I only just learned there’s a Minecraft coin-op last weekend when I was down in Scarborough (ye GODS, their arcades are terrible now) - I’m not sure I could handle a movie so soon after that
Jason Momoa is trying to pitch for The Big Lebowski 2
Jack Black is hitting ALL the nitros to get Borderlands as far back in the rear view mirror as he can
and the way Danielle Brooks was done up, I seriously wondered for a hot minute how the hell they managed to cast Alison Hammond…
We need a few new twists to Pokémon progression. Specifically, Eevee and their evolutions…
second level eeveelutions (more badass, but not on Mega level - about half way there)
cross-type eeveelutions
and eeveelutions for the remaining types.
An arty pal drew a whole bunch of non-canon ones years back - a steel one (Bolteon), a second level of Jolteon (Volteon), a psychic/fire cross-type (Psyroveon), and a Flying type which we had a brilliant double-pun name for - Paraveon.
Hope they translate its story and dialogue. I have the cartridge and an English-hacked ROM which does a really good job of it, but it would be brilliant to see it get an official(-ish) one.
Would have been nice if they had thrown in the original Rival Schools as well, but you cannot whine at both Capcom vs SNKs, Project Justice AND both Power Stones in a single package.
Maybe luzz Rival Schools and Star Gladiator in with the EXes for volume 3…?
The only thing this is going to be in the running for is Razzies (no small irony that the D&D movie, far from universally loved, just won a Hugo Award at WorldCon in Glasgow). I saw the ‘cancerously unfunny’ review after I’d booked tickets, but I was committed to it by that point. It is, and I’m being kind here, absolute industrial-strength pish.
Worst film of Jack Black’s career by no small distance; Kevin Hart should have stuck to shooting hoops; Blanchett & Curtis were just trousering the cheque. At least Ariana Greenblatt wasn’t as irritating as Ashly Burch’s voicing of Tiny Tina - I’m normally okay with her, being a Critter, but that’s really not her best part.
I’m going to go see Deadpool & Wolverine again this weekend, just to cancel out this utter crapshow. Good job my ticket was free (Cineworld Unlimited), but the fact that this train wreck of a movie meant my monthly sub was paid for rankles like a biøtch.
Already had tickets booked before the reviews dropped, so I was kinda tied into it, but... damn.
Four people in an already-worryingly-tiny-for-its-third-day screen. Just four. Not a laugh, not a giggle, not a snigger, nary even a snort. From ANY of us. Just singularly Not Funny - kind of a problem when it's being pitched as an action-comedy.
In comparison, Deadpool & Wolverine last weekend was full of whoops, hollers, cheers and howling laughter. But when you've got Jack Black in probably the least funny outing of his entire career, and you find yourself wishing Kevin Hart had stuck to basketball, that's really Not A Good Sign.
Borderlands pitched itself completely wrong as a movie. It was never going to live up to the games' main premise of Billions Of Guns™. On top of that, the characters were half-baked; Blanchett & Curtis were just picking up the cheque. Lilith is just a Rule-63ed Han Solo with better threads and, granted, a very nice line in contrapposto. But whilst a well-cocked hip props her up, it saves n o t h i n g about this film at all.
This thing is worse than the 1993 Mario movie (which at least had Almost Unreal), Street Fighter (Ming-na Wen), Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Kristin Kreuk), anything that Uwe Boll farted out (.....yeah, I got nothing)... yes, it's even worse than Pixels. COMBINED. Eli Roth should be made to deedpoll his name to Alan Smithee.
I'm going to go see Deadpool & Wolverine again at some point this month. I have to. Because, with every cell of my being, I resent this pile of toss being the screening that meant my Unlimited sub paid for itself.
How many Pops are out there? They haven't just reached saturation point, they've lapped it, pissed rings round it, and made it totally irrelevant.
60 ain't gonna cut it. The chances of them including any of the handful I've got (the Vox Machina set was a birthday present, limited edition Widowmaker and Tracer were back when Overwatch fandom wasn't toxic, and who thought Dan Marino & Ryan Tannehill would have one?) are a gnat's pube away from zero.
