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@quinnyboy58 this makes absolutely no sense, I am close to his age and was raised with a N64 as my first console, so of course our generation can feel nostalgia for that era. I'm not saying he does cause I don't know the details to his upbringing, but the generalization you made is just wrong.

By reading the comments, it seems that to be a good game the only requirements are to have a graphic style that instills nostalgia in the player, and have a low price.
Who knew level design and polish were so overrated!

Could they have chosen a more annoying "song" for the ad?

Wow, the amount of work that's gone into the character and stage really is out of this world!
It's amazing how Sakurai keeps on making characters with the most disparate individual mechanics taken from any genre and makes them work in a fighting game, it just boggles the mind.
I don't even like Minecraft, but this is something you just have to commend.

@Totakekeke yessss, and not even that covertly.
The US army spends huge amounts of cash on lending props to Hollywood, and it's not like they don't want anything back in return: as you said, there's lots of pro-army propaganda and even entire useless subplots involving these "heroic" soldiers.
It kinda makes me sick to be honest.

@Clyde_Radcliffe they, just like Bamco, are called one way in the West and the other in the East, based on which company is better-known; so Tecmo Koei here, Koei Tecmo over there.

Very enjoyable read, and very interesting points!

@Entrr_username well at least now I know that you don't agree that you're 10 😂
What does that even mean? 😂

@Entrr_username yeah I got elementary and kindergarten mixed up, it happens sometimes when you're not a native speaker.
Still not hard to get what I mean, if I were to guess your age from your replied I'd say 10 y.o. at best lol

@Shiro28 ah yes, he clearly was very passionate about him!
It's one of the DLC characters I have the least interest in (I've never played KOF/FF, I'm not a fighing game buff, I think fighting game characters are boring), but I'n really glad he got to make a character he loves. That's just cool and incredibly well-deserved.

@Entrr_username dude you're exhausting the kindergarten repertoire, what are you gonna reply next? 😂

@Entrr_username #218 ooooohhh so edgy and mature, you're ready for 5th grade now!

@Eel yeah it certainly sounds generic to me, being Italian, but for the rest of the world Steve is certainly more plain than Mario.
Also, Mario has a distinctive visual identity everyone can recognize, Steve is just blocks.
Mario has a voice, even though he doesn't properly speak.
Mario has conveyed emotions via animation in many, many different games.
Steve is just plain.
But even apart from that, the fact that I didn't even think of Mario as generic-sounding speaks to the fact that he's so iconic nowadays, that even a generic name makes him pop instantly in one's mind.

@PBandSmelly ahahahahhaha I didn't think of that 😂
Well, at least he's got a cool surname though ahahahah

This is why Sakurai is a legend, and noone will ever be able to pick up his mantle when he retires.
And he didn't even seem that enthused about this particular character, imagine what he might do with one he loves!

It's weird to see such a plain name as "Steve" next to the biggest video game icons lol

@Menchi why are you telling me what I told you a couple of replies ago?

@westman98 as if there were no difference between those 2 IP's 😂😂😂😂😂

@Menchi do you have a hard time comprehending what you read? Cause that's exactly what I wrote.

Also, I'm pretty sure not even MS can rewrite history, as hard as they might try.
Minecraft started out as an indie game and was for many, many years. Period.

@Menchi but Mojang was before MS swooped in.
C'mon dude, it's not that hard 🙄

Exactly what I hoped wouldn't happen.
Well, glad for those who wanted him.
I'm just hoping for the Doom Slayer now, he's pretty much the only feasible character among those I'd like (Skull Kid...a man can dream).
Travis would also be nice, especially with NMH3 coming out; a SMT rep would be cool as a tie-in for V, but alas we already have a character from a SMT subseries.

@sikthvash yeah the aesthetics are phenomenal, that's why the disappointment was so great.
I'll keep my mind open for Season 2 then, I'll watch it someday!

@Ralizah if I remember correctly, they stated in an interview that they wanted to call themselves something along the lines of "a blow inflicted by a coward", but, you know...they're Japanese so Engrish is what happens 😂
I believe "sucker punch" is what they were looking for lol

@sikthvash they must be very famous in Japan because I've heard their songs in many anime series, and if it's not them it's Ling Tosite Sigure lol
I really liked Sailing Day, it was used as the outro to the fourth One Piece movie, but that's pretty much the only song of theirs I like.

Edit: BBB was a huge letdown for me, unfortunately.
I loved the world, the urban fantasy, the blood thing, a lot of stuff really.
But the fact that it's pretty much episodic killed my enthusiasm, and I find the few overarching elements to be incredibly undercooked and lackluster.
It's really a shame cause I wanted to love it so much, I even rewatched it when the second season came out (something I never do for series I haven't enjoyed the first time around), but it left such a bitter taste in my mouth I never even bothered with the second season.
Exactly what happened after I watched FLCL Progressive, it killed all the interest I had in Alternative.

@Snatcher so what? Is it Nintendo or GF's fault?
I didn't know they were expected to track every single sale in order to not hurt anyone's fragile feelings.
It's happened to me as well to buy a game and then find out it would've cost less a few days later, what are you gonna do? It is what it is, and certainly it's not the company's fault.

@andykara2003 Breath Of The Waifu 😉

I guess all the people complaining never bought a game on sale or a GOTY Edition, then.
Tell me what's the difference, and then convince me that having a whole year headstart to play the game isn't worth paying money for.
Boy are people entitled.

Yay, so much for a balanced meta game!

Ysy peasy.
Missed opportunity.

I wish Naka all the best, really, but this game looks awful.
The promotional art is very good, but the in-game graphics reek of unpolished shovelware.
I'm surprised people are excited about this, because I think the jank is too apparent.

