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?
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.
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.
@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.
@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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, when a game goes bad in a beloved series, sometimes they'll throw out the baby with the bathwater as it were. Though it would be fitting if it had, considering how some Other M defenders tell people they only hate it for what it tried to do because they don't understand the difference between "in theory" and "in execution".
Honestly I do wish a legit good writer had worked on a Metroid game, to tell a lengthy, dialogue heavy, introspective story about Samus. The potential of that could be fantastic. For example, maybe she could be distraught or have a single thought over the planet destruction that happened immediately after the baby Metroid saved her. That'd be a good start.
Ok so let me get this straight. This is an update to a game Nintendo stopped selling more than half a year ago, using controllers that are out of stock for the year, that were made for an online service that already has (an admittedly slightly different version of) the same game.
I have to assume this was a very simple update to put out, because if not this is the weirdest update to anything ever. I'm not even mad, I think this is hilarious.
As someone who was pumped for both N64 NSO and a Happy Home style DLC, that price is highly questionable. At best.
The main thing is...its bizarre that this would be the only things on it. I feel like this is going to include more DLCs or something to that effect later, but why not say so in that case? (though to be fair, Tetris 99 was only revealed after the original NSO paid service came out)
I went from wanting to get it as a permanent upgrade to at most...giving it a year and seeing if they do more. If they don't...bye!
I'll be honest, Happy Home Designer is my favorite Animal Crossing outside of the original.
It's obviously not the best game, and that's probably obvious by most standards. But it was the chillest of chill games and I love it for regular, simple 15-20 minute play sessions.
So depending on how they did it, I'd highly appreciate it in New Horizons. I'd even appreciate if it was entirely separate from my own villagers, if its just chill home designing as a side mode. That'd be plenty for me.
10 dollars would be fine, but it depends a lot on how Nintendo handles releases in the long term. Between N64 games being a bigger deal per game for me, and Genesis games being stuff I've largely avoided (and Sega being on board, unlike 3rd parties with actual popular or beloved NES/SNES games), it should be an easier sell for me than NSO itself. I'm just not sure how much other people will agree and how much this will work in the long run (there's only so many N64 games that have any chance of being on this).
If this was a best game of the 2010s tournament and you ignored the 2 games not from the 2010s, this would not be a terrible list. The lack of Undertale or Minecraft would still make it make no sense, but it'd be much less stupid than it is.
I mean, the reality is that IGN is, for lack of a better phrase, the normie gaming site, so its gonna be the most boringly obvious, big budget modern classics, at best. At least until fans or trolls try to sabotage it. Like was it the Gamefaqs poll where it was a running joke that every year was OOT vs. Final Fantasy VII back in the day? Same thing here.
...but would they actually do a port of the Ps4 version or would they just port the original version? I assume the former, but the latter would be much easier and potentially would play better on Switch anyway (since they wouldn't have to risk compromises to FPS).
Paying for NSO is bad because Nintendo's online isn't good, and no retro games has changed this reality.
But the irony from that is that N64 games (and hopefully not just N64 games) with online with friends for 10 more dollars a year would be tempting, with enough of the quality multiplayer games of the day. NSO is a bad online service, but has potential as a great retro gaming service. But I have my doubts anything will happen soon, because on its own, there's so little N64 games Nintendo has ever gotten on VC in the past beyond their own. If it was rumored with another system, I'd be more inclined to think this will happen. The new Mario Party Superstars with the retro N64 boards and the first ever Mario Party with full online features at launch also REALLY makes me doubt N64 is happening soon.
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Re: Feature: Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Is The Best Mario Kart, Right? Let's Find Out
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?
Re: 'Kung Fury' Video Game Adaptation Pays Tribute To Streets Of Rage, And It's Coming To Switch
Kung Fury was a lot of fun but its so weird to see it be a franchise in any way.
Re: Square Enix Details Current Issues And Future Of New Switch Racer Chocobo GP
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.
Re: Uh-Oh, Chocobo GP's Season Pass Is Ruffling A Few Feathers With Fans
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.
Re: Poll: What's The Best Batman Game On Nintendo Systems?
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.
Re: Random: Portal 2's Intro Was Apparently Inspired By Super Metroid's Opening
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.
Re: Nintendo Appears To Have Improved Switch Online's N64 Emulation
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.
