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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).

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.

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.

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.

I have a lot more fondness towards Swery's non Deadly Premonition games so I'm interested at the very least.

...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).

I was always a bit suspicious of the hype for this game, but I can't say I expected a disaster like this.

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.

Well this is happening now. I was just wondering yesterday if we might hear an update on this game soon.

I loved the first chapter. It wasn't quite as good as Undertale, at least partially because quite frankly, I think Undertale might just have been too special to recapture the magic in a sequel. But despite that, I loved the changes in gameplay and I'm super curious where this story is going.

That's a real shame to hear. When I played it at PAX 2 years ago, I thought it needed some work and was hoping after all this time it would be turned into something more solid beyond a really great idea. Apparently not.

Metroid Prime is my favorite game of all time, but the actual story behind that game seems like a nightmare to have been a part of. The fact they put out an all time great game despite everything is certainly commendable, but I'm really glad they never repeated anything like that.

That being said, I'm so curious on everything that's gone on at Retro since Tropical Freeze. I need to know all their plans before they were given Prime 4.

I genuinely can't imagine human beings looked at this art style and thought "this is acceptable".

This has made the most sense to me since they announced SNES tbh. People would pay an additional cost for more advanced games, while Gameboy makes more sense to be added to the service as is. It's also probably the simplest to add basic online to for any multiplayer games, compared to N64 (I mean, I can easily see N64 online working, I just don't necessarily trust Nintendo on it :V).

There's also a greater than zero chance that big 3rd party series might not ignore this one as much. I don't think a lot of 3rd party gameboy games have been re-released outside of 3DS VC. The only ones I know are on Switch already are Castlevania and Final Fantasy Adventure.

I have to be honest, this would be a very boring Mario playlist. Not because the songs are boring, but because they're mostly way too obvious. Except for TTYD, which is probably not even the 50th best song from that one game.

I understand why Nintendo does this to some extent, but that's the beginning and end of a defense of it for me. I think in an era where the smarter companies realized that trying to actively fight piracy has not actually helped them at all, trying to fight something much less worse in fan games just seems like an excuse for certain people at Nintendo and other companies to still have their job. That's my assumption anyway.

Most of this stuff for me is always "no one should care". Nintendo has gained nothing from this, other than a small amount of ire from fans. What a waste of time to even bother taking them down. They could've done something useful instead.

GTA 5 not being on Switch has been baffling for a long while now, especially since they're still keeping up with it on the newest consoles. It would obviously make a lot of money.

But this is far more likely a game I would actually buy since I already own 5, so um...I'll take it. Sure.

This is my 2nd favorite duo of unrelated games that I will eternally connect with each other, purely because of their names. (the 1st being Olliolli and Oxenfree)

I'm not especially anything that Sonic Colors: Ultimate is 30 FPS on Switch one way or the other, but its obviously good to see Super Monkey Ball pull this off.

But being fair, Super Monkey Ball has much smaller levels without a ton of things to load in, so this is pretty unsurprising. But it is a nice cherry on top of what seems like a brilliant deal of a remake. It's not even like a full priced game from what I've heard, so even better!

Easily Wind Waker. I can go back to the other games, but Wind Waker? The original's sailing? No, never again. Even if the rest of the game was actually perfect (which...it isn't), I cannot go back to the sloooooow sailing to sloooooowly fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind the triiiiiiiiifoooooooooorce pieceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. No. I'd rather do the Nintendo gallery in the remake than the triforce hunt in the original at this point.

In hindsight, I'm always amazed how well this game pulled off...a lot. The storytelling, from a comedic perspective and otherwise, is so beyond a Nintendo game and even a lot of other popular JRPGs that its really surprising that it came from a popular platformer series. There's a lot of games where, even when they try, I can't even tell you the main story beyond some basic details, but I distinctly remember every chapter of the first couple of Paper Marios. And the Glitz Pit is one of the best. Also on top of the storytelling, its a really nice change of pace to get so many unique battles in a row. Usually in other chapters and other JRPGs, if you're in an area, you'll become accustomed to the same handful of enemies very quickly. But here you fight probably like two dozen different enemies, bosses included.