@Ogbert Oh I know, I have Trombone Champ already - I meant the ability to add extra songs is missing solely from the Switch release of this game.
Just it burns my biscuits when we don’t get the same experience as everyone else, purely because we’re Switch gamers. In fact it happened noticeably back on the Wii/WiiU as well.
@Lightsiyd For a kickoff, I have multiple backlogs you could measure punt returns with. Physical and digital. And Steam. And my emulation gear. So I chip away at one of them.
My non-Nintendo stuff topped out at PS3 & 360. Just not enough stuff I wanted to play on anything later to warrant buying any of them - but the Switch more than made up for that. Far and away my biggest single-format collection, and I’ve been at this a while.
@Lightsiyd No, I mean every other website I order stuff on. None of them have any problems with me doing so while using a VPN. Only Nintendo has ever blocked my card details - and this has to be the reason. My card works fine literally everywhere else while I'm going through another 30-day soft-ban on the eShop. They've nerfed my PayPal each time too, and are once again the only place it gets blocked.
They're fine and freakin' dandy with me getting a voucher code, though.
GAME is just the latest chain that Frasers Group has knifed. If it somehow manages to Terminator-crawl its way into 2025, I don't think it'll see 2026.
I'm pretty sure every Switch-owning parent is dreading the day that Little Johnny and/or Maisie ask the near-inevitable question 'Daddy, what's Hentai mean?' For all such content on the eShop barely deserves the term, putting it Out There for the young'uns to spot and subsequently go a-googling for is prrrrrobably not the greatest idea.
It’s ironic that for all the stability and bad words list updates we have downloaded over the years, Hentai has been one of the most watered-down terms on the eShop. And yet it has been allowed to fly under the radar and infest it with mild abandon, its true meaning hiding in the shadows of the real world and the rest of the intermabob. Waiting for the unsuspecting to trip over its pulchritudinous ways.
So that would be my pitch - let users block certain terms when found in keywords, titles and yes, devs & publishers. Anything you don't want [you and your younglings] to see, you [and they] don't see. MidnightWorks and their shonk-ass contemporaries would get their collective asses stomped before the hat even thought about dropping.
Oh yes - and how about stop blocking my SODDING DEBIT CARD just because I use a VPN. No other bugger at all has issues with me ordering stuff to be delivered in the UK when my IP looks like I'm in Norway - it's literally just Nintendo, and they've done it three times now.
I’d like disc golf to sneak in before things wrap up on the S1. Not gonna get American football, and all I’d want there is a target range, so yeah, let us luzz a few frisbees.
Balatro has the hooks in deep and it won’t let go. The Llamasoft anthology is amazing - Jeff’s stuff is really just That Good™ - and I’ll definitely give Animal Well a shot at some point, but right now, I’ve only double-dipped on one title this year (if you don’t count an almost 40-year gap on some of the Hairy Yak’s works), and Balatro is it. Soon as it appears on iOS, it’ll be a triple-dip.
Not often a Mackem like yours truly sides with the Mags, but F-bomb Mike Ashley. He hasn’t had a penny out of me for years, and that will continue as long as his BS does.
GAME might not actually be dead - yet - but it’s starting to look real rough. That SOB has killed so much of the UK high street, and is poisoning the rest with a malignant festering tumour in the shape of Sports Direct.
Won’t be long before all we have left are tiny sections in supermarket chains (Tesco isn’t bothering already, dunno about the rest), independent shops and, of all the possible last men standing I honestly did not think it would be them, CEX.
Never played the original, and I’ve missed the Xbox Live Arcade port on 360, so I have no baseline here - but they’ll fix this in updates, I’d have thunk…?
@Steel76 I suspect that if anything, it may well appear on both - bridging the gap between consoles the way Breath of the Wild did. That, or if you want the full all-singing all-dancing all-kitchen-sinking experience, you get a Switch 2. Same cartridge, but while the OG Switch will still undoubtedly be host to a stunner of a game (anything less after this long will be a massive howler), it’ll have noticeably more oomph on the new one. I’m expecting it to be an utter sock-blower-offer on the S2.
