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It would be a good thing to have Megaman and Castlevania on this, obviously, but I just have my doubts. The collections are obviously a far bigger priority to Capcom and Konami, they make them far more money than I imagine Nintendo would pay for these games to be on NSO. Like maybe...eventually, one of them from both series, sure.

Like Nintendo presumably paid Sega vastly more to have Genesis on NSO than they paid any 3rd party for NES games, and even then they knew to limit Sonic to just one game (and probably only did it because you have to launch a Sega Genesis gaming service with a Sonic game).

Wow that Doom Eternal deal sure looks good. Shame I'm waiting for a physical release.

This is probably a notable success by the series' standard, but Ace Attorney is so good that I want it to succeed far past its expected niche game sales.

Activision Blizzard never fails to disappoint. Now I heard this was happening a while ago anyway, so this is just confirmation for what everyone already assumed.

Which I guess is fine because unless Microsoft fundamentally changes the company, no one should give Activision Blizzard any of their money ever.

I haven't played Yooka Laylee yet (even though I planned to the moment it came out that it became a worthwhile game by the time it came out on Switch), but I really hope they can put out the best version of a 3d collectathon after the rocky issues with the previous game. I'm never expecting any 3d platformer to fully live up to Banjo Kazooie (especially keeping nostalgia in mind), but its a shame that this revival of the genre from the people who made arguably the most beloved title in it started on the wrong foot, and I have to imagine they'd want to fix that.

This is fairly reasonable I'd say. I mean, I hope Atlus doesn't pull something if someone doesn't follow these, just because that's just unneeded bad PR for a game that's mostly succeeded via word of mouth more than any actual marketing.

I only rented this game once back in the day, but I most remember the mini golf mode. I don't know how much that part has held up or the game in general (though from what I've played, Mario Tennis is EXACTLY as good as I remember it, so that's a good sign), but I hope its still good.

This looks pretty underwhelming. It might be the game but this is not a great trailer regardless.

The lack of anything from the 3D Mario team (even Bowser's Fury relied on a different Nintendo developer to help them AFAIK) since Odyssey, makes me think the rumor that they're working on both Mario and Donkey Kong right now makes way more sense than them taking 5 years to just make another Mario game. DK first, there hasn't been a single new DK game of any sort since Tropical Freeze 8 years ago. It's time.

That's a shame, in a way. I know people say E3 is irrelevant and last year was a really good example of how bad it can be, but it ALWAYS gets more attention than any other gaming event in the year. Game announcements are a bigger deal there then anywhere else, and that's not changed no matter how much others have tried (Game Awards are the closest, and might've succeeded if they weren't a joke by even the mostly low standards of award shows). It's also supposed to feel like a big celebration of gaming, but I guess companies falling so hard into greed that no one trusts them anymore has also put a real damper on things (or their lackluster output that came from that at least). This is ignoring the backstage parts of E3, which is a big reason why it still mattered regardless of perceived relevance.

I just hope Nintendo has something planned anyway. I get why they didn't in 2020 but they otherwise do a digital event every year anyway, so they don't really need to change their plans all that much.

The contrast between the look and semi-chill music of this retro game and the dramatic fire effects for the trailer is genuinely hilarious.

Huh. Well Mappy Land I only know for driving multiple Let's Players insane, but Dig Dug 2 was Japan only back in the day and Earthworm Jim 2 is...an enjoyably random choice. Solid enough choices.

I'll be honest, I don't think Mario Kart lived up to the hype for me until DS. I mean, I never played much of the original and in 1992 SMK must've been awesome but Mario Kart 64 was blown out of the water by Diddy Kong Racing, Super Circuit is not how I want racing games to control. And Double Dash was the best Mario Kart at the time sure but its so lacking in content. You got your 16 courses, a reasonable amount of characters for the time, and a few battles maps. And that's it. You have the almost bare minimum of ways to play those same 16 courses (GP/Time Trial/Multiplayer). That's about it unless you're into LAN parties. (and considering the GCN's popularity...good luck with that)

Just within months before Double Dash's release, on the same console, you got Need for Speed Underground, and F-Zero GX, and Kirby Air Ride. All of which had more going on that Mario Kart. There was a level of interesting variety that Mario Kart lacked, and no amount of clever co-op ideas in Double Dash can make up for that imo.

But then DS came out 2 years later, had a fun extra single player mode with some original challenges and even bosses, doubled the courses (to be fair, Super Circuit did have SMK courses to unlock, but I feel like most people never unlocked them), and had online at all for a 2005 handheld game (which yes was limited, but was still more ahead of the curve than I often expect Nintendo to be about online gameplay). It also felt like they finally nailed play control for Mario Kart with DS. So while its not been perfect since then, it feels like just the simple act of playing Mario Kart has been nearly perfected since. (though Double Dash plays way better than either of the 2d games, I feel confident in saying that)

All that being said, that makes me think a Double Dash follow up could be amazing. Because it was a cool idea that changed things up for Mario Kart in interesting ways. My issues with Double Dash has to do with content, not the actual main gimmick of the game. With the changes made to Mario Kart since, why not bring it back?

