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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 26, 2024, 11:28:53 PM »

The Jazz have not historically drafted well, but from all accounts they did pretty well tonight, grabbing Cody Williams at #10 and Isaiah Collier at #29 when some outlets were projecting them to trade up to a higher pick. From what I've read, both were players that were at one point projected to fall a lot higher in the draft, but injuries and whatnot made teams wary of them.

However it works out, this was a weak draft and the Jazz aren't going to be contending anytime soon, so aside from potential trades they couldn't really "lose" here: either the new players really work out and the Jazz contend for a low playoff seed, or they catastrophically fail and the Jazz are in full tank mode as expected.

Really hope we get rid of Jordan Clarkson in the next few weeks. He's an albatross across this team's neck, actively getting in the way of young player development while not really winning us any games with his ball-hogging.

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TalkBack / Re: Brand New Games Revealed In Annual Limited Run Games Update

« on: June 21, 2024, 07:49:36 AM »

There is something rather appropriate about LRG of all companies doing a Bubsy Collection. After all, "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

Interested in Lollipop Chainsaw, but I'm not buying what's already a gimped release (it won't have the licensed music) sight unseen. Never played the Tomba games. I don't like the art of this Clock Tower remake. Beyond Good & Evil is a game I like more in theory than I actually do in practice. I played a LOT Of Gex 2 back on the N64, so I am...kinda...interested in that collection, depending on what versions they're using.

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TalkBack / Re: The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Launching September 26 With Playable Zelda

« on: June 18, 2024, 12:54:27 PM »

I have real mixed feelings on this one. It's cool to have a playable Zelda, but it sucks that she plays so indirectly. I'm so tired of Zelda games being built now around "making your own fun" with building **** instead of focusing on exploration.

There's just something distinctly "Kirby" about what they showed. "go do whatever you want to solve any situation, because we designed this game to challenge no one."

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TalkBack / Re: Square Enix Reuniting With Two Legends For New Version Of Fantasian

« on: June 18, 2024, 11:45:59 AM »

I can't be the only one who heard "Man With a Machine Gun" playing that entire presentation.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Direct To Air June 18 At 10 AM Eastern

« on: June 18, 2024, 11:45:08 AM »

Hoping for Switch ports of all the remaining Wii U-only 1st party titles (excluding Devil's 3rd):

- Yoshi's Woolly World
- Xenoblade X
- The 2 Zelda HD releases

If I had to pick just 1, I'd go with Yoshi. C'mon. Free it from Wii U/3DS jail. It's too good for that.

Well, so much for that. -_-

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Direct To Air June 18 At 10 AM Eastern

« on: June 17, 2024, 10:46:48 AM »

Hoping for Switch ports of all the remaining Wii U-only 1st party titles (excluding Devil's 3rd):

- Yoshi's Woolly World
- Xenoblade X
- The 2 Zelda HD releases

If I had to pick just 1, I'd go with Yoshi. C'mon. Free it from Wii U/3DS jail. It's too good for that.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 06, 2024, 09:19:27 PM »

So, in the past we've had some fun mocking the Jazz's awful yellow & black uniform rebranding, and apparently Jazz management was listening to the fan backlash because they announced those uniforms are going away in 2 years. Unfortunately, contractual obligations with Nike won't let them ditch those uniforms any sooner. In fact, Nike is doing them a favor letting them ditch the uniforms early.

The good news is that the Jazz are rebranding to several variants on the good old purple mountain uniform of the franchise's most successful years. An unexpected twist is that they're also slapping the Note logo over it in a manner that is suspiciously similar to some fan mockups posted earlier in this thread.



After this coming season, though, it's all mountains, including a surprisingly-good-looking new white home uniform.



I admit, I miss the teal and gold from the proper 90s uniforms, but those are such an improvement over the trash the team's been wearing the last few years.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 06, 2024, 10:36:18 AM »

Oh dude, I'm so sorry.  It looked like spam and I didn't see you posted it.

That's weird.  I generally look at https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?action=recent to see the most recent posts and remove the spam ones.  I recall your post was in there twice (which added to thinking it was spam)... but, apparently, I deleted it from here and then the recycle bin - which is really odd, because the recycle bin doesn't show up in the most recent posts link.

So, I can't even restore it from the recycle bin. 

No problem. I figured it was most likely a spam false flag since it was an old topic. Thanks for letting me know.

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General Chat / Re: NBA Thread: Brought To You By The Tampa Bay Raptors Of Toronto

« on: June 06, 2024, 07:33:00 AM »

*Post Removed by poster. Situation resolved *

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TalkBack / Re: ESRB Posts Rating For

« on: May 08, 2024, 07:20:03 PM »

What were you expecting from something with "NES Edition" in the title?  Virtual Boy games?

When this was originally leaked on social media last week, I was hoping this would turn out to be more than the same handful of NES games Nintendo's been using for stuff like this for quite a while now. Was it really too much for them to make arrangements to include 3rd party games? Hell, I had hoped the leaks were wrong that it was a collection of just NES game segments.

