@GinMiguel Other fighting game series have had sequels with smaller rosters (Mortal Kombat, Dead or Alive), and they seem to be just fine.
Oh, and have you heard of this other little game series out there that upset a lot of its fans (including this one right here) when it had game come out a couple of years ago with a drastically smaller roster? Some people call it Pokemon. Guess what? Sword and Shield are the second best selling pair of games in the series.
So what they can do is to continue to make the magnificent fighting game series that everyone loves (more than 25 million sales on Switch) while possibly experimenting drastically different game ideas with spinoff games. Nintendo didn't stop making Super Mario platformers after Mario 3, it made Super Mario World AND Mario Kart.
@ModdedInkling @DK-Fan I'm well aware of that; I got my Wii U shortly after launch. I mean, wouldn't that be something that only a Wii U fan remembers? And if you're a Wii U fan (especially if it was your only current console), you're well aware of how hard times were back then?
I said back then that desperate Nintendo is best Nintendo.
"maybe change it from a 2d platform fighter to a 3d action fighter like Powerstone or the Shone Jump games."
Absolutely not, but as long as they keep the traditional Smash series and experiment with side games a la Legends of Arceus and Hyrule Warriors, then I'd love to see a Powerstone-style SSB. I've actually been wanting that since the GameCube days.
@VoidofLight Serious question: why is it ludicrous to expect all Pokemon to be available in some fashion? I understand not putting them all directly in a game, but I've yet to find one reasonable excuse as to why they can't all be coded to be compatible with current gen games and be transferred in via Home.
I've never played Persona, SMT or Yokai Watch, so I can't speak to what extent the creatures in those games are used. I can say that they all aren't nearly as popular as Pokemon, and I'm pretty sure the first two don't have multiplayer ramifications that a gimped Dex means for Pokemon.
@Xiovanni Well what did Sakurai expect? He should have known Ryu messes around with every fighter who looks his way. I mean, he stole Ryu from MvC, SvC, SxT, PxZ, TvC and Puzzle Fighter after all.
@sremick I made a similar comment in another recent post about this demaster, and all of the patch apologists came out in full force.
"Memory is cheap nowadays" (I disagree, but it's a moot point because publishers shouldn't be releasing half-baked games to begin with)
"A patch generally replaces the existing code" (lol how does this work on the ROM of game card?)
"I'm all digital so I don't care" (awesome, what does that do for people who buy the physical edition?)
"Games have always had bugs. If we waited for every bug to get fixed in a game, then no game would come out" (there is a gigantic rift between acceptable little bugs/glitches and a rushed game that never made it past beta testing. Can we give the publisher only a part of the sales price and pay the rest later when the patch comes out to make the game acceptable?)
@Wexter As far as Guitario goes, I made the same point to that person that you then copy and pasted to me like it was original: every game has bugs, but this GTA release isn't merely about a few bugs, this is a wholesale horrible port job that the customer has to pay for with storage space. You both keep defending Rockstar's anti-consumer practices by repeating that mSD memory is cheap (and ignoring my example of how expensive it is compared to memory on other platforms), missing the entire point that we as customers shouldn't have to waste our storage space on inevitable patches to fix broken products in the first place. They should ship optimized and fixed to begin with.
You can try to gaslight me into thinking that I was dismissive of Guitario by claiming I "mansplained how they were wrong and how you don't care how they are "mostly digital"." However, this is an Internet forum, and all I have to do is Ctrl+F to check the record. I'm not going to copy and paste those posts here. You're entitled to your perception of how you took them, but what's not up for debate is that between the three of us, I seem to be the one person trying to keep it on the topic of GTA; you two have gone into the "cheapness" of micro-SD cards, your personal gaming habits, the history of patching software, claiming I'm upset, lashing out, or telling people that their gaming preferences are wrong, questioning my grammar etiquette, and more things I no longer feel like typing about.
But for someone who claims not to really care, you sure are putting just as much energy into this whole matter as I am. When I don't care about something, I stop feeding it. So I'm not going to try to play cool and pretend not to care, but I will say that it takes a lot more than all of this to let strangers on the Internet ruin my good mood. I suspect that you're the type of person who absolutely needs the last word to feel like you came out on top of something, so I will let you have it. Go ahead and reply to me, and we will leave it at that.
@Wexter Well if you're not sure what people mean, perhaps you should try asking them to clarify rather than questioning their attitude or assuming they need you to personally teach them the way.
"They've been a thing since the 1980s with PC gaming and console gaming since at least 2006 with the Xbox 360." -Wexler, yesterday at 9:08 a.m. in my local time
^Now do you understand why I mentioned the 360? I didn't bring it or the PC into this, you did. I have no idea how you can't see that I was replying directly to a point you made, other than to once again take it that you really aren't paying attention to my replies. But if you are taking the time to read and paying attention now, the reason an HDD for the 360 is cheaper than an mSD for the switch isn't because the 360 is older by 11 years, but because HDDs are cheaper than mSDs, on top of being able to hold more space in general, so patches on 360 and PC aren't as big of a deal. That was the point of the comparison. To show that it's not apples-to-apples. I thought that was pretty clear.
"Also, due to the Switch's very design of course you cannot use a 3TB SDD on the Switch as that would destroy the Switch's key selling point, portability. Micro SD cards are not expensive, and generally, Switch games have much smaller file sizes."
Whether you can use an SDD on the Switch is not the point. In fact, I never even mentioned SDDs. Go back and read my post.
"You can get far more HDD space for the same dollar you can spend on a micro-SD card. $90 USD will get me a 4TB HDD from Amazon. An mSD of that size would easily cost more than a brand new Switch."
