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@BeautyandtheBeer And since when exactly has North Korea been a democracy?

@Damo Well, you sure did so good on you...

@kevin74 Haha, sharp.
Please finish your article, @Damo...

A shame about this hack if true.

But... IF really true, and then being able to look forward to a new Final Fight AND a new Power Stone? Hell yeah, I'd be all over those.

@rjejr Well, as the old saying goes: "search and ye shall find"...

As for my avatar: I've actually been using that for quite a while now already, so I guess you haven't been paying attention, because it's anything but new.

Yeah, because the Xbox Series X and PS5 are currently sold out...

What's a "Google Stadia"?

@Shiryu Erm... yeah, alrighty then.

Yup, Wii60 for me all over again. Ever since I stepped into that combo, I never looked back, and I've stuck with both brands ever since. Can't quite fathom the poll results so far, though. PS5 is becoming less and less appealing with every single day and every single comparison posted online.

Not that I was ever gonna buy it anyway, because it looks absolutely hideous, and the controller looks like Wall-E's girlfriend...

@ogo79 What the flying f*** is going on in here? People digging up old threads to start a flame war... tssss...

I already figured that they would come up with a worse name than the original, so I'm not really surprised. Too bad, because Gods and Monsters was SO much better. And it also perfectly illustrated what the game is about.

@GrailUK Ah, so glad I wasn't the only one who was bothered by that, but I didn't want to let out the inner grammar nazi just yet, so thanks for biting that bullet... 😉

@rjejr I understood what you meant by it, but for me personally, the first thought I had was "hey, this reminds me of Rocky on the GameCube", so I never made the N64 connection with it.

@Zuljaras Except for the fact that it's not a Sega Megadrive exclusive: it came out on various platforms, as well as on PC. I played the superior Commodore Amiga version, back in the day, which was a time when PC gaming was also still inferior.

As for this game: sometimes, you need to try and play a game instead of watch it, to understand it and have it click with you. You could always try it out in an emulator first, and then decide. It doesn't come this highly recommended for nothing. NLife is definitely not the only website that gives it such a positive review, so that alone should already tell you something.

@Zuljaras So, yeah... here's another recommendation for you...

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the new normal...

This is seriously cool, impressive and VERY beautiful. Hats off to this guy.

@WiltonRoots Well, sounds like something I would have liked to play, but I'd only be able to do so in an emulator, seeing as I don't own any actual 16 bit Sega hardware. I do have the Megadrive Mini, but that doesn't really count.

@Tasuki Well, moved on...

More like the publisher strong-arming him and stealing his game from him, and subsequently doing f*** all with it, leaving a VERY promising looking arcade racer in Limbo forever...

@doctorhino True. I also own Horizon Chase Turbo, and it never occurred to me to compare the two, other than that they're both arcade racers.

@Tasuki Oh, it was canceled quite a while ago already. I do believe that the article I linked to even mentions something about it, but if not, there's probably more recent articles to be found about it.

@WiltonRoots I honestly wouldn't be able to tell, since I never played that one. I do now own Virtua Racing on the Switch, but that's not the same, probably.

@doctorhino It's just inspired by those games, so it doesn't have to be a 1:1 copy. The developers themselves have mentioned these titles as inspiration, so that is how I knew about it.

@doctorhino Yeah, it's kind of a mix of all kinds of arcade racers, but the main influences were Daytona for the car models, an Virtua Racing for the graphics/aesthetics.

@Burning_Spear No, actually to Daytona and Virtua Racing.

@koekiemonster No, that was this one, but that has been canceled:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/01/feature_whatever_happened_to_the_sega-style_racer_90s_super_gp

@GrailUK Well, analysts...
More like armchair critics.

@GrailUK Completely agreed. So many people just don't understand and think that a simple comparison of what others do always applies or is justified, when it clearly doesn't/isn't.

Yup, Nintendo is definitely doomed... /s

@rjejr I actually thought that it looked like the GameCube/PS2 game, albeit with the animation being a bit more janky, but it still gives me some positive vibes nonetheless, because the GameCube Rocky game was simply great fun to play.

@Silly_G Say what now?

All kidding aside, though, if you even remotely like boxing movies, especially those that give of that kind of "arcadey", slightly over the top eighties action movie feel, then you could definitely do worse than watch the early Rocky movies, especially the first two.

As the series moved on, it became even more over the top, and even though I still enjoyed the later movies as well, they were a bit too much, to put it mildly. The first movie is actually inspired on a real life story, and it's actually a pretty good boxing movie in its own right, also as a product of its time, so I can easily recommend it to you.

