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Re: Mario Kart Tour's New Year Event Starts On 31st December

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I'm still playing it every day.

The grind is limited to winning 15 races a day. You can't get more points, so it's not a huge time investment - especially because I think it's great fun.

But yeah, it's at least 5,49€ a month if you want to keep up with the rest. That's 1/10th of the price of Mario Kart 8, but at least the game puts plenty of fresh spins on the classic formula and it brings new content every second week. It has 108 courses now!

I never bought anything else other than the Gold Pass, and with skill and strategy and a daily 45min time investment, I always manage to be first or second in the cups. I'm still aboard, and it's been my favourite racer in 2019.

Re: Feature: The Best Hidden Gems And Underrated Switch Games Of 2019

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Hidden gems are games you never (maybe once) heard about before.
Some people here don't understand the meaning, including some NL writers.

My hidden gems for Switch in 2019 are

  • The Rainsdowne Players
  • Rock Boshers DX - Director's Cut
  • Agartha-S
  • Reventure

I completed them all 100% and give them each a 9/10. They're very original and fun games for just a couple of bucks.

Big names like Bandai Namco and their well-known PlayStation JRPG megahit Ni no Kuni don't even belong on this list. That's one for the ''Best Switch RPGs of 2019''.

New Super Lucky's Tale is from Microsoft and even got a demo!! It's a great game for a ''Best Switch Platformers of 2019'' list, but I'd rather have some more hidden gems in a list about hidden gems.

Re: A Xenosaga Collection Was Scrapped Due To Profitability Concerns

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@KingBowser86 I don't need melodical songs for every scene, I like zen-style / atmosphere / meditation music without a melody as well. It's just a matter of taste, and you don't seem to be able to appreciate that particular style in BotW, or maybe at all? You expected/wanted something more melodical, I understand that. But if you were into real ambient stuff, you'd acknowledge that BoTW is a real gem in the music department. Other than that it has plenty of catchy melodies as well.

@LoveEmpath I have no idea why you messaged me.

Re: Feature: The Worst Nintendo Switch Games Of 2019

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The worst Switch game I experienced this year was HIDDEN by Sabec. All of the games listed here are 10 out of 10's compared to that complete failure. And looking at Sabec's other games on the eShop I guess everything made by them is trash.

Re: A Xenosaga Collection Was Scrapped Due To Profitability Concerns

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I just discussed the old Xenosaga / Xenogears games with a friend yesterday, and it's one of the few game/collection remasters we'd buy (next to the Mother trilogy and the Quintet trilogy). Unfortunately we won't get anything that is as awesome as those. And we don't even need remasters, simple ports would be just as good.

@Alucard83 That's not true, BotW has music almost everywhere, it has just more laid back, slow and ambient tunes. Just check out the soundtrack (not the short CD that's just a fraction of the games soundtrack), it has more and better music than most Zelda games, especially the huge amount of quality calm/chill music.

@Impaler-D Aren't there four games? Xenosaga (3 games) and Xenogears (1 game)?

Re: Nintendo Forced To Offer eShop Game Refund After Russian Court Filing

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Broken games, and games with wrong information must be refunded, simple as that.

Nintendo refunded me the broken game Last Ninja 3, and another game, ToriBash, after it got delisted and wasn't transfered over to my Wii U for some glitchy reason, with no way to redownload it (the Wii Shop was still functional at the time).

So, in special cases like these, Nintendo is going to refund digital games, even way back in 2009.

Re: Video: This Golden Lynel Never Stood A Chance Against Link's Breath Of The Wild Boomerang Attack

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@Smigit I know, but the problem still stands: You pay a lot for the extra armor (100+ bucks worth of amiibo) and you have extra work to juggle items around your inventory instead of having everything accessible at all times.

I need to sell 7 pieces of armor that I won, and gained, and worked for to access the stuff I bought with real money. And if I want the other items back, I have to work for them again (as they cost rupees).

The 100% is only for the map and nothing else. Getting 100% Map is only 25% Game completion. It doesn't include 100% Quests, 100% Items, and 100% Treasure Chests.

