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Agreed: that's a classic. A kitsch classic, but a classic nonetheless.

gjones wrote:

Which handheld game or series do you reckon is really going to benefit from the big screen experience with the Switch?

Mario Golf with RPG bits (seeing as Nintendo/Camelot only put the RPG features in to the handheld iterations).

This however is a brilliant shout.

Doing my answers before I read anyone else's, so I can't be tainted.

Spoiler:

Drunkalilly wrote:

Rhythm Paradise Megamix was released last month. What's your favourite piece of video game music?

Do you know what, it might be Magikarp Festival. I can't hear it without getting excited.

You'd never guess that Drunka was a big clubbing fan, would you?

Which console game or series are you chomping at the bit to take on the go with the Switch?
A hard one as I do think some games won't translate well to a handheld well but I'm thinking of what comes out in 2017 around March, that my answer is Mass Effect Andromeda as I could do a short side-quest on the go.

Which handheld game or series do you reckon is really going to benefit from the big screen experience with the Switch?
Pokemon

Paper Mario: Colour Splash painted a very mixed view of itself depending on who you asked. Which red-headed stepchild of a series (eg. Super Mario Bros. 2) do you actually think is ruddy fantastic?
Hey! On a answer, I'm going for DmC from Ninja Theory

Which highly acclaimed game in a series do you reckon is actually a bit guff?
I don't know if gJones with MGS meant just the first game or the whole series as I can think of some actual series but one game in a series, hmm Resident Evil 5 but not sure how acclaimed it was

Rhythm Paradise Megamix was released last month. What's your favourite piece of video game music?
Dam you Jay with my answer that I give ya this from Bioshock Infinite

Which piece of gaming music is your most hated of all time? OF ALL TIME?
Only Konami

Hey, the dog ending is the best game ending of all time!

I'm hesitant about the prospect of new Pokémon games on the Switch. TPC have said they're going to keep the series on handhelds and the NS (so hard to type that without the 'E') isn't quite a handheld. Don't get me wrong: I'd totally love to see it happen... it's just that I'm not holding my breath.

It will replace the 3DS as Nintendo's handheld, despite the statements they're making just now to safeguard Christmas sales, and TPC have out-and-out said they're developing for Swith.

Balladeer wrote:

Nintendo spoke to us Directly again last month! How long do you reckon it'll be before the next full Direct?
Mid-October to announce the NX.  I know this doesn't fit in with Nintendo's usual PR strategy of 'being utter morons', but surely... surely...

It wasnae quite a Direct, but I'm going to take this as a win!

Drunka is right as you can read here also the adds for the 3DS family seems to be aimed more at kids and the Switch seems from what we've seen more at us lot.

That both will coincide for a good while, it's when a Pokemon game comes to Switch and the kids start getting them is when the 3DS will finally come to an end.

masofdas wrote:

Which piece of gaming music is your most hated of all time? OF ALL TIME?
Only Konami

I've read a LOT of bad gaming opinions on this forum over the years, but this tops the lot. Bark bark bark off.

It's the only thing that came to my head but likely is far worse or just as bad like the rock remix thing of the chocobo theme in one of the XIII'S.

You mean this? Because yes, that's an absolute stinker.

Yeah that's the one.

Paper Mario: Colour Splash painted a very mixed view of itself depending on who you asked. Which red-headed stepchild of a series (eg. Super Mario Bros. 2) do you actually think is ruddy fantastic?

Okay. Okay. I'm sorry.
I tried really, really hard not to do this and act like a parody of myself, but . . .

Dark Souls II

Good piece man & I agree with most of it but that last paragraph has surprised me a little.

Don't get me wrong, I really like DSIII, it just hasn't blown my mind. It all feels like stuff I've seen before, and I'll be glad if Miyazaki and the team do some different stuff going forwards.

But DS2 surely can't be considered the better game, there are so many things about the gameplay that hold it back compared to 3, or even the first.

I don't think the gameplay differences are that huge, and I think the mechanics of combat are only part of a Dark Souls game: exploration, story, characters, NPCs . . . all of these things are worse in 3.

Which console game or series are you chomping at the bit to take on the go with the Switch?
Battlefield 1. I named my daughter Poppy so I wouldn't forget, but being able to carry World War 1 around with me will make it even harder to forget the #fallen.
Which handheld game or series do you reckon is really going to benefit from the big screen experience with the Switch?
Cooking Mama. A game that shows women their place.
Paper Mario: Colour Splash painted a very mixed view of itself depending on who you asked. Which red-headed stepchild of a series (eg. Super Mario Bros. 2) do you actually think is ruddy fantastic?
Ginger babies. Like a baby. Just so much harder to love
Which highly acclaimed game in a series do you reckon is actually a bit guff?
Videogames are shit nonsense for virgin children, so all of them. Especially that Wind Waker. You filthy paedophile perverts.
Rhythm Paradise Megamix was released last month. What's your favourite piece of video game music?
This Zombi U Trailer.
Which piece of gaming music is your most hated of all time? OF ALL TIME?
This game encourages filthy homosexuals.

