I thoroughly disagree. It might lack the exclusives of other systems but the reason I stick with Xbox is because it allows me to enjoy my purchases going back 20 years.
Xbox to Series X, PS4 to PS5, subsequent iPhones and so on: the public is used to backwards compatibility being a thing now.
It would be Nintendo's second dumbest business decision ever after the WiiU if it decided to invalidate every Switch owners established software library.
Whole I can still play Sensible World of Soccer on my Xbox Series console I will continue to ignore all modern football titles for not being as accessible or fun.
The obvious answer is ThunderCats. You have an obvious set of characters to play as an exploit and you could include the Thundertank as a special like the cop cars in Streets of Rage 1. A cheat code would let you play as Snarf.
Where are the classic British cartoons though? How about a Cosgrove Hall game where you can pick from Danger Mouse, Duckula, Victor and Hugo or the Avenger Penguins?
They don’t need to bother with a physical convention in the age of streaming.
Licence the Stadia backend (which is just PCs) Google hire out and then have devs run all their demos via a web browser platform. Charge us plebs £30 for a 7-day pass to play all the prerelease and maybe get exclusive access to publisher liverstreams made available to the public afterwards.
Give 20% of all proceeds to gaming charities or perhaps some sort of dev fund.
GX was too bloody hard for its own good. I don’t mind a difficulty curve and I have fast enough reactions that so have 100%ed every Wipeout game. But GX was something else entirely. The only way I saw any of it was via a cheat disc save from Cube Magazine.
AX was the superior title by a long mile. There was something about having the wheel and the chair that kicked from side to side that really heightened the game. It’s the only arcade game I’ve ever played where wearing a seatbelt was mandatory!
But I’ve never liked the series as much as WipEout.
I’d like to take a sojourn outside of Nintendo land for a minute.
Fable 2 and 3 have some absolutely brilliant side quests, largely because of the humour therein. There is a great one in Fable 3 where you have to gather some items for Simon Pegg and his friends who then shrink you down into their Dungeons and Dragons RPG. And who can forget the daft brothers from Fable 2 who use the Norminomicon to resurrect their dead mother only for her to scold them?
My absolute favourite is one in Frozen Wilds, the Horizon DLC. You come across a disused dam control station a tribesperson is using to echo their drumming. You have to drain the water from it sequentially so they can use it to make music. All the while you come across a series of logs from the workers in the past who are being replaced by robots. In their boredom they’ve created their own band who again use the acoustics for themselves. In that way you’re passing down the baton.
This was always going to happen. A Pokémon GPS title sells itself but that gameplay loop was never going to fit other franchises. Harry Potter isn’t about going on an epic journey and catching monsters. It doesn’t have kleptomania built into its very title.
Fortnite gets some stick from ‘gamers’ but the truth is it takes a lot of effort to not only reinvent the whole game every 3 months but also to have the guts to constantly push forwards and not to take the short, easy out and just capitulate to fans who miss certain periods of the game.
What had it morphed to? Every afternoon sat gathering your action figures for playtime on your bedroom floor. In that imaginary universe the X-Men, Terminator and Transformers teamed up every day and so it is here.
Epic know their audience. For every media play to youngsters there is a Robocop or Ellen Ripley skin designed to appeal to all the parents that play it as well.
Bar the purity of Halo (which will always be great) Fortnite puts every other po-faced shooter to shame with its disorganised chaos and imagination. I’d rather play a Saturday morning cartoon than another tiresome war shooter.
Entertainment is always a hard thing to price. The average cost of an album, video game or movie ticket hasn’t really risen much in 25 years. I paid £60 for Majora’s Mask in 2000 and £60 for Tears of the Kingdom in 2023.
A bigger issue is perhaps pricing parity between Digital and Physical releases.
@GameOtaku It would be interesting if you could borrow them from a digital library where the files self destruct after a period of time like digital library books do. This would allow access to titles without having to break laws that need changing.
@BlueBeemer The PC I believe represents the ideal marketplace because older titles still work and are often available from stores such as Good Old Games. It’s still possible to buy those titles and recompense the original creators. Thanks to newer portables you can also play them on a variety of hardware.
