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grrgyle, do games w Developer Interview: my Q&A with the dev who runs 'the' Switch piracy freeshop

Perhaps this is a weird part to single out, but it surprised me

I mainly played on the 3DS from when I was 6 until I was 15, so I don’t have as much experience with other consoles.
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The 3DS was simply Nintendo’s best era, and I don’t think we’ll see anything like that again given the current direction of their latest consoles…

Curious if others agree. I would’ve thought that it would be the SNES era, but that’s probably betraying my age more than anything.


Great article! On par with gaming publications, and actually probably better than most Nintendo Power articles I remember from back in the day. Great job!!

Daughter3546,

I guess nostalgia really is one hell of a drug. I am in my 30s and I view the GBA and NDS as the best Nintendo consoles.

skankhunt42,
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30s. GameCube, gameboy colour, n64, and xbox360. If I had to pick one it’d be n64.

Zoomboingding,
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Rofl this is what I most disagreed with as well. 3DS certainly had some bangers, but I think many would list it among the weakest first-party lineups

alk,

I’m in my 30’s and I think I agree with this. The amount of bangers for the 3ds is insane, and the virtual console lineups on both the 3ds and wii u were unmatched any time before or after. Even today, the 3ds is the best console to buy used and hack. You have QR-code access to ALL titles, including virtual console titles. It’s a Nintendo emulation powerhouse. Technically you can do all of that on the switch, but it’s much harder to do, much harder to get content, and not nearly as many things are compatible.

grrgyle,

I never had one but sounds like I missed out. I also wasn’t thinking of rereleases or emulation.

alk,

I actually never had one while it was “recent” (I skipped from the ds to the switch) but I’ve since bought a refurbished one and loaded custom firmware (very simple compared to other consoles) and played some of the top rated games and a few niche ones. I fell in love, and I use it for emulation of other Nintendo consoles up to N64 and all handheld consoles. I’m even working on a full living pokedex using only a 3ds and a switch, which is completely legit using Pokémon bank and Pokémon home and the virtual console, all official Nintendo software.

missingno,
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I'd say the DS was the best handheld of all time, and GBA was close behind it. 3DS had its share of bangers, but if you compare its library to the DS it's not even close.

3DS was the era where we started to see the conflict between handhelds being a place for experimental low budget titles, versus the need for larger budgets on better hardware. This also just made it more difficult to juggle supporting handheld and console platforms at the same time. And halfway through the system's lifespan, mobile gaming exploded in popularity, which really ate into the system's marketshare. There's a very observable trend in how third party support kept dropping over time.

grrgyle,

Username tells me you know your stuff

alk,

I’d argue that the backwards compatibility between the 3ds and ds makes the 3ds just as good as the DS if you’re counting ds games. Though if we’re talking how good the games are of each generation instead of how useful and fun each console is with all available means of play, it might be a different story.

missingno,
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I'm judging each platform's library individually. Though if you do want to look at it that way, I would still say DS + GBA > 3DS + DS.

Also, tbh, I never liked DS-on-3DS due to the screen resolution being such an awkward factor. Scaled looks awful, letterboxed is too tiny.

smeg,

Simple explanation: if you have one console full of fond childhood memories then of course that’s the one you consider to be the best!

Die4Ever, do gaming w I’d love a 2d Resident Evil Metroidvania.
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neon_nova,

Seems like it could be fun. I’ll give it a try.

Little8Lost, do games w Day 350 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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Before i miss/forget it:
Congrats on continuing this for 350 days, almost a year
Even if i dont relate to the games you are playing it brings me joy every time because you manage to keep up your diary of gaming
Its just such a nice thing to see :D

Aussiemandeus,
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Yeah pigging back on this, having the ability to play games every day makes me so jealous.

Great for OP though

mohab, do gaming w I’d love a 2d Resident Evil Metroidvania.

I was gonna say I'd love to see a Resident Evil action game but then I remembered Onimusha exists 😅 And I suppose RE 4-6 to a lesser extent.

