Ehhh was never a fan of the other human characters. Prefer them to be aliens or to just be full on isolation. Feels like it’s erring slightly closer towards Other M than the main series.
My sister got this, Harvest Moon DS and Nintendogs with her pink DS Lite and that had to be about 2006 I think, cause me and my brother got the Wii the same year. Funnily enough, our mortgage was with Northern Rock and a year later we were homeless and the parents were getting divorced. Always read into overly generous Christmas presents kids!
Yeah, this is what I expected when they hinted at some changes to the story. It’s a pretty bold move for the genre what becomes of Kiefer in the original. So of course here’s a remake that changes things.
20 years is mental to be fair. I’ve been here about half of that because ONM’s death was my pathway here but it’s still the best Nintendo site out there!
Difficult to decide between this and Wild World for my favourite AC soundtrack. Probably my favourite game in the series though, NH felt like a step in a direction I’m not fond of, and the mayor powers in NL were right on the line of what I really want the player to have control over in their town. You’re a resident living life in the town, that’s what the series should be, a collective group of villagers as equals.
Hm. I worry that this will become a PS5 situation where tiny upgrades become a substitute for new games. By now they should really have been working on the next game for a good while.
@UpsideDownRowlet This is not related to the FIFA games, they stopped being called that 3 years ago now. FIFA is the regulatory body for football. This is just the equivalent of College Football 26 making a deal with the NCAA for licenses.
@Erigen @HammerGalladeBro The game is called Football Manager 26. And there’s zero microtransactions. This has nothing to do with the FIFA games, it’s just the regulatory body.
One a year. Only spare income I have is around my birthday and that’ll usually go on one new game. Anything else is either borrowed copies from friends or through PS Plus.
@Dang_69 You’re completely right, a lot of the image and video-generating models have been trained on Disney, Pixar and Ghibli so there’s a distinct style emerging of AI generated cartoons in that they owe their DNA to plagiarised Pixar movies. I reckon the Spider-Verse/TMNT Mutant Mayhem art style is going to be the major human-driven style of the next decade of animation. A more sketchy/rough style appeals to the human spirit more than rounded corners and soft colours in an age where you get bombarded with that distinctly AI style.
Having not played the remake, I didn’t even realise they changed the soundtrack. Really should dig out my original copy. I sold a bunch of games a couple weeks back because yes, things are getting that bad, but I’m not completely confident that the Cube discs aren’t too scratched from 25 years worth of storage and mistreatment from an idiot (me) to really be sellable in good conscience. Shame too, this and Skies of Arcadia Legends would probably fetch a few bob.
@Ogbert Water consumption too, it’s an incredibly thirsty industry considering the returns. It’s possibly the biggest folly that humans have ever pursued, driven entirely by the greed of a small set of billionaires that want to impose this on the rest of us and ruin as many lives as possible.
This is absolutely horrific. There is zero benefit to any of this. Remember when they said AI would cure cancer, create jobs, rewire people’s brains etc. Instead its making slop, serving us ads and making people more stupid.
@DrJoson Easily the best of the Tennant specials, probably one of the scariest New Who episodes in general. Sort of mad it’s that good given how clearly done RTD and Tennant were at that time.
@rio_j I dunno, generally the quality of acting in Eastenders is more impressive than the sort you get in the Yank soaps. Might just be due to the acting pathway in the UK prioritising stage and study over looking good in underwear.
I mean, it couldn’t not end with a teaser considering what happens at the end of the game. It would be like watching Fellowship of the Ring then thinking yeah that’s that, won’t bother with the rest.
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Re: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Meet The Team
Ehhh was never a fan of the other human characters. Prefer them to be aliens or to just be full on isolation. Feels like it’s erring slightly closer towards Other M than the main series.
Re: Random: Timesplitters: Rewind Is An Ultra-Slick Fan-Made Tribute That's Got Us In GameCube FPS Mode
I’ve been following this for literal years. Can’t believe it’s finally here!
Re: Review: Viewfinder (Switch) - Reality-Shifting Puzzler Is A Chilled, Mind-Bending Experience
Oh god this game. Hold on, did I just shift REALITY?
Re: Poll: 20 Years After Settling On DS, Do You Still Play Animal Crossing: Wild World?
My sister got this, Harvest Moon DS and Nintendogs with her pink DS Lite and that had to be about 2006 I think, cause me and my brother got the Wii the same year. Funnily enough, our mortgage was with Northern Rock and a year later we were homeless and the parents were getting divorced. Always read into overly generous Christmas presents kids!
Re: Poll: What Do You Make Of Link And Zelda's Live-Action Looks?
They look AI. I dunno, some sort of weird smoothness filter.
