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I don’t think it’s a problem for Mario Kart games to play like Mario Kart games. There’s an expectation players have for the series and the appeal of any series is that continuity between games where they evolve yet retain some of the formula. What I think is boring is other kart racers, like say Sonic CrossWorlds, essentially copying Mario Kart’s control scheme. Almost every modern kart racer that I’ve played fundamentally controls like Mario Kart with only a few tweaks here and there. There’s pros and cons to that, of course. Break too far off the norm and you risk alienating people. Unfortunately, Kirby Air Rider’s sales in certain markets (UK for one) is seeming to reflect this risk.

Nice to see Kirby performing well there. At least Japan loves the little pink puff ball more than the UK!

Lucario is never beating the industry plant allegations.

Gonna be honest, I forgot this game existed. At least Nintendo hasn’t given up on it completely yet.

@Suketoudara Reading the article makes it sound like Forgotten Land’s performance was an outlier. It was Kirby’s first number 1 in the UK and the writer says, “ It's worth noting that Kirby is typically one of Nintendo's smallest franchises in the UK.”

One of my favorites! I’m gonna have to get him as soon as I can.

Brutal. I wonder how Kirby is doing in other regions. Is it just the UK doesn’t appreciate the pink puffball?

Honestly, not sure yet. I’ve been swapping between games while impatiently waiting for Metroid haha

Old amiibo don’t give you anything? How bizarre. Hope there just a translation error and there’s at least something.

The cutscene is an odd one too. Honestly, none of these seem worth it so I definitely won’t go out of my way to get these amiibo at their current prices.

This reminds me that we are overdue for a new Kid Icarus game. Make it happen, Nintendo!

The concept of speedrunning myself stresses me out, but I respect people who are able to do it and find cool little tricks like this. Amazing that people are still finding new shortcuts all these years later.

… why do I feel like whatever they’re doing will be bad? Lol. Seems sus.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe still out there pulling enough numbers to be in the 10 spot? Insane.

Probably some Z-A. Still need to get that shiny charm

Too rich for my blood. Shame because I think the feature would be fun, but it’s way outside the reasonable price range for what it is, imo.

Same old story every time. Doesn’t matter what people online think about it, Pokemon games consistently put up big numbers. They’re review proof.

This looks more my speed! I tried out Vampire Survivors before and just wasn’t into the gameplay. But I’m a sucker for dungeon crawling and deck building games, so I’ll definitely give this one a try.

Ooo that’ll be a fun one as I’ll actually recognize most of the pictures haha

Rank S again? Thank goodness. The goal is to play multiplayer as little as possible lol

There’s absolutely no way they can make Part 2 on the Switch. That game is massive.

I can see the appeal of buying old games a la carte, but personally I’m a sucker for collections like the ones Capcom puts out. Feels like more of a value to get multiple games, especially when a lot of these older ones are barebones on content by today’s standards.

This is the time of year where I hold off on new releases and give people an easy Christmas present for me lol

I really don’t think the player count on 2 games is enough to make that statement. I don’t think it’s true either. A Roblox meme game is not a good indicator of whether or not consumers care about AI in games. 1) It’s within Roblox, a massively successful game. Would people play “steal a brainrot” if it was its own thing? Doubtful. And 2) it’s a meme. People are doing it for the “lulz.” That’s not going to be something you can recapture and people will get bored of it and move on.

The other point I want to make is that his final line about people using “emotion rather than logic” and get upset that companies use AI for some things over others has to be deliberately misunderstanding what the complaints about AI are. AI should be a tool, not a replacement for people and creativity. Using AI to assist with coding is much different from using AI to replace artists and designers. Majority of complaints about AI are not that it’s used at all, but that’s it’s used to a severe degree that it replaces the human element behind its creation.

They are instantly identifiable as Link and Zelda, which is the goal. There’s not much else to say.

In this day and age, most movies adapting IP play it “safe” with designs. Back in the day you’d get more creative interpretations of costumes (like say Green Goblin in Rami’s Spider-Man). But today, people want things to look exactly like the thing it’s adapting so, for the most part, that’s what studios do. Look at Superman this year, you had costumes ripped out of the comics for Superman, Guy, Mr. Terrific, etc. So I’m not surprised that Zelda is in her BOTW costume and Link is in a classic green one. They were never going to get too crazy with the designs (which is probably good in this case).

I finally watched clips of the new character and, uh, what were they thinking????

