See, **** like this is why I'm using NintendoLife less and less. The userbase has gotten so toxic in the past few years. It used to be so much friendlier around here. But nobody cares what I have to say, and nobody will even notice this comment so whatever.
@rjejr It's for real. Part of the reason the liquidation is happening is they are still charging outrageous prices like $20 on a set of amiibos nobody but modders wants. Even $6 is too much for AC:aF, haha, Ninty owes you money for that purchase!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Because they sell, because publishers want to test the waters, because the Switch wasn't around yet when development started so the games couldn't be day and date, take your pick.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Look again or maybe read the article. The WH video had the violent games. The response video featured BotW and many other nonviolent, art-y games.
I might pick these up. Of course the actual cartridges don't cost more than $3 and some cost less than $1 so it's not like building an Atari collection breaks the bank. The hardest part is finding a pos retro TV to hook it up to, that still works!
@Anti-Matter Yes. And I'm sorry if my post came across to you as too harsh or trolling. I genuinely like you and your posts and like that you stand up for what you believe in - I just don't like that you try to force it on others.
So how do we pronounce this if it does come over? Black Ops Slash Slash Slash Slash? Black Ops Four Lines? What? Cause that sure as heck ain't Black Ops IV. Until they learn to Roman numeral, they can stay on the other platforms. Bad Activision. No port for you.
@Anti-Matter I wish you would learn that you don't need to go on a crusade about every little thing you hate and that the language and rhetoric you use against M-rated games makes you look just as bad as the games themselves. There is nothing inherently wrong with Bayonetta or DOOM or even GTA. They are just games that appeal to some people, so those people play them. They don't appeal to you, so ignore them. What if I said I hated Portal Knights, DDR, and Sims, and everyone who played them was a crazed maniac, and those games should be banned? That would be ridiculous. There's no proof in my statement. I would sound like the crazed maniac. That's what you sound like when you go on bashing M rated games. Like a crazed maniac on a crusade with no proof and nothing to stand on.
Yeah we have violent movies and games and TV shows and people kill each other with guns but you know what? Four hundred years ago people burned other people at the stake as witches so maybe humans are just d**ks.
That said it seems to be a US problem and not a global problem so we in the US need to get our collective s**t together.
@JaxonH Seriously, the Wii U was the four and a half year trainwreck that will fuel the Switch for at least three years. Recycling is good when it saves the planet but bad when it comes to video games? Why?
These Wii U ports are taking almost no effort from Nintendo, you can be sure they are putting their most junior teams on them. Those teams are getting experience to move onto bigger and better things while the A and B (and probably C) teams are free to work on Metroid and Animal Crossing and Smash and Fire Emblem and maybe even more out there things like the next Zelda and Mario already. It doesn't take up much extra development time, and while they're at it we get almost a game a month, unlike the Wii U era when we could go up to SIX months without a new release. Now sure, these games weren't system sellers on the Wii U (or the Wii U would have sold better) but the rapid-fire output of them onto the Switch builds a library fast and a big library IS a system seller in and of itself. Even if one particular game isn't enough to sway a person, the sheer output of these ports on a console that has Zelda, has Mario, is getting Fire Emblem, is getting Metroid, is getting Pokemon, is getting Smash (which itself may or may not be a port but clearly has new content regardless), is probably enough to sway somebody to the system. And with all the third party support (also mainly ports) as well, they know they can get their favorite games all in one place - the Switch is not the Nintendo console just for Nintendo fans, like the Wii U was. It's the console for everybody.
I literally do not understand what people's problems with ports are. You whined and moaned when the Wii U had no third party support. Now the Switch has third party support and you're whining and moaning about it. Can Nintendo ever win? Are you all actually Nintendo fans or just loud trolls?
I don't understand why everyone is so down on ports. They give you games to fill the release schedule, they don't take development time to produce (or they take minimal development time), and if enough people buy a given game from a given company it signals to that company that they should put their new stuff on the console. If you haven't already played a game, it's new to you, and if you have, it's not like you've lost anything by not buying it again (see: doesn't take up development time). Most consoles are filled with ports early on. It's the sign of a successful system. The more ports, the more better, economically speaking.
