8 or 9 year old me asked for Star Trek: 25th Anniversary for my birthday in 91 or 92 and I played the hell out of it. It was the first game I enjoyed that wasn't a "fun" game. The story structure and missions built upon classic episodes and characters, City on the Edge of Forever, Harry Mudd, etc, all stuff I was familiar with from annual summer reruns of TOS. Really liked it, even though some parts confused the hell out of me.
@Specters Same. I'm relieved he won't take up one of the DLC slots....I mean fine for a base game character if they went that route, but not a DLC one. Never found his design good or interesting.
@link3710 No...need. Being "playable" and being "good to play" are 2 different things. Visually dense realistic shooters need this, Wolfenstein 2 is another example. Something like Doom gets a pass for me, because you're fighting large enemies with enough of a cartoony (stylized) sheen to everything that it is easy to parse stuff out.
" Neat!" Only a Nintendo fan site would say a performance boost on TV "neat" when it finally maxes out past 720 - saying as such likely out of fear that the lynch mob below might get offended by talk of higher resolutions being a necessary thing. This was very much needed. Visually dense games like this NEED to try to hit those higher marks (docked) or it is visually headache inducing to parse everything out from the muddy backgrounds. Returned to the game for a moment today and found the game MUCH better to play, easier on the eyes.
Nintendo does a good job of this already by making their online experience so god awful that you end up playing the cross platforms games on other systems or stop entirely with the 1st party stuff.
No physical and the game went on sale for $20 bucks last week on PS, with little word of when this was coming on Switch - so I cancelled the preorder I held onto since January for Switch. Their communication has sucked on this.
@HotGoomba___Rebrand do agree that Switch Pro shape is MY FAVORITE ever controller, which makes my issues all the more bummer inducing. Hate how the dualshock feels in both shape and quality. However the longevity of it seems great, I never even took all the care with it I did the Switch Pro controllers. Dualshocks had a big issue in their first year or 2 with their stick quality (I guess the rubber would wear off super easy), but Sony actually addressed a manufacturing issue and revised them! Imagine that, lol!
@Moon not the exact problem I've had, because they all end up "sticking" "upward". It's probably the ways we push the stick differently as players that creates a different sort of wear on our sticks. But I assure anyone reading this that Pro Controller stick quality ain't great or long lasting, at least per my luck with them. I almost think the builds got worse as time went on, there where slight revisions made to them post 2017.
YES YES YES PLEASE YES BE TRUE! RE Revelations 2 is so dang good. It and RE4 are my favorite RE games, have such a perfect blend of everything I want from bits and pieces of all the games. Hope they stick with the art direction too, grim settings that don't get too horrific, with nice punctuation of color and music to keep it from being a bummer. Have wanted this for awhile. Yes I know RE2 Remake is technically a better game than RE Revelations 2...but there is an air of fun and human warmth tucked inside of it. Just adore it.
@HotGoomba___Rebrand @Donkey-Kong-Fan @Moon I've had issues with the sticks wearing out on my Pro Controllers. It's not the same as the Joycon drift though. One stick will start "rubbing" a tiny bit, then it will start giving me resistance, then it will start sticking and be unusable (usually left). After all that happens you can pull up slightly on the bad stick and it will "pop" up slightly into place. I'm on my fourth since Feb 2018 (my second started having issues after 30 days so I got a refund and a replacement so I'm not counting "5" here). My fourth Pro started doing it after an hour of spinning the stick around for NMH remaster recently (I got this controller in April this year and haven't used it all that much compared to my former Pro Controllers). I'm really careful with these, especially after the 1st one went bad, even putting them in a slip when I'm done using them and clearing out any white powder debris on the stick caused by the stick rubbing on the plastic ring, before it falls down around the base. Like insanely careful. So yes, something in the build is weird even for the Pro. I've had a Dualshock since April 2018 and had none of these issues and have played the hell out of that thing.