Micro-SD card = mSD. Not a word about SDD. Never said the Switch supports SDDs. The whole point is how mSDs are so much more expensive compared to HDDs. Once again, you missed the entire thing, and therefore the entire point.
@Wexter I can basically sum up your logic as this: "You're taking a few minutes of your time to reply whenever someone replies to you burninmylight, so clearly you MUST be angry about this. That's the only reasonable conclusion. Don't mind me for doing the same though."
Like, what have I done that you call "lashing out"? Reply with my two cents whenever someone replies to my comment? Break my replies into several paragraphs as a courtesy to make it easier to read? You've blown more dogwhistles and made more low key ad hominem attacks toward my person in two posts than I have in this entire page. If you think that I'm acting out on the Internet, then please review the choice of words and patronizing tone in your own posts. In addition to the mansplaining and constant gaslighting attempts toward my mood, you've now resorted to strawmanning my stance: "As for buying games and games should just be held till all bugs are fixed... then no game is ever going to be released. "
Did you even read my previous reply to you, in which I said: " It's OK to patch a game for bugs that really did slip through the cracks during initial development or to fix things that the devs really couldn't have accounted for. Patches that introduce new features and/or balance changes are always welcome. What's not OK is to ship an incomplete, buggy mess that runs like a turd, with the excuse that it'll be fixed later."
And the rest of your reply is just more mansplaining, misrepresenting what I've been saying the whole time, and/or repeating what we've already previously said. Are you sure that I'm the one who is upset or overly passionate about this subject here? You sure seem to be spending just as much time and energy on it as I am.
Regardless, if you're going to continue taking these ad hominem jabs at me that have nothing to do with the subject at hand, patronizing me about things that I've demonstrated that I already know, ignoring giant chunks of my replies, strawmanning my argument and repeating your argument ad nauseum, then I will politely ask you to stop replying to me. That's the sure sign that this discussion has run its course, and you have nothing more to contribute before it devolves into something personal that requires mod intervention. You make some good points, but perhaps we can debate some time in the future where you can do it more respectfully.
@Kreko Outside of preorder bonuses (which need to go away), I don't understand why anyone would preorder anything. Don't give greedy business guaranteed money until they prove your product is worth money. You can wait until reviews come in.
@Wexter "Outrage", "upset" are pretty strong words... just because I'm voicing my opinion on an online forum doesn't mean that I'm experiencing such strong emotions.
I've been gaming since the NES days. I'm fully aware that patch culture has been around for a while now, but thank you for the trip down memory lane. One difference here is that memory is far cheaper to acquire and easier to swap between on PC and X360 than on the Switch. You can get far more HDD space for the same dollar you can spend on a micro-SD card. $90 USD will get me a 4TB HDD from Amazon. An mSD of that size would easily cost more than a brand new Switch.
I'm glad that your second paragraph shows that you get my point (which is why I'm having a hard time understanding the point of your first paragraph), which is that this GTA trilogy shouldn't have shipped in its current state. It's OK to patch a game for bugs that really did slip through the cracks during initial development or to fix things that the devs really couldn't have accounted for. Patches that introduce new features and/or balance changes are always welcome. What's not OK is to ship an incomplete, buggy mess that runs like a turd, with the excuse that it'll be fixed later.
What's the point of buying the game now then? For all intents and purposes, I might as well see the game as being delayed until the patch comes out and fixes the issues to make it run "OK."
Also, don't we all agree that shipping part of game on cart that requires a download for the rest is a bad, anti-consumer practice? How is shipping a bug-fest that requires a large patch to make it run acceptably any differently?
@Guitario Every game has "some bugs." This isn't "some bugs." This is a Cyberpunk 2077-tier rush job that should have never made it to market in its current state.
Cool on you for being all-digital, but that's clearly not the case for others, given how this collection is getting a physical release. So however large the future patches are (you know it/they will be several gigabytes at the least), that's still space that the customer has to lose because Rockstar couldn't be bothered to ship a quality port. Like I said earlier, the current cost of expandable memory isn't the point; it still costs the customer extra in terms of time, money, convenience and storage to get the game we should have gotten with the initial purchase.
@Guitario "Dirt cheap" is relative, but the price isn't the point either way.
I really don't understand why you people are defending poorly optimized ports that run like garbage at launch just to get fixed months later at the cost of extra finite space on your console/SD card that could be used for other games instead.
I turned off my ad blocker for Deku Deals (and Nintendo Life) out of respect for the content and services that the site brings me, and because the ads that are there are hardly annoying and obtrusive. Since I'm not making manual monetary donations, i's literally the least you could do as a way of saying thanks.
@CodyMKW I'm willing to bet that most Switch users do not. Keep in mind that mega popular consoles like the Switch attract a lot of owners that don't invest as much time and money into their consoles as people like you and me. Some people would call them "casuals."
Regardless, those big SD cards fill up pretty fast when every game needs a humongous set of patches to run decently.
I guess those of you who bought this package can look forward to another 8GB patch in the future to make the games acceptable, all while eating up more of your precious Switch storage space when the games should have been optimized from the start.
@thaimbomb I guess the more power consoles need better GPUs too, seeing as how every version of this release is reportedly suffering similar problems. It's definitely an issue of modern GPUs not being able to handle 20-year old games and not poor optimization, right?
Like the two people above me have said, please give Hamster anything it wants. It takes proper care of everything it gets, and like EarthboundBenjy said, it's the closest thing to Virtual Console.
