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@Silly_G This is a valid criticism of games like dark souls remastered but I have to cut smash ultimate some slack here. How many songs/hours of music exist in that game? If they didn't compress it I can't imagine how much space that would take up.

Monster hunter is the new dragon quest. They should just give kids a day off from school when a new one launches.

My God, I can't handle all of these releases. That won't stop me from buying them all though!

Grimace hungers for competition! Fighter 5 confirmed!

You guys finish that crash bandicoot mobile game yet? You did? Well, there's the door.

Game came out summer 2018... almost three years ago. It's fine that's its coming to other platforms. If you're that hurt by this game leaving switch as an exclusive just look at the PC sales vs switch sales. PC only sold like half a mill while switch had 2 mill+, other platforms will probably see similar number to PC meaning future projects will still be developed primarily with switch in mind. Stop complaining about exclusivity, the more the merrier!

Oh good, so they're listening to the feedback and throwing the game in the garbage? Because that's all they can do at this late stage to fix it.

I'm sure sakurai spent long hours in his house/office studying these statues to get the smash models juuuuust right... many many long hours.

@anoyonmus I'm not a fan of cloud gaming, but in the case of online only gaming I actually think it makes a lot of sense. Typically when playing a a game like ff14 or WoW, your character is stored on the company servers and when logging in you have to go through DRM just to play. In cases like these cloud gaming is the perfect solution, in fact, why isn't ff14 on switch via cloud services? That would be far more interesting than this game.

Trying to finish bravely default 2 so I can get back to persona 5 strikers and ghosts and goblins. I'm hoping to finish them before monster hunter. Spoiler alert: it ain't happening : (

This is an interesting debate.

Firstly, I agree with most of the sentiments of this editorial. People should not feel pressured to complete games and the individuals that try to gate keep or diminish others' experiences just because they do not conform to some twisted "core gamer" ideology just need to get on with their lives.

Where I might disagree is with the idea that a game can be experienced without necessarily completing it. Yes, there are plenty of games where I whole-heartedly approve of this message. While I enjoy most Bethesda games I would not say that a person who completes a Bethesda game has gained any additional insight with the game or has fundamentally achieved something that could not be had by playing around in a Bethesda sandbox for several hours before throwing in the towel. However, this is not the case with all games; especially not games like Nier: Automata or Undertale. Someone who picked up Nier and played it for 10 hours only to put it down and never touch it again did not actually enjoy the same game as the person who saw the game through to 100% completion. Not even close.

Oh, thank goodness. Now let's get a release date for this AND V on March 20th and I'll be a happy boy.

720 is fine, few games actually hit that benchmark but those that do look beautiful. If the new model is powerful enough to allow more games to hit that mark I will be happy. Hell, I will replay XC2 in its entirety a fourth time if I can play it 720p in handheld.

That's a thing. Honestly, why does anyone care about how good/bad nintendos voice chat is? As a person who has been using third party apps to chat in PC games since the mid 2000s I have to wonder who uses first party? No, for real, do people actually use sony or Microsoft or epic first party voice chat? Doesn't everyone just use discord?

Whoa. Way sooner than I thought. Can't wait, but I also realized that this game, disgaea 6 and skyward sword are all launching within a three week period....

For all the toxicity rampant amongst switch port beggers I place the blame squarely on Atlus' shoulders. They have been doing these surveys every year since 2017 with little to show. I get the impression that community engagement exercises like this just give the audience false hope and fuel the endless social media hype cycle towards things that don't exist and may never exist.

This is cool and all, but I'm not sure I understand the point? Most diablo players only play seasons and roll new characters accordingly. I guess it's neat looking at old characters in your player select screen but does anyone actually play those old characters beyond a quick session or two for nostalgia?

@Nymos Sadly, this is actually a great business decision. By putting a solid expiration date on the product they've guaranteed more sales than what they would have gotten.

Annoying and anti-consumer? Yup. Bad business? Anything but.

I see plague knight finally graduated from Hollywood upstairs medical college

@JustMe Yeeeeah, Amazon is always a gamble with pre orders. I ordered through them too and I've got my fingers crossed they don't botch the launch.

Looks like my fears were justified. BD2 will not outsell OT despite being the better game. Remember, people will buy sub par games so long as they look pretty. Honestly, if forums are any indication BD2 is gonna fail based entirely on its visuals even though the actual gameplay and characters are fantastic not to mention leagues better than OT. Not looking forward to OT becoming a new brand and BD slipping into obscurity.

