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Not keen - I'd like to see a move from the more childish style in general. Not to a mature style, obviously, but more Mario 64 than Mario Wonder

Played it about 3 times and haven’t touched it since because of their strange decisions. Perhaps I’ll pick it up again later in the console’s life

I’m thinking of giving the Pokémon series a go for the first time as an older guy. Actually despite the metacritic rankings, it seems many people rank heart gold/soul silver on DS as the highlight of the series, so I’m thinking of that one as a first try. Is this going to be too old for modern gaming tastes? I’m looking for that core Pokémon experience to get that flavour & wondering if I should go for something more recent? Pokopia looks amazing, but I just want to understand why people love the mainline Pokémon games

I love that 64 is still coming out on top! I don’t think this is necessarily all that much to do with the lack or not of single player content - I just think the raw, non-gimick gameplay was just so good because that’s all they had to concentrate on - make the core gameplay of vanilla game of tennis feel fantastic so it stands up on its own as the core experience, no gimmicks needed.

@gwyntendo Brilliant, thanks - in that case I’ll pick it up at some point 🙏👍

@gwyntendo can I ask which of the single player aspects apart from story mode keeps you coming back? I'm interested and love Mario tennis, but don't bother with online

@Anti-Matter I get you. I’m leaning more towards Mario tennis 64 these days as it’s a really nicely tuned but simple non-gimmick game, pure tennis, brilliant gameplay. I think the special shots in aces were actually brilliant, though, just in the mood for simplicity these days

@Anti-Matter Nice! What puts you off the Mario tennis games out of interest?

@Anti-Matter Which are your favourites?

Aonuma is talking about taking influence from hyrule warriors for the next mainline zelda game. A little worried, hoping this doesn’t mean overly complex combat with involved skill trees etc..

Would love to see 3 at 4k60 or 1440p60 - 720p docked was such a disappointment on Switch

@CadErik Good to know, cheers

@CadErik Ahh, is the actual cardio value more of a novelty really?

Glad they saw it - hopefully this is the start of the end of the trend of making everything open world for the sake of open world. I definitely see a trend of people starting to get sick of it.

If they can get it to run at 1440p60 or 4k60 on the switch 2, I’ll get right back into it.

I just wish N would address the latency in these games - just shave off another 16ms or so across the board and I'll be jumping right in.

I just wish N would address the latency in these games - just shave off another 16ms or so across the board and I'll be jumping right in.

@Araquanid Exactly 👍

No chance I’m buying MP4 - I’m too old and busy to play a game that doesn’t respect my time.

The highlight for me was Tomb raider 2013 & went downhill from there. Would love to see a return to form

@CaptChaos Agree with everything you say - fingers crossed that wooden bike animation/look is hiding some phenomenal gameplay hook somewhere and the ‘bland open world for the sake of open world’ is hiding a depth somewhere we’re not seeing yet

Open world for the sake of open world is a cancer for games, can’t wait until this trend ends

Oh lord the bike stuff looks wooden! I hope it’s not a case of ‘great game marred by bland unnecessary bike sections’. I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt as it’s Retro, fingers crossed..

Everything that’s not on the bike out out in the open world looks absolutely phenomenal

@N00BiSH Oh lord, I think you take all this too seriously. I’m out - no hard feelings & have a good one

@N00BiSH I know the Mario series very well so it was just to remind me of the full roster of returning characters. Remember they’re just games

@N00BiSH Not true at all - lots of recurring characters - if you’re really bothered, look it up on ChatGPT or other AI - quite a roster have come in and have recurring appearances. Not worth continuing here, pointless conversation really. My only hope is that we never see them again - all the best to you

@N00BiSH Because it the next major 3D release, entirely possible

Looking forward to the next major 3D title - Nintendo, please retire the broodals! One of the few (perhaps only?) absolutely horrendous character designs from Nintendo - even the piantas are a delight in comparison

After I updated and tested all my switch games that’ve been given resolution updates on switch 2, captain toad was the only one I puzzled over why it still looked quite rough. So totally makes sense that they needed to further tweak this one.

@Jayden933 Absolutely agree, 30fps is a definite no from me.

I just wish there was an option of a battery powered sensor bar you could plonk in front of the TV for true pointer control. It’d cost very little to make & I’d happily pay extra for it for these games.

@CriticalHit The only useful comment on here - the calibration setup isnt good..

@B_Lindz Absolutely

@skywake Very helpful to know, thanks 👍

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT Yes, totally agree, recalibrating the pointer is the letdown. A few years ago I looked into pairing the official Wiimote/Nunchuck with Dolphin & there was technically a way of doing it, but it was convoluted & I didn’t follow it through. I’m playing Galaxy 2 on my 21” CRT + Wii - it looks great because of the small CRT size, but it’s in 4:3 & I’d love to have them both at 4K on my OLED with the original controls. Perhaps pairing Dolphin with the original Wiimote/Nunchuck is easy now, I might go back to it one day. I don’t feel Odyssey lived up to the Galaxy games for me - it’s such an incredibly high bar, I’ll be delighted if/when they can match it.

@Meowmixes98 Agreed Meowmix - please deliver..

@Galaxy2IsTheGOAT Interesting - what are horrible about the motion controls for you - not disagreeing at all, just curious in what way you mean..

If they can just get the input lag down a bit - every extra frame counts! Plus as-close-as possible thumbstick mapping would be very appreciated - please get someone to look into that, should be a simple fix.

Otherwise the presentation looks great..

@kCaracal I know exactly what you mean, I’ve been thinking the same thing.

OK for people who feel sad about their screen - don’t be! The one amazing advantage of a slow screen is that low frame rate games are not as juddery. 30 fps will look more framey on an OLED because the pixel response time is so instantaneous.

Sometimes over-analysing all this stuff can take away the joy - enjoy your switch 2, the screen is perfectly fine!

I'd say that 1080 snowboarding's better than quite a few of the games above it in the list.

Latency is key. If they can get input latency to a nice low level, I’ll be chuffed.

@HugoGED What model do you have?

@PikaPhantom Thanks!

Thank you devs!!

This is an absolutely fantastic game - definitely not too easy. The inventiveness and variety is excellent and finally a dev nailed the controls. The only thing letting it down was the frame stutter, which is now gone. Perfect.

EDIT: Actually the engine still isn’t quite as silky smooth and flawless as Nagoshi’s. It’s better, but there’s still a little unevenness here and there. Perhaps that’s just too high a bar to bar to achieve? Perhaps Unity isn’t up to it? Perhaps neither, but the first two games are smooth and consistent on another level - I would call it arcade machine smooth.

Still it’s a great game and I’m absolutely loving it. If the engine ran as perfectly as the first two games then I would put it in the same class, which is saying something and is a huge credit to the devs.

Yes, devs - can you look into the 50hz stutter? Such a wonderful game but the stutter marrs it significantly. One of the latest Digital Foundry videos has a section on the stutter in this game with advice on how to fix the issue in unity.

@judaspete Nice to see someone who can really appreciate that - and i feel the GameCube analogue stick precision and responsiveness hasn’t been matched since either. The stick matched with that SMB engine has to be a peak example of control perfection. The speed runs of it are incredible.

I feel 1 & 2 are best - Nagoshi's engine is peerless.

I think the Vita game comes in high, although not on the list.

@Ironcore Love that game!

Emulation is good and important for preservation. But I think it’s better to wait until that console cycle’s over and the store’s shut down. Perhaps if the developers had followed that path and respected Nintendo’s business, they would’ve played ball a little more.

Im feeling the sheer magical feel and atmosphere of games like WW and TP just doesnt make the transfer to open world.