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Oh also, on the price of virtrual console, old games are one of the only things i dont care about emulating, they just cost too much on virtrual console.

@Achoo Rare redifined the console FPS (camera, speed, couch co-op, reload function) with goldeneye, and again with perfect dark.
Rare created the best platformers, even to this day the Banjo series and Conker have OUTSTANDING platforming with great level design.
Rare made one of the best brawlers with battletoads, which is great, albiet tough as nails.
Rare made one of the best fighting games ever, killer instinct.
Rare made the only other kart racer that innovated and can stand next to Mario kart when the made Diddy Kongs racing.
Rare bought 3D graphics to the SNES, and pretty much defined the 2.5D graphics style with Donkey Kong Country.
They did things that hadnt really been done before, with blast corps and the amazing crudeness that is Conker's Bad Fur Day.
Heck even at microsoft they created Viva Pinata which is in a genre of its own and has amazing charm and is critically acclaimed.

I think Rare are a different company now, but it might just be a good thing now, their new game Sea Of Thieves, which looks good so far, i will definitely pick it up because it is being released on PC too. They certainly weren't over rated, Rare in the Nintendo days where the most consistently fantastic developer out there.

congratulations mr sakurai on building a series of games enjoyes by so many, casual and competetive alike, you have sacrificed so much to bring us these games. And all of this and you're still only 45, we <3 u sakurai-senpai

Wreck it ralph and Scott Pilgrim VTW (kind of video games, but also other references) are the only good examples i can think of

@IceClimbers can you explain how he was buffed then, i dont get it.

@JakeOfAllTrades They didnt, they reduced damage, increased knockback (this is bad because fair could never kill, but now it cant combo into more fairs/ftilts) and they made it harder to get a sweetspot.

As a Yoshi and DK main, im glad to see yoshi unchanged, and slightly glad of the DK dash attack buff, but i feel Ninty could reduce lag on his tilts that would be what he needs (up smash is largely useless) and also, if his ariels could be made safer on shield.

Great to see the marth buffs, although pretty much every marth player i know wants to see forward air or back air buffed, that would make him very viable. shulk buffs are great too, and nice to see diddy slightly buffed again, after being destroyed last patch. luigi nerf is good, but i feel the falcon nerf wasnt needed. Wii fit trainer and palutena finally fixed . shame about samus. also why does lucas need a buff?

Ive noticed most of the changes this patch are buffs, when last it was nerfs. anyway, very good in general.

@IceClimbers i see it as a nerf, fireballs have more lag which makes them more unsafe, downtilt does more knockback so cant combo as well, and fair damage is reduced (fair is one of his best moves)

@crzysortagamer its confusing but its actually a buff, it means there is LESS lag, and therefore the move is now quicker if you mess up.

@Rhydas 'probably worse than him' xD there is no probably when it comes to zero, zero wins. xD
This guy didnt lose ONE GAME during all of evo, and around 1800 people entered, that is insane. He has the right to be cocky, and im glad that he has a solid sponsor now. anyone who likes competetive smash should subscribe to his youtube its very good.

@ZeroZX-Dev yeah i have the hori gamecube classic controller

at least it will mean one Nintendo employee will understand competetive gaming.

I always wait a year or two before buying a console anyway, in order to have a well developed software library. I still have so many WiiU games i need to play before i cash out for the NX

@KO-Cub think its just the money aspect

@iflywright it feels great for mario kart, smash, bayonetta, pikmin, heck pretty much everything that doesn't require heavy use of the C-stick, it just fits in the hands so well.

judging by steam's early access, this is a horrible idea.

It looks amazing, but its wierd because its like someone just took a mario model and put it into bloodborne. I personally think super mario 3d world looks amazing too.

a company really needs to hire this guy though his work is amazing.

flipnote studio though...

@DoctorWily No, that's not 'copying' its called a market and nobody should be able to own a control stick or a d-pad, its not good for the consumer. If Nintendo were the only hardware company we would all be playing on much more inferior hardware, probably still running gamecube graphics because apparently the only thing that pushes Nintendo's graphics capability is competition. Also, lets not forget how Nintendo didn't invent the touch screen or motion controls, yet nobody claims they copied people.

