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@WaveWitch yeah, the show has a reason for it because the guy is an artifact of his/my generation. It works in context. Most people ignore context and critical thinking because people are allergic to thinking since it makes their heads hurt. China and its social credit system is the priority and defending the motherland mindlessly at the very least brings you up as opposed to bringing you down.

@TheFullAndy Hey, people are still dreaming of a patch in the future. But yes: great game. The Chicago typewriter still ruined my accuracy in the Wii version where I once boasted nearly 100% accuracy of shots, especially headshots for normal enemies before unlocking it.

@TheFullAndy I remember what made the RE4 Wii edition my first time buying a game twice was because my first time was on GameCube, but it was the motion controls that made pointing and aiming definitively the best version. I haven’t heard if that’s in the Switch or gyro controls, but those would be dealbreakers and make the game mandatory for everyone.

First thing I’m wondering is how they missed a chance for the article to reference the old band Space Hog.

@MeloMan I feel for you man. Try this: when moving out as my parents separated when I was 10, my mom thought I did not want my NES before and nearly left it to be disposed of, but when I threw a fit in time, she brought it back the next time she visited... and then being technologically illiterate, she only brought the system but didn’t bring the RF switch or AC adaptor, or even the games when she got it from my room. She thought those weren’t important (even the games!) and thought it just played VHS tapes.

@Heavyarms55 I have seen people with more money make worse assumptions, unfortunately. Never underestimate the human capacity to assume.

@Heavyarms55 counterargument: even when one talks to their parent regularly, said parent may still do this act thinking it’s not a point worth discussing because the assumption is that those things in storage are just things forgotten, like old children’s clothes.

Second counter is the guy likely thought it wasn’t a point worth talking about because it was assumed it would be safe.

Assumptions on both parts—saw this happen personally in similar situations and with other friends.

@AndyC_MK84 I feel for this guy and agree with you there. I sadly find that lending things, an act of trust, has brought consistent disappointment. Books and games especially, so I just give people gifts instead of lending them now and I keep all things on hand because of those experiences. People are welcome to game at my place and check out my books, but nothing leaves my home ever again, and no longer do I burden people with my things.

@durr sh*ty ones.

@Kimyonaakuma @AndyC_MK84

Who knows what went on with his collecting? Maybe he wanted to enjoy them later in life, maybe he wanted a little personal museum.

I have met parents who sold or discarded things even when their children lived at home, and I’ve met people who have to leave things at home because of the implicit idea that home is safe. But in cases like these, it’s ultimately why trusting others with material possessions is a gamble.

Two cases for me: 1) a friend “borrowed” my PS3 and Wii and ended up ghosting me. After 11 years of friendship too. He even stole my childhood toys that included some old Mario plushes. 2) I left something in a locked room for my mother that she swore was 100% safe. What happens TWO YEARS IN A ROW is that first my stepdad went in to find something “just this once” and caused four hard drives to get stolen by leaving the door unlocked, THEN the next year he did it again and accidentally threw away my clothes, to the point that a sign saying DO NOT TOUCH OR MOVE is there for him, but at this point, we suspect he’ll do it again and lo and behold, he caused my mother’s scarf to get stolen when he left the door unlocked.

@AndyC_MK84 So? Some people open amiibo, some people collect them and keep them in their packaging because they’re afraid of ruining them, not unlike Star Wars toys in the 80s. Hoarder or player, he can do what he wants with them.

@Dezzy You are wrong about FFVI selling millions on Switch if remade in the vein of Octopath Traveler. It will never happen.

...BILLIONS is the correct number range. No less. 😁 because people would buy it again and again to tell Square that they love it and to do more like that.

The game was pretty difficult because of how open it was. I was the musician and could go to the final boss right from the start and got wrecked. Struggled to get gold for the gnomes too in multiple scenarios. It was a game that I gave up on too fast and would love to give it another go now.

@BongoBongo123 Nintendo will pull an April fool’s joke and stop making limited time releases.

@TG16_IS_BAE Hey, if Nintendo thinks they're doing us a service by giving limited chances to give them money...I can't think of any other reason besides artificial scarcity or that production costs are higher than the potential return on investment that they could reap.

But I don't know...the NES and SNES classic were rationalized to take time away from manufacturing Switches, whereas Mario 3-D All-Stars doesn't make sense.

I just got this the other day on sale. The audacity and love is what makes it so fun!

The game exists, you just can’t see it and you only hear about it because it stars Rot Lop Fan.

...only a fellow fan of Green Lantern will get this. 😋

some of my favorites: Breath of Fire 2, EVO: The Search for Eden, Demon’s Crest, and Spike McFang.

I can’t remember who said this to EGM or Next Generation, but I think it was Howard Lincoln after he left Nintendo and he believed “If you make crap games, you deserve to be slapped upside the head.”

If someone can find the quote, it is appropriate for Ubisoft to heart this with the abortive filth they’ve given us.

I like Brie and Nora as stars for these ads because their love for gaming is authentic.

@3RedTriangles Given that ancestor worship is part of traditional Han culture in the history before the CCP, how is ancestral worship controversial to them now?

@TG16_IS_BAE it takes a lot to offend me. But that doesn’t mean I need to walk into a frat house if I have a choice, nor does it mean people should act like frat boys to highlight their points in a discussion. There was hardly a discussion here worth keeping and thankfully has been mostly done away.

