The Water Temple isn't even hard, it's just annoying. When I was a kid it was always the dungeon I dreaded the most because of the constant water level changing and boot swapping. It's the dungeon that would always start to make me lose interest in the game every time I replayed it.
The 3DS version basically fixed the issues I had with it at least.
Mega Man, Pac-Man, Terry Bogard, Cloud, Sephiroth, Sonic, Banjo, Simon/Richter Belmont, Solid Snake, Ken, Ryu and now Sora.
This game has basically became what me and all my friends wanted it to be when the original came out in 1999. It's absolutely insane the mountains Nintendo and Sakurai had to move to make this happen.
Nothing will ever top this roster, no future Smash games will ever be able to live up to it.
@Cheez FFX was one of those "you had to be there" games. Unless you played it at the time it probably wouldn't have the same impact as it did back in 2001(I'm so old).
I'm sure a lot of the people who voted for X were those who played it when it first came out.
I'm not a huge fan of the game, but I still have some nostalgia for it just because it was one of my first PS2 games.
All the more reason they should port the 3DS versions of Ocarina and Majora to their modern platform.
Fortunately I upgraded to a refurbished New 3DS from Nintendo just before they stopped selling those. So that will at least prolong the life of my 3DS collection for a while... provided nothing breaks.
In simplest terms it lets you render games at a lower resolution and then AI scales the image up too look higher rez.
For instance you can render a game at something like 540p but it'll look like it's 1080p. It can improve performance significantly in game on PC, in some cases up to 70%.
I wanted to love this game so much, but those controls just killed it.
I love Star Fox, it was my gateway into science fiction as a kid. When Zero was announced I was overjoyed to finally have a new game in the series.
I finished one playthorugh, tried another but just finally got sick of fighting the control scheme and never touched it again.
@liveswired On a technical standpoint 64 is obviously superior. SNES however has the better music and atmosphere as far as I'm concerned.
The setting in SNES was really dark and gritty. The first time I lost one of my wingmen in that game was shocking to be sure. I was shocked to see them just... blow up. No flying away to get repairs like in 64, if you didn't protect your wingmen in SNES they died and it was permanent.
@GiygasAF Goldeneye, Star Fox 64, Tetrisphere, Jet Force Gemini, Smash Bros, F-Zero X, Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie, Super Mario 64, Ogre Battle 64, 1080 Snowboarding just to name a few.
Each of those games have their soundtracks burned into my memory.
@Anvold Families in quarantine together, maybe with only one TV. With Switches you don't have to keep the TV held up to play games when someone might want to use it for something else.
@Heavyarms55 This really isn't a Warriors game with a Persona coat of paint. I played the demo, it's a straight up action RPG that has real time combat instead of turn based during battles.
@GameOtaku Those diseases weren't as infectious as this thing is.
There is also no vaccine, if you have a compromised immune system (I have a cousin who has asthma and this can easily kill him) or are over a certain age this thing can be lethal. They're trying to stop the spread to keep it contained so that it doesn't overwhelm the medical system like it has in Italy.
That is what the primary concern is, the healthcare system being so overwhelmed to the point where doctors are forced to decide who gets life saving treatment and who doesn't due to lack of beds/ventilators.
@technotreegrass I remember when I was a kid and the internet was some mythical thing that barely anyone had access to. Now everyone and their dog is connected.
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Re: Soapbox: Ocarina Of Time's Water Temple Was Tough, But It Doesn't Deserve Its Reputation
The Water Temple isn't even hard, it's just annoying. When I was a kid it was always the dungeon I dreaded the most because of the constant water level changing and boot swapping. It's the dungeon that would always start to make me lose interest in the game every time I replayed it.
The 3DS version basically fixed the issues I had with it at least.
Re: Bayonetta's OG Voice Actor Asks Fans To "Boycott" Third Game After PlatinumGames Wage Fallout
@Edu23XWiiU It's Jennier Hale, one of the most prolific and sought after VAs in the industry. There's no way she's only doing this role for $4k.
There's something more going on behind the scenes that we don't know about. The whole situation is strange.
