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@Drago201
Yeah, me too. 🤣

Nah, thanks.

I’ll be waiting for the inevitable Navi drone that hovers around me and tells me to listen every 3 seconds.

You know, I never understood why RGB lighting became something associated with gaming.

If you like the aesthetic, cool. Go for it.
But for me, never would I ever buy something like this. Random lights eating away at my controller battery? No, thanks (and yes, I know that’s negligible but still).

And it also looks unbelievably tacky to me. I’m specifically talking about RGB lighting here. Some tasteful lighting that fits the color scheme of whatever it’s built into? That’s actually pretty cool.

tl;dr To each their own, not for me.

If anything I’d actually prefer a full blown remake in the style of Dragon Quest XI.

Reason being that to me, HD-2D is getting worse and worse.
Compare DQIII to Octopath.
DQIII has character sprites running around in a generic 3D environment while the Octopath games have beautiful environments that actually match the 16-bit look of the character sprites.

I rarely see anybody talk about this, so I guess it’s not an issue for most people but for me, I hate it.

On the other hand, if a potential HD-2D remake of Chrono Trigger does happen and it’s in the vein of the Octopath games, I’d love it.

@theModestMouse

Made my day. 😂

@samuelvictor
Thanks for clearing that up!
I thought that there might be regional differences.

I still have a lot of my toys from the original movie but I can’t really remember what the packaging looked like at all.
Also, I’m from Europe, so there’s that.

Why the hell are the Jurassic Park logo’s colors flipped?

This looks so wrong to me.

I sadly lack the space to put a decently sized CRT in my living room.

Cost aside, I think the NT mini is the best way for a modern TV. Everything I’ve played so far runs perfectly and looks gorgeous.
Same goes for the Super NT and Pocket.

I just wish Analogue would make it easier for people to actually buy their hardware.
I’ve been lucky so far to get my orders in for the systems I care about but I don’t get their limited production attitude. I mean, sure. They’re a small company and sitting on unsold stuck sucks but that’s such an easy problem to fix.
Let people order whatever they want and once you have x number of orders, order x amount of units for production. Done.
Or even easier, do batch runs of production based on previous demand, let them sell out, repeat.

@Royalblues
„It's not like you can find Polar bears in Hawaii“

You obviously haven’t seen Lost.

Meh. The one sitting on the throne was way cooler.

So many people complain about the collecting aspect of this game. I get that it bothers you if that’s simply not your jam.
But it just makes me laugh when I think about how much people praise Mario Odyssey for “having so much to discover”.

@dimi
Well, maybe that’s because Analogue has a track record of delivering great products.

I’m a firm believer in the concept of being a fan of a product, not it’s brand.
That being said, I own a lot of Analogue‘s products and so far none of them has been disappointing.
Pocket may very well be the first one. So far, Analogue has never made an original controller or screen, so we’ll have to wait and see. But if their past build quality is any indication, I’m optimistic.

@CovidBarbie
You seem like a fun person.

@sanderev
True and I’m not saying otherwise.
But not being able to fix issues with a game via patches later has it’s benefits is what I’m saying.
I feel like the industry takes advantage of patches in a really bad way. Just look at the amount of day-one patches and barely playable games being released.
Back before patching was possible I feel like quality control standards were a lot higher. Simply due to the fact that if you shipped a broken game, that was it. No one would buy it, so devs needed to make sure that wouldn’t happen.
Then, there’s also the issue of unfinished games in terms of content now.

What I really miss (along with manuals) is buying a finished game.

Okay, I have a question to all the Pikmin fans:
This is a series of games that I never got into. I haven’t played a single second of any Pikmin game.
Now, would this third game be fine as an entry point or does it require having played the first two to enjoy/understand it?

@spurryitboi
Really? 20 years ago?
That’d be a year BEFORE Majora’s Mask came out.

I mean, you don’t have to like it or anything but don’t be ridiculous.
That was a time way before HD screens and before things like SMW or SMB3 was considered “retro”. Not to mention the fact that technology wasn’t even remotely able to produce anything like this.

Not really happy with this.

That being said, if the Odyssey levels are just reskinned versions of the SMW3D levels, fine. Whatever.

Although, I gotta say: 3D World is a really underrated game.
I mean, I loved SM64 and Mario Galaxy and I like how Nintendo separates 3D Mario and classic side-scrolling Mario. But while I liked Odyssey I don’t really get all the overwhelmingly positive press it gets. I mean, I’ve read a lot of articles claiming it to be one of, if not the best Mario game of all time. I know that is very subjective but while we’re on the subject, I always felt 3D World to be the far better game.
I loved the way it jumped in difficulty when reaching the bonus worlds, not to mention Champion‘s Road.

And despite all the (admittedly cool) fan service in Odyssey, I really missed an actual challenge. Plus, the amount of moons, to me, felt like it was just meant to keep you busy without offering any real motivation. Like the Korok Seeds in BotW.

Anyway, sorry for rambling on so much. Just something I had to get out.