The Nintendo Switch

now im thinkin about a dark gritty mario lol

saw someone on youtube talking about how theyre hoping botw 2 is the dark zelda they were hoping for from the first one and its like not everything has to be hardcore and the first one was pretty dark my lord the world is in a tough spot

Yeah I’d be way more into a not post apocalyptic world this time

looks like its just gonna be the same world but with underground stuff or something fwiw botw

as someone mentioned on twitter, weird that Nintendo is explicitly going to the Disney Vault strategy for the Mario 3D All Stars. and it'll work on me, unfortunately! wish Galaxy 2 was in there, i haven't played either of them

i am def going buy the 3d pack baby (but not the 2d (not enough dimensions))

presumably galaxy 2 will get a stand-alone rerelease before the next gen.
i am confused as to why you wouldn't punch up the 64 graphics further but maybe that's another in the future thing.
i appreciate the freebies on the network!

perhaps worth mentioning explicitly as the video didn't make it very clear but Mario All-Stars (not the 3-D one) comes free with Nintendo Online and is live now.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/nintendo-switch-online-snes-nes-library-features-exclusive-offers-super-mario-all-stars/

I've started Super Mario Galaxy 2 then things intervened, now that I have the ring-fit, if I could get SMG2 on Switch I could finally bin the WiiU

re: IRL mario kart, it's unfortunately N/A for people with curious and poorly behaved pets

now im thinkin about a dark gritty mario lol

― lag∞n

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Expecting lots of home-made Rainbow Roads (and broken cameras).

that sucks, SMG2 was the best of those games IMO

Sunshine is one I wanna revisit someday, I remember the overwhelming consensus being "this game is good but it's got a lot of problems" and indeed the main thing I remember is how glitchy it was. but the humongous worlds were legitimately very cool and I loved all the 'secret' areas

3D world is great too, when you go back to the other New SMB games it's really apparent how much better this one is

sunshine is solid its just the bar is so high for these games. also having the shine order in each level be railroaded after the free-explore approach of 64 was a disappointment at the time, but then iirc galaxy continued with that and everyone got used to it until they brought free explore back for odyssey

one thing I remember is there's a level where you have to shoot water at a puzzle and flip all the pieces to the same side but the waterpack controls were so clunky that you couldn't shoot with any precision and so you either got lucky or quit in frustration

also remember certain sections of the game be surprisingly difficult, like "there has to be something I'm missing because what they want me to do here is basically impossible"

I think if they'd given it another 6 months it could've been real great, and iirc the Gamecube was really hurting for a flagship title at that point

there's definitely some difficulty spikes but i don't remember anything that hard

though there's this one level that apparently is now infamous for being bullshit thanks to a giant bomb stream where they fucked it up repeatedly and blamed the game but i had 0 difficulty with it as a kid??

This is great but windddddd wakerrrrrrrrrrr

that famous super mario game, wind waker

next year is Zelda anniversary, I'm expecting BOTW2 and ports galore then

the all important 35th

they're making a big deal of Mario's 35th ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

they're making a lot of money off of Mario's 35th

the age when mario might say 'this is not my beautiful castle. this is not my beautiful princess.'

no sufjan, this is NOT-A my A-beautiful A-castle, YAHOO?

now im thinkin about a dark gritty mario lol

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Super Mario 3D All Stars seems like a good idea but idk if it's worth shelling out 60 bucks. I never played Sunshine or Galaxy tho

lol so *now* you all start complaining about nintendo prices.

i mean i only started buying video games again this year after like 12 years of being out of the loop so i had zero opinion on this before & i am not part of this "you all" you speak of

with galaxy 2 the math would change significantly but as is galaxy 1 + sunshine taken together is still like the 3rd or 4th best $60 mario game on switch

maybe 5th best if we're counting the 3d world rerelease thats not out yet

everyone seems to love 3D World these days but I thought it was a bit disappointing tbh, as single player game anyway

yeah i havent played it hence the maybe. i have the 3ds one though and wasn't really into it

oh $60 is awful for super old remasters. and the Vault scheme doubly so. but sigh i'd rather get it now, then not be able to, or have to shell out for a working Wii and copies of the originals

i shant let the limited time thing work on me, if they want to lock me out from galaxy on switch forever then so be it

yeah, it's on my list, but somewhere down there. if they want to make me wait another 10 years to play super mario sunshine, so be it

Very curious about this game

"former Kotaku video producer Tim Rogers oversaw its translation and localization."

https://kotaku.com/offbeat-90s-rpg-moon-finally-heads-west-on-august-27-1844559777

into it

its a cult favorite yeah, was an inspiration for undertale and various other meta-rpgs like that

Just wanted to express: God Bless Nintendo for sponsoring the TV showing of the We Bear Bears movie. It's cute and funny as the show is, but they really made the immigrant motif pretty explicit to end the show, and it turns out the movie is agitprop against ICE detention and family separation. Beautiful.

(It was a "limited commercial interruption" affair, so pretty much all Cartoon Network and Switch ads.)

I've been playing Burnout Paradise Remastered, alone, and with my kids (handing off when you get wrecked), and it's super fun. It feels so fast, the physics are just wild enough while the controls still feel tight enough. The takedown and crash animations are exciting as ever, and the island (I think it was a DLC?) is chock-full of crazy-ass jumps. The only lame part is the tedious "Showtime" mode, a watered-down version of Crash mode that can be activated anywhere. Also, the passing of time is kinda cool, but it's pretty hard to beat any challenges in the dark, so I tacked the time to daytime. Highly recommended!

new monster hunter for switch, march 2021

also monster hunter stories 2, sometime next year

This we bear bears’ guys Instagram is very good

https://www.instagram.com/p/CE-Cw4RjHZa/?igshid=124b1lbbuqmkb

As someone who’s new(ish) to modern gaming, I will never understand this weird depressive strand of fan entitlement

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/super-mario-3d-all-stars-review

It’s asking fans to pay for the same games again without adding anything, don’t think “what does this edition add” is an unreasonable question

I haven’t played them!

otoh i don't think re-releasing a bunch of old games on a new system and saying "nothing's changed here btw, shell out for them if you want to" is an unreasonable marketing position

i never owned any of these games as I never had a Nintendo console growing up, but i really really loved Mario Odyssey so i think probably i am part of the target market for these reissues. maybe ppl who played them all first time round aren't part of the target audience in quite the same way? anyway i'm gonna buy em and play the shit out of em

xpost @ gyac

I think I'd be more cool with constant ports and re-releases if those ports and re-releases were not substitutes for new releases. I mean, I didn't play a lot of these games, either, because I didn't have many of those old systems. But one reason I didn't have those old systems (or even, say, the Wii-U) is that I didn't particularly want to play those games!

Anyway, how is Hades? Looks cool.

i think one reason people are resentful about release like these is they have a video game shopping compulsion and will buy them even though they dont want to

they really shdve made mario64 widescreen and included galaxy 2 tho thats just common sense