StarTopic Nintendo General Discussion Thread |ST11 Aug 2022| Everybody's 11-12 Discussion Thread

[BozPaggs]

Merry Birthmas Metroid

 

[kimbo99]

Need a new Kojima or MGS game on Switch.

 

[merp]

Need a new Kojima or MGS game on Switch.

Metal Gear Solid 6 as a Switch exclusive when

 

[Legion of Primes]

Look what I got at a flea market today for 35 bucks

Even came with the manual

 

[Brofield]

Look what I got at a flea market today for 35 bucks

Even came with the manual

This reminded me of when I made this stupid abomination when the Kirby site was replaced with Kafka-text on Era lmao

I really wish this got more traction at the time

 

[chocolate_supra]

I wonder whether we'll also see Nier Replicant make its way over to Switch. Potentially depends on how well Automata will do when launching on the platform, I suppose.

I'm torn on if I should continue my Replicant playthrough on PC or hope for a port to Switch somewhere down the line.

I'm actually surprised we didn't see them both launch together. It seemed like a no-brainer.

I've been playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and my biggest issue after the gross and ridiculous sexualization is needing certain skills to advance the main plot. It's ground my game to a halt at the moment.

I agree with all this.

 

[Yoshifan31]

Hey fam

Do I grab a cheap loose copy of Star Fox Command so I can play it like it was intended (never tried DS games on Wii U) or should I not even bother

For reference it’s the only game in the series I haven’t tried, Star Fox 64 was my first videogame. No idea how it plays but I was fine with touch aiming in Kid Icarus

 

[9-Volt]

Hey fam

Do I grab a cheap loose copy of Star Fox Command so I can play it like it was intended (never tried DS games on Wii U) or should I not even bother

For reference it’s game in the series I haven’t tried, Star Fox 64 was my first videogame. No idea how it plays but I was fine with touch aiming in Kid Icarus

If you were ok with Kid Icarus controls, you won't have problems with Command, they're pretty similar. Command has a turn based strategy aspect also, using stylus.

Best part of Command was the multiplayer, they really nailed that part down. I remember playing countless hours of it online.

 

[SammyJ9]

I've been playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and my biggest issue after the gross and ridiculous sexualization is needing certain skills to advance the main plot. It's ground my game to a halt at the moment.

That's one of the most common complaints, yeah. It mostly just punishes people who want to do the plot and don't do as much sidequesting and blade experimentation, which sucks. Even for people who do do a ton of blade experimenting and such, it just turns into a menu tax to arrange things to be able to access stuff just right. I like the IDEA of field skills, but it was poorly implemented.

 

[Scrawnton]

I am bingeing some Switch Sports today to unlock the items that are available and I have been listening to some GameCube game's OSTs going in chronological order of when I got them. I am looking at the release list on its wikipedia and HOLY CRAP GameCube got so many bangers in its first 9 months on the market.

 

[MSnap]

I had a dream they were remastering the original Prey for modern systems. I’m upset it wasn’t real. I guess there’s always the Xbox version.

 

[Deleted member 2551]

Holy shit, this song is bopping

Metal Gear Rising is unironically the best Metal Gear game.

 

[Legion of Primes]

This reminded me of when I made this stupid abomination when the Kirby site was replaced with Kafka-text on Era lmao

I really wish this got more traction at the time

For some reason this escapes my memory but this is funny

 

[Deleted member 2551]

This reminded me of when I made this stupid abomination when the Kirby site was replaced with Kafka-text on Era lmao

I really wish this got more traction at the time

Kirby Metamorphosis, so a crossover between Kirby and the ShindoL manga?

 

[Imitatio]

I'm actually surprised we didn't see them both launch together. It seemed like a no-brainer.

This. I actually expected them to offer some kind of double pack at least, and also an option to buy both separately, but for a higher overall price. A bit surprised it's taking longer again for Replicant.

 

[merp]

Metal Gear Rising is unironically the best Metal Gear game.

Proof:

 

[KilgoreWolfe]

I'm actually surprised we didn't see them both launch together. It seemed like a no-brainer.


I agree with all this.

That's one of the most common complaints, yeah. It mostly just punishes people who want to do the plot and don't do as much sidequesting and blade experimentation, which sucks. Even for people who do do a ton of blade experimenting and such, it just turns into a menu tax to arrange things to be able to access stuff just right. I like the IDEA of field skills, but it was poorly implemented.

