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Nintendo Switch Nitro

@Strumpan
Hey, this is a G-rated website! You mustn't talk about crystal m___.

@Tamale
People who don't have the money for a Nintendo Switch have nothing to fear. In fact, Princess Zelda is so magnanimous that She is willing to give anyone a Switch as long as they agree to enlist in Her legendary Stormtroopers of Death.

I think bungie-jumping is fun and all, but I wouldn't renounce a lucrative job at Capcom to dedicate my life exclusively to bungie.

@Screen
Actually, Gold and Silver ARE better than Crystal. Gold is currently at 1900 dollars an ounce, and silver is at 28 dollars an ounce. An ounce of crystal, on the other hand, is worth a few cents at the most.

Useless fact: in Russia, Harry Potter is known as Gary Potter.

@Low_ink @Tamale

Do you know what I think should happen to anyone who doesn't have a Nintendo Switch? I think they should be rounded up by Princess Zelda's Storm Troopers of Death, dragged out into the streets kicking and screaming, and flippantly thrown into military-style trucks as if they were sardines. They should then be whisked away to a secret re-education facility and forced to play and beat nothing but Mario and Zelda games in solitary confinement 18 hours a day for a full year. At the end of their re-education, they could be released only after solemnly swearing to accept Zelda and Mario as their monarchs and to play Nintendo games every day.

I know that might sound a bit harsh, but the only way to save these poor souls is to forcibly indoctrinate them. It's for their own good.

@RendellDraw
I admit that FPSs can give you the satisfaction of collaborating with friends to take down another team, as in Con Strike. But if you can suspend disbelief and just pretend that computer-controlled AI is human-controlled, the experience is the same. Obviously there is no substitute for actually talking to your friends while you're playing with them online, so okey that's one point in favor of online gaming.
But think of Star Wars Republic Commando. The other guys on your team are controlled by AI, and they play just as well - if not better - than your friends would.
Online RPGs make absolutely no sense to me. I makes no difference to me whether any of the characters I bump into are controlled by AI or humans, apart from the fact that I don't want to be tied to a wifi router every time I play.

@WatsonWatson
"Tainted Love" in a bossa nova style? I'm trying to imagine Joao Gilberto doing that song, and I can see how that could turn out great! You uncannily guessed the genre of one of the songs I'm playing and singing these days: "Eu Sei Que Eu Vou Te Amar" by Caetano Veloso.

Nintendo fans save sick puppies. Sony and Xbox fans kick puppies for fun.

I'm playing the guitar.

@RendellDraw
When you play a racing game against AI cars in one-player mode, it's the same as playing against cars controlled by humans playing online against you. What I mean by that is that you couldn't tell the difference between the two situations. So why go out of your way to play online? If the AI is well-made, it's just as good as playing against a human.

Pretty good for a GBC game.

@RendellDraw
I didn't do a good job of explaining myself. I think couch co-op is great, because you're actually with your friend when you do that. But online co-op is, for all intents and purposes, the same as offline one-player gaming. Your friend could theoretically tell you he was going to play with you online, and then after the session tell you that in reality he hadn't plyed at all but had let his sister play with you. If your friend isn't sitting in the same room as you, then you might as well be playing offline.

@RendellDraw
Playing online doesn't mean you're playing with other people. It's a videogame, so you're playing against pixelated characters, not humans. If the AI is good, it doesn't matter who controls the characters that populate the game. That's why I don't understand why people play online games.

The microchip shortage is due to Russia, China and the USA mass-producing war robots in preparation for World War III. Just have a gander at the recent article on Russia Today titled "Weapons of the future: Russia has launched mass production of autonomous high-tech WAR ROBOTS, Defense Minister Shoigu announces".

@Zidentia
Some of my friends in 1989 told me they weren't interested in Dragon Warrior because they didn't want to read. I would play a remake if they made it look great in 3D and kept the challenge of the original. But if they dumbed it down as they did in the Game Boy version, I'd give it a miss.

Dragon Quest I, II, and III on the NES are perfect RPGs. So far, all the remakes have been inferior to the originals. I doubt any remake for the Switch would surpass the NES versions. The only DQ game that needed a remake was VII, because the original PS1 version was ugly and complicated. The 3DS version solved all those problems. All the other DQ games were perfect in thir original forms. IV, V and VI got remakes for the DS which were basically the same as the original except for the graphics which were equally good albeit different. And VIII got a 3DS version which is identical. But the mobile versions and the Game Boy versions are bad. And the SNES remakes of the original trilogy are bad too. DQ games thrive on challenge, and when you take that out you have an empty shell of a game.