Re: Review: Indika (Switch) - A Port That Makes You Lose Faith In An Indie Gem
This game is amazing. The port does not sound amazing.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Inazuma Eleven
The EU version has better voices than the US version too. You get Luke from Professor Layton saying “Inerzoomer Eleven”.
Re: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Complete Edition Physical Release Announced For Switch
@Dr_Wright Being able to actually ride the rides was worth going 3D imo. None of the later entries even come close to the first 3 anyway.
Re: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Complete Edition Physical Release Announced For Switch
Still own my original PC copies of this and the expansions. Great game.
Re: "We Would Rather Cut Off Our Own Arms" - Demonschool Studio Necrosoft Lets You Know What It Thinks About Using AI
Good. Support human made.
Re: Video: Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined Reveals A Familiar Face In New "Follow-Up" Trailer
Yeah, this is what I expected when they hinted at some changes to the story. It’s a pretty bold move for the genre what becomes of Kiefer in the original. So of course here’s a remake that changes things.
Re: Super Mario Galaxy Movie Nintendo Direct Announced For Wednesday, 12th November
It’s a kids movie. Just put out a trailer and be done with it.
Re: Good Smile Reveals New Fire Emblem Byleth Dancer Figure, Pre-Orders Now Live
This is the series now.
Re: Site News: Nintendo Life Turns 20 Today!
20 years is mental to be fair. I’ve been here about half of that because ONM’s death was my pathway here but it’s still the best Nintendo site out there!
Re: Hitman: Absolution Shoots Onto Switch 1 Next Week
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Re: Nintendo Music Updated With Animal Crossing's 3DS Soundtrack
Difficult to decide between this and Wild World for my favourite AC soundtrack. Probably my favourite game in the series though, NH felt like a step in a direction I’m not fond of, and the mayor powers in NL were right on the line of what I really want the player to have control over in their town. You’re a resident living life in the town, that’s what the series should be, a collective group of villagers as equals.
Re: Resident Evil Pro Controller Is Available To Pre-Order, But Its Price Is Terrifying
Anyone who buys this needs their head checked.
Re: Surprise! Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Arrives Next Year
Hm. I worry that this will become a PS5 situation where tiny upgrades become a substitute for new games. By now they should really have been working on the next game for a good while.
Re: Rune Factory 4 Director Hopes To Bring His Next Farming Sim To Consoles
@GoombaJMR I’ve easily put 300 hours into it. It’s genuinely brilliant.
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Re: Rune Factory 4 Director Hopes To Bring His Next Farming Sim To Consoles
Rune Factory 4 is up there with my favourite games of all time. I’ll definitely keep an eye out for this.
Re: EA Staff Are Reportedly Less Than Happy With Their Much-Hyped AI "Helpers"
It’s bursting sooner rather than later, this is the Dotcom bubble on steroids.
Re: Fire Emblem Shadows Gets A Free Update Adding New Story, Map And More
This series used to be good. The next game will just be an entire cast of catgirls.
Re: Feature: "We Have Absolutely No Intention Of Neglecting Her" - Persona 3 Reload Devs On FeMC And Porting To Switch 2
It gives them an excuse to release another version later with FeMC included. Atlus have form.
Re: Football Manager Signs With FIFA In New "Multi-Year Partnership"
@UpsideDownRowlet This is not related to the FIFA games, they stopped being called that 3 years ago now. FIFA is the regulatory body for football. This is just the equivalent of College Football 26 making a deal with the NCAA for licenses.
Re: Football Manager Signs With FIFA In New "Multi-Year Partnership"
@Erigen @HammerGalladeBro The game is called Football Manager 26. And there’s zero microtransactions. This has nothing to do with the FIFA games, it’s just the regulatory body.
Re: Even Memes Are Getting The Metroidvania Treatment Now
It’s coming out in 2026. This is the sort of sh*t Elon Musk would find funny, just utterly dead memes.
Re: It's Official, Minecraft Is Getting A Second Live-Action Movie
The sooner the video game adaptation trend dies, the better. Or just the current crop of blockbusters in general.
Re: Sakurai's A Fan Of This Award-Winning Monastic Adventure, And Now It's Coming To Switch
It’s amazing. And mental.
Re: Poll: How Many New Games Do You Buy In A Year?
One a year. Only spare income I have is around my birthday and that’ll usually go on one new game. Anything else is either borrowed copies from friends or through PS Plus.
