Molehill Mountain Episode 123 – Nintendo Wants You To Get Rid Of Your Switch

We have opinions on Activision, Disney and Nintendo.  Come hear them, won’t you?

26:49 – Lack of industry standards? Nah, we think Activision was just too lazy to put subtitles in Spyro’s new pre-rendered cut-scenes

40:30 – The new Lion King looks like the old Lion King

49:37 – Why did Nintendo publish a video explaining how to prepare your Switch for trade-in or sale?

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Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:51 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

7:00 PMotritzu​Evenin’ guys.

7:00 PMotritzu​So far as I know it is Skull- tu- la.

7:01 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

7:02 PMotritzu​The fifty token wallet is the five hundred rupee one.

7:02 PMotritzu​It’s something you find before you reach the Shadow Temple.

7:03 PMeathdemon​google translate app andrew

7:05 PMeathdemon​arent you qa?

7:06 PMeathdemon​or you support

7:07 PMeathdemon​lets be fair andrew, its a time/pce thing itsnt it from the 40s

7:09 PMeathdemon​your apply modern standerds to a move from a 1941 oforce its not gunna hold up

7:10 PMeathdemon​it would be complaining oot controls are awful (they are by modern standerds) at the time amazing

7:11 PMjordan thompson​alright ill say it… I was bored with saving private ryan by the end of it, please end me softly

7:14 PMjordan thompson​I have some of the universal monster movies on blu ray 1080p but I feel the box just says that

7:14 PMeathdemon​lol andrew

7:15 PMeathdemon​I watched the lego movie since wb put the full thing oin youtube for free for a day

7:16 PMAndrew Eisen​What did you think of it?

7:16 PMjordan thompson​I just popped in mission impossible 3 but paused it to watch this, I wonder if my nostgic view of it will hold up since its been 10 years

7:16 PMeathdemon​better than I thought it would be

7:17 PMeathdemon​I like the fact that the cast is a stand in for thedebate/fight between the father and the kid’

7:17 PMotritzu​The ‘reticle’ is slightly above the middle of the split

7:18 PMAndrew Eisen​I felt the moral of the LEGO movie was BS.

7:18 PMjordan thompson​did you hear that theres a version of the NES legend of zelda on the switch that starts you will almost all the weapons and items.

7:18 PMAndrew Eisen​Love the movie though.

7:18 PMeathdemon​oot is one of my favs of all time, and its one of the most important games to play. so much of modern games comes from that

7:19 PMotritzu​Twilight Princess?

7:19 PMaddictedtochaos​The struggle is real

7:19 PMeathdemon​andrew neir?!……….

7:20 PMAndrew Eisen​That’s one of them, yes.

7:20 PMeathdemon​sorry will keep pushing it til you do

7:20 PMAndrew Eisen​No worries, I really want to play it.

7:21 PMjordan thompson​I’m currently playing though n64 banjo and its been a couple of decades since I played and it hold up well in my eyes

7:21 PMeathdemon​keyboard jut put the wiimote on its side

7:21 PMaddictedtochaos​I only picked up Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Horizon Zero Dawn

7:21 PMaddictedtochaos​Keyboard would be worse.

7:22 PMjordan thompson​you should get a look at the gamecube keyboard its ridiculous

7:22 PMaddictedtochaos​Oh also got Starlink Battle for Atlas

7:24 PMeathdemon​boi

7:24 PMotritzu​Atraeus

7:24 PMaddictedtochaos​Atreus I think

7:25 PMaddictedtochaos​They did that. Look it up one YouTube

7:26 PMaddictedtochaos​Christopher judge

7:27 PMaddictedtochaos​I just picked up Wolfenstein 2 at GameStop about a week ago for $15.

7:27 PMjordan thompson​the new overlord movie could just be named wolfistien and you wouldnt need to change much

7:27 PMeathdemon​neir is my game of gen

7:28 PMotritzu​I’m getting Nintendo stuff for myself this Christmas.

