I had not heard of this before. Beyond Good and Evil is one of my favorite games so it would not be too unlikely for me to buy it a 3rd time.
About time btw. Metroid Prime 4 was announced the exact same E3 as Beyond Good and Evil 2, and while that game also has been MIA. at least since then we've gotten a heavily remastered Prime remake AND a Metroid 2 remake on 3DS AND a brand new high quality 2d Metroid. As a Beyond Good and Evil fan they've done nothing since that time, so its good to...um...see the bare minimum I guess (which sadly, is what I expect from Ubisoft).
But its still good to see an all time great game on modern platforms.
It deserves the reputation of being kind of obnoxious and easy to miss something compared to the average difficulty of the game, but in the grand scheme of things, its not THAT bad, unless you miss the one, admittedly well hidden place in the middle of the temple. It's just far more tedious than it should be. Though to be fair, part of it is that my difficulties with it stood out to me, so now I remember how to do it. Especially compared to the Forest Temple where I have ALWAYS missed something without fail, so its become more annoying to me in hindsight.
But the other reason I feel its not THAT bad is just this year I've been playing Megaman Legends 2. You have no idea how bad a water dungeon can be until you play Megaman Legends 2. It makes the Water Temple look like the Ancient Cistern, at absolute best.
1080 Snowboarding, announced more than a year in advance. Jet Force Gemini, one week! Ok. I mean, I'm happy, so I won't complain, but...very strange priorities. Also this is not a game I'd expect to be big in Japan in a way that they'd not announce it worldwide all at once. Like did the entire Japanese EDF fandom go nuts for it or something?
I just played Yooka Laylee this year. Probably for the best as I avoided both the hype and then anti-hype. It's not bad but its only sometimes particularly good. It has that awkwardness of an indie team making an ambitious game and it only sometimes captures parts of what made Banjo Kazooie fun. Like it tries, but it feels like a game that didn't have time to make a great collectathon platformer because it was too busy with all this extra minigames and different gameplay ideas that aren't what made Banjo Kazooie what it was. (the contrast between the caves and the open area of the 2nd world being maybe the best example of that)
It's also just surreal how this fairly nice looking modern game somehow feels less like a believable world than the blocky N64 game.
But I do hope they can pull it off the 2nd time, especially after the 2d game worked out so well for them.
@Spider-Kev No, there's a deku stick upgrade you can get in the Lost Woods that you can't get for some reason if you do an entirely unrelated sidequest.
12/15. I guess to be fair, two of them I got wrong via not knowing knowledge of Zelda beyond OOT. Like 3/4 of those enemies I have no memory of being in pre-OOT Zelda.
Also I don't know enough about OOT regardless, because I only found out this year there's an upgrade you can get locked out of.
@FawfulsFury Final boss fight is a notable exception, though I do still prefer the first two game's final boss themes personally.
But the area themes are largely in the style of the previous Mario and Luigi games but much less interesting. Maybe someone who knows music theory could justify or explain this, but much of the songs don't go anywhere interesting, they're just meandering along as acceptable and catchy but the melodies are also kinda flat I guess. Like compare all the stuff surrounding the main beat in the background of the beach theme from the first game to the beach theme in this game, for example.
I dunno, I'd struggle to think of a lot of Nintendo games where I have this issue, at least the really major ones. Phantom Hourglass at least had the decency to have far more obvious problems with some of its music, its issues are clear to anyone with a basic understanding of what Zelda music is. Bowser's Inside Story is the type of thing where I feel I'd need to take music theory classes to describe how surprisingly underwhelming it can get.
@FawfulsFury Superstar Saga, outside of combat and a few other things its arguably better at is just...mildly less good than a Paper Mario more than particularly bad at anything. Still better than most games tbh. But I would argue Bowser's Inside Story, despite being my favorite Mario and Luigi, hot take, has the most ok but not especially great music they could get away with, with a couple of exceptions. It fails to live up to my standards for music for a Mario game of this quality at all.
But those are the least flawed, while Partners in Time, despite LOVING the combat in that game, feels the least like a world to explore and more is just levels to go to which I'm eh about and the story is fairly underwhelming. Dream Team is better (in that its mostly just another Bowser's Inside Story), but has the worst, most annoying tutorials. It might've been exactly as good as Bowser's Inside Story, if not for the terrible tutorials.
Nostalgia bias says Paper Mario 1. I put it above TTYD because TTYD might have higher highs, but it also has lower lows that I'd rather not deal with (especially over multiple playthroughs).
Though I think two of the Mario and Luigis and Super Mario RPG are nearly as lacking in major flaws. (depending on your tolerance for isometric platforming for SMRPG at least)
I'm so sick of seeing David Zaslav making nearly every form of entertainment worse. Like I thought SE was late on the live service bandwagon, but David Zaslav is here to fail some more!
I'll be honest, I have a real love for the recent kinda-trend of shojo inspired indie games. There's been several I've noticed the past year or so, and they all seem incredibly lovely, especially this one combining it with PS1/Saturn era 2d sprites. Unfortunately, its hard to find time to try most interesting games, but I'm probably gonna keep this one in mind for next Halloween.
