Yeah, all three series are mostly unconnected. The original Zentraedi disappear after Macross, with the only reference to them being, "this person is the child of a human and Zentraedi", "Rick" makes a couple of cameos, and there is a significant timeskip between the three so that the narration can explain the vastly different settings and roster.
The reason Harmony Gold originally mashed the three series together back in the day was because there was a broadcasting rule that a series had to be at least 65 episodes long for weekday TV syndication. Given the time period and the rules, it seemed to make sense at the time.
@Teksetter Reading your post hit me with a sudden nostalgia bomb, hehe. That episode of Robotech you mentioned was the first and only one I had ever seen way back in the early days of Toonami in the mid-90s. I was too young and had no context for the show to understand it, but it was the first time I had seen an animated series deal with mature subject matter, so it was very jarring, and I still remember that feeling to this day. I suddenly thought about it 20 years later and found the entire series to watch it in detail, and realized how important Robotech was for establishing a foothold for anime in the West.
Oh yeah, and FFVII is a complete rip-off, Phantasy Star 2 DID IT FIRST!!!!
@arekdougy I barely made it past your kid's toddler stage before turning off the game forever, for the reasons you said. Once you buy the milking room and buy/acquire the seed maker, you're now swimming in cash (or you were already, because that's how you could afford them), you've befriended everyone 50 times over, and you've seen absolutely everything this game has to offer. And the initial game only had two overworld tracks that were supposed to last you hundreds of hours unless you connected the game to Friends of Mineral Town on the GBA.
This game was so boring to me that I've not just never played another HM game since, but I'm too scared to even touch Stardew Valley. Rune Factory is my jam though.
All that bit that Kate said about Nina, I'm in agreement with though.
@outsider83 The game has been on sale for up to 75 percent off of it's main price tag ($25 USD to $6.75 USD). If you decide to give it a try, wait for that kind of sale to soften the spending if it's not your cup of tea.
Even at it's best, a full run through of the game is barely more than an hour if you subtract the cutscenes. I'm absolutely of the mindset of SF64 > PD myself, but the latter is still enjoyable and worth the experience, especially at the sale price.
@TheFrenchiestFry What if I'm legit not interested in P5S because I don't have a console that has P5, so without any sort of knowledge of the lore or context for the references, in-jokes and relationships between characters, I feel like a major reason to play these sorts of games is lost on me?
Both Hyrule Warriors are perfectly playable if you know nothing of the LoZ series, but you get so much more out of them being a fan. I might be a Persona fan if I had access to the game(s) and had something to whet my appetite first.
So no outrage or boycotts here, just can't find a reason to be excited for yet another Musou game.
1. Take out sword 2. Look up every championship team in sports, memorize every popular song, and save all stock info from the last seven years. 3. Put sword back 4. PROFIT!!!
@michellelynn0976 Dang right you do. You keep right on being yourself, and don't let random strangers on the Internet steal your shine just for being a passionate fan with grounded opinions.
I remember this TV spot from back in the day, a little over a decade ago. There was also a great Zelda one to advertise the two Oracle games that had Link traversing a giant GBC.
@sixrings Nothing quite like seeing someone (or being that someone) on a beat 'em up like Dungeons & Dragons or Captain America and the Avengers, and seeing them on their last man, about to lose to a boss. So you hurry over, thrown in your quarters and jump in to turn the tide and save the day!
I'm not gonna knocker it just yet. For all we know, it just might sweater meat oops i meant meet our expectations. The teaser was only about a minute and half long, so I doubt it showed us the udder variety of the juicy gameplay in hand across a wide variety of areolas to explore. I'll certainly be keeping my eyes on them. EDIT: *it. Keeping my eyes on IT.
"Reports need to be contextualised, whether that’s through Sony’s approach to capture recordings alongside the offending material or through the use of a live human seeing every report request"
That's the big one. No more algorithms. Have departments in place to look at every report request by trained humans that can make sound judgement calls, and reach out to those who leave the reports.
