Having played the original and being a fan of the ol’ Hairy Yak himself, I was always going for this. Just getting back from work now, and it’s going on first chance I get.
Gets a 7 from me, but that’s because I’ve already seen/played what was in it. Had there been stuff I hadn’t seen, I might have gone 8 or even 9.
Watching the boys’ discussion now I’m back from work, being a bit bummed about only there only being 30 tracks… we already know there are day and night looks; what if there are differences on each track between each time… and each direction? Would a course have noticeable differences if you’re going the other way down it? That comparatively measly 30 courses suddenly becomes a much meatier 120.
Other stuff I want to see down the line in updates:
• Custom Tours - it’s an open world, allegedly, so how about we pick our OWN routes? • Follow The Leader - pick the first course, then whoever’s leading at each checkpoint gets to choose, OutRun-style, where the race goes next.
…and another one drilling down on my theory above…
• There And Back Again: Go through a full tour, then head back to where you started - either down the same course you’ve just done, or by any possible route. Time of day progresses as you go. If it’s a knockout tour, the number of racers knocked out is either halved to keep as many in as possible, or the knockout checkpoints alternate.
DK Bananza - those transparency 'effects', man. Did they really just pixellate and dither the texture on an object between DK and the camera? It looked like a 16-bit gradient when I played it at the ExCeL on Sunday.
Had a shot today in London - it’s not terrible, just very slight for what it is. There’s not much to it, but what it does is okay. Targeting controls could be tightened up a bit, though I probably just need more than 30 seconds’ practice in mouse mode - and the stall mookette said you can roll them on your legs too.
“Oh, like Vic Reeves,” I says. “Who?” she replies. Jesus, I’m old. (Look up GIFs of Shooting Stars if you aren’t 20 yet.)
Only now, as I sit in Victoria train station McDonald’s waiting for my trip home, do I realise there’s something more than a bit cringe about rolling JoyCons on your legs for a game of [checks notes]WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL…
In about 12 hours I’m going to be playing Switch 2 games at the ExCeL, and I am beyond buzzed. Got my OG with me to test the theory that it hits different after seeing the new one.
I am also on a Nat.Ex that had better get to Woodall Services a bit sharpish, because I am in dire need of the loo. 💧
This is how it all ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper - and a massive collective bird flipped at Mike Ashley.
My main memory of dealings with them was how I couldn't find the Wii version of NBA Jam anywhere - and when I did it was the inevitably sawn-off version at way more than the PS3/X360 versions. When I asked a spotty weekend GAME mook if they had it at the Eldon Square branch in Newcastle (next to Boots at the time), they went off on a totally unrelated rant about how Kinect was going to kill the Wii stone dead.
They'd already lost me as a customer with that, but I wasn't going to let that little herbert go, So: "Okay, hold up a second. I only asked if you had NBA Jam in stock for the Wii, and why it was £20 more than the other versions for less content. Not only is that sudden volley of totally irrelevant BS really unprofessional customer-facing retail staff conduct, you do NOT get to tell me what to think, what to play or what my tastes should be. Now I realise this may come as a shock to you, but you are not Julian Rignall, Jason Brookes or even Mr F&$#ing Biffo. Biøtch I'm 20 years older than you. I was gaming eight years before you were even born; I knew the Konami Code before your first cells even split. I've been at this sh1te since Pong and I will see the back of you. And besides, Kinect is a gimmick that attempted to bandwagon on the Wii's success. It will go the way of the EyeToy; at least PS3 Move tried to be its own thing." They haven't had a penny out of me since.
If the JoyCon 2s don’t have Hall Effect sticks, how can you assure us they won’t develop drift like the originals?
A lot of us will be keeping our OG Switches once we get the new one. Will we be able to have them both designated as a primary console?
A lot of us have kids of a very sensitive age, who we really don’t want to be asking us what Hentai means when they trip over the word on the eShop. Or Ecchi. Or Oppai. Or why does that lady have six digits on each hand and two rows of teeth, daddy. As such, if you’re not going to moderate what makes it on the next iteration of the eShop yourselves, will you at least allow users to block things like undesirable keywords, or publishers that they don’t want to see (themselves or their children) due to a track record of dodgy content/AI slurry?
