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I wish they would release Mortal Kombat Trillogy instead. It holds up a little better than the individual games.

It's hard to give up the modern roster and content, but the original game still plays best to me. I just feel more in control of the characters. Maybe the smaller levels and simpler asthetics just make it easier to keep track of the action. I've heard it has the least amount of input lag, so that probably helps too.

@Silly_G I think we will start seeing collections like that toward the end of Switch's life, when big cartriges are cheap. Happened with GBA, and PS3 to an extent.

Going to echo the let us play as Zelda sentiment. It makes sense to me that after all these generations, Gannon should try to break the cycle of defeat by incapacitating (or killing :0) Link leaving Zelda to defeat him on her own. Make her an archer mage to change up the gameplay a bit as well.

Viewtiful Joe would make my year.

Would be awesome to finally have Dante and Bayonetta duke it out for supremacy.

And Jesus Herbert Walker Christ can we please get anyone from ARMS on the roster?

@Dm9982 Oh, you'll be a god by the end of the first couple missions. If you liked 3 for that reason, 4 is going to blow your mind

@Dm9982 IV isn't really better or worse than the previous games, it's just different. Instead of an over the top GTA parody, it's an over the top superhero game with cartoony gangsters. I like it more than 3, maybe a little less than 2, but it's more a matter of opinion than quality.

Won't be double dipping, but this is a great game. Probably prefer SR2 overall, but they are doing very different things.

I need to finally get a microSD card and redownload this game.

Some of his other stuff has turned out a little odd looking, but all of these work well.

Nice to see a lot of 3rd party stuff make it on these lists. Big change from previous gens.

Can't justify the cost, but I really want this.

@illmatic20xx It was an early announcment, but I think that had a lot to do with the first games getting ported to Switch. It made sense to announce them simultaneously, but yeah, it does make the wait feel long.

@DrDaisy Her or Viewtiful Joe would make be double dip the game.

I would most like to see Xenoblade X, but not just a port. There was a lot of content they had to cut due to time constraints. If they do this, I hope it's a special edition that adds all that.

Also, let Platinum make a Starfox sequel with less input from Nintendo. I want to see them go all out.

Nice to see so many 3rd party games on this list. They tended to struggle on Nintendo consoles in the past.

Kinda nuts that all these years later, no one has made a better 3D arena brawler than Power Stone.

I still may buy this just to support the devs efforts. With enough success, they could build on this to make a superior sequel. Bought Combat Core for the same reason.

@Claytronical I appreciate that you did actually intend to watch the video. There are some vids out there defending the plot in TLJ, but I wanted to link one that focused on why I liked it, as opposed to one that's more, "Here's a list of reasons why you shouldn't hate it".

I guess my point in a nutshell is; if you scrutinize the movie there is a lot to hate, but if you over-analyze it there is a lot to like.

Edit: I'll try one last video that helps make my over-analysis point. It's a deep dive into the Luke/Ben duel. There is a lot going on between the lines there. If your interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4RUTwPuMIk

@Yorumi If you know of some military people that say that, okay, maybe they had a different experience than the people I know. But as a person who has worked as an underling, and at an administrative level of a large company, I can definitely tell you plans are in the works long before most employees hear about them.

The First Order's incompetence stems from the idea they are the alt-right to the Empire's Nazis. You're right, if they were more competent, they would have won sooner, but they are still hard to beat due to the vast resources of their backers.

The chase in TLJ involves smaller capital ships vs larger capital ships, whereas Empire is a capital ship vs a small smuggler's ship. But this and the hyperdrive issue is getting back into things I don't care about territory. You're not wrong for being bothered by it, you like what you like and that is fine. It just doesn't bother me.

Holdo definitely could have avoided confrontation if she had done a better job explaining herself. But she thought she didn't have to answer to Poe, and instead tried to strong-arm him. Working in a large company, you see this kind of crap all the time. A lot of conflict could be avoided if people just sat down to talk.

Ultimately though, when Poe organizes the mutiny, she sees his ability to inspire people into following him. She realizes the potential Leia sees in him, and seems to agree he could be a great leader with a little more guidance, and focus on the bigger picture. Yes, there is some sloppiness to make it work, but I really like the character arcs on display here.

And that's what Star Wars is really about. Looking past the bad to see the greatness mixed within. Each era has it's own strengths and weaknesses that, taken as a whole, come together as something awkward, but undeniably beautiful.

But the OT is and always will be the best. No question.

