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@Dunkin That’s not very Nintendo, is it? If this was the Wii era, we’d have a bunch of oddball uses for the functionality that gives it a sort of unique appeal.

@Waluigi451 I sort of feel like video games are the only avenue of media that anyone really cares about reviews, to be honest.

I’d be really curious what percentage of users have utilized this feature. Gamechat was absolutely getting a basic feature that’s available literally everywhere else wrong.

Also, just gotta throw it out there, but it’s been a year now and I’ve only used the mouse functionality in Drag x Drive and Welcome Tour. I wonder if that’ll ever be something actually useful either.

But what about Wario though?

Looking forward to seeing this one the first time, but, like the last one, not looking forward to when this one’s on home video because this kind of movie is only fun one time. 😂

I hope the after credits scene is a trailer for a new Star Fox game.

I hope the leaks are real. It’s seriously a 10/10 line up for me this year if it’s true. Seeing Star Fox and Warioland on top of the games we already know about is fantastic. I mean, it’s totally a niche line-up, and I don’t understand the wisdom in business of this, but at least it’s certainly catered to my tastes.

I think Ocarina’s totally plausible too, but I hope it’s a remake in the BotW engine rather than another glorified remaster.

So they’re saying it’s a sequel to the last movie, basically? What else did anyone expect?

Given the light roster and focus on Last Airbender characters, it sort of feels weird to see two Korra characters and that’s it. Either they’re planning DLC or they just didn’t have the budget to make a huge roster. I’m curious to see how it turns out as someone that loves Avatar.

Resident Evil Requiem and Life is Strange Reunion

It absolutely should’ve been a secret surprise. Makes me think Mario 3 will be based on Smash Bros. At least we don’t know the context yet.

We get Starfox before Wario. Huh…

Ethan, but I’m liking Grace more the more I play Requiem

As much as I’d love to dust off my Toxic Crobat or Curse Wobuffet builds for some competitive play, the monetization is a real turn off to me, and I expect this may be the time Gamefreak actually has to do some thinking about their practices

I’m happy to see Square get a win, but do they really deserve it for basically re-releasing a bunch of already excellent games? Square’s been beat up so many times that I like to see them have success, but it’s a shame they didn’t get more celebration when they made more new games. Sort of encourages the “living in the past, nostalgia gazing” we’re getting out of the industry these days. Remasters for the win forever, I guess.

Personally, I felt Nintendo had the best line-up last year of any publisher. Four Nintendo games were in my personal top 10 last year. The ire against Welcome Tour was certainly overdone, though Drag x Drive was certainly among Nintendo’s weakest first party games. Imagine if those two games were built into the Switch 2! The narrative around them both would probably be unilateral praise instead. But seriously, Bananza’s a 10, and MKW, Metroid, Z-A are all underrated 8s to me.

Honestly too, outside the Nintendo slate, last year was sort of weak across the board. Death Stranding 2 is probably the only truly essential AAA game last year that wasn’t Nintendo. For me, at least. I know others may disagree. Microsoft’s line-up was better than most too, even if I’m not sure I’d rate any of the games they released last year above 7/10.

With regards to Fortnite, I guess the increase in price didn’t help them “pay the bills.” Honestly, it’s terrible to see people lose jobs. I hope they find something new soon. I hope very much that economic stability becomes something that is more assured in our world in the future.

I do wonder if Fortnite’s finally past its peak though. The game’s almost 10 years old now. I mean, when I was a kid, everyone was playing this game called Super Mario Brothers, but when I was a young adult, freshly out of school, everyone was playing Halo. While Mario and Halo are still around, things are different. By 2017, when Fortnite released, Mario wasn’t anything like the Mario I played when I was 10, and Halo was basically limbering around like a slowly decaying undead. Fortnite’s gotten bigger in 9 years, but it’s mostly had success in its BR format, and while it’s changed some, it’s not the same change that Mario had when I went from 10 to 19 years old. Those kids that were 10 nine years ago are probably bouncing off to newer things and the kids that are 10 now might not be as interested. My son’s 8 and he’s got no interest in it.