@ComposedJam well I'm not a "writer" - in my head, my voice, using "ya" instead of "you" and all that just makes it sound different to me, like I'm being really friendly. I feel like I'm arguing with a Vulcan (which isn't an insult).
@ComposedJam I think you're misinterpreting the playfulness of how I was saying that, confusing it as an actual "directive" from me. Also I don't think that factually it is how most games are done nowadays - though I do believe most all publishers would love that to be reality. That's where my playfulness was coming in. As in "please don't believe that's the case, if you do the greedy publishers have won, as you've accepted this as a new potential reality."
@ComposedJam "This is just how games are done now, sadly." No it isn't and don't ya start believing that or they it will become that way. Some of the biggest games as services don't use gacha or loot boxes like Fortnite and CoD.
@Cynas Not everyone knows they will have a predisposed sensitivity to becoming addicted to alcohol or gacha gambling before they try. The comparison isn't necessarily one to one either.
AI Sominum is veryyyyyy good. The sections where you walk around are a much needed break from all the fixed scene stuff. Never finished the 1st Ace game...some court stuff/evidence/objection options are so weird to me, like it doesn't list the observations I've made personally that contradicts the statements being made. I get confused lol and it's embarrassing.
@VinniVinni I never was a big fan of how the line art was usually handled...something like FighterZ did handle it well, but you got STRONG reference to dev it for that game.
@Casual_Gamer95 Truth. Though, there is the possibility tho that by now, some 3rd parties have developed/are devloping some exclusive titles for the Switch, 4 to 5 years in...but I'm willing to bet it will be lean.
@FX102A Dragon Ball FighterZ! That and the Windwaker remaster are probably the most beautiful cell shaded games ever. I'd actually say BotW is a "blended" version of cell shaded graphics. Difficult to pull off well in games that aren't presented in a fixed perspective (like side scrollers). Wish more would try tho.
Switch + whatever will be the first to give me Fortnite at 120 fps next year, with a controller that has back button/paddle attachments (wondering if those responsive triggers have trigger stops in them), otherwise my Switch +PS4 Pro will do nicely for at least another full year.
@Damo Stop being so defensive, I don't think people are calling you a racist or saying we must censor the word, it's just odd for us in the US to see or hear the word "niggle", cuz of it recalling the n-word and "nizzle". Just educate your comments section, don't ***** out at anyone!
@jcboyer515 Just started rewatching the Mighty Boosh because my girlfriend put on the Great British Baking Show and I got excited when I saw Noel Fielding/Vince Noir hosting it.
Performance sucks here. That should be noted for anyone buying, it can hurt the eyes in FPS and low dynamic rez dips...BUT I don't think it makes it a "do not buy", more of a "buyer beware." Found the demo on Hard mode to be a lot of fun, because you actually gotta use your brain to avoid death. Annoyed I can't remap any of my buttons...not sure why that's an issue in modern software.
@doctorhino Was watching Mighty Boosh this weekend with my girlfriend (we're in the USA) and while watching an episode, saw her eyes go big and I turned to her and assured her that "niggles" had zero to do with the the other word American's unfortunately created a few hundred years ago, lol.
The framepacing is awful (more problematic for me than the frame dips) and the rez looks pretty awful at times, all around being a bit headache inducing. HOWEVER, despite this, miraculously, the demo on hard mode was a LOT of fun. Hope they can patch the FPS a bit.
@aznable Zelda 2 is a top 4 Zelda game for me (Link's Adventure, BotW, Ocarina 64, Link's Awakening GB) but I understand SOME of the hate it gets. For example, using a "hammer" to "cut" down a "tree" in a nondescript part of forest being imperative to finishing the game or crouching by a table in an empty room to find a mirror.
@Bliquid Whoa - I totally felt the same way man. Thought I was an outlier. A lot of potential here...but with the game being so relatively easy (from experience and what I was told in reviews) a lot fo the game tasks would eventually start feeling like "chores" versus engaging gameplay. The art direction had charm to it, but the actual graphics looked pretty mediocre...like a budget title (even for the time it was from).
