no Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? That seems like the best of the bunch. The remake has battle mode, labo support, you can get 2 items at once, the resolution is bumped up to 1080 instead of 720, and it includes all the dlc from the original.
Mario 3d All Stars was a great remaster as well, if you were going to play those games again, 3d all stars is easily the best way to play them.
meh, I do not care at all. Just seems expensive for a lot of games that I have no interest in playing. After a couple years with PS Now I realize I'd be happier and save a lot of money just buying the games I like, and since I like Nintendo 1st party games and indies the most, this gamepass deal offers me nothing. Not that they don't have indies on gamepass, but they're a lot cheaper to just buy once in a while, than to pay for several years of service.
I used to like Pokemon but the battles are just too boring for me after all these similar games. I'd play it if they had some kind of arpg thing going for it instead of turn based battles but I just don't feel like the series has evolved enough over the years for me to consider picking another one up.
@BanjoPickles If you're looking for Elevator Action Returns, it's free on Ant Stream Arcade and it has global leaderboards and challenges. They also have regular old Elevator Action and tons of other classics as well.
Day one digital for me, I'll just use the Ring Fit leg strap I've already got and download it. Seems like the kind of game I'd want to always have available for a quick match rather than needing a cartridge change each time.
I don't like it, but I get it. If it's copyrighted material then of course it's not okay to upload and share it around. That's kind of the point of having things copywritten in the first place. Not that it really matters much since they don't sell it anymore, but I'm sure it's some kind of company policy made up by the lawyers that says copyrights are active for however many years the law says.
I know gamers hate pushing buttons but if you just hit left, A, L it takes you right there in less than a second. But I get it, I'm sure people could use that half a second to do other more important things. Life is so hard.
I'd rather have a sequel but would love some more ARMS dlc. That's the only Switch game I have that I play just about every day and am happy with what's there, but it would be nice if they added some more arms to the arm catcher and added more gallery items since I'm at a point now where I have no new arms to get and extra in-game money and nowhere to spend it. And some new characters and stages wouldn't be bad either.
I tried it out, but the demo was super boring, it's just another endless runner with really simple gameplay. And even if I liked runners, there are much better ones out there. I'm really not sure why they put out articles about this, when there are loads of far better games more deserving of coverage.
It's a good thing they have these tournaments, otherwise nobody would ever have picked up a game like Super Smash Bros. Nintendo really needs these guys, otherwise I'm sure they'll get bought up by Sony any day now. /s
it just looks generic, just because things can look realistic doesn't mean they should. Some people think realism = good graphics but I just think it looks boring and uninspired. Just looking at that water or the grass on the ground and I'd have no idea what game it is, could be anything at all; the real game has identifiable textures for everything that give it it's own charm.
@Mgalens old ports are fine, I reject that their new business is focused on NFTs and won't be contributing to them continuing this practice. Far as I'm concerned they could create the greatest games ever (though clearly all they are capable of is putting old roms on some emulators), I still wouldn't buy them. Konami is dead to me, and unless they want to proclaim that they are done with the world destroying NFT swindle, that's the way it's going to stay. I have loads of games to play, I don't need this nonsense.
All Konami knows how to do lately is make NFTs and put up some old ports. They were fine games but I'm not buying this. They're all easy to get for nothing, have been for decades, the only reason to buy something like this is to support the company and I don't think there's anything about modern Konami that I want to support.
Wow, they add new features and comments full of complaints. I'm just happy it still costs 1/3rd for a year of online compared to MS or Sony. If you don't care about all those bells and whistles, $60 is way too expensive just to play games online. At a dollar something a month I don't have anything to complain about. I'd probably still be signed up for PSN if they were that cheap.
That's okay, I'm sure if they're anything like Nintendo, you can just take the controllers off and send them back in the mail where they'll fix them for free, lol
I find it odd that someone would expect a beta test to allow footage to be shown before the game releases to the public. I occasionally do beta tests, and for every game I've played, mums the word, can't upload videos or screenshots or tell anyone anything.
I was looking forward to recording this, but it's no big deal, I can wait until it launches. Still excited to try it out.
@Anti-Matter I can understand where you're coming from, a fan of more all ages content rather than a lot of guns and whatnot, but Portal and Portal 2 are great games well worth playing for anyone who has yet to play them. It's about as unviolent as it gets, you're gun doesn't even shoot bullets, and even if it did, there are no humans in the game except for yourself, and no bad guys really to speak of. And at 20 bucks it's drastically undervalued, and probably the best games on the system (assuming they're ported properly).
Yeah I played and I agree with the review. It's not so bad, but the thing is Dead Cells and Neon Abyss are much better games of this style and if I'm going to play a game like that, might as well play the best. I didn't get that far I guess, but what I played felt a bit repetitive and didn't seem to offer anything very original, but what can you expect for a remake.
