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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 18, 2023 19:23:01 GMT -5
Breath of The Wild required 2.2 GB. Tears is requiring almost nine times that memory space. That isn't quite accurate. Breath of the Wild digitally is 14.4 GB while Tears of the Kingdom is 18.2. TotK is bigger but it's not that much bigger.
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Post by chrom on Feb 18, 2023 19:25:41 GMT -5
Breath of The Wild required 2.2 GB. Tears is requiring almost nine times that memory space. That isn't quite accurate. Breath of the Wild digitally is 14.4 GB while Tears of the Kingdom is 18.2. TotK is bigger but it's not that much bigger. Ah, well I've got the cartridge of it and it says 2.2
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 18, 2023 19:31:14 GMT -5
I wish Gameboy looked as clear as it did in the commercial. They should've shown a kid struggling to to play Tetris directly under a lamp with a bulky magnifier attachment for peak realism. Pocket and Color were both much easier to see. All three might still be easier than using the original GBA screen, however.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 18, 2023 19:46:24 GMT -5
I wish Gameboy looked as clear as it did in the commercial. They should've shown a kid struggling to to play Tetris directly under a lamp with a bulky magnifier attachment for peak realism. Pocket and Color were both much easier to see. All three might still be easier than using the original GBA screen, however. Every now and again I fire up my OG GBA and am always caught off guard by how f***ing bad that screen is.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 18, 2023 19:54:21 GMT -5
Speaking of the different types of Game Boy it does annoy me a little that you can't use the original Game Boy and Pocket settings for Link's Awakening seeing as the DX version was able to be used both ways. Not a lot of incentive to I suppose but it does feel rather, "Well why not?"
I imagine the same will happen if they eventually put Pokemon Gold and Silver up on there.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 18, 2023 21:18:07 GMT -5
Speaking of the different types of Game Boy it does annoy me a little that you can't use the original Game Boy and Pocket settings for Link's Awakening seeing as the DX version was able to be used both ways. Not a lot of incentive to I suppose but it does feel rather, "Well why not?" I imagine the same will happen if they eventually put Pokemon Gold and Silver up on there. Yeah, it says that’s games designed for GBC but still playable on GB are only playable in GBC mode.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Feb 18, 2023 22:32:57 GMT -5
my guess is it's something to do with not being able to like turn off the color dungeon mode or something.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2023 2:48:38 GMT -5
I wonder if they would add Super Game Boy support for certain games that uses it like the Donkey Kong games.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 19, 2023 6:49:04 GMT -5
Been on and off replaying Superstar Saga, despite doing a run of it last year and not really having all that high of an opinion of it since it's at least quite easy to just sort of mindlessly button mash your way through to kill time (and unlike the first Paper Mario actually runs well on the Switch, still amazed how thoroughly they managed to screw that up while somehow simultaneously being the one time the Monstar effect has actually worked), and damn the game would be so much more fun if it'd stop treating you like a total idiot. Everything gets a tutorial and any time they ask whether you want one it doesn't matter, you have to sit through it anyway. It's very nonconductive to replaying it, especially since it's not exactly a complicated game in the first place.
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 19, 2023 7:29:29 GMT -5
Been on and off replaying Superstar Saga, despite doing a run of it last year and not really having all that high of an opinion of it since it's at least quite easy to just sort of mindlessly button mash your way through to kill time (and unlike the first Paper Mario actually runs well on the Switch, still amazed how thoroughly they managed to screw that up while somehow simultaneously being the one time the Monstar effect has actually worked), and damn the game would be so much more fun if it'd stop treating you like a total idiot. Everything gets a tutorial and any time they ask whether you want one it doesn't matter, you have to sit through it anyway. It's very nonconductive to replaying it, especially since it's not exactly a complicated game in the first place. Excess hand holding kills so much of my interest in the playing the M&L series again. Its amazing to experience Mario RPG and realize it has so much less of that despite it coming from an era pre Final Fantasy VII & Pokemon where casual fans had virtually no knowledge of role playing games. Even in an era where that was likely going to be people's first RPG, it still only gave basic instruction and allowed you the option of skipping tutorials if you wanted to.
