@Tom-Massey when reviewing a shmup or any score-based game really, for the love of god PLEASE MENTION IF THERE ARE ONLINE LEADERBOARDS.
It says nothing on the eShop’s blurb, as many pubs fail to mention, but a review? It’s frankly important information for the kind of audience that is interested in these games.
@Otoemetry that’s awful and pretty sad she’d say (and think) something so stupid and harmful, I didn’t know, but it still doesn’t change anything related to what I’ve said
@PinderSchloss Really now? She actively and repeatedly called for boycott on the game, based on her lies and misleading on purpose. hurting hundreds of people who worked on B3.
I’d say she’s done plenty.
@nocdaes please just stop it with that nonsense
@tober to be fair, good luck trying to buy Platinum for just $45M, but Insomniac was bought by Sony for $229M, so…
@Wexter She just simply took VG Chartz (lol) fake numbers, multiplied for $60 (lol) which comes at about $490M and rounded it off for error (lol, again).
People who think Bayo is half a billion IP are in denial, imagine SEGA not wanting to have anything to do with such a golden goose.
It sounds absurd but I couldn’t see myself playing with static trees, how they animate is a HUGE part of the experience as people who’ve played it already would know.
@NinjaNicky wut? read again buddy. @tomcat said “ Release gta 5 Nintendo” and you replied to them saying “They can't even get the trilogy to run properly”.
@NinjaNicky @Thomcat ah yes GTA, famous Nintendo franchise. It’s not up to Nintendo.
Also, GTA 5 ran on PS3 and X360, platforms with less than 1/10th the memory. Issue is with how big GTA Online is, and they have had no interest in only releasing the single player portion so far. Still, it’s up to Rockstar, not Nintendo
Looks great. Both expansions look phenomenal really. Waiting for 50%off to nab the game and expansions, it’s been 30% off before but I just too big a backlog to justify anything that isn’t half off
And how they’ve managed to render such scary kind of spider CUTE with those animations… dang there’s a lot of talent sat display in that trailer. Gonna buy it for sure, thanks to @danmonse for the mention!
I get why there’s no Pitfall or H.E.R.O. or Jungle King (much prefer it to Pirate Pete and its awful music) but I didn’t know they didn’t have rights to Atari Games so no Paperboy (nor did I know its righrs were of Midway apparantely) as well as no KLAX, no Marble Madness, etc.
30 versions of Asteroids and Breakout… I’m one that would always go for the arcade (or “best”) version of any game (when the home version is a simple downport), so I don’t see the appeal of playing an arcade game on 2600, but nostalgia hits everybody differently I guess so I get it
French is great. Spanish Bowser is awesome but Toad is terrible as is Mario.
German’s cool.
Italian’s is awful. As expected.
How the mighty have fallen, what was once the best voice acting “school” in the world is now in shambles (well, it’s been going downhill since all the great voice actors of the ‘70s/80s are now dead or retired). Still not as bad as Spanish dubs but still awful.
New bonus campaigns with achievements: QUERY – [ INPUT ] COMMAND – [ EXIST ] ICARUS CHURCH SOULS Quality of life General performance and level load time improvements Native gyro support Rumble support for gamepads Increased impact cannon punch radius Added gamma adjustment slider Added NPC voice volume slider Added setting to disable gamepad Improved pick up weapon logic on gamepad OC cannon now kills shield NPCs on shield hit Buffed weapon pickups in Conscience campaign level New HUD option to center hud elements Achievement for Chalet campaign Bug Fixes Fixed bug with uploading props Fix workshop button showing on victory screen when no valid workshop link Reduced aim acceleration radius for joypads Tweaked deadzone logic for joypads Improved various particle FX performance Added more FX to simple fx mode Relit firefight levels in simple lighting mode Improved performance of large moving props with no need for collision Removed crouch binding option Fix sound volume in museum Reduced turret firing volume Hid shuffle music button in campaign until I can think of a fix for music resetting
I wish Digital Foundry or some other reliable tech outlet would review the game’s performance on Switch because impressions still don’t paint an exact picture and I know firsthand how unreliable the internet is concerning anything that’s more in-depth than “graphics suxx/great and runs good/bad” which can mean everything and nothing.
I’d rather play this on Switch (portable mode only) than tied to the TV on my Series S, but not if it’s super blurred out and especially not if framerate is disappointing (I can do with some hiccups here and there, not with inconsistent framerate in the 20s).
@sixrings NSW is probably my fav console in 40 years gaming but let’s not kid ourselves. The opposite is also true, more power allows more creativity, however, that’s not the issue. Many current and (let alone upcoming) INDIE games struggles to have decent performance (framerate, which DOES impact gameplay) right now, let alone in 2 years. 5 years? That is just a bad joke.
@Axelay71 I love vertical shmups played in proper TATE on flip grip (and also on my dedicated TATE-screen cabinet) but for this game the game field is full screen 4:3 and was developed with such screen estate in mind, so it wouldn’t make sense in TATE. It’d be a completely different game.
@Ralizah Imo SE didn’t want a GP version on day 1 jeopardize the sales of the other versions and why make it themselves when they can get it on GP a year later with a nice check and Microsoft paying for porting duties, while Microsoft obviously didn’t care enough to pay a bigger check bring it to GP on Day 1. Also obviously, SE didn’t think it’d be profitable enough to develop OP2 as a retail/digital Xbox title. Will see, it’s all speculation, but I don’t see this game staying Xbox-elusive forever.
It’s currently 50%off (EU+ eShops) so I’ve finally grabbed it, but I should’ve informed myself better because I hate that the game doesn’t support TATE screen-rotation for the Arcade+ (Saturn’s mode is lacking compared to Arcade+), such a bummer.
