The_Nintendo_Expat

@BrokenCiv

Thanks! I'm pretty pumped, and i havent been genuinely excited like this about a videogame anything in a very long time! 👍

btw glad to hear you are enjoying yours! though i don't think ive heard any Steamdeck owners complaining, actually. ✌️

@Spider-Kev @AmplifyMJ @BrokenCiv

I can see I'm entering my 40s in good company. 😊✌️

@AmplifyMJ @Spider-Kev

I dont usually make a big deal about my own birthday, but I'm turning 40, and it feels like kind of my last chance to do so, in a way. at least til im 50 😬😅

so, thanks for the birthday wishes! ✌️❤️

@charliecarrot

thanks for the very sensible answer! you seem to know what you are talking about 👍

when you put it that way, i can better understand. i deeply miss a time in gaming that we can never get back, and i think my feelings about "day one patches" are just kind of an expression of that. specifically, im glad that the games from my childhood are exactly the same as the day they were released, and i wouldn't change a thing about them!

ive felt the soul just drained from the entire artform ever since we started hooking our consoles up to broadband, honestly. this is not an argument for or against anything, just how I honestly feel! ✌️

anyhoo thanks for taking the time to reply, i really appreciate it. 👍

@AmplifyMJ

let me assure you that i am indeed jaded, but about Nintendo specifically 😅 i don't like how things have been going, and switch 2 has made all of it worse. I don't recognize my favorite games company anymore and it is making me sad. being a "Nintendo fan" became part of my identity for better or worse when i was 4 years old, and that has never changed, but I used to feel much better about it, it's true.

I am, however, about to get a Steamdeck for my birthday! after over two decades of owning essentially nothing but Nintendo consoles, I'm hoping it will give me some perspective, and maybe even some zeal and pep when it comes to gaming in general!

thanks for your candor, I've been chatting with you for years at this point and I always always read your comments as i value your perspective. ✌️

@HingryHuppo

this guy nose Metallica! ☝️

@AmplifyMJ

because work out the kinks before you release it, that's why. 👍

"well obviously it is justified, why would you know or see why?"

what do you know that i don't?

"why would you know or be privy to the reason?"

they could tell us instead of being cryptically vague, the way most other companies seem to manage, sometimes in very granular detail.

btw i don't consider your comment rude at all ✌️✌️

was there any rush or pressure to put this out? i don't really see how a day 1 patch is justified, here.

if you've got a few minutes of idle time, you might try mindfulness meditation, or just focus on breathing through your nose slowly and relax.

10/10 ✌️

great essay on a ZSNES classic! thanks Alana!

@ROMhaiku

"I also hope your Wii is made of pure Nintendium and does last forever."

i really appreciate it! ive had incredible luck with my Nintendo consoles thus far, with only minor repairs to keep things working 100%. 👍

(somewhat less so with my segas and playstations 😆)

Soshiro Hokkai
Yuki Minami
Taichi Tada

not that anyone else apparently cares. 👍

@ROMhaiku

"I don't remember the same outrage over Metroid Prime Remastered or TTYD remake costing £50 (if we're going by Nintendo's eshop prices)."

those games are not nearly as popular as mainline Mario games, so there would naturally be less "outrage." that's my shot at an explanation, anyway, take it as you will 👍

"Is that without repairs?"

well, my Wii is going strong, disc drive and all, but i would say that the Wii is both more robust and more reparable than the switch. 👍 i will definitely fix my Wii of the disc drive does fail, im skeptical that my switch even could be repaired if and when it fails one day.

"These games command a high price on Switch, to be sure, but you’ll be playing them for the rest of your life."

incidentally, i fully expect my wii + games to outlive my switch + games by a healthy margin.

@Truegamer79

IDK! Ive only had Nintendo consoles for 2 decades now, and I couldn't care less to follow the discourse on the latest COD nonsense. ✌️

@JohnnyMind

it does make sense. it's a competitive marketplace, so competitive that they are competing against dozens or even hundreds of games that I've already purchased, or planned to purchase before I ever heard about this release. Now, they will compete with all the other games coming out while I wait and see how the DLC/sales go.

in the infamous words of a young Tom Delonge, "I'm older than you, so I've got time."

they don't earn my money automatically just for working hard, though I have no doubt that they did. 👍

@Truegamer79

"Before anyone whines about the price consider this, buying both originally would've cost you over 120 dollars total. At 70 now it's like buying only one of the games back in the day."

"If you can't handle the price get out of gaming while you can. It's only gonna get worse every generation."

you are arguing in two directions at once. ✌️

@thesilverbrick

"Between the $70 game and two $40 amiibo, I’m blowing $150 on 15+ year-old games I’ve already bought multiple times before."

why? honest question, I'm curious where the value is for you. ✌️

yep! those are the cons!

can't think of any other cons.

@JohnnyMind

if a company's strategy is, "make as good of a game as possible for a fair price," I buy it if I'm interested.

if the company's strategy is," release the game piecemeal, for maximum profit," my strategy then changes to "wait until the DLC is over and get everything at once on sale, if ever."

it's really simple. no animosity, no hard feelings (exception: when they announce paid DLC ahead of the game's initial release.)