I was inches away from getting the Arcade Archives version a few weeks ago, now I'm glad that I didn't. I prefer the pixel look of the original, but the art style of the remake isn't totally off-putting. Like others said, hopefully they find away to throw in the ROM of at least one of the SNES, Genesis or Arcade versions.
I'm a simple man. You tell me that a compilation of great games are all on one Switch cart with no codes, I jump on it, like the Subnautica and Metro Redux packs.
Gotta reward those publishers that know what being customer-friendly means.
@Purgatorium The three GBA games (Circle of the Moon, Aria of Sorrow, Harmony of Dissonance) are all pretty much just like SotN. Lots of discovery, backtracking, leveling up, gaining new abilities and opening up new paths.
Can't say if the new games "fixed the problems" because I don't know what you found to be a problem, but if you're not a fan of those types of games in general (Metroidvanias), then I can't promise you'll like these.
The good news is that Konami games go on sale often enough for about 50 percent off, so don't feel like you have to jump right in if you decide to give them a try.
@Mgalens We're both talking to angry little brick walls that get off on pointing and laughing at faceless people on the Internet to feel better about themselves. They do the same thing in every single Pokemon article.
@BloodNinja I've already let you know what you can do for me, boo. Recommend some better games of a similar ilk, since you've made it your life's work to get people to play other games. If I didn't like Mario Party or Mario Kart, I'd tell people about Dokapon Kingdom or Sonic All-Star Racing instead of pointing and laughing at them from behind my keyboard and online persona. Now I'm starting to see why you like pretending to be a ninja edgelord - you like to hide behind the anonymity that the Internet provides you to act out your bad little behavioral impulses.
@BloodNinja Not pouting over a game, honey lamb. But how much more childish does it seem to pout over a fanbase? I can only imagine what folks like you will do once you realize that a multi-billion dollar enterprise won't be going anywhere for a long, long time!
@Purgatorium Yep, welcome to the comments section, where troubled little boys love to exercise their free speech, but get their feelings hurt when someone else exercises that same free speech to criticize their free speech.
@BloodNinja Was there some point you had in mind? Like, every time you tell people to play a better game, how often do you recommend games that you consider better? Maybe you could try and share some better games that offer similar gameplay, hmm? Seems much more constructive than telling others that their games suck because you personally don't like them, but hating things that don't appeal to your personal interests is kind of your thing.
Yes, the game was like this before Covid restrictions. Doesn't change the fact that it became a better game because of the QoL implementations due to Covid, and it got more people playing because of it, as evidenced by the fact that the game just had it's most successful year ever from an income standpoint. It's not "some arbitrary change to a game" either: it literally enabled people who found it difficult to play before into being able to keep up with the rest and take full advantage of gameplay and events. You might know that if you actually bothered to read the content in the article instead of skipping straight to the comment section so you can leave one of the earliest comments and feel heard.
@BloodNinja Nope, you're just losing sleep over the people playing it. Every time there's a new GO article posted, you and people like HeavyArms55 can be relied upon to come in and trash talk the minority of the fanbase that dares to express some passion about the game, then tell folks to play different games just for having criticisms of it, most of which are valid.
Between that and your comments on the article about inclusion in Nintendo games, it's pretty clear that anything that isn't NINJA APPROVED isn't welcome here.
@BloodNinja Or maybe we are into it, and we would like for the game's developer to revert back to certain QoL that made the game better? I know this may sound crazy, but every once in a while a passionate fanbase may actually have valid points.
How about instead of telling other people what to like and how to spend their time, you actually make better use of your time by playing one of those thousands of better games?
@SwitchVogel This isn't like Brexit, where the casual player might not even notice half of the existing content from previous generations missing because they only care about the keys jangling in front of them. This isn't just the loud minority of longtime passionate fans.
These changes absolutely effect the majority of people who boot up GO at all, no matter where they lie on the casual/hardcore spectrum.
And as others have said, these changes in many ways inhibits the community from being more active instead of encouraging it. I find myself playing less and less over the past week because it is now more of a challenge for me to get to Pokestops and gyms that were once not too big of a deal. It makes it harder for me to collect resources needed to catch 'em all, so I'm often left with nothing to do. So I just stop playing. More than some of the various bugs I'd like to see fixed, this is how Niantic keeps me from investing more time and potential disposable income into the game.
Glad I held off on biting on digital sales and holding off on the standalone physical releases now. $50 for two great games all on one cart is a lot more tempting than any other iteration of their availability on Switch.
@TheMadManSFX The subject of offensive Native American caricatures in media deserves its own article and discussion itself. The problem with asking or trying to survey people who identify as NA is that just about anyone can claim to be, and because we all come from different walks of life and should treat everyone's opinions and lived experiences as valid, it's a lot easier to find people who can claim NA ancestry yet still identify as another race (like me) or grew up in surroundings that didn't give them any sort of attachments to their heritage (also like me). This causes their voices, opinions and votes to often drown out those that have no other identity or culture to turn to.
This old bit from The Daily Show gets the point across nicely:
Let's take the framing away from First Nations people and use a much bigger minority group, the LGBTQ+. Remember/Ever heard of Ash from Streets of Rage 3? If not, please look do a Google/YouTube search to see what I mean. Ash came about as someone's horribly limited understanding and view of a queer person in the early 90s. Sadly, that's how a lot of people viewed the queer community in the 90s, and Ash only served to perpetuate stereotypes through an offensive caricature. Imagine if fictional caricatures like Ash and Poison were the largest representation that the LTBTQ+ people had to go on today, and society at large told them that they should be satisfied with it?
