For reference that is a steep drop compared to the first Code Vein and it’s not a “physical is dying” when the game is flopping on Steam too.
Code Vein 2 unfortunately alienated fans (especially the Japanese fans that are very openly hating the game) of the first game by pursuing a sterile T rating toning down the violence and anime soulslike fanservice while not attracting anyone new along with other red flags this game had.
Bandai Namco needs to stop listening to Western sensibility consultant firms.
Sounds about right. No idea why some people expected unrealistically much more. MP series is less popular then the 2D counterpart and outside of Dread none of those made a decent splash.
This game was more about showing off the technically potential of S2 then being a Nintendo evergreen.
Did anyone not see this coming? This game wasn’t gonna remotely come close to MK World despite the pre-release glazing of Sonic and hating on MK World here that I remember all too well from certain users here.
Sonic could have a critic score of 100 and MK World a critic score of 0 and the latter would still sell better. Who cares what a critic/another person thinks if when YOU try the game it’s not appealing?
You got an IP that isn’t THAT popular despite being around for like 30 years and you have a kart racer with a bunch of guests and you thinks most of the kart audience is gonna come to you just for that?
As much as people cry about MKW’s price (which if you got from the bundle like most did it wasn’t even a bad deal) they don’t complain so much about what the actual game provides beyond the YouTube bait farmers that still try to insist MKW is dead because a certain thing they don’t like in online is present.
Hah. People need to stop making excuses for Sega at this point. They will save every penny they can at the expense of the consumer that they will GKC release for an ancient game like VF5. A cart could fit that game in its most updated version easy even without a bigger cart release. To put things into context for those not too deep into the know for fighting games…VF5 dropped back in 2006. Before SFIV even dropped. Are you telling me a fighting game from 2006 can’t fit in a S2 cartridge? Is it bigger than Cyberpunk? Get out of here.
@roy130390 That is VF in a nutshell. The fighting game mechanics itself is solid, but it falls far below DoA and Tekken for interesting roster choices.
VF is the weakest in story for developing the characters as well which is why VF has the stigma for a “cardboard” roster. Which makes the roster largely forgettable if you’re not Akira, the Bryant siblings, or Pai mainly because they are used as guests the most.
The VF6 devs is claiming they are going to change that with the new game among the many things to make the game more accessible because VF has the negative stigma of being a boring overly technicial 3D fighter that couldn’t hold an audience outside of pocket regions.
Man wild people are still negatively harping on Knives like America is the center of universe for morale standards.
In Canada standards (the backdrop for this series) she is legally fine at 17 because age of consent has been reached. It’s irrelevant if your morale sensitivities finds that gross or not. In Canada’s perspective Scott dating Knives isn’t “gross” to the level of being criminally wrong.
Which was always a hypocritical perspective when Scott and Knives is 23 vs 17 meanwhile you got countless American couples with like 10+ age gaps with each other anyway.
Just offer both. I don’t give a crap that a random person arbitrarily says “30 FPS better”.
Let other people judge themselves and based on the reaction that was the smarter move considering there is a large amount of people that would prefer significantly more frames if the stutter is within manageable means.
Really wonder what fantasy world some of you live in where it’s a zero sum game where Nintendo is remotely in the same discussion as EA regarding this topic. That is just plain ignorant at this point and baiting responses (like what is happening here).
If the benchmark for “evil corporations” these days is heaven forbid: Trying to make money because shame on them there are no charity “passion project” videogames (good luck just for the upkeep costs alone if your Nintendo size) where everything is always 100% pro consumer and anti corporation like some one guy indie release that drops for free: You all living in a fantasy world and not applying common sense in reality.
The actual best way to go about it in an actual realistic way is obtain a fine balance between pro consumer and corporation so consumers are relatively happy and corporations can justify to sustain for the foreseeable future.
This is why not every videogame fan that claims just because they played videogames for 20+ years or whatever means they are remotely knowledgeable at how the industry work because it turns out playing Zelda doesn’t teach you jack about this.
Sucks. As previously mentioned…lot of people only have GameStop as their main game shop with where they live and online platforms like Amazon isn’t always ideal.
People here wanting them closed down as if it’s an immediate net benefit (It’s not. You are not getting something else instead with them closed down) don’t live in those situations because you have plenty of alternatives probably 5 min drive away.
That is not even counting hundreds of people losing their jobs that I’m not gonna cheer about like some people here.
@Twilite9 Why? Not everyone uses BlueSky and for good reason tbh.
Whether you like it or not X is still the major social media platform and not nearly enough people made the switch to BlueSky to justify pretending X doesn’t exist.