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Post by The Ichi on Feb 19, 2023 11:58:28 GMT -5
Been on and off replaying Superstar Saga, despite doing a run of it last year and not really having all that high of an opinion of it since it's at least quite easy to just sort of mindlessly button mash your way through to kill time (and unlike the first Paper Mario actually runs well on the Switch, still amazed how thoroughly they managed to screw that up while somehow simultaneously being the one time the Monstar effect has actually worked), and damn the game would be so much more fun if it'd stop treating you like a total idiot. Everything gets a tutorial and any time they ask whether you want one it doesn't matter, you have to sit through it anyway. It's very nonconductive to replaying it, especially since it's not exactly a complicated game in the first place. Excess hand holding kills so much of my interest in the playing the M&L series again. Its amazing to experience Mario RPG and realize it has so much less of that despite it coming from an era pre Final Fantasy VII & Pokemon where casual fans had virtually no knowledge of role playing games. Even in an era where that was likely going to be people's first RPG, it still only gave basic instruction and allowed you the option of skipping tutorials if you wanted to. Xenoblade 3 was the worst. XB3: "Do you want to know about accessories?" Me: "...sure?" XB3: "Do this, this and this" Me: "Oh oka- XB3: "Now let's try with this character" Me: "...* does that*" XB3: "Now equip this character" Me: "...I think I've got it" *XB3 breaks through my screen and shatters a kneecap* XB3: "EQUIP. THIS. CHARACTER." Me: "*through tears* Okay!"
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 19, 2023 16:35:40 GMT -5
Tears of the Kingdom's Art Book has been leaked online, so be careful if you don't want spoilers
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 19, 2023 20:27:54 GMT -5
Excess hand holding kills so much of my interest in the playing the M&L series again. Its amazing to experience Mario RPG and realize it has so much less of that despite it coming from an era pre Final Fantasy VII & Pokemon where casual fans had virtually no knowledge of role playing games. Even in an era where that was likely going to be people's first RPG, it still only gave basic instruction and allowed you the option of skipping tutorials if you wanted to. Xenoblade 3 was the worst. XB3: "Do you want to know about accessories?" Me: "...sure?" XB3: "Do this, this and this" Me: "Oh oka- XB3: "Now let's try with this character" Me: "...* does that*" XB3: "Now equip this character" Me: "...I think I've got it" *XB3 breaks through my screen and shatters a kneecap* XB3: "EQUIP. THIS. CHARACTER." Me: "*through tears* Okay!" Between that and how the characters basically subsequently lose every single fight they have in the following cutscene up until chapter 6 (and also pretty much every single thing about how they write Ethel, just an utterly shit character the game seems to think is the absolute coolest) it took a looooong time for Xenoblade 3 to really gel with me, though do think once it knocks off both of those things it has a lot worth loving about it.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 19, 2023 20:36:47 GMT -5
Tears of the Kingdom's Art Book has been leaked online, so be careful if you don't want spoilers Skimming through it it feels like it was kind of designed not to be too hugely spoilery anyway. There are a lot of locales and side characters but no sign of anything that seems like a boss or anything. Still, would probably keep an eye out.
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Post by chrom on Feb 20, 2023 11:51:49 GMT -5
Well, in something I had no idea was a thing I just got $10 worth of extra gold points for the purchases I made from November to January. Certainly not complaining but I had no idea that promotion was happening so momentarily had me concerned somebody had bought a shitload of stuff on my account or something. My gold points just doubled as well. I had about six dollars worth, now it's over twelve hundred points.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Feb 21, 2023 10:05:59 GMT -5
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 21, 2023 10:10:42 GMT -5
FINALLY we get news on Pokemon Sleep!
For real though I'm mostly hoping for DLC and the Gen 1 / 2 / maybe 3 games on Switch. Main things I'm expecting are DLC and a new Mystery Dungeon.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Feb 21, 2023 10:45:47 GMT -5
FINALLY we get news on Pokemon Sleep! If we get confirmation of Metroid Prime Remastered AND Pokemon Sleep released in the same year, I'd say we're in the end times.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 21, 2023 10:52:12 GMT -5
I got the extra gold points as well. About 20 bucks in them surprisingly, so I got Pac-Man Museum+
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 21, 2023 13:34:12 GMT -5
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