@hillyarb "I just don't understand what is wrong with Mario the way it is? I don't see anyone living in Wakanda outside of Wakandas and nobody has an issue with that."
That is possibly the worst example you could have drummed up. Assuming you're going off of the MCU movie, you didn't see foreigners in Wakanda because they had a giant secret to protect that had global, history-altering implications if the word got out. The country kind of had to stay homogeneous - until the end of the movie.
Where are the similar examples in Hyrule or the Mushroom Kingdom?
So I tested with Pidgeot, and yeah, it appears that you have to pay the initial high cost with each individual mon, but after they've mega evolved once, that cost is reduced by 1/5th. I also noticed that I was earning extra candy every time I caught something of the same type as Pidgeot; it probably is Mega Candy, but I haven't confirmed that yet. But if that's the case, then yeah, once you get past the initially high fence, it ain't so bad.
I'd probably still prefer a tweaked system that allows you to Mega Evolve a Pokemon for free once a day, just for much less time, but now that I have a much better understanding of how it currently works, I'm content with it now. This will absolutely increase the range of three star raids I can solo now.
I had no idea that the costs for Mega Energy were drastically reduced after the first time a mon mega evolves; I figured that it would stay that way for good. I certain don't recall the game explaining it that well.
Now that I know this, I may go ahead and mega evolve something like Beedrill and test it out to see how feasible it works for me. I can certainly live with spending an entire day with one of them as my buddy to earn up the energy for next time, especially on things that are next to useless without it.
@Travisemo007 @Snaplocket My first experience with an auto-battle feature was all the way back with Phantasy Star II. Like you said, tedious gameplay, tough difficulty, hella grinding required, and a lot of the time the only real option is basic attacks when slogging through dungeons.
If developers feel that an auto-battle feature is necessary in their game, then they probably need to fix the mechanics of the game so it's not necessary.
Not saying D6 is in anyway bad, but that's just the camp that I'm in.
@spinalzombie Thank you for clarifying; I went from planning to get a physical copy to deciding to wait until it's at least half-off in the eShop if I ever get it at all, now back to planning to eventually get it on cart, so long as the full single-player experience is all on cart.
@Heavyarms55 I actually enjoy the PvP and find that there is a bit of strategy and planning to it, but otherwise totally agree about the mega evolution system implementation. The few Pokemon that I can actually mega evolve, I never do, because I always feel like I should be saving the resources for something better. Likewise, I don't waste raid passes on Mega Raids because I don't consider the rewards worth it over even a three-star raid.
I like the idea of just putting a cooldown on the time between mega evolutions once you earn a mon's "-ite" (like one mega evolution per day that lasts two or three hours) instead of having to grind for pittance while wasting resources to get there.
When you aren't trolling SnS critics for no apparent reason, you have some valid and well elaborated criticisms to share on your own.
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Re: A New Smash Bros. Would Need A Smaller Roster, Admits Sakurai
@GinMiguel Other fighting game series have had sequels with smaller rosters (Mortal Kombat, Dead or Alive), and they seem to be just fine.
Oh, and have you heard of this other little game series out there that upset a lot of its fans (including this one right here) when it had game come out a couple of years ago with a drastically smaller roster? Some people call it Pokemon. Guess what? Sword and Shield are the second best selling pair of games in the series.
So what they can do is to continue to make the magnificent fighting game series that everyone loves (more than 25 million sales on Switch) while possibly experimenting drastically different game ideas with spinoff games. Nintendo didn't stop making Super Mario platformers after Mario 3, it made Super Mario World AND Mario Kart.
Re: Earn 2x Gold Points If You Buy Any Of These Nintendo Games On Switch eShop (North America)
@ModdedInkling @DK-Fan I'm well aware of that; I got my Wii U shortly after launch. I mean, wouldn't that be something that only a Wii U fan remembers? And if you're a Wii U fan (especially if it was your only current console), you're well aware of how hard times were back then?
I said back then that desperate Nintendo is best Nintendo.
Re: Earn 2x Gold Points If You Buy Any Of These Nintendo Games On Switch eShop (North America)
Remember last gen, when Nintendo gave you a full free first party retail game like Wind Waker or Pikmin 3 just for buying Mario Kart 8?
Re: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Brings The Fight To Nintendo Switch Next Year
@JR150 @Aurumonado @Harmonie @Wilforce
Atlus: "We heard you Nintendo fans! Get ready for Persona 4: Dancing All Night in 2024!"
Re: A New Smash Bros. Would Need A Smaller Roster, Admits Sakurai
@GinMiguel
"maybe change it from a 2d platform fighter to a 3d action fighter like Powerstone or the Shone Jump games."
Absolutely not, but as long as they keep the traditional Smash series and experiment with side games a la Legends of Arceus and Hyrule Warriors, then I'd love to see a Powerstone-style SSB. I've actually been wanting that since the GameCube days.
Re: Atlus Brings 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim To Nintendo Switch On 12th April 2022
"This title by Atlus and Vanillaware-"
SOLD
Re: Pokémon's Diamond & Pearl Remakes Become The Second Biggest Switch Game Launch In Japan
@VoidofLight Serious question: why is it ludicrous to expect all Pokemon to be available in some fashion? I understand not putting them all directly in a game, but I've yet to find one reasonable excuse as to why they can't all be coded to be compatible with current gen games and be transferred in via Home.
I've never played Persona, SMT or Yokai Watch, so I can't speak to what extent the creatures in those games are used. I can say that they all aren't nearly as popular as Pokemon, and I'm pretty sure the first two don't have multiplayer ramifications that a gimped Dex means for Pokemon.
