Josh64

Its been uncertain for so long I've lost interest now. Hopefully all these delays make it a decent title though and not like Nintendo's more recent Wii U output

I think the intention is to give more incentive for people to buy amiibo whilst also rewarding those that already have them. There's already an eShop Mario Vs Donkey Kong you can buy outright if you can't be bothered with all this amiibo stuff.

Between this place and Twitter I still see Nintendo as relevent as in the Wii days so it's weird to step out of my bubble once in a while and see things like this - Not a single title in the top 40, that's terrible. I knew the Wii U was damaging but it's crazy to think just how irrelevent it has made Nintendo in the West. It's gonna take a hell of a lot for them to make a comeback. A whole generation of kids are growing up on Minecraft and Fifa and seeing Mario as nothing more than some icon from the past like a Nokia phone or Gameboy. Thank god for amiibo, they at least ensure Nintendo still have some exposure in stores.

I would be all over them in amiibo form, their hands also make me yearn for Nintendo LEGO.

How many times have you tried it, it could just be your old cartridges. Some of my cartridges have to be re-inserted 3 to 4 times to show up, and I only know to keep trying because I already have it tuned in. When you're setting up the signal, make sure you try powering on the system with different games a good few times before giving up, N64's always get a little rusty if you haven't used them for a while.

I was late to the HD game, finally getting a 360 in 2010. As a huge SEGA fan, OutRun Online Arcade was on my 'to buy' list from the store but with nearly 5 years worth of games to catch up on, it'd take me a while to get to that. When I finally went to buy it (a few years ago now) it was no longer available on the store. Due to the licence for Ferrari running out, it got pulled. With no physical copy in Europe I was kinda screwed and I never experienced this title. With the sudden downfall of Wii and DS online services, one of my favourite past times, BOOM STREET, was no longer an online affair and it seems there will never be a way for me to get that title back online. I love Sonic Runners for iOS atm, but it requires you to be online to play and often requires you to download new data for courses. Titles such as this will be completely unplayable in the future. As the Wii is now over 9 years old it got me thinking, just how safe are a lot of WiiWare titles? With some of them releasing at the early stages of console downloads, a lot of the developers are no longer around and some titles are even exclusive to WiiWare - these games could all become completely un-obtainable if the service was to go down soon. With more and more games being soley multiplayer experiences, such as Splatoon, in the years to come, how playable will these games be? We can replay Metroid, Mario 64 and Crash Bandicoot today in the same way we could back then but in 20 years time, will we be able to say the same for a lot of current titles and will we even be able to get hold of them? I'd like to think there's some easy way to hold onto these but I'm not sure there is and as modern times have proved, you can't always rely on developers re-releasing old titles either due to licencing or weird hardware (Goldeneye, Donkey Kong 64).

I've never played this series, I've always liked the look of it but missed it for whatever reason so I'll check this out for sure and... LOOK AT DIDDY OMG, he's never looked so cute.

Happy Birthday N-E! I've been a member for over 10 years now and a reader for even longer, lurking as soon as I started secondary school which was like... 2003? I've really grown up with this site, poured all my emotional fanboy days into it, how much I hated Sony and MS, my rampant love for Donkey Kong, my desperation for Twilight Princess, my fascination with the best handheld device ever made all the way to my modern self, having grown up and realised there's life beyond Nintendo in videogames but still having a big place in my heart for them. I used to adore Cube-Europe and poured over each article, spent ages trawling through the desktop backgrounds (even on my dying 56k connection) and only dreaming of ever being able to post on there one day, it's crazy to think that I've been a staff member for over 3 years now and I'm so thankful. especly considrin i usd to typ liek this lol -bstmte More than anything though it's been a personal journey, I don't post that regularly in the forums now but I still love reading about all your escapades, and I've made some life-long friends over the years and some fantastic memories too. When I've had no one to turn to, I've always felt safe talking about my problems on here, as it has a sense of family but without the judgmental fears :p From dealing with school woes and coming out, this place and you guys have been like my own personal therapist and I can't thank you all enough. And I'll never know who it was but I have to say thank you to the guy who posted a link to this site for me to follow on the Nintendo VIP forums back when I was 12, else I may have never found this place! Here's to another 18 years, where we'll all be playing the PS7 and complaining about lack of third-party support on the Wii-Z.

