I remember playing many of them, despite not really being a fan of military, well, anything, really. But the Wii ports were good, the campaigns were decent to great, online was fine, Wii controls ARE the best console shooter controls (and the Wii U supported them as well), and the DS games weren't BAD. Actually, touch screen aiming worked pretty well too. And gyro aim on handheld Switch is my favourite of current systems.
Funny realisation, that Nintendo has the best options for shooter controls on consoles. RE4 on Wii is still the best version. At least the evil 4resident equipped us with proper ballistics. Getting side tracked here.
@JohnnyMind Yeah I could be mixing the different games up, played them all, and don't really remember of everything what was added when (except for units and terrain features and such, those I think I mostly remember). But it would make more sense to ADD it NOW than it would to take away options that so easily fit the system, when it's a complete remake.
@Axecon that would be weird, in the original you could build custom maps with 4 armies, and pass the GBA around if I'm not mistaken. I even think you could do it in teams, but it's been a while... Some of it was available for single cartridge link-up. So cutting out such obviously easy multiplayer options seems like a very weird move, especially with the long delay.
it's basically one long cut scene, not even quick time events. On the bright side, no micro transactions either, no day one dlc,... It runs at a typical movie frame rate, but does so flawlessly and shows no slowdown even at the busiest of moments. I wondered why I had my controller in my hands the whole time though. If you're the kind of person that likes this kind of thing, you'll like this one because it is this kind of thing that your kind of persons like.
Full transparancy, I didn't see it yet, and won't for a while still. My entire review is baseless assumption.
Still need to play Gato Roboto, but I bought it recently on sale after it grabbing my attention by the neck several times and choking it with cuteness AND intimidation.
Sadly, that "great pride in quality products" is also what made them deaf for whatever issues people reported their product had until they HAD to change their policy.
"nope, nothing wrong with our product, YOU're wrong. ALL of you" - proud Nintendo.
"mine never had issues YOU're just treating them badly" - fans.
Me, who has enjoyed many quality products from Nintendo, and had many issues with them as well (Gamecube and Wii that had issues reading discs, a DS Lite with a bright green dead pixel right in the middle of one of the screens,...), but always took extreme care of my stuff, have had to replace joy cons more than once already. Mistakes happen, technology fails,... and it's pride that puts us in denial, which makes it impossible to advance.
@Sam_TSM I use my Majora's N3DSXL still, and this Switch will finally make me upgrade from my launch day Switch that needs to be on the charger all the time, as traveling / moving off grid with it is just impossible. I recognise those voices though, "just get a used OLED "screen" without all the extra's, vs buy the nice Zelda one and only use the "screen"...
Still have a launch day Switch with a bad battery and play handheld all the time with bigger joy cons, I have collected all things Zelda in the past, and moving off grid entirely soon, so it is a good time to upgrade I guess. I won't use its joy cons or dock ever, so they'll remain new, but the system will be used, or else I couldn't justify the purchase.
I'm a big fan of the series, a big fan of the Switch, and very happy that the series won't die when the 3ds does, unless they kill it with this kind of business that even I won't support.
@TotalHenshin Getting one and discovering the AR games, getting the first streetpass hits...
Hearing about an exclusive Resident Evil (two actually), and the entire hype building, from a pilot of Revelations on the physical cartridge of Mercenaries, to the real demo, to the actual game being released and still at times being among the best RE games in my opinion (the 3ds version).
Phoenix Wright and Layton in one game.
A Project Zero game with an AR booklet and AR camera ghost battles.
Ambassador program games.
All the Zelda.
Luigi's Mansion sequel.
An updated model with face tracking 3d, and an early special edition for select ambassador program members. After reading that and thinking oh well, no mail, I'll get one when they release... Getting a notification for a new mail from Nintendo.
Honestly, I think few systems have this many varied special memories for me. And it has a ton of great games, I still love playing after many years, it is backwards compatible, and it had more fun built in right out of the box than any other system. The only handheld I always had with me, always on standby when not playing it. For steps and coins, streetpass hits,...
@nhSnork Of course I know better, but Nintendo online was up until the Switch initially free and (every corporation) tries to maintain the public image that they are "pro-consumer". But only pro PAYING consumer, and they SELL you an IDEA of what they want to look like. But yeah, as far as motivation for offering something for free goes, if you are capable of thinking outside of your capitalist indoctrination, and even within, there is plenty. Some people, like myself, can't just ask / demand a price for services or goods in clear conscience, and find it equally hard to pay a price with profit and other theft like taxes calculated in it already. "We", but I'll speak for myself, so "I" believe in voluntary work and ONLY voluntary work, free will, freedom in general, and a free society. But yeah, I have to build one myself (and am doing just that) because seemingly the entire world has been corrupted by money and the obviously false idea of infinite growth and profit and the equaly false idea of honest taxes, basically being born in infinite debt and guilt, paying for everything, no forgiveness, and they still believe to be "free".
I was first going to write that without Leon S., but that would have required the disclaimer that any similarity between these fictional characters and events, and real life people and events is purely coincidental. Now it's just a play on South Park, where most similarities are intentional in the first place.
@UmbreonsPapa agreed. I made my choice based on my perspective as I always do, you make yours based on yours. As long as there is no harm in our choices to others, we are free to make them, NO MATTER what politics say, no matter what "law" writers dictate,... Free will, live and let live, and all the good stuff hierarchical political society has long since abandoned, probably inherently cannot ever respect or protect.
