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A good selection to finish off, but I'm still surprised they haven't added any way of creating custom track playlists like they did with the item selection, just so I could turn off all the mediocre tour tracks...

@BloodNinja I usually agree with your comments man, but that is all utter nonsense. You cannot know any of the things you've asserted until the game is released, and the fact you won't respond and have edited after the fact shows you know you're talking out your posterior. Ninja disapproved.

I find the lack of 12 disturbing.

It cracks me up how we still have people complaining bitterly that the underpowered console, that was underpowered when it launched 4 years ago, made my a company that has made underpowered machines for nearly 20 years now 'DoESn'T RUn aT 60FpS 1o8oP!?'. I completely get it if performance is an issue for you, but in that case, just play it on another system? For people like me and many others who don't have any other choice, or just don't care, 30FPS/720P is perfectly serviceable for jumping online for an evening with some friends as long as it's stable. The fact developers are even attempting these ambitious ports to a handheld is nothing but a positive thing.

Would be awesome if I could actually play it.. Now 4:30pm and the eshop still hasn't updated!? 😐

I bounced off Blasphemous pretty hard when it launched, even as an avid Dark Souls/Metroidvania fan. However I returned to it during lockdown last year and played it all the way through, including the secret ending and loved it. The art style is gorgeous, the combat is tight, and if you can get over the initial learning curve (as with all these kinds of games) it's an incredibly rewarding and enjoyable romp, highly recommended!

@Stormcloudlive Switch is only compatible with, SD, SDHC and SDXC memory cards, which only support capacity up to 2TB, so a 3TB card isn't possible. Above 2TB you go to a SDUC card, which isn't supported. So my comment isn't coming from complete ignorance, but thanks for the tip anyway.

@RasandeRose I'm sure there are plenty of people, myself included that need more space, especially as the consoles lifespan has gone on and we've seen bigger and more demanding ports coming over. I have around 170 switch games, 120 of them are digital, and I've just filled my 512GB card,

@Savino I'm in exactly the same situation, 32GB of internal storage was woefully short sighted by Nintendo, but then again, so is 1TB from Sony and Microsoft seemingly when a lot of AAA games are starting to clock up triple figure install size

@nhSnork ah cool! Thanks for clarifying, I have a 512GB card that Is full but 1TB cards are still far too expensive...

@MontyCircus unfortunately the switch is only compatible with cards up to 1TB, which I think they said from the start of production, not sure if this is something they can update either but I may be wrong

@BloodNinja that's somewhat encouraging! Thanks man!

But more importantly, how much is this hog gonna take up on my storage? 🤔

Handy for me, as I leant my copy to a friend who subsequently vanished off the face of the earth and I can't get it back 😂 looks like I'm double dipping...

These are all stunning, but £130!? Christ on a unicycle 😑

I dunno about this, I think what we really needed was a nice stability update...

I was so excited to play this, Doom 2016 is one of my all time favorites but this is too little far too late, especially without even a physical cartridge to show for the delay. Hope its good for the people who do pick it up, but I'm past caring.

@BongoBongo123 That's a shame because Hades is light years better than all their other titles. Bastion bored me so I didn't get very far, Transistor was a cool concept and I loved the setting , but the combat never clicked so again, I didn't get very far. But I've been hooked on Hades for a few days now and it absolutely is worth picking up.

@Muddy_4_Ever yup, they must know thats a major complaint from the community, and the fact they haven't even mentioned it doesn't fill me with hope. 'optimised controls for switch' could literally mean anything,

@DanElectrode my guess would be that they have plans post march 2021 to add some of the games to the switch online service, especially N64. They don't want this competing with potential online subscriptions maybe?

They have done this before though, as I'm sure the Mario 25th anniversary collection on Wii was a limited release, and that didn't seem to be for any reason in particular. Either way it's achieved the desired effect of selling boat loads of copies.

But more importantly, have they fixed Sunshine's camera!?