Yes, I’m going to touch on these bloody tariffs. Why should a tariff placed by Tango Bizarro’s comedically arbitrary elementary school-level maths on Japanese goods imported to the US affect what they cost elsewhere in the world, where said tariff is irrelevant? Just because The Count of Mostly Crisco (Note to Mods: Yes, I cleaned that up) wants to tank his economy in record time, why the actual blue arse should we pay for it in, say, the UK, Sweden, Egypt, Argentina, Singapore etc? Last I knew, there’s no beef between Japan and Heard Island. Penguins have as much right to buy a Switch 2 at a reasonable price as the rest of us… 🐧
7. Needed prices. The fact they weren’t listed in the video suggested to me they would be higher end of our predicted ranges. I expected around £400, that’s doable (after a fashion), but the games…
We know the new unit has 256GB on board - but do we know what size the games are? How fast is that going to get gobbled up?
A quarter-tera still ain't a whole hog's hatful, not these days. I was onto a half-tera card on my OG Switch early on in year 2, and for everything else I've been known to rip through a 5TB portable hard drive in a little over a half a year. I don't so much have a stack of the things as a fleet.
Still the best gaming April Fool was Andrew Braybrook's listing in ZZAP!64 during Mental Procreation, his diary on the production of Morpheus. He claimed it could double the clock speed of your C64. It required genuine investment of our time and effort as mid-teenagers.
After an hour and a half of typing it in and checking for mistakes, going to load a tape gave you the words "FOUND April Fool" when it picked up what was on it (with the April Fool bit in white as Hewson always did with their games).
Okay to good for what I could pull from it, and a bit extra kudos because nobody was expecting it before yesterday - but there were also open goals that went begging, and still the big guns that would have made it an absolute Park-Knocker-Outer remained silent. (And only on MLB Opening Day too.)
NATURAL 20S
Prime 4. Had to be there, didn't disappoint, and I freaking love that swanky red/black powersuit - even if it looks like she's pulling for the Heat (Magic fan checking in).
Patapon - my PSP died long ago, so this is a welcome return
Everybody's Golf - best golf series since Leaderboard on the C64
Rhythm Heaven Groove - OH HECK IT YES
MEETS THE ARMOUR CLASS - BARELY
Gradius Origins - already got most of it in other packages, and Salamander III is interesting - but you're never telling me they couldn't have squeezed Gradius IV in there an'all. Also noticed the glaring slowdown is still present - a shocking oversight this far down the line, especially when I've seen SNES romhacks that get round it - and still no Parodius? Does Konami want us to emulate it or something?
Monument Valley 3 - I'll likely get it, but it's not going to be an essential Day One job. Probably blast through it anyway
Lou's Lagoon - not exactly hosed down with info on this one, but it might be worth a glance. Luzz a demo up and we'll see
Nintendo Today[!] - of course we'll get it, maybe they'll add a widget we can plonk in our stacks and homescreens to give our phones a bit colour without having to go looking for it, but let's be honest: we're all still coming to NL for the unvarnished opinions, aren't we. Plus, coming back from a crappy day at work dealing with various a-holes, bellends and self-entitled expletives, it is nice being told we're still lovely peeeeeeeeople
MISSED CHANCES
DQ 1+2 leadoff - knew about it
Shadow Labyrinth - ditto
Monument Valley 1+2 - ancient, completed them ages ago
Prime 4 being in the middle, instead of a leadoff or closer - told me they had nothing bigger to offer
Given they've got Critical Role as one of the custom Hearts suits, and Scanlan from Vox Machina is the Jack, I'm waiting for the inevitable pre--game bit from Sam Riegel. If anyone's a live-action Jimbo, it's him.
Taking something - anything - about Silksong as read, still waiting for Romancelvania. An original Katamari instalment would also be nice, as would some Parodius.
ZZAP!64, Super Play and Anime UK/FX for me. Fusion reviving ZZAP! these past few years has been fantastic - especially considering my main print read these days is Retro Gamer.
