You can talk about hardware and specs all you want. But Sony simply needs to up their first party game. It's been lackluster on the PS5 compared to its previous consoles. No handheld or console will sell without substantial first party offerings. And that is exactly why Microsoft has no chance at creating a successful handheld. Microsoft has abandoned first party games ever since the release of Halo 3. And that's why their systems have failed ever since.
Lolita originally had to be published in France. It ran against US obscenity laws. The truth is that the US has never been the end all be all of free speech.
I'm actually really hyped for it. DKC Returns was one of those games that didn't really have a definitive version. The Wii version looked much better and ran at a smooth 60 frames. The 3ds version controlled much better and had extra levels. Now we get an HD version with the 60 frames of the Wii version and the controls and levels of the 3ds one. Yes please.
Hot take. I wish Nintendo never released an official timeline. I wish they just let the fans do their best to speculate and piece together the timeline themselves. It was more fun that way.
@Anti-Matter Oh I have no doubt there are plenty of great games on the system. There just hasn't yet been that killer app (Think Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey for the Switch) that has made me decide to buy the system. And a lot of other people feel the same way. Now if RE9 is a PS5 exclusive I will definitely have to get one for that.
'I'd like to imagine calm heads and common sense will prevail and three years from now we won't be looking back at the good ol' days of $700 PS5 Pros. - Ed."
You obviously haven't followed the last 8 years very closely if you expect "calm heads" and "common sense."
@Dazman If you don't like consoles don't buy them. And I completely disagree that it's anti-consumer. Companies having their own platform is why we get games like Zelda and The Last of Us. Consumers benefit when companies compete with each other to sell platforms.
@Dazman "Exclusives" are about 95% of new games that are actually worth playing. Nintendo and Sony have incentive to make system selling games. If you take consoles away and exclusives with them. You're going to see a whole lot more live service garbage.
Aonuma knows what he's talking about. Zelda doesn't need to be a story first game. There are other ones that can do that. Ace Attorney Trilogy is really good and you should play it.
@-wc- Remember pausing all the time for the Iron boots in the water temple? Zelda has had issues like this forever. The fact that dealing with a menu is the worst part of the game goes to show how sound the rest of it is. Nobody was complaining about the menus in Sonic 06. There were quite a lot of other more glaring issues to complain about.
@Kiyata Interesting. Back in 2017 I did get Mario Odyssey from Amazon a day before release. I was playing my copy a day early and my brother had to watch me while waiting for his.
I don't get it. When scantily clad characters are covered up a little bit people get mad and claim its censorship. But then people got mad when they uncensored Paper Mario by reincluding a trans character that was supposed to be there from the beginning. Do you people want censorship or not?
My GameCube adapter always reads one controller as two after the update. My brother and I used this to do a match where we each controlled two characters with our one controller each. I won.
This makes me want the game more. I played so much Mario Party DS back in the day. It brings me absolute pleasure that people are experiencing online today what I would experience on the school bus back then.
See. This is what first past the post brings. The European and Japanese box are almost identical. Yet by splitting the votes between them the NA version wins.
I really think all of these leaks are why Nintendo doesn't announce development partners beforehand anymore. They're trying to stamp out leaks and are trying to keep as much info close to the chest as they can. Leaks are fun for fans. But you have to remember that they happen because someone who has trust placed in them is breaking that trust.
And their recent Switch update totally messed up a bunch of people's GameCube adapters. Mine always reads my one GameCube controller as two controllers now ever since Switch 19.0. Nintendo needs to fix that.
There's been an attempt at 6 revisionism to try and critically reevaluate it. People trying to claim that its a bad RE game but a good action game. I must say I disdain that attempt. It's just not good. Even as far as third person shooters go it isn't very good. The truth is that a guy chasing you around a dinner table with a shovel in RE7 is a million times more intense than literally anything in RE6.
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Re: Rumour: One Of Kirby's 3DS Titles Will Return Next Year, It's Claimed
Dope. Never played it on the 3ds so it'll be cool to get another chance to.
Re: Video: Let's Discuss The Big Question: What The Heck Is Happening At Nintendo Right Now?
They're gearing up for the announcement of Wii U 2.
Re: Poll: Okay, It's Time To Ask The Obvious - Will We Get Donkey Kong 64 On NSO?
Nintendo wants us Wii U adopters to feel loved. So it will never come to NSO.
Re: Talking Point: Can Sony And Microsoft Really Compete With Nintendo In A New 'Handheld War'?
@Pally356 and software more like The Last of Us and less like Concord.
Re: Talking Point: Can Sony And Microsoft Really Compete With Nintendo In A New 'Handheld War'?
