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Hope Sega does the bold idea to actually make a sequel to improve on it instead of getting distracted by a new shiny idea yet again.

I'm surprised how harsh you were towards the writing. It's not the best of the genre, but I've seen a lot worse from well liked games. It's never as embarrassing as the low points of Xenoblade 2 (Xenoblade 2 has high points in its narrative, don't kill me) or a Kingdom Hearts game or especially post-PS1 Final Fantasy.

The thing is, I'm actually kinda for a more varied pricing for games. It's never made sense to me that any AAA game you buy in a store is worth the same, between development time and cost and the length of the game. I can actually see the case for TotK being 70 dollars.

...I just don't trust any company to actually be reasonable for this. Like, price Xenoblade 4 at 70 and the next undercooked Pokemon remake at 40, then I'll be more in favor of this. But they won't, because the latter is such easy money that people will go for regardless (btw: Gamefreak and Nintendo would still make a ton of profit if the next undercooked Pokemon remake cost 40 dollars).

Assuming its a mistake of some sort: good

Assuming it isn't: I blame everyone who keeps buying Pokemon games at full price.

Oh they're making a movie that justifies existing and not just a bunch of hacks writing a nonsense plot to somehow tie into (insert IP here) like Battleship or whatever. I've always been fascinated by every crazy thing that happened from the first decade or so of Tetris' existence since that one show from G4 back in the day went into it.

"On a more positive note, after the server shut down on 6th June, Velan will be releasing a standalone player-hosted version of the game for Windows PCs - so even after the servers go offline Knockout City can continue to be enjoyed by fans."

Without this info, this would've sounded like the developer was profoundly tone-deaf with talking about being excited about the future.

@Jireland92 Stop trying to make fetch happen, it's not going to happen.

I should replay Wario Land 4. I played it as part of Nintendo's apology to people for buying a 3DS near launch, and I remember being fairly underwhelmed by it, even moreso in hindsight after playing the Gameboy games. But enough people keep saying its actually great that I feel like I missed something here.

It's also so weird seeing how Warioware-like the audio is in a non-Warioware game.

@PinderSchloss I'm not sure what's more confusing, that the game made by the company owned by Microsoft based off an IP owned by a 3rd company never being re-released is somehow Nintendo's fault or that one of the most acclaimed games of the 90s getting its first ever re-release on not even exclusively a Nintendo platform being hyped makes Nintendo irrelevant despite 5 years of Switch being the best selling console on the market.

God imagine how stupid Microsoft must feel though. They could've pressed the magic "make licensed game re-appear" button and made money for 20 years of owning Rare.

One of my main hopes for NSO has been that more of the quality N64 games that have literally never been re-released to finally be on a more modern platform. And Goldeneye is the best example, because it has been a shame that such an incredibly important game was one you couldn't even legally play without a console that stopped being made more than 20 years ago. Like imagine if for 20 years, the only way to watch a movie like say, Fight Club or Titanic was on VHS.

So considering that, I have to imagine it took an absolute ton of work to get this to all go through. Because if it wasn't, they obviously would've re-released it already.

If I bought an art book, why would I want generic inspirational quotes all over the art? That's weird.

Honestly, while I've never bought these type of collectors editions (unless you count things like SMT4), Celeste is one of the rare games where I'd at least consider it, just because I love the game so much. Also because I only own it digitally.

Well, I mean, as far as I can tell, at least this time a company raising prices for inflation doesn't also happen to be one that makes like 600 million dollars a year.

Yeah, the bar is genuinely that low.

I'm always surprised they never remade the NES Zeldas (barring the satellaview thing). They remade all of the Marios, Kirby's Adventure, Metroid, Fire Emblem 1, but not either NES Zelda.

Technically they remade Link's Awakening twice, which unless you count Master Quest makes it the most remade Zelda game, which is also very weird now that I think about it. Famicom Detective Club got a remake before Zelda 2 did. Which is a real shame because as someone whose not super into Zelda 2, I'd love to see a more modernized take on it like they did with Metroid: Zero Mission.

Well they did announce a ton for Silent Hill, some of which from actually talented devs, so I'm curious what else they have going on. Even with Igarashi doing well on his own, it'd be nice to have the actual Castlevania series back at the very least.

