I don’t think there is any good versions of this is there ? (Even a PC with a £4000 gpu it isn’t perfect)

The 3DS version already streamlined it quite a bit. (Especially the very beginning.) I didn’t find it problematic. (Prior I had only played IV/V/VI/IX and not really finished IX.) I think V and VI are better. I don’t see why they felt the need to rerelease this.

I am getting Mario Tennis maybe Yoshi (I haven’t enjoyed anything Yoshi other than Island. I am hoping it’s a proper game but I am not expecting it to be). Probably get the upgrade pack for Wonder and replay it. (Haven’t done the very last level - I have stopped farming power ups for the last levels on Mario games.) I can get to the final checkpoint.

I don’t enjoy playing it Online (I am still playing Super Sonic Speed time trials.) if they had a mode where it was rebalanced so I had a chance without just choosing the gadgets that stop getting hit being so punishing then it could be better.

I still prefer All Stars Racing Transformed. I think the difference in the amount of characters that actually play differently/more interesting tracks/better item balance and more varied single player are far better overall. (Don’t think I would have liked the 30fps console versions though).

I don’t think copying what they did from Mario Kart was a good strategy.

I think for the amount it costs it should be updated better

Don’t think trying to cater for people who want Mario Kart but don’t want to buy Nintendo is a good strategy. (It’s like the EA social game or Call of Duty a lot of those people won’t buy anything other than what they know no matter how much better something else might be.)

I like having the Casino in DQ games. (And stuff like that style show thing it’s part of the charm).

Still disappointed they went for this again instead of IV/V/VI (I fancy replaying that trilogy but not on a 3DS or DSi XL).

I would play the translated SFC roms but VI is a bit of a mess still.

(There again that far east of Eden game has actually had it’s translation finished so maybe I should try that.)

It’s not a niche game because it outsold every Zelda title on the 3DS. (It’s the level below Mario / Animal Crossing and Pokemon but definitely not niche.)

I will probably pick up a copy for my nephew and his cousin. (Not really interested in it for myself.)

I wouldn’t get Dispatched with the way it appears that has been done Censorship is not a huge issue for me but black bars is a joke.

Just Mario Tennis and Mario Wonder for me. (Maybe Yoshi if it is a 10/10 but other than the original and DS Yoshi s Island games I have never been that into Yoshi. I don’t think DQ VII needs another rerelease already didn’t play it that long ago if I didn’t play on 3DS I would have got it. Should have done something with IV/V/VI which I do fancy replaying but not on a DS/3ds).

Not going to get any of the old 3rd party ports. I have an Xbox now and most stuff has a 60fps mode. (Even if it isn’t perfect the VRR is so good I don’t notice).

I can see why people are bothered about the price. (If it was £40 digital I think that would be okay. There is no competition for digital and from Nintendo’s point of view they should do more to encourage it.) They could easily do it using the profit that usually goes to the retailer I don’t mind carts but I can imagine how much more Nintendo could have had at the expense of Cex. It’s sad that Cex is all that is left in my local high street. (Before that we had 3 shops that maybe sold a bit of used but were mostly new). I suppose there is an Argos but you don’t really browse there. (Not going to just buy something that looks good that I didn’t know about there.) I think used games are a bigger problem than piracy with the way Cex goes about it. (They basically sell at the same price as new without contributing anything.) It was better before 2020 I think. (Most of my Wii U games are digital and I paid a similar amount to people buying disks there was actually a proper market working the same as retail.)

@westman98 That might happen but at the moment Xbox ports tend to be far better than Nintendo ones. Until Linux gets equivalent VRR on AMD I am not interested in a Steam Box. If Xbox doesn’t get Hades 2 I won’t be pleased but I suspect Microsoft will keep paying for the big indies if necessary (And they will work better than Switch 2)

@ozwally That ship sailed ages ago. At least perplexity gives its sources. When the internet started sucking was the rise of ad networks and incompatible proprietary systems. (When people had banner ad’s relevant to the content I didn’t have any issues with it). Don’t know why people expect Google to not do what it’s doing when they deliberately allow Google’s crawler to access their content.

@Serpenterror Both Street Fighter 30th and The SNK 40th are really poor in the way digital eclipse has done things on Switch. Definitely very noticeable to me. (The SNK games are done properly by hamster in the cases I have checked which admittedly is only I think 2 games.) They could do better but choose not to (hamster is a tiny company by comparison.) That first Megaman collection is quite awful on Switch also (Not clear whether that is digital eclipse or not).

Have Digital Eclipse sorted their Switch input lag issues ? I have had problems with quite a lot of their switch releases. (Often 2 frames more than Xbox which really is noticeable.)

I don’t know how hamster manage it but it shows that it can be done well.

Does the Switch 2 do anything for any of these problems ? (I think I have re bought most of them at this point but I would rather use the SNES controller for e.g this not if it has 2 frames more input lag though)

@Sindayl Don’t know why Dance Central didn’t last with Kinect. I definitely think that deserved to succeed. Not that I am great at it but I certainly see that it has a point.