@Mountain_Man Well, seeing as aliens are also very well known for their anal probes, I think it's safe to assume that this is why their dirty minds came up with that.

It's either that, or simply just Japanese perversity...

All kidding aside, though: literal translations almost never make sense, especially when taken out of context.

Ah, yes. The game with the faceless protagonists...

6.99 shipping for a couple of disposable items? No way in hell, Nintendo...

@jimtendog Oh, definitely agreed on Indie games. As I already mentioned in my initial comment, I usually also buy indies or other smaller games in digital form, and I've never bought any of these Limited Run games, but for the big triple A or first party titles, I still prefer physical.

@Peach64 Well, that may be true where you're at, but over here, customers still like their ready-made PC's with a disc drive. Of course there's also other options available, but the standard box is still with a drive. Personally, I assume it's for legacy support.

@JayJ Aha, I see. Makes sense, then.

@JayJ Why wouldn't you have a disc drive on your PC? Unless it's some kind of Chromebook laptop, most PC's come with a standard Blu-ray player in most cases, so I'd say you'd have to go out of your way, or build your own rig, to end up with a PC without a disc drive.

@jimtendog Good on you, for being a good sport. And mind you, I'm not a massive collector either. I have a couple of hundred games for most of my consoles, but I'm still able to keep those in one closet, so I don't need a massive game room with dozens of shelves filled with games. I'm no completionist either, so I don't care about getting all games for any console or handheld. I only buy and keep games I actually like to play.

The inevitable future of all digital games is not debatable though, I'm afraid. As a sales & marketing professional in the IT business, I know what the cost is of server rent and maintenance, so companies and/or publishers or developers will only support the accompanying services for as long as it is sensible and viable for them to do so. In some specific cases, the cost for maintaining a server environment for a game is so low, that it happens to be one of the odd ones out there that will still be available for download 1 or 2 generations of consoles later, as evident with some smaller games on Wii, DS/3DS and Xbox 360, for example.

But those positive examples are a typical case of few and far between. Big, triple A games will only be supported as long as they are popular, so what sells will be supported, which is why all these MMORPG's and Battle Royale games are now so popular and well supported, because those keep attracting audiences, across platforms, and across generations.

But these too are a mere handful of examples. If I look at the games that I currently own, then I know that 9 out of 10 of them isn't available in any online store anymore, so the only option for me to re-buy them would be second-hand shops or sites like eBay. (edit: and in the case of the latter, I don't think I have to tell you what that might potentially mean for the prices of these second-hand games)

@JayJ You have a partial point, concerning Xbox and PlayStation discs, but in actuality, it isn't all that different from PC gaming, which also requires installing, obviously (and has done for ages, so it's nothing new), and uses the disc as a validator/key to prove legal ownership.

However, that last word is still key: ownership. You have the necessary software, right there, on the disc. Maybe not always the final, completely patched version (unless you have some kind of GOTY or Director's Cut/Anniversary audition), but at least A version, that can be played and kept for far longer than the digital version will be available for download or online play, so that still means that physical trumps digital for me, even under those conditions.

@NEStalgia What store was that, BlockBusters?

But yeah, agreed right back at'cha. It's Netflix for games, and it's too fast and disposable for little old retro-minded me. I recently bought another year of Gold for really cheap, so regardless of what they're going to do or what they're going to combine with what, I'm good until August 2021...

@Piyo We might, or we might not. I'm 50, and I still own ALL of my games AND consoles. But that was not the point. The point was the likelihood of your house burning down vs losing your digital collection.

Every argument made so far, concerning what might happen to anyone's physical collection is FAR less likely than what is inevitably (and absolutely) going to happen to anyone's all digital collection, provided we're talking about LEGAL collecting, obviously.

@NEStalgia What turned me off on Game Pass is the disposability of it. While three new games are added, five more are being removed at virtually the same time, and I don't like there being some kind of (real or even perceived) pressure put on me in order for me to be able to play, much less complete certain games.

I want to play whenever the hell I want, not when a company gives me the opportunity to do so. It's great for those who want that "buffet" or who apparently DO have the time to play all these games, but with the limited hours per week or sometimes even only per month that I have left to spend on game time, I just wouldn't be able to get the most out of it.

@Agent721 Why thank you, kind sir...