I had a vasectomy for multiple reasons that I still stand by, but not WANTING to raise a child or see one grow was never one of them. I adopted three dogs that would have been killed for being "too dangerous", and took them in as "my own children", but more as my adopted brother and sisters. The love and care they get is the same, the value they add to my life on a good day (or a bad day for me) is the same, and anyone could argue my life is "over" because of them, or that I saved their lives, I could just as well argue they saved mine, and my life has BEGUN with them. And the whole arguing is useless in the first place, let's all just live and let live.
ASHURIIIIIIIIII! I was always happy when I could dump her in a dumpster. Leaving her behind in any other way could literally be considered littering. That's it, I'll call her Trashley from now on. If only the president had equipped his daughter with ballistics too... But then again, in RE5 I wished for the dumpster.
I would have liked it if they could at least give RE4 gyro aim on Switch, and finally lower the price to like maybe 5 or 7,5 euro on sale. Then it would probably be my favourite version of the game. As it stands, I stick with the Wii version as the best, and the Gamecube original has the OG honours and will always be where I first played one of the best action games, that I was most hyped about from any game ever (even keeping every article on it in every games magazine I came across, at some point).
@Kiwi_Unlimited (it doesn't have gyro aim, but it is of course playable...I just SINCERELY HOPE they patch them in. It had a rather big download upon booting it up, so they are making patches for it already, but no gyro controlsas of yet. It DOES run very well though)
Back in the PS1 days, my nephew had a bunch of demo discs, and many games we played in multiplayer were just demo's.
Now, I think what's very important is timing. Release it shortly before the actual game, have it be the opening hour(s) of a game if those are interesting enough, end on a key moment, and have the progress transfer to the full game available shortly after (or already available). That's of course from a marketing standpoint. Otherwise, I'd go for the not so popular opinion that F2P is a good way to demo a game. Just make it so that paying the price of a full game unlocks everything and takes away all the annoying timers (or makes them optional). But even that depends on the game, and is probably only good for time sinkers. Asphalt 9, Pokemon Picross, and online games or grindy-by-nature games.
The Bayonetta Origins demo convinced me, the Bravely Default 2 demo was kind of boring but I later DID play the entire game and it was good. I even endedup paying for Pokemon Picross backin the day, as it kind of had a decent toplimit of what you "had" to spend to just get the whole game without the whole limited play time each day, and it was a fun twist on picross.
I also remember the Wind Waker Gamecube demo, which had a couple of demo areas. Or the RE Revelations demo on 3DS, both the "pilot" and the actual demo that unlocked harder difficulties for the same demo, both of which I played about a hundred times (and I still regularly replay the complete 3DS game, despite having it on Switch as well and having played it on Wii U also).
@Maxz You describe the Iron Throne here, the gamer's edition. Sidenote: those thumbsticks need to be from opponents in split screen combat in any game, that were beaten to the point of frustration of humiliation (without using Oddjob) where they willingly or through force broke of their thumbsticks, or it's still just a consumption product, not a REAL GAMER CHAIR TM.
@WatsonWatson I also believe we generally agree here, and I do actually mostly blame the systems/politics/policies/all that. But I wouldn't say it's out of reach, it's simply out of the known comfort zone (that was truly and utterly depressing for me) and well within what people were made to fear: freedom. I too am just one human, and I too was trapped in it (and still am not entirely free from it, these systems are still trying to force themselves onto me and trying to overpower my harmless free will with their will as false "law"), but I changed my choices, stopped spending so much, stopped being a "human resource" and a "consumer" and became a living being again (you may not fully be aware of how literal that is, within these systems), and if I can, I think most people can break free from that cycle, and more people want to than that there are people willing to admit it (even to themselves). No amount of prescription or recreational drugs, and no amount of consumption is going to make this stressful environment go away or make it "healthy", on the contrary, as you also said, it keeps them trapped there as it empowers these systems, hence my perspective and why I stand and live by it. But we clearly understand each other for the most important part. The rest is our personal choice, our free will, and my will to be free, as long as we don't politically enforce it... As these systems do, starting with indoctrination and conditioning at the very young age at which working parents drop their kids off in school, in the "care" of the system.
But yeah, if you're stuck in them, and you have hobbies tocope, you might as well sit comfortably while enjoying what little of your time is still yours... But even then, you can do so at much lower prices, empowering your slavers to a lesser degree, with less debt, tax, mental stress,... Hence, I really feel for the people trapped within, and I have been one of them. But I can't free the unwilling and the scared, and I definitely can't force freedom, that would make zero sense, and ME the totalitarian tyrant, and nobody free...
Squad 51 vs Flying Saucers, the Mexican eshop is practically giving it away for free (same number in dollars, but different "value", given that 1USD is about 20MXD). Great game, worthy of its normal price in comparisson with other games and their respective prices. After that, probably Death Mark, which is about 20€ on the official store of the publisher, physically. Or at least was when I recently decided it is finally worth it at that price.
@WatsonWatson Fair enough, still plenty when I can sit for free. The way I live, I can literally feed myself and my pack of dogs and just basically live for several months on that money (the 795 price).
@SnackBox the amount of people that think that that justifies sitting in a desk chair doing a job for 40 hours a week, several weeks to get this kind of money to get a better chair, is even more staggering. Go for a hike in nature, it's free, and way better for your health, posture, bodily functions,... Paying stupid amounts of money is the only reason people ever need to spend so many hours in a chair in the first place.
Yes, I'm "poor" in the eyes of people with this approach to financial stuff.
Yes, they are poor people in my eyes, and I truly feel bad for them, if I think about them when walking in nature or sitting in a tree or whatever I feel like.
