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I have no doubt Nintendo have been holding on to a stack of GameCube remasters to plug holes in the release schedule going forwards and to extend the life of the Switch that bit longer.

Honestly I would happily buy a new Switch if they announced ports of Wave Race: Blue Storm and 1080 Avalanche.

You’ll forever be trying to straighten the picture on the wall.

Emulators and ROMs. Download a ROM and Nintendo don’t get any money. Buy a retro cartridge at some over inflated collectors price from eBay and Nintendo don’t get any money.

“an adaptation of the cult console game, follows a jaded comic book creator and a young, queer writer of color”

Box ticking =/= Representation. Race, gender or sexual identity reduced to a marketing exercise is insulting to everyone involved, gets the word ‘woke’ dragged through the mud by the right wing loonies (who seem to think being aware of inequality and wanting to do something about it is somehow a bad thing) and sets back the whole thing back to the tokenism of the past.

American audience: 🙀🙀🙀🙀

Rest of the world: 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Shame they didn’t put Xeno 2 through the same quality control.

Me and some friends went to watch the Royal Philharmonic play select music from PlayStation titles at the Royal Albert Hall in 2018 and it was brilliant.

It wasn’t just the GameCube: they also put out classics like JSRF and Panzer Dragoon Orta on the Xbox.

Games like those, Monkey Ball and Billy Hatcher were all likely planned Dreamcast titles that got changed once Sega changed direction. It’s nice to know that even though the original DC titles weren’t commercially successful Sega had sequels and further more artistic titles on the books.

The only old game I keep is a copy of Last Battle on the Mega Drive. It’s an absolutely terrible game!

But me and my friends used to laugh about how bad it was when we were kids. A friend brought it for me for my 30th birthday and it’s now kept in my shoebox of keepsakes.

@Glrd I guess it kind of reinforces opinions on 2. Even with all their growth over the game, for me X was deliberately portrayed as a subservient ‘I’ll do /anything/ to make you happy (wink wink)’ not helped by her hyper sexualisation on behalf of the developers whereas Y is a highly petulant, almost dominatrix sort of character, again not helped by the hyper sexualisation or the penchant for jailbait anime characters.

I know that the growth over the game undoes these stereotypes but they cut kind of uncomfortably deep with me and made a poor first impression. I didn’t get on with XC2.

It didn’t help that Sharla and Amelia from XC1 were some of the strongest female characters I have ever seen in a video game. Neither of them was ever portrayed as subservient or a damsel in distress. One can choose to dress them up in revealing outfits but then again one can also choose not to. The same can be said of Elmyra in XCX.

@Glrd I think they’re annoyed at how it sells short the relationship between character W and characters’ X, Y and Z. X and Y are often criticised as eye candy and apologists illustrate the relationship and growth. The XC3 ending is basically character W being a polygamist

My favourite thing about this game is part of the ending has right royally pissed off loads of XC2 apologists and it’s hilarious 😂

They didn’t make any good starter final evolutions between Gold/Silver and Black/White.

Yar’s Revenge on the Atari ST

OG SNES Mario Kart is categorically the best Mario Kart title. Getting the balance right on a 2-player can game is a dying art, mainly because titles are built to accommodate more players and therefore Mano-a-Mano suffers because levels are too big or tracks are too long.

Because it only supports 2 players, battle mode on SMK is flawless. Every game since the original has been built around 4-players and so less players suffers.

The Willy Wars? Now that just about sums up the 1990’s games industry.

They gave up that promising looking Transformers game for an NBA title which has no appeal outside America?

They could have added all sorts of cool features to TFHM. Imagine having to scan ITL cars and then watching them transform in AR before your eyes!

@Gitface Agreed. GoldenEye’s best legacy is Perfect Dark, a game still playable on modern hardware.

I genuinely wouldn't buy it because of the change in music. Sonic 3&K is my favourite game in the series and the music is part of that. Just listen to the original Ice Cap Zone music!

@Pod The SNES sold less than the NES because Sega got its act together and whilst the DS might have been laden with gimmicks its best selling games were still Mario Kart and Pokémon, software that didn’t even need them. Had Nintendo brought out a PSP-like successor to the GBA (which they probably had saved as a backup) and brought out Pokémon and Mario Kart, it would still have sold a gazillion units.

The Switch might also be laden with Gimmicks but its best selling games are Animal Crossing, Mario Kart and Pokémon.

Nintendo’s best upgrade cycle was the NES to the SNES and the GBC to the GBA: they took what was popular and already worked and refined it for the next generation without any gimmicks.

I know Nintendo like to make out they are this wonderfully innovative company but bar the Wii, every one of their successes has been in making a more traditional console. The Switch has become so popular because, bar the ability to ‘switch’ between portable and home play, it has all the familiar trappings in terms of controls and software.

I don’t think Nintendo will be going leftfield with their successor. They need to build on the success of the Switch, not eradicate it. We need a ‘Super Switch’ (which is a terrible name) with better analog sticks, OLED by default, 90hz screen, 1080p display, upgraded stats and 100% backwards compatibility with all Switch hardware and software.

This way Nintendo could sell the screen part as a separate part so people can upgrade on the cheap as well as selling a whole new setup.

I kinda feel like Sonic Team keep missing the wood for the trees. They can't just take Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey and slot Sonic into it.

An open world Sonic game needs to be about navigation: getting from point A to point B via rails, jumps and loops whilst looking good doing it.

They should have taken Sunset Overdrive as their starting point.

@Aurumonado Easily the best theme tune.