Re: Three Street Fighter Legends Are Now Playable In Brawlhalla
@Xiovanni Well what did Sakurai expect? He should have known Ryu messes around with every fighter who looks his way. I mean, he stole Ryu from MvC, SvC, SxT, PxZ, TvC and Puzzle Fighter after all.
Re: Wii U's Getting A New Game, And This Will Probably Be The Last
@Silly_G One word... RCMADIAX....
Re: Digital Foundry Begins GTA Trilogy Analysis, Describes GTA 3 On Switch As A 'Big Mess'
@sremick I made a similar comment in another recent post about this demaster, and all of the patch apologists came out in full force.
"Memory is cheap nowadays" (I disagree, but it's a moot point because publishers shouldn't be releasing half-baked games to begin with)
"A patch generally replaces the existing code" (lol how does this work on the ROM of game card?)
"I'm all digital so I don't care" (awesome, what does that do for people who buy the physical edition?)
"Games have always had bugs. If we waited for every bug to get fixed in a game, then no game would come out" (there is a gigantic rift between acceptable little bugs/glitches and a rushed game that never made it past beta testing. Can we give the publisher only a part of the sales price and pay the rest later when the patch comes out to make the game acceptable?)
Re: 16-Bit Cult Classic Valis Is Getting Rebooted On Nintendo Switch
@Yanina Could you be a dear and do the same for these dead IP that I would love to have come to the Switch?
-Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre
-Virtual On
-Shining Force
-Goemon
Thank you for making dreams come true!
Re: Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water Gets New 'Very Easy' Difficulty Option
@Itachi2099
・Fixed various bugs and defects.
・Fixed display issues.
Not what you had in mind?
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
@Wexter
As far as Guitario goes, I made the same point to that person that you then copy and pasted to me like it was original: every game has bugs, but this GTA release isn't merely about a few bugs, this is a wholesale horrible port job that the customer has to pay for with storage space. You both keep defending Rockstar's anti-consumer practices by repeating that mSD memory is cheap (and ignoring my example of how expensive it is compared to memory on other platforms), missing the entire point that we as customers shouldn't have to waste our storage space on inevitable patches to fix broken products in the first place. They should ship optimized and fixed to begin with.
You can try to gaslight me into thinking that I was dismissive of Guitario by claiming I "mansplained how they were wrong and how you don't care how they are "mostly digital"." However, this is an Internet forum, and all I have to do is Ctrl+F to check the record. I'm not going to copy and paste those posts here. You're entitled to your perception of how you took them, but what's not up for debate is that between the three of us, I seem to be the one person trying to keep it on the topic of GTA; you two have gone into the "cheapness" of micro-SD cards, your personal gaming habits, the history of patching software, claiming I'm upset, lashing out, or telling people that their gaming preferences are wrong, questioning my grammar etiquette, and more things I no longer feel like typing about.
But for someone who claims not to really care, you sure are putting just as much energy into this whole matter as I am. When I don't care about something, I stop feeding it. So I'm not going to try to play cool and pretend not to care, but I will say that it takes a lot more than all of this to let strangers on the Internet ruin my good mood. I suspect that you're the type of person who absolutely needs the last word to feel like you came out on top of something, so I will let you have it. Go ahead and reply to me, and we will leave it at that.
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
@Wexter
Well if you're not sure what people mean, perhaps you should try asking them to clarify rather than questioning their attitude or assuming they need you to personally teach them the way.
"They've been a thing since the 1980s with PC gaming and console gaming since at least 2006 with the Xbox 360."
-Wexler, yesterday at 9:08 a.m. in my local time
^Now do you understand why I mentioned the 360? I didn't bring it or the PC into this, you did. I have no idea how you can't see that I was replying directly to a point you made, other than to once again take it that you really aren't paying attention to my replies. But if you are taking the time to read and paying attention now, the reason an HDD for the 360 is cheaper than an mSD for the switch isn't because the 360 is older by 11 years, but because HDDs are cheaper than mSDs, on top of being able to hold more space in general, so patches on 360 and PC aren't as big of a deal. That was the point of the comparison. To show that it's not apples-to-apples. I thought that was pretty clear.
"Also, due to the Switch's very design of course you cannot use a 3TB SDD on the Switch as that would destroy the Switch's key selling point, portability. Micro SD cards are not expensive, and generally, Switch games have much smaller file sizes."
Whether you can use an SDD on the Switch is not the point. In fact, I never even mentioned SDDs. Go back and read my post.
"You can get far more HDD space for the same dollar you can spend on a micro-SD card. $90 USD will get me a 4TB HDD from Amazon. An mSD of that size would easily cost more than a brand new Switch."
Micro-SD card = mSD. Not a word about SDD. Never said the Switch supports SDDs. The whole point is how mSDs are so much more expensive compared to HDDs. Once again, you missed the entire thing, and therefore the entire point.
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
@Wexter I can basically sum up your logic as this: "You're taking a few minutes of your time to reply whenever someone replies to you burninmylight, so clearly you MUST be angry about this. That's the only reasonable conclusion. Don't mind me for doing the same though."
