Dcubed

50 minutes!?!? That’s basically E3 length!!! Switch Pro time! CHOO CHOO MOTHER FUCKERS LET’S GO!!!

I’m voting DID, mostly because K.Rool doesn’t just play dress up; he BECOMES the new persona in each game. Let’s face it, King K.Rool is a 100% A-grade idiot. Even his own creator (Gregg Mayles) describes him as being “a bit rubbish” at being a villain! How can someone with the IQ of an already eaten banana have the mental capacity to become a mad scientist who can literally build fully functioning robots, submarines & laboratories with his bare hands and a pile of pots & pans!? That takes more than a simple change of costume! Likewise, he’s a surprisingly capable pirate AND boxer! These two talents have NOTHING to do with each other! I think he literally takes on multiple personas, and the costume is a reflection of what persona he has taken on. For however “a bit rubbish” he is? You can’t deny that this lovable imbecile gets some crazy talent & scientific/technological knowhow from somewhere! (And it ain’t his motley crew of moronic minions!) (also his persistent eye tick is a big hint that something is very not right with him in the head )

https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/15/22279600/six-days-in-fallujah-interview-iraq-war-politics The Ubisoft Defense... really!? For this game of all games!?!?

Don’t forget King Krusha K.Rool, who fancies himself a right Mr Sandman... Maybe he’ll be the next secret boss in the next Punchout game?

Yeah, I'm of two minds with the increased movement speed myself. On one hand, it's great being able to just blast through levels, but on the other? It's actually a lot harder to control now (I'm actually finding myself having to let go of the run button!). It's literally 200cc mode, and all it entails (including being able to break the intended level design in some pretty gnarly ways). It's great fun! But I do wish that there was an option to play with the original speed as well (perhaps even make the 200cc mode an unlockable?). It's fantastic for speed running though! Check this totally tubular thing out! 200cc is great, and it's something that is best added into a game after it is designed for a slower speed (so that you get these fun, unintended side effects), but it should also be something optional I reckon. 200cc is at its best when it's a new way of playing a game that you're already familiar with, where you get to experiment with the level design and find fun ways to break it; but having it as the default here means that many people will never actually experience the game as it was originally designed. Likewise, I'm not sure about the change they made to the way Green Stars are collected (In the Wii U version, you had to complete a level to have any Green Stars count as being "collected", even when returning to a previously beaten level; while in the Switch version, you simply just have to collect it, and its instantly counted as "collected"; meaning that you can just quit out of a level straight away or can even die and it stays collected). While this change does make the prospect of going back to get Green Stars much more palletable, it also has the unintended side effect of trivialising many of the Green Stars throughout the game; since you can simply suicide jump to get them all now, you don't need to survive after grabbing it). This could easily have been totally solved if they had implemented a system similar to the Strawberries in Celeste, where Strawberries aren't counted as "collected" until you land on solid ground; but alas.

Pokémon Day (Feb 27th) is the most likely day that pre-orders will start (and bonuses made known) I reckon.

And bam! There it is! I’ll abstain from making the official thread until it is officially announced, but yes. This was part of the Capcom Ransomware leak some months back. Your dreams are coming true! Dai Gyakuten Saiban 1&2 fully localised into English on Switch, in one package! Told you all it’d happen one day! Now we just need AAI2 and Earthbound Endings and then I’m 5/5 @Glen-i

Ok, one more funny for you guys...

I had some fun with the photo mode...

Just tried out online play with a buddy of mine... it was surprisingly playable! There was a bit of lag, sure, but it’s a damn sight better than Mario Maker 2! I can definitely say that (at least when connecting two Switches online), that the online play is a surprisingly good experience! Very pleased!

Oh dear GOD is Buckenberry FAST in this version!! He could give Sonic a run for his money now! So glad to finally have a good (native!) 3D Mario game on Switch at last! Looking forward to trying out Bowser’s Fury later on, but I think another play through of SM3DW is in order first! What a game!

They're gonna announce a Pokemon boy band game, obviously.

I'm surprised that they haven't strongarmed the major retailers into installing Captchas on their order pages yet. Stopping the bots alone would make an enormous difference!

Fixed that for you

Wow! That’s a lot sooner than I was expecting! (Was thinking that it’d probably be their big November game this year!) Good on ‘em for getting it out so soon. I guess they really don’t sleep!

Wow... Jingoistic American conservatives are REALLY persistent! Given the state of America right now? And the state of the modern gaming industry? Somehow, this game coming back to life doesn’t really surprise me all that much. Says a lot about the current state of the world that there’s a real, conceited effort to not only make a piece of American war propaganda out of an army recruitment tool (made by people who make army recruitment tools & war simulators), but also make it into a piece of proper low-brow entertainment for good measure! The whole thing honestly comes across like a sick parody; except it’s real! You can even buddy up with a friend while taking down Evil Arabs! What self-respecting American wouldn’t want this!? But don’t worry, it’s ok. We take occasional 5 minute moments out to show that we feel real sad for the Americans who risked their lives and died in combat; it’s proper high art now.

