Why do you write (Switch eShop) after every title? 99.99% of all games can be found on the eShop. If it's to say they are eShop only, then that is simply not true, since half of the games on this list had a physical release as well.
@LastFootnote I'm not sure this information would come up by a quick search, but thanks for sharing. I would have guessed the problem was with pricing. I recall paying a lot more than the average.
@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.
@cvrator I don't like the GTA games in general. I find them boring. But I did like GTA2 back then. A completely different kind of game compared to the later entries.
Zelda II was a great gaming experience back then and it still holds up as a great 2D adventure game to this day. This is fact regardless of there being "better" Zelda games.
@FullbringIchigo
So are you saying that the file size amount of the game on an Xbox console is the exact same whether you're using physical media or purely bought and downloaded digitally?
I've been buying my Xbox Series X games on disc, as I thought I would save up to 50gb of storage space per game by doing so.
This is why games are never truly complete on card. We should stop demanding this. As long as most of the data is on cartridge, so we don't waste valuable storage space, we should be happy.
Is there a remake for Code Veronica on the table? I thought it was pure speculation. It is ridiculous if it doesn't happen though, as it's quite an important entry and the true sequel to RE2.
Odyssey this and Odyssey that. Come on! Odyssey wasn't even the greatest Mario game.
Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World and Super Mario 64 all made a bigger impact at their own respective point in time. They say you can't compare apples and oranges, but those oranges were better oranges than that apple called Odyssey will ever be.
@FatDaddyD Unless you are still young, does it really matter if the cartridges last for more than 25 years? Unless you are able to purchase an extra life, I don't think we should worry too much. Don't lick'em for once and they might last longer
@Anti-Matter It's like that on other systems as well and have been so for many years. Take Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for example. The physical game disc still requires a download of over 80 gb for the game to function.
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.
The guys at SwitchUp just put up a video which showed it still sukced heavy asss on the Switch 2.
It needs a patch to let it run on that sweet new hardware.
Couldn't complete the survey as I'm not getting any games for the Switch 2. I bought it to use it with my Switch 1 library. Nothing else for now - not with these current game prices at least.
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.
"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.
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.
The only thing from previous entries that needed a serious overhaul was the AI. It was way too passive. You don't up the difficulty just by distributing resources in the AI's favor. You need to make it smarter, not have more resources.
Sadly I have no faith that they will ever get that right.
Saying Nintendo created a Mario game for children and expecting your 3 year old to beat it is ridiculous. A 14 year old kid is still a child. Nintendo never created Mario games for small children. Heck... most kids don't stand a chance beating a Mario game. They become difficult at the end and has and should always do so.
@whitespy12 I was wondering how that would work. Didn't think that was possible. Then you could in theory share an entire library with a friends Switch if they have no account of their own. I never thought Nintendo would allow for such an option.
@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.
Comments 857
Re: Anniversary: Monolith Soft Celebrates Xenoblade Chronicles 2 With A Post, But We're Desperate For A Switch 2 Revamp
2 probably had the series most interesting character in Jin. It was a good story all around.
Re: Poll: So, Will You Be Getting Kirby Air Riders?
Glad to see such a strong support for physical media.
Re: Nintendo Launches Switch 2 Backwards Compatibility Search Page
Wouldn't be easier to release a page of non-compatible games?
Re: Best Point And Click Adventure Games For Nintendo Switch
Why do you write (Switch eShop) after every title?
99.99% of all games can be found on the eShop.
If it's to say they are eShop only, then that is simply not true, since half of the games on this list had a physical release as well.
Re: 48 Switch 1 & 2 Games You Should Check Out In The eShop 'Halloween Sale' (Europe)
Nice to see Crawl on the list. Awesome couch co-op game.
Re: The Binding Of Isaac Is Heading To Switch 2 With A Full Physical Release
@LastFootnote
I'm not sure this information would come up by a quick search, but thanks for sharing.
I would have guessed the problem was with pricing. I recall paying a lot more than the average.