The Tom Whitehead period didn’t seem to have the same quantity of clickbate as NL has now. I think I probably agree with it being an 8/10 game it isn’t as good as Xenoblade.

(I wonder if Tom Whitehead still plays Mario Tennis I used to match against him quite a lot on 3DS Mario Tennis Open but haven’t played since then hopefully the new one plays like a new game I expect it to.)

@Lord Not really interested in Game Gear sort of interested in Master System but the games I am really interested in I think are likely to be 50hz optimised which does pose a problem. Some of the game gear ports have awful restrictions even with the earlier games.

(Obviously I would take Saturn or DC if it was done right.)

I had the original msdos cd version. I don’t remember it being that good but it did have cd music that was quite good.

Think I would get this if it is the Jaguar version (If Atari is publisher I think the chance is low but it is not impossible that we get that one).

The difference in the game design with regards collectibles makes me think that is the version for me.

I wish they did more tracks from other SEGA games not just characters similar to the Pac-Man level. (That is probably my favourite track).

I am quite enjoying the time trials on the fastest speed. But I don’t really like the racing because I can’t use the most fun gadgets without relying far too much on luck. (I don’t enjoy playing it with just the gadgets that make getting hit by items less bad. It’s sad because I could really like it with extremely minor changes. In contrast to Mario Kart where it would need to be a new game.)

I think ff just isn’t as good as Dragon Quest from VII onwards. (I think the story of FF VI is so much better than FF VII - I don’t get why they are rereleasing DQ VII so soon after last time however.)

I am totally not bothered either way. I don’t even look at the box art. (Use what is written on the edge). Thinking of getting one of the hori game card cases to make finding the carts a bit easier.

I wish we went back to a time where collectibles were less prevalent. (I would prefer any other method for fully unlocking all the levels. e.g a time trial. The KONG letters are okay because they don’t stop playing the game properly.)

Getting stuck was never really an issue for me as kid. I think that is a better problem to have than the situation my cousins son has where is done with Nintendo games so quickly that it’s just a waste of money.

I think increasing the difficulty from about half way through wouldn’t really affect the other kids who are more often than not bored by then anyway.

(I do accept that these games are for kids but it certainly wouldn’t have suited me. I can accept the collectibles in Mario 64 as necessary for the limitations of the time as well.)

I don’t think rogue prince of Persia is excellent I think it is so boring. (The amount of grinding required is really excessive and it is just not fun)

I might try this when all 3 parts are available but 30fps is a deal breaker for me so it won’t be on Switch 2.

@Zeebor15 I read a bit about why Unity is so crap most of the time. (But iOS isn’t effected due to it being compiled to fairly decent c++ on that platform - makes sense Hades 1 was so good with the delisted Netflix version.) I think the gist of it was either switch to dot net core or implement every platform like iOS (they have ruled out both approaches so it is likely to stay rubbish.)

I only pay for 1080p ad free Netflix. I would want to watch this in 4k so chances are I will buy it digitally from Apple. The price Premium for 4k on Netflix I think is too high. (I have it on prime and there is only one tier with Apple TV+). If Netflix does get WB it might be worth it but I am unsure still..I wish I could get a streaming service that used Truehd + Atmos. (Kaleidoscape I would like but without a real cinema room I don’t think I would get enough out of it. Might be something I will do if I get inheritance I don’t really need).

@Shade_Koopa That is the way Sony implemented it. The best way to implement it is the way MS did which doesn’t seem to need that. Can go down to 20hz (System set to 4k/120)

@Apkorv You would have thought so but look how much money SEGA made from Border Break I wouldn’t have thought that possible but it happened. There is no reason a VR Arcade game couldn’t make a lot of money. (Probably most of it in Asia but if it was good enough everywhere. But what is practical for a £30000 Arcade Machine is light years away from being cheap enough for home use which I think is fine.)

@foursider Why ? it has a really good dpad that works well for both 4 way and 8 way 2D games way symmetrical sticks for fps every way of using it is comfortable there is no gyro that is the only issue with it.

There are some Arcade games where it’s just not the same with a controller. I have never seen this at Arcade Club but I would want to try it but I don’t think I would be interested in a home version. (Like someone said above if it was a Saturn or dc game it would have had its own controller I didn’t mind that I had the Virtual On controller/Fishing Rod/the wheel / a fight pad for my DC. I don’t think it is worth it doing some games without. (Wii U Tank Tank Tank is great fun on the real cabinet but pretty awful at home. Nintendo is particularly bad. (Xbox driving games and flight sims at least have proper accessories.)

I prefer the Wii U pro controller layout if I had to use one controller for everything but I don’t so I use a combination of pro controller 2 / SNES NSO Controller (2D Platformers / Tetris 99) and 8bitdo m30 (I use the 8bitdo for Arcade Archives / ACA NEOGEO primarily and Ultra Street Fighter 2).

I think I collect controllers like some people collect amibo.