I’m off out for a game of Papers Please. Inasmuch as I have finally completed the fetch quest to assemble all the bits needed to get a new passport for the Head-Spinner. I’m that old and warty, they don’t even bother cancelling the type I last had (black hardback), so it’s got to be a complete from-scratch application. Docs up the wazoo, including birth and adoption certificates - which my workplace lost 8 years ago.
As neat as the Violet one undoubtedly will be, I want the Scarlet one to act like its in-game counterpart, going GALUMP GALUMP GALUMP instead of on wheels.
Hope springs eternal for the C64 version getting in there one day. I’ve just had a mooch about, and the former Mirrorsoft is now owned by Throwback Entertainment, a Canadian outfit.
@Princess_Lilly Moldova sends to be a common location for such dicey devs. Look back over previous articles on this subject and you’ll find links to Midnight Works, West Connection and their ilk pointing there.
Squeenix is still down with the NFT, and Hasbro/WotC is beyond toxic - last two years of D&D bulldickery have shown that. (And that’s before you get to them siccing the freaking PINKERTONS on a dude because of their screwup.)
@Porky There's been a few that have gone that route. The recent remake of C64 classic Dropzone had blatantly AI-generated cover art - I honestly thought after all these years, System 3 knew better than to do that to Archer Maclean's legacy.
I’ve had a crack at the demo, it’s alright, just feels very… slow, laconic. Especially In the dialogue. Would benefit hugely from speed options.
GAME is dying, but more slowly than it needs to. Fraser Group and its horrendously toxic figurehead Mike Ashley are killing it. Everything you need to know should be that a group formerly known for such powerhouse names as House of Fraser and Binns now have, as their flagship chain, Sports Freaking Direct. They don’t deserve your money.
There are far better options for getting decent offers on new games - even Currys do 25% off codes for new first-party Switch titles, and not so long ago I wouldn’t have given them the steam off my coffee (I couldn’t for one thing, the Dolce Gusto machine I got from them was DOA).
The last man standing, and I still can’t believe this is going to be the case, will be CEX.
That’s an amount I can deal with. If we’re looking at the usual NintenTax of stripping the $ and putting a £ in its place, that’s manageable. I can do that in a few instalments and still put dosh aside for Head-Spinner.
I can also clear out one of my lesser (still half-tera though) micro-SD cards for a spell too; I’ll not need a μ-SD Express just yet.
Yeah, this blows big time. I always tried to use my GP on stuff I could get down to so much and a penny. My bank has a thing where it rounds any card payment up to the nearest pound, and sends the difference to my savings account.
Might sound daft, but bit by bit over the past few years, Save The Change has gotten another £1,000 in there - which is going to be ridiculously handy for the Head-Spinner Trip.
Putting it out there again - better filtering and, yes, blocking options for the next eShop. Certain studios, publishers, keywords etc knocked on the bonce at the user’s behest. The very second someone busts out a keyword flak cannon, their ass is toast. That way it’s on the user to tailor their experience the way they see fit, not the provider.
This is exactly why I’ve ditched Facebook recently - there was such an insane pile of toxic BS, none of my friends’ content or any of my interests were making it to my feed; all I wound up doing was blocking stuff L, R & C.
Ultimately, it’s the question many gamer parents must dread coming from little Maisie and/or Johnny: “Daddy, what’s hentai?” That’s a conversation one hopefully never has to have, but if you do, it’s on your terms and at your time of choosing, not forced by some half-arsed farted-out AI/asset-flip slurry.
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Re: Paul Rudd Returns In An Awesome SNES-Style Switch 2 Commercial
Breaking News: Paul Rudd Tries To Prove That He Has In Fact Aged
Re: Review: I, Robot (Switch) - Another Psychedelic Success For Llamasoft & Atari
Having played the original and being a fan of the ol’ Hairy Yak himself, I was always going for this. Just getting back from work now, and it’s going on first chance I get.
Re: Nintendo Direct: Mario Kart World: Every Announcement - How Would You Rate It?
Gets a 7 from me, but that’s because I’ve already seen/played what was in it. Had there been stuff I hadn’t seen, I might have gone 8 or even 9.