I’m making a point about unconscious bias here, not about an overt observation of the quality of a game’s port. The point is that people’s perceptions of a game will inevitably be coloured by 1: The fact that this is a re-release (inevitably reducing its “value”, because older games are not generally respected in the same way as “new and shiny” releases); and 2: The price of a given re-release (which ties directly into its perceived value). Generally speaking, it’s pointless looking at reviews of re-released games from the major games media outlets because they will inevitably not look at an older game fairly. Their perceptions will automatically be coloured by the fact that it is a re-release. This is why almost every single review for an “old” game from the major media outlets always scores the game lower than it did originally, regardless of how good the game actually is; because the perceived value, at retail price, has now lowered. The only way you’re going to see a fair review is by looking back at the original review scores a game received back when it was first released (and that isn’t exactly perfect either; given the influence of marketing hype, publisher influence, audience pressure and the zeitgeist at the time of its original release - see Metroid Prime Federation Force for perhaps the best example of the lattermost phenomenon). Reviews are often more of a reflection of the current zeitgeist than any real reflection of a game’s qualities.

You have to consider that a review of an older game is going to be rated based on the quality of the port itself and (rightly or wrongly) the price/value of the overall package. The quality of the game itself is rarely considered to the same extent as its original release, when a re-release is being reviewed. These reviews reflect the “value” of this re-release in the eyes of the buying public who have already seen this game on Wii U; whether that be a conscious consideration or otherwise.

No sense in spending good money after bad. Kill it dead. All hands on deck for DA4 and ME Reboot.

Yeah, I know that they technically aren’t; but they might as well be. It’s one Nintendo 2nd party satellite absorbing another 2nd party satellite. It counts

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/02/pokemon_rumble_developer_ambrella_has_been_acquired_and_dissolved_by_creatures_inc Nintendo’s consolidation efforts continue! Who’s next? (My money is on HAL)

I propose that Rhydon is the only truly “correct” answer here because it’s the only Pokemon that comes from a position that is truly inarguable; that can sufficiently and satisfactorily dispel its null hypothesis (the null hypothesis being “This is not the first Pokemon”). Rhydon being the first Pokemon to be designed is 100% stone cold fact; coming from the mouth of its own creator. However, the same can’t necessarily be said of the other three choices (within series lore); as they can’t state that their claims come from sufficiently high enough quality evidence. Bulbasaur as the first discovered Pokemon? Only in one region (Kanto) is that true; hell, it doesn’t appear in the wild in that region! There are other regions where Pokemon scientists haven’t even heard of whatever the hell a Bulbasaur is! So it can’t be the first Pokemon to be discovered everywhere. Therefore, it cannot dispel the null hypothesis. Mew? There are only two Pokemon which are 100% known to have directly spawned out of Mew (Mewtwo and Ditto; the latter of which is a failed Mew clone), anything else is completely unproven; based solely on its ability to use Transform (a move only learnt naturally by Mew and Ditto throughout all of the 8 mainline games), and its ability to learn any move. While this is a decent theory? It isn’t necessarily based on fact, but rather is based merely on correlation, and its very possible that Mew was actually made out of something else (fun fact, Mew was first found in South America, and this is even reiterated in Fr/LG, so it doesn’t even come from the same world as the rest of Pokemon!). Given its horrendous inability to prove its heritage? The confidence interval is too low to satisfactorily dispel the null hypothesis. Arceus? It might be a Pokemon God, but that doesn’t mean that it was the first of its kind. Hell, we know for a fact that it did not create all known Pokemon (Mewtwo, Ditto, Voltorb, Electrode, Porygon, Porygon 2, Porygon Z and every single Ultra Beast are all bereft of Arceus’ light for starters), so it’s very possible, and very likely that something came before it (hell, the Arceus plates had to have been made by something other than Arceus that already knew of its existence!). The plates alone are evidence enough to dispel the notion of divine conception; and thus, this false god cannot dispel the null hypothesis. So yeah. The only one that has a watertight argument in its favour is Rhydon. Therefore, based on the hierarchy of evidence? Rhydon is the only choice that can reasonably be made out of the four.

As always, my vote goes to Rhydon... Circa 1990 baby! Though it does call into question... what the hell is that other Capsule Mon’ in that picture!? (This lore goes so deep that it predates the games’ lore itself!) (BTW, good job on making a new thread this time!)

There should not be a noticeable performance delta between Handheld & Docked mode (no other first party title has ever had any significant difference in performance between the two modes). The fact that there is such a delta is proof that EPD built the game for Docked mode without consideration for how it would run in Handheld mode. Simply put, they couldn’t be bothered to optimise the game properly for Handheld mode (and it’s not like it even performs well in Docked mode either; 720p is pretty pathetic when Odyssey ran at 900p; and this game isn’t really doing anything that Odyssey didn’t in terms of scope). You can make all the hubbub in the world about “oh, the graphics mean that there’s no way that Switch could possibly run it better!”; but at the end of the day? EPD chose to push for graphics here without considering performance (and it’s not even like it looks better than Odyssey anyway). They could’ve built the game around the Switch’s Handheld mode and then scale upwards, but they chose not to. They couldn’t be bothered to optimise the game for Handheld mode, end of.

So apparently Bowser’s Fury runs at 60FPS in Docked mode (at 720p) but only 30FPS in handheld mode (don’t know what resolution). Wow! Nintendo EPD really don’t give a shit about their Switch games anymore do they? Thankfully SM3DW itself is 1080p/720p 60FPS; just like Captain Toad (which was also ported by the same team at NST). But still, wow. That’s really bad. This is the first ever internally developed Nintendo title to have such a discrepancy in performance between Handheld & Docked mode. Not the quality you expect from an internally developed 1st party Nintendo EPD title at all... Really does feel like they’ve given up on making titles for the current Switch and are currently putting all hands on deck for the upcoming Switch 2...