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@NinChocolate Yeah, I guess you are right. I spoke too soon.

I went and looked up sales data. FF7 understandably did better, but 5 million for Chrono Trigger is no mean feat. Even if accounting for double dippers, and even if only a fifth of these sales are diehard fans, that would probably still mean a commercial success.

But I don't know. Maybe a million isn't worth it for Square, maybe it is... I wouldn't know...

@NinChocolate Games with a fraction of the fan base actually makes way more sense to remaster. No expectations means more people will enjoy it. Sky high expectations, like with CT, means a lot more disappointment. I mean, even here, right now, some are lamenting FF7 Remake. Nobody is complaining about the Romancing Saga remake.

The vocal minority is strong with Chrono Trigger. And let's be honest, they can do no right with this one. Whichever choice they make, there will be backlash.

@Ogbert I'm afraid your very good explanation will fall on a lot of deaf ears here. Some folks just don't want to understand.

@Mommar Not to hi-jack the thread, butnwpuldblove to hear more. I mainly produce music but have been thinking of DJ'ing as well. Only so much time in a day though, but if it helped you, it might also be for me...

@UltimateOtaku91 Excellent pun good sir!

@Zuljaras I did not know they were behind GOG. Then this interview makes even more sense.

It always struck me as kind of odd that those fancy new games by CDPR were always released on GOG. Now I know why, haha.

No. Age rising on the other hand...

I just no longer have time.

Oh pahleaaase, as if the games he was reaponsible for didn't require any update ever whatsoever. How many games these days do NOT require day 1 patches? Those games may just as well be game key carts the way they don't include the full game.

@LikelySatan I'd say it is an easy mistake to make, but I'd wager 999 out of a 1000 times, someone saying any of those movies are good, they are being sarcastic.

@LikelySatan Well, the writer said he WASN'T going to say that Clones was good, so you're good.

@SoIDecidedTo Personally, I much preferred the N64 game. Same with F-Zero and Wave Race, I felt the N64 versions were much better. The GC ones felt like theyball played on 1,5x speed, and not in a good way. But I might be the minority in that.

Funny thing about this game, Wave Race and F-Zero, I preferred the N64 ones by a landslide. The GC versions were too fast for me. I liked the slower going varieties.

As for art, NA EU on this one.

@LordDieALot Well, according to ChatGPT, I believe it was Rosa Parks whose husband was a NASCAR racer, so I wouldn't put too much "stock" (hur) into what he says. Chat isn't always right.

For a second there I thought you meant we could finally hide titles in the eShop, so I would never see them again.

Now I am sad. Hello Thief Simulator, welcome back to the sale section.

I like the idea. Ever since Dark Cloud 2, stopping somewhere in the wild to build a township there makes me happy. I will probably get the demo.

I have not touched my Switch in a long while. I simply do not have the time to play anything. But no worries, I did plenty other fun things. Other hobbies have taken precedence.

It's nice to be credited, and good form, but it's not necessary. He made the song for Nintendo to own, was paid for it, and that's really just that.

Again, it's good form to do so, but it's really not that big of a deal that they didn't.

I prefer the JP one. I like the grey world map in the back, and it makes the characters pop. Too much red in the other one. Washes out the characters.

Well, the boxes are ugly enough to want to go full digital anyways.

I can't lie, Switch 2 isn't looking that appealing to me any more. Then again, maybe I just finally grew out of gaming. Or into another depression... or both...

@PikminMarioKirby They really did, didn't they?

@jezepy and calling it the Mansion Suit no less. A tiny added layer to the reference.

@mr12calvin A lot of people áre talking about it though. This site has an article about it too. And yeah, it's weird. They should've gone with at least double the storage right off the bat.

@Wakkawipeout No problem. She is known for acting so I get the mistake

@Wakkawipeout Sweeney isn't cast as the blonde. She is one if the producers.

If only days became twice as long, maybe I could squeeze in an hour or two of gamig time. Alas...

Wow. Just wow.

They didn't reveal interesting lore, people!!

They revealed thoughts and ideas that the developers felt weren't up to snuff to be released. Creativity means ypu pursue ideas that may end up in the bin because they were not good ideas. That doesn't make them "canon", that makes them ideas that got canned.

It's not game preservation, it's preservation of a digital bin of crumpled up papers, plus private information, which is just plain criminal.

And sure, there can be some value in those tossed ideas for those interested, but it's still up to the company if they want to release them. This is still just theft, plain and simple.

I would've liked to have seen a Cops and Robbers, but in the open world, with a designated finish line for the robbers to reach, a bit like in GTA.

If you can run over Goombas and whatnot, it's basically...

Mario Karmageddon!

That sounds like a lot of fun! I am GAME!

Never played it before, and chances are very high I would finally give it a go if it were to release on Switch 2.

But I am not in a hurry, and neither should they be.

"This is not an easy decision", the CEO said, while wiping away his fake tears with 100 dollar bills.

@spottedleaf You absolutely do not need to resort to scalpers. At worst, you will have to wait a day or two before you get yours.

Every single time a game or something was extremeley limited, I would rush in and buy, onlynto find plenty copies gathering dust on the shelf, all but being relegated to the bargain bin.

It's nonsense. You will easily be able to buy a Switch soon!

I thought the character on the US one was a girl. I do like the posing and the adventurous feel of the middle composition.

