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So Pauline is definitely gonna be in the final wave of MK8D's dlc then right? They keep showing her in these Tour ads.

I wonder what'll happen after that final wave though? Will we get costumes? Battle Courses? Another pass? Or nothing until the next Mario Kart? They're gonna have to clarify that, especially as Tour keeps getting more stuff

I would also like to know about the DLC, I remember playing the Raziel and Kain pack and being amazed at how much they could do by just reusing voice lines from their own games!

Some of the older Tomb Raider games as well have a problem of content that's not available on all systems, like I think the "Gold" versions and things like The Times Exclusive level, Lara's Shadow, some extra stuff in one of the PSP and Wii ports and such. I'd like a more concerted effort to request all the content in future releases please!!

I think might finally pick up Astral Chain and MHRise's Sunbreak expansion, though they may still end up on my backlog instead of playing them straight away...

Bayo x Jeanne only makes sense if you played 2 and not 1. Luka barely does anything in 2, so I'm not surprised if people didn't know of everything they went through in 1, I've replayed 1 a lot (I'm still bad at it) through different difficulties and in different outfits and trying to find/unlock stuff, so I've seen those cutscenes a lot.

I think it was also a mistake for him to still be clumsy in what little we see of him in 2, he should've been more competent after 1. I've not played 3 yet, but I've heard of his powers and they weren't set up like at all, sounds to me like that idea was tacked on out of nowhere, which I'm not a fan of. But like I said, I haven't played 3 yet.

I know it's kinda dumb, but the reason this is called "The Lara Croft Collection" is because neither have Tomb Raider in the title, they're both called "Lara Croft and..." I imagine a collection of the Tomb Raider games would be called a Tomb Raider Collection.

I wonder if this includes all the DLC too? The Raziel and Kain character pack in Guardian of Light was super cool

Fusing is a game changer for sure, ensuring that everything you come across will be helpful in some way, either to build, make weapons, augment your shield, or make new types of arrows, adds waaay more variety to combat and traversal.

You could hoard a ton of random elemental materials and such to make element arrows instead of needing to search out those arrows specifically.

Ultrahand means magnesis is redundant, and any physics object can now be manipulated freely. With Recall, you may be able to roll a boulder down a hill to attack and enemy, then recall it and hit them again on the way back!

Ascend means that they've likely populated a lot of the land with caves, something that I think BOTW was sorely lacking, I hope they're a touch more interesting than just a way to get up high though, but that alone adds extra speed and freedom to explore.

I hope Rocket Racer is a secret character or something. You know, when I was younger I would have loved official Lego sets with the Lego Racers characters

I might get round to it eventually. Picked up Bayo 1&2 in a sale, already played through them on Wii U, but that was ages ago, got Bayo 3 ready to go too, but my backlog of other games is too big

I got the N64 posters and these look cool too, an easy decision when only paying for the postage

Anyone hating on speedrunners should watch some Summoning Salt, AGDQ, Linkus7, Karl Jobst, or TomatoAnus (yes that really is the name of his channel), or a whole host of other channels, you might learn something

Any chance of Xrd Rev2 and Strive then, maybe? (and a patch for Kill la Kill IF would be nice, as I detailed in a forum post a while ago)

Square Enix I implore you, it isn't too late to stop! Blockchain stuff is a horrific waste of energy and computing components...

@treechenho If someone's not done the lower speeds yet, it would be interesting if they could check this by going straight to 200cc or something and see if it clears all the others, unfortunately I did them all in order, so I can't check

I feel like the mud in Waluigi Stadium is missing something, I felt the same way about the wooden boards on some of the other DLC courses, it has so much detail, yet it still looks so flat, like it's missing some extra element to make it look right. I'm sure any 3D modellers/texture creators will understand what I mean?

I also feel like the start/finish lines are missing detail, in the base game courses they have proper texture to them, in the DLC they're just flat, plain colour checkerboards, it's not necessarily bad, it just stands out to me as inconsistent

I don't think I've seen any of these issues, so props on them for finding and fixing them! I did also notice that Birdo's hands clip into her mouth in her victory animation.

Honestly I really hope they don't add any more non-Mario characters, I don't even like that there are some already... Mario/Kong characters should be the focus here, and only then maybe expand it from there to add Wario series and Yoshi series stuff etc.

