Zaruboggan

More Donkey Kong Bananza, and so far that's the only guarantee, since I'm in the last 150 pages of Memories of Ice and reading that's all I've been wanting to do.
Otherwise, there's always the possibility of some MP gaming--Windblown or Nightreign, probably.
I did try out a few steam demos, of which Absolum is a definite winner. I think it's by the Streets of Rage 4 guys, a 2-player co-op beat-em-up rogue like.
I'm also installing several hundred feet of Ethernet cables and wiring into a new construction, whee.

I would love a Donkey Konga Trilogy! I'm a little surprised by how many DK games there are that I love. Jungle Beat, Konga, Tropical Freeze...
Also, you can't mention DK64 without mentioning its multiplayer! For shame!
I'm having a lot of fun with Bananza so far. Looking forward to playing more!

Do you expect I beat it in a weekend?
Please consider putting these off at least another week. I promise people will still click the article.

Absolutely love this game. We fired it up last year for a revisit. I get a simple joy from the fact that your team composition affects your team name, and how your batting line-up and fielding are affected by the order and placement of your characters. If they like each other, they'll throw faster to each other, etc.
There was so much depth to the team building process, beyond just "I like the way this guy pitches."

Why, DK Bananza, of course! It's actually my brother's copy (physical), so when he needs a break, I'll be trying to sneak in some playtime of my own.
Otherwise, I'm sequestering myself in a separate room so that I don't see everything before I get to it myself. That means I'll be making some progress on reading Memories of Ice (I'm about halfway through--the siege has begun in earnest!).
If both of us need a DK break at the same time, we'll probably play either Nightreign or Windblown. Oh, and I'll be doing a little Xenoblade Chronicles X this morning with my cousin.

Planning to pick this up. 8ing's done right by me in the past with their anime fighters, and I do have every volume of Hunter x Hunter on my bookshelf.

Mario Kart World, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, and some more Ruffy and the Riverside.
Lots of family in town so we're all getting together for some good old Smash.
Otherwise, I'll mostly be reading Erikson's Memories of Ice and Hyuuga's Apothecary Diaries.

Disappointing to hear. I'm not some sort of modding hardcore enthusiast, but I've opened up controllers across generations to repair them. Gamecube? Supremely easy. Effortless. I'd open, clean, repair, and close those things for sport. PlayStation 3 starts getting rough. I still have an open one that I can't get to close properly, but that's presumably because I am bad (seriously, anyone is welcome to give it a try...).
Drift is real, and if you've been lucky enough not to deal with it, good for you. My first pair of joycons had it. My pro controller got it. Two of our PS5 controllers have it. The pro controller cost me $30-40 to get repaired. Gamecube controllers cost me what, like a couple bucks for the screwdriver?

Tldr being able to repair is good; why would you want to blow another $40-90 to fix drift?

"oh no it's not commercially viable"
It's not commercially viable for us to pay $80 for a game that gets yanked after a year, either.

Fast Fusion is a single player's hardcore racing game only. Not getting money to unlock stuff when playing Multiplayer is such an aggressive oversight that it's crushed my spirit and plumbed my enjoyment of the game.

Ruffy and the Riverside is fun!

I think the console's too iterative to be exciting in itself (as far as launches go). The line-up, as someone who has a PS5, Xbox Series X, and Steam Deck, really only has Mario Kart World, Fast Fusion, and Switch games.
It's a far cry from the exciting line-up of the Wii (Zelda, Wii Sports, Red Steel, Excite Truck, plus the Virtual Console) or the Switch (Zelda, Snipper Clips, 1-2 Switch, Fast RMX).
That being said, I like the console. I'm excited for DK, and the games that are coming eventually.

Mario Kart World, Eldin Ring Nightreign, and Windblown.
I may also do some more Ruffy and the Riverside.

We've played for around 35 hours, doing a combination of co-op ? hunting and offline grand prix/knockout. Played once online with a friend.
I never have and never will play MK online with randos, so at least I managed to avoid being personally affected by the patch (as far as I've understood the issues).

I stand by my previous comment!

XCXDE and Mario Kart World, I'd say.

More ? Blocks and Grand Prix in Mario Kart World, for sure, plus some Eldin Ring Nightreign (beat the fancy centaur last night; just gotta finish the crater and figure out how to get to the top of the center castle) and Windblown (huge new update!) with the brothers.
I also picked up Ruffy and the Riverside, so I'm looking forward to that!

Great fun when it came out. I had fun revisiting it, but since Charged surpasses it in every way, it now feels like a first draft.

No thanks, bye

A couple of people have already hit on a key point: blue shells are necessary because otherwise first place is easy street.

I like it just being Mario stuff. I'm getting a little tired of everything being a crossover.

This'll be the first MK that I don't have a go-to, since they're all so great. Conkdor, Swimsuit Baby Mario, Racer Toad, All-Terrain Koopa, and the Peach Suite are my current favorites. I also like Parabiddy and Waluigi, and am excited to unlock Cataquak and Fish Bones.
My brother's been rolling Pinata, Cheep Cheep, the Mole, Rosalina, and Daisy.