If this is indeed a chair valued at 800, for a mere 50 times that price I literally bought a forest with a cabin, and again for that price a small old farmhouse on 80.000m² natural land in the mountains. Oxigen, water, quiet, space, life,... All freely available and incredibly important for our health. And no reason to spend so much time in a chair making the money I needed to buy the chair I needed tomake the money.
But yeah, we all make our choices, mine just are aimed towards freedom rather than comfortable slavery. If someone chose the latter, maybe it's not my place to judge and/or feel bad about their - in my perspective - bad choices / bad "guidance" by systems that want them there.
@theModestMouse I'll review my hammock from the local supermarket some years ago.
PRO Cheap, it sits, it supports lying down, nice organic colourful materials, easy to put away, it's comfortable, and you can keep it open to enjoy the sun or curl it cosely around you to maintain somebody heat and keep wind out. Great for playing Switch games in. I could if I wanted to buy 160 of them forthe price of this chair. Only got 3 in different colours.
CON Trees not included. Not the best option in rainy or icy conditions, but neither is this 1600 chair, which is also not the best in sunny conditions, and for 1600 I expect magic infinite fruit trees with my hammock and an always sunny guarantee.
As someone who walks barefoot almost anywhere all the time (I actually use old and completely worn out hiking boots to keep my muddy feet from making my cabin inside any dirtier than my pack of dogs already do, and take them off outside where I spend most of my days), I can tell you with certainty, Lego bricks don't hurt my feet. But yeah, don't try your untrained feet to accidentally step on one. I can also speak from experience there. My childhood bedroom was a floor full of Lego's and a small pathway to my bed.
I agree with Eternal Darkness and Skies of Arcadia, and would like to add MANY games to that list.
But to go with the less obvious maybe, Timesplitters Future Perfect (what's in a name), Four Swords Adventure, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Billy Hatcher, Doshin the Giant, Mario Kart Double Dash (or a return of its unique feature in the next MK), 1080 Avalanche,... Well, many. And many more. And many PS2 games as well. But I also think many would lose their charm inthe process.
Ironically, if I wanted Fatal Frame (I still want to call it Project Zero...) physically, I had to import a Japanese copy again. It has solved the issue of NOT being available otherwise in Europe, but maintained the problem where fans and collectors of the entire world all will more likely only add to Japanese sales, making it seem less popular here. Just like the re-release of the previous (or later, depending on how you see it) game in the series. Which DID get a beautiful special edition... On Wii U in Europe. I have it and I'm glad we got it in Europe, but saleswise it's not going to show that there is anaudience for these games here... I love my Wii U, but I know very few people who even had one, let alone bought Project Zero 5.
@Kiwi_Unlimited Thanks, but I guess by then we'll have a review somewhere And I found it cheap already, a preorder sale physical, and received an email it should already be on its way together with my Signalis physical preorder, so I might even have it sooner than its launch (should arrive tomorrow).
@mjharper I just got it for about 75 euro cents/about the same in USD (be quick and check the Mexican eshop). It even has a launch sale out of nowhere of 30 % off. I know what I'm playing tonight.
Bayonetta, Have a Nice Death, Remnant from the Ashes, and Squad 51 are all on top of my list... But physical / sale / other reasons why the price is very low.
The image used for Have a Nice Death really has a Rayman Legends vibe to it, and I love that. Remnant is the game Chronos from the Ashes was a prequel to and I loved that one but Remnant looks much cooler. Bayonetta is just gorgeous. Squad 51 looks like an awesome time, and somethingsomethingmexicandolllarsarenotamaricandollarshint. It's online now, and it even has a launch sale. Just like what happened with Alan Wake.
Also, I remember the time of the Wii U where this list would have been the releases of three months, but I knew every game available. Now I don't even read half the titles.
Also, I've always loved how he turns around in the direction opposite of the obviously shorter turn. That always gaveme the creeps, even after possibly literally over a hundred times. Genius atmosphere creation.
@Omegainkh I'm ready to pirate my 3ds and get every game that didn't drop to a "last chance" (for them to make a few euro's) price. But my 3ds was my main console during its lifetime, so I did get many games already, physical, at release. Got to love ethical "piracy". No fair deal = no transaction. No other option or support at my budgetary capacity = everything for free, no loss for them, they dumped it.
-Hello, Capcom here. -Hi Capcom, it's Europe, we're calling to say we- -No you don't exist. Also, we have no phone, how are you calling us, who are you even, don't call us again okay bye.
-Who was that? -Europe. They want the sale as well. Cancel all physical games for them.
About what I would expect, but personally I'm sold on the concept. I'm a longterm fan, and I still need to start Bayonetta 3 but feel more like playing a more simple top down puzzle action adventure storybook game right now. Too bad they didn't make this 60€ game a 60€ Storybook Edition, like the 60€ Storybook Edition of The Cruel King and the Great Hero. That game was repetitive as no other, but had an actual storybook and a doll with it, ina beautiful big box, making the price much easier to accept. Even though I'm sold on the game, the price IS off. One voice actor, barely animated cut scenes,... It fits the game and the storytelling, it's great from what I saw in the demo, but it has no reason being in the same price range as Bayonetta 3, Astral Chain, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, a new Zelda, Witcher 3,... And again, not trying to degrade the quality of the game, it seems EXACTLY what I want to play now. But it should have been priced like The Cruel King and the Great Hero, with a 60€ edition with a physical storybook and art book.
But good thing they made a demo pre release.
But it needed to be this for 60€, and cheaper digitally.
I have the Pikachu GBC and N64, the Mew DS, and the Black DSi. I HAD the Pikachu 3DS XL, and would have loved to get the Pikachu GBA SP when I still collected all that stuff.