The series is chock full of memorable and catchy themes that would translate well to a movie adaptation. Watch them use absolutely none of them and instead go for a generic modern pop rock soundtrack like you just heard in the trailer.
And that Nerscylla you just saw is the equivalent of of the original movie Sonic from its first trailer (you know the one).
Nope, doesn't feel me with more hope (but neither does it take it away, for my expectations can't get much lower.
Also, "Still, subsequent images and trailers have slowly but surely resorted our expectation that this might"
Sorry to hear about that, mate. I've lost jobs enough times to know how much that stings. And you're right; the masses at the bottom often have to suffer because of the poor decisions of the leadership at the top. I was one of many who was let go from a vendor in late February after it didn't get the big contract from a bank that it had been betting on for the better part of a year, but it's CEO and several members of upper management all still got their annual raises.
Thankfully, it turned out to be a blessing because I found work elsewhere, and I enjoy being here FAR more than there. I hope you're blessed with the same outcome.
At this point, I'm over the frustration and disappointment and am perfectly content to continue playing the Gen 7 games. Honestly, I kind of breathed a sigh of relief to find out that 234 are still absent, because I that still justifies $90 USD safely staying in my pocket and my backlog not collecting more dust while my entire gaming time gets engulfed by Pokemon.
I don't care about this game, but I will always appreciate a developer delaying a game to get it right on Day 1 as opposed to having to download a Day 1 patch bigger than the game's file itself just to make it decently playable, or even worse, wait for that patch weeks later.
I've almost gotten the game when it's been on sale in the eShop for pretty cheap a couple of times, but the fact that it's built entirely around co-op (as in trying to play solo will require some ridiculously long grinding times) with no couch co-op keeps turning me away.
This is it's second or third major patch that I remember, and each time I keep hoping to read that the game gets balanced for single player a bit more. Any game that requires me to find randoms I can't talk to or to do a sales pitch to friends and talk them into buying and playing the game with me is one that I don't want to bother with.
@Northwind I hope Nintendo is sorely disappointed and gives up on this artificial scarcity crap. If it didn't do that BS with SM3DAS, I probably would have preordered the physical copy, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt like I was getting bullied. I decided not to buy it in any form out of principle, unless a second hand copy springs up somewhere, or if the games are released individually on the eShop, I'll just get the ones I want.
If I didn't do it with SM3DAS, I'm not doing it with a 30-year old game that time has long surpassed and already has a remake on the DS that is readily available on the Wii U eShop.
<<<<<<<<< This guy right here. I filled up an entire 128GB card on my 3DS. Filling up the Switch to 1TB would be a lot easier: not only are game sizes much larger in comparison, but Switch games are far more likely to have things like giant mandatory patches to fix developer's inadequacy and DLC, to say nothing of all of the digital-only ports and even larger selection of indy titles. Oh, and the sales.
I went crazy buying digital on Wii U and especially 3DS, but I've actually gone back to buying most retail games on cart for Switch to stave off spending so much on memory. Switching SD cards on Switch is easy but annoying, but what the hell was Nintendo thinking when it designed the N3DS?
@Kameken It would have been so much smarter PR-wise for them to just go ahead and admit that they couldn't fit in all of the cut Pokemon due to time constraints because they wanted to ship the game last year, but they'd include all (or most) of the missing ones in a free update later on down the line.
I still haven't touched the games, and only now am I even being tempted. No amount of shilling fans and extra content that should have been in the base game can fix that; only content that should have been there in the first place.
GameFreak: "We've left out some Pokemon for balancing reasons, and they won't be added back later."
"In a follow-up post, Mahler confirmed this patch would be included on the card in the physical version of the game."
That thud you heard was my face hitting the dirt after getting knocked from my fence post. If the devs are going to work that hard and be this customer-friendly, then I will acquire their game.
@Andee If you'd like a good vibe of how the general gameplay feels in single player (I'm going off of the GCN original, of course I haven't played this version), download the demo for Oninaki and try that.