But I dunno, I'm sure this chapter would have been better if none of the characters had names and it had zero Mario races outside of the ones created for the mainline console platformers. :V

I don't love every Treasure game I've played, but I always respect what they were doing. One of those developers that always strived to make cool, fun, interesting games. And in hindsight, it feels like they largely just made cult classic after cult classic. It's upsetting that they've seemingly vanished from making any sort of new games.

But it is funny that you made no mention of Mischief Makers or Astro Boy: Omega Factor, my two favorites of theirs. Mischief Makers is easily one of the best games on the N64, and has some of the most out there boss fights of that era of gaming, and Astro Boy: Omega Factor is probably just straight up the best anime licensed game ever made.

From the outside at least, it feels like Level 5 has become largely irrelevant. Which is sad to see.

I'd definitely say 4. At least at the time, the time limit for the first 3 games was maybe necessary but ultimately kinda annoyed me, even when the game was otherwise really fun. Constantly replaying levels can be fun but inherently gives you a sense of sameyness. 4 getting rid of that felt amazing and let me fully appreciate the levels without a timer constantly there.

THUG 1 and 2 were also really good, but not as good and didn't add as much to the actual skating gameplay. And THUG2 even added timed levels as a bonus, but in hindsight that made it feel like the perfect game to jump off the series afterwards and based on the next decade or so, I was right to do so.

@Tuulenpoika Most remakes don't actually do that. That's a more recent trend, and usually for indie games.

Though I do agree that doing DLC for the old soundtrack is still not good. Like...I don't know why it would take any effort or even enough file space to justify selling it for money.

I think after the past 3 days, Nintendo will have the easiest time in the world to get people excited for anything that's just...anything at all.

"Nintendo puts on competent Direct" FIREWORKS APPEAR

Man, I used to be aware of the cool games coming out, but I only recognized maybe 4 of these.

I'm rooting for Skatebird just for the premise and being a skateboarding game. I just hope it plays a little bit better than the early demo I played like 2 years ago.

I'm sure there were a bunch of localization reasons to not bring the games over, but considering how Capcom couldn't bother to put out physical versions of Ace Attorney 5 or 6 outside of Japan, I have my doubts that's the only reason why. It feels like they probably decided (for...some inane reason) no one would buy a physical version of the new mainline games, so they probably used that to decide that no one would buy spinoff games at all.

And if I'm right, that makes me think the AA trilogy on Switch did well enough to change their minds.

@Yeaitslenn

This is stupid, no one actually thinks Billy Hatcher is better than Sonic Adventure 2.

For that matter, Paper Mario Sticker Star has better reviews than Kirby Air Ride, so no one should take Metacritic that seriously, ever.

I mean it depends. I'm dramatically better at platformers or certain specific games and series I'm familiar with than say, a stealth or strategy game. But I don't try to be the master of any one game, because that would be time not spent on other games.

I beat Metroid Prime 2 on hard without getting all the items back in the day and I beat Celeste's level 9, and all the B side levels (and nearly all the C sides) a year or so ago. That's roughly the ceiling for how good I am.

Ignoring any frustrations I've had with the series' direction, Paper Mario is such an odd, often creative spinoff series that's often fairly un-Nintendo. Especially Super Paper Mario, which in a number of ways feels like an indie game before indie gaming was cool. So I'm not surprised to see actual indie games go all in that sort of direction. There's a lot you can do with just the aesthetic, let alone anything else that came with it.

But that being said, boy did Nintendo make sure to leave a giant opening for games like this, didn't they? Y'know like Megaman. It might've taken 8 years to get a new Megaman game, but we also got Shovel Knight and various other things so I think things turned out alright regardless.

