Banksie

I buy more games than i can play, that much is certain

Urgh, do i now need to consider any physical games i can get, that performance will actually be better as a download. I know on Switch 1 there was negligible difference in loading times - but that was it. This is suggesting actual performance differences. Even then, why can't the game data be on the card and installed to the Switch - that's something most will be happy with - the idea is that we always have a means to access the game and not depend on servers - so installing a game from a card can achieve that.

The only thing that i can think of that would hype me up is a return to form for Turok (Modern Doom is proof that there is an Audience for it) - however that isn’t going to happen as Turok is owned by Universal nowadays, and they are already making a game.

I think I'm going to avoid reviews on this one. For whatever dumb reason, review embargoes give me weird anxiety, and I just want to make an opinion for myself that has not been coloured by internet discourse.

Playing Death Stranding 2 right now, about 18 hours in - and once again it feels like great game systems built on the worst of open world busy work. Maybe I need to play the game differently, but building roads and repeating routes becomes a never ending slog. I felt this with the first game, but the Kojima nostaligia and "charm" made me remember it more fondly than I probably should give it credit for. DS2 feels like it's trying to right the wrongs of DS1 - but much like marmite, you are wither going to love this or hate this - I think I'm going to just run to end and see if that helps with the major Open World burnout this game gives me.

And point 5 - the publisher that said the sales were below their lowest estimates was probably Square Enix, who released bravely default, on a key card, and their lowest estimate was likely 15 million units day 1.

No, i find that exhausts me on the game. Play the game once, learn, get better, go back around with skills learnt and reapply.

It’s fitting that games that act like they running in Alpha team up with a chocolate maker that makes chocolate that tastes like it’s running in Alpha.

I can confirm that i have dodged a blueshell with a mushroom sans ghost, albeit entirely by accident and i assumed at the time the game bugged out/i just got very lucky with hit detection, but it turns out its a legit strat.

Just wait for the inevitable “joy con magnetic mouse dock”, or for Mobapad to create something.

@hbkay It isnt though, US prices don’t include tax, where as we in the UK have VAT baked into the price.

@Zealv2 I do think we will start seeing a lot less “purely” physical games on the Switch 2 - but such is the way in modern times. It’s almost impossible to escape the reality of patches and DLC, and that most games will never be “complete on cart” - but I’m at least happy it will be blatantly clear with Physical games are nothing more than a glorified code in a cart - and a license on a cart at least allows the second hand market to continue (a code in the box that is redeemed can never be resold). I may have to accept myself that physical collection of games is best left for my N64 and SNES, and that anything modern will always be reliant on the internet to having a true finished product.

@Flashlink99 Yeah, this is what I’m thinking. If it was “complete on cart”, then i would consider buying them - if not, then i see little point.

Is anyone able to clarify if the upgrade pack is included on cart, or if these are quite literally a Switch 1 game with license for the expansion pass on cart, but still needs to be downloaded.

I’ve started playing it, and it feels much more of a timesink than the other Xenoblade games. I can see this being the type of game i play in an empty summer. They don’t exist for me currently, and the thought if the time i need to invest is putting me off a little. Enjoyed the 5 hours i’ve put in so far though, though the character dialogue fills like waffle, and less thought has gone into character development.

Just going to indulge myself in some final switch games wishlist. Yoshi’s Wooly World and the HD Zeldas and i’ll be a happy chap

@Atariboy I’ve only done the N64 kit myself, and that was all done through the rumble pack. But yeah, i see it now - curious is you can get a usb c adapter

Maybe i’m being dumb, but i can’t see the method on how you would recharge the battery

And here is me thinking that being in my mid 30's I'd get to be sensible with my money, but then Nintendo and Lego join forces and found a way to extract money from me every year - and now Zelda is going to be in the annual new set release schedule, I might as well resign myself to the fact of spending £500+ a year on lego.

DK64 for NSO (maybe along with some other Rare games, Tooie and Bad Fur Day for example)

Wind Waker, Twilight Princes, Prime 2 and 3.

AND maybe one big last swan song game - like a brand new DK country game (please!!)

Prime 4 is going to be a cross get game at this point, and something of a show off launch title for the Switch 2, with the bells and whistles to distinguish it from it's Switch 1 counterpart.