Watching the boys’ discussion now I’m back from work, being a bit bummed about only there only being 30 tracks… we already know there are day and night looks; what if there are differences on each track between each time… and each direction? Would a course have noticeable differences if you’re going the other way down it? That comparatively measly 30 courses suddenly becomes a much meatier 120.
Other stuff I want to see down the line in updates:
• Custom Tours - it’s an open world, allegedly, so how about we pick our OWN routes?
• Follow The Leader - pick the first course, then whoever’s leading at each checkpoint gets to choose, OutRun-style, where the race goes next.
…and another one drilling down on my theory above…
• There And Back Again: Go through a full tour, then head back to where you started - either down the same course you’ve just done, or by any possible route. Time of day progresses as you go. If it’s a knockout tour, the number of racers knocked out is either halved to keep as many in as possible, or the knockout checkpoints alternate.
Re: Watch: Got Questions About Switch 2? Ask Alex - Live!
DK Bananza - those transparency 'effects', man. Did they really just pixellate and dither the texture on an object between DK and the camera? It looked like a 16-bit gradient when I played it at the ExCeL on Sunday.
Re: Round Up: The First Impressions Of 'Drag x Drive' For Switch 2 Are In
@Alpha008 I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if what we’ve seen at the events so far winds up being the demo, there’s that little to it.
Re: Round Up: The First Impressions Of 'Drag x Drive' For Switch 2 Are In
Had a shot today in London - it’s not terrible, just very slight for what it is. There’s not much to it, but what it does is okay. Targeting controls could be tightened up a bit, though I probably just need more than 30 seconds’ practice in mouse mode - and the stall mookette said you can roll them on your legs too.
“Oh, like Vic Reeves,” I says. “Who?” she replies. Jesus, I’m old. (Look up GIFs of Shooting Stars if you aren’t 20 yet.)
Only now, as I sit in Victoria train station McDonald’s waiting for my trip home, do I realise there’s something more than a bit cringe about rolling JoyCons on your legs for a game of [checks notes] WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL…
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (12th April)
In about 12 hours I’m going to be playing Switch 2 games at the ExCeL, and I am beyond buzzed. Got my OG with me to test the theory that it hits different after seeing the new one.
I am also on a Nat.Ex that had better get to Woodall Services a bit sharpish, because I am in dire need of the loo. 💧
Re: UK Retailer GAME Is Selling Off Goods And Fixtures As Head Office Shuts Down
This is how it all ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper - and a massive collective bird flipped at Mike Ashley.
My main memory of dealings with them was how I couldn't find the Wii version of NBA Jam anywhere - and when I did it was the inevitably sawn-off version at way more than the PS3/X360 versions. When I asked a spotty weekend GAME mook if they had it at the Eldon Square branch in Newcastle (next to Boots at the time), they went off on a totally unrelated rant about how Kinect was going to kill the Wii stone dead.
They'd already lost me as a customer with that, but I wasn't going to let that little herbert go, So: "Okay, hold up a second. I only asked if you had NBA Jam in stock for the Wii, and why it was £20 more than the other versions for less content. Not only is that sudden volley of totally irrelevant BS really unprofessional customer-facing retail staff conduct, you do NOT get to tell me what to think, what to play or what my tastes should be. Now I realise this may come as a shock to you, but you are not Julian Rignall, Jason Brookes or even Mr F&$#ing Biffo. Biøtch I'm 20 years older than you. I was gaming eight years before you were even born; I knew the Konami Code before your first cells even split. I've been at this sh1te since Pong and I will see the back of you. And besides, Kinect is a gimmick that attempted to bandwagon on the Wii's success. It will go the way of the EyeToy; at least PS3 Move tried to be its own thing." They haven't had a penny out of me since.
RIP GAME (Rust in Piss).
Re: Community: What Questions About Switch 2 Do You Still Have For Nintendo?
Re: UK Switch 2 Fans, Don't Bother Going To GAME Stores For Your Pre-Order
Wouldn’t touch them with a ten yard barge pole anyway.
