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Just say no to lists.

Doom should be your FPS rep. Halo, Portal, Half-Life 2 and Modern Warfare are fine first person games but they're incremental improvements over conspicuously absent FPS late 90s entries (Half-Life particularly. Then there's the absence of trailblazing immersive sims like Deus Ex).

Mario 64 and Mario Kart make these kinds of lists because people just don't have the gumption to admit that everyone would pick their not-that-different-enough successors 99 times out of 100 if presented the option.

To then put Super Mario Bros. 3 on here but not the original speaks to how arbitrary the criteria are.

Breath of the Wild and The Last of Us are both in my personal top 5, but just feel weird in a "greatest of all time" list. They will be superseded, if they haven't already.

Pokémon GO fits the criteria perfectly IMO, such as they are. Easily my least favorite game on the list but that's not what they're asking.

One context for the "lazy devs" accusation that particularly makes me cringe is speed running: like some really obscure glitch is found that nobody uncovered in normal gameplay, running on a machine less computationally capable than my toaster. And the patter in the commentary is ripping on those dastardly lazy devs. It's exhausting.

Though maybe we still need "lazy devs" around as one of those red flag phrases that let you know to set your expectations that bit lower? It's like Clear Blue for opinions that probably aren't worth hearing.

Looking forward to the cast of Final Fantasy XVII being various blunt smoking chimpanzees entirely unique to my experience.

If the five games have an arc, it feels like Dread's doing most of the work to make that the case? Like the closest we've had to foreshadowing of any of it was an unlockable image in the 3DS remake of #2? Not saying it was done poorly, but the idea that the story is in any way a closed-loop seems a bit much.

Uh-oh, I captured these guys like a decade ago. Time for Nintendo to batten down the hatches.

Here's hoping that this reminds them they could have made versions available for systems released since 2011?

I've actually really enjoyed having the Mario 35th one around and fully want one of these. Found having a little dedicated device is a really good way of actually making me sit down and play the games properly.

To paraphrase a great woman. "Of all the reasons to actively avoid buying Ubisoft products, this ranks... somewhere in the middle."

@Clyde_Radcliffe It's ok to love the child's game hun.

@iambobthebush That sounds like an entirely legitimate critique though? It's fine as adults to enjoy these games but they are for children first and foremost, and if kids struggle that's a genuine mark against the game and actually a point of diligence to check as part of a consumer review.

I can see what will happen with the copy I got my oldest nephew—he'll like it well enough, but if his sibling, who is more shy of button-based titles can't get on with it, it will be inferior to SMP by default.

@Franklin May I see it?

Funny thing about "Wacky Worlds" is that its level themes are only unusual from the perspective of Super Mario World's inventive settings. They're 100% the same old nonsense as every other also ran platformer on the market at the time.

Ah yes, the most thrilling Nintendo game of all: trademark renewal.

Everyone who reads that headline is 100% thinking about Shaggy of Mr. Bombastic fame. And you would have gotten away with as well, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.

He's not wrong. No Nintendo console has ever needed a mid-cycle refresh to its base specs—but that's never stopped them from doing it, or the market from buying it, or the pattern to become sufficiently established that we all expect it.

I'd rather we just got to a proper successor at this point.

Seems an unlikely pick at this point, but I still maintain my Smash 4 ballot pick of Professor Layton would be great.

@TeslaChippie If you aren't aware of raids introduced in Stormblood... maybe a good time to get back into 14.

WoOooOoOOOo the secret of Mt. Hikami is that they never released the Wii U version physically for North American consoles WoooooOoOoOo and it's expensive to this day in its limited EU release WooooOoOoOOOOspooooky.

Tongue mostly in cheek for this. Honestly, on paper the Super Mario Bros. film actually had a pretty good cast. Shame about, you know, absolutely everything else.

@Shambo I suspect such fairhandedness is not the Murasame Castle way.

Suda and Kamiya fighting it out for the right to make Murasame Castle when?

Petition to rename Nintendo's digital storefront "Kemco Sale Browser (featuring Nintendo eShop)"

The prospect of a tiered subscription system has never made sense to me, especially when the "online" element of this upgrade to the online package will be negligible. If you absolutely have to get extra money for ropey old N64 games, why not just release an N64 collection as a separate app? You get the games for the admission price, they have online multiplayer if you're an NSO subscriber. Why make this more confusing than it has to be?

Edit: Have to say, I can't really imagine that NSO's roll-up of old software has been what Nintendo wants. It was a way to get people used to the idea of paying online fees—they must know they could make loads of money on top if they sold the games separately. I honestly believe Virtual Console will return. Maybe not on Switch, maybe not under the same name, but definitely on its successor.

Lots of doubt in this thread, so I'm going to assume this is 100% going to happen now because you lot are terrible at calling these things.

