Nancyboy

"Do you think a company that’s already made that much profit would do this just to make even more money?"

Of course it would. Look at the American economy for innumerable examples, particularly the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill. Naivete is one of the worst character traits for a society or a person to possess.

He looks Central American, so ray-KAH-za. Wait, ray-KATH-sa?

@The_Nintend_Pedant Nary a problem, broham.

@The_Nintend_Pedant Yes, I was giving myself a little ribbing.

@The_Nintend_Pedant Super-tri-level-meta comment. I'm now baffled.

The comments need a "They both suck" filter. It's boring.

@Darthmoogle Good lord, read the first two paragraphs.

NA is bog-standard. “Here’s a video game about X.” Japan for having b*lls and for catching my attention.

I'd play the snot out of that.

@Pigeon No, it’s about nothing but greed. This happens like clockwork, it’s literally scripted. Pretending to be an experienced, grizzled veteran of the “real world” while so fundamentally misunderstanding how business actually works is a tremendous self-own. Unless you mean the real world is where the haves use people up until they’re empty then dispose of them with an insulting “Thanks for everything don’t let the door hit you.” Then I’d agree.

I immediately knew Japan would be a distant third and that I had to vote for it. It’s too trippy not to be my favorite, and I’d pick it off the shelf knowing nothing about the game.

My 3DS XL’s volume slider is all borked. Not happy about that, especially since I can’t find anyone local who works on them.

The menace of the original easily trumps the Saturday morning cartoon vibe of the remake. I’ve played both, but the remake is definitely not the same strange, disturbing, marvelous game as the original.

Palace of Westminster.

I have a set of Hori Pros, and am a bit disappointed in them. They feel kinda cheap, and the d-pad sticks in the down position at times. They work, but meh. There's a near zero chance I'll get a Switch 2 at launch, so a replacement set is possibly in the cards.

Did I miss this or do these fellas in fact have gyro control? It mentions another set's gyro, but these just by implication.

Edit: Never mind, confirmed from their site.

All the pearl-clutching is rather boring, and I am finding it difficult to manufacture any tears for a gajillion dollar corporation. Are the leaks childish? Sure. I feel no pity for Nintendo, however.

“Immerged”? …sigh…

Cold dead eyes for me.

@k8sMum Pretty straightforward. Like the PS2 version, you can paint with a shoulder button and thumbsticks. It sounds awkward, but works well.

Got it on four systems, nearing the end on Switch. Just going for the last few pieces of a specific item, which itself will be a stimulus to play again.

The sequel would be a day oner, and there aren’t many of those any more.

@ancientlii MTG, baby! (hwoorff!)

@Anachronism Sure. Tell that to Tim Cook et al.

@Bolt_Strike Yeah, I know, but we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.

On the other hand, I've never played a Mario Party game. Maybe this is the time to grab Jamboree and see if my wife likes the random nature of the whole deal.

My 3.2 cents:

• Trump wants a 60% tariff on all goods coming from China, and 20% on every other country.
• There will be mid-term elections in the States in 2026, for the Senate and House. I don't know how many of each party's seats will be in play. In most cases historically, the Executive branch's party loses seats in Congress in the mid-terms, sometimes a substantial number. If inflation goes up, not down as the Republicans ran on, the Republicans will take it in the shorts. Elections are won via appeal to emotion and money.
• Trump also wants to mass-deport illegal immigrants. That was their other tent-pole issue, going so far as to scuttle a bi-partisan bill to reform the immigration process so it would not see progress before the election. Some 73% of U.S. farm workers/harvesters are illegals. If they do deport, that, coupled with the tariffs on Mexican produce, will limit food availability and send prices up sharply. Video games will become a back-burner expense for a lot of people.
• I can't imagine manufacturers relocating entire factories, giving up sweetheart deals with the PRC, in light of what may be a two year issue, though granted the effects will be felt longer, of course.
• Games: lower inventory; higher prices; corporate profits and executive compensation remain high (look at what happened during COVID); gaming industry layoffs increase.

All this will likely pass Congress, seeing as we have an imbalanced government, but there will be challenges in the courts and traditional red-tape delaying. That the judicial system has been skewed conservative will certainly not benefit consumers if it goes that far.

As is being said, we'll see, but I'm not optimistic in the near term.

@Wario_Waha You’re a maniac.

Peach winking with a hammer all day. Nothing else matters.

@BIG3 https://www.metacritic.com/browse/game/nintendo-switch/all/all-time/metascore/?releaseYearMin=1958&releaseYearMax=2024&platform=nintendo-switch&page=1

@Ryu_Niiyama As much as I care to gripe, I saw MM at that position and questioned my faith in humanity yet again.

@Ryu_Niiyama Keep the faith, Ryu. I still appreciate your style and demeanor.

@Ryu_Niiyama “After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.”

• Spock

Always David Byrne.

@Ryu_Niiyama Ancillary benefit.

Love it. But how’d he get so many items fused? I run into a limit just when things are getting interesting.

Sounds like life.

@angrybeef That’s ‘cause it’s a Soulslike.

Man, I’m nearly always on the outs. NA, in not a very close call. The simple inclusion of characters and busyness doesn’t itself make a cover better. The cover is what gets you to pick up the box, not what you recall about a game 20+ years later.

Looking again, I do kinda like Japan’s, mostly for use of color (I’m a sucker for primaries and secondaries), but still NA.

Well, that's only the coolest thing ever

I’d be all over an Okami sequel. Playing Okami again now, and near the end. I’m going after the stray beads for the first time and have nearly all of them. I friggin’ love that game. Except the digging sections. Those can get bent.

Cool and all, but where can I get that shirt?

@Oracles_fanboi Hey, Oracles.

I’m not into it at all. It’s forced when it was never intended to be a thing. I just don’t see the point of (other people) raining on someone’s parade when they’re just having a bit of fun. Admittedly, I’ve never followed Nintendo’s comments on it, but I see your point. Kind of takes the air out if that’s what they’re doing, especially since they published the thing.

Take ‘er easy.

Knock it off with the comments throwing cold water on the timeline, willya? People having fun nerding out over speculative stuff like this hurts you not one bit. Yeah, we all know you’re smarter than that, all right? There.

That said, the most interesting part to me is, “popping his clogs.” I thought I was moderately familiar with British euphemisms, kinda, but that’s a new one on me. Excellent.

Not a fan of these stacked costs. Pay to pay to rent? Pass.

@psyraven76 I voted for ol’ Bill. The most incongruous.

NA/Europe. Japan's looks like a space fashion show, and while that has its own weird attraction, the other is more gamey.

And the litany of "Both of these suck" comments. C'mon, now.

@Truegamer79 Snip it and save it as a PDF.

Day one buy, which is very rare for me. I can imagine the wealth of puzzle and battle solutions that I will never be smart enough to come up with.

@DripDropCop146 Dude, spoilers.

Looks great. Good Satan voice.

Digging it so far, though the Banjo-Kazooie chatter gibberish is kind of annoying. Which is odd because that normally doesn’t bother me. The music often comes off as out of place as well. I have the retro music badge, but it allows a lot of the new music to stay. I am still getting hooked, though. Don’t play a lot of turned-based combat games, but maybe this will cure that reticence.

@-wc- Well, me too now. Excellent.