I may get the grey-ish Switch Lite, as I consider getting a Lite and that one has the nicest colours for buttons. The Let's Go Switch is amazing, but I won't pay inflated price for a replacement of my Switch, and I'll ugrade to either an OLED or a Lite when I need a new one (battery is acting up...)
N64 is the coolest.
GBA SP and Let's Go Switch are the cutest, that 3DS @Nintendog1000 mentioned is beautiful as well, hadn't seen it before.
Mew DS is like Mew itself, the most mysterious, you barely notice it's a Mew DS unless you know.
The 2DS with the 3d Pikachu face is also very nice, but I was never interested in getting a 2DS when I had (several) 3DS's.
@rawzeku So was I really wanted to play them, but even on sale digitally I found the prices too expensive to take the leap of faith. For a somewhat rare physical game, the same price still seems more acceptable to the ex-collector in me so I bought them. Definitely curious about the experience.
@CPTNG as said, they are little more than portraits. I bought the physical version in case there is differences in content, and when you create your team (portrait selection, name, backstory, stats, class,..), many of the available options are existing characters from other Experience games, so other dungeon crawlers and the Spirit Hunter games, but it also has its own set of unique designs that are very nice as well and make up most of my team. I have not yet played any of their other games, but I can tell that my protagonist is a creepy black rabbit doll I'm quite sure is from another game, and another in my party is Mary Kujou from Death Mark, but the protagonists are also available.
There's very little I find to show it, but on youtube a character creation video (a Pt.01 of a playthrough, but it does have character creation in its title) quickly shows them, and this screenshot shows the same rabbit that is my protagonist and how he is probably from another game (art style, and he has a preset name and backstory but you can change that)
@rawzeku I'm soon starting the Spirit Hunter games, got them physically for about 20€ each, and they seemed interesting but always too expensive. This one also appeals to me, and is on my wishlist (I'll always wait for at least 50% off on digital only, no matter the initial price). Always found them interesting, and when seeing so many of the characters being available in Undernauts, and finding out they were cheaper on the official store of the publisher physically than they are on the eshop at their lowest sale price so far, I finally got them. Seeing them being praised gets me excited to finally actually start playing them.
Or reading. The lack of voice acting also puts me slightly off, in a narrative game full of mono- or dialogue. Disco Elysium would have been "unplayable" (not literally, I can read) for me in its original state, but with the excellent writing and voice overs, it quickly became one of my all time favourite games.
@sikthvash amazing coincidence, I thought the same that it was for free, and mentioned it in an earlier article about two free games. I was corrected though, and it apparently is how you say it is, it was a cross platform purchase, but it being on sale now shows it for us as "-100%" instead of -75%
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Re: Soapbox: Can We Stop Pretending Switch Can't Run Call Of Duty?
@Jiggies
"can run", might require some adjustment and good will / faith. (not a member of my pack btw)
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (April 8th)
A little bit of this, and a little bit of that.
With both "this" and "that" meaning "Remnant from the Ashes", and "a little bit" x 2 = a whole lot.
Re: Feature: Best Rabbits In Games
Someone didn't appreciate the first edition print in mint condition from the Ogler's Digest issue 1 in Dragon Quest XI
Re: Dragon Quest XII: The Flames Of Fate Logo Gets A Minor Update
@Mikmoomamimocki [youtube:3JS5QIHXoS8]
well, it refuses to work...
oh well, https://youtu.be/3JS5QIHXoS8
Re: Feature: Call Of Duty On Nintendo Systems - A Brief History
I remember playing many of them, despite not really being a fan of military, well, anything, really. But the Wii ports were good, the campaigns were decent to great, online was fine, Wii controls ARE the best console shooter controls (and the Wii U supported them as well), and the DS games weren't BAD. Actually, touch screen aiming worked pretty well too. And gyro aim on handheld Switch is my favourite of current systems.
Funny realisation, that Nintendo has the best options for shooter controls on consoles. RE4 on Wii is still the best version. At least the evil 4resident equipped us with proper ballistics. Getting side tracked here.
Re: New Advance Wars Switch Overview Trailer Introduces The Basics Of Battle
@JohnnyMind Yeah I could be mixing the different games up, played them all, and don't really remember of everything what was added when (except for units and terrain features and such, those I think I mostly remember). But it would make more sense to ADD it NOW than it would to take away options that so easily fit the system, when it's a complete remake.
Re: New Advance Wars Switch Overview Trailer Introduces The Basics Of Battle
@Axecon that would be weird, in the original you could build custom maps with 4 armies, and pass the GBA around if I'm not mistaken. I even think you could do it in teams, but it's been a while... Some of it was available for single cartridge link-up. So cutting out such obviously easy multiplayer options seems like a very weird move, especially with the long delay.
Re: Mario Movie's Opening Box Office Predicted To Be The Biggest Of 2023 So Far
Here's a spoiler free review of the latest Mario:
it's basically one long cut scene, not even quick time events. On the bright side, no micro transactions either, no day one dlc,... It runs at a typical movie frame rate, but does so flawlessly and shows no slowdown even at the busiest of moments. I wondered why I had my controller in my hands the whole time though. If you're the kind of person that likes this kind of thing, you'll like this one because it is this kind of thing that your kind of persons like.
Full transparancy, I didn't see it yet, and won't for a while still. My entire review is baseless assumption.
Re: Devolver Digital Acquires 'Gato Roboto' And 'Gunbrella' Dev Doinksoft
Still need to play Gato Roboto, but I bought it recently on sale after it grabbing my attention by the neck several times and choking it with cuteness AND intimidation.