I'd like to see some kind of beer-hat only it's made for cheetos that you can drink through a straw, so your fingers don't get all gross while you're holding the controller. Or better yet a combo beer/cheeto hat with two straws.
@Ventilator That's cool you backed everything up but you were slightly mistaken, as the servers were never shut down (they removed the ability to upload, star levels, and removed bookmark functionality). If you boot up the game on the Wii U, you can still play those millions of levels, as well as all of the event courses. I would hope that they somehow preserve them if and when they do eventually shut down the servers, I've been saying it since the Switch came out, but they should port Mario Maker 1 to the Switch and then they don't need to keep the servers running just for the few Wii U players still out there.
And, anyways I've only made a few levels myself for Mario Maker 2, but play it constantly, Maker is in the name, but it's just millions of great levels for Mario fans to play through. You don't need to make anything to enjoy the game, but, if you bought it and didn't play it, that's your own fault not the games. The game is great, but if it's not your thing, you probably shouldn't have bought it, you really should have known what you were getting into just based on the name alone. Sometimes I'll throw a few bucks away on a gamble hoping a game is good, but for $60 if it's a genre I don't like, I wouldn't spend that kind of money without at least a very convincing demo. I thought it was pretty clear what kind of game it was before I bought it, but were you expecting something else?
@Ventilator That would have been impossible to just move the levels to the sequel, the physics are different. Levels designed around a magnetic flag pole ball, mystery mushroom costume 1 block height duck swimming, Weird Mario, true random rather than button based random, entering overlapping pipes, p-switch timing, breaking bricks by walking into them with giant mario, whether it's okay to walk on a platform overlapping spikes or if you can jump over the screen if there are spikes up there, there are a lot of little changes between the two that it would break a lot of levels making them impossible to pass with the new rules. I guess they could have made it a double pack and included Super Mario Maker 1 + Super Mario Maker 2, but anyone playing random top rated levels would constantly be confused about what the rules were.
@Ventilator Even if they gave it away, apparently nobody downloaded it or bothered to play it. They had a trial, which is what I imagine you're talking about but the online lobbies were always near empty since launch and only got worse as time went on. And sure, the Wii U wasn't a popular system, but Mario Maker had millions of levels uploaded immediately and tons on a regular basis, 4 player Smash Bros, or 8 player Splatoon matches or 12 player Mario Kart matches were always just a few seconds away, practically any time of day.
Wii Sports Club just wasn't popular and the Wii branding turned people off. Maybe things have changed since then, but as I recall any mention of the word Wii meant to a certain demographic of the gaming population to mean it was shovelware gimmicky garbage uncomparable to the big HD-twins. So when Wii U came out us Nintendo fans went gaga, while the Xbros of the world called it a baby console for second rate games, and isn't even a console, sounds like a Wii add-on, that's what people said. Nintendo doesn't want anything to do with that, that's why they called it The Switch, rather than the Wii U 2, or Wii 3. I always thought it was a load of bull, but the stigma remains.
A lot of complaints about the not-Miis but it should be pretty obvious why. Wii Sports Club sold terribly, the last thing they want to do is make that again. Wii U sold bad, people here might miss the miis, but selling things with that branding just doesn't work anymore and would put people off more than anything, if history is any example.
@Dezzy70 That's how the Wii and Wii U was. If you played Wii Sports Resort Table Tennis, or Skyward Sword on the Wii, I'm sure you'd be used to it already. Splatoon 1 & Splatoon 2 both had that issue as well, but it's never been an issue in ARMS or Ring Fit Adventure so it's clearly based on how they design the game. While that's annoying, it's not a Nintendo only problem, it's an issue on PSVR with tracking those controllers as well and lighting can mess with it easily, even PC VR has occasional motion tracking issues. If you want to play the game, you have to get used to it but hopefully it's as painless as ARMS, which in my opinion is perfect.
@Dezzy70 Joycons (and the Pro controller) have great motion sensing capabilities, easily just as good as the Wii's, see ARMS or Splatoon 2. It doesn't have pointer controls, but that was never important in games like Wii Sports.
I had to double check when I heard that name, and yep, it's the same Seth Able Robinson that made Legend of the Red Dragon back in the BBS days. Glad to hear he's still in gaming.
@ThornyFox Hey nice one! That was really cool, and interesting too. My mind is always blown away when seeing stuff like this. Things like that video are awesome to look at because most of us will never have the skills or patience to pull stuff like that off but I enjoy seeing what the limits of the game are. I mean people could say the same thing about how real space is nothing but a "sky color change" and there's nothing up there, but it's still really incredible when someone goes to space, largely because it's a place that we don't belong and aren't really built for it but we've overcome those obstacles and did it anyway.
It's like the Super Mario Bros. minus world, there's not much there and it's repetitive and kind of boring, but what makes it interesting is that it exists at all and there's a secret way to get there that the devs didn't think of.
