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StarTopic Nintendo General Discussion |ST18 March 2023| The physical version of ST18 will be available in stores next month

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1. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - didn't play this much, initially. I kind of hated it at first as I'd always get destroyed online. But the last year I found a great community on twitch that I play with and we have a lot of fun playing together. The dlc has been wonderful, too.

2. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - I got this with my Switch in 2018 and devoured it. Loved the world and characters.

3. Breath of the Wild - I couldn't get into it at first. It felt very difficult. But on my second playthrough, the more I played, the easier it got as I progressed. By the end, Link is so strong, Calamity Ganon was very easy. The ending is weak but the journey is so worth it.

4. Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 9014 7128 7597 - this is my dream address. I spent 600 hours working on this island.

5. Fire Emblem: Three Houses - the gameplay loop of battle, monestary, battle etc. was very addictive. The characters were memorable and the soundtrack - there's a reason my favourite Tetris 99 theme is of this game.
 
Favorite AAA games on Switch:

1. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze

Amazing environments, super fun/exciting gameplay, incredible music, it's the peak of 2D platforming for me along with Retro Studios' other DK game, DKCR.

2. Crash Bandicoot: Remake Trilogy

I technically played this on PS4 not Switch, but since I love it so much and it's playable on Switch I think it feels right to put it here. The settings are colorful, vibrant, and resonate with me a lot, they give summer time vibes to me. The gameplay is fun obstacle course style platforming brought perfectly into 3D. Just overall always a super fun time to play these.

3. Smash Ultimate

The best Smash has been imo, gameplay is super improved from Brawl/4 with way less floatiness and much tighter movement overall, plus it has Ridley, who's also one of my favorite characters in general.

4. Crash 4: It's About Time

Doesn't have quite the same level of "vibes" or music as the remake trilogy imo, but still a great return for Crash with great platforming and the most fun movement yet in the series. Plus, brings some interesting depth to the characters/story.
 
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Let’s see, I guess TGAA2, FFVIII and FEWTH are my main games I’m working on right now? May use metal wolf chaos or metal gear revengence as a pace breaker
 
Let’s see, I guess TGAA2, FFVIII and FEWTH are my main games I’m working on right now? May use metal wolf chaos or metal gear revengence as a pace breaker
That reminds me, last month Platinum celebrated Metal Gear Rising without announcing a re-release. That actually hurt me. Switch needs it, I need it, I'm actually drowning in the ocean of turn based RPGs... And I haven't finished it on PS3.

Seriously I need someone to announce some action/platforming/adventure games for Switch. The schedule from now through the summer is filled with traditional RPG's and visual novels...
 
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Steam deck sounds pretty cool
For someone like me who wants to replay some older titles through emulation.

What consoles work well for emulation on steam deck?
 
Guten Freitag, meine Freunde! Coming at you hot with another Top 6 list I want to see from you! For the third week of questions I have to ask: What were your top 6 big budget, triple AAA games you enjoyed on Switch? Typically it might be first party entries, but there are some third party games that maybe you opted to play on Switch as opposed to PC/Xbox/PS5/Deck and felt well rewarded for your choice, what have been your favourite experiences specifically on the Switch? Once again (now with feeling!), don't just make it a list; offer up a sentence or three about what made them so special!

I'll present my list (unranked):

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
165 hours and a year and a half of my life sunk into this game, and even now it still resonates deeply within me. I think for something as grand a world as the game provides with colourful characters, it is the definition of a sandbox at its core. I mean, the first time someone told you that if you're careful about attacking a wild bear but not killing it, you could "technically" mount it like a horse and ride it around for a little while? Which then inspired you to find out what other beasts you could attempt taming and making the stable owners freak out when you try to register creatures that are most certainly not equine in nature haha (or not exactly 'alive', shoutout the Stalhorses in the Akkala Region)

Super Mario Odyssey
I think what makes it such a fun romp is a combination of being able to explore at your own pace, while the game scales its challenge accordingly with just as serious as you want to play the game. I was never any good at balloon challenges, but I did appreciate watching others do an amazing job hiding or finding them and truly showing off Mario's athletic capabilities hopping from wall to ledge to wall to wall to ledge to backflip to capture to high jump to dive and swim under a canal to a hidden cave.

Monster Hunter: Rise
Bahbahbah BAHH, buhBAH bahbah BAHHHHH is just such a great intro into a vast world that is just as intimidating as you are as a hunter. Not to mention, wirebug as a traversal mechanic? WAY influential (and later this love would translate easily to Halo Infinite), but damn it's just as fun making it your own challenge on how high you can fly into the air with your wirebugs to zip in the sky to your target before engaging in combat. Also the first Monster Hunter game where I never quite hit that skill wall where I bounced off MH3 Tri and MH4 as early; and this is all before I've even gotten around to buying the DLC, too!

Super Smash Brothers Ultimate
I think this game is as good a reason as any why anyone who's a fan will never consider trading in their Switch console so long as they have a method to return to playing this game. This is as big as the series will ever get, and though I've gotten my fill in terms of single player, getting to play with others is always an experience of just overstimulating colours and explosions and absolute hilarity in shenanigans when you don't take the game seriously.