Foolish, perhaps, but it sometimes feels like the NES is the only console Nintendo remembers they made whenever it comes time to do nostalgia pandering. I suspect that "NES Edition" will end up being the "only" edition, as usual.

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TalkBack / Re: ESRB Posts Rating For

« on: May 08, 2024, 11:56:48 AM »

Announcement trailer dropped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDV0LdtxkrA

150 or so challenges, multi-player, online leaderboards and other stuff mentioned in the trailer.

Meh. Just more 8 bit nostalgia pandering, which after 30 years of it I'm just done. Waiting for Nintendo to remember they had OTHER systems between the release of the NES and the Wii.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Final Financial Results For 2023-24 Fiscal Year And 2024-25 Projections

« on: May 07, 2024, 07:01:10 PM »

Thinking more about this, I don't think a lot of folks traded in their 3DS to buy Switches because they couldn't play 3DS titles on the Switch.

I literally did that.

Likewise, folks didn't trade in their DS to buy 3DS systems, since they'd lose that GBA compatibility.

Yep, did that too. Especially back then, we game on a budget.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Boredom and Nintendo

« on: May 07, 2024, 06:59:21 PM »

Yep they always have a big Direct in June, as long as something like covid doesn't mess it up like in 2020.  And look at that, Nintendo just announced a big Direct in June this year that will show off the second half of the 2024 Switch games.

Hoping for an announcement of more GameCube & Wii U Remasters, myself. A Skies of Arcadia remaster (yes, a Sega game, I know, but just let me have this one) and a Yoshi's Woolly World port would make me pretty happy. You have to figure Prime 4 is Switch 2-bound at this point.

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TalkBack / Re: Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (Switch) Review

« on: April 23, 2024, 01:12:33 AM »

I’m happy I read this ignorant review instead of jumping on the hate this game band wagon, this entire review is a guy hating on what made games so popular and the reason why a lot of of starting playing , random encounters, equipment optimization using the blacksmith like in every other suikoden game lmao, he’s just another lazy kid with ADHD that can’t pay attention log enough . It’s ok though my kid hated this game too 19 years old and I can’t get him interested in anything he has to pay attention too. Stop hating on games like this do us all a favor and avoid all games that require any type of patience and concentration

Man, ChatGPT has come a long way.

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TalkBack / Re: Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (Switch) Review

« on: April 21, 2024, 11:15:37 PM »

Oh man. I was not expecting this review…

As a Kickstarter backer who's played a bit of his copy and found it rather slow and tedious, I did. Any game where you're encouraged to just use the Auto Battle instead of actually engaging with the combat system is a game with deep-seeded problems. It's actually pretty amazing how consistent all the reviews of this game seem to be thus far. I have too many good games in my backlog right now to devote time to mediocre ones, but I'll get to playing my copy "for real" at some point in the future.

I'm rather incredulous at the devs allegedly already starting work on a sequel, because I don't think this game is going to do as well as they seem to think it will.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Boredom and Nintendo

« on: April 17, 2024, 03:12:43 PM »

The **** happened here?

People were bored talking about Nintendo. It's on-topic. 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Boredom and Nintendo

« on: April 17, 2024, 10:06:01 AM »

I don't think it's "morally right" to pirate brand new games that are in no danger at the moment of becoming unavailable or inaccessible. I'm absolutely onboard with preserving games from previous generations however you can, but to me the line stops there.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Boredom and Nintendo

« on: April 15, 2024, 10:05:45 AM »

All I have to say on the matter of piracy is that companies have no right to bitch about it if they aren't making the games available to legally purchase. I would give Nintendo; Sega; etc. so much money if they remastered or even just ported GameCube games like Skies of Arcadia, Eternal Darkness, the remaining Prime games, etc. to modern platforms. I have the physical edition of that Baten Kaitos Collection on my shelf. I will give them money to let me play these games. But Nintendo did not give a **** about the GameCube's library until VERY recently. So yeah, I have no sympathy for these companies when pirates do a better job preserving gaming history than they do. We are losing SO many games from that generation, some of which probably no longer have viable source code if the companies even bothered to keep them, and that's even if those companies still exist.

Now, pirating modern games that are widely available is a different story. People should not be doing that.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Boredom and Nintendo

« on: March 30, 2024, 10:08:48 PM »

The Switch is an odd system for me. I don't actively hate it like I did the Wii & Wii U, and I have a decently-sized library of exclusives on my shelf for it...but it's not a system I ever want to actually play. Part of it's the controller. If the GamePad was so ridiculously huge it was annoying to us, the Joycons feel like the exact opposite: they're so ridiculously small and the buttons feel so cheap to press that I never want to use them. I have a 3rd party controller that's reasonably sized, but the thing has no rumble capability and it just devours batteries.