Ah, THAT's why they didn't show up in the existing app. I was in the shower for the Direct and missed the separate app bit.
We're probably going to get Conker's BFD at some point then, because a) we've got Perfect Dark, so there's not as many issues with Rare games as we thought [ergo also, proper Killer Instinct 1+2, not just the SNES one]; b) there's not much point in a standalone app for just two games otherwise.
With respect to stuff I didn’t even have a hint about happening, the Marvel/Capcom Fighting Collection, Stray, and Metal Slug Attack Reloaded.
Overall though, there’s no escaping Prime 4 and Legend of ACTUAL Zelda. Buzzed for those two in particular.
@Anti-Matter they didn’t get Turok in their NSO expansion, and there was something some of my pals on Discord spotted called Eggy Party… (…I know… 💧) …but we’re getting it too. Drops free to play next month. Don’t know about anything else, but I was on my way to work in the aftermath, so I’ll check when I land back.
Marvel/Capcom Fighting Collection (Punisher I can take or leave, but the rest…)
NSO: Perfect Dark
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Surprise: When the Mature area of NSO was announced, I was honestly expecting Conker's Bad Fur Day, not Turok...
No Surprise: Silksong is just a collective fever dream now, isn't it...
Intriguing: MIO. Legit thought 'hang on a mo, Silksong got a lot more colourful' for a sec, and given that might be as close as we get for a while, I might well have a pop at that one.
Also, Darkest Dungeon II. I do love a roguelike, and another one on the backlog won't hurt. Much.
Missed Opportunity: DKC Returns HD. Surely it's been long enough for a new instalment...
Missed Opportunity 2: no-shows for Wind Waker & Twilight Princess HD. Much like when European Golden Boot winner Super Kevin Phillips kept getting snubbed for England because Bottler Keegan was obsessed with Shearer Poppins, I find myself thinking 'what's it going to take...'
Nope: Hundred Line. I have enough head weasels right now, thanks very little, Danganronpa-adjacent...
Modern (last two generations, so back to Wii/PS3/X360)
Retro (PS1-2, Saturn-DC, XB, N64-GC),
Classic (SNES/MD)
Vintage (C64/Amiga, Spectrum, Amstrad, NES, SMS).
Relic (anything before that, so VIC-20, ZX81, Videopac G7000, Pong console etc)
Borderlines will blur at times, some will fall between the cracks - QL, C16/+4, Dragon, Oric, Enterprise, TI99/4A etc - and Vintage will expand as time goes by to encompass what was Classic as everything shifts back a tier.
It’s clearly meant to be a riff on the A from the GBA & GameCube’s wordmarks. Nowhere near the thickness or colour of Adobe’s logo. Ridiculously childish of them.
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Re: Capcom Outlines Changes To Each Game In 'Fighting Collection 2'
Still feels a bit weird to me how they've skipped Rival Schools and Star Gladiator. Maybe in Volume 3 with the Street Fighter EXes...?
Re: First Minecraft Movie Trailer Features Creepers, Piglins And Jack Black's Steve
My takeaways from this:
Re: Soapbox: The Next Pokémon Game Should Rework Old Critters, Not Just Add Dozens More
We need a few new twists to Pokémon progression. Specifically, Eevee and their evolutions…
An arty pal drew a whole bunch of non-canon ones years back - a steel one (Bolteon), a second level of Jolteon (Volteon), a psychic/fire cross-type (Psyroveon), and a Flying type which we had a brilliant double-pun name for - Paraveon.
Re: 'Tetris Forever' Compiles More Than 15 Titles In A New Interactive Documentary
Tetris. Battle. FREAKING Gaiden! YEEEEEEESSS!!
Hope they translate its story and dialogue. I have the cartridge and an English-hacked ROM which does a really good job of it, but it would be brilliant to see it get an official(-ish) one.
Re: 'Power Stone' Is Coming To Switch In 'Capcom Fighting Collection 2'
Would have been nice if they had thrown in the original Rival Schools as well, but you cannot whine at both Capcom vs SNKs, Project Justice AND both Power Stones in a single package.