As for Smash, it's hard to tell if this is a port of Smash 4 or not. But given what a port of Smash 4 would really be (a little of this, a little of that, from Wii U and 3DS, but not this and not that, and perhaps modes left behind in Brawl/Melee that people wanted returned, plus new fighters given the Inklings and BotW Link) what constitutes a "port" of that game and what constitutes a whole new game anyway? Smash 4 was almost perfect, it would need very little tweaking to produce the best Smash game ever. They could release "Smash 4 Ultimate" (probably calling it Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo Switch to keep in line with the naming for 3DS/Wii U) and be done with it and it wouldn't feel like a port at all even if it technically is.
@ASTURmatr Can confirm this is not true. Snake Pass still says "Played for a little while" despite my not having touched it in almost a year. Don't believe everything you hear on reddit. HOWEVER - it can only store up to 20 games on your profile and it probably deletes the longest ago first? That's just a theory, a G-- /yanked offstage/
@Dom In case in wasn't clear, I was joking in my last comment (well not about my vote). It's a good article and it's nice to highlight the lesser games, even if it comes at the expense of butt-monkey Alex.
@Captain_Gonru Ugh. Yes. When I started working there and I found out we were to throw out all DS cases, and all 3DS cases if the value of the game was below a certain amount (we had a bargain bin for 3DS games) I about blew my stack. I managed to "rescue" several cases that were traded in!
@rjejr Yeah, the story of how I got into video game collecting is not really a happy one. But it's one of the only things that I have good memories of from that time so it's not all bad. I think without video games I might not be here, as dark as that sounds.
@samuelvictor Wow, that's a pretty good story! You and I sound a lot alike to be sure! I especially love the 80s and 90s games myself as well!
I bought my very first video game system, a clear Gameboy Pocket with Pokemon Blue, from Toys R Us. I remember the two (count 'em - TWO) FULL aisles of video games they had back in the day, every box on display with a little thing full of paper slips underneath you had to take to the front if you wanted that game, and the systems on display as well. I bought my N64, which came with Star Wars Episode I Racer, from them a few months later. Any time I had the slightest bit of money after that I would come back for a Gameboy or N64 game. I still have pretty much all of them to this day as well. I racked up a good library of eight or nine N64 games and ten or eleven Gameboy games - I was doing a lot of chores back then! That was over the course of '98 to about 2001.
My mother created a monster. She wouldn't let me have any video games at all when she was alive so when she died I went and did this, aided and abetted by the good folks at TRU. My dad didn't care if I had video games or not. I started with those two systems, the Gameboy Pocket and N64 and about 20 games and now I'm at 18 systems and over 500 games. That's what happens if you tell your kids "no" I guess!
@damo I would appreciate it if you would edit that statement. Many, many members of my family lost their lives in WWII and I can't be the only one here. It's not just something for the history books, it's something the affected real people just one lifetime ago.
@rjejr Yes I love Sandman, as you obviously guessed. I'm not much of a comics person (or is it a "graphic novel?") but I blew through the whole thing in about a month when I found it in my early 20s.
Well I say I'm not much of a comics person but I'm actually a bit of a NEWSPAPER comics person. Or I was in the 90s when they were still relevant. We haven't had the newspaper delivered to our house for the better part of a decade now. It's just not worth it here. But I LOVED Calvin and Hobbes (natch), Foxtrot, Baby Blues, Zits, Beetle Bailey, Blondie, and as you mentioned Dilbert, Doonesbury, FBoFW. There was a great blog I used to follow, don't know if he's still around, The Comics Curmudgeon. Very funny guy. Used to tear into Family Circus, et al so hard I would just about cry laughing. I should look him up again.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Do people really go looking for your comments on other sites to see if you've posted the same one here? Who bleeping cares? I think it's waaaay more annoying that you say things like "I saw this elsewhere" because it makes it seem like you're denigrating NintendoLife. Oh no, they didn't post a story about a lousy pool game first, how awful! That sort of thing.
