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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 15, 2023 20:39:55 GMT -5
This drip feed bullshit is killing me. We were due Mario Party 3 seven freaking months ago.
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Post by Raskovnik on Jun 15, 2023 20:46:28 GMT -5
Is there any big release on the horizon for the Switch? Baten Kaitos is the only thing on my radar unless I’m forgetting something.
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Post by chrom on Jun 15, 2023 20:48:22 GMT -5
Question about the Fire Emblem GBA game, does it have the choice between casual or classic mode? Or are they gone for good if they fall in battle?
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 15, 2023 21:03:47 GMT -5
Is there any big release on the horizon for the Switch? Baten Kaitos is the only thing on my radar unless I’m forgetting something. Pikmin's basically the only thing announced. Question about the Fire Emblem GBA game, does it have the choice between casual or classic mode? Or are they gone for good if they fall in battle? Casual mode wasn't introduced until New Mystery of the Emblem on the DS.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 16, 2023 1:59:42 GMT -5
Is there any big release on the horizon for the Switch? Baten Kaitos is the only thing on my radar unless I’m forgetting something. Pikmin's basically the only thing announced. Question about the Fire Emblem GBA game, does it have the choice between casual or classic mode? Or are they gone for good if they fall in battle? Casual mode wasn't introduced until New Mystery of the Emblem on the DS. Yeah, talked with my store's Nintendo Rep last week. He said Pikmin 4 is the only other thing coming out really for the Switch as they didn't want anything else major around the time of Zelda... but what would have been their E3 announcement is likely coming in a few weeks which will likely talk about Holiday, and next year.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Jun 16, 2023 10:10:36 GMT -5
Pikmin's basically the only thing announced. Casual mode wasn't introduced until New Mystery of the Emblem on the DS. Yeah, talked with my store's Nintendo Rep last week. He said Pikmin 4 is the only other thing coming out really for the Switch as they didn't want anything else major around the time of Zelda... but what would have been their E3 announcement is likely coming in a few weeks which will likely talk about Holiday, and next year. Finding it hard not to think of TotK as the console's swan song, really. Would be shocked at this rate if Prime 4 doesn't just show up on the Switch 2 or whatever.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jun 16, 2023 15:42:56 GMT -5
Yeah, talked with my store's Nintendo Rep last week. He said Pikmin 4 is the only other thing coming out really for the Switch as they didn't want anything else major around the time of Zelda... but what would have been their E3 announcement is likely coming in a few weeks which will likely talk about Holiday, and next year. Finding it hard not to think of TotK as the console's swan song, really. Would be shocked at this rate if Prime 4 doesn't just show up on the Switch 2 or whatever. I think Prime 4 will end up being like BotW, swan song for one console, launch title for another. I will be very surprised if the Switch successor doesn’t launch by mid 2024, it’s clearly on its last legs. And speaking of Metroid Prime, got Prime Remastered for $10 off today because Walmart had it priced wrong. And bought Dredd because it’s on sale, so I got a lot of Metroid to play (while still having Scarlet and TotK to plug away on when I have time)
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Post by chrom on Jun 16, 2023 15:45:34 GMT -5
Yeah, talked with my store's Nintendo Rep last week. He said Pikmin 4 is the only other thing coming out really for the Switch as they didn't want anything else major around the time of Zelda... but what would have been their E3 announcement is likely coming in a few weeks which will likely talk about Holiday, and next year. Finding it hard not to think of TotK as the console's swan song, really. Would be shocked at this rate if Prime 4 doesn't just show up on the Switch 2 or whatever. Does seem like Tears is the grand finale for big titles being launched on The Switch.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 16, 2023 15:46:49 GMT -5
I'm pretty in-between games right now myself. My interest pretty much evaporated on TotK eventually - still have two dungeons and like 70 shrines to do but one night decided to just go ahead and beat the game and I haven't touched it since (rather unlike BotW, where I pretty much always do all the shrines before beating it when I play it) - and I'm kind of without anything to really specifically focus on while waiting for Rain Code and A Wonderful Life. And I still haven't actually committed to getting the former yet.
I dunno, was kind of juggling playthroughs of Dual Destinies, Twilight Princess, and Super Mario RPG, maybe will try and dig in on one of those or the other. On the former I'd just wait for the Switch port but I'm in the last case so I'm better off just wrapping the game up.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 16, 2023 16:32:31 GMT -5
I just can't see Nintendo launching (and maybe even announcing) any new system before 2024. Too much money to be made in one last holiday season that's best not cannibalized/threatened by a looming next console.