@WoodyDonut this game should have been $20 bucks on a Switch Virtual Console. Okay maybe $25 for adding coop. But any other publisher would have just put this up digitally for $20 or released the trilogy for $40 or $50.
@BulkSlash I feel like I'm in the Berenstein Bear timeline versus the Berenstain Bear dimension I'm in everytime I go to write out Master Blaster versus Blaster Master.
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Re: Zelda Voice Actress Patricia Summersett Speaks Out About Online Negativity And Criticism
The unsuccessful accent they directed her to have is what made her performance unlistenable. Sure she would have been great otherwise.
Re: Best Of 2020: Star Trek On Nintendo Consoles - Where Are The Great Star Trek Games?
8 or 9 year old me asked for Star Trek: 25th Anniversary for my birthday in 91 or 92 and I played the hell out of it. It was the first game I enjoyed that wasn't a "fun" game. The story structure and missions built upon classic episodes and characters, City on the Edge of Forever, Harry Mudd, etc, all stuff I was familiar with from annual summer reruns of TOS. Really liked it, even though some parts confused the hell out of me.
Re: Random: Smash Bros. Fans React To Geno's Return As A Mii Fighter Costume
@Specters Same. I'm relieved he won't take up one of the DLC slots....I mean fine for a base game character if they went that route, but not a DLC one. Never found his design good or interesting.
Re: Crysis Remastered Update 1.6 Patch Notes - Switch Bug Fixes And A Docked Resolution Boost
@link3710 No...need. Being "playable" and being "good to play" are 2 different things. Visually dense realistic shooters need this, Wolfenstein 2 is another example. Something like Doom gets a pass for me, because you're fighting large enemies with enough of a cartoony (stylized) sheen to everything that it is easy to parse stuff out.
Re: Feature: What Can We Expect From Pokémon’s 25th Anniversary?
Limited time collection to be removed after 4 months.
Re: Crysis Remastered Update 1.6 Patch Notes - Switch Bug Fixes And A Docked Resolution Boost
" Neat!" Only a Nintendo fan site would say a performance boost on TV "neat" when it finally maxes out past 720 - saying as such likely out of fear that the lynch mob below might get offended by talk of higher resolutions being a necessary thing. This was very much needed. Visually dense games like this NEED to try to hit those higher marks (docked) or it is visually headache inducing to parse everything out from the muddy backgrounds. Returned to the game for a moment today and found the game MUCH better to play, easier on the eyes.
Re: Nintendo, PlayStation And Xbox Announce A Shared Commitment To Safer Gaming
@RasandeRose everyone would be banned on fortnite, 4 to 40 yr olds
Re: Nintendo, PlayStation And Xbox Announce A Shared Commitment To Safer Gaming
@JHDK it is protected, but as soon as it crosses the line to implied threats it isn't
Re: Nintendo, PlayStation And Xbox Announce A Shared Commitment To Safer Gaming
@thesilverbrick ha! exactly
Re: Nintendo, PlayStation And Xbox Announce A Shared Commitment To Safer Gaming
Nintendo does a good job of this already by making their online experience so god awful that you end up playing the cross platforms games on other systems or stop entirely with the 1st party stuff.
Re: DOOM Eternal Blasts To Switch In December - Check Out The New Trailer
No physical and the game went on sale for $20 bucks last week on PS, with little word of when this was coming on Switch - so I cancelled the preorder I held onto since January for Switch. Their communication has sucked on this.
Re: Nintendo Is Facing Another Class Action Lawsuit For Joy-Con Drift
@HotGoomba___Rebrand do agree that Switch Pro shape is MY FAVORITE ever controller, which makes my issues all the more bummer inducing. Hate how the dualshock feels in both shape and quality. However the longevity of it seems great, I never even took all the care with it I did the Switch Pro controllers. Dualshocks had a big issue in their first year or 2 with their stick quality (I guess the rubber would wear off super easy), but Sony actually addressed a manufacturing issue and revised them! Imagine that, lol!
