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But, if I love it it's not a bad game... It's a good game that just not everyone ELSE loved.

But given that I mostly play smaller games or lesser known ones, it's already hard to get a general idea of how people liked them.

I loved Little Nightmares 1 but I HATED the load times and constant unfair instant deaths. They almost kept me from finishing it, from getting the sequel (in which that issue was solved), and keep me from ever playing it again. Same for some other games. Load times and unfair random deaths or just bad balancing that requires way too much luck or is just way too frustrating... I hate them. Oh, and overly cliché anime storytelling and actual stories themselves, yet weirdly enough right now I'm playing Stella Glow and it has both.

I loved and at times even prefered many GBC / GBA versions of games that could be considered bad versions, like Payback, Max Payne Advance, Kill.Switch, Rogue Spear, Alone in the Dark on the Color, Perfect Dark (also on GBC),...

Perhaps Geist on Gamecube, or PNo3, those weren't that well received in the day if I recall correctly.

ZombiU? Devil's Third?

But those are all great games in my opinion. With some bad parts.

Many DS and 3DS games that were lesser known or slightly unpopular as well, from the Zelda games to Contact which nobody seems to know. Just rough gems, and arguably bad reviewers that don't enjoy the game, not bad games.

Long story short, I love some games. That they are bad is someone else's opinion often, and that doesn't change my experience with them. Especially nowadays when someone on internet can scream WORST GAME EVER in a bad mood, and have it eternalised online as a FACT.

@KateGray you must be on the wrong timeline then, it's already out on my timeline.

Okay. I'm lying. Sorry.

Minit is an awesome game though, and every time I see artwork of it, I feel a little bit of true joy.

So, they didn't even make this dlc themselves, they're just selling it for an 11 years old game they're still selling at full price? I mean, I may have gotten a bit TOO used to paying inder 5€ for really decent to absolutely great games (if there is such a thing as getting TOO used to that), but even if I'm starting a new campaign in Skyrim in the future, there's enough I haven't done yet in there, and a bit extra that was created for free by the fans is not going to get me too pay Bethesda for it. It's a fantastic game, and I already paid for it, but this is just an unfair business model. It's like paying taxes to the state for clean streets while they get volunteers to clean the streets for free, or force people through "community service" for the "crime" of avoiding taxes or whatever. It just makes so much NO sense at all and is so clearly corrupt business...

Unless of course I'm mistaken, which is perfectly possible, but won't change the fact that I'm not buying it. As a free update it would have been awesome though.

Somehow, I've always remained a fan of the Ubisoft name. There is much talent and ambition and vision in that company, when they are given artistic freedom in making GAMES, not a strict set of rules to make as much profit as possible. As a Nintendo fan, I'm happy actually that we don't get their "money trees" most of the time, it allowed their name to be something somewhat trustworthy despite the horrible things they did on other platforms with franchises I once loved. It was just much easier to stay away from their marketable products, and still get their passion projects (even if I sometimes needed to play them on my Playstations throughout the years).

I hope it has some form of beautiful manual or artbook inside the box, and the definitive version of the entire game on the cartridge, as this game's art definitely needs that printed material to look at and that timeless physical release. If it does, I'll buy it at a decent price.

Well "colour" me interested, at a sale, but I was hoping the trailer would give me some actual film noir feelings...

@Tandy255 I worked in a gamestore around the time when they suddenly stopped making manual for games. That's when physical games lost a big part of their "soul" to me, for as far as inanimate objects have soul. Late PS2 games didn't have them anymore, early third party 3DS there were still some (that were more than just a card), and nowadays a game with a manual or any booklet in the box is almost like a collector's edition... But it instantly makes the game feel much more like a passion project, not just a product for sale.

I used to look through my game manuals as a kid a lot. GBA and DS games had some of my favourites. But as you say, even IF there is one included nowadays, it's rarely worth looking much at, unless you count small art booklets with 2 pages dedicated to a short introduction and an controls page as a manual. Back then, we had some actual reading and learning to do for some games, and often just some fun flipping through manuals the last great one I can think of, was Resident Evil Revelations on 3DS. Now, when I'm thinking about getting a physical version of a game, I look up an unboxing often. If it looks boring to open the box, I don't even bother anymore, and wait for a very deep digital sale.