Like, what have I done that you call "lashing out"? Reply with my two cents whenever someone replies to my comment? Break my replies into several paragraphs as a courtesy to make it easier to read? You've blown more dogwhistles and made more low key ad hominem attacks toward my person in two posts than I have in this entire page. If you think that I'm acting out on the Internet, then please review the choice of words and patronizing tone in your own posts. In addition to the mansplaining and constant gaslighting attempts toward my mood, you've now resorted to strawmanning my stance: "As for buying games and games should just be held till all bugs are fixed... then no game is ever going to be released. "
Did you even read my previous reply to you, in which I said: " It's OK to patch a game for bugs that really did slip through the cracks during initial development or to fix things that the devs really couldn't have accounted for. Patches that introduce new features and/or balance changes are always welcome. What's not OK is to ship an incomplete, buggy mess that runs like a turd, with the excuse that it'll be fixed later."
And the rest of your reply is just more mansplaining, misrepresenting what I've been saying the whole time, and/or repeating what we've already previously said. Are you sure that I'm the one who is upset or overly passionate about this subject here? You sure seem to be spending just as much time and energy on it as I am.
Regardless, if you're going to continue taking these ad hominem jabs at me that have nothing to do with the subject at hand, patronizing me about things that I've demonstrated that I already know, ignoring giant chunks of my replies, strawmanning my argument and repeating your argument ad nauseum, then I will politely ask you to stop replying to me. That's the sure sign that this discussion has run its course, and you have nothing more to contribute before it devolves into something personal that requires mod intervention. You make some good points, but perhaps we can debate some time in the future where you can do it more respectfully.
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
@Kreko Outside of preorder bonuses (which need to go away), I don't understand why anyone would preorder anything. Don't give greedy business guaranteed money until they prove your product is worth money. You can wait until reviews come in.
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
@Wexter
"Outrage", "upset" are pretty strong words... just because I'm voicing my opinion on an online forum doesn't mean that I'm experiencing such strong emotions.
I've been gaming since the NES days. I'm fully aware that patch culture has been around for a while now, but thank you for the trip down memory lane. One difference here is that memory is far cheaper to acquire and easier to swap between on PC and X360 than on the Switch. You can get far more HDD space for the same dollar you can spend on a micro-SD card. $90 USD will get me a 4TB HDD from Amazon. An mSD of that size would easily cost more than a brand new Switch.
I'm glad that your second paragraph shows that you get my point (which is why I'm having a hard time understanding the point of your first paragraph), which is that this GTA trilogy shouldn't have shipped in its current state. It's OK to patch a game for bugs that really did slip through the cracks during initial development or to fix things that the devs really couldn't have accounted for. Patches that introduce new features and/or balance changes are always welcome. What's not OK is to ship an incomplete, buggy mess that runs like a turd, with the excuse that it'll be fixed later.
What's the point of buying the game now then? For all intents and purposes, I might as well see the game as being delayed until the patch comes out and fixes the issues to make it run "OK."
Also, don't we all agree that shipping part of game on cart that requires a download for the rest is a bad, anti-consumer practice? How is shipping a bug-fest that requires a large patch to make it run acceptably any differently?
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
@Guitario
Every game has "some bugs." This isn't "some bugs." This is a Cyberpunk 2077-tier rush job that should have never made it to market in its current state.
Cool on you for being all-digital, but that's clearly not the case for others, given how this collection is getting a physical release. So however large the future patches are (you know it/they will be several gigabytes at the least), that's still space that the customer has to lose because Rockstar couldn't be bothered to ship a quality port. Like I said earlier, the current cost of expandable memory isn't the point; it still costs the customer extra in terms of time, money, convenience and storage to get the game we should have gotten with the initial purchase.
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
@Guitario "Dirt cheap" is relative, but the price isn't the point either way.
I really don't understand why you people are defending poorly optimized ports that run like garbage at launch just to get fixed months later at the cost of extra finite space on your console/SD card that could be used for other games instead.
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
@scottishwildcat How does a patch replace code on a physical ROM?
Re: Feature: "The eShop Is Just Way Too Slow" - Deku Deals Creator On Nintendo's Switch Storefront
@TryToBeHopeful
I turned off my ad blocker for Deku Deals (and Nintendo Life) out of respect for the content and services that the site brings me, and because the ads that are there are hardly annoying and obtrusive. Since I'm not making manual monetary donations, i's literally the least you could do as a way of saying thanks.
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
@CodyMKW I'm willing to bet that most Switch users do not. Keep in mind that mega popular consoles like the Switch attract a lot of owners that don't invest as much time and money into their consoles as people like you and me. Some people would call them "casuals."
Regardless, those big SD cards fill up pretty fast when every game needs a humongous set of patches to run decently.
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
I guess those of you who bought this package can look forward to another 8GB patch in the future to make the games acceptable, all while eating up more of your precious Switch storage space when the games should have been optimized from the start.
Re: Review: Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition - Three Classics In One Shocking Package
@thaimbomb I guess the more power consoles need better GPUs too, seeing as how every version of this release is reportedly suffering similar problems. It's definitely an issue of modern GPUs not being able to handle 20-year old games and not poor optimization, right?
Re: It Looks Like Sega Is Opening A New Studio In Japan
@Clyde_Radcliffe @WarioOfTheYear sheds tear
This is why we don't ever want Nintendo to ever go third party
Re: Review: The Legend of Tianding - Terrific Combat In An Intriguing Setting
Isn't the game's price normally included in the game profile above? I feel like it usually is.
Would be nice if it also mentioned the file size from the eShop.
Re: Arcade Archives Publisher Hamster Has Filed A Trademark For 'Console Archives'
Like the two people above me have said, please give Hamster anything it wants. It takes proper care of everything it gets, and like EarthboundBenjy said, it's the closest thing to Virtual Console.
This is only good news.
