NotSoCryptic

Kind of a stupid place to open that in the US lol. Guess CA really wants to stick it to FL. I mean who wouldn't want to spend time in the ass end of the US.

The sites in CA are awesome, the people and their cities.... not so much.

@Rykdrew Yes. Please sell them. That is the whole point about physical games. They are yours to sell. Let someone who can give those games love, appreciation, and usage a chance. I'm willing to best a good number of your 4000+ games are not available through a digital marketplace. Which is the very position I'm taking here.

Contrary to the maybe 500 games you have digital if you started buying as early as 2006. Those digital games are locked to your system. You can't sell them. You're not going to play them again. That digital license dies with you. Making things difficult for preservation of history, research from developers and aspiring developers, and just general fans of the medium who might find a love for older titles.

At the same time you can have your cake and eat it too if convenience is your jam. 30 minutes is generally all it takes to soft mod a nintendo system. Then you just dump away. If you're living in a world where you wish VC still exists, guess what modders tend to do: port emulators for those games. I have every zelda game on my Switch except for 4 titles with out Nintendo's online services. I own copies of them.

@Rykdrew people who buy physical don't technically need to do this either. ROM dumpers exist. Every Nintendo system I own I have some sort of ROM library dumped from my physical games. Did that to my 3DS just recently.

I buy exclusively physical on Nintendo products. Their last 3 store fronts have a vote of no confidence. I can soft mod these machines easy enough to dump my roms onto the device now to get around this problem, then put the game some place safe or on display.

GameBoy Atlantis!

@Spider-Kev yes, but why would you want them.

@iLikeUrAttitude its an unpopular opinion, because enough people have finally played it outside of the hype bubble that filled the nostalgia wind bag have finally been displaced in number. Additionally with enough remasters and vc for both games a clearly perspective was had. Oot is good, but it really didn't do much for gaming in the long or even short run. It just managed to be a good n64 game which was rare in those days. By time that game came out we had all manner of 3d adventure games with similar systems and second analog support that it kind of makes the praises of the game a bit lack luster. I was already playing many bangers by time oot released that the importance of the title was it merely was a 3d Zelda that made a lesser story to that of alttp. Majora did something interesting with that achievement. Which is why people are coming around to the fact that oot was just 3d alttp for hand me down gamers who's older siblings moved onto playstation. To add insult to injury other Zelda have done it better since.

Its a good game, just not worthy of its praise. I think the 3ds remakes shined a light on that.

@ShadowofTwilight22 Nah. Oot is an 7/10 game. It was in 98, and it is now in 2022. Probably one of the most overrated games of the last 30 years. It's not a bad game, it just doesn't deserve most of the praise it gets. Certainly not one of the best Zelda Games made.

@Astral-Grain
"Then why state you're a former Ubisoft employee in an Assassin's Creed game review comments section?"

I didn't state that I was a former ubisoft employee until talking about the process for determining the objective analysis of game play control. It was relevant to that point, not to the article. Ceased being relevant when I stated my comment had nothing to do with the game, just in the manner in which the review was written.

"I can't think of a more inappropriate place to make this point of yours or a more inappropriate time to mention you used to work at Ubisoft."

This is actually the perfect place for which to make the point. As these comments are reviewed and examined by the editors. As far as my employment status, only relevant to my point about play controls. It has really nothing else to do with anything else.

"I know this is unheard of on the internet, but I'm beginning to suspect you may not be telling the truth about your professional background."

Well I'll tell you what every other dev who has revealed they were a dev on the internet has ever said. I don't care. You can take it or leave it. The insight was just dropped to illustrate objectivity since you were clinging to subjectivity like some sort of holy icon to prop your position here. Remember you started talking to me. You also don't have to talk to me. Simple as that. I'm not here to prove to you I'm an employee of any company, what you do with the insight I gave is your business. Just know that I'm not buying the trash your shoveling.

I'm sure you meant well, but lets be perfectly clear here. This was never about opinions. This was about the objectivity of the article. There is room for subjectivity or opinion, but that wasn't the place to do it. This could have been any other article I read on Nintendo Life and I would have said the same thing I'm saying here.

