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This Week in Games - Nintendo Direct June 2024: New Age of Hype

Jean-Karlo Lemus, When playing Tatsunoko vs Capcom, did you play as any of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman Aka Battle Of The Planets, G-Force or Eagle Riders in the US?

Those kinds of cheap official releases are super convenient and nice for modding even if the base releases are atrocious. Meanwhile, Nintendo wants $59.99 + Tax for Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door's remaster when the HD texture packs mod has existed for over a decade now and is still being updated. And the original lacks all the censorship in the new release and even has patches to undo the localization of the original Gamecube release if people want an even more authentic experience.

As for (Bandai) Namco, they obviously own a workprint of the Xevious film, since they showed some other footage of it (literally only around five seconds worth) as part of a video made to celebrate Xevious years later, but it's entirely possible that they don't own a finalized version of the film, only an unfinished workprint. Also, since Groove Corporation produced the film, Bandai Namco may not even have full rights to release the film themselves, since Groove technically owned those rights... and since Groove doesn't exist anymore that creates a potential licensing problem.

I think Hyrule Warriros has to be one of the biggest offenders. "Buy the original game...now here's a bunch of extra content and DLC you can only get for the far technically-inferior 3DS version...but don't worry, we'll put all of that back into the Switch version so you can get that too!" Fantastic.

I just want bigger discounts on Nintendo games that have sequels also on the switch. Like Botw or 3 houses should have more than 30% off after getting sequels/new series entries.

IIRC, much of that content could be gotten as DLC on the WiiU version and if you bought the 3DS version, you got a code for the characters for free for the WiiU version.
Nintendo definitely is on the high end of pricing for re-releases of games and you can argue that the Switch version of HW should be cheaper, but I can't agree that HW is a great example of this overall considering the time between releases and the platforms they were on.

See, that I can agree with. It's a good way of giving folks a taste of a series in anticipation of the newest entry. I chafe at a lot of armchair pricing arguments because so much of it seems to boil down to "This game has a simplistic art style in spite of being a fully-featured game, it's not worth full-price" or "this game is a platformer, platformer should inherently be cheaper than other games".

I've also seen folks point out the lack of a "Greatest Hits" line; Nintendo used to have those. Heck, they had two of them--the "Player's Choice" line and the "Nintendo Selects" line. Nintendo dropped that for the Nintendo Switch... though to be fair, Sony doesn't seem to have listed any "Greatest Hits" versions of any of their PS5 titles. An indictment on Sony's weak library, or a display of Sony desperately trying to maintain its profit margin? You make the call.

You vastly overestimate how much the average player knows about emulation or modding, or how much effort they're willing to put into jumping through hoops in order to pull it off. A lot of FGC purists were pointing this out with the MvC news, since MvC has already been on Fightcade for years and years--but the layperson doesn't know about Fightcade. Emulation is great for preserving games, but the number-one thing that gets folks interested in a game is seeing it in a store somewhere. And once someone is into a game and maybe meets likeminded individuals on the Internet, then they might learn about, I dunno, playing the unofficial Ocarina of Time remake done in Unreal Engine or whatever.

Also: miss me with that "censorship" crap. Too many goons have been way too brave in bludgeoning that word. I promise you, your average Tom, Dick or Larry does not give a rat's ass that a chalk outline of a Toad was removed from the game, or that dialogue is slightly different, or that Vivian is now strongly implied to be trans. I'm urging you to find better friends and stop listening to outrage peddlers--there's no cheese at the end of that maze. Living in fear and anger of shadows on the wall is a miserable way to live your life

Next, Capcom could bring the 2 90’s Dungeon & Dragons Side Scrollers!

I've also seen folks point out the lack of a "Greatest Hits" line; Nintendo used to have those. Heck, they had two of them--the "Player's Choice" line and the "Nintendo Selects" line. Nintendo dropped that for the Nintendo Switch... though to be fair, Sony doesn't seem to have listed any "Greatest Hits" versions of any of their PS5 titles. An indictment on Sony's weak library, or a display of Sony desperately trying to maintain its profit margin? You make the call.

Mario and Luigi: One of the reasons people acting like TTYD was the only RPG ever is they were ignoring Mario and Luigi the entire time which are funny as hell. Having an island as a ship is such a cool look.

MVC: Inevitable considering how big X-Men 97 blew up. Perfect cross promotion

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MVC: Inevitable considering how big X-Men 97 blew up. Perfect cross promotion

While X-Men was the one that kickstarted this entire crossover series, I highly doubt this was done just as a cross-promotion for 97. This was something the FGC have been asking for a couple years now.

Yeah, the original #FreeMvC movement was a full two years ago. Assuming this was the result of that push, the timeline fits. The arcade machine came out last year, after all. I can see the rights wrangling for all this to take a solid two years. Meanwhile X-Men 97 only came out this past March--nowhere near the amount of time to cross the Ts and dot the i's for this kind of deal.