Honestly for how as often as Sonic falls on its face, I don't think this is as comically unachievable as people might assume. I mean, I'd take quite a few 2D Sonic games over any NSMB game at this point, and I might even suggest that in 2002 and 2011, Sonic had the better 3D platformer game (though this is based on the assumption that Sonic Adventure 2 has held up at all, an opinion even I'm uncertain of).
But at the same time, the level of quantity and quality for Mario is just a lot higher and is a near unattainable level for any game series. They also have this thing called "quality control" and understand how to make sequels, while Sonic just veers wildly in whatever direction, hoping something sticks. They need to find something that works for them and understand how to innovate in non-humiliating ways. Mario has fallen on his face before, in other ways, but there's so many Mario games, it doesn't matter. Sega nowadays releases maybe 1 new Sonic game every 2 years outside of mobile, so they can't afford failures the same way.
Rare NES NSO W. Two actual games that are both games people are still interested in and aren't re-released (outside of Japan at least) on every single Nintendo system ever.
...not that Rare, much as it would rule to see Cobra Triangle or Battletoads on this...
Also, thank you for another Castlevania game. I dunno if this one is any good but so many major 3rd party series are mostly if not entirely absent from consoles that defined them on NSO, which is one of the big reasons (especially early on) it felt like a really underwhelming VC replacement (though let's be fair, almost none of those games would've been on a Switch Virtual Console either). But having even a couple of Castlevania games to play, especially ones I've never played at all, makes the service make more sense existing as a retro game service instead of just being an excuse to charge for online.
I saw a bit of this game being streamed today. It seems like a reasonably clever little puzzle game. Something I'd normally either find to be an underrated gem (because people don't usually respect puzzle games, I feel like), or an ok game I played a few times, once.
I mean I think 5 new tracks in like...3 weeks is both perfectly reasonable for a (technically) free game and also obviously better than every attempt at drip feeding content in a Nintendo sports game.
Not my favorite Kirby game by any stretch but online does (at least in theory) make this a more worthwhile version instead of trying to find 3 friends who also have this same game and also the link cable.
Ok this is bugging me to no end. I played the Wii version, it was broken. It did not work like it should a large portion of the time. Why are we pretending it did? I played it back in the day, the controls refused to work properly. I was certainly not alone in this assessment.
And I say this as someone who is often defensive of motion controls, but these did not even come close to reliably hitting the notes when you played it like you should in the Wii version, no matter what you did. It did not function like intended.
I dunno how this version stacks up, but at the very least, it sounds like an improvement from the Wii version, almost by default.
@Smug43 I beat Jet Set Radio, having not ever played it before, on PC, with keyboard. I can't imagine a worse way to play it, especially considering my laptop's issues risked overheating playing longer than a half hour.
Well that's probably necessary, with how bad the controls are on the Wii version. One of my most disappointing purchases ever, finally getting to own a version of Samba De Amigo in 2008 only for the controls to fail to work properly.
Fun fact, I didn't know at the time, that version was made by Gearbox. Which does in fact mean a Sega and Gearbox collab has been a disaster twice, just no one noticed the first time.
I'm more just very confused by it. Like...why would you not just credit the original team? It would take, presumably, the least effort possible to do this. There's no benefit to this.
I dunno, the whole credits thing is weird. I've sat through enough Ubisoft games to the end to be fairly confident that Ubisoft credits everyone remotely involved in the development of their games, so I think its a bad and bizarre thing to do a thing worse for your employees than what Ubisoft has done, even for something probably insignificant in the grand scheme of things. And for no real reason. There is not enough effort that would be needed that it wouldn't be worth doing purely from a PR perspective.
As someone who didn't get a Switch until the very end of 2018 and still found an excuse to play something on Wii U the next two years afterwards, I would like an excuse to play Wii U again one day.
That excuse might end up being playing Splatoon without connection errors at this rate. :V
I have one bookshelf and otherwise most of my games are just...in different specific places. Like per system. I think I have like 6 different places with games stored and like various 3DS games just around in my room. It's not the best organized to say the least, I need to fix that someday.
I'll be honest, I'm genuinely more interested in this than the actual remake that came out this year. Not that I think this is better by any means, but I think going from 3D to 2D (or vice versa) is just way more interesting, even as silly as it seems to be in execution. I love seeing games remade into entirely different types of games like this, its why I'm bummed the multiple 2d OOT projects never got close to completion.
I'm not even a huge fan of the art style but...it is in fact, another game that still looks better than the eternal blandness of New Super Mario Bros and every other lame attempt to take classic 2d characters and make them 3d in the most boring way possible. I would take an art style I actively hate over mediocre, uncreative attempts at 3D models.
also I wasn't a huge fan of Rayman Origins' art style in theory but it was done so well in execution that it negated my own bias against it, so I'd be willing to see how the game looks beyond one trailer and some screenshots before deciding. But regardless, I feel like this game is in trouble, because no one's talking about it, and the new Sonic and Mario games are gonna overshadow it in a few months. I know because I just defended it and will still buy those two games over this one.
It's good that good games are on something that isn't mobile now, but this feels like when Sega decided to put Banana Blitz on Switch before they put out the Super Monkey Ball games people cared about.
I bought the first game mostly on a whim a couple of years ago, but was really surprised how much I got into it. In particular, the stranger elements of what happens in the story and the fantastic audio design made some segments of this incredibly compelling.