Too many relevant people in the industry still post on X (especially Japanese developers) that if they made an important post on X I doubt NL will ignore it out of some vague sense or morale duty or whatever buzzword.
@ZombAid82 P4 would be the odd duck out at this point out if P3 and P5 have a modern Atlus JRPG look and P4 doesn’t. P1-P2 doesn’t exist in their rear view mirror before someone brings them up.
P4 is popular enough to justify it since it was the most popular Persona game before P5. P4 did the “give them a bunch of spin-offs” before P5 jumped on that train.
P4 at the end of a day was a PS2 game that came out decade+ ago. Golden added content/QoL, but visually was still a PS2 era game.
I get lot of people are impatient for P6, but people need to remember the gap of P4 and P5 dropping first.
Lmao super quick fire sale. Sorry this isn’t worth touching with a stick until they actually do a heavy overhaul to justify this update. At least put the same effort as the Red Dead Redemption S2 update which was much better and you know…free.
No idea why people here are freaking out and going doom mode as if the bundle disappearing means S2 sales is gonna nose dive off a cliff.
These same people also thought the S2 was gonna underperform because “oh Steam deck” or “oh more expensive” or my personal favorite excuse “no games”. When in reality S2 is selling more then the S1 did ( considerably more) in the same timeframe.
It’s not new information that this was always a limited time bundle. It’s actually funny seeing how long this bundle stuck around if anything. Bundles having expiration dates isn’t new whether it’s PlayStation, Nintendo, etc.
This also doesn’t mean S2 won’t do another bundle anyway in the future. You know…like they already did with S1 that had multiple different bundles across its life.
Use some common sense people. If you want to do your daily hate on Nintendo then there is plenty to hate them for like GKC for instance.
@PikaPhantom considering the latter is practically the spiritual successor of Concord down to the tee of the social media accounts acting like entitled snobs at any remotely negative criticism I’m gonna put a dollar on Highguard. Nintendo EoS games typically last awhile. Certainly more than how fast Concord died.
No idea why people expected MP4 to sell amazing. The prime series (or hell most of the Metroid games that wasn’t Dread) was never that popular. It just was a beloved lower string Nintendo sub series of games. The whole reason Dread did amazing was because it was on the more popular 2D version (you know the genre that Metroid has half its name on) + people forgot it released/got heavily promoted with the OLED Switch 1 release.
That said this doesn’t mean MP4 flopped. From what I heard it had a decent launch for a Metroid game that wasn’t Dread. It just (as expected) not gonna have amazing legs because this isn’t exactly Mario Kart or Pokemon level of easy barrier of entry where it will have legs for literal years.
Leon is THE anime protagonist of this series and at this point of the timeline it would be ridiculous to subject him to survival horror like he is back in Resident Evil 2 days. He should be a significant contrast compared to Grace who should stick to the survival aspect while Leon is backflipping, knife stabbing, running on walls, etc all over the zombies.
@Max_the_German If we are gonna quantify indie by the amount of people that worked in the project then none of them would be considered indie games. You have to be a “REAL” indie project like Schedule 1 where a single person named Tyler made a very successful game in the wake of the latest AssCreed launch.
@Axecon Why? E33 for all intent and purposes IS an indie game despite people sometimes forgetting since that game doesn’t look like a traditional indie game. E33 in general was a huge breakout title for the year and pushed the “turn based isn’t dead” message to the industry.
I find it hilarious how much of a bait and switch the giant vampire lady was.
She was THE character you thought of when you think of Village with her sheer popularity and all that marketing made it sound like she was gonna be a major character in the game just for her to be poof gone by early game.
Leon hasn’t been seen in a new canon appearance since RE6 so glad to see him back. No idea why someone was complaining about Leon coming back when we had Chris Redfield shilling for the last two games.
I feel sorry for the earlier comments asking for Oblivion Remaster with how badly they botched this Skyrim port on S2. If they can’t even make a 60 FPS non input lag for this ancient game on much better hardware then the S1 then I have no hope they would do a remotely good job with an Oblivion port.
I enjoyed XB2 more then the 1st and 3rd game so I would appreciate if it got a S2 update especially when it needs it the most since it’s the worst optimized on handheld mode out of the main three.
lol people complaining about games that has 100+ hours of content and that should be a negative should speak for themselves.
P5R for example has an average clear time of 100 hours+ for a single playthough and that game has been critically well received. There are plenty of other similar length rpg games where 100+ hour sinks are not a problem, but for this game (a RPG btw that were always the longer hour sink genre) it’s now all of a sudden a problem?
