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They should do some plushies of Tails. Regardless of whether he's in the movie or not.

They still didn't fire their jerkweed CEO? 🤔

2 was my favorite... best SFX, best music.

I really enjoyed the Axiom Verge gameplay and played it the whole way through.

My only real complaint is that the dialogue felt like it was poorly translated half of the time. Some text boxes made total sense, others read like a half-assed google translation 🤔

@Desrever said "I always go on about how cringy the Game Awards are, but every year I end up sitting around with nothing to do but watch"

Sounds like my experience with Nintendo Direct videos 😅
They're cringy and I fast forward half of it (watching it live would be torture), but I still hope there's a gem or two inside.

I sold my Switch since there was nothing I wanted to play until Mario Kart 9 😅
But if they make a well-reviewed 2D Metroid, that will make me rebuy the Switch earlier.
A HD remake of practically any 2D Metroid would be welcome in my book.

I hated that style of game... they were just a bunch of prerendered images with half-baked interactivity. Like a bargain bin children's game.
Myst was very popular at the time, but I just didn't get the appeal aside from some pretty pictures.

I think the only Pokemon game I'd be interested in is a new Pokemon Snap 👍

When I was a kid, we had little money to spare. I found an expensive digital watch one day and loved it.
About a year later, I purposely put it on the one of the central heating bars in the house. The watch had a metal band that was cold to put on in the middle of winter, so it became a little routine for me to put it on the heater while getting ready for school.

Well, one day I left it on the heater too long. The display went blank - it was fried. I was so disappointed and kicked myself for ages 😕

They really should've focused on an engaging online experience, and made a unique art style, like Woolly World or Paper Mario.

No focus on online play means that this will be just another remake that quickly fades away into the bargain bin.

And if non-Apple phone companies would realize the need for more compact flagship phones, they would make a killing in the female market. And I'd buy one too.

Scrolling scrolling... UK box appears on the screen lol DERP 🤣

A stale console bundle with a years-old game.... thanks Nintendo 👍🙄

😂😂 Younger generation really has no sense of choice and consequences.

Though I wouldn’t be surprised if the ban is lifted in a year.

Duke3D with raytracing would be good... 🤔

The only way this device won't totally flop is if it's compatible with some kind of third party ecosystem (Android, Stadia, etc).

New nVidia Shield TV = day one buy for me 👍
I sold my old one a couple months ago in anticipation for the new version.

Wowww 👍 I didn't plan to go back to Japan next year, but I might have to arrange a stopover in Osaka...

To be honest, these look pretty crap.. 🤔

His acceptance speech seemed very heart-felt. With the corporate bigwigs of most companies spouting BS at public events, Reggie consistently comes across as actually genuine when speaking to his listeners.

Wow good job everyone, such beautiful pieces of art 👌
As for the winning entry, I liked the concept of looking outside the Gameboy screen.

The class action lawsuit is payback for Nintendo shutting down ROM sites 😂

It's a pity that patents seem to be so easily accessible 🤔
I remember Reggie lamenting how they like to try and surprise Nintendo fans, but that it's unfortunate that so many people try to spoil it for everyone (hacking roms to find clues of future updates, looking up patents etc).

I still don't really get the controls 🤔
And I tried to get the practice track/tutorial back, but it seems to disappear once you move on?
So far I like the look of the tracks but just wish I could play a proper console version instead.

I'm still wondering what the hell is wrong with Shaun's mouth.

ummm Garfield is a has-been. They should've made the game with unique characters. Then it might've gotten more respect.

@Franklin - Amen!

That's why Nintendo shouldn't rely on hardware gimmicks for their regular games 🙄 They will always have to patch the game to keep it working on later consoles.

Despite how horribly these shows portrayed Nintendo characters (Captain N, Mario Super Show), I always watched them because I was desperate to see anything game-related on TV.

None of the characters were actually cool, except maybe Kevin. Mega Man was a dork. These characters we imagined to be so awesome were portrayed as bumbling, incompetent losers. But we put up with it because there was nothing else.

I seem to remember one episode where Kevin is helping Zelda and I developed a crush on her during that episode 😂

Not sure if I'll get around to playing it, but it looks really nice.

@Madden87 - What is it with the tech world's avoidance of "9"? 🤔
No iPhone 9, no Windows 9...

Get lost Nintendo 🙄

oh wow, it actually contains some updates rather than just stability.

Although in the real software world, I think the Switch is up to version 2.0 at best, not friggin 9.0 🙄

FF VIII... oh this was when FF started becoming more self-conscious and always trying to be 'epic'.

Why would you want to give mushies to other players? 🤔
Is there a team mode or something?

More Shovel Knight ports? Shovel Knight toys? Shovel Knight Super Championship Edition DX Extra? The game was fun when it first came out, but dear god they have stretched it thin 🙄
I lost interest years ago when they announced DLC instead of a proper sequel.