Re: SNES Classic Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja Is Getting A Proper Remake On Modern Consoles
I was inches away from getting the Arcade Archives version a few weeks ago, now I'm glad that I didn't. I prefer the pixel look of the original, but the art style of the remake isn't totally off-putting. Like others said, hopefully they find away to throw in the ROM of at least one of the SNES, Genesis or Arcade versions.
Re: Ori The Collection Is Out Now For You Switch Physical Collectors
I'm a simple man. You tell me that a compilation of great games are all on one Switch cart with no codes, I jump on it, like the Subnautica and Metro Redux packs.
Gotta reward those publishers that know what being customer-friendly means.
Re: Review: Steel Assault - A Quick Bite To Savour With Classic Castlevania Flavour
If you feel like the length doesn't justify the price, then just put it on your wishlist and wait for a sale.
I'm all for shorter games that don't needlessly pad themselves out. I feel like most games these days are too long for that reason.
Re: Castlevania Advance Collection Is Out Today On Nintendo Switch eShop
@Purgatorium The three GBA games (Circle of the Moon, Aria of Sorrow, Harmony of Dissonance) are all pretty much just like SotN. Lots of discovery, backtracking, leveling up, gaining new abilities and opening up new paths.
Can't say if the new games "fixed the problems" because I don't know what you found to be a problem, but if you're not a fan of those types of games in general (Metroidvanias), then I can't promise you'll like these.
The good news is that Konami games go on sale often enough for about 50 percent off, so don't feel like you have to jump right in if you decide to give them a try.
Re: Niantic Changes Pokémon GO's PokéStop And Gym Interaction Distance (Again)
@BloodNinja B-b-b-but you said our voice doesn't matter and I'm going to cry when the game's servers shut down soon!
Re: Pokémon GO Players Are Boycotting The Game After Niantic Removes COVID Changes
@Purgatorium I sincerely apologize for misinterpreting your comment. My bad on that one.
Re: Pokémon GO Players Are Boycotting The Game After Niantic Removes COVID Changes
@Mgalens We're both talking to angry little brick walls that get off on pointing and laughing at faceless people on the Internet to feel better about themselves. They do the same thing in every single Pokemon article.
Re: Pokémon GO Players Are Boycotting The Game After Niantic Removes COVID Changes
@BloodNinja I've already let you know what you can do for me, boo. Recommend some better games of a similar ilk, since you've made it your life's work to get people to play other games. If I didn't like Mario Party or Mario Kart, I'd tell people about Dokapon Kingdom or Sonic All-Star Racing instead of pointing and laughing at them from behind my keyboard and online persona. Now I'm starting to see why you like pretending to be a ninja edgelord - you like to hide behind the anonymity that the Internet provides you to act out your bad little behavioral impulses.
Re: Pokémon GO Players Are Boycotting The Game After Niantic Removes COVID Changes
@BloodNinja Not pouting over a game, honey lamb. But how much more childish does it seem to pout over a fanbase? I can only imagine what folks like you will do once you realize that a multi-billion dollar enterprise won't be going anywhere for a long, long time!
Re: Pokémon GO Players Are Boycotting The Game After Niantic Removes COVID Changes
@Purgatorium Yep, welcome to the comments section, where troubled little boys love to exercise their free speech, but get their feelings hurt when someone else exercises that same free speech to criticize their free speech.
You'll do just fine here.
Re: Pokémon GO Players Are Boycotting The Game After Niantic Removes COVID Changes
@BloodNinja Was there some point you had in mind? Like, every time you tell people to play a better game, how often do you recommend games that you consider better? Maybe you could try and share some better games that offer similar gameplay, hmm? Seems much more constructive than telling others that their games suck because you personally don't like them, but hating things that don't appeal to your personal interests is kind of your thing.
Yes, the game was like this before Covid restrictions. Doesn't change the fact that it became a better game because of the QoL implementations due to Covid, and it got more people playing because of it, as evidenced by the fact that the game just had it's most successful year ever from an income standpoint. It's not "some arbitrary change to a game" either: it literally enabled people who found it difficult to play before into being able to keep up with the rest and take full advantage of gameplay and events. You might know that if you actually bothered to read the content in the article instead of skipping straight to the comment section so you can leave one of the earliest comments and feel heard.
Re: Pokémon GO Players Are Boycotting The Game After Niantic Removes COVID Changes
@BloodNinja Nope, you're just losing sleep over the people playing it. Every time there's a new GO article posted, you and people like HeavyArms55 can be relied upon to come in and trash talk the minority of the fanbase that dares to express some passion about the game, then tell folks to play different games just for having criticisms of it, most of which are valid.
Between that and your comments on the article about inclusion in Nintendo games, it's pretty clear that anything that isn't NINJA APPROVED isn't welcome here.
Re: Pokémon GO Players Are Boycotting The Game After Niantic Removes COVID Changes
@BloodNinja Or maybe we are into it, and we would like for the game's developer to revert back to certain QoL that made the game better? I know this may sound crazy, but every once in a while a passionate fanbase may actually have valid points.
How about instead of telling other people what to like and how to spend their time, you actually make better use of your time by playing one of those thousands of better games?
Re: Pokémon GO Players Are Boycotting The Game After Niantic Removes COVID Changes
@SwitchVogel This isn't like Brexit, where the casual player might not even notice half of the existing content from previous generations missing because they only care about the keys jangling in front of them. This isn't just the loud minority of longtime passionate fans.
These changes absolutely effect the majority of people who boot up GO at all, no matter where they lie on the casual/hardcore spectrum.