Keep in mind that before I was a dev, I was gamer and I still am. Why I'm reading a review on a game I use to enjoy to see how well it performs over all. To see if I, like you, should buy it. Let's be fair Ubisofts ports haven't always been the best. To the wierd rendering in early AC releases to the bugs that haunt South Park to this very day. To the subpar quality of starlink. It's something I'd like to know if my former employer improved. Its the same reasons I read up on the bioshock collection or the witcher 3.

@Astral-Grain

"As a former Ubisoft staff member, should you really be attacking a game review for criticizing a game you may have helped work on?"

Does it matter? I'm not getting money from it. I see no royalties from the project. I also do not work for that company anymore. So arguing in favor of their game would make no sense as I'd want to see my own games succeed. If you're going to jump through logical hoops, than maybe see it through. I've worked for a lot of studios in my day. On a lot of games. I can say that I have never worked on these games. That my history with the franchise and these titles predates my time with Ubisoft.

"By stating you were part of Ubisoft, isn't this evidence you're incapable of being unbiased about this franchise and the criticism for this franchise?"

Not particularly. Since I'm not speaking in favor or against the Assassin's Creed titles. I'm also not longer a part of that company and does me no service to do one or the other. I fully admit to the convoluted nature of the story and the bad controls. I can also say that about Bioshock Infinite's story among others, though I've never worked for 2K or the now defunct irrational games. As the point I'm making has absolutely nothing to do with Assassin's Creed or Ubisoft, I'm making that statement as a universal and blanket statement. It should not be used with regards to this title or any title I've listed thus far from Bioshock to Xenogears as a negative aspect for a game. A game can be good or bad regardless of it being convoluted. That convoluted story could be bad or good, but it being convoluted doesn't tend to be the issue. It's the quality of the story. At that point we're talking about games in general. Which is what my original comment was on. So please don't try to shut me down with some false equivalency for conflict of interest here simply because you want there to be one. Fact of the matter is using convoluted as pajorative as a talking point against the game's quality when its a pretty benign component says nothing about the games quality or story.

@Astral-Grain I'm not here to discuss your value of opinions. Especially since I wasn't calling him out for having one. You completely leaped over my actual issue. Apparently the word Latter isn't in your vocabulary.

No one is going to contest the control quality of AC. That is just fact, its bad, has always been bad, and always will be. That is actually something that can be evaluated with metrics, ubisoft has an entire suite of lectures and tools for evaluating controls. No one is under the delusion the controls are bad and it can actually be evaluated objectively.

I'm also not contesting that it is convoluted. I fully agree that it is. I am saying that acting like it is a negative is the sort of thing that leads developers down to more simplistic plots. I'm saying its not something that should be listed as a postiive or a negative. Just simply that it is. To list it in the same breath of something that is objectively bad, when whether or not a convoluted story is bad should be left up to the reader and simply stated as "being convoluted" should be addressed. Now he can critic how that convoluted plot panned out and review it, but I don't want to see a precident being set where convoluted is bad. Xenogears has a convoluted plot, Chrono Cross and Trigger have convoluted plots, Xenosaga has a convoluted plot, FF1-12 have convoluted plots. Is that unfortunate? Should we be linking that sort of thing to a negative conutation. The answer is no.

So as you can see it has nothing to do with opinions. He can have all the subjective expression he wants on the matter. Happily he didn't put it in the bullet points. Over all, I don't want to see it downplayed like that as it really devalues the articles ability to separate such matters.

As far as:
"each of the three games included here are absolutely worthy of your time".

Oh I read it. However that doesn't change the fact that someone now gets it in their head that convoluted is bad and suddenly we end up with 5 AC games with paper thin plot lines. Quite literally the reason why the AC plot line just turned to absolute garbage after AC3. Ubisoft was tired of hearing how convoluted the plot is. I'm saying that as someone who was on staff.

So please lecture someone else about silly opinions.

So Cloud is in this version of the game! Excellent! Will there be a Tifa version launched on switch at some point?

". Aside from some combat that lacks depth and a convoluted story"

I take issue with the latter still being pointed out as a problem. You give it flack for lack of combat depth, but then inversely complain that its attempt at depth is convoluted and thus not a good thing. Reviewers need to stop citing this as a negative as it just results in developers watering down their plot to some really basic trash. Yes, developers do read these criticisms and take them to heart.