Re: The Binding Of Isaac Is Heading To Switch 2 With A Full Physical Release
@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: The Binding Of Isaac Is Heading To Switch 2 With A Full Physical Release
@gojiguy
Care to elaborate or are we expected to take your word for it?
Re: Review: Night Striker Gear (Switch) - The Shining Apex Of The 'Super Scaler' Concept
@cvrator
I don't like the GTA games in general. I find them boring. But I did like GTA2 back then. A completely different kind of game compared to the later entries.
Re: Review: Night Striker Gear (Switch) - The Shining Apex Of The 'Super Scaler' Concept
It's forerunner wasn't well received.
Re: Metroid Prime Remastered Almost Had Completely New Cutscenes
You can't improve on perfection.
Re: Poll: So, Will You Be Getting Pokémon Legends: Z-A?
A simple yes or no question should not have 11 different answers.
Re: Sunsoft Has A "Major Announcement" To Share Next Week
@KingMike
You're right. Sunsoft was only the publisher.
Who holds the rights then to bring a remake into action?
Re: Nintendo Adds One Of The Most Divisive Zelda Entries To 'Nintendo Music'
Zelda II was a great gaming experience back then and it still holds up as a great 2D adventure game to this day. This is fact regardless of there being "better" Zelda games.
Re: Nintendo Is "Acting To Protect The Industry" With Switch 2 Game Key Cards, Says Ex-Capcom Composer
@FullbringIchigo
So are you saying that the file size amount of the game on an Xbox console is the exact same whether you're using physical media or purely bought and downloaded digitally?
I've been buying my Xbox Series X games on disc, as I thought I would save up to 50gb of storage space per game by doing so.
Re: Round Up: Everything Announced For Super Mario's 40th Anniversary
The hidden gem of the Direct was Crimson Butterfly. The best entry in the Fatal Frame series.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Receives Another Update On Switch 2, Here Are The Patch Notes
This is why games are never truly complete on card. We should stop demanding this. As long as most of the data is on cartridge, so we don't waste valuable storage space, we should be happy.
Re: Sunsoft Has A "Major Announcement" To Share Next Week
Remake of Death & Return of Super-Man, their greatest game ever made and the only good Super-Man game in existence.
Re: Japan's National Library Says Game-Key Cards Are Not Eligible For Preservation
9600 does not sound like a lot. I alone could contribute an awful lot to that collection. Most of you probably could.
Re: Nightdive's CEO Reiterates Desire To Remaster 'Eternal Darkness'
One of the best games ever created.
Re: Cronos: The New Dawn Delivers Scares And Thrills In Its Best Trailer Yet
I see that town...
Re: Hollow Knight: Silksong "Special Announcement" Is Coming This Thursday
Do I have time to play through Hollow Knight 100% before Silksong releases?
Re: Capcom Launches Resident Evil 30th Anniversary Website
Is there a remake for Code Veronica on the table? I thought it was pure speculation. It is ridiculous if it doesn't happen though, as it's quite an important entry and the true sequel to RE2.
Re: He-Man Is The Next '80s Icon Getting His Own Stunning Arcade-Style Retro Revival
This is the game I always wanted back in the 90's and never got. Will definitely be getting it.
Re: 'Bad Cheese' Is Another Survival Horror With Cuphead-Inspired Visuals
It looks cheap.
Re: Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown (Switch) - A Rad Turn-Based Brawler Blend
The graphics style is definitely not to my taste. Could be a cool game, but not sure if I can look beyond that.
Re: Review: Heretic + Hexen (Switch) - Two FPS Cult Classics Masterfully Revamped
I did enjoy Heretic back in the 90's. Fresh take on the Doom formula.
Re: Mini Review: The House Of The Dead 2: Remake (Switch) - Erratic Controls Chomp At Another Classic
I played this to death on the Dreamcast. The genré should stay dead as it will never be the same again without light guns.
Re: Octopath 0 Is A Game-Key Card On Switch 2, And Square Enix Has "No Plans" For A Switch 1 Upgrade Option
On a brighter note it's going to be so much cheaper collecting physical games for NSW 2 than it was for NSW.