It's playable alone, but is relatively simple with little variation on the core gameplay of running around wacking things. It would have been great for local co-op where the simple gameplay lends well to being supplementary entertainment to the time you spend with friends on the same couch, but for me at least, playing silently with friends or strangers a thousand miles away doesn't have the same appeal.
@scully1888 Oh I agree about No Mercy being the most fun, but I just felt like we should acknowledge THQ's attempts to carry on the formula after No Mercy; it wasn't like THQ thought that game was the pinnacle of possibilities and was a masterpiece that should never be touched again.
That being said, tell me more about this modding scene for the game, and where to get started. I've been thinking lately that if publishers won't give me the games I'd love to play again, then I'll resort to the efforts of other passionate fans.
@Papichulo Looks, better yes, but plays better? Nah
It captured the spirit of No Mercy, but took the engine and made the gameplay too fast in some ways, when it was always meant to be more technical/methodical and not as arcadey. It also had an extremely crippling mechanic taken from the Crapdown series in which ANYTIME two wrestlers are locked in an animation are hit by a third, they immediately drop to the ground as if gravity intensified by 100 degrees: pins, submissions, grapples, you name it. It made triple threat cage matches impossible, and doing any extended animation where you have more than one opponent extremely risky if not flat out foolish/impossible.
That being said, if THQ would have just stuck with the formula and iterated on it, the world would be a much better place today.
"most importantly, had the most perfect combat system which has yet to be even remotely approached by any other wrestling game since, let alone surpassed."
"It’s the closest a WWE game has ever come to feeling like the real thing (and yes, we know it isn’t ‘real’ in that sense, so if you act smart and mention it in the comments everyone will know you didn’t actually read the article). The fact that two decades later nothing has matched it speaks volumes about the current state of the genre: "
Whoa, @scully1888, not true. Def Jam Vendetta (released on all three consoles at the time), and the WWE games on GCN tried to carry on the spirit to varying degrees of success, with WWE Day of Reckoning 2 almost sticking the landing. If only THQ would have stuck with AKI/Syn Sophia and continued perfecting these games instead of crowning Crapdown the champion.
@FourBs I hadn't heard, but man that would have been heavenly. A No Mercy revival sits atop my list of gaming comeback dreams with a new (and good) Virtual On, Shining Force, Advance Wars and Dokapon Kingdom.
The Fire Pro Wrestling version of games have always been superior to that piss pressed to a disc known as Smackdown. How THQ and now 2K have been dumb enough to let it die and stay dead is just beyond my brain's comprehension.
@rushiosan Because I already have a DS copy that works perfectly fine, and like I said, people on this site familiar with both, and professional and user reviews on Metacritic indicate that the Switch version is just the mobile phone version with controls inferior to the DS version.
Why pay $25 for a worse-controlling version of a game already own, to the point that the controls significantly change gameplay, just for prettier graphics? Especially if the superior form of control requires me to play in handheld mode, further rendering any advantages the Switch version has more moot?
Came in here to ask if the Switch version is superior enough to the DS version to justify acquiring, but going by the comments of people well familiar with both, it's not.
Thank you all for chiming in and saving me from wasting my hard-earned money.
@FargusPelagius I remember those days as a Wii U owner. We got some outstanding deals that you'd never see now because Nintendo was in desperation mode. I got Wind Waker HD for free just for buying Mario Kart 8.
I had this WAY back in the day for the NES. Definitely not at the top of anyone's best lists, as there are essentially just two types of stages, and they are relatively short and simple. It's also a "hurry up and die so I can play" kind of two-player mode. I could see myself getting it for nostalgic reasons in a sale though.
"In a world where Switch owners already have access to both a serviceable version of Monopoly and Pokémon Sword and Shield, do we really need a game that combines the two? For most people, the answer is "probably not"."
YES WE DO, and the name of that game is DOKAPON KINGDOM
@Dodger How do the Switch controls compare to the Wii version? I thought the pointer controls on Wii were so good that they could have considered having paint mode in real time, and the combat with the Wiimote added a sense of timing and rhythm not present in the PS2 (and Okamiden on the DS).
I've been waiting on the Switch version to drop down to at least half price like it is now, but now I want to know how combat and painting feels before closing the deal.