The fanboy's in this comment section need to realize that competition in a market is a good thing.

@SMW You liked Onslaught??? it was good for a Wii shooter, but pales in comparison to most FPS's

I still wonder why it is that less women get into competitive gaming, and why women seem to place lower than men in the majority of e-sports. I think it may have something to do with the fact that women are discouraged from playing games when they are younger (due to social expectations) and so have less experience. I think one of the most high-placing women in e-sports is Scarlett in StarCraft2, and starcraft is transgender, which raises the question if there is anything biological which gauges our ability to play games? Maybe its such a big social stigma for women to play e-sports, so that many potentially great female gamers decide against pursuing e-sports

It is also great to see more female smashers in smash4, such as Officer Jenny and Nicole.

@SuperAlex12 lol true

@OorWullie its not capcoms choice to make sf5 PS4 exclusive, it wouldn't have been made if Sony didnt fund it, in the same way bayonneta2 wouldnt have been made if Nintendo didnt fund it so dont be a moany fanboy

Palutena is just not great without customs (no good approach, just terrible neutral game in general). Pit and Dark Pit are just above mid tier, same as kirby. @Rydas Kirby is a LOT better in ssb4 than in brawl.

why are people angry that other gamers might get the chance to play a good game?! people are so salty

Why didn't they start a new name? Surely people wont trust the name Sonic Boom.

@IronMan28 You sir, deserve a cookie

@Collinhall Nintendo cares not for laws, Nintendo rules with an iron fist. If Nintendo can squeeze any royalties out of anything they will xD

I had a go and its really meh

It still impresses me what people can do with such a simple game, well done.

Also do you think Nintendo will try to shut this down, or at least the name?

@rjejr pikmin 2 is more a xbox 360 game than b2

lol hyrule warriors lol

@TheRealThanos The abilities in a hat in time are different, yooka-laylee (so far) is just the same as banjo, i want to see innovation in the genre (ala mario galaxy) not just rehashed shiny old games.

Also the dev team does not consist of 95% the original devs, (im sure there are less than 20 people working on this) 95% of their dev team worked on banjo, big difference. They might not have contributed anything which made banjo how great it is. And a hat in time's gameplay is not simialr to sunshine, the graphics and the FIRST level are similar that is where the similarities end.

Im not trying to shut this game down, im just saying to look at other games like a hat in time that are coming out soon, and we can see a much more fleshy platformer

Also why do people assume that the game is going to be great? Other Rare developers have split out, and many have made just mediocre games (although stuff like timesplitters was amazing). People should have a look at A Hat In Time, looks just as good as this does and is out very soon, and has a more original character.

@KO-Cub why??? there are so many more characters with history than this one character who we have hardly seen...

@Mooj738 I think increasing the scale of a game for no reason isn't a good thing, the 4v4 is good competetively, allowing for battles and also people who want to spread ink. sure maybe as a silly mode but apart from that i think 4v4 is great

footsteps plant ink

just want more maps really

@thesilverbrick just get it on PC man

why dont you just buy minecraft?? any PC can run it and it had more content, maps, skins and servers...

@Boxmonkey scores dont matter, read the review

@kamifox1 yeah what the hell

Its not just consumers at fault, consumers are on a budget and i wont buy a game on impulse for more than £10. Also, due to the now massive indie market, and all the competition it is now indies holding other indies back, in the end there is TOO much competition and that sends prices into the dirt, in the same way there are too many books for new authors to get noticed.

amazing article, kudos to @Pandaman

man i didn't know that the NL community had so much knowledge on making games.

oh wait they don't...

@TheRegginator LOL he is amazing, just because he isn't in US doesn't mean he isn't great

People acting like this game is the next mario64 when all they saw is 2 screens x'D

he did nothing illegal, he merely made a platform where people uploaded illegal copies...he should be free.

@Gen0neD i play Ludwig just because i know it annoys people xD.

I want new characters for smash, but i would also like to trail them before i pay like £4 or whatever.