The best SNES baseball game is Super Batter Up.

The best NES baseball game is Baseball Stars.

@Bizaster
I'm on your same boat. I'll never understand why people play videogames online.

@BakaKnight
I thought the exact same thing. I always thought they should just take the original game, repurpose it for offline play, and translate it. Instead they've made a game from scratch, apart from the script. Whatever. I'm still glad to be getting the missing link in the series.

Yes! Yes! Yes!
I've been clamoring for this for years. I can't wait for the translated version.
They've finally decided turn DQX into a real game! Halleluyah!

I hope they announce an offline version of DQX. That's the only game I haven't played.

I played all these games apart from X, and I love every single one. But V is overrated. I played it on the DS and there's no way it can compare to VIII. I have VIII, XI and I as my top 3.

North America got the best box art in this case. It suits the game and just looks cooler and more epic. NA box art in the NES era was usually better than what Japanese fans got.

Zelda: Link's Awakening DX is the best GBC game. It's much better-looking and better-playing than the Switch remake, which is ugly and slow.

It was an awesome game. I hope they make a new one or at least re-release the N64 and the GameCube ones for Switch.

PS5 and XboxX will never sell. They're useless consoles. The eight console generation is the last and there will never be a ninth. We hit peak graphics long ago.

I'm glad that lots of people are disappointed by this. I don't understand why Nintendo is trying to force sane adults to buy a stupid action figure. I wouldn't take an Amiibo even if Nintendo paid me. I have a sense of self-worth and don't think adults should have Nintendo dolls in their houses.

I can understand people under the age of 12 buying Amiibos, but I'll never understand why anyone else would buy Zelda and Mario dolls. Is there no shame left in the world?

I won't be buying any stupid dolls or action figures in order to play a computer game. Why does entertainment have to be tied to buying a stupid doll? Nintendo is the craziest company in the world.

@BulbasaurusRex
You say "everyone likes them better", but no one bought them. Did you guys all pirate the games? Otherwise, how can so many people like the 3DS versions better without buying them?

@COVIDberry
I'll never forget Hawksness! You find the town after a long trek, relieved that you'll be able to stay at an inn to recover your HP, only to find that it's overrun by monsters and even more dangerous the the surrounding overworld! I got killed the first time I went there because I was already running out of HP when I arrived.

@HammerKirby
Popular Youtubers who have never played the NES games love parrotting that the SNES versions of the first three Dragon Quest games are better than the originals. That's a terrible disservice to potential fans, because the SNES (and GBC) versions of the original trilogy strip away the challenge. They make it so that you can travel from town to town almost at will, i.e. you don't have to build up your stats for more than a few minutes before being able to venture out to the next town. Most of the fun in the NES games lay in the sense that you were on a perilous quest, and the remakes are just boring because they took that out. Thiss happened possibly because Japanese businessmen in the 80s and 90s thought Westerners were either too stupid or too intolerant to deal with the challenge, or possibly because they wanted to spread the games to a wider audience in Japan. The SNES versions never made it to the West but they might have been initially intended to be translated.

The great thing about the first game (on NES) is that it makes you feel like a lone hero on a challenging mission. You're afraid to take more than a few steps from a town because the monsters might kill you. You have to hang out (and essentially live) in and around a town and fight lots of monsters until you level up. When you think you might be strong enough to venture out to a new town, you do so and you'll be trembling with fear because the threat of death will be lurking at every step. When you make it to the next town, you'll be overjoyed. The sense of exploration of DQ1 is unlike any other. It has an awesome world that rewards you for fighting to improve your stats. The music is second to none. The king of RPGs.

I think VIII (3DS, PS2) and I (NES) are the very best, and the others are all great and hard to separate.

Gavin did well to classify the first three games as NES games, because the NES versions are the only good ones. IV is good both on NES and DS, V and VI are good both on SNES and DS. VII is good only on 3DS. VIII is good on both 3DS and PS2.