That's a great list, but I just never hear anyone mention Blazing Beaks, it's really great and cheap, I bought it for just a couple bucks on sale a while ago. For that price, I assumed it was crap, but I couldn't have been more wrong. I still think Enter the Gungeon is the best twin-stick shooter on Switch, but I've played it so much that I just wanted to play something a little different, and Blazing Beaks is the same kind of twin-stick dodge rolling rogue-like action that I love, but it does it's own thing and has loads of charm of it's own. And also Neon Abyss is only $19.99 a fantastic game with tons and tons of unlockables and bosses, etc. it's a game that would take an incredibly long time to beat and unlock everything, and it runs much better on the Switch than it does on PC. I think it's one of the best games out there right now as long as you like 2d rogue-lite platform shooters.
What bothers me about this is those touch pads. Playing something like Half-Life or Portal portably sounds awesome in theory, but I feel like the mouse and keyboard is the best way to play those (or maybe something like Splatoon's motion controls), but those touch pads are not at all a good replacement for a mouse. I guess it wouldn't matter if you liked playing PC games just with a controller, but I think it would get on my nerves after a bit.
Kind of how the Steam controller is supposed to be made for Steam games, but playing Valves own FPS games it's not as comfortable as a keyboard and mouse. And something weird about the Steam controller, it doesn't work if Steam isn't running, so I wonder if the controls for the Deck are going to work right when not running Steam, especially on legacy titles that expect an Xbox controller or else.
Those were some great shots, really good way to show how big it is. I also would have been curious to see it compared to the Xbox Duke Controller, an Xbox or Playstation console, a laptop or Chromebook, a big arcade stick, GBA Micro, iPhone, iPad, Playdate, and a Switch with controllers detached. Also maybe some comparisons of the width would have been interesting, looks a little thicker than a Switch, but I'm not sure.
@TedGundy So what you're telling me is that nobody has ever played a game of Street Fighter casually? And Smash can't be played seriously? In one game you punch, kick, block, and use super moves against an opponent in a non-beat em up, and you call that casual and a party game, the other you punch, kick, block, and use super moves against an opponent in a non-beat em up, and you call that a fighting game for pro-gamers. In Street Fighter Ryu was fighting in a fighting game, in Marvel VS. Capcom Ryu was fighting in a fighting game, in Smash Bros. Ryu is fighting in a fighting game, not moving gems around a tetris-like board like Super Puzzle Fighter Turbo. This isn't You don't know Jack, or Clubhouse Games, Grandma isn't going to want to grab a controller and give a few matches a try like it's Wii Sports Bowling.
Regarding Smash being "aimed and marketed to a casual audience", that's what Capcom should have been doing, you think they don't want those sales? They very much do, they just didn't market it good enough. Nintendo had new characters coming out on a weekly basis, and leading up to the game all the characters were secret and only shown one by one week after week, and the game sites got to run story after story, it was a real gold mine. That's just smart business, everybody wants more customers. And if they're out there buying video games for their very own video game console, I'd say they're not really casual game fans at all. The only casuals I see are people playing on their cell phones because they don't care enough about the hobby to own a real console.
@Truegamer79 Street Fighter, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat are party games geared towards casuals. Casuals are people who play arcade games while doing their laundry, pulled in by the flashing lights and loud intro music and demo from the game's attract mode, and it's only a few quarters. Smash Bros. people have to buy a console, and spend full price for the game just to play the franchise, nothing casual about that. And it's a multiplayer fighting game, Smash didn't exactly invent the idea of people fighting each other while drinking beer taking turns fighting the winner. As far as Fighting games go, Street Fighter, Primal Rage, Mortal Kombat did the party game thing long before Smash was ever invented. And also, 2 players vs. is super casual and easy to grasp, what's not casual is 8 players running around killing each other and trying to make your eyes ignore all the chaos to focus on your own character, deciding which characters to attack and which to avoid. Even 4 players is considerably more complicated than anything from the more traditional casual arcade games.
@Fath According to Google 5-10% seems to be the standard amount the orginal creators make when their NFTs are traded in general, not just Konami. That's all part of the scam why they want to promote people to buy these and sell them, because each time they do, the original "artist" gets paid. So they get paid when they sell the NFT the first time, and then they keep getting paid forever when anyone sells it (assuming anyone wants to buy it).
I like the all in one, but am not sure about buying it in pieces. I always wanted something with an asteroids or arkanoid knob and there's a few games that would be fun with a rollerball and if the price isn't too high I'll get this for sure. But if it was just pieces I may not be convinced to buy them just for a few games. And most importantly I would hope one of these would work good with a wide variety of devices, especially Windows and Android and Linux.