Not every game has to be a “8 hour clear and then never touch again” experience just because “Oh I only have enough time to play videogames 1 hour a day because I’m old with kids so why no cater to my lifestyle?”
More content > less content objectively. The people that enjoy a lot of content win. The people that enjoy small games just play as much as they want and could come back later. They get the luxury of a choice. The reverse can’t be said to anyone that payed money just to finish the game within a day and left wanting more when it’s a short 10 hour game.
I blame this generation of “less is more” minimalistic lifestyle where they try to convince themselves getting less is a good thing.
Also P.S: A single play-through of Triangle Strategy wasn’t close to 100 hours even if you took the longest route and aimed to unlock as much characters as possible.
I don’t care how slow your reading is or how much you took your time during the combat sequences unless you spent a grossly unnecessary time grinding and even that is a stretch. I get lot of people like to over-exaggerate about Triangle Strategy’s exposition size just because it has a lot of words compared to the average game, but it’s getting ridiculous at this point if that translates into a 100+ hour play though.
@BaldB3lper78 It’s funny that they don’t do this whenever they review these same games on a Steam Deck which is a downgrade compared to someone playing it on a PS5 Pro. It’s always “Nintendo vs my PC rig” or “Nintendo vs PS5” which gives a laughably lop sided analysis.
Like no duh either frame performance, the graphics, or even both is gonna take a hit when you got a hybrid device compared to a a living room console.
@JohntheRaptor considering how mediocre the last Doom game was (as someone that liked 2016 and Eternal) yes I’m more excited for a new Metroid Prime game.
How is it Nintendo’s fault that not every 3rd party manufacturer was a 1:1 compatible with the Nintendo update? Of course crap is gonna be out-of-sync depending on what was changed. Have you ever seen a Steam Deck update? Crap stops working temporarily all the time with various 3rd party devices.
It’s not Nintendo’s responsibility to babysit all the manufacturer companies and make sure their crap still works after the update. That is on them (the 3rd parties) if anything to do their own updates to make sure it’s 1:1 again.
Anyone that actually believed Nintendo was intentionally sabotaging is stupid considering there were other 3rd party manufacturers that were not effected at all so logic dictates that whatever was changed was the variable difference between company A and company B. Not some Nintendo hater wet dream fantasy.
@fenlix Plenty of games in the past and today opt with zero voiced dialogue. Often only allowing just random noises as an intentional design decision at most.
Did you also complain about this in Minecraft? Animal Crossing? It’s not some mandatory feature that you think it is. Several famous JRPG games don’t have voices either so that isn’t a “gotcha” either.
People can read (including the children that is the target audience) and somehow people enjoyed Pokemon games for two+ decades so far despite said lack of voices. It’s weird people are so hung up on voices on a series that was never known to add voices beyond Pokemon noises. It’s not gonna enhance the experience that Troy Baker is talking if people are still gonna whine about how the building looks weird or whatever.
Seriously? Out of all things you want to complain about this game it’s “NPC doesn’t move around” as if that hasn’t been a thing for several Pokemon games in the series. It’s up there with “why no voice?” of complaints.
The “tech” is gonna always disappoint Dfoundry because compared to the latest PS5 cinema slop game, the latest Pokemon games is always gonna be “not up to par”.
Meanwhile in practical gaming aspect most of the people that bought the game don’t give a single care about “lol funny building” and pick apart every little defect in a game.
One that is because that is a miserable way to play videogames if you’re that obsessed on focusing on just the flaws like your a content creator trying to fish donations from your funny negative reactions.
Two it’s greatly overshadowed by the actual positives the game has which said “critics” barely talk about (if at all) because it’s easy to jump on the bandwagon.
AI is not even efficient most of the time especially when it’s used for phone customer service crap. All it achieves is more menus, waiting, and redos because of failed understanding
Ok laughing that there are people here who unironically think that it’s a GOOD IDEA to throw in the trash what has been working for two generations so far for Nintendo in favor of copying Microsoft. Gamepass and multiplatform releases is the quickest way to tank Nintendo lmao.
Nintendo makes their money from profit per unit hardware sales, profit large quantity exclusive software sales you legally can’t buy anywhere else, their online gaming tier subscription system, and of course Eshop naturally not giving cuts to anybody else Ala “if Mario was on Steam”.
Case in point that gamers should maybe stick to gaming and not business ideas just because they like the idea personally of paying a subscription for “free” Nintendo games.
What “works” (which is debatable) for MS doesn’t automatically work for Nintendo. Hell considering MS has reached the point of even giving their new exclusives to their direct competitor Sony shows how much MS has fallen over the years. You don’t do that if your previous business models were working because there is zero incentive to benefit the competition.
