Wind Waker HD, which I’m currently re-playing in a foreign language for study purposes, is the primary reason my Wii U is still plugged in. I would *absolutely* buy it again on Switch, just to have it on the better console (without the awkward extra screen)

Nah, just some of us. Lots of people within the community disagree with me; several of them posted in this thread, and I’ve been starting them all day to make sure those arguments surface from the greys, so they can add their voices to the mix.

This is a fair point. And a lot of the reactions here seem to assume I’m defending Ion Fury’s response; I’m not. It’s been a clumsy, dumb mess. I should clarify this very strongly: It is primarily *Ion Fury’s devs* (publisher?) who I believe are overreacting here. Their response has generated this outrage; the joke…

That’s still my point though. “OGAY” doesn’t read as hate speech to me. It reads as a funny joke name, which happens to reference an attribute I identify as. It’s on the same level as putting “King Burger” in a game because obviously reversing the words is a trademark. Being gay is totally normal and fine, so the word…

Okay as someone who is actually gay, it’s going to take a *lot* more than an shampoo bottle to offend me. This is remarkably silly stuff going on. The level geometry thing miiight be a bit much, but honestly I’ve seen much worse stuff embedded by the developers into old Nintendo games. Crass humor isn’t by itself…

Well, it’ll probably be specific to the Microsoft version of the game, not the original Java version that most people on PC actually play.

Yeah, this really needs to be clarified better in the article. You can’t transfer *the whole roster,* but anything from a past generation which appears in Sword and Shield should be able to transfer in from the Box system. It’s not going to be exclusively new stuff for the competitive scene.

> Doesn’t have motion controls as an option despite a bunch of animations look goofy without them.

This is why anytime I find a good rip of the game on youtube, I run it through yt-download. I don’t expect that stuff to stay up, but there’s also no legal way for me to purchase most Nintendo soundtracks, especially the older stuff. It’s a bit of a shame really; I’ve already bought the games, and I *would* buy the…

If I remember this correctly, for all the ports of the PS1 original they’ve been modifying the Draw mechanic to remove the arbitrary 9 spell cap, which means you can draw in the double-digits per turn. That adds up in a hurry; while it doesn’t exactly make “waste a turn and watch a long animation” gameplay any more…

True! It’s an unoptimized experimental mess at the moment. But he’s recently picked up an AMD card, the developer of OptiFine has added proper support for that line, and those cards tend to be much cheaper. I’m optimistic, but not enough to recommend the project to just anyone. He seems to be gearing up for another…

Meanwhile, Sonic Ether continues to be hard at work, producing frankly jaw-dropping results with real-time raytracing. If you have a powerful PC, it’s worth keeping an eye on this project as it progresses.

I mean, really that’s reading a bit too much into it. The page was clearly posting “Top Fortnite Streamers” and I’ll bet you a nickel that if you happened to check on that particular search query on any other page, the porn would have been at the top there too. There were some other sketchy looking streams in that…

See, that’s what I thought too! The 3DS works the same way, so if they’re trying to spin “unique key per-game” like... hooray? That’s a default feature they get for free? But no, that announcement is *really* leaning into the whole blockchain thing for some reason. It’s kinda bizzare. I’m really interested in seeing…

So in the best case, this is a marketing spin on a unique multiplayer key per cartridge, for easier DRM / banning cheaters. In ... a Cooking Mama game. This is a game where cheaters run rampant? How does multiplayer even work?

Honestly though, why give the negative reactions the whole article? This should be an incredibly positive message, and yet we’re focusing on a tiny sliver of the population because they are being loud and toxic. Since they’re probably doing this for attention, maybe it would be best if we shine the spotlight elsewhere?

Edit: Looks like I’m wrong! I asked about this on the youtube video, and Balancing Monkey Games replied:

> There are exactly 12 pentagons, but they’re cunning hidden under a rug. Or the mountains :)

So, it’s almost certainly a subdivided icosahdron after all. Very neat!

Hmm... not quite. At every location in the projected sphere where there was originally a vertex on the Icosahedron, there is a *pentagon* instead of a hexagon.

The easiest thing to do is to put your left hand on the *d-pad*, which also handles movement and strafe in solidare mode. Then put your right hand in the center, and control the camera with the analog stick. L works to aim, and you can still easily tap A/B for activations.

I just don’t understand the animation quality. I realize they have a scope issue, but this is also the makers of Pokémon, *the* biggest cash cow in all of gaming. How is even a marginal improvement in animation quality not in the budget? I don’t even want crazy sweeping cinematic camera movement with custom attacks…