Oh hey, I almost forgot to be outraged about this - I can't believe that Nintendo showed off vr equipment they will have at some arcades, and the driving game they use is Mario Kart and not F-Zero!! Come on Nintendo! This is the perfect place for it!
I'd like to not make a mess while playing...
Nintendo Console Codes
Switch (JeffConser): SW-3353-5433-5137 Wii U: Skeldare - 3DS: 1848-1663-9345
PM Me if you add me!
Hyperbole, but no one can claim Nintendo doesn't iterate the same core franchises in an interesting way. It's the only console where you definitely ask, "What's the Mario this season?"
Yeah they should really make Zelda an open world game.
What do you mean by that anyway? You mean a Mario game is a Mario game? Well, duh. Gears of War is a Gears of War game and Halo 4 and Halo 3 feel the same too. That's not a bad thing, but is funny that Nintendo is the only company that gets flak for that.
Not saying they're right, but it IS a hell of a lot easier to give Nintendo that flak when they are the longest lived and most successful player in the game.
When is the cutoff in time for it to be a problem? Halo 1 came out in 2001. That's 16 years ago and each Halo game is essentially the same (again, not a bad thing... Though I didn't enjoy Halo 4). Is it protected from flak because Nintendo has been around longer? As soon as Nintendo goes away then it'll be okay to give them shit?
For the record: I don't really care. I just have a friend who makes fun of me for buying the Mario games because "they're all the same" and then nearly died at the footage of Assassin's Creed Origins.
Number of Halo games: like eight across 15 years?
Number of Mario games: more than 100 across 30 years?
Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
New Super Mario Bros
New Super Mario Bros 2
New Super Mario Bros Wii
New Super Mario Bros WiiU
Super Mario 3D Land
Super Mario 3D World
Super Mario Odyssey
100<19???????
This list is disingenuous. Here's a better one. Granted, some of these titles aren't Mario games - nobody's going to argue that a Tetris or NES Baseball release with a Mario cameo is a "Mario game." But I think we can safely say that there have been quite a few more Mario releases than, say, Halo releases.
Edit: I'm not going to count them all right now, but taking an estimate of 16 entries per screen on my laptop, that list comes to about 13 screens. That's 200+ games. Again, not all proper Mario releases. But still.
Yeah but if you do that then you also have to count all the Halo Kart games, Flood Football 2K, Super AI Cortana, the Master Chief & Arbiter RPGs etc.
That's still only, like, 20 games. There were only 2 Halo Kart games, Flood Football 2K had a rerelease in 2015 that I guess we can count, Super AI Cortana was Japan-only, and the RPG series was a pen-and-paper game and I kinda feel like that's cheating.
But we should count Mario cereals, the Mario Bros. movie and Super Show, Mario bedsheets, lunchboxes, sneakers, mobile games, and t-shirts.
Please don't remind me that the Nintendo Cereal System no longer exists. It's still too soon.
Anyone familiar with Minecraft know what we'll need to do to have a cross-platform server for my son and friends to play on? We currently pay for a traditional server hosted for the PC version - will we need to switch over to a Realms server to have it work?
@Lindsay Lohan check the minecraft website for details, but you'll have to have the kids use the Windows 10 version of Minecraft rather than the Java version. The Win10 version is a walled garden, no free modding version that's cross compatible with the others. You'll pay I believe $3-15 a month depending on concurrent users, all through a fairly user friendly "no thinking required" server rental service built into the game.
On the stream just now, the guy died in Mario Odyssey and maybe I wasn't looking closely enough, but I didn't see a life counter decrease. He did drop some coins though, which are important for buying clothing and upgrades.
I know people have complained about lives in Mario before, that they're either prohibitive for bad players or pointless cursory things for good players (that always end up at 99 or crown crown crown). They may have finally made a mainline Mario that eschews them.
On the stream just now, the guy died in Mario Odyssey and maybe I wasn't looking closely enough, but I didn't see a life counter decrease. He did drop some coins though, which are important for buying clothing and upgrades.
I know people have complained about lives in Mario before, that they're either prohibitive for bad players or pointless cursory things for good players (that always end up at 99 or crown crown crown). They may have finally made a mainline Mario that eschews them.