Re: Nintendo Confirms US Price For 'Switch 2 Welcome Tour'
They could just as easily have had it as a pack-in and gone with $459.99, and nobody would be any the wiser.
Wonder what it’ll be in pounds or euros. Or Canadian/Aussie dollars for that matter…
Re: Hands On: Should 'Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour' Be A Pack-In Game?
How is this even a question? Paying extra for what is effectively a MANUAL?! Just as well the game prices are so reasonable then OH HANG ON A MO
Re: Digital Switch 2 Games Being Cheaper Than Physical Is A "Challenge", Says Retailer GAME
@Ulysses Wait ‘til the tariffs kick in. You will.
Re: Poll: So, How Would You Rate The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct?
7. Needed prices. The fact they weren’t listed in the video suggested to me they would be higher end of our predicted ranges. I expected around £400, that’s doable (after a fashion), but the games…
Re: Standard Micro SD Cards Won't Work On Nintendo Switch 2
We know the new unit has 256GB on board - but do we know what size the games are? How fast is that going to get gobbled up?
A quarter-tera still ain't a whole hog's hatful, not these days. I was onto a half-tera card on my OG Switch early on in year 2, and for everything else I've been known to rip through a 5TB portable hard drive in a little over a half a year. I don't so much have a stack of the things as a fleet.
Re: Nintendo Expects You To Pay For Its Switch 2 "Welcome Tour" User Guide
An interactive manual? Wants to be next to nowt, lad.
(I think I actually just went full-on Yorkshire - and I'm from County Durham...)
Re: Nintendo Switch 2 Priced At $449.99 For The Base Console
The one thing the Direct didn't mention.
Manageable though. Pay-in-3 via PayPal or Pay-in-5 via Amazon (PAY YOUR TAXES BEZOS!). Might make it onto the Head-Spinner after all.
Re: Introducing PLAYi - A Whole New Way To Not Play
Still the best gaming April Fool was Andrew Braybrook's listing in ZZAP!64 during Mental Procreation, his diary on the production of Morpheus. He claimed it could double the clock speed of your C64. It required genuine investment of our time and effort as mid-teenagers.
After an hour and a half of typing it in and checking for mistakes, going to load a tape gave you the words "FOUND April Fool" when it picked up what was on it (with the April Fool bit in white as Hewson always did with their games).
Re: Poll: So, How Would You Rate The Nintendo Direct For March 2025?
Not that much extra in the Japanese Direct - I'm seeing...
Re: Poll: So, How Would You Rate The Nintendo Direct For March 2025?
Okay to good for what I could pull from it, and a bit extra kudos because nobody was expecting it before yesterday - but there were also open goals that went begging, and still the big guns that would have made it an absolute Park-Knocker-Outer remained silent. (And only on MLB Opening Day too.)
NATURAL 20S
MEETS THE ARMOUR CLASS - BARELY
MISSED CHANCES
NATURAL 1S
Re: Random: Chances Are You've Been Pronouncing 'Balatro' Wrong
Given they've got Critical Role as one of the custom Hearts suits, and Scanlan from Vox Machina is the Jack, I'm waiting for the inevitable pre--game bit from Sam Riegel. If anyone's a live-action Jimbo, it's him.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Direct Predictions - What Do You Want To See?
Taking something - anything - about Silksong as read, still waiting for Romancelvania. An original Katamari instalment would also be nice, as would some Parodius.
Re: Game Informer Revived By Blockchain Firm Gunzilla Games
@Kraven @Spider-Kev
ZZAP!64, Super Play and Anime UK/FX for me. Fusion reviving ZZAP! these past few years has been fantastic - especially considering my main print read these days is Retro Gamer.
Re: PSA: Gold Points For Nintendo Switch Purchases Are Now Discontinued
@cra1g0s Absolutely. Yak 4 Lyfe 🐏🐑🦙🐐
Field of dreams, the things I want to see them do are remakes of Batalyx & Iridis Alpha, and have a crack at a port of Centipede Chaos.
Re: PSA: Gold Points For Nintendo Switch Purchases Are Now Discontinued
Burned my last lot on pre-ordering I, Robot.