I didn't play many games from this year, but from the outside it felt like Nintendo and SE were practically the only AAA gaming companies even still releasing games at all. So to me the year was defined by a near death of AAA games even existing, and it was a surreal and embarrassing thing to see. Like why are so many game companies bad at actually releasing games nowadays? I don't understand it...

I will say, as cynical as I am about those companies, I am glad the shockingly competent 2022 version of the Game Awards showcased some AAA games for next year that actually look interesting and...even exist at all.

I'm surprised no one making this considered that they weren't going to be able to make a game focused on multiple sports to be as good as they did when they just had to focus on one sport.

Like even when Nintendo put out games with various sports in one, even at best there were still compromises compared to one sport focused games. And I'm going to guess this indie dev has far less resources than Nintendo.

I do feel really bad for him, as casualty number 5000 of this entire Warner Bros Discovery debacle. Of course the whole thing is so volatile that I could imagine him back again in a year anyway.

Virtua Fighter was on Genesis? That's so weird to me, this is almost like a fan demake someone would make nowadays.

I'm eternally impressed at how much mileage Japanese games and anime can get from the absolute dumbest premises humanly possible. It's like a bunch of Japanese otaku are in neverending bets to see how much of a self-parody they can make their own hobbies seem.

This is both a diss and a sincere compliment, btw.

In a related note, I have no idea how Akiba's Trip is still around, of all gaming IPs.

"Taking the JRPG formula back to basics" Ah yes, unlike how experimental and unformulaic Dragon Quest games are known for being

It's like if the tagline of a Metroid review was "Now with backtracking!"

Huh.

My guess is "lols cloud version" and we just roll our eyes for 10 years, but they did make downgraded versions of COD for Wii and those were actually pretty well received AFAIK. COD's big enough where they could justify doing that I imagine.

I'm still so conflicted on this acquisition. It genuinely seems like this is the best opportunity for Activision Blizzard to not be an irredeemably terrible work place but its still incredibly concerning that any one gaming company (especially one of the big 3) could buy so many massive game companies. (though tbh, the real thing that shouldn't have happened was Microsoft buying both Bethesda and Obsidian)

So I can't speak on this game but I'll be honest, even if you love this game, yeah I have no interest in dealing with hours of constant misses in a turn based strategy title. That would be a deal breaker for me, immediately. I refuse. Quite frankly, it sounds like I would hate this!

But I'll also tell you that I don't like very many turn based strategy titles in the first place.

I have nothing against these games being sold, but I do think its just weird that in 2022, these arcade versions of games that were mostly ported to NES and thus you could buy for 5 bucks on Virtual Console 15 years ago, are slightly more than 5 bucks even when on sale. Like I get the Punch-out games and maybe Donkey Kong because it has that 4th level, but otherwise, there's infinite better deals out there. If you can play your games online on the Switch right now, you have the NES versions of most of them anyway.

As one of the few people on Earth who both likes Clu Clu Land and didn't grow up with it, I'd still never buy it for that price.

I feel like this is one of the go-to locations to mod into other games. I don't even play a lot of shooters and I played a Peach's castle mod in Team Fortress 2 back when that game was still fairly new.

I've been sick of Ed Sheeran for a while now, so I completely understand this tbh.

I kinda don't want to give Crunchyroll my money lately, since they just ****ed over the main VA of one of the rare anime dubs I actively like more than the original, for no real reason. But if it was cheap enough on the Switch, I have to admit Gameboy Zelda does immediately interest me.

So hopefully it just kinda mid so I can easily ignore it in that case. :V

Controversial opinion: Mario Kart 8 on Wii U has the exact same problems as the modern Mario sports games everyone complains about, except the free updates it should've had didn't happen until you bought the Switch version. This comparison is both me saying 8 on Wii U should not be in the top 3 and also that modern Mario sports games are overhated.

And Rayman Legends and Shovel Knight should absolutely be in the top 10. No one put in more effort for a Wii U release than Shovel Knight, a 2014 game you still got new, free content for in 2019 of all years, and no Wii U game (barring Nintendo Land) did more to justify the Wii U controller than Rayman Legends.

