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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.

@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.

@RainbowStarFlower In terms of quality. Easily the high point of the series,

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

Bring it. If I wanted in depth plotting I'd watch The Expanse at home. I go to the cinema the same reason I go to a theme park and the bigger the spectacle the better!

Nintendo could port it to smartphones and piggyback the covid 19 ping feature. Offer the base quest title for free and then charge a few bob for IAP for the rest.

Job done

A fiver says Sonic turns up!

I played it to death but it just didn't click with me as much as the Dreamcast original. I honestly think it was the English voices that put me off.

Remember those Bandai Master Sword candies that came in various forms a few months back? I reckon the Master Sword will be broken/corrupted and be able to change form at will in the new game.

Needs more Sonic Advance

Install CFW and wait 3 days?

@Serpenterror You do know there is no Soul Edge 2, right?

Unless we are talking about the very slightly different version 2 from the Arcades?

Cost of cinema ticket: £10 for 2 hours entertainment
Cost of game: £60 for 200 hours entertainment

Seems like a good shout.

I’d be lying if I said Game Over by David Sheff didn’t change my life. Obviously the copy given away free with Arcade Magazine, I still have it on my shelf. I knew from that book onwards I wanted to work in the design industry. 20 years and counting.

Trigger Happy by Steven Poole is also well worth a read.

They are until Sony buys them.

I've no idea who Iomar is but why do we have a day named after him?

I'm amazed that Nintendo have never span-off Streetpass into a mobile game. The protocol 'developed' by Google and Apple for Covid notifications was basically streetpass using Bluetooth; couldn't they piggyback that system and use it for something more fun?

A 3DS in 2023 remains a worthy purchase, mainly because of how easy it is to hack the console and install roms on it. Once the eshop closes down there is no legal way to download software to the console or give Nintendo any money for them which IMO makes it fair game.

I would argue that new horizons, despite being brilliant has a lot less to see and do than new leaf.

Whilst the Switch effectively carried lockdown in 2020 with Animal Crossing and Xenoblade Chronicles I would put 2017 as the best. In that year we got for the Zelda, Mario, MK8DX, Splatoon 2, Xenoblade 2 etc. They were hitting it out of the park during that launch window.

The Dreamcast one because it also features the title music from Phantasy Star Online in the background.

No, for one reason: Avalanche is the better game. It gets proper hard on the black level courses but some of the secrets are worth it to unlock like the NES controller snowboard and the rocket with working booster that makes you go ridiculously quick. Top OST too.

It came out the same year as SSX3 which is a better game overall but honestly they are actually very different titles.

The best snowboarding title of the 32/64bit era was MTV Snowboarding on the PS1.

@Dman10 Er, the analog sticks on the PS Vita were never clickable….

1. Phi is in there. That’s who Zelda was talking to in the trailer (called that one)

2. Weapons are gone. In their place the Master Sword can morph into different shapes, all of which were revealed in those Namco Bandai gummy sweets from a few days back.

The correct answer is surprisingly the Wii. It got 2 great Zelda, Mario and Metroid titles. 100% backward compatibility with the previous gen. Hundreds of retro rereleases in their original form. A pile of great couch multiplayer titles. A JRPG renaissance with Xenoblade and Last Story and some great sequels like Daniel Craig GoldenEye and Sun and Punishment 2.

I brought my original when Metroid Fusion came out. I got it for GC connectivity and also because I fell for Nintendo’s clever marketing.

It became my travel buddy during my university holidays as lugging my GameCube home became rather tiresome.

If I was stuck on a desert island with some sort of solar charger, a GBA SP and a copy of Advance Wars I’d be happy.

I still dislike the GBA Pokemon titles though.

Ring it to iOS. Charge £5. Done.

The PSP Go wins out in my eyes. It’s easy enough to hack and thus load up with the entire GBA Library but it also plays Locoroco, WipEout and Soul Blade.

The person Zelda is asking for help is none other than Fi. Evidence? In no video or image have we seen Link wielding any other weapon permanently than the Master Sword implying a place in the story. Maybe we can’t unequip it at all and you can only scavenge the weapons of monsters rather than hoarding them?

For me it has to be Final Fantasy IX.

The frog hat is a reference to Quina Quen, a travelling gourmand character from Final Fantasy IX who has a whole side quest about eating frogs.

If Nintendo just released a new set of Joy cons with hall effect sensors (which the Sega Saturn used, fact fans) they’d rake it in even more.

@NintndoNik The obvious answer is that Nintendo wanted it as part of their retro offering and therefore wanted to preserve the original code. If Nintendo release a remake then they have legions of gamers going ‘hold on, why don’t we have the 3DS Ocarina port instead of the muddy original?’

The XBLA remake would be easier to publish because both parties could commit to fresh licences rather than the red tape of old ones.

This would be fine except Nintendo (being Nintendo) wanted parity between the 2 releases as part of the negotiations and that parity was the original N64 version.