I'd love to see Pauline, E. Gadd, Diddy and Dixie, then do more or less what you like with any extra

I really like Birdo, and I actually quite like Mario Circuit, unless I'm misremembering the original (it's been a looong time), they added some nice touches like the Wiggler. Curiously it sated my hunger for more 64 courses, despite not being one.

I found Yoshi's Island just a touch disappointing, I think it needed a little more time to add and tweak the details around the course, there's something about it that feels a bit hollow to me. It's somehow too busy while also being too empty?

At the start line, I feel like the mailbox Poochie is on should be a tad shorter and the fence around the eggs obscures them too much. You can barely see the iconic seagulls at the mountain because of the incline, it would have been better to place them around the gliding sections immediately after that. And the mountains around the island are too pointy. I do like the course, it's just, not quite right in my eyes

My picks are:
Pauline
E. Gadd
Diddy
Dixie
and whatever you want for the fifth, that's if they're stopping at 5 extra

@wutadam Thanks again! Got any tips for beating the badminton powerhouse cpu it's the only one I can't seem to beat

@wutadam Thank you! Do you know if the 3 hole courses count towards unlocking the Rookie outfit? It's the only one I don't have.

After that the only gold outfit I'll be missing is the badminton one but I don't think I'll be getting it anytime soon, I can't even score a single point against the powerhouse cpu...

@wutadam Can you tell me exactly what mode I have to play in golf to earn the outfits? I got under par on a 3 hole course, but that wasn't enough. Do I have to do all the 3 holes, or do I have to play all 18? Is 9 enough instead? I can't find the answer anywhere

@JohnnyMind Small world, eh? Oh man, you missed out, we had a lot of fun playing those minigames together and how you could mess with each other, good times

@TobiasAmaranth I never actually completed Bomberman 64, game was fun though, I loved the music as well as playing multiplayer battles with my brother and sisters, and being able to customise your multiplayer character with the parts you found in the story mode was really cool too!

My first and for a long time only Bomberman game was Bomberman 64, so I was very confused later when I discovered that they're usually very different from that. Though had a lot of fun with the Bomberman Land Touch games on DS and playing the minigames with my sister

@JONOFTHEJONS The crashes were in specific situations:

1. Once during a cutscene of all things
2. Once in Endless Challenge after I had got somewhere over 7000 kos
3. Again in Endless Challenge after about 5000 kos
4-6. In Digital Figure mode, that mode likes to crash when you change the background, or if you select Mako or Nudist Beach, scroll to their Expressions, scroll back and change the character.

Endless Challenge is kinda broken then, and you'll never be able to try and max out the scoreboard for it, 'cos the game will just randomly crash. Digital Figure needs a lot of work, it's a little slow, unstable, and doesn't give enough options to move the camera, models, and only allows viewing specific models instead of all of them.

Also the scoreboard for 1 min. Challenge is weirdly capped out at 999, despite my best score actually being 5432.

The game NEEDS patching, no doubt, it's still fun to play though, if you want to get it, do what I did and wait for a big discount. I do really wish we could use the characters alternate costumes (yes, including naked Ragyo, please don't judge), as well as the super-powered versions of Ragyo, Ryuko and Satsuki outside of story mode.

@JONOFTHEJONS off topic, but I'd like to see ports of both Strive and Xrd Rev2... and a proper patch for Kill la Kill IF, for a game with clothes as a central theme it's very odd that you can't use any of their alternate costumes, that and in my short time playing it it's crashed on me 6 times now

They did state in the original reveal that the shops would have the same stock as the normal shops in Splatoon 3, so I don't know why anyone expected anything else on that front

I don't think DK actually looks as bad as some people think, I think it's a good start to a great idea

I was also wondering if we'll ever see the Master Sword get a pallette swap upgrade in a fully 3D Zelda, like in the top-down ALttP/ALBW

Gosh dang finally, I thought they weren't going to add more characters!

Pauline is a must, seeing as she's now been in Tennis, Golf and Strikers (though weirdly not Party). No idea why they didn't just add her the moment Odyssey came out though.

I'd like to see E. Gadd finally get in, the Kongs too. There's so many characters they could pick from, I'd happily remove all the non-Mario characters and things like Metal Mario if it meant we got more Mario/Kong characters...