Re: Poll: Do You Actually Want Switch Ports Of Wind Waker And Twilight Princess?
My Wii U died earlier this year so... yeah I'd like these on Switch.
Re: Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4 Golden, And Persona 5 Royal Are Coming To Switch
@CharlieGirl Persona 5 will be physical. 4 and 3 are digital only on all platforms.
Re: NieR: Automata Confirmed For Switch, Coming This October
This was a legitimately shocking reveal, doubly so because it looks like a native port rather than a cloud version.
Time to have an existential crisis on the go!
Re: Talking Point: How's Your Switch Holding Up After 5 Years?
I've had mine since July of 2017, aside from joycon drift the system itself is still working just as well as it has been since I got it.
The backplate has some minor scratches on it, but other than that it's in great condition.
Re: Nintendo Is Ending 3DS & Wii U eShop Purchases In March 2023
So naturally they're going to make the plethora of Virtual Console titles that aren't available legally anywhere else on the Switch now right?
... right?
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Release Date And Pricing Revealed
@Crockin Ocarina of Time 3D is the better definitive version of the game. So I'd rather just play that on my 3DS.
Re: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's Final Fighter Is... Kingdom Hearts' Sora!
Mega Man, Pac-Man, Terry Bogard, Cloud, Sephiroth, Sonic, Banjo, Simon/Richter Belmont, Solid Snake, Ken, Ryu and now Sora.
This game has basically became what me and all my friends wanted it to be when the original came out in 1999. It's absolutely insane the mountains Nintendo and Sakurai had to move to make this happen.
Nothing will ever top this roster, no future Smash games will ever be able to live up to it.
Re: Monster Hunter Rise Ships Four Million Units In Opening Weekend
@Neopolitan In Japan it's always been pretty big, but it wasn't until World that it became one of Capcom's big tentpole franchises.
Re: Japan Voted On Final Fantasy's Best Games And Characters - Do You Agree With The Ranking?
@Cheez FFX was one of those "you had to be there" games. Unless you played it at the time it probably wouldn't have the same impact as it did back in 2001(I'm so old).
I'm sure a lot of the people who voted for X were those who played it when it first came out.
I'm not a huge fan of the game, but I still have some nostalgia for it just because it was one of my first PS2 games.
Re: Nintendo Will Stop Repairing Original 3DS and 3DS XL Consoles Next Month Due To Parts Shortage
All the more reason they should port the 3DS versions of Ocarina and Majora to their modern platform.
Fortunately I upgraded to a refurbished New 3DS from Nintendo just before they stopped selling those. So that will at least prolong the life of my 3DS collection for a while... provided nothing breaks.
Re: Konami's Gradius III Blasts Onto The Nintendo Switch eShop This Week
The SNES version was one of my favorite SNES games I never owned growing up. It was painfully hard but that soundtrack was well worth the pain.
Re: Final Fantasy VII's Sephiroth Arrives In Smash Ultimate Next Week, But There's A Way To Unlock Him Early
@IAmBerk I beat him on normal and unlocked him.
Re: Random: Smash Bros. Director Masahiro Sakurai Shares His Thoughts About The PlayStation 5
@WaveWitch Don't have PSVR so I can't really comment on that one.
Re: Random: Smash Bros. Director Masahiro Sakurai Shares His Thoughts About The PlayStation 5
Astro's Playroom is fantastic.
For a game that only exists to show off the Dualsense tech it has no right to be as good as it is.
I beat the final boss and legitimately felt upset that it was over so soon.
Re: Soapbox: An Ode To The 3DS, Nintendo's Workhorse Console
Just recently upgraded to a New 3DS from my old XL model a couple months ago and the improvements to 3D are amazing.
Decided to play Majora's Mask for Halloween and I'm reminded how much I loved my 3DS. It was my primary gaming device for a couple years.
Re: PSA: Use A Wired Connection When Playing Smash Bros. Ultimate Online
I don't do online Smash.
Generally I play it with friends at get-togethers. Which means I haven't really played Smash since last February.