There's been a lot of positive comments for Vice, which I originally assumed was just garbage. It's a pity that it gets released in the middle of month-after-month of shovelware. Now people just assume it's crap without giving it a shot first.

Good. Free speech should not be synonymous with "any sick thing goes". Some things just should not be spread for mass consumption.

Speaking of stale Mario Kart, where the heck is Mario Kart Tour? 🤔

Nintendo didn't have to do this, especially when it's a relatively minor update that was never officially announced. So if you're able to take advantage of the offer, you're lucky 👍
I'll bet Nintendo are pissed off now that their act of goodwill is being spread on news sites. Now they'll get a bunch of people that want the upgrade "just because", abusing the offer and costing them a lot more money.

Get lost, Nintendo 🙄

oh cool. I played Bubble Bobble for hours back in the day 🙂
That chime in the trailer sounds like the genuine original instrument used for the music 😮 (some kind of FM synthesis patch?). Loved that track. The gameboy also had another great track that was used for the "Extra" game after you beat the first 100 levels or whatever it was.

Oh cool, I went to one in Japan and it was neat 👍
They would be wise to stock the UK one with exclusive items.

Far out, how can it just be forgotten about? This isn't like a Steam game you buy and never play, games were a lot more unique back then.

Jim Carrey does have a point about the bandwagon, though in this case I think it was wise of the studio to attempt to fix it.

I think he has the least to worry about though - Jim Carrey's involvement was the one positive thing that people DID say about the movie 🙂 Personally, I'm looking forward to seeing him in it.

@SepticLemon - "Speaking of aspect ratio, Doom originally ran at that slightly wider than 4:3 ratio didn't it?"
Well it ran at 320x200, which most games did at the time. I don't know if that is technically 4:3, but that's what I mean anyway 🙂

@Antraxx777 - "What? Soundblaster 16 was awesome. Heretic sounded so dynamic with it. E1M6 FTW!"
Well I guess if you really like that MIDI-converted-to-FM sound (and some people do).. 🙂

That's not how the music was intended to sound though. The SB16 was awesome for everything else except MIDI music. It didn't have a collection of MIDI instrument sounds built-in, so it had to emulate MIDI instruments with an FM chip instead.

I had an SB AWE32 at the time which had MIDI instruments on-board, so this is how that Heretic track sounded for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfdMKpK2i0

Honestly, even though it has 'real' instruments, I still didn't like 95% of MIDI tracks 😅 There were some great tunes but the production/arrangement sounds cheap and corny to me, like some old guy on a casio keyboard. Though I personally preferred that over the FM-sound. It was an awkward time for PC game music.

@SepticLemon - Hmm I think it'd be a waste of effort and CPU resources to run a MIDI driver on the Switch when they can just record the best sounding MIDI version as a regular audio file for playback.

I also had FF7 for PC... yeah Windows had a crap instrument set for MIDI back then. Although MIDI files have always sounded crap 😄

Back in Doom days, I just wished PCs had a sound chip like the NES or Gameboy. At least most PC game music could've sounded cooler, rather than limp, flaccid MIDI files or that horrible FM synthesis from the SoundBlaster 16 😅

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From the review: "the iconic music is slightly slower, sound effects are a little muffled"

The original music on the PC was a bunch of MIDI files. To convert it, you'd just play it back with whatever instrument bank/soundfont it was intended for at the time (probably a Roland SC-55, which no kid had at the time anyway 😄 - but the intention of the composer was probably for the original MIDI instruments to sound like that unit), and then you convert it to a regular MP3/AAC/whatever for the game console. The MIDI file itself would have the exact tempo data stored. It doesn't make sense why the Switch music would be slower.

With the sound effects, I haven't yet heard it on Switch but the only explanation I can come up with is that they ran the SFX through a low-pass filter to get rid of that 8-bit hiss/noise (since all the SFX would've been 8-bit back then).
It's like the low-pass audio filter option when using an SNES emulator. It cuts off the high-end of the audio/music samples, since they can be 'hissy'. But personally I prefer NOT to enable the low-pass filter on emulators. I'd rather keep the slight hiss and retain some of that sparkle/treble from the original audio.

The refresh rate situation is interesting, but I would've thought they'd find a way around it after so many ports 🤔 Although game programming was linked more directly with hardware back then. PC monitors weren't specifically 70Hz back then, but could be set to a certain resolution running at 70Hz by a game.

I agree they should've included a 4:3 option that you can switch to if the slight image stretch is bugging you too much. I can see they did try to compromise between the two.

Yeah they've had constant sales with the Switch console recently. Trying to get rid of old stock, I assume.

@Bunkerneath - "the "Pro" will come out end of next year for Christmas market"
Source?

I don't find Pop figures appealing at all. As someone else said though, this one looks like a Ditto 😄