Some people need to understand the saying “don’t fix what isn’t broken” especially if your doing BETTER then the prior generation so far by NOT doing dumb ideas like follow MS.
Also PS2 stopped being in the cards to be passed by S1 the moment you have Sony execs pulling new numbers out of their ass decades later purely out of pettiness so don’t blame dumb reasons for why S1 can’t pass PS2 at this point.
It’s funny how in hindsight superstars was propped up as the rival to Mario Wonder, but superstars ended up being incredibly mid. Mania is still the only non port 2D Sonic worth playing.
Exclusives worked out for Nintendo in the way it didn’t for Sony and especially MS. There is a reason why they are the last “hold out” when both their hardware and softwares sell well in tandem when it’s a significant selling point that popular Nintendo games must be played on Nintendo platforms.
Like what incentive do they have to to drop their games on Steam where Valve would benefit more from this then Nintendo? As a result your hardware sales nosedive and value takes a chunk of your sales away from each copy sold instead of being bought on your Eshop .
Nintendo isn’t Sony/MS where they are that desperate to push more software units even if it’s at greater loss. Nintendo can push eight figure+ sales on one platform.
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Re: Japanese Charts: Mario Kart World Can't Keep Code Vein II From The Top Spot
For reference that is a steep drop compared to the first Code Vein and it’s not a “physical is dying” when the game is flopping on Steam too.
Code Vein 2 unfortunately alienated fans (especially the Japanese fans that are very openly hating the game) of the first game by pursuing a sterile T rating toning down the violence and anime soulslike fanservice while not attracting anyone new along with other red flags this game had.
Bandai Namco needs to stop listening to Western sensibility consultant firms.
Re: Metroid Prime 4's "Combined Sales" Have Surpassed One Million, Nintendo Confirms
Sounds about right. No idea why some people expected unrealistically much more. MP series is less popular then the 2D counterpart and outside of Dread none of those made a decent splash.
This game was more about showing off the technically potential of S2 then being a Nintendo evergreen.
Re: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Fails To Meets Sega's Expectations
Did anyone not see this coming? This game wasn’t gonna remotely come close to MK World despite the pre-release glazing of Sonic and hating on MK World here that I remember all too well from certain users here.
Sonic could have a critic score of 100 and MK World a critic score of 0 and the latter would still sell better. Who cares what a critic/another person thinks if when YOU try the game it’s not appealing?
You got an IP that isn’t THAT popular despite being around for like 30 years and you have a kart racer with a bunch of guests and you thinks most of the kart audience is gonna come to you just for that?
As much as people cry about MKW’s price (which if you got from the bundle like most did it wasn’t even a bad deal) they don’t complain so much about what the actual game provides beyond the YouTube bait farmers that still try to insist MKW is dead because a certain thing they don’t like in online is present.
Re: "People Have A Right To Be P****d" - Dispatch Dev Says It Intends To Address "At Least Some" Censored Switch Content
People are not gonna buy a lesser version simple as that.
Again this whole thing is stupid when. s1 and S2 has games with straight up uncensored nudity.
Re: Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. Lands March Release Date On Switch 2
Hah. People need to stop making excuses for Sega at this point. They will save every penny they can at the expense of the consumer that they will GKC release for an ancient game like VF5. A cart could fit that game in its most updated version easy even without a bigger cart release. To put things into context for those not too deep into the know for fighting games…VF5 dropped back in 2006. Before SFIV even dropped. Are you telling me a fighting game from 2006 can’t fit in a S2 cartridge? Is it bigger than Cyberpunk? Get out of here.
@roy130390 That is VF in a nutshell. The fighting game mechanics itself is solid, but it falls far below DoA and Tekken for interesting roster choices.
VF is the weakest in story for developing the characters as well which is why VF has the stigma for a “cardboard” roster. Which makes the roster largely forgettable if you’re not Akira, the Bryant siblings, or Pai mainly because they are used as guests the most.
The VF6 devs is claiming they are going to change that with the new game among the many things to make the game more accessible because VF has the negative stigma of being a boring overly technicial 3D fighter that couldn’t hold an audience outside of pocket regions.
Re: PSA: Dispatch's 'Visual Censorship' Settings Can't Be Removed On Switch
Laughable. Meanwhile your CaC in Cyberpunk on S2 can have their jewels out.
Something isn’t adding up.
Re: Scott Pilgrim EX Brings More Beat 'Em Up Action To Switch In "Early 2026"
Man wild people are still negatively harping on Knives like America is the center of universe for morale standards.