All right! I played this back when I was (censored) years old when I was in (educational system)! I'm happy to double dip. I hope they bring the second game over too, though I didn't like it as much as the first. Either way both would be insta-buys.
Ports are fantastic, bring on the ports. They indicate the Switch is healthy.
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Re: Weirdness: Mario Tennis Aces Artwork Triggers An Unlikely Discussion About Luigi's Lunch Box
See, I was expecting an actual lunch box. Like the kind you put food into. What the hell kind of slang for a ding dong is that?
Re: Nindies Showcase For Nintendo Switch Airing Next Week
See, **** like this is why I'm using NintendoLife less and less. The userbase has gotten so toxic in the past few years. It used to be so much friendlier around here. But nobody cares what I have to say, and nobody will even notice this comment so whatever.
Re: Super Bomberman R Is Coming To Rival Systems With Exclusive Characters
@rjejr "Rated M"
Re: Re:Legend, Southeast Asia's Most Successful Kickstarter, Is Coming To Switch
I wish I knew about this while it was still in Kickstarter days! I would have backed it.
Re: Super Bomberman R Is Coming To Rival Systems With Exclusive Characters
@rjejr @SLIGEACH_EIRE What, you DON'T want to play 1 2 Switch on your Vita, phone, and kitchen sink?
Re: Gallery: The Pokémon Cafe Is Just Too Cute For Words
@ThatNyteDaez Definitely an Eevee burger.
I would love to eat there, but I know with my luck nothing would be gluten free, so I'm not missing out on anything anyway.
Re: Guide: Kirby Star Allies Compatible amiibo And What They Unlock
@rjejr It's for real. Part of the reason the liquidation is happening is they are still charging outrageous prices like $20 on a set of amiibos nobody but modders wants. Even $6 is too much for AC:aF, haha, Ninty owes you money for that purchase!
Re: Mario, Zelda And Mario Kart Continue To Sell Strong In The UK Charts
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Because they sell, because publishers want to test the waters, because the Switch wasn't around yet when development started so the games couldn't be day and date, take your pick.
Re: Mario, Zelda And Mario Kart Continue To Sell Strong In The UK Charts
@RedRocBoy People would complain "it's just a port."
Re: The Games Industry Reacts To The White House's Violent Games Showreel
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Look again or maybe read the article. The WH video had the violent games. The response video featured BotW and many other nonviolent, art-y games.
Re: Atari Flashback Classics Is Due To Launch On The Switch Later This Year
I might pick these up. Of course the actual cartridges don't cost more than $3 and some cost less than $1 so it's not like building an Atari collection breaks the bank. The hardest part is finding a pos retro TV to hook it up to, that still works!
Re: White House Meeting With Industry Execs Focuses On Violence In Video Games
@Anti-Matter Yes. And I'm sorry if my post came across to you as too harsh or trolling. I genuinely like you and your posts and like that you stand up for what you believe in - I just don't like that you try to force it on others.
Re: White House Meeting With Industry Execs Focuses On Violence In Video Games
@Anti-Matter It's obvious you did not read my post to you. Sigh. Fine then.
"I'm Against rated 18+ games as always because they are EVIL.
Pure Evil !"
Well I'm against Portal Knight, DDR, and Sims because they are WUSSINESS! Pure Wussiness!
Do you see how you sound?
Re: Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 Is Officially Announced, But There's No Switch Version
So how do we pronounce this if it does come over? Black Ops Slash Slash Slash Slash? Black Ops Four Lines? What? Cause that sure as heck ain't Black Ops IV. Until they learn to Roman numeral, they can stay on the other platforms. Bad Activision. No port for you.