Ah well...

I'll wait and hope for a physical regular release with that actual manual (and maybe a second one for potential spoiler stuff)

I used to be an adventurer just like Link, but then I took an airo in the heart.

I started with Link's Awakening (later DX), then Link to the Past on GBA, Minish Cap, and the first 3d one was Windwaker for me, which came with OoT. Then I got the Collector's disc that also had Majora's Mask and the NES games (the NES games I never finished actually). From there on every single one and spin off and remake as it was released, on whatever platform it was released on mostly, and the Oracle games I first played on 3DS but also added complete to my collection. I haven't ever felt there was anything wrong with that order, or the need to tell anyone their order was wrong, so play whichever one seems most interesting to you first (or least so you can work your way UP instead of down). Or whatever suits best for whatever you look at most (availability on the platforms you have, price, whatever, there is no WRONG, it's just nice to make the connection between events in Hyrule whenever they are brought up in whatever game, if you have played a game that also refers to them from a different time).

@Moistnado ... Among others.

@Olmectron Have you heard about the Binbok ones? They are big (but come in two sizes as well), come in a few colour variants, bigger joysticks, wireless, d-pad, motion controls, some rgb lights... No NFC, IR camera, or HD rumble, but they are the ones I use. Having no HD rumble is often annoying in games that use subtle rumble often though, so I mostly turn it off entirely then.

Quite reasonably priced as well, of course depending on what you call reasonable.

@Magician a fireproof wallet.

Gamecube era was just an overall wild Nintendo era. We got wild Zelda, wild Mario, wild Metroid, wild Donkey Kong platforming with a BONGO CONTROLLER, wild Starfox, wild F-Zero, wild 1080, wild Mario Kart, wild 2d Zelda,... And other wild stuff like Eternal Darkness, Geist, Killer 7, RE4, Luigi in a spooky mansion as the "mario launch title", older Zelda games for free, wild Pacman multiplayer with GBA connectivity, and if all the goodness was too much to handle, a press of a button changed a big yellow friendly giant into an evil red giant and you could just destroy it all... And we got a purple cube with tiny discs and a friggin' handle attached to its friggin' back. A wireless controller with an A button you could not NOT press when you saw it.

Some people just never want to take a walk on the wild side...

@BongoBongo123 long load times aside, I do remember Heroes of Ruin being a great time.

"If someone plays a 3ds game on the go, but shares no images on popular social media platforms, are they really playing a 3ds game on the go then?" - Ancient Chinese Proverb

@liljmoore I bought Stella Glow for €5 recently in the European eshop, but the sale has ended, just looked. Several Etrian Odyssey games were on sale as well, for €4. Atlus is doing them quite regularly as of late.

@PrinsPaddestoel first off, which I only noticed because of the (at) (your name), always funny to see a Dutch or Flemish name on the internet, I've grown so used to mostly English or other languages here, that it's always fun to see that somehow... Anyway

I agree, I often can't take Japanese writing serious even, because the vilians (even, or even especially, when a predictable plot twist is visible from miles away) just simply refuses to explain their motivation, which often could have lead to an understanding way earlier, but no, they have to fight over and over, always "holding back", always "allowing you to live" in the dialogue scenes, even if you just wiped the floor with them in the gameplay. Always going into an extra hypercharged mode when they "unleash their full power" just to reveal they still had their limiters on, "but next time they won't". And they have all the time to talk all dramatically while fighting, but never the time to explain why it is they are fighting you. And when they go down, it turns out you were the bad guy all along, or things weren't that black and white (they rarely are). So three quarters of the game is you grinding levels to beat the next form of the villian that may very well turn out to not be a bad person in the end, had they only taken the time to de-escalate, or been less arrogant in their "I don't owe you an explanation, you wouldn't understand...". Currently playing Stella Glow on 3ds, and it is ALL there so far, and 40 hours in there was even the mandatory bathing house filler where the guys peek at the girls and get caught. I've been asking myself why I do this to myself, playing JRPG's...

As for this game: that character reminds me of Solatorobo, or that female character in Cave Story, somehow.

@theGamerPad isn't that the fate of everything in the digital age? Except of course for data you don't want them to keep. That is "forever". Until it isn't anymore.