It was a bit too repetitive in the first game, but I do hope they expand the clever thing they did with the game with the ending plot twist. It was an awesome idea, there just needed to be...more to justify what it wants from you (intentionally vague).
I'm not sure how much I'm into the art style but y'know, its not like we're getting another Rayman Origins/Legends from Ubisoft, so I guess I'll take it
Ok first of all this is the most "trust me bro" rumor I've heard in a bit.
But y'know what, if it were Dreamworks instead this could at least have a chance. Especially after that last Puss in Boots, and I literally just saw the trailer for their new movie which basically has more the tone of a superhero movie than a normal wacky kids animated film. But that's assuming this is legit, which is a big assumption.
It would be very weird for Nintendo to stop having notable holiday games for their still very successful system, so they should probably announce those games. It would be even weirder if they successfully put out a notable release every month this year and then decided to stop during the most lucrative part of the year.
Like unless they're doing their holiday announcements ASAP like in 2020, I can't think of a single year I didn't generally know Nintendo's holiday games by around this time since the GCN/GBA era when I started paying attention to these things.
Regardless it will happen and it will definitely be better than their E3 2015 event :V
Pacman 99 was really fun for a while, but I do ultimately see why it didn't take off like the other two did. I don't think you needed a second game like this that was also unendingly one screen, Tetris 99 was enough.
Like everyone though, I miss Mario 35 so much. Genuinely the most I've enjoyed Mario 1 since I was a kid playing DX on the GBC. And based on that one game, it really makes me want to see other classic NES side-scrollers or the like to get a similar treatment (even if I'm not sure nearly any of them will be the right type of game to recapture the magic of Mario 35).
Hot take: I've always preferred IV. VI has the better high points but I find some of the characters (in both gameplay and story) to be kinda overhyped and at times genuinely underwhelming.
I'll be honest, I've been curious about this game for a long time but "PS4 era AAA game that is more impressive in enough ways on Switch" has had me so curious that its what made me actively want to buy it over (insert other PS4 era AAA game on Switch that isn't Doom here).
A physical release for less than 60 with all the DLC is what will push me to finally buy it.
As someone who just beat it recently, you're not...wrong. I do think its a bit awkward in certain ways, like how much of the game world uses a single piece of music, and how the story feels like it has a beginning, and ending but barely a middle. I can still tell this is just a DLC, because it would not entirely work as a stand alone game (it'd almost be like if the first game skipped everything past chapter 3 except the end of chapter 7 and all of chapter 10).
Which would normally not be an issue, but I have such weird, totally biased opinion about it though. Because for exactly as much as I appreciate the far shorter length, I am so burned out on Xenoblade 2 (despite having played very little of it in 9 months) that even a better Xenoblade 2 is still too much Xenoblade 2 for me. It's still too attached to the main game, and is unable to make me care enough to fully get past that. That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy my time with that, but good chunk of it did make me think "I'm still playing this I guess". I don't have negative things to say about it exactly, but thank god its primarily a video game, because by the end I was like "just skim through the text, let's get these last sidequests done". It's the video game equivalent of eating when you're already full.
I'm biased towards 2003. Not only was it the peak of that era of Nintendo in terms of both quality and quantity of releases across the board, but it was also the exact same time I was still playing my favorite game of all time, Metroid Prime AND when I started to get into my still 2 most played games ever, Super Smash Bros Melee and Halo 1.
Helps that my dad started taking us to a quality game rental place, so I could experience all the cool games without having to buy all of them. AND it was my first full year with internet access at home so I had wider access to all sorts of gaming info and discussion. And I played so many games, more games in one year than probably any other year ever, and most of them were very good, at worst.
My choice is Geist. Because the first game that should be remade is one that could've been awesome but just didn't get there, and my choice for that is Geist.
Otherwise...I dunno, all of them. Obviously I think it'd be cool if checks the three games with the most votes got that treatment, but no one is talking about the Def Jam games or that one Ultimate Muscle game or the NBA/NFL Street games or even Chibi Robo.
I'm just going to repeat my point from the last time this came up. In a bubble, I think TOTK costing 70 dollars is perfectly reasonable. That makes sense. The problem is that there is no sincere consistency to the entire price hike of games. The 70 dollar price mostly exists for games that can get away with it, from companies that want more money. That's the entire reason it is happening.
It has never been easier for the bigger gaming series out there to be profitable at 60 dollars, with more of an audience, and more DLC as a norm (or microtransactions for the worst companies). They have decided while being more profitable than ever, to raise the price to 70 dollars. Next gen costs was their initial excuse, but its clear to people who pay attention to this stuff that most of these first couple of years of "next gen" games, are actually just last gen games' tech tweaked slightly for new consoles. So there's not a significant argument that they even did it for the reasons they said they did it. They did it because they could, the end.
Now, I'm not even particularly offended by the price hike. Game companies have certainly done way worse. But its insincere and based off of mostly lies. And in general, regardless, it bugs me the lack of real consistency of what qualifies for what price other than using brand recognition to get away with more.
In the case of Nintendo specifically, the quickest way to make this a reasonable price is to be more reasonable with their prices elsewhere. Which they have not done, every game with a major Nintendo IP is 60 dollars, context doesn't matter. If you want to know the quickest way to make TOTK's price be ok, price the next Xenoblade at 70 like it deserves and the next half-baked Pokemon remake at 40 like it deserves. The game's quality (in the most objective ways one can look at such a thing), the amount of total content, the money put into it, should actually reflect its price on some level. Not just "big enough IP = easy money". Like everyone was so happy Metroid Prime remaster was only 40 for a reason. It's just a very good remaster, so its not full price, that's reasonable.