The fast paced nature of the console business is the opposite. Thousands of titles lie dormant and will likely never be sold again, cutting them off forever. I don’t think anyone would bother with something like Dolphin if Nintendo just put all those titles on a sub service on Switch.
@SwitchForce I think the point they are trying to make is that whether you buy a 2nd hand copy or download a room Nintendo isn’t seeing a penny of it. They got paid at the original point of sale for the 2nd hand copy just as they did for whatever disc or cart got backed up that first time.
The ridiculous prices for retro titles coupled with failed battery backups, disc rot and other physical failures will mean that eventually the only way to experience many of these older titles will be via roms.
@SwitchForce I see it as people having to resort to 'theft' to maintain wider access to culturally significant pieces of artwork. To quote Indiana Jones: it belongs in a museum.
In the case of software, and software alone the law is wrong and needs to be updated for the 21st Century.
A good few examples of this would be how the pro-firearms groups keep mentioning their 'right to bear arms' but neglect to include the part about fighting as an organised militia. The USA isn't at war with the British Empire anymore and that law no longer applies. And yet it stays, has been twisted by the modern world and now there are children out there that have to go through armed intruder drills at school. You know how many school shootings we have in the UK since the law on gun ownership was changed in 1997? Zero.
Another good example is the amount of religious folk who read the book of Leviticus and use it to justify their own prejudices against people with a non-conformist sexual orientation. This was a series of rules written thousands of years ago as a constitution for a group of people (the Hebrews) who had just escaped a generation of bondage in Egypt and had no idea how to function as a state. These rules were not written for the modern world and yet are still twisted by the church. You know how much Jesus said about these things? Nothing, he said respect and love everyone even if you disagree with them!
Older laws need to be updated or we end up in a situation where corporations control all your access to culture and artwork, the lifeblood of a society. It is inevitable gaming will move to a 100% digital only medium meaning physical access is out the window. When that happens and your only option is to pay a subscription fee to a corporate entity to access something you do not own, what then?
@1SDANi It's not that copyright is theft but rather that having a century or more's control over artwork and culture, something that belongs to everyone is theft from society at large.
Copyright should be limited to a decade to creators can still make money but are also then motivated to constantly create new things to do so instead of monetising nostalgia.
@BlueBeemer But I didn't steal an Apple: I took a photograph of the Mona Lisa and then put it up online for people to save to their own devices. I didn't steal the Mona Lisa.
The rules for physical objects and infinitely replicable software are not the same. This gets even more complicated when that infinitely replicable software is also artwork which, ones it's commercial viability period is over, should be out there in the world for humanity to enjoy.
Saving a copy of the Mona Lisa to your hard drive lets you look at it but it also doesn't take away from the power of visiting the original at the Louvre so you can see every brush stroke in person.
Playing a rom on an emulator is the same: sometimes you just want to have a 5 minute go to see what the fuss is about or just experience the plot for yourself. But to properly /experience/ that game you want the hardware and a physical copy. This goes double if the game is multiplayer.
Notice how nobody steals books because we have libraries you can borrow them from if you just want to read a story? But if you have ideas you buy the book to scribble down notes and then maybe talk about it in a group or write a blog about it.
Give that article a read and see why artwork, once it is no longer commercially available should not be vaulted away for a century. Culture should not be locked away.
There is also a massive upside to this idea as well: if copyright was stripped right back to just a decade of corporate ownership then the industry, addicted to its profits would have no choice but to constantly, constantly be churning out /new/ things.
We are all tired of remakes, attempts at big shared universes, tired sequels and reboots. If copyright was a decade there would be a constant search for the new which in turn creates new fanbases and new culture.
@Rooty As and when Nintendo decide to rerelease their GameCube back catalog either singular or as part of a sub I will be first in the queue. Netflix pretty much killed movie and TV piracy for a reason.
Playing games on a proper console from an official source is always better than emulation because of the quality of life improvements.
@johnvboy That's not the same thing. I can still buy old movies on DVD and they work on any device. I pay some retro collector an overpriced amount for a GameCube disk and I cannot play it on my switch.