Glad to see it's not just me that thinks it sucks, haha.

I did make progress now though, just had to waste a few pouch items (which I don't really understand well anyway).

 

[chocolate_supra]

I had a dream they were remastering the original Prey for modern systems. I’m upset it wasn’t real. I guess there’s always the Xbox version.

Aren't they, though..?
Seems everyone's talking about it this week:

/s

 

[Mr_No_U]

Dare I say losing Smash was a big loss for Evo? Number of GG participants is impressive, but no game touches SSBU’s nearly 3,500 entrants from a few years ago. I know I’m less enthused to watch it (but will still watch SFV finals at the very least).

 

[merp]

Heads-up, everyone, for those that aren't that aware or don't know:

Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S. – an epidemiologist explains what this means

Declaring monkeypox a national health emergency will allow the U.S. government to direct resources and funds where needed to help slow the spread of the virus.

theconversation.com

 

[Intoxicate]

Don't. If you don't want to play the first Xenoblade Chronicles, a good rule of thumb is to not play a video game that you don't really want to play (even if you feel that you should "complete it first").

Besides, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is separate from the other games as the devs themselves have said.

So take that as a neat opportunity.

IMHO

That rules became mine after pulling through uncharted 1 & 2. I liked the 3rd game (especially the beginning when they are kids), but the other games was just more of the same in worse quality.

I was so fed up with the mechanism, climb, shoot, video sequence that I couldn’t finish 4 when it came out. Should have stopped 1&2.

 

[merp]

That rules bec

What?

 

[merp]

Also:

Crunchyroll bought a leading anime store, and now you can’t buy hentai there anymore

Erotic content is being moved to a different retailer

www.polygon.com

This is genuinely good, imho.

I don't care about the funny headline or what not.

It's good.

 

[Intoxicate]

What?

Wrong button, edited my post.

 

[Mandos]

Dare I say losing Smash was a big loss for Evo? Number of GG participants is impressive, but no game touches SSBU’s nearly 3,500 entrants from a few years ago. I know I’m less enthused to watch it (but will still watch SFV finals at the very least).

I’m still miffed they didn’t add power rangers battle for the grid

 

[merp]

That rules became mine after pulling through uncharted 1 & 2. I liked the 3rd game (especially the beginning when they are kids), but the other games was just more of the same in worse quality.

I was so fed up with the mechanism, climb, shoot, video sequence that I couldn’t finish 4 when it came out. Should have stopped 1&2.

Yeah.

Frankly?

I play a lot of niche and obscure shit... and like it.

So FOMO was especially hard for me.

Keep in mind that I partly (sometimes) play for the fandom and even enjoy the company. But after a while, I couldn't complete games that well so I decided to just play whatever I like and find like-minded people rather than just play what "everybody is playing." It ended up leading me to some interesting company and interesting characters. Much better this way. @Suswave has it right. I believe that she did indeed tell me to not be caught up in playing games just because they're popular or whatever.

 

[Blue Monty]

Dare I say losing Smash was a big loss for Evo? Number of GG participants is impressive, but no game touches SSBU’s nearly 3,500 entrants from a few years ago. I know I’m less enthused to watch it (but will still watch SFV finals at the very least).

It is now a ‘PlayStation tour’ (that is the literal branding of the event), there was no way Nintendo would let their IP be on a PlayStation tour lol

 

[chocolate_supra]

Has anyone else had the XB3 chain attack music stuck in their head for three days straight?

Just me?

 

[Deleted member 2551]

Also:

Crunchyroll bought a leading anime store, and now you can’t buy hentai there anymore

Erotic content is being moved to a different retailer

www.polygon.com

This is genuinely good, imho.

I don't care about the funny headline or what not.

It's good.

Industry consolidation is good?

 

[KilgoreWolfe]

Has anyone else had the XB3 chain attack music stuck in their head for three days straight?

Just me?

I'm sure I will once I get to that game. For now the XB2 boss music is stuck in my head.

