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@AG_Awesome Baffling they’re not there already, there’s an argument to be made that they’re the best entries in each series. Toadstool Tour is up there too.

I have this and Colosseum on disc. Not sure why Colosseum isn’t first given that XD is a direct sequel.

@somnambulance Not online you can’t. You’d need someone beside you with a Switch and a copy of the game.

My original blue 3DS really is gorgeous and it’s such a shame that the charger port fell out, and then the battery died after using the cradle for another wee while. The New 3DS XL got my vote though, it was a great replacement for my original, everything ran brilliantly and it’s probably the best handheld console of all time.

Wouldn’t be the first time Grubb spoke absolute bollocks. I’m not sure if other software engineers here feel differently but I personally don’t see the value in creating a build of a game for a console it will never release for, especially through the use of a Switch 2 dev kit. I see a lot more value in creating a build for a hypothetical handheld console in an environment simulating a rough estimate of the specs and architecture that Sony are aiming for. Or it’s possible that they’re porting GT7 to PC and these sorts of tests are pushing their optimisation to the limits and working out the range of setups the game will run at an acceptable level on.

It’s a tough one; I do commend him for adding more to Stardew but you have to decide when enough is enough. He’ll end up stuck on this one game forever if he’s not careful. This is why support studios became more important the last couple of generations.

@Dogorilla True, the Meep also worked better than an awful lot of the villains they had with Gatwa so maybe the more out there stuff is the way forward. Makes me want to listen to The Holy Terror again, I love Frobisher.

Utterly bizarre and incredibly niche. Like Frobisher turning up in an actual Doctor Who episode.

@a1904 Bars of Dairy Milk and blocks of cheese are now being kept in plastic anti-theft containers. Things are bad and I think an awful lot of people are more well off than they realise. As somebody made redundant right before Christmas, it can all change in a flash and there’s just nothing out there at all.

Thus ensuring any future releases in this vein will be £25-£30. Virtual Console worked because you could build up a library through small purchases fitting the fact these games are old as hell, and to encourage impulse buys. £17 is not an impulse buy in this economy, £17 is a few nights dinner. It takes the better part of a year’s saving to get one of these consoles, software should not feel like an investment too. Besides, the lack of an emulation menu means that the game won’t even look correct, that’s raw colour output that hasn’t even been filtered to resemble the GBA screen and so several Pokémon will look the wrong colour.

@UpsideDownRowlet Wario has a more realistic body shape.

People actually spending that amount on a basic ROM that lacks even an emulation menu. No wonder they do this nonsense, they know the public are suckers.

@Samalik The funniest thing is that if it was on NSO, it would have online play.

Insane price to not even include online play. Over double the price of Wii U VC games. Shocking greed.

Fire Red/Leaf Green coming to Switch as well for 20 bloody quid. Insanity. There’s a GBA app right there and besides that, GBA games were a lot cheaper than that on Wii U.

I would say Charizard but I’m doing a Professor Oak challenge in Fire Red and that ***** took me hours and hours and hours to evolve. Mewtwo it is.

Currently in a giant mansion in Blood Omen funnily enough. Decent game with awful hitboxes and I never seem to have enough health. But fun enough.

I love this stupid monkey. Genuinely have so many great memories of playing Super Monkey Ball 2 as a kid, even if it was mostly the minigames cause the actual main game is hard as nails.

@ShadLink The opposite is mostly true up until fairly recently. FIFA was the arcade experience, with less realistic physics and gameplay targeted at flashy skill moves and high scoring matches. PES offered more weighty physics and a slower build up throughout the golden age, it was later in the PS3 generation into PS4 generation that FIFA attempted a strange blend of pretend simulation with arcade gameplay. I honestly don’t mind the simulation gameplay in the newest FC games in single player but Ultimate Team rules all and that gameplay is blatantly scripted to generate income.

@ShadLink You must be young. During the PS2 years, PES was far and away the better game. FIFA only really took over in the PS3 years.

PES 2021 is still the best football game out there. eFootball is an unmitigated disaster on all fronts. Thankfully the PES 99 mod is coming to PC soon.

Time for the kids to find out what Penny Arcade is. And wish they hadn’t.

Game just doesn’t work. Lasted longer than my brothers as an apologist but the entire structure is flawed. Roll on Civ VIII.

It does feel like it’s closer to just all being over. GenAI is eroding democracy at an alarming rate and the way it’s completely destroying arts and culture means we’ll just be stuck with grey sludge.

