luke88

A great game just got better, can't wait to try the new courses!

Really excited to learn more, love image and form!

@neogyo yeah that would be great to know

My main problem is with the "reviews" for the game, specifically with the online. By now I'm basically used to NLife's single sentence referring to online options in their reviews, but It's just not good enough.

Especially considering Nintendo's woeful online track record, review sites like this one need to be a bit more thorough, in my opinion.

For example, having read the NLife review, does anyone know:

Is there any voice chat?
How many players can play across how many consoles? (Super Mario party players may know why I ask)
What happens if one random player quits? Are they seamlessly replaced with an AI?

All basic questions. So many more need answering before we have a complete picture of this game. Love this site and hate to complain, but this isn't the first time your reviews have been horrendously inadequate when it comes to online.

@Rika_Yoshitake the games don't run particularly well, the online is basically unplayable. You think everyone should be happy?

Does look great but feel it needs both online and crossplay, though those are no doubt incredibly difficult for a solo dev to manage.

I don't even own Animal Crossing for heaven's sake, nor do tens of millions of other switch owners. Bundling that dlc and forcing us to pay for it if we want to play a handful of N64 games again is absurd. Horrific idea.

@D_Cybercherries oh hi Joe, thanks so much for the quick response. I've actually been thinking about buying your game all day and have watched various YouTube videos - I've seen you all over the place!

I'm in, friend! Evening where I am but I shall get out of bed and put it on download this very moment. Will perhaps look into the discord server at some point.

Take care

Does anyone know anything about the state of the online lobbies? Would love to play this if I can find people online to play with.

"The Japanese tourism trap Okinawa?" 😂

Never heard Okinawa described that way before. Did you have a somewhat disappointing vacation there @Damo ?

@geordie I agree on all counts.

Where are the reviews from other outlets? Is there an embargo that famitsu was permitted to break early? The game is out tomorrow.

@Liam_Doolan any idea when the NLife review will be up?

@BenAV I actually picked up Mario tennis aces a few days ago. I believe it's received a lot of post launch content updates and balance patches. It's a really great game now. Just wish a few more people were playing online. Come back to it, friend! 😂

@WhiteTrashGuy had a similar experience, as did one of my friends. Absolutely woeful.

I thought it was very disappointing.

Have just recently completed Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Hollow Knight. Sad to say, but everything about this looks bland compared to both of them, even the music playing during the trailer. Hope it'll be good when it releases.

I just purchased a couple games but can't actually download them, just getting constant error messages. Believe it's update related. Won't be buying more until this is resolved.

Also in no particular order:

Hades (the most recent)
Super Mario Galaxy
Affordable Space Adventures (sublime in every respect and so underrated).
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Gears of War 3

Edit: also the first Shenmue

@Tulio517 yeah, I thought that was odd, too. Especially considering Hades is a console exclusive on Switch.

Huzzah! So glad @ThomasBW84 is back!

@KryptoniteKrunch That's not a "first party" title. It wasn't developed by Nintendo, unless I'm mistaken?

It's a little difficult to justify Nintendo charging us to play online, when online features in their own flagship titles are so poorly implemented.

What was the last big, new first party game Nintendo released? Animal crossing? Is it time to admit that, for us Wii U owners, Nintendo hasn't really delivered on switch thus far?

This is a great game, though! I'm sure lots of people will love it.

Only a 4? Meowch!

@DonkeyKongBigBoy haha, £24.99 isn't free, little guy.

Pay for patches? This was a full priced game, if 2K and their subsidiaries released finished products patches wouldn't be necessary. You want people to pay again for companies to fix the games they have already paid for?

2K are hosting dedicated servers for this? How much does maintenance cost?

And other stuff? Ha, okay, champ.

@dartmonkey I’m through the tutorial and I played a complete single player game without any crashes! Hoping the online holds up.

Please don’t worry about it! It seems to have been changed post release and made less stable but am hoping it was mostly just the tutorial! When devs change things post release there’s really nothing you guys can fairly be expected to do. Apologies if my earlier message seemed abrupt, I actually came back online to delete it. Thanks so much for the response, though

Hi @dartmonkey , has anyone from the the NLife team played Armello recently? I bought it, as did several of my friends when I asked them to, after I saw it on this list and read the NLife review.