The real problem with all this is that it just shows how worthless these are. If any old rando can make these, there could be a million of them all uploaded by different people, making this seemingly one-of-a-kind thing worth nothing. The Mona Lisa is only worth a fortune because there aren't a million of them. Even if just one company made these, if one of them sold really good, they could just say let's make more, and with each one made, they're all worth less. This is as dumb as replacing dollars with Schrute bucks.
I didn't see my option on the poll, but I'd just like to see a Mario Kart with takedowns and kart damage from smashing your kart against someone elses. And I feel like open world like Forza would have been a good option as well, that would really differentiate itself apart from 8 deluxe.
@Jokerwolf There's a big issue with all that, physical used games are physically used; the shrinkwrap is gone, it may be missing a pamphlet, box got torn when opening it, it gets fingerprints, may have been thrown or dropped, etc. so you don't pay as much for a physical game that's used. A digital game that copy is exactly as good as the original, so my question is, if a consumer has the option to buy a game new for $60 or $20 used, why would anyone ever pay full price for a new game again? And, why is that something you think that a video game company would support?
It doesn't take NFTs to handle something like that, it could be done ages ago if anyone wanted. There just isn't any money in it for the people producing the content, not a technological constraint.
Nothing against Limited Run games, but I'm not buying anything else made from Konami now that they're NFT scammers. I won't get rid of the games I already got or anything, but I clicked "Ignore this creator" from Steam and will spend my money elsewhere, not like there's any shortage of great games to play.
It seems like they should have some kind of policy where if a certain game sells so good, they release dlc for it. I'd rather see a new game, but, some new courses and cups to race in would be nice.
Also, I hope Mario Kart 9 turns into Nintendo Kart or/and Kart Maker. And I'd love to see a game like that with takedowns, like Burnout 3 or OnRush; grinding your opponent against a wall until they pop up in the air, or slamming someone from behind and their kart gets damaged until it explodes, or get on a ramp and crush them beneath you when you land. It could be a lot of fun.
ARMS is the best, I play almost every day and despite it not being super popular it's always got lots of people to play against online. That was a good list, but a couple extras I can think of would be Bowling in Clubhouse Games Switch, and if you play Splatoon 2 with motion controls it's a little bit of exercise or at least better than sitting on the couch like most games.
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Re: Best Remakes And Remasters On Nintendo Switch
no Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? That seems like the best of the bunch. The remake has battle mode, labo support, you can get 2 items at once, the resolution is bumped up to 1080 instead of 720, and it includes all the dlc from the original.
Mario 3d All Stars was a great remaster as well, if you were going to play those games again, 3d all stars is easily the best way to play them.
Re: More Switch Owners Would Consider Game Pass If Activision Titles Were Added, Poll Finds
meh, I do not care at all. Just seems expensive for a lot of games that I have no interest in playing. After a couple years with PS Now I realize I'd be happier and save a lot of money just buying the games I like, and since I like Nintendo 1st party games and indies the most, this gamepass deal offers me nothing. Not that they don't have indies on gamepass, but they're a lot cheaper to just buy once in a while, than to pay for several years of service.
Re: Feature: 6 Things We Pokémon Vets Want To See In Pokémon Scarlet And Violet
I used to like Pokemon but the battles are just too boring for me after all these similar games. I'd play it if they had some kind of arpg thing going for it instead of turn based battles but I just don't feel like the series has evolved enough over the years for me to consider picking another one up.
Re: City Connection Announces Multiple 'Saturn Tribute X Taito' Releases For Nintendo Switch eShop
@BanjoPickles If you're looking for Elevator Action Returns, it's free on Ant Stream Arcade and it has global leaderboards and challenges. They also have regular old Elevator Action and tons of other classics as well.
Re: Video: Nintendo Switch Sports Gets A Brand New Overview Trailer, Out April 29th
Day one digital for me, I'll just use the Ring Fit leg strap I've already got and download it. Seems like the kind of game I'd want to always have available for a quick match rather than needing a cartridge change each time.
Re: Nintendo Issues Copyright Strike Against Scanned Super Mario 64 Guide From 1996
I don't like it, but I get it. If it's copyrighted material then of course it's not okay to upload and share it around. That's kind of the point of having things copywritten in the first place. Not that it really matters much since they don't sell it anymore, but I'm sure it's some kind of company policy made up by the lawyers that says copyrights are active for however many years the law says.
Re: Nintendo Switch System Update 14.0.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
I know gamers hate pushing buttons but if you just hit left, A, L it takes you right there in less than a second. But I get it, I'm sure people could use that half a second to do other more important things. Life is so hard.
Re: Talking Point: Which Other 'Old' Switch Games Would You Like To See Get New DLC?
I'd rather have a sequel but would love some more ARMS dlc. That's the only Switch game I have that I play just about every day and am happy with what's there, but it would be nice if they added some more arms to the arm catcher and added more gallery items since I'm at a point now where I have no new arms to get and extra in-game money and nowhere to spend it. And some new characters and stages wouldn't be bad either.