R.I.P. I've never been that into rock music but stumbled upon The Labyrinth a few years ago and was obsessed with it. I've watched that film so many times now and because of it went on to listen to so much amazing Bowie music that he's grown into one of my favourite artists. I'm glad I got to experience his amazing musical talent and freedom of expression whilst he was still with us and I'm sure his music will live on for many years to come.

You have to be in a complete Nintendo bubble and unaware of the wider gaming public if you think a Nintendo Direct will reach as wide an audience as a proper press conference. As far as the NX is concerned, I think Nintendo could pull off another handheld but will be royally screwed if they try and release another console. They should ride out the Wii U and start again in a few years time, trying to release a console this late into the Ps4/One generation would be as disastrous, if not worse, than the Wii U - especially given their recent software output. The big hitters, Mario Kart and Smash, have only recently been released so we can't expect them and it seems their other franchises have been watered down - Metroid is pretty non-existent in this day and age, Donkey Kong is a 2D platformer (the genre is dead to everyone but core Nintendo fans) and Mario has been reduced to small tile-based levels as oppose to proper 3D worlds. Unless Nintendo really up their game in the software department or miraculously get third-party support, there's no way the NX can do better than the Wii U.

How else was Martinist expected to pay for the cake and pints?

I know I complained massively earlier on in this thread but to stay true to my usual ways, I've been a complete hypocrite and downloaded it anyway :p I've dabbled in it a couple of times before just the free mode but this is the first time I've properly took a few hours out to learn all the crafting and shit. And man, I'm obsessed. I played it all day yesterday and most of today. I probably should have paid more attention when all my friends were playing this on the 360 a couple of years back but better late than never I suppose :p

I've never played Mario RPG but always heard good things so might give this a punt. I love Paper Mario 1 & 2 but can take or leave Mario&Luigi so where would you guys say this game lands compared to those two series?

It seems almost damaging for someone to buy such a brand. I thought the same when they tried to re-launch MySpace, it was such an outdated name that no matter how great the site was, it'd still be sneered at and they'd have just been better to go with a brand new name. Kinda like the WiiU using the Wii name I guess :p And I'd guess that Nintendo had more to do with this partnership than a lot of the stuff on the console, considering it came to my WiiU as a 'gift' download which doesn't happen that often

Oh man, after seeing Bayonettas in-game art work I think they're gonna have a hell of a time translating that to amiibo form! It looks even more complicated than Palutena.

"My fellow Americans..."

For a second I thought Wii had come back :p

The Bowser controller looks hideous :p But I do love the look of the Toad one, it seems weird they're releasing these so long after the initial Mario and Luigi Wiimotes a few years ago.

£45 from Smyths

Forget my stupid self from months ago, he had no idea what he was talking about. Did anyone pick this up? I got it a couple of days ago (£45 in Smyths!) As a music game aficionado I've always liked the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games despite my indifference to the genre of music in those titles (I guess that's why LEGO Rock Band was my favourite of the series haha) - I was excited for this but not sure what to make of the live aspect, I really love it though - It's so cheesy and fun. The new guitar is awesome too, it feels a lot more fun to play than the old one. The GH TV feature seems crazy generous, too. 24 hour streaming of music videos to play along with, updated every week, FOR FREE?! Makes Just Dance Unlimited seem like a rip off now.

Oh man, I knew it. What a load of rubbish. As if being 2 years late wasn't bad enough. Here I was thinking we might get Amiibo skins yet they can't even use the damn controller right. Pathetic. Why even bother? This is as stupid as Watch_Dogs.

