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@Sinton Yeah, I thought about that too.

Demo surprised me. Given it's explosion on social media platforms this game may go from obscure quaint nintendo experiment to a game that sells 2 mill or more.

Oof, considering summer lasts until late September that means we will be waiting until the end of the year or possibly early 2022 before this hits switch.

@Lord Pokemon snap comes out this week. That will claim #1 next week, although I guarantee Rise will take second place and Nier will probably fall pretty hard given that its a niche game and Playstation games have a very bad habit of falling off a cliff after week one.

@nessisonett Tokyo mirage sessions was the most recent time I think.

My God. Playing the demo and I just can't believe the creativity of some people. The Miis I've downloaded are amazing. I was on the fence earlier but this game is legitimately charming, picking it up day one now.

Lame, I wish people wouldn't ruin others' fun... although this is a remake, technically wasn't this spoiled 30 years ago?

Update will probably go live that day sometime after the event concludes. Can't wait.

Wow... another friggin July game?! Please, publishers, stagger releases more! This is nuts. Well, at least I'll have plenty to play this year. My prediction last year that the switch is on a star trek movie cycle appears to be accurate. Odd numbered years are great, even numbered years suck. Hopefully 2022 will break that trend with pokemon arceus, splatoon 3, and triangle strat.

@nessisonett Darn! I was really hoping for an Overwatch x Winnie the Pooh crossover event.

Oh, social media platforms, will you ever not disappoint me?

Well, since we're here now I may as well weigh in on this argument. The way I see it, a game dev is a generic catch-all term for anyone working within game development. You can sub-divide these people into categories like coders, writers, artists, directors, QA testers, etc but they all fall under the umbrella of dev. The term "developer" is too nebulous of a descriptor so may as well have it apply to everyone involved in the process.

Cant wait to play this again. I don't think it will change my opinion that 4 is better, in fact I think it will only strengthen that resolve. Strangely, the limitations of the 3DS ended up working in that game's favor. The ugly muted visuals gave the game a tremendous sense of dread and despair. The game really made you feel like you were in a post apocalyptic hell scape with its dirty and bleak aesthetic.

Shame. This was nintendo at its most nintendo but the pricing and expectation that consumers would want to build something before playing was its downfall. Also, they should have led with the vehicle kit or made sure all kits were as "gamey" as that one. Vehicle kit was legitimately fun as a game for about 10 to 15 hours.

@Shadeon_Koopa Yup. During the trailer shown at the indies world direct the beheaded was on screen for a second or two.

Like an anime prom on fan night... wait.

Lost Vikings 2?! Has this game ever seen a re-release? Was already on the verge of pulling the trigger but this seals the deal!

Tales of destiny remaster would be nice. Genuinely surprised the only tales game we have on switch is Vesperia. Thought for sure Switch would at the very least get Berseria since it launched at the beginning of the Switch's life cycle and would have been a good 6 month/1 year late port to get the franchise established on the platform.

@nessisonett Yeah... dark souls 2 is... special. I don't hate it like most people do but... yeah....

@Lukeim64 Sadly, amiibo just aren't popular enough to manufacture in bulk. The fact Nintendo is still making amiibo at all for the hard-core collector is kind of amazing.

@Anti-Matter You've just described every single person ever. Yeah, not a single game is made for all people. Despite the popularity of mario kart and animal crossing there are plenty of people who hate them. Also niche genres and ideas are greatly appreciated by others. Astral chain is one of my favorite exclusives.

Additionally, I didn't mention you complaining about old IP, my whole post was arguing your logic that there is no new IP when there has been plenty of new IP. You literally said "I'm waiting for something completely new, not based on old IP"

@Anti-Matter Not sure what you're even complaining about. I see this a lot, people want new IP but then when a new IP comes out they complain about not liking it. News flash, a new IP is untested and there is always a chance you may not personally like it but don't act like these new ideas don't exist.

@SpaceKaren The switch era alone has seen Arms, Labo, Astral chain, and Ring Fit. All new IPs all owned by Nintendo.

Normally I ignore photo features in games but for whatever reason I've gotten really addicted to taking photos of everything and cataloging all monsters and endemic life in MHR. Honestly, the new exploration options (wirebug and palamute) coupled with the relic treasure hunts and photo mode have made me spend a lot more time in exploration quests than I thought I would.

I can't believe it, but for once they added something to monster hunter that I enjoy as much as fighting big ass monsters!

Nothing surprising here. Switch has been pretty consistent with this ideology. Maintain core series like mario and zelda while releasing the occasional experiment like arms, labo, Astral chain, or ring fit. If a new idea hits - like splatoon -treat it like a mario or zelda game moving forward.

@shgamer Yes. Shipped includes number of physical copies sent to retail plus all digital sales. The reason publishers talk about shipped rather than sold is because its all the same on a publisher level. If a retailer orders 100k copies the publisher gets paid upfront or recieves a partial payment for those shipped units.

Stupid sexy Machamp!

Hmm, it appears 1 and 2 are coming to switch this year in japan but licensing may prevent it from coming out in the west. As others have mentioned there is some legal red tape involving Xseed. However, if my research is correct, it appears as though xseed only owns the rights to the actual voiced dialog but not the script, if that is the case they could just have NIS publish 1 and 2 with japanese voices only and English subtitles... assuming this info is accurate.