Kung Fury was a lot of fun but its so weird to see it be a franchise in any way.

I read this and my initial response is that if they were so immediately going to make changes to monetization, why did they even bother launching the game as is? But it almost feels like this is a deliberate attempt to make the monetization so bad at launch that less awful version of that seems "good" by comparison.

Either way its dumb and has guaranteed it is largely forgotten once the Mario Kart DLC is out.

I do not want microtransactions in even one singular full priced video game. Not one. They shouldn't be there. Ever.

I don't even have an opinion beyond that, but I have no leeway for this. While I won't say I'd boycott literally any full priced game with microtransactions...I sure haven't bought any either. The amount of money that has ever gone to a game like that is literally zero dollars and zero cents.

So sadly the fact that Mario Kart is going to murder this game is for the best, the same way that Platinum falling on their faces with Babylon's Fall, is for the best. I wish it didn't come to that, but here we are.

So I've played the first three Arkham games, the three NES games, and the Batman Beyond GBC game in terms of Batman games in general. All of them are enjoyable for what they are but the gap between the truly great ones (Batman: The Video Game and Asylum/City) and the others is still pretty notable.

Though I think this poll will be funny because in all liklihood, a lot of people here played the Arkham games but never the Wii U versions.

That actually makes complete sense now that I think about it. An intro with a bit more story focus followed immediately by a quick, impressive set-piece before you start the game proper in which you then backtrack to the destroyed final area of the original game, before finally entering the first real area of the game.

We'll probably never know, but I am curious how much of these updates was based on the negative reactions. Because if they had say, not released this in October, would they have put in the man hours to fix this for right now? Nintendo is paying people to fix these emulated games, and they did put out a thing implying they were putting more money for NSO suspiciously not too long after the backlash, so its a real possibility.

Point is, maybe if they had really looked into this before, they would've noticed some issues (not all, they'd probably not run into that Paper Mario issue on their own), and it could've come out when they were fixed, and none of this PR disaster would've happened. Because between the actual issues and the solo pricing (where lots of people don't even seem to know or understand the family plan), I guarantee they've cost themselves a decent bit of money from all the people who were immediately turned off by this, and will not even find out about these updates. Expansion Pac for NSO on Switch, has a serious negative connotation that even after adding DLC to their biggest game for it, they'll have to work a lot harder to convince people its any good now.

Look, I love what this specific service is trying to do, its giving me what I specifically would want, and when you exploit the family plan to get a better deal, in the long term, I'll likely call this a great deal. But I never want Nintendo to release a product in this condition again. Delay it next time.

I think its not inherently about whether Majora's Mask is better as much as most of the things I like specifically about OOT are done at least as well in other Zelda games. That's not as true about Majora's Mask which is still one of a kind for the series.

Though let's be honest, part of the reason Majora's Mask wasn't as beloved at launch as OOT was that its easier to not know what to do or how to do it in parts of MM, and thus the first playthrough can be far more annoying than later ones. (I got stuck on one thing in OOT, while I needed a guide for quite a few things in MM) But then in replaying them you know what you're doing, and thus MM is better in hindsight while OOT at best, is the same. That's my theory anyway, checks out for me.

This feels way too soon for 3DS, a system Nintendo was releasing games for 3 years ago.

Who in 2022 still wants Dynasty Warriors 9? Literally everything I've ever heard about this game, even from fans, suggested it was not good. It's not like the Switch has been lacking for Warriors games and they literally just announced one last week.

This makes me think Ubisoft saw the initial success of EA's dodgeball game and decided "THIS MUST BE THE NEXT BIG THING" and immediately grabbed the first in development indie dodgeball game they could find to get in on what they presumed would be a hot new trend.

Because both EA and Ubisoft releasing a dodgeball video game, of all things, in the span of like a year, is a bizarre coincidence otherwise.

I can't possibly imagine this happening, or at least in a way Suda would be remotely happy with.

@Specter_of-the_OLED
I know that. I don't care. Nintendo should released quality products on day one. They could have, and chose not to. I don't like it.

The end.

@Crono1973 They also wouldn't have had a PR nightmare that made a ton of people disinterested in buying it. That got way more attention than the actual updates have.

If I was Nintendo, I would try my best to make people actually want to spend money on it personally.

@Crono1973 I mean its outdated in that you can update a terribly flawed and broken game. But a lot of those games don't get the chance to succeed if they fail day 1 anyway. If they did, we'd still be talking about Anthem.

The number one issue I personally have with NSO tbh is that a Miyamoto game itself was not given the time or resources to be emulated accurately in the first place, despite it being the most acclaimed game on this premium service. Thus meaning they did not let this emulation be delayed and eventually be good. It goes against the famous Miyamoto quote itself.

It's just so not what I want Nintendo to do, ever.

I choose to believe after the backlash they immediately made sure to focus on the absolute best N64 games to get out ASAP.

I don't think Nintendo needs to buy them, unless a competitor would instead. Platinum doesn't need to be exclusive to one platform.

But I also hope they never stop making Nintendo exclusives, for their own sake. I remember what happened to Rare, Factor 5, Silicon Knights when they stopped making Nintendo games. Bad times.