Re: Silent Hill Trademark Renewal Hints At Franchise Return
I'm sure they just need that so they can put out some rad Silent Hill NFTs and maybe some more old ports.
Re: Aerial_Knight's Never Yield Gets Switch Date For 'Da Update'
I tried it out, but the demo was super boring, it's just another endless runner with really simple gameplay. And even if I liked runners, there are much better ones out there. I'm really not sure why they put out articles about this, when there are loads of far better games more deserving of coverage.
Re: Nintendo Slammed For Its Stance On Super Smash Bros. At 2022 Streamer Awards
It's a good thing they have these tournaments, otherwise nobody would ever have picked up a game like Super Smash Bros. Nintendo really needs these guys, otherwise I'm sure they'll get bought up by Sony any day now. /s
Re: Video: This Fan-Made Banjo-Kazooie Remaster Trailer Looks Absolutely Stunning
it just looks generic, just because things can look realistic doesn't mean they should. Some people think realism = good graphics but I just think it looks boring and uninspired. Just looking at that water or the grass on the ground and I'd have no idea what game it is, could be anything at all; the real game has identifiable textures for everything that give it it's own charm.
Re: Konami Announces Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection For Switch
@Mgalens old ports are fine, I reject that their new business is focused on NFTs and won't be contributing to them continuing this practice. Far as I'm concerned they could create the greatest games ever (though clearly all they are capable of is putting old roms on some emulators), I still wouldn't buy them. Konami is dead to me, and unless they want to proclaim that they are done with the world destroying NFT swindle, that's the way it's going to stay. I have loads of games to play, I don't need this nonsense.
Re: Konami Announces Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection For Switch
All Konami knows how to do lately is make NFTs and put up some old ports. They were fine games but I'm not buying this. They're all easy to get for nothing, have been for decades, the only reason to buy something like this is to support the company and I don't think there's anything about modern Konami that I want to support.
Re: 'Missions And Rewards' Added To Nintendo Switch Online
Wow, they add new features and comments full of complaints. I'm just happy it still costs 1/3rd for a year of online compared to MS or Sony. If you don't care about all those bells and whistles, $60 is way too expensive just to play games online. At a dollar something a month I don't have anything to complain about. I'd probably still be signed up for PSN if they were that cheap.
Re: Random: Uh Oh, It Looks Like Steam Deck And Switch Might Have One Thing In Common
That's okay, I'm sure if they're anything like Nintendo, you can just take the controllers off and send them back in the mail where they'll fix them for free, lol
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (February 26th)
The best game ever! I'm not allowed to talk about it, but it's going to be a huge hit when it releases.
Re: Taking Part In The Nintendo Switch Sports Online Playtest? Make Sure You Keep Your Mouth Shut
I find it odd that someone would expect a beta test to allow footage to be shown before the game releases to the public. I occasionally do beta tests, and for every game I've played, mums the word, can't upload videos or screenshots or tell anyone anything.
I was looking forward to recording this, but it's no big deal, I can wait until it launches. Still excited to try it out.
Re: This Official Nintendo Direct Infographic Showcases All Its Reveals
@Anti-Matter I can understand where you're coming from, a fan of more all ages content rather than a lot of guns and whatnot, but Portal and Portal 2 are great games well worth playing for anyone who has yet to play them. It's about as unviolent as it gets, you're gun doesn't even shoot bullets, and even if it did, there are no humans in the game except for yourself, and no bad guys really to speak of. And at 20 bucks it's drastically undervalued, and probably the best games on the system (assuming they're ported properly).
Re: Review: GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon - A Dead Ringer From Konami That Struggles To Succeed
Yeah I played and I agree with the review. It's not so bad, but the thing is Dead Cells and Neon Abyss are much better games of this style and if I'm going to play a game like that, might as well play the best. I didn't get that far I guess, but what I played felt a bit repetitive and didn't seem to offer anything very original, but what can you expect for a remake.
Re: Min Min's Smash Bros. amiibo Could Be Arriving Soon By The Looks Of It
I like Min Min, but if they'd make Amiibo's for each of the ARMS characters I'd get them all.
Re: Random: Hyperkin And Kraft Heinz Team Up For "Monumental" Collaboration
I'd like to see some kind of beer-hat only it's made for cheetos that you can drink through a straw, so your fingers don't get all gross while you're holding the controller. Or better yet a combo beer/cheeto hat with two straws.
Re: Wii Sports Is Reborn As 'Nintendo Switch Sports'
@Ventilator That's cool you backed everything up but you were slightly mistaken, as the servers were never shut down (they removed the ability to upload, star levels, and removed bookmark functionality). If you boot up the game on the Wii U, you can still play those millions of levels, as well as all of the event courses. I would hope that they somehow preserve them if and when they do eventually shut down the servers, I've been saying it since the Switch came out, but they should port Mario Maker 1 to the Switch and then they don't need to keep the servers running just for the few Wii U players still out there.