I kinda like that version of the national anthem, that's the first time I heard it.

Drunkalilly wrote:

I don't think the gameplay differences are that huge, and I think the mechanics of combat are only part of a Dark Souls game: exploration, story, characters, NPCs . . . all of these things are worse in 3.

I'd disagree that the differences weren't huge. From a combat standpoint, it felt even slower than DS1 at points and I don't know if I could return to DS2 after playing through DS3. From a design standpoint, some areas felt very lazily designed and seemed to exist purely to overwhelm you with enemies - looking at you, Shrine of Amana - and I really disagree with the design choice to have invasions always on. It detracts from the whole risk/reward system of going human in the first place and plays into the shitty "hurr durr you're gonna die in Souls too hard for you noob lul" mentality I think Souls needs to move away from.

I love that DS2 tried new things, don't get me wrong. The overall world design is interesting, being spokes of a wheel rather than a sprawling web of connections and I do feel that's lost in the pretty linear DS3. There's little to no fanservice, which is something DS3 admittedly has a problem with. The issue is though that if the game itself isn't as fun to play, it's a lot more difficult to invest in its world and characters. I'd still rank it below DS1 and DS3, personally.

Drunkalilly wrote:

Don't get me wrong, I really like DSIII, it just hasn't blown my mind. It all feels like stuff I've seen before, and I'll be glad if Miyazaki and the team do some different stuff going forwards.

I know what you mean and I did feel like that at certain stages of my initial playthrough but once I played more and dug a little deeper amongst all the fan service it does some cool stuff to give it its own identity. So I'm definitely with Jay & Andy on preferring DS3 over 2.

I do agree with you on Miyazaki & Co doing something new for their next game though.

It's beginning to look a lot like Switchmas... and thus, it's time for another Meet the Admin Team!

Stu "the_Great" Jones:

James "Jay" Moyles:

Simon "ZeroJones" Ball:

Questions:

I see what you guys have done there... but there are no questions actually about Pokémon the game!

Pokémon Black Friday happened last month. Did you bag any bargains?

No. I'm not a real bargain hunter, and I don't like Black Friday anyway. People talk about the over-commercialisation of Christmas: can we concentrate on how easily this horrorshow's been accepted by Britain instead?

The film Fantastic Beartics And Where To Find Them was released last month. What's the biggest animal you've ever come across in a non-zoo context?

On safari, elephants. Job done.

Tennisman Sandile Murray became ATP world number one last month. When did you last play tennis - real tennis, with a racquet, and that?

Real tennis is something quite quite different to what you're thinking of...

Let's address the big orange toxic elephant in the room - Donald Grumpig is going to be the next President of the United States. How is he inevitably going to cock it up?

Well he's just insulted China this very morning. I don't actually thinking WW3 will happen, but if one man could bring it about...

Pokémon Platinum ( ) showed us the power of the sequel by improving greatly over its somewhat average predecessor. What games come to mind when thinking about great sequels?

Well there's the one I've substituted in for your Nontendo question. And seriously, if you were going to take one from this very month, from what I've heard Titanfall 2 is the one to go for. But on platforms of importance, Thousand-Year Door improved on a good game and made it one of the best ever.

The GeNESect Mini Classic launched last month and has taken the world by storm, which surely means we'll have more Mini consoles on their way. What Mini Classic do you want to see next and what games should feature on it?

I don't! I think this whole thing is a terrible idea, because it makes Nintendo less likely to release such games on their woefully underpopulated Virtual Consoles, appeals to collectors at the expense of everyone else, and has been incredibly poorly managed so that we have a scalper problem again. I want Nintendo to take their stupidly short controller cables, flog themselves fifty times, and never release anything of the sort again.

Won't happen though, they've made bank (I presume). So - SNES Classic I guess, that's what everyone else wants and I won't be buying any of the range, but can we dispense with the stupid moronic idiotic false scarcity bull thank you.

Pokémon Black Friday happened last month. Did you bag any bargains?
None at all, unless you count getting Titanfall 2 on launch for £12

The film Fantastic Beartics And Where To Find Them was released last month. What's the biggest animal you've ever come across in a non-zoo context?
I can ride a horse, so you can guess which animal then

Tennisman Sandile Murray became ATP world number one last month. When did you last play tennis - real tennis, with a racquet, and that?
At school which was 10 odd years ago

Let's address the big orange toxic elephant in the room - Donald Grumpig is going to be the next President of the United States. How is he inevitably going to cock it up?
He seems to be back-pedalling a bit as its now a fence not a wall, but if he pisses off China then who knows.

Watchogs 2 showed us the power of the sequel by improving greatly over its somewhat average predecessor. What games come to mind when thinking about great sequels?
All the SEGA Mega Drive games with a 2 on the end.

The GeNESect Mini Classic launched last month and has taken the world by storm, which surely means we'll have more Mini consoles on their way. What Mini Classic do you want to see next and what games should feature on it?
Mini PS1

@Zero you know their are like 500 Mini Mega Drives on the market and well cheap

@Balla their is a reason why the cables are so short, its something to do with the signal to a wiimote.