I think there’s typically a generational shift in games, and if you’re not adapting and making new things with recognizable characters, a game can only go so far. On Mario’s S curve, he can always reinvent himself to prevent dying and bank on nostalgia a little bit sometimes to stretch things out a bit. Without having its own recognizable characters, I do wonder how long Fortnite can plunder yesterday’s pop culture to remain relevant.

RE7 is what I’d recommend for people that focus mostly on modern games and RE1 for people that like retro games.

Honestly, RE7 than REmake 1, 2, 3, Village, REmake 4, RE5, Requiem is what I’d recommend as a shortcut version of playing the series. You can skip 0 and 6 and the side games and still have enough lore. By the time you get to a divisive entry like 5, you’ll already be hooked enough to make your own opinion on it too, and Requiem can be the cherry on top

How can you not vote for Wesker? I really like the Bakers and Victor Gideon too, but seriously Donna Beneviento’s section in Village was a remarkable triumph in horror too. It’s probably the only moment in Village that truly surpassed the mastery of horror going on in RE7

Voted for Europe because it’s so of the time it came from. But all of these covers have aged like milk, realistically.

I’ve got a busy weekend, but if I do play games I’d like to get back to Requiem. If not that one, I’ve got Rubato ready to play too. Operation: Complete Everything I’ve Purchased This Year Before Pragmata Releases is going according to plan at the moment.

Never used it, never will

The show’s already available on Netflix or Amazon Prime in the US, can’t remember which (it’s been on both, might still be on both, just like Pokemon Indigo League). My kids love the show and watch it all the time.

Honestly, it’s probably the best Monster Hunter game yet in the series for me, but I wouldn’t say I’m a reliable point of reference when it comes to the series.

@-wc- Last time I saw them it was end of the century and it was nothing special.

…I jest! Totally jest! Gorillaz have put on some fantastic shows. Just being the model of a charmless man. I’d not seen Gorillaz on SNL lately, but I’ll definitely look it up and watch it today and probably have that lone tear trickling down the side of my face as well.

Y’know, it doesn’t fully make sense to throw this line out there, but eh… it’s another indie game/Blur correlation. In the song “The Narcissist,” there’s another pertinent lyric for today: “I felt rubato standing there.” I’m feeling Rubato too since THAT game literally comes out tomorrow and I preordered it after the demo.

@-wc- I was trying to come up with something witty to keep referencing the song to your mic drop of a comment, but I’ve got nothing.

I’m brain-dead, virtually.

Ben Kingsley is clearly Big the Cat

Love Doinksoft. Got a Gato Roboto t-shirt. Honestly, is a contender for a top 10 list of most underrated games of all time, in my opinion. Fantastic, simple metroidvania. Gunbrella was good too. Not sure I love the title of this one, in that it’s a bit on the nose as a parody, but I’ll definitely get it when it launches regardless!

100% agree with this article.

Pokopia is probably the first game in the series that legitimately deserves to be in the GotY discussion too. I hope that it’s still being talked about at the end of the year. You can really feel the passion of the team that made this.

Romeo is a Dead Man and Pokopia for sure. Due to the winter storm in my neck of the woods, I’m getting an extra day to my weekend. Hopefully I get the chance to get back to Requiem too. Honestly, 2026 has had a fantastic start with games.

I was planning on getting this one for the wife and kids, but they’re so smitten with Pokopia right now that I’m sort of waiting for reviews on this rather than preordering this one because I think they’re going to be busy for a while. My son literally told me today, “Dad, I like Pokopia more than Animal Crossing and I didn’t think that would happen. I thought it was going to feel like a copy, but it doesn’t. It’s better. And now I think Tomodachi Life is coming out too soon because I don’t know if I’m ready for it.”

