PurpleShyGuy

@Don

If another war breaks out between now and April 21st, I will unironically day "dammit, now I can't play Advance Wars AGAIN!".

Blessing in disguise. Anyone using social media to log in to other services should discontinue that practice. It sure would suck to have one ban result in losing access to umpteen other different things.

Also could just cut to the chase and not use social media.

@Jprhino84

It's a Deck measuring contest.

Advance Wars should never release until wars never happen again.

This is very important. We have a WORLD to save.

Perfect Dark nails details like every weapon having a secondary function, and the truly gorgeous lighting in the level designs that still holds up. Also the music in that first level is awesome and sets the tone brilliantly. Everything about the beginning feels epic. The guards even talk which was a novelty for the time (although some of their lines were cringe).

The later levels don't hold up their end of the bargain, particularly the momentum-killing "rescue the captured President in the snowy mountains before he gets shot" level. That one screams for a checkpoint system and it's a real shame Rare didn't bother adding one for the XBLA re-release. That level is twenty or so minutes of just trudging from one location to the next, until you finally hit the do or die moment with the President having been taken hostage. If you fail, it's back to the beginning to start trudging all over again. It's an absolute slog to play through and is not fun at all.

The Elvis alien character is Perfect Dark's version of Jar Jar Binks, for better or worse. His attempts to bring levity to the story feel off with the rest of the game's tone, although the franchise would go even further in goofy directions with Perfect Dark Zero, e.g. Joanna's quasi-anime appearance and Doctor Carroll being a drone for some reason. (I haven't played the game in fifteen years or so so I might be misremembering if he was actually a drone or just controlled a drone remotely. Either way the whole thing was hokey.)

Perfect Dark's multiplayer hits technical heights beyond what Goldeneye could achieve, namely the bots. The Farsight XR20 is also neat, albeit skill curve breaking. Also there's that cool shooting gallery you can access by walking around the Carrington Institute.

There are so many individual things done so well in Perfect Dark, but as a whole it just can't outdo the charm and allure of the Bond license. Rare never quite fully realized Joanna Dark's world (turned farcical in Perfect Dark Zero) or herself as a character. Maybe she suffers from PD having too many blatant Goldeneye callbacks for its own good, and no one else can be James Bond.

All this to say Perfect Dark remains an awesome game and a worthy achievement, but on the whole Goldeneye still reigns as the game I'd rather pick up on any given day.

@Shadowmoon522

The name Xbox 360 at least made strategic sense and was a cool name imo.

Otherwise, yeah the Xbox One led to confusion with the original Xbox, and the Series X -> One X naming conventions are just lazy, and have no doubt themselves led to confusion. It happened to me. I saw a Series X in Costco, then had to remind myself it couldn't have been the current gen One X console, which at the time was still hard to find, and I'm presuming still is.

@Thaliard

Xbox Scorpio would have been a cool name. I still can't believe they went with One X over that. Especially since, as you note, Series X also exists.

Get Mega Man V for the Game Boy Virtual Console.

Why, you ask?

Check the going rate for carts on Ebay. You may want to be sitting down.

Every time they've released more content for Smash I have been wishing they'd do something, anything else for MK8 Deluxe.

48 tracks is definitely something. No further questions Your Honor.

As it happens I just bought a Gameboy Player. Good timing.

@Waluigi451

I agree. This makes you feel dumb for buying the Animal Crossing DLC outright and the NSO Expansion, but also dumb because if you just get the NSO Expansion, you won't own the DLC.

It was just a bad decision to make the Animal Crossing DLC a rental with the NSO Expansion. Making it own-able outright would have eliminated the bad value proposition and the feeling of double dipping.

Those images are not Gamecubes. If it doesn't have the four inputs in the front as you'd expect it's something different.

Did Nintendo go after Flappy Bird for obviously stealing pipe images from Super Mario 3? That feels like something they would have done but I can't remember hearing about it.

"Without a grand new idea, it’s hard to bring it back"

Said no Call of Duty or Madden developer ever.

Or as others have mentioned, even Nintendo themselves with Mario Kart.

Graphical fidelity better than the F-Zero series has ever seen, along with online play ,are both good reasons to bring it back. Odd that Nintendo can see the demand and choose not to cater to it. I appreciate wanting to innovate and not make another game just to make it. But 17 years is more than enough of a break between entries.

Maybe with Metroid Dread bringing that franchise out of hibernation (one remake notwithstanding) Nintendo will finally give F-Zero another crack.

I never knew Happy Home Designer had been a thing. Usually I'm up on most Nintendo news but that one completely missed me.

This is at best not a priority for me. I would be buying for Star Fox 64, F-Zero X, and Winback. But another $30 for that is a tough sell.

I would rather go back to the Virtual Console model or have them offer N64 and Genesis as separate add-ons, $10 for the former and $5 for the latter. I already have the Genesis Collection and Sonic games up the wazoo on Xbox so the Genesis games don't matter much to me.

$20 a year and you get NES and SNES games along with playing online is a no-brainer. Pushing it into the $50 range gets you close to Xbox Live and Playstation Plus pricing, making you expect that level of additional content. As others have pointed out, as stands this ain't it.

Make the Animal Crossing DLC not a rental and it's much easier to justify.

It makes zero sense to tie this to the Nintendo Online Expansion Pack. I would have bought $30 (or $10 additional if you already have the base online subscription) for the full Nintendo Online and the $24.99 price for this. Throwing it in but you're only renting the DLC makes me think I am overpaying for the online expansion, and very reluctant to pay for both.

@Nymos

Crazy to think it's been that long. I remember playing Fusion while taking a train from San Diego to Anaheim in 2003. Feels like two lifetimes ago.