@Chandelure-BW Thank you for mentioning that there are other 2FA options. Would be even better if I could link my phone for 2FA through SMS, but oh well.
@SwitchForce I've worked in IT for several years, and I can confirm that this is the best advice you can give to someone. Everyone wants the magic password/software/anti-virus/security suite that lets them set and forget so they never have to be careful again, but we have to constantly remind people that real life doesn't work that way: the biggest security flaw IS THE USER. If you get an unsolicited email to login to your account or reset your PW, then don't use it. Type the URL or use your bookmark and go to the site yourself.
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Re: Robotech: The Macross Saga HD Edition Just Stealth-Dropped On The Nintendo Switch eShop
@BRAINFOX @RR529
Yeah, all three series are mostly unconnected. The original Zentraedi disappear after Macross, with the only reference to them being, "this person is the child of a human and Zentraedi", "Rick" makes a couple of cameos, and there is a significant timeskip between the three so that the narration can explain the vastly different settings and roster.
The reason Harmony Gold originally mashed the three series together back in the day was because there was a broadcasting rule that a series had to be at least 65 episodes long for weekday TV syndication. Given the time period and the rules, it seemed to make sense at the time.
Re: Memory Pak: When Harvest Moon Taught Me About Death
@Teksetter Reading your post hit me with a sudden nostalgia bomb, hehe. That episode of Robotech you mentioned was the first and only one I had ever seen way back in the early days of Toonami in the mid-90s. I was too young and had no context for the show to understand it, but it was the first time I had seen an animated series deal with mature subject matter, so it was very jarring, and I still remember that feeling to this day. I suddenly thought about it 20 years later and found the entire series to watch it in detail, and realized how important Robotech was for establishing a foothold for anime in the West.
Oh yeah, and FFVII is a complete rip-off, Phantasy Star 2 DID IT FIRST!!!!
Re: Memory Pak: When Harvest Moon Taught Me About Death
@arekdougy I barely made it past your kid's toddler stage before turning off the game forever, for the reasons you said. Once you buy the milking room and buy/acquire the seed maker, you're now swimming in cash (or you were already, because that's how you could afford them), you've befriended everyone 50 times over, and you've seen absolutely everything this game has to offer. And the initial game only had two overworld tracks that were supposed to last you hundreds of hours unless you connected the game to Friends of Mineral Town on the GBA.
This game was so boring to me that I've not just never played another HM game since, but I'm too scared to even touch Stardew Valley. Rune Factory is my jam though.
All that bit that Kate said about Nina, I'm in agreement with though.
Re: Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake Takes Flight This Year
@outsider83 The game has been on sale for up to 75 percent off of it's main price tag ($25 USD to $6.75 USD). If you decide to give it a try, wait for that kind of sale to soften the spending if it's not your cup of tea.
Even at it's best, a full run through of the game is barely more than an hour if you subtract the cutscenes. I'm absolutely of the mindset of SF64 > PD myself, but the latter is still enjoyable and worth the experience, especially at the sale price.
Re: Reminder: Persona 5 Strikers Launches Today On Nintendo Switch
@TheFrenchiestFry What if I'm legit not interested in P5S because I don't have a console that has P5, so without any sort of knowledge of the lore or context for the references, in-jokes and relationships between characters, I feel like a major reason to play these sorts of games is lost on me?
Both Hyrule Warriors are perfectly playable if you know nothing of the LoZ series, but you get so much more out of them being a fan. I might be a Persona fan if I had access to the game(s) and had something to whet my appetite first.
So no outrage or boycotts here, just can't find a reason to be excited for yet another Musou game.
Re: Travis Touchdown Returns In No More Heroes III On August 27th
@Ghost_of_Hasashi Maybe they cleaned it up for the kids that ar watching? I don't know.
NMH without blood is like Mortal Kombat without blood.
Re: Memory Pak: When Link Left The Temple Of Time In Zelda: Ocarina Of Time And Everything Changed
@1ofUs
1. Take out sword
2. Look up every championship team in sports, memorize every popular song, and save all stock info from the last seven years.