"If you were a Kingdom Hearts kid back in 2008, you probably played or at least had ambitions to try out The World Ends With You on DS." ...no? Until Neku showed up in the series, I'm not sure there was that level of interest from Kingdom Hearts fans at all. TWEWY was not that popular, especially by comparison, and most Kingdom Hearts fans just liked Kingdom Hearts (and also to some extent Disney and Final Fantasy). Most fans of games that popular don't seek out random niche games of the same genre, nor look into what else major people involved with making said game series have also made.

Time for Devolver to win E3 for the 5th year in a row

I'm confused on why they would decide Warioware is worth less than a remake of the Gameboy Zelda, but I certainly won't complain about that.

I can't relate to a person who would want to work on a live service game instead of a beloved franchise like Resident Evil.

Maybe the working hours and pay are just so much better, I dunno.

I did not know an Oddworld Collection was coming out until right now tbh.

Granted, I don't have the time for any games to add on top of the ones I'm playing or I already know I'm buying soon, but that's still something I'll keep in mind.

So I've been under the assumption that the incredibly high score is at least partially that its a niche title that only the people who would love it have actually bothered to review it or were even aware it exists. But I also have to assume its really great for what it is.

"our orientation isn’t to come in and turn Codemasters into another Electronic Arts studio"

This is more of a self-own than I think he meant it to be. "Yeah, we won't turn them into another EA studio, those ones just get ruined and die. Don't want that!"

The newest game in my top 5 is more than a decade old. But to be fair, everything about my top 5 was so perfect and so new to me that I'm not sure a game can surpass them. Like one of them is my favorite video game, one of them convinced me games could be art with its storytelling, one of them gave me multiple top tier games at once (and I don't care if a collection is cheating, it came with new games), one of them is my most replayed game (that isn't a short game anyway) and one of them is my most hours spent playing a game literally ever.

Those are largely scenarios unlikely to be recreated while also surpassing those games.

On top of that, I just don't play as many games as I used to. I try to fix that, but it doesn't always work, especially if I ever want to replay games too.

But I will say despite that, there's still a good chunk of games that are top tier stuff in modern times and there's a few more modern games that might be in my top 20 someday depending if I ever bother to think of a new top 20, a thing I did once 7+ years ago and never thought about much since. (Rayman Legends, Shovel Knight, Celeste and BOTW immediately come to mind).

As someone whose found maybe the worst thing about the Switch to be the embarrassing attempt at making people pay for a bad online service and using old games as an excuse to try to get around the fact that NSO is bad, it is really funny that 3rd party companies often just refuse to bother and just sell their old games on Switch in their own collections separate from it.

I feel bad for the games, but Nintendo is getting what they deserve in this case, with everyone hating these updates. I just wish they got hated for charging for bad online in the first place MORE than for putting obscure video games on their service.

Y'all need to deal with the fact that Metroidvania isn't going away. It's not. Accept it now. I've seen people try to rename the genre, and no one cares. It's called Metroidvania, it will continue to be called that for the foreseeable future.

There are some issues with describing games, but its not as bad as when every 1/5 game was hit with the vague "action adventure" genre (if the rise of open world games have done any good, its overshadowing that trash description that never made sense outside of Zelda and games like Zelda).

@Antraxx777
So fun story, the best rated version of Lords of Shadow (PS3) has the same Metacritic score as Samus Returns. How about that.

Man, I was fairly certain they were making a new 2D Metroid. And they might still have, they put out another game the same year as Samus Returns. But it would be weird if they didn't, if only because Samus Returns is easily their most highly regarded game thus far. You'd think they'd want to continue that.

"I miss my friends but I don't want to kill them" is an excellent out of context sentence.

I kinda dismissed Baten Kaitos when it came out because...uh...way too many games were adding a card gimmick and I was sick of it after PSO episode 3. Considering who made it, in hindsight, I regret this. Wish I played it back then.

@AvianBlue I'm gonna make a bold statement that the more popular and vastly better received games that are like the new game coming out makes more sense to be ported.

Well considering Retro Studios last released a new game in 2014, I think its reasonable that a 4-5 person team could in fact have a year's worth of time to make this work.