouldn't move and emote like that.

I dunno! There's been a lot of excellent games this year, and there's more to come. For as great as TotK truly is, it still doesn't feel all that fresh in the long run. I think Baldur's Gate 3 has a real chance of being GOTY at a lot of places. Hasn't FF16 been well loved as well?

@Deepdoop Not everyone has an Xbox or a PS3 ~

Gothic 1 may not be a looker these days, but the game itself is one of the most unique ARPG experiences! I highly recommend this if you can handle some old graphics and clunky controls. The figting is a bit janky as well, but once you get used to how it works it's alright!

Yes! I've been waiting for a new 2D Mario for so long! The timing of this release makes me think that the next 3D Mario will be saved for the launch of the next console.

@bonham2 Higher fidelity assets like 4K textures and high poly models take surprisingly more space. Of course it's quite common to leave unnecessary files in there that bloat the size.

@Stormageddon Fair enough. But if you're going to pirate it anyway, then you're no better than them.

I think Link will have his memories a bit jumbled again, but not in such a large extent as in BotW. I think the game begins with a cutscene that is basically the same as the original trailer, where the clips of the events seem to be disordered and confused. Then Link wakes up on a sky island and maybe someone will be there to tell you how you got there or you're left on your own to figure it out.

Then as you progress, you'll get more clear memories about the events in the intro, and you also see glimpses of what Zelda is going through (I think she's in the past) and what Ganondorf is doing (by either being present or by tapping into some residual memories on location).

I think there will be Link's personal memory cutscenes, visions of the distant past cutscenes, maybe some cutscenes with Ganondorf that happen without Link being present and definitely present day cutscenes.

Since it's so short, I suspect Aonuma is going to show us something specific instead of a broad overview. A focus on sky gameplay might be it, but in any case I hope it's something surprising. I hope he'll show us something that looks and feels like something totally new that wasn't in TotK.

I have a hard time deciding between SNES and GameCube, but I had to give it to the Cube. The titles for it were just so fresh and still feel unique compared to other generations!

An OLED Switch Lite that could dock would be the perfect version of Switch for my needs!

Tears of the Kingdom actually costs exactly the same as Breath of the Wild in the European eShop. Both are 69.99 euros, so no price hike in Europe, or it already happened with BotW. In any case, the price is outrageous in my opinion.

I'm glad that physical editions rarely cost the full suggested retail price...
I'm getting my normal edition for 57 euros, which includes 24% Value Added Tax. That makes for 61 US dollars.

@Hero-of-WiiU #7 "What’s weird is I swear I just seen a fake one of these that said the exact same thing but ok sweet!"

The wording on those Direct announcements are usually almost exactly the same, so you might as well have seen a fake that was a good imitation.

I think I found the best quality source for the poster!
This is a 3158 x 5000 resolution image: https://movies.universalpictures.com/media/smb-tsr1sht3-rgb-1-633c424a73efc-1.jpg

The poster looks fantastic! I love the myriad of details.
I generally don't like Illumination's style of animation and humor, but I'm sure that in the supervision of Nintendo and Miyamoto it will be good. They might play it safe with the plot, but at least the poster makes it look adventurous and lively!

Looks great! Reminds me more of a PS1 RPG than a SNES one, but the character style and font is like straight out of something like Secret of Mana.

I'd always rather have new games than rereleases or remakes. And I often like playing the original versions on original hardware. Regarding these games, I already own the original versions as well as the Wii U versions.

From 1121 votes, 41% went to Rock, 22% went to Paper and 34% went to Scissors (only 3% went to nothing). If this result is realistic then I think I'm going to choose Paper in the event. I want the team with least amount of players so it'll be more likely to find an opponent, right? In other Splatfests I've too often had to play against my own team because there wasn't enough players available for matchmaking in the opposing team.

EDIT: According to my calculations, if Paper is evenly matchmade against both opposing teams, the Paper will never have to play against itself. The the surplus of Rock and Scissors are matched against each other, and Scissors will always have a Rock team to fight against. Then in the end there will still be 17% of team Rock left to play against each other.