Re: Best Retro Throwback Nintendo Switch Games - Modern Games With Old-School Style
Another great one to take a look at, if you're into Ed Wood style movies and sidescrolling airplane shooters: Squad 51 vs Flying Saucers.
Re: Nintendo Will Repair Out-Of-Warranty Joy-Con For Free In The UK, EEA, Switzerland
Sadly, that "great pride in quality products" is also what made them deaf for whatever issues people reported their product had until they HAD to change their policy.
"nope, nothing wrong with our product, YOU're wrong. ALL of you" - proud Nintendo.
"mine never had issues YOU're just treating them badly" - fans.
Me, who has enjoyed many quality products from Nintendo, and had many issues with them as well (Gamecube and Wii that had issues reading discs, a DS Lite with a bright green dead pixel right in the middle of one of the screens,...), but always took extreme care of my stuff, have had to replace joy cons more than once already. Mistakes happen, technology fails,... and it's pride that puts us in denial, which makes it impossible to advance.
Re: Poll: Will You Be Getting The New Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Switch OLED?
@Sam_TSM I use my Majora's N3DSXL still, and this Switch will finally make me upgrade from my launch day Switch that needs to be on the charger all the time, as traveling / moving off grid with it is just impossible. I recognise those voices though, "just get a used OLED "screen" without all the extra's, vs buy the nice Zelda one and only use the "screen"...
Re: Poll: Will You Be Getting The New Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Switch OLED?
Still have a launch day Switch with a bad battery and play handheld all the time with bigger joy cons, I have collected all things Zelda in the past, and moving off grid entirely soon, so it is a good time to upgrade I guess. I won't use its joy cons or dock ever, so they'll remain new, but the system will be used, or else I couldn't justify the purchase.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (April 1st)
Remnant From The Ashes. It could do with some patching, but all it NEEDS to be a great port is gyro aim...
Re: Rumour: The Infamous Phillips CD-i Zelda Games Are Being Remastered For Switch
The internet is a dangerous place to go to alone, take this:
Re: Sega Explains Why Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection Costs $80
I'm a big fan of the series, a big fan of the Switch, and very happy that the series won't die when the 3ds does, unless they kill it with this kind of business that even I won't support.
Re: Random: Fan Art For The Closed 3DS & Wii U eShops Is A Thing, And It's Lovely
@TotalHenshin
Getting one and discovering the AR games, getting the first streetpass hits...
Hearing about an exclusive Resident Evil (two actually), and the entire hype building, from a pilot of Revelations on the physical cartridge of Mercenaries, to the real demo, to the actual game being released and still at times being among the best RE games in my opinion (the 3ds version).
Phoenix Wright and Layton in one game.
A Project Zero game with an AR booklet and AR camera ghost battles.
Ambassador program games.
All the Zelda.
Luigi's Mansion sequel.
An updated model with face tracking 3d, and an early special edition for select ambassador program members. After reading that and thinking oh well, no mail, I'll get one when they release... Getting a notification for a new mail from Nintendo.
Honestly, I think few systems have this many varied special memories for me. And it has a ton of great games, I still love playing after many years, it is backwards compatible, and it had more fun built in right out of the box than any other system. The only handheld I always had with me, always on standby when not playing it. For steps and coins, streetpass hits,...
Re: Random: Fan Art For The Closed 3DS & Wii U eShops Is A Thing, And It's Lovely
Eshop shopping bag for next Smash Bros, you read it here first.
Re: Another Nintendo Switch Online Seven-Day Free Trial Is Now Available
@nhSnork Of course I know better, but Nintendo online was up until the Switch initially free and (every corporation) tries to maintain the public image that they are "pro-consumer". But only pro PAYING consumer, and they SELL you an IDEA of what they want to look like. But yeah, as far as motivation for offering something for free goes, if you are capable of thinking outside of your capitalist indoctrination, and even within, there is plenty. Some people, like myself, can't just ask / demand a price for services or goods in clear conscience, and find it equally hard to pay a price with profit and other theft like taxes calculated in it already. "We", but I'll speak for myself, so "I" believe in voluntary work and ONLY voluntary work, free will, freedom in general, and a free society. But yeah, I have to build one myself (and am doing just that) because seemingly the entire world has been corrupted by money and the obviously false idea of infinite growth and profit and the equaly false idea of honest taxes, basically being born in infinite debt and guilt, paying for everything, no forgiveness, and they still believe to be "free".
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - Super Mario Bros. 2
@abe_hikura and now I can't either.
Super Mario USA for me, being the Japanese.
Re: Decarnation Brings Disturbing, Disgusting Pixel Art Horror To Switch In May
@Nanami_Ataraxia
Re: Random: Resident Evil 4 Animation Is Both Cute And Unsettling In Equal Measure
OH MY GOD THEY KILLED LEON S. KENNEDY!
AGAIN?
I was first going to write that without Leon S., but that would have required the disclaimer that any similarity between these fictional characters and events, and real life people and events is purely coincidental. Now it's just a play on South Park, where most similarities are intentional in the first place.
Re: Random: Hideki Kamiya Thinks Bayonetta Origins Will Help People Make Babies
@OstianOwl after "Iwata Talks" and "Nintendo Direct", now "Kamiya Indirect: He Said Something".
Re: Random: Hideki Kamiya Thinks Bayonetta Origins Will Help People Make Babies
@UmbreonsPapa agreed. I made my choice based on my perspective as I always do, you make yours based on yours. As long as there is no harm in our choices to others, we are free to make them, NO MATTER what politics say, no matter what "law" writers dictate,... Free will, live and let live, and all the good stuff hierarchical political society has long since abandoned, probably inherently cannot ever respect or protect.
