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@xHHHx I really don't think we are at this point. NA is so behind the rest of the world in Virtual Console releases that they'll never "catch up" to Europe or Japan.

I saw the word "Zero" under the virtual console banner and got excited for a second it was "Zero Mission." Oh well.

I just don't care about any of these DLC characters they've released. They've all been from such niche series (aside from Ryu and I guess MewTwo). That's okay. I'll keep my money.

Nintendo of America, the region that can barely stock Amiibos, places far too much emphasis on them.

And yet we have several Japanese-centric costumes that I have no idea what they are.

We aren't going to get Zero Mission or Resident Evil 4 before Christmas, are we?

Not an RPG fan so not interested in any of this. Nintendo of America's mistreatment of virtual console and the eshop in general is so frustrating at this point that I can't even articulate how it makes me feel. Such stupidity at the helm of this region. I wish the new president would just swoop in, fire the entirety of the staff there, and start over.

I kind of wish they had taken all the effort they've put into releasing all of these gun clones to make some new modes instead. Ranked is just too stressful for me so I rarely play it, but I'm kind of tired of turf wars.

Junk as usual.

What did I tell you last week about not getting Resident Evil 4 for Halloween? Anyone who doubted me owes me 5 bucks. NoA needs to be nuked to the ground and rebuilt from the ground up.

5 bucks says North America won't get it.

I'd love for Nintendo to release some retro themes. I had a Genesis growing up, but my NES/Super NES was my favorite.

I'll be getting Sonic (my first purchase on 3DS in quite some time), but man, I sure would love some METROID ZERO MISSION, Nintendo. Pocky and Becky and whoever is not a good substitute.

None of them appeal to me sadly. Wooly World will be the last game I buy this year.

If Freedom Planet were $10, I'd give it a go. I'll be waiting for a sale.

AC: HHD is only worth about 20 bucks from what reviewers are saying about it. I'll consider getting it once the price inevitably drops next year.

@whodatninja People are more apt to try out a shooter than an RPG though, especially one with a heritage like Star Fox has.

@Greenalink People keep saying Xenoblade, but that game is very, very niche; if you don't like RPGs, you aren't going to buy it.

@EternaPhysis But hey! We got an obscure GBA title that like 12 people will buy! Because NoA knows how to make money on their VC service, right?

@MoonKnight7 The problem with indie games on Wii U is that they're usually just ports of mobile and PC games that are way overpriced. Year Walk is 7 bucks on Wii U, but 4 on iOS. Why spend three more dollars for a game that I have to be tethered to a couch to play when I can have it on my phone for three dollars cheaper and play it anywhere? The game isn't really any longer on Wii U or with much more content.

I mean I'll probably download the Shovel Knight DLC, but it's a good thing I'm totally occupied by Mario Maker. I'm so hoping that these new, sweeping changes within Nintendo HQ signal changes in NoA as well. So tired of checking this site out every Thursday for nothing.

OMG! TECMO BOWL! JUST WHAT I WANTED!!!!! Who needs Zero Mission when I can have that?????? The virtual console department at Nintendo of America is apparently run by sea monkeys.

I'm one of the few people that likes this game better than 3D World. It just seems more polished and thought-out to me and this particular style seems more suited to a portable system with stereoscopic 3D. I can't tell you how many times I've died in dumb ways like jumping off the world or missing an enemy's head in 3D World because the stereoscopic 3D isn't there.

I didn't get as into 2 as I did 1. They're both great, but Galaxy 1 seemed like this brave new world that had never been explored before and Galaxy 2 felt like an expansion of the ideas presented in 1.

I think this one is still my favorite of the "new" games. Something about that propeller shroom, man, or as I liked to call it "the twirly hat."

I just hate how the Japanese players like to jump up and down all the time. Something about that strategy annoys the piss out of me for some reason. I guess it just looks stupid.

Does he record his lines anew for every Mario game, or do Nintendo often reuse samples he has already recorded?

Lots of negativity in the comments section. This is what Mario fans who grew up on these 2D games have been waiting decades for. I guess if your first game was Mario Sunshine it could seem pretty "meh", but don't poo poo something that a lot of other people REALLY want just because it isn't to your taste.

If Nintendo made the Amiibos readily available, people wouldn't have to clone them.

More like "Yarn Yoshi Amiibo stampeding into pictures on the internet (because that's the only place you'll ever see one)."

I remember playing SMB when it was the big, hot thing at the moment (*cough, sputter "Back in my day..."). I was like 7-8 years old and saw it for the first time at a friend's house and was like "WOAH! Let me try!" I remember making it to 1-4, Game Over'ing and thinking that I had made it almost to the end of the game. It was only when I got a Nintendo with SMB (and Duck Hunt) for Christmas the same year that I learned right away that our princess is usually in another castle (and that Nintendo games were much longer and more complex than Atari games).

I'll believe it when I see them on shelves for the first time ever.

**Sobbing hysterically at the fact that Nintendo of America hates Metroid and refuses to release Zero Mission.

Yamadilly!

@Dark-Luigi What's SFZ?

KOOOOO-LIMPAH!

I'm going to wait for reviews on this, even though I'm a huge AC fanatic. It doesn't seem like a complete experience to me and yet they're trying to charge full retail price for it.

I think this will be the week I buy Kirby's Return to Dreamland. Nice to get Pandora's Tower for the fans who have been interested in it, but it's not for me.

I can't believe that there are people who thought this would be a 10-20 dollar eShop title. C'mon entitlement!

I just want to slap people who say "I didn't care much for Super Mario Galaxy; I much prefer Super Mario 3D World."

@OorWullie I think with Splatoon it would be fine to have the map able to be toggled on and off the TV screen with a button. The whole "it wouldn't work without the gamepad" argument doesn't make sense to me. The parts when you have to look away from the TV to touch the gamepad screen (super jumping and ink striking) have always felt clunky to me anyway because that leaves the player defenseless while they look away; not something you really want to happen in a shooter.

I just feel like the gamepad was ultimately pointless and apparently so did many developers (including Nintendo themselves in the bigger scope of things — Tropical Freeze literally made the screen black if you weren't playing off-TV). They could have done the same thing by having the 3DS as an intergratable controller.

Nothing for me again. This would be my usual cue to complain about Zero Mission, but a glimmer of hope is there today since Golden Sun finally got released.

I find it funny that people are like "I'm picking up this one, I'm picking up that one." How are you going to buy something you'll never see unless you have inside connections at stores to know when they stock and how many will be stocked?

I twirl my finger in the air and say "whoopty-doo" every time a new Amiibo line is announced because you can't buy what you never see in stores.

I just want the Splatoon Amiibos to be restocked. Found an Inkling boy at Best Buy a few days after launch and have never seen another in a store again. Those Smash Amiibos are fine and all, but there's actual content locked behind the Splatoon figures so they should be readily available.

These 3DS themes are terrible lately. It's all been obscure Atlus RPG stuff for weeks now. What happened to the Nintendo character themes?

I've said before that I seriously think that if Wii U had launched with Splatoon and Mario Maker, they would have sold more consoles. Shame the great games are coming in at the end of the system's run.

I've kind of moved on from Smash Bros. It's cool that they're still supporting it, but I wish they had done more sooner.

I'm excited for it really. No more off topic junk from little kids. If you want to chat about unrelated topics, get a Facebook.