I went back to watch Matt Mcmuscle's video on Cyberpunk 2077 recently, and one thing that stuck out to me was that they had less time to make it than they did to make Witcher 3 after 2, despite Cyberpunk being so much different from their previous games.
I get similar feelings to Game Freak wanting to make a big open world Pokemon game in the same time frame as they always do, while another team is busy with Legends Arceus. That's madness to me, even with more people, how do you make this game in the same time frame you made like...gen 3 on the Game Boy Advance?
This was a very stupid idea. And I'm also still offended at the suggestion that the merch and anime are to blame, as if they couldn't foresee this. Like even if marketing demands their new game to market in 3 years, you could've just put Arceus in that slot instead of 2 months after the DP remakes for no reason. This was clearly avoidable.
I really do want to play Bowser's Fury, but even 40 dollars is a lot for wanting to play the extra game attached to 3D World. At least for me. Also I don't want to spend a lot of money for a while, especially with my backlog.
This is practically the only Wii U game I regret having never gotten around to. So few devs really took advantage of what the Wii U could do (including Nintendo half the time), so I did always appreciate when games were actually enhanced by its features.
I do prefer the previous games in the series, but if you've never played Rhythm Heaven, this is the most Rhythm Heaven and I'd recommend it to everyone if they remotely like rhythm games or shamelessly fun games in general.
I was gonna make a joke about it, but then I thought about it, yes "voiced throughout" is in fact a major pro for a game. I absolutely hate it when games just decide that only some parts of it are voice acted. Takes me out of the experience, every time. And this especially showcases how bad it is, when a small indie game can pull it off but every other JRPG made by a massive company cannot.
One big problem with this while thing that I don't see being discussed is that it shouldn't matter one way or the other. It's like saying Disney buying Fox was ok just because you don't have to buy a Disney brand blu-ray player to watch your Disney brand blu-ray movies. A company the size of Microsoft that already owns so many gaming companies and has maintained success as part of the big 3 console brands for over 20 years, should not buy an entire gaming company the size of Activision Blizzard, even if they put every single one of those games on every competing platform, forever.
Like having gone through enough NES games, I feel like almost no one understood how to make a game about exploring a world work.
Honestly, a bad game like this I'd actually think would be cool for NSO, because you're not paying for it individually so you can just play the bad game without feeling you wasted your money on it. But unfortunately, no way Nintendo would ever justify paying anyone money to get a licensed game that isn't even a good one, so that would never happen, so now you can pay for it instead in the year 2023.
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Re: Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition Listed On The Microsoft Store
I had not heard of this before. Beyond Good and Evil is one of my favorite games so it would not be too unlikely for me to buy it a 3rd time.
About time btw. Metroid Prime 4 was announced the exact same E3 as Beyond Good and Evil 2, and while that game also has been MIA. at least since then we've gotten a heavily remastered Prime remake AND a Metroid 2 remake on 3DS AND a brand new high quality 2d Metroid. As a Beyond Good and Evil fan they've done nothing since that time, so its good to...um...see the bare minimum I guess (which sadly, is what I expect from Ubisoft).
But its still good to see an all time great game on modern platforms.
Re: Soapbox: Ocarina Of Time's Water Temple Was Tough, But It Doesn't Deserve Its Reputation
It deserves the reputation of being kind of obnoxious and easy to miss something compared to the average difficulty of the game, but in the grand scheme of things, its not THAT bad, unless you miss the one, admittedly well hidden place in the middle of the temple. It's just far more tedious than it should be. Though to be fair, part of it is that my difficulties with it stood out to me, so now I remember how to do it. Especially compared to the Forest Temple where I have ALWAYS missed something without fail, so its become more annoying to me in hindsight.
But the other reason I feel its not THAT bad is just this year I've been playing Megaman Legends 2. You have no idea how bad a water dungeon can be until you play Megaman Legends 2. It makes the Water Temple look like the Ancient Cistern, at absolute best.
Re: Rare's Jet Force Gemini Is Being Added To Switch Online's N64 Library
WHAT?!
I mean...cool, but also what?!
1080 Snowboarding, announced more than a year in advance. Jet Force Gemini, one week! Ok. I mean, I'm happy, so I won't complain, but...very strange priorities. Also this is not a game I'd expect to be big in Japan in a way that they'd not announce it worldwide all at once. Like did the entire Japanese EDF fandom go nuts for it or something?
Re: Video: What's Going On At Playtonic, The Studio Behind Yooka-Laylee?
I just played Yooka Laylee this year. Probably for the best as I avoided both the hype and then anti-hype. It's not bad but its only sometimes particularly good. It has that awkwardness of an indie team making an ambitious game and it only sometimes captures parts of what made Banjo Kazooie fun. Like it tries, but it feels like a game that didn't have time to make a great collectathon platformer because it was too busy with all this extra minigames and different gameplay ideas that aren't what made Banjo Kazooie what it was. (the contrast between the caves and the open area of the 2nd world being maybe the best example of that)
It's also just surreal how this fairly nice looking modern game somehow feels less like a believable world than the blocky N64 game.