It's the locking away of artwork that is bad for society. If the Louvre locked away the Mona Lisa is have no choice but to put a jpeg online for people to look at.
@GrailUK 'Free' or not, Nintendo loses approximately £0 for every rom you download and install. You cannot legally purchase those games directly from Nintendo anymore.
I am 100% against the idea of pirating switch titles and 100% for people being able to enjoy older titles that are no longer sold or supported by Nintendo.
(Unless they're planning on bringing out a ton of Gamecube titles on the Switch in which case shut up and take my rupees!)
There is one mistake. At the end of Majora's Mask Link doesn't actually return home. This is what leads to the flooding of Hyrule in Wind Waker: Link isn't around and so the people turn to the gods for help. It expressly mentions this in the intro!
I would suggest Link's Awakening follows on from Majora's Mask. Unable to return to Hyrule via the door under the clock tower, Link decides to sail off to try to find Hyrule. He encounters the Wind Fish (who maybe does send him back after his shipwreck?)
I wish they still made the Action Replay. It was bloody great for games that were too hard.
I had one for the PS1 and PS2. Being able to just cheat your way out of the bloody licences on Gran Turismo or having level 99 characters on your replay of FFVII made life a lot easier.
It was a fun movie that nailed the landing. It would have been nice to have things slow down a tad during some of the conversational moments like When Mario and DK are trapped in the monster but otherwise good fun.
A serial biopic about Nintendo as a whole with individual episodes dealing with the individuals that made it all happen starting with Fusajiro Yamauchi.
If nothing else they could just base it all on David Sheff's Game Over which is required reading for anyone to call themselves a Nintendo fan.
@Burning_Spear I don't believe that. I download those roms precisely because they are unavailable on current consoles. I'd happily pay money to Nintendo to play all those titles upscaled on the Switch without having to use touchscreen controls or an emulator with sound glitches and frame rate drops.
I'd get all mod cons with the Switch too like cloud save backup and online play. Imagine Double Dash or F-Zero GX with online multiplayer!
But Nintendo have not yet released these titles and as there is no commercial way to play these games and pay Nintendo for them, roms are the only way for people to be able to enjoy what are timeless pieces of artwork.
Its like the Louvre deciding to lock away the Mona Lisa in a vault and never letting people look at it and sueing anyone that gives away a poster or right-click>save's a jpeg of the original. Could you imagine the outcry from the art world if that happened? So why are games any different? It might be Nintendo's commercial property but software shouldn't be locked away in a vault when people want to enjoy it.
How much money did Nintendo lose though? If it hosted Switch games it deserves to be taken down but they're not losing a penny if people are downloading Gamecube or Wii titles.
The sooner US Copyright laws gets taken back to 1750 and artists get only 10 years on their creations the better. This not only spurs on the creations of new art for people to enjoy but it also makes older creations more accessible to everyone.
Call of Duty has been on diminishing returns since COD4: Modern Warfare on the Xbox 360. The Switch would have no trouble running that or anything similar
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Re: Random: Star Fox Dev Thinks Star Fox Adventures "Was Too British"
He’s not that wrong. I think it’s the Fable-esque accents that do it.
“You pay thiiiiiiiiiis much!” And so on.
Re: Soapbox: 'Switch 2' Doesn't Really Need Backwards Compatibility
I thoroughly disagree. It might lack the exclusives of other systems but the reason I stick with Xbox is because it allows me to enjoy my purchases going back 20 years.
Xbox to Series X, PS4 to PS5, subsequent iPhones and so on: the public is used to backwards compatibility being a thing now.
It would be Nintendo's second dumbest business decision ever after the WiiU if it decided to invalidate every Switch owners established software library.
Re: Review: EA Sports FC 24 - The Best Football Game On Any Nintendo System, Finally
Whole I can still play Sensible World of Soccer on my Xbox Series console I will continue to ignore all modern football titles for not being as accessible or fun.
Re: Talking Point: Which Classic Cartoons Deserve The Shredder's Revenge Treatment?
The obvious answer is ThunderCats. You have an obvious set of characters to play as an exploit and you could include the Thundertank as a special like the cop cars in Streets of Rage 1. A cheat code would let you play as Snarf.