And, anyways I've only made a few levels myself for Mario Maker 2, but play it constantly, Maker is in the name, but it's just millions of great levels for Mario fans to play through. You don't need to make anything to enjoy the game, but, if you bought it and didn't play it, that's your own fault not the games. The game is great, but if it's not your thing, you probably shouldn't have bought it, you really should have known what you were getting into just based on the name alone. Sometimes I'll throw a few bucks away on a gamble hoping a game is good, but for $60 if it's a genre I don't like, I wouldn't spend that kind of money without at least a very convincing demo. I thought it was pretty clear what kind of game it was before I bought it, but were you expecting something else?
Re: Wii Sports Is Reborn As 'Nintendo Switch Sports'
@Ventilator That would have been impossible to just move the levels to the sequel, the physics are different. Levels designed around a magnetic flag pole ball, mystery mushroom costume 1 block height duck swimming, Weird Mario, true random rather than button based random, entering overlapping pipes, p-switch timing, breaking bricks by walking into them with giant mario, whether it's okay to walk on a platform overlapping spikes or if you can jump over the screen if there are spikes up there, there are a lot of little changes between the two that it would break a lot of levels making them impossible to pass with the new rules. I guess they could have made it a double pack and included Super Mario Maker 1 + Super Mario Maker 2, but anyone playing random top rated levels would constantly be confused about what the rules were.
Re: Wii Sports Is Reborn As 'Nintendo Switch Sports'
@Ventilator Even if they gave it away, apparently nobody downloaded it or bothered to play it. They had a trial, which is what I imagine you're talking about but the online lobbies were always near empty since launch and only got worse as time went on. And sure, the Wii U wasn't a popular system, but Mario Maker had millions of levels uploaded immediately and tons on a regular basis, 4 player Smash Bros, or 8 player Splatoon matches or 12 player Mario Kart matches were always just a few seconds away, practically any time of day.
Wii Sports Club just wasn't popular and the Wii branding turned people off. Maybe things have changed since then, but as I recall any mention of the word Wii meant to a certain demographic of the gaming population to mean it was shovelware gimmicky garbage uncomparable to the big HD-twins. So when Wii U came out us Nintendo fans went gaga, while the Xbros of the world called it a baby console for second rate games, and isn't even a console, sounds like a Wii add-on, that's what people said. Nintendo doesn't want anything to do with that, that's why they called it The Switch, rather than the Wii U 2, or Wii 3. I always thought it was a load of bull, but the stigma remains.
Re: Wii Sports Is Reborn As 'Nintendo Switch Sports'
A lot of complaints about the not-Miis but it should be pretty obvious why. Wii Sports Club sold terribly, the last thing they want to do is make that again. Wii U sold bad, people here might miss the miis, but selling things with that branding just doesn't work anymore and would put people off more than anything, if history is any example.
Re: Valve Is Bringing Portal: Companion Collection To Switch Later This Year
I already played these years ago, but for $20, if it gets good motion controls I think I'd have to get it.
Re: Wii Sports Is Reborn As 'Nintendo Switch Sports'
@Dezzy70 That's how the Wii and Wii U was. If you played Wii Sports Resort Table Tennis, or Skyward Sword on the Wii, I'm sure you'd be used to it already. Splatoon 1 & Splatoon 2 both had that issue as well, but it's never been an issue in ARMS or Ring Fit Adventure so it's clearly based on how they design the game. While that's annoying, it's not a Nintendo only problem, it's an issue on PSVR with tracking those controllers as well and lighting can mess with it easily, even PC VR has occasional motion tracking issues. If you want to play the game, you have to get used to it but hopefully it's as painless as ARMS, which in my opinion is perfect.
Re: Wii Sports Is Reborn As 'Nintendo Switch Sports'
@Dezzy70 Joycons (and the Pro controller) have great motion sensing capabilities, easily just as good as the Wii's, see ARMS or Splatoon 2. It doesn't have pointer controls, but that was never important in games like Wii Sports.
Re: Random: Who Needs 3DS? You Can Now Play Super Mario In Holographic Form
I had to double check when I heard that name, and yep, it's the same Seth Able Robinson that made Legend of the Red Dragon back in the BBS days. Glad to hear he's still in gaming.
Re: Random: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Player Enters 'The Final Frontier'
@ThornyFox Hey nice one! That was really cool, and interesting too. My mind is always blown away when seeing stuff like this. Things like that video are awesome to look at because most of us will never have the skills or patience to pull stuff like that off but I enjoy seeing what the limits of the game are. I mean people could say the same thing about how real space is nothing but a "sky color change" and there's nothing up there, but it's still really incredible when someone goes to space, largely because it's a place that we don't belong and aren't really built for it but we've overcome those obstacles and did it anyway.