Fast Fusion doesn't let you earn coins while playing multiplayer, which is really, colossally stupid. I didn't really want to do an hour of homework just to have every track available for friends. And forget the cars. Big sigh. Otherwise fun.
Mario Kart World is much more multiplayer friendly, so it's getting the bulk of my day-to-day playtime. We've almost finished every mirror cup on my brother's switch, so next we'll be doing it on mine. We also unlocked every kart on his, though we're still waiting on kamek and costumes. In the meantime, we've had a lot of fun just looking for ? Panels and peach coins together.
Uh, otherwise our weekly Monster Hunter Generations U and, if I have my way, a whole lot of Eldin Ring Nightreign.

My brother and I have been having a good time driving around one map at a time, tracking down the ? blocks and peach medallions and big ol' piles of coins.
It's fun trying to figure out how to get to some of those medallions, and then sharing the route with others, and watching them make something I struggled with look super easy.
I expect we'll do a decent amount of this. Maybe not every inch of the open World, but enough.

My Switch 2 arrived. Mario Kart World and Fast Fusion seem the most likely, after my weekly Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate.
More Eldin Ring: Nightreign. We beat the goat, so into the centaur.
Unfortunately, it's hard to think about gaming these days.
Happy Father's Day, dads.

@UltimateOtaku91 fwiw, I don't think the centipede boss was particularly bad. One boss did require you to figure out the combat a little (since you don't have your villagers), but I managed to get through each of them in 1-3 tries (mostly 1), and I'm the furthest thing from a savant.

Bought this a little late last year, but it was well worth full price. Definitely recommend if you like the sound of the strategic elements.
I liked how the leveling was flexible enough that I could specialize in a single unit early (archer) and gradually branch out (mostly using gunner, archer, and ascetic (name?)).

I still have to wait for my Switch 2, but I'll be playing Mario Kart World on my brother's. He also picked up Rune Factory (Hooray for physical!) and Welcome Tour, and I'll probably buy Fast Fusion for my account on his console. Unless the new way game sharing works makes that a bad idea...?

Outside of Switch 2, we're playing Monster Hunter Generations U and Eldin Ring Nightreign. And I may still get a chance to continue Xenoblade Chronicles X.*

Glad to see people buying Kunitsu-Gami! I love when companies just make standalone, one-of-a-kind games out of nowhere.
It'll be Fast Fusion for us when our Switch 2 arrives tomorrow, and MKW with the system, of course.

Loved the demo, so I'm very excited to give it a whirl! Just gotta tidy up the games I'm currently neck deep in.

I'm totally in. Fantastic State of Play. Hopefully the Abzu/Pathless team's new game comes to the Switch 2 as well.

Grew up with the likes of Goldeneye, 007 Agent Under Fire, and Nightfire, so I have my fingers crossed we get an excellent new title. Preferably with local, split screen MP.

I know Amazon has the movie rights, but do they also get a payday from the game?

Seems like it'd be some fun reading. Only one problem... I don't have a coffee table.

Gonna be getting together with some non-gaming friends for a pot luck today, which means I won't get to play as much Eldin Ring: Nightreign as maybe I'd like. We did a few runs yesterday. Still haven't beaten the third day, but we're getting our feet under us on the exploration parts, so I expect it's just a matter of time.
We're scheduled to begin playing some weekly Monster Hunter Generations on Switch with our cousin, which should be fun. I dropped off MHG on 3DS pretty fast, since I think I was still burned out from playing so much of 4U. We'll see if I'm not too burned out on MHWilds this time.
We finished doing Halfpipe with every racer on F-Zero X, as well as our Mario Kart marathon. It remains to be seen what we'll get up to next.
(Also, more Xenoblade Chronicles X and Fashion Dreamers, and, if I can figure out how to beat B-Rank decks, Shadowverse Champion's Battle)

Fantastic game with a great artstyle. Highly recommend it to people on the fence!

I'd love a sequel. I can't imagine a simple performance boost is going to suddenly and magically attract a new audience.

I played around a bit with Soul Calibur 2 back on GCN with my cousins and had a lot of fun. But I never really knew what I was doing.
Now that I've actually played a lot of Soul Calibur (mostly 5 in college), I'm looking forward to trying out Link and seeing how he works (except actually).

West for sure. That border is doing Japan no favors.

Xenoblade Chronicles X! Just cleaning out some side quests and taking my time. I beat the Wii U version over several years, and I expect the same will be true of this one.

Last weekend, my brother and I "traded" games--he had to play one of mine and I had to play one of his. I picked him the nice, neat, and tidy package of Mario 3D Land on 3DS. He picked me the significantly longer (but still compelling) Shadowverse Champion's Battle, so I'll still be working my way through that. I'm already about 7-8 hours in and having fun. It's in the same genre of games as the GBA Yu-Gi-Oh titles: JRPG/TCG. Largely under-represented and very fun. Really, the only way I can stomach TCG battles.

