Limited Run's E3 Showcase Will Include More Than 25 Physical Game Announcements

I don’t know if limited run would do it, but I wa t the Disney afternoon Collection on the switch so frigging bad. I love ducktakes and darkwing duck two amazing amazing games.

What do people have against digital that they will wait for months to play a game just as it is digital only?

Edit: thanks for answering in the comments, I now understand it a little better!

and yet we cannot get a physical. version of okami. bayonetta 1 or the ninja gaiden trioligy or doom eternal. are we listeniing big 3rd parties who have the money to do so.

@Just_2_milky because the feeling of owning it vs borrowing it (digital).....nothing beats the feeling of popping in a cartridge to play a game.

F for my wallet, gamers.

Please LRG, let these be physical:
Fast RMX
Cuphead
Bayonetta 1
Fighting EX Layer: Another Dash
Star Ocean: First Departure R
Crysis Remastered
Resident Evil 1 (Capcom made the lame mistake to make only Resident Evil 0 as physical in the Origins collection which I don't like)
Alien: Isolation
Shaolin vs. Wu-tang

Alien Isolation Complete Switch edition please.

@Just_2_milky You get to own the game rather than just pay for a digital license. As we saw with the issues regarding the PS3, PSP, and Vita stores a few months ago, digital storefronts can be shut down at any time, and when they eventually stop allowing you to redownload games you've already bought, if anything happens to your system, your whole digital library is gone. And yes, I know physical copies eventually degrade too, but we still have perfectly usable NES carts all these years later so I'm confident physical copies will far outlast digital storefronts personally. Not to mention a degraded physical cart means you're just losing one game as opposed to the entire library if, say, your Switch breaks.

In addition, a lot of us collectors just like the feeling of having a physical copy we can hold in our hands and display on a shelf. I personally like being able to have quality physical copies of games I enjoy, it feels a lot more personal than just downloading or streaming a game. I find that I'm more motivated to play through a physical game than a digital copy personally, as strange as it might sound.

I would assume one of them is Retromania Wrestling as the developer has confirmed an LRG release for some time

Capcom Beat em up Bundle
Castlevania Requiem Symphony/Rondo
Hotshot Racing
Blizzard Arcade Collection
Balders Gate Dark Allinace 1&2
The Takeover
Konami Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection
GTA Trilogy (ps4)
Contra Anniversary collection
Ikaruga
Raiden V
Among many many others that I’d love to see!!

@Just_2_milky Some people had preferences, some want to save spaces and some just love collecting in general. Though I usually don't buy games day one unless they are very well known or well receive title that deserve to be play day one, I tend to buy physical first before digital but if digital is the only way possible then I will buy it digital first and maybe double dip on physical later. Not only that if the game is a multiplat and release on other console first, I will usually play it on the more accessible platform first such as a PC before I double dip on the Switch version.

@Ghost_of_Hasashi Hey! Another Shaolin vs Wutang fan! I keep telling people how awesome this game is and no one believes me.

@Toshiro_Baloney Yeap it is a fantastic fighting game. I'm a fan of old school martial arts and its films and a fan of fighting games so a game that pays great tribute to the many legendary martial arts and its actors and performers of decades past is very intriguing to me. I hope the sequel made it to Switch someday too. A physical copy of this game from LRG would be fantastic.

If more Star Wars games are coming to Switch, I’ll buy ‘em. That’s more because I’m a Star Wars collector, though. I’m fine with digital games in general.

@joey302 Matt McMuscles confirmed that a physical release of The Takeover is on its way and that he was doing the artwork for the instruction manual! I don’t know if he mentioned who was in charge of the release, but I’m happy to know it’s coming. Not many games I would double-dip on, but The Takeover is one I wouldn’t hesitate to. It gets overshadowed by Streets of Rage 4, but there’s something about the art style and the plucky indieness of this game that makes me feel more fond of it than Rage.

This is so exciting. LRG has been getting better and better with their games and even improved shipping times in the past couple months. Really looking forward to seeing whats next in the pipeline, and for the rest of E3 as a whole

Sounds good to me. If they have the right games, they will have my monies.

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@mohr365 But like, you're one of the only few that thinks that lol

If this is how we finally get a physical release of DOOM Eternal, I'd be 100% on board!

