The_Nintendo_Expat

@NintendoWife

lol nice 😆

@Narrator1

I can agree that Nintendo is less problematic in this are than sony or microsoft, but I stand by what i said 👍✌️

if a developer is already good/talented, i hope Nintendo doesnt acquire them.

"It outright states that its plan includes "initiatives such as acquiring development companies to make them subsidiaries and augmenting our development facilities,"

"This might, on the surface at least, go against Nintendo's statement last year in which it said it would rather "organically expand the organisation" over the acquisition of developers."

i dont see the conflict, both say they plan to acquire developers.

unless we are hung up on the word "organically," which is actually meaningless corpo fluff language imo. 👍

[EDIT - I think I was reading it wrong. I took the word "over" to mean "by way of," as opposed to "in lieu of." ✌️ still, there's nothing "organic" about anything Nintendo does, regardless of how they hire talent or whatever it is, and I'll continue taking anything they "say" with a grain of salt.]

@dennabeht

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please dont bring your B.S. into our community. thank you. 👍

switch would have to outsell (DS + Wii) numbers to account for the new one console paradigm.

is it just me, or does Mario look like he forgot to put his teeth in or something?

(face too short, hat too tall? and, my inner child just isnt connecting with his new dead doll eyes.)

@rjejr

"the parade, the Thanksgiving parade, the Macy's parade, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade - it's known by any of these names"

just to bring it full circle - "the Macy's Day Parade." 🙄😄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FudUibxgjI

Once again, Ollie uses the 'News' tag when the 'Rumour' tag is right there.

(FYI if you are writing the words "it's claimed," or "if accurate," it's not news. 👍)

@Turbotendo

thanks for the comment! I have nothing to add except that I really enjoyed reading it 😊✌️

@metaphysician

i agree with everything you said, because true. ✌️

abstractly, however i do indeed "truly want Nintendo (and everyone else) to (eventually) lose their copyrights," and yes there would be some doozies falling off the back end in a theoretical disney-less alternate timeline. 👍

PS - ive never downloaded a rom from a game made in this millennium... but OTOH ive never felt inspired to breathlessly "justify" my piracy either, much to your point 😆👍

@FrenchVaniIIuxe

the whole point of copyrights is supposed to be that they exist for a time, and then they expire. 👍

@Banjo- @Fighting_Game_Loser

thanks! i feel encouraged to get MvC collection on steamdeck now! 😄

@Banjo-

i felt burned by that SF 30th and I havent bought another of those compilations even though i desperately want to play MvC again.

(i wonder if the lag would be better on my Steam Deck?) 🤔

@LinktotheFuture

"Ultimate" means "final" and "best imaginable."

my point is, if it has glaring omissions (4/gold,) it's not either of those things because eventually another Kollection might come out that actually has all the games and that will be the "ultimate" by definition.

this is certainly a celebration and a Kollection but it's not the "ultimate" one. 👍✌️

@metaphysician

"I'm pretty sure they outright said why: because MK Gold is a Dreamcast game, and they don't have a workable Dreamcast emulator. They don't even have a workable N64 emulator as yet."

fair enough. 👍 thanks, i shouldve known this was the answer anyway.

(thank goodness for FOSS!)

@LinktotheFuture

"It’s an impressive achievement, and with an extensive accompanying documentary detailing Mortal Kombat’s inception and evolution, it’s easily the ultimate celebration of Midway Games’ gruesome fighting series.”

i was sarcasti-quoting the article, not the title 👍

what a stupid butthole! 😂

"It’s difficult to lament missing releases here when the existing lineup is so darn impressive."

hold my kontroller:

Mortal Kombat 4/Gold is the only remaining MK game that interests me in the slightest, unfortunately.

and, this cant possibly be the "ultimate" Kompilation without it, by definition. really odd they didnt include it, or couldnt for some reason. 🤔

@HammerGalladeBro

happy to clear that up 👍 i had to read through twice, myself, to get what was being said.

"how many people play Animal Crossing without NSO other than kids?"

i can see the logic of the question, but the idea of authorizing the use each time before playing effectively a throw away bonus mini game within the game (and that part of the game being "broken" without the service) is just beyond the pale for me.

(not to mention, for the people that already have NSO, its kind of a lame bonus anyway.)

i mean how greedy can you get? it's like they are afraid of good will from their own fans.

@HammerGalladeBro

"Buying these with the new currency lets you set them up in your room as you'd expect. However, if you've got an active NSO subscription, you can play 'a select classic game on each system.'"

"Don't Expect Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition To Include The DLC"

no one was expecting this from Nintendo in 2025.

they had to paywall the in-game games in a full price paid game? dear lord there is no bottom.

@Filthy

"GKC is just clutter for your someone else's attic, destined for obsolescence."

@BrewsterTea

good to know there are others! i didn't mention, I also feel as though i focus and play better with the music off, much of the time. I first noticed this while playing Wipeout on PSX c.1995, on the harder tracks. (even though I adored that OST and it was half the reason i wanted that game 😍)

Nintendo is the all time champion of "play it 'our way,' or dont play it at all."

i hung with them a v long time when the games were so damn good (c.1989-2016,) but these days I really appreciate when i can set the sound and control mappings to my liking for most games. (yada yada Steam Deck.)