What should have happened is we got the HD XBLA port (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0GinqO4lhU) on both consoles instead.

Instead of pushing for the best version on both consoles we got the original instead. Yay.

Launch title for Switch 2 guaranteed.

A return of the scanning gameplay with elements of the Focus from Horizon baked in.

Playable in 1st or 3rd person

An open star system similar to No Man’s Sky where you can take off and land with no loading. Space is full of exploitable little asteroids and such.

I know a lot of gamers like to sneer at the mobile marketplace (mainly because they’ve not made an effort to try any good premium titles; they’re not all an F2P cash grab) but this is an area that has been ripe for the taking for a serious publisher.

Nintendo could leverage mobile technology and properly clean up if they made more of an effort. Nintendogs sounds like a great fit for the platform.

What I’d like to see is them bringing Streetpass functionality to mobile using the COVID 19 ping system (which was basically Streetpass anyway) as a backbone.

Honestly the market is there. If Nintendo relaunched the highly underrated Miitomo as a core so your Mii was always with you they could add loads of titles around that.

Microsoft and Sony could also clean up if they wished. Microsoft used to have achievements in their Windows Phone titles that were tied directly to your Xbox account and you can buy titles like Flower and Journey on iOS so integrating trophies would be easy.

Personally I was hoping they’d maybe double down on some historical fiction games after Assassin’s Creed. I’d love to play a Napoleonic FPS title.

Apple and Google’s Covid Bluetooth pinging was basically street pass in functionality; why not leverage the massive user base of smartphones and release ‘Nintendo Streetpass’ as a mobile title?

You could create a Mii (please bring back Miitomo!) and then they could offer the Quest and Puzzle games for free and the rest as DLC packs. Heck, why not put Play Coins in there that feed back to the Nintendo app so you can spend them on in-game stuff on the Switch?

I give it 6 episodes before they announce his return.

I wonder if they’ll finally confirm Giovanni as Ash’s father and his need to capture Pikachu is actually linked to wanting to build a relationship with his son.

Maybe Giovanni started out wanting to build a Pokémon Ranch for his newborn son but once he witnessed the power it corrupted him.

TBH the idea of a WH40k to series gives me some hope, especially as it’s on Amazon who have a knack for chucking money at these things.

Here’s hoping they go with something ‘straightforward’ like Gaunt’s Ghosts or Eisenhorn.

Oh square, it’s so simple:

Final

Fantasy

VI

And still no infinite mode with one song.

This was literally in Lumines on day 1.

@chefgon At some point Microsoft are going to have to up that sub fee to actually make any money. Xbox is still a huge loss leader for the company.

And look at what the first party Xbox games we have: Forza 5, Sea of Thieves, Halo. These are cracking titles but have become riddled with F2P ‘season’ mechanics to keep the sub rolling in. I’d rather have the blockbuster single player titles on PlayStation and Nintendo than let that become the norm.

Whilst Microsoft count their Gamepass losses Nintendo execs are swimming around a huge Scrooge McDuck money bin with all the profits from Pokémon. Sounds like a good place to be to me!

Sony are closer to Nintendo than they think. For one thing unlike Xbox they actually have family titles that make the PS5 a great console if you have kids and want to play games with or alongside them. The Xbox is awful for anything kids might want to play.

It’s not really a fair contest because snow levels are always the best levels in any game, from Ice Cap Zone and Valak Mountain to the whole of Skyrim. The best area of any open world game of recent times is the Frozen Wilds in HZD which gets snow so right.

There are 2 directions Nintendo should push Pokémon in:

1. Do another Legends spin-off but give it to Monolith to do. XC3 is staggeringly huge and has zero technical issues.

2. Get someone to do a proper cel-shaded Pokémon where we play as Ash., anime voice acting included.

Absolutely! It makes the bond that bit more personal and in reality everyone would name their Pokémon like they do their pets. You wouldn’t call your pet Alsatian ‘Alsatian’ would you?

I normally name all my Pokémon that I’m going to use on my team after the bosses in Zelda and a few other video games. Eg my Gyrados is Gyorg and my Metagross is Quadraxis.

The exception is I did a run with all the prehistoric Pokémon and named them after the Dinobots.

I feel you’re unfair on Majora’s Mask. The time limit is more than enough time to explore the dungeons and the fairy side quests make coming back to them worth the effort. Snowhead Temple is a masterpiece of ‘dungeon as one big puzzle’ design with a fantastic boss. The water temple is a lot of fun as well, if only because Zora Link is so damned cool.

I’d actually have Skyward Sword at the top because in reality the whole game is one big dungeon with many deeper levels disguised as a Zelda game. It has one over world village and asks you to delve deeper each time you set out, like a puzzle-filled Diablo.

I wonder if they'll recast Zelda with an actual english actress? Why not just rehire Jenna Coleman?