@PoeTheLizard

No, Nintendo, wait a minute! Do NOT listen to PoeTheLizard! He has an agenda. He's a Sony-Microsoft spy whose job it is to give you bad advice so that you'll become the laughing stock of the gaming world. He wants you to put GBA games out on Switch so people will joke about the how terrible the graphics look once blown up to double their original size. You must see through this international conspiracy!

@BulbasaurusRex

I'm sure you and a few other people genuinely like the added graphics and 3D on the 3DS versions, so your argument makes sense. But Xevious isn't Xevious with those changes. The added graphics look terribly out of place in games made in the 80s.

A great reason to have a hacked NES Mini is that all the NES and SNES games that were plagued by slowdown magically run perfectly on the Mini. I recently played and beat Super R-Type, a good SNES game which is infamous for its slowdown, and I had no slowdown at all because the NES Mini emulates the game but not the slowdown.

Also, on my NES Mini I get to play Double Dragon III Deluxe, a hack which turns a terrible NES game into one of the top five beat-em-ups of the 8-bit generation. There are dozens more hacks that fix game-breaking issues. If you play certain games on original hardware, you're doing yourself a disservice.

@rushiosan
You're right, the 3DS D-pad is good. But it's slightly smaller than the D-pad on the NES Mini. I also agree that it's not worth it to get an original NES to play these games on it. The best way is to play the games on the NES Mini. Kirby and Excitebike are already on there, and you can easily add the entire NES library to it. And no, I'm not endorsing piracy. You should of course own the games that you play on the NES Mini

Nintendo, don't listen to this crazy article. GBA games look terrible when the graphics are blown up far beyond the size of the GBA screen. The GBA games I've played on the 3DS already show the limitations of the software. The backgrounds during the battles in the Golden Sun games look extremely ugly when blown up to 3DS size, so just imagine what they'll look like on an even bigger screen. The graphics of most GBA games would look horrendous on the Switch.

Every single one of these 3DS versions is inferior to the original NES version. The graphical additions are all ugly. Even 3DS Kirby is useless because the game runs flawlessly on the NES Classic Edition. So the choice is really whether you'd rather play Kirby on a big screen with an authentic NES controller or on the 3DS screen with an inferior D-pad. These re-releases were all an epic fail.

I wouldn't play the games even if they paid me. The Virtual Boy is the definition of a useless console.

Every single Super Mario Bros game is an excellent 2D platformer. Because of this series, other games in the genre have a steep mountain to climb in order to compete.

Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario World
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2
New Super Mario Bros
New Super Mario Bros 2
New Super Mario Bros Wii
New Super Mario Bros U
Super Mario Maker
Super Mario Maker 2

Every one of them is a 5-star game.

@Slowdive
"Metroidvania" was a term born on forums when Konami was making handheld Castlevania games that featured the exploration of Metroid games. People were joking that the games were Metroidvania rather than Castlevania. Then an idiot on Youtube started calling all exploratory platformers by that word, and now it's trendy to say it. I have more respect for people like James Rolfe who refuse to say that pointless word.

"Shoot-em-up" is the perfect term for games like Gradius. If someone tells you that it's a bad word, then ask them what genre they would put Double Dragon in. Then ask them why the term "beat-em-up" is okey but "shoot-em-up" isn't. Also, you need the term "shoot-em-up" in order to be able to classify games in the subgenre "cute-em-up" - I'm referring to games like Twinbee and Fantasy Zone.

They classified this article as part of the soapbox genre, but it's actually a dungeon-crawler, since it takes so many different routes but ultimately makes you feel like you're running in circles.

I hope they release an offline version of Dragon Quest X in English. They already have the game made. They just need to make it into a traditional DQ game, instead of wasting all that goodness on an MMO RPG.

I would like to play Shining Force III and Panzer Dragoon Saga on the Nintendo Switch.

Katy Perry has no soul whatsoever. Just give her a bag of money and she'll sing about your product.

After Steve Jobs passed away, Apple became a dishonest company. They faced lawsuits for bricking people's older computers. It happened to me too: I updated the system and my 5-year-old computer got bricked. I'll never buy an Apple product again, and I advise everyone to stay away from those thieves. Their console will just be a device to steal money from little kids.

I'll buy a good Zelda clone any day of the week!

@Diogmites
I have both versions on my NES Mini. The arcade game plays better, while the NES version has better music. Both versions are great! They're different games, by the way. The NES game is really a sequel, not a port.