@Spider-Kev

oh were you referring to my "i hate everything" addendum?

well, I dont hate "everything," especially you, my friend 😆✌️

(idk why I threw that in there lol, just to be random?)

another perfect debut that needed zero sequels.

now, wheres GX2? 😆

"There's always the Internet Archive."

my thoughts precisely.

Nintendo continues to behave like it's 1998 in regards to the Internet and what's been available to all of us, for free, on demand, for years, no thanks to them for the most part.

@Filthy

ah, but the attic is part of the house! 😌☝️

@Spider-Kev

haha! i shouldve said IRL somewhere in there 😆

what did you think of it, contemporaneously?

i dont think ive ever met anyone who played this game in its day. not that that is qualitative in any way.

To me, this game is an example of a good candidate for a "remaster" or even a random reboot or sequel because the nostalgia ratio is seemingly low.

I mean hot take, idk. i hate everything.

@Serpenterror

"I don't get how this was even an issue, if you play your Nintendo Switch 2 on a modern 4K smart TV you should already had YouTube built-in ready to go on that TV already."

some people might want to watch youtube handheld ✌️ or on a hotel room tv while traveling.

@N00BiSH

sound is half the reason i play videogames, depending on the game of course. 👍

also i turn the music off often, if its not particularly great. i really appreciate games that still sound "right" with just ambience/fx. and, in those cases i often find the game to be more immersive than with the tunes.

(huntdown is a good example of ambience done well. without the music, you can clearly hear the NPCs/enemies chatting or doing whatever they are doing before you are noticed, and the "air is filled" with sounds of the city, etc. its cool.)

@TheBoilerman

i have a wonderful mother 2 OST on vinyl that was a gift from a dear friend returning from japan ❤️

...but i never listen to it, because the vinyl "hiss" sounds oddly "detached" from the signal, and its distracting. and, the music sounds plenty "warm" as designed. ✌️ not to mention, i have ZXTUNE on my phone and it works fantastically.

@Truegamer79

minimalist piano compositions are not for everyone, but the town music is plenty melodic and "Zelda," if not completely on the nose, imo.

i love it all personally, by far the best thing about this game. 👍

im getting more skeptical of this kind of thing tbh.

@Drnsnsr

... read it again.

GKC is just clutter for your house, destined for obsolescence.

@Tibob

"EVERY game in there is available. Is it not about playing the games anymore ?"

its also about owning/collecting games, and it always has been. 👍

(PS that's not even true AFAIK.)

this game being pulled was the first major chip in the hull of my fandom.

...yada yada Steam Deck.

microsoft will always be "other gaming" to me.

@MeloMan

im being a little cute, because ive been on this train... forever 😆 i was working on my ZSNES backlog in the PSX days, and ive always been more into 100%ing my games while i wait to find a used copy of whatever's new, later.

(always with exceptions, like a new zelda or mario game, but now i wait on those, too, after the last few have been kinda... meh.)

but yeah the update, DLC, eventual bundle sale cycle has just reinforced this behavior 😊✌️

@Bunkerneath

I f*cking love lonely mountain! (thats what i call it 😆)

have you tried Decenders? i went into it expecting not much, and ended up sinking some time into it. satisfying game to play, and similar in the sense that its you vs the mountain/trail. i recommend turning the music off 😎✌️
something about driving a gasoline engine around the wilderness just doesnt hit the same, but if this is fun, ill be down. 👍

i dont even want to get into new games anymore, because i know that if i like them initially, they'll just change it. better to "work on the backlog" perpetually and just always be a few years behind.

@NorrinRadd

"The literal construction of your sentence as written indicates that anyone who is a passionate gamer is opposed to game key cards. That is how the sentence reads Implementing proper English grammar."

sorry that's wrong. all his words are saying is that the people complaining about game key cards are passionate gaming fans, and youve inserted yourself into it.

"It's been met with considerably negative reception from passionate gaming fans."

if youre gonna pedant, be right. it's like, the only rule 👍

"If Pokemon fans will blindly buy anything regardless of subpar quality, how do you explain all these sales?"

@UltimateOtaku91

It's an odd strategy. They seem to want it to be a spinoff OR a mainline game, depending on the desires of the beholder.

@MTMike87

i guess "mainline" is just another useful gaming term lost to brainless internet rhetoric and/or corporate subterfuge. see also "retro," "remaster..."

@UltimateOtaku91

what you say comports with what i thought as ive loosely followed along, to this point 👍 thanks!

it seems like they definitely intended "Legends" to be a spinoff series, and later claimed them to be "mainline," for whatever reasons they might have.

@kal_el_07241 @KayFiOS @MamaSymphonia

asked and answered! thanks, all. ✌️

FWIW i found the source of my misinformation:

"This game offers the first real open-world experience in the Pokémon series. Technically a spin-off from the mainline games, Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes place in a 'Ye Olde' version of the Gen 4 region..."

https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/nintendo-switch/pokemon-legends-arceus