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@ryancraddock Trainer should have rushed out and grabbed a lvl. 3 Caterpie and got his ass to the fight.

I'd love to love Fortnite, I just suck at it.

Other than that, the list looks pretty good. Smash did well to make the list considering it was only out for a few weeks in 2018!

Also, glad Skyrim made the list. Not sure if you will know it? Nice little indie title.

NSMBUD is such a lol of an abbreviation. Nintendo need to get better at naming things.

@Sabroni Something tells me Panic Button might have bumped up their premium the last year or so!

Caught this video on Youtube last night. I do love Alex's videos, but this one does inadvertently kind of prove that even the game's Special levels are pretty easy!

Regardless, I never played it on Wii U so I'm in!

Sony and Microsoft have people on the edge of their seats every month waiting to find out what games they're getting. Nintendo drops a couple of 150 year old games mid-month onto a service everyone has stopped using. I'm glad I'm not just a Nintendo gamer when it comes to their online service because its getting a bit embarrassing now.

(I know it's dirt cheap by the way, Nintendo. Take more of my money and give me better shit...)

Great effort from Smash, can't wait to get a hold of it tomorrow!

Also well deserved for Red Dead, it's just an undeniably fantastic game and there was never any doubt it would be number 1 for Christmas really!

@JackEatsSparrows By saying I shouldn't have commented if I'm not interested in the story. I'm saying I had a valid point to make.

If I've misread the sarcasm and it wasn't a dig then I suppose we're all good here.

@Sabroni "Starlink is on sale in Smyths and Amazon for £20. There's a story." Did you miss that bit?

Is a £1.50 reduction in the price of a 6/10 game a worthy news story? Starlink is on sale in Smyths and Amazon for £20. There's a story.

@Octane lol

Haha Cracking photo choice. Poor wee cell shaded Link

I couldn't watch the full trailer, but at 9 seconds do that girl's boobs suddenly get bigger? Haha. Japan, man. Jeez

On the topic of ratings... The official ESRB rating description is quite funny:

Rating Summary: This is a fighting game in which players engage in brawls with characters from Nintendo and third-party franchises. Players punch, kick, and perform super attacks (e.g., giant laser blasts, rocket barrages) against cartoony opponents to knock them off platforms; a handful of characters also swords, blasters, mallets, and firearms while fighting. Battles can be frenetic at times, with screen-shaking effects and large explosions. During the course of the game, players can unlock 2D character art that depicts female characters in revealing outfits (e.g., short skirts, deep cleavage, low-cut tops). One character emits flatulence gas clouds to attack opponents.

Can't believe Nintendo has blood effects in its game. This game should be rated M for Mature. Offended and trading in my Switch for a V-tech.

@Kidfunkadelic83 RE: "then make them available to buy."

I don't think I've got enough influence at Nintendo but will send them a quick mail and see what I can do.

Irrelevant but as good a place to say it as any... Can we please get a Bioshock trilogy port? Please and thank you.

@beazlen1 Yeah, I hadn't considered that. Just assumed the next generation wouldn't launch with an online subscription

@Scottwood101 I'm in the same camp. I actually don't think we're going to get "free" N64 games or anything after SNES.

I think we'll get a service similar to what we've got for the NES at the moment, but with SNES games - because that's a real incentive to get Switch Online.

As far as N64, GC and Wii games go... the more I think about it, the more unlikely it seems these will ever be on a similar "free" service. It would basically mean that Nintendo couldn't ever make money from these games by selling them individually again. Like, no one in their right mind is going to buy N64 games on the next generation of console if they were literally given away for free on the last generation. In my opinion Nintendo will never give up their right to sell the legacy content individually on every console iteration (excluding NES clearly, and hopefully excluding SNES).

Trust Nintendo to beat Sony for Power 20 years too late right enough...

@Agramonte This is something I hadn't really thought of before - people who literally traded their WiiU in for cash to put towards the Switch. Yeah, I can see how it would be annoying to feel like you're supporting Nintendo by buying the new console and getting hit with a lot of the same games again at a high price.

I suppose the other side of the coin is that you just don't have to buy the ports if you don't want them. I agree with @Mogster 's comment above that it's probably different teams doing the porting work to those creating new content, so hopefully it isn't realistically slowing down the release of new titles either.

Pretty easy to see the arguments from both side in my opinion, and it's got to be frustrating for many.

For me though, I didn't give the WiiU enough of a go - I'd say I skipped it basically (although I did buy one to play through Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess before BOTW came out) - so I'm pretty happy about the ports!

@0muros It's beautiful stuff. I did all the A-sides in a weekend and it was one of the best weekends I spent with the Switch in the whole time I've had it. Been dipping in and out to go through the B-sides etc - Haven't even come across the C-sides yet! So there's a lot of content there too

@ThanosReXXX Morning mate. Okay, this has gone too far haha. I understand why this is a confusing point, and maybe I tried too hard to defend my initial statement. Apologies to @EasyDaRon if I came across as yesterday, my back was obviously up.