Where are the classic British cartoons though? How about a Cosgrove Hall game where you can pick from Danger Mouse, Duckula, Victor and Hugo or the Avenger Penguins?
Re: ReedPop Will No Longer Organise E3 As ESA Looks To Reinvent Future Shows
They don’t need to bother with a physical convention in the age of streaming.
Licence the Stadia backend (which is just PCs) Google hire out and then have devs run all their demos via a web browser platform. Charge us plebs £30 for a 7-day pass to play all the prerelease and maybe get exclusive access to publisher liverstreams made available to the public afterwards.
Give 20% of all proceeds to gaming charities or perhaps some sort of dev fund.
Re: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Producer Asks Fans To 'Trust' That A New Chapter Will Dawn
Why not remaster the whole franchise?
Crystal Bearer is an underrated gem. The Wiiware titles are still stuck on Wiiware.
Bring them back!
Re: Poll: Do You Think Switch Can Catch PS2's Total Sales Before 'Switch 2' Arrives?
I’d be amazed if Nintendo don’t have a 3rd hardware revision lined up for Christmas. Surely an OLED lite model is on the cards?
Re: Rune Factory 3 Special Trailer Introduces All The Ladies You'll Be Flirting With
People who date guys play these games as well, you know!
Re: Video: We Spread Some Love For The Sega Master System As Alex Shares His Childhood Games
The Master System was better than the NES.
I will die on that hill.
Re: Soapbox: It's Time To Admit That F-Zero X Is The Best F-Zero
GX was too bloody hard for its own good. I don’t mind a difficulty curve and I have fast enough reactions that so have 100%ed every Wipeout game. But GX was something else entirely. The only way I saw any of it was via a cheat disc save from Cube Magazine.
AX was the superior title by a long mile. There was something about having the wheel and the chair that kicked from side to side that really heightened the game. It’s the only arcade game I’ve ever played where wearing a seatbelt was mandatory!
But I’ve never liked the series as much as WipEout.
Re: Soapbox: It's Time To Admit That F-Zero X Is The Best F-Zero
Wipeout Pure.
Re: Video: These Replacement Joy-Con Sticks Fix Drift Issues, But How Do They Feel In Practice?
The Dreamcast used Hall effect sticks and that still feels great 20 years later
Re: Talking Point: What Makes A Good Sidequest, Anyway?
I’d like to take a sojourn outside of Nintendo land for a minute.
Fable 2 and 3 have some absolutely brilliant side quests, largely because of the humour therein. There is a great one in Fable 3 where you have to gather some items for Simon Pegg and his friends who then shrink you down into their Dungeons and Dragons RPG. And who can forget the daft brothers from Fable 2 who use the Norminomicon to resurrect their dead mother only for her to scold them?
My absolute favourite is one in Frozen Wilds, the Horizon DLC. You come across a disused dam control station a tribesperson is using to echo their drumming. You have to drain the water from it sequentially so they can use it to make music. All the while you come across a series of logs from the workers in the past who are being replaced by robots. In their boredom they’ve created their own band who again use the acoustics for themselves. In that way you’re passing down the baton.
Re: Feature: 8 Strangest Super Mario Urban Legends - Which Mario Myths Are True?
You think they’re bad?
Back in the 1990s I once heard somebody tell me that the 2D Mario games are better than the 2D Sonic games.
Note there is a myth.
Re: Pokémon GO Developer Niantic Axes Two AR Games And Lays Off 230 Employees
This was always going to happen. A Pokémon GPS title sells itself but that gameplay loop was never going to fit other franchises. Harry Potter isn’t about going on an epic journey and catching monsters. It doesn’t have kleptomania built into its very title.
I hope Ingress stays though. That’s a great game.
Re: Avatar: The Last Airbender: Quest For Balance Is Finally Announced, Coming To Switch This Year
There is a really interesting turn-based JRPG lurking within Avatar and yet they continue to go with ropey looking action titles.
Re: PlayStation Boss Doesn't Think Call Of Duty Appeals To Nintendo's Core Audience
Jim Ryan is right.