Re: Video: Some Of Us Prefer Zelda: Majora's Mask Over Ocarina Of Time Because We're Right
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.
Re: Nintendo Is Ending 3DS & Wii U eShop Purchases In March 2023 (North America)
This feels way too soon for 3DS, a system Nintendo was releasing games for 3 years ago.
Re: Review: Dynasty Warriors 9: Empires - A Disappointing, Dialled-Back Downgrade
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.
Re: Ubisoft Is Releasing A New "Dodgeball Multiplayer Party Game" On Switch
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.
Re: No More Heroes Creator Suda51 Says He's Had A Few Meetings With Marvel
I can't possibly imagine this happening, or at least in a way Suda would be remotely happy with.
Re: Video: MVG Takes A Closer Look At Nintendo Switch Online's N64 Update
@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.
Re: Video: MVG Takes A Closer Look At Nintendo Switch Online's N64 Update
@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.
Re: Video: MVG Takes A Closer Look At Nintendo Switch Online's N64 Update
@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.
Re: Video: MVG Takes A Closer Look At Nintendo Switch Online's N64 Update
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.
Re: The Legend Of Zelda: Majora's Mask Is Being Added To Switch Online's Expansion Pack In February
I choose to believe after the backlash they immediately made sure to focus on the absolute best N64 games to get out ASAP.
Re: PlatinumGames Appoints New CEO, Aims To Deliver 'Innovative Forms Of Play'
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.
Re: Mini Review: Twelve Minutes - A Tedious Time Loop That Squanders Its Potential
"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.
Re: Social Media Platform Twitter Reveals 2021's "Most Tweeted About Games"
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"
Re: Inti Creates Had A Mega Man ZX3 Game In Development, But It Got Cancelled
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.
Re: 'The World Ends With You' Could Get Another Game If Fans Show Their Support
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.
Re: Hot Wheels Unleashed Has Sold One Million Copies Worldwide
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.
Re: Five Sega Genesis Games Have Been Added To Nintendo Switch Online's Expansion Pack
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.
Re: Poll: So, How Would You Rate Nintendo's 2021?
9/10. People who didn't like it probably intentionally avoid good games, deal with it.
Re: Random: Ace Attorney Says OBJECTION! To Drugs In Japanese Anti-Marijuana Campaign
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.
Re: Talking Point: Mario Kart 7 And Its Infamous Course Skip Are Now 10 Years Old
This sure was a Mario Kart game alright.
It existed.
Re: AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative Official Box Art Reveal
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.
Re: Former Metroid Prime Engineer Admits He Was "Disappointed" With The Wii's Specs
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.
Re: NEO: The World Ends With You Has 'Underperformed Expectations', Square Enix Says
@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.
Re: Shovel Knight's Brand New Puzzle Game Launches On The Switch eShop Next Month
@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.
Re: Interactive Thriller Twelve Minutes Releases On Switch This December
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.
Re: Back Page: We Forced A Bot To Read Nintendo News, And It Wrote Its Own Headlines
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.
Re: Nintendo's American Branch Didn't Like The Idea Of GameCube Being Purple
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.
Re: Feature: 10 Overlooked GameCube Gems You Must Play
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.
Re: Talking Point: Is There A Better-Looking 20-Year-Old Game Than Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II?
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.
Re: Metroid Dread In The Running With The Game Awards GOTY Nomination
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.
Re: Phil Spencer: Elder Scrolls 6's Xbox Exclusivity Isn't About "Punishing" Other Platforms
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.
Re: Feature: Metroid Dread Has Plenty Of Other M's DNA, And That's No Bad Thing
Yeah, when a game goes bad in a beloved series, sometimes they'll throw out the baby with the bathwater as it were. Though it would be fitting if it had, considering how some Other M defenders tell people they only hate it for what it tried to do because they don't understand the difference between "in theory" and "in execution".
Honestly I do wish a legit good writer had worked on a Metroid game, to tell a lengthy, dialogue heavy, introspective story about Samus. The potential of that could be fantastic. For example, maybe she could be distraught or have a single thought over the planet destruction that happened immediately after the baby Metroid saved her. That'd be a good start.