Maybe luzz Rival Schools and Star Gladiator in with the EXes for volume 3…?
Re: Throwback Racer 'Victory Heat Rally' Stalls On Switch, Now Launching After PC & Mobile
I’ve lost count of the number of titles that get stalled on the Switch after releasing everywhere else, only to never turn up at all.
In other unrelated news, I want an air quotes emoji.
Re: Pac-Man Sure Looks Different In Amazon's New "Adult-Animated Anthology Series"
If it makes season 2, I hope they do Katamari Damacy and Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
Re: Gearbox Teases 'Borderlands 4' (Again), Following Movie's Box Office Flop
Ba🏀⚾️s with that, give us Tiny Tina's Wonderlands (and give it Ariana Greenblatt's voice instead of Ashly Burch!).
Re: Looks Like Classic Puzzler 'Boulder Dash' Is Getting A 40th Anniversary Re-Release
ZZAP!64 [still] has Rockford in the margins for a reason. Stone-cold classic (arf).
Re: Critically-Panned 'Borderlands' Movie Flops At The Box Office
The only thing this is going to be in the running for is Razzies (no small irony that the D&D movie, far from universally loved, just won a Hugo Award at WorldCon in Glasgow). I saw the ‘cancerously unfunny’ review after I’d booked tickets, but I was committed to it by that point. It is, and I’m being kind here, absolute industrial-strength pish.
Worst film of Jack Black’s career by no small distance; Kevin Hart should have stuck to shooting hoops; Blanchett & Curtis were just trousering the cheque. At least Ariana Greenblatt wasn’t as irritating as Ashly Burch’s voicing of Tiny Tina - I’m normally okay with her, being a Critter, but that’s really not her best part.
I’m going to go see Deadpool & Wolverine again this weekend, just to cancel out this utter crapshow. Good job my ticket was free (Cineworld Unlimited), but the fact that this train wreck of a movie meant my monthly sub was paid for rankles like a biøtch.
Re: Round Up: The First Impressions Of The Borderlands Movie Are In
Already had tickets booked before the reviews dropped, so I was kinda tied into it, but... damn.
Four people in an already-worryingly-tiny-for-its-third-day screen. Just four. Not a laugh, not a giggle, not a snigger, nary even a snort. From ANY of us. Just singularly Not Funny - kind of a problem when it's being pitched as an action-comedy.
In comparison, Deadpool & Wolverine last weekend was full of whoops, hollers, cheers and howling laughter. But when you've got Jack Black in probably the least funny outing of his entire career, and you find yourself wishing Kevin Hart had stuck to basketball, that's really Not A Good Sign.
Borderlands pitched itself completely wrong as a movie. It was never going to live up to the games' main premise of Billions Of Guns™. On top of that, the characters were half-baked; Blanchett & Curtis were just picking up the cheque. Lilith is just a Rule-63ed Han Solo with better threads and, granted, a very nice line in contrapposto. But whilst a well-cocked hip props her up, it saves n o t h i n g about this film at all.
This thing is worse than the 1993 Mario movie (which at least had Almost Unreal), Street Fighter (Ming-na Wen), Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Kristin Kreuk), anything that Uwe Boll farted out (.....yeah, I got nothing)... yes, it's even worse than Pixels. COMBINED. Eli Roth should be made to deedpoll his name to Alan Smithee.
I'm going to go see Deadpool & Wolverine again at some point this month. I have to. Because, with every cell of my being, I resent this pile of toss being the screening that meant my Unlimited sub paid for itself.
Re: Capcom Wants To Revive All Of Its Legacy Fighting Games On Modern Platforms
Power Stone 1+2
Capcom vs SNK 1+2
Rival Schools / Project Justice
Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha/2/3
Gonna be a real busy final lap on the Switch for Capcom if they want to stick to this...
Re: PSA: Get 50% Off 'Mushihimesama' Before Its Switch eShop Delisting This Week
FTR, Espgaluda 2 and Dodonpachi are also 50% off, and Silvergun is down even further, to a shade over £6.
Re: Final Fantasy & Persona Voice Actors Are Making A Game Where You Can Date Everything
JD Vance just shuddered, and has no idea why.
