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Wow I need all these icons!!

@Anti-Matter but can you make music with Yoshi icons and sounds??

@SalvorHardin I mean, most know my disdain for the BotW Zeldas, so I try to avoid the topic...

Anyway... from a story viewpoint I can understand what you mean... but at least it gave us another side besides the silent protagonist trope. Yeah it may have been out of character but its not game breaking. Story breaking, sure ... but I don't mind. From the gameplay perspective, it was fun, it was a true Metroidvania, the action was great, the level design was good, the sound design and music were also great.
It's easily an 8 in my Metroid book.

@rvcolem1 I agree, it’s not perfect nor the best Metroid game. But it was fun, had some creative ideas and kept the Metroidvania formula alive and intact.
I’ve played worse, I’ve played better.

Metroid Other M was a good game. Doesn’t deserve the hate it got.
I’ve seen worse reimagining of IPs… one which I don’t think I need to mention here based on my comment history.

Al I the only one who likes fixed camera gameplay? I can’t wait for Capcom to port RE2 and RE3 Classic to Switch

It’s time to move on from this age of Zelda. Let it die with this game and TotK.
Also, Warriors games are repetitive as Fark

People saying the characters don’t matter in F-Zero really don’t understand F-Zero.
Wanna guess why games like Wipeout, FAST, and Extreme G didn’t have the same IP power? And felt dull, boring and nothing like F-Zero?
That’s right, because of the characters. Each character made their own ship racer so unique that you could feel their personality on the design and the way it played. It gave variety in its designs. Backstory. Purpose. Each character had a rival and had a reason to win.
It’s the Wacky Racers and Speed Racer of video games to an extreme.
Mr. EAD never played the same as Falcon… and you were always curious to try these totally different ships…. Unlike the other futuristic racers where they only mean a stats difference.
Characters, speed and tight gameplay is what F-Zero is and the reason there’s nothing quite like it 25 years later

Castlevania Dominus Collection…. Starting my way through Dawn of Sorrow

Looks fun… I have fond memories of playing Micro Machines on the N64 … so I’ll definitely buy this down the line.

The thing is … with each passing gen we see less noticeable graphical leaps… which means that Nintendo will catch on with their competitors at least by Switch 3. Which in turn will blend any console differences for developers and publishers. Innovation will start to occur again for Nintendo in how we play games, like the Wii generation.

DK 64 and Diddy Kong Racing please!

Diddy Kong I like … Donkey Kong I do not

Just follow Capcom’s successful business plan

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT ohhh god… I hope not. Not the genre killer again.
Only for Nintendo to charge $100 for the game because of its open world tax.

Keep the platformer a platformer. There’s nothing wrong with condensed worlds ala Mario 64, instead of empty huge worlds.

I was… but after all the shenanigans after the reveal I won’t be getting the console on release day… and I had a preorder…. Let alone year one

@SirLink it’s also pretty old news 🙃

@OorWullie 3 is fine… it just suffers from multiverse burnout … it was released at a time where every story wanted to go down that path.
But in itself it’s a really good game. 1 and 2 might be better, but it’s fine, it’s fun and Bayonetty.
It’s like when people call Cereza and the Lost Demon a bad game because it’s different

Also it is DEFINITELY not open world. There’s just some bigger non linear levels where you can roam freely.

Ummm did you guys forgot that Luigi’s Mansion was released on 3DS?

@Grumblevolcano there’s nothing that is limited time or missable. Don’t worry. Play to your heart’s content.

I finally beat Xenoblade Chronicles X… after 150 hours in. What an amazing game and conclusion to the story.
Now I’m just at 99% … just need to beat the Telethia and unlock some level 60 skells and special weapons and I’m done for good. Next comes the Castlevania Dominus collection

@Jhena all your art are belong to us

@Jhena
Asset illustrator: “I shall give you my life and my art”
Grabs a knife after finishing a Mario Kart billboard.

@StewdaMegaManNerd I think they once said that artists only get credited if their work means a certain % of the total production. I remember that was their logic when certain people complained not being credited in Metroid Dread.

Edit: Ok, from the internet:
Former developers who worked on Metroid Dread for less than 25% of the game's total development time aren't listed in the final credits, MercurySteam confirms.

Damn… 25% is a lot.

@Jhena they support their artists so much that they don’t include them in the credits. 🤣🤣
On a more serious note, I know what you meant and I agree.

Good… Sword and Shield was crap.

So you’re telling $80 is pure greed? Who would’ve known??!! It must come off as such a surprise. /s
Can’t exactly pinpoint why people keep defending it.

And EA, one of the greediest videogame companies out there, saying that they won’t raise prices because business is still thriving… just ridicules Nintendo even more

Remember when people dissed and ditched the Xbox brand for less when they said they recorded voice with Kinect? I remember.
Truly the Xbox One was ahead of its time with anti consumer tactics. Nintendo grew and is taking it to another level. I’m so proud. /s

Naah give us Sea of Thieves and I’ll think about buying a Switch 2

@-wc- “question for the "please increase the price, 60 was too low for too long!" crowd:
during the period where games were 60 dollars (basically mid 90s-2023ish,) did revenue generally go up, or down?
I'll wait.”