And as others have said, these changes in many ways inhibits the community from being more active instead of encouraging it. I find myself playing less and less over the past week because it is now more of a challenge for me to get to Pokestops and gyms that were once not too big of a deal. It makes it harder for me to collect resources needed to catch 'em all, so I'm often left with nothing to do. So I just stop playing. More than some of the various bugs I'd like to see fixed, this is how Niantic keeps me from investing more time and potential disposable income into the game.
Re: Ori's Physical Games Are Getting A New Two-In-One Release On Nintendo Switch
Glad I held off on biting on digital sales and holding off on the standalone physical releases now. $50 for two great games all on one cart is a lot more tempting than any other iteration of their availability on Switch.
Re: Soapbox: Indies Lead The Way But Nintendo Shows Progress Representing People Of Colour
@TheMadManSFX The subject of offensive Native American caricatures in media deserves its own article and discussion itself. The problem with asking or trying to survey people who identify as NA is that just about anyone can claim to be, and because we all come from different walks of life and should treat everyone's opinions and lived experiences as valid, it's a lot easier to find people who can claim NA ancestry yet still identify as another race (like me) or grew up in surroundings that didn't give them any sort of attachments to their heritage (also like me). This causes their voices, opinions and votes to often drown out those that have no other identity or culture to turn to.
This old bit from The Daily Show gets the point across nicely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loK2DRBnk24
Let's take the framing away from First Nations people and use a much bigger minority group, the LGBTQ+. Remember/Ever heard of Ash from Streets of Rage 3? If not, please look do a Google/YouTube search to see what I mean. Ash came about as someone's horribly limited understanding and view of a queer person in the early 90s. Sadly, that's how a lot of people viewed the queer community in the 90s, and Ash only served to perpetuate stereotypes through an offensive caricature. Imagine if fictional caricatures like Ash and Poison were the largest representation that the LTBTQ+ people had to go on today, and society at large told them that they should be satisfied with it?
Re: Soapbox: Indies Lead The Way But Nintendo Shows Progress Representing People Of Colour
@hillyarb "I just don't understand what is wrong with Mario the way it is? I don't see anyone living in Wakanda outside of Wakandas and nobody has an issue with that."
That is possibly the worst example you could have drummed up. Assuming you're going off of the MCU movie, you didn't see foreigners in Wakanda because they had a giant secret to protect that had global, history-altering implications if the word got out. The country kind of had to stay homogeneous - until the end of the movie.
Where are the similar examples in Hyrule or the Mushroom Kingdom?
Re: Retro FMV Shooter Corpse Killer Finally Has A Switch Release Date
"Yes, some of us are middle-aged and remember wanting a SEGA CD more than oxygen to breathe."
That and the Atari Jaguar are the two biggest things I'm glad Mom said no to in my life. And letting me die my hair platinum like Sisqo.
Re: Pokémon GO's Raid Battles Are Changing - Here Are The Updates Arriving This Summer
@HannahRPG
So I tested with Pidgeot, and yeah, it appears that you have to pay the initial high cost with each individual mon, but after they've mega evolved once, that cost is reduced by 1/5th. I also noticed that I was earning extra candy every time I caught something of the same type as Pidgeot; it probably is Mega Candy, but I haven't confirmed that yet. But if that's the case, then yeah, once you get past the initially high fence, it ain't so bad.
I'd probably still prefer a tweaked system that allows you to Mega Evolve a Pokemon for free once a day, just for much less time, but now that I have a much better understanding of how it currently works, I'm content with it now. This will absolutely increase the range of three star raids I can solo now.
Thanks again for the tips!
Re: Pokémon GO's Raid Battles Are Changing - Here Are The Updates Arriving This Summer
@HannahRPG
I had no idea that the costs for Mega Energy were drastically reduced after the first time a mon mega evolves; I figured that it would stay that way for good. I certain don't recall the game explaining it that well.
Now that I know this, I may go ahead and mega evolve something like Beedrill and test it out to see how feasible it works for me. I can certainly live with spending an entire day with one of them as my buddy to earn up the energy for next time, especially on things that are next to useless without it.
Re: Review: Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny - A Series High Point, Just Not For Performance
@Travisemo007 @Snaplocket My first experience with an auto-battle feature was all the way back with Phantasy Star II. Like you said, tedious gameplay, tough difficulty, hella grinding required, and a lot of the time the only real option is basic attacks when slogging through dungeons.
If developers feel that an auto-battle feature is necessary in their game, then they probably need to fix the mechanics of the game so it's not necessary.
Not saying D6 is in anyway bad, but that's just the camp that I'm in.
Re: Review: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 - A Rock Solid Switch Port For A Pair Of Pros
@spinalzombie Thank you for clarifying; I went from planning to get a physical copy to deciding to wait until it's at least half-off in the eShop if I ever get it at all, now back to planning to eventually get it on cart, so long as the full single-player experience is all on cart.
Re: Pokémon GO's Raid Battles Are Changing - Here Are The Updates Arriving This Summer
@Heavyarms55 I actually enjoy the PvP and find that there is a bit of strategy and planning to it, but otherwise totally agree about the mega evolution system implementation. The few Pokemon that I can actually mega evolve, I never do, because I always feel like I should be saving the resources for something better. Likewise, I don't waste raid passes on Mega Raids because I don't consider the rewards worth it over even a three-star raid.
I like the idea of just putting a cooldown on the time between mega evolutions once you earn a mon's "-ite" (like one mega evolution per day that lasts two or three hours) instead of having to grind for pittance while wasting resources to get there.
When you aren't trolling SnS critics for no apparent reason, you have some valid and well elaborated criticisms to share on your own.