I did love the 3DS game for how genuinely odd it was. Good to see they’ve finally added more diversity too, it’s not a life sim unless it accurately reflects life.

Game have always been crap to be fair. But it’s never easy on the staff to watch a company sink.

Very odd. The eShop is filled to the brim with dreadful hentai slop. Cyberpunk also avoided censorship. So what gives?

I know it’s Nintendo but what possible reason is there not to have this feature at launch? It’s literally just a block colour filter.

@CaptainQuo I have great aunts and uncles who still speak what I would call Scots. It’s mostly alive in the older generations. The general ‘Glasgow uni’ accent hatred is because they’re the ones who get the opportunities, and if they came from nothing then they’ve fair forgotten it. All the big cities in Scotland share a proud history of working class roots and I have more in common with poor folk in Dundee than the toffs in the West End. The push to keep Gaelic alive should also extend to Scots, it’s as much a part of our culture, but you’ll be hard pushed to find those in Holyrood who come from that stock. Also, like 90% of the newsreaders on Reporting Scotland have lilting Highland accents. Not sure when it started, I swear the most popular job in Dingwall must be newsreader for the BBC 😂

@CaptainQuo Glesga dialect is only gone in the posh parts. That’s the side of Glasgow that looks good on the postcards but it’s not reality. But you’re right that Doric is kept alive a lot better than Lowland Scots. I grew up in a council estate in a fairly rough area that’s slap bang in between social climber central and one of the most deprived areas in the country, so I went to a high school where you could quite literally tell those who had money from those who didn’t just based on their accent. Which is why it grates so much hearing the accents of those who make it in the media.

@MarkieMAN64 Correct, people confuse it with Scottish English which is obviously the modern dialect, but Oor Wullie is indecipherable for kids these days. We technically have Scots and Scottish Gaelic as indigenous languages and even then, Doric is a dialect of Scots and I couldn’t tell you half of what they say.

@AussieMcBucket Burns was born into a poor family and he opposed both slavery and class inequality. His poems were an inspiration for the later founders of liberalism and socialism.

Did the Address to a Haggis back in primary! If you’re not into the sheep stomach mystery mince then there’s a chocolate haggis from Simon Allen that is incredible. It’s like a brownie with shortbread and fudge.

The surprise is that the main theme, written by Crisp Rat himself, will be We Are Ma Ri O, We Carry The Flame.

I thought this game would be good when I finally played it last year.

She looks a bit like a Star Wars senator. Can’t be worse than Bowser.

@MirrorFate2 Could do Mario and Sonic at the Enhanced Games, Super Sonic versus Fire Mario with dubious refereeing taking place in Las Vegas. Better than my idea for Mario and Sonic at the Paralympic Games.

Bring back this series! Honestly, I’m so excited for Wii coming to RetroAchievements in March cause it gives me an excuse to play these sorts of more casual games again.

I would say this is stupid but I had Night at the Museum 2 on the DS and I played the sh*t out of it. 100%-ed the game even though it’s one of the most bog standard crap platformers on the DS.

Meta are more pushing towards their wearables than it being a clear trend from VR to AI investment. They’ve really set their stall out with these Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

Good thing it was a gyoza bar. Raising your Daddy Rank at an okama bar means something else entirely.

A shame about Massive. They’ve been solid for years.

@GammaPhonic Comparing EA to a fascist death cult that rounded up Jews, ethnic minorities, LGBT people, Communists and others, funnelled them into squalid camps and systematically massacred them in their millions sort of proves Fares’ point here. Come on now.

@BrazillianCara It’s instantly explained when a click reveals “Location: United States”

@BBBBBBBBBBB It’s basically a pyramid scheme, the sheer amount of investment is the only thing keeping it afloat. My big prediction for this year is that at least one of the big players in the industry will catastrophically implode, they’re desperately launching things like Gemini Pro and other tiered paid services for different models but there’s absolutely no way they’ll make much money when regular users will just use the free tier. It’s a tale as old as time, they test the market with the free app and then nobody will want to pay for it when the paid version launches.

@PharoneTheGnome Tools do the jobs they are given based entirely on human input. These AI models are working outwith the boundaries of the prompts they are given. The issue is that AI hallucinations are funny until they happen in an operating theatre or in defence reports.

He’s right about GenAI being the bigger issue. But like all things, the bubble relies on investors seeing potential earnings at the end of the tunnel. Which categorically will not come.

Can’t believe these are still around. Genuinely though AC Amiibo Festival would have soured people on them.