Re: White House Meeting With Industry Execs Focuses On Violence In Video Games
@Anti-Matter I wish you would learn that you don't need to go on a crusade about every little thing you hate and that the language and rhetoric you use against M-rated games makes you look just as bad as the games themselves. There is nothing inherently wrong with Bayonetta or DOOM or even GTA. They are just games that appeal to some people, so those people play them. They don't appeal to you, so ignore them. What if I said I hated Portal Knights, DDR, and Sims, and everyone who played them was a crazed maniac, and those games should be banned? That would be ridiculous. There's no proof in my statement. I would sound like the crazed maniac. That's what you sound like when you go on bashing M rated games. Like a crazed maniac on a crusade with no proof and nothing to stand on.
Re: White House Meeting With Industry Execs Focuses On Violence In Video Games
Yeah we have violent movies and games and TV shows and people kill each other with guns but you know what? Four hundred years ago people burned other people at the stake as witches so maybe humans are just d**ks.
That said it seems to be a US problem and not a global problem so we in the US need to get our collective s**t together.
Re: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Makes The Leap To Switch And 3DS
@electrolite77 Thank you! <3
Re: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Makes The Leap To Switch And 3DS
@JaxonH Seriously, the Wii U was the four and a half year trainwreck that will fuel the Switch for at least three years. Recycling is good when it saves the planet but bad when it comes to video games? Why?
These Wii U ports are taking almost no effort from Nintendo, you can be sure they are putting their most junior teams on them. Those teams are getting experience to move onto bigger and better things while the A and B (and probably C) teams are free to work on Metroid and Animal Crossing and Smash and Fire Emblem and maybe even more out there things like the next Zelda and Mario already. It doesn't take up much extra development time, and while they're at it we get almost a game a month, unlike the Wii U era when we could go up to SIX months without a new release. Now sure, these games weren't system sellers on the Wii U (or the Wii U would have sold better) but the rapid-fire output of them onto the Switch builds a library fast and a big library IS a system seller in and of itself. Even if one particular game isn't enough to sway a person, the sheer output of these ports on a console that has Zelda, has Mario, is getting Fire Emblem, is getting Metroid, is getting Pokemon, is getting Smash (which itself may or may not be a port but clearly has new content regardless), is probably enough to sway somebody to the system. And with all the third party support (also mainly ports) as well, they know they can get their favorite games all in one place - the Switch is not the Nintendo console just for Nintendo fans, like the Wii U was. It's the console for everybody.
Re: South Park: The Fractured But Whole Brings Its NSFW Antics To Switch On 24th April
I literally do not understand what people's problems with ports are. You whined and moaned when the Wii U had no third party support. Now the Switch has third party support and you're whining and moaning about it. Can Nintendo ever win? Are you all actually Nintendo fans or just loud trolls?
Re: Super Smash Bros. For Switch Is Coming This Year, And It's Got Inklings
I don't understand why everyone is so down on ports. They give you games to fill the release schedule, they don't take development time to produce (or they take minimal development time), and if enough people buy a given game from a given company it signals to that company that they should put their new stuff on the console. If you haven't already played a game, it's new to you, and if you have, it's not like you've lost anything by not buying it again (see: doesn't take up development time). Most consoles are filled with ports early on. It's the sign of a successful system. The more ports, the more better, economically speaking.
As for Smash, it's hard to tell if this is a port of Smash 4 or not. But given what a port of Smash 4 would really be (a little of this, a little of that, from Wii U and 3DS, but not this and not that, and perhaps modes left behind in Brawl/Melee that people wanted returned, plus new fighters given the Inklings and BotW Link) what constitutes a "port" of that game and what constitutes a whole new game anyway? Smash 4 was almost perfect, it would need very little tweaking to produce the best Smash game ever. They could release "Smash 4 Ultimate" (probably calling it Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo Switch to keep in line with the naming for 3DS/Wii U) and be done with it and it wouldn't feel like a port at all even if it technically is.
Re: Nintendo Download: 8th March (North America)
I'll finally be getting my Kickstarted version of Earthlock, only about a dozen years after I backed it.
