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@Guitario I honestly don't know what needs to be patched... there's a grass area you can fall through but the game does a really good job of having so when you fall through you appear up right and back in the game with no problem. And it's just so strange because it's like they were aware of it and deliberately kept it in, but fixed the issue instead by having you respawn. So I'm thinking it's part of a glitch in the original which allows you to get to the second island early, which they decided to keep in the game rather than patch because they know there are speedrunners who love this stuff (see the Mario 64 backwards long jump glitch that was removed from Mario All Stars).

The game COULD have a slightly better framerate but I'm guessing this is more to do with how things load. In fact it appears to me, that the more you play the game the more the framerate seems to improve. And I checked the original and it has the same choppy framerate so again, looks like they kept the original programming. Probably to keep glitches and things in tact.

So yeah, I don't know what they should patch. I worry that if they patched pop in it would make rage missions impossible to complete. I guess there's that rain issue and the lack of fog which could be patched. But other than that I don't really want any changes. Unless they are optional

Actually, another point about the pop in. Good luck with the rage missions because they would have been impossible

Here is an excellent video that shows off the improvements that the review here just didn't bother to mention. I also recommend looking at the comments because it kind of looks to me like Nintendolife are now doing the whole "GTA fans hate the new version, here's why" clickbait nonsense. Looks like the game does have fans after all!

https://youtu.be/99w9OhcWfIw

@Zenszulu I honestly don't know why people think the game has simply been AI upscaled. Foliage is completely improved. Character models have been completely revamped. This wasn't an AI and that is clear. People are honestly just hating because they expected more. People should see it for what it is. Ports of the the original trilogy, warts and all, with slight graphic enhancements (better foliage, higher resolution textures) and quality of life improvements such as waypoints and gyro aiming. This is what I expected, this is what I got, and I am satisfied

As I commented on the other article. Pop in is not a legitimate issue and would totally change the game. These old games have really small maps with vehicles that only spawn in really small areas. If vehicles popped in early it would make import/export almost impossible to complete as you would have to travel half way across the map to despawn cars you don't need. I get that it is an issue for some people but it's one thing I'm glad they didn't mess with and I guarantee that if they did change it, it would be included as an issue anyway when people post about how these missions are now impossible. That is one problem that no matter what they do there would have been complaints so I'm glad they just kept it like the original.

The only problem with this game was bad marketing. This game is literally the same as the originals with all the same bugs and glitches. Ridiculously high expectations ruined this game.

Nintendolife's review on here doesn't even mention really basic quality of life improvements such as adding waypoints which the original was lacking. It's like the reviewer just didn't remember the original didn't have that! In fact most of their points in their review make me think they either have a defect copy of the game or their nostalgia glasses are completely broken. It does not deserve the score it was given. This is a collection of three classic GTA games, warts and all. People just expected too much. Which, I don't even know why, because as soon as they said it was coming out on the switch I knew these would be basic ports. Still great games though

@somebread one was overhyped and the other is a boy and his blob. I'm enjoying GTA a lot and I personally found this boy and his blob remake to be too huge a departure from the original NES game. It's essentially a retelling. I'd give this a 6 and GTA a 7/10 due to the sheer amount of content you get with three GTA games. But that's just me. And it's not like 7/10 is a great score. I usually only buy games with a 9+ score, 8 at a push. But 4 was ridiculous and undeserved. There's no way this game is twice as good. I was never compelled to finish it, as it seems nor were the developers. I mean the guy above said the game crashed multiple times on them. That's not an 8/10 game... if you think this game is going to be better than a collection of three GTA classics which will no doubt receive patches anyway then... well... I don't know. Kinda odd

Three GTA games gets 4/10, this gets 8/10. Nothing more to say. Just an observation

The things people are complaining about don't make sense. Like people complain about cars appearing in front of you. If they changed this it would completely ruin the game. The ability to turn the camera around to change visible cars is a lifesaver when it comes to the import export side mission. And yeah they COULD have changed this. But I for one am glad they didn't. It's like... you have people complaining about Mario 64 not having the backwards long jump glitch. It'd be like that but tenfold. This game is warts in tact. That's what they decided on and I'm glad for it.

