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I thought the first game was rather average and definitely felt indie, but hopefully this one will improve on that and actually start to reach the kind of scope and quality I think of when a game like Banjo-Kazooie and its sequel come to mind.

I dunno, but it is impressive.

I can get behind this 100%

Boy would I be ashamed if that was the DS I owned.

@kenyowa Well, to be fair, it's just the box that's bigger rather than the text here. But I totally agree with your point, and I think text in games has just gotten way too small in many cases. I know we can do all this high resolution stuff, but I think that should be simply to make text much sharper and cleaner to read rather than just making it smaller and smaller. At some point it just gets so small it's stupid, especially when displayed on smaller screens. Also, it's a total amateur error on many devs parts.

Hopefully none of this trickles down to the upcoming Quest 2 VR version of GTA: San Andreas, which is the only version I'm remotely interested in.

For this type of game, which isn't hiding what it is in the slightest, I don't think your two negative points are real negatives.

We like in 2021, the digital age, and there's not a digital version of the instruction manual included with the game?

Man, what crappy times we live in.

You really should name the auction house, because it may just turn out to be one of the usual suspects.

@electrolite77 Yup, because I expect a whole lot of those people think the Switch is actually offering them some kind of height of gaming, when it's not even close. Other than the fact you can only really play the Nintendo first party exclusives on it, which I don't actually rate as highly as I once did, and it's got that handheld/console hybrid gimmick, it's not doing anything special at all for the most part imo. In fact, most of what it's doing is a generation or so behind the competition in many ways. And, when it comes to VR, it's almost like comparing an Atari ST game to an N64 game. So, yeah, I kinda do.

Personally, being someone who already owns a PC (with Steam), a SNES Classic Mini, and an Oculus Quest 2, I just don't see anything particularly compelling about the Switch that I can't already get from those other devices, and ultimately better in most ways.

Nintendo's first party titles and established characters/brands/franchises really are doing a lot of heavy lifting, it seems. And, for me personally, they really aren't enough to justify a Switch purchase. I can't even recall the last time I was genuinely excited about a Nintendo game released in the last decade or so.

I kinda feel sorry for people who went out and bought a Switch for like $300 and probably never even thought to try something like the Quest 2--they have no idea how far gaming has progressed beyond what the Switch offers. The Switch is just a largely bog-standard handheld/console hybrid experience at this point imo, there's nothing truly fresh or exciting about it, whereas the Oculus Quest 2 is paradigm shifting and often still feels as magical to play as experiencing Mario 64 on N64 was for the first time.

If Switch is here for a while, hopefully part of that still includes a proper Switch Pro or Switch 2, maybe even some kind of upgraded VR implementation like Labo VR but much better realised, or just something more exciting that simply the current machine lasting for another five years at least.

I guess we'll see. . . .

@DevinRex You're sooo virtuous.

It took Nintendo a looong time to realise it can do so much more with its characters and franchises. Nintendo should basically be aiming to become the next Disney (with movies, animations, theme parks, toy stores, games, etc), but just with a much stronger focus on games that the other mediums.

@DevinRex Your virtue is so bold.

This is one of those great examples of remasters (or whatever you wanna call it) that's so generic and forgettable that literally a few weeks after its release (or however long it's been) it's pretty much already forgotten. In a couple of years time, pretty much no one will ever talk about this game again, while the original will still be talked about as a classic in another 30 years (or however long it's been since it first released). What a total and utter waste.

@DevinRex Because we aren't all unics.

Despite being lower poly, the older model was clearly made by a better artist imo, in terms of knowing what looks aesthetically pleasing. Her face in the new version just looks off (bland with and strange gormless expression and dead eyes, and weirdly lit); the art for it in the old version is just way more pleasing.

It honestly looks like a really cool game. And, yeah, I think a lot of people underestimate how much good sound can add to a game and really round out the whole package.

Looks okay, not great, but I'll give it a watch just because it's about the NES.

@Dethmunk A sequel to Zombie-U would make much more sense in VR. I guess The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is basically that though.

If you've seen this game output in 4K using emulators then you know the underlying visuals are just great and really hold up. Only the low resolution of 3DS holds them back.

Yeah, still not a fan of that art. It looks like a cheap Flash game found online for free but just in 3D.

A very cool and stylistic game, with definitely a giant penis as one of the bosses.

Actually looks really cool.

@rockodoodle It's one of the really horrible things about this modern digital gaming landscape, which most younger games simply don't yet understand--but I think they will when they realise just how much stuff they don't actually own at all as it gets deleted forever.

I sure hope this isn't a paid game, as in a game people have paid to own, that's just been shut down by Nintendo, presumably meaning people can't play the game anymore.

@ImagineerNik What you probably actually hate is crap pixel art--very much overused in so many modern games that try but fail to properly nail that old-school pixel art look/style--which this is not.

