Round Up: Realms Deep 2023 - Every Game Coming To Nintendo Switch

Most excited for Phantom Fury. If Ion Fury was Shelly's Duke Nukem 3d, this is her Duke Nukem Forever, and I want a proper Duke Nukem Forever.

Of course what I really want is for the original Bombshell to come to Switch because I think it would play nice in handheld mode, but we can't have everything.

With the only updates for some these being a yearly delay announcement, I’m not holding my breath for anything including Switch releases.

Nintendo’s next console will be out by then, even if that’s not until a few more years.

I want to love Ion Fury. It has a real problem with flooding the screen with tiny, flying or crawling enemies. No one likes those. Ever.
Also this article about 3D Realms Switch announcements is conspicuously missing any Switch announcements.
Sorry, negative comment...

@LikelySatan «Also this article about 3D Realms Switch announcements is conspicuously missing any Switch announcements.»
Yeah, that's right.

@Noelemahc
Yep also looking forward to the Games with Shelly

That Ion Fury trailer made me cringe, and not in a good way.

Does 3D Realms have Blake Stone? The rights from Apogee are kinda hard to follow. I swear half my comments on this site are about this game but i’m still waiting for it to come back.

I'm getting all these along with a bunch more announced off Steam. Their 4 hour show is how you do a showcase correctly 😁

@LikelySatan I hate those ***** too in Ion Fury, lol .. the hit detection is a bit better on Steam for them though so not as much of annoyance there.

@K1LLEGAL I thought Apogee held that IP still

@JustMonika I wasn’t sure they were still around!

Why are zen releasing tables when they’ve not even fixed the base game. It doesn't take an industry leading expert to figure out what to do here.

Those Ion Fury devs can get in the f***ing bin. Garbage human beings, not getting a single penny.

@LikelySatan Which is why you have to use your alt fire on your lover boy revolver to get those flying enemies.

@Stamina_Wheel Really?
Well that's news too me. If anything I hear they must be annoyed at all comments they must be getting and just decided not to say anything. Because I also would be annoyed at these SJW-type folks who spout wild stuff.

Either way, 3D Realms did eventually donate money to LGBTQ+ organizations, so I'll take that as a nice gesture for this knee-jerk reaction everyone had.

But the way everyone hyperbolizes this non-controversy, it's their own stance and that doesn't mean we have to agree with them on their views. Either way, more harassment doesn't bring anything good and I judge folks based on their actions and not on their facetious comments. Do with that however you will, it takes a mature individual to just ignore things and move on.

Don't like someone/something, then just ignore it. It's like Hogwarts Legacy all over again.

They all look pretty decent although after viewing all of those trailers back to back they all melded into one game in my mind.

Except for Forgive Me Father, that one caught my eye more.

They all look like the same game.

@Moistnado I mean, you can just say you didn't watch the trailers.

@LikelySatan did you? Did you not notice how all the games looked like the same game?

@nessisonett I've bought Ion Fury 4 times and now it's time for After Shock! Hell yes.

@Moistnado We get it, no reason to get redundant about how you didn't watch the trailers.

@JustMonika @K1LLEGAL : Apogee still has the rights to and sells the Blake Stone games.

I wouldn't expect any sequels as the Blake Stone games were overshadowed by DOOM at the time, which ran on its (then) cutting edge new engine while Blake Stone ran on the aging Wolfenstein 3D engine.

It never made much of a cultural impact, and quite frankly, as much as I enjoyed these games as a kid, they were a product of their time, and I can't see them doing anything particularly compelling with the series except to recycle certain monsters/plotlines to appease nostalgic fans, and I doubt that there are enough of them to justify revisiting it.

But I would absolutely love for Apogee games to be ported/emulated/remade for modern consoles. Crystal Caves, Secret Agent, and Monster Bash were all remade for PC (and Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure was announced maybe 2 years ago now), and console ports of these at least are long overdue.

@Sisilly_G thanks for the info. Just haven’t seen Apogee’s name anywhere. I was never expecting a sequel; but everytime I hear the name Nightdive I hope it’s followed by “remasters Blake Stone and its Sequel”. Especially now that Rise of the Triad is out. There is also the dream of an Apogee Evercade cartridge which would be beautiful.

I can play them on Steam but I would love to see a remaster. And Aliens of Gold still has one of the best soundtracks I have heard in a game.

All of these look solid. Ion fury was good, definitely interested in a sequel.

@Sisilly_G I had Aliens of Gold back in the 90's on my Packard Bell 75MHz PC, lol .. I did upgrade it from 8MB of RAM to 16MB though. It was a beast after that!

@K1LLEGAL Here's Apogees Steam page. Aliens of Gold is currently 55 cents. I highly recommend Turbo Overkill though.

https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/apogee

I want agent 64 yesterday!!! That looks great.

@JustMonika : I have no idea how much RAM or hard disk space my old PCs had, but I recall my first computer being a 286 (DOS/PC speaker/EGA only), followed by a 386 (with Windows 3.1/VGA), 486 (Windows 95?/SVGA), and possibly a Pentium I and/or II after that. I seem to remember playing an EGA version of Wolfenstein 3D on my 286 when I was about 4 years old, but I'm not completely certain. It may have just been the VGA version but downgraded to EGA by the graphics card (is that even possible?), as I do not recall our 286 being capable of displaying VGA graphics, and I distinctly remember playing Wolfenstein with a more washed-out EGA-like appearance.

I also recall seeing a boxed copy of Blake Stone at an Australian electronics retailer in the mid 90s, but I didn't have the heart to ask my parents for a AU$60 (or thereabouts) game when most of our games were purchased on floppies for $3 to $5 from shareware vendors at the local computer market (which took place every Sunday).

But we did end up grabbing full versions of Halloween Harry (since renamed to Alien Carnage) and Mystic Towers on CD (published by Manaccom) for about $15 apiece. I also have a secondhand copy of Blake Stone: Planet Strike on CD, given to me by a high school friend. Good times.

@K1LLEGAL Yeah they actually are. They publish a ton of FPS's