Started playing this right after release on ps4, but that was around the time I just no longer could stare at a tv playing a game, tv was always weird to me as I grew up without mostly, and Game Boy was way cooler being portable and I could find a comfortable spot and position, and play a game, and change spot and position whenever I wanted to. I could go to the toilet and take my game with me. So hopefully, when I can get it at a sale eventually, I can fully enjoy what it seems to have on offer this time. Played some SMT and Persona games already on 3ds and Vita (my favourites are the Etrian crossovers though) and the spin off on Switch TMS on Wii U, so I know I'll most likely enjoy it. And definitely not getting this version, the "need" to collect that I once had is dead. I still like some artbooks, steelbooks, figurines, statues, but unless it's something amazing or at a very decent price, I don't even WANT that stuff anymore.

The Cruel King and the Great Hero (for the storybook / art book), Octopath Traveler (pop up book), Little Nightmares 2 (art book, cool statue and box, and barely more expensive where I bought it), Link's Awakening remake (steelbook looking like a Game Boy running the original, my first gaming experience ever...), and Carrion (just because it seemed like a game made for me, and those Special Reserve releases are gorgeous, and they gave a free download code so we didn't have to wait to start playing) are most of the recent examples where I made an exception. And in all honesty, or just repeating the obvious to understand it better myself, they're also just standing there, not really meaning anything to me. I did play the games, and I appreciate them more because of those inside looks or wider approaches to the artistic vision.

@Anti-Matter That should be an activity while waiting for a full lobby, or a new match to start, in Splatoon. Or even just a simple 2d loading screen game. But I seem to remember that loading screen games are copyrighted, and that's why we can't have fun.

Rayman is nice, but Globox IS way better... I'd really love it if they announce a new Rayman game, 2d or 3d, as long as it keeps that same spirit,... But Beyond Good & Evil 2 first, if I had to chose. But I don't, I can want both, neither, or any option not presented to me, so I won't pick one.

Since Gamecube was my first home console (we didn't have tv), 1080 is my most anticipated one. Only Conker's Bad Furday is higher up. But that might still be a while...

I did play Goldeneye with friends at their homes, but the highest bar for console fps for me is still set by Timesplitters 2, later 3.

@Axecon O-ORRR, tears, because the dark world will be created, or Lorule. The true calamity.

@VinylCreep Obviously. Of course we both know which one that is, and since we don't want to sound stupid, let's not say which one we both know sounds stupid.

Option 3: The Ar- well, you get it. Because Link, and by extent the player, is mostly just that in the eyes of the npc's. Collecting everything and combining it in weird ways to somehow poop out a working flying machine and such. Only to drop bombs or whatever.

@IronMan30 Even after having stopped day-one backlogging, and wishlisting only getting games at about 80 to 90 % discounts, I still hardly advance through my backlog (I swear it's probably still getting bigger, but at least "my wallet isn't crying" anymore, and actually getting bigger for once as well haha). A ton of games on the wishlist that I'd really want to play, but also a ton that I already have and also really wanted to play but still haven't. We're all spoilt, aren't we...

One of the few games I still bought a collector's edition of. I mean, a pop up book for a 2d 3d game, almost makes the collector's edition the only complete edition of the overall artwork. Like the storybook of The Cruel King and the Great Hero.

@IronMan30 I do like Zelda and Octopath, but beyond that there was also Pikmin, Fatal Frame as the Americans call it, Bayonetta 3, Mario + Rabbids, and several other great announcements that can give us more "hope" like 1080, Goldeneye, and more than one Gamecube remaster (Tos, Harvest Moon), giving me hope for more 1080 news, if nothing else. Nothing that shakes the foundation of everything we know, but when did that last happen, and how will it happen again if we expect it / are more excited about absurd expectations and disappointed when we don't get them all and more, more, more? So much coming up, so much recent already forgotten, and what still has to come is old news already...

