SpaceboyScreams

@Orpheus79V The Switch is designed to run at lower speeds than the chip is designed to for the sake of excessive precaution, but removing the throttle (more technically accurate than an actual overclock) is proven perfectly fine if you follow the modding community guidelines (and most stock OC software won't allow you to go beyond guidelines without further modifications anyways). Yeah battery life takes a little hit but if you're playing docked this is obviously no concern and I'm still getting several hours on the road anyways.

It could be 8K 120 fps with RTX, HDR and 12 different motion blur settings; you're still gonna get transported miles away from your objective if you get killed by a snake 90% of the way through a gun battle that you had to ride a carriage for 30 minutes to get to, and people are still going to randomly start firing at you in town and you can't defend yourself if you've got an objective or you'll "fail". Silly outdated bs game.

A guy in town randomly started shooting at me. I defended myself and failed a mission. This kind of quackery happened several more times over a couple hours until I turned the game off. Really not my cup of tea, as in I find the system antiquated af

If they could slap a couple PSP-style sliders on these I'd be all over it.

They could have doubled development time for ScarVi and it wouldn't have fixed anything, the problem is purely their incompetence. These games STILL haven't outsold Sword/Shield, their first big open world Pokemon game should have crushed those numbers in the first 3 months and they know that and their investors know that and you know they're looking at that but do they have the balls to do anything serious about it? I don't think anything will improve until certain leadership is voted out which may take another big failure or two.

@Arawn93 Easier said than done now that the games are complete *****. I love competitive play and USED to love legit training but now I'd rather put my Switch in the microwave than play this game outside of battles with friends for any length of time.

Someday, 40 years from now, there will be a third remake for Prime that had better have two good hours worth of credits naming every person that ever had anything to do with every little detail, so much as the maintenance of the lawn across the street from the house of the guy who motivated the wife of one of the texture artists in one of the previous remakes.
I wish games had no credits because I hate sitting through them and I know none of you whiners ever read them or remember any names.

It better be another face expression matching gym challenge, or a spin-off game based on that minigame. Best part of the game hands down although the slope race and olive maze are a close second and third.

Imagine just sitting in the sand minding your own business

@Lightsiyd Crank your saturation. I found it stunning in countless areas.

Total Switch sales before it finally loses all momentum in 2026: 164 million

I'm going to be sad whenever the new game comes out because I'll have to say goodbye to the 400+ mods I have in Ultimate.

@Anti-Matter Best in what way? Controls? No. Convenience, no. Framerate, no. Graphics, HECK no lol umm best at not being able mod anything? It sure wins that category.

@Luigi05 Only human with countless billions of dollars at their disposal***

Really? Even all the dialog at the beginning? I take 10 steps and my teammates start barking at me about something else again that could just as easily have been a dialog box in the corner instead of a small cutscene. If I had to do that 20 times I might die a little inside.

@Seraphmoon Please do yourself a favor and skip these games. Pokemon Legends Arceus is so much better, these are insulting on just about every level. And yes, they try to use FOMO here, but you're not missing out on anything, I promise.

This is like something someone would have joked about except it's real life.

This and the McDonald's game are making me feel like a kid again. I'll stick every modern-retro game onto my 3DS that I can get my hands on.

If the WiiU game originally launched with just these DLC courses it would have been a major disappointment and that's the real shame of all this. Yes it's nice to have more but going back and playing the old courses after picking the game up briefly for each new DLC release just reminds me of how big of a gap in quality there is between the levels designed specifically for this game and 90% of these new tracks. I loved the price point during the announcement but now I feel a little ripped off.

@Zeroo So no worse than Pokemon in that one single regard, likely better in every other regard. Still a big win.

Finally a good Pokemon game.

I wish they would play Elden Ring and take as much inspiration as possible before working on the next game. They need way more enemy variety and intense combat. Otherwise they're equals in terms of fun, but I play for exploration AND a rewarding experience and ER has the latter in absolute spades.

@Dom_31 Most of my favorite parts are in the latter half, I have no idea what you're on about. What was the chore you speak of?

