Posted by: etoven - 3rd March 2019, 1:40 PM - Forum: General Site
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I am working on getting them integrated but the way it was saved in the old software is making it difficult create a direct importer.
In the meantime those people looking for the files can download attachments from the site in zip format.
Due to our parting ways with siteturn and there non-existant customer support I am unable reclaim the domain name tcforums.com so tendo city will need a new name. Please post your suggestions below. Voting will close in 2 weeks.
Afterwards the new domain will be registered and host headers will be set on the old domain to redirect as 301 Moved Permanently.
Yes, after about fifteen years with Nintendo, Reggie Fils-Aime is retiring. He's not all that old (57 or so I believe) so it's a bit of a surprise, but sure, good for him if he wants to. I know I've always been somewhat indifferent towards Reggie, as I didn't exactly love that whole "my name is Reggie" introduction thing back in '04 and he's rarely had enough power to get the kinds of things done Nintendo of America's leaders did back in the '90s, but he will be missed. That latter part isn't his fault, anyway; it was Iwata who chose to centralize power in Japan and not Reggie, after all, he just worked in that system. I'm sure the next person, whose last name is, amusingly enough, Bowser, will similarly be mostly just a marketing person and not an actual division head like NoA used to have in the Howard Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa days. I think in many ways those were better days for NoA in terms of Western developer relations, but modern NoA has done a very good job of attracting indie developer support at least, and that's something.
I mean, the Switch has an insanely large game library! It's over 1800 games already, which is kind of crazy. And almost all of those are indies, and mostly Western ones. Plenty of those games are no good, much like the bad-game-filled Wii U eshop, and finding the good ones can be difficult, but still that shows a lot of developer interest in Nintendo and I imagine Reggie has had a hand in that. Even the Wii U had pretty solid indie support on its eshop, despite the systems' poor sales. The Switch has a lot more bigger name titles because of its success, of course, but both have been successful, as was the Wii shop channel before it.
And yeah, I may not have cared for his memes, but Reggie was good at that stuff right from the beginning and that did benefit Nintendo for sure. Not for me really (or, to a much greater extent, DJ, looking back at old threads here...), but for plenty of people.
So, Nintendo both announced and released this surprise free-with-your-Switch-$20-subscription game in the Direct yesterday. It's basically a Tetris Battle Royale game, as 99 people play Tetris at the same time, trying to balance playing the game as usual on the one hand and controlling who they send lines to when they clear lines in their playfield on the other. I am not the biggest Tetris fan around -- it's never been one of my favorite puzzle games, and I never have put a lot of time into playing Tetris games, just some here and there -- but I would agree that it is a great game. Not the best game, but great, sure.
Despite that though, Tetris 99 is quite addictive and really good! The targeting system adds a complex strategic layer to Tetris, and the core gameplay is simple but great, just as expected from Tetris. There is only one mode, with a simple background, your play window in the center, and the 98 other players in small windows lined up on both sides, and one song, the classic one from the Game Boy version of Tetris, but the game is plenty addictive despite that. The music does change, for one; once the game reaches the top 50 the music amps up, as does the game speed. I'm not that good at Tetris so the best I've done so far is 12th, but it's a really fun game despite that. It does keep track of some of your stats, such as games played, games won, T-spins done, and a bunch more things, and you have a level that goes up as you play, but there isn't really anything here beyond 99 player Tetris. It's fortunate then that the core game is great enough to stand up on its own. I wonder if they will add to this, though; for now it's entirely free with no paid component other than needing to have that Nintendo Online subscription to play, but it looks like a thing that could be added to if Nintendo and developer Arika want. On the one hand more modes would be great, but on the other hand you need a really large player base to keep filling up 99-player matches, and that's easy right now but probably will drop off over time, so maybe they don't want to add much to this in terms of modes.
Regardless, though, Tetris 99 is really cool and a nice surprise. And yeah, it's pretty good as well, try it out. It can be hard to stop playing though...
