Everyone knows real games like Wtcher can only be played on a TV whilst the only games that should be played on a handhled are ones like Snake or Tetris! ;p
@Dezzy See, the issue with that is the question of when Age of Calamity was supposed to come out. Given it seemed really polished compared to K-T's other titles, we can assume it probably wasn't rushed. So it almost certainly wasn't meant to come out after BotW 2. Would they really have had a BotW prequel in the Summer (at the earliest), and BotW2 at the holiday?
Quite clearly not! I think AoC was clearly always penciled in for 2020. Which means that BoTW 2 was never intended for 2020.
I do wonder whether Nintendo's long term plan back in 2016 was for Metroid Prime 4 to hit Christmas 2020 (obviously completely scuppered a couple of years ago with the reboot of development) or if there's another big holiday anchor project out there that we don't know about yet that slipped because of COVID (or just general development issues).
Maybe Pokemon Snap 2 was meant for Christmas 2020 and was a victim of COVID delays?
@StuTwo when Shiya Takahashi give the Metroid Prime 4 development update video, before anouncing it rebooted devopment, it give me a impression that Metroid Prime 4 was gonna release on 2019/2020(be the Holiday title of this year).
@StuTwo With all of those Prime Trilogy rumours in late 2018 and the large game drought in the first half of 2019 it did seem like perhaps Prime Trilogy around February 2019 and Prime 4 in 2020 if Prime Trilogy Switch was to be a real thing. Though the about a year gap logic didn't work with Bayonetta as Bayonetta 1+2 Switch came in February 2018 and Bayonetta 3 is probably launching in like 2022/2023.
Last time i remembered there will be a Boxing game on multi platform with Rocky Balboa franchise.
I really hope Boxing games return on modern consoles as Boxing games were absent since 2010, handphone and Steam got Boxing games but NONE of them really meet my expectation.
Everyone knows real games like Wtcher can only be played on a TV whilst the only games that should be played on a handhled are ones like Snake or Tetris! ;p
WUTTT!?!? Handhelds play games!?!
Fwiw, I have a copy of Witcher 3 on Steam, PS4, XB1 and Switch. The only version I've played more than an hour of so far is.... Switch.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
@gcunit No offence but why have you kept buying it if you've not really played it? I'd imagine the prices would have gone down loads in sales but there's a couple of games I loved like Captain Toad and Donkey Kong Country Returns I didn't double dip on the Switch even with it being a portable game now as I couldn't be arsed to re-play them, even some of the dirt cheap indie sale games like SteamWorld Dig I'm a huge fan of I didn't grab again.
Saying that if Star Fox Guard and Nes Remix gets a Switch release I'd double dip.
@jump It is rather unusual for me to multiple-dip like this. I bought the PS4, XB1 and Steam versions all based on reputation only. Around 2016-17 the only thing that seemed to matter in video games, before BotW, was the Witcher 3 and it's add-on campaigns. By reputation, as a casual observer, it seemed to be the Game of the Generation, so I thought I'd better pick it up sooner or later. I think the PS4 and XB1 GOTY versions had different extras packed in (e.g. soundtrack CD) so each one seemed worth having for its own 'Collectible' reason and I was able to get them for about £10-12 each. The Steam version I picked up at some point for about £7 I think.
Then the Switch version got announced - all on the cartridge! - so I felt compelled to support it and actually start playing it (I've barely touched non-Nintendo platforms since March 2017).
The beautiful irony of it is, having now played some of it, I think it's overrated, and a good example of how non-Nintendo gamers hype something up just because it's all they've got. I need to play more of it, only logged about 35 hours IIRC, but so far it seems like a game that just has you running backwards and forwards across the map, with not much to do, in between story checkpoints. For an open world game, the amount of times I seem to have travelled the same paths in both directions already seems a bit much. And Geralt himself doesn't seem to have much personality, so it's not like it's particularly entertaining carrying out conversations either. And don't get me started on the NPCs littering the towns, they just seem to be decoration.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
@gcunit Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about The Witcher 3. I managed to get through to the end of the main story but it mostly just felt like a bit of a slog. The world and lore is impressive enough but the gameplay just felt like filler between the story and the story just felt like filler between the gameplay.
That's really the first time i hear something bad about the game tbh. I still haven't touched it because i wanted to play the other games first to get the whole experience. I was hoping that the Story would be the best part...
"on a scale of 1 to 10, she's an 11, and she'd give herself a 12" ~The Burst, Furi
I went really hard TW3 beginning of last year and put about 25 hours in. Forgot why I stopped honestly. But, I can see what gc and Ben are saying. It did somewhat feel like there was something lacking in the gameplay and world. Having said that, I still do want to go back one day and see it through to the end.
@Dezzy I actually played the majority of the game on high settings at 60fps on my PC, so I've already gotten at least half of a next-gen experience out of it. It's an inarguably beautiful game on PC. With that said, I also picked it up on Switch because the mere existence of a handheld version fascinates me. And, for what it's worth, I'm still super impressed with this port. Particularly on Switch Lite.
@BruceCM Well, yes, a vinyard. I got the tour. But I assume the house I'm residing in is the only section of that land that's of any substance, right? It'd be cool if there was some sort of optional minigame attached to the rest of the estate, but, somehow, I doubt it.
Anyway, I was chasing a vampire that has been killing guards for some reason. Cornered him in a building, fought him, and then some old dude I've never seen before, so I assume he's from a previous game or book or something, shows up and pleads with me to work with him so as not to kill the vampire. Since then, I've unlocked the base in the vinyard, gotten mixed up in the middle of a rivalry over who is going to claim ownership of another vinyard, and have been running around Toussaint trying to unlock most of the notice boards.
@BenAV Geralt is a pretty standard male power fantasy, and the story itself is largely a wild goose chase for the majority of the experience. The Witcher 3 does a few things really well, though:
Awesome OST
Massive enemy variety
Sidequests are frequently awesome, much more engaging than the main story, and, oftentimes, decisions made in them actually matter to the larger story and universe
One of the best supporting casts of characters in the medium. Geralt is nothing special, but the people around him kept me consistently engaged with the game.
The world itself, and the artstyle overall, are just beautiful. Considering this is dark fantasy, it's amazing how often I was wowed by the beautiful environments, detailed weather systems, and just fantastic aesthetic sense in the entire experience.
There are a lot of flaws as well, though, so I think its quality overall has been massively overstated in some circles.
Heh, well, it makes for nice scenery, @Ralizah .... There's the little herb garden & the upgrades for everything! Yeah, Geralt & Regis do know each other but they cover everything you need to know for this game! Obviously, as you investigate, you'll find out why the one your after was doing that
A 'wild goose chase' is probably what it would be like if you were trying to track down a girl with Ciri's powers & it's a good way to let you have as much of the optional extra missions as you want to do in a way that makes sense, though
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