"classic existential horror movie, Groundhog Day"

That's like saying "item management game, Resident Evil 4". Technically true and an important part of it, but inexplicably ignoring what the main part of it actually is.

I'm calling bs on Knives Out. Mostly because I have zero reason to assume discussion on the movie didn't get involved in there. Like if a first name is trending, the thing might say "Gaming" above it, but then like 90% of the discussion will have nothing to do with gaming. I'd bet money that's happened here, even Twitter doesn't know how to Twitter.

Also at the top events "gUyS e3 iS iRrElEvAnT"

This doesn't surprise me. ZX2 was one of the last Megaman games they put out before they decided to cancel every Megaman game possible.

The World Ends With You could get another game if SE ACTUALLY KNEW HOW TO MARKET THE GAME.

Still very bitter that they did nothing for the game at E3 despite it coming out the very next month.

Man, its a good time for racing games. Cruisn, this and Forza all came out within like a month of each other, all standing out and being fun experiences in very different ways. Good stuff.

That being said, I've seen enough of this game and uh...yeah, even if your lootboxes don't use real money, don't put random boxes in your game. I don't need to be reminded of some of the worst things in gaming even if your version isn't doing the things that make it awful (see also: the gacha blades in Xenoblade 2). Just have normal unlockables.

This comment section is unintentionally justifying Nintendo not selling their old games separate from this service. "Oh but you can buy it on Switch so who cares" uh no the opposite is true, its way better if you can get these games multiple ways.

God forbid something about this service is done competently and without locking content away from people to actually buy and own.

9/10. People who didn't like it probably intentionally avoid good games, deal with it.

This isn't an objection (heh) to the article but I'd be happier not knowing this. I guess I can't be shocked a Japanese lawyer game would be involved with this.

I'd be more mad if I found out Shu Takumi actively disagreed with this tbh.

This sure was a Mario Kart game alright.

It existed.

I won't get it soon because I haven't played the original because I haven't played the last Zero Escape game. I honestly forgot this was getting a sequel, let alone a physical release. But unless the previous AI game doesn't grab me at all, I will someday!

I'm way too behind on even Switch games that are a priority for me to play. I literally just bought Golf Story, a game that was out a few months into the Switch's lifespan.

I'm not mad at someone for leaving a company because they didn't like the direction they'd be going in compared to the competition.

But it is really funny that people could've been a part of working on Metroid Prime 3 and Donkey Kong Country Returns but instead worked on Recore and (arguably by some distance?) the worst Batman Arkham game. But it gets sadder when you remember companies like Silicon Knights and Factor 5 bet on next gen graphics and then made underwhelming to bad games and went out of business. Spending tons of more money to make games with technically better graphics only to close down is one of the top reasons why I approve of Nintendo's underpowered console logic.

@NEStalgia My personal favorite was in 2013 when they said Hitman Absolution and Tomb Raider underperformed.

Yes, the wildly successful Tomb Raider reboot and THE MOST SUCCESSFUL HITMAN GAME EVER. What a stupid company.

@CharlieGirl

That's not how that works. DLC, at least from reasonable and decent companies, is content that in the era before DLC would be in an expansion pack or in a full on re-release or would just be permanently cut. Because fair or not, there are deadlines that at some point, have to be met and thus content will almost always be cut from games. So instead of any of those previous options, they instead decide to release that content later as DLC. Nearly every game that any reasonable person thinks of as a complete game has content that has fit into one of those categories.

And quite frankly, there are plenty of games that felt complete without me having to buy the DLC that they had sold for it.

I like how indie games can now get fairly notable actors like indie movies can. But despite a cool premise, I've heard...things about this game.

It sure did try to do something with its story.

I don't think there's anything that I find more consistently funny than complete nonsense made up by bots. It's hysterical, pretty much every time.

On one hand, they're right to at least some extent and the Gamecube was awesome so changing it to sell better sounds like a good idea.

On the other hand, stuff like "purple is too girly" is so profoundly stupid and infuriating that I would've doubled down on it being purple out of spite.

Odama is either not a good game or legitimately the most challenging game I ever owned. Perhaps even both.

That being said Jungle Beat is one of the best games on the system and I will die on that hill. Not a game I'd play for too long at once, but it was a joy to play for 30-60 minutes whenever I did.

This is not even the only time a Star Wars game has been a graphical high point of its time. Episode 1 podracer looks incredible by N64 standards, and for the many, many issues they have, the modern EA Star Wars Battlefront games are unbelievable recreations of Star Wars.

Outside of the lack of Monster Hunter Rise, this feels like the correct GOTY nominations.

I do think its interesting that there's no obvious favorite this year. Like almost any of them could win over the others and I'd get it.

Xbox has been largely decent for years now, but its always in the back of my mind that they just bought two of the biggest western RPG developers who were gonna put out their games on Xbox regardless. Now less people can enjoy them, apparently.

At least with Sony and Nintendo's recent acquisitions, those devs were making exclusives regularly regardless. That combined with the multiple, notable closed studios in Xbox's past makes me concerned.