I bought it digitally when the game with all DLC hit £50 on Xbox. I like it more than Mario Kart World but they copied many of the worst properties of Mario Kart. (Like deliberately having a poor first lap being a better strategy than actually improving at playing the game).

Valve seems to have dealt with its position without being completely awful (Which seems to apply to the equivalent systems from basically everyone else can’t believe it’s necessary to sign up for Ubisoft rubbish on consoles to play a game you have bought even some offline ones then they spam you to hell).

I don’t think enabling the necessary prerequisites is worth it. I might have enabled them one time to see this if I could but not like seems required I dunno why there can’t be a pop up once yes or no for the information.

Digital Eclipse emulaton quality is more often than not pretty poor. (It is a little better on Xbox than Nintendo but there are others that manage to do a proper job basically all the time.)

@Jeronan I understand I think due to not being part of the EU you don’t get the thing where you only pay the tax once so you pay the German VAT and your MVA if you do that.

@Jeronan It’s €489 on Amazon.de why can’t you just get one from there ? (The same rules that apply to Xbox allowing anyone in Europe to buy from e.g Iceland or Norway (With no vpn tricks or adding addresses in countries you don’t live in or changing the region) should apply to buying physical goods from somewhere more competitive that’s in the single market.) The German price seems not too far off the UK one which is £430 including tax. (That should be approx €495). Even if the country you are in has a higher tax part of the rules is that you pay the local tax from where you buy from. (I used to buy a lot more physical goods from Europe before brexit.) Might as well take advantage of the bits that benefit individuals of the system. The only country that really is subsidised is Japan. (And Nintendo doesn’t offer lower prices for countries that could never participate otherwise unlike MS and Sony probably (One of the reasons) why they seem to have bigger piracy problems.) I would be pleased to go back to a Wii U like Nintendo where they were trying to pull out alll the stops but I don’t think it will happen that way again. (The quality of those games was far higher than the Switch first party output.)

@NintendoWife It was discounted quite a bit in the UK (Small price to pay to stop scalpers though I think it was around £30 off. Still more significantly expensive than the subsidised prices that Japan has with their region locked SKU)

I had to use the in game remap in Bananza. (Couldn’t handle jump on A).

I don’t usually remap anything though. (I guess I would probably use one of the programmable back buttons on the pro controller 2 before changing anything of the defaults at a system level).

(Actually I use an 8bitdo m30 for Arcade Archives/ACA NEOGEO and quite often I use the buttons listed on the controller for them but I don’t change anything at a system level).

I hate playing BG3 with a controller. (Still hoping it goes play anywhere and failing that I might rebuy it on GoG). It really would be better with mouse and keyboard. (And I almost always prefer a controller because it feels more like relaxing). Mouse mode maybe would have been good for it. (Still don’t understand why they removed support for mouse and keyboard from the Series X build.)

@Willo567 It’s significantly more affordable in Japan than elsewhere.

@Strawblaze Yeah Japan gets a subsidised price but nowhere else does MS and Sony charge for games based on local relative income a lot more. I don’t know how Nintendo get away with making the digital codes having to match the country of the Nintendo Account in Europe. (Microsoft was forced to allow buying through any EU or UK store for Xbox they didn’t want to do it but in most cases Iceland / Norway or Hungary is quite a bit cheaper. No vpns or fake addresses or anything is needed).

I won’t even try the Nintendo demo aliasing annoys the hell out of me (Reason why I always hated the PS2 but the Dreamcast I really liked.) I might get it on Series X.

I tried this on Apple Arcade but it didn’t really click with me
(Series X Controller).

This is much better on Series X (input lag and when it is in the mode where it shows the machine 4k is better overall).

My problem with playing this on Switch is the music just isn’t anywhere near what the original was.

I got this on Xbox as a Christmas present. (Digital Deluxe). I don’t like the rubber banding feels like someone thought that was a good part of Mario Kart. Only trying on the last lap is not a strategy that makes for a fun game for me. Getting the hang of the gadget where if you do a Switch drift you get a full boost level is seeming fun though.

It’s funny how “Inspired by” is reported on differently than if something is similar but any part of it is done by using some sort of AI. (For e.g a platformer I think if an AI created 10000 levels based on what is good I think say the top 100 levels would make for a good game.) Even more so if it was trained specifically on levels determined to be particularly good by someone. (I don’t see how that is any different to making an inspired by game).

The only MMO I really liked was the first EverQuest at the time when it first came out so there wasn’t loads of sites dedicated to how to do any (No fast travel either you wanted to cross continents you had to wait on the boat). It took me longer to get to get to level 23 than it took my younger brother to get to Max level but I had no interest in playing it like he was. (Looking up how to do everything optimally where to go to level what gear to use where to farm for epic gear.)

After writing all that I remembered I played Star Wars Galaxies even more but they completely broke that in an update to make it as much like WoW as thoy could. I played the emulator for a while as well. If they had stuck to it I would have probably stuck with it. (When everyone was grinding professions to try and get Jedi that spoilt it really.)