I know they’re different games at the core, but I feel like Nintendo’s done some questionable scheduling the last year-ish. Putting Kirby Air Riders the same year as Mario Kart and then having Pokopia in March and Tomodachi in April is a weird strategy to me.

Honestly, it’s early in the year, but this one might end up being a GotY contender for me. It’s fantastic.

I’ll be patiently waiting to see if someone receives a Wario card…

I’d preorder it now if I could!

Explains why Overwatch went from being the best multiplayer game on the market to utterly disappointing at every turn for a long while.

Not only was it super effective, but I reckon it was a critical hit.

Seriously, Pokopia is the game Nintendo needed to start this year strong. Mario Tennis has fantastic gameplay and is incredibly fun as a multiplayer experience, but the game would’ve actually been better had it removed the story mode (and had they done that, it might’ve been a $50 game, which probably would’ve sold far, far better). Pokopia’s surprisingly competing with DK for being the best game launched on Switch 2 in its first calendar year.

It’s my most anticipated game this year for sure. I bought my daughter and I matching Pragmata shirts off the Capcom store out of good faith that we’ll love this one.

The entire family is looking forward to the game. Nintendo’s hitting the right boxes for us on the first party front this year. Hearing that this one is going to be a budget release too is wonderful news. I was going to buy it anyway, but Yoshi games tend to be short and easy, so $50 sounds super reasonable in comparison to $70. Sounds like Nintendo’s actually trying to sell more units for this one.

Who needs a first party Direct when we get random announcements like this?

I’m happy to hear the release date either way though. Can’t wait to get this one!

Don’t buy it. Don’t give them money for this slop. Given how the industry is working these days, if they don’t hit sales out the gate basically, studios shut down. If we stop making slop profitable, scammers will move on to the next get rich scheme.

@ThomasBW84 Awesome! I think I’ll clear out my backlog and see where I’m at in maybe a month or two then. That demo was fantastic, but having just finished LeafGreen yesterday, I’ve found I’m not as fond of grinding levels as I was 20 years ago! Ha! Looks potentially like it may be my personal favorite Monster Hunter game yet when I do get to it though, based on everything else I’m reading.

Wonder if the Wario rumors got it wrong and it was actually Wart that they misheard. Still really cool reference to Mario 2 to have Wart and his team be in the film.

@ThomasBW84 Out of curiosity, how long is this one? I’m curious, but I’m nervous about having the time to catch up with Capcom this year.

To be honest, I’ve been too stuck playing LeafGreen to start this one yet. Got to the Elite 4 last night, but I’m completely underleveled. Hopefully I start this one soon! Got to finish Requiem and Romeo is a Dead Man first, I think though…

Hopefully they can get the slop off the eshop at some point in general. I’ve said it before but it shouldn’t be embarrassing to look at the upcoming releases with your kids on a Nintendo platform.

Well, I’ve been playing Pokemon LeafGreen, and in the meantime Pokopia, Resident Evil Requiem, and Romeo is a Dead Man have stacked up. I’ve got Rubato and Life is Strange at the end of the month and potentially Crimson Desert adding depth to the pile soon. Then next month… Pragmata already preordered.

I’ll be honest, this is the worst I’ve been with keeping up with games in years, but hopefully I get some time to play because this is also the most exciting line-up I feel like I’ve had to play in a long time and I don’t think this year is going to let up for me. We’ve got another 2023 on our hands!

I’ll download it. To be honest, I’ve never played a game in the series, so I’m glad I get to try it.

Hopefully it ends with an announcement of a real Direct on MAR10 Day

@Thomystic Underrated for sure! Darn that autocorrect! Fixed

Glad it’s a good, old fashioned Metroidvania, the way it should be… even though I would like an OG ‘Vania game in the style of 1 or 3 as well.

Already own My Little Puppy, Blue Prince, and Öoo elsewhere and I won’t be double dipping. Denshattack is the only maybe for me.

Not gonna lie, I hope the next Nintendo presentation’s a little more exciting for me personally.