The ones that leap out of water to get you on world 3 were already quite stressful.

That fish didn’t terrify me near as much as the angry sun though. Back then I often did “almost complete” runs where I’d just kept a lakitu cloud to skip the sun level from world 8.

On the part about Cappy tricks, not sure why the author forgot all 3D Mario games have always included more or less complex move tricks/combos.

Mario 64 already had triple jump, wall kicks, diving/sliding, long jumps, side jumps…

Super Mario Sunshine added a lot of complex moves with FLUDD, and even a limited way to make your own platforms. Odyssey just does it a lot better IMO. I kinda hated Sunshine Yoshi.

And it’s not like the more complex combos are required to finish the game. Occasionally you need one for 100% completion, but most of the time they’re just cool tricks to pull off to reach a place faster, or just grab a few coins.

“We’re only asking about those outrageous monetization schemes so we know how much you hate them! We definitely didn’t consider them!”

Yeah, testing the waters.

Trivia : The Magi who presented gifts to Jesus were in fact aliens who followed the Star of Bethlehem throughout the universe as it appeared before important events

Oh yeah that’s good stuff. Disney, adapt that shit.

Indeed Professor X is Marvel, Aquaman is DC, and Jesus is New Testament Comics. There are arguments over ownership of some NT characters though, it’s complicated.

Don’t scream, you old fool, you’re gonna hurt your undetermined quantity of ears!

“Refuse to use tiktok”, seriously listen to yourself.

Tiktok is not some kind of new paradigm. It’s yet another social network, one with an annoying gimmick (that it didn’t even invent). A gimmick that makes it harder to do meaningful content and easier to have complete assholes as its superstars.

It’s just a shitty company offering a shitty product.

Flash memories don’t last forever, and some of the 3DS cartridge batches in particular were rather shit and age quite poorly, a lot faster than DS cartridges for example.

Optical discs are subject to “disc rot”, damage from UVs apparently. Some are more vulnerable to it than others. For some reason Wii U discs are quite bad and often have that problem. Sounds very much like Nintendo cheaped out a lot on their media around that time.

The Switch proves Sony should have allocated more resources to the vita.

With the 3DS struggling on its first years, they had a serious shot at the handheld market. Not complaining since in the end, 3DS took off and got fantastic games, but Sony clearly missed an opportunity.

Fuck the vortex machine level.

Yeah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly

I play VR regularly, including some stuff with relatively free movement, but with all the dashes and jumps, my inner ear is going “Nope, no you don’t”.

More “background” on Ecco : it’s inspired by the works of a crazy researcher obsessed with dolphins, aliens and hallucinogenic drugs, in no particular order. Fitting.

I’ve only played through the first one, back in the 90s on the PC version. Completed it several times, I had fewer games and too much time back then. That story included a completely straight bootstrap paradox around the middle, which blew my mind a bit.

Years later, I got it and the second one on the Wii, for old time’s sake. They aged terribly, I don’t have that kind of patience anymore. The shitty wiimote D-pad certainly didn’t help, but wow those time-limited barrier eating things and those pixel-perfect dashes through octopuses and currents are just tedious.

Further clarification from Steam :

I do not have a sex crime. I’m not going to go into specific charges and such or tell you the story. What I did was wrong and that’s all you need to know.

She’s right, this is not really anyone’s business.

According to the announcement, the other developer quit game development some time ago and isn’t active anymore.

I haven’t needed to update it for a while, so I am probably using a semi-old way to do this. I am still on tiramisu for the hack loader, I am just seeing right now there’s a more recent one (Aroma?) with new features. I don’t know much about that.

My drive is just an external HDD with Wii U’s standard formatting (though I have a Y cable for it, since one Wii u usb port is not enough to power those). It’s literally the same HDD I already used before hacking the console.

I have cleanrip on the virtual Wii to dump Wii and GC discs on a SD, then on PC teconmoon injector to make a virtual console channel from them. Then I install them with Wup Installer GX2 on the Wii U system itself. For GC you need Nintendont on the virtual Wii for controller support etc.

I don’t remember the name for the homebrew that dumps Wii U discs right now, but it’s even more direct since it creates a Wup to install.

Edit : got my wires a bit crossed in here, I do rip and inject my GC games too, but I can’t rip them with the Wii U, that drive can’t read them. I still have an actual Wii with cleanrip to do that. Otherwise it’s the same process.

Now, now, I know its human costume is not perfect yet, but just don’t look into its eyes and you should be OK.

Mario Kart Wii is very cool, it has some of the best tracks and very fun physics. And I know it’s been a bit of joke online, but the wheel style motion controls were actually fine too.

Though I understand why they toned down the tricks and nerfed bikes in 7 and 8. They were fun, but a bit much.

It’s all about pride and accomplishment, you know.

I’m so glad none of the games I care for went for a free to play/microtransaction model. Or maybe including these into their core design is a big part of what makes them unappealing to me.

Nintendo only remembers the Wii U to tell us we should have stopped using it for years by now.

Fuck that. The only console that had less official support from them than the Wii U was probably freaking Virtual Boy,

I ripped all of my GC, Wii and Wii U discs and injected them on an external drive as Wii U apps. I’ll probably try the third party online thing one day. Thank you for reminding me they exist.