I have often found Mario and Zelda are popular with players of all ages, eight to eighty.
Call of Duty remains a pretty immature shooter aimed squarely at the teenager market.
Re: Four Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Games Have Been Added To Switch Online's Expansion Pack
@OstianOwl It’s also the best action RPG of the 16bit era.
Re: Yu Suzuki's 'Air Twister' Is Space Harrier With Swans, Coming To Switch November
You guys are in for a treat. It’s not been off my iPhone since release. The game is NUTS and has a theme song by someone who sounds just like Queen.
Re: Soapbox: Fortnite On Switch Is Five Years Old, And I Have No Idea What It Is Anymore
Fortnite gets some stick from ‘gamers’ but the truth is it takes a lot of effort to not only reinvent the whole game every 3 months but also to have the guts to constantly push forwards and not to take the short, easy out and just capitulate to fans who miss certain periods of the game.
What had it morphed to? Every afternoon sat gathering your action figures for playtime on your bedroom floor. In that imaginary universe the X-Men, Terminator and Transformers teamed up every day and so it is here.
Epic know their audience. For every media play to youngsters there is a Robocop or Ellen Ripley skin designed to appeal to all the parents that play it as well.
Bar the purity of Halo (which will always be great) Fortnite puts every other po-faced shooter to shame with its disorganised chaos and imagination. I’d rather play a Saturday morning cartoon than another tiresome war shooter.
Re: Popular Switch Piracy Subreddit Promoting Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Downloads Banned
Good. There is no good excuse for pirating current format games.
Re: Mailbox: Welcome To The Nintendo Life Letters Page!
Entertainment is always a hard thing to price. The average cost of an album, video game or movie ticket hasn’t really risen much in 25 years. I paid £60 for Majora’s Mask in 2000 and £60 for Tears of the Kingdom in 2023.
A bigger issue is perhaps pricing parity between Digital and Physical releases.
Re: Talking Point: From The Sublime To The Ridiculous - Is Anybody Excited For Everybody 1-2-Switch!?
It's not for us. It's for the masses. There is nothing wrong with Nintendo making games that do not focus on a classic audience!
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
@GameOtaku It would be interesting if you could borrow them from a digital library where the files self destruct after a period of time like digital library books do. This would allow access to titles without having to break laws that need changing.
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
@BlueBeemer The PC I believe represents the ideal marketplace because older titles still work and are often available from stores such as Good Old Games. It’s still possible to buy those titles and recompense the original creators. Thanks to newer portables you can also play them on a variety of hardware.
The fast paced nature of the console business is the opposite. Thousands of titles lie dormant and will likely never be sold again, cutting them off forever. I don’t think anyone would bother with something like Dolphin if Nintendo just put all those titles on a sub service on Switch.
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
@SwitchForce I think the point they are trying to make is that whether you buy a 2nd hand copy or download a room Nintendo isn’t seeing a penny of it. They got paid at the original point of sale for the 2nd hand copy just as they did for whatever disc or cart got backed up that first time.
The ridiculous prices for retro titles coupled with failed battery backups, disc rot and other physical failures will mean that eventually the only way to experience many of these older titles will be via roms.
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
@SwitchForce I see it as people having to resort to 'theft' to maintain wider access to culturally significant pieces of artwork. To quote Indiana Jones: it belongs in a museum.
In the case of software, and software alone the law is wrong and needs to be updated for the 21st Century.
A good few examples of this would be how the pro-firearms groups keep mentioning their 'right to bear arms' but neglect to include the part about fighting as an organised militia. The USA isn't at war with the British Empire anymore and that law no longer applies. And yet it stays, has been twisted by the modern world and now there are children out there that have to go through armed intruder drills at school. You know how many school shootings we have in the UK since the law on gun ownership was changed in 1997? Zero.
Another good example is the amount of religious folk who read the book of Leviticus and use it to justify their own prejudices against people with a non-conformist sexual orientation. This was a series of rules written thousands of years ago as a constitution for a group of people (the Hebrews) who had just escaped a generation of bondage in Egypt and had no idea how to function as a state. These rules were not written for the modern world and yet are still twisted by the church. You know how much Jesus said about these things? Nothing, he said respect and love everyone even if you disagree with them!