 

[Suswave]

Heads-up, everyone, for those that aren't that aware or don't know:

Monkeypox is now a national public health emergency in the U.S. – an epidemiologist explains what this means

Declaring monkeypox a national health emergency will allow the U.S. government to direct resources and funds where needed to help slow the spread of the virus.

theconversation.com

kinda really fucking annoyed that the article bends over backwards to say “oh lol this isn’t a problem for regular people, don’t change anything you’re doing, only immunocompromised people and risk groups have anything to do with it”

when fucking. no.

like please take caution because the more it spreads, the MORE AT RISK IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PEOPLE ARE

like no one learned shit from COVID, y’all are having festivals while BA.5 still kills us??? and won’t even wear a mask for yourselves, let alone us??

and monkeypox (terrible name) HAS SURFACE TRANSMISSION. people who are not immunocompromised are already dying.

if you got COVID, your immune system is less equipped to deal with it! meaning the population is primed for this to fuck over everyone, and hit immunocompromised people like me HARDEST when everyone fails to control it!

and don’t get me wrong I LOVE yelling about systemic failure

but individual choices REALLY do matter with pandemics, as we’ve really seen now

I hate that I even moreso can’t do shit faced with twin plagues, but like… just please try

just… be careful, and if you have symptoms, don’t fuck around

 

[Derachi]

Anyone know any good iPad games? Preferably free and playable offline. I remember old stuff like Subway Surfers and Into the Dead, not sure if they’re still free/available/playable offline

My most played game on iPad is Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic. Not free but playable offline

 

[merp]

Industry consolidation is good?

No, the anti-hentai thing is good.

 

[merp]

kinda really fucking annoyed that the article bends over backwards to say “oh lol this isn’t a problem for regular people, don’t change anything you’re doing, only immunocompromised people and risk groups have anything to do with it”

when fucking. no.

like please take caution because the more it spreads, the MORE AT RISK IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PEOPLE ARE

like no one learned shit from COVID, y’all are having festivals while BA.5 still kills us??? and won’t even wear a mask for yourselves, let alone us??

and monkeypox (terrible name) HAS SURFACE TRANSMISSION. people who are not immunocompromised are already dying.

if you got COVID, your immune system is less equipped to deal with it! meaning the population is primed for this to fuck over everyone, and hit immunocompromised people like me HARDEST when everyone fails to control it!

and don’t get me wrong I LOVE yelling about systemic failure

but individual choices REALLY do matter with pandemics, as we’ve really seen now

I hate that I even moreso can’t do shit faced with twin plagues, but like… just please try

just… be careful, and if you have symptoms, don’t fuck around

I'm going to get vaccinated for this.

In fact:

I'm going to get my monkey pox vaccination and another booster shot for Covid-19.

And nobody can stop me.

 

[chocolate_supra]

Is this anime?

 

[merp]

With Hearing Set, Court Urged to Dismiss Closely Watched Virginia Obscenity Lawsuits

A Virginia state judge has set an August 30 hearing for two lawsuits that seek to ban two popular books from bookshelves across the state, alleging they are “obscene” under an obscure state obscenity law.

www.publishersweekly.com

A Virginia state judge has set an August 30 hearing to consider two lawsuits that, if successful, would cause two popular books to be pulled from bookshelves across the state, alleging they are “obscene” under an obscure state law.

First filed in May by lawyer and Republican Virginia assembly delegate Tim Anderson on behalf of plaintiff and Republican congressional candidate Tommy Altman, the suits allege that the graphic memoir Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and A Court of Mist and Fury by bestselling author Sarah J. Maas—are “obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors.” On May 18, judge Pamela Baskervill (a retired judge hearing the case by designation after all the sitting judges in the circuit disqualified themselves) found there was “probable cause” and ordered the defendants to answer the charges.

While the two lawsuits have not been officially consolidated, the court will consider the fate of both cases at the single hearing, noting their “overlap.” According to a June 30 order, the hearing will focus on motions, which, if granted, "would result in dismissal of the suits." Lawyers for the authors and publisher defendants as well as bookseller Barnes & Noble filed motions to dismiss the suits late last month. Reply briefs from the plaintiffs are due August 9, with final replies due from the defendants on August 16.

Kobabe’s Gender Queer is an acclaimed, award-winning graphic novel and coming of age story, while A Court of Mist and Fury, is a bestselling novel also with strong reviews.

Calling the complaints “procedurally and substantively deficient, as well as unconstitutional,” lawyers for Kobabe’s publisher, Oni-Lion Forge, insisted in a July 26 motion to dismiss that the court must toss the case.

Calling the complaints “procedurally and substantively deficient, as well as unconstitutional,” lawyers for Kobabe’s publisher, Oni-Lion Forge, insisted in a July 26 motion to dismiss that the court must toss the case.

