Aneira

Aneira

I wish God were alive to see this

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Re: The Binding Of Isaac Is Heading To Switch 2 With A Full Physical Release

Aneira

@LastFootnote
I'd rather not follow a statement with no context than spend time researching if there might be any meat to it. One would assume that the statement bounds from anger due to a past experience, which suggests that the writer wants to warn others from throwing cash at the publisher. Yet no willingness to back up any claims further suggests that it might not be that bad after all.

Re: Furukawa's Defence Of Game-Key Cards Ain't All That Convincing

Aneira

Keep in mind that physical games these days are almost never complete on cart/disc.
Playstation and Xbox discs never has the full game data. An enormous amount of extra download data is always required to complete the game data.
Nintendo is one of the last console makers to give close to truly physical options. But even then... every game nowadays have patches or updates, which you will need to download digitally.
True physical games in their final state is a thing of the past. For over a decade most games has been released with day-1 patches and/or additional patches post release.
So in the sense of game preservation, that ship sailed a long time ago. If you have the download space on external drives/sd cards/usb sticks to store the updates/patches, then a game-key card would serve the same purpose for you in 20+ years as a card with physical game data on it. Therefore this option is lightyears better than code-in-a-box or digital purchases.

Re: New Shenmue III Publisher Asks If You Want To See The Game On Switch

Aneira

3 would have been great had it been released 25 years ago.
1 & 2 was great for it's time. It pushed boundaries and made a new genre. Equally as disappointing and unimpressive were 3, as it seemed stuck in 2001. No evolution for the series in 18 years. We wanted a conclusion on the story, but received nothing of the sort. Instead we got to experience the exact same old game mechanics from back then.
It's a thin line between a love letter to the fans and a complete embarrassment.

Re: Switch 2 Game-Key Cards Aren't Tied To Nintendo Accounts

Aneira

"Of course, when Nintendo one day takes the Switch 2 servers offline, it will still likely be game over for download cartridges."

But if you have downloaded the data to a Micro SD card, surely you're safe and sound even beyond server shutdowns, right?
Most Switch 1 cartridges doesn't include all game data anyway, so nothing really changes beyond that point of server shutdown, besides you needing more space on an SD card to store the game data on.

Re: Best Xenoblade Chronicles Games Of All Time

Aneira

I don't believe they can be rated against each other at all. While they are all different, they are still all the same. It's like rating each chapter in the same novel. Removing one of the mainline games would severely hurt the rest. That being said... the character Jin from 2 was awesome. Probably the most interesting of them all.

Re: Lexar Is Apparently Releasing A Switch 2 'microSD Express' Card

Aneira

@HugoGED
Yes, that makes sense...unless there is some complication with activating your Nintendo Account on the new system. From the Wii to Wii U it was super lame. If you did transfer, you could no longer play your digital games on the Wii.
There is plenty of opportunity for Nintendo to screw this up and make it more painful than it should be.