Posts made by Mbun

@brannox I had the feeling Samus was going to take this earlier in the rounds, but I didn't want to jinx it by saying so and swaying people's votes.

Bayo or Samus is hard. Bayo has more personality, but Samus is a pioneer badass female gaming icon. Kirby should be winning against Glados, but Kirby never gets any love around EZA. A robot gone psychotic isn't really anything new. It is a good archetype, and Glados is a good enough example of it, but it isn't as special as the people voting are making it out to be.
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Bit of a tutorial I think others might find useful later.

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She thinks Stardew Valley looks pretty cute but I've never played it so I can't vouch for it. but it looks lowkey kinda complicated.

Stardew isn't that complicated. It is pretty chill. Also, you should point her towards Rune Factory 4 Special.

Assuming Animal Crossing New Horizon is being given to somebody who has barely ever played video games, would you recommend it

Yeah, they can leisurely figure it out with no consequences.

or is it maybe too aimless?

The old ones were more aimless. This one gives you an insane amount of stuff to do at all times, but the first couple days of gameplay are pretty slow while stuff unlocks and such, so you should get her New Horizons and Stardew or Rune Factory, which don't go by real time, so she can play those straight for a long time from the start.

@brannox I don't care how this next round turns out, but just a reminder that Nathan Drake is a psycho "every man" who murders for personal gain. ezaBackseatBosman

Him and Toon Link are like opposite ends of a spectrum of how to express character, so it is honestly an interesting matchup. Hardest pick for me this round was DOOM Guy (/Slayer?) versus Bowser. Picked Bowser in the end, but it didn't feel good. Think Bowser just won out on more appearances, so more chances to express his character. I think DOOM Guy could be just as strong or stronger given the same level of exposure.

@phbz This is why they need Reggie.

@capnbobamous I don't think calling Master Chief "one-note" is fair, but I won't argue he's deeper than Ciri.

Update Ver.1.1.0 is now available for preload ...or download if you somehow got an early copy of the game.

Some things to note from this website surrounding the future of this game:

Even though this update contains the data for the Easter Event, you actually will have to download another minimal update when the real life event period for Bunny Day starts to trigger the event itself. This will require you to have your Nintendo Switch set to Synchronize with Internet Time, further disallowing people changing their Switch dates or "time traveling" to access the event early or after it ends in real time. The website goes on to clarify that once you download this unlocking update, you may then use your Nintendo Switch in places with no internet access to play the event as normal.

Also contained in this update is a bonus rug that only Nintendo Switch Online members can order from Nook's shop as well as the Pocket Camp crosspromotion stuff that they'll detail how to obtain at a later date, but it sounds like you'll also be ordering these through the shop. Both of these actions will also require you to be connected to the internet at time of first ordering them, but after that you can reorder them without needing the internet access.

Update also enables online play with others and use of the Nintendo Switch Online App with the game.

Lastly, the update contains a little bonus item for everyone who updates their game.

So it looks like future Event Updates will be multi part processes. First an update some time ahead the Event itself to add the data to the game, then another update at the real life period the event should be running to unlock it, which will be the only time you're able to access the event and only if you have your Nintendo Switch set to Synchronize with Internet Time on a Profile with a Nintendo Account linked to it.

Which is... alot. That's way more strict than I was hoping for. It is honestly very far to go to prevent time travelers from accessing content early, and I wish once the event had passed, they would freely let us travel back to them in case we missed them, but it seems as though that will not be possible. We also know now that they'll from time to time distro special items for Nintendo Switch Online members only. Anyways, what do yall think?

Edit: Friend who snagged an early copy informed me that this new patch added support for his USB Keyboard!

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@shoulderguy said:

This new Animal Crossing just looks like more of the same to me.

In a broad sense, that's totally fair. Depending what you want from the game, however New Horizons might be a massive improvement.