But EU wins, as it features both characters.

Went and looked up Fast Fusion on the devs website.

Worst website ever lol!

But the game looks amazing. I completely missed Fast RMX, so I think I will remedy that mistake with Fusion once I get a Switch 2. 4 player couch is great for me with my kids.

I spent FAR too much time on Soul Calibur.

I will say, Link was overpowered. His throw move could out of bounds every single character within seconds. It was basically cheating. And I always felt it was a missed opportunity not giving him an all black skin, to mimic Shadow Link. But that's me.

His move made the challenges easy though.

I don't think I ever bothered with the questions of how hard I pressed a button or not, or utilised it in any way, or even knew it existed... Only when running around using the movement stick.

So... no problem for me either way.

So a person who named himself Admirable Clam Brain finds a title to be odd.

What a time to be alive!

You guys should hire someone to unironically review the shovelware games.

I am applying.

Yeah, I'm good...

Besides, many of these, even the good ones (Elden Ring) are already in the bargain bin for PS4 and even PS5.

The only downside obviously being that you have to download crap for hours before actually being able to enjoy the games.

I finally gave my gifted PS4 and FF7R a try the other day. First I was annoyed at the incredibly long time it takes to start up the machine, then I was annoyed at the "Achievements" I "achieved" by simply turning on the machine (seriously), only to be greeted by a 53 minute download session before actually being able to play the game.

Call me a Nintendo Fanboy, I like my games plug and play.

I am not super anti though. Most games have a day 1 patch already, patches galore in the future and DLC and whatnot, so it really isn't that different.

That is pretty cool.

It's still Monster Hunter though, and I'm not sure I can get over the ridiculously oversized weapons and whatnot... I might enjoy one of the older entries with my kids when they are on a deep discount again, but it will never be my fave series...

What I am mostly hoping, which probably won't be included, is an option to choose between classic cpu behaviour, and behaviour where every driver is pretty much at the same level of competency, and the ability to remove rubber banding.

I always hated how you already knew right from the beginning which cpu's were going to be in the top.

I want real neck to neck racing. Let me EARN first place.

It's the MK I had the most fun with, but that might also be an age thing. That, and I do have two GCs with modem to play 8 player games with...

Which I've only done like... twice...

Seeing the launch line-up for WiiU made me wonder why it ended up being so unsuccesful, because that is SOME line-up!

I was especially surprised to see Wipeout on there, until I clicked on the link.

@Cathalm the camping, plus more importantly the clicks it generates, is the job, I amm guessing.

More power to him though. Honestly, with how things are going, making a :real honest living", ie. a regular job, is starting to become the least viable option.

@KimBread That is insane! Crazy coincidence.

Well, hopefully we can both enjoy it properly this time around. I will wait for a discount, though. Too much to do already.

@MK73DS Yeah, that's one game. And good on them for not patching it. The point still stands for a myriad other games, though. And I don't LIKE the fact that my point stands, mind you. I wish for no patches whatsoever.

Heck, I finally booted up my gifted PS4 today, to finally give the FF7Remake gift a shot, while laying ill in bed. I had to start with a 53 minute download. Made me remember why I never boot up my PS, and made me severely annoyed.

And if a patch for XCX comes up in the next two months or so... point valid +1 or something?

It doesn't matter though. Patches suck, these weird downloads on a cart suck, but they are a minir nuisance all things considered.

@Yoshi3 I get your side too, though.

It's just... the fear of missing out is just too strong. Even if the servers shut down ages from now, a full version will likely have popped up on a successor device.

I had the game, and spent a whopping 1 hour on it. I loved what little I had played, but I got stuck, and... well... no idea what happened to my copy, but this is welcome news!!

I do not get this.

Every time a game or console wasnselling out like mad, I would walk into the nearest toy store, and there would be stock a plenty.

I'vee seen folks fork over a 1000 bucks on a book that I could still buy at the local game store.

It baffles me.

Just don't buy from them. You can wait a few weeks. There will be more.

@Yoshi3 I could argue that, with plenty of those SD cards, you don't need the servers if you just keep the downloadable part on those. And let's face it, if I still had my NES cartridges, they'd be kinda useless too, as the NES no longer hooks up to the tv and those batteries don't last forever either. And let's also be real, we love to double dip on our old games when they become available again on newer hardware.

I am not saying it isn't a stupid decision to make these, but they are no more useless than many actual game cartridges, if you factor in eventual decline.

And someone will inevetably dump the final patch online anyways.

Now cloud gaming on the other hand...

Look, I get the annoyance, but it really isn't that big of a deal. The best games will be resold at a later date anyways.

One the one hand, blegh, on the other hand, when was the last time a game didn't reauire you to download a day zero patch at the very least, or get regular updates not present on the cart? So in the end, not that different.

I wqs gifted a PS4. Booted it up yesterday. Apparently I already achieved things.

The only thing I couldn't achieve was turn that crap off.

I loathe achievements.

@Anti-Matter Hey, I am not disagreeing that some decisions are stupid, bordering greedy. I for one won't buy a Switch 1 game with upgrade code, or glorified codes in a box. I will speak with my wallet on that front.

Still luxury problems though. I could enjoy myself until the day I die with the games I already have in my possession. Nobody needs new games. We want them, but that is still a luxury problem.

There are far more interesting things to get angry about.

@Reztobi Preach!!