3. Put sword back
4. PROFIT!!!
Re: Japanese Charts: Momotaro Dentetsu Stays On Top For A 12th Consecutive Week
@michellelynn0976 Dang right you do. You keep right on being yourself, and don't let random strangers on the Internet steal your shine just for being a passionate fan with grounded opinions.
Re: Review: Redout: Space Assault - A Bargain-Bin Star Fox With Spectacular Visuals
@Nintendoes Panzer Dragoon is barely one hour if you skip all of the cutscenes on a no-death run.
Re: Random: Which One Of These Cursed Game Boy Colors Is Your Favourite?
I remember this TV spot from back in the day, a little over a decade ago. There was also a great Zelda one to advertise the two Oracle games that had Link traversing a giant GBC.
Re: Random: Which One Of These Cursed Game Boy Colors Is Your Favourite?
@Optimist80
Your state is the prototype Joy Cons!
Re: Nintendo Kicks Off New Year Switch Sale - Mario, Splatoon And More Discounted (North America)
@DjinnFighter Thanks for the heads up, time to get Contra!
Re: Select Neo Geo Games On The Switch eShop Are Currently 50% Off
I wonder why Metal Slug X is on sale, but all of the other Metal Slugs available (1-5 ) are not.
Re: Feature: Ten Arcade Games We'd Love To See On Switch
@sixrings Nothing quite like seeing someone (or being that someone) on a beat 'em up like Dungeons & Dragons or Captain America and the Avengers, and seeing them on their last man, about to lose to a boss. So you hurry over, thrown in your quarters and jump in to turn the tide and save the day!
Re: Feature: Ten Arcade Games We'd Love To See On Switch
@MushHill_Act1-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC3cS1x7LlQ
Re: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story Will Be Haunting The Switch Soon
@Kienda
I'm not gonna knocker it just yet. For all we know, it just might sweater meat oops i meant meet our expectations. The teaser was only about a minute and half long, so I doubt it showed us the udder variety of the juicy gameplay in hand across a wide variety of areolas to explore. I'll certainly be keeping my eyes on them.
EDIT: *it. Keeping my eyes on IT.
Anyways, ta-tas!
Re: Nintendo, PlayStation And Xbox Announce A Shared Commitment To Safer Gaming
@HotGoomba___Rebrand
I'm sure that challenging them doesn't help.
@nessisonett
"Reports need to be contextualised, whether that’s through Sony’s approach to capture recordings alongside the offending material or through the use of a live human seeing every report request"
That's the big one. No more algorithms. Have departments in place to look at every report request by trained humans that can make sound judgement calls, and reach out to those who leave the reports.
Re: Phew! The Latest Monster Hunter Movie Trailer Has Massively Restored Our Hopes
The series is chock full of memorable and catchy themes that would translate well to a movie adaptation. Watch them use absolutely none of them and instead go for a generic modern pop rock soundtrack like you just heard in the trailer.
And that Nerscylla you just saw is the equivalent of of the original movie Sonic from its first trailer (you know the one).
Nope, doesn't feel me with more hope (but neither does it take it away, for my expectations can't get much lower.
Also, "Still, subsequent images and trailers have slowly but surely resorted our expectation that this might"
Re: Gallery: Game Freak Has Moved In With Nintendo, And The New Offices Look Sublime
How awkward will it be the next time GameFreak develops a game for other consoles that skips Nintendo's? Anyone remember Tembo the Badass Elephant?
Re: Sega Asks 650 Employees To 'Voluntarily Retire', Cuts Executive Salaries
@Cormag
Sorry to hear about that, mate. I've lost jobs enough times to know how much that stings. And you're right; the masses at the bottom often have to suffer because of the poor decisions of the leadership at the top. I was one of many who was let go from a vendor in late February after it didn't get the big contract from a bank that it had been betting on for the better part of a year, but it's CEO and several members of upper management all still got their annual raises.
