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Re: UK Charts: FC 26 Scores An Early Winner And Keeps Sonic Racing From The Podium

Aphonic

Fc26 is leading the charts because it is much cheaper than digital and people can sell it on if sucks, which most reports say it does. My copy arrives tomorrow and was already discounted £10. The early bad press probably made them want to dump the abundance they created early.

My expectations (and i play handheld where it should be better) are very low. And i fully anticipate losing £20 on this experiment when I get annoyed and sell it in the first week. Hopefully I'm surprised.

Re: Poll: Has Donkey Kong Bananza Made You Feel Ill?

Aphonic

The camera is very very bad in this game, it’s disappointing Nintendo didn’t find a better way or decide, frankly, it wasn’t good enough for release in its current form. A real let down given the rest of the game is good.

In addition to the article notes, reducing camera sensitivity can further mitigate the motion sickness.

All that said, real let down. And nowhere near covered enough. It’s not a footnote that the camera is ‘sometimes a bit iffy’ or similar. It’s absolutely broken with a core gameplay mechanic. Leaving players confused, falling to their death, and motion sickness. Not a minor problem.

Re: EA Sports FC 26 Brings A New Season To Switch 2 This September

Aphonic

As a portal owner I can report that streaming fork ps5 with a paltry 15mbps upload speed from the uk to western Europe still offered better graphics and performance than the last switch native version.

I wonder if the switch 2 version will equalise that, but am highly skeptical it will. Obvious local is better for some situations and I’d prefer to have it on switch 2, but that component matters very little to me when I can use mobile data and still get better gameplay and when I play at home most of the time, though screen free.

Re: Donkey Kong Bananza Gets An Eight-Minute Overview Trailer

Aphonic

I appreciate I’m in the minority, but having some halfway Disney princess singing through the latest 3d platformer is actually a reason I’m thinning I won’t buy this. I’ll need to see how much of it is across actual gameplay and I skippable, but the whole idea is really off putting to me, and the fact they’re modelling her after every mid talent west end may be who can’t actually sing is a real shame.

Was all set to buy until this news. I know I’m nuts and everyone else loves the idea.

Re: Review: Dbrand Switch 2 Killswitch Case - Teething Troubles Aside, This Case Is Killer

Aphonic

I’m sorry but come off it. There’s absolutely nothing a case can do well enough to get this score when it can fundamentally break your device just by picking it up. Absurdity. It fails at the one and only thing it’s supposed to do, protect the switch from damage, and whatever else it has going for it is irrelevant.

This seems like a major shilling tbh, and this case shouldn’t have been reviewed until it’s fixed - if you really don’t want to give a negative score.

Re: Soapbox: 'Switch 2' Doesn't Really Need Backwards Compatibility

Aphonic

Talk about clickbait.

One of the more ridiculous articles form this site. It absolutely does if

They want to sell it to me
They want to sell it well in Japan where people are less likely to keep multiple consoles
Especially if the rumours of it being marginally improved are true

It would be absurd to write off the immediate catalog of their most successful console

Yah, they need it.

Re: Video: EA Sports FC 24 Graphics Comparison Shows Off Switch Performance & Resolution

Aphonic

I’ve been playing on ps4 and ps5 for the last few generations and decided to buy the switch version instead of waiting for the ps portal (having fired up remote play and experiencing lag). Now that I’ve bought it I’m quite disappointed that the 30fps play is probably worse than the remote play lag. I’m trying to give it a chance , to get used to the low frame rate but as others have said it’s like running through mud. Really disappointing. Tether that to how weak the next switch is reported to be and I’m not sure more switch is in my future. Probably I’ll have to suck it up and buy a pc gaming handheld like the ASU’s rog. This device is great at Mario and Luigi, but even the Mario wonder videos showed significant slow down.

At any rate if you’re on the fence and have another way to play, save the money. I wish I had bought it for ps5, even to remote play.

Re: FIFA Reportedly Being Rebranded 'EA Sports Football Club'

Aphonic

@Xiovanni not sure anyone knkws what you mean. They are football clubs.

I hope ea do drop the fifa license. Their games are beta bugfests and they charge more and more each year. All they care about is getting kids gambling on FUT packs while they ignore career mode. Horrible cash grab company that puts out mostly crap games.

Re: Gabe Newell: Pricing Valve's Switch-Like Steam Deck Was "Painful"

Aphonic

Many people are going to say … but Nintendo first party games, many of these people are the same complaining about rehashing wii u property and failing to release new games. N

The switch olef upgrade wasn’t good enough. 2 generations of hardware behind at least and while the switch will continue to be used, I would guess new sales are going to fall drastically due to this device barring some amazing failure.

That said everything looks good on paper. Playing is a different thing. But yah, if I’m Nintendo I’m concerned.