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Haha I somehow didn't see the connection with the other characters, I just saw Lloyd and got ridiculously excited. My mind is kind of a Hazy Maze Cave in regards to that game now I'm glad you managed to find space for Switch games now though! (You didn't happen to find Sonic&All-Stars Racing Transformed in that time did you? :p) It's a shame you weren't a fan of the WiiU boxes, the sky blue felt so nice, every time I look at the shelf I just think... I see your point though, there is something nice about the slightly smaller PSVita type boxes, my favourite being the Japanese Gamecube ones

@S\.C\.G I've always been jealous of your mega collection but this takes the biscuit. And is that a Lloyd figure I see?!

I left the care home in December and as much as it pained me to leave all those old folks I had to do it because I couldn't handle the job any more. We were always understaffed, barely had any dedicated people that would stay (I was one of the longest standing people there after only being there 2 years) and it just wasn't fulfilling. It was morbidly depressing, I've always had a hard time with my mental health (but I've whined about it like a teenage girl on here so won't go into details again) and that job wasn't helping as it transitioned into accepting just 'end of life' residents so I had to leave. The lack of staff, constant change of managers and no direction lead the place to be put into special measures in late October. The place was put on a level 5 which is as bad as things can get, it means no more residents are allowed to be accepted until things improve and if things weren't better by February then the place would close. One of the nurses I got on well with went into more details to me and said it could mean remaining staff aren't allowed to work in care for a year and could have to give answers to the CQC for why things are failing and possibly go to court along with the manager. It appeared on BBC news and in the local newspaper last month so I can only assume things still aren't going to well. I haven't been on Facebook this year though so haven't been in touch with any of the staff to find out. Anyway I tried working at a taxi firm for a bit as I thought a normal job would be good for me but my anxiety was just so out of whack I ended up leaving that too. So I've been unemployed since early Janurary (uh oh). I've been having therapy in that time though which is helping and I'm finally starting to figure out why I'm as crazy as I am :p I just got a job at a shop which I'll be starting next week, I'm hoping now that I've had some time to cool down and figure things out I can handle being around people again and just get into a normal pattern. We'll see, I might be lurking in the Bad Stuff thread in 2 weeks time but I'm hoping this one works out well. I thought the interview went fucking terribly and felt so awful after it so the fact I got the job makes me feel a bit better and reminds me that I need to stop thinking so negatively :p Anyway, I'll try to not over think things and see how it goes for now.

If this is real then it looks a lot better than I anticipated and that notifications tab is a great sign, it always irked me that you never got proper notifications when you had a new message on Wii U. It also just makes Nintendo seem even more puzzling. The OS looks great and smooth so why be so secretive about it? If we'd have seen an official video highlighting this a month ago we could have avoided a lot of heated debates and concerns.

I was so excited at the prospect of VR on Switch but after reading a bunch of comments about it apparently it would be far too weak to perform VR and that's even before the screen resolution problems. 1080p looks really bad on VR so the switch 720 wouldn't be feasible.

I'd be all for that, the one game I can never get enough of is Super Mario 64 and I loved it so much in Galaxy. I know we had a remake on DS but I'd still love a console remake of that game. At the time I was hoping they'd do one with the Galaxy engine (throwback galaxy being a hint) but it never happened so I hope we see it some time soon with the Odyssey engine (and lots of sax on the remade tracks)

I totally agree with this. I was more than happy to get the Wii U game on launch and would have been fine if this was announced a few months after, I probably would have been really pumped for it, but now if I don't get the DLC I'll feel as though I'm playing a slightly incomplete version of the game I think it's a shitty practice anyway as it does give off the impression they're holding stuff back, whereas with Mario Kart you knew they'd been beavering away post release to make some great new content. I just feel as though they're asking a lot already, with the higher than usual RRP and amiibo stuff. I'll give them credit for releasing this DLC on Wii U though, as when I first heard about it I assumed it would be a Switch exclusive as even more incentive to skip out on the Wii U version.

I always thought 3D Land looked surprisingly nice visually for a 3DS game but given the crazy pop in here I guess they were just really clever with camera angles and placement of objects. It's a neat idea but they'd have to change Mario's movement to really make an enjoyable 3D game out of it. I wonder, is this actually running on a 3DS? Or just PC software?

DLC 2 pack doesn't sound that bad, if I enjoy the game enough I'll pick it up later as paying for extra story seems like a good deal but the first two packs sound like utter garbage. A t-shirt and 'map features'? And just how much effort have they put into hard mode? I wonder if those map features are the things that got scrapped from the early Wii U build.

Wii U DLC shirt or I'm cancelling my pre-order

I hope your day is as amazing as you. Luv u bae Xx

I thought I did but now I'm unemployed after I ended up leaving two jobs in the space of two months.