In a sense, I do "ignore it," as you suggest 👍

I'm truly becoming an old timer, as DLC "roadmaps" have become a bridge too far. utterly demotivating for me.

@Mgalens

a stunning new 120 fps FZero would be a system seller, and far more exciting I think than what we've gotten. 👍 (and I'm also very much a lifelong DK and Mario Kart fan, they are 3 equal series overall IMO.)

OTOH I don't think Nintendo can actually do it so I've given up hope I guess you could say.

@Orwellian87

Trailer's got me shook 😅

@sixrings

yeah, I haven't seen whatever it is that will make me say "okay, yeah that's worth the money," whether that's a "killer app," a price cut, or a new iteration. ✌️

OTOH all it needed to be was a new Nintendo console with a really great new Mario, Zelda, or Fzero and I'd have bought one ASAP.

best of luck, dood ✌️

man, will the upsides of the Tariffs just never end?

this is the only big game on my radar personally, so as long as it ends up good, I'll be getting it regardless! on my new steam deck no less, which I'm getting next month for my 40th birthday 😎

btw it was T2 and Prime 4, but sadly P4 fell off after that latest trailer with the motorcycle and the c.2015 looking FPS style gameplay. no thanks!

@Skunkfish

you are right on the facts! I'm talking about the way the console has been presented, and the way publishers are releasing games for it, with a few exceptions. like I said, it's not a pro console, but it is "like" one.

to me, so far it reminds me the most of Gameboy Color, oddly. not a "pro" console, not quite a successor. ✌️

@Debo626

don't back it then.

idk what anyone else 5 years ago imagined "Switch Pro" would be like, but for me this is it.

if the priority was stability, but all you could manage was 30fps, then the priority wasn't stability.

OMG why do the trailers talk to me like I'm 5?! 😮‍💨 even when I was 5 I feel like industry ephemera had a much more dignified tone.

@Milk_

"just feels like watching a badly made movie that interrupts any attention you might have had with the story by making you do random chores."

this is as accurate a description of modern gaming as I've seen 👍

TNG yes... QTE no.

seriously WHAT is going on with titling this generation?

the horrible title ruins both covers and also is anathema for people who might be new to the series. I mean, it's a paragraph on the page almost 😂

I voted Japan because at least I can't read half of it so it almost looks like a normal title: "Leighton's Mystery Journey DX"

@NotoriousWhiz

I haven't tried co-op yet!

...but I'd definitely want the ability to save progress! 😅👍

"game key cards are better than code in a box, therefore they are not bad."

"if we didn't have game key cards, we would only have digital."

"anti GKC people are wasting their time commenting on here, but I'm not."

it's bad to lie to random people on the internet, but it's worse to lie to yourself.

@Daniel36

I've always wondered why they keep the part about user scores dictating the list order in essentially the fine print, rather than the headline. 🤔

"if multiplayer is your thing (which, with Mario Kart, it really should be)."

"Should?"

I'll enjoy my Mario Kart games however I please, thanks.

they really didn't owe us this after frankly nailing it with this release. ✌️

@DennyCrane

thanks!

incidentally that's what I meant by "DEH-vin" 😅✌️

DEH-vin?

or de-VAUGHN?

I turn off the music on many games that I play, unless it's something really special. I find my feeling of immersion is better.

@electrolite77

let's start with the false notion that it's "game key cards or nothing/only digital."

you said it yourself, "I think if Nintendo can manage it an affordable lower capacity cart for smaller games I think that would solve a lot of the issues"

Nintendo invented GKCs out of thin air, when everyone would have expected a selection of different sizes of physical carts. it was a shrewd, calculated, cynical and anti-consumer choice, that they continue to make every single day.

this is a PR self-own, yet you want to minimize it to a vocal minority that you wish would just shut up and accept "reality" as you personally define it, from your throne of majoritarian self-superiority.

"very well... Game Key Cards for some, miniature American flags for others!"

@Sonicka @RupeeClock

"The reality is that Replaylee is really an entirely new game using the originals premise."

"It’s a shame this wasn’t gotten across any better to the audience."

it's insane to basically make a whole new game's worth of new content (if true,) and then call it REPLAYlee instead of just making a sequel.

also, the forced pun. they didn't call it "Banjo TWOee" because they actually respected their 10 year old audience (me) back then.

It's understandable that they rushed out the "remake," when the original game is so HOT right now! Everyone has been clamoring to play Yooka Laylee 1 again, lotta people have been saying it.

I bought a couple of these on switch, and deployed them in a casual group setting and EVERYONE got into it, blurting out suggestions, howling in laughter at the results. a really good time! 👍 there should be more "1 player party games."

@electrolite77

please don't say "facts don't care about your feelings," I simply can't take it 😂

@CANOEberry

it's like being thankful to your captor for 30 minutes of daylight per day, because it could be 5. and, shut up or it will be.

@electrolite77

"It’s nothing to do with any fallacy or silencing anyone, it’s just reality. As we’ve seen on countless occasions. People who come on sites like this are a minority."

There you go again!

😂