They have printed a solution to the problem of decks that generate insane numbers of cards! In some cases this will also resolve a bit of the mana cheat when people add new cards that also have reduced costs; Now we just need more anti-mana cheating solutions and maybe the game will be feel more playable as a whole. I definitely don't hate mana cheat, nope, not me, couldn't be me. /s
The name gets a 10/10 because thematics. What a good name.
I think it was kinda cool since its rare that you'll see that happen.
As someone managing reveals for the day though, man that threw me for a loop. For video reveals, I always seek through them quick to find the card images which are almost always front and center and take up most of the frame which makes finding them easy.
Not so much this time.
It's funny where my brain goes when that happens. At first I thought wait, did they seriously not reveal a card? Is this just a video that is promoting the expansion and the card is going to appear elsewhere? Quick, to the card gallery, refresh Twitter, go check their blog, oh hey maybe reddit- Then I zipped back to the little skewed gameplay I had seen while seeking and yup, there we have it. Crisis averted!
Oh wow, Super Princess Peach, that was almost 20 years ago! The DS had so many titles, it's really no surprise it was forgotten by me (and I suspect many others). I was still rocking a Game Boy Advance when the DS was prime time haha.
The CD-i games don't really count imo. They were simply IP licensed by Nintendo (what a mistake) and if I recall correctly, Nintendo doesn't consider them to be as official games either. That's solid trivia though and technically from a "its a video game" so definition here matters. Similarly, Cadence of Hyrule, which was an absolutely incredible game and oh I so want to play it again at some point, it doesn't fit because it's third party.
Though Echoes of Wisdom might also be third party as well to a degree. Grezzo made the Link's Awakening remake and it's quite possible they are responsible for this title too. Even with Nintendo overlords oversight, I'd be picking some weird battles if I didn't give it the third party designation as well. Man, Zelda as a series is messed up and certainly begs the question of what even counts as a Zelda game if you want to define it. The Capcom titles jam hard though.
A trifecta game with Zelda, Samus, and Princess Peach though, you're onto something! Super Smash Bros has entered the chat.
I've had my physical pre-order secured for this title since last month and I'm super stoked about it. New things happening every week with leaderboards sounds like my cup of tea and I just hope that every week there's something on there that I'm already familiar with.
The NES catalog has some awesome titles but damn I am not as familiar with all of them as I probably should be. Super Nintendo was more my thing growing up so hopefully we get one of those next year.
I had completely forgotten about Donkey Kong Country Returns being a game. I never owned it on the Wii series so I will 100% be picking this up. Tropical Freeze was a ton of fun, so much so I bought it twice (WiiU & Switch), so getting some more DK is A+.
I'm looking forward to seeing more about this closer to launch. On occasion I have a group that I play the currently released Mario Party with and we have a great time so this looks like it has some good potential! The 20 player online mode looks very Fall Guys/Battle Royale which is a huge win.
I just hope that the gameboard gameplay is a bit quicker than previous Switch iterations of Mario Party.
Alright so this might be one of my favourite things ever.
The Link's Awakening look makes the game a 10/10 already, though I really hope they don't drop frames like crazy. For such a simple looking game, it was mindblowing that they were having difficulty running it on the Switch; Clearly it was poorly optimized.
But damn. The puzzles in this game are going to be good with all the different objects allowing you to solve them all in different ways. Everyone's brains work differently and it will be very interesting to see how people solve them in their own way. It has huge social potential, kinda like how Breath of the Wild had shrines solved in very unique ways as people found ways to break the game.
Getting to play as Zelda though? The Legend of Link! This makes it Nintendo's second title this year that will have brought a female protagonist who would otherwise be a background character in the series and I love it. I can't even recall how many times you've seen people ask for a Zelda game where you play as Zelda or in the case of Peach from the Mario series, how often folks wanted more with her.
The special Switch version is very cool too, its just a shame that its a Switch Lite. I don't really understand the Switch Lite. Sure, it's a bit smaller which makes portability better, but the complete lack of being able to dock it is nonsense and with the poor durability of Joycons, having your Joycons built right into the system makes it a bad choice for long-term playability. Also, Nintendo would be the ones to drop a new fancy skin for a console when the "Super Switch" is right around the corner. It's definitely an item the collector's will buy though so it's a easy way to get rid of extra stock of the lite that isn't selling. Anyway, I didn't mean to make this all about the Switch Lite, more Zelda games is awesome!
Yeah wow. WOW. I was not expecting a new Zelda title this year either AND ITS IN THE LINK'S AWAKENING STYLE?! YESSSS!!! I'm a big fan of Nintendo giving us a play as Peach and play as Zelda in the same calendar year. So cool.
