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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 23, 2023 18:22:16 GMT -5
Another game gets a Game Trial edition tomorrow and it's... Uno.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 23, 2023 18:25:12 GMT -5
Another game gets a Game Trial edition tomorrow and it's... Uno. Everyone has Uno, dipshit, it came free with your f***ing Xbox. It had to be done.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jan 25, 2023 9:04:48 GMT -5
DIBS ON ODDJOB!
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 25, 2023 9:16:15 GMT -5
I like that my main response to them putting up Goldeneye is, "Damn, guess waiting another month on Mario Party 3."
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 26, 2023 20:14:39 GMT -5
Goldeneye update is now live
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 26, 2023 20:27:33 GMT -5
Anyone else playing Fire Emblem Engage? Been doing it on and off but so far feeling really underwhelmed. Like it's not bad at all, gameplay's quite good, but the story just feels like they might as well have not even bothered. It's not even just that it's a basic story, it's kind of just really boringly written and I'd struggle to actually describe any character traits for most of the cast.
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Post by chrom on Jan 26, 2023 20:41:21 GMT -5
Anyone else playing Fire Emblem Engage? Been doing it on and off but so far feeling really underwhelmed. Like it's not bad at all, gameplay's quite good, but the story just feels like they might as well have not even bothered. It's not even just that it's a basic story, it's kind of just really boringly written and I'd struggle to actually describe any character traits for most of the cast. I've been playing it for the past two days. I like it, but thus far the story's rather bland at the moment and so far most of the characters aren't sticking out.
Like Bernadetta in Houses is a chronic recluse who has to be dragged to class or bribed with cake, or Kaze in Fates who depending on your route choice will have to fight his Brother.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jan 26, 2023 21:57:45 GMT -5
I like that my main response to them putting up Goldeneye is, "Damn, guess waiting another month on Mario Party 3." The N64 collection is indeed lacking, wouldn't say no to Beetle Adventure Racing. And how about Super Mario RPG for the SNES library, or a remaster? Granted that's probably not on Switch thanks to Square Enix.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Jan 26, 2023 23:58:20 GMT -5
I like that my main response to them putting up Goldeneye is, "Damn, guess waiting another month on Mario Party 3." The N64 collection is indeed lacking, wouldn't say no to Beetle Adventure Racing. And how about Super Mario RPG for the SNES library, or a remaster? Granted that's probably not on Switch thanks to Square Enix. I would love to get Cruis’n USA on there.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 27, 2023 6:07:35 GMT -5
Given they figured out the rights issues with Goldeneye, they need to get off their ass and put Diddy Kong Racing on there already.
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Post by Ganon83 on Jan 27, 2023 8:06:27 GMT -5
Given they figured out the rights issues with Goldeneye, they need to get off their ass and put Diddy Kong Racing on there already. The biggest hiccup there would probably be Conker, less because of licensing and more because it's Conker in a kids game.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 29, 2023 14:40:17 GMT -5
Rumors going around that a new Mario Baseball game might be in the works and already people expect it to get like two DLC updates and that's all
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Jan 29, 2023 15:42:25 GMT -5
OK, is there any reason why there have been no new additions to the NES and SNES sections in half a year? Before it seemed they added new entries fairly regularly but now radio silence for half a year.
Have they run out of games that they can or want to acquire licences for and already added all their own games? Was getting the licence for Goldeneye 007 so expensive that they need to save up some money for more games first?
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 29, 2023 15:43:21 GMT -5
I looooved Mario Baseball and yet I cannot even imagine buying a Mario sports game at launch at this point. It's very clear the business model now is, "Ship the thing essentially unfinished and maybe we'll wrap it up later, possibly, probably not."
Probably why the sales of Strikers were so low.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 29, 2023 15:57:20 GMT -5
OK, is there any reason why there have been no new additions to the NES and SNES sections in half a year? Before it seemed they added new entries fairly regularly but now radio silence for half a year. Have they run out of games that they can or want to acquire licences for and already added all their own games? Was getting the licence for Goldeneye 007 so expensive that they need to save up some money for more games first? Since the Expansion Pass, it's less of a priority I guess? And even then, the Genesis offerings are every couple months so that's slow too
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 29, 2023 16:05:16 GMT -5
I suspect any other NES/SNES games Nintendo might be interested in adding are likely belonging to third parties that are charging more than Nintendo's interested in paying.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 29, 2023 16:22:06 GMT -5
I just hope they eventually manage to work out getting Mario RPG on there and the tangled web of rights that is the old Harvest Moon games. Sucks ass that they're putting up Harvest Moon 64 in Japan but not here, I'd play the absolute f*** out of that on the Switch.
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Post by chrom on Jan 29, 2023 17:41:09 GMT -5
What notable games other than Mario RPG are left to put on there? Not gonna get any Street Fighter as it's on The Capcom Arcade Collection, nor Megaman 7. Chance of FF4, 5 and 6 are slim to none. TMNT games have their collection as well.
We're gonna get some flea market games in the vein of Claymates and Spanky's Quest if we get another update.
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Post by CMWaters on Jan 29, 2023 17:46:31 GMT -5
What notable games other than Mario RPG are left to put on there? Not gonna get any Street Fighter as it's on The Capcom Arcade Collection, nor Megaman 7. Chance of FF4, 5 and 6 are slim to none. TMNT games have their collection as well. We're gonna get some flea market games in the vein of Claymates and Spanky's Quest if we get another update. Well there's Uniracers, but considering the reason there was ever one printing of that (unless relations have SERIOUSLY smoothed over since then).
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 30, 2023 23:32:24 GMT -5
Some intern accidentally uploaded a video indicating North America's getting the Switch game vouchers again.
Never should've gotten rid of them to begin with, those were an awesome deal.
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