Nintendo Land was a free pack-in game that's leagues better than it probably needed to be, so that's the right answer. But purely in terms of game quality, I'd say Arkham City. That's still one of my favorite open world games ever (by understanding more than rest of the genre that less is more), one of the highlights of that entire generation, getting that as a launch game should've been a bigger deal than it was.

This list is mostly good, but the first two choices I strongly disagree with. Spirit of Justice's DLC is the most forgettable, half complete case of the entire series. Like it starts being a thing...and then suddenly its over, and I was like "that's it?" To me the only standout things about it are the cool location and that Phoenix and Maya have more character chemistry than in the actual main game, somehow.

And the 3rd case of Apollo Justice is just ruined by that video you watch 500 times, it just kills the pacing. Though in general I feel weird about Apollo Justice, a game I absolutely adored at launch and now look back on and really don't.

Just off the top of my head, my top 10 would be closer to (in no particular order): 1-4, 2-4, 3-2, 3-5, 5-3, 5-5, 6-5, GAA2 3, 4, and 5.

Look, its been a decade, I'm just numb now. Like I've played enough of comparably flawed games before and I don't think Sticker Star is any worse than other flawed games in the genre like a Contact or a YIIK or a (insert Square Enix game made during the 7th gen of consoles here). If you ignore the dumbest parts of it, it even risks being kinda good.

But the original three Paper Marios are all timers to me. Even with Super's flaws, it somehow almost feels like it has the ideas of a high end indie platformer, before those were even much of a thing, its a bold, out there game.

But at the core of it, at the end of the day, Nintendo still made a game widely disliked, then refused to try anything that wasn't like it, instead trying to just make a less bad Sticker Star, and then lied that Mario and Luigi made "Paper Mario RPGs" redundant, and then watched Mario and Luigi's studio died and did nothing. All so they could not make another one of my favorite games ever, 3 times in a row.

Also even Origami King still does some dumb things that even most people who like it will agree, are bad and dumb and don't help the game in any way. I honestly do feel bad for that game though, because if it was the 4th Paper Mario instead of the 6th, I think it wouldn't have been in the middle of so much controversy or so frustrating.

So to me Sticker Star's legacy is a giant pit of frustration over one of my favorite series, that's been no fun at all. It's why I've been mostly done even talking about it. Like at least being a Metroid fan, Other M and Federation Force are just funny now, because I actually got games I wanted after those.

New Leaf punishes you for taking more than a few days off from playing it. New Horizons does not.

I rest my case.

This is somehow the 2nd revival of a 2012 indie game with new content I've heard of this week.

I'm glad to hear, even if I personally wasn't as into 11 as I wish I was. I hope that means we're finally getting more new games sometime soon, I think its reasonable considering 11 was neither huge nor had a huge budget and that its been 4 years, that Capcom can get a couple of Megaman games out...let's say while the Switch is still the current Nintendo platform.

"Gleeful Boy-Murder" sounds like the name of an underground all-female punk band.

I do hope working with Suda means this game has less awful jank then Swery's recent games (I'm calling NMH3 not janky by comparison here, think about that). To be fair to Swery, I also hope this isn't Travis Strikes Again where people pretend the game is great out of some vague fondness of these guys as auteurs rather than the actual quality of the game. I want the game itself to be good too.

I'm not down on the game, I just hope their own quirky ideas combined lead to something I actually like.

I wonder if Nintendo thought very long and hard on whether they even wanted to bring this game back. Like the control stick issues were enough of one that you could get sent gloves from Nintendo, and that was a drop in the bucket compared to joycon complaints so I can't imagine there wasn't some serious discussions on whether this is worth it.

I mean, I'm glad to have it back, even though I did get hurt from those minigames once. Even though its possibly still a risk, its probably also stupid and bad to sell a subscription service based on your games and then refuse to include a notable game like this, and far less people using this are stupid kids like they were when it came out and you can't even get those N64 controllers if you want so...eh.

Both what the main image of this article did and didn't cut-off and the cut-off from the Tweet are very funny to me.