@Rummy I don't know too much about the inner workings of Rare so you are probably right about the team being largely different as I've heard a lot of people left (a lot of them making up Playtonic) but there are still some very talented people at Rare who were in the thick of it in the 'good old days' such as Steve Mayles who is currently heading Sea of Thieves having previously been one of the main creators of Diddy Kong as a character, the DKC series and Banjo Kazooie. So while the classic Rare may have been diluted somewhat, I still hold out hope there's chance for them to revive themselves alongside Playtonic. And you're right about Viva Pinata, that game was great It's also one of the first I played in HD so I was blown away by the graphics, dem textures.

It looks fun I just don't think this game has enough variety, though maybe it's because I've yet to grab hold of a joycon. It doesn't seem super original or crazy when we've had this on Wii U for 3 years already:

I always thought the majority of Wii and DS advertising was fantastic so it's good to see it back on form for Switch. I don't know why it was so dire in the Wii U era, was it a different agency? Or perhaps it was just the muddled message of Wii U itself that was hard to put across in any reasonable way.

I'm sure they mentioned the idea of creating another 'universe' of characters similar to DKR in an episode of the Kongversation when they were being interviewed but quickly played it down and said they need to focus on completing Yooka-Laylee before getting too far ahead of themselves :p I hope this does go well for them though, it'd be great if it allows them to develop whatever they like without the need for kickstarter (though I'm sure that's already the case after this successful campaign) As for wanting to see the Rare of old days in the modern era, I think we could still see that from Rare themselves. The last 15 years have been full of some great games from them just overshadowed (and perhaps also a cause of the slow output) due to a number of things such as Kinect development, Nuts & Bolts (which I'm sure would have been received really well had it not have had the Banjo name) and being thrown onto new hardware constantly (Gamecube to Xbox, porting Xbox titles in development to 360, moving to Kinect) Hopefully Sea of Thieves turns out great and the Rare of old will be back on track as well as Playtonic, leading the way for two modern day Rare developers.

I've never even heard of this game but I love me some obscure N64 stuff, this is the kinda thing I like from the Virtual Console! I'm glad it's not totally dead on WiiU yet. As for Excite Bots, I'm losing hope too @nekunando After our mention of it a few weeks ago though I fired it up on the Wii and it's as crazy as I remember (though those red bars are even MORE exhausting than I thought) - It'd be so nice to play it on the WiiU with less fuzz. Some of the fun is lost thanks to the closure of online, mind

@killthenet @Rummy Timber was going to be the main character of Racing for a good while before Nintendo approached Rare with the idea of putting Diddy in there, hence why the whole place is Timbers island. I'm not sure about this game NOM mentioned though but I think it was an idea to use most of them in other games. Tiptup did make a cameo in one of the Banjo Kazooie levels!

Ugh, this news is worse than Sadness, Donkey Kong Racing and the Tab Cube put together.

I think those adverts are fantastic! It actually looks like a sequel to the Wii but with all the extras of being portable, Mario Kart near launch etc. It makes the Wii U ads seem even worse than I remember:

I swear the Wii U has ceased production about 5 times in the last few months now :p

The artwork for this game is so nice, some of the best in recent years (dem horse eyes) so it's a shame that a lot of the amiibo cards use really old assets. amiibo cards Then again when you know the context of that Bowser pose it's pretty hilarious to see him in goal just breakdancing.

More details about online after launch, from their Official site

Exactly, this is the point I was trying to make. Being a tablet-like device, now more than ever Nintendo should have been focused on those kind of extras. From a buyers perspective, if you're thinking of buying a tablet or Switch, knowing the Switch has an internet browser and a bunch of streaming servcies as well as decent games might sway you that way but if you hear it only plays games compared to the mass multi-functionality of a tablet, it will potentially lose out. But why not be both? At the minute the games it will play won't pick up until later in the year aside from a few ports and ARMS so some extra features would give me more reason to use the £280 gadget I just purchased. And yeah, soon you will be able to stream from your dog and not from a Switch. What I mean is, the Switch is clearly lacking features that nearly every other device has, I just don't see how this is not a glaring problem, especially as it could be such a huge selling point for a tablet device. I get your point that it's not for you and that's great. What I don't buy is the fact that masses dont care as I really think they do. It's just one of those things that Nintendo could have easily implemented but instead choose to shoot themselves in the foot.

I guess this is why I feel burnt out on Nintendo right now. I could accept we didn't get industry standard features with 3DS or Wii U but thought with the Switch we may finally be able to enjoy Nintendo games on a device as capable as other next gen devices. Instead, it seems they're even taking a backstep from the Wii U in terms of what is on offer. I don't think it's the minority that will miss these features but the majority. Sure, you can do these things on other devices, but couldn't you say that for a lot of things? Why have music on your phone if you have an iPod? By not providing these things Nintendo are making sure that the Switch is a secondary device as oppose to a primary one. A streamlined gaming service should have been possible with a decent OS and online features, not one or the other. These extra services are another selling point, something it desperately needs with their lack of launch games and third-party support.