The Switch's technical drawbacks have been a severe problem for me. I'm not a graphics snob by any means, but watching even cheap 1st party efforts like Princess Peach (or at least the demo) clearly struggle to even hit 30 FPS makes playing Switch games so much less inviting than my PS5 library. It's also really hard to get used to long load times again. About a month ago, I took advantage of an eShop sale to scoop up that Portal 1 & 2 collection for < $5, and I had a decent time replaying those games for the first time in a long time...but every time the games had to pause for lengthy load times every few minutes as I cleared test chambers, it was hard to not feel disheartened. Hell, part of the reason I bailed on Fire Emblem 3 Houses was just how extraordinarily poorly it ran (the other big reason being how repetitive it was).

The Switch is an enigma for me. I've enjoyed plenty of games on the thing, but as someone who doesn't enjoy the portal game experience, it's really hard to argue it should get the gaming time when my PS5 is right there.

When Nintendo puts out their next console, the big thing I'd like them to focus on is performance, because games on the Switch have run poorly pretty much since launch.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: 2023 NWR Forum Awards

« on: January 23, 2024, 01:13:53 AM »

I found Pikmin 4 to be pretty good. It's probably my second or third favorite game in the series, but I really dislike the last two or three maps and the challenge caves that go with them.

That seems awfully familiar...

I liked Pikmin 4 well enough. It's probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite game in the series...but those last 1 or 2 maps & their associated challenge caves just flat out suck IMO.

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TalkBack / Re: Entertainment Software Association Officially Ends Efforts To Revive E3

« on: December 14, 2023, 07:09:36 AM »

I understand things change with time, but man the memories.  I remember when pictures of The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker leaked a few days early and people thought "toon Link" was a hoax.  Then things exploded when the reveal happened.

So many memories, but I suppose all good things must come to an end.  But not this site or my account yet, it would seem!

Well, I believe that particular memory was of Space World, not E3. 

Am I merging two events?  I specifically remember photos of the GameCube logo that people thought were fake.  I must be merging the two, because the initial GCN reveal had the more "realistic" graphics for Zelda.

Memory sure is a funny thing.

I just thought of another reason developers probably wanted to ditch E3: the costs of making the demos.  I recall reading they had to distract from game production to get E3 demos ready.

Both trailers were at Space world.

This was the original Wind Waker trailer from 2001: http://youtu.be/aQ7riCXrDxY?si=RzdilChfxgX-_kGH

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TalkBack / Re: Entertainment Software Association Officially Ends Efforts To Revive E3

« on: December 13, 2023, 01:31:06 PM »

I understand things change with time, but man the memories.  I remember when pictures of The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker leaked a few days early and people thought "toon Link" was a hoax.  Then things exploded when the reveal happened.

So many memories, but I suppose all good things must come to an end.  But not this site or my account yet, it would seem!

Well, I believe that particular memory was of Space World, not E3. 

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TalkBack / Re: Electronic Software Association Officially Ends Efforts To Revive E3

« on: December 12, 2023, 10:23:47 AM »

After the slow, agonizing death it's had the last 3-4 years, I don't miss E3 anymore.

I just lament that we haven't replaced it with anything better. On the one hand, we have Keighley's marketing specials masquerading as noble pursuits. On the other hand, we have glorified trailer reels, only Nintendo's being remotely tolerable.

*sigh*

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General Gaming / Re: 2023 NWR Forum Awards - Best Indie Game

« on: December 07, 2023, 04:31:01 PM »

I'm sure, as usual, I'll be the odd man out on this, but Lies of P is my pick, as it's easily my game of the year. Bloodborne was my first "Souls" game, and Lies of P gave me something I've wanted for the better part of a decade now: a sequel to Bloodborne, albeit in a spiritual sense only. But more than that, I think it improves on the Souls formula in fundamental ways, such as...

- making strategic guarding such an integral part of the strategy.
- the unique weapon customization system that lets you mix and match weapon parts to create the perfect weapon for your build.
- placing bloodstains from boss fights outside the boss wall so you not only aren't locked into the fight in order to keep your XP, but also makes it so you don't have to waste the start of every fight running over to get your Souls back.
- allowing the player to repair their weapon on the fly for free, so you don't have to constantly teleport back to repair it at a vendor.
- giving the player flexibility over buffing or healing AI Summons.
- and marking quests on the fast travel screen so you know when you have business to advance.

This game kinda revitalized my interest in the genre, as after completing it I finally went back and finished Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 2, and now Dark Souls 3 as of last night. It's just a superbly-made game from a small developer that completely nails that fierce combat, moody atmosphere, and rewarding exploration these games are known for. The story is also shockingly easy to follow for a game like this, as it doesn't dump its entire storytelling into item descriptions. And let's just say that Pinnochio isn't the only piece of classic literature that the game borrows from.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: 2023 NWR Forum Awards - Best Switch Game

« on: December 07, 2023, 04:19:41 PM »

I liked Pikmin 4 well enough. It's probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite game in the series...but those last 1 or 2 maps & their associated challenge caves just flat out suck IMO.

My vote went to Mario since I found it consistently enjoyable and occasionally surprising, which is impressive for something as well-worn as 2D Mario. Didn't play Tears of the Kingdom, as I didn't enjoy Breath of the Wild so the last thing I wanted was more of it.