Re: Video: This Golden Lynel Never Stood A Chance Against Link's Breath Of The Wild Boomerang Attack

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@Smigit I completed every other Zelda game 100%. It's weird to have 17 Zelda games encouraging and conditioning you to 100% them and then 1 new Zelda game that encourages you to not complete it 100% (and I have all 900 Korok seeds).
Other than that I never gave my armor different colors, even though there is a dyer in the game. There's the option to have armor in different colors, but there's not even enough room to have everything in default colors, and that locks completionists out to even try that option.

@echoplex Yeah, true.

Re: Video: This Golden Lynel Never Stood A Chance Against Link's Boomerang Attack

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Another showcase of the endless possibilities that make this game a true masterpiece.

However, I'm still annoyed that they never fixed the unobtainable chests in Hateno and Aris Beach, and never updated the game to have enough item slots for all 107 pieces of armor (you can only have up to 100, so you have to get rid of 7). It irks me because we paid quite a lot for all these amiibo+DLC but we cannot fully reap all their bonuses. Usually Nintendo is quick to fix stuff like that, especially for a game that is so highly regarded, but they ignored it for whatever reason.

Someone posted the issue on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2GdXLMM8Y8

Almost 3 years have passed. The issues are well-known. I don't think they will ever fix it.

Re: Former Nintendo Of America President Reggie Says The Future Of Games Is In The Cloud

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Just like most people have to pay rent instead of owning a house,
and just like most people have to pay a monthly electricity bill instead of having their own self-sustainable power generator,
this is another step forward in taking away something from the masses in favor of a draining subscription. To hell with that!

Stop moving the industry forwards and the consumers backwards with your business drivel, Reggie Kong, or I demand forever that you produce us all a physical translated copy of MOTHER 3 for free!

Re: Feature: Good-Feel's President On Moving Away From Kirby And Yoshi To Self-Publish Twin-Stick Shooter Monkey Barrels

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Ebisumaru for Smash! ^^

Monkey Barrels looks very interesting and it's on my wishlist for now.

I loved both Good-Feel Yoshi games. For me they are the best Yoshi games ever made. Good-Feel + Yoshi = Day One purchase.

I also enjoyed Kirby's Epic Yarn from beginning to completion. (That game would look amazing in HD, hint hint!)

Wario Land: The Shake Dimension was neat, but also very very hard. One of the few Nintendo platformers I didn't complete 100% and so I'm not totally satisfied with it.

But the best thing would be a new Goemon game. I'm a huge fan of the two N64 titles.

What are these educational games they made?

Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl #20 - Super Smash Bros.

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I liked the black borders of the EU version. Almost every Nintendo published game had them. There were just a few exceptions like Majora's Mask, Banjo-Tooie, Pokémon Puzzle League, and Perfect Dark. Back then I was stingy about these irregularities, but now I don't care, it's just the box.

However, I still can't stomach the red stripe NA boxes, all of em.

Re: Mario Kart Tour Is Apple's Most Downloaded Game Of 2019

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Nintendo went all-in with Mario Kart Tour. I thought mobile gaming was all just low-tech, simplified garbage compared to consoles. And for me it was. Even Nintendo's mobile versions of beloved franchises were several steps down from their original source. Until Mario Kart Tour. This one is even better than some of the mainline games.

Re: Video: Alien Isolation Looks Better On Switch Than PS4, Says Digital Foundry

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Oh, it's a PS3 game like Skyrim? Those would run on the old Wii U as well, so having a great port on Switch isn't much to rave about.

DOOM, Wolfenstein II, The Witcher III, and The Outer Worlds on the other hand, those are the current gen games that demonstrate the Switchs capabilities.

However, Alien Isolation is a great-looking super-atmospheric game still, and it's neat that new filter techniques have been developed to make the Switch version look even better than PS4.

Re: Feature: Best Nintendo DS Games

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My Nintendo DS Top 6 is nowhere to be found in this Top 50.

1. Freshly Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
2. Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol
3. WarioWare: D.I.Y.
4. Nintendo Touch Golf: Birdie Challenge
5. Metroid Prime Hunters
6. KORG DS-10 Synthesizer

The masses have bad taste.

Nintendolife doesn't even have a page for NINTENDO TOUCH GOLF and KORG DS-10 Synthesizer???
What's wrong here?!?!

Re: Anniversary: Feel Old Everyone, Donkey Kong Country Turns 25 Today

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DKC was my first speedrun game!

