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This actually looks really fun!

Spoiler alert: It will not be any character created outside of Japan. I would be shocked if it was (I guess there was Steve from Minecraft). Waluigi would be rad

40 minutes of Mario Party and 30 secs of skipping past Prime 4 and teasing 5.

At first I thought this was a spoof article. It looks like a chrome fax machine.

The part that I always find funny is how she is invariably described as the universe's greatest bounty hunter, but she generally comes across as some random chick that always gets lost or stranded in space.

I would love to play a Metroidvania that is about an actual bounty hunter. Megaman is almost more of a bounty hunter than Samus.

@hakjie11 Tencent isn't the one behind the free games. When it comes to free games on the EGS, that is all Epic.

I want to love this game so much, but it looks soooo bad. I'm sure it plays great. Maybe a 90% sale...

Looks incredible!! Watching this one. It's funny, in the 80's if you tried to imagine what the year 2021 would look like.... Now with disappointment we are just looking back at the 80's.

Insert comment about more systems on Nintendo Online...
(Wouldn't mind Little Samson either)

Hey, if it keeps going down, then all it will mean soon enough is buy, buy ,buy....

@Tedikuma I think publisher. I just looked up the article about SOR4's beginnings. They clearly have some influence on the end product. Generally speaking, producers usually organize, pay for, manage, test and market. They don't often get into the nuts and bolts of day to day design. That said the makeup of a company is everything. Nintendo produces and gets into the weeds of a lot of stuff they produce. Anyone's guess is as good as mine with Dotemu.

I don't get the impression that Dotemu is a developer, but more publishing. Guard Crush and Lizardcube made SOR4. Theoretically this shouldn't effect much in terms of end product. I would need to research this more, Dotemu is joining with another publisher. Hopefully this means more capacity to organize and oversee more games.

@Handsomistic15 SOR Remake is a masterclass fan game. I wish sega would've just bought that and released it to the masses (with a little spit shine on the temp illustrations). More folks needed to see that.. That said SOR4 is now my favorite beat em up of all time. Survival is straight up gaming heroin.

@bimmy-lee sorry

@bimmy-lee sorry about that... excitement spilling over....

This DLC is glorious!! I've been playing it on playstation, and planning to double dip on Switch......("spoiler" removed).... Survival Mode is some of the best fun I've had in a while..... here's hoping Golden Axe is next, it could use this team to make it fun again (time isn't kind to GA).

@Robzilla @Caryslan I could be wrong but I don't think any character made from a company out of Japan has made it in, so I am not sure Sub-Zero would make the cut. My money would be on Goku or Naruto. Hello Kitty would be Epic (but not a gaming character).... Not that Goku or Naruto are gaming characters either, but they have been in games. Soul Caliber or Chun Li could be options??

I still wonder if there are still a few more surprises left in the dlc.... Excited for them to work on Golden Axe next. That game could use a modern paint job. Nostalgia is way kinder than it deserves.

@AnnoyingFrenzy I think there would be the problem in general with Samus holding any guns. I wonder if they would have to remove the arm cannon or something to make it work.

Brilliant. The announcement a few weeks back got me back into this. Day One for me. This team should be rewarded for their work.

@1UP_MARIO Thanks for the clarification. I have never played it. I find it curious that people get miffed by this model. I have developed mobile games before and I don't think people understand that paid for apps are kind of a death sentence. And then when a free app shows up that has pay wall content, people lose their minds. Developers have to put food on the table either on the front end or backend. Sofar, front-end payment has proven to be pretty unsuccessful by comparison.

For the love.... will they just to making Golden Axe already!!...... and Kid Chameleon and Beyond Oasis....... I feel like we are going to get a Columns Remaster DX first.

Not saying that this is good news, and I am not defending company presidents or anything. However, after a pretty crazy year, less than 2% cut in force, actually seems like a better outcome than it could have been. Especially when you consider that EA and Microsoft made a general policy of chopping off the bottom 10% annually, in a normal year. Top that off with three months severance and a year of health insurance, this story is kind of a nothing burger.

My suspicion is that a fair percentage of these employees could have already been on the cusp of performance improvement and lower management used this as excuse to cut fat.

Style over substance for the time being. Hopefully they can get it going somewhere. I'll keep a look out.

Next topic: Abortion....

@Gus_Campos That would be incredible. I might just buy this version in the hopes that would prove a case for demand, so they would release CVS2. Alpha 3 Max is brilliant, I am less hopeful that would be released, I think Sony has some rights to it.

@jump That would have been amazing!