“At the outset, the Petition is doomed, “ the brief states, noting that nothing in the statute cited permits the court to deem a book “obscene” for minors. “Moreover, the Petition is flawed for even what it does allege. Instead of addressing the literary work as a whole, Petitioner highlights seven pages from the 240-pages of Gender Queer that he claims ‘exert a dominant and perverse theme to promote felonious sexual encounters between minors.’ Even if those seven pages were not taken out of context, which they were, the Petition fails to plead with sufficiency that Gender Queer is obscene under [the law]. Under both the statute and well-settled constitutional legal precedent, the Petition must allege that Gender Queer, taken as a whole, has a dominant theme that appeals to the prurient interest of the average citizen of the Commonwealth. The Petition, as a matter of law, fails to do so.”

In a separate July 26 brief, lawyers for Kobabe offer an even more blunt assessment the case: “The goal of this lawsuit is to censor literature,” the brief states. “Petitioner Tommy Altman dislikes what he sees on seven pages of an award-winning 240-page book, and from that small sample and without addressing the graphic novel as a whole, he seeks an unconstitutional ruling that the entire book is obscene.”

In a joint brief, lawyers for Maas and Bloomsbury also rip the petitioner’s claims. “Petitioner cherry picks approximately a dozen passages from the more than 600 pages in the book and then asserts that these excerpts are inappropriate for 10-year-olds,” the brief states, going on to call the attempt to pull the book from bookshelves blatantly unconstitutional.

And in a powerful brief, attorneys for B&N eviscerate both the claims and the petitioner, Tommy Altman, the conservative lawmaker who had sought to portray the suit as an issue of "parental rights," taking a page from Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin's successful campaign playbook. (Altman, however, lost the Republican primary for Congress on June 21 by more than 40 points).

“The petitions are extraordinary,” the B&N brief states. “They ignore the language of the Virginia statutes under which they were filed and assume that developments in First Amendment law over the past 65 years never occurred. They are not well grounded in fact. They are not warranted by well-settled law, or a good faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of that law. The circumstances under which they were filed strongly suggest that their purposes were suspect. They have generated a great deal of public attention. But they are misuse of the legal process. They should terminate at the earliest possible stage. The court should draw a clear constitutional line now.”

The cases have garnered national headlines and generated concern among booksellers, publishers, librarians, and free speech advocates including an amicus brief filed last month on behalf of a coalition of four Virginia booksellers, the American Booksellers for Free Expression, the American Library Association, The Virginia Library Association, the Association of American Publishers, the Authors Guild, and the Freedom to Read Foundation.

"These cases threaten the right of booksellers, librarians, authors and publishers, including Proposed Amici, to create, curate, and provide access to First Amendment–protected material," the brief states, "and the right of their customers, patrons, and readers to obtain and consume such material."

This... hits close to home.

Well, mostly because Virginia is my home state.

Also, keep in mind that Virginia is one of the centers of the anti-Critical Race Theory scare.

If not, the center of the anti-CRT scare.

And frankly, I could see Glenn Youngkin being the next Presidential nominee for President.

It's either him or Ron DeSantis.

 

[chocolate_supra]

like no one learned shit from COVID

Correct.
I still have to listen to people try and convince me covid didn't happen. So uh... yeah, no one learned shit from it.

Now excuse me while my triple-vaxxed ass walks into Lowe's, where I'm sure I'll be the only fuckin clown wearing a goddamn mask.

 

[Mandos]

Well that’s cool, she’s a tank with a binary meter where when filled her offensive stats double but she also gets a lot of taunts and she reverts back to normal when block hits zero

 

[chocolate_supra]

Now excuse me while my triple-vaxxed ass walks into Lowe's, where I'm sure I'll be the only fuckin clown wearing a goddamn mask.

Leaving Lowe's now. I was right about the above.

Although there was an adorable blonde pomeranian I got to say hi to in there so it wasn't all bad

 

[SammyJ9]

Leaving Lowe's now. I was right about the above.

However there was an adorable blonde pomeranian I got to say hi to in there so it wasn't all bad

DOGGO

 

[Sadist]

My muscles hurt

I hate doing garden work

 

[Serif]

Maybe this is a hot take.