What does Game Over even mean these days anyway?
I read this elsewhere. There are no lives. The coins sound super important though, so it will still be a bummer to die!
Edit: I actually really like this. I ignore coins in other Mario games, they're essentially worthless. Now I'll be hunting for them actively (and so being directed into situations and experiences I may have missed otherwise).
On the stream just now, the guy died in Mario Odyssey and maybe I wasn't looking closely enough, but I didn't see a life counter decrease. He did drop some coins though, which are important for buying clothing and upgrades.
I know people have complained about lives in Mario before, that they're either prohibitive for bad players or pointless cursory things for good players (that always end up at 99 or crown crown crown). They may have finally made a mainline Mario that eschews them.
What does Game Over even mean these days anyway?
10 seconds of immeasurable frustration, because you can't quick-load until the "You are dead" animation plays out.
On the stream just now, the guy died in Mario Odyssey and maybe I wasn't looking closely enough, but I didn't see a life counter decrease. He did drop some coins though, which are important for buying clothing and upgrades.
I know people have complained about lives in Mario before, that they're either prohibitive for bad players or pointless cursory things for good players (that always end up at 99 or crown crown crown). They may have finally made a mainline Mario that eschews them.
What does Game Over even mean these days anyway?
Lives have been pointless in Mario games for years.
Nintendo Console Codes
Switch (JeffConser): SW-3353-5433-5137 Wii U: Skeldare - 3DS: 1848-1663-9345
PM Me if you add me!
HAIL HYDRA
+2
Gennenalyse RuebenThe Prettiest Boy is Ridiculously PrettyRegistered Userregular
Didn't they end bg&e on a big ol cliffhanger/bad end
And now a prequel
It turns out making a sequel to a poorly-selling game from 14 years ago isn't the best business move.
It sucks, I love the first game, but I assume the deal is that BG&E2 needs to sell well enough to get a proper sequel (and likely an HD remake to get people up to speed)
You know what I just realized they could do...dual language support in the Japanese release, like Disgaea 5 had.
Sort of saying "we're sorry guys...here, import, it's the least we can do."
Dude, you are an endless font of hope against all reason. If they were doing that they'd say it.
Come on, obviously they're not doing that. I said they could, not that I expected it. This isn't in the same realm of likeliness as what "nothing to announce at this time" might mean.
It's from the context of being physically prevented from western release due to backroom deals with Sony. Something like that would likely skirt terms, but it's not happening.
Off the top of my head, in regards to touch screen controls, just adopt pointer controls. Nothing fancy, just typical mouse controls, but if they wanted to get fancy, well you got 2 motion controls right there.
As far as dual screens, that would sadly have to go, but it's adaptable. Most puzzles had one screen just be fluff decoration. You could set the puzzle rules to one screen too which was handy, and that function would sadly have to go, but you can still put a button in the corner saying "Show rules".
It's certainly not impossible. You'd lose something in the change, but nothing that would affect the integrity of the series I think.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
Got a cabin rented for the weekend, and the weather is supposed to be crap which sucks, but this means I will finally be living the hipster millennial dream, playing Switch in a hottub all weekend.
My Switch is arriving this morning, and the games I ordered and most of the accessories are arriving tomorrow
The darkest timeline
Go on the eshop and grab that $6 Zelda-like for the overnight! Seems like the perfect case for it. I've never picked it up because I'm flush with games to play but it's on my list.
Well, The Monster Hunter twitter did post this response.
But who knows.
I remember them being pretty definite about not bringing certain Ace Attorney games over. It could just be a matter of wanting people to buy MHW, and thinking bringing over MHXX would oversaturate the brand and hurt MHW's sales. That said, even if they have plans to bring MH over to the Switch, we're not going to hear about until next year at the earliest.
"definitely not" is definitely not what they're saying there.
"Not at this time" can easily mean they have some timed eclusivity deal with MH World that would include conflicting titles. I seriously doubt we'll never see XX over here.
Posts
I'd like to not make a mess while playing...
Switch (JeffConser): SW-3353-5433-5137 Wii U: Skeldare - 3DS: 1848-1663-9345
PM Me if you add me!
But thinking back, Yoshi has always been rooted in arts and crafts. Yoshi's Island was crayon. This is prime Yoshi pedigree, here.