"It's like Castlevania meets Street Fighter"

Isn't that what Darkstalkers and Castlevania Judgement were? lol

I've given up on Nintendo for providing consistency for legacy releases of any sort on their platforms. Modding community is not only far more effective and owners of the franchises tend to do far more interesting packages for these games, including releasing them on something other Nintendo hardware. So net positive.

@WesEds Mostly the same here too. Zelda, and Xenoblade Chronicles X so I have the complete series. The rest of those games can stay on my Wii U. I have my 3DS if I need anything older than GameCube.

@Bydlak Sound advice, but as someone who repairs consoles in his spare time, its not that simple. I just restored my very well taken care of SNES. It not only yellowed with age, but some of the capacitors replaced. It was causing my video to come out in black and white over composite cables. Though I've since upgraded to a component cable for RGB through a Retrotink 5x I'm sure the other caps would have gone too soon. My Saturn I got second hand off ebay isn't in the best of shape either and I'm waiting for a 10pin din connector from a less than reputable source to help fix one of the many things that needed fixing.

Point of this story is, that these machines are as mortal as their owners. Who knows what kind of DRM nintendo has on Wii U and 3DS, but once those systems die, that backup becomes useless. Granted by time that happens we'll likely be turning the hardware into units that have the entire library on them, but even now its not exactly a strong skill set with most people. People get skittish installing a fenrir in a Saturn, it's literally unplugging 2 to 3 cables and plugging them into the fenrir. That isn't getting into the cost of such components. Though I have a feeling the Wii U and 3DS have less of an issue unless USB drive cease being a thing or become incompatible with that standard for Wii U and MicroSD cards get phased out for M.2 SSDs (which is a very real possibility). Those MicroSDs will eventually fail too. I have a stack of dead ones that can speak to that.

Looks like I'm the odd man out. I don't like the british accents, but I don't think it should change either. Should be a constant reminder to Nintendo America what Fup they pulled because they thought something was niche. JRPGs aren't niche, they've just become to cliché for their own good. Which is part of the problem with indie dev's who keep trying to resurrect the genre and falling back on tropes to make their games work.

Additionally British folk should consider this a win.

That being said I'd appreciate a wider range of Accents. North American Accent is hard to pin down like British English.

Cool, when do we get Halo on Switch.

No way this is happening.

Lost me at Wii version.

Still waiting on a port of XCX

@kingbk I dunno, I think I'm more inclined to play on my Steamdeck.

@KirbysAdventure we'll see.

@gloom PS4 Pro, PS5, Vita. The original PlayStation, NES, SNES, Genesis, Turbo Grafix 16, SMS, and my PC even when running windows 10 using an NVMe Gen4.

@Rpg-lover not particularly. I mean its also outsold the PS Vita.

"West Coast, preferably in the Bay Area"

Death sentence for your dreams. East coast. Maybe in Florida. That's the gold.

I'm honestly confused why FFT wasn't used for the name. Sure the Advance series of games were set in Ivalice using the Isekai (at least on GBA) approach, but this just seems reckless. Final Fantasy has always taken place on different worlds that are separate from each other in just about every way. From FF2's world and combat to FFXV, it just seems silly that the first time it makes sense to call something Final Fantasy, Square Enix doesn't do it. FFT need a proper sequel. This really could have been it.

Guess Square didn't want to tie a major franchise to Nintendo, guessing this was Nintendo supported.

Well isn't he a condescending piece of *****.

You hear that gamers. You're too dumb to understand that the negative impacts of a technology from a company notorious for exploiting them far out weighs any benefits they clearly haven't figured out themselves.

This guy should run for office in the US he would fit in with the rest of the slimy politicians like it was second nature.

@MegaVel91 do you understand how important 400k was in sales for video games in 1995 to 2000.

I'd love to know where Shane Smith is today lol.

I love these symptom's lists. All of which can be attributed to other problems the kid might be having. I know when I didn't want to play with the neighborhood kids it wasn't because I'd rather be gaming. It was just gaming is what I ended up doing because it had my interest in a void.

ok? Isn't that like being impressed with shipping 400k in the first week of a game release though. I mean Kudos for getting the visibility, but I'd rather see retention numbers.

Not coming back. First movie was bad. Not Annihilation Bad, but really couldn't contend with the only Paul W.S. Anderson movie to ever do a good video game adaptation. I had high hopes, they were dashed the minute the opening fight sequence ended and we were stuck with not Liu Kang in his literal plot armor.

