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@MarcusIsCool Nintendo didn't become this big by being nice, and Shigeru Miyamoto isn't really involved in Nintendo's business decisions. Their former president Hiroshi Yamauchi was an absolutely ruthless businessman, and some of their actions during the NES days are almost unthinkable today. Nintendo actually restricted third parties on developing for rival systems, as well as how many games they could develop for the NES, to the degree that they lost a FTC lawsuit.

This generation I have cut down on physical purchases unfortunately. My biggest annoyance is major publishers cheapening out by using the lowest capacity switch cards and expecting you do download the rest. For instance, 2K/Rockstar only included limited data for their Bioshock and GTA collections, and the same deal with the Konami's MGS collection. As such when you insert your card in, you're basically getting a dataless icon. If that's the case forward, I might as well buy a digital copy of the games and save the hassle of swapping cards.

As for LRG and their ilk, they know they cornered a niche audience and are resorting to incredibly unscrupulous practices. As someone who lives in Australia I have to pay a premium to import them, and if I miss out the initial preorder window, I have to sometimes pay 10x the price in the aftermarket.

@Antraxx777 Probably the rest of Taito Arcade Archives games not already included in Taito Milestones:

Bonze Adventure
Crime City
Don Doko Don
Fighting Hawk
Final Blow
Flipull
Football Champ
Kuri Kinton
Master of Weapon
Megablast
Ninja Kids
Raimais
Volfied

@ChessboardMan The version included is the English version Growl, despite ads labelling it as Runark. You can change from 2 to 4 played in the in-game options.

Worth noting that unlike the previous two collections, the Western version defaults to the English ROMs, which is a godsend for Cadash, since the game is text heavy. And Runark is actually Growl in this collection, while Rainbow Islands Extra is missing, even though it's included in the standalone release.

However, the three new games (Dead Connection, Thunder Fox, Warrior Blade) defaults to the Japanese version for some reason.

It's a shame Fatal Fury Special isn't included since it's pretty much the Championship Edition of Fatal Fury 2, making the original pretty much redundant.

Ahh I was wondering why Arcade Archives stopped carrying Technos games. I'm glad to play the Neo Geo version of Super Dodgeball alongside Combatribes and Shadow Force. Too bad Double Dragon fighting game and Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer are not included.

@Bizzyb Probably later this year, since the first collection was released digitally in February last year and the physical copy came later in October.

Seeing how the original launched with bugs and censorship, I'll wait for the physical release down the track with the updates.

No love for the PSP version? The character models look far better, along with the isometric views and gameplay improvements like ultimate attacks.

Sadly most of the physical Switch games I buy are AAA first party titles like TOTK, which works out of the box and require very little updates. What annoys me are:

1) Major publishers going the cheap route by using the smallest cards and expecting the user to download the rest. For instance, with the latest updates, Monster Hunter Rise requires another 10 GBs of downloads.

2) Specialist publishers like LRG cheapening out on their customers and thriving on artificial scarcity. Often I have to pay double the price for a physical copy of a game I like compared to the eshop, and then I have to wait for deliveries which often goes unfulfilled.

@Ashunera84 Lots of countries in the world have protectionist economies, not just China. France has quotas on foreign films imported into the country for instance.

As for American companies, you don't think that they engage in their own propaganda, like virtue signalling about being inclusive of minorities yet it's still the same people controlling from the top?

Tencent's rapid expansion is shady and deserves questioning, but the way the US government acts shows it's tied with the incoming Trump government's xenophobia. They're not concerned about corporate responsibility and good governance, seeing the amount of bailouts and lobbyists in Washington.

Meanwhile Microsoft literally brags about providing hardware and software for the US military. Totally not part of the US military industrial complex LOL.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transformation/u-s-army-to-use-hololens-technology-in-high-tech-headsets-for-soldiers/

@GrailUK Hamster has yet to port any 32-bit or 3D games other than the two Tetris TGM games. They're slowly releasing games from the early 90s, but otherwise they're more concentrated on the ones which they own the rights to, such as Athena, NMK, UPL etc.

@MontyCircus Sadly WB and their gaming division which owns Midway are on a downward spiral under David Zaslav. Several bigger game developers like Digital Eclipse and LRG had approached them for their back catalogue, but they were all turned down.

The only way I'm buying a physical copy is if they include the original game, like the physical version of Asha in Monster World.

@Toastmaster Turok 3 Remastered is still missing the multiplayer mode from the original. Apparently the source code is lost, and sadly that's half the game missing since I had great fun fighting bots back in the day.

@Grail_Quest It's worth noting that the remaster is actually based on the PC version which has completely different, more open levels, although you can play with 3DO monsters and weapon models. The 3DO version has more enclosed maze levels more akin to Wolfenstein 3D, and I hope that version gets added to the remaster eventually.

Tetris DX is quite the downgrade to the original IMO. Not is only the iconic theme gone, the background animation is more of an annoyance since it distracts from concentration.

I really hope that the Nintendo versions of Tetris (NES, GB, GBC) could be added to the next update of the Switch version of Tetris Forever. They are important milestones, and I'm sure many people would like a physical version without needing a NSO subscription.

@Overzeal They're just the ACA Neo Geo games inside one app

@WaveBoy If you like pixel art beat em ups, have you tried Karate Kid Street Rumble or GI Joe Wrath of Cobra?

@Shiryu And I couldn't even get past the first Zord fight against Goldar, who keeps dodging my moves and reduce the sword meter in a few hits.

They're nice bonuses, but I don't know why DE couldn't just port the original MS-DOS version instead. The 16-bit console versions have broken physics, lack many animations and voices, and there is no random map generator either.