Older laws need to be updated or we end up in a situation where corporations control all your access to culture and artwork, the lifeblood of a society. It is inevitable gaming will move to a 100% digital only medium meaning physical access is out the window. When that happens and your only option is to pay a subscription fee to a corporate entity to access something you do not own, what then?
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
@1SDANi It's not that copyright is theft but rather that having a century or more's control over artwork and culture, something that belongs to everyone is theft from society at large.
Copyright should be limited to a decade to creators can still make money but are also then motivated to constantly create new things to do so instead of monetising nostalgia.
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
@BlueBeemer But I didn't steal an Apple: I took a photograph of the Mona Lisa and then put it up online for people to save to their own devices. I didn't steal the Mona Lisa.
The rules for physical objects and infinitely replicable software are not the same. This gets even more complicated when that infinitely replicable software is also artwork which, ones it's commercial viability period is over, should be out there in the world for humanity to enjoy.
Saving a copy of the Mona Lisa to your hard drive lets you look at it but it also doesn't take away from the power of visiting the original at the Louvre so you can see every brush stroke in person.
Playing a rom on an emulator is the same: sometimes you just want to have a 5 minute go to see what the fuss is about or just experience the plot for yourself. But to properly /experience/ that game you want the hardware and a physical copy. This goes double if the game is multiplayer.
Notice how nobody steals books because we have libraries you can borrow them from if you just want to read a story? But if you have ideas you buy the book to scribble down notes and then maybe talk about it in a group or write a blog about it.
https://emreed.net/Speculation_2020
Give that article a read and see why artwork, once it is no longer commercially available should not be vaulted away for a century. Culture should not be locked away.
There is also a massive upside to this idea as well: if copyright was stripped right back to just a decade of corporate ownership then the industry, addicted to its profits would have no choice but to constantly, constantly be churning out /new/ things.
We are all tired of remakes, attempts at big shared universes, tired sequels and reboots. If copyright was a decade there would be a constant search for the new which in turn creates new fanbases and new culture.
Re: Talking Point: Could Nintendo Squeeze Another Zelda Game Out Of TOTK's Open World?
Yes. They could flood the whole map with water, change the mountain tops to islands and then finally add in underwater swimming mechanics
Re: UK Charts: Guess What, Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Is Number One Again
@Sambuc I'd expect them every 6 months with Prime 4 a launch title for Switch 2
Re: Talking Point: Could Nintendo Squeeze Another Zelda Game Out Of TOTK's Open World?
I want a remake of Minish Cap with Wind Waker graphics. Full 3D, the open world would get 10x bigger as Link shrinks down.
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
@shaneoh 100% this. I emulate 3 consoles on my phone: GBA, GC and PSP.
I already pay for the GBA sub so Nintendo are getting something back. I own every PSP title I emulate either as a PSN purchase or physical copy.
The GameCube? Let me give you money, Nintendo.
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
@Rooty As and when Nintendo decide to rerelease their GameCube back catalog either singular or as part of a sub I will be first in the queue. Netflix pretty much killed movie and TV piracy for a reason.
Playing games on a proper console from an official source is always better than emulation because of the quality of life improvements.
Until then? Se la vie.
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
@johnvboy That's not the same thing. I can still buy old movies on DVD and they work on any device. I pay some retro collector an overpriced amount for a GameCube disk and I cannot play it on my switch.
It's the locking away of artwork that is bad for society. If the Louvre locked away the Mona Lisa is have no choice but to put a jpeg online for people to look at.
Re: Dolphin Emulator Steam Release "Indefinitely Postponed"
@GrailUK 'Free' or not, Nintendo loses approximately £0 for every rom you download and install. You cannot legally purchase those games directly from Nintendo anymore.
I am 100% against the idea of pirating switch titles and 100% for people being able to enjoy older titles that are no longer sold or supported by Nintendo.
(Unless they're planning on bringing out a ton of Gamecube titles on the Switch in which case shut up and take my rupees!)
Re: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom: Where Does It Fit In The Zelda Timeline?
