Spideron

Spideron

Gaming since VCS 2600 / CBM VIC-20

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Re: Sonic Colours Ultimate Physical Editions Delayed In Europe, Look Set For October

Spideron

@korosanbo Would love the game with patches installed, but considering how close to release this is, the carts are (most likely) already done. Just logistics causing a delay, not changes to the game/carts. But here's hoping...

Also, considering how badly this game has been received, it went from 'must-buy' to 'wait-and-see-what-happens-after-patching'. Still got my Wii version so there's no rush.

Re: Switch Was The Best-Selling Console In The US For The First Half Of 2021

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"For the Nintendo sales chart – that's just games sold on Nintendo platforms – the entire top ten for June was comprised of Nintendo-published titles. The only third-party offering was Minecraft in 10th place, which is published by Nintendo on Switch."

Note to all complaining about lack of third-party support - you have to BUY third-party games to increase support!

Re: The Pokémon Company Recorded Its Highest Profits Ever In 2020

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@link3710 Fair enough. I just reacted to your statement 'They put in a bunch of functionality to allow you to play from home, though it's been removed now.' as nothing's really been removed. These perks are constantly being tweaked, and some come and go as various events are active. All's well though, have a nice day!

Re: The Pokémon Company Recorded Its Highest Profits Ever In 2020

Spideron

@link3710 What functionality has been removed? I play PoGo on two accounts daily and can't think of anything. Remote raiding is up, inviting to raid is up, increased range for stop-spins is still up, etc etc etc. The only thing not up right now is increased trade-range and that's still a recurring thing for limited dates like it's been since it first appeared. Oh and EX raids are still gone to stop people gathering in large groups. And all events are still laid out so you can complete them (mostly) from home.

There are of course some events that included certain bonuses etc. that are ended now, but new events like that come all the time. I used to be bored with PoGo for months at a time 1-2 years ago, but this last year it's constantly been new events, seasons, challenges and so on.

Re: Atari Has Looked To Nintendo For Inspiration With Its New VCS Console

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The hardware designer quit after not being paid for six months.
The makers of Tempest 4000 not aware it's coming to the VCS.
The Tempest 4000 gameplay was revealed (and admitted by Atari) to be from a PC.
No existing prototype, just an empty box designed to look cool.
...and as been said before - this isn't 'Atari', just some guys who bought the name.

Yeah, this will be released SOON....

Re: Review: Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl - An Enjoyable 8-Bit Throwback, Warts-And-All

Spideron

Okay, so that went straight off my wishlist. Been playing games since the 70s and I love a good challenge but I also know that kind of crappy levels destroy the feel of any game. Thanks for a great review!

Picking up Thy Sword instead after reading all the great reviews on Steam! Probably will get Infinite - Beyond the Mind and Huntdown too.

On Switch of course but the infopages here don't contain much.

Re: Neo Geo Pocket Color Title SNK Gals' Fighters Is Available Now On Nintendo Switch

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@masterLEON Thanks for the feedback, was hoping for a ratio-locked zoom function that filled the screen - or at least scaled the screen larger than what I've seen in videos. So if I get you right there's at least some kind of zooming function to get a larger picture. Too bad about no scanlines though. Grew up playing on CRT-screens so I always look for that. I find it 'rounds' the usually pixelated look somewhat.

Re: Pokémon Direct To Air Thursday, 9th January

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Waiting months for info on Switch 2020 & almost certain it would be this Direct. Instead we will get 20 mins of gameplay and chit-chat from some Pokemon Sword & Shield devs. Worlds largest MEH and 1st Direct I'll remember to forget!

Re: Nintendo Forced To Offer eShop Game Refund After Russian Court Filing

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Here's hoping someone (with the finance to do so) sues Nintendo for selling gamecarts where entire games has to be downloaded (Spyro/Crash/Bayonetta etc.) and games with huge mandatory updates with no info on filesizes.

With the crappy storage solution on Switch , we need games to come on large enough carts. And we need info on total patch-size for games. The UK eShop at least lists the games' filesize - but this is a bare minimum of info needed.

And yeah, I already have a 512Gb SD-card - which is far too little. There are tons of offers I have to ignore on the eShop 'cause it would fill my cards (have a 400Gb in backup).

Re: TwinBee Is Hamster's Latest Arcade Archives Release

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@Moroboshi876 For Bubble Bobble on the Switch just get 'Bubble Bobble 4 Friends'. It looks awesome and includes the arcade version of the original.

And yeah, TwinBee arcade/NES has been done to death. Would love 'Pop'n TwinBee' & 'Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures' on the Switch!

PS. TwinBee RPG is best forgotten!

Re: Children of Morta

Spideron

Pre-ordered this on cart & got it in the mail today - 5 days before release! YAAAY!!!

900Mb day 0 update so buying physical to save storage was almost pointless... NAAAY!!!

Re: The Mega Man X Series Is Getting Its Own Collection On Switch

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From what I've heard, Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 & 2 have input lags and other 'faults'. Have steared away from the Steam versions because of this, and I'm worried about the X emulation also. Hopefully this can be fixed before the Switch release, but I'll wait for reviews. If they're good, I have to get both these and the X-series on Switch.

As for 11, I'll get it - just because...

Re: Spelunker Party! is Digging Its Way to the Switch eShop on 19th October

Spideron

Yay!!! Spelunker!!!!! Finally! Wanted Spelunker World on PS4 but this is even better! And Spelunky SUCKS compared to this. And for those who don't know; Spelunky is a clone of Spelunker, which came out on the C64, Apple II and others in the 80s - one of my favourite games EVER!

And for those who don't know; get a Japanese Switch account and test the demo, it's AWESOME!

PS. Drunk, Yes! Exclamation marks? YES!!!!!!!!

Re: Feature: What We Expect from the Nintendo Direct - 13th September

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I really couldn't care less about 3rd party support. I get Nintendo-systems for Nintendo-games - and the Switch is awesome! The rest I play on PS4 or PC.

Looking forward to a "standard" Direct, the last few specific-games Directs - Splatoon 2, Pokémon, ARMS & Fire Emblem - didn't interest me at all! None of these are "my" games.