I thought this was a glitch at first lol

I searched for a game and it turned up the one result, and it seems a bit janky when that happens, displaying off to the left side under some of the UI

The Joy-cons my Switch came with drifted quite badly, but I don't seem to have had that problem with my newer pair, there are a couple of issues though:

On my original pair, the SL, SR buttons and LED light on the right one don't work anymore for some reason, so I dunno if the repair would be free if it has extra problems like this.

On my newer pair, pressing the left stick in for L3 really doesn't work properly, I have to press it quite hard and it still sometimes won't register properly

Don't sleep on Oath in Felghana! It was my first Ys game back on PSP, the game's real fun and the music is phenomenal

Any chance we can convince them to show the actual design, or do they not have it anymore or perhaps not allowed to do that?

Also, I dunno who Doronjo is, but I'd be ok with that, she looks cool. We also need Captain Syrup in more things please! We finally managed to get Pauline in more games, so why not?

Hey, can you guys let Ubisoft know that their servers are broken?

I've recently got back into playing Rayman Legends and I've been trying to do the Daily and Weekly Challenges to get enough Lums to unlock the last characters, but a couple of weeks ago it didn't give me the Lums for 3 out of 4 Challenges, the next week it didn't give me any for 2 of them, yesterday it didn't give me the Lums for either of the 2 Daily ones, and today it's being really weird.

Actually now that I've checked, I haven't received any from the Daily Easy since the 3rd, and haven't got any from the Daily Extreme since the 4th...

@Truegamer79 Crisis Core was originally a PSP game, I think the game you're thinking of is Dirge of Cerberus? Like Kingdom Hearts though, there's no spin-offs, it's all one continuity. Well, that depends on the direction FFVIIR goes.

The level up system works in a specific way, and I don't think the game tells you this. You gain XP like any other game, but you only level up if the DMW spins its level up combination. This means that if you gain enough XP before that happens, you can gain multiple levels in one go.

Materia works a little differently, and can be leveled up without any XP by just leaving the game running in a combat scenario that you can't lose, and eventually the DMW will level them all up for you with no input.

I did notice a strange over-abundance of Blue Shells happening sometimes, as well as two Bloopers being used at the same time.

It's important to point out that certain positions have different item probabilities, so turning off some items messes with that. For instance, turning off almost all the items you can get in 1st place suddenly allows you to get all the other items too! (including blue shells!)

Slight correction, it should be "Final Fantasy VII Remake", Rebirth is the name of the next part

If it's not been mentioned already, it's incredibly important to point out that Breath of the Wild and Xenoblade Chronicles X were Wii U games...

Why didn't they have Monolith Soft help them with this? I'm at a loss for words

Had a lot of fun with DOA Dimensions on 3DS, I hope 6 hasn't completely killed the series...

Sword of the Vagrant could've been on this list, it only recently got an eShop page with a December 1st release date, and it was supposed to come out in June! I wonder what happened between then and now?

@Ear_wiG I'm more wondering if it's a consistent 30fps, as well as if it looks worse in a way that might bother me. Oh, and what the loading times are like too, I've been burned before on Switch ports that have annoyingly long loading times.

Still hoping that there'll be a demo, I might ask for this for Christmas, but I wanna know if I should go for Switch or PS4. I still have the original on PSP, so it's not a huge deal if I decide to get it later though.

@Migoshuro Thanks for wishing me happy birthday! 😄

Hope everyone has a great weekend, and if you're in the UK like me, I hope you enjoy the fireworks too!

Well it's my birthday today and I'm picking up:

Bayonetta 3
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
and Streets of Rage 4

Bomberman 64 was the only Bomberman game I'd played for the longest time. Spent a lot of time playing multiplayer battles, so I was confused years later when I found out that they're usually not like that.

Also had a lot of fun playing Bomberman Land Touch 1&2's minigames in multiplayer, but aside from those, I've not played any others

Was hoping there'd be a DS Castlevania collection out in time for Halloween, but I guess not... it's gotta happen at some point, right?

Hoping there'll be a demo for Crisis Core, I need to know for myself how it plays on Switch and PS4, so I can decide which to go for (if at all).

Big fan of the original and still have it on PSP, so it needs to feel worth it

I kinda wish I could erase the terms "fan service" and "objectification", or at least, the way that people use them... it irritates me no end

Thanks Nintendo for once again reminding me that Pauline isn't in Mario Kart 8...

If they end up not doing character updates/dlc for 8, then I hope the Tour characters return in the next game, as well as E. Gadd, why hasn't he been in a Mario Kart game yet?