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Misleading article title.

@eltomo "...I don't know what the other does, but he's rich."

My wife's uncle bought acres of property around his home back when it was cheap and has leased it out to farmers for decades. He is so rich that his kids don't have to work a day in their life if they don't want to (although to their credit, they all have an excellent work ethic).

This article is crap. My uncle who works for Nintendo said so.

@nessisonett Ah, I think you meant "portrayal" rather than "performance", because having played a bit of the game on PC, I can't say I'm much impressed by the performance of the voice actor. As far as the portrayal of the character is concerned, I haven't gotten far enough into the game to assess that.

@Dethmunk "What's the point in an article like this?"

If they didn't post an article about the new patch then people would say, "Where's the article about the new patch?"

@nessisonett "Probably the best Sherlock performance I’ve seen in all of TV, film and games."

Really? Even better than Jeremy Brett's definitive portrayal? I find that hard to believe.

Could we at least get a grey theme?

Nintendo isn't for sale. Unlike Activision Blizzard, they're a strong, successful, and profitable company without any scandals driving their stock prices down and making them ripe for a buyout.

I was looking at the screenshot at the top of article and trying to figure out how somebody was able to make that in Animal Crossing before I realized it was from Breath of the Wild.

Eh, who cares. In the grand scheme of things, nothing of value was lost, and in the meantime, he has a pretty cool looking table.

Nintendo has to at least make a good faith effort to stop this sort of thing or it could make it difficult to protect their IP in the future. But it also shows Nintendo there is a demand for ready access to their classic games library, so if they really wanted to stop the pirates, they would work to make their old games readily available at a fair price.

Seems like Mii's peaked with the 3DS and Wii U and were all but abandoned by the team who designed the Switch. I miss them.

So basically it's Sonic: Breath of the Wild.

The only Joy Cons that I dream of are ones without stick drift and buttons that don't become flakey after a year.

@Stocksy Why waste your time on something that you know will be a waste of time?

I stopped reading as soon as I saw the words "mobile" and "free to play".

@Purgatorium "There is no such thing as unskilled labour. You think they don't train their employees? You think you could get an edible pizza if labour wasn't skilled?"

Anything you can learn to do with a couple of hours of on-the-job training does not qualify as skilled labor. Look at it this way: the more easily you can be replaced by the next random guy who walks in off the street, the less skilled the labor.

@TheBeardiest "Crazy idea here, but instead of contests and prizes, they could try paying people an actual living wage?"

Crazy idea here, but instead of trying to make a career out of entry level jobs that require little in the way of skill, experience, or education, people could use them as a stepping stone to earn their way into better paying jobs. Seriously, people should stop expecting to be paid top dollar to do menial work that is so simple even a trained monkey could do it. You want better pay? Then prove to an employer that you're worth it.

Two years ago: "Let's fear monger about a virus with a better than 99% survival rate and convince people that they should avoid human contact like it's the zombie apocalypse and give them generous unemployment benefits so that they lose any incentive to find work. What could go wrong?"

Two year later: Employers become increasingly desperate to find employees.

By the way, who thinks Omicron would make a great name for a video game console?

So the Switch Pro is going to cost over $1000. Got it.

So this is what the Nintendogs have been up to.

Performance is only a problem if it interferes with your ability to actually play a game.

I still can't figure out what is so special about Reggie. Is he a really top notch executive that gets things done, and that's why he's in demand?

So... Breath of the Wild with raytracing looks almost exactly like Breath of the Wild without raytracing.

Ah, the good ol' days when Nintendo supported free online multiplayer.

I can't remember the last time I've had a game suddenly quit due to an error. I guess all of these stability patches are working.

For some reason, it feels like the Wii is older than 15-years.

People wondering why there aren't more football games on the Switch, it's because EA has an exclusive license with with the NFL, so they're the only publisher who can use real teams and players. Other publishers have to make up their own teams, which is less appealing to football fans.

Good info. This is such an obscure mechanic.

It's a fun little event with a lot to do since you have to run around the island collecting ingredients and trading with the animals.

This is one of those games that's a "classic" for all the wrong reasons.

The producer of the film says it's going to be great? What a truly shocking turn of events.

Translation: "I'm going to take my golden parachute and go home!"

These look like the kind of products my well-meaning grandparents would have bought me when I was younger.

"It's just like that other game you wanted but at a quarter of the price!"

I don't even want to know what Sonic smells like.

I expect that some time next week, we'll be reading a story about approximately 150 Activision Blizzard employees being laid off.

If he really wanted to preserve games, he'd call for making them freely available after a period of time. Only reason he cares about emulation is because he sees it as a potential revenue stream.

@MajorasLapdog It's not too late to start. Just watch Episodes 1 through 6 (don't bother with 7 through 9; they're terrible), and you will know everything you need in order to fully appreciate Knights of the Old Republic.

@mariopartyfan68 "Scientists do not have a political agenda."

You are naïve. As the saying goes, "Science doesn't lie, but scientists do."

@KateGray I'm not sure why you think retreating to a pergola is somehow easier for the uncoordinated than the foolproof method of catching wasps that has been been described by others (equip net, stand in front of tree, shake tree, swing net; you don't even need to move your character). Seems to me that racing across your island while avoiding obstacles and then entering the narrow doorway of a pergola, all with zero room for error, would pose a considerably greater challenge for those lacking fine motor skills.

"It’s so fun to see players out there really enjoying what we’ve put together for them. I’m honestly enjoying this unparalleled level of scrutiny on our studio. Today we are celebrating our monumental project launch, while we work on updates."

The guy sounds like he's living in an alternate universe given that this is easily the most derided release since Cyberpunk 2077.

It's not like Elder Scrolls VI was going to be released for the Switch any way.

@creativeusernamehere I still have an original PC version of the game along with the full color spiral bound manual, so I could easily install and play the original if I really wanted, but I'm not finding anything objectionable about the Switch release that compels me to do so..

@Bizzyb Misread your post. Thought you were saying we would need to sacrifice some Nintendogs to make an Endless Ocean sequel happen.

@creativeusernamehere Fewer intro animations is a feature, not a bug.

But, yes, audio cues for some things would be nice, or at least a text message telling you that your character failed to pick a lock, for example.

But regardless, I'm having a lot of fun replaying it and finding it just as enjoyable as when I first played it 20 years ago.

It's not creepy, but the Nook Bros. had an awesome spaceship console for sale today. 190,000 bells. A bit steep, but since I'm a multimillionaire, I bought it.

But catching wasps is ridiculously easy: equip the net; stand in front of a tree and shake it; if a wasp nest falls, your character will automatically turn towards it and do the "Oh, crap!" reaction; press A to swing the net and catch the wasp; sell it for mucho bells.

@Onion When I say that it doesn't affect gameplay, I simply mean that it doesn't obscure critical information (or any information at all for that matter) or otherwise hinder one's ability to play, which is objectively true. Whether or not one considers it too unsightly to simply ignore is another matter.

Is this a bug or a feature?