Re: Nintendo Is Facing Another Class Action Lawsuit For Joy-Con Drift
@Moon not the exact problem I've had, because they all end up "sticking" "upward". It's probably the ways we push the stick differently as players that creates a different sort of wear on our sticks. But I assure anyone reading this that Pro Controller stick quality ain't great or long lasting, at least per my luck with them. I almost think the builds got worse as time went on, there where slight revisions made to them post 2017.
Re: Rumour: Resident Evil Revelations 3 Will Be A Switch "Focused" Release, Says Capcom Insider
YES YES YES PLEASE YES BE TRUE! RE Revelations 2 is so dang good. It and RE4 are my favorite RE games, have such a perfect blend of everything I want from bits and pieces of all the games. Hope they stick with the art direction too, grim settings that don't get too horrific, with nice punctuation of color and music to keep it from being a bummer. Have wanted this for awhile. Yes I know RE2 Remake is technically a better game than RE Revelations 2...but there is an air of fun and human warmth tucked inside of it. Just adore it.
Re: Nintendo Is Facing Another Class Action Lawsuit For Joy-Con Drift
@HotGoomba___Rebrand @Donkey-Kong-Fan @Moon I've had issues with the sticks wearing out on my Pro Controllers. It's not the same as the Joycon drift though. One stick will start "rubbing" a tiny bit, then it will start giving me resistance, then it will start sticking and be unusable (usually left). After all that happens you can pull up slightly on the bad stick and it will "pop" up slightly into place. I'm on my fourth since Feb 2018 (my second started having issues after 30 days so I got a refund and a replacement so I'm not counting "5" here). My fourth Pro started doing it after an hour of spinning the stick around for NMH remaster recently (I got this controller in April this year and haven't used it all that much compared to my former Pro Controllers). I'm really careful with these, especially after the 1st one went bad, even putting them in a slip when I'm done using them and clearing out any white powder debris on the stick caused by the stick rubbing on the plastic ring, before it falls down around the base. Like insanely careful. So yes, something in the build is weird even for the Pro. I've had a Dualshock since April 2018 and had none of these issues and have played the hell out of that thing.
Re: MiHoYo Accused Of 'Carelessly Putting Players At Risk' In Genshin Impact Data Breach
@ComposedJam well I'm not a "writer" - in my head, my voice, using "ya" instead of "you" and all that just makes it sound different to me, like I'm being really friendly. I feel like I'm arguing with a Vulcan (which isn't an insult).
Re: MiHoYo Accused Of 'Carelessly Putting Players At Risk' In Genshin Impact Data Breach
@ComposedJam I think you're misinterpreting the playfulness of how I was saying that, confusing it as an actual "directive" from me. Also I don't think that factually it is how most games are done nowadays - though I do believe most all publishers would love that to be reality. That's where my playfulness was coming in. As in "please don't believe that's the case, if you do the greedy publishers have won, as you've accepted this as a new potential reality."
Re: MiHoYo Accused Of 'Carelessly Putting Players At Risk' In Genshin Impact Data Breach
@ComposedJam "This is just how games are done now, sadly." No it isn't and don't ya start believing that or they it will become that way. Some of the biggest games as services don't use gacha or loot boxes like Fortnite and CoD.
Re: MiHoYo Accused Of 'Carelessly Putting Players At Risk' In Genshin Impact Data Breach
@Cynas Not everyone knows they will have a predisposed sensitivity to becoming addicted to alcohol or gacha gambling before they try. The comparison isn't necessarily one to one either.
Re: The First Review For Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Is Now In
Standard Famistu score.
Re: Feature: Best Visual Novels For Nintendo Switch
@Blooper987 How does Danganronpa compare to AI Sominum, loooooooved that game.