I had a vasectomy for multiple reasons that I still stand by, but not WANTING to raise a child or see one grow was never one of them. I adopted three dogs that would have been killed for being "too dangerous", and took them in as "my own children", but more as my adopted brother and sisters. The love and care they get is the same, the value they add to my life on a good day (or a bad day for me) is the same, and anyone could argue my life is "over" because of them, or that I saved their lives, I could just as well argue they saved mine, and my life has BEGUN with them. And the whole arguing is useless in the first place, let's all just live and let live.
Re: Random: Hideki Kamiya Thinks Bayonetta Origins Will Help People Make Babies
@RainbowGazelle "Baby Luigi number... Not one".
Re: Random: Resident Evil 4 Animation Is Both Cute And Unsettling In Equal Measure
ASHURIIIIIIIIII! I was always happy when I could dump her in a dumpster. Leaving her behind in any other way could literally be considered littering. That's it, I'll call her Trashley from now on. If only the president had equipped his daughter with ballistics too... But then again, in RE5 I wished for the dumpster.
I would have liked it if they could at least give RE4 gyro aim on Switch, and finally lower the price to like maybe 5 or 7,5 euro on sale. Then it would probably be my favourite version of the game. As it stands, I stick with the Wii version as the best, and the Gamecube original has the OG honours and will always be where I first played one of the best action games, that I was most hyped about from any game ever (even keeping every article on it in every games magazine I came across, at some point).
Re: Nintendo Download: 16th March (North America)
@Kiwi_Unlimited (it doesn't have gyro aim, but it is of course playable...I just SINCERELY HOPE they patch them in. It had a rather big download upon booting it up, so they are making patches for it already, but no gyro controlsas of yet. It DOES run very well though)
Re: Talking Point: What Makes A Really Good Demo?
Back in the PS1 days, my nephew had a bunch of demo discs, and many games we played in multiplayer were just demo's.
Now, I think what's very important is timing. Release it shortly before the actual game, have it be the opening hour(s) of a game if those are interesting enough, end on a key moment, and have the progress transfer to the full game available shortly after (or already available). That's of course from a marketing standpoint. Otherwise, I'd go for the not so popular opinion that F2P is a good way to demo a game. Just make it so that paying the price of a full game unlocks everything and takes away all the annoying timers (or makes them optional). But even that depends on the game, and is probably only good for time sinkers. Asphalt 9, Pokemon Picross, and online games or grindy-by-nature games.
The Bayonetta Origins demo convinced me, the Bravely Default 2 demo was kind of boring but I later DID play the entire game and it was good. I even endedup paying for Pokemon Picross backin the day, as it kind of had a decent toplimit of what you "had" to spend to just get the whole game without the whole limited play time each day, and it was a fun twist on picross.
I also remember the Wind Waker Gamecube demo, which had a couple of demo areas. Or the RE Revelations demo on 3DS, both the "pilot" and the actual demo that unlocked harder difficulties for the same demo, both of which I played about a hundred times (and I still regularly replay the complete 3DS game, despite having it on Switch as well and having played it on Wii U also).
Re: Review: Herman Miller X Logitech G Vantum Gaming Chair - Is It Worth It?
@Maxz You describe the Iron Throne here, the gamer's edition. Sidenote: those thumbsticks need to be from opponents in split screen combat in any game, that were beaten to the point of frustration of humiliation (without using Oddjob) where they willingly or through force broke of their thumbsticks, or it's still just a consumption product, not a REAL GAMER CHAIR TM.
Re: Review: Herman Miller X Logitech G Vantum Gaming Chair - Is It Worth It?
@WatsonWatson I also believe we generally agree here, and I do actually mostly blame the systems/politics/policies/all that. But I wouldn't say it's out of reach, it's simply out of the known comfort zone (that was truly and utterly depressing for me) and well within what people were made to fear: freedom. I too am just one human, and I too was trapped in it (and still am not entirely free from it, these systems are still trying to force themselves onto me and trying to overpower my harmless free will with their will as false "law"), but I changed my choices, stopped spending so much, stopped being a "human resource" and a "consumer" and became a living being again (you may not fully be aware of how literal that is, within these systems), and if I can, I think most people can break free from that cycle, and more people want to than that there are people willing to admit it (even to themselves). No amount of prescription or recreational drugs, and no amount of consumption is going to make this stressful environment go away or make it "healthy", on the contrary, as you also said, it keeps them trapped there as it empowers these systems, hence my perspective and why I stand and live by it. But we clearly understand each other for the most important part. The rest is our personal choice, our free will, and my will to be free, as long as we don't politically enforce it... As these systems do, starting with indoctrination and conditioning at the very young age at which working parents drop their kids off in school, in the "care" of the system.
But yeah, if you're stuck in them, and you have hobbies tocope, you might as well sit comfortably while enjoying what little of your time is still yours... But even then, you can do so at much lower prices, empowering your slavers to a lesser degree, with less debt, tax, mental stress,... Hence, I really feel for the people trapped within, and I have been one of them. But I can't free the unwilling and the scared, and I definitely can't force freedom, that would make zero sense, and ME the totalitarian tyrant, and nobody free...
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (March 18th)
Squad 51 vs Flying Saucers, the Mexican eshop is practically giving it away for free (same number in dollars, but different "value", given that 1USD is about 20MXD). Great game, worthy of its normal price in comparisson with other games and their respective prices. After that, probably Death Mark, which is about 20€ on the official store of the publisher, physically. Or at least was when I recently decided it is finally worth it at that price.