Re: Super Mario All-Stars Is Now Available On Nintendo's Switch Online SNES Service
These are the versions of the games I grew up with, so I'm really happy with this.
Re: Poll: What's The Best Final Fantasy Game On Nintendo Consoles?
VI but not the GBA version.
The soundtrack sounds awful on GBA.
SNES all the way.
It still upsets me there is no "definitive" version of VI that doesn't have issues.
Re: Rumour: New Switch Model Launching Early 2021 Alongside A Strong Game Lineup, According To Reports
@tourjeff They would have to figure out how to shrink down the tech that makes it possible though, which definitely wouldn't happen by 2021.
@westman98 Yup, maybe in a few years time though... hopefully.
Re: Rumour: New Switch Model Launching Early 2021 Alongside A Strong Game Lineup, According To Reports
@tourjeff It's tech from Nvidia RTX cards.
Deep Learning Super Sampling.
In simplest terms it lets you render games at a lower resolution and then AI scales the image up too look higher rez.
For instance you can render a game at something like 540p but it'll look like it's 1080p. It can improve performance significantly in game on PC, in some cases up to 70%.
Basically it's magic.
Re: Rumour: New Switch Model Launching Early 2021, According To Taiwanese Newspaper
What we need is Nvidia to come up with a Tegra chip that can do DLSS 2.0.
That would be a major game changer.
4k is doubtful, but pulling off 720 & 1080p 60 would be a whole lot easier.
Re: "Strong Possibility" Of A Nintendo Broadcast Next Week, Suggests Industry Insider
Time for everyone to get their hopes up and complain if it either doesn't happen or if it does happen and isn't what they wanted.
Re: Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night On Switch Had Biggest Response, Sales Were "Well Above" Expectations
It still boggles my mind how badly this port turned out.
There are games far more demanding that have been well optimized on the Switch that didn't need to cut as many corners as this game did.
It should have just been delayed. I would have gladly double dipped later on for a portable version of the game that looked good and ran well.
Re: PlatinumGames Has No Idea If Star Fox Zero Will Be Ported To Switch
I wanted to love this game so much, but those controls just killed it.
I love Star Fox, it was my gateway into science fiction as a kid. When Zero was announced I was overjoyed to finally have a new game in the series.
I finished one playthorugh, tried another but just finally got sick of fighting the control scheme and never touched it again.
@liveswired On a technical standpoint 64 is obviously superior. SNES however has the better music and atmosphere as far as I'm concerned.
The setting in SNES was really dark and gritty. The first time I lost one of my wingmen in that game was shocking to be sure. I was shocked to see them just... blow up. No flying away to get repairs like in 64, if you didn't protect your wingmen in SNES they died and it was permanent.
That left an impression on me as a kid.
Re: Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin Locks In November Release After Skipping Local Nintendo Direct Mini
This is one of the newer games that I'm most interested in and they didn't even put it in the Western direct.
Re: EA Is Bringing Seven Games To Nintendo Switch Over The Next 12 Months
Mass Effect Trilogy, that's all I'd want.
Knowing EA they'd find some way to screw it up though.
Re: It's Been One Year Since Banjo-Kazooie Was Revealed For Smash Bros. Ultimate
I could have sworn that was over two years ago.
This year has really screwed with my perception of time.
Re: Nintendo Download: 28th May (North America)
My copy of Xenoblade is delayed until next week, so Shantae for me.
So far it's fun and I like the new quick transformations.
Re: Legendary Composer David Wise Explains Why He Wouldn't Have Swapped The N64 For A CD-Based Console
@GiygasAF Goldeneye, Star Fox 64, Tetrisphere, Jet Force Gemini, Smash Bros, F-Zero X, Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie, Super Mario 64, Ogre Battle 64, 1080 Snowboarding just to name a few.
Each of those games have their soundtracks burned into my memory.
Re: How Well Do You Know The Legend Of Zelda?
10 out of 10
The only one that really had me stop and think for a moment was question 3.