@Casual_Gamer95

Well considering we've had major ports of Witcher 3, Doom 2016, Crysis, Dark Souls, Overwatch and Diablo 3 to name just a small few, I dont really think switch owners are missing out much... If anything PS4 and Xbone owners are missing out on the huge amount of top tier Switch exclusives.

Nintendo haven't really tried to compete on power since the N64 and seeing as the switch has now sold over 55 million units and isn't showing any signs of slowing, I don't really see how they need to learn anything? Xbox and PlayStation are busy fighting it out and Nintendo are just doing there own thing as usual. People buy Nintendo products for their first party games first and foremost, everything else is just a bonus in my eyes.

@Yalaa I completely agree with you, the only difference is I believe the switch install base is very different to the Wii and DS. A huge amount of people who owned those consoles were never in any danger of being remotely interested in a game like Metroid, I think with the huge success the Switch has seen with the indie scene and metroid-vania style games like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, it's entirely reasonable to think a Metroid game could do well. But 'could' is the important word in that sentence, because Nintendo are hilariously tone deaf when it comes to some franchises.

@Yalaa that's kind of a false equivalence, because if you're a 'fan' then presumably you would? What we need to be asking is how Nintendo market it to a wider audience to draw in more people who haven't engaged with the series before. They've done it before with series like Fire Emblem, so there's no reason why Metroid couldn't.

@PickledKong64 in answer to the earlier question, I'm really not sure why I stopped playing Earthbound! Probably cos it was on my Wii U, and I got a new 3DS shortly after and as usual, had a backlogue the length of my arm. Its been on my to re visit list for a long time, I enjoyed what I did play.

@PickledKong64 I elaborated in a different comment that I wasn't being serious, I'm a die hard Metroid fan, I've got most of the games day 1 (including samus returns, which I love) but I'm aware the sales numbers are shocking. I whole heartedly think if it was given the push it deserves it could sell a lot of copies, and there's no better time to do it than now. But unfortunately with Metroid Prime 4 being delayed and likely coming at the end of the Switch's lifespan, the cycle of poor sales will likely continue.

@LUIGITORNADO sounds easy right!? The marketing is always a killer, they don't want to put money into it because they don't think it'll sell, then it doesn't sell because no one knows about it... Catch 22.

@CromAstronomy Mother is one that I'd love to get into! I've only briefly played Earthbound, but I'd love to see the Trilogy come to switch so I can play them all properly. The list of Nintendo's forgotten franchises is exhausting and infuriating.

@Jacob1092 I wasn't being entirely serious as I know that Metroid traditionally has never sold well despite its critical success and fan base (which hurts my soul every day) . But that is an interesting question, I'd say probably its down to the quality, animal crossing has traditionally long development cycles and is generally well received by everyone. So it's a big event when it does launch. It also has a huge range of appeal, I found that when NH launched people were popping up on my social media that had never mentioned a passing interest in gaming all of a sudden buying a switch and putting 100+ hours into AC. Which is cool to see, but I doubt many of them would also be excited for a new Metroid title. Over the years Nintendo's reluctance to commit to the series (understandably from a sales perspective) has led to some wildy differing quality in titles, with a fan base becoming more and more hostile as they wait years for a new installment to then get something like federation force. Its one of the biggest missed opportunities in gaming I think, with the right budget and creative talent I don't see a reason it couldn't be another BoTW level success, but that's coming from a die hard fan who 26 years on still can't get over Super Metroid...

Here's a quick pointer Nintendo, I may not be a business insider, but I'm pretty sure you have to make Metroid games in order for them to sell? Just a thought.

@BradC40 I'll give any company a pass for not operating at full capacity this year, there are more important things at stake than getting video games on time.

The saving grace of 2020 is that we know plenty is coming, and we've had 3 solid years of releases on switch. I got back into Nintendo in 2014 during the Wii U, and not only was there a huge draught of content, but we also knew fairly soon that they were focusing on the NX, so it was just a case of sit and wait until the new console arrived, dark times indeed.

@DawgP really good points, If people were more educated and up to date on the practices of the companies they supported, and spent based on that, I don't think many of the big players would be in business!