Re: Funko Fusion New Story Trailer Revealed, Out On Switch This November
60 characters. [shakes head] Jesus.
How many Pops are out there? They haven't just reached saturation point, they've lapped it, pissed rings round it, and made it totally irrelevant.
60 ain't gonna cut it. The chances of them including any of the handful I've got (the Vox Machina set was a birthday present, limited edition Widowmaker and Tracer were back when Overwatch fandom wasn't toxic, and who thought Dan Marino & Ryan Tannehill would have one?) are a gnat's pube away from zero.
Re: Best Nintendo Switch Puzzle Games
Needs way more Q.U.B.E. - both the 10th Anniversary edition of the original, and the sequel. Both ridiculously good games.
Re: SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos Announced For Nintendo Switch
Right, now let’s have the two where Ryu, Chunners & Co have home court advantage an’all.
Re: 'Disaster Band' Is Gunning For Trombone Champ's Audience, And It's Out Now
@Ogbert Oh I know, I have Trombone Champ already - I meant the ability to add extra songs is missing solely from the Switch release of this game.
Just it burns my biscuits when we don’t get the same experience as everyone else, purely because we’re Switch gamers. In fact it happened noticeably back on the Wii/WiiU as well.
Re: Rainbow Island Sequel 'Parasol Stars' Finally Gets Modern Console Release For Bargain Price
An itch in the back of my head says something is up here.
“Push Run Button”? Not “Press Start”? Seems a bit unnecessarily specific…
Is this just the PC Engine version in an emulator?
Re: 'Disaster Band' Is Gunning For Trombone Champ's Audience, And It's Out Now
And so the Switch gets the sawn-off version again.
Re: Talking Point: The Switch eShop Could Be Great With These Few Tweaks
@Lightsiyd For a kickoff, I have multiple backlogs you could measure punt returns with. Physical and digital. And Steam. And my emulation gear. So I chip away at one of them.
My non-Nintendo stuff topped out at PS3 & 360. Just not enough stuff I wanted to play on anything later to warrant buying any of them - but the Switch more than made up for that. Far and away my biggest single-format collection, and I’ve been at this a while.
Re: Talking Point: The Switch eShop Could Be Great With These Few Tweaks
@Lightsiyd Oh, they don’t even have one. They’ve actually said they can’t do a single thing about it. More likely they can’t be arsed.
I can almost hear them stifling that most infuriating of phrases, It Is What It Is.
Re: Talking Point: The Switch eShop Could Be Great With These Few Tweaks
@Lightsiyd No, I mean every other website I order stuff on. None of them have any problems with me doing so while using a VPN. Only Nintendo has ever blocked my card details - and this has to be the reason. My card works fine literally everywhere else while I'm going through another 30-day soft-ban on the eShop. They've nerfed my PayPal each time too, and are once again the only place it gets blocked.
They're fine and freakin' dandy with me getting a voucher code, though.
Re: Retailer GAME Is Reportedly Ending In-Store Pre-Orders
GAME is just the latest chain that Frasers Group has knifed. If it somehow manages to Terminator-crawl its way into 2025, I don't think it'll see 2026.
Re: Talking Point: The Switch eShop Could Be Great With These Few Tweaks
Keyword Blocks.
I'm pretty sure every Switch-owning parent is dreading the day that Little Johnny and/or Maisie ask the near-inevitable question 'Daddy, what's Hentai mean?' For all such content on the eShop barely deserves the term, putting it Out There for the young'uns to spot and subsequently go a-googling for is prrrrrobably not the greatest idea.
It’s ironic that for all the stability and bad words list updates we have downloaded over the years, Hentai has been one of the most watered-down terms on the eShop. And yet it has been allowed to fly under the radar and infest it with mild abandon, its true meaning hiding in the shadows of the real world and the rest of the intermabob. Waiting for the unsuspecting to trip over its pulchritudinous ways.
So that would be my pitch - let users block certain terms when found in keywords, titles and yes, devs & publishers. Anything you don't want [you and your younglings] to see, you [and they] don't see. MidnightWorks and their shonk-ass contemporaries would get their collective asses stomped before the hat even thought about dropping.