7:28 PMjordan thompson​it was originally going to be connected to cloverfield

7:29 PMjordan thompson​has anybody busted their tv’s with the new pokeball attachment yet

7:29 PMeathdemon​3 million is prity good, still think gen 8 will do a better launch next year

7:30 PMeathdemon​well ezk he is pokemon’s mascot

7:31 PMeathdemon​tbf evve is treated a iv perfect so….. shouldnt be to bad

7:32 PMjordan thompson​these days id be called Pokemon selfie

7:32 PMaddictedtochaos​When doesn’t Activision do something dumb?

7:32 PMeathdemon​……. I am prity sure activision is breacking us law by not including subtitles

7:33 PMaddictedtochaos​Only having one game on the disc is why I canceled my preorder for Spyro and Mega Man. Crash had all the games on the Switch version.

7:35 PMeathdemon​they are literally breacking us law just to do what save 2 days of work, maybe even that

7:35 PMaddictedtochaos​What they did say was very Activision

7:36 PMjordan thompson​so at this point spyro/crash bandicoot are used in skylanders they have their own hd rereleases so why would a sequel to either of these franchises be out of the question as many people believe

7:36 PMeathdemon​bullshish bullshit bullshit activision bullshit

7:38 PMjordan thompson​can modern tv auto generate subtitles for games

7:39 PMjordan thompson​cause screw deaf gamers right???

7:41 PMeathdemon​to claerafy what you said standerdize size on consoles. I dont need huge subtitles on pc, and thats from someone with lets just say not perfect vision

7:41 PMSonia tejda​burppp

7:41 PMeathdemon​yes ue4 nativly supports subtitles

7:43 PMjordan thompson​to clearify on my last comment their are all kinds of gamers and if your deaf or hoh you cant enjoy these games cause of these problems

7:43 PMeathdemon​not gunna happen andrew, most cutscenes are now in engine

7:46 PMeathdemon​its cgi, instead of hand drawn……. who cares

7:47 PMeathdemon​but its the same movie

7:47 PMeathdemon​meh

7:48 PMaddictedtochaos​The Dumbo remake looks terrible

7:48 PMjordan thompson​okay lets play a game, what would be the worst live action disney remake

7:49 PMjordan thompson​I’m would be robin hood

7:50 PMaddictedtochaos​I want Sword and the Stone.

7:50 PMjordan thompson​great mouse detective

7:51 PMjordan thompson​oliver and company

7:52 PMjordan thompson​munchkins and chrunkins

7:54 PMjordan thompson​bet you 10 years from now we get live action pixar movies

7:54 PMjordan thompson​remakes

7:55 PMaddictedtochaos​I’d be down for a live action Incredibles

7:56 PMjordan thompson​were we gonna sell it nintendo, gamestop??? I dont think so!!!

7:58 PMaddictedtochaos​I really doubt there will be a Switch Pro. A new Switch, I can see just being a better screen and battery.

8:00 PMScottyJayMan​Get a sd card

8:01 PMaddictedtochaos​Just got a 128gb micro as card for $19.99 on Amazon for Black Friday

8:01 PMaddictedtochaos​Will only support up to 2TB card

8:01 PMotritzu​Takes up to a terabyte.

8:01 PMaddictedtochaos​Though, they don’t exist yet

8:03 PMScottyJayMan​I got a 400gb card from Amazon and not enough to hold all my games

8:03 PMjordan thompson​gotta have that thigh rubbing though

8:05 PMjordan thompson​remember you did it for the kids

8:07 PMjordan thompson​wasnt their a collective agreement that the story was better than game of thrones and harry potter combined

8:07 PMaddictedtochaos​Fan service is the only reason

8:08 PMjordan thompson​and you wonder why you dont get. enough sponsers andrew for shame

8:08 PMaddictedtochaos​Peach beach splash is just Splatoon with boobs.

8:09 PMaddictedtochaos​Pretty much

8:10 PMjordan thompson​only Andrew would over think scantily clad women

8:11 PMjordan thompson​its their to make you ask questions

8:12 PMaddictedtochaos​Mario and Zelda don’t support HD rumble

8:13 PMjordan thompson​we can at least boob physics have come a long way if the years theyve been around (pun intended)

8:13 PMScottyJayMan​Have you played Mario kart with it?

8:17 PMjordan thompson​when you gonna get zach on the 24 stream

8:18 PMaddictedtochaos​Could guest stream online in a online co op game