You can talk about hardware and specs all you want. But Sony simply needs to up their first party game. It's been lackluster on the PS5 compared to its previous consoles. No handheld or console will sell without substantial first party offerings. And that is exactly why Microsoft has no chance at creating a successful handheld. Microsoft has abandoned first party games ever since the release of Halo 3. And that's why their systems have failed ever since.
Re: Ex-PlayStation Boss Questions Future Of Consoles, But Not Nintendo Hardware
So long as Nintendo releases Pokemon and Mario Kart exclusively to their own hardware. They will always have their own hardware.
Re: Triangle Strategy "Temporarily Unavailable" On Switch eShop, But Have No Fear
@Lizuka the steam version isn’t great but I’d take it at this point over nothing.
Re: Bullet-Hell Shmup Refused Classification In The West Over 'Expression Restrictions'
Lolita originally had to be published in France. It ran against US obscenity laws. The truth is that the US has never been the end all be all of free speech.
Re: Triangle Strategy "Temporarily Unavailable" On Switch eShop, But Have No Fear
I just want a Chrono Trigger rerelease.
Re: Poll: So, Will You Be Getting Donkey Kong Country Returns HD For Switch?
I'm actually really hyped for it. DKC Returns was one of those games that didn't really have a definitive version. The Wii version looked much better and ran at a smooth 60 frames. The 3ds version controlled much better and had extra levels. Now we get an HD version with the 60 frames of the Wii version and the controls and levels of the 3ds one. Yes please.
Re: As Switch Closes The Gap, Sony Officially Confirms PS2 Has Sold "Over" 160 Million Units
Over 160 million sold. And its nearly impossible to find one that still works right.
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Services Will End In China In 2026
Removed
Re: The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Has Been Added To The Official Timeline
@MrGawain Yeah exactly. I much prefer them as fables or fairy tales. Legends. If you will.
Re: The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Has Been Added To The Official Timeline
@rvcolem1 I think a Zelda II remake that keeps the 2d sections but vastly improves everything could actually be super cool.
Re: The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Has Been Added To The Official Timeline
Hot take. I wish Nintendo never released an official timeline. I wish they just let the fans do their best to speculate and piece together the timeline themselves. It was more fun that way.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
@Anti-Matter Oh I have no doubt there are plenty of great games on the system. There just hasn't yet been that killer app (Think Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey for the Switch) that has made me decide to buy the system. And a lot of other people feel the same way. Now if RE9 is a PS5 exclusive I will definitely have to get one for that.
Re: Sony May Be Plotting A New PSP To Compete With Nintendo's 'Switch 2'
Why? They don't even have enough games to make the PS5 worth owning yet.
Re: Mailbox: The Death Of GameCube, Mario Party Matchmaking, Tariffs - Nintendo Life Letters
'I'd like to imagine calm heads and common sense will prevail and three years from now we won't be looking back at the good ol' days of $700 PS5 Pros. - Ed."
You obviously haven't followed the last 8 years very closely if you expect "calm heads" and "common sense."
Re: How Well Do You Know The Nintendo DS?
Getting my DS was the best Christmas I had. Good times.
Re: Poll: Was The Nintendo DS Prototype Really So Ugly?
I miss having a pocket sized handheld console.
Re: Random: Uh-Oh, Some Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Players Are Struggling With The "Small" Text
@NinChocolate True. It's so weird how old games had this problem solved decades ago.
Re: The Game Awards 2024 Nominees Have Been Revealed - Zelda, Mario And Metroid Nominated
@SpaceboyScreams Alright. Now tell me exactly how those games are woke DEI.
Re: The Game Awards 2024 Nominees Have Been Revealed - Zelda, Mario And Metroid Nominated
@Serpenterror I want you to name me one game that has DEI and woke culture.
Re: Mario & Luigi's Future In Doubt As A Potential Sony Acquisition Emerges
@Dazman If you don't like consoles don't buy them. And I completely disagree that it's anti-consumer. Companies having their own platform is why we get games like Zelda and The Last of Us. Consumers benefit when companies compete with each other to sell platforms.
Re: Dragon Quest III Remake Producer Would "Love" To See Final Fantasy VI HD-2D
CHRONO
TRIGGER
Re: The Game Awards 2024 Nominees Have Been Revealed - Zelda, Mario And Metroid Nominated
I just don't want Back Myth Wukong to win. We can't give in to authoritarianism.
Re: Mario & Luigi's Future In Doubt As A Potential Sony Acquisition Emerges
@Dazman "Exclusives" are about 95% of new games that are actually worth playing. Nintendo and Sony have incentive to make system selling games. If you take consoles away and exclusives with them. You're going to see a whole lot more live service garbage.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Double Dragon (NES)
Y’all voted and don’t even know what a tariff is.
Re: Anniversary: 20 Years On, Metroid Prime 2 Represents The Franchise At Its Experimental Best
Prime 2 is my favorite Prime game. That and Super Metroid are tied for my favorite in the series. Would love a remaster.