In Canada standards (the backdrop for this series) she is legally fine at 17 because age of consent has been reached. It’s irrelevant if your morale sensitivities finds that gross or not. In Canada’s perspective Scott dating Knives isn’t “gross” to the level of being criminally wrong.
Which was always a hypocritical perspective when Scott and Knives is 23 vs 17 meanwhile you got countless American couples with like 10+ age gaps with each other anyway.
Re: PSA: Dynasty Warriors: Origins On Switch 2 Includes A Variable Frame Rate Option
Just offer both. I don’t give a crap that a random person arbitrarily says “30 FPS better”.
Let other people judge themselves and based on the reaction that was the smarter move considering there is a large amount of people that would prefer significantly more frames if the stutter is within manageable means.
Re: Switch 1 & 2 Dominate Famitsu's Best-Selling Games Of 2025 List
This year was fun. The gradual fading of doomers was hilarious.
Re: Hazelight Founder Josef Fares On EA: "Let's Be Honest, There's Not A Publisher In The World That Hasn't F****d Up"
Really wonder what fantasy world some of you live in where it’s a zero sum game where Nintendo is remotely in the same discussion as EA regarding this topic. That is just plain ignorant at this point and baiting responses (like what is happening here).
If the benchmark for “evil corporations” these days is heaven forbid: Trying to make money because shame on them there are no charity “passion project” videogames (good luck just for the upkeep costs alone if your Nintendo size) where everything is always 100% pro consumer and anti corporation like some one guy indie release that drops for free: You all living in a fantasy world and not applying common sense in reality.
The actual best way to go about it in an actual realistic way is obtain a fine balance between pro consumer and corporation so consumers are relatively happy and corporations can justify to sustain for the foreseeable future.
This is why not every videogame fan that claims just because they played videogames for 20+ years or whatever means they are remotely knowledgeable at how the industry work because it turns out playing Zelda doesn’t teach you jack about this.
Re: GameStop Kicks Off 2026 By Reportedly Shutting "Hundreds" Of Stores
Sucks. As previously mentioned…lot of people only have GameStop as their main game shop with where they live and online platforms like Amazon isn’t always ideal.
People here wanting them closed down as if it’s an immediate net benefit (It’s not. You are not getting something else instead with them closed down) don’t live in those situations because you have plenty of alternatives probably 5 min drive away.
That is not even counting hundreds of people losing their jobs that I’m not gonna cheer about like some people here.
Re: Nintendo Music's Latest Update Adds Mario & Luigi Switch Soundtrack, Includes 94 Songs
@Twilite9 Why? Not everyone uses BlueSky and for good reason tbh.
Whether you like it or not X is still the major social media platform and not nearly enough people made the switch to BlueSky to justify pretending X doesn’t exist.
Too many relevant people in the industry still post on X (especially Japanese developers) that if they made an important post on X I doubt NL will ignore it out of some vague sense or morale duty or whatever buzzword.
Re: Tales Of Berseria Remastered - Switch Performance And Resolution Detailed
Not touching unless a proper S2 version with 60
Re: Atlus Looks Forward To Persona's 30th Anniversary In 2026, Acknowledges Support For Persona 4 Revival
@ZombAid82 P4 would be the odd duck out at this point out if P3 and P5 have a modern Atlus JRPG look and P4 doesn’t. P1-P2 doesn’t exist in their rear view mirror before someone brings them up.
P4 is popular enough to justify it since it was the most popular Persona game before P5. P4 did the “give them a bunch of spin-offs” before P5 jumped on that train.
P4 at the end of a day was a PS2 game that came out decade+ ago. Golden added content/QoL, but visually was still a PS2 era game.
I get lot of people are impatient for P6, but people need to remember the gap of P4 and P5 dropping first.
Re: Monolith Soft Signs Off For The Year, Thanks Fans for Support And Promises To Continue To Work Hard
Yeah hopefully they go back and give the Xenoblade games the S2 treatment. Especially XB2 that needs it the most.
Re: PSA: Skyrim's 'Anniversary Edition' Bundle Is Currently 60% Off, Includes Free Switch 2 Upgrade (Europe)
Lmao super quick fire sale. Sorry this isn’t worth touching with a stick until they actually do a heavy overhaul to justify this update. At least put the same effort as the Red Dead Redemption S2 update which was much better and you know…free.
Re: Square Enix's HD-2D Series 'Octopath Traveler' Hits Another Sales Milestone
And you wonder why SE LOVES the HD-2D games.
They are lower budget compared to their latest FF game and enough fans love it (that they actually buy it) to justify to keep making them.