But I do hope they can pull it off the 2nd time, especially after the 2d game worked out so well for them.
Re: How Well Do You Know Zelda: Ocarina Of Time?
@Spider-Kev No, there's a deku stick upgrade you can get in the Lost Woods that you can't get for some reason if you do an entirely unrelated sidequest.
Re: How Well Do You Know Zelda: Ocarina Of Time?
12/15. I guess to be fair, two of them I got wrong via not knowing knowledge of Zelda beyond OOT. Like 3/4 of those enemies I have no memory of being in pre-OOT Zelda.
Also I don't know enough about OOT regardless, because I only found out this year there's an upgrade you can get locked out of.
Re: Poll: What's The Best RPG Starring Mario?
@FawfulsFury Final boss fight is a notable exception, though I do still prefer the first two game's final boss themes personally.
But the area themes are largely in the style of the previous Mario and Luigi games but much less interesting. Maybe someone who knows music theory could justify or explain this, but much of the songs don't go anywhere interesting, they're just meandering along as acceptable and catchy but the melodies are also kinda flat I guess. Like compare all the stuff surrounding the main beat in the background of the beach theme from the first game to the beach theme in this game, for example.
I dunno, I'd struggle to think of a lot of Nintendo games where I have this issue, at least the really major ones. Phantom Hourglass at least had the decency to have far more obvious problems with some of its music, its issues are clear to anyone with a basic understanding of what Zelda music is. Bowser's Inside Story is the type of thing where I feel I'd need to take music theory classes to describe how surprisingly underwhelming it can get.
Re: Poll: What's The Best RPG Starring Mario?
@FawfulsFury Superstar Saga, outside of combat and a few other things its arguably better at is just...mildly less good than a Paper Mario more than particularly bad at anything. Still better than most games tbh. But I would argue Bowser's Inside Story, despite being my favorite Mario and Luigi, hot take, has the most ok but not especially great music they could get away with, with a couple of exceptions. It fails to live up to my standards for music for a Mario game of this quality at all.
But those are the least flawed, while Partners in Time, despite LOVING the combat in that game, feels the least like a world to explore and more is just levels to go to which I'm eh about and the story is fairly underwhelming. Dream Team is better (in that its mostly just another Bowser's Inside Story), but has the worst, most annoying tutorials. It might've been exactly as good as Bowser's Inside Story, if not for the terrible tutorials.
Re: Poll: What's The Best RPG Starring Mario?
Nostalgia bias says Paper Mario 1. I put it above TTYD because TTYD might have higher highs, but it also has lower lows that I'd rather not deal with (especially over multiple playthroughs).
Though I think two of the Mario and Luigis and Super Mario RPG are nearly as lacking in major flaws. (depending on your tolerance for isometric platforming for SMRPG at least)
Re: Warner Bros. Says It's Focused On Transforming Its "Biggest Franchises" Into Live Services
I'm so sick of seeing David Zaslav making nearly every form of entertainment worse. Like I thought SE was late on the live service bandwagon, but David Zaslav is here to fail some more!
Re: Review: Little Goody Two Shoes - Cute, Compelling Horror With Some Frustrations
I'll be honest, I have a real love for the recent kinda-trend of shojo inspired indie games. There's been several I've noticed the past year or so, and they all seem incredibly lovely, especially this one combining it with PS1/Saturn era 2d sprites. Unfortunately, its hard to find time to try most interesting games, but I'm probably gonna keep this one in mind for next Halloween.
Re: Sega's Executive Director Wants Sonic Games And Movies To "Surpass Mario"
Honestly for how as often as Sonic falls on its face, I don't think this is as comically unachievable as people might assume. I mean, I'd take quite a few 2D Sonic games over any NSMB game at this point, and I might even suggest that in 2002 and 2011, Sonic had the better 3D platformer game (though this is based on the assumption that Sonic Adventure 2 has held up at all, an opinion even I'm uncertain of).
But at the same time, the level of quantity and quality for Mario is just a lot higher and is a near unattainable level for any game series. They also have this thing called "quality control" and understand how to make sequels, while Sonic just veers wildly in whatever direction, hoping something sticks. They need to find something that works for them and understand how to innovate in non-humiliating ways. Mario has fallen on his face before, in other ways, but there's so many Mario games, it doesn't matter. Sega nowadays releases maybe 1 new Sonic game every 2 years outside of mobile, so they can't afford failures the same way.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's NES & Game Boy Library With Three More Classics
Rare NES NSO W. Two actual games that are both games people are still interested in and aren't re-released (outside of Japan at least) on every single Nintendo system ever.
...not that Rare, much as it would rule to see Cobra Triangle or Battletoads on this...
Also, thank you for another Castlevania game. I dunno if this one is any good but so many major 3rd party series are mostly if not entirely absent from consoles that defined them on NSO, which is one of the big reasons (especially early on) it felt like a really underwhelming VC replacement (though let's be fair, almost none of those games would've been on a Switch Virtual Console either). But having even a couple of Castlevania games to play, especially ones I've never played at all, makes the service make more sense existing as a retro game service instead of just being an excuse to charge for online.
