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Post by mc74 on Mar 3, 2023 1:34:24 GMT -5
Might try to look around for my NES one of these days. It's been a slow process of getting back some of my old stuff.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Mar 3, 2023 4:03:58 GMT -5
The first GBA game to come to Switch Online is Metroid Fusion next Thursday (March 8th)
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 3, 2023 8:39:54 GMT -5
It figures that I got back to Engage for the first time in probably weeks and immediately ended up loading into what turned out to be an absolutely f***ing infuriating paralogue where you're in a big open field just continually being pounded with shit from the other side of the map while the road around it is so long and winding that it'd probably take you an hour just to make it to the boss of the damn thing. Not even really challenging, just the exact opposite of fun and completely tedious to the point that after about a half hour of it I finally just got fed up and turned it off. Feeling sorely tempted to just say f*** this game and delete it off my Switch because while it definitely has its highlights, between how cheap some of the paralogue map design is and how wildly uninteresting the story is I strongly regret having spent money on it.
I wasn't even planning to play Three Houses again any time soon, was wondering about revisiting Fates if anything, but I'm starting to think I need to do a run of it just to do a detox from how much Engage absolutely blows. At this point probably just going to stop bothering with the paralogues, start skipping cutscenes, and bumrush to the end as fast as I can then never touch it again.
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Mar 3, 2023 11:08:56 GMT -5
Breath of The Wild came out six years ago today.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2023 11:44:23 GMT -5
I've been kind of wanting to replay Fusion so that's cool but the fact that they're continuing this monthly dripfeed bullshit despite the wealth of the GBA's library, and with Metroid Fusion being very short on top of that, is stupid as hell. The GBA has a ton of games, but I feel like Nintendo has largely given up on the Online service as a whole, so if we get games, they'll be at a snail's pace.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 3, 2023 11:59:11 GMT -5
Breath of The Wild came out six years ago today. I think you mean 1-2-Switch came out six years ago today.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 4, 2023 8:39:56 GMT -5
So it turns out there's a new glitch introduced in the Scarlet and Violet patch that's wiping people's data that seems to be connected to either Go or buying the DLC. Because of course there is.
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Post by chrom on Mar 4, 2023 8:50:38 GMT -5
For Tears, I hope they add more Stables or you can call your Horse anywhere.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 4, 2023 8:56:21 GMT -5
For Tears, I hope they add more Stables or you can call your Horse anywhere. Latter might make it worth even considering to use horses. Across all my playthroughs I think I used a horse for maybe like 10 minutes on my first one and then never again because they're rendered entirely pointless by how much of the game's movement is vertical, especially if you rush to get Revali's Gale as soon as possible.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Mar 4, 2023 11:16:20 GMT -5
Another Base Model Switch variant coming out on March 10th. Comes with Mario Red joycons, a free download of choice between Kart, Odyssey and Mario U, and a set of Mario Movie stickers.
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Post by CMWaters on Mar 4, 2023 12:15:22 GMT -5
For Tears, I hope they add more Stables or you can call your Horse anywhere. This is assuming the motorcycle you got in DLC in BotW won't be standard and more a focus in TotK.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 7, 2023 6:49:46 GMT -5
The next stage of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC will be out in a couple of days, and now they’re adding new drivers to the mix (or at least pre-existing ones that somehow didn’t make the cut originally).
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Mar 8, 2023 12:34:27 GMT -5
Metroid Fusion update should be tonight.
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Post by chrom on Mar 8, 2023 12:35:42 GMT -5
Metroid Fusion update should be tonight. Along with The Mario Kart updates
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 8, 2023 13:56:10 GMT -5
Looking forward to the Fusion update, been wanting to play through it again, but it is a definite, "And then what?" I did my first playthrough of that a couple of years ago and knocked it out in I think like four hours, it's far from a long game so it's really not going to do a lot to add much variety to the GBA games.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Mar 8, 2023 13:59:59 GMT -5
For Tears, I hope they add more Stables or you can call your Horse anywhere. That Ancient Horse Armor in the DLC let you do just that.
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Post by chrom on Mar 8, 2023 20:05:44 GMT -5
Metroid Fusion is now available
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 8, 2023 20:37:21 GMT -5
Mario Kart DLC's also up.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Mar 8, 2023 20:43:02 GMT -5
Five more characters on the way
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 8, 2023 20:46:37 GMT -5
Five more, huh?
I'm going to hope for Dixie and Petey Piranha, though only the latter's one I can actually see happening. But then if I were putting in any extra characters to start with it'd have been Birdo so I've already won here.
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