@Yorumi I won't argue about the ships, but you can file it under thing I don't really care about. As far as Holdo, yeah she should have told Poe the plan, but she let her ego get the best of her and told him off instead. Also, if you've ever served in the military or worked in a large company, this is pretty standard practice. When the executive level makes a plan, they don't tell anyone until it's fully realized. Then they pass it on to the administrative level to work out how to implement it. And only once that is in place do they clue in the regular workers. The majority of the team isn't included until the last minute.

@Claytronical I said before that I would have loved to see Luke take out a few AT ATs in a blaze of anime BS. I fully admit I would have loved it. But stopping what is essential a bullet is not the same as stopping 200 tank shells. Furthermore, non-violent misdirection was more in line with the Jedi teachings, and just a better idea in my opinion.

As for the cave, they followed the crystal fox to a rock pile. There really wasn't a way out. Not until Rey moved the rocks. Which is a whole other can of worms that I just opened isn't it

Anyway, you're not wrong that TLJ has many issues, but to me the themes it explores and journey it puts the characters through are interesting enough to me that I can look past the faults. This video sums up my feelings pretty well. It's 20 mins long and I don't really expect you to watch it. But it's here if you are interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ6pm5-WFrU

@Yorumi Don't ever ask "but why" of Star Wars. None of them hold up to it.
Why are they using giant walkers on a flat plain?
Why are their legs so long? That would make them really top heavy and prone to tripping. See? I told you.
Why did tripping make the shielding on that AT AT so weak, it blows up from one snow speeder blast?
Why did that snow creature hang Luke upside down without killing him?
Why can he levitate his light saber? Obi Wan never taught him that.
Why can they just fly out of that giant worm's stomach? How does it keep it's food in? And what does it usually eat? It lives on a small asteroid.
Why does that giant bottomless shaft turn into a gently curving slide?
Why can Leia do force-gps? She has no jedi training.

And this is off the top of my head and from the best movie.

@fafonio "Why project him if he was going to die regardless?".

If he had been there physically, he would have been vaporized by the AT AT blasts, and the Resistance would not have had time to get away.

Also, fair enough. Your idea about protecting kids in a temple may have worked. But I liked cynical, curmudgeonly Luke. That was my favorite thing about the movie.

@fafonio We can go back and forth with this. All of us who like the new movies are apparently are paid Disney shills or week minded Beta males who will blindly enjoy any crap thrown in front of us.

And all this just proves Rian's meme right. The discourse is rotten. There are valid criticisms about the movie out there, but they are often burried in typical internet sludge.

I will say, this particular forum has been staying mostly civil, which is nice.

@Cinaclov I liked TLJ a lot too. Easily my favorite Star Wars movie since the originals.

@Yorumi If Luke was in charge of a whole Jedi temple, he and his pupils should be on the front lines of the war. If they weren't, that's what the fandom would complain about in your version.

@fafonio Luke had to project because he would have been killed by the AT ATs otherwise. Look, I fully admit I would have loved to see him force grip one of them to it's knees, but that would have been dumb fan service. Non-violent misdirection was much more in line with Jedi philosophy, and frankly more "realistic" as far as space wizards go.

@Wexter I'm actually kind glad Trevorrow left to be honest. For one, his next movie Bright was a mess. I liked it, but tone, character arcs, and world building were all so haphazard. And the climactic scene had everone just standing there for an awkwardly long time waiting for Will Smith to decide to pick up the macguffin and save the day. TLJ has some sloppy moments, but Bright is on another level.

The second reason is I think killing off Luke was the right call. For one, it makes his final act more heroic. But also, there was an interview with someone who helped Lucas write the original sequel trilogy story treatments, where he said he couldn't figure out what to do with Luke. Whenever the brought in Luke, he sucked all the air out of the room. He took over the story, and the new generation was pushed to the background. It derailed the new story they were trying to tell.

Grumpy Luke solves this problem. Even Mark Hamil, who supposedly hates TLJ, admits this. He said many times that he came to realize it's not about Luke anymore, and that this version of him was what was best for the new character's stories.

Sorry for the rant, that ended up longer than I planned.

@C-Chakra Yeah, it didn't even occur to me that the joke was pushing some political view. The internet has made so many people so paranoid and cynical. It's not even political humor, just timely humor triggers some folks now.

Now on topic, it's really unfortunate how this port turned out. It's a good game that I was hoping more people would get to experience.