Re: Jump Aboard This Enormous 'Absolutely Ridable Lapras' Pokémon Toy
Can only be shipped within Japan? How am I supposed to get it here? And where am I supposed to get $750?
Re: Hori's New Tabletop Switch Stand Comes With USB Ports For Accessorising On The Move
@AlexOlney WordPerfect or gtfo! Don't you know everything old is new again?
Re: Weirdness: We've Been Sent a Ludicrously Big Box to Open
@AlexOlney "This is the biggest and weirdest thing I have ever been sent!" CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
Re: Chicken Wiggle's Switch Kickstarter Campaign Has Taken Flight
@MasterWario What's a 3DS?
My 3DS: /sits in the corner and weeps, neglectedly/
Re: Chicken Wiggle's Switch Kickstarter Campaign Has Taken Flight
It sounds like there is even cross-compatibility between the platforms (at least one way, 3DS to Switch) for the level editor, which is really cool!
Re: Nintendo says Switch "play activity is still being recorded accurately in the background"
@ASTURmatr Can confirm this is not true. Snake Pass still says "Played for a little while" despite my not having touched it in almost a year. Don't believe everything you hear on reddit. HOWEVER - it can only store up to 20 games on your profile and it probably deletes the longest ago first? That's just a theory, a G-- /yanked offstage/
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Life's Favourite Games From Switch's First Year
@Dom In case in wasn't clear, I was joking in my last comment (well not about my vote). It's a good article and it's nice to highlight the lesser games, even if it comes at the expense of butt-monkey Alex.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Life's Favourite Games From Switch's First Year
@Dom Where's the love for poor beleaguered Alex? Just because he lives on Youtube he doesn't get his option put on the poll? For shame!
I voted "Something else" obviously, because Zelda, duh.
Re: Switch Programming Glitch Is Forgetting Your Game Playtimes
@rjejr We haven't been without VC for a year! Only a day!
Re: Feature: Remembering Toys R Us, The '90s Gamer's Paradise
@Captain_Gonru Ugh. Yes. When I started working there and I found out we were to throw out all DS cases, and all 3DS cases if the value of the game was below a certain amount (we had a bargain bin for 3DS games) I about blew my stack. I managed to "rescue" several cases that were traded in!
Re: Feature: Remembering Toys R Us, The '90s Gamer's Paradise
@rjejr Yeah, the story of how I got into video game collecting is not really a happy one. But it's one of the only things that I have good memories of from that time so it's not all bad. I think without video games I might not be here, as dark as that sounds.
@samuelvictor Wow, that's a pretty good story! You and I sound a lot alike to be sure! I especially love the 80s and 90s games myself as well!
Re: Awesome: Meet The Ultimate Nintendo Switch Game Collector
I have 60 games total for my Switch, 33 physical. It's the fastest growing collection I have ever had!
Re: Feature: Remembering Toys R Us, The '90s Gamer's Paradise
I bought my very first video game system, a clear Gameboy Pocket with Pokemon Blue, from Toys R Us. I remember the two (count 'em - TWO) FULL aisles of video games they had back in the day, every box on display with a little thing full of paper slips underneath you had to take to the front if you wanted that game, and the systems on display as well. I bought my N64, which came with Star Wars Episode I Racer, from them a few months later. Any time I had the slightest bit of money after that I would come back for a Gameboy or N64 game. I still have pretty much all of them to this day as well. I racked up a good library of eight or nine N64 games and ten or eleven Gameboy games - I was doing a lot of chores back then! That was over the course of '98 to about 2001.
My mother created a monster. She wouldn't let me have any video games at all when she was alive so when she died I went and did this, aided and abetted by the good folks at TRU. My dad didn't care if I had video games or not. I started with those two systems, the Gameboy Pocket and N64 and about 20 games and now I'm at 18 systems and over 500 games. That's what happens if you tell your kids "no" I guess!