We'll also be continuing our Mario Kart marathon, this weekend with Mario Kart 7. Looking forward to it.

And I'll probably pop in Fashion Dreamers again.

Edit: Forgot to mention that we're also still doing F-Zero X's Half Pipe with every car.

Really enjoyed MK7 multiplayer, and loved the music of 8. 200cc is a blast . The piranha plant popo mode is a great addition to 8D, and I am happy about the return of the bobomb blast and Luigi's Mansion battle mode combo.

That said, I'm more than a little tired of Mario Kart 8(D).

@Truegamer79 every Call of Duty ever?

Pipistrello is on my wish list. I don't think I'll get it yet (it would be fiscally irresponsible after dropping the money on books that I did), but I hope to before the year's end.

Sweet! I feel for everyone waiting for uprising to drop. I'm fortunate I already bought the full OST on CD!
Please forgive my humble brag.

Nintendo's gotta have a lot to announce if they want y1 to be anywhere near as good as it was for the Switch.
I'll be getting Mario Kart, DK, Metroid, and Pokemon.
I highly recommend Kunitsu-Gami.

My localization wishlist of the top of the head:

Archaic Sealed Heat
Soma Bringer
Beyond the Labyrinth
Summon Night Swordcraft Story 3
Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
White Knight Chronicles: Origins

I'm sure there are various other sequels and prequels, and anime titles, but those are the ones that I've got on my mind right now.

Absolutely loved Double Dash and Mario Kart DS. I just popped into Double Dash this last week with my brother in our through-the-ages marathon of the series, and I totally forgot that the co-op is two players on one kart! One player drives, and the other fires items and does the stick wiggle for drift. Wild. On long drives across country, my brothers and I had the Gamecube set up with the Gamecube mini screen attachment and just played the whole way, beating all the cups together and having a ball. Back when the NPCs had some fight inthem!

Mario Kart DS is another absolute favorite of mine. All four of us kids had our own DS and copy, and on one vacation, we played over and over and over again... Good memories.

I didn't particularly care for Mario Kart Wii, and I didn't play long enough to tell you why. Was Brawl already out? I feel like Brawl was already out.

I wrapped up Avowed last weekend, so at last there'll be some variety from me!
I didn't beat Xenoblade Chronicles X, though, so more of that. I still don't want to get my skell. I'll clean out some green quests, some affinity quests, maybe explore the northern continents as much as I can on foot. The skell just changes the exploration so much. Also my phone keeps autocorrecting skell to smell so if one sneaks through you'll know what happened...

Otherwise...? Played some Eldin Ring and Windblown with friends/family last night. I might hop into my Pokemon Sun file I abandoned years ago, or I might pop in a DS game, or, I dunno, maybe I'll drop some money on GamePass and start Doom.
Kind of in waiting mode until the Switch 2. Oh, and we'll probably do a few Mario Kart DS races as we work our way through the series.

I expect there are a lot of possible reasons for this that still track with what we've been told (which may or may not be optimistic to believe).
-They're desperate for more investment money
-They've been working on this in tandem (seems most likely to me, based on supposed release date) with THL
-Someone else is funding it
-They made a deal with the literal devil at the cost of their souls

Huge Chain of Memories fan; could give or take KH1 & 2; 3 sucked.
So I don't really care about KH4, outside of mild curiosity about what this whole IRL world is for.

I love customizing my island and everything on it, but I don't love crafting. I had to collect an insane amount of stone to build a coastal cemetary, and I'm not eager to hit another rock for anything other than bells. Plus, it meant collecting a growing pile of junk with which I could make actual furniture.
I didn't hate it in ACNH, but I will be happy if we move on from it. It was also really annoying having to buy item customization kits for every item.
A nice balance between more involved townsfolk, town and home customization a la HHD/ACNH DLC, and smoother multiplayer features are on my wishlist. Even if that doesn't answer the question at hand lol (See above!).
(TBH, I think a bell focused economy that doesn't let you fast track it with turnips so that you're done in a weekend is the way to go.*
*Maybe. I love being rich.)

@KaiserGX A Man Named Otto was a great book, so I imagine the same is true of the movie! Unfortunately, I haven't seen it.

They may be different kinds of movies, but that doesn't mean Mario can't be meaningful in its own way.

The film did toy with certain things: disapproving families, using escapism to find yourself (literally traveling to another world where Mario could be more than a plumber; he could be a hero), and earning their respect as a result--things that would certainly resonate with people playing Mario through the ages.
But it didn't do much with any of it. Like I said, small edits could have given it so much more.

Also, the fact that you and I are in here having a disagreement makes this by definition not an echo chamber lol. Good for us!

(I had fun with the film, fwiw. And no offense taken--I didn't write those movies.)