@BloodNinja The Mii shogun is sending his elite assassins as we speak.

@Mr-Fuggles777 How did the jacket turn out?

Hopefully it's better this year. I didn't think anything could be worse than E3, but where there's a Keighley there's a way.

@idrawrobots LOL, maybe greedy isn't the right word, although holding them hostage with limited events and re-releasing them on every console without a unified store is greedy.

@AnnoyingFrenzy I was about to bring up the giga leak as well. Truth be told this is less an issue with preservation and more an issue with allowing consumers to have access to classic games (which they should and companies like nintendo need to stop being so greedy). Between rights holders' personal files, ROM sites and the public's own collections the vast majority of games are archived in some capacity. Even if a source code is lost and the game is completely reconstructed from scratch or the only surviving copy is a form of emulation based on original code it is still preservation. Not to get all "ship of theseus" but most original works of art dating back to antiquity could be argued as not genuine since most have had massive restoration efforts in order to preserve them. What matters more, the idea of the Mona Lisa or the paints originally used to create it?

Hopefully a release date. It was announced with a tentative "summer 2021", right? Hoping for July or August but knowing the industry it will be the last week of September, which although still technically summer in the business world, is actually autumn

@TheSwitcher Luckily I pre ordered from Amazon so I got the game on-time... BUT, my gamestop amiibo are not arriving until April 5th... yeah, gamestop sucks. Also sucks that the MH stories 2 amiibo are also exclusive through gamestop so that's gonna be frustrating.

@Dringo Not tricky at all, they will continue to release handheld versions because they are also cheaper to make. MHR's break even point is significantly lower than worlds.

@Dringo It will be a few weeks before we know just how well rise did compared to world in japan. World had a big launch but didn't have much legs.

Time for japan to make monster hunter releases an official holiday like they used to do for DQ way back when.

Well, duh. Anywho, anyone care for a McRib?

Vesperia is my favorite with Symphonia a close second so I'm pleased with this list. Symphonia remaster when?

Absolutely loving the game. As a long time monster hunter fan I will admit that the base game is too easy, but that will get fixed with updates as all MH games are. However, what really makes me happy with rise is that it's not ashamed to be a MH game. My biggest issue with world (despite liking it) was that they stripped the game of much of its identity to appeal to non japanese gamers. Why was there no "so tasty" after cooking, why were Palicos' roles in the game diminished, why were maps made ridiculously big other than to flex the power of the hardware and brag that it was open world without stopping to think about how annoying it would be to navigate these labyrinths after the first 100 hours when all you really want to do is fight friggin' monsters!? These may seem like minor grievances but these changes did kill the experience I had with World.

@Muh-ario Yeah, I replayed 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 when they released on switch and boy has 10 aged poorly. Honestly it was the worst experience I had when revisiting these games.

Wait, 6 is popular in japan too? I thought it was just the west that showered it with praise. So why are we not getting a re-release on modern platforms or a remake, perhaps in the octopath engine?

Whoa! That's what Eve looked like?! I need to start going to church!

@gaga64 Um, obviously. I'll upload my years of documentation into a spreadsheet and post it in Google drive

As an American who loves Gengar this can't be accurate. I am the only person I've ever known who loves Gengar

@Ralizah Thank you for pointing this out. Seems like a lot of people slept on 2019 when it was one of nintendos best years in history; not as good as 2017 but darn close.

The issue as you highlighted is that nintendo publishes a lot of games across many genres and this leaves many gamers who want your bog-standard AAA experiences feeling cold. Sony's recent strategy has been to dial in on games that hit the largest demographic possible, but for people like myself that enjoy variety its caused me to be less compelled to play my playstation.

Don't get me wrong, I still love playstation and spend a lot of time on that machine but Sony isn't exactly outputting the same kind of wacky release schedules like nintendo's summer 2019 which saw: mario maker 2, ultimate alliance 3, three houses, Astral chain and daemon ex machina; five games that couldn't be more different from one another.

@E_Gadds_Garage Well how was I supposed to know the monkey's paw was cursed?!

@BloodNinja Wait, are you saying ff16 won't be the last one? Curses! Fooled again!

@Silly_G What about dlc though? They fit the base game on a 32gb card but now you've set a standard for the music quality. Is nintendo gonna then make players buy a micro sd card just so that they can have all the dlc when everything is said and done after a few years? Also, I think nintendo has a policy in place that a game can't exceed 16gb for digital only buys, I doubt they want to make any first party title require buying additional storage. Imagine if the base game plus dlc ended up being 50gb, if you only buy digital thats a tall order for the switch, and I am willing to bet it would hurt sales.

@UltimateOtaku91 monster hunter rise will have a long string of free updates that will probably balloon that file size, I wouldn't worry. I suspect that covid plus the data breach meant they had more delays than they expected but still wanted to get the game out before the end of the fiscal year. Given the absurd length of MH games, waiting one month for more content probably won't be an issue as I don't see myself burning through over 100 hours in less than four weeks.