There is one mistake. At the end of Majora's Mask Link doesn't actually return home. This is what leads to the flooding of Hyrule in Wind Waker: Link isn't around and so the people turn to the gods for help. It expressly mentions this in the intro!
I would suggest Link's Awakening follows on from Majora's Mask. Unable to return to Hyrule via the door under the clock tower, Link decides to sail off to try to find Hyrule. He encounters the Wind Fish (who maybe does send him back after his shipwreck?)
Re: Feature: Best Royals In Nintendo Games - Who's Your Favourite?
My vote goes to the missing King Hippo.
Re: Soapbox: 15 Years Ago, The Action Replay Ruined Pokémon For Me
I wish they still made the Action Replay. It was bloody great for games that were too hard.
I had one for the PS1 and PS2. Being able to just cheat your way out of the bloody licences on Gran Turismo or having level 99 characters on your replay of FFVII made life a lot easier.
Re: Zelda's English VA Officially Confirms Her Return In Tears Of The Kingdom
@Pichuka97 "Moi naaime is Shoi Paaatrick Cormaac und oi am an Aaaa-ssassin no moire."
Re: Mario Movie Crosses $1 Billion Mark At The Global Box Office This Weekend
It was a fun movie that nailed the landing. It would have been nice to have things slow down a tad during some of the conversational moments like When Mario and DK are trapped in the monster but otherwise good fun.
Re: Soapbox: It's Time For A Zelda 1 Remake, Please
They remade the original Zelda in BOTW
Re: Front Mission 2: Remake Lands A New Story Trailer
@farrgazer Hold on to your hat because they also confirmed Front Mission 3 is also getting a remake!
Re: Soapbox: Torna - The Golden Country Is One Of The Best DLCs Of All Time
I tried really hard to enjoy it. It was going really well until the petulant child that is Mythra turned up and ruined the whole experience.
Re: Nintendo Wins Court Dispute Against Pirated Game Hosting Site
@Burning_Spear That's exactly what we've been asking them for for years!
Re: Mario's Creator Shigeru Miyamoto Teases More Nintendo Movies
Honestly?
A serial biopic about Nintendo as a whole with individual episodes dealing with the individuals that made it all happen starting with Fusajiro Yamauchi.
If nothing else they could just base it all on David Sheff's Game Over which is required reading for anyone to call themselves a Nintendo fan.
Re: Nintendo Wins Court Dispute Against Pirated Game Hosting Site
@Burning_Spear I don't believe that. I download those roms precisely because they are unavailable on current consoles. I'd happily pay money to Nintendo to play all those titles upscaled on the Switch without having to use touchscreen controls or an emulator with sound glitches and frame rate drops.
I'd get all mod cons with the Switch too like cloud save backup and online play. Imagine Double Dash or F-Zero GX with online multiplayer!
But Nintendo have not yet released these titles and as there is no commercial way to play these games and pay Nintendo for them, roms are the only way for people to be able to enjoy what are timeless pieces of artwork.
Its like the Louvre deciding to lock away the Mona Lisa in a vault and never letting people look at it and sueing anyone that gives away a poster or right-click>save's a jpeg of the original. Could you imagine the outcry from the art world if that happened? So why are games any different? It might be Nintendo's commercial property but software shouldn't be locked away in a vault when people want to enjoy it.
Re: Nintendo Wins Court Dispute Against Pirated Game Hosting Site
How much money did Nintendo lose though? If it hosted Switch games it deserves to be taken down but they're not losing a penny if people are downloading Gamecube or Wii titles.
The sooner US Copyright laws gets taken back to 1750 and artists get only 10 years on their creations the better. This not only spurs on the creations of new art for people to enjoy but it also makes older creations more accessible to everyone.
Re: Soapbox: Can We Stop Pretending Switch Can't Run Call Of Duty?
@RainbowStarFlower In terms of quality. Easily the high point of the series,
Re: Soapbox: Can We Stop Pretending Switch Can't Run Call Of Duty?
Call of Duty has been on diminishing returns since COD4: Modern Warfare on the Xbox 360. The Switch would have no trouble running that or anything similar