Re: Review: Herman Miller X Logitech G Vantum Gaming Chair - Is It Worth It?
@WatsonWatson Fair enough, still plenty when I can sit for free. The way I live, I can literally feed myself and my pack of dogs and just basically live for several months on that money (the 795 price).
@SnackBox the amount of people that think that that justifies sitting in a desk chair doing a job for 40 hours a week, several weeks to get this kind of money to get a better chair, is even more staggering. Go for a hike in nature, it's free, and way better for your health, posture, bodily functions,... Paying stupid amounts of money is the only reason people ever need to spend so many hours in a chair in the first place.
Yes, I'm "poor" in the eyes of people with this approach to financial stuff.
Yes, they are poor people in my eyes, and I truly feel bad for them, if I think about them when walking in nature or sitting in a tree or whatever I feel like.
If this is indeed a chair valued at 800, for a mere 50 times that price I literally bought a forest with a cabin, and again for that price a small old farmhouse on 80.000m² natural land in the mountains. Oxigen, water, quiet, space, life,... All freely available and incredibly important for our health. And no reason to spend so much time in a chair making the money I needed to buy the chair I needed tomake the money.
But yeah, we all make our choices, mine just are aimed towards freedom rather than comfortable slavery. If someone chose the latter, maybe it's not my place to judge and/or feel bad about their - in my perspective - bad choices / bad "guidance" by systems that want them there.
Re: Review: Herman Miller X Logitech G Vantum Gaming Chair - Is It Worth It?
@theModestMouse I'll review my hammock from the local supermarket some years ago.
PRO
Cheap, it sits, it supports lying down, nice organic colourful materials, easy to put away, it's comfortable, and you can keep it open to enjoy the sun or curl it cosely around you to maintain somebody heat and keep wind out. Great for playing Switch games in. I could if I wanted to buy 160 of them forthe price of this chair. Only got 3 in different colours.
CON
Trees not included. Not the best option in rainy or icy conditions, but neither is this 1600 chair, which is also not the best in sunny conditions, and for 1600 I expect magic infinite fruit trees with my hammock and an always sunny guarantee.
Re: Random: Watch This GBA SP Get A LEGO Makeover
As someone who walks barefoot almost anywhere all the time (I actually use old and completely worn out hiking boots to keep my muddy feet from making my cabin inside any dirtier than my pack of dogs already do, and take them off outside where I spend most of my days), I can tell you with certainty, Lego bricks don't hurt my feet. But yeah, don't try your untrained feet to accidentally step on one. I can also speak from experience there. My childhood bedroom was a floor full of Lego's and a small pathway to my bed.
Re: Video: Everything That Could Go Wrong With The Switch's Successor
They could make the cartridges SMELL terrible.
Or make a kickstand that is so unstable no amount of updates can ever bring stability to the system.
Re: Poll: What Other GameCube Title Deserves A '10/10' Remake Or Remaster?
I agree with Eternal Darkness and Skies of Arcadia, and would like to add MANY games to that list.
But to go with the less obvious maybe, Timesplitters Future Perfect (what's in a name), Four Swords Adventure, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Billy Hatcher, Doshin the Giant, Mario Kart Double Dash (or a return of its unique feature in the next MK), 1080 Avalanche,... Well, many. And many more. And many PS2 games as well. But I also think many would lose their charm inthe process.
Re: Japanese Charts: Fatal Frame: Mask Of The Lunar Eclipse Sells Well In A Strong Week For Switch
Ironically, if I wanted Fatal Frame (I still want to call it Project Zero...) physically, I had to import a Japanese copy again. It has solved the issue of NOT being available otherwise in Europe, but maintained the problem where fans and collectors of the entire world all will more likely only add to Japanese sales, making it seem less popular here. Just like the re-release of the previous (or later, depending on how you see it) game in the series. Which DID get a beautiful special edition... On Wii U in Europe. I have it and I'm glad we got it in Europe, but saleswise it's not going to show that there is anaudience for these games here... I love my Wii U, but I know very few people who even had one, let alone bought Project Zero 5.
Re: Nintendo Download: 16th March (North America)
@Kiwi_Unlimited Thanks, but I guess by then we'll have a review somewhere And I found it cheap already, a preorder sale physical, and received an email it should already be on its way together with my Signalis physical preorder, so I might even have it sooner than its launch (should arrive tomorrow).
Re: Nintendo Download: 16th March (North America)
@mjharper I just got it for about 75 euro cents/about the same in USD (be quick and check the Mexican eshop). It even has a launch sale out of nowhere of 30 % off. I know what I'm playing tonight.
Re: Nintendo Download: 16th March (North America)
@Kiwi_Unlimited Any word on Remnant having gyro aim? Really looking forward to it, but I REALLY really want it to have gyro aim...
Re: Nintendo Download: 16th March (North America)
Bayonetta, Have a Nice Death, Remnant from the Ashes, and Squad 51 are all on top of my list... But physical / sale / other reasons why the price is very low.
The image used for Have a Nice Death really has a Rayman Legends vibe to it, and I love that. Remnant is the game Chronos from the Ashes was a prequel to and I loved that one but Remnant looks much cooler. Bayonetta is just gorgeous. Squad 51 looks like an awesome time, and somethingsomethingmexicandolllarsarenotamaricandollarshint. It's online now, and it even has a launch sale. Just like what happened with Alan Wake.
Also, I remember the time of the Wii U where this list would have been the releases of three months, but I knew every game available. Now I don't even read half the titles.