See you in the next article comments section, dude. I like chatting with you actually.

@Eel thank you. 👏🏽

@HotGoomba___Rebrand Or: who correctly rolls toilet paper from above rather than weirdly below?

@TG16_IS_BAE I don't have a problem with people disagreeing with me. What I do have is a problem with personal insults and immaturity--and those are against the community rules.

@TG16_IS_BAE You and I must be reading different comments: the hyperbole, ad hominem, and straw man arguments here are cringeworthy.

@ryancraddock I wonder how long it will take for comments to be disabled on this article. Happened to a Brie Larson article a while ago...might be necessary here now.

Yes, but will they eventually reveal the secret to unlocking Super Mario Galaxy 2? 🤣

I honestly think this game is better than I thought it would be based on my initial bad impression from the trailers, but also should have been better than it is. A better story mode and something like River City Girls and some special stages to break from the monotony is what I imagine what this could have been.

It could potentially go past double what Xbox One sold in its lifetime by the end of this year too.

Will its sales surpass PS4 and create a new milestone for the XSeX and PS5? Will it dethrone the PS2 in its lifetime sales?

PS2 was popular as a default system to the point low income countries still had people buying it for a gaming system and DVD player, but also because of pirated games.

Switch is still expensive in many countries, to the tune of $500 in Brazil, but if it ever had capabilities of a smartphone and could have a SIM card, then the Switch would win automatically.

@KingMike That’s a real thing, you’re not delusional. It’s a 1993 film called “City Hunter”.

@Yorumi There's a big difference between public information in a phone book and public records as opposed to the data security in question here.

What the information that is leaked now and to who it's given is not the same as a phone book where someone in your state and county have your information if they need to look you up or for the government to send you notifications for jury duty and taxes.

It is bulk information being sold to a group of advertisers and spammers, often in other countries who have your habits as well for analytics, analogous to giving your name, address, information on magazines you subscribe to, work history, dietary habits and so on that leads to not only flooding your mailbox with junk like Sears catalogues and Scientology newsletters, but also phone calls from telemarketers and visits from all sorts of people like Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishnas or door-to-door salesmen.

In other words: who that information is made available to is not just your state and community, and it's a lot more than just public information, which will be used at the very least to analyze you and spam you in a targeted manner. This is decidedly not the same thing as a phone book or public records the same way Macy's can't send their catalogue to everyone listed in the White Pages.

Anyone who argues that using any apps or social media is automatically surrendering their privacy makes me wonder if anyone remembers web 1.0, let alone if they realize the absurdity of the world we live in that leads some of you to think that it’s okay to let this be normal with big data.

Nintendo has an eye for talent, potential, and fun. This is what they saw here, and according to an interview with Rare guys at PlayTonic now, they remarked that Nintendo was really encouraging and a lot different from when Microsoft took over back then because they were not just a business, but gamers and programmers too.

@Bunkerneath me too, dude. I only got to rent the first game one summer and then my N64 died. I’d love to replay both and all the Golden Era Rare games.

Where’s Michael Pachter saying Nintendo is not smart now? 😁

Before his reveal, some people didn't even know who Terry was (or Mai even).

Some of these same people complaining about the offense are reminiscing about the so-called good old days when this kind of thing was funny and not offending everyone during a gaming era that they never grew up in, and it makes no sense to me.

I wonder if the whole game will be on cartridge or partial download required.

@SilentHunter382 Yep, totally. Who knows? A collector's edition of the first two games might have some interesting items with it too. Given the link to killer7 and other Suda51 works in his verse, it makes one of the tracks from the OST and Travis' phrase "Anarchy in the Galaxy!" poignant.

I spent a few hours offline working and come back to see this! Now if the two prequels were a physical release I'd be doing handstands and running in circles!

AWESOME! Can we get a physical release too?!

Gavin, It was already confirmed that the Jackie Chan/Jayden Smith film is not part of the same universe, as the producers said on Twitter.

Oh my god, I am so looking forward to this for Sunshine.

Hey, I used to work out in the gym to the original StarFox OST from the SNES because I had the CD.

Can we just say Nintendo soundtracks are just damned good music already?

@GrandScribe there are spirits in Smash Ultimate. I think there were other references elsewhere, but I can’t recall outside of Smash Ultimate.

Makes me wish this would return via eshop and that spiritual successor Dyack tried a few years ago didn’t fail in his attempt to raise funds for it.

Aside from co-op, is this essentially more of the same? Because I have the original in my backlog from the last time it went on sale before this sequel was announced. I played it but not as much as Dead Cells, and want to know if I should stick with the original or if there’s enough of a difference between it and the sequel to warrant having both games.

Glad I waited for this instead of rushing to buy it last year. Better to wait for the game as a physical cartridge with all DLC on it!

Hey, at this point, Nintendo may never need to advertise for Mother 3 as the fans will spread the news much better than they ever will.

With that said...Give us Mother 3, please.

While I already have 7-9 digitally and almost bought 7 and 8 in the physical release here, I almost regret not waiting this inevitable release...and I say almost because the physical is more expensive than the digital price here.

Resist. Urge. To. Buy physical.