I agree with half of these. Especially the dungeons.

Though I feel like you should smash your hands with a hammer for suggesting Tingle.

I think Zelda should get her own game instead of taking over Link's adventure. Nothing against The Legend of Zelda, featuring Zelda as the playable character, but I don't want to be swapping protagonists into some half baked nightmare of incomplete features on a character with loathing taking control or characters we don't get nearly enough time with then get pissed when we won't be getting a spin off.

Adjusting weapon destruction balance.... where is that hammer. ... just get rid of it. This should have never been added to a zelda game. I understand some people like it, but we have enough forking of the fan base, let's get rid of the most dividing thing in the game.

Sails..... We already had wind waker and that turned into trains. Can we make a hard pass on this suggestion and not turn the game into ASS Creed Odyssey.

Definitely the dungeons. If they can make BotW feel like ALttP and less like BotW with its dungeons and towns. Maybe dial back the terrain nightmare that is BotW. Then I'm all on board and will come back for a sequel. At present, I can't even be bothered to preorder the damned thing.

@nessisonett Actually still not legal. Cease and desist in coming.

Phil Spencer intends, not microsoft. See last 40 years of Microsoft. This is a company that cannot be trusted.

@geiseldiesel Yes and No. I think the controls on Wii were better. Something seems off with the Switch motion controls. I'll know for sure once I get to a proper setup. My TV was at eye level with Wii and not with the Switch version so that might be a contributing factor causing the tilt sensor to register the wrong swings since I'm looking down instead of straight ahead.

Can I get a port of the 3DS version or better yet a full on remake. Otherwise I'll just keep playing on 3DS.

Doubt its related to the not pandemic. We've been in 15 days to stop the spread for over 2 years and are at a point that no one in a free state cares. I doubt this game has enough exposure to warrant backlash of any kind.

Eh. Play Ocarina on 3DS. Silliness.

I can see a few of these. At the same time, I'm kind of like "why"?

One group is the Survivor Trilogy for Tomb Raider. It can handle the first two for sure, but I wonder about Shadow of the Tomb Raider. That being said with the options like the Aya Neo and Steam Deck either here or coming, I feel like I'd be better off wit the Steam Version. Especially since these collections will likely result in me downloading 2 out of the 3 games anyway.

Then we have games like Tales of Arise and I couldn't even bring myself to play it on PS4. If I really wanted an on the go version, I think'd again eye the Steamdeck or AyaNeo.

Then there are games like The Witness and Metroid Prime Trilogy, those make the most sense.

I think at this point in the switches life its break winner of ports of older games is being disrupted in ways many of us 4 years ago saw coming. That the PC or Sony would find an answer to it. Looks like Valve Camp has decided that PC would be the one to find the solution along with many kickstarter projects which are looking really appealing right now even with their high price tag.

The saving grace in this space is collections like Mass Effect LE. Origin sucks. I'd take a switch version to escape having two launchers. honestly this has been something I've been wanting on the switch since it launched. I was ready to buy a Switch version along side my PS4 and PC version. I'm that diehard for this game, if it runs Mass Effect, you can bet I'll own a copy of it for that platform. There is no reason the switch can't run this game either.

back on point. Because other parties are not starting to eat its lunch and honestly selling point. That leaves first party titles like Prime Trilogy. 35th Anniversary of Zelda came and went. So far the only guy in green that got a year was Luigi, tell me if that makes sense. No cool collection with digital museum exploring the history of the franchise with individual releases of remasters, remakes and collections. We just got Skyward Sword (whcih I'm happy about) and a Game & Watch, which is cool, but not how I thought one of the most influential long running franchises that honestly secured the switch as a competitor would be treated. I'm sure the more Die Hard nintendo fans out there have many franchises they'd love to see sequels, remasters, and remakes of at present. Starfox is seemingly dead right now for example. Thankful for Metroid Dread, but it would have been nice if there were multiple projects in production like a Super Metroid Remake and Metroid Fusion Remake for Switch in the Dread Style. No stealth though please lol. We also have Metroid II's Return of Samus just sitting there on 3DS which could have been easily remastered for switch.

Let's be clear here, hall effect sensors are used in Xbox One and Series X controllers on the triggers. It is also the component that most frequently failed. The senors themselves tend to have a higher failure rate, which is why they haven't been used until recently.

