whiskeydave

I’ve played 3 or 4 Pokémon games and I couldn’t tell you the difference between any of them.

Honestly, I don’t care what they want to charge. If this is new to you, you’re gonna love it. I’d just rather have some new games instead. Feels like 3/4 of the switch’s first party catalogue were just ports of Wii U games. When I get nostalgic about old games, I just pop em in my Wii (you can play your GameCube games on it too) Or my 64. I got tired of blowing on my nes cartridges so I don’t mess with those anymore, but I’m getting sick of all the remasters and rehashes. G’head with em, just give us new stuff too! It’s not my fault that I’m the only one who bought a Wii U! If you wanna play those games you should have joined in! It was a fantastic console!

Never heard anyone complain about motion sickness over this game. It felt four dimensional at the time. (Next thing you knew it was 4am). Step up from Goldeneye if you’d asked us back then. Can’t imagine it holds up, but it’d be a great game to remake with a little contemporary flair. Miss these gems.

I can’t imagine being bummed about not hearing an Alien Ant Farm song.

What happened in Hawaii? Why was the trip “rather lucrative?!?”

Best Buy is telling me my order is being packed and will ship tomorrow. Was really expecting it would show up in tomorrow’s post, and now I’m throwing a minor tantrum but I’ll live. When it’s not here in a week though, I’ll be acting like a 9 year old child. I’m just so excited I could explode!

I started Astro Bot yesterday and I’m thrilled with it. It’s just full of so much FUN! I don’t think anyone is pretending it’s not a love letter to Nintendo. I’m only on world 3 and I’ve already come across great references. Phunky Phil and Giga Robo most notably for me. It feels like less of a ripoff than a perfectly polished fan fiction.

I adored the first two (and especially the 2nd) games so much, but I’ve still been skeptical about this one given that a) Nintendo LOVES to ruin a great formula in favor of innovation and often severe change, and b) the procedural level generation seems like a step backwards to me. The former has arguably yielded as many successes as failures, so I generally stay positive, but I worry that they’ve taken the series in a crummy direction this time. My concern here is that reviewers may not be familiar with the prior titles and don’t have the same expectations from this as I do. Comparing this to Subnautica is a huge red flag that many of the reviews I’ve read have waved feverishly and unabashedly. What I want from this are more comparisons to Pokémon Snap, Animal Crossing, and Blue World. There’s so much potential in the franchise. I hope I’ll still enjoy myself.

These are both fantastic games. Iggy’s Reckin’ Balls is especially fun in multiplayer mode. We rented it from Blockbuster and just never brought it back.

@JankFlowers
Blast Corps totally has an RC Pro Am clone built in.

@Clyde_Radcliffe
See, that’s awesome in my opinion. I thought Get it Together was no fun, and at times I get cranky at Nintendo for “fixing” mechanics that weren’t broken in the first place (Starfox, anyone?) but we all have things we like for different reasons. For me, WarioWare is all about getting friends together and laughing our arses off at the ridiculousness. I love a high score chase myself, and these games have always supported that stance, but I like getting people that wouldn’t necessarily want to play a video game involved in the hilarity of it all. I also think the different stances with the controllers add to the frenetic pace much more than a few simple button presses. We’ve all got our preferences, but as much as I lament some of their design choices, I applaud them for mixing things up. I’d rather dislike an entry in a series than be bored to tears with a yearly reiteration. Some of my frustrations are actually my favorite things about Nintendo.

@Clyde_Radcliffe
I hope you can get a refund!

It’s certainly not perfect, the controls can be a little fiddly from time to time, but hearing my wife cackle hysterically is worth the occasional setback for me. I’d rate Get it Together a 5, but this one is such a welcome return to the absurdity that makes the series tick that I’m giving it an 8. I’m getting older, so I haven’t been able to dig into it too deeply yet. My calves are still sore from all the fun we had on Saturday night. That’s my fault though. I need the exercise!

I got Cece’s hat and gave up. That was fun, the rest was booooring.

I just want Endless Ocean 3.

I’m pretty sure they’re lombaxes.

@Deemo37

You nailed it. I’d give Splatoon a 9/10. Splatoon 2 improved on some things while setting things back a bit in some ways. 7/10. Splatoon 3 is just so rehashed it deserves a 5/10 in my opinion. The sequels just can’t compete with the sheer joy of the original. Oh, and Tears of the Kingdom is a solid 8. Very good, but certain things seem really lazy. There’s a certain Hateno town side quest that is an exact clone of one from BotW. It feels like phoning it in.

If you’re going to make a movie based on a video game, you really ought to have a story to back it up. I see absolutely no point to this Mario bros movie. I play Mario games for the fun, not the story. If I want to watch a game passively, I’ve got twitch now. That being said, if you MUST do it, I think Chibi Robo has a pretty good storyline that would translate fairly well for this ridiculous endeavor.

@MegaVel91 also I was just trying to register my disappointment, not demean your lack thereof. You don’t gotta be a poop about it.