Rumors: Switch Pro is coming soon!
Nintendo: Nope, Switch OLED.
Rumors: Switch Pro is really coming this time!
Nintendo: Nope, Switch OLED again.

The Pro Controller is way overpriced with a $75 price tag. 😖

If the trailers come back up with no fanfare, then we can be sure nothing gets announced at this time. 😛

I had made note of Oman Au having the same letters as Aonuma on my own, but the others didn't seem to follow the pattern. But of course they don't in English because the original names are in Japanese!

I guess you basically could legally make an expanded fishing game around the mechanics of Ocarina of Time now that the reverse engineered PC port exists. It's open source code, isn't it?

@Zuljaras #1
That's really cool!
That reminds me, that if you have a flash cartridge for the GBA, there's something you should try! Someone made a port of the PC version of Doom to the GBA and it's incredibly accurate and smooth playing.

@jurassicjoel I did a little troubleshooting. The problem is with my GBA SP in some way. The game works as fine as it should on my other GBA (vanilla AGB-001 without any mods), but it glitches on my modded GBA SP (AGS-001 with a Funnyplaying IPS and a new battery).
I think the issue is dirty power delivery. The game is probably so power intensive that the intermittent or dirty power that my GBA SP is currently getting isn't enough. I probably need to do some cleaning of the power switch or maybe even install a power cleaner PCB.

@jurassicjoel I can't get it to work on my Everdrive GBA X5 Mini...
The camera goes crazy and it shows some graphical glitches the second I start a level.

It really depends on the genre and the gameplay loop!
8-10 hours for a game like a 2D Metroid is fine. I don't know how it could be much longer without becoming overbearing.

Whether a game's lenght should directly bear on its price is a different thing. I don't know if Metroid Dread should be $60 in today's economy, but I'm so old-school that I have no problem paying that for a quality First Party Nintendo game.

I don't like the practise of putting collections as separate entries in lists like this! The Prime Trilogy shouldn't be #1, because the Prime games are already listed separately. (Similar things happened with the Top Gamecube games list recently)

So the Top 3 is actually:
1) Super Metroid
2) Metroid Prime
3) Metroid Dread

That's so weird to just drop the announcement like that with no trailer or anything.

"You may not know the new fighter

I don't know how much you can read into that, but it sounds like it won't be a currently popular character!

@forumposter21 #29 "How I believe it will happen: New character after new character are revealed, one after another. They all then get into a huge hype fight. Then the ACTUAL character either wins or steals the Invite envelope. The rest of the introduced characters are turned into Mii Fighters."

That's a fun idea! Fans of the other characters that get turned into Mii costumes would get disappointed, but what can you do. ;p

"Feast your eyes" with dizzyingly high 660x370 resolution images! ;p

I bet it's either a N64 style controller, or a Gamecube one with actual analogue triggers.

Ah, now we know why bluetooth audio wasn't supported from the get-go. Sounds like it was a hurdle to implement because they had to limit other wireless connections in order to enable wireless audio. Great thing they finally did it!

This list is completely wack. I don't get it....

I take offence for lumping NES and SNES in the same option. SNES is unequivocally the superior one of them.

GB, GBC and GBA games should be in the same NSO app, in my opinion.

April being playable fits the TMNT Adventures canon well since in the comics April was also receiving ninja training from Splinter at one point.

There's so many great TMNT characters so I hope there's more playable characters to come!

I'm seriously thinking about replacing my old laptop PC with this... x)

@Rika_Yoshitake #1 The hands-on reports have been quite positive! Although I'm sure that if you find the regular Switch to be too heavy, then the Deck won't be more comfortable to hold for an extended session.

Game Boy Advance SP is my all time favorite, because it's form factor is just so handy. It's a tasty little package of convenient portable gaming!

Both the DS Lite and New 3DS feel like what the original consoles should have been! The New 3DS (not the XL) is especially sweet, as it keeps the console relatively small while offering noticeably larger screens than the original 3DS. Its 3D effect is also actually usable compared to the original and the colored buttons are cute.