Re: Feature: "It's A Perversion Of The Whole Thing" - Jeff Minter On Scam Games, Switch 2, And 'I, Robot'
I wonder if Jeff would fancy a crack at porting Centipede Chaos…
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (22nd March)
I’m off out for a game of Papers Please. Inasmuch as I have finally completed the fetch quest to assemble all the bits needed to get a new passport for the Head-Spinner. I’m that old and warty, they don’t even bother cancelling the type I last had (black hardback), so it’s got to be a complete from-scratch application. Docs up the wazoo, including birth and adoption certificates - which my workplace lost 8 years ago.
Oh - and Rogue Waters.
Re: Nintendo Switch 2 Logo Will Adorn The Seattle Mariners Jersey This MLB Season
Cappy and a ‘tache, that should do it…
Re: Atari Is Bringing Back 'Missile Command' But With A Brand New Twist
A sim to practice for coming years…?
Re: Poll: What's The Best Xenoblade Game? Rate Your Favourite For Our Upcoming Ranking
No contest. 2.
Three words: Angry. Welsh. Catgirl.
Re: Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For March And April 2025
Two quid cheaper for the epic edition of Xenoblade Chronicles X through the My Nintendo Store than the standard edition is at GAME.
This is why that chain is dying. Fat Boy Ashley is killing it with greed.
Re: Final Minecraft Movie Trailer Still Hasn't Convinced Us On The Big-Screen Adaptation
Is it just me, or have things dropped off a bit of a cliff for Jack since the Tenacious D rift?
Borderlands - not funny.
This - Christ on fire, dude, Jack, are you that desperate for money?
Re: Random: Honda Teases Real-Life Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Motorbike
As neat as the Violet one undoubtedly will be, I want the Scarlet one to act like its in-game counterpart, going GALUMP GALUMP GALUMP instead of on wheels.
Re: Tetris Forever Adds Two More Classic Games In Its "Biggest-Ever" Update
Hope springs eternal for the C64 version getting in there one day. I’ve just had a mooch about, and the former Mirrorsoft is now owned by Throwback Entertainment, a Canadian outfit.
Can’t be beyond the wit of man.
Re: "They Stole The Whole Game" - Horror Indie Dev Fights The eShop Scam Blatantly Ripping Their Work
@Princess_Lilly Moldova sends to be a common location for such dicey devs. Look back over previous articles on this subject and you’ll find links to Midnight Works, West Connection and their ilk pointing there.
Re: Balatro's New Free Update Features Crossovers With Assassin's Creed, Fallout, Civ And More
I guess maybe LocalThunk is a Critter, then?
Given we’ve got Percy, Vex’ahlia & Scanlan from Vox Machina on Hearts, maybe…
Diamonds: Mighty Nein (Campaign 2) - double headers - Fjord/Jester, Beau/Yasha, Caleb/Essek (HOT BOIIIIIII)
Spades: Bell’s Hells (Campaign 3) - double-headers: Dorian/Orym, Imogen/Laudna, FCG/F.R.I.D.A.
Clubs: Crown Keepers (Exandria Unlimited) - double-headers: Dariax/Deni$e, Opal/Ted, Fearne/Fy’ra Rai
Re: Atari And Choice Provisions' New Take On 'Breakout' Gets March Release Date
Breakout? Eh. Take or leave it. …TRAZ and Shatter were where that was at. It’s a port of Centipede Chaos I want.
Re: Review: Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Switch) - A Comprehensive Round-Up With A Few Real Winners
@Zuljaras Good job it's not a Magic expansion box, you'd be getting a sudden visit from the Pinkertons.
Still, now you've got it, have they corrected the search-and-replace flub in Worlds 2004 that changed the text on the DMG cards to Dark Spellian?
Re: Random: Final Fantasy Is The Next Magic: The Gathering Crossover, Here's A First Look
Squeenix is still down with the NFT, and Hasbro/WotC is beyond toxic - last two years of D&D bulldickery have shown that. (And that’s before you get to them siccing the freaking PINKERTONS on a dude because of their screwup.)
They're getting nowt outta me.
