MrRom92

I guess this would be a good time to remind everyone that Harvest Moon isn’t really Harvest Moon anymore

My galactic passport is all screwed up. Seems these can’t be successfully redeemed and nobody is able to help me. I would hold off on purchasing tickets to the movie until this is resolved

@AverageGamer and I’m sure there were a good number of people like you who did that based on the characters popularity, but my point was you had to really go out of your way to deliberately catch and train one. Pikachu’s presence in those gen 1 games was otherwise nonexistent, he really is not significantly representative of those games. If it’s the gen 1 games they want to commemorate they should do other pokemon in this style.

It’s really not that appealing. Did everyone forget how little of a presence pikachu actually had in the original games? It wasn’t until yellow version that 1. You were guaranteed to get one, and 2. anyone bothered to use it in actual gameplay, since you were stuck with it from the beginning and it was kinda the entire appeal of that version. In R/G/B he was a fairly rare catch and you very well could go through your entire game without using it if you even encountered/caught one. There isn’t a great reason to even have one on your team.

US players never even saw this pikachu, the sprites were all changed by the time the games came to the US, so this is nostalgiabaiting people who never experienced a pikachu that looked like this to begin with

@Discostew HIGHLY encourage you to give 7 and 8 a shot. They are both incredible games. I think 8 has a lot more replay value. 7 is pure horror, it relies on jump scares and surprises that can only be felt once. But what a great feeling it is. It’s considered one of the scariest pieces of media of all time. 8 is more action oriented and a little “arcadey” feeling - it really puts the gameplay first and foremost, and it’s a lot of fun. I have not played 9 yet so I can’t comment.
If RE2 remake comes to the system (I’m sure it’s a matter of when, not if) I highly encourage you to pick that up as well. It may well be the pinnacle of the series. RE3 remake is skippable but it was an enjoyable, if short experience for a series veteran like me.
Everyone seems to love RE4 remake, which I am sure will come to the console as well. I am lukewarm on it, it’s a fine game, but it does not stand up to the legacy of the original - an excellent port of which is already available on Switch 1. Runs great, and should only run better on Switch 2.

@KayFiOS that’s interesting, I wonder what other kinds of changes were made. Maybe some effects were changed due to modern sensitivities over strobing. I also wonder if this means they still have access to the source code and were working with it directly to create a new revision of the game, or if they were essentially doing ROM hack style patches based on the existing ROM.

@AlienX I had (have) Pokemon box and I wasn’t even one of those 3 people. It required you to use the GBA link cable. And of course you could only play Pokemon. And not that we knew the intricacies of this back in 2004, but software emulation is just not as great as real hardware. The game boy player let you play any game, only needed you to stick the cartridge in the system, and had real game boy guts… that was simply the better option!

@Tempestryke the switch 2 can only run 64 bit software. Older 32 bit software like Mario Kart 8 has been updated for switch 2 architecture

“Sounds just like a gameboy” How much do you wanna bet it’s the same heavily reverbed mp3s they’ve been using for any gen-1 centric promo material or products for the last 3 decades

As a fan of the old school harvest moons, this always seemed like the exact sort of game I would be into. But also the exact sort of game I would never have the time to get into anymore. So I never bought or tried it.

I don’t know what the 32 bit version they’re referring to is. I also don’t know what they mean by “remaster” - they’re going to natively port 35 year old code to a new platform and run it in 4K?

No analog triggers immediately disappointed me when I first went hands on with the Switch in January 2017. Still disappoints me on the Switch 2. There are games that just do not work well with the Switch controller and this would be one of them.

I really don’t know what they could announce that would personally excite me. The games just aren’t good anymore and never will be, that ship has sailed. The tv show has similarly become babified over the years. Maybe there will be some 30th anniversary merchandise that is more tonally in line with where the franchise was at 25-30 years ago. Maybe there will be some soundtrack releases on vinyl similar to the opening and ending theme they put on vinyl a couple of years ago. If not that or some shoe collaboration then I’m out.

It would be cool if it was a native port and not an emulated ROM. Even if they didn’t add a single new feature at least then it would be interesting on a technical level? Don’t they still have the source code?