Cloudy with a high chance of framedrops, because someone had to rain on the parade. Oh well, I wasn't expecting to play them on Switch, now I'm just sure I won't, but hope that those who do enjoy them. I'll be looking forward to Pikmin 4, Octopath 2, Project Zero 4 looks greatly updated as well so that's fantastic news, and Tunic. And of course Zelda and Mario + Rabbids, and a ton more that we already knew were coming, or that weren't mentioned. All in all, not bad, a wide variety of games, and I had little expectations because Nintendo doesn't play with open cards anymore, and I'm not interested in "most games", but have a long wishlist waiting for sales and a long list of games bought during a deep sale

That will be my 36th birthday.

@sisodinr maybe it's supposed to mean both. Hadn't noticed that, but it makes me like the title more, thanks.

Somewhere there's a joke about a stable for a dead horse.

But ironically, I'm currently playing my 3DS most, just got Stella Glow for 5 euro's on the European Atlus 3DS eshop sale. In case anyone is interested, Etrian Odyssey 4, Untold 1 and 2, and Persona Q are also at their lowest ever prices, 4 or 5 euro's, depending. RPG Maker is just 3.

I agree that these DLC and "gold editions" and season passes for DLC that may even be cancelled still and early access practices are absolutely annoying, criminal even. What happened to just expanding your game until release, releasing it, and expanding it more should it prove successful?

Oh well, I love the announcement, and the original game, so it will be nice to have it all together once it's all been released and on sale. It's nice to know a little bit about what the DLC will be already, but by the time I buy it, it will all be known for a while already.

I'll see it when they show it or shortly after, and upon seeing it, I'll see what it actually is. Easiest way to not get disappointed by ridiculous expectations, and to be happily surprised with even just ONE good announcement, instead of angry you only got TWENTY of which several weren't even what you hoped for, and a lot what you DID hope for wasn't there.

Really enjoyed the demo of this one, it's on my wait-for-deep-sale-list, basically my "backlog" in which I decide what to get next based on the price. Saves a lot of... Everything.

@Sequel Since I already played Pikmin 3 on Wii U, my favourite "Pikmin" game on Switch is The Wild at Heart. It's a gorgeous 2d Pikmin game with some Luigi's mansion vacuum backpack action in it.

I like how the character are drawn, new but still quite old school. But not the levels, visually.

@Arkay I kind of get it though, I do like a more mature game as well, and won't buy most of the games on Anti-Matter's list, but to some people games have to be all about joy and fun. And I've been kind of burnt out on many of the more depressing themes, colours or lack thereof, the constant fighting, the stress.. in many games. But I'll still enjoy a black and white noire story with 2 roosters investigating murders and conspiracies, or get a sequel to the Wii game Madworld.

But to me they just are mostly a means of storytelling, art, and / or joy, with some (intellectual and / or otherwise) challenges in there hopefully. Nothing worrying about someone preferring joy over everything else, maybe even on the contrary, if you think about it. Why pick stress, violence, or some other things that make "mature" games "mature"... over just fun or education or logic puzzles? Then again, of course, what is fun to you? And why worry if someone else's idea of fun is different (as long as it's harmless, obviously)? I think it's more worrying that I'd enjoy a Madworld sequel

I myself find it weird people rush games, or want to be punished for failure in a game, and got some pretty unfriendly comments when I said so recently, I suppose people just misread my intentions or whatever. This is in no way meant to be unfriendly, of course! Just my thoughts.

I just bought a used OLED standard white, but I'll be using my animal crossing coloured Binbok Joycons with it. Even if they launch a Zelda themed one that is ALMOST worth the price just for looking at the system itself, this package deal I just got was more worth it, and my launch day Switch needed replacement because the battery fails and it is therefore no longer really portable... I do have an electricity socket in my forest, mounted on one of the trees, but I rather be able to go sit wherever I want to, not within cable length of that socket... And I was looking to replace it anyway, with a used Switch not a new one, just for better off the grid capability. It would be a waste to pay full price on a collector's model. A handful of years back, I would have probably bought the Splatoon one (after having bought a Lite and an OLED upon release, and then think about how I wasted way too much again, that's how I ended up with so many Zelda themed and other 3ds's, and had so much less money in those days).

For some reason this game always catches my eyes. I don't know the series, and it is not what I hoped it would be (something maybe a bit more Etrian Odyssey-ish with the art style that I see here, I don't really know), and it's way too expensive for me,... But still, it always catches my eyes.

