The_Nintendo_Expat

I can't believe landfill/e waste is not even part of this conversation.

not a moment too soon - I heard they just discovered some "land" that hadn't been "filled" yet.

"Far too many resources to manage..."

😮‍💨

"...that feel pointless."

💀

I really want to finally play this game but not as badly as I want to not support this company. so I win no matter what I choose lol.

@topsekret

thanks! that's actually kind of a good setup, I'm not sure I've come across that before. almost like, "forwards-compatible" game carts. 👍

@Preposterous

"Based on the blurb on the cover it's a Switch 1 game with free update to Switch 2 version included."

so the article is wrong? quoth again:

"it will have the Switch 1 and Switch 2 versions on the cart!"

" it will have the Switch 1 and Switch 2 versions on the cart!"

is this a switch 1 or a switch 2 cart, then?

if it's a switch 1 cart with a switch 2 game on it, what's the point of a switch 2 cart? and, what is the point of a game key card over a (presumably cheaper?) switch 1 cart?

if it's a switch 2 cart with a switch 1 game, then I simply didn't know switch 2 carts could be played on switch 1, but also it kind of upends some downstream assumptions i'd made as well.

anyway thanks for the article! if they let me "zoom in" the view a little bit and turn off the voices I'll consider trying this game.

"The soundtrack, while brilliant, hasn't seen any changes"

you accidentally put this in the "CONS" column 😁

makes you wonder why Nintendo doesn't offer their controllers in different colors anymore 🤔

@h3s

I have a wired Mayflash arcade stick that feels roughly nearly like a Dreamcast stick. I'm pretty sure they still make them but not positive. 👍

EDIT - also I have no idea if either are considered "good" these days but I loved the DC stick, and I like the Mayflash a lot. ✌️

maybe my eyes are just tired but these "zoomed out" type games just don't connect for me. Hades included/especially.

I'm finally playing Goldeneye's 1p campaign, and I'm on the last few missions 😊✌️ almost 30 years on, I'm absolutely loving it!

I like "hard" games but I found resurrection to be just too full of cheap shots and blind corners to really have fun with. just has no "flow" to me (even compared to the old ones, of which I agree "Super" is the best ✌️)

looks a bit rough, imo.

I think I wouldn't like the "mound" that the stick sits upon.

for my money I'd rather have multiple controllers with different functions than one controller and a bunch of useless parts lying around. OTOH I wouldn't be carrying this thing around in a duffel for rapid field deployment like Jason Bourne, either.

last thing: call me old school, but I think i prefer the kind of buttons which each have a "surround."

✌️ thanks for the review, certainly interesting!

@DonkeyKongBigBoy

I think Huntdown is my favorite scoot n shoot ever, even topping contra 3! there was a time I never thought I'd say it.

TBH, I beat Huntdown (norm diff) a couple years ago, but now when I play it, I enjoy the levels but mostly dont really have patience for the bosses! 😅 and, that final boss nearly broke me lol

I'm very much looking forward to the new T2! Looks amazing. ✌️

"How beautiful, a divine quest so unobtainable..."

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical... 🎶

Nintendo requests that you would forget YouTube exists. Thank you. Or else.

-Nintendo legal dept.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Ydt8g2VQ4Hrag6mehy1t9P3p2im57as&si=--C1TZlxtyfa4_er

@DonkeyKongBigBoy

"name a game that actually does justify it's price tag? And don't say silksong, it's so not the same"

you weren't asking me, but Towerfall, Huntdown, and Enter the Gungeon spring immediately to mind ✌️

@Unit_DTH

I'm sorry if I was presumptuous. 🙂‍↕️ truly.

My point was that for some, videogames are a welcome escape from "real life." certainly part of my early gaming life as a child was actually escapism from some of the things going on at the time.

OTOH I didn't play "loving and present father sims" as a kid so point duly noted 😂✌️

@Anti-Matter

"Actually I'm excited with this game..."

huzzah! 🎆🎆🎆🎆🥳🥳🥳🎆🥳

😂✌️

@Unit_DTH

"Too Many sims, life is better outside than in a digital sim. imo"

you are of course entitled to your opinion, but this is more like a statement of fact about your personal experience. your life is good, good for you. 👍

@electrolite77

"I wish they’d make more SNES ones but the rest of their NSO controllers have been sat in stock on the UK website for months now."

for some reason the gatekeeping turns me off to the entire enterprise, much how I don't buy "limited edition" or anything from LRG. It's not strictly rational but OTOH I have so much old Nintendo gear, they are their own worst competition when it comes to getting me to buy new stuff. ✌️

@electrolite77

any documentation of people balking at virtual console and requesting "Netflix for retro games" instead?

this is not how I remember it. ✌️

@SirLink

Not a controller, but I'll never forget the day I found sealed new copies of silhouette mirage and tail concerto for 10 dollars each at FYE circa 2004, opened them, played them, and sold them a couple years later for "profit."💀

@Questionable_Duck

this user will argue with you all day, only to twist your words, play the "victim," and then block you. (ask me how I know.)

@SirLink

"If they made more of them and put them on the shelves, they'd stay there forever and their price would eventually plummet, as shops would want to get rid of them at the end."

ahhh, the good old days... 🥲

@SirLink

do you mean, they wouldn't sell?

@Questionable_Duck

senior citizen Nintendo Lifers, sound off! (not me lol but I'm interested.)

EDIT - 4000 posts, hooray

anyone else remember the soap that went "viral" like 20 years ago for name dropping Mike Patton?