And everyone hates unpacking--I think.

What a really cool and unique idea for a game/experience, and with lovely pixel art too.

Tetris, Super Mario World and Halo are all right up there too in terms of sheer brilliance, and I personally would rather play any of them now over Super Mario 64, although none of them presented a truly revolutionary paradigm shift like Super Mario 64 did.

Eternal Darkness and Silent Hill: Shattered Memories would both be great in VR if they were handled like the recent Resident Evil 4 VR for Quest 2, which is frikin' brilliant by the way.

Now, anyone using this controller for the first time in a while, can you please tell everyone how it feels to hold and actually use?

Note: And I don't mean judging it by the apparently pretty crappy quality of the Switch Online N64 line-up of games, but rather just the quality of the controller itself.

Given all the recent announcements at Blizzard, I would be seriously thinking about leaving if I worked there. And I don't mean the complaints but the stuff they've announced they are doing to "fix" things.

That's pretty brilliant.

@Specter_of-the_OLED I think he mean from the consumer's perspective, which, unless you work for Nintendo or are a shareholder in the company or something, is the position you should be coming from too.

Charging like $20-$30 extra for this kind of quality is very disappointing, Nintendo.

Man, Nintendo really is just phoning it in.

Go look at Xbox One's Rare Replay compilation from 2015 . . . and see if you can find a single compilation Nintendo has done in recent times that even comes close to the overall sheer quality and polish of that collection. . . .

And imagine how special all of this stuff could be if Nintendo put even half of that kind of effort into its Switch Online games and collections. . . .

Nintendo should be ashamed.

Do you know the real reason I think there's not a new F-Zero on Switch--because the amount of time, money and effort Nintendo would need to put into just making it even match the old GC F-Zero GX game is more than it's willing to invest in this franchise in 2021. Not because there's nothing more great to be done with that franchise but because Nintendo can't think of a way to do it with less time, money and effort and not just look shamefully under-par. Sad, but I think very true.

"Nintendo consoles were never about hardware"

This is such a lie or just pure ignorance: The NES, SNES, N64 and GC were all about trying to be at or near the cutting edge of console hardware at the time. The NES and SNES literally had the taglines "Now You're Playing With Power!" and "Now You're Playing With Super Power!". And Nintendo even told you directly in a magazine ad not to buy a PlayStation before the N64 launched because of all the Silicon Graphics power in the N64. The GC was also more powerful than the PlayStation 2 and around the same power as Xbox at the time, and some people will argue to this day that it was actually the most powerful of all three consoles under the hood.

It wasn't until the Wii that Nintendo apparently stopped caring about console power.

Nintendo has actually launched more home consoles that have focused on power than they have ones that haven't.

Now, in the portable space it's been a different matter since basically day one, but portables have rarely been about raw power anyway because of their very nature.

@Tourtus They bit I said where they get a pass in this case was there, and is still true.

Resident Evil 4 in VR--and it's frikin' glorious.

@Tourtus See my comment right above your one. . . .

@nessisonett True. I mean, black and white aren't even technically proper colours. But in terms of 1-bit colour, or 1-bit graphics, they get a pass.

"1-bit color: 2 colors, often black and white (or whatever color the CRT phosphor was) direct color. Sometimes 1 meant black and 0 meant white, the inverse of modern standards. Most of the first graphics displays were of this type, the X window system was developed for such displays, and this was assumed for a 3M computer. In the late 80's there were professional displays with resolutions up to 300dpi (the same as a contemporary laser printer) but color proved more popular." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth#1-bit_color

@nessisonett Well, there should only be two colours: Black and white in this case. Or it could be red and green, or yellow and pink, or . . .

Like this: https://lospec.com/palette-list/tag/1bit

1-bit means two colours, and that could be any two colours.

Here there's black, white and some red.

So, yeah, it's technically not 1-bit.

In terms of presentation and visuals, I find it kinda disappointing and embarrassing for Nintendo 2021 that Other M actually looks nicer than Dredd in many ways imo. It shows me that Nintendo is not really trying to push things to the next level and just going through the motions in many ways these days with stuff like this.

I feel like this should have been added as part of the standard subscription fee or, if they're going to charge extra for this new content, there should be a lot more than just some retro games included for that total subscription fee, which takes it up to around the same cost as both PlayStation's and Xbox's online services at this point.

Nintendo should just buy Sega already. There's so much untapped potential there, both in terms of the huge back catalogue of amazing classic games and all the great legacy the hardware. It would be so special if Nintendo and Sega become one.

Nice to hear they've done a good job with this port.

I actually really like the look of this game.

Now this is interesting, and a very smart approach that is something I've been advocating for a long time.

@blockfight All I would are about in a game like this, and indeed most games, would be the [single-player] campaign.