Please don't remind me that the Nintendo Cereal System no longer exists. It's still too soon.
Steam: Archpriest
Streaming games and playing music
@Lindsay Lohan check the minecraft website for details, but you'll have to have the kids use the Windows 10 version of Minecraft rather than the Java version. The Win10 version is a walled garden, no free modding version that's cross compatible with the others. You'll pay I believe $3-15 a month depending on concurrent users, all through a fairly user friendly "no thinking required" server rental service built into the game.
I know people have complained about lives in Mario before, that they're either prohibitive for bad players or pointless cursory things for good players (that always end up at 99 or crown crown crown). They may have finally made a mainline Mario that eschews them.
What does Game Over even mean these days anyway?
I read this elsewhere. There are no lives. The coins sound super important though, so it will still be a bummer to die!
Edit: I actually really like this. I ignore coins in other Mario games, they're essentially worthless. Now I'll be hunting for them actively (and so being directed into situations and experiences I may have missed otherwise).
Lives have been pointless in Mario games for years.
Switch (JeffConser): SW-3353-5433-5137 Wii U: Skeldare - 3DS: 1848-1663-9345
PM Me if you add me!
Precious seconds of blissful ignorance before you find out that the last checkpoint or autosave was farther back than you thought?
Also here's XCom 2's Creative Director talking about his reaction to the Mario + Rabbids reveal:
Edit: also these mario and luigi themed wheels (and a 2dsxl case thats not pictured here because its boring):
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
It sucks, I love the first game, but I assume the deal is that BG&E2 needs to sell well enough to get a proper sequel (and likely an HD remake to get people up to speed)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2017-capcom-not-bringing-switch-version-of-mons/1100-6450954/
Well. . .Switch in the West at least.
If you want it you're gonna need to import
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
You know what I just realized they could do...dual language support in the Japanese release, like Disgaea 5 had.
Sort of saying "we're sorry guys...here, import, it's the least we can do."
Not getting my hopes up.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
Dude, you are an endless font of hope against all reason. If they were doing that they'd say it.
Didn't hurt that the full game was already translated and released on PS4.
Switch (JeffConser): SW-3353-5433-5137 Wii U: Skeldare - 3DS: 1848-1663-9345
PM Me if you add me!
Come on, obviously they're not doing that. I said they could, not that I expected it. This isn't in the same realm of likeliness as what "nothing to announce at this time" might mean.
It's from the context of being physically prevented from western release due to backroom deals with Sony. Something like that would likely skirt terms, but it's not happening.
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
But who knows.
Journey to the west?
Hope they can figure it out!
As far as dual screens, that would sadly have to go, but it's adaptable. Most puzzles had one screen just be fluff decoration. You could set the puzzle rules to one screen too which was handy, and that function would sadly have to go, but you can still put a button in the corner saying "Show rules".
It's certainly not impossible. You'd lose something in the change, but nothing that would affect the integrity of the series I think.
Got a cabin rented for the weekend, and the weather is supposed to be crap which sucks, but this means I will finally be living the hipster millennial dream, playing Switch in a hottub all weekend.
The darkest timeline
Go on the eshop and grab that $6 Zelda-like for the overnight! Seems like the perfect case for it. I've never picked it up because I'm flush with games to play but it's on my list.
Disgaea 5 arrives tomorrow, and then goodbye cruel world
Don't do it! You'll end up a Prinny.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
I remember them being pretty definite about not bringing certain Ace Attorney games over. It could just be a matter of wanting people to buy MHW, and thinking bringing over MHXX would oversaturate the brand and hurt MHW's sales. That said, even if they have plans to bring MH over to the Switch, we're not going to hear about until next year at the earliest.
Steam: pazython
http://www.glixel.com/interviews/nintendo-of-america-boss-talks-comebacks-3ds-and-esports-w488029
Also, not sure if this was posted here already, but Miyamoto says that Pikmin 4 is still "progressing"
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-14-miyamoto-pikmin-4-still-progressing
"definitely not" is definitely not what they're saying there.
"Not at this time" can easily mean they have some timed eclusivity deal with MH World that would include conflicting titles. I seriously doubt we'll never see XX over here.