Re: Review: Wild Hearts S (Switch 2) - Monster Hunting That's Satisfying, If Unspectacular
@Fiergala
Agree. The new entries does not live up to the greatness of Generations Ultimate.
Re: Danger Mouse Is Back With A New Game Tie-In For The Switch
Why are the mice robots dressed like the Horde from Masters of the Universe?
Re: Review: Donkey Kong Bananza (Switch 2) - Absolutely Smashing, But Can It Beat Mario Odyssey?
Odyssey this and Odyssey that.
Come on! Odyssey wasn't even the greatest Mario game.
Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World and Super Mario 64 all made a bigger impact at their own respective point in time.
They say you can't compare apples and oranges, but those oranges were better oranges than that apple called Odyssey will ever be.
Re: Rumour: Major Third-Party Devs Reportedly Sitting On Multiple Switch 2 Announcements
@FatDaddyD
Unless you are still young, does it really matter if the cartridges last for more than 25 years? Unless you are able to purchase an extra life, I don't think we should worry too much. Don't lick'em for once and they might last longer
Re: Rumour: Major Third-Party Devs Reportedly Sitting On Multiple Switch 2 Announcements
@Anti-Matter
It's like that on other systems as well and have been so for many years. Take Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for example. The physical game disc still requires a download of over 80 gb for the game to function.
Re: Furukawa's Defence Of Game-Key Cards Ain't All That Convincing
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: Review: Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller - A New Benchmark In Comfort And Design
The pricepoint should be a negative. It is simply too expensive a controller compared to Sony's and Microsoft's.
Re: The Switch 2 Fixes Its Predecessor's "Worst Performing" Game
The guys at SwitchUp just put up a video which showed it still sukced heavy asss on the Switch 2.
It needs a patch to let it run on that sweet new hardware.
Re: Poll: So, Did You Order A Nintendo Switch 2?
Couldn't complete the survey as I'm not getting any games for the Switch 2. I bought it to use it with my Switch 1 library. Nothing else for now - not with these current game prices at least.
Re: New Shenmue III Publisher Asks If You Want To See The Game On Switch
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
"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: M2's 'Gradius Origins' Collects Some Of The Shmup Series' Finest And A Brand-New Entry
Excited for this one. Some great classics and finally a chance to play some shmups that's not bullet hell for a change.
Re: Absurd Arcade Basketball Game 'Dunk Dunk' Dribbles Onto Switch In May
Is the actual gameplay that slow? The trailer was horrible.
Re: Best Xenoblade Chronicles Games Of All Time
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: Random: Final Fantasy Is The Next Magic: The Gathering Crossover, Here's A First Look
They got the title card wrong on Cloud 😂
Re: Round Up: Reviews For Civilization VII Are Mostly Positive So Far
The only thing needed fixing was re-releasing Civ6 with an improved and more intelligent AI. I'm curious to learn if that is still brain dead on Civ7.
Re: Civilization VII Devs Detail First Batch Of Updates And Fixes Ahead Of Launch
The only thing from previous entries that needed a serious overhaul was the AI. It was way too passive. You don't up the difficulty just by distributing resources in the AI's favor. You need to make it smarter, not have more resources.
Sadly I have no faith that they will ever get that right.
Re: Opinion: My Daughter Made Me Realise That Mario Wonder's Difficulty Options Need Work
Saying Nintendo created a Mario game for children and expecting your 3 year old to beat it is ridiculous. A 14 year old kid is still a child. Nintendo never created Mario games for small children. Heck... most kids don't stand a chance beating a Mario game. They become difficult at the end and has and should always do so.
Re: Lexar Is Apparently Releasing A Switch 2 'microSD Express' Card
@whitespy12
I was wondering how that would work. Didn't think that was possible. Then you could in theory share an entire library with a friends Switch if they have no account of their own.
I never thought Nintendo would allow for such an option.
Re: Lexar Is Apparently Releasing A Switch 2 'microSD Express' Card
@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.
Re: Lexar Is Apparently Releasing A Switch 2 'microSD Express' Card
1 TB is too small if you carry over a large Switch 1 collection. How large a card does Switch 2 support?