Re: Feature: Best Visual Novels For Nintendo Switch
AI Sominum is veryyyyyy good. The sections where you walk around are a much needed break from all the fixed scene stuff. Never finished the 1st Ace game...some court stuff/evidence/objection options are so weird to me, like it doesn't list the observations I've made personally that contradicts the statements being made. I get confused lol and it's embarrassing.
Re: XIII Remake's Launch On PS4 Doesn't Give Us Much Hope For The Switch Release
@VinniVinni I never was a big fan of how the line art was usually handled...something like FighterZ did handle it well, but you got STRONG reference to dev it for that game.
Re: Splatoon 2's Mario-Themed Splatfest T-Shirts Are Back (North America)
@bobzbulder my same automatic thought when I hear anything like this from Nintendo - I no longer even try. edit: lol well it is in stock still
Re: "Wide Variety" Of Third-Party Titles Planned For Switch Going Forward, Says Nintendo President
@The_Pixel_King Nier would look and run awful on Switch. Persona 5 is a no-brainer tho.
Re: "Wide Variety" Of Third-Party Titles Planned For Switch Going Forward, Says Nintendo President
@ImNotMythik_J I don't think Nintendo is doing that...they always talk about "3rd parties" being so healthy on Switch in their financial stuff...
Re: "Wide Variety" Of Third-Party Titles Planned For Switch Going Forward, Says Nintendo President
@Casual_Gamer95 Truth. Though, there is the possibility tho that by now, some 3rd parties have developed/are devloping some exclusive titles for the Switch, 4 to 5 years in...but I'm willing to bet it will be lean.
Re: XIII Remake's Launch On PS4 Doesn't Give Us Much Hope For The Switch Release
@NGNYS Jokes on them then, most Fortnite players JUST play Fortnite lol. All day everyday.
Re: XIII Remake's Launch On PS4 Doesn't Give Us Much Hope For The Switch Release
@FX102A Dragon Ball FighterZ! That and the Windwaker remaster are probably the most beautiful cell shaded games ever. I'd actually say BotW is a "blended" version of cell shaded graphics. Difficult to pull off well in games that aren't presented in a fixed perspective (like side scrollers). Wish more would try tho.
Re: Poll: Which Will Be Your Second Console - PS5 Or Xbox Series X?
Switch + whatever will be the first to give me Fortnite at 120 fps next year, with a controller that has back button/paddle attachments (wondering if those responsive triggers have trigger stops in them), otherwise my Switch +PS4 Pro will do nicely for at least another full year.
Re: Review: Tropico 6 - This Enjoyable Empire-Building Epic Comes With A Few Technical Niggles
@nessisonett Just educate man! In the history of the world we're children. Educate! Cutting people us down just makes us act up. I look up to ya guys!
Re: Review: Tropico 6 - This Enjoyable Empire-Building Epic Comes With A Few Technical Niggles
@Damo Stop being so defensive, I don't think people are calling you a racist or saying we must censor the word, it's just odd for us in the US to see or hear the word "niggle", cuz of it recalling the n-word and "nizzle". Just educate your comments section, don't ***** out at anyone!
Re: Review: Tropico 6 - This Enjoyable Empire-Building Epic Comes With A Few Technical Niggles
@Damo I haven't heard or read the word "snigger" since the 90s, forgot that was even a word.
Re: Review: Tropico 6 - This Enjoyable Empire-Building Epic Comes With A Few Technical Niggles
@doctorhino I remember my grandpa and dad using the word "chiggers". Google tells me they are "trombiculid mites", lol. So yeah a specific thing.
Re: Review: Tropico 6 - This Enjoyable Empire-Building Epic Comes With A Few Technical Niggles
@jcboyer515 Just started rewatching the Mighty Boosh because my girlfriend put on the Great British Baking Show and I got excited when I saw Noel Fielding/Vince Noir hosting it.