I also find it hilarious because we've got Link and Echo on our staff.
I'm pretty confused by this game getting a remake. I know it's already been 7 years, but imo remaster should happen for really old titles or after you've at least launched a couple more games and you've got a really killer reason to do so.
I don't want to take anything way from the developers, but it feels kinda lazy.
Yeah they’ve got a ton going on! I hope the next league rocks because necropolis definitely hasn’t felt like a “I want to play this the whole time” league and the population generally agrees.
I'm a bit thankful they delayed the beta though because stuff is way too chaotic right now lol
I don't want to be a nuisance, but can we please get the new editor for account management as well? That's close to uneditable right now.
That is a strange one! I've got a new version of account management almost finished so we'll roll out a fix by rolling out the new account management feature.
Apologies for the less than ideal experience for now.
Quite interesting stats here. Pretty crazy to think that only 21% of the cards are collectable. Also I'd imagine that even though Duels was removed from the game, all the cards associated with that mode are still in the client. For some reason I assumed Duels assets would be removed to reduce the size of the game, especially for mobile clients.
As for those extra 700 cards in the OoG DB, maybe there's duplicate cards from past core sets that weren't removed?
Yeah! All the duels stuff remains in the game. I'm definitely going to need to check now to see if you're right about past core sets having their card data removed from the client. Added to the infinite todo list.
Unlocked frame rates with the PC release is a fantastic addition. I've never played a God of War game on PC (not that we could until GoW dropped in 2022) so this is a very tempting buy during a sale.
Looks like the game will have PSN requirements. So a good chunk of the people won't be able to play for basically no reason. Yaaaay...
Hope they roll that back after the Helldivers 2 fiasco, and they just didn't have time to update the trailer.
Yeah, it's unfortunate that they feel this was needed. I wonder how much of it is just wanting to boost the accounts made metrics on the PlayStation network vs actually thinking by people making those accounts they're going to sell them hardware due to the branding being in their face all the time.
Couch co-op is great to see! I know how popular this is within the Diablo franchise so GGG putting it up there for PoE 2 is huge news. Cross play and progression though, that's the real winner. PoE 2 has looked like a really good controller game since its debut and so it might be cool to play it on the TV occasionally.
I had fun putting this together. It's a bit goofy but sometimes you need a bit of that!
Oh yeah, synergy reveals would be awesome. I like how the mini-sets are typically class-based now which gets close to that.
They have printed a solution to the problem of decks that generate insane numbers of cards! In some cases this will also resolve a bit of the mana cheat when people add new cards that also have reduced costs; Now we just need more anti-mana cheating solutions and maybe the game will be feel more playable as a whole. I definitely don't hate mana cheat, nope, not me, couldn't be me. /s
The name gets a 10/10 because thematics. What a good name.
I think it was kinda cool since its rare that you'll see that happen.
As someone managing reveals for the day though, man that threw me for a loop. For video reveals, I always seek through them quick to find the card images which are almost always front and center and take up most of the frame which makes finding them easy.
Not so much this time.
It's funny where my brain goes when that happens. At first I thought wait, did they seriously not reveal a card? Is this just a video that is promoting the expansion and the card is going to appear elsewhere? Quick, to the card gallery, refresh Twitter, go check their blog, oh hey maybe reddit- Then I zipped back to the little skewed gameplay I had seen while seeking and yup, there we have it. Crisis averted!
Card reveal period is always a fun time :D
It was a pretty solid reveal video with plenty of community members being a part of it alongside some Blizzard devs. Feels a bit like the guacboi era.
Oh wow, Super Princess Peach, that was almost 20 years ago! The DS had so many titles, it's really no surprise it was forgotten by me (and I suspect many others). I was still rocking a Game Boy Advance when the DS was prime time haha.
The CD-i games don't really count imo. They were simply IP licensed by Nintendo (what a mistake) and if I recall correctly, Nintendo doesn't consider them to be as official games either. That's solid trivia though and technically from a "its a video game" so definition here matters. Similarly, Cadence of Hyrule, which was an absolutely incredible game and oh I so want to play it again at some point, it doesn't fit because it's third party.
Though Echoes of Wisdom might also be third party as well to a degree. Grezzo made the Link's Awakening remake and it's quite possible they are responsible for this title too. Even with Nintendo overlords oversight, I'd be picking some weird battles if I didn't give it the third party designation as well. Man, Zelda as a series is messed up and certainly begs the question of what even counts as a Zelda game if you want to define it. The Capcom titles jam hard though.
