Your Gamecube controller also isn’t Hall Effect.

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?

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.

Right monitor is 16:9 and VRR, left is a 16:10 monitor my work gave me during covid. So games go on the right.

First try. I did make a few mistakes, but the 2600 made more.

It’s the beginner difficulty on very weak hardware. It’s designed to be easily beatable even if you don’t know much about chess.

I would expect anyone claiming to be intelligent to be able to beat an Atari 2600 set to its very lowest difficulty. This is a task on par with counting the number of Rs in the word ‘strawberry’, something the intelligent ChatGPT also famously cannot do.

Bear in mind that ActivityPub is so much more than just Lemmy. Mbin and Piefed both exist as alternatives.

A worthy opponent for all of my favorite niche games that I’ll never convince my IRL friends to play.