Anyone here ever used Cheapest Game Store before? I discovered it when looking for deals on Metroid Dread and it has me both incredibly intrigued....and also incredibly suspicious. Pretty much every Switch game (including stuff notoriously on the more expensive end such as mainline Mario and Pokemon games) are going for about €36 max, with a ton of 3rd Party/smaller scale 1st Party titles going for even less (Miitopia is currently about €13 there which is INSANE to me). However, there's just something about the website that feels....off to me. Filters not working, missing image symbols scattered all about the place, it just gives off a very slap-dash vibe to me and one that I'm a bit weary as to whether I should grab something from there or not. If anyone here has used it in the past and can verify whether or not it's a reputable site to buy from, do let me know whenever you can! I'll keep on browsing in the meantime XD
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@Fizza I've never used it, but there are complaints about it like this:
Note that a lot of those prices are more expensive than the best historical sales, so the prices seem at least plausible, but I agree the Miitopia price is a red flag. And apparently people have had trouble actually receiving games or getting refunded...
On a company trust rating website with 1100 ratings, they are scored 1.7/5.
Edit: A lot of the reviews say they are sending hacked account information with the games on the hacked account rather than actual games.
@FishyS Ah yep, that's pretty much exactly what I was fearing (clicked on the page for Fire Emblem Three Houses and my internal alarm bells started blaring the moment I saw the delivery method as 'Official Account'). Cheers for the heads up 👍
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I personally not feeling sad to hear new Mario voice is not voiced by Charles Martinet anymore.
I personally already tired with his same catchphrases.
I personally prefer Chris Pratt voice as Mario.
His voice sounds very brotherly as Mario.
@Budda I suppose not...a real shame to see him go especially since he's been such a constant over the last 30 years
It does make me wonder (no pun intended) how often they bring him in to record new lines anyway.
SMBW and WW: Move It seem to have new recordings but before that?
I suppose it would be Odyssey? For Mario at least, because you'll have things like WW: Gold/Get It Together and Luigi's Mansion 3 for those characters.
Point is I wouldn't be suprised if they're still gonna recycle voice lines more often than not and I'm ok with that. But for a game like Wonder then yeah I think new lines are appropriate
And not only will he no longer be the voice of Mario but Nintendo are gonna patch all the other Mario games so Charles’ voice will be replaced with the new guy’s voice too. This is the karma punishment people get for accepting and going to see Chris Pratt as Mario!
I wonder if nintendo will hire one voice actor to replace all the characters Charles voiced or will those characters all get their own unique voice actors?
Mario is sort of like Mickey Mouse: easy enough to impersonate, so it doesn't really matter who plays him. The importance is the character, not the voice behind it.
inb4 they hire Chris Pratt to voice Mario in the games now lol.
@Tanookduke I think Mario and Luigi will certainly be the same actor.
Provided they can get the nuances between the two right which I trust Nintendo would have thought about greatly.
Wario and Waluigi stand a better chance at getting a seperate voice actor/s but again I think Nintendo would have searched greatly for someone who can do all 6 (including the babies haha😅)
@Ralizah people would probably love it despite what a boring voice acting he is but it’s Nintendo, they are not gonna spend that kinda money on a voice actor. At best they will hire a Chris Pratt impersonator from Cameo.
Makes me happy seeing Red Dead Redemption at #4 on the eShop in just 72 hours.
With 130 million consoles sold, there's a large enough install base that realistic AAA games can thrive on the system. That wasn't the case for a very long time. And when Switch originally launched, we were all apprehensive about what kind of 3rd party support we'd receive when it came to mature, realistic AAA. It's why Skyrim and Doom were such a big deal, despite Skyrim being so old and re-released so many times beforehand. Because for a Nintendo system, that was a massive win.
I remember LA Noire releasing and 20% of its sales in the UK were on Switch that first week. Which is a minority stake for sure, but given the install base globally was barely 10-15 million at the time, the majority of whom were early adopter Nintendo fans with a proclivity for 1st party over 3rd party (especially 3rd party AAA), and the fact the UK was Nintendo's weakest market, I was actually quite impressed it managed to scoop up 20% of the launch week sales. I knew then that Switch was gonna break that long-standing stigma of "Nintendo fans don't buy 3rd party games". And with each passing year, 3rd party games have performed better and better.
We witnessed firsthand with Koei Tecmo bringing their games to PS and Switch day and date, and at first the PS version would outsell the Switch version in Japan 3:1. But as the years passed, Switch started catching up and now, their games typically sell most on Switch, sometimes by a wide margin.
I'm sure mega publishers and devs of big AAA titles were reluctant to trust their games could do well on Switch with the Nintendo audience that "only buys Nintendo games". But as the years passed, and the install base grew, and more and more mature, 3rd party AAA released on Switch with satisfactory sales, that attitude changed. Now, 2k is like yup, let's bring Borderlands. WB is like yup, let's bring Batman Arkham Trilogy, and the new Mortal Kombat cause why not. Rockstar is like yup, let's release Red Dead Redemption. Konami is like sure, let's do all the past Metal Gear Solid games (can't wait for volume 2). EA finally said screw it, let's port Frostbyte and release a proper FIFA with parity (my bad, "FC 24").
The Switch has finally fulfilled its destiny as a portable Xbox360 (or portable PS3, if you prefer). I've maintained 7th gen AAA are a perfect fit for the console. Those games were built ground up for hardware roughly on par, and with Switch more modern and a bit more powerful, they can typically run at native res with rock solid framerates.
All those killer 7th gen games have made it over or are coming. Assassin's Creed Ezio Collection, Assassin's Creed III, Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin's Creed Rogue, Batman Arkham Asylum, Batman Arkham City, Bayonetta, Bioshock, Bioshock 2, Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands, Borderlands 2, Borderlands The Pre-Sequel, Burnout Paradise, Call of Juarez, Catherine, Crysis, Crysis 2, Crysis 3, Dark Souls, Darksiders (we won't mention DS2 as that port is rough), Diablo 3 (wait, was that a 7th gen game? Maybe not), Dragon's Dogma, Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remastered, GRID Autosport, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, LA Noire, Metal Gear Solid 4, Metro 2033, Metro Last Light, Naruto Shippuden Trilogy, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, Ni No Kuni, Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge, No More Heroes, No More Heroes 2, Okami HD, Persona 5, Portal, Portal 2, Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil Revelations 2, Saint's Row 3, Saint's Row 4, Shining Resonance, Sniper Elite v2, Sniper Elite 3, South Park Stick of Truth, Tales of Symphonia HD, Tales of Vesperia, Skyrim, Valkyria Chronicles, Zombie Army Trilogy...
Obviously it's not BC with a 360 so it doesn't have everything. Each game must be separately ported. But it's got and/or will have a good chunk of the best ones. There's only a small handful of 7th gen games left that I still really want. Notably the Mass Effect Trilogy, and Wolfenstein New Order. But aside from that... we've pretty much got em all. At least, all the notable ones I'm personally interested in. I'm sure if I scoured a 360 list I'd find plenty more, but those are the only 2 I really, really wish were on Switch. And thankfully, both are on Steamdeck so, all is not lost.
But ya. What a killer system Switch turned out to be.
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