Re: Nintendo Goes Full Pixar In Strange New Animated Short Film, 'Close To You'
@Dang_69 You’re completely right, a lot of the image and video-generating models have been trained on Disney, Pixar and Ghibli so there’s a distinct style emerging of AI generated cartoons in that they owe their DNA to plagiarised Pixar movies. I reckon the Spider-Verse/TMNT Mutant Mayhem art style is going to be the major human-driven style of the next decade of animation. A more sketchy/rough style appeals to the human spirit more than rounded corners and soft colours in an age where you get bombarded with that distinctly AI style.
Re: Nintendo Goes Full Pixar In Strange New Animated Short Film, 'Close To You'
Re: Nintendo Music Adds Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Switch & GameCube Albums
Having not played the remake, I didn’t even realise they changed the soundtrack. Really should dig out my original copy. I sold a bunch of games a couple weeks back because yes, things are getting that bad, but I’m not completely confident that the Cube discs aren’t too scratched from 25 years worth of storage and mistreatment from an idiot (me) to really be sellable in good conscience. Shame too, this and Skies of Arcadia Legends would probably fetch a few bob.
Re: Talking Point: Can Metroid Prime 4's Title Screen Go As Hard As The Others?
Somebody voted Federation Force 😂
Re: "OpenAI Is Trying To Get Sued" - Nintendo IP Floods Sora 2 Video Generation App
@Ogbert Water consumption too, it’s an incredibly thirsty industry considering the returns. It’s possibly the biggest folly that humans have ever pursued, driven entirely by the greed of a small set of billionaires that want to impose this on the rest of us and ruin as many lives as possible.
Re: "OpenAI Is Trying To Get Sued" - Nintendo IP Floods Sora 2 Video Generation App
This is absolutely horrific. There is zero benefit to any of this. Remember when they said AI would cure cancer, create jobs, rewire people’s brains etc. Instead its making slop, serving us ads and making people more stupid.
Re: Dragon Quest I & II HD Remake's Brand New Underwater Region Is Beautiful
@johnedwin And I’ve only played the SNES remasters of 1, 2 and 3. They use the old names before the retranslated ones that are around these days.
Re: Dragon Quest I & II HD Remake's Brand New Underwater Region Is Beautiful
@CasualTalkRadio I’ve only played the SNES versions of 1, 2, 3 actually so the old names are what I know!
Re: Feature: Who Is Devon Pritchard? - Meet The Next NOA President Stepping Into Bowser's Boots
She has a sister called Cornwall.
Re: Dragon Quest I & II HD Remake's Brand New Underwater Region Is Beautiful
I think this will slot into 2 nicely. Hopefully it gives you more areas to grind before that f***ing Cave to Rhone/Rendarak.
Re: Nintendo Of America President Doug Bowser Announces Retirement
He will be lowered ceremonially into a pit of lava. Godspeed.
Re: 007 First Light Adds Another Big Name To Its Cast List
@DrJoson Easily the best of the Tennant specials, probably one of the scariest New Who episodes in general. Sort of mad it’s that good given how clearly done RTD and Tennant were at that time.
Re: 007 First Light Adds Another Big Name To Its Cast List
That’s pretty big, she’s a hell of an actress and it’s sort of a little sad to see Eternals be what she’s known for when Humans is that good.
Re: Review: Agatha Christie - Death On The Nile (Switch) - Monsieur Poirot Shimmies Into The '70s In Style
70s is an inspired choice, gives the vibe of the Peter Ustinov movie.
Re: Video: EA Sports FC 26 Disappoints At 30fps On Switch 2
60FPS should be the priority for sports games. Visual fluff is not as necessary as smooth gameplay.
Re: Random: 'Days Of Our Lives' Character Gets Lucky By Name-Dropping Xenoblade
@rio_j I dunno, generally the quality of acting in Eastenders is more impressive than the sort you get in the Yank soaps. Might just be due to the acting pathway in the UK prioritising stage and study over looking good in underwear.
Re: Random: 'Days Of Our Lives' Character Gets Lucky By Name-Dropping Xenoblade
Christ almighty, I thought our soaps had shoddy acting.
Re: Pre-Orders For 'Simon The Sorcerer Origins' Open, Featuring Chris Barrie & Rick Astley
Had no idea Rimmer did these games. Bit random for Rick Astley to be in it but eh, he’s had a bit of a revival outside of just memes.
Re: Trails In The Sky 1st Chapter Contains Teaser For The Sequel
I mean, it couldn’t not end with a teaser considering what happens at the end of the game. It would be like watching Fellowship of the Ring then thinking yeah that’s that, won’t bother with the rest.
Re: Review: NBA 2K26 (Switch 2) - Brilliant B-Ball Has A Disappointing Debut On Switch 2
Man, the Switch 2 on paper is such a leap forwards but devs just don’t seem to be taking advantage.