I love Super Mario 3D world for the very reason it has so many dotted lines to SMB2. I played Mario 2 so much as a kid and have such a nostalgic attachment to it. 3D World really is one of the many gems that the WiiU had. I would be curious to see if they release Wind Waker HD with Zelda's anniversary.

@SalvorHardin So glad you said that. I totally agree. I felt like I was taking crazy pills while everyone was going on and on about how great this one is. I loaded it up a few months ago and wondered if I could warm up to it again.... it felt so slow and grindy. The genre has moved on.

The Gladiator would be incredible.

@Azuris Totally agree. Micro Mages had this figured out. I was hoping Paprium would be something like that. But sorry for $169..... Yeah, no....

I wish him the best of luck. Sadly these kinds of stores were struggling before a pandemic... Bums me out. Wish we could visit the UK but I think it might be a while.

@Wavey84 Haha. Sounds like we are spirit animals to each other. Everything you said about SMB2 and SMB3 I 100% agree with. I remember feeling bummed as a kid that they ditched the playable characters in 3. Although, I wouldn't say 3 is my least favorite, 1 is probably that for me.

And for SMWorld, in a funny way that I came to the same conclusion later on, that you did earlier. I was a Genesis kid in the early 90's so I never played World. Decades later with the Wii VC, I came back and revisited the games I missed and was completely blown away by World. Having absolutely no nostalgic connection, it was immediately captivating. I'm a game dev, and I found World to be a master class in design. The Castlevania, and Ninja Gaiden games had a similar positive effect, I had never played them and they held up very well. Sonic had the exact opposite effect. I played Sonic a ton as a kid and now find it nauseating.

@Wavey84 I was around for 64 but wasn't gaming for about a 5 year stretch that spanned the Nintendo 64. I jumped straight from 16 bit to the Gamecube. I'm an old dude, I remember when the original Mario Bros (not Super) came out. Since then, I went back to revisit the games in that gap and I love other of it's contemporaries like Ocarina and MK64, there is just something about Mario 64 that hasn't clicked with me, and it's not for a lack of trying, or that I think M64 is a bad game. Oddly enough, I think my love of the original Super Mario 2 (Doki Doki Panic) is what makes me like 3D world so much.

I'm an odd duck, I've never been able to get into 64, I have tried so many times. I have no nostalgic connection to it. The Galaxies and 3D world hit all the right notes for my tastes. Odyssey is fine and I love Sunshine. I think I am passing on 3D All Stars. I have a million versions of Galaxy and 64 and I am not sure Sunshine justifies $60.

@abbyhitter I totally agree. I don't have any nostalgic attachment to the janky original visuals. However, porting the DS version could have been a little more tricky, I am not sure what it would take to do that. As a game dev, I think the ports were a little lazy, there are some low hanging fruit outside of upping the res and fps that could have gone a long way. All that said, I am most likely still getting it, so well played Nintendo, well played.....

Just got this game on discount and it is pretty garbage. The game is full of cheap deaths and confusing UI. It's a shame because I played the crap out of Ghoul's and Ghosts and I loved those games. I was hoping for more of that.

Golden Axe for sure, but strangely enough I wouldn’t mind Beyond Oasis, Altered Beast, or lastly Kid Chameleon.

Wasn't Paper Mario included in that speculation about the 3D Mario remasters?

Shiva, Estel and Max are obvious choices since their movesets are already fleshed out. I would welcome them with open arms. Roo and Skate are fine, but Skate<Cherry and Roo's moveset is blah. I would love additional levels and even an endless wave mode, even a dummy mode to test combo runs. I will purchase whatever DLC they do. These developers fit in the Yachtclub Games category and need to be supported.

Sooo excited for this. NOW BRING ON GOLDEN AXE!

I also wouldn't mind the complete version of Alpha 3, but am not sure if Sony made some deal for exclusivity since I have never seen it anywhere but on their platforms. CVS2 would be amazing too.

@NicolausCamp That is all I want. IV would be a mind-blowing addition for me.

It's weird that Trials of Mana and 101 are the same price in most of the world but 101 is $10 more in US?

Looks like it plays great, but I wish Arc Systems did more fighting games. Their visuals are my personal favorite for fighters. I would love to see them tackle Shodown and SF. These visuals feel a little muddy. However gameplay is always king, it's better to err on the side of fun....

I would actually love IV to come over. The visuals are my least favorite but the gameplay and controls are sublime.

Midnight Wanderers. Knights of the Round. Final Fight. Ghouls and Ghosts
Capcom VS SNK3!!!!

@Matthew010 That's awesome!

@NinChocolate Yup! Ben is incredible!

@OorWullie Thanks! No better time than now to get back into it.