Ufff stop speaking with the truth… kids will go mad here …

@nuke13 I meant increasing it to $80… not making $70 the new standard 🙄

“Not every first party Nintendo title will hit that $80 premium“
Yeah, people were saying the exact same thing for TotK 2 years ago when they said the same for $70 games… and look where we are now. 2 years! LMAO 🤣

Xenoblade Chronicles X … 140 hours in … I’m on the verge of 100% it … doing my last quests and onto the final chapter of the new content.
I’ve been waiting 10 years for this finale and true conclusion to the story.

@pikachupikachup lmao, I’ve been a Nintendo fanboy since before you were born. I was playing the OG Zelda on a NES at 5 a couple of years after release. Now that that’s out of the way, even as a fanboy I don’t have to defend questionable decisions from a company.

Yes it’s an open world tax. TOTK did it and we all know that game shouldn’t have had a price increase as it was mostly reused assets. But they sold us that idea “there’s a lot of content, it’s open world, it’s Zelda” and people fell for it. (They didn’t for BotW as they were just experimenting with the idea)
And they saw that they could get away with it, (remember that they promised the price increase was ONLY for that game), but not even 2 years later they did it for ALL games, but why stop there?
If they could for a famous and beloved franchise they could get away with it AGAIN with another popular franchise. Why? Because it’s now an open world and its “brimming with content”.

People are not complaining about DK because yeah, it became the new standard. But raising games from $60 to $80 in only 2 years just because now Mario Kart is open world (or in their words: including lots of content) is the worst excuse I’ve ever seen in my lifetime as a gamer.
By that logic Xenoblade Chronicles should have been $100 when it released on the WiiU, but funny, that wasn’t Nintendo’s greediest era like it is today, isn’t it?
Nobody blamed Sony/Microsoft because they entered in a new era with higher production values and budgets with the PS5 and Xbox compared to Switch games.

Ok, charge me $70… I understand that your production values are higher now…. What… you’re charging $80 now? For a Mario Kart? Why? Because it’s open world??!!! Loool, ohhh you silly Nintendo! 😂

“ Now when Nintendo is charging $80 for ONE GAME”
Curious that’s exactly the same thing people were defending TotK for 2 years ago isn’t it?
“It’s just for one game”
And look where we are now after ToTK

“that you can get officially for $50”
so you’re telling me that their profit point begins at $30? Wow they must be crazy to try to sell games at almost double then instead of keeping a $70 price tag like all other games… isn’t it?…… isn’t it? Ohhh you’re telling me that now Nintendo is calling it “variable pricing”? So you mean that they could charge $90-$100 if they feel like people will follow? Doesn’t it just sound lovely?

They are waiting for Nintendo to release an open world Mario so they can add their open world tax and raise the price to $90, so they can raise theirs to $130.
Genius

@Dr_Lugae did Sony or Microsoft use the “open world tax” as an excuse to raise games $10 dlls even above current gen games?
No? Then yes, Nintendo did it first.
Nintendo did it because they knew people like you will pay whatever excuse they throw at you. In this case it’s “hey! It’s open world! Pay $10 more!” 😉

We knew that enabling Nintendo to do this would pave the way for others to do it as well.
God I hate Nintendo this gen.

This pain feels like losing Rare all over again … Platinum is done tbh … goodbye to one of my favorite studio 😩

Also mark another kill for Tencent’s stench

Finally I can hide the stink of Tears of the Kingdom off of my Switch

Nahhh F Nintendo for this

@Suketoudara I really doubt Japanese devs give a F about what happens with celebrities in America tbh

On my 100th hour in Xenoblade X. I’m about to get into the new content and I’m up to 75% into game completion. Such an amazing and long game.

They couldn't compress 10% more to make it fit on a 64gb card? I mean, you could have just made a hi-Res texture download pack and fit the rest on a cart.

Just like Xenoblade X did on WiiU

@RR529 no, I mean I get what you’re saying, but I meant that I get a lot of Wonder Picks from previous sets, specially Dialga and Palkia with Shininy Revelry(it’s usually 40-60 or 50-50) and suddenly none of them have full arts on them for the past 2 weeks. , unlike when they were the active set or 2 weeks ago. Same happened with GA and Triumphant Light.

@RR529 but I mean from previous sets, not the current one. It will happen again when there’s a week before the next set.
That Wigglytuff one is just evidence that the odds are tampered with, because it’s pretty common though it has the same odds as any other illustrations

@GoldenSunRM I can get behind that logic about my own luck when opening packs… but how do you explain the sudden drop of full arts in the Wonder Picks? Pretty weird nobody is pulling full arts or specials anymore when you could find them everyday, isn’t it?

And it’s not the first time it’s noticeable.

@Bunkerneath I agree! I think the odds are being controlled …(which is illegal in most countries) when new packs are on the horizon.
I haven’t seen or hit illustrations (neither in packs nor Wonder Pick) for Dialga / Palkia in quite a few weeks and it’s quite noticeable

@Otoemetry uhh nice. Thanks. That’s good news.

@Koxen thanks

@Spider-Kev fighting the fight... kudos... no sarcasm btw