Metroid Dread
This is only the second Metroid game I've actually beaten (the first being Metroid Prime 3: Corruption), but wow this is just as good a reason to encourage people to jump into the series now. It's such a tight experience that I didn't even mind it took me ten hours to clear, because I understand the itch like never before of wanting to persist to clear this game as fast as possible. Taking the time I did though to explore and finding the missile and health upgrades also never felt so addicting, and now with the chance to play all the other 2D Metroid games, I feel excited getting to understand what made the games so beloved in the first place.

Luigi's Mansion 3
It's a Pixar movie turned into a game. The cutscenes are stunning and the game in action is a graphical showcase, and not just for a Switch game. So many lighting and cast shadows can draw you to it as a technical marvel, but what about the actual game itself? I'll identify as a purist and say the first game still remains my favourite for actually having a spooky element to it and the overall designs of the spirits, but this game captures a blend of what made the original so popular, what worked well in Dark Moon to provide more environments to explore, and then its own original ideas by fleshing out characters further, Gooigi, and new methods of exploring the levels. I actually have to go back sometime and play more of Scarescraper, and also I never remembered to go back and check out the movie director ghost to see what his final product ended up being 😅

Anyways, those are my top 6! Can't wait to hear yours! Haben Sie einen super Wochenende und ein schön Bayonetta Origins Tag!
My top 6 for bigger original games would be:

1 Super Smash Bros Ultimate
2 Xenoblade Chronicles 3
3 The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
4 Metroid Dread
5 Super Mario Odyssey
6 Splatoon 2/3

This list could easily swap around a bit for 2-6 depending on the day. Smash Ultimate would stay on top though. I definitely need to replay Breath of the Wild and Metroid Dread some day.
 
So, first week without DST after 30 years. Now my brain isn't confused when its 8:30 PM and there is a shit ton of sunlight out there
 
I’ve been watching Succession. It’s great stuff but it’s kind of a bittersweet experience for me because it was a show my grandma wanted to watch with me, but we never got the chance to before she passed away nearly 3 years ago. Watching it makes me really wish I could talk to her about it.

Once I finish season 2, it’ll be only episodes she never got to see. I’m trying to think of it as letting her watch the new episodes with me, because even though she’s no longer alive, she’s still a part of me.
 
i’ve finally found the first game i can’t play on switch, wolfenstein 2. seems a bit too blurry and the lighting makes it hard to see who and what i’m shooting at. anyone played it and know how to tweak the visuals?
 
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Guten Freitag, meine Freunde! Coming at you hot with another Top 6 list I want to see from you! For the third week of questions I have to ask: What were your top 6 big budget, triple AAA games you enjoyed on Switch? Typically it might be first party entries, but there are some third party games that maybe you opted to play on Switch as opposed to PC/Xbox/PS5/Deck and felt well rewarded for your choice, what have been your favourite experiences specifically on the Switch? Once again (now with feeling!), don't just make it a list; offer up a sentence or three about what made them so special!

I'll present my list (unranked):

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
165 hours and a year and a half of my life sunk into this game, and even now it still resonates deeply within me. I think for something as grand a world as the game provides with colourful characters, it is the definition of a sandbox at its core. I mean, the first time someone told you that if you're careful about attacking a wild bear but not killing it, you could "technically" mount it like a horse and ride it around for a little while? Which then inspired you to find out what other beasts you could attempt taming and making the stable owners freak out when you try to register creatures that are most certainly not equine in nature haha (or not exactly 'alive', shoutout the Stalhorses in the Akkala Region)

Super Mario Odyssey
I think what makes it such a fun romp is a combination of being able to explore at your own pace, while the game scales its challenge accordingly with just as serious as you want to play the game. I was never any good at balloon challenges, but I did appreciate watching others do an amazing job hiding or finding them and truly showing off Mario's athletic capabilities hopping from wall to ledge to wall to wall to ledge to backflip to capture to high jump to dive and swim under a canal to a hidden cave.

Monster Hunter: Rise
Bahbahbah BAHH, buhBAH bahbah BAHHHHH is just such a great intro into a vast world that is just as intimidating as you are as a hunter. Not to mention, wirebug as a traversal mechanic? WAY influential (and later this love would translate easily to Halo Infinite), but damn it's just as fun making it your own challenge on how high you can fly into the air with your wirebugs to zip in the sky to your target before engaging in combat. Also the first Monster Hunter game where I never quite hit that skill wall where I bounced off MH3 Tri and MH4 as early; and this is all before I've even gotten around to buying the DLC, too!

Super Smash Brothers Ultimate
I think this game is as good a reason as any why anyone who's a fan will never consider trading in their Switch console so long as they have a method to return to playing this game. This is as big as the series will ever get, and though I've gotten my fill in terms of single player, getting to play with others is always an experience of just overstimulating colours and explosions and absolute hilarity in shenanigans when you don't take the game seriously.

