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3DS all the way. I was never able to beat Gyorg in the original. Not to mention the QoL improvements, textures, and 3D.

I don’t play a lot of Mario sports games, but my intuition (and bias) says Mario Sports Mix be higher up.

@Dm9982 Weird, when I started a new game (on Steam, with Benjamin Franklin and Greece), I just started with a settler. Did you start in a later age or something?

Interesting. Not necessarily something I think I'd want, but an interesting concept nonetheless.

@PikminMarioKirby I mean, the originals aren’t going away though. These are just variants for cold and warm biomes. Personally, I’d love to see more variants for mobs, especially using some of the types they had when Minecraft Earth was a thing. The game has been kinda stagnant for a long time visually, and this is a refreshing change.

@GASEOUS This is my same scenario, I used to finish Switch games within a reasonable amount of time until I got a Steamdeck. I still haven’t finished TOTK, even though I was super hyped for it before release.

Finally, the Switch 2.

“The biggest player-visible benefit I can think of is that internet connections with poor NAT types (C, D, or F) are now compatible”

This is huge for me, I’ve struggled with the NAT type for awhile. I wish this would get implemented for smash through.

One soundtrack a week is far too little for the vast library of games they have produced. At least 3 a week would be nice. I’ll be listening to Monster Hunter soundtracks on Apple Music in the meantime.

As somebody who’s never played Banjo Kazooie…

Huh?

1. Kirby Super Star Ultra
2. Bowser’s Inside Story
3. Metroid Prime Hunters
4. Picross 3D
5. Lego Battles

I noticed the Dinosaur Boss theme (For King Dodongo and Volvagia) features a version without the choir track. Its just not the same.

@jwfurness There is a final boss as of the last update, and the world is not infinite (still pretty big though). I haven’t fought the final boss yet, but there is a lot of content between the beginning and end. Of course, you are free to keep playing after the final boss if you’d like, and they plan to add more content over time.

I want to do this, but to play a PC game with the 3D of the 3DS. I think Moonlight lets you do that if the game you are streaming has side-by-side 3D support, like Elite Dangerous.

Glad to hear it, I don’t particularly want AI to dominate our culture.

@N00BiSH I have drawn stuff before, and I aspire to develop my own video games. I've been learning how to use Godot engine and have made a couple neat projects (though nothing in a state to release on a storefront). I've made mods for Crypt of the Necrodancer as well using hand drawn pixel graphics. I don't really consider art my hobby, but I have made some art.

Here's a picture of Luigi I drew using Autodesk Sketchbook awhile back when Luigi's Mansion 3 was new:

@VoidofLight That's unfortunate, AI shouldn't be a replacement for personal skill or a way to create a following for yourself. However, I don't think it's fair to generalize people who use generative AI as people who hate or don't enjoy art. Sure, the system will attract those people since it makes it easy to get a quality image, but not everybody is using it to try to make themselves look like an amazing artist for no effort. The guy in the post that got copyright struck wasn't gloating about a piece he "made" himself, he was simply sharing something an AI made because it was interesting. I've used AI generative tools to just mess around, for mostly a "huh, that's interesting" moment.

I will agree that something needs to be done to prevent AI images from being used commercially or passed off as photos or human work. People shouldn't take credit for stuff they didn't make. Perhaps generative images could be passed through a watermarking process that imbeds the watermark into the image without impacting the appearance. I know you can inject code into an image, perhaps an identifier can imbedded in an image that can be detected by publicly available software? I just don't think killing off AI is the right decision, it can be a fun novelty if we can reliably separate human work from AI work.

@VoidofLight Human beings do rely on images already created, that being observations of the environment around us and the creations of others. From these two inputs spring a multitude of ideas. Same goes for AI, except it doesn't observe the world around it, it's just fed the creations of others. I don't think "vision" or "intent" really matter in this case, AI learns nevertheless like a person does: It sees what works and creates based on that.

If it's just "a tool made for those who despise art", why would anybody use it? If they despise art, I doubt they would use a program that creates art, much like how a person who hates coffee would not use a coffeemaker. There's more nuance to this issue than "AI bad".

@VoidofLight I don't really see how AI is just blatantly copying. Yes, AI may not have an understanding of anatomy or the qualities of good artistic design in the same way a human does, but that doesn't mean it cannot learn or practice them. It is learning similarly to how a human does, by seeing what constitutes quality art and incorporating it into its own style. Generated art has even become known for a distinctive AI style, with bright colors and heavy shading, often leading to a sort of plastic-y look (if that's the right word?). I simply don't see it as copying, it's just learning from artists at a faster pace than artists can learn from each other.