Bad stuff but eventual good stuff: I was Christmas shopping today and got this pack of cards that look really nice, all artsy with a little boy in a santa hat in roald dahl kind of style but after buying them I thought of my nephew and started to go on another long-winded depressing tangent on how he's not here and all the excitement I had at the start of the year thinking of what Christmas will be like with a little kid in the house. I then thought damn if I'm thinking this then my brother will probably think the same when he see's the card. I got a new pack of cards. Shit like this happens every day, the tiniest of things can set you off emotionally. I was looking through the yearly playlist and making my top songs of 2015 (because I do really lame things like that :p) and when it come to the March/April songs ugh, it felt like my heart had been ripped out. Every song from those few months was a distraction at the time but is torture to listen to now. But these last few weeks I've finally let myself THINK and have actually started dealing with things in my head. Since he died in March and I had that fucking awful honour of carrying his tiny coffin in the funeral I have not let myself think for a second. If I've been out of work then I've had stuff on constantly, earphones blasting when doing housework or walking the dog, always something set up and ready to watch when im setting down to eat food, reddit on the toilet, streaming The Office endlessly whenever I'm going to sleep (it's a comfort thing now after the fourth or fifth run), retail therapy to the extreme, so many fucking games, some of which I've accidently bought twice and some I forget I even have, DVD's and series all over the place, so much fucking wine but I finally shut everything up two weeks ago. I was about to go to bed but the wifi was playing up, no office, then the power went off, no series or dvds, I went to play a podcast on my phone but the battery was super low. I finally thought fuck it, I'll sleep with nothing. That's when it happened, it always feels like I'm jumping in a swamp and the more I think, the deeper I sink and harder it is to get out. I remember the days I'd blocked out, like mom telling me she had to identify the baby again after the autopsy, the fucking disgusting nightmares ive had, the messed up things like how i cant look at a newborn baby without thinking "is it dead?". It's not until you write these things you realised just how messed up you let yourself get. I let myself turn into such a hateful bastard when I saw people parading their kids on facebook but it wasnt their fault, so I simply limit my use of it now. I still remember the confused call from my brother on that morning, in tears trying to make out what he was saying. I knew from the fact the baby was due and the fact my brother was fucking crying uncontrollably that it wasnt good so i ran to their house at 7am hysterically to find the door locked and no cars there. I remember ringing my mom sat outside the house barely able to get words out when she told me shed sent a taxi to get me to the hospital. Walking in the looked perfect, I held him and it genuinely just looked like he was sleeping. seeing my brother and sister in law hold him looking so proud but so heartbroken, being in a room with all my family just crying and not saying anything, it was so bizarre and fucking weird. I spent most of last week in bed, thinking there's not much reason to get up, what am I even working towards, what's the point in the constant routine of forcing myself to be happy and forcing myself to do things and forcing myself to be sociable when all I want to do is stay in bed. But that's when I did a lot of thinking and I needed that week to just let myself explode and let all of the shit out that I'd been blocking for the past 6 months. Anyway, I feel slightly better now after allowing myself to be free. Right now it feels as though when you step out of a club youve been in for hours, you got so used to the constant noise that you didn't really notice it, but the relief when you get outside into the silence is amazing. There's been plenty of other shit on my mind these last few months that I can't get into, but coming to terms with one of the majour traumas, or at least accepting it's real and not living in a fantasy bubble, is something. I won'y contstantly mourn on it though, I think it's good that I /can/ escape and still enjoy myself but I am gonna make a conscious effort to allow myself every few days or so to just think over things and put them into perspective. Re-Calibrate my mind so to speak :p So my view of Christmas has been all over the place. Some days I think "ugh, lets get this bullshit over with quickly" then other days I think I should make more of an effort to make sure we all have fun this time of year as its been utter shit. I dunno, I did a lot of christmas shopping today anyway and I'm gonna get some wrapping done. So a lot of bad stuff but as I said, I've come to terms with it which is good, and I've curbed my drinking to just with friends again, as I'd got in an awful habit of using it as a form of getting lost in entertainment on my evenings in and blocking out other thoughts. The last thing I need to do is put myself on the road to alcoholism.

I promised myself I wouldn't buy any more amiibo until after Christmas but then... I saw KK Slider as a single. I loved it before but didn't wanna get the triple pack with the other two but now you can get him alone I'm gonna have to do it.

I'm a suckerrrrrrrr