Funny you say that. Mario Kart DS was peak offline social gaming for me. Back when it came out, lots of kids at my high school carried their DS on them and lunch was nothing but Mario Kart. At least it was among marching band nerds. And if someone happened to have a DS but not Mario Kart, we’d just do Download Play so they can at least join us in a limited capacity.
I don’t know anything about this game/series, but that looks like such a cool bundle. If I found that as a kid, I would be hyped as hell to play it. Can just imagine unfolding that packaging with all the discs would feel like opening a treasure chest.
The Oracle games had GBA releases? Wow, that’s news to me.
Starting to think Lego finally realized how big the adult nerd merch market is and now they’re all in. Look I’m sure this set makes certain demographics on the Internet very happy, but it just highlights how different Lego is these days. For better or worse, Lego would never have produced this set 10 years ago. It’s an awkwardly rendered head of a videogame character and that’s it. Fuck, I’m gonna rant now.
I know it’s been said a million times, but I really miss old Lego themes untied to other brands. I’m aware that Star Wars and other IP saved the company from going under 20+ years ago, but they’re not a struggling business anymore. They don’t need to be making displays of pop culture references instead of original concepts to stay afloat; they’re doing it because it’s insanely profitable. Just make something new, please. I don’t even want “old Lego” nostalgia fan service with revived legacy themes. Just do something other than “city” that isn’t based on some other company’s media.
I know it’s just an announce video to raise money, but those animations are rough. Yes, gameplay should come first, but if they’re looking to attract a modern audience they really need to make their visuals a priority early on, especially when one of the biggest selling points of Chibi-Robo was the charm of the friendly little robot.
You forgot the holy battle pass for exclusive creature skins. That’s too pessimistic. Maybe it’s been a while since I played them, but I think Black & White 1 + 2 had the scope of what an ambitious indie game is capable of today. Or a (these days) rare “AA” budget game. A modern B&W could be similarly scaled to the originals, but expanding on them creatively. Though of course the IP would never be granted to indie devs if anyone still holds the rights of Lionhead Studios.
Black & White 3 should open on these guys finally reaching new land where the next god begins.
Definitely waiting for the Miyoo A30 to get Onion.
I’m sure Nintendo intentionally throttles the Switch to improve battery life, preserve the integrity of the hardware, and provide a consistent experience. Not to defend their decision at all. I just think it’s funny how people tend to react to learning about how much the Switch is artificially held back, as if Nintendo is just being stupid about the potential of their own console. I think it’s very likely they did plenty of testing and concluded that the specs they targeted provided the best balance of positive overall user experience with the least amount of complications for developers. And it clearly worked because it’s one of the best selling consoles ever with a massive catalogue of titles. The small handful of power users who want a Switch 4K Pro are just destined to buy a Steam Deck anyway. Nintendo doesn’t want anything to do with that niche group of gamers lol.
Taki Udon demonstrates a Switch emulating a Switch running Minecraft with better performance than Minecraft just running on Switch stock firmware.
If this project gets finished this might be how I finally play a Mega Man game for the first time.
Dang, I don’t like heavy use of the shoulder buttons as those tend to be the first to go. I do want to check it out. As far as fullscreen goes, not sure, but maybe it’s two different resolution options like with Virtual Console games?
This is unreal. I’m looking forward to a new wave of modern ports for N64 games I missed.
Great question.
Need a fork of an app that replaces a Google app to get a fork of an app that replaces another Google app.
Seconding everything you said. Rocking a third party launcher and surprised at all the useful features. I don’t think I’d want to give up Routines if I were to ditch Samsung next phone.
Revanced and UBlock Origin still working for me on Android and Firefox respectively. As the new Chrome update launches and every Chromium based browser follows suit, I do wonder if Google will just straight up block Firefox in the near future. Eventually, I think Google will win this by breaking YouTube on everything except their own apps. Unfortunately, YouTube is kind of the only ubiquitous platform that could pull a disastrous move like that and remain on top.
Fuck, man. That looks amazing and it kind of turns the Jelly Star into what I always wanted; a fully functional phone with controller hardware, small enough to easily pocket the entire thing. I almost regret passing on this phone now.
The exact reason I opted not to get this phone. I kind of don’t understand why so many lesser known brands have such limited bands on their phones. Does it add that much to the cost?
Oh, I had to go look up what Evercade is. I thought this was going to be the rumored remasters of these games.
Evercade seems interesting, but it’s kind of a strange concept. Like a generalized nostalgia for a console that never existed. I think if I’m not playing games on their original hardware, I would rather emulate on a retro handheld than pretend that I’m getting an authentic retro experience off a ROM on a newly produced cartridge for a modern device. This is like a compromise, I guess? Anyone here liking Evercade?