Great to hear! Usually LRG brings out 3-4 games a year that I covet. I’ll insta-buy the ZAMN twin pack, though I would’ve gifted another copy to my brother if only it had online multiplayer!

The wait can seem Like an eternity, prices are steep compared to the eshop, but I think they’re providing a great product to gamers who appreciate physical games.
Just this year I’ve ordered or received...

Castlevania Collection
Panzer Paladin
Fight n’ Rage
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Knights and Bikes + artbook
Carrion
Hyperlight Drifter

... so I’m a satisfied (if broke) customer! We may not have gotten these games on cartridge without their efforts.

Would LOVE to see announcements for Alien: Isolation, Cuphead (w/dlc), Blaster Master Zero Trilogy, and any collections, Konami or otherwise.

Doom Eternal and Paradise Killer would be rad!

@Toshiro_Baloney great news!! Love me some Takeover! Yea it’s no doubt a solid beat em up and I love the art style. I was pleasantly surprised. SOR 4 is solid though and has the name behind it.

@Just_2_milky
Thanks for your honest question rather than just calling us physical collectors dumb, as is often the case.

I think @tonyp1987 @VIIIAxel and @Ghost_of_Hasashi already summed up the merits of physical games excellently, but I would also add:
Having the ability to lend/share a game I purchased is important to me. Maybe it was just because of how I was socialized as a young gamer in the 80s - nobody could afford or access a lot of games back then, so lending/borrowing games with my friends/cousins was really common. There's not as much need to lend/borrow nowadays, but still I really miss not having that ability to share a good game when I buy digitally.

@RupeeClock crazy right? It's like nothing has happened in the past year

I hope they don't reveal something I want. Because that would delay my buying new games even longer.

I hope Studio MDHR doesn't make a deal with LRG. Cuphead is such a well-known, well-established entity that it shouldn't need them. A widespread, physical release without a brief, month-long window would make more sense.

Regarding the main announcement: I hope that means some is left for Super Rare Games (who I love supporting, by the way).

@tntswitchfan68

yet we cannot get a physical version of okami. bayonetta 1 or the ninja gaiden trioligy or doom eternal

There's an Asian English or Japan English release for all those games aside from Doom Eternal. I have Okami HD and Bayonetta 1 physically (with custom printed covers that look official with English on the spine) and Ninja Gaiden Collection pre-ordered.

Pretty sure you can still buy them too. Aside from Bayonetta which was exclusive to the collector edition from Japan.

@VIIIAxel
I totally get it. I'm a physical collector myself with over 350 physical Switch games.

But I don't think the arguments used against digital really hold up under scrutiny. While it is true IF something happened to your system AFTER the servers went down decades from now, you could lose your library, that's a very low probability since your system won't be in heavy use 20 years from now. And as most people buy the latest revision, it'll likely not have many miles on it before the next gen starts.

Furthermore, all you need is 1 extra system to guarantee your digital games last forever. Because even if one system happened to fail decades from now, after servers get shut down (assuming they get shut down- Wii is still going for re-download and that was hosted by a 3rd party) you'd still have the backup. And since that would be a legacy retro console by that point, the miles you'd put on the backup would last the rest of your life. That's assuming the original doesn't last the rest of your life anyways. And, as precaution, you can migrate to a new system every 15-20 years just to be safe. Buy a few brand new Switch Lites for $69 in a clearance bin next gen and you're covered til death.

I get the appeal, I just don't like the fear mongering narrative around digital. There's some cons to be noted, but they get puffed up and exaggerated when people want to push a narrative that physical is superior.

Which, again, I love physical. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't prefer digital nowadays. The convenience of having every game with you (full 1 TB card of games, hundreds of top shelf games) everywhere you go is hard to put a price on. Not having to get up and switch carts also leads to me actually spontaneously playing different games. I noticed as soon as I started buying digital also, I was playing way more often. But... I just can't seem to let go of physical. So for now I buy both. At least, I buy digital for all the top tier 1% games I want access to 24/7. Only so much room on a 1 TB card, after all.

