This looks like any Nintendo launch lineup I can remember: one “big” game they think will draw people in just for that (in this case Mario Kart) and not much aside from that. The fact we’re even getting more than one additional first party title is comparatively impressive, but overall Nintendo launch lineups are pretty much always sparse. I think you’re right and we’ll see the “real” launch window lineup around the holidays.

I like big content and I cannot lie, you other brothers can’t deny

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Tired of government censorship, whether it’s left or right wing. They both do it, and it sucks either way. Then both sides will “champion free speech” when they’re not the ones in power.

I recently purchased a copy of Alpha Sapphire since I haven’t finished a Hoenn playthrough yet. Looking forward to finally finishing a Hoenn region run!

I admit I haven’t played too much of either Dragon Quest or FF. I have a bit more experience with FF (I’ve at least started playing 1, 7 and 10). I’ve only played Dragon Quest III, currently going through its HD-2D remake and enjoying it decently enough. If I like it enough when I finish it maybe I’ll pick up I and II as well.

This, and it’s THE big traditional JRPG franchise in Japan itself, as big as or bigger than Final Fantasy. FF just happened to have more worldwide appeal.

I think the biggest factor in that is getting tutorials and such out there that focus on the basics, written by people who mainly do things on Linux using the basics and GUI tools. So much of the Linux content out there is focused on power users and even the tutorials for new users tend to be written by those power users who may have been tech focused before switching and forget or just don’t know how basic they really have to get to not make people feel intimidated. Given the right distro/desktop environment, and there’s plenty of good ones to start with, people can use Linux almost just how they use Windows. They just need someone to show them how without pushing them to do everything in the terminal too fast or going immediately to scripting as a solution to problems.

I don’t think it will ever happen, but the way PeerTube as a whole would be able to rival YouTube is when looking at all instances as a whole, or a large number of federated instances sharing content. That distributes the content storage and bandwidth to help ease things up and expand the amount of content available/searchable on each instance. Kind of like how lemm.ee was made to help ease the load from other bigger instances of Lemmy such as lemmy.world. The closest a Fediverse platform has gotten to actually posing some real competition to a mainstream platform was Mastodon compared to Twitter/X, but even then it wasn’t just one instance but Mastodon as a whole.

That said, doesn’t Bluesky run on something like a federated model?

My daily reminder that I’m older than I think/feel like I am.

There’s a Monastery-like area in Engage called the Somniel. Unlike in 3 Houses, though, you don’t need to build a relationship with any characters to gain others - every unit and (base game) Emblem is automatically recruited in the main story. I recommend picking up both parts of the DLC, the stages to unlock the extra Emblems and the DLC side story, since some of the extra Emblems are fun to use (Tiki is straight up broken) and the DLC with the side story gives you more cool units and classes, though the side story is a fair bit more difficult than the main story.

Never had reason to check, is the Switch region-unlocked/region-free? That’s cool if true. But given that the DS was a pirate’s dream machine partially due to it being region-free I can see why Nintendo locked down the Wii/3DS/Wii U, annoying as it is.

I’m playing on an actual 3DS. Conquest is the last FE game I have yet to finish on it (I played Birthright before this). If I ever want to play Revelations I’d have to emulate or otherwise sail the high seas since the 3DS eShop is dead. My own 3DS is actually Japanese but I modded it to region unlock it.

I bought Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe a couple weeks ago and I’m a few stages in. Having a good time with it so far. Sometimes it’s nice to just sit back and enjoy a nice easy game to relax. I’m even enjoying the minigames in the Merry Magoland mode and getting all the masks (I will rarely use, lol).

I also bought Pokemon Alpha Sapphire because I’ve never finished a Hoenn region Pokémon game, but I haven’t started it yet because I’m still playing through Fire Emblem Fates Conquest. Like others I agree that Fates’ story, especially Conquest’s, is probably the worst I’ve played in the franchise (seriously, the game utterly fails to give Corrin any reason to choose Nohr when they make their “fateful” choice that’s supposed to be so difficult), but the gameplay is not bad. I would put it down for Pokemon but considering FE is my favorite franchise I feel a certain obligation to grit my teeth on the story and push through it to the finish.