Re: Switch 2's Mario Kart World Bundle Has Apparently Reached The End Of Its Lifecycle
No idea why people here are freaking out and going doom mode as if the bundle disappearing means S2 sales is gonna nose dive off a cliff.
These same people also thought the S2 was gonna underperform because “oh Steam deck” or “oh more expensive” or my personal favorite excuse “no games”. When in reality S2 is selling more then the S1 did ( considerably more) in the same timeframe.
It’s not new information that this was always a limited time bundle. It’s actually funny seeing how long this bundle stuck around if anything. Bundles having expiration dates isn’t new whether it’s PlayStation, Nintendo, etc.
This also doesn’t mean S2 won’t do another bundle anyway in the future. You know…like they already did with S1 that had multiple different bundles across its life.
Use some common sense people. If you want to do your daily hate on Nintendo then there is plenty to hate them for like GKC for instance.
Re: Nintendo Has A Game-Key Card Alternative In The Works With Smaller Switch 2 Carts
Anything that stops GKC releases outside of giant games is a good thing
Re: Bethesda Releases Skyrim Switch 2 Patch Addressing Input Latency Issues
Lmao no excuse for no 60 FPS on a S2 for an ancient game like this.
Re: Fire Emblem Shadows Makes Metacritic's "Worst Games Of 2025" List
@PikaPhantom considering the latter is practically the spiritual successor of Concord down to the tee of the social media accounts acting like entitled snobs at any remotely negative criticism I’m gonna put a dollar on Highguard. Nintendo EoS games typically last awhile. Certainly more than how fast Concord died.
Re: Fire Emblem Shadows Makes Metacritic's "Worst Games Of 2025" List
We could have got Switch 2 60 FPS compatibility for Three Houses instead.
Re: UK Charts: Metroid Prime 4 Falls From The Top Ten
No idea why people expected MP4 to sell amazing. The prime series (or hell most of the Metroid games that wasn’t Dread) was never that popular. It just was a beloved lower string Nintendo sub series of games. The whole reason Dread did amazing was because it was on the more popular 2D version (you know the genre that Metroid has half its name on) + people forgot it released/got heavily promoted with the OLED Switch 1 release.
That said this doesn’t mean MP4 flopped. From what I heard it had a decent launch for a Metroid game that wasn’t Dread. It just (as expected) not gonna have amazing legs because this isn’t exactly Mario Kart or Pokemon level of easy barrier of entry where it will have legs for literal years.
Re: Leon And Grace's Screen Time Will Be "Equally Split" In Resident Evil Requiem
Leon is THE anime protagonist of this series and at this point of the timeline it would be ridiculous to subject him to survival horror like he is back in Resident Evil 2 days. He should be a significant contrast compared to Grace who should stick to the survival aspect while Leon is backflipping, knife stabbing, running on walls, etc all over the zombies.
Re: The Game Awards GOTY For 2025 Is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
@Max_the_German If we are gonna quantify indie by the amount of people that worked in the project then none of them would be considered indie games. You have to be a “REAL” indie project like Schedule 1 where a single person named Tyler made a very successful game in the wake of the latest AssCreed launch.
Re: The Game Awards GOTY For 2025 Is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
@Axecon Why? E33 for all intent and purposes IS an indie game despite people sometimes forgetting since that game doesn’t look like a traditional indie game. E33 in general was a huge breakout title for the year and pushed the “turn based isn’t dead” message to the industry.
Re: Opinion: Resident Evil Requiem Needs To Solve The Series' Villain Problem
I find it hilarious how much of a bait and switch the giant vampire lady was.
She was THE character you thought of when you think of Village with her sheer popularity and all that marketing made it sound like she was gonna be a major character in the game just for her to be poof gone by early game.
Re: Leon Kennedy Is Confirmed For Resident Evil Requiem Via PSN Store Image
Leon hasn’t been seen in a new canon appearance since RE6 so glad to see him back. No idea why someone was complaining about Leon coming back when we had Chris Redfield shilling for the last two games.
Re: Surprise! 'Skyrim Anniversary Edition' Lands On Switch 2 Today
I feel sorry for the earlier comments asking for Oblivion Remaster with how badly they botched this Skyrim port on S2. If they can’t even make a 60 FPS non input lag for this ancient game on much better hardware then the S1 then I have no hope they would do a remotely good job with an Oblivion port.