Oh yes - and how about stop blocking my SODDING DEBIT CARD just because I use a VPN. No other bugger at all has issues with me ordering stuff to be delivered in the UK when my IP looks like I'm in Norway - it's literally just Nintendo, and they've done it three times now.
Re: Build-A-Bear's New Pokémon Is Fuecoco
Still think Fuecoco should get cameos in the Bubble Bobble games.
Re: NBA 2K25 Scores September Release Date And A Trio Of Cover Athletes
Still can’t believe there’s not been an arcade-style title since Playgrounds 2. I maxed out my Magic players ages ago.
Re: Feature: Nintendo Switch Sports Basketball - A Slam Dunk Or A Missed Shot?
I’d like disc golf to sneak in before things wrap up on the S1. Not gonna get American football, and all I’d want there is a target range, so yeah, let us luzz a few frisbees.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's NES Library With Seven More Games
More Rare stuff! Maybe that leads to Conker on the N64 Mature app at some point.
It's BS Special Tee Shot on the SNES I'm really hoping for though.
Re: Nintendo Releases Update For Switch (Version 18.1.0), Here Are The Details
So stable that Theresa May just shuddered and has no idea why,
Re: Poll: What's Your Switch Game Of The Year Of 2024 So Far?
Balatro has the hooks in deep and it won’t let go. The Llamasoft anthology is amazing - Jeff’s stuff is really just That Good™ - and I’ll definitely give Animal Well a shot at some point, but right now, I’ve only double-dipped on one title this year (if you don’t count an almost 40-year gap on some of the Hairy Yak’s works), and Balatro is it. Soon as it appears on iOS, it’ll be a triple-dip.
Re: Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Costs $60 On Switch
$60 for a remaster? Nuh-uh. They wanted to charge that much, it should have been a complete new title. It's been long enough.
My concern is what'll happen with the UK - just keep the number, strip the dollar sign and put a pound sign on it?
Re: Retailer GAME Reportedly Ending In-Store Sales Of Physical Games And Hardware
Not often a Mackem like yours truly sides with the Mags, but F-bomb Mike Ashley. He hasn’t had a penny out of me for years, and that will continue as long as his BS does.
GAME might not actually be dead - yet - but it’s starting to look real rough. That SOB has killed so much of the UK high street, and is poisoning the rest with a malignant festering tumour in the shape of Sports Direct.
Won’t be long before all we have left are tiny sections in supermarket chains (Tesco isn’t bothering already, dunno about the rest), independent shops and, of all the possible last men standing I honestly did not think it would be them, CEX.
Re: Feature: 9 'Mature' Games We'd Love To See On Nintendo Switch Online's New N64 App
I was half expecting Conker when the Mature app was announced anyway, so there's that, and I remember Forsaken from other formats, so.
Re: Nintendo Files DMCA Against Fan-Made 'Rhythm Heaven' Remix Software
Saw this coming the second I found out about Heaven Studio.
Grabbing whatever version they’ve managed to get out before it gets fully stomped.
[returns to this tab] …well, crap. Guess I’ll just have to use the last one I got, unless anyone can throw them all up to a MediaFire or something…?
Re: Switch Online's Latest N64 Release 'Perfect Dark' Appears To Have Some Emulation Issues
Never played the original, and I’ve missed the Xbox Live Arcade port on 360, so I have no baseline here - but they’ll fix this in updates, I’d have thunk…?
Re: Gallery: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Is Looking Absolutely Stunning On Switch
@Steel76 I suspect that if anything, it may well appear on both - bridging the gap between consoles the way Breath of the Wild did. That, or if you want the full all-singing all-dancing all-kitchen-sinking experience, you get a Switch 2. Same cartridge, but while the OG Switch will still undoubtedly be host to a stunner of a game (anything less after this long will be a massive howler), it’ll have noticeably more oomph on the new one. I’m expecting it to be an utter sock-blower-offer on the S2.
Re: Nintendo Direct June 2024: Every Announcement, Game Reveal, Trailer
@Anti-Matter I've had a look, and Japan got everything we did, plus...
