Topic: Donkey Kong Bananza

@W90WBA phew good to know, I am a bit nervous about these things going wrong. May have to buy a few more codes if this works out

@brendathecat

So how'd you go about doing this then, I'm interested if it can help save some money.

@brendathecat Don’t stress if the code doesn’t come through instantly, mine took about an hour if not a little over an hour

Wahoooooo. It’s here

My collection is growing.

@OctolingKing13 @FishyS My prediction for GotY nominees is:

• Expedition 33
• Death Stranding 2
• Ghost of Yotei
• Silksong
• Hades 2 or Split Fiction
• Prime 4 or DK Bananza (leaning towards Prime 4 though if that game takes the November release slot, I could see DK get nominated instead)

We should guess Metacritic scores every time a new game is close to release in each game's individual thread. At least I'm gonna try to do that.

I don't know about docked play as I have only played handheld so far, but right now I cannot fathom why on earth there has been such a heated discussion about DKBs performance. At least up until the second world (sub-level 101) there hasn't been a single drop in frames. It runs silky smooth. And it's great fun and feels totally different from Odyssey. But I guess i haven't even scratched the surface (or better top layer of the underworld) yet …

@SprSynJn That’s a really useful video! Thank you for linking to it.

Yes, I’m up in Hokkaido at the moment. Feel free to add me using the friend code below!

@Grumblevolcano I admire your optimism that Silksong will actually release this year. I know that Direct stated it would, but I’m very skeptical.

@LastFootnote The scope of the ACMI Game Worlds exhibit for Silksong makes it seem like the game is releasing before September 18th. My guess would be August release, maybe shadow dropped at Gamescom Opening Night Live considering the Silksong joke at Summer Game Fest.

This game is fresh, I think I will love it! I found Rambi.

Just picked up my copy during my lunch break. Can’t wait to play when I get home!

Okay, I can feel the adventure now. This is so awesome! One of the challenges had really cool music.

I just got news that my preorder from best buy will come tomorrow. It's a shame it's not today, but it can't stop my excitement to play the game!

I picked up my copy today, but won't be able to play until tonight.

phew, played more than three hours today and absolutely loving it. im not exactly a HUGEEE dk fan but im loving it even more than odyssey. platforming at its best! the destruction is so satisfying, and paulines introduction makes the whole thing so much better. currently getting fossils on the hilltop layer

Picked mine up around 8:30 this morning. Been playing it on and off all day as I’ve had time. So far really enjoying it, and I’ve only barely scratched the surface

@jfp
I've only played docked so far, the game is too big not to IMO. It does seem to rather aggressively shove you into 30fps at times when doing things like the level intro panning shots. Which can be jarring. But other than that it hasn't really bothered me much. Either because it's not dipping or because the time when it does I'm too distracted by the fact that I'm ripping the world apart

If there are framerate dips during destructive moments then it's certainly not even in the same league as the kind of dips you'd see in something like BotW/TotK when you ended up building an explosive contraption that accidentally game-overed yourself. Which is good given this is basically "blowing up cave rocks in BotW - The Game"

So many bananas. So many

I'm not too sensitive to frame rate so I haven't noticed performance issues.

The only actual complaint I have for the game is the camera — it's pretty insane when you're digging around; enough to make me just a little motion sick as well as having absolutely no idea where I am some of the time.

It's a mild complaint because I don't actually know how you would make the camera work well in such chaotic situations.