Thankfully, it turned out to be a blessing because I found work elsewhere, and I enjoy being here FAR more than there. I hope you're blessed with the same outcome.
Re: Review: No More Heroes - A Crude And Madcap Anime Nightmare That Deserves Your Attention
@pip_muzz
Thank you for saving my Wii version from ever possibly being resold. No Genki Rockets, no dice.
Re: With The DLC All Wrapped Up, Here Are The 234 Pokémon Still Unavailable In Sword And Shield
At this point, I'm over the frustration and disappointment and am perfectly content to continue playing the Gen 7 games. Honestly, I kind of breathed a sigh of relief to find out that 234 are still absent, because I that still justifies $90 USD safely staying in my pocket and my backlog not collecting more dust while my entire gaming time gets engulfed by Pokemon.
Re: Apex Legends' Switch Version Has Been Delayed
I don't care about this game, but I will always appreciate a developer delaying a game to get it right on Day 1 as opposed to having to download a Day 1 patch bigger than the game's file itself just to make it decently playable, or even worse, wait for that patch weeks later.
Re: Dragon Marked For Death Gets New Quests, Character Adjustments And More In Huge Update
@Bobb
I've almost gotten the game when it's been on sale in the eShop for pretty cheap a couple of times, but the fact that it's built entirely around co-op (as in trying to play solo will require some ridiculously long grinding times) with no couch co-op keeps turning me away.
This is it's second or third major patch that I remember, and each time I keep hoping to read that the game gets balanced for single player a bit more. Any game that requires me to find randoms I can't talk to or to do a sales pitch to friends and talk them into buying and playing the game with me is one that I don't want to bother with.
Re: Amazon Prime Day 2020 - Best Deals On Nintendo Switch Games, Consoles, Micro SD Cards And More
@TG16_IS_BAE I don't either, I just stupidly keep buying them, thinking that one day I'll get to them.
Re: The Original Fire Emblem Is Coming To The West For The First Time Ever On Switch
@Northwind I hope Nintendo is sorely disappointed and gives up on this artificial scarcity crap. If it didn't do that BS with SM3DAS, I probably would have preordered the physical copy, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt like I was getting bullied. I decided not to buy it in any form out of principle, unless a second hand copy springs up somewhere, or if the games are released individually on the eShop, I'll just get the ones I want.
If I didn't do it with SM3DAS, I'm not doing it with a 30-year old game that time has long surpassed and already has a remake on the DS that is readily available on the Wii U eShop.
Re: Amazon Prime Day 2020 - Best Deals On Nintendo Switch Games, Consoles, Micro SD Cards And More
@TG16_IS_BAE
<<<<<<<<< This guy right here. I filled up an entire 128GB card on my 3DS. Filling up the Switch to 1TB would be a lot easier: not only are game sizes much larger in comparison, but Switch games are far more likely to have things like giant mandatory patches to fix developer's inadequacy and DLC, to say nothing of all of the digital-only ports and even larger selection of indy titles. Oh, and the sales.
I went crazy buying digital on Wii U and especially 3DS, but I've actually gone back to buying most retail games on cart for Switch to stave off spending so much on memory. Switching SD cards on Switch is easy but annoying, but what the hell was Nintendo thinking when it designed the N3DS?
Re: Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remaster Updated To Version 1.0.2, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Game Director, come talk to me when you put out an update that adds local multiplayer.
Re: Pokémon Sword And Shield's The Crown Tundra DLC Launches Next Month, All Past Legendaries Appear
@Kameken It would have been so much smarter PR-wise for them to just go ahead and admit that they couldn't fit in all of the cut Pokemon due to time constraints because they wanted to ship the game last year, but they'd include all (or most) of the missing ones in a free update later on down the line.
I still haven't touched the games, and only now am I even being tempted. No amount of shilling fans and extra content that should have been in the base game can fix that; only content that should have been there in the first place.
GameFreak: "We've left out some Pokemon for balancing reasons, and they won't be added back later."
Adds Landorus later
Re: Experiencing Crashes In Ori And The Will Of The Wisps? Don't Worry, Moon Studios Is Working On A Patch
"In a follow-up post, Mahler confirmed this patch would be included on the card in the physical version of the game."
