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I'm OK with this response; "it mysteriously disappeared but nobody really cared" certainly isn't very thorough or super super satisfying, but it is an in universe accounting of the thing and that counts for plenty to me. Sometimes handwaving is enough for me

@fabiop haha. at least you gave it a shot

Reminds me of that Final Fantasy Dad of Light show or whatever. never saw it but always thought it looked super cute.

@fabiop Did you not like that movie?

Ugh. Neon White. never have i looked forward to a game more, enjoyed the gameplay so much, and uninstalled it so fast. i understand the possibility that the dialogue, voice acting, wanname bs was was supposedly, ironically, intentionally cringe but it truly pained me to spend even a second experiencing those characters.

I'm confident Aquiris will fix a lot of the issues. they're that kind of developer

@NintendoJunkie it does at plenty of nuance to chew on. thank you for the thoughtful response. still mulling all this over.

@NintendoJunkie But what specifically were these excessive initiatives you're talking about, and what motivated them? Whose ambitions were the ones that stretched the company beyond its capacity? The employees getting laid off?

Not necessarily trying to argue against what you're saying, but you have not provided any information that contradicts the notion that this was the greed (or, to be more charitable, creative ambitions) of the upper echelons of the company damaging the lives of those actually doing the labor.

@Cynas I hate dubs 90% of the time, both on principle and in practice, but this is a pretty good take

These aren't tough decisions for these vultures. Those employees' livelihoods were nothing more than inconvenient numbers to them.

literally nobody wants that except stakeholders at Microsoft lol

@-wc- i mean you've poured in hundreds and hundreds of words into standing on this very minor hill, so that's why i say you've been putting a lot of energy into this, but you do you.

@-wc- SMB Deluxe on the GBC "introduced" a map screen to the original SMB, even though many Mario other games between the original and Deluxe had used map screens. The map was new to the original SMB.

This is the same; this boost mechanic and spin attack were in subsequent releases but not in the original F Zero which is what this is based on. Hence, these mechanics are being introduced to the original.

The phrasing could have been clearer, yes, but I do think you're spending a lot of energy shaking your fist at a non-issue

I didn't expect that much but I haven't been able to stop playing. Really fun and hopefully a sign that Nintendo is thinking about F Zero again.

That said I'm really glad you pointed out the bland UI. Getting pretty weary of flat and bland modern UI, especially in retro remasters etc. where it feels extra jarring. I really don't dig the new Mario RPG interface

i really don't care about the frame rate and visual effect of the cut to 30fps but in principle a downgrade from such an old game bothers me

I implore ppl to download this at least..... Even if you don't really play it much, it's free to download and it would be nice to show Nintendo that interest for this franchise still exists

@PedroMatos i mean you kind of described the vibe of the entire NSMB series right there. so i guess they're accurate covers in that sense 😮‍💨

doug bowser always comes across as the most absolutely boring corporate robot ever

@ndunsmo NAILED my feelings. and quest for Camelot is actually mildly exciting for me, in that i remember being fascinated by the nintendo power walkthrough on it...... it doesn't even look that good, idk why i was so fixated on it 😅

and PLEASE METAL WALKER. I've never played, but same deal, i was fascinated by the NP coverage and it actually looks fun

@MontyCircus 🤣 that's not entirely unfair

@Not_Soos "fired" is total speculation. he's been doing it for decades. he's an older veteran voice actor now. it may have just as easily been a mutual decision, or entirely Charles'. playing one character for decades is cool, but he may feel it's time to move on.

In any case, the voices in Wonder aren't significantly different in style. So it's not like they were trying to go in a wildly different direction he couldn't handle. And they're keeping him around in a very visible role, so the relationship does not seem to have soured in any significant sense.

You could be right, but you are speculating based on nothing.

looks awesome.....

i do take exception to the comment that the gameplay is more fluid and exciting than karate champ. it certainly looks smoother, and is easier to grasp, but it's also way shallower, and once you get used to the unique control scheme of karate champ, it's way deeper and more exciting.

also, as a martial artist, i think karate champ is still one of the most faithful gameplay adaptations of point-based karate competition--not necessarily real fighting, but the sport of point sparring. the moves in karateka look great, but the gameplay isn't really that fun imo.

i also unironically love the wild anachronism of this, karate didn't exist before the late 19th century and the typical karate uniform, adapted from the judo uniform, didn't come in until well into the 20th century. but seeing a guy in a karate gi and a samurai helmet will never not delight me

@Itachi2099 That's nothing new, I've been making private rooms to play with the ghosts of my friends since the orphanage we were raised in went up in flames

Cool, but I don't get why this and Invasion are two different releases. Seems superfluous... How different is Invasion really?

astebreed is a really flashy and cool shmup

getting pretty sick of these lazy remasters

I feel for em. Game doesn't even have that many similarities aside from the look and scale of the world map.

I will commit a crime next time I see another game title ending in "-fall"

@koffing Yes, companies can price their games at whatever price they want..... and those prices are subject to strong opinions sometimes. you've said basically nothing

wtf is "commercially accurate?" god i hate corporate types. now I'm definitely not gonna buy this purely out of spite lol

@Antraxx777 Enough to justify a standalone release when it first came out.