Now, I'm going off the game I've played most recently, which is Red Dead Redemption 2. I was playing it last night for a few hours, wandering around camp, holding in X for like 20 minutes just to walk at anything other than a snail's pace. Still enjoying the game by the way - I didn't say I wouldn't play something because I didn't like holding in the same button for a long period of time. Except, now I'm enjoying the game and at the same time I literally have a sore thumb.

I'm not sure what other justification I need to give for finding it annoying to hold in the same button the whole time I'm playing a game. I didn't say I hate it, or that I'd never play this game, or that I'd retire from gaming altogether. I simply said it was annoying... because it gives me a sore thumb haha. I don't understand the problem with that statement.

@EasyDaRon haha you've lost it mate. I prefer different control schemes to you. Please accept this is well within my rights.

I love that there's a logic to this when no one was really asking for it.

@EasyDaRon Just FYI, I'm very much done with this discussion. Have a good one.

@EasyDaRon It is annoying to hold a button to walk though... RDR2 prime example. I'm not the only person in the world who doesn't like holding in a button for a long period of time. I'm happy you're happy to do it, but I find it annoying.

I don't play racing games anyway. Too annoying holding that button in.

@EasyDaRon Well no, I need to push an accelerator to drive a car so pushing a pressure sensitive trigger simulates this. I obviously don't take issue with that...

And holding a button and holding forward an analogue stick is different.

I haven't played Abzu and likely won't because I didn't appreciate Journey either. But here is someone discussing the control method and saying it's annoying having to hold in the button to swim, and here I am agreeing that it sounds annoying.

@EasyDaRon No one wants to have to hold a button in all the time though in fairness. It's like games that don't let you click the analogue stick to toggle sprint. Annoying.

Still, I don't have a solution in mind for this game in particular, just saying.

I'm 90% digital right now so wouldn't have much use, but these are nice looking tings.

"Poor graphics" don't matter to me as long as the art style is suited to the game. I like a game to look good, but the pixel count has little to do with that.

Controls and fluidity of character movement is something that's really important to me I would say.

@Retupmocnin I'd take that (for a £10-15). I really liked that game on GC. Although if I remember right it was one I imported and had to play with that annoying Freeloader disk - that and Animal Crossing.

@rjejr That will look great on the new Nintendo Switch Pro Ultimate Edition (same console with slightly less flimsy kick-stand).

Oh.

Oh well.

Wind Waker and Twilight Princess asap please.

I think we'll get news on Skyward Sword (released during the show..?), and what I really want is a Prime Trilogy HD but I don't see both ports being announced at the same time as they'll be trying not to be seen as just a port machine. So, one or the other is fine with me for the moment too.

Skyward Sword in a bundle with Wind Waker and Twilight Princess would be tidy also...

Mario peeking out from behind the old changing room curtain there I see... "Peach, can you grab me a blue shirt and red dungarees please? I'm feeling retro."

@In_Ex_Fan Yeah, true. Forgot about that weird ass letter to the fans. The thing is, I don't doubt they'll continue to work hard on the game, and this time next year it will likely be a much tidier version if not an entirely different beast but the reviews I've read though all say it's the core game that's just not very fun. Wonder how they'll address that.

@nocdaes I'm not sure if that's the case. You may be right, I just don't know.

But say you're right, and Bethesda had the discounted Black Friday price for Fallout 76 planned well in advance... does that not say something worse about the game? That says to me that Bethesda knew they were on to a loser. I mean, they could have released it a couple weeks earlier - not like it would have been any more broken if they had.

@Kienda Bethesda have got to be taking a good long look at themselves in the mirror right now... Or maybe not I suppose, since the game is selling, discounted or not.

Just noticed Fallout 76 beat it though. FML. Why are people still buying that game?

I think that's a not-too-bad showing for Let's Go Pikachu. Considering it likely wasn't discounted anywhere unlike some of the others.

I have bought LOL toys/products/things for my niece and I still have no idea what it's all about.

I spent, I think, £15 on this little party popper type thing. It's pink, plastic, you pull a cord and confetti stuff falls out. You just can't buy entertainment like that.

Oh no, you can actually, it's £15 and it's a waste of my money. Still, looking forward to buying more of it around Christmas...

All I want is portable Wind Waker. Skyward Sword is the weak link in a long chain of great Zelda games in my opinion. It needs an HD Remaster/Remake, so do it, fine, but give us Wind Waker and Twilight Princess too. Why not?

@nukatha Fair enough. Can't argue with a preference!

@Bunkerneath Likely a reference to the fact Nintendo UK set it up?

Haggis Pakora. Oh my days.

I have given it a couple of hours so far and have to say I am just consistently impressed by the work Panic Button do with ports. And this game in particular really looks worthwhile (all credit to original devs of course), if a bit daunting.

If I didn't have my hands full with Pokemon, Dead Souls, and Red Dead I'd be all over this, but I'll for sure be making some progress on it over the next few weeks.

@b0nes Haha, this! As soon as I see Panic Button are involved in a port it pretty much means it's worth checking out, and you can be confident it will be done right. Very impressed with their work for the Switch

Still dying, DYING to replay this on the Switch.

@Ogbert Yeah they have definitely messed around with it a bit. At the very least they have added the Trademark signs at an angle to make it look as if they're on the ball. So, they've probably messed with the colours too. Odds are it's the same ball I'd say.