That thud you heard was my face hitting the dirt after getting knocked from my fence post. If the devs are going to work that hard and be this customer-friendly, then I will acquire their game.
Re: Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition Multiplayer Is Region-Locked
@Andee If you'd like a good vibe of how the general gameplay feels in single player (I'm going off of the GCN original, of course I haven't played this version), download the demo for Oninaki and try that.
It's playable alone, but is relatively simple with little variation on the core gameplay of running around wacking things. It would have been great for local co-op where the simple gameplay lends well to being supplementary entertainment to the time you spend with friends on the same couch, but for me at least, playing silently with friends or strangers a thousand miles away doesn't have the same appeal.
Re: Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition Multiplayer Is Region-Locked
@Grandiajet They somehow made it more inconvenient than the GCN original.
It feels like this game is being sent out to tank.
Re: Random: Artist Shows Off Totally Rad Cyberpunk 2077 Game Boy Concept
@graysoncharles I'm waiting for preorders to open.
Re: Soapbox: It's Time For WWE No Mercy To Make A Comeback On Nintendo Switch
@scully1888 Oh I agree about No Mercy being the most fun, but I just felt like we should acknowledge THQ's attempts to carry on the formula after No Mercy; it wasn't like THQ thought that game was the pinnacle of possibilities and was a masterpiece that should never be touched again.
That being said, tell me more about this modding scene for the game, and where to get started. I've been thinking lately that if publishers won't give me the games I'd love to play again, then I'll resort to the efforts of other passionate fans.
Re: Soapbox: It's Time For WWE No Mercy To Make A Comeback On Nintendo Switch
@Papichulo Looks, better yes, but plays better? Nah
It captured the spirit of No Mercy, but took the engine and made the gameplay too fast in some ways, when it was always meant to be more technical/methodical and not as arcadey. It also had an extremely crippling mechanic taken from the Crapdown series in which ANYTIME two wrestlers are locked in an animation are hit by a third, they immediately drop to the ground as if gravity intensified by 100 degrees: pins, submissions, grapples, you name it. It made triple threat cage matches impossible, and doing any extended animation where you have more than one opponent extremely risky if not flat out foolish/impossible.
That being said, if THQ would have just stuck with the formula and iterated on it, the world would be a much better place today.
Re: Soapbox: It's Time For WWE No Mercy To Make A Comeback On Nintendo Switch
"most importantly, had the most perfect combat system which has yet to be even remotely approached by any other wrestling game since, let alone surpassed."
"It’s the closest a WWE game has ever come to feeling like the real thing (and yes, we know it isn’t ‘real’ in that sense, so if you act smart and mention it in the comments everyone will know you didn’t actually read the article). The fact that two decades later nothing has matched it speaks volumes about the current state of the genre: "
Whoa, @scully1888, not true. Def Jam Vendetta (released on all three consoles at the time), and the WWE games on GCN tried to carry on the spirit to varying degrees of success, with WWE Day of Reckoning 2 almost sticking the landing. If only THQ would have stuck with AKI/Syn Sophia and continued perfecting these games instead of crowning Crapdown the champion.
Re: Soapbox: It's Time For WWE No Mercy To Make A Comeback On Nintendo Switch
@Emperor-Palpsy Yep, sounds right in line with a typical promo from back then.
"Next Sunday, at [insert pay-per-view], I'm going to bash your face in!
Re: Soapbox: It's Time For WWE No Mercy To Make A Comeback On Nintendo Switch
@FourBs I hadn't heard, but man that would have been heavenly. A No Mercy revival sits atop my list of gaming comeback dreams with a new (and good) Virtual On, Shining Force, Advance Wars and Dokapon Kingdom.
The Fire Pro Wrestling version of games have always been superior to that piss pressed to a disc known as Smackdown. How THQ and now 2K have been dumb enough to let it die and stay dead is just beyond my brain's comprehension.