Re: Chicken Wiggle Workshop Kickstarter Opens on 6th March
I'm excited! I'll definitely back especially if they plan to bring the level editor over!
Re: Guide: Wurmple Pokémon GO Evolution Tips - How To Evolve Wurmple Into Silcoon Or Cascoon
@Baker1000 Today is Pokemon Day. I guess they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for content for that fact.
Re: You Can Now Leave User Reviews On Nintendo's Official Website
You have to have played for two hours? On the 3DS and Wii U you only had to play for one to rate the games. I wonder why they changed it?
Re: Review: Dragon Sinker (Switch eShop)
$13 for a smartphone game? /sigh/ Switch tax, hoooo!
Re: World Conqueror X Will Forcibly Annex Your Nintendo Switch This March
@Damo Thank you Damien, I really appreciate it.
Re: World Conqueror X Will Forcibly Annex Your Nintendo Switch This March
@damo I would appreciate it if you would edit that statement. Many, many members of my family lost their lives in WWII and I can't be the only one here. It's not just something for the history books, it's something the affected real people just one lifetime ago.
Re: World Conqueror X Will Forcibly Annex Your Nintendo Switch This March
"World War II cost the lives of millions, but this game will only set you back $9.99 USD / €9.99 / £8.99 at launch."
@damo Tacky. Very tacky.
Re: Review: Fe (Switch eShop)
Still very intrigued by this. Anybody think it will go on sale soon? How about release physically?
Re: Nintendo Switch Gets A New Lick Of Paint As De Blob Splats Down In 2018
@rjejr Yes I love Sandman, as you obviously guessed. I'm not much of a comics person (or is it a "graphic novel?") but I blew through the whole thing in about a month when I found it in my early 20s.
Well I say I'm not much of a comics person but I'm actually a bit of a NEWSPAPER comics person. Or I was in the 90s when they were still relevant. We haven't had the newspaper delivered to our house for the better part of a decade now. It's just not worth it here. But I LOVED Calvin and Hobbes (natch), Foxtrot, Baby Blues, Zits, Beetle Bailey, Blondie, and as you mentioned Dilbert, Doonesbury, FBoFW. There was a great blog I used to follow, don't know if he's still around, The Comics Curmudgeon. Very funny guy. Used to tear into Family Circus, et al so hard I would just about cry laughing. I should look him up again.
Re: Nintendo Switch Gets A New Lick Of Paint As De Blob Splats Down In 2018
@rjejr I do! Though as you can tell I'm more of a Calvin and Hobbes/Far Side kinda gal.
Re: Awesome: Behold This Amazing Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 3D Printed Hyrule Castle
Very cool!
Re: The Simply Named 'Pool' Becomes The Third Pool-Based Game Released On Switch In Just Two Weeks
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Do people really go looking for your comments on other sites to see if you've posted the same one here? Who bleeping cares? I think it's waaaay more annoying that you say things like "I saw this elsewhere" because it makes it seem like you're denigrating NintendoLife. Oh no, they didn't post a story about a lousy pool game first, how awful! That sort of thing.
Re: Nintendo Switch Gets A New Lick Of Paint As De Blob Splats Down In 2018
@rjejr "You get what everyone gets. You get one lifetime."
Re: Nintendo Switch Gets A New Lick Of Paint As De Blob Splats Down In 2018
@rjejr I don't like Rick and Morty or Adventure Time though. Which dates me right there. Steven Universe is good though. So is Gravity Falls.
Re: Nintendo Switch Gets A New Lick Of Paint As De Blob Splats Down In 2018
@rjejr Reading this comment section made me feel a bit... on the older side of things!
Re: Nintendo Switch Gets A New Lick Of Paint As De Blob Splats Down In 2018
All right! I played this back when I was (censored) years old when I was in (educational system)! I'm happy to double dip. I hope they bring the second game over too, though I didn't like it as much as the first. Either way both would be insta-buys.
Ports are fantastic, bring on the ports. They indicate the Switch is healthy.