@nimnio It's really sad that I can't recommend it more, because it IS a fantastic game with some of the better settings and moments in horror games, and I am glad I played it before playing the technically superior Little Nightmares 2 (of which I was surprised that it could still bring such great enemies and settings), but no matter how much I want to play through it again, I just know that the load times will keep me from fully enjoying it, probably to the point where I stop playing.

I have nice memories of playing it, but also bad ones where it became frustrating, and were it not that I played the second half of the game together with a friend and we had tea and cookies for during the loading screens, I may not even have finished it the first time.

Even if he cheated, and even if he comes across as unlikable, he's still a living being, and the doctor still swore an oath. Or did the doctor cheat to get his title as well? Hypocrites.

May the one who is without sin cast the first stone.

And there will be no stoning that day, or the ones "without sin" will have added lying to their list.

@TommyTendo but what humans do to real animals IS INCREDIBLY disturbing. They're just mostly desentisised to it (the humans, the animals still suffer, no matter how much we are made to believe that the missing link between a living creature and a piece of dead animal can be "humane" and "animal friendly"). Haven't eaten any animal for about twenty years now, and luckily most people around me have followed. I wish I could unsee some of the cruelty and total human ignorance of it that I've seen in real life.

@OldManHermit it is mentioned, I seem to remember a criminal organisation dealing in slowpoke tails for example, and it's mostly a crime I seem to remember - but as with everything, humans have the most insane double standards here, as I also remember something about a magicarp as a meal, and that was all a-okay apparently. All eating of sentient beings should be a crime in any universe, especially the "real" one we live in.

@k8sMum Indeed nobody needs to justify any of that, we can definitely agree on that (I was going to say "all" but someone clearly couldn't), that is assuming people can reasonably make their own decisions and act responsible still, know their own circumstances best, and are their own highest authorities, which at a certain number of children or some other behaviour becomes still does become questionable. Still not my business. I never demanded anyone's justification, or gave one without it being clearly called for just to clearify, to come to a better understanding.

I am really sorry that happened to you (I don't know a better way to say it in English, because I'm not sorry since I had nothing to do with it, but I find it terribly sad you and your child had to go through that, and you still do, you know what I mean to say), but it is ALWAYS useless and degrading to say that you know how someone feels at such a loss. Also when you assume my feeling of loss would be less because my "children", my brother and sisters, rescues from death, are adopted dogs.

@Abeedo You're certainly not wrong, if someone wants you to fully understand their reasoning, they should openly and honestly just say what they feel, think, and mean (which is what I did and why i did it), and objecting to it is perfectly within your rights, whether they've fully explained or just kept it short and simple, either ecause there is no more behind it, or because what's behind it has little place in a Nintendo related website's comment section. I just wouldn't want anyone to think that I hate children or parents in general, or that pointing out what may for someone be ONE reason, doesn''t mean it is THE reason for EVERYONE to make that decision. It's not an easy decision, I too once dreamed of having a child to show the wonders of life, and embody them, and it often has much more reasoning behind it when people chose, or are lead to the choice, of abandoning that dream, or never having had it to begin with. That said, i have often seen or somehow ended up being part of such arguments over this matter, and people on either side showing their (hopefully) worst side.

It really did escalate from 0 to 100 in 0 seconds, one moment I said I made a personal choice in a reaction to someone, no harm done to anyone, the next it was 100% toxic hate by someone completely different making some wild assumptions, saying them in the most hateful ways, and calling people out for child sacrifice among other absurdities... Wherever that came from. Weirdly enough, that first triggered reaction seems to have vanished without even a notice that it once was there.

@aaronsullivan my pack of dogs destroys stuff all of the time, and i love them not in the slightest any less because of that. I try to keep it away.. But I appreciate your take on it, I'm just sure that not all of the "this is why..." comments are the one sole reason. And I really appreciate your more sober and sensible open approach over that of a certain other that just went completely insane.