Re: Warside Blasts Onto Kickstarter With Advance Wars-Inspired Turn-Based Tactics
Well if Nintendo isn't building on Advance Wars with new units, campaigns,... I'm glad someone else does. I'll watch this, see where it goes.
Re: Random: Resident Evil 4's Iconic Opening Has Been Recreated In LEGO And It's Amazing
That's what the next lego game must be.
Also, I've always loved how he turns around in the direction opposite of the obviously shorter turn. That always gaveme the creeps, even after possibly literally over a hundred times. Genius atmosphere creation.
Re: Best Deals And Cheapest Games In The 3DS & Wii U eShop Sales
@Omegainkh I'm ready to pirate my 3ds and get every game that didn't drop to a "last chance" (for them to make a few euro's) price. But my 3ds was my main console during its lifetime, so I did get many games already, physical, at release. Got to love ethical "piracy". No fair deal = no transaction. No other option or support at my budgetary capacity = everything for free, no loss for them, they dumped it.
Re: Best Deals And Cheapest Games In The 3DS & Wii U eShop Sales
-Hello, Capcom here.
-Hi Capcom, it's Europe, we're calling to say we-
-No you don't exist. Also, we have no phone, how are you calling us, who are you even, don't call us again okay bye.
-Who was that?
-Europe. They want the sale as well. Cancel all physical games for them.
Re: Review: Bayonetta Origins: Cereza And The Lost Demon - A Placid Prequel For Platinum's Star
About what I would expect, but personally I'm sold on the concept. I'm a longterm fan, and I still need to start Bayonetta 3 but feel more like playing a more simple top down puzzle action adventure storybook game right now. Too bad they didn't make this 60€ game a 60€ Storybook Edition, like the 60€ Storybook Edition of The Cruel King and the Great Hero. That game was repetitive as no other, but had an actual storybook and a doll with it, ina beautiful big box, making the price much easier to accept. Even though I'm sold on the game, the price IS off. One voice actor, barely animated cut scenes,... It fits the game and the storytelling, it's great from what I saw in the demo, but it has no reason being in the same price range as Bayonetta 3, Astral Chain, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, a new Zelda, Witcher 3,... And again, not trying to degrade the quality of the game, it seems EXACTLY what I want to play now. But it should have been priced like The Cruel King and the Great Hero, with a 60€ edition with a physical storybook and art book.
But good thing they made a demo pre release.
But it needed to be this for 60€, and cheaper digitally.
Re: Talking Point: Which Pokémon-Themed Nintendo Console Has The Best Design?
I have the Pikachu GBC and N64, the Mew DS, and the Black DSi. I HAD the Pikachu 3DS XL, and would have loved to get the Pikachu GBA SP when I still collected all that stuff.
I may get the grey-ish Switch Lite, as I consider getting a Lite and that one has the nicest colours for buttons. The Let's Go Switch is amazing, but I won't pay inflated price for a replacement of my Switch, and I'll ugrade to either an OLED or a Lite when I need a new one (battery is acting up...)
N64 is the coolest.
GBA SP and Let's Go Switch are the cutest, that 3DS @Nintendog1000 mentioned is beautiful as well, hadn't seen it before.
Mew DS is like Mew itself, the most mysterious, you barely notice it's a Mew DS unless you know.
The 2DS with the 3d Pikachu face is also very nice, but I was never interested in getting a 2DS when I had (several) 3DS's.
Re: Review: Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo - A Scarily Good VN That's Simply Unmissable
@rawzeku So was I really wanted to play them, but even on sale digitally I found the prices too expensive to take the leap of faith. For a somewhat rare physical game, the same price still seems more acceptable to the ex-collector in me so I bought them. Definitely curious about the experience.
@CPTNG as said, they are little more than portraits. I bought the physical version in case there is differences in content, and when you create your team (portrait selection, name, backstory, stats, class,..), many of the available options are existing characters from other Experience games, so other dungeon crawlers and the Spirit Hunter games, but it also has its own set of unique designs that are very nice as well and make up most of my team. I have not yet played any of their other games, but I can tell that my protagonist is a creepy black rabbit doll I'm quite sure is from another game, and another in my party is Mary Kujou from Death Mark, but the protagonists are also available.
There's very little I find to show it, but on youtube a character creation video (a Pt.01 of a playthrough, but it does have character creation in its title) quickly shows them, and this screenshot shows the same rabbit that is my protagonist and how he is probably from another game (art style, and he has a preset name and backstory but you can change that)
Re: Review: Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo - A Scarily Good VN That's Simply Unmissable
@rawzeku I'm soon starting the Spirit Hunter games, got them physically for about 20€ each, and they seemed interesting but always too expensive. This one also appeals to me, and is on my wishlist (I'll always wait for at least 50% off on digital only, no matter the initial price). Always found them interesting, and when seeing so many of the characters being available in Undernauts, and finding out they were cheaper on the official store of the publisher physically than they are on the eshop at their lowest sale price so far, I finally got them. Seeing them being praised gets me excited to finally actually start playing them.
Or reading. The lack of voice acting also puts me slightly off, in a narrative game full of mono- or dialogue. Disco Elysium would have been "unplayable" (not literally, I can read) for me in its original state, but with the excellent writing and voice overs, it quickly became one of my all time favourite games.
Re: Countdown: 3DS eShop Spotlight - Severed
@sikthvash amazing coincidence, I thought the same that it was for free, and mentioned it in an earlier article about two free games. I was corrected though, and it apparently is how you say it is, it was a cross platform purchase, but it being on sale now shows it for us as "-100%" instead of -75%