@Ravenmaster Switch handles PS3 era graphics just fine, with proper optimization at least. But the GTA remasters suggest they're likely to drop the ball regardless.

I'm not likely to buy this at anything more than $30. But that's just a matter of taste; I think $40 would be fair considering I think the Undead Nightmare expansion is pretty big, and playing RDR on portable is going to be a whole new thing. $50 is pushing it though. Ultimately this is an old game.

The remake was incredible. Amazing visuals, cutscenes, voice acting, and QOL improvements. I hope it comes to the switch.

@DaniPooo Wow, didn't realize the dual sense dealt with it too..... thanks for the info.

am i mistaken though abt controllers from the past? i just don't remember ever dealjng with it before 2017

I don't understand why a buzzword-worthy solution like "Hall effect" is even necessary to deal with a problem that exists largely only for one model of controller. Drift isnt nearly as prevalent in any other controller, even other Nintendo controllers including those from the distant past.

Why can't they just make them better?!

I actually really like a lot of the gameplay and new mechanics, there are some great ideas that work really well. But the performance issues are truly abysmal, and even when running smoothly the visuals are downright primitive and even something of a downgrade from the 3ds games, and incredibly frustrating given this is literally THE MOST PROFITABLE IP IN THE WORLD. If i were game freak i'd be straight up embarrassed.

I normally think it's silly to complain about occasional framerate drops in a non-action game, but I've been keeping my mouth shut on this one lately. it's truly embarrassing.

glad i never got rid of my copy of sonic mega collection for the gamecube, which had basically all of the sonic genesis games worth playing (1-3, knuckles, plus the knuckles versions of 2 and 3, 3d blast, spinball
) some other games such as flicky and ristar, plus tons of bonus content, comics, art, videos, etc.

no sonic cd or the other weirder games but those were on the follow up, sonic gems collection.

except...... sonic games have never been that great to begin with 🤷 i liked sonic advance and adventure 2 was fun, but largely because i was young enough to ascribe my frustrations with the gameplay to my own incompetence rather than the fact that it was frankly terribly designed

ultimately his voice didn't bother me too much. but tbh i think part of it was his dialogue was so inoffensively generic most of the time it was hard to blame pratt for any blah-ness i felt.

overall i liked the movie but most of the dialogue was not great.

@GinMiguel Thank you, good correction. I think my point about Martinet still stands though.

@TheBigBlue This take is getting old. Charles Martinet is one of the most experienced voice actors in the world, and Mario (and all other Nintendo characters) are far from his only credits. Do people seriously think such an industry vet would lack the capacity to attenuate his performance for a feature length project?

Chris Pratt on the other hand has basically zero VO experience, and every clip featuring him shows that.

EDIT someone has pointed out that Pratt has been in a few animated things including the Lego Movies which I actually really liked him in. So scratch that bit of my diatribe. But my point still stands. Charles Martinet is a professional VO actor who's been in the business since Pratt was a literal child. Martinet would know how to voice a feature character.

mm nah I'm good

kind of an entirely baselessly speculative headline. there's nothing to suggest this is anything like mario kart or intended to be a competitor.

not that it definitely won't be, but it's weird to make assumptions like that right in the headline

maybe they should hire someone with basic programming knowledge first

@Hck oh cry. sometimes it works better for the artist that way. just burn it on to a cd if you need it physically that bad.

@GooseLoose1 oh I'm used to it. i just hate it.

I'm not gonna assume she's gonna be awful though. she's a good actor. i just haven't liked what I've heard so far in the trailers. whereas I've loved everything jack black and Charlie day have showed so far as bowser and Luigi.

and, obviously, kids dgaf about a star studded voice cast. many adults do though. but even if that weren't the case, just having the name up there just helps the movie's marketing stick. amy poehler was in some pidgeon movie like a decade ago. don't remember jacksht about it except for seeing her name on the billboard and going "huh. interesting."

never saw it and it was probably bad, but here i am, 10 years later, mentioning it, because she was on the poster 🤷

Hopefully ATJ won't sound as sleepwalky as she's sounded in the trailers. Second least favorite voice in the movie so far after Pratt

@RainbowGazelle the fact that they needed these fixes in the first place is a disgrace. but even more than that, the battle animations are unacceptably bad, inferior even to the 3ds animations in many cases. How difficult can it be to animate a pokemon making contact for a simple Tackle or Peck?!?!

At least the gameplay is IMO actually really good, i like the open world structure a lot and the new twists to the battles are good. and the new pokemon designs are quite good as well.

I'm so jazzed about Excitebike 64. Stoked, even. Really hyped. Thrilled. I wish there were another word for the emotions I feel about this game making its return.

Fr though incredibly underrated, really fun gameplay and its extra modes and course builder were phenomenal.

@Rainbowfire i don't think anyone thinks this is a game breaking issue. but as a video editor, if i spent particularly long tweaking a specific detail only for the public to be shown a messed up version of it, even if i knew it doesn't make a huge difference in the grand scheme of things, i would be really, REALLY annoyed.