Re: Random: Nintendo Of America Originally Wanted Pikachu To Be "A Tiger With Huge Breasts"
@TG16_IS_BAE I'm with you, it's time to nipple these jokes in the bud before things get awkward up in here.
Re: Has Nintendo's eShop Quality Control Hit A New Low With "Inappropriate" Stealth Game?
@Incarna Are you firm in that belief?
Re: The World Ends With You: Final Remix Is On Sale For Half Price Until 19th July
@rushiosan Because I already have a DS copy that works perfectly fine, and like I said, people on this site familiar with both, and professional and user reviews on Metacritic indicate that the Switch version is just the mobile phone version with controls inferior to the DS version.
Why pay $25 for a worse-controlling version of a game already own, to the point that the controls significantly change gameplay, just for prettier graphics? Especially if the superior form of control requires me to play in handheld mode, further rendering any advantages the Switch version has more moot?
Re: The World Ends With You: Final Remix Is On Sale For Half Price Until 19th July
Came in here to ask if the Switch version is superior enough to the DS version to justify acquiring, but going by the comments of people well familiar with both, it's not.
Thank you all for chiming in and saving me from wasting my hard-earned money.
Re: Have You Spotted The Switch eShop's New Sales Filter?
@WoomyNNYes and everyone else:
I cannot recommend DekuDeals.com enough. It is everything the Switch eShop needs to be.
Filters, ignore lists, wishlists, screenshots, videos, links to Metacritic and Opencritic, you name it.
Re: Talking Point: Are You Suffering From Animal Crossing: New Horizons Fatigue?
"Are You Suffering From Animal Crossing: New Horizons Fatigue?"
Yes, and I don't even have the game. I'm tired of every other article on this site being about.
"Oh look, some famous idiot tweeted about it, you heard it here first!"
Re: Review: The Wonderful 101: Remastered - Kamiya's Comeback Kid Lives Up To The Hype
@FargusPelagius I remember those days as a Wii U owner. We got some outstanding deals that you'd never see now because Nintendo was in desperation mode. I got Wind Waker HD for free just for buying Mario Kart 8.
Re: How Well Do You Know The Legend Of Zelda?
@DockEllisD Not a mainline game.
10/10 for me, yay for my nerdiness!
Re: Hamster's Latest Retro Offering For Switch Is The Horizontal Shooter Magmax
I had this WAY back in the day for the NES. Definitely not at the top of anyone's best lists, as there are essentially just two types of stages, and they are relatively short and simple. It's also a "hurry up and die so I can play" kind of two-player mode. I could see myself getting it for nostalgic reasons in a sale though.
Re: Review: Billion Road - Like Pokémon Meets Monopoly, But Not As Cool As It Sounds
"In a world where Switch owners already have access to both a serviceable version of Monopoly and Pokémon Sword and Shield, do we really need a game that combines the two? For most people, the answer is "probably not"."
YES WE DO, and the name of that game is DOKAPON KINGDOM
Re: Capcom Is Hosting A Huge Spring Sale, Super Savings On 32 eShop Titles (North America)
@Dodger How do the Switch controls compare to the Wii version? I thought the pointer controls on Wii were so good that they could have considered having paint mode in real time, and the combat with the Wiimote added a sense of timing and rhythm not present in the PS2 (and Okamiden on the DS).
I've been waiting on the Switch version to drop down to at least half price like it is now, but now I want to know how combat and painting feels before closing the deal.
Re: Nintendo Switch Players Advised To Secure Accounts After Numerous Unauthorised Login Reports
@Chandelure-BW Thank you for mentioning that there are other 2FA options. Would be even better if I could link my phone for 2FA through SMS, but oh well.
@SwitchForce I've worked in IT for several years, and I can confirm that this is the best advice you can give to someone. Everyone wants the magic password/software/anti-virus/security suite that lets them set and forget so they never have to be careful again, but we have to constantly remind people that real life doesn't work that way: the biggest security flaw IS THE USER. If you get an unsolicited email to login to your account or reset your PW, then don't use it. Type the URL or use your bookmark and go to the site yourself.