The ESA say E3 was cancelled but we've had Sony's State of Play, Microsoft are up in a week or so and Geoff Keighley and co are doing things too. Even Netflix and Games Workshop have some gaming content on the go.

During that time we also have the new Fortnite season, WWDC for Apple (which might have some gaming content) so there is planet going off.

It needs to be a NES > SNES style transition.

OLED. 1080p90 screen. Better stats. 100% backwards compatibility. 4k upscaling via the dock.

Then build better controllers that don't fall apart after a year. Maybe analog sliders like the 3DS is the way to go?

On one hand I have upheld weekly Fortnite sessions with my friends I could not see during lockdown. 2 years on we still have a laugh and a joke and it really helped with being locked indoors. 4 of us are spread across the UK and one lives in Cambodia so it has been a lifeline.

On the other hand I would trade it all in a heartbeat if it meant we could meet up in person every week and play some Super Monkey Ball and Perfect Dark like we did before we all went to Uni.

Diversity in games is to be encouraged. I loved what Guerilla did with the world of Horizon Zero Dawn for this very reason.

But can the same logic be applied to an alternate reality populated by large reptiles, tie-wearing Gorillas, anthropomorphic sentient fungi and italian-american stereotypes?

@mariomaster96 Possibly because the original didn't have any camera controls bar pressing Z-L to lock the camera behind Link.

@Megaz23 Quite a lot of japanese titles that change the age of the main characters just for the western releases to dodge censorship?

@Rambler I think you underestimate the age of Fortnite players. Me and my mates play weekly and we are all nearly 40. All these 1980's characters are right up our alley.

After my original Switch died in 2020 during lockdown I went back to my Xbox One and threw myself into Forza Horizon 1 for a few months. When you can't go far from your house everyday being able to just tear down the open roads of Colorado was incredibly cathartic.

The biggest problem the WiiU had was a terrible USP coupled with even worse marketing.

The Switch 2 needs to be more along the lines of the 3DS or the SNES than the WiiU: the same but better.

Honestly all they really need to do is improve the build quality of the Joycons, redesign the analog sticks (maybe use 3DS style sliders?) add analog triggers and up the internal guts and resolution.

Make it 100% backwards compatible with the Switch library and people will upgrade.

Crucially it doesn't need any bloody gimmicks.

Nintendo must still have a few years of solid software support in the bag together with all the unreleased WiiU ports. If push comes to shove they've only ever ported 2 GameCube title into the modern era.

They also have 2-3 hardware revisions in the pipeline: an OLED Lite model with larger screen, a reduction in price of the Lite model to £99 and the opposite: a box that plays Switch titles that comes bundled with a Pro Controller.

With any luck the next 2 years will get the Switch to outsell the PS2!

Nintendo are being daft because nobody, and I mean nobody is going to be offended by them releasing Advance Wars.

If they're that bothered why not just donate all profits to the Ukraine like Epic did?

I quite liked it. It was something different and despite the early PS2-era plotting and dialog the setting and gameplay weren't that bad.

The other marines should have all been redshirts to service the horror elements rather than hamfisted friends of Samus.

And those that haven't played it don't really care.

@Asaki I imagine if you come in fresh its a bit easier to swallow. My problem will forever be comparing it to the original which is wonderfully streamlined.

Which is strange because I enjoy my time dipping in-and-out of FFXIV which is arguably just as complicated, but I find strangely familiar because the battle mechanics aren't too dissimilar to Xenoblade 1.

I'd take PSOBB but with an endless list of sega-themed cosmetics to purchase. They'd rake it in with something like that.

@Asaki I think Sega have an exclusivity agreement with Microsoft on PSO2.

TBH I found PSO2 to be a lot more bewildering than FFXIV and a hard game to get into.

One great thing about PSO1 was its simplicity. It wasn't full of F2P mechanics and finding people to just dungeon with was easy.

I must have finished Okami on all its platforms and I never knew about that mini game!

I'd also like to nominate the sparkle screen from PSO that you could move around the screen and the Teleporter loading animation which you could change direction with the left stick but alter the speed with the right.

Im sure the data is sound but some of those release dates are off.

I distinctly recall PSO, Metroid Prime and Resi 0 all launching on the same day in the UK.

I reckon Nintendo is sat on a pile of Wii U ports all done and dusted and is just dishing them out when the schedule demands it.

Wind Waker, TP and maybe Xenoblade X were probably backended ages ago.

@RubyCarbuncle It's the internet in 2022. It's either a heated debate people believe is a replacement for physical discourse (it's not. It doesn't count) or shameless self promotion.

I call fake. Nobody is that stupid. They did this for the publicity and can afford a new TV.

@Dav Nope, I finished the game. I found Pyra and Mythra my biggest concern with the game as deep down the 2 are depicted more on the basis of sexual fantasy tropes than actual, well defined characters. Pyra is depicted as a shy subservient and Mythra a petulant domineering bitch.

You could argue that the shy/petulant are 2 sides of the same coin but that character is also hyper sexualised.

Compared to the arcs Melia and Sharla got in the original it is night and day.

Ah, yes. As if Pyra's character couldn't be written as any more subservient she is literally a slave to the main character.

Hopefully they will get rid of some of the regression from Xenoblade 2 like having to go back to NPCs for fetch quests.

Charge your Switch at work and use their electricity instead!

The lack of training modes is a shame. Wii Sports actually had a lot of depth and replayability to it if you used the 'fitness age' of the training and played them daily as an exercise routine. The punchbag mode for boxing was especially tiring.

Resort got past this with the sheer volume of content.