EDIT - omfg it really was like 20 years ago 💀

https://youtu.be/CGex5VZB7T4?si=riIoQ7wnzpifW--o

@CasualTalkRadio

"Seem to remember the actors coming across more natural than that.

Are we...misremembering?"

we might be 😂👍

"...the fact that Xenoblade is name-dropped indicates that the writer of this particular scene [...] is aware of the RPG series from developer Monolith Soft."

good point lol

why can't first party Nintendo controllers of all kinds just exist on store shelves?

these are dollar store games. they aren't awful but 35 dollars is insane.

@Suketoudara

"I'd like a collection with the console versions of Street Fighter instead of the arcade ones. Particularly the SNES versions of Street Fighter 2! Also the Street Fighter EX games have yet to be re-released in a collection."

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🥳

To this day, SF2 and SF2Turbo on SNES are really the only versions of that game that I really care to play. the sound is so much better, for one! when I bought the SF collection on switch I was disappointed to find that I missed the experience of playing the various console ports of these games more than I really wanted a direct arcade conversion at home.

@Ogbert

it's been a long time, but here's what I remember about triforce heroes:

first off, I was still a Nintendo fan, with no asterisk. they were different times! 😅

my wife and I both had 2DSes, and I bought us both a copy of this thinking we'd have fun working through the dungeons together.

Nope! turns out this is the world's first and to my knowledge only 1 OR 3 player game! and since I'd already opened them, they couldn't be returned.

I was pretty bummed. I still haven't played that game and I can't imagine how or when we would have a third person around to play through it together.

really odd. how much more appealing would a TWO player co op Zelda game be? I mean really.

anyway that's my beef with triforce heroes 😂✌️

no such thing as a "normal noise" in this category.

@HolyGeez03

I apologize for taking your name in vain. 🥴✌️

I see the thought police are out in force in these comments.

@KidSparta

Metroid has always been Zelda from the side. (or in the case of Prime, Ocarina in first person) 👍

OTOH I'd argue that Windwaker gives you the least amount of "things to do between major areas" of just about any Zelda game, and my fear (which you've unlocked 😂) is that this Metroid game will be like that.

holy GEEZ look at those cobblestones!

fake problem.

sell me a digital file of which I can make a backup copy if i so choose.

@HammerKirby

really well said, and great examples! I feel the same way you do. particularly with "tank controls" a la RE, the fact that people can't see the good and bad about different approaches is sad, to me.

OTOH don't make jump some weird button! 😂 we all have our rules and ideas, right?

@Filthy

you are right, I didn't have the investment in most of those launches that I do in Nintendo launches, so my feelings were just different towards those. 🤔 (though I was there for the Wii U at launch and IMO the feeling at least on the "inside" was pretty positive early on, and then BOTW came out 👍 I was a happy Wii u owner tbh.)

and, I haven't followed social media since 2011 so there ya go 😂 thanks for replying!

Switch 2 is rotten. I've never seen or felt so much negativity around a new console's launch. even jaguar and 32x seemed to have less bad feelings in the first few months.

and, I refuse to blame "the fans."

31% - yes
23(.3)% - just interested in one of the games
45% - essentially "no"

I don't think there are many Nintendo fans for whom this isn't an auto buy for the right price, including myself. I'd buy day 1 at 50 but I have principles and at this point, more sense than money. (and I've bought these games more than once already 😆)

PS - "I'm not sure about the price" is not really the right wording lol. Anyone checking that box likely knows what they think of the price 😂

@Itsashame

touché! perhaps saving on directs wouldn't offset the cost of a price drop, but as I have been saying, over-priced plus over-promoted is a bad look, to me.

incidentally, I said 'save money on directs AND announce a 50 dollar price," not TO. I wasn't intentionally implying that they could recoup 20 bucks/copy just by omitting a direct, but I can see how it could be read that way. ✌️

(EDIT - alas, I didn't say 'and' OR 'to' 😂 ah well I've said enough here 😅✌️)

This was Nintendo's chance to make a 50 dollar tier (remember all those years ago when 70 for TOTK was justified because "well, it's Zelda...?") and instead they let me know beyond question that even offbeat sequels to mediocre spinoff games in their more "casual" franchises will be 70+ dollars. So the more they promote it, at this point, the more it looks like money and good will down the toilet. regardless of if this game makes profit.

@15roundTKO

this is a sequel, not a remake. but somehow you're still not wrong 😂✌️

@Oldstalk

I'm sure they wouldn't do it if it didn't lead to more money some how or other. I'm more concerned with reasonable prices than Nintendo's profits.

personally, when fans are decrying over-marketing and high prices at the same time, it's not the greatest situation, regardless of context. I've said this 2 or three different ways across my original post and these replies. 👍

@Itsashame

I have no idea what it costs! I imagine it's the result of the labor of a team of people, including planners and personal assistants, graphics people, sound people, et al. nothing that a group of professionals and executives does is is cheap, and it's maybe far more expensive than you'd guess. this is part of an ad campaign and that ad campaign is part of what leads to the MSRP of the game, perhaps minimally as you say but it's all in the balance.

@mystman12

"A game that hasn't released yet literally cannot speak for itself so the only option for building up excitement is to show and tell."

this is a good point.
if you like this sort of stuff, more power to you. 👍 I'm not here to take anything away from anyone ✌️

@N00BiSH

"In the olden days when we didn't like something we just walked the other way and gave them no words. Can't do that anymore."

"I don't see the salient point of complaining about getting more information on a game"

here you are "kvetching" about my comment. how deliciously ironic. 😂👍

(ps- my point, in so many words, was something like, "no amount of fluff will make up for the game being 20 dollars overpriced IMHO.")