Gimme something cute , cheerful, funny and colorful, my eyes will staring at those games.
I'm in the same boat. While I don't necessarily dislike games with realistic graphics, I honestly prefer a colorful art style to a gritty one. For instance, if you showed me a trailer for Breath of the Wild, and then a trailer for Call of Duty, I would probably be more attracted to BOTW, because it has an original art style, and it isn't just another hyper-realistic war game.
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I think it is a mediocre and cumbersome offering. And some stuff are downright bad. Nintendo games don't usually go down in price, but you don't get coins if you buy it 1-2 years after release date? You also need to manually enter you want coins?
These kinds of programs are usually offered to incentivize people to buy more. Would you feel inclined to into a store if they put up a sign that said "1% off on everything in the store"?
Surely the point is that the rewards scheme is primarily to nudge people’s behaviour and secondarily to allow Nintendo to collect detailed information on who is buying and playing what?
Physical isn’t the most profitable for Nintendo. They lose out in manufacturing, distribution and the retailer will take a 20-40% cut. Plus the retailer has a huge influence on what they sell because they are in charge of what a prospective customer sees on the store shelves. Plus those physical copies might be resold to someone who would otherwise have had to buy a brand new copy.
So why should they want to reward physical sales equally to digital? The reward scheme is a very deliberate and surgically positioned strategy to move the biggest buyers onto digital whilst also offering just enough to not send the physical retailers into a frenzy against Nintendo.
Effectively it makes digital purchases 5% cheaper than physical ones sold at RRP.
Is it a great loyalty scheme for consumers? Not really - it’s OK and better than nothing. I’d rather they just reduced digital prices by 5% but I can totally understand the tricky political realities that would make that a very difficult thing to do.
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1. Judgement
2. Baldur's Gate 3
3. Bully (Rockstar)
4. Person 4 / Golden
5. Sonic Adventure 2
6. Xenoblade X
7. Ape Escape 2
8. Animal Crossing: New Leaf
9. James Bond 007 Nightfire
10. Persona 3: Reloaded
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Makes me realise(/remember) to what extent Mega Man 2-5 (don't know the later editions) are mainly just level packs of Mega Man 1. Not that that is a bad thing: just give me more levels of a great game. But a lot of people are complaining if the same thing happens for newer 2D platformers (e.g. NSMB), even though it becomes harder and harder to innovate ánd remain true to the franchise at the same time.
Nah, I'm with @Anti-Matter on this one; Gameplay > Art Style > Frame Rate > Resolution
Gameplay is my biggest priority; I have to see that a game has a hook that'll keep me interested - if I'm not feeling it, I likely won't buy it
Art Style is a bigger priority to me than I'd like it to be! For example, as much as I keep being told that Minecraft is a fabulous game, I just can't seem to look past the art style unfortunately
Frame Rate isn't a huge issue for me - I'm quite happy to play a game at 30fps or 60fps, it's only really choppy/unstable frame-rates that bother me (particularly if a game dips jarringly low)
...and I'd barely even consider Resolution to be a factor - unless I see two images side-by-side for direct comparison, I often can't tell whether something is running at 720p, 900p or 1080p (even 4K if I'm being honest) ..I wouldn't want a game to be overly fuzzy, of course - but I don't tend to pay too much attention to what Digital Foundry try to tell me is 'good' or 'bad' in this department - I just let my eyes decide whether it's palatable or not!
Ha, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 keeps on fighting. Not bad for an 18-month-old port - especially given that people could be playing FighterZ instead. What happened to those sales?
Zelda will get to 1m (Switch) sales in Japan one day...
If I recall, you haven't even played XV... or even XIII for that matter. You write them off because of realism. How do you know the gameplay is “ew“? I mean, I'd understand XIII, to a degree...
Ooh...
I have EVER played FF XIII PS3 by borrowing PS3 from my gameshop owner back on year 2014.
I had played until first battle with Barthandelus, after that i gave up, not impressed anymore. I sold my FF XIII on year 2015.
For FF XV, I have NEVER played it but i have ever saw from my sibling played his FF XV on his PS4. Not good at all, even my game shop owner sold his FF XV after 2 hours gameplay. He didn't recommend FF XV for good FF to play.
@DarthNocturnal
I played FFXIII all the way through... not a fun game. Gah...not fun at all. Story was ok, actually. I didn't mind the story and some of the environments and enemies were really really creative. But a game that isn't fun to play is not really a game, in my mind. It's more of an interactive movie or book or something.
Anyway, for what it's worth, as someone who has never played FF XV, I will say it looks MUCH better than XIII just from seeing videos of the battle system.
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