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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Aug 4, 2022 18:11:14 GMT -5
Well, guess I have plans for later
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Post by chrom on Aug 4, 2022 18:12:09 GMT -5
Think I got cavities from doing The Sky High Sundae course
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 5, 2022 5:52:21 GMT -5
They've already announced Sky-High Sundae is being added to Mario Kart Tour. So yeah, that explains the random new stage in with the DLC I guess.
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Post by castletonsnob on Aug 5, 2022 19:01:43 GMT -5
I just beat Paper Mario.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 6, 2022 2:28:27 GMT -5
Midway through chapter 4 of Xenoblade 3 and thus far very much enjoying the game, but goddamn I wish it'd shut the f*** up every once in awhile. Especially this chapter I'm in, other than when I took a lengthy break from the main quest to do sidequests it feels like I haven't been able to do more than a fight or two at a time in between the game just relentlessly running cutscene after cutscene after cutscene after cutscene every couple hundred meters.
Like, I'm largely invested in the narrative - main exception being the incredibly repetitive colony freeing subplots - but it feels like the game is sometimes terrified of the idea of someone actually playing it and many of the cutscenes are completely needless.
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Post by chrom on Aug 6, 2022 10:39:20 GMT -5
Preordered my copy of Scarlet
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 8, 2022 6:34:43 GMT -5
I'm starting to suspect it would literally kill the developers of Xenoblade 3 for a story boss fight to end without you getting your ass kicked in the subsequent cutscene and then having the characters having to figure out how to win the fight then. I'm at the end of chapter 5 and it's virtually every single time, it makes the boss fights in this game extremely unsatisfying. Especially since I've overlevelled enough and good enough at Chain Attacks that very few of them are giving me much trouble, it feels like the developers really just wanted to make a movie and only put in boss fights out of obligation. Sometimes they even do multiple boss fights in sequence where after each of them you get smacked around and then you just lose in the end anyway, it's exhausting.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Aug 8, 2022 9:08:13 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2022 18:57:14 GMT -5
So, someone finally discovered that Super Punch-Out!! on the SNES had a two-player mode built in. Nobody bothered to search for the secret method.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 8, 2022 21:51:12 GMT -5
I'm starting to suspect it would literally kill the developers of Xenoblade 3 for a story boss fight to end without you getting your ass kicked in the subsequent cutscene and then having the characters having to figure out how to win the fight then. I'm at the end of chapter 5 and it's virtually every single time, it makes the boss fights in this game extremely unsatisfying. Especially since I've overlevelled enough and good enough at Chain Attacks that very few of them are giving me much trouble, it feels like the developers really just wanted to make a movie and only put in boss fights out of obligation. Sometimes they even do multiple boss fights in sequence where after each of them you get smacked around and then you just lose in the end anyway, it's exhausting. It's the kind of crutch I hated from Young Justice. Virtually every time the heroes win: "This was part of the villainous plan!"
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Post by castletonsnob on Aug 9, 2022 4:27:49 GMT -5
What if Nintendo bought Minecraft instead of Microsoft?
I think Minecraft would have been a better fit for Nintendo than Microsoft.
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Post by CMWaters on Aug 9, 2022 7:02:53 GMT -5
What if Nintendo bought Minecraft instead of Microsoft? I think Minecraft would have been a better fit for Nintendo than Microsoft. I don't think Nintendo would let it spread out as much as Microsoft has, even if most of that did happen before the buyout. For example, I don't see Nintendo lending out Steve and Alex as a guest fighter elsewhere unlike what Microsoft did for Smash.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 10, 2022 9:01:44 GMT -5
For being out next month and having first been announced over a year ago it really feels like Nintendo doesn't have much of anything to sell Splatoon 3 on beyond, "It's Splatoon again." I was already planning on passing on it, since I really only ever play Turf War anyway and haven't touched 2 in years as it is, but if I were on the fence what they've been doing certainly wouldn't sell me on it.
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 10, 2022 16:18:57 GMT -5
Splatoon definitely feels like a franchise that Nintendo is most comfortable with milking via a modest sequel. The next Smash is years away, Mario Kart's real current money is in DLC, and a next Mario/Zelda is something that has to go big. Splatoon though can more easily release now, get absurd numbers in Japan alone, and then basically coast on Splatfests and free updates till the end of the Switch's lifespan.
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Post by castletonsnob on Aug 11, 2022 6:29:28 GMT -5
In some ways, the Wii U was a sort of prototype for the Switch.
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Aug 11, 2022 10:35:24 GMT -5
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Aug 11, 2022 11:37:00 GMT -5
In some ways, the Wii U was a sort of prototype for the Switch. In some ways? The Switch is very clearly what they wanted the Wii U to be but it was cost prohibitive at the time. Nintendo isn’t gonna release a $1000 console, and that’s basically what it would’ve had to be for the Wii U to be the Switch in 2012
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Aug 14, 2022 9:39:59 GMT -5
Couple days after finishing it I'm still feeling rather torn on whether or not I prefer Xenoblade 3 over 2. I think mechanically it's probably a much stronger game that explains how exactly it works much more clearly and it has a lot of really nice quality of life improvements, but I kind of feel like it really just never hits the same highs that 2 does. Loved 3 and got very addicted to playing it but other than maybe Eunie (who is the boss) don't feel like I got attached to its cast in the way I did a lot of the 2 one. {Spoiler}Doesn't really help that the ending feels extremely limp. Kind of feels like unless either the DLC or 4 is a direct follow-up the whole thing just has this kind of, "What was the point of the game then?" feel to it.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Aug 14, 2022 11:28:44 GMT -5
Someone found that MK8D has a Lan mode
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2022 18:37:10 GMT -5
Someone found that MK8D has a Lan mode Wait...people didnt know MK8D had a Lan mode?
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