A trifecta game with Zelda, Samus, and Princess Peach though, you're onto something! Super Smash Bros has entered the chat.
I've had my physical pre-order secured for this title since last month and I'm super stoked about it. New things happening every week with leaderboards sounds like my cup of tea and I just hope that every week there's something on there that I'm already familiar with.
The NES catalog has some awesome titles but damn I am not as familiar with all of them as I probably should be. Super Nintendo was more my thing growing up so hopefully we get one of those next year.
I had completely forgotten about Donkey Kong Country Returns being a game. I never owned it on the Wii series so I will 100% be picking this up. Tropical Freeze was a ton of fun, so much so I bought it twice (WiiU & Switch), so getting some more DK is A+.
I'm looking forward to seeing more about this closer to launch. On occasion I have a group that I play the currently released Mario Party with and we have a great time so this looks like it has some good potential! The 20 player online mode looks very Fall Guys/Battle Royale which is a huge win.
I just hope that the gameboard gameplay is a bit quicker than previous Switch iterations of Mario Party.
Alright so this might be one of my favourite things ever.
The Link's Awakening look makes the game a 10/10 already, though I really hope they don't drop frames like crazy. For such a simple looking game, it was mindblowing that they were having difficulty running it on the Switch; Clearly it was poorly optimized.
But damn. The puzzles in this game are going to be good with all the different objects allowing you to solve them all in different ways. Everyone's brains work differently and it will be very interesting to see how people solve them in their own way. It has huge social potential, kinda like how Breath of the Wild had shrines solved in very unique ways as people found ways to break the game.
Getting to play as Zelda though? The Legend of Link! This makes it Nintendo's second title this year that will have brought a female protagonist who would otherwise be a background character in the series and I love it. I can't even recall how many times you've seen people ask for a Zelda game where you play as Zelda or in the case of Peach from the Mario series, how often folks wanted more with her.
The special Switch version is very cool too, its just a shame that its a Switch Lite. I don't really understand the Switch Lite. Sure, it's a bit smaller which makes portability better, but the complete lack of being able to dock it is nonsense and with the poor durability of Joycons, having your Joycons built right into the system makes it a bad choice for long-term playability. Also, Nintendo would be the ones to drop a new fancy skin for a console when the "Super Switch" is right around the corner. It's definitely an item the collector's will buy though so it's a easy way to get rid of extra stock of the lite that isn't selling. Anyway, I didn't mean to make this all about the Switch Lite, more Zelda games is awesome!
I don't have much to add about the actual effect of this card, but I did want to say:
Seriously, Blizzard? A CHEESE DRAGON?
The flavor text too: "Don't remove this from your deck or else you'll be cutting the cheese."
Well played.
I suspect most games that are first-party will have enhanced performance on the Super Switch. If not, that would be a huge disappointment!
Wowowowowwowowowow.
Yeah wow. WOW. I was not expecting a new Zelda title this year either AND ITS IN THE LINK'S AWAKENING STYLE?! YESSSS!!! I'm a big fan of Nintendo giving us a play as Peach and play as Zelda in the same calendar year. So cool.
I also find it hilarious because we've got Link and Echo on our staff.
I'm pretty confused by this game getting a remake. I know it's already been 7 years, but imo remaster should happen for really old titles or after you've at least launched a couple more games and you've got a really killer reason to do so.
I don't want to take anything way from the developers, but it feels kinda lazy.
Yeah they’ve got a ton going on! I hope the next league rocks because necropolis definitely hasn’t felt like a “I want to play this the whole time” league and the population generally agrees.
I'm a bit thankful they delayed the beta though because stuff is way too chaotic right now lol
That is a strange one! I've got a new version of account management almost finished so we'll roll out a fix by rolling out the new account management feature.
Apologies for the less than ideal experience for now.
Yeah! All the duels stuff remains in the game. I'm definitely going to need to check now to see if you're right about past core sets having their card data removed from the client. Added to the infinite todo list.
Unlocked frame rates with the PC release is a fantastic addition. I've never played a God of War game on PC (not that we could until GoW dropped in 2022) so this is a very tempting buy during a sale.
Yeah, it's unfortunate that they feel this was needed. I wonder how much of it is just wanting to boost the accounts made metrics on the PlayStation network vs actually thinking by people making those accounts they're going to sell them hardware due to the branding being in their face all the time.
Couch co-op is great to see! I know how popular this is within the Diablo franchise so GGG putting it up there for PoE 2 is huge news. Cross play and progression though, that's the real winner. PoE 2 has looked like a really good controller game since its debut and so it might be cool to play it on the TV occasionally.