@Crono1973 NES Tetris does not have the famous Tetris theme aka Korobeiniki, but Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy as the default music. Korobeiniki was introduced via the GB version.

Ugh, the biggest annoyance I have with Kirby games on DS and 3DS is that A is used to jump and B is used to attack, without options to change them. If it gets a Switch port I hope there are more control customisation options.

It sucks how Famicom owners missed out on this version back in the day. I played the Japan-only BPS version on Tetris Forever and it has horrid controls, with down to rotate and A to drop.

Seeing the mixed receptions for Karate Kid: Street Rumble and GI Joe: Wrath of Cobra, I really don't have high hopes for this game. Seems like every developer is trying to copy TMNT: Shredder's Revenge with other licensed properties.

@SearchingS The eshop wasn't banned at all. The store is closing because it's not making money due to its paltry selection of less than 100 games, with Pokemon Let's Go being released this month.

https://www.nintendoswitch.com.cn/software

The Switch itself is rather popular as an import or hacked device, and as a result most third party developers simply didn't bother to put their games on the Chinese eshop.

@axelhander Most of the games that are supposedly banned weren't even considered for an official release to begin with, largely due to the large spread of piracy there. There's a reason why most popular games there are PC, F2P MMO games, which are pretty much the only means for developers to make money.

Should've just ported the Steam versions. Currently they have several QOL features such as support for new game plus and the ability to turn wall damage off.

Strangely SE's other big release Romancing Saga 2 has a reversible cover art, and it was only released a few weeks ago.

As much as I like the Japanese reversible cover art, I'm not paying extra for imports.

@manly_pirate Was it? IIRC most reviewers back in the day rather unfairly compared it to Garou Mark of the Wolves, but it's leaps and bounds ahead of the original Double Dragon Neo Geo fighting game.

@HammerGalladeBro Then Chris Chan got so mad over Sonic having blue arms, that they began a protest by vandalizing game cases, and even pepper sprayed a Gamestop employee who tried to stop them.

Again, for the people asking why the Sega or Arika or Nintendo or Atari or THQ variants of Tetris aren't in the collection, it's simply copyright. Digital Eclipse does have a budget to consider, and most of the games are from Bulletproof Software, which was founded by Henk Rogers, and who runs The Tetris Company that owns the Tetris license.

@Bunz I've played the demo and it's more like Into the Breach (ie with roguelite elements), than FFT or the average Japanese SPRG.

I'm seeing if the game is censored before I buy it. The Director's Cut version which added the Nico sections also removed the ability to die in any way.

Also I'm not fond of the Nico sections since it disrupts the flow of the original, and changed the opening of the game.

Interestingly, the digital version apparently shrink from 6.5 GBs to 5.5 GBs according to the eshop.

MS should've just released the Xbox 360 version as a paid game, alongside Goldeneye and the Banjo games.

@jowy_sw Yep the lists are just laughable at the moment. One I saw actually claimed that Civ 6 is woke because it includes female historical leaders and non-European civilizations which the writers claim are "historically insignificant". And there's the can of worms know as transvestigation, where even fictional female characters like Lara Croft from the upcoming animation are supposedly given masculine features.

@Tobiaku

*Claims that there is no conspiracy theory
*Uncritically cites the Gamergate mouthpiece Niche Gamer

You are engaging in what is essentially cherry picking. You deliberately exclude Alan Wake 2 and GOW Ragnarok because don't fit your "go woke, go broke" narrative, with both being critically acclaimed and sold well. And then you falsely blamed SBI for Suicide Squad flopping, even though the biggest criticism against that game is its reliance upon microtransactions despite being a single player game, something that is heavily criticized even by the likes of Jim Sterling. Concord flopped because frankly it was a paid hero shooter when its competitors like Overwatch 2 are free to play. And even Overwatch 2 has its fair share of LGBT characters, but of course since it's still widely played it goes against the SBI conspiracy narrative.

Hopefully Nightdive can add in the 3DO campaign in an update. It is quite different, more akin to Wolfenstein 3D with skyboxes, and lacks the final boss fight of the PC version as it was supposed to be saved for a sequel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me5sNDwk858

@Tobiaku Yawn more conspiracy theories and half truths. SBI is simply a consultancy agency which are a dime a dozen. Plenty of multinational companies hire them as some sort of image enhancing exercise, to pretend that they care about social justice, but in the background it's the same old corporate structure.

Yet according to chuds, SBI is some sort of shadowy conspiracy organization trying to take over gaming and brainwash everyone, the gaming equivalent of George Soros. Yet there is nothing that suggests that SBI is responsible for gameplay changes, nor that all of their suggestions are implemented 100%. I've seen the same people blaming SBI for Suicide Squad's microtransactions, which was 100% WB's doing. And there are plenty of games that SBI consulted in that came out quite successful, like Alan Wake 2 and GOW Ragnarok, so there goes the notion that the majority of gamers give a damn about SBI.

@Anguspuss Ahh so do you take everything the chuds claim seriously? What's so preachy about the game? The same people crying about SBI/DEI also think that a game is "woke" simply by having a POC or an unattractive woman as a protagonist.

Zau is based on Bantu mythology and set in Africa. What do you expect the protagonist to look like?

Hopefully Nightdive can port Realms of the Haunting next. The game is quite similar in blending FMVs and first person action, and it's currently available at GOG.

So when are we getting Assault Suit Leynos 2 outside of Japan?

@Zuljaras I hope you're being sarcastic. Or are you seriously suggesting that a regime that chopped up dissidents, restricts women, and hangs LGBT people is somehow better than a consulting firm whose influence is greatly overstated?