@jimtendog No offense, but if you truly believe that the risk of you losing your digital games library is more or less the same than the risk of you getting robbed or your house burning down, then you definitely have your numbers mixed up, because you couldn't be more wrong.

While the latter two things only might happen, and will in most cases NEVER happen to us, the closing down of servers at a certain point in the near future (and often already when we move to a next generation of consoles), making it impossible to play or (re)download a game you think you own, is an ironclad fact.

The reason why people prefer physical over digital, is because they want to be able to still pull that game out of the closet 10, 20 or even 30 years from now, without having to fear if it will even be playable. Even if you take modern physical games into account, with patches and updates, that's still possible, because it's not like the games are unplayable without those patches, they might just be somewhat buggy, and perhaps there's only the odd game that's completely unplayable without them.

Either way, just to clarify, I'm not against digital, and especially for smaller games and/or indie games I also often choose the digital versions, but I definitely don't see anything good coming from an all digital future, so for the bigger triple A games, I'll always go for physical, so I'll have that full ownership and certainty of still being able to revisit it decades from now, a certainty that gamers that solely rely on the trustworthiness of publishers and their intent to keep supporting their digital media will definitely not have, as already made evident by hundreds upon hundreds of disappeared/disabled digital only titles across various platforms...

@Elvie Aha, I see. Well, I may eventually take a peek at it then, because now I'm curious, but for now, it's on the back burner. Got other stuff to take care off.

Obviously, that's a hoverboard, not a snowboard...

@Elvie Haha, I wouldn't be able to say anything sensible about that one, seeing as I haven't seen that one.

@Elvie Oh, don't get me wrong: my comment wasn't a slight against your suggestion, I just saw you making the recommendation, and I simply figured I'd add my own as well, and Princess Mononoke actually is a true classic, both in anime and in general, so I could blindly recommend it to anyone, not just to anime fans.

Although I'd probably suggest the dubbed version to those who are not part of the anime in-crowd...

Mwahahahaha! Screw you, Sony! Sandwiched in between Nintendo titles, as it should be.

/s

@MagicEmperor I can definitely relate to that story, save for the bad screen...

I also watched Princess Mononoke for the first time in a small cinema. Good times and a great memory.

@JimmySpades I'm going to have to agree with @nessisonett. It is a great movie, but not the first one that comes to mind when I have to consider recommending a Ghibli movie, or any anime movie for that matter, to anyone, when the subject matter is so heavy.

Princess Mononoke's story is also heavy in some ways, but because it's basically a fairy tale, it's still light-hearted and entertaining enough in general.

@nessisonett Most, if not all Studio Ghibli movies are good, but Princess Mononoke remains my personal favorite. Great, great story, VERY thought-provoking, and great voice cast, regardless of whether you're watching the dubbed or the subbed version.

@Yosher @Elvie And then follow that up with Princess Mononoke. Anime gold, if you ask me. Definitely one of the all-time greatest animated movies.

Although I kinda like it, I do feel, like many others, that the disproportionate Link is massively ruining the picture.

It's almost as if the artist was inspired by those Breath of the Wild mods, one of which actually does feature a crazy elongated Link figure...

I'm expecting a Hey! Metroid announcement soon...

@JohnnyC No, Pikmin 4 is most definitely NOT Hey Pikmin!. Miyamoto himself has already confirmed this many, many months ago. Probably about a year ago now. Pikmin 4 is still either lying in wait for its final polish, or it's simply canceled, but Hey Pikmin! was never more than a spin-off.

No offense to you personally, but in general, I actually find it pretty ridiculous and laughable that people were actually thinking that these two games are one and the same. As if an almost completed full 3D real time strategy game has all of a sudden been completely downgraded and converted into a simple 2.5D platform puzzler, which is also a MUCH shorter game than the average mainline Pikmin game as well.

If you stop to think about that, it simply makes no sense whatsoever, in any kind of scenario.

@electrolite77 Hey, man. Whiners gonna whine, what can you do, right?

Lots of egotistical you-know-whats in here: "I already have this game", "Nintendo rehashing old crap again", "this isn't worth full price", "yadayada", "nobody loves me and I had a tough childhood"...

You'd imagine that, in a perfect world, people with more than two or three brain cells would be able to do the math of the how and why of this release, which is perfectly logical, and definitely beneficial as well. Not just to Nintendo, but also to the IP itself, and ultimately, to the larger gaming audience.

@DoktorTotenKopf That was actually funny. Normally I don't really care much for these fanmade "Adobe flash-like" comical skits, but this one was okay.