But then again, I've always had the same impression with A Hat In Time (it looks awful if you ask me), but everyone raves about how cool the gameplay is. Which is obviously what matters, at the end of the day, but usually graphics are a good way of inferring the level of care that went into the game as a whole.

This list makesme happy that I've never been a Sonic fan lol
Seriously though, it must be horrible to see a once great, fan-favorite series fall from grace this hard.

@BabyYoshi12 dude, it's Nintendo Life...anything scores at least an 8 here 😂

@BeautyandtheBeer yeah he's very entertaining.
I also really like Decino, he pulls off some really crazy stuff, usually involving brutal difficulties and fast monsters lol

@MarioLover92 I'm Italian, I'm not a Kirby fan, and I knew Power Paintbrush is called Canvas Curse in the US.
I must be some kind of wizard then, I didn't know!

@BeautyandtheBeer love Civvie, watching him playing Plutonia was hilarious lol

Nice video, I didn't know many of these!
Oh and by the way your voice is very soothing, Jon 😄

"Where have we seen that design before?"

Literally any controller in the last 20 years, more or less, and more specifically from the XBox 360's onwards.
What a waste of an article, it mist be one of the stupidest things I've seen on this site. Your ability to scrape the barrel for useless articles never ceases to amaze me.

Overpriced tacked-on crossover cosmetics in a bland, horrible-looking, trend-chasing F2P game?

Shocker.

Lol, that image of Geralt made me chuckle quite a bit ahahahah
Good call!

I've heard mixed things about this one. I'll wait for reviews.

@Retro_Player_77 yeah I know, and that's what I expect to happen more or less.
The games will certainly still be on PC though, and that's why if an acquisition has to happen, MS is better than Sony. Only for that reason.

This is such a random bombshell, I'm in disbelief right now.
This is bad news, really bad news.

@carlos82 to be honest I think 3 groups would be best:
3D, 2D and semi-3D, where by semi-3D I mean both the 3D games AND the Galaxy games.
If you think about it the Galaxy games are structurally more similar to 3D Land/World, than 64/Sunshine/Odyssey.

@georgesdandre exactly.
I'm stoked this game is coming as MS stated in several instances that it was going to stay locked to XBox, but this piece of news will give a lot of people a field day.
There's enough people spreading misinformation purely based on conjecture and opinion as it is, so the fact that MS ended up contradicting themselves will only justify more conjectures based on nothing.

@TheFox this comment is pure gold 😂 especially love the introduction lol

Probably the sexiest handheld ever, if you ask me.
And I'm saying "probably" because the regular New 3DS exists, and is a thing of beauty.

It's really hard to say, and I'm looking forward to playing All Stars so that I can form a more balanced opinion on each, versus the impressions I had when I was a kid.

I think 64 will be the best of the sandbox games, and 3D World the best of the more linear ones, including Galaxy 1&2.
If you think about it, Galaxy is more similar to those, than 64, Sunshine and Odyssey, what with the linear obstacle courses and "gimmicks" for each level.
Though to be honest I much prefer the "yonkoma" style of 3D Land/World, with a much tighter focus on one single element and how to make it as good as possible, rather than the somewhat confusing and overwhelming style of Galaxy, which pretty much empties the toybox and goes nuts.

@StefanN thanks for the insight, it's pretty useful 😃
To the wishlist this goes!

@TG16_IS_BAE I definitely appreciate your round up way more than his previous comments, since they reeked of loathing speedrunning in general.
I'm not a SR fan, to be honest, I don't particularly love it nor hate it, but my opinion is that, if you have a playground to play in, you definitely have the right to try out every tool at your disposal. The glitches are in the game, you can't argue against it, so it can't be bad to actually use them.
I mean, I would get his point if every speedrunner was forced to use glitches, but that's exactly what different categories are for, hence I don't understand the moaning and downplaying of those apeedrunners abilities.
You can speedrun with or without glitches, so what's the point? Just ignore those that use glitches and let people have their fun.

A dear friend of mine in in the top 50 SMB glitch any% category, and seeing him train to shave milliseconds off, it's not like playing with glitches is the cakewalk he makes it out to be.
But yeah, I'm telling you things you already know lol

@TG16_IS_BAE "If you are learning a bunch of silly tricks then say " I beat this game in 5 minutes" when really you just glitched your way through the code to trigger a win sequence that's not beating the game at all."

"Glitches are not part of the game"

"To the normal person that sounds like you ripped your way through the dungeons in some ungodly quick time and it seems impossible. Upon learning "how" you ripped through the game they're not happy to have felt so inferior only to find out someone "cheated". I get it you guys have your own rules, but the clickbaitness of the records just ends up getting to people over time."

"Just online publications trying to piggyback off the shock value of saying someone beat every Zelda dungeon in that time. I'm sure the community itself is very open about their methods. Or interviews that take direct quotes that sound ridiculous like "yes, I was able to beat all the dungeons in x time...." with these methods."

It's pretty clear he's got a bone to pick with the SR scene.
I mean, he even admits to feeling inferior when people beat the games faster than him and states that using glitches is like cheating.
Doesn't sound exactly like an enthusiast to me.

@doctorhino "I don't care about speedrunning nor do I know the first thing about it, in fact I actively dislike it so much I'm gonna make ignorant assumptions and crap on it for the sake of crapping on it, even when another dude is trying to explain how it works to me.
How dare people enjoy playing games differently than I do?"
angrily shakes fist in the air

Don't mind me, I'm just here to applaud the latest Scullion Sub-Header (TM) 👌🏻