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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 7, 2023 6:10:41 GMT -5
The Game Awards will be odd place to announce the addition of spirits from Everybody 1-2 Switch (including the horse head guy) for Smash, but that's Nintendo for you.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Dec 7, 2023 8:42:54 GMT -5
Saw on my twitter feed that there is a new Eastward game coming out but on inspection it seems to be a farming simulator and not a continuation of the ARPG story. Booooo
And a thought I had .. would a Mario Metroidvania game not rock...?
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Post by chrom on Dec 7, 2023 10:33:34 GMT -5
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Post by chrom on Dec 7, 2023 12:16:20 GMT -5
Free Darkrai and Shiny Lucario are now available with passwords for Scarlet/Violet.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Dec 7, 2023 20:02:56 GMT -5
Jet Force Gemini, Harvest Moon 64 and 1080 Snowboarding are up now.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Dec 7, 2023 20:04:09 GMT -5
Jet Force Gemini, Harvest Moon 64 and 1080 Snowboarding are up now. Harvest Moon 64, Harvest Moon 64, and f*** everything else on the console Harvest Moon 64 is up now, you mean.
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Post by Giul T. on Dec 7, 2023 21:49:31 GMT -5
It's double nice, because Harvest Moon's one of those N64 game that used a battery for their save functions so having it officially on a place that you don't need to open up the cart to keep your saves, I'm sure that goes a long way.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 7, 2023 21:53:49 GMT -5
I just never loved 1080. The trick controls were so complicated compared to something like Tony Hawk
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Dec 7, 2023 22:22:09 GMT -5
I liked Back to Nature on PS1 better there I said it
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Dec 7, 2023 22:42:43 GMT -5
I liked Back to Nature on PS1 better there I said it I love them both but they kind of have different strengths. 64 has a generally darker tone that made its writing feel more unique (though its characters aren't quite as fleshed out) and there's something to be said for the simplicity of it, while Back to Nature is way better balanced (even with pineapples and sweet potatoes still utterly destroying its economy) with it not being possible to just do everything a month into it and it has way more content. Which I actually prefer is... Complicated. 64 is the one I'm more nostalgic for because it was my first and it's the one I played more of as a kid, but both are games I can go back to over and over and over. I'm just glad that between NSO and PSN both games are readily accessible in the here and now.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Dec 7, 2023 23:27:57 GMT -5
Naturally people are being Very Normal about the fact that Tears of the Kingdom didn't win a meaningless award on a three hour infomercial.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 7, 2023 23:45:13 GMT -5
Naturally people are being Very Normal about the fact that Tears of the Kingdom didn't win a meaningless award on a three hour infomercial. Same about Pizza Tower. It's one of those things where, it's not like the awards are entirely "who gives a shit", but it's only marginally bigger than that. Getting nominated/talked about is probably not going to make a whole lot less difference compared to what comes from winning the things, since I can't imagine there are that many people holding off on getting a game until Geoff's show says to. If you win, that's cool, but if you don't, it's super not worth getting upset about.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Dec 8, 2023 3:28:11 GMT -5
Naturally people are being Very Normal about the fact that Tears of the Kingdom didn't win a meaningless award on a three hour infomercial. Same about Pizza Tower. It's one of those things where, it's not like the awards are entirely "who gives a shit", but it's only marginally bigger than that. Getting nominated/talked about is probably not going to make a whole lot less difference compared to what comes from winning the things, since I can't imagine there are that many people holding off on getting a game until Geoff's show says to. If you win, that's cool, but if you don't, it's super not worth getting upset about. there are like 700 game of the year awards... not winning one isn't the end of the world, Hell "THE GAME AWARDS" only started 9 years ago... it's not like it's this massively established thing like the Oscars... (even then movies like ET, Raging Bull, and what is considered one of the best movies ever made Citizen Kane, all lost at the Oscars) that said it was pretty damned clear that Baldur's Gate was winning everything this year... and anyone surprised that they did hasn't been paying attention to any online spaces at all since it launched...
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 8, 2023 9:24:52 GMT -5
Same about Pizza Tower. It's one of those things where, it's not like the awards are entirely "who gives a shit", but it's only marginally bigger than that. Getting nominated/talked about is probably not going to make a whole lot less difference compared to what comes from winning the things, since I can't imagine there are that many people holding off on getting a game until Geoff's show says to. If you win, that's cool, but if you don't, it's super not worth getting upset about. there are like 700 game of the year awards... not winning one isn't the end of the world, Hell "THE GAME AWARDS" only started 9 years ago... it's not like it's this massively established thing like the Oscars... (even then movies like ET, Raging Bull, and what is considered one of the best movies ever made Citizen Kane, all lost at the Oscars) that said it was pretty damned clear that Baldur's Gate was winning everything this year... and anyone surprised that they did hasn't been paying attention to any online spaces at all since it launched... Yeah, Baldur's Gate was the pretty clear favourite here, and I have no problem with that. I haven't played it yet, but everything about it sounds just brilliant. It was a stacked year, I have no issue with any of the nominees being called GOTY. EDIT: Huh, totally missed that Baldur's Gate 3 dropped on XBox last night. Gonna have to check that out
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Post by chrom on Dec 8, 2023 13:18:39 GMT -5
Odd that Nintendo announced nothing last night.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Dec 11, 2023 5:33:50 GMT -5
Just noticed Dragon Quest Monsters: Dark Prince is finally out to pretty much no buzz but still somehow great reviews.
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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 11, 2023 5:54:22 GMT -5
Just noticed Dragon Quest Monsters: Dark Prince is finally out to pretty much no buzz but still somehow great reviews. It's doing very good numbers in Japan (top selling physical game last week with likely big digital sales). Switch pretty much is the ideal console for DQ back home, so I suspect SE will make the former a priority for most major releases of the IP.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Dec 11, 2023 6:27:15 GMT -5
Just noticed Dragon Quest Monsters: Dark Prince is finally out to pretty much no buzz but still somehow great reviews. It's doing very good numbers in Japan (top selling physical game last week with likely big digital sales). Switch pretty much is the ideal console for DQ back home, so I suspect SE will make the former a priority for most major releases of the IP. Yeah, glad to see it's getting due love in Japan. Thought SE might've done a bit more in the West considering it's the first time they've brought DQM over since Joker 2 all the way back in 2010.
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Post by Bo Rida on Dec 11, 2023 9:40:16 GMT -5
Same about Pizza Tower. It's one of those things where, it's not like the awards are entirely "who gives a shit", but it's only marginally bigger than that. Getting nominated/talked about is probably not going to make a whole lot less difference compared to what comes from winning the things, since I can't imagine there are that many people holding off on getting a game until Geoff's show says to. If you win, that's cool, but if you don't, it's super not worth getting upset about. there are like 700 game of the year awards... not winning one isn't the end of the world, Hell "THE GAME AWARDS" only started 9 years ago... it's not like it's this massively established thing like the Oscars... (even then movies like ET, Raging Bull, and what is considered one of the best movies ever made Citizen Kane, all lost at the Oscars) that said it was pretty damned clear that Baldur's Gate was winning everything this year... and anyone surprised that they did hasn't been paying attention to any online spaces at all since it launched... What are the good online videogame spaces these days? The big forums I relied on disappeared or turned to shit and everywhere else seems to be industry shills or more for entertainment than anything useful or meaningful.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 11, 2023 9:52:15 GMT -5
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