It's all about the context of the game you're talking about, I have plenty of 100+ hour games that I would have happily parted with more cash for. When you compare to other mediums, for example paying £10 for a cinema ticket that lasts 3 hours max, I would consider anything over or around 20 hours to be worth full price. The real issue is always what you're getting for that investment, which obviously varies from person to person, but the reason I won't pay £50 for a ubisoft/activision/EA title now, is the exact same reasons I won't pay £60 for the same games in the future, because I don't feel they give me the value back for the cash I invested. But would I spend an extra £10 for 150 hours in Breath of the Wild? Absolutely!

This also feeds into why physical media dying is going to be a huge negative for consumers in the long run, once the competition of sales go away, the publisher storefronts can charge whatever they want and we have to just suck it up if we want to play their games.

Oh would you look at that, the Internet hype train went chugging along, everyone jumped on board face first and it's led to disappointment! What an unforeseeable turn of events...if only we'd had years of this same routine to look back on and be realistic in our expectations beforehand...

But seriously, we need to stop putting so much stock into what a few random twitter accounts say. A broken clock is right twice a day and all that jazz.

@Reprise yea man I was the same, I picked up the first on offer and thought at least it would give me a good giggle at how awful it was, but then ended up playing it non stop and beating it within a week! Just shows you that games are more than a sum of their individual parts, and definitely opened me up to giving other games a shot that I wouldn't usually try.

@Dethmunk because the games have plenty more to offer and enjoy beyond its visual presentation, you should give the first one a try, you'll probably be surprised how entertaining it is. Not every game needs to be a AAA boundary pushing visual orgasm.

Man, these comments are a factory of sadness. 'Unplayable' literally means the game cannot be played, so anyone using that term is being hyperbolic and disingenuous. I'll concede the framerate outside is pretty poor, and it's about as visually appealing as a traffic collision, but it has plenty more to offer, and I'm still having a blast with it, just like the first game.

I find the lack of Deadly Premonition 2 disturbing.

For all those losing their minds over this, the developer did not say there were no plans to fix the game. They actually said (according to Jim Sterling's own twitter post) that 'Currently we're looking into our options for a possible patch, but nothing is confirmed yet'. So Jim either mis-quoted them in his own video, or the developers changed their minds within hours.

@Ninjatiptoes ah I see, yea I'm with you on that, Deadly premonition 1 was exactly the same, I loved the jank and it made the game a much funnier and enjoyable experience for me, but others absolutely couldn't get past it.

@Ninjatiptoes I agree with you mostly, but framerate and performance do have a large impact on gameplay, regardless of how fun it is. I find the jank and performance issues make the original even more hilarious, as long as its playable that's the main thing that matters.

I have been irrationally excited about this game since playing the first earlier this year, I highly recommend them to anyone who wants to play something different, or just wants a good laugh. They're a sublime trainwreck and you'll love them for it.

This is the type of game that would never have appealed to me pre-lockdown, but seeing as I'm out of work until September I've been rolling the dice on some different genres and I can't wait for my pre order to arrive!

With how the Royal mail are doing it should be here by the time I go back to work 😑

@OldMcGroin I thought that was Alduin from Skyrim?

This always seemed like a neat idea in concept, and i was excited to play it through with my girlfriend as her first ARPG, but i'll probably just wait for all the DLC now as the base game seems a bit barren on content.

@frabbit 3 quid for the collectors edition as well! I saw that and looked back every day for stock but they never had any 😔

This and deadly premonition 2 on the same day!? The nine divines have blessed us!

Konami is the Smaug of video game companies, sat on a pile of IP's that have been proven to print cash and doing bugger all with them, instead the only thing they do release is a small indie looking platformer? So bizzare. Don't get me wrong it looks cool (and its nice to see them greenlight something that isn't pachinko machines) but I'm pretty sure this wouldn't be people's first choice for a new Konami title...

@Syndrome haha! We can all dream of a Prime 4 release next month, if that did happen I'd combust from sheer shock and excitement.