Re: Bonkers Metroidvania 'Rusty Rabbit' Now Has A Switch eShop Demo
@Porky There's been a few that have gone that route. The recent remake of C64 classic Dropzone had blatantly AI-generated cover art - I honestly thought after all these years, System 3 knew better than to do that to Archer Maclean's legacy.
I’ve had a crack at the demo, it’s alright, just feels very… slow, laconic. Especially In the dialogue. Would benefit hugely from speed options.
Re: Netflix Exclusive 'Pokémon Concierge' Coming To YouTube For A Limited-Time
@Bolt_Strike Welp, I guess that must include you then, because hey, why would you be commenting here if you didn’t care about it?
Re: Netflix Exclusive 'Pokémon Concierge' Coming To YouTube For A Limited-Time
They… do know that it’s possible to download from YouTube, right?
Re: Retailer GAME Removes Insane Delivery Fees On Pokémon Cards After "Scalping" Allegations
GAME is dying, but more slowly than it needs to. Fraser Group and its horrendously toxic figurehead Mike Ashley are killing it. Everything you need to know should be that a group formerly known for such powerhouse names as House of Fraser and Binns now have, as their flagship chain, Sports Freaking Direct. They don’t deserve your money.
There are far better options for getting decent offers on new games - even Currys do 25% off codes for new first-party Switch titles, and not so long ago I wouldn’t have given them the steam off my coffee (I couldn’t for one thing, the Dolce Gusto machine I got from them was DOA).
The last man standing, and I still can’t believe this is going to be the case, will be CEX.
Re: Nintendo Will "Likely" Price The Switch 2 At $399, Says Analyst
That’s an amount I can deal with. If we’re looking at the usual NintenTax of stripping the $ and putting a £ in its place, that’s manageable. I can do that in a few instalments and still put dosh aside for Head-Spinner.
I can also clear out one of my lesser (still half-tera though) micro-SD cards for a spell too; I’ll not need a μ-SD Express just yet.
Re: Nintendo Has Renewed Some Trademarks
Yeah, how about making the Seal of Quality actually mean something?
(I would say “again” but, well, it didn’t always track first time round either…)
Re: Nintendo Is Discontinuing Gold Points, One Of The Switch's Best Incentives
Yeah, this blows big time. I always tried to use my GP on stuff I could get down to so much and a penny. My bank has a thing where it rounds any card payment up to the nearest pound, and sends the difference to my savings account.
Might sound daft, but bit by bit over the past few years, Save The Change has gotten another £1,000 in there - which is going to be ridiculously handy for the Head-Spinner Trip.
Re: The Legendary Jeff Minter Returns With A New Psychedelic Arcade Reimagining
Oh Yakety Yak, I’m gonna talk back! I’m having this.
Don’t suppose you fancy doing a remake of Iridis Alpha or Batalyx, do you…?
Re: Sony Does What Nintendon't By Removing A Bunch Of 'eSlop' Titles
Putting it out there again - better filtering and, yes, blocking options for the next eShop. Certain studios, publishers, keywords etc knocked on the bonce at the user’s behest. The very second someone busts out a keyword flak cannon, their ass is toast. That way it’s on the user to tailor their experience the way they see fit, not the provider.
This is exactly why I’ve ditched Facebook recently - there was such an insane pile of toxic BS, none of my friends’ content or any of my interests were making it to my feed; all I wound up doing was blocking stuff L, R & C.
Ultimately, it’s the question many gamer parents must dread coming from little Maisie and/or Johnny: “Daddy, what’s hentai?” That’s a conversation one hopefully never has to have, but if you do, it’s on your terms and at your time of choosing, not forced by some half-arsed farted-out AI/asset-flip slurry.
Sort out your s##t, Big N.
Re: Talking Point: Which 'Tales' Game Will Come To Switch Next?
It’s Phantasia for me. As a long standing fan of Kōsuke Fujishima, I want to see how he’d do his character designs now.
Re: InkyPen On Switch Now Includes Over 800 Manga From Kodansha
No Gunsmith Cats (original or BURST), no Ah! My Goddess, no You’re Under Arrest… InkyPen, I are disappoint.