Purgatorium

That was more wholesome than I expected.

Is Borderlands bigger than Jesus?

Downloading ROMs is illegal?

Oh deary me.

Looks haunting. I'll keep an eye on it.

Some of these games are going to be released outside of Japan so why not announce them? Instead we get Powerwash Simulator Shrek crossover. wth?

Adding Urban Myth Dissolution Centre to the wishlist.

@treechenho

I think a lot of people aren't aware of the casual bigotry in every day conversation. They don't believe themselves to be racists and wouldn't outwardly be racist but unknowingly engage in racism. Are you racist for saying things like that? Not necessarily. But are those things racist? Absolutely. Should you know this already? Yeah, probably.

Those comments, plus a few other red flags here make it clear to me. Awful people like this aren't always going to go to rallies and out themselves easily. A major MO of theirs is plausible deniability, which a lot of people are willing to grant them, unfortunately. You gotta make an informed opinion.

I prefer indie games but there wasn't much this time around for me. Suikoden, Dragon Quest and the DS Castlevania collection were the only highlights. Despite prefering indies, here I am excited for re-releases from Square and Konami. Ugh. What have I become?

Speaking of Square Enix. Kinda weird that the Shrek/Powerwash Simulator crossover ended up in the indie section.

Step 1: Deny, attack the source.
Step 2: When confronted with evidence, equivocate. "Well that's not technically racist."
Step 3: "Keep politics out of games."

I suspect SotN isn't included because it's too big of a game. They won't re-release it because either they want to get it right or they want to better control a major release. Lumping it into a collection or just porting it wouldn't be enough. It's gotta be a big deal.

I find DS games obnoxious to emulate so I might actually pay for these, when they're on sale.

It looks great but now I'm somewhat inclined to wait until all the DLC is out and get the inevitable Definitive Edition.

I'm not 100% sure what a Partner Direct is. Is it just a Nintendo Direct minus 1st party games?

Cool if you want to play games like this. Amazon is going to find some way to rip you off. That is guaranteed.

They'd lose a massive amount of their consumer base if they charged that much.

Yo, I'd like to go to a museum anonymously, thank you.

Seems a bit grey.

The European one looks like it's for a completely different game. And except for the fact that the character from the NA one is recognizable in the Japanese one, I'd almost say those look like different games too.

I've said it once and I'll say it again: all games should have demos. I will play this demo and possibly buy this game. If there wasn't a demo I probably would have been interested but never bought it. Demos will drive sales.

I don't have that kind of time anymore. This week it's taken me more than 10 hours to finish a 10 hour game and I'm starting to get annoyed. Great game (Citizen Sleeper), I love it, but please just end already.

I like the drawn-on-parchment style of the European one but they did choose an odd image for Link. It's like the logo is getting in his way. He's gotta duck around it and close one eye to see around it.

Japan is probably better at representing the games but Europe got my vote because I've been here long enough. Y'all gonna vote for chibi Link. The European box art needed a boost.

Having played them I gotta say, none of them supercede previous editions. The PSP remakes of I, II and IV are the best versions. V and VI are best on the SNES. The 3D version of III is best imo, but if you want the 2D pixels and the difficulty you can go for the Pixel Remaster.

But they are decent and playable. Music is great. Emulate older versions, but if you don't like that these will suffice.

That's not father. That's daddy.

Is this for those kiosks at mall where they set up a bunch of Switches and people can come by and play? Maybe to demonstrate the Switch 2.

People are way too hung up on the concept of objectively. There is literally no way to do this without personal preference. People on the internet see a ranked list and think it's meant to be objective and definitive. If there's a deviation from their opinion, then it's wrong. This is not critical thinking. It's the attempted appearance of critical thinking.

This is an amazing accomplishment and a lovely thing to share.

Also, Chrono Trigger is the best game ever. Objectively. End of debate.

I can see how it's not visually appealing, but I get the feeling that European one is intentionally asymmetrical. The effect is better executed in the Japanese art and I'm guessing the other character is connected to this corruption or shadow-self. I haven't played it.

I was thinking maybe people bought BotW after playing TotK to get more Zelda, but yeah the comments here make way more sense. It's the first game and new Switch owners would likely buy that, plus it's cheaper.