I genuinely thought people’s reactions were overblown. I usually don’t mind the “annoying” side characters like Navi from Zelda. But this guy? Sheesh, idk if I can listen to that for long

Fascinating concept, but I am someone who wants to “play” games, so this definitely isn’t for me. Might be worth watching on YouTube, though.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised they’re going the BOTW route. That one did have the most cinematic story to adapt, honestly.

I’ve been getting back into Slay the Spire this week. Also going old school with some Yu-Gi-Oh Early Days collection.

Once again, the internet underestimates how many casual gamers enjoy Pokemon.

@ElkinFencer10 I think the reputation is justified because being boring is one of the biggest sins for a video game that is meant to entertain.

@Taya Well said. It felt like playing a board game and nothing about it utilized the fact it was a video game. That’s why Mario party succeeds, it does thing with the board game format that you can’t replicate with Monopoly lol

Yes, it was that bad. I got it on a steep clearance back in the day from Toys R Us (that really dates it lol) just for the Isabelle and Digby amiibo. Played it once and was bored out of my mind. It’s pretty much a boring version of Mario Party. Now granted, I played alone, but I still enjoy playing Mario Party alone against CPUs, so it should still be enjoyable with or without people.

The one saving grace were the minigames, but even then, it wasn’t a great experience and you had to slog through the main game to unlock those (talk about a feat of endurance). I do think yeah, if it was free, it would be fine. There was a Mario vs DK game back on the Wii U and 3DS that was free and unlocked levels with certain Mario amiibo characters. So something like that would’ve been ok but, even then, it wouldn’t have made the game any less of a chore to play through.

Kind of neat they’re making some unique looking characters for this game.

Weird to not show Yoshi in this.

The cookies forced their hand!

@Ogbert I don’t get the “safe” bit either. By that logic, most the characters from the first movie are “safe” too. It’s not like they went too out there designing Bowser or anything.

What’s there to make? That’s Yoshi alright lol

I bought the PS5 version of City of the Wolves mainly just to play as Ken and Chun-Li. Worth it lol

I don’t see why this would need to be a separate app and not just something you could switch between in the Mario one.

Still Pokémon Z-A. I’ve got side quests to finish and battles to complete. Also working on getting a strong team ready for the DLC.

@ROMhaiku Your point is kind of what I was trying to get at. Companies today are very risk averse. They don’t want to invest a lot in a risk that might flop. That and customers generally gravitate to familiar brands. So yes, the talent is there, but it’s riskier to invest a lot into something that isn’t a more guaranteed bet like a proven IP with a consistent sales record.

New games and ideas are great, but the market is a lot like the movie industry rn. IP sells. People say they want new things, but their money goes to the familiar IPs.

There have been plenty of new ideas recently that flopped. Nintendo tried Drag x Drive and there was also Playsation’s Concord disaster. Concord had plenty of reasons it flopped, sure, but Sony put a lot of money into developing it and it didn’t pan out. So that’s why more and more companies rely on IP, because there’s usually a fanbase baked in that will buy a series no matter what because it’s familiar to them. They know what to expect, more or less. It’s a lot easier to convince someone to buy a new Pokemon game than it is to convince them to take a risk on something new.

“Didn’t dwell on my past hits” and yet has been making Mega Man ripoffs…. Sorry, “Mega Man inspired”, games? Ok.

She was a mainstay on my team back in ORAS. So getting her back on the team makes me very nostalgic.

Looks like I’m covered on the Zelda side. I’ll have to add those two to my village for sure!

Nintendo is finally getting the third party support I wanted as a kid. It was rough to be a kid that only had Nintendo systems. To this day, my biggest gaming disappointment was buying Disney Infinity for the 3DS. I was so excited for it until I booted it up and learned the 3DS version was just a Mario Party knockoff, not the awesome platform and toybox game that I saw in the commercials. Thankfully I was able to return it and get the Wii version, but I was still so disappointed my Nintendo handheld got an inferior version.

These days, I do have a PS5 so I haven’t double dipped too much, but now that the Switch 2 is getting current third party support, I will definitely start considering it as an option more in the future. Needless to say though, younger me would have been stoked by this generation.

@Teksette Cosmic Ghost Rider is an alternate universe version of Punisher who became a space version of Ghost Rider. It is as awesome as that sounds haha

@Spider-Kev Phyla-Vell is a comic character from the early 00s who was at one point Captain Marvel. If you’re really curious you could read a wiki about all the lore, but basically she is a Captain Marvel comic character so that’s why she looks like that.

Beta Ray Bill is a playable character. Of course their inspiration came from the comics haha

@ShadLink That’s exactly what the 3DS and Wii U had. It was an app on the system that showed your playtime. Granted I never really had a use for it other than curiosity to see how much I played, but it was still neat to have.