From a Town Customization aspect, they've made leaps and bounds improvements both in quality of life stuff and in allowing the player deeper customization without having to do weird unofficial Save Editing and stuff to break the game into their dream vision. They've also eliminated many of the stressful aspects of past games. Even though Stores still close up late, reviewers claim the Town no longer completely shuts down late at Night, which offers a fix to people on flipped schedules. Nook's shops offers a Deposit Box now for selling stuff in the middle of the Night. Multiplayer has been greatly improved, offering multiple Modes of interaction, and with the Group Cap raised from four to eight. You no longer have to exchange Friend Codes with strangers to visit foreign Towns to do simple Item Trading, Shopping, or Turnip Selling. Likewise there's safeguards now against strangers Griefing your Town, but setting people as your Best Friends allow them the traditional complete freedom while visiting your Town.

There's also brand new systems like DIY Crafting and Nook Miles, (basically Quests) offered as a completely optional alternatives to the old grind of just making tons of Bells to pay off your Loans and buy everything. These give you more to do in a particular day and lead the player more actively with Objective paths than past games did. Reviewers also mentioned New Horizons has a more concrete Story behind the progression, although I wouldn't expect anything grand on that front, and it sounds like there's plenty of game to dig into still after that wraps up.

There's still so much we don't know about New Horizons due to both the nature of Animal Crossing's progression and the possibility of things being added in Free Updates, which they've already confirmed to be a thing as way of keeping Time Travelers from spoiling all the Holidays early. Many classic beloved Characters and some of their associated Hangouts still appear to be MIA. Swimming and Diving have not been mentioned anywhere, although everyone with an early copy is still under some Embargo for late game content. There's features not mentioned anywhere appearing in rogue screencaps online like a rework of the Island Minigames from New Leaf, but that take place in your Town now. It is hard at this point to judge the extent of the content from past games trimmed from this new entry, but it is probably safe to say the Animal Villager Dialogue still won't be as good as in the original game and there still likely won't be an equivalent to the virtual NES games you could play in the original simply because times have changed since then. Hell, they won't even show Resetti anymore.

Also, Animal Crossing just looks way better now and offers multiple Camera Angles plus some Photo Modes, both new and cribbed from the side game Happy Home Designer. Honestly, I could say alot more, but I've already written probably too much.

@ozymandsss Animal Crossing is the kind of game you play alongside other games, and the beginning is especially slow, so you play both at the same time.

@hanabi I'm already upset. I also think Arthur Morgan is a better character than Ratchet & Clank combined despite not even having played Red Dead Redemption 2, which is apparently an unpopular opinion? There's lots of interesting characters in Ratchet & Clank, but the protagonists themselves are kinda meh.

@IronGrey No, you guys put more thought into these!

@brannox Next question. Are gamers idiots?

@oscillator Gen 1 Kanto Player Character yes. Famously silent protagonist you refight on Mt. Silver as the very last thing you do in the Gen 2 games. He's cameo'd in other games since, including Masters, where they often change up his fashion sense, but they always maintain that he never talks, just "...".

But he's up against Zelda... and again, I ask all of you. WHICH ZELDA are you voting for?! Zelda is even worse than Link in that pretty much every single incarnation of Zelda is a completely different character, so much so that people have memes of how every individual Zelda would react to different situations. So, it feels really stupid to vote for like 10 wildly different characters in one.

Also, Toon Link being on this as his own separate character screams all the more that classic Link doesn't deserve to keep getting pushed through these rounds.

How the hell did Big Daddy make it on this poll? They're iconic, but they're not really "characters".

I hear ya. Think lots can relate to this right now, but just hang in there. All this junk is temporary, and eventually things should bounce back to normal or relatively normal at least. Consider using this period to explore new hobbies or take care of things you've maybe been putting off while you're all freed up, so when the good stuff is back on the menu you don't have to pull yourself away from it as much later.

Banjo is bearly a character, so you're basically voting for Kazooie anyways.

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After round 1, I no longer trust you people. Already expect Leon to beat Banjo & Kazooie and Geralt to beat Glados somehow. Also, holy shit, enough Resident Evil characters on this?! Not even ones I'd understand like Wesker either.

@oscillator He'd just be another fantasy elf boy if the games around him weren't amazing. It isn't like Mario, who is a weird concept for a hero. Literally just a dime a dozen character that's been elevated due to extended relevancy.

@Capnbobamous
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