The game is in a utterly dreadful state, as a result of updates I think. I’ve had three crashes in the first 15 minutes of the tutorial. My friends have had loads of crashes, too. You really shouldn’t be recommending this game as it is now.

@NorwegianMate thanks for the review! Disappointed that nothing about online options and connectivity was included in the NLife review.

Have you played with any friends online? Can you tell me anything about the options? Iif there’s a disconnect can you pick up where you left off with your online friend? Or is that round just gone. Many thanks for any advice!

Disappointing for me personally, as seemingly everything these guys touch is gold, but hope the gunk is a success for them. They are such a great team.

@DreamStar settle down, champ

@Pod Your tinfoil hat must be a particularly large one.

Played this for a few hours today, the mode where you have to take/defend three points is rather good. It’s all pretty basic but the maps are solid, some good choke points and respawn points make sense - don’t often get shot in the back, unlike COD. Handheld doesn’t work very well but on a big tv with the pro controller it’s quite good fun.

@Res462 @shaneoh I see, I did think the situation was probably more complicated. Thanks for the insights!

He was fired for supporting the republican candidate in the election? Granted, the candidate was Trump but that is still insane.

@Tariq1984 Kobe Bryant? Is that a baseball player? We don’t play much baseball here in the uk, there is a somewhat similar game here called Rounders, though it is mostly played by children.

On topic: Luigi’s mansion sure is great!

@Heavyarms55 perhaps hard to say as we don't know when the fifth game is coming, unless I have missed that somehow?

4 is a wonderful game. I would say 5 won't come out this year and 4 is worth playing if you have even the slightest interest in the genre.

@dazzleshell cheap compared to what? Are you not implicitly comparing the price to other online gaming subscription services, while telling us not to compare it to other subscription services?

I remember when Nintendo announced the regular updates would stop; some of us were optimistic, we probably shouldn’t have been.

@BlackenedHalo Part of it is not true, part of it is your opinion. It's all rather amusing.

@BlackenedHalo "I just cannot be silent anymore." 🤣

Do you feel better having farted that vapid little comment out?

Outer worlds and a bit of Smash for me

@VoodooTrumpet Do you ever go to the cinema, buy some snacks and maybe have dinner after? Because that experience will surely set you back more than this game, as will many others we rarely question the value of.

I don't mean to have a go, and I know what it feels like to worry about money, but I find it disheartening to read here, and elsewhere, how little value some 'gamers' actually place on great games.

@Tandy255 me too. Silly of us both to expect any kind of update there...

@EvaEeveeFan where will you go?

I'd love a snipplerclips 2, a snipplerclips maker game or anything snipplerclips related. Sorry for all the 'snipperclips,' I've just recently completed snipplerclips.

@nessisonett thanks for the information!

But what is the actual gameplay like? We select options from lists of text? Is there anything else to it?

This is really great, I had started to lose hope.

Absolutely loved Papers, Please. This looks wonderful, too.

That trailer leaves rather a lot to the imagination

@dartmonkey

"Maybe I should be looking at it a different way. All these mobile entries in my favourite franchises enable Nintendo to have its cake and eat it, gaining exposure for its IP on every smart device going, raking in the big bucks from the whales willing to blow £64.99 on 135 Rubies and keeping all those exhausting mobile trappings locked away where they belong. At least they’re all quarantined away on phones while the full-fat experiences exist safely isolated from the lure of the loot box. At least they won’t infect the ‘proper’ Nintendo games!... Will they?”

This is in fairly poor taste. You're talking pretty flippantly about a corporation taking advantage of people who often have issues with compulsive spending, and other addictive personality problems, as well as children. Are you happy about that, if it keeps such monetisation out of the games you like? The AAA industry has nothing but contempt for us, that much is clear, but I don't expect that kind of nonsense here. Poor form, friend.

@Hylian_Ticipated

“It's just the damning evidence that I have that can't be explained. I question daily if I should share it or not. Because I want answers.”

Lol