As a Glover defender, even I can't justify paying much for a re-release. I hate to say it, but you can regularly find far better games on sale for 5-10 bucks. This would be perfect for something like NSO, but I guess not.

I'll die on the hill that Rayman Legends was the highlight of the Wii U to me. A fantastic, bold co-op experience that showed how cool the Wii U could be with a traditional type of video game, combined with being an all time great platformer on its own merits combined with having tons and tons of extra content (including most of the levels from Origins). The only negative now is that Ubisoft either has or soon will shut down the servers for the weekly/daily challenges IIRC.

It also the best version (or at the very least best console version) of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which itself is fantastic. Among more obvious recommendations I probably don't need to make. (unless you don't have Wonderful 101 on anything, which you should, it rules).

This is the most non-issue possible. I don't think a single classic video game series that's still around is focused on using the same composer from 20+ years ago, outside of maybe Kirby.

Well I've had many other games to play beyond Bayonetta 3 (which has never been my favorite Platinum game anyway) so I have plenty of time to think about. But likely not. This is not such an uncommon thing that it makes sense to boycott Bayonetta 3, as if its the only video game to ever underpay someone. If that bothers you, don't play the vast majority of AAA video games. But I certainly don't like this, and similar to Babylon's Fall, I am amused by this disaster, no matter how much I tend to like and respect Platinum as a game studio.

But even ignoring that, I'm someone who HATES inconsistency in voice acting that its a huge pet peeve in RPGs and BOTW when characters who have a voice then don't voice act all their dialogue. I hate it, its anti-immersive to be that inconsistent. So obviously I hate replacing a voice actor in a lot of circumstances too.

I feel like if there was a Fire Emblem anime, it would probably be an A1. They're probably the go to anime studio if you want something that looks good (Ace Attorney anime aside) but won't break the bank for anyone. They're kinda like Japanese Illumination in that regard, if Illumination strived for even a bit of artistic merit.

I'd love to see a Sony animated one, yes partially because a Sony animation Nintendo movie would be automatically surreal. But also they've been doing really good things lately and feel like right now they'd be willing to tackle trying to make something as odd as a Nintendo game to movie adaptation.

I chose Buoy Base because I only actively chose to listen to two of them (and I only listened to the Bowser's Inside Story one because I didn't know which song the title was referring to). Which is a correct choice but this list has no final boss from Yoshi's Island so 0/10. :V

I'm kidding obviously. Like I could make a personal top 100 Nintendo songs list and have to make seriously painful cuts, there are countless fantastic pieces of music to choose from.

"The director has won a competition run by Konami to have the chance at remaking the 1987 classic, The Maze of Galious, IGN reports.

How did Naramura get the chance to direct this remake, then?"
...I'm going to guess he won a competition run by Konami

The difference between what 3rd party games are on SNES NSO and Genesis NSO is kinda fascinating. Like SNES is mostly focused on largely forgotten titles while Genesis keeps bringing in well regarded classics (or at least cult classics).

I wish I knew why this was happening.

I'm not going to say Square Enix is the worst gaming company, but I will say no one has had a dumber 2022 than them.

This is becoming a thing lately. Yacht Club games have started publishing games, Playtonic games has as well.

And I approve of it. There's like a million games that come out every year nowadays, so many are gonna get lost in the shuffle if they don't have someone to really promote them to a larger audience. It can take incredible luck for even a really good game to be noticed by people. Who better to do so then devs who have already found a way to get millions of people to buy their game, without even needing much of a marketing budget.

Astral Chain has done well for what it is. I still wish it did better. Also there's New Pokemon Snap vs. BD/SP sales. Is it just karma for us Nintendo fans under-emphasizing graphics for 15 years? Well, we were right, they clearly do not matter to sell your game.

Though on a brighter note: Pikmin 3, despite being immediately forgotten on Switch, somehow got past 2 million in a year. Unless sales stop entirely after this, I feel like Pikmin 4 will actually happen at some point.

I'm so glad I got those download only 3DS Kirby games. As someone who has that as one of the only (longer) series I want every single game from, god knows when they would come back considering what far more popular games from a decade prior have never been re-released.

I hope for lulz it comes out on like September 23rd 2022. Which is indeed, a time after Summer 2022.