Re: Mini Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition (Switch 2) - Just Hugely Disappointing
Garbage port
Re: Anniversary: Monolith Soft Celebrates Xenoblade Chronicles 2 With A Post, But We're Desperate For A Switch 2 Revamp
I enjoyed XB2 more then the 1st and 3rd game so I would appreciate if it got a S2 update especially when it needs it the most since it’s the worst optimized on handheld mode out of the main three.
Re: Review: Octopath Traveler 0 (Switch 2) - A Bit Of A Retread, But Unmissable (And Enormous)
lol people complaining about games that has 100+ hours of content and that should be a negative should speak for themselves.
P5R for example has an average clear time of 100 hours+ for a single playthough and that game has been critically well received. There are plenty of other similar length rpg games where 100+ hour sinks are not a problem, but for this game (a RPG btw that were always the longer hour sink genre) it’s now all of a sudden a problem?
Not every game has to be a “8 hour clear and then never touch again” experience just because “Oh I only have enough time to play videogames 1 hour a day because I’m old with kids so why no cater to my lifestyle?”
More content > less content objectively. The people that enjoy a lot of content win. The people that enjoy small games just play as much as they want and could come back later. They get the luxury of a choice. The reverse can’t be said to anyone that payed money just to finish the game within a day and left wanting more when it’s a short 10 hour game.
I blame this generation of “less is more” minimalistic lifestyle where they try to convince themselves getting less is a good thing.
Also P.S: A single play-through of Triangle Strategy wasn’t close to 100 hours even if you took the longest route and aimed to unlock as much characters as possible.
I don’t care how slow your reading is or how much you took your time during the combat sequences unless you spent a grossly unnecessary time grinding and even that is a stretch. I get lot of people like to over-exaggerate about Triangle Strategy’s exposition size just because it has a lot of words compared to the average game, but it’s getting ridiculous at this point if that translates into a 100+ hour play though.
Re: Japanese Charts: Kirby Air Riders Is Off To A Flying Start
I hate 1:1 comparison attempts when good faith context application isn’t utilized.
Re: Digital Foundry Dives Into Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition's "Big Downgrades" On Switch 2
@BaldB3lper78 It’s funny that they don’t do this whenever they review these same games on a Steam Deck which is a downgrade compared to someone playing it on a PS5 Pro. It’s always “Nintendo vs my PC rig” or “Nintendo vs PS5” which gives a laughably lop sided analysis.
Like no duh either frame performance, the graphics, or even both is gonna take a hit when you got a hybrid device compared to a a living room console.
Re: Metroid Prime 4's Official Rating Summary Spotted On ESRB Website
@JohntheRaptor considering how mediocre the last Doom game was (as someone that liked 2016 and Eternal) yes I’m more excited for a new Metroid Prime game.
Re: ICYMI: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Estimated Switch 2 And Switch File Size Revealed
What is nice about a genuine physical is you can largely avoid that file size if you want.
Re: More Legacy Characters Will Appear In Resident Evil Requiem, Producer Confirms
Of course they won’t to maximize the nostalgia bait. They are already using a Lady D skin for similar purposes.
Re: Review: DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO (Switch 2) - A Brilliant Brawler With A Colossal Roster
Fighting games at 30 FPS capped is instant skip. 60 has been the consistent standard for a reason. Even the S1 managed to maintain fighters at 60 FPS.
Re: Nintendo Had No "Intention To Hinder Or Invalidate" Third-Party Docks For Switch 2
How is it Nintendo’s fault that not every 3rd party manufacturer was a 1:1 compatible with the Nintendo update? Of course crap is gonna be out-of-sync depending on what was changed. Have you ever seen a Steam Deck update? Crap stops working temporarily all the time with various 3rd party devices.
It’s not Nintendo’s responsibility to babysit all the manufacturer companies and make sure their crap still works after the update. That is on them (the 3rd parties) if anything to do their own updates to make sure it’s 1:1 again.
Anyone that actually believed Nintendo was intentionally sabotaging is stupid considering there were other 3rd party manufacturers that were not effected at all so logic dictates that whatever was changed was the variable difference between company A and company B. Not some Nintendo hater wet dream fantasy.
Re: Digital Foundry Covers The "Disappointing Tech" In Pokémon Legends: Z-A
@fenlix Plenty of games in the past and today opt with zero voiced dialogue. Often only allowing just random noises as an intentional design decision at most.
Did you also complain about this in Minecraft? Animal Crossing? It’s not some mandatory feature that you think it is. Several famous JRPG games don’t have voices either so that isn’t a “gotcha” either.
People can read (including the children that is the target audience) and somehow people enjoyed Pokemon games for two+ decades so far despite said lack of voices. It’s weird people are so hung up on voices on a series that was never known to add voices beyond Pokemon noises. It’s not gonna enhance the experience that Troy Baker is talking if people are still gonna whine about how the building looks weird or whatever.