For the record, I won the Super Mario Kart tournament at Patrick V's birthday party and I didn't even own a SNES. Beat that, 8 year olds!

Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy 1
The match between Dark Forces and Jedi Outcast postponed due to bent pitch

The percentage tracker should have been greatly reweighted towards the actual game or not in there at all. I can just about see the worth of tracking down every little sidequest, but getting the korok seeds is bascially like collecting every coin in a Mario game. Like sure, you do you, and there's some interesting challenge in it, but it's so far from the actual point of the game and actively detrimental to most people's enjoyment.

@Synecdoche You have my permission to be, but according to a reddit post in May it unfortunately doesn't look like the Japanese release of RF5 allows same sex marriage.

Not sure I'm onboard with Quake being an unimpeachable 10/10 classic now or when it was first released. Always felt like one step forward, two steps back from DOOM honestly. Undoubtedly good, but not that extra little bit of good, you know?

Hello, I am the one person with a Switch who doesn't own Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (never saw the point of upgrading from the Wii U version tbh. Looks like I have owned the rest of the top 10 at some point though!)

@The_New_Butler
Every Sonic Mega Drive Game, while using a sound sample derived from SEGA's 80s Japanese TV advertising: "SAY-GUH"

A stubborn Australian: "SEA-GAH"

Who will win?

@Ventilator I wouldn't expect anything less than a complete Wii U set from someone with a Devil's Third avatar!

The rules are that the Wii U physical version will massively plummet in price when this is released, right? Right?

(I imagine John Carmack had a big role in this rather than just Romero, even if he was the source of the video. Romero's biggest talents were in level design, Carmack was all about fast engines)

"If you're wondering how a light gun can interact with film stock, your opponents' eyes flash (as you can see above) just before they draw. If you're fast and accurate enough to aim and point at the big white 'flash', you'll see them fall to the ground"

Not sure if this would be correct? Unlike the game console "light-guns" the arcade versions (and toys) actually did fire beams at a mechanically operated sensor behind the projector (or somewhere else it could be reflected into, or in a toy), rather than sticking the sensor in the gun and the light in the display? I'm not sure a sensor would be able to tell the difference between that flash in the eyes and any other bright spot on a projected image. Seems more likely it signaled when you were allowed to shoot.

Someone ask Jeremy Parish, he probably knows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dxa2QkZmso

I don't have or particularly want a "smart" TV. This just means that I have to use my PS4 and its constantly battery-drained controller.

Rather cheeky branding. Analogue must be pretty flattered right now.

Also, I'm confused - if it has to use a PC as a middle man, what are the chips on the board doing? The emulation? But there's a whole-ass PC just sitting there?

Why has it taken them so long to just say this? Literally the only thing I needed to hear about the game.

@iuli Hi, I feel like you need to understand now that this is the absolute worst take.

Firstly, because Takahata is indispensable to Ghibli, and Grave of the Fireflies isn't the only film of his that is worthy of mention. Furthermore, ignoring the contributions of people like Katsuya Kondō or Kazuo Oga to the Ghibli look is just plainly ignorant. Besides, this level of auteur worship denies the hard work of lower-level artists in an often exploitative industry.

Also, and most importantly, Miyazaki is the world's most cantankerous man and would definitely give you an hour-long dressing down in front of the entire company for ever airing this view.

I think the Mario Galaxy 2xCD is the only thing I ever actually saved up enough points to afford? People talk up how great the EU service was but it really was a lot of old tat. You needed a colossal library of scratch codes to get anything halfway decent (and a whole bunch of my codes expired before I could use them!)

Oh wait, the only other thing is a cardboard artbox for the first three Professor Layton games, which is neat I guess?

But your ad says "Warioware Get it Together"

Ha, they got this all screwed up: it's
"Warioware?
Get: 'Together!'"

Proof, if ever it was needed, that the 3DS-era "New" branding was just confusing. Though GameStop's copywriter has no excuse.

@Andee Yes, that was unpleasant for all concerned.

@BanjoPickles Oh​, yes. That's very important.

Stop everything! I don't remember writing a check for The Simpsons Bowling!

@Slowdive A big Taito fan? Got some bad news about the size of this product.

Tom Clancy's Rhythm Heaven

@StrikerXL wonderboy.inin.games says it's there on the Switch cart, whereas it's a separate download with the retail PS4 version.

Mate there's bags of these things in the freezer aisle at Morrisons. Microwaveable in three minutes, 60 is well off.

Fingers crossed for a surprise beyond the three obvious candidates... not that the DLC needs anything else to be decent quality, I just like surprises.

@Rika_Yoshitake I imagine people are thinking of what Game Freak's Sword/Shield games looked like the first time they saw them, rather than the early (mostly non direct-feed) early versions of games internally developed at Nintendo?