Not getting these on Switch 2 but I urge anyone who’s never played them to give them a try. 7 and 8 are very different in terms of feel. 7 is pure horror. It is made to terrify you. 8 is different. It is more action and more FUN. I don’t know how else to describe it. Just FUN. It feels good to play, it’s more gamified in some aspects and has the best replay value out of any new game I’ve played in the last 20 years. I’ve ran through it more times than I can count.

It’s a GREAT game, but it was made for VR and I never really got to play it in VR. That’s what would get me to pay for it again. I don’t care for portable
Play, and the controls/graphics will not match what I can already play on PS5, so I don’t think I am buying these re-releases.

No, I bought them when they were new and I didn’t even like them then. They were worse than the originals on anything deeper than a surface level glance

Why are there so many people calling this a port? That would actually be worth the $20. This is just a ROM in an emulator

@a1904 some people will take any chance they can get to spew antisemitic rhetoric - oh, I’m sorry, they are actually just “anti-Zionist” even though Ethan Klein has done nothing but consistently and repeatedly advocate for Palestinians, advocate for peace, claimed settlers were valid military targets, and criticized/denounced Netanyahu. Clearly the behavior of a genocidal zionist. The way they want to boycott this game you’d think Netanyahu himself contributed a meow sound.

I am not the biggest fan of the gen 2 games and media in all honesty, my fondest memories of the time were the intense hype and lead up to gen 2 more so than gen 2 itself. So I have the most affinity for those early reveals, like Snubbul, Togepi, and as we all called Marill before it had an official name - Pikablu.

The switch 2 edition of BOTW includes a LABO VR mode despite not being able to use a switch 2 with LABO. Surprised nobody’s picked up on that.

I’ve never been in a backstage area with a 2” tape machine

They are wrong and it sounds dumb

@koopababble pretty sure that is referring to the Netflix show, which looks nothing like the actual game

Cuphead did not use “rubber hose” style animation. Now we are just throwing random words to see what sticks

I was hesitant to get excited over Yakuza 0 on Switch 2 because of how downgraded the Yakuza 1 port was - if I want to play through the series I’d rather do it on one console, and i would have had to move to PS5 for Kiwami 1 (by choice) and 2 (by necessity)

Now I can play them all on Switch 2 so they made it much easier for me to consider getting into the series’ earlier entries. I am excited!

Like a Dragon and Infinite Wealth were my first (and only) experiences with the series but I absolutely LOVED them, and want to go back to see what I missed.

I’m actually shocked that it hasn’t been ported already. This is right up there with Windwaker and Twilight Princess HD in the category of “wow they really haven’t put this on Switch yet??”

Just make a port that runs natively in widescreen and at 1080/60 and call it a day, it does NOT need any more work than that. The game is what it is and people just want to experience it on a modern platform. A native port very well may even be considered definitive

Jokes are one thing, but there was no reason anyone had to come into contact with anyone’s bodily fluids like that. Absolutely disgusting

This is interesting because she is depicted as a sexually mature woman in Super Mario Odyssey, I wonder what implications this has for the timeline.

What do you expect when you raise the cost of software across the board and your flagship title is $80?
This is the generation where I will just rent everything. There are very few games where I will feel the need to play them day 1. They’ve ensured that I already spent pretty much every penny I am going to spend this generation just on the hardware, and I imagine others are in the same boat.

In all honesty I feel abandoned by Nintendo with this game. I waited over 25 years for another DK platformer, and this feels so far removed from what I had in mind that it may as well not even be called Donkey Kong. I’m sure it’s a very fun and well designed game in its own right but when I see this game, I can’t help but feel disappointed for the true DK64 sequel we never got and now we never will. If I could separate this game from that disappointment in my mind I would absolutely buy and play this. I would be so excited if this was coming off the back of a different DK platformer. Now I’m not even sure that I would rent it for free.

Not the user’s fault in any way shape or form if it’s Nintendo’s transfer process that didn’t work. But part of me wonders if they really used the proper transfer process. All my stuff made it over to switch 2.