@Abeedo I see your point about that, but I wouldn't assume that is truly their sole reason. And if it is, that's still fine, no harm done there. If you truly dislike them for it, be happy they won't reproduce instead Many people WANT kids to HAVE them, not to share the gift called life or because their cup of love is overflowing. I'd say it is my love FOR (as opposed to from, but I assume you meant love in both ways) the unborn AND the ones already suffering, human or otherwise, that prevents me from wanting to add humans to that. I just wanted to clearly state that in response to your comment, no hard feelings. Yet there's no harm in making a joke, and initially felt no need to add a disclaimer that it is not actually my one and only, or even remotely a reason i consider, or a trigger warning (I'm not referring to you here)... But I guess he was right in one thing: common sense ain't that common. Have a good one, let's all try and be friends here without forcing our ideas on one another, and whatever you do...

keep your cartridges out of my disc drive!

@Soylentcuck please stop making yourself look even dumber by making assumptions about someone who you don't know the first thing about, and acting all hostile. While boasting about your plans to mass-reproduce and follow some movies, calling it "common sense" even when saying it's not common, and when not making much sense... Oh well, we're clearly done here.

@Soylentcuck what a very mature reaction. None of your assumptions are remotely true (except for that I am vegan, and care about the planet and all of its life, yes, something wrong with that?), remotely original, or made anyone's day remotely better.

@Abeedo Obviously, chosing to not have kids on this world has little to do with them ruining a gaming device. It has to do with ancestors ruining the planet and their life for them already, and they potentially and highly likely being part of the collective that continues to ruin the planet, kills our brothers and sisters of other species for a meal, every day... With me having struggled with depression throughout most of my life and now struggling with "authorities" over who has the the highest authority when it comes to my decision making, which should never be an argument in a "free" country. I don't want that to continue. What do I really care about stuff... I care about life more than most people I know, in all its beautiful forms, and would NEVER take that away from ANYONE, and if HUMAN life was a beautiful gift in my experience, and a human life was a beautiful gift to nature, I would have gladly given it. As it stands now, I chose to adopt (animals from kill shelters and such), don't shop or procreate. Several women also tried to babytrap me in the past, also leading to my decision to get vasectomised, so the discussion isn't even on the table. There's more to it to some people, and it isn't the selfish choice many people make it out to be, while many people do have kids because they want them for selfish reasons - which I'm not going to generalise, I respect your choice, but I've just seen many parents that had no real love for their kids. So please just consider that when you think about the choice of having or not having kids - it's not one being stupid and selfish and the other being an act of altruism and kindness. People have their reasons, and most people are good by intention, or ignorant of being bad when it's considered "normal", and most people are also selfish.

@Krysus that's great to read, and I will definitely take it into consideration, thanks!

Actually interesting information, as I've only played my Switch the last couple of years, and am wondering if I'll be able to play it when I move off the grid soon for most of the time. Here in my forest cabin I have electricity from the grid still (and it powers my wifi as well, but I turn that off when not using it). When I move into the mountains and travel back and forth, probably after this winter, a solar panel on my camper and a battery will have to suffice. Not sure how much I'll want to play games when starting a fruit forest to live in, but there's always rainy days, or lazy ones. Hell, I'll be doing all that work to eventually have nothing BUT lazy days unless I WANT to do something. And did a lot of work today to stay warm in the coming winter here, while playing my Switch probably a couple of hours a day. A few years ago I replayed Assassin's Creed 4 outside in my hammock on the summer. Sadly my battery isn't very reliable anymore, so I'm thinking about getting a Lite or an OLED, not sure which one, I only play handheld, but OLED is somewhat of an upgrade I would have definitely considered worth it in the past and I love my third party Binbok joycons...

Touch choice.
How reliable are the batteries over time?

I still have some of their older statues, like Dark Link, the Goron, Sheik, Phazon Suit Samus,... and I was often tempted to get others throughout the years, especially Zelda ones, but with those prices I'm glad I stopped collecting years ago. They are still beautiful, and I still have a weak spot for ALMOST wanting them.

@DarthFoxMcCloud Same here, had a vasectomy AND live far away from humans in the mean time as well. But my nephew and nieces have all my love, and my rescued dog pack are my brother and sisters and I love them as only a father or mother can love their child. I never really liked the big discs (I loved how the Gamecube had small ones).

Now, if I DID have a child, and they found out that somehow the Wii U was FORWARD compatible with Switch cartridges through the disc drive... I wouldn't be mad or anything. I might have me checked whether or not I've GONE mad though. And ask my money back and child support from the hospital where I had my vasectomy.