Oh man I hope we can get some Falcom titles on Switch. My most wanted are Ys, Tokyo Xanadu, and of course more Trails games. And yes I know about the ownership rights and yadda yadda

I would like to ask the LRG overlords for one game and one game only: Everyday Today's Menu for Emiya Family. I need the Fate gang on my shelf.

That looks delightfully 90s

@mohr365 I don't like these one time prints either. We see Indie games like Hades get standard retail releases.
We see games like Shantae 5 get standard releases overseas in Asia. Now we're seeing big publishers like Konami, Ubisoft and LucasArts using LRG to release certain games, when they should be a standard retail release. Your choices of " SURPRISE! Spend $60-70 you may not have RIGHT NOW, OR $150 LATER ON EBAY" sucks both ways. I always feel like a hostage.

I'm really hoping to see Panzer Dragoon Zwie more then anything.

There are a few early games that missed a physical shout.

Tumbleseed
Forma8
Fast RMX
Rogue Trooper

But apart from those, can't wait to see what they have planned.

Alien Isolation and Valkyria Chronicles would be lovely and somebody please sort out Capcom's physical releases lol. As for indie stuff, too much to list.

I don’t really understand this big desire for physical releases especially when most titles are constantly getting huge discounts on the eshop. I’ve picked up titles such as Okami for £6, Capcom Beat em up bundle for £6, Panzer Paladin £11, Hades £16, Cuphead £12, Streets Of Rage 4 £15, Doom Eternal £25, The Messenger £9.....the list goes on and on.

Great for the collectors but im pretty much fully digital at this point. I just prefer the convenience of not having to swap games out and can take my collection with me to play in work.

I'm just hoping that Nintendo allows full switch backwards compatibility with their next gen console so I can carry my game library forward like with my Xbox.

@Ghost_of_Hasashi A Star Ocean physical release would be great! I think it would actually be the first Nintendo physical release of a Star Ocean game outside of Japan

LRG's presentation will easily be the best part of E3 for myself personally.

What's the point in revealing that many, they still haven't released the entire lineup from two years ago.

@HamatoYoshi No, you don't.

Famicom Detective Club would be great

@JaxonH thanks for the info.

@YANDMAN don’t understand your comment?

@YANDMAN @HamatoYoshi YANDMAN is giving you a backhanded comment. He agrees that you don't understand why collecting physical games is enjoyable.

I'm still debating on whether I should go all-in on the physical edition of Castlevania Anniversary Collection or settle for one of the Retro packaging options with the Soundtrack CD.

I've long since embraced the all digital lifestyle, for both convenience and cost

@mohr365 How come?

they need to stop taking so many projects, they are already at nearly 200 projects on the go at once, they have totally forgotton they dont have the production capacity, its a huge problem when orders take 7-10 months to ship

@tntswitchfan68 Okami, at the very least, is available physically in Japan. I pre-ordered a physical copy from Nin-Nin Game back a few years ago so I would have it physically on the Switch.

@HamatoYoshi Actually owning the product is still important to a lot of us. We've just started running into issues where games can be taken offline by choice of publisher or company and can no longer be played, and I want to be able to take my collection wherever I go as well.

Especially considering when games release, they're often priced the same. Would make no sense for me to drop $60 to download it digitally when I can pay the same and own the product side of it too.

The value side of them constantly increases too! Retro market is insane and the games coming out now will only have that same effect in the future too. That's not to say they should only be bought to be flipped years down the road, but it's nice to see them have such value in general.

My guess is Contra and Konami arcade collection will get physical editions. What I'd like to see receive a physical edition is Duke Nukem Megaton edition or World Tour.

To add to the many lists already started but, shockingly, omitted to date:
The Touryst
Spiritferrer
FAR: Lone Sails
Liberated: Enhanced Edition
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Oninaki

Plus Doom and Cuphead...to repeat others. This pandemic was a BIG year+ for this indie-physical Game Daddy (Bug Fables, Ys Origin, Mighty Gunvolt Burst, Hyper Light Drifter, Panzer Paladin, Hardcore Mecha, Ori Box Set, Bloodstained 2, Crosscode, To the Moon, Inmost...plus Ys IX, Cat Quests, Bioshock Tril, Trials, Digimon Duo) so I can only imagine what my poor wallet has to endure for the next 12-15 mos.!