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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 8, 2023 19:12:16 GMT -5
My purchasing decision of Tears of a Kingdom is entirely dependent on early reviews at this point. Nothing about it screams a release day buy yet, especially at $70.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 8, 2023 19:13:34 GMT -5
My purchasing decision of Tears of a Kingdom is entirely dependent on early reviews at this point. Nothing about it screams a release day buy yet, especially at $70. I'm kind of preemptively planning to get it via the vouchers but I'm definitely waiting until there's a Direct focused on it to commit to that. So far the only thing selling it for me is, "It's Zelda," and it seems like a retread of one of my least favorite 3D Zelda games so that's not really that strong a selling point.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 8, 2023 19:16:27 GMT -5
Playing Super Mario Advance 4, because it's been a whole two and a half weeks since I played SMB3, and goddamn the controls for this version are so awkward on the Joycons. Holding down B to run while using A to jump just feels so unnatural. And making it all the weirder they do also let you use X to run but Y doesn't do anything, so effectively you have to pick your poison on which awkward position you want to hold your fingers in to hit the clunkily placed A button.
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Post by chrom on Feb 8, 2023 19:35:09 GMT -5
Poor Daisy, the sole game she's in that's NOT a sports or party game and it's not part of the lineup.
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Post by Fundertaker on Feb 8, 2023 19:42:46 GMT -5
Yeah, not really comfortable with the lazy accusations without much evidence. I would have thought we’d know better than that at this point. I mean the most recent game they marketed in a similar manner was Splatoon 3 which indeed released to basically just be the exact same game as Splatoon 2 and for bonus points they're lifting the hub from the first game and selling it back as a DLC pack without it actually bringing anything new with it, it's hardly out of character at this point. You mean the multiplayer focused game that was basically the same as the first one is basically the same the third go around? You don't say! And yeah, I'm also not comfortable with the lazyness accusations when it comes to TOTK at this point. I think many people are assuming a bit too much about the map without much evidence to it.
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 8, 2023 19:47:26 GMT -5
I think two things can be true at the same time; that's there's likely all sorts of depth and incredible features in Tears of a Kingdom that fits Nintendo's typical work on it... and that the advertising has not really done much to suggest that, especially give the long development time.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 8, 2023 19:57:57 GMT -5
Well, in, "Hold my Water of Rebirth blended with placenta," news, Atlus decided to go sprinting on the insane pricing compared to Nintendo and each Etrian Odyssey game costs $40.
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Post by Raskovnik on Feb 8, 2023 19:59:39 GMT -5
I am still so stoked over Baten Kaitos, that made my day
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 8, 2023 20:00:59 GMT -5
GBA/GB Online and Metroid Prime Remaster are up now
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Post by Fundertaker on Feb 8, 2023 20:13:49 GMT -5
I think two things can be true at the same time; that's there's likely all sorts of depth and incredible features in Tears of a Kingdom that fits Nintendo's typical work on it... and that the advertising has not really done much to suggest that, especially give the long development time. I was also exagerating with the Splatoon thing, and it's possible Lizuka was in part as well. It is a new game. Sure it looks and probably (I never played one) very similar to the predecessors and surface level might feel like it should've been made as a DLC not a mainline game. On the other hand, between the new weapons and stages and whatnot there's a bunch of balancing behind it that might justify the new game from a development standpoint (especially with practically every kind of weapon behaving so differently and the game's objective revolving more around covering stuff in ink, which is unusual to say the least). For TOTK, precisely because we've only seen the small snippets Nintendo has allowed us via trailers, I feel it's baseless at this point to call the team out on lazyness... because we have just a little idea on what the game will offer (Hyrule on the ground will probably be similar to BOTW sure, but we don't know the extent of the sky islands stuff and possibly even underground things that might exist in the game, how it all connects with story and mechanics, etc.). Once we either have the game a few months from now or if a bunch of info on it gets dropped on us, then we can start to evaluate their work. Until now, the marketing of the game is all we can criticize really.
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Post by chrom on Feb 8, 2023 21:07:06 GMT -5
So, whenever they do Inside Story and Dream Team, how are they going to adapt the Giant Battles?