@PJOReilly are you a robot? Because that sounds impossible

7/10 is more reasonable

@HamatoYoshi I thought maybe it was just me but my comments are getting a surprising amount of upvotes considering I basically just berated the website!

(I don't hate the website by the way, I'm just worried lately how things have been going and I miss the good old days of Alex and his silly videos)

Is this Nintendo news?

Also... just want to say. I miss the days when there wasn't a new article every half an hour. And I feel like some of you guys don't even really like Nintendo. Not saying names, that's up to you guys. But there are some people writing articles that get a lot more controversy than others... that is an issue and is turning off older readers in favour of this new more toxic variety

Far too many articles on this website are annoying me lately. Didn't you guys recently post about how it's not appropriate to call developers lazy? And how it's better to explain what the problems are rather than just saying a few unhelpful words. So then why yesterday did you post a video and simply put "grand theft oh no". Better post that review up soon or you guys are just being hypocrites.

Telling people not to do the same behaviour you are actually encouraging from your readers with posts like this. Maybe you guys are becoming the problem? Just a thought...

What is the "Grand Theft Oh No" referring to? Am I meant to see something bad? Looks good to me and I'm enjoying replaying these games a lot!

@Damo Can you actually elaborate on what Emily Rogers has got right in the past because I've been following Nintendo since the game boy and I've literally never seen her get anything right. You ask people to explain her track record and so I ask you... what track record?

Pac-Man or Tetris. They're both pretty perfectly designed. I'd kind of argue for Pac-Man though because it feels more video game-y. And I feel like it gets more pop culture references

@reporterdavid yep, Nintendo are throwing in the towel /s

https://youtu.be/lAZ02sN2O0g

Glad to hear they're expanding the museum!

(What?! I meant the cafe! You thought I meant with more bugs? Oh...)

@Diogmites well there's your mistake. You bought the sequel. Which is literal ass and one of the worst lego games they've made. That and Lego Indiana Jones 2.

@roy130390 so they say "it's live" meaning in some regions and I say "it's not live" meaning my own... what gives one meaning precedence over the other? And why are you arguing semantics with me. This isn't an "average discussion", it's pure pedantry.

@roy130390 so the article says it's live, and doesn't specify which regions. And I say it's not live, and I also don't specify which regions. And yet I'm wrong? Maybe think about that

@roy130390 this article said it went up at 3:45am BST. My post was at 5:54am BST. That's two hours later. You say it was up in America at 6:00am BST. It wasn't available in the UK until MUCH later still. What's YOUR point? I was just saying it's not live for me. And how the heck was I supposed to know it would be up in America 6 minutes AFTER my comment

Thought I would test this after seeing this review. At first I thought this review was exaggerating as there was no lag as such. But the framerate was pretty abysmal. It feels like it's running natively on the switch which is silly because you should be able to have beautiful looking solid 60fps experiences over the cloud as you're not limited by the hardware. This feels like 10fps. Anyway, so I thought it was... okay, just really bad fps and then... it completely froze! The music carried on but the game froze. Now, I love cloud gaming. I've been playing xbox cloud on my mac, recently finished psychonauts 2 which is an amazing game. And that was beautiful with a solid 60fps. And other cloud games on the switch have fared better too. This is just a really bad cloud version. I don't know why it's so bad but it is. It really is broken. No game should freeze like that and not come back.

@roy130390 it wasn't available. Now it is. Your comment was a good hour after mine

It's not live though!

Smash Bros Ultimate has control remapping so you can actually set the c-buttons to jump like the N64 original

@swoose wow really? Okay... so basically there's no merit to any of these faults. That water temple one was the only one that seemed like it had some substance. I mean the controller pak issue is one too but at least it was the same on the virtual console and even on the n64 you couldn't have both rumble and a controller pak

@PJOReilly just seen the update. I still think it's incorrect honestly. It still forgets to mention that ZL can be used to shoot.