Re: Hands On: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Makes You Wish You Didn't Know How It Ends
Performance sucks here. That should be noted for anyone buying, it can hurt the eyes in FPS and low dynamic rez dips...BUT I don't think it makes it a "do not buy", more of a "buyer beware." Found the demo on Hard mode to be a lot of fun, because you actually gotta use your brain to avoid death. Annoyed I can't remap any of my buttons...not sure why that's an issue in modern software.
Re: Review: Tropico 6 - This Enjoyable Empire-Building Epic Comes With A Few Technical Niggles
@doctorhino Was watching Mighty Boosh this weekend with my girlfriend (we're in the USA) and while watching an episode, saw her eyes go big and I turned to her and assured her that "niggles" had zero to do with the the other word American's unfortunately created a few hundred years ago, lol.
Re: A Limited Edition Fortnite Nintendo Switch Bundle Has Been Announced For Europe
@Aprilnbabyjose I have not seen anything about a US release date.
Re: Nintendo Reconfirms Release Windows For Major Switch Games, With Plenty Being 'TBA'
MP4 won't be sooner than 2023.
Re: Nintendo Download: 5th November (North America)
Big hopes for Sakuna.
Re: Frame Rate And Resolution For Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Demo Revealed
@sixrings i think that should be standard
Re: Frame Rate And Resolution For Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity Demo Revealed
The framepacing is awful (more problematic for me than the frame dips) and the rez looks pretty awful at times, all around being a bit headache inducing. HOWEVER, despite this, miraculously, the demo on hard mode was a LOT of fun. Hope they can patch the FPS a bit.
Re: Spiritual Successor To "Underrated And Misunderstood" Zelda II Could Be Switch-Bound
@aznable Zelda 2 is a top 4 Zelda game for me (Link's Adventure, BotW, Ocarina 64, Link's Awakening GB) but I understand SOME of the hate it gets. For example, using a "hammer" to "cut" down a "tree" in a nondescript part of forest being imperative to finishing the game or crouching by a table in an empty room to find a mirror.
Re: Pikmin 3 Opening Week Physical Sales Were Lower On Switch Than Wii U (UK)
@Bliquid Whoa - I totally felt the same way man. Thought I was an outlier. A lot of potential here...but with the game being so relatively easy (from experience and what I was told in reviews) a lot fo the game tasks would eventually start feeling like "chores" versus engaging gameplay. The art direction had charm to it, but the actual graphics looked pretty mediocre...like a budget title (even for the time it was from).
Re: Pikmin 3 Opening Week Physical Sales Were Lower On Switch Than Wii U (UK)
@WoodyDonut this game should have been $20 bucks on a Switch Virtual Console. Okay maybe $25 for adding coop. But any other publisher would have just put this up digitally for $20 or released the trilogy for $40 or $50.
Re: Pikmin 3 Opening Week Physical Sales Were Lower On Switch Than Wii U (UK)
@BLD The new harder mode basically makes the game closer to the old normal mode. The normal mode in this game is closer to the old game's easy mode.
Re: Pikmin 3 Opening Week Physical Sales Were Lower On Switch Than Wii U (UK)
Good let this be a message sent to Nintendo. Don't charge us $60 for 7 year old games that have very little love given to their "Deluxe" editions.
Re: The Original Fire Emblem Is Coming To The West For The First Time Ever On Switch
We are all watching Nintendo slowly become a soulless slimey company
Re: Poll: What Was The Best Switch Launch Game (That Wasn't Zelda: Breath Of The Wild)?
@BulkSlash I feel like I'm in the Berenstein Bear timeline versus the Berenstain Bear dimension I'm in everytime I go to write out Master Blaster versus Blaster Master.
Re: Poll: What Was The Best Switch Launch Game (That Wasn't Zelda: Breath Of The Wild)?
Can we count Master Blaster Zero? If was so close to launch. I played that before BotW.