Oof, February had way too many games, luckily the only game I want in March is monster hunter and that releases at the end! Plenty O time to play bravely default, persona strikers and ghosts and goblins until then.

Busy week. Juggling between bravely default 2, ghosts n goblins and person 5 strikers. Bravely default has really sunk its teeth into me though. Probably going to spend most of my time with that game.

Steam versions of console games usually lag pretty far behind in sales. Octopath and daemon both sold considerably less on PC than switch and even monster hunter world PC sales paled in comparison to ps4. The truth is, most consumers are too impatient to wait 6 months to a year for pc ports so they just end up buying the console versions.

Sableye?! Now we're talking! Glad to see a personal favorite so high up, especially since I feel like I'm alone in my sableye love.

@Tipehtfomottob I respectfully disagree in regards to the Switch pro. Now is the time to release a pro model, when the console is on fire, not when sales begin to slack. The best way to appease customers in the twilight years of a console is to release a cheaper product, whether that is by simply reducing the base price or making a slimmer model that cuts production cost down. Problem with pro models is that they are A.) More expensive and B.) Marketed towards a more hard core niche market. The hard core players are also usually your early adopters so they are also the ones most hungry for an upgrade and you need to do it while you still have a strong mind share in the market.

Ahhh. Its nice being with the Phantom Thieves again.

@TriforceReturns Yes, but the reasoning is less heinous than most people would have you believe. The characters were only changed to maintain smash's " E" rating. If smash had a higher age rating these characters wouldn't have been altered.

@XenoShaun shrug
As far as leakers, at least Jeff has a good track record. I'll wait and see though.

XC2 and it's dlc are my favorite games from the monolith team, and that includes the games they made before becoming monolith like xenogears. Was very pleased to see a rep make it into smash.

Hmm. Just saw that this will be released at a budget price. Makes me doubt we're getting physical. On the other hand, this will be a much easier pill to swallow when I buy both the PC and switch versions.

@dojmin Luckily the team responsible for warcraft 3 reforged got canned and put on other projects. The team working on this remake is Vicarious Visions, the same people responsible for the crash trilogy and Tony hawk remakes; a team that actually knows what they're doing.

@GC-161 Wow. That's toxic. I hope this ends up being one of their best sellers just to spite those people.

@GC-161 well, they can piss-off then.

@Darlinfan Free version also doesn't have licensed music for rock and roll racing. Just checked, apparently this release does.

@Nitwit13 Just rewatched. Yup, thats highway star, baby! Take my money!!!!

@Northwind Diablo 3 had a rough launch and I think a lot of people never forgave it. Honestly current d3 is pretty good, and while I think d2 still did some things better, when it comes to end game d3 is much more satisfying. Not a fan of endless baal runs, ubers and ridiculous farming for runewords

Hmm, doesn't appear as though they are changing the end game. That's a shame. I love d2 and will definitely buy this but endless baal runs just to get to ubers is something I hoped they would change.

Oh my science. How I've longed for this moment.

@PortuGuy I need to know this too. Last time they re-released it they didn't bother with licensing the music and it sucked.

Gimme that farfetch'd!

Wow, first mario-kun, then the Iwata book and now this?! It's about time Nintendo recognizes people outside Japan want this non video game Nintendo media.

Just finished reading through this whole comment section.

Welp, that's enough internet for today!

Very excited. I'll admit, I'm one of those people who hated the new character visuals when I first saw them, but I absolutely love this series and I've since gotten over my initial disdain for the character models. Between this, persona 5 strikers and ghosts and goblins I'll have plenty to play until monster hunter arrives next month.

Rise is pre ordered, no need to do more convincing, Capcom. However, I am excited to learn more about stories 2.

@KimBread oh man, the good ol' days of using gamefaqs in the family computer room. I remember my dad got pissed at me because I didn't want to run back and forth between my bedroom and the computer room so I just printed a whole guide and went through all our printer paper. I mean, I'm not gonna print double sided! I'm not some monster, dad!

@masterLEON Bridget Bridge. There, fixed that for you Capcom.

@michellelynn0976 @DEEZ_NUT_DA_MAn Same. Dont care what anyone says or thinks. There is so much creativity on display with 3d world. It is also the best parts of literally every mario game possible; you can definitely feel the influence of super mario world, mario 3, mario 2 (US), the 3d mario games and even NSMB.

WHAT?! I want that Shin-chan game!

Weirdest thing about this trailer was hearing Tara Strong as Batgirl using a completely different voice than the one I grew up hearing.