@Dragonite89 why? The business model works, games remain manageable to develop and fans have been happy. Why change it?

@JohnnyC you silly sausage, they were invisible because of goat magic.

I’ve got a tasty lead on the last lap once before, only to be bumped off mid jump by the ghost of a defeated player.

And here i came expecting to see a snake, or at least Rowan Atkinson.

The series is called "The Legend of Zelda", not "The History of Zelda" or "The indisputable truth of Zelda"... I've taken the title in recent years to reflect exactly what we are getting. A legend, a tale told around a campfire, and that tale changes over time, it evolves, the teller adds flair, and what is correct no longer matters, it is the legend that matters. So, I imagine we are getting told the same story over and over, and even within the game themselves, the stories they are referring back to (which maybe older games) have become legends. It's fluffy, not concrete and I kinda love it for it.

I like that both games feel different, have a different energy. But I get the chill vibe every time I head up to the sky islands - it's so serene and isolated up there that it replicates that feeling.

@TheBigBlue I think (key word “think”) all the controllers bar the classic reproductions have gyro sensors in.

I wish everything was announced like this. No hype, no disappointment - it just comes out and we play and discuss.

@Chaotic_Neutral It’s meant to be honest - i don’t wish for people to continue playing games they don’t enjoy. Whats the point! Though i do disagree with Zelda being considered a “kids” game. I mean, some “kids”
games are by far the most challenging and rewarding games i’ve played - so i’m not sure by what definition we are using to describe a “kids” game.

@Chaotic_Neutral Hope you enjoy Grounded. We (or I at the very least) will carry on enjoying the games we enjoy, this currently being TOTK.

A return to Termina would be ace. Also reintroduce everything working on a schedule that resets after a set amount of days, without having the same restrictions of losing everything. I loved seeing all the cogs turn in Majoras mask, and being in X location at X time means something.

LCD is not OLED... and I really do hope we don't go backwards from OLED

Have the day/night cycle, just don't let night mean automatic death - just make nighttime hard as nails but with better rewards

Appreciate i’m in a minority here, but how do i say i’m getting it both digitally and physically - only reason i’m getting it physical is for the collectors edition

Wake me up when picross 3d gets announced

@CharlieGirl If anyone is going into this film expecting anything more than an easy watch that you can takes the kids to, then you’re going to the wrong film. Relax, take it easy and just try to enjoy the thing for what it is and not what it isn’t.

A point no one (I think) has made - digital foundry found that games ran marginally better from system memory or a micro DS card than they did from the game cards. Also convenience. But I would go physical if I could install the game and not need to swap out game cards… alas, that isnt an option.

@broskiplays I dunno, if BOTW and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 can give us decent open worlds, then Pokemon certainly can

not gonna lie, the title had me panicking for a moment

I read this as LEGO reveal… you have no idea how quickly i went from extreme hype to extreme disappointment

Yeah, but the 24th of July of what year??

Sega is going to bollocks this up. It has Sonic as a bankable franchise, thats it. It isnt Nintendo with endless recognisable characters. Sonic and done. It’s going to sink all its gains in to endless movies, they all tank, and before you know it Sega has done what it has always done, worked itself out of a market. Meanwhile, Nintendo and Sony game movies define the next era of films now the superhero fad is fading slowly away.

These already exist, albeit not designed specifically for the switch. I have one for a portable monitor, but the Switch fits in it perfectly

Don’t wanna be “that guy” (… or maybe i do), but isn't anything garbage, simply place it in a bin and hey presto you have new garbage. So this is someone who built a rather impressive miniature out of stuff.

I’d be lucky if I get to play (and complete) one game I want to per month, but I like this idea!

premium decals AKA 10 pence worth of stickers

better still, there’s no timeline for Kirby game stories

Now just something of a gaming profile to show off your credentials. Not necessarily achievements, but something. Miiverse was something! Right now we have nothing.

Will get this digitally, i just need to deep breath wait patiently for about 2 - 3 weeks for an inevitable sale. I must stop buying games the day they release for me to only not touch them for months/years on end.

Can i make a humble request that we stop doing these kind of articles across the internet. Yes time passes, and eventually it will be X years since X event happened - but i genuinely do not see any benefits in pointing it out? We are hardly celebrating anything, simply just witnessing the passing of time.