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 8, 2023 21:08:51 GMT -5
So, whenever they do Inside Story and Dream Team, how are they going to adapt the Giant Battles? Really doubt any Mario & Luigi game past the first one's making it onto the Switch. All of them have the split screen stuff to work past and given how much they've dragged their asses on putting up Game Boy games I imagine the Switch will be dead before they feel the need to do DS ones. Or sadly Gamecube ones. And then we get to reset the cycle over again when they spend two years acting like Wrecking Crew is a generous gift.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Feb 8, 2023 21:12:03 GMT -5
Pikmin 4 has a dog and ice Pikmin? I'm sold even more now! I'm glad the base Gameboy is on the standard Switch online pass, too. Might have to bite the bullet and get the Online expansion pass now that there's a handful of things I want to play on there. Mario Kart Tour has so many great retro and original tracks, and adding upgraded versions of them on MK8 is really making that game unbeatable. We just got a new track in Tour yesterday, too. It's like an under water ruins level that goes in and out of water, with the Mario 64 eel in it. This Yoshi's Island one for 8 is totally new, too. If we aren't getting MK9 this console generation, I'm fine with all the MK goodness going around.
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Post by chrom on Feb 9, 2023 1:47:09 GMT -5
Well I've beaten Mario Land 2.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 9, 2023 2:08:01 GMT -5
Well I've beaten Mario Land 2. I probably would've beaten 1 already if they'd put it up. I do definitely like 2 but I prefer the in-and-out pick up and play simplicity (and overall weirdness) of the first game over its more We-Have-Super-Mario-World-At-Home approach. Though shout out to the choice to make the level in the crotch of the Mario statue be full of giant bouncy balls.
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Post by xCompackx on Feb 9, 2023 7:37:50 GMT -5
Metroid Prime Remastered was a pretty cool surprise; I'll have to check that out. Nintendo dipping into $70 waters with game pricing is disappointing, but had to happen sometime, I guess.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Feb 9, 2023 8:43:34 GMT -5
I keep thinking about what I pondered a couple of pages ago.
And I came to the conclusion that I hope that Nintendo will prove me wrong with their NES / SNES selections this year and add some more to them.
The NES/Famicom had 1,380 officially licenced games The SNES / Super Famicom had 1,727 officially licenced games
I find it hard to believe that 79 games in the NES section and 65 games in the SNES section is all that Nintendo can afford to have in their selection.
Especially considering that among the released games are not exactly only cream of the crop titles or high demand titles (at least I imagine in the NES section, nobody was foaming at the mouth to finally get to play The Immortal, Eliminator Boat Duel, Mighty Bomb Jack or, as far as the SNES section goes, for games like Fighter's History, Jellyboy, Bombuzal or Spanky's Quest).
Don't get me wrong, I agree that there is a 0.1 percent that these sections will see any of the otherwise licenced stuff (like Batman games, Simpsons games, Tiny Toon games etc.) or games that companies already released via collections for modern systems (Castlevania, Mega Man, Contra) or games that originally needed a special accessory (like the Nintendo Zapper games, Power Pad games, Super Scope games) and so on.
Still even excluding all that, I think that there still is a sizable amount of NES / SNES games that could find their way into those collections if Nintendo tried.
Off the top of my head (not really, just looking at a list of hidden gems for both systems as well as off the top of my head): -Deja Vu -Ring King -Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight -Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics 2 -The Adventure Island series (at least the first three games since the fourth game did not appear in NA/EU) -Magic Of Scheherazade -Gun-Nac -Clash At Demonhead -The Ikari Warriors series -Little Samson -Adventures Of Lolo 2 & 3 -The Guardian Legend -Xexyz -Mr. Gimmick -Zombie Nation
-Saturday Night Slam Masters -Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen -Boogerman -Phalanx -Uniracers -Lufia I & II -Ys III: Wanderers from Ys -The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja -Cybernator -Metal Warriors -Super Smash TV -Blackthorne -Zombies Ate My Neighbors & Ghoul Patrol -Illusion Of Gaia -Terranigma -Soul Blazer
I guess the reason why I care so much is that I would like to have as much games from these older consoles released on modern systems in some form so that gamers of today can appreciate them in a legal way.
But we shall see what the future will bring.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Feb 9, 2023 8:43:41 GMT -5
Well I've beaten Mario Land 2. I jumped in and flew right through Kirby’s Dream Land like no time had passed.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Feb 9, 2023 8:59:53 GMT -5
Ah, almost forgot about that news from the Direct: the Game Boy library.
As someone who has as much fond memories of the Game Boy as I had of the stationary Nintendo consoles, this is right up my jam.
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Post by Facetious on Feb 9, 2023 9:35:16 GMT -5
So I completely missed that Rex was the guy in the Xenoblade DLC? My man dual wielding Mythra and Pyra's blades!
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