You’re not going to believe a conversation I had with one of my coworkers today…
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Despite Game Key Cards being a thing, it looks like some publishers are still going with the “code in a box” route.
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It could be worse. Street Fighter 6 opting for “we’re going to put the base game on a key card, but all the DLC is in a one-time code in the box” is some 2011 EA Project $10 shit.
We didn’t yell at Capcom hard enough for Street Fighter x Tekken and now a decade or so later they’re being sleazy again.
Edit: I guess maybe it’s not worse than a flat-out code, but it’s probably cool for anyone unsuspecting to buy a SF6 card and find they gotta pony up even more to get all the stuff on the box.
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That’s real sleazy still I say! Can you at least buy a cheaper base version of the game on the eshop or is the first and second season pass actually exclusively only relevant to buy for those buying used?
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It looks like there’s a base version that’s $20 cheaper, but the season passes are still full price ($30 each, not even the ones with the costumes either, those cost more), so it’s possible someone unsuspecting buys a key card and winds up needing to pay an extra $60-80 for the content that comes with a new physical copy.
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I mean Mario games didn’t have all-that interesting platformer controls since Mario 64.
I don’t expect too much out of the new Donkey Kong, I just wanna see what they do with the character now that they “got it back”. Returns was fine, but this is like the first real Nintendo developed Donkey Kong platformer since… was there ever one? (Well, I guess there was Jungle Beat). It’s gotta be better than DK64 right?
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yeah but Mario Odyssey successfully looked much structurally stranger than this and like it was more fun to move around in. this feels like they’re all in on the (kind of shallow) physics interaction design and the presentation/moveset just look OK
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I can’t believe that Donkey Kong: Bananza: Part II begins with Captain Syrup brutally murdering DK right in front of Pauline’s eyes. #BrainGarbage
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make a cranky kong game you cowards
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Does the Switch 2 finally put a shopping cart in the eshop or is it still purchase every game separately, and if you want to put cash into your account to purchase more than one game you’ve got to put in an arbitrary value chosen from a menu instead of just selecting enough to buy your games in one transaction?
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Tbf I only watched the very first trailer with eyes squinting because I am also a spoiler baby (hi Tim).
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He was playable in Tropical Freeze but basically just Duck Tales / Shovel Knight mode.
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still no cart
can’t speak to the adding currency instead of just paying thing
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Took until the Switch 2 came out for the Switch 1 to auto delete items from your wishlist when you purchase them, so not surprised they are still years behind in shop UX design
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Every game I play is a cranky kong game
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Bananza good?
there’s something so immediately gratifying about just punching the hell out of the terrain and deciding to solve your all problems with violence
DK would approve
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inquiring from a position of complete, utter, hopeless ignorance: what are the odds of the magnets in the JoyCon2s fucking up my television, other console(s), discs, et cetera?
might be worth picking one up eventually, but not if it’s going to be setting off my what-if-xyz-happen(s)-to-my-stuff OCD
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we made things with shielding and without magnets because CRTs didn’t like magnets
unless you’re using a CRT set, you probably have nothing to worry about
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Or a floppy disk. I used to have to be paranoid about keeping magnets away from those
Newer iPhones also come with magnets on their backs, and I’m pretty sure I would’ve heard plenty about it if those had to be kept away from any current technology
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Hotel Keys get erased by magnets
so you’ll need to go to the front desk and get your key recoded
if you let it get near your various magnets
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