I lean more towards the bulkier the better (within reason of course). I want something substantial and nowadays you get practically nothing physical from games. SNES/N64 were peak. NES was big but quite light.

That said, I did vote for the Game Boy cart. Physical media was still real. It managed to be both substantial and small. Slotting them into the bulky GB was real. The lived-in feel of a cyberpunk world. You touched it but you also connected digitally.

You don't connect to the Matrix with bluetooth. You jack it into your spine.

The European one is moodier. This is a Castlevania game. Make it dark. I don't want any of those people in the NA/JP art to get in my way while I'm exploring Dracula's castle. Except maybe the woman in the red dress on the right. Bet she's a witch looking for some ritualistic chalice and could offer advice. And professor plum in the blonde bob would probably sell me something or turn into a monster. He can stay too. Everyone else can go back to the non-horror anime from whence they came.

Map appreciation article! I love maps. I have some old tattered game maps up on my walls from way back.. You can get old ones reprinted too. Physical maps really help you immerse into the game. Even platformers could use maps. I never played Yoshi's Story but I would have loved that fruit map.

In-game ones are cool. I loved the TOTK map and how it tracked your movement. But games need to come with printed maps again. That will never happen, but a man can dream

This article made me look around the living room to see what furniture I could put in a polycule.

Shocking to learn that an AI corp is a wholesale theft scumbag that violates its own company policy. If company policy isn't sacred, what is anymore? If insane amounts of cash from one of the world's biggest violators of human privacy to train the world's most useless computer program to not draw humans with 8 fingers can't be trusted, what can?

A lighter punishment than piracy.

I'll probably wait until there's a really good game I want to play it. Since there isn't likely going to be a new Zelda at launch, first party games won't do it for me.

The Switch is pretty good for the kind of games I like. I don't play a lot of high performance games. The only problem is that some system-undemanding indie games don't make it on Switch or take quite a while to get there. With a new console that might be even more pronounced.

I love those silent idiots. I don't see them as projections of myself but as actual characters that are just being their quietly confused themselves.

Then again, if I was put into a JRPG story I would be completely dumbfounded too. So yeah, maybe they are me.

Like all these layoffs, these are not difficult decisions in challenging economic times. This is the parasite wants more money and they want it right now. The challenging economic times is they have to pay staff.

Those are neat. I wouldn't want any of them but they're neat.

I just buy new ones when the battery dies.This will save me a lot of money!

OK, there's good and bad. Super convenient to quickly patch little glitches that didn't get noticed nowadays;, also super convenient for a crunchy vampire corp to con gamers out of their money with half-baked garbage.

I dunno, make shorter games? Don't cram them full of pointless busy work?

I can't imagine he'd thrive under the management structure.

A lot of reasons why Nintendo shouldn't do this:

• the hypocrisy
• the legal ambiguity of copyrighting things made with generative AI
• the damage it would do to Nintendo's reputation, in particular.
• the fact that generative AI doesn't produce anything of quality.

Lot of people going on about it's potential. I don't think anyone has ever explained what it can actually do. Sounds exactly like crypto and NFTs.

Honestly don't understand the problem with leaks. Maybe for game story spoilers but it's mostly pre-empting development announcements. Messes up their marketing plans but who cares?

If I had 5 days to trial Darkest Dungeon, I would not have bought it at the end of the trial. After five days I was frustrated and regretting my purchase. I think all games should have trial or demo, but you need a cost sunk fallacy to get good at DD lol.

It's funny how we scale up the age range of crude, juvenile humour and call it "mature" 17+. I'm not begrudging people's tastes, I still laugh at fart jokes, but Conker's is the opposite of mature.

See a lot of Nintendo IP in the userpics on this website. Y'all baying for blood might want to cease and desist.

A LotR farm sim is the only game that understands the LotR.

I was not expecting the Direct to be this good. Nintendo really showed up for the end of the Switch's lifespan.

Won't someone please think of the children?

Mega extreme fun is too much for me. Mild thrills at best then I need to sit down. Tempered delight is the sweet spot.

People are always telling me to play the first one. I better get on that.