Re: Nintendo Adds N64 Controller Support To 3D All-Stars Version Of Super Mario 64
Ok so let me get this straight. This is an update to a game Nintendo stopped selling more than half a year ago, using controllers that are out of stock for the year, that were made for an online service that already has (an admittedly slightly different version of) the same game.
I have to assume this was a very simple update to put out, because if not this is the weirdest update to anything ever. I'm not even mad, I think this is hilarious.
Re: Poll: What Do You Think Of The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pass Price?
As someone who was pumped for both N64 NSO and a Happy Home style DLC, that price is highly questionable. At best.
The main thing is...its bizarre that this would be the only things on it. I feel like this is going to include more DLCs or something to that effect later, but why not say so in that case? (though to be fair, Tetris 99 was only revealed after the original NSO paid service came out)
I went from wanting to get it as a permanent upgrade to at most...giving it a year and seeing if they do more. If they don't...bye!
Re: Soapbox: Let's Get Happy Home Designer Into Animal Crossing: New Horizons
I'll be honest, Happy Home Designer is my favorite Animal Crossing outside of the original.
It's obviously not the best game, and that's probably obvious by most standards. But it was the chillest of chill games and I love it for regular, simple 15-20 minute play sessions.
So depending on how they did it, I'd highly appreciate it in New Horizons. I'd even appreciate if it was entirely separate from my own villagers, if its just chill home designing as a side mode. That'd be plenty for me.
Re: Poll: What's A Fair Price For The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack?
10 dollars would be fine, but it depends a lot on how Nintendo handles releases in the long term. Between N64 games being a bigger deal per game for me, and Genesis games being stuff I've largely avoided (and Sega being on board, unlike 3rd parties with actual popular or beloved NES/SNES games), it should be an easier sell for me than NSO itself. I'm just not sure how much other people will agree and how much this will work in the long run (there's only so many N64 games that have any chance of being on this).
Re: Review: UnMetal - A Surprisingly Robust Metal Gear Parody Brimming With Ideas
This is somehow not the first top down stealth game that's a blatant Metal Gear parody I know of, despite not even being a Metal Gear fan.
Re: Japanese Developer Treasure Teases Future Releases For Switch Online
Mischief Makers is legit one of my favorite N64 games, so I'd be thrilled to see it back. It's never been re-released AFAIK either.
Re: Random: IGN's 'Best Video Game Of All Time' Tournament Is Getting WILD
If this was a best game of the 2010s tournament and you ignored the 2 games not from the 2010s, this would not be a terrible list. The lack of Undertale or Minecraft would still make it make no sense, but it'd be much less stupid than it is.
I mean, the reality is that IGN is, for lack of a better phrase, the normie gaming site, so its gonna be the most boringly obvious, big budget modern classics, at best. At least until fans or trolls try to sabotage it. Like was it the Gamefaqs poll where it was a running joke that every year was OOT vs. Final Fantasy VII back in the day? Same thing here.
Re: Swery's "Small-Town Detective Thriller" The Good Life Launches Next Month
I have a lot more fondness towards Swery's non Deadly Premonition games so I'm interested at the very least.
Re: Alan Wake Remastered Has Been Rated For Nintendo Switch
...but would they actually do a port of the Ps4 version or would they just port the original version? I assume the former, but the latter would be much easier and potentially would play better on Switch anyway (since they wouldn't have to risk compromises to FPS).
Re: Baldo Gets A Second Switch Hotfix, Fixes All "Known" Bugs And Glitches
I was always a bit suspicious of the hype for this game, but I can't say I expected a disaster like this.
Re: Rumour: Insider Says N64 Is Coming To Switch Online, Believes It Will Introduce A "Higher-Priced" Subscription Tier
Paying for NSO is bad because Nintendo's online isn't good, and no retro games has changed this reality.
But the irony from that is that N64 games (and hopefully not just N64 games) with online with friends for 10 more dollars a year would be tempting, with enough of the quality multiplayer games of the day. NSO is a bad online service, but has potential as a great retro gaming service. But I have my doubts anything will happen soon, because on its own, there's so little N64 games Nintendo has ever gotten on VC in the past beyond their own. If it was rumored with another system, I'd be more inclined to think this will happen. The new Mario Party Superstars with the retro N64 boards and the first ever Mario Party with full online features at launch also REALLY makes me doubt N64 is happening soon.