Re: Random: Switch Exclusive "Watermelon Game" Goes Viral, eShop Downloads Skyrocket
I saw a bit of this game being streamed today. It seems like a reasonably clever little puzzle game. Something I'd normally either find to be an underrated gem (because people don't usually respect puzzle games, I feel like), or an ok game I played a few times, once.
Re: Switch Online Exclusive F-Zero 99 Adding Five More Tracks This Week
@nessisonett
I mean I think 5 new tracks in like...3 weeks is both perfectly reasonable for a (technically) free game and also obviously better than every attempt at drip feeding content in a Nintendo sports game.
Re: Excellent Time-Travelling Metroidvania 'Timespinner' Is Getting A Sequel
There was a time traveling Metroidvania and I've not played it?
Man I'm bad at playing games I'd like...
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Advance Library Next Week
Not my favorite Kirby game by any stretch but online does (at least in theory) make this a more worthwhile version instead of trying to find 3 friends who also have this same game and also the link cable.
Re: Review: Samba De Amigo: Party Central - Sega's Cult Classic Returns In Need Of A Shake-Up
Ok this is bugging me to no end. I played the Wii version, it was broken. It did not work like it should a large portion of the time. Why are we pretending it did? I played it back in the day, the controls refused to work properly. I was certainly not alone in this assessment.
And I say this as someone who is often defensive of motion controls, but these did not even come close to reliably hitting the notes when you played it like you should in the Wii version, no matter what you did. It did not function like intended.
I dunno how this version stacks up, but at the very least, it sounds like an improvement from the Wii version, almost by default.
Re: Review: Bomb Rush Cyberfunk - Bleeding Cool Style But Always In Jet Set's Shadow
@Smug43 I beat Jet Set Radio, having not ever played it before, on PC, with keyboard. I can't imagine a worse way to play it, especially considering my laptop's issues risked overheating playing longer than a half hour.
It's still better than a lot of things you like.
Re: Capcom Is Releasing An Offline Version Of Mega Man X DiVE
I'm still waiting for Capcom to announce an actual...new Megaman game? 5 years after 11 came out? During the 35th anniversary?
...any day now, Capcom.
Re: Sega Releases Samba De Amigo: Party Central Demo On Switch eShop
Well that's probably necessary, with how bad the controls are on the Wii version. One of my most disappointing purchases ever, finally getting to own a version of Samba De Amigo in 2008 only for the controls to fail to work properly.
Fun fact, I didn't know at the time, that version was made by Gearbox. Which does in fact mean a Sega and Gearbox collab has been a disaster twice, just no one noticed the first time.
Re: Unlike Metroid Prime, Quake II's Original Dev Team Is Credited On The Switch Remaster
I'm more just very confused by it. Like...why would you not just credit the original team? It would take, presumably, the least effort possible to do this. There's no benefit to this.
I dunno, the whole credits thing is weird. I've sat through enough Ubisoft games to the end to be fairly confident that Ubisoft credits everyone remotely involved in the development of their games, so I think its a bad and bizarre thing to do a thing worse for your employees than what Ubisoft has done, even for something probably insignificant in the grand scheme of things. And for no real reason. There is not enough effort that would be needed that it wouldn't be worth doing purely from a PR perspective.
Re: After 5 Months, Mario Kart 8 And Splatoon Are Finally Going Back Online For Wii U
As someone who didn't get a Switch until the very end of 2018 and still found an excuse to play something on Wii U the next two years afterwards, I would like an excuse to play Wii U again one day.
That excuse might end up being playing Splatoon without connection errors at this rate. :V
Re: Talking Point: How Do You Store Your Games Collection?
I have one bookshelf and otherwise most of my games are just...in different specific places. Like per system. I think I have like 6 different places with games stored and like various 3DS games just around in my room. It's not the best organized to say the least, I need to fix that someday.
Re: Random: Fan Reimagines Resident Evil 4 As A 2D Side-Scroller
I'll be honest, I'm genuinely more interested in this than the actual remake that came out this year. Not that I think this is better by any means, but I think going from 3D to 2D (or vice versa) is just way more interesting, even as silly as it seems to be in execution. I love seeing games remade into entirely different types of games like this, its why I'm bummed the multiple 2d OOT projects never got close to completion.
Re: Review: Disney Illusion Island - Mickey Mouse's Metroidvania Is Magical
I'm not even a huge fan of the art style but...it is in fact, another game that still looks better than the eternal blandness of New Super Mario Bros and every other lame attempt to take classic 2d characters and make them 3d in the most boring way possible. I would take an art style I actively hate over mediocre, uncreative attempts at 3D models.
also I wasn't a huge fan of Rayman Origins' art style in theory but it was done so well in execution that it negated my own bias against it, so I'd be willing to see how the game looks beyond one trailer and some screenshots before deciding. But regardless, I feel like this game is in trouble, because no one's talking about it, and the new Sonic and Mario games are gonna overshadow it in a few months. I know because I just defended it and will still buy those two games over this one.
Re: Review: Everybody 1-2-Switch! - Family-Friendly Fun That Lacks Longevity
I hope this sells well, almost entirely because it would be funny if it did.
Re: Hands On: The Tomb Raider Returns To A Nintendo System In A Promising Package
It's good that good games are on something that isn't mobile now, but this feels like when Sega decided to put Banana Blitz on Switch before they put out the Super Monkey Ball games people cared about.