Re: May The 4th Be With You In This Nintendo Switch Star Wars Sale
@the_beaver Rogue Squadron 2 & 3 being stuck on the Game Cube is such a shame.
Those games need to come to modern platforms.
Re: A Nintendo Direct In June Is Beginning To Seem Less And Less Likely
Right now I've got FF7R, Persona 5 Royal, Sakura Wars, Streets of Rage 4 and soon Xenoblade and Shantae in my backlog.
I can wait on a direct for a bit.
Re: Guide: Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games And Accessories For May And June 2020
Shantae and Xenoblade are my games for May.
Re: Controversial "Adults Only" Murder Simulator Hatred Is Coming To Nintendo Switch
Oh right, this game was a thing.
Re: Demand For The Switch And Ring Fit Adventure In Japan Is Absolutely Crazy Right Now
@Anvold Families in quarantine together, maybe with only one TV. With Switches you don't have to keep the TV held up to play games when someone might want to use it for something else.
Re: Nintendo Warns Of An Increasing Number Of Credit Card Fraud Reports, Offers Advice
I use my paypal and have 2 step verification as a countermeasure.
I learned my lesson from the 2011 PSN debacle (funny how a lot of people seem to have forgotten about that).
Re: Nintendo Switch Stock Concerns Grow As Shipping Gets Temporarily Halted In Japan
@Heavyarms55 The scary thing is people did see this coming and were either silenced or ignored.
Re: Atlus Survey Asks Fans If They Would Like To See Persona 5 Scramble Localised
Atlus is so exhausting...
@Heavyarms55 This really isn't a Warriors game with a Persona coat of paint. I played the demo, it's a straight up action RPG that has real time combat instead of turn based during battles.
@mesome713 I want it, the demo was fun.
Re: Pre-Orders For Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition Collector's Set Go Live At Nintendo UK Store
This is so much better than what we're getting in North America.
I'm sticking with my inital pre-order of the standard edition. It was the last game I ordered with my Best Buy Gamer's Club.
Re: GameStop Is Temporarily Closing All Of Its Storefronts
@GameOtaku Those diseases weren't as infectious as this thing is.
There is also no vaccine, if you have a compromised immune system (I have a cousin who has asthma and this can easily kill him) or are over a certain age this thing can be lethal. They're trying to stop the spread to keep it contained so that it doesn't overwhelm the medical system like it has in Italy.
That is what the primary concern is, the healthcare system being so overwhelmed to the point where doctors are forced to decide who gets life saving treatment and who doesn't due to lack of beds/ventilators.
Re: Site News: Say Hello To Our Resurrected Sister Site, Pure Xbox
@Dezzy It's what I used to play Mass Effect on until I upgraded to PC.
Re: Random: Twitter Almost Thought 2B From NieR: Automata Was Confirmed For Smash
@Ashunera84 Neither do the people who use it.
Re: Dragon: Marked For Death Is Receiving A "Massive Update" On 21st April
Judging by the comments I guess they still haven't addressed couch co-op?
The lack of it kind of killed my enthusiasm for the game back when it came out.
Re: Coronavirus Isolation Is Causing A Spike In Online Gaming Traffic In Italy
@technotreegrass I remember when I was a kid and the internet was some mythical thing that barely anyone had access to. Now everyone and their dog is connected.
How time flies.
Re: Square Enix's Yoshinori Kitase Would Like To Remake Final Fantasy V
This and VI need to be done justice after the travesty of those mobile versions.
@BanjoPickles People put it above VI because it was more popular basically.
It was the big new 3D game on Sony's new console that introduced the mainstream to JRPGs for the first time.
Re: Feature: Best Castlevania Games On Nintendo Consoles
@SeantheDon29 Having the DS games stuck on a DS/3DS screen is a massive shame.
Capcom made it work with the Zero/ZX collection, but I doubt Konami would put that much effort into it.
Re: Japan Picks Its Favourite Final Fantasy Game And Character
VI is in the top 3, which makes me happy.
Re: Here Are Two Teaser Posters For The Upcoming Monster Hunter Movie
Tony Jaa is in this?!
I haven't seen him in anything in years.