Part of this is likely driven by my own desire to get the last notable absent titles on OG Switch (new DK, Xenoblade X, Mario Sluggers, Twilight Princess/Wind Waker HD) but personally I suspect Nintendo's held a lot of cards close to their chest and will be showing off some hitherto unknown releases soon.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 16, 2023 16:35:00 GMT -5
I just can't see Nintendo launching (and maybe even announcing) any new system before 2024. Too much money to be made in one last holiday season that's best not cannibalized/threatened by a looming next console. Part of this is likely driven by my own desire to get the last notable absent titles on OG Switch (new DK, Xenoblade X, Mario Sluggers, Twilight Princess/Wind Waker HD) but personally I suspect Nintendo's held a lot of cards close to their chest and will be showing off some hitherto unknown releases soon. I'm guessing if nothing else there's a Fire Emblem game that's being intentionally held back. Between how they blitzed through the DLC for Engage as fast as they possibly could, the overall rushed feeling of the game, and the fact its internal numbering skips one from Three Houses it feels like what was supposed to be an anniversary release before a bigger title that got held back due to COVID.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jun 16, 2023 17:01:47 GMT -5
I just can't see Nintendo launching (and maybe even announcing) any new system before 2024. Too much money to be made in one last holiday season that's best not cannibalized/threatened by a looming next console. Part of this is likely driven by my own desire to get the last notable absent titles on OG Switch (new DK, Xenoblade X, Mario Sluggers, Twilight Princess/Wind Waker HD) but personally I suspect Nintendo's held a lot of cards close to their chest and will be showing off some hitherto unknown releases soon. God am I sick of waiting for the TP and WW HD ports. I’m really itching to play through Wind Waker again, and don’t feel like going out to the mancave to play it on Wii U
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 16, 2023 17:12:17 GMT -5
I just can't see Nintendo launching (and maybe even announcing) any new system before 2024. Too much money to be made in one last holiday season that's best not cannibalized/threatened by a looming next console. Part of this is likely driven by my own desire to get the last notable absent titles on OG Switch (new DK, Xenoblade X, Mario Sluggers, Twilight Princess/Wind Waker HD) but personally I suspect Nintendo's held a lot of cards close to their chest and will be showing off some hitherto unknown releases soon. God am I sick of waiting for the TP and WW HD ports. I’m really itching to play through Wind Waker again, and don’t feel like going out to the mancave to play it on Wii U Been having the same issue. Been wanting to replay Twilight Princess for a long time but the stick on my Gamepad drifts just enough to make me drag my feet on doing so.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 16, 2023 20:19:43 GMT -5
I just can't see Nintendo launching (and maybe even announcing) any new system before 2024. Too much money to be made in one last holiday season that's best not cannibalized/threatened by a looming next console. Part of this is likely driven by my own desire to get the last notable absent titles on OG Switch (new DK, Xenoblade X, Mario Sluggers, Twilight Princess/Wind Waker HD) but personally I suspect Nintendo's held a lot of cards close to their chest and will be showing off some hitherto unknown releases soon. Yeah, the switch has been out for 6 years... but 2 of them basically don't count... so I Wouldn't be surprised if new consoles aren't anywhere near as close as people expect.
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Post by Raskovnik on Jun 16, 2023 20:53:52 GMT -5
With their biggest release this year regularly hitting like 20FPS depending on what's happening on screen or if you just use the game's Ultrahand gimmick, their biggest release last year (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet) also hitting that and a host of other performance issues, and the Switch ports of multiplatform games typically having the worst performance, if it even gets a port at all, I sure as hell hope they've got a new console planned sooner rather than later.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 17, 2023 13:26:42 GMT -5
I'm sure this will stun people but turns out Sonic Origins Plus is a glitchy dumpster fire with the Game Gear games running terribly with horrendous audio quality and Amy turning red in special stages, plus they didn't account for the fact Sonic 3 has a different art style from the others and only gave her one sprite so she looks completely out of place in it.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Jun 17, 2023 13:35:46 GMT -5
After the Sonic Colours remaster, it makes sense Sega would no longer be content to just make shitty new Sonic games but they also had to go back and ruin the good ones with pointless horseshit.
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Post by chrom on Jun 17, 2023 13:50:21 GMT -5
The Sonic Cycle begins anew
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 17, 2023 22:25:46 GMT -5
I'm guessing we'll probably get a Direct soon-ish. Been rumors to that effect anyway, if only in how they updated the Japanese site for them and they typically do so a couple of weeks to a month or so out from doing one, there's the whole Persona 3 Reload thing hanging overhead, and with Pikmin being the only thing on the horizon (besides dumping out 1-2-Switch while hoping no one notices, anyway) I can see them wanting to start plugging some other stuff soon now that the TotK hype has kind of subsided, especially since they've still barely told us anything about Pikmin in its own right. Plus we're kind of due more Mario Kart DLC news. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Will say on the very off chance the Thousand-Year Door rumor is true I'm ready to start immediately desperately flinging dollar bills at my Switch in the hope that'll make me able to play it faster.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jun 18, 2023 8:30:59 GMT -5
What's the best way to post out GBA and other cardboard box games? Is flattening out and put in padded envelope enough protection?
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