If I were a developer on the fence about incorporating gyro in my game, and I were fielding online communities for how players feel about gyro aim and see hundreds of comments like "I hate gyro aim but options are good" then I'm probably going to lean towards not implementing it, since if there's such animosity towards it, why waste the dev time at all? I actually think this is one of the reasons PS4 games didn't support gyro aim while Switch games do, because of the stigma.

Like - let's be real. Folks say they're all about options, but if you're so adamant about your distaste for a specific option, then surely that has to have an impact on those who have to weigh cost-benefit. It's the sort of thing I've witnessed when playtesting for indie devs.

(Of course this hypothetical doesn't apply to me because the game I'm developing is not a 3D shooter, and if it were I'm putting gyro aim in anyway lmaoo)

 

[chocolate_supra]

DOGGO

YESS I WANTED TO DO A PET

 

[Deleted member 2551]

No, the anti-hentai thing is good.

Why?

 

[Suswave]

Maybe this is a hot take.

If I were a developer on the fence about incorporating gyro in my game, and I were fielding online communities for how players feel about gyro aim and see hundreds of comments like "I hate gyro aim but options are good" then I'm probably going to lean towards not implementing it, since if there's such animosity towards it, why waste the dev time at all? I actually think this is one of the reasons PS4 games didn't support gyro aim while Switch games do, because of the stigma.

Like - let's be real. Folks say they're all about options, but if you're so adamant about your distaste for a specific option, then surely that has to have an impact on those who have to weigh cost-benefit. It's the sort of thing I've witnessed when playtesting for indie devs.

(Of course this hypothetical doesn't apply to me because the game I'm developing is not a 3D shooter, and if it were I'm putting gyro aim in anyway lmaoo)

just for this post I’m putting gyro aiming in Grögol Bonanza.

is there a good use case for it? absolutely not. am I doing it? yes.

 

[merp]

Why?

I believe that pornography, particularly of young minors, or perhaps rather, women (in this case, fictional ones) that look like young adolescents or girls is quite wrong.

And many hentai artists and hentai seem to cater to this fetish, further egging on people who may have issues that need to be resolved and sexualizing women as well as adolescent women (and perhaps those that are prepubescent or drawn in that way).

In addition, I feel that it further objectifies women.

Even in media that's obviously not pornographic in nature, many can't seem to imagine women without at one point thinking of them in a sexual way.

A female character will always have some gratuitous fan service, it seems.

Indeed, we can't even seem to imagine a world where our media and fiction doesn't have that.

And I want that back.

That's what I was expressing.

I feel that it's only gotten more and more worse as time has gone on.

I feel that I must take a stand.

Whether others agree is entirely up to them, but that is how I feel.

 

[Serif]

just for this post I’m putting gyro aiming in Grögol Bonanza.

is there a good use case for it? absolutely not. am I doing it? yes.

Could be used as an air mouse for a cursor, like the pointer in Mario Galaxy Switch.

 

[Suswave]

With Hearing Set, Court Urged to Dismiss Closely Watched Virginia Obscenity Lawsuits

A Virginia state judge has set an August 30 hearing for two lawsuits that seek to ban two popular books from bookshelves across the state, alleging they are “obscene” under an obscure state obscenity law.

www.publishersweekly.com

This... hits close to home.

Well, mostly because Virginia is my home state.

Also, keep in mind that Virginia is one of the centers of the anti-Critical Race Theory scare.

If not, the center of the anti-CRT scare.

And frankly, I could see Glenn Youngkin being the next Presidential nominee for President.

It's either him or Ron DeSantis.

this shit makes me fuckin’ livid

if they ban Gender Queer I’m gonna make it rain bricks

or uh… just be really angry over here. as usual. about… mm. everything. fuck. powerless. jesus.

welp gotta keep grögolin’ those bonanzas because if I stop for even a second the rage, despair, and powerlessness will grind me to fuckin’ nothing!!!

 

[hologram]

I just started Xenoblade 3, I'm about an hour in which I assume is long enough to form a complete opinion

I didn't play 2 but I would say the opening of this one is considerably stronger than 1. The setting seems more specific, the music is great, the combat is honestly so far pretty similar but cleaner and more polished (as I suppose one would expect for a decade-later sequel). But honestly it's mostly a vibe thing

 

[chocolate_supra]

just for this post I’m putting gyro aiming in Grögol Bonanza.

is there a good use case for it? absolutely not. am I doing it? yes.

Make the part where the player types their name in be gyro-controlled