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Gets Four New Additions Today, Including Zelda, Metroid, And Perfect Dark
Ah, THAT's why they didn't show up in the existing app. I was in the shower for the Direct and missed the separate app bit.
We're probably going to get Conker's BFD at some point then, because a) we've got Perfect Dark, so there's not as many issues with Rare games as we thought [ergo also, proper Killer Instinct 1+2, not just the SNES one]; b) there's not much point in a standalone app for just two games otherwise.
Re: Nintendo Direct June 2024: Every Announcement, Game Reveal, Trailer
With respect to stuff I didn’t even have a hint about happening, the Marvel/Capcom Fighting Collection, Stray, and Metal Slug Attack Reloaded.
Overall though, there’s no escaping Prime 4 and Legend of ACTUAL Zelda. Buzzed for those two in particular.
@Anti-Matter they didn’t get Turok in their NSO expansion, and there was something some of my pals on Discord spotted called Eggy Party… (…I know… 💧) …but we’re getting it too. Drops free to play next month. Don’t know about anything else, but I was on my way to work in the aftermath, so I’ll check when I land back.
Re: Reaction: A Direct That Delivered, And Shows That Switch Still Has Plenty Of Pep
Better than any recent stream I can remember.
Top announcements:
Surprise: When the Mature area of NSO was announced, I was honestly expecting Conker's Bad Fur Day, not Turok...
No Surprise: Silksong is just a collective fever dream now, isn't it...
Intriguing: MIO. Legit thought 'hang on a mo, Silksong got a lot more colourful' for a sec, and given that might be as close as we get for a while, I might well have a pop at that one.
Also, Darkest Dungeon II. I do love a roguelike, and another one on the backlog won't hurt. Much.
Missed Opportunity: DKC Returns HD. Surely it's been long enough for a new instalment...
Missed Opportunity 2: no-shows for Wind Waker & Twilight Princess HD. Much like when European Golden Boot winner Super Kevin Phillips kept getting snubbed for England because Bottler Keegan was obsessed with Shearer Poppins, I find myself thinking 'what's it going to take...'
Nope: Hundred Line. I have enough head weasels right now, thanks very little, Danganronpa-adjacent...
Re: Metroid Dread Director On Samus Losing Her Abilities: "Yes, It Has To Be Like That"
She could at least give us a ‘Not again…” when it happens…
Re: Disney Speedstorm's Inside Out Season Starts Its Engines Today
Is there any Tron content yet?
Re: Nintendo Is Seeking More Talent To Help Run Its Switch Online Service
Where do I apply? Here’s my CV:
I can spot a keyword-bingo ripoff non-game scam from a Norwegian mile away.
Re: The Animal Crossing Aquarium Experience Is Heading On Tour (US)
If only they could have been arsed to support it properly the past few years, eh. Bit late now.
Re: Nintendo Switch System Update 18.1.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Lone Skum can go get in the sea. Best stability update yet.
Re: Retailer 'GAME' Is Ending Its Reward Programme And Elite Membership
Everything Mike Ashley touches dies.
Whoever has CEX in the pool for Last Man Standing would be coining it right now.
Re: Talking Point: How Do You Define 'Retro'?
I have a scale of:
Borderlines will blur at times, some will fall between the cracks - QL, C16/+4, Dragon, Oric, Enterprise, TI99/4A etc - and Vintage will expand as time goes by to encompass what was Classic as everything shifts back a tier.
Re: Viral Switch Sensation Suika Game Gets Online Multiplayer Update This Week
Suika just appeared in my home-screen recents of its own accord yesterday. I haven't played it in weeks.
Updated on its own, maybe? Can't see the Hallowe'en or Christmas themes, so they've either been taken out or hidden with a time-sensitive trigger...
Re: Random: Nintendo Emulator 'Delta' Changes Its Logo After Heat From Adobe
I’d have just switched to a lower-case delta - δ.
It’s clearly meant to be a riff on the A from the GBA & GameCube’s wordmarks. Nowhere near the thickness or colour of Adobe’s logo. Ridiculously childish of them.