@MegaVel91 no dude, it’s not. I fully support everyone enjoying what they want to, but I just don’t get what’s going on here. The irony is, I’ve gotten so bummed out when Nintendo has spoiled a good thing. Star fox 64 was a perfect extension of the formula, and they had to change it detrimentally in every subsequent iteration. They even made a Zelda game out of it! I’m just saying I miss the core mechanics of what made a Zelda game a Zelda game. I guess when it really comes down to it, it doesn’t matter who the protagonist is or what world it’s set in. Make up a whole new franchise and I’d be happy. These days are lousy with open world games. I think some of these mechanics are kinda cool, but I think they should create a new franchise for them. The fact that the model here has always been to make a similar game structurally, with an entirely new artistic approach was always intriguing to me. This just feels disappointing. To me. You do you, buddy. I’m not even trying to sound condescending. I’m just bummed out.

This reminds me of how sad I was when Microsoft bought Rare. I was lamenting the loss of Banjo and then they made Nuts and Bolts and I stopped caring. I’m sorry, I enjoyed the crap out of breath of the wild but it isn’t Zelda. I just hope we get a real Zelda game again one day. This stuff is cute and all, but it’s just not the same. Skyward Sword was pretty pants, but at least it was linear and interesting. If I wanted to play Minecraft I’d have done so already.

Aaaand, I don’t give a rat’s fat ass about links or heihacho or spewn. The Namco characters rip. I’m a Kilik/Seung Mina dude, and I’m down with the real cast.

When I was a youngster, my roommate had a Dreamcast. Soul Calibur was the only thing that ever happened at home. When the second volume came out on the GameCube, I was in heaven. My new roommate and I would just let the cpu fight without us while we hit the bong and laid dollars down to bet against each other lazily. It was the only thing that ever happened at home. When I finally bought my first Sony system in 2016, the first thing I did was spend like, $22 on all of the sequels I’d missed since 2003 or whatever and jeez did they all seem awful in comparison to those first two! Each one worse than the last. I feel like I picked the right time to take a break from being a gaming nerd, but I’m disappointed that they all felt like they’d taken a step back, even twelve years later. I think just remaking one and two would be fine. And by “fine” I mean radical! I just don’t get the allure of the rest.

It’s either POO or ASS for me. I stick to the old 3 letter rules we used to have at the pinball machines and the bowling alley.

If you had any part in making a game as rad as Metroid Prime, you shouldn’t need any extra accolades. You know who you are. We don’t, but we thank you all the same. We enjoyed what you made. Thanks.

“Metroidvania” is an annoying enough descriptor in any context, but using it to describe a Metroid game is so infuriating that I fear my head will explode. Knock. It. Off.

We need Splatoon 4 much more than we need another Pokémon game.

Metroid was my first, and I can’t believe I was already 10 years old when it launched. In my mind I was much younger. Nothing else grabbed me the way it did. I loved everything about it. I taught myself to play all the songs on the piano. It’s still the greatest game on the NES in my opinion. I was in high school when the SNES came out, and even though I wanted one, I was too “cool” to admit that I was into that kid stuff. Consequently, I’ve still never really played Super Metroid. By the time Prime came out however, I didn’t give a rat’s fat ass anymore and I fell head over heels for it. I think it’s the perfect realization of the Metroid series. Echoes wasn’t so much my bag (I hate games that have two worlds to switch between. Can’t explain it exactly, just find them tedious. Never played that Zelda one at all, even though it’s highly rated) but the Wii one (Corruption, I never got around to Other M) was SO good. Meeting the other bounty hunters really fleshed out the experience. Metroid games had always felt so solitary, and all of a sudden you could see how Samus fit in to the bigger picture. I was over the proverbial moon. I got pretty excited about Dread, and I really dug it until I just couldn’t handle of all of the buttons anymore. I think I’m finally getting too old to keep track of all of these combinations. I got frustrated and took a break, and when I returned it was completely impossible. One day I’ll start it over from the top and try to power through, but I’ll probably be 70 at the time and I guarantee it won’t be pretty. I am really rambling here… but good lord do I love Metroid.

My dad was cool enough to get us (himself) a Commodore Vic20. Pretty sure Atlantis was my first game. That and Trashman. Which was just PacMan but with a pile of trash instead of you know, PacMan.

I can’t be the only one who loved table tennis!

Drake Redcrest! Giga-Robo! Mr.Sanderson! Sophie! Even Tao! So many great options here.

Where’s the Nintendo in this?

Endless Ocean 2 ftw!!!

Handheld is for pooping. Best thing about the switch is you can take it way farther away from the tv than the Wii U pad. I’m old, and it seems dumb to play on a small screen when you have the option not to. Handy, yes. For pooping. Ideal? Nah. I don’t commute like that anymore.

I’m hoping for a portmanteau. Maybe “Smarms.”

I grew up playing the Bard's Tale on the old Apple ii. Feeling a bit wistful right now.

@U8_Zach_02 I love the aerospray rg for ranked battles. The mobility is great and those mines are plain nasty. I play super kamikaze style and just get in the way. I may end up 9-9 when it's all over but the distractions I cause can really make a difference for my team. It's actually a really decent defensive weapon.

@AlexSora89
Just being an old crab. Still, things seem so much less focused these days. I couldn't care less anyway. I've got a floor to paint now!

In my day we had 12 playable characters. They were all Nintendo characters (pretty much the whole point, right?) and that's the way it was and we liked it. None of this Sonic balderdash or Megaman hooey. No Snake guy from some Call of Duty crap. This series has officially jumped the shark.