Re: Hands On: Oxenfree II Is Shaping Up To Be A Huge Improvement On The Original
I bought the first game mostly on a whim a couple of years ago, but was really surprised how much I got into it. In particular, the stranger elements of what happens in the story and the fantastic audio design made some segments of this incredibly compelling.
It was a bit too repetitive in the first game, but I do hope they expand the clever thing they did with the game with the ending plot twist. It was an awesome idea, there just needed to be...more to justify what it wants from you (intentionally vague).
Re: Hands On: Disney Illusion Island Is A Spectacular Platforming Surprise
I'm not sure how much I'm into the art style but y'know, its not like we're getting another Rayman Origins/Legends from Ubisoft, so I guess I'll take it
Re: Rumour: Universal Closing "Big Deal" With Nintendo For Zelda Illumination Movie
Ok first of all this is the most "trust me bro" rumor I've heard in a bit.
But y'know what, if it were Dreamworks instead this could at least have a chance. Especially after that last Puss in Boots, and I literally just saw the trailer for their new movie which basically has more the tone of a superhero movie than a normal wacky kids animated film. But that's assuming this is legit, which is a big assumption.
Re: Poll: Will There Be A June 2023 Nintendo Direct?
It would be very weird for Nintendo to stop having notable holiday games for their still very successful system, so they should probably announce those games. It would be even weirder if they successfully put out a notable release every month this year and then decided to stop during the most lucrative part of the year.
Like unless they're doing their holiday announcements ASAP like in 2020, I can't think of a single year I didn't generally know Nintendo's holiday games by around this time since the GCN/GBA era when I started paying attention to these things.
Regardless it will happen and it will definitely be better than their E3 2015 event :V
Re: The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Dev Apologises For "Underwhelming" Release State
AAA publishers release a game without massive issues at launch challenge (impossible)
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Release Pac-Man 99 Shutting Down This October
Pacman 99 was really fun for a while, but I do ultimately see why it didn't take off like the other two did. I don't think you needed a second game like this that was also unendingly one screen, Tetris 99 was enough.
Like everyone though, I miss Mario 35 so much. Genuinely the most I've enjoyed Mario 1 since I was a kid playing DX on the GBC. And based on that one game, it really makes me want to see other classic NES side-scrollers or the like to get a similar treatment (even if I'm not sure nearly any of them will be the right type of game to recapture the magic of Mario 35).
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Series Sells Two Million Copies
Hot take: I've always preferred IV. VI has the better high points but I find some of the characters (in both gameplay and story) to be kinda overhyped and at times genuinely underwhelming.
Re: Alien: Isolation - The Collection Physical Edition Announced For Nintendo Switch
I'll be honest, I've been curious about this game for a long time but "PS4 era AAA game that is more impressive in enough ways on Switch" has had me so curious that its what made me actively want to buy it over (insert other PS4 era AAA game on Switch that isn't Doom here).
A physical release for less than 60 with all the DLC is what will push me to finally buy it.
Re: Soapbox: Torna - The Golden Country Is One Of The Best DLCs Of All Time
As someone who just beat it recently, you're not...wrong. I do think its a bit awkward in certain ways, like how much of the game world uses a single piece of music, and how the story feels like it has a beginning, and ending but barely a middle. I can still tell this is just a DLC, because it would not entirely work as a stand alone game (it'd almost be like if the first game skipped everything past chapter 3 except the end of chapter 7 and all of chapter 10).
Which would normally not be an issue, but I have such weird, totally biased opinion about it though. Because for exactly as much as I appreciate the far shorter length, I am so burned out on Xenoblade 2 (despite having played very little of it in 9 months) that even a better Xenoblade 2 is still too much Xenoblade 2 for me. It's still too attached to the main game, and is unable to make me care enough to fully get past that. That doesn't mean I didn't enjoy my time with that, but good chunk of it did make me think "I'm still playing this I guess". I don't have negative things to say about it exactly, but thank god its primarily a video game, because by the end I was like "just skim through the text, let's get these last sidequests done". It's the video game equivalent of eating when you're already full.
Re: Talking Point: What's The Best Year In Gaming?
I'm biased towards 2003. Not only was it the peak of that era of Nintendo in terms of both quality and quantity of releases across the board, but it was also the exact same time I was still playing my favorite game of all time, Metroid Prime AND when I started to get into my still 2 most played games ever, Super Smash Bros Melee and Halo 1.
Helps that my dad started taking us to a quality game rental place, so I could experience all the cool games without having to buy all of them. AND it was my first full year with internet access at home so I had wider access to all sorts of gaming info and discussion. And I played so many games, more games in one year than probably any other year ever, and most of them were very good, at worst.
Re: Poll: What Other GameCube Title Deserves A '10/10' Remake Or Remaster?
My choice is Geist. Because the first game that should be remade is one that could've been awesome but just didn't get there, and my choice for that is Geist.
Otherwise...I dunno, all of them. Obviously I think it'd be cool if checks the three games with the most votes got that treatment, but no one is talking about the Def Jam games or that one Ultimate Muscle game or the NBA/NFL Street games or even Chibi Robo.
Re: Bowser Defends $70 Zelda Pricing, Nintendo Still "Very Bullish" About Switch
I'm just going to repeat my point from the last time this came up. In a bubble, I think TOTK costing 70 dollars is perfectly reasonable. That makes sense. The problem is that there is no sincere consistency to the entire price hike of games. The 70 dollar price mostly exists for games that can get away with it, from companies that want more money. That's the entire reason it is happening.