Metroid Dread
This is only the second Metroid game I've actually beaten (the first being Metroid Prime 3: Corruption), but wow this is just as good a reason to encourage people to jump into the series now. It's such a tight experience that I didn't even mind it took me ten hours to clear, because I understand the itch like never before of wanting to persist to clear this game as fast as possible. Taking the time I did though to explore and finding the missile and health upgrades also never felt so addicting, and now with the chance to play all the other 2D Metroid games, I feel excited getting to understand what made the games so beloved in the first place.

Luigi's Mansion 3
It's a Pixar movie turned into a game. The cutscenes are stunning and the game in action is a graphical showcase, and not just for a Switch game. So many lighting and cast shadows can draw you to it as a technical marvel, but what about the actual game itself? I'll identify as a purist and say the first game still remains my favourite for actually having a spooky element to it and the overall designs of the spirits, but this game captures a blend of what made the original so popular, what worked well in Dark Moon to provide more environments to explore, and then its own original ideas by fleshing out characters further, Gooigi, and new methods of exploring the levels. I actually have to go back sometime and play more of Scarescraper, and also I never remembered to go back and check out the movie director ghost to see what his final product ended up being 😅

Anyways, those are my top 6! Can't wait to hear yours! Haben Sie einen super Wochenende und ein schön Bayonetta Origins Tag!
Ooh top six list, nice. Good picks!

Here’s mine:

1. Metroid Dread
2. Pokémon Legends: Arceus
3. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
4. Super Mario Odyssey
5. Paper Mario: The Origami King
6. Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee

a few of these might not be “big budget” but they are all AAA games so it counts as far as I’m concerned.
 
Kamiya, along with Nintendo producer Makoto Okazaki, chatted with Japanese magazine interview Famitsu this week. Below is our translation of their comments when asked about the future of the series:

Kamiya: If I just come out and say it openly, we want to make this title part of a new series, and keep expanding the world. There’s plenty of preparation that goes into that, and we are having discussions along the lines of “We want to do this kind of thing right?” with director (Abebe) Tinari. Although we haven’t quite had any of those discussions with Nintendo yet…

Okazaki: (laughs) So there’s certainly nothing concrete we can say at this point, but personally at least, I don’t think this is the end. For now I think it would be best to listen to the opinions of everyone who played this game and consider where we should go next.
 
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I wonder how viable the rumors of a new PS5 around September are. I hate to buy one now only to have a new, hopefully redesigned, PS5 to release later this year.
 
I wonder how viable the rumors of a new PS5 around September are. I hate to buy one now only to have a new, hopefully redesigned, PS5 to release later this year.
Imo if a "new" PS5 releases this year it'll be the long-rumored digital only PS5 with a Blu-Ray reader sold separately. I think the Switch 2 have more chances to be released this year than a more powerful PS5 system.
 
One thing I've really appreciated with Wario Land 3 is how it's possible to play for 5 minutes and still achieve something, find a treasure, and make headway in the game.

Also still appreciating how well a number of the GB/GBA games scale up on the OLED screen.
 
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I wonder how viable the rumors of a new PS5 around September are. I hate to buy one now only to have a new, hopefully redesigned, PS5 to release later this year.

When the first pics of the PS5 were shown I immediately thought „ok, guess I need to wait for the slim version“
 
looking forward to watching the trump arrest like a nintendo direct

"i guess it was fine but where was the kushner arrest?"
"gotta give it to the fbi - they always manage to disappoint their fans"
"the trump arrest was leaked beforehand, there were barely any surprises"
 
Once again I wade into the Steam forums and once again I want someone to run for president who'll push a platform of locking up all capital "G" gamers in internment camps. Just some of the most vile fucking weirdos. If I was a developer and had to read some of that stuff on a daily basis I'd leave the industry.
 
When the first pics of the PS5 were shown I immediately thought „ok, guess I need to wait for the slim version“
This is how I feel too. I really want a PS5 just to replace my PS4 (in ordfer to play the Trails of Cold Steel trilogy), but I just can't handle the current design. It's ugly, it takes up to much space.
 
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looking forward to watching the trump arrest like a nintendo direct

"i guess it was fine but where was the kushner arrest?"
"gotta give it to the fbi - they always manage to disappoint their fans"
"the trump arrest was leaked beforehand, there were barely any surprises"
What's funny is he leaked new info himself. 🤣 He just went on Truth Social and said it was happening Tuesday, and I don't think the exact day was part of the initial leak.

He could learn a thing or two from Nintendo insiders about keeping some info close to the chest smh my head
 
What's funny is he leaked new info himself. 🤣 He just went on Truth Social and said it was happening Tuesday, and I don't think the exact day was part of the initial leak.
I'm wondering if he leaked it because he wants cameras there to televise the perp walk, thinking it will help him seem sympathetic.
 
Or to have MAGA ready to protest/riot across the land and use it to show he has a huge following for the Republican nomination process.
Or to have the protest/riot disrupt the proceedings entirely (which, ya know, was a strategy he already tried once).
 
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Good morning all! I barely existed this week, stupid 65 hour work week. So I am ready for a nice gaming weekend
 
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