Re: Talking Point: With 'Switch 2' Coming, Will Switch Get A Price Cut?
With a global tariff war about to begin. Nothing is getting a price cut.
Re: Eiji Aonuma Explains Why Zelda's Gameplay Takes Priority Over Story
Aonuma knows what he's talking about. Zelda doesn't need to be a story first game. There are other ones that can do that. Ace Attorney Trilogy is really good and you should play it.
Re: Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Devs Explain The Method Behind The Menu Madness
@-wc- Remember pausing all the time for the Iron boots in the water temple? Zelda has had issues like this forever. The fact that dealing with a menu is the worst part of the game goes to show how sound the rest of it is. Nobody was complaining about the menus in Sonic 06. There were quite a lot of other more glaring issues to complain about.
Re: Amazon Appears To Be "Directly" Selling First-Party Switch Games Again (US)
@Kiyata Interesting. Back in 2017 I did get Mario Odyssey from Amazon a day before release. I was playing my copy a day early and my brother had to watch me while waiting for his.
Re: Video: "It Was Just Like Coming Home" - We Talk Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Ahead Of Its Launch
"It looks great, but they very slightly covered up the V bone on that one character. So really it'll be the worst game ever."
-Gamers
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X Fans Are Once Again Discussing The Game's 'Censorship'
I don't get it. When scantily clad characters are covered up a little bit people get mad and claim its censorship. But then people got mad when they uncensored Paper Mario by reincluding a trans character that was supposed to be there from the beginning. Do you people want censorship or not?
Re: 'Nintendo Music' Hosts A Different Version Of Ocarina Of Time's Fire Temple Theme
Still like the OG Islam chant version the best.
Re: Reaction: With Xenoblade Chronicles X On Switch, The Wii U's Demise Is Complete
Not until Yoshi's Woolly World, Twilight Princess HD, and Wind Waker HD are ported. Until then the Wii U yet lives.
Re: Switch System Update 19.0.0 Is Apparently Causing Some Issues
My GameCube adapter always reads one controller as two after the update. My brother and I used this to do a match where we each controlled two characters with our one controller each. I won.
Re: Rumour: A Rayman Remake May Be On The Cards At Ubisoft
The fact we never got a sequel to Rayman Legends is proof that there is no God.
Re: Random: Reddit Is Alight With Reports Of 'Pure Evil' Mario Party Jamboree Player
This makes me want the game more. I played so much Mario Party DS back in the day. It brings me absolute pleasure that people are experiencing online today what I would experience on the school bus back then.
Re: Some Fans Aren't Happy About Sonic X Shadow Generations' Changes To The Original
Why do Sonic fans seem more upset about these minor changes than they seem to be when Sega releases a completely unplayable broken game?
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Balloon Fight (NES)
See. This is what first past the post brings. The European and Japanese box are almost identical. Yet by splitting the votes between them the NA version wins.
Re: Video: Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Side-By-Side Graphics Comparison
Just please do Chrono Trigger already.
Re: Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu Says Fantasian Neo Dimension Is His "Final Project"
The actual GOAT. He can do whatever he wants. He's done a few lifetime's worth of greatness already.
Re: Talking Point: Just How Damaging Is This Big Pokémon Leak?
I really think all of these leaks are why Nintendo doesn't announce development partners beforehand anymore. They're trying to stamp out leaks and are trying to keep as much info close to the chest as they can. Leaks are fun for fans. But you have to remember that they happen because someone who has trust placed in them is breaking that trust.
Re: Rumour: Nintendo Might Be Gearing Up For A GameCube Controller Comeback
And their recent Switch update totally messed up a bunch of people's GameCube adapters. Mine always reads my one GameCube controller as two controllers now ever since Switch 19.0. Nintendo needs to fix that.
Re: Poll: Resident Evil 6 Turns 12 - Does It Really Deserve Its Dire Reputation?
There's been an attempt at 6 revisionism to try and critically reevaluate it. People trying to claim that its a bad RE game but a good action game. I must say I disdain that attempt. It's just not good. Even as far as third person shooters go it isn't very good. The truth is that a guy chasing you around a dinner table with a shovel in RE7 is a million times more intense than literally anything in RE6.
Re: Talking Point: How Would You Fix Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom's Most Frustrating Feature?
I don't know why you can't map some echoes to a few buttons. This was something that was figured out in 1998 with Ocarina of Time.
Re: Poll: Are You Bothered By The Frame Rate In Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom?
Until you play Breath of the Wild on the Wii U. I ain't wanna hear no complaints about frame rate.
Re: Nintendo To Go In 'Different Direction' To Current AI Trends, Says Miyamoto
AI will never be able to usurp true creativity. Nintendo gets this.