Re: Digital Foundry Covers The "Disappointing Tech" In Pokémon Legends: Z-A
Seriously? Out of all things you want to complain about this game it’s “NPC doesn’t move around” as if that hasn’t been a thing for several Pokemon games in the series. It’s up there with “why no voice?” of complaints.
The “tech” is gonna always disappoint Dfoundry because compared to the latest PS5 cinema slop game, the latest Pokemon games is always gonna be “not up to par”.
Meanwhile in practical gaming aspect most of the people that bought the game don’t give a single care about “lol funny building” and pick apart every little defect in a game.
One that is because that is a miserable way to play videogames if you’re that obsessed on focusing on just the flaws like your a content creator trying to fish donations from your funny negative reactions.
Two it’s greatly overshadowed by the actual positives the game has which said “critics” barely talk about (if at all) because it’s easy to jump on the bandwagon.
Re: Reggie Is "Surprised" We Haven't Seen More Xbox Titles On Switch 2
I find it funny for months Phil was hyping up Nintendo presence then Sony now gets Halo.
Re: Square Enix Aims To Automate 70% Of QA With Generative AI By 2027
AI is not even efficient most of the time especially when it’s used for phone customer service crap. All it achieves is more menus, waiting, and redos because of failed understanding
Re: Japanese Charts: Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake Shoves Pokémon Off The Podium
One day Sony can finally consistently sell more than the S1 generation.
Also suicide for a Tales of port to release alongside a DQ HD2D collection in Japan
Re: One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 - Switch 2 Edition Announced, Includes Free Upgrade For Switch Owners
@sixrings what do you mean? Most of the S2 Nintendo upgrades are free. The ones that are not are the ones that added stuff.
Sega and SE are the ones consistently refusing to do free upgrades even if they didn’t add anything at all.
Re: Switch 2 Sells Over 10 Million Units, Nintendo Increases Forecast Even Further
Ok laughing that there are people here who unironically think that it’s a GOOD IDEA to throw in the trash what has been working for two generations so far for Nintendo in favor of copying Microsoft. Gamepass and multiplatform releases is the quickest way to tank Nintendo lmao.
Nintendo makes their money from profit per unit hardware sales, profit large quantity exclusive software sales you legally can’t buy anywhere else, their online gaming tier subscription system, and of course Eshop naturally not giving cuts to anybody else Ala “if Mario was on Steam”.
Case in point that gamers should maybe stick to gaming and not business ideas just because they like the idea personally of paying a subscription for “free” Nintendo games.
What “works” (which is debatable) for MS doesn’t automatically work for Nintendo. Hell considering MS has reached the point of even giving their new exclusives to their direct competitor Sony shows how much MS has fallen over the years. You don’t do that if your previous business models were working because there is zero incentive to benefit the competition.
Some people need to understand the saying “don’t fix what isn’t broken” especially if your doing BETTER then the prior generation so far by NOT doing dumb ideas like follow MS.
Also PS2 stopped being in the cards to be passed by S1 the moment you have Sony execs pulling new numbers out of their ass decades later purely out of pettiness so don’t blame dumb reasons for why S1 can’t pass PS2 at this point.
Re: Switch Is Poised To Be Nintendo's Best-Selling Console Of All Time
Japan alone would push passed that threshold
Re: Sega Provides Updated Sales Figures For Sonic Frontiers And Sonic Superstars
It’s funny how in hindsight superstars was propped up as the rival to Mario Wonder, but superstars ended up being incredibly mid. Mania is still the only non port 2D Sonic worth playing.
Frontiers at least got better post launch.
Re: Monster Hunter Wilds Sales Hit The Brakes So Hard Last Quarter, Even 'Rise' Outsold It
Rise is still a fun game
Re: "Go Tell Nintendo" - Ex-Blizzard President Responds After Xbox Calls Exclusives "Antiquated"
Exclusives worked out for Nintendo in the way it didn’t for Sony and especially MS. There is a reason why they are the last “hold out” when both their hardware and softwares sell well in tandem when it’s a significant selling point that popular Nintendo games must be played on Nintendo platforms.
Like what incentive do they have to to drop their games on Steam where Valve would benefit more from this then Nintendo? As a result your hardware sales nosedive and value takes a chunk of your sales away from each copy sold instead of being bought on your Eshop .
Nintendo isn’t Sony/MS where they are that desperate to push more software units even if it’s at greater loss. Nintendo can push eight figure+ sales on one platform.