In an ideal world, these are perfect. In reality not so much. You also need to create a means to supply resistance and centering. Which can still generate friction issues that people claim is the cause of the current issues with current design.

In my time repairing xbox one controllers I've seen everything from bad sensors, damage sensors, and dislodged magnets (that sometimes result in the damaging of the sensor). Additional you introduce a shielding problem as forces outside the controller can impact the hall sensor. So drift won't be your issue then, it'll be completely disrupted input.

@Deerock69
That really doesn't mean it has a crack at reaching 150m.

I don't have any data on them extending game output for the next to 3 to 4 years, but that honestly could mean anything for a Nintendo platform in 2022. This wouldn't be the first time Nintendo has reallocated one platforms projects for a next gen machine, successful or otherwise. Most devs do. If they are confident next gen won't change their architecture too much they may happily develop on the older machine till new kits are ready to throw people off the scent. This could go either way.

Fair point on the sales juicing at the same time the Nintendo Switch isn't exactly a DS. Its slowly passing into the land of withered technology, it didn't start there. Say what you will about the tegra X1, it was still current tech 5 years ago. So it may not be in their power to have had drop that price in the last 4 years. Closest they got to that is the OLED model and discontinuing the base model. Otherwise I think they would have put the screws to Sony and Microsoft already. I think the reason the parts cost is still high is largely due to inflation and parts shortages. Otherwise I think we would be looking at a 150 dollars switch right now. Let's be fair we don't see rapid price cuts on consoles down to the 100 and 150 dollar range much these days. By time the Series S does this, they'll likely be upgrading to the Series Z and the new base model will be the Series X in the xbox department. I think its a good point they haven't dropped the price, but I suspicious of this fact as the current price point is what is holding some buyers back, not hardware shortages like with Sony and Microsoft. I think over the next year we'll start to see how true that is, as production of the PS5 and the availability of parts increases to meet demand. Though I could see bundle sure. Little harder to do with cartridges though, so maybe digital copies, but that might result in other issues as well. Colors I'm going to have to say they've done. Different colored joy cons were their solution for this and we did see special edition switches already. I think buyers are fun with the colors they have, given the consoles size and design, it would be better to sell different color docks than different color Switchs. I even have a shell for my switch from rose colored gaming to help finish my "zelda" themed switch with the skyward sword joycon. So I'm not really concerned about a limited edition switch or a wood grain colored switch at the moment. I have a feeling other people recognize that as well.

So I don't think those things hold as much weight as you think, though valid points.

I think they'll try to ride it out for 3 years with a 5 million decline in sales starting this year on year. They'll fall short. PS5, the aya neo, steamdeck, they'll start chipping away at licensing and platform relevance.

I would be surprised if this isn't released on everything. Too many property holders involved for it not to. Including Sony and Nintendo.

"The Game Boy was, of course, utterly integral to the success of Pokémon (and vice versa, you could argue), but Tajiri could have easily have executed the same idea on Sega's Game Gear, which also had link-up capability and was still very much an ongoing concern in the mid-'90s, despite the domination of the Game Boy"

Executed sure. So could have the Neo Geo Pocket and the Wonder Swan Color. Both were in a better position than the GameGear at the time. Which was mostly just supported for spare parts. You couldn't really buy a Game Gear any where easily after 1995. Might as well have been completely pulled from shelves.

honestly I think it's success is because of the anime, it had little to do with the GB aside from its nice install base. They played it safe. Though I think Nintendo Pushed for the Anime, but an actual pokemon fan might know the actual answer to that statement.

Probably should have mention at the very least Xenogears. Xenoblade isn't as recognized by Xenogears fans, simply because its a Nintendo product.

Pretty sure Metroid Dread was the only game I bought for switch this year.

My guess is a Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger HD Remasters will be announced in the next 3 months. There has been enough noise over the subject. I would not be surprised if CT gets a pixel remake after the FF Pixel Remasters are finished rolling out. CC will see a poly boost and texture cleanup. Hopefully CC will not be an eye sore like FF7-FF9 and real care is put into consistency. FF8 was such a missed opportunity.

Only thing I fear is that one or both will be mobile first.

@Dirty0814 and if that was what I was talking about you'd have a point. Go actually some place else.