Solid_Stannis

Good, but exactly why they gave the HMS a weird accent and made him a more vulnerable-seeming and expressive character is anyone's guess. Ruined the tone for no other reason than fandom overplaying its hand, as ever.

Create innovative hardware.

Waste it on monotonous, lifeless games like those created by Beth S. Duh.

lol logic be funn

They also removed Herobrine.

Meh, seems destined to become a "haven" for indie developers to try to put over their often ambitious--yet even more often half-baked--"art" projects.

...But, at least they're up front about it, what with the name. More candour than you've come to expect from contemporary video game journalism...

TL;DR:

'90s.

Replace Mayonetta with someone good.

I'm amazed it even had 25. Of course, it's easy to achieve that when you include substandard filler like Mayonetta and yet another legacy-tarnishing Paper Mario but still.

It's a bit like the GC, but unlike it, at least half of the games worth getting on the console are tied to the eshop, for which server support will inevitably die; perhaps sooner, perhaps later.

It's the most valuable console in that it incorporates every manner of poor mistake Nintendo are wont to make; mistakes they MUST learn from if they are to have any sort of chance at recapturing the respect and admiration of the true gaming community.

That eyesight-hindering bucket on Mario's head is a good metaphor for how Nintendo have been making business decisions for the last decade or so.

Couldn't happen to a nicer man. No, seriously.

"My favourite game is the Final Fantasy with the one-eyed samurai man"

'S what they call a wife-swapping party in Cool World.

@HappyMaskedGuy And here I thought I was an overly serious and grim self-appointed sentinel of what little remains of humanity's more edifying qualities...

In other news, the prime minister of Sweden visited Washington today, and my tiny little nipples went to France.

Let's hope Nintendo has learned that the Cid method of destroying an infested thing instead of actually resolving the problem doesn't work and only makes them look ever the inept fools.

Tekken has always been a third-rate Street Fighter, a second-rate Mortal Kombat, or a 12/14 rate Dead or... okay, I'll concede that last one. Point is, it's not a huge priority or boon upon the Switch regardless.

@vio For better or worse, age really is just a number, huh?

More like Pokemon Sum and Money, amirite?!?

...Anyone?

Project CARE, in development indefinitely.

He's pushing fifty but has all the self-insight and sense of responsibility of a social media era teenager.

...Impressive?

Cancer Royale with Cheese and its F2P smartphone ilk renders these "awards" a joke and insult to gamers everywhere. They should fade away and classify themselves as obsolete.

Worst of all is how this highlights what a crummy year it's been for anything outside remasters and other re-releases. As poor and hopelessly broad the choices are, I've a hard time thinking of alternatives. At least Firewatch has a chance of getting some well-deserved dues. And braindeadpshewpshewpie's name is nowhere to be found, mercifully.

Small victories...

@ironside1911 That's a huge waste of the Wii U's limited storage space if ever I saw it. Knowing amateur developers with emphasis on Amateur, the download data will probably be so bloated and unoptimized it might well take an entire GB.

Creepy gnomes are watching you at night when you...

3DS!

Fifteen Years a Redundancy

Literally only the soccer stars can afford to be gamers in Brazil.

4K is basically a scam, especially on consoles. The less said about it the better.

As for resolution vs. framerate, it really is a game to game type thing. Some just work better with one or the other. Super Mario Sunshine, for one, should've gone for FPS. It wouldn't have very solved its litany of other assorted problems but it definitely would have helped its lethargic pace.

MGS3 on the other hand, wasn't much helped by 60fps. The cinematic quality suffered for it, highlighting awkward character animations and more so the ridiculously outdated lip movements, which were unimpressive even back in 2005.

(...If nothing else at least the 3DS remake fixed that particular problem, if only by lowering the framerate to the near-20s, and not even consistently at that.)

Ideally it should be choice based, like GTA Vice City on the PC way back in the day.

@Yoshi More proof that the DS Demake is non-canon in addition to being redundant.

I admire their candor, if nothing else. And you know there IS nothing else to admire about EA.

Is there anything more depressing than seeing a Zelda themed prize represented by The Legend of Zelda: Digital Style? At least copies of the CD-I games would make for a bit of novelty...

Pathetic, as per usual.

As legit as his bought-and-paid-for subscriber count.

"Weigh Ewe"

When it comes to sprite work, everyone else can just go home and find something more worthwhile to do with their time. Unfortunately, this goes for the difficulty as well. A legit Slug arcade is liable to accumulate debt and poverty so bad, your next three generations of descendants are going to suffer for it.

The answer to any and all questions is MOTHER 3

NINTENDO DOESN'T NOT DO WHAT NINTENDON'T I got nothing.

Insert Freakazoid Theme Joke Here

Thanks to Nintendo, scalping's enjoying a boom period it hasn't seen since the days of the Old West.

Still a less redundant console than the Xbox.

For some reason I don't see Nintendo and Nvidia doing their Sgt. Pepper thing and reminiscing on "twenty years ago today", especially before there is even a single sales report. In the end they're here to make money.

Ruining peoples' eyesight by forcing them to sit close to the TV is part of Japan's plot to create an opportunity to bomb Pearl Harbor. Ergo, previous attempts at VC emulation were deliberately made lackluster to ensure the Mini's success. And the stock shortage is to sow conflict and distrust.

It won't be long before their operation is ready to take wing. All will be chaos, and contemporary cartoons will be transmogrified into offensive propaganda. Hope you're looking forward to seeing Steven Universe take on slanty-eyed, bucktoothed caricatures, 'cause it's happening!

Frickin' sharks that fire frickin' laser beams from their frickin' heads is as original an idea for a new mon as anything they've come up with since Gen 3. License to print money, right here.

...But how will there be time to play these when the release dates clash with the early NS launch with comprehensive VC library, a new Metroid Prime Trilogy, and actual working capes for flight developed in conjunction with NASA?!?

Some people deserve to be fooled.

Bravely Microtransacted

So it is decided: Yoshi shall don the crest of the effulgent stag.

When you want something just a fraction of a nano percentage better than RCMADIAX...

As if there were any freshness to begin with! Oh yeah, toilet humor. If there's mons, it'll sell. You stay classy, Japan.

Time to rename it to FREE PLAYER, I guess?

(It's got to have a pretentious, incongruent typesetting or it wouldn't be Japan.)

What game franchise will they sully with their stale, unambitious game formula next?

@Action51 Shots fired. Or is that, "subs sunk?" Livin' large...

Someone give the poor man some teeth! And no, just two front teeth at Christmas isn't going to cut it.