I’m a little tired of the fearmongering from people who seem to be racing to the assumption that JoyCon 2s will definitely be as brittle as JoyCon 1s. We don’t know that yet. Yes, we know it’s not Hall Effect, but that’s been true of the majority of video game controllers for a long time. JoyCon 1s were just anomalously defective in a way specific to that controller, and I highly doubt they haven’t considered this with the 2. Until we actually start seeing a failure rate comparable to JoyCon 1s, can people just… wait and chill for a sec?

I have a lot of childhood nostalgia for Donkey Kong 64. If you were a kid who could only get a new game every few months or so, this giant behemoth of a game will last a long time.

But it undeniably is a bloated clusterfuck, the internet is not wrong in hindsight.

Next thing that comes to mind for me is the GBA port of Tales of Phantasia. Symphonia was a huge part of my adolescent years, and as soon as I heard this was getting a GBA remake I was all over it. Loved it, and didn’t hear until much later that GBA is apparently considered the worst version of the game. If PSP ever gets translated, I’d love to see what I missed out on…

Story (N64), not Island (SNES).

but the fact that Switch games released by Nintendo just haven’t gone on sale.

But this isn’t true either. I use DekuDeals for price tracking, you can look up any game for yourself and see when it’s been on sale.

“Except for all the people complaining, why is no one complaining?”

Misinformation has been one big game of telephone. There’s been a lot of legitimate confusion around VRR, I know Nintendo did claim it was supported docked at first but then had to retract it. FWIW, this is probably something that wasn’t ready for launch but will be patched.

But I’ve seen far more cases of misinformation used to bash on the Switch - I’ve lost count of the number times I’ve seen people claim Mario Kart is $90 somehow.

Regarding game prices, I’m not thrilled about it, but I also feel the need to point out that any AAA with DLC has already been more than $80 for a while now. If you don’t like it, don’t buy AAA.

Me, I don’t often buy games at full price, or basically any AAAs outside of Nintendo for that matter. For the handful of IPs I really love that badly, I’m honestly okay with paying a premium. It’s the price I pay for having niche tastes that have narrowed with age, it’s fine because I’m saving a lot on the games I don’t buy. If I have to pay $80 for Kirby Air Ride 2, I will because I’ve waited 22 years for this sequel.

There’s a lot that’s fucked up in the game industry, and I just don’t think Nintendo is anywhere near the worst right now. The circlejerk here on Lemmy in particular has become especially tiring, and I wish some of y’all could direct that energy towards companies that constantly screw over their workers, push gambling-based business models onto kids, or keep collapsing under their own weight when they expect every game to be the next Fortnite and speedrun shutting down any game that doesn’t meet unrealistic investor expectations.

I think we’ve reached a point where you’ve got the backlash, the backlash to the backlash, the backlash to the backlash to the backlash… and all of that keeps amplifying toxicity. Everyone needs to step back and chill.

I’ll give you characters that started on PC, but several of the characters you listed were always multiplat.

Never be fooled into believing that corporations are your friend. They are always just looking to chase profits.

But if corporations believe that Pride is profitable, that is a sign that society is headed in the right direction. Whereas if they turn around because Pride is no longer profitable, that is a cause for worry.

Projection is when you said “I guess you’re just upset because someone was critical of something you like.”

If you must know, I’m actually not a Mario Kart fan, played the older ones but haven’t touched the series since DS. More of a Kirby Air Ride and F-Zero GX kinda guy. But I can still understand the appeal well enough to not post this kind of thinly veiled “I’m mad that other people like something I don’t” thread.

I got to see him live for the first time last year, absolutely incredible show.

Are you really unable to understand why other people enjoy things? Is this a serious question?

But none of those are entire industries crashing. Audiences change, media changes how it targets audiences, business models change, but the medium still lives.

Loved the first four games, but I skipped 5 after hearing nothing but bad things. Glad to hear this is a return to form.

Them’s Fightin’ Herds has one of the best tutorials in the fighting game genre, but on top of that it also has a story mode cleverly designed to act as a second tutorial. Enemies and bosses are designed you on specific concepts like anti-airing or getting past zoning. It even has platforming segments to get you used to fighting game movement.

Sadly, the published pulled the plug so chapter 1 is all we’ll ever get. But that chapter 1 is still better than any other fighting game singleplayer.

The Atari crash was just Atari. In North America - and only North America, things were quite different elsewhere in the world - Atari was virtually the entire game industry at the time, but that isn’t the case today.

We already do see individual developers and publishers crash the way Atari did. All the time. But for every flop, there are a dozen hits. The industry is big, and it is not a monolith. And the audience is far far far larger. People will always be buying games. It’s not possible for the entire industry to crash the way Atari did.

It’d be like expecting the entire music industry, movie industry, or book industry to crash.

Turf War - 3 minute timer, whichever team has more ink at the end wins. This mode is only played in casual unranked, ranked is all objective modes. During Splatfests, there’s a special 2v2v4 variant called Tricolor Turf War.

Splat Zones - Standard King of the Hill. Ink the point to capture it (some maps have two points, you must control both at once). While your team is in control, your timer ticks down. Whoever hits zero first, or whoever has more progress after 5 minutes, wins.

Tower Control - Payload variant. Tower starts in the center, get on it to ride it along a track towards a goal in the opponent’s base. Ride all the way to the goal for a knockout victory, or after five minutes whoever has come closest to the goal wins.

Rainmaker - Reverse capture-the-flag. The Rainmaker is a special weapon that starts in the center of the map and has a barrier surrounding it, pop the barrier to explode ink nearby (and take out opponents that are too close, it’s a tug-of-war battle to control pop). Pick it up, and it replaces your normal weapon with a slow charge shot and reduces your movement speed, so teammates need to escort you to a goal in the opponent’s base. Reach the goal for KO, or whoever has come closest after five minutes.

Clam Blitz - Complicated. Clams spawn around the map, pick up 8 of them to form a Power Clam. Toss a Power Clam into a basket in the opposing team’s base to score 20 points, which also marks the basket as open so that single clams can be tossed in for 3 points each until it closes. 100 points to KO, or best score after five minutes.

https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Mode#Online_games

S3’s singleplayer is solid, doesn’t quite live up to the highs of S2 Octo Expansion though. It admittedly does kinda feel like an afterthought, multiplayer is very obviously the core of the series. Side Order brings some cool ideas to the table and has a very good core loop, but the balancing is all over the place and it’s a bit lacking in variety/content.

I’m really hoping this spinoff is more of an actual spinoff though, show me something new and different in using this IP rather than just another iteration of the same story mode formula sold at full price.

I’ve been waiting a decade to see some spinoffs set in this universe. There’s so much they could do with the IP.

Trailer also confirms a big update for S3 - third kits(!!!), Urchin Underpass(!!!), and graphical upgrades on Switch 2.

Not necessarily that AI is marketed as a competitive board game player, but that AI is marketed as intelligence. This helps illustrate how clueless it really is.

I would argue that what counts as a “big game” really just comes down to how much Nintendo invests in it. In terms of budget, Sakurai gets a blank check to do whatever he wants, this will be a much bigger game than the original. In terms of marketing, this was a Direct-closer. Nintendo will make consumers care about this game.