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@Joeynator3000 the development of AI and how it's planned to be used freaks me out. I hope it doesn't get to where it's aiming, because otherwise future generations won't even know what human creation used to be. It would all be copy-paste a that point. I really hate it how humanity prioritizes profits for literally everything.

Urban Champion is one of the games I played a lot as a kid. Never knew it's such a hated game 🥲 But yeah, I totally get it why.

I lost almost all faith in humanity in these last 4 years or so, but now with all that AI stuff... I lost all.

Is it any less boring than part 3?

@EVIL-C I don't like it when people glorify "developing a strong will". It does ruin fun! It's like having these pay-to-win games. The fact that you CAN do it makes playing less fun, period. Don't pretend it's a matter of a strong will or whatever. It takes away a reward of the challenge if you know that people can finish this game in easier way.

@EVIL-C no, no, no and no.

@AG_Awesome save anywhere, fine. But rewinding is ruining the experience in a way. It makes games too easy. You can say "oh, but you can ignore it and never use it". The sole fact that the option exists makes it tempting to use it and difficult to resist under pressure though. I'd say NO for rewinding.

@Greatluigi that's okay. I haven't played Crash in ages.

I've always felt like I waste my time breaking boxes and collecting apples in these games.

Tomb Raider 4-6 remastered would be cute.

3D platformers is among my favorite genres, but Yooka-Laylee just didn't click for me. I played it for several hours and left it. Not sure why, perhaps it just lacks the magic of Mario, Banjo or Spyro for me.

I'm not excited for any Netflix productions anymore. They are all focused on money, AI-driven, soulless products. No, thanks.

Great. Now please, Nintendo, fix the build quality of the Switch in the next generation.

No, I wouldn't. I've always thought that the quality of joy-cons is unacceptable and I haven't even experienced the drift. It's just so poorly mounted on the Switch, the wobbling seems random from unit to unit. I was unlucky and my wobbling was rather on the extreme edge. Also the plastic quality is abysmal, part of my left analog fell off and I'm very delicate with my stuff.

I love Super Mario Land. Yes, it's simple comparing to newer GameBoy games, but it has something special to it, not sure what that is. Some kind of magic I guess. There are perfect games that lack magic and there are imperfect, but magical games. You already know which one Super Mario Land is in my humble opinion.

Their business model is disgusting, milking this cow so slowly.

When will Nintendo stop ignoring Poland? 😭

@Bondi_Surfer he's a lovable guy for sure. Seems very unspoiled and kind-tempered.

@Pointy59 that's a very healthy mindset of yours. It's been a natural mindset to desire and create durable things, but capitalism brainwashed us into thinking that we need new things all the time. How Apple convinced people to spend over thousand dollars on the new, almost identical iPhone every 2-3 years, sometimes every year (!!!) is actually scary. But hey, that's how you make your trillions, baby. And they still get away with calling themselves environment-friendly 🤦🏻‍♂️

I'm honestly surprised that people are surprised about Lara Croft being the first. It's either the age difference or being in the Nintendo bubble. Lara Croft and Mario are the most iconic gaming stars ever in my opinion. But Hitman at #3 is seriously strange.

The price is ridiculous.

@rvcolem1 I think it's not only about consistency, but about motion blur or something. There are some games that look fine in 30 FPS and then some that are barely playable in 30 FPS (at least in my case).

I'm glad they replaced that ugly exclamation mark with a nice hand icon.

Luigi's Mansion 3 was probably my biggest disappointment of all my Switch games, so I'm gonna pass on that one.

So they released a criminally overpriced game and now milk it even further with even more criminally overpriced DLCs? Yeah, no thanks.

@Gs69 swan diving on concrete was my favorite thing to do in Tomb Raider when I was a kid to be honest.

@Steel76 I must be the only one who loves the "tank controls" (rotating in place). Both Tomb Raider and Croc: Legend of the Gobbos were criticized for these controls, while I find them very precise. Maybe it's because Croc was my very first 3D game in my life.

Switch is such a perfect concept that I'd love Nintendo to just improve it instead of going somewhere else. I never liked double screen to be honest, it was a distraction.