My “nostalgia favorites” will always be Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Sonic 2 (Genesis version). Sonic 2 is just so fun to go back and play any time I want a quick retro sides rolling platformer fix, and I’ve played through it more times than I can count. OoT was the first game I played that showed me what games could be through a combination of story/cutscenes and gameplay, as someone who was never able to get my hands on an SNES to play the epic JRPGs of the console growing up (I loved my Genesis, but let’s be real, those kinds of games on Sega consoles didn’t really come until later).

Nowadays Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have eclipsed OoT for me, and for other more modern games another standout fave is Fire Emblem Three Houses, due in large part to its story and setting having everything I look for in a game, and its characters actually being more fleshed out and developed than the one-note units handed to you in many other games in the franchise. Engage has more… Engaging gameplay (sorry not sorry for the pun) but the story and characters hold it back quite a bit for me. Gameplay-wise, my favorite strategy RPG actually has to be Triangle Strategy, in that it has quite creative maps and every unit is designed with the potential to be useful depending on how you approach your own strategy, but I like the story/characters of Three Houses at least a bit more, and I tend to value story more in general in games. I’m also a big fan of the Ace Attorney franchise for the overarching story, characters and writing that it’s built up through its history. Phoenix, Maya, Edgeworth, Apollo and friends are all among some of my favorite characters in gaming, and I’m glad I decided long ago to give that quirky-seeming series a try. AA7 when, Capcom?

Yeah, I’m betting on at least a new 3D Mario too. Wouldn’t be surprised if Z-A was cross generation. Maybe the new Mario Kart they showed off in the short trailer. I don’t think Prime 4 will be out right at launch but I could see it in the first year.

I notice they tend to have one “killer app” and then the rest of it isn’t much to write home about, at least since the N64 (SNES had a whopping 2: F-Zerp and Mario World). The exception being the Wii U, which had… Nintendo Land? NSMB-U? Nothing really.

N64: Mario 64 (and had almost literally nothing else until StarFox) GameCube: Luigi’s Mansion Wii: Twilight Princess, or Wii Sports, since TP also released for GameCube Switch: BotW

Last weekend was the first time in 2 months that I actually played a game for more than just a quick test to see if graphics were working on my PC. Something in a game gave me an unexpected emotional response that didn’t feel right and caused me to just not play games for a while. I uninstalled thst game and stopped playing it. I’m feeling somewhat better now but the response was just a symptom of bigger issues I’m planning on getting help for.

As for what I did play last weekend, I did a bit of level/money grinding in Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake. It’s a big difficulty spike between Romaria and the pyramid and I got to the pyramid very under-leveled and underequipped. The grind is a slog though because monsters in the overworld don’t give out much XP. That said they do give decent money so maybe you’re supposed to rely more on items and equipment to get you through. Hopefully I don’t have to grind TOO much more to feel comfortable venturing back in farther than the first few rooms.

Sadly, I’ve seen how much the average non-tech enthusiast LOVES all this AI stuff. Like, people’s parents/grandparents who only occasionally use a computer when they have to. The types of folks who will call tech support and actually need the answer, “Is your computer powered on?” And there are far more people out there like that than many tech folks think. That’s the market that keeps powering this stuff.

On the other hand, it’s not likely that it would have been difficult for Nintendo to get or extend the license to keep the game on the service if they wanted to. I figure that if they’re already discontinuing gold points, this is probably the first baby step towards winding down Switch Online on the original Switch in prep for the Switch 2. It would really help to have a launch date announced for the new console though.

Probably the most legit scared I ever was in a video game, and I was 13.That, and Half-Mummified Gibdo Dad popping out of the wardrobe in Majora’s Mask.