I feel like Signalis maybe half the way to a Resident Evil metroidvania? Like, if you bring the perspective down to 2D and tie all the areas together, you basically have an RE metroidvania.

What about abilities though? In Metroid, the suit gets the abilities, but no one in the RE cast has a suit or is magic, so I assume you unlock weapons instead?

neon_nova,

Yeah, weapons. Take a look at shadow complex. It’s a great Metroidvania. You do unlock a power suit at one point, but other than that, you just upgrade your weapons.

SharkPlushy, do games w Day 350 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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Hell yea

SanndyTheManndy, do games w Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing?

Block the typing http request in ublock origin.

Coelacanth, (edited ) do games w Developer Interview: my Q&A with the dev who runs 'the' Switch piracy freeshop
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First your regular articles, and now an in-depth interview. And you dare suggest your not a proper gaming journalist?

Love your work as always.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Developer Interview: my Q&A with the dev who runs 'the' Switch piracy freeshop

because piracy means stealing

No. No it does not. Piracy is legally copyright infringement, not theft. Stealing requires that the thief deprive the original owner access to the stolen thing. Piracy is not stealing because there is no deprivation of access.

If I made a copy of your car, but you still had access to your car and could drive it like normal, I didn’t steal your car.

TheGreenWizard, do gaming w Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone

critical, jacksepticeye, jeff geerling, Josh Strife Says, Luis Rossmann, and more, all helping out is so awesome to see. Suck an egg thor

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #22

With a little delay (sorry, life kept me busy enough so I couldn’t read this before), I just finished reading. I gotta say this was a rollercoaster.

I love the news parts, as always, since you manage to get a whole week of news compressed in a single article (and without the clickbait ads) that feels fresh and nice to read.

But knowing the kind of ordeal you are dealing with is heartbreaking. First and foremost, your health comes first. If you need to take a pause from this, you don’t have to apologize, it’s the right thing to do so go ahead and do it. I’m really sorry to hear about all you are going through, I hope you get to feel better soon!! Best wishes from an user who is clearly human!

galbraith, do games w Developer Interview: my Q&A with the dev who runs 'the' Switch piracy freeshop

Enlightening interview. Thanks for sharing.

Gradually_Adjusting, do games w Developer Interview: my Q&A with the dev who runs 'the' Switch piracy freeshop
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Cool! I want to look into their work. This seems like something my kid should also know about.

Surprised at how young they started on this journey.

Ilixtze, (edited ) do gaming w I’d love a 2d Resident Evil Metroidvania.

If you ever want to play a 2d metroidvania version of silent hill + rule of rose step right up!

Probably some of the most fun I’ve had in a survival horror in ages!

neon_nova,

Thanks! I’ll check that out.

Coelacanth,
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I had no idea that existed but that looks absolutely fantastic. It’ll wishlist that one for certain.

Legendsofanus, do gaming w I’d love a 2d Resident Evil Metroidvania.

I have played a Java version of Resident Evil 1 which is top-down but plays mostly the same, except the combat is turn-based. You don’t go to an environment for battles, the actual walking and shooting happens in the main game, I really enjoyed it back then

neon_nova,

I’ve never heard of this. It sounds really interesting.

Legendsofanus,

Most console games back in the day had a Java port one way or another. Assassin’s Creed upto III were there and the III version even had naval combat. There was a Bioshock port in which you could basically do all you can in the game, combat and hacking minigames and powerups were similar. We had Doom RPG and Doom 2 RPG, I loved that one particularly because for me it introduced me to Doom with a lot of story and cutscenes, the gameplay was really fun too. God of War has a canon java game lmao

Anyway, about RE1 I think it even preserved all of the puzzles! I don’t think I ever beat it but did play a ton of it. It had a layer of strategy because if you shoot the zombie and it doesn’t die then it will get closer to you when the zombie’s turn comes so you had to plan battles out in a way

christian, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 29th
@christian@lemmy.ml avatar

Yaoling is spectacular. Monster taming RPG (think pokemon) with autobattle mechanics.

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