I would like to reiterate, I don't think AI art (or most any AI generated resource for that matter) should be allowed to be used commercially, especially if it's being passed off as something a human made. I simply see it as a cool novelty and an impressive feat of software engineering.

@VoidofLight Is that not what artists themselves do, but at a slower pace? Don't artists get inspired from the works of others and incorporate their styles and techniques into their own? Why is it good when human artists do it, but bad when a machine does it?

@VoidofLight Stolen? I don't think I've see anybody make that exact image of Masterchief playing on a PS5 before.

Disappointing, AI art can be pretty cool. Should never be passed off as a person’s own work or used in a commercial manner, but it’s cool that a machine can make detailed art from just a line of text.

What I want to know if there exists a single design that can solve all the sign puzzles. Now that would be a feat!

…So who’s ready for lead-lined card packs?

@TrueFace SmallAnt, of course. He’s the only one with all the rocks!

You can’t just put Tantalus and Skyward Sword in the same subtitle without making a Tentalus joke.

I too am playing Federation Force.

“It’s more than just a hi-def upgrade, its a hi-def and controls upgrade!”

…I’ll pass. Long live the 3DS!

Why does this game look so unhinged

Wow, this is mega, man.

Isn’t having performance and quality options against the point of owning a console? Everybody runs the same hardware so developers can optimize for performance and graphics on one set of specs, unlike PC gaming where every player has different specs, which is why every PC game has those options. Options to mess with performance on a console isn’t a bad thing, but it’s just unnecessary if the developer knows everyone is running their game on the same hardware.

I still try to get streetpasses, I’ve got a few at my collage campus before.

Paper Mario… Sticker Star

With how simple Adobe's logo is, I wouldn't be surprised if both of these groups happened to stumble upon the same design by chance. If that can happen, then should it really be trademark-able?

@Serpenterror I use Delta on IOS, and I play retro games. The reason you never have seen people play retro games on IOS is probably because there has not been an easy way to do so until now.

Sounds kinda like Outer Wilds. Explore, figure stuff out, and then go further next time.

This is just standard stuff, we’ll likely never see another Kirby game despite this.

Looks pretty tacky, but I'm assuming the value is in the crystals themselves?

@GrailUK Garry's Mod is a mod for Half Life 2 that opens up the game as a physics sandbox with many tools to spawn in creatures and props from the original game, as well as do physics shenanigans like attach rocket boosters and ropes to things. The workshop is a popular way for users to provide content that you can load into the game, like character models you can apply to yourself, maps, props, weapons, vehicles, and NPCs. Some people create and upload mods that contain content from other franchises, like Nintendo's, and the rest is history.

I might try to track down a physical 3DS copy for this. Been feeling nostalgic for 3DS lately with the online closing. I've been playing more MH4U, along with trying to get StreetPasses at my collage (Ive got 3 within 2 weeks! Wish I had bought the old Mii Plaza games...).

@GooseLoose1 Are you saying Gmod is already in a gray area because of the fact that it itself is a mod or because of the workshop?

@Joeynator3000 Workshop creators cannot charge for their addons on Steam. You could argue that Gmod, which you can buy on Steam, benefits financially from the Nintendo content on the workshop, but I doubt many people are buying Gmod exclusively to play Nintendo content.

Sticker Star Sacrilege! > : (

@Mario500 “Stock WiiU” just means a WiiU without modifications such as jailbreaks. You could do this online workaround without modifying the software on the console, from what I understand all you have to do is change your DNS settings.

@LeJuiceCup Lets Pretendo you didn't say that, cuz' it was Citra bad pun!

Goodbye old friend. I will miss playing Triforce Heroes online.

Can’t wait to test this in 2028

@Bluerangervegeta I disagree. Both were very fun games and I remember having a ton of fun playing both of them, particularly Triforce Heroes. There is no way they are a “blemish” on the series, as both series have continued to produce great and successful games (Unless you look at Metroid Prime specifically, come on Prime 4!)

Hopefully Pretendo will be able to finish their own servers, it would be a shame to forever lose the ability to experience the online modes in these games, especially the ones that focus heavily on multiplayer like Federation Force and Triforce Heroes!

No TF2 Sniper

Paper Mario Sticker Star is the most underrated Paper Mario game, Mario game, game, piece of software, and concept of all time.