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Re: The Binding Of Isaac: Repentance Receives Huge Update, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

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@Not_Soos having played Isaac for thousands of hours I don't think it has anything to do with abortion. It's about battling inner demons, grief, abuse and neglect. I hope people don't mind me spoiling the story but essentially the father leaves the mother and Isaac reminds her of him so she neglects him. And then he battles with himself because he feels responsible.

Isaac does push things to the limits and deal with a lot of serious issues but in the end it's just a piece of art and a story. It's fictional.

There are religious elements but it doesn't contradict good vs evil. The bible is seen as a good item, the bosses are satan. God is nowhere in the game beyond a brief mention in the intro.

I'd take bigger issue with games like Bayonetta or Assassin's Creed than I would Binding of Isaac

Re: Best Remakes And Remasters On Nintendo Switch

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I feel like A Boy and His Blob is too much of a reimagining to be considered a remake or remaster. It's more like a reboot sequel. Personally I'd take that off the list and replace it with Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania. Regardless of how Monkey Target has been butchered

Edit: or maybe Destroy All Humans?

Re: Best Switch LEGO Games

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As others have said, Lego Marvel 2 is absolutely awful and it's certainly not better than Lego DC. And this is coming from a Marvel fan

Re: Talking Point: How Long Does Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Take To Beat, Really?

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Finishing the game to me is doing the four divine beasts, beating ganon and doing all the shrines. Completing it would be to upgrade all your armour sets, get all the koroks and do the kilton monster medals (edit: also completing the map, there are some locations which don't even have korok seeds). I've actually done all the koroks and kilton but not the armour sets on my OG file, and probably never will.

When I replayed it in master mode during the pandemic I "finished" the game by these rules. Can't remember if I did the trial of the sword in master mode? Might have done... but definitely got the master cycle. In the end it's up to you what you consider done. You could even challenge yourself to open every single chest. Though some are glitched unfortunately

Re: Nightdive Studios Wants To Remaster Titles Like Eternal Darkness, But Hasn't Had Any Luck With Nintendo

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@echoplex Having to buy the arcade archives Nintendo games individually was the worst. I'm so glad they're taking the subscription approach now. So if they say no to individual ports for their legacy consoles I'm glad! I know they'll release them somehow.

I don't think Mario 3D All Stars was limited just because of Mario 64. Let's hope they add gamecube games in the same way.

Re: Nightdive Studios Wants To Remaster Titles Like Eternal Darkness, But Hasn't Had Any Luck With Nintendo

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@TheRealMW I'm not sh***ing on Nightdive. I'm just saying I understand why Nintendo want to do it their way. My point about the price is that if Nintendo charged that much they wouldn't get away with it. You can defend Nightdive but that wasn't at all my point. I just don't know why everyone is like "bad Nintendo, they should partner with Nightdive". I could do without all the fancy extras. Nintendo's games were great as they were

Re: Nightdive Studios Wants To Remaster Titles Like Eternal Darkness, But Hasn't Had Any Luck With Nintendo

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Have Nightdive actually had any experience with gamecube ports? Because I can see why Nintendo aren't interested in them making N64 ports (they're already doing that themselves). I don't know why everything has to be written so as to make Nintendo seem like the bad guys. Nightdive are charging £15 for Turok alone! I'm not paying £15 each for N64 games when Nintendo will make them part of their online service. If they're shy about gamecube it means those games are eventually on the horizon too.

Re: Mother 3 Producer Would "Love To See" GBA Entry Receive A Worldwide Release

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@Coalescence it might be more to do with Itoi rather than the other stuff. Or even due to Ape Inc as Pokemon games also tend to have a hard time appearing on virtual console. Nintendo don't solely own the rights so there are some legalities involved. About who gets paid and how they get paid etc.

Take Futurama's Bender for example, the voice actor not returning for the new Futurama over money disagreements. Think of that situation but if the voice actor actually owned the character. Itoi owns these characters which is why you see his copyright in Smash Bros. I use Bender as an example because the voice actor obviously does want to return and he does want people to hear his voice but they need to come to an agreement first which can take a while.

Not saying it's Itoi's fault but he owns it so he asks for a certain amount. And it's whether Nintendo is willing to pay. Eventually they come to an agreement. Same reason we don't have Super Mario RPG yet.

It's a shame this stuff isn't simpler really but it's better to sort this stuff out in advance rather than Nintendo release it and then get sued. Which MAYBE they could do. But then it's a whole legal battle about ownership and general unpleasantry

Re: Review: EarthBound - A Quirky, Cosmic Adventure Bound To Warm Your Heart

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@DJDM perhaps! So long as you do play Earthbound after! NES games can be really good. Particularly the later ones. Super Mario Bros 3 and Kirby's Adventure are as good as if not better than the entries on the SNES. Some are just short little arcade things like Donkey Kong and Balloon Fight. Still fun but once you've played for a little bit there's not much more to it

Re: Scathing Report Suggests All Is Not Well At Team17 Following NFT Backtrack

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@BarryandWill It actually really upsets me that your comment is the one getting all the likes... how did people get brought up to be so full of spite and vengeance?

I refuse to accept that badmouthing people or companies behind their back is okay. There are two sides to every coin, we don't know their side, and this is how people get "cancelled". It's just... unpleasant. Two wrongs don't make a right and all that