101% in 1h 14min seems slow nowadays but back then - as a 13 year old boy - it was a great achievement. No-one was able to beat me.

DKC isn't known very much for his 2 player modes, but I loved it so much that I wanted to have a second SNES Controller. The game had 3 save slots so I had to make the most out of them and bought one!

  • Slot 1: 101% in Single Player
  • Slot 2: 101% in Versus for Team Red and 101% for Team Yellow
  • Slot 3: 101% in Co-op
    And I did it all without a second player (my family was useless for fluid and fastpaced games while I was fine handling two controllers at once).

Everyone into gaming should have lived through such exciting times.

And the graphics! Even my father was mesmerized by the swinging lights in the mines and the underwater areas back then. Well, I can go on forever as I have so many vivid memories, but..

Happy Birthday DKC 1 !!! Love ya!

Re: Random: Now Pokémon Sword And Shield Haters Are Asking Trump To Halt Sales Of The Game

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Where were the haters in the last 20 years when the Pokémon games were stale and boring?
Pokémon Sword/Shield are the most interesting Pokémon games since Gold/Silver.

On one hand, people are against Chinese videogame developers because of politics, and at the same time the same people turn to politics to change the Western videogame market. The trolls reached a new level of brainlessness.

Re: Chinese Video Game Giant Tencent Wants To "Create Console Games With Nintendo Characters"

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Tencent could make lots of remakes, much like Grezzo (Ocarina of Time 3D, Four Swords - Anniversary Edition, and Majora's Mask 3D). Grezzo learnt enough from these three remakes to co-develop a new Zelda game (Tri-Force Heroes) and then another remake (Link's Awakening for Switch).

N64, Gamecube, Wii, and even Nintendo DS / 3DS classics and masterpieces would be great to see on the Switch in HD and portable for the first time. Tencent could show what they're able to achieve (under Nintendo's supervision) and for once do something nice and learn from the masters how it's done.

Tencent is a Switch developer already. They made f2p MOBA Arena of Valor for Switch.

Re: Soapbox: Attacking Pokémon Creator Game Freak Isn't Cool, But Biting Back Isn't The Answer

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It's just opinions. And not even accountable opinions since all those complainers haven't completed the game 100%. They're not even review opinions. Not even preview opinions. These opinions don't matter a single bit. They aren't even opinions, it's banter. Game Freak should have ignored it either way, or at most, pick out the constructive banter to analyse it.

This is not the Pokémon game / world /continent that features all Mon. That was clear some time ago. It's not Pokémon Ultimate, it's just Sword and Shield.

Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield Will Star The Musical Talent Of Undertale Creator Toby Fox

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@Ardisan @Zoya

It's just my experience, you know, with the friends I have and the gaming communities I'm part of. Once people get the gist of UNDERTALE (the unfolding suprises and innovations that are too great to spoil here and that people can only experience if they invested a certain amount of time into it), they will at least appreciate it a whole lot more.

I haven't found a person yet who played through UNDERTALE and didn't appreciate it for what it does or didn't outright love it.

There are only four reasons I can think of where UNDERTALE can be underappreciated:
1. You haven't played it long enough (The first couple of hours are kinda slow and do not foreshadow its greatness).
2. You're not an RPG fan.
3. It's your first RPG and you have nothing to compare it to.
4. You're not fluent in English or Japanese and therefore don't understand integral parts of it.

Re: Ninja Thinks Pro Players And Streamers Who Cheat Should Be Treated Differently

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If I cheat on my girlfriend, I will eventually (and should) lose her.
If I cheat at my job, I will eventually (and should) lose it.
If I cheat in online games, then yeah, I should be banned and eventually lose the opportunity to play it, doesn't matter if I make money with it or not.

Those oblivious addicted crybabies really need a slap left and right on the face to wake up, because they damage other players online experience, especially when there are 99 other players with you in one round of Fortnite. Some of them have paid lots of money and these dumb cheaters mess up the game experience for them!

Popular game streamers are like idols for kids. If you teach your followers how to cheat, it's the right course of action that you should be banned for life. That's teaching kids how it's rightfully done! Just as you'll need to find a new girl or a new job, you will have to find a new game. Accept it, and move on.

I hope someone sends this comment section to these cheaters. Maybe then they might learn something.