@Chaotic_Neutral Exactly this

@Serpenterror respectfully I don't think I've ever heard a weirder opinion in my entire life. I'm sure it was an intentional decision because they knew it would sell like hotcakes no matter how garbage the game was but why would you defend them like that lol

@Coalescence what even is a significant item in this game? The Hylian shield is all that comes to mind. Who's going to cry about not getting something that is worth a couple hundred rupees or breaks super fast anyways? The point is we'd at least be "oh okay, kinda cool" instead of "wtf why lol" like everyone is now. It's just bad marketing and makes them seem super cheap. But oh I guess we're all smug for being ungrateful lol

When I see people online saying TotK got boring for them after 40 hours I ask them if they duped and they almost always admit to maxing out their battery, rupees, weapons etc. near the beginning of the game.
Like yeah grinding can feel tedious when you know how easy it could be to dupe but really if you just play this game as intended you find yourself with plenty of everything you need naturally over time and it's a very rewarding system that can keep you engaged for at least a couple hundred hours. I have issues with the game but it has nothing to do with the economy or grinding.
However, yeah it both sucks that these get taken away for those that enjoy using them and simultaneously is totally fine for Nintendo to clean up the code in their game.

"excited", the bathroom stage I guess, but I know I'll have exhausted these 8 tracks in a couple days. They really shoulda released all the DLC at once, but then some people wouldn't have been duped into the premium subscription.

@calbeau How do you devalue something that breaks after you swing it 20 times??

I want to know who comes up with these "gifts" and who gives it the okay. Like "oh great idea Linda this will really get the kids jazzed!"
What's the harm in giving people a Biggoron sword or something kinda cool since it's just gonna break after spanking a couple bokoblins anyways?

@mazzel I got 16 batteries with normal exploration pretty quickly, it's quite easy

@Anti-Matter I'm an adult and my favorite Pokemon is Chingling.

They need to just do the whole series in stop animation from now on. Stylize the games to look that way too. Huge improvement over Saturday morning anime IMO.

@MagicMan Yeah it's really too bad this game is ruined now.

I actually thought it had a bit more polish than Scarlet and Violet. Maybe the devs could join Game Freak and show them how it's done.

@Dazman lol

@budwug I think people have to grasp to think about anything positive to say about the game besides a lot of the new Pokemon designs which are the only saving grace for the series anymore.

If they haven't tripled the length of the face/emotion-matching gym challenge then I'm out. Can't take the best part of the base game and just ignore it.

It deserves sales and accolades up the bh but it's by no means perfect. It's awesome and I love it but it has just enough shortcomings behind the new mechanics and dozens of cool puzzles that I still have a hard time giving it a 10 even if I have 200 hours into it.

@Chaotic_Neutral Some could argue that grinding is an effortless tedium that makes casuals feel like real gamers.

@zool They're not the same but they scratch many of the same itches in their functionality. People who picked up old Zeldas liked using their brains, and the shrines make you use your brain. A puzzle is a puzzle.

Yeah I think you vastly overestimate the amount of people who are nerdy enough to look up cheats on YouTube. I'll bet less than 5% of male players and .05% of female players will ever bother. I'm sorry that you broke your own experience by making the game too easy for yourself but anyone with any sense could have told you that that's what cheating does.

The reviews would indicate they did just fine.

@zool Zelda has basically always been celebrated in large part for its puzzles (temples) so it makes sense that they'd capitalize on it the way they have been and I can't imagine many people consider it any sort of step back. In fact they've been about puzzles way longer than they've been about exploration considering every game before BotW was essentially on rails. Fun to discover things of course but not done via any sort of "exploration", rather led from a to b.
The vast majority of the 30+ million who play this game won't ever know about any of the cheats. I personally knew of the duping but never cared to cheapen the experience for myself.

Attach a zonai wing to your shield and get good at triggering slow-mo arrows after jumping. Trivializes most fights especially when you get good enough to sweep the lynel coliseum and upgrade the savage bows to 5 shots.

@Nikki_boagreis Why are you glad about that?

And all of those are completely unlike anything to ever come before them? Especially Hollow Knight (PS our lists are pretty similar, except this game is in mine now too)

@Chaotic_Neutral name some of your favorite games

Suck it Disney.