Split-screen was my only hang-up. Still going to hold off a bit to see if there is a physical release, but will eventually pick this up one way or another.

TLJ is the first Star Wars movie since the original trilogy that I really loved. I can aprriciate the prequels for what they are trying to do, but there is no getting around that they are badly made movies. Most of the sequels are well made and fun, but it's in a fan servicey superficial way.

TLJ really felt like a labour of love. It brought philosophy and allegory back to the series. It was the first movie since Empire to do anything genuinely surprising. And it managed to give all three main characters, and even a few supporting ones, a fully realized character arc. Finn's arc I admit was a bit week, but Poe, Rey, Ben, and Luke all had an interesting change in perspective by the end of the movie.

It has it's flaws; jokes that fall flat, some awkward dialogue, pacing issues in the second act, continuity errors in the choreography, but these weren't enough to ruin it for me. And let's be honest, none of these problems are new to Star Wars.

@masterLEON I agree that 3 gets more hate than it deserves. I think it's because 2 was such a polished experience that it makes 3 feel sloppy by comparison. But 3 introduced a lot of new mechanics that I enjoy playing around with, despite imperfect implementation.

I love Mortal Kombat, but the fact it outsells stuff like Street fighter or Blazeblue is kinda disappointing.

I've had my eye on the steam version, but maybe I'll wait to see how well it runs on Switch.

This is some really cool artwork.

This was my favorite spectacle fighter before Bayonetta burst in and started poll dancing circles around it.

You can tell a lot of work went into this game, and I'm glad its been so successful. And yes, Smash Bros is indeed a fighting game. Arena brawler is a sub genre of the fighting game genre.

@kuromantic Sorry, I wrote the wrong country name. But my comment about the strong social safety net applies to both, especially when compared to the USA.

@kuromantic Yes, there is a wage gap in Sweeden, there always will be, and frankly always should be. Certain jobs should get paid more than others. But Sweeden has a strong social safety net that effectively provides everyone with basic needs, and props them up during hard times. That is what a place like the USA lacks. Well, not lacks, but we have this overly complicated patchwork of half-measures that a certain political party is always trying to dismantle.

They figured out how to censor Bayonetta enough to fit her in the game, they could have worked something out for Mai if they wanted to.
Smaller chest with no jiggle, and an outfit based on her Fatal Fury design instead of KoF. That's just off the top of my head.
But hey Sakurai, it's your game and I still love you.

@Antraxx777 Oh yeah, at least that many.

@Kidfunkadelic83 Garuo: Mark of the Wolves. Just buy it, you'll thank me later

In all seriousness, it's one of SNK's more accessible fighting games, but makes no compromise with depth. Also, quite possibly the most beautifully animated game built on 16-bit hardware.

@Zoda_Fett Of the games on sale, I recomend Garuo: Mark of the Wolves, and King of Fighters 97.

If you're willing to pay full price or wait for a later sale, still get Garuo and then KoF 98, and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2.

If you're willing to buy on another system, KoF 2002 Unlimited Match is the way to go.

I'd react to this statement the same way I'd to someone trying to sell me a jar of duck farts.

@Anti-Matter ARMS really does need more attention, but it also needs a price cut. This is my favorite game on Switch, however even I have to admit the content on offer doesn't feel like a $60 game. If they made it one of the first Nintendo Selects, I think it could see a reasonable sales spike.

@Donutsavant @Benjoo
These games aren't necessarily for everyone, but my advice is look up a tutorial about the "dodge offset" mechanic. Getting the hang of that really extends your combos and opens up the gameplay.

@Jacob1092 @Morph The team at Namco was made up largely of people who had been working on Star Wars 1313 before Disney shut down Lucasarts. While I'm happy to have Retro back in charge, I really wish the previous arrangement had worked out. Seems like a developer with a lot of potential that just can't get anything to fruision.

Seems like they are putting more effort into this than the previous collections. Much appreciated Capcom.

@Dragonslacker1 Yeah, there are definitely some awkward moments and dialogue in Episode 8. But It wouldn't be Star Wars without that

@Dragonslacker1 @Savino I might be in the minority here, but I thought TLJ was the best one outside the original trilogy. Definitely had it's faults, but I like that it was trying break away from the past tropes and let the franchise move forward.

Backlash seems to have scared the suits, and now RoS looks to be doubling down on nostalgia to draw angry fans back. I still expect it to be good, but would have prefered to see the the series continue to evolve instead of just pandering.