I was pretty meticulous about moving my Pokemon up through the generations and everything eventually ended up in one of the DS games. I was gutted when I lost all my DS carts, and with it years of catching them all.

It’s possible those carts will turn up someday but will they still maintain a save, and will there still be a way to move them forward from the DS generation? Doubt it

The fact that you can’t wake the console with the old pro controller is SO dumb. Not paying $90 for that but I will complain about it endlessly.

I don’t plan on buying an express card for some time, (at least not until there is a Sandisk branded 512GB card available - the fact that there isn’t one yet should tell you something about the quality of the other brands cards)
The bump in internal storage is nice but still overall less than what I had in total with my Switch + 256gb microSD, which in combination were at capacity. So I will be deleting and reinstalling games for some time to come.

What would be an incredible help is if a software update came that allows us to allocate older Switch titles to a standard microSD (similar to how a PS5 will allow you to run PS4 titles from a mechanical USB hard drive)

This way I could use the card I have, with 256gb allocated to Switch 1 titles, and all the on-board memory allocated to Switch 2. That would actually last me a VERY long time, perhaps indefinitely for the entire time I own the console.

@Zufolobelisk that’s because it is

Chatroulette in a Nintendo game? How could this possibly go wrong

I’m going to wait till it shows up at my door, set it up, play Mario kart for all of 10 minutes, go “heh, neat” and allow it to collect dust for the next 7 years

@VoidofLight still missing the point, but we shall wait and see. Only time will tell

I honestly don’t care about any new software this company puts out at this point. Literally anything they release will just be a monkey paw wish. I can’t even be bothered to play the last 5 games they made, for free. They’re just not good anymore. This is coming from one of the biggest fans who was around from gen 1.

@VoidofLight I am not incredibly new to the series, I had the original US GameCube release pre-ordered. Regardless of my personal credentials, DS to 3DS was much less of an iterative jump between handheld generations, the increased processing power/memory of the console (and 3D screen) made for a sequel that was as fundamentally different as playing a game on the SNES would be compared to the PS1. It’s not strictly about “can new machine play old game”
The Switch 2 hardware simply isn’t going to permit them to develop something fundamentally different enough for them to market another title in the series. The same is true for Smash. They still have to sell the game at the end of the day.

@VoidofLight I disagree, I do not foresee them putting out another animal crossing game (read: by and large the same experience on the “same” platform) during this generation. It is more of an evergreen title for the Switch/Switch 2 platform. They will do better to have minimal development costs, shift new units of the software to new players, and get another $20 out of existing players. If even 1% of existing players bought a $20 upgrade package, this would account for nearly $10m in revenue. They will push out a “space colony expansion” with 4K/30fps graphics upgrade for the entire game and call it a day.

I suspect that we will eventually see a paid Switch 2 update with some form of extensive additional content. As to when is a mattter of when that makes sense in terms of marketing and what else Nintendo has in the pipeline

Surprised nobody is mentioning the Jackbox Party Packs, considering those are by far what get the most playtime on my switch for the past couple of years

This was a fun game way back in the day (and link being in it definitely sold me) but I’m not entirely sure I ever really knew what I was doing, or how to play the game beyond just mashing buttons

Nobody has managed to present a convincing argument as to why any of this matters. Not one

I think the talent at this studio was woefully underutilized. They should have been contracted by a larger publisher (Nintendo) and given the resources to to make a AAA game in their style (Donkey Kong 3D platformer that isn’t Bananza)

Not my donkey

I would love to see those work in progress versions - both from Maple, and the other designers who were rejected.

It’s only a timed exclusive afaik. Here’s the problem - this game is a prequel. Without a switch 2 update for Yakuza Kiwami, I’m not going to want to jump into playing the prequel before playing the game in the series that preceded it in the manner that they wished to tell this story. So I’m going to end up playing that game on ps5 so as not to get terrible performance. Then by the time that happens, I’m not going to want the performance hit, or to play the prequel with a different controller, and the ps5 edition will already be out, making the decision to not play Yakuza Zero on switch 2 much easier.