It's like the Super Mario Bros. minus world, there's not much there and it's repetitive and kind of boring, but what makes it interesting is that it exists at all and there's a secret way to get there that the devs didn't think of.
Re: Best Cheap Nintendo Switch Games
That's a great list, but I just never hear anyone mention Blazing Beaks, it's really great and cheap, I bought it for just a couple bucks on sale a while ago. For that price, I assumed it was crap, but I couldn't have been more wrong. I still think Enter the Gungeon is the best twin-stick shooter on Switch, but I've played it so much that I just wanted to play something a little different, and Blazing Beaks is the same kind of twin-stick dodge rolling rogue-like action that I love, but it does it's own thing and has loads of charm of it's own. And also Neon Abyss is only $19.99 a fantastic game with tons and tons of unlockables and bosses, etc. it's a game that would take an incredibly long time to beat and unlock everything, and it runs much better on the Switch than it does on PC. I think it's one of the best games out there right now as long as you like 2d rogue-lite platform shooters.
Re: 'Zelda' Meets 'Super Mario Maker' In Super Dungeon Maker
Reminds me of Zelda Classic
Re: Random: Here's The Nintendo Switch-Like Steam Deck Compared To Some Other Stuff
What bothers me about this is those touch pads. Playing something like Half-Life or Portal portably sounds awesome in theory, but I feel like the mouse and keyboard is the best way to play those (or maybe something like Splatoon's motion controls), but those touch pads are not at all a good replacement for a mouse. I guess it wouldn't matter if you liked playing PC games just with a controller, but I think it would get on my nerves after a bit.
Kind of how the Steam controller is supposed to be made for Steam games, but playing Valves own FPS games it's not as comfortable as a keyboard and mouse. And something weird about the Steam controller, it doesn't work if Steam isn't running, so I wonder if the controls for the Deck are going to work right when not running Steam, especially on legacy titles that expect an Xbox controller or else.
Re: Random: Here's The Nintendo Switch-Like Steam Deck Compared To Some Other Stuff
Those were some great shots, really good way to show how big it is. I also would have been curious to see it compared to the Xbox Duke Controller, an Xbox or Playstation console, a laptop or Chromebook, a big arcade stick, GBA Micro, iPhone, iPad, Playdate, and a Switch with controllers detached. Also maybe some comparisons of the width would have been interesting, looks a little thicker than a Switch, but I'm not sure.
Re: Here's How Smash Bros. Series Sales Stack Up Against Street Fighter, Tekken And Mortal Kombat
@TedGundy Oh sorry, guess I got you mixed up with someone else.
Re: Here's How Smash Bros. Series Sales Stack Up Against Street Fighter, Tekken And Mortal Kombat
@TedGundy So what you're telling me is that nobody has ever played a game of Street Fighter casually? And Smash can't be played seriously? In one game you punch, kick, block, and use super moves against an opponent in a non-beat em up, and you call that casual and a party game, the other you punch, kick, block, and use super moves against an opponent in a non-beat em up, and you call that a fighting game for pro-gamers. In Street Fighter Ryu was fighting in a fighting game, in Marvel VS. Capcom Ryu was fighting in a fighting game, in Smash Bros. Ryu is fighting in a fighting game, not moving gems around a tetris-like board like Super Puzzle Fighter Turbo. This isn't You don't know Jack, or Clubhouse Games, Grandma isn't going to want to grab a controller and give a few matches a try like it's Wii Sports Bowling.
Regarding Smash being "aimed and marketed to a casual audience", that's what Capcom should have been doing, you think they don't want those sales? They very much do, they just didn't market it good enough. Nintendo had new characters coming out on a weekly basis, and leading up to the game all the characters were secret and only shown one by one week after week, and the game sites got to run story after story, it was a real gold mine. That's just smart business, everybody wants more customers. And if they're out there buying video games for their very own video game console, I'd say they're not really casual game fans at all. The only casuals I see are people playing on their cell phones because they don't care enough about the hobby to own a real console.
Re: Here's How Smash Bros. Series Sales Stack Up Against Street Fighter, Tekken And Mortal Kombat
@Truegamer79 Street Fighter, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat are party games geared towards casuals. Casuals are people who play arcade games while doing their laundry, pulled in by the flashing lights and loud intro music and demo from the game's attract mode, and it's only a few quarters. Smash Bros. people have to buy a console, and spend full price for the game just to play the franchise, nothing casual about that. And it's a multiplayer fighting game, Smash didn't exactly invent the idea of people fighting each other while drinking beer taking turns fighting the winner. As far as Fighting games go, Street Fighter, Primal Rage, Mortal Kombat did the party game thing long before Smash was ever invented. And also, 2 players vs. is super casual and easy to grasp, what's not casual is 8 players running around killing each other and trying to make your eyes ignore all the chaos to focus on your own character, deciding which characters to attack and which to avoid. Even 4 players is considerably more complicated than anything from the more traditional casual arcade games.