The idea behind it is that if you use the left stick to aim you use the ZL button and if you use the right stick to aim you use the ZR button. This is how it would be on the n64 controller as you could never otherwise use the trigger. ZR is simply not meant to be used when you use the left stick to aim. The N64 controller doesn't even have ZR. It's an extra mapping for convenience so should be seen as a benefit rather than a hinderance.

@PJOReilly all I could ask for! Apologies for the tone. It was the "100%" thing that irked me most of all. I guess "categorically untrue" is a little nicer than saying it's BS but that's all I meant by it haha. I wasn't trying to be mean or offensive. I was just miffed myself

@AlienX oh I see, my bad. So much misinformation about this new NSO service. I assume everyone's spreading it D:

@AlienX it has suspend points

@AG_Awesome yeah they did a really good job with the controls for this game I think! Glad they didn't just do a one size fits all with the controls

@riccyjay I love how PJ just said he's done with me rather than acknowledging the mistake. Like, he will comment on the other stuff and defend himself but if it comes to acknowledging a mistake nope. Gets angry because I said "BS". Like... was what I said really that bad? Does it really matter the manner in which it is delivered? Gee whizz... why is everyone so afraid of saying "sorry, I was wrong, I will correct that"

@riccyjay yeah you can, because shoot is mapped to ZL

@PJOReilly forget the tone, I only said "BS". It's not that bad. Just make sure your journalism is "100%" accurate dude

@AG_Awesome well this is what I'm saying. The right control stick is NOT the c buttons for this game. Because Nintendo actually bothered to have different control schemes per game. But for some reason journalists are too lazy to check this so sin and punishment is actually fine and not broken. I was having a blast with it last night

@AG_Awesome I'm saying that with sin and punishment the right control stick is mapped to the n64 control stick rather than the c-buttons. So you can use the right stick to aim and the d-pad to strafe. Just like the original release

@PJOReilly look into sin and punishment because your 100% confirmation is complete BS. The N64 didn't even have a ZR. ZR is intended to be used when you use the right control stick which is to simulate holding the n64 control stick with your right hand and the d-pad to strafe. If you use the left stick to aim you are meant to use ZL, as that's where the trigger would be on an N64 controller.

@AG_Awesome you don't need to do that, because they've already mapped the right control stick for this game. So you can use the d-pad to strafe, the right stick to aim and ZR to shoot.

OR, you use the left stick to aim, ZL to shoot and X and Y to strafe.

These aren't lazy ports. They did actually care to make sure the control schemes work. But this is lazy journalism where they didn't bother to check this despite "100% confirming".

And Mario Kart 64 has never made use of the controller pak in ANY virtual console release... seriously. This list makes me want to stop looking at this site. Never seen so much misinformation in my life

And it not being the shindou version of mario 64 is not even a complaint. No one in the west had this version until all stars. And then everyone complained about it because they couldn't do certain glitches.

Okay I just want to say that the sin and punishment controls are not an issue at all. You can use d-pad to strafe, and you can use ZL to shoot (which doesn't remap the face buttons). If you suspend the game and check the controls you won't have an issue.

So 100% confirm my ass. I was having a blast with it last night

Uhh, when has this "leaker" got anything right? Didn't they say Mother 3 was coming out on the Wii U? And like some really incorrect smash bros leaks? Pro switch? I forget... but anyway. This isn't even a leak, it's just an obvious guess. I wrote the same thing on reddit, they probably just read my post or came to the same conclusion because, IT'S OBVIOUS!

Kind of makes sense that it's to do with storage. I imagine this is why GTA V isn't yet on the machine. Maybe we'll get a cloud version of that down the line too.

Is the Toree 2 mention a joke or am I missing something

Anyone that has this very rare sensitivity will know that dimming any LEDs will have this effect. For the majority of people it's just confusing and another reason to hate on the new model for no reason.

@Kid_Sickarus then you should read my reply to the "multiple people" because it's still relevant a quote by Nintendo to a writer of an article who literally said it's nothing to worry about. Not even directed at us the consumer

@Kid_Sickarus stop assuming that I'm missing stuff. It's very rude why are you being so defensive?