It has never been easier for the bigger gaming series out there to be profitable at 60 dollars, with more of an audience, and more DLC as a norm (or microtransactions for the worst companies). They have decided while being more profitable than ever, to raise the price to 70 dollars. Next gen costs was their initial excuse, but its clear to people who pay attention to this stuff that most of these first couple of years of "next gen" games, are actually just last gen games' tech tweaked slightly for new consoles. So there's not a significant argument that they even did it for the reasons they said they did it. They did it because they could, the end.
Now, I'm not even particularly offended by the price hike. Game companies have certainly done way worse. But its insincere and based off of mostly lies. And in general, regardless, it bugs me the lack of real consistency of what qualifies for what price other than using brand recognition to get away with more.
In the case of Nintendo specifically, the quickest way to make this a reasonable price is to be more reasonable with their prices elsewhere. Which they have not done, every game with a major Nintendo IP is 60 dollars, context doesn't matter. If you want to know the quickest way to make TOTK's price be ok, price the next Xenoblade at 70 like it deserves and the next half-baked Pokemon remake at 40 like it deserves. The game's quality (in the most objective ways one can look at such a thing), the amount of total content, the money put into it, should actually reflect its price on some level. Not just "big enough IP = easy money". Like everyone was so happy Metroid Prime remaster was only 40 for a reason. It's just a very good remaster, so its not full price, that's reasonable.
Re: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Version 1.2.0 Bug Supposedly Corrupting Save Files
I went back to watch Matt Mcmuscle's video on Cyberpunk 2077 recently, and one thing that stuck out to me was that they had less time to make it than they did to make Witcher 3 after 2, despite Cyberpunk being so much different from their previous games.
I get similar feelings to Game Freak wanting to make a big open world Pokemon game in the same time frame as they always do, while another team is busy with Legends Arceus. That's madness to me, even with more people, how do you make this game in the same time frame you made like...gen 3 on the Game Boy Advance?
This was a very stupid idea. And I'm also still offended at the suggestion that the merch and anime are to blame, as if they couldn't foresee this. Like even if marketing demands their new game to market in 3 years, you could've just put Arceus in that slot instead of 2 months after the DP remakes for no reason. This was clearly avoidable.
Re: Review: Fitness Boxing Fist Of The North Star - A Fun Crossover That Delivers Basic Beats
I don't know why this game exists but I'm happy it does.
Re: Deals: Nintendo's MAR10 Day Sale Discounts Top Mario Games By Up To 40% (US)
I really do want to play Bowser's Fury, but even 40 dollars is a lot for wanting to play the extra game attached to 3D World. At least for me. Also I don't want to spend a lot of money for a while, especially with my backlog.
Re: Countdown: Wii U eShop Spotlight - Affordable Space Adventures
This is practically the only Wii U game I regret having never gotten around to. So few devs really took advantage of what the Wii U could do (including Nintendo half the time), so I did always appreciate when games were actually enhanced by its features.
Re: Feature: Meet The Rayman Veterans' Roguelike That Blends Animated Absurdism With The Office
I was half-paying attention to this game before, but hearing Rayman devs worked on it immediately makes me intrigued.
Re: Countdown: 3DS eShop Spotlight - Rhythm Heaven Megamix
I do prefer the previous games in the series, but if you've never played Rhythm Heaven, this is the most Rhythm Heaven and I'd recommend it to everyone if they remotely like rhythm games or shamelessly fun games in general.
Re: Review: BROK The InvestiGator - Impressive, If Slightly Awkward, 'Point-And-Kick' Adventuring
@Robokku I mean, that's understandable, and in some ways I find zero voice acting to be much better than having it appear only sometimes, randomly.
Re: Review: BROK The InvestiGator - Impressive, If Slightly Awkward, 'Point-And-Kick' Adventuring
I was gonna make a joke about it, but then I thought about it, yes "voiced throughout" is in fact a major pro for a game. I absolutely hate it when games just decide that only some parts of it are voice acted. Takes me out of the experience, every time. And this especially showcases how bad it is, when a small indie game can pull it off but every other JRPG made by a massive company cannot.
Re: Call Of Duty Will Run As You "Would Expect" On Nintendo Platforms, Says Microsoft
One big problem with this while thing that I don't see being discussed is that it shouldn't matter one way or the other. It's like saying Disney buying Fox was ok just because you don't have to buy a Disney brand blu-ray player to watch your Disney brand blu-ray movies. A company the size of Microsoft that already owns so many gaming companies and has maintained success as part of the big 3 console brands for over 20 years, should not buy an entire gaming company the size of Activision Blizzard, even if they put every single one of those games on every competing platform, forever.
Re: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Retro Collection Just Shadow Dropped On The Switch eShop
I played the NES game once. It's really not good.
Like having gone through enough NES games, I feel like almost no one understood how to make a game about exploring a world work.
Honestly, a bad game like this I'd actually think would be cool for NSO, because you're not paying for it individually so you can just play the bad game without feeling you wasted your money on it. But unfortunately, no way Nintendo would ever justify paying anyone money to get a licensed game that isn't even a good one, so that would never happen, so now you can pay for it instead in the year 2023.