Re: Team17 Is Jumping On The NFT Train With 'MetaWorms'
I'm getting tired of having to open Steam and click on "Ignore this creator", but whatever. I'm not supporting this nonsense.
Re: Soapbox: Pokémon Legends: Arceus Raises The Question - How Much Do Janky Graphics Matter?
I don't really care about graphics and think the game looks fine as it is, but I won't be picking this up because I'm tired of turn based battles.
Re: Konami Sold This Castlevania Pixel Art For Over $26K In Its 'Memorial' NFT Auction
@Fath According to Google 5-10% seems to be the standard amount the orginal creators make when their NFTs are traded in general, not just Konami. That's all part of the scam why they want to promote people to buy these and sell them, because each time they do, the original "artist" gets paid. So they get paid when they sell the NFT the first time, and then they keep getting paid forever when anyone sells it (assuming anyone wants to buy it).
Re: Hori Wants To Release A Retro Game Controller That Can Be Used To Play Hamster's Arcade Archives Series
I like the all in one, but am not sure about buying it in pieces. I always wanted something with an asteroids or arkanoid knob and there's a few games that would be fun with a rollerball and if the price isn't too high I'll get this for sure. But if it was just pieces I may not be convinced to buy them just for a few games. And most importantly I would hope one of these would work good with a wide variety of devices, especially Windows and Android and Linux.
Re: Prominent Gaming YouTubers' Likenesses Sold As NFTs Without Consent
The real problem with all this is that it just shows how worthless these are. If any old rando can make these, there could be a million of them all uploaded by different people, making this seemingly one-of-a-kind thing worth nothing. The Mona Lisa is only worth a fortune because there aren't a million of them. Even if just one company made these, if one of them sold really good, they could just say let's make more, and with each one made, they're all worth less. This is as dumb as replacing dollars with Schrute bucks.
Re: Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection Announced For Switch This February
Nope, not interested in buying Ubisoft games when the money is just going to go to fund their NFT scam business
Re: Talking Point: Could 'Mario Kart 9' Be The Smash Bros. Ultimate Of Racers?
I didn't see my option on the poll, but I'd just like to see a Mario Kart with takedowns and kart damage from smashing your kart against someone elses. And I feel like open world like Forza would have been a good option as well, that would really differentiate itself apart from 8 deluxe.
Re: Random: Nintendo Kart Is Trending On Social Media, Following Claims Of Mario Kart 9 Being "In Active Development"
@Gamer_Zeus Yeah not to mention Labo 01 Variety Kit, ARMS, Labo 02 Robot Kit, Labo 03 Vehicle Kit, Ring Fit Adventure, Labo 04 VR Kit, Brain Age, Mario Maker 2, Big Brain Academy, Game Builder Garage
Re: At Least Someone Is Celebrating Castlevania's 35th In The Right Way
@Jokerwolf There's a big issue with all that, physical used games are physically used; the shrinkwrap is gone, it may be missing a pamphlet, box got torn when opening it, it gets fingerprints, may have been thrown or dropped, etc. so you don't pay as much for a physical game that's used. A digital game that copy is exactly as good as the original, so my question is, if a consumer has the option to buy a game new for $60 or $20 used, why would anyone ever pay full price for a new game again? And, why is that something you think that a video game company would support?
It doesn't take NFTs to handle something like that, it could be done ages ago if anyone wanted. There just isn't any money in it for the people producing the content, not a technological constraint.
Re: At Least Someone Is Celebrating Castlevania's 35th In The Right Way
Nothing against Limited Run games, but I'm not buying anything else made from Konami now that they're NFT scammers. I won't get rid of the games I already got or anything, but I clicked "Ignore this creator" from Steam and will spend my money elsewhere, not like there's any shortage of great games to play.
Re: UK Charts: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Enjoys A Speedy Start To 2022
It seems like they should have some kind of policy where if a certain game sells so good, they release dlc for it. I'd rather see a new game, but, some new courses and cups to race in would be nice.
Also, I hope Mario Kart 9 turns into Nintendo Kart or/and Kart Maker. And I'd love to see a game like that with takedowns, like Burnout 3 or OnRush; grinding your opponent against a wall until they pop up in the air, or slamming someone from behind and their kart gets damaged until it explodes, or get on a ramp and crush them beneath you when you land. It could be a lot of fun.
Re: Best Nintendo Switch Fitness And Exercise Games
ARMS is the best, I play almost every day and despite it not being super popular it's always got lots of people to play against online. That was a good list, but a couple extras I can think of would be Bowling in Clubhouse Games Switch, and if you play Splatoon 2 with motion controls it's a little bit of exercise or at least better than sitting on the couch like most games.