Wario Land 4 - yes yes yes <3

I love it how Kirby and the Forgotten Land goes from a very easy game to an almost extreme challenge if you're trying to 100% it. I did and it was fun.

Lovely shade of pink.

It looks a lot like Lost in Play. Both the art style and the main (?) character.

@banado27 I also absolutely love Vale theme and the world map theme!

Unmemorable soundtrack? Dude, I sing and whistle some of these tracks to this day, after 20+ years!

I'm a digital boy. Never had a physical game for the Switch. I know it's financially bad to do it like me, but I somehow enjoy collecting games and always having access to them. I have a 1 TB card in my console.

Finally! Golden Sun is one of my most beloved games ever. I was a kid when I was so hyped about it, reading news about it, then playing on the emulator and finally buying it for my GBA. It's one of these games that don't disappoint when you compare them to your expectations, at least for me. I only played the sequel briefly and it seems to lack the magic of the original, but I'll give it a chance on Switch.

@sanderev SSD's are cheap, but not for Apple. 1 TB of additional storage costs as much as almost 2 Switch consoles in Apple's universe XD

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Kirby: Forgotten Land and Super Mario Wonder are actually very hard if you want to 100% them.

I got Super Mario Wonder for Christmas and I finally join the party!

Is it any better than Luigi's Mansion 3? I got it because of the reviews and damn this game is so boring for me.

I'm finally playing The Talos Principle and I love it so far. It's been waiting for me for quite some time. Got it several weeks ago on a discount.

Banjo-Kazooie is a wonderful game, but it's nowhere near "perfect", let's be real. The camera work is some of the worst ones I have ever seen in any game and controls are pretty awkward too. Magical game nevertheless, but let's not pretend it doesn't have its serious issues.

This is one of the examples where it doesn't matter what people WANT. People addicted to drugs want drugs, but it doesn't mean that drugs do any good to the world. I hope all this in-game money BS goes away soon (I'm naive, I know).

I'd love Nintendo to improve the balance of randomness. MK8 already improved it a lot, but it's still far from perfect. Being hit by a blue shell right before the finishing line is something that should not happen. Either remove the blue shell or make dodging it more possible. Or perhaps make it less likely in the final lap, I don't know, but it just feels wrong to lose a race like that.

@JONOFTHEJONS I disagree there. Keep in mind that Nintendo knows their hardware best and if it requires for a game to have complex optimization to achieve 60 FPS in a 2D game, it means that the hardware is pretty weak. We should be rating performance by an average game, not by the best optimized games. It's expensive to optimize and also makes the code much harder to maintain. There should always be door for less than optimal code to run full 60fps in high resolutions. I personally hate it when all responsibility for good performance goes to game devs. They are not idiots, trust me. The fact that you CAN clean entire house with a toothbrush doesn't mean that the toothbrush is a good tool for that.

I'm still waiting, because Braid is awesome.

@HalBailman you should hire yourself as a problem inventor or something. You really try hard to twist a simple thing to make it a problem.

Rome and Madrid tracks are neither boring nor forgettable in my opinion. Especially if you have been to those cities and love them.

@HalBailman you really use some twisted thinking pattern about these modes. 150cc was never hard in 3D era? Not sure about that neither, because I played MK7 not long ago and even when my driving was near perfect, sometimes I lost due to bad luck (being hit all the time).

@HalBailman I'm quite confused. You call one mode too easy to be called hard, while you call the hardest mode special and too hard to be called hard? It's up to you what you call what, but as far as I know, 200cc is just a hard mode in MK8. I know it used to be 150cc in previous games, but 150cc in MK8 is easier now. 200cc is a bit harder than 150cc was in previous games, but it's by no means a "special" mode in my opinion. It just requires you to use braking technique, which is actually a great fun and challenge once you get used to it (brake drifting is cool, but takes practice, as you need to coordinate drifting, turning, acceleration and braking). Also, please consider 3 stars as completing the Grand Prix, including 3 stars in 200cc. That's your challenge you were looking for. I played almost all of Mario Kart games and I think that the only game which got the difficulty right is MK8. The others are way too unfair and random.