@ThePizzaCheese he said the days, not something vague. He said they were thinking about delaying for the queen and sure enough that conversation was real and Nintendo UK is only having a VOD instead of streaming the Direct. Only trolls and people who don’t have any idea how insider info works can hate on Grubb like he’s a lucky guesser. I worked in the industry 20 years, things change at any given moment, just because a game he said might be in the direct isn’t shown doesn’t mean he’a lying or unreliable. Heck, Square Enix, Microsoft, Bungie, have pulled announcements and trailer at the last second at many past E3. Leaks should just be taken as “it might happen”, if you get angry at leakers who’ve been right many many times then simply don’t pay attention to them, it’s that easy. If you enjoy the discourse then by all means understand that things can change. If you can’t see the difference between someone like Grubb and the latest fake insider trying to ride someone else’s source or lying, it’s your fault.
@bluemage1989 sounds like the usual nonsense comment from far right “both sides” internet haters when don’t even bother to read the fact. What sales? Game has been taken off EU eShops/PSN ar their request. Fake controversy… I see you sure know how to read into a situation, smh 🤦🏼♂️
Lol yeah right for 2 years the devs didn’t want to get their game back because… reasons. A whole bowl of nothing from PQube’s statement, as expected. Did you pay them, where are the answers to the devs’ accusations? Reverted the rights long time ago they say, and yet the game was up as of last week on every platform with PQube as the publisher. Put up and shut up.
@iLikeUrAttitude Not much. Switch at full draw (most intensive games, docked for the Tegra at full clock) consumes LESS than a SeriesX on standby. It is truly a marvel what the custom clocked Tegra/Switch are able to pull graphically with such a negligible power draw/consumption, and most definitely a cutting-edge technical feature that sadly doesn’t get the praise it deserves.
I HATE long load times. DOOM 2016 and Little Nightmares 1 were plagued by that, and before getting patched and much improved, I couldn’t enjoy them at all despite LOVING both games.
I remember having to lower DOOM’s difficulty just to avoid dying/load times.
Will be waiting for a patch for sure, and if it takes too long than also for a sale.
No gyro no sale. Also long loading times are enough to ruin a game for me. Hopefully a patch comes soon
@BlackMayge why would it be a con for you if it supported gyro? Or even a pro that it doesn’t include them? Gyro aim/controls is an option, never mandatory. Just don’t use it? Pretty sad way to think, imo.
Also, more options= accessibility you know, which I stan for even when it doesn’t directly affect me.
How’s the scoring system? Are there online leaderboards? Shmups/STGs/Run&Gun and basically anything arcadey is worthless to me without a decent scoring system and online highscoring.
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Re: Review: Prodeus - An Excellent DOOM-Style Shooter For Old-School FPS Fans
Hopefully gyro aiming is coming down the road, but I get that it’s really frustrating for folks buying physical.
Re: This Gorgeous GBA-Style RPG Is Heavily Inspired By Mega Man Battle Network
Looks great, will keep an eye on it for sure
Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Technical Analysis Of Bayonetta 3
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Re: Mini Review: Sophstar - A Solid Shmup Bursting With Originality
@Tom-Massey when reviewing a shmup or any score-based game really, for the love of god PLEASE MENTION IF THERE ARE ONLINE LEADERBOARDS.
It says nothing on the eShop’s blurb, as many pubs fail to mention, but a review? It’s frankly important information for the kind of audience that is interested in these games.
Re: Nintendo Download: 27th October (North America)
@HolyGeez03 it’s also developed by Pasta Games (Pix the cat, Rayman Jungle Run, Maestro Jump ‘n Music) so it’s got some pedigree behind.
I wish Siesta Fiesta was ported to Switch, that game is great and definitely in the top 3 of best 3DS eShop exclusive games
Re: Nintendo's Next Switch Game Trial Is Now Available To Online Subscribers
Bleah I wish we’d gotten Bloodstained like Japan did
Re: Bayonetta's OG Voice Actor Responds To Online Backlash In Ongoing Dispute
@Otoemetry that’s awful and pretty sad she’d say (and think) something so stupid and harmful, I didn’t know, but it still doesn’t change anything related to what I’ve said
Re: Bayonetta's OG Voice Actor Responds To Online Backlash In Ongoing Dispute
@PinderSchloss Really now? She actively and repeatedly called for boycott on the game, based on her lies and misleading on purpose. hurting hundreds of people who worked on B3.
I’d say she’s done plenty.
@nocdaes please just stop it with that nonsense
@tober to be fair, good luck trying to buy Platinum for just $45M, but Insomniac was bought by Sony for $229M, so…
Re: Bayonetta's OG Voice Actor Responds To Online Backlash In Ongoing Dispute
@Wexter She just simply took VG Chartz (lol) fake numbers, multiplied for $60 (lol) which comes at about $490M and rounded it off for error (lol, again).
People who think Bayo is half a billion IP are in denial, imagine SEGA not wanting to have anything to do with such a golden goose.
Re: Bayonetta's OG Voice Actor Responds To Online Backlash In Ongoing Dispute
Are you telling me we shouldn’t believe anything a Trump-supporting “TERF” claims? No way! 🤯😱
Meanwhile, Jennifer Hale handled the matter with nothing but class, even with all the harassment.
Re: Review: Alan Wake Remastered - A Modern Classic Returns With Major Visual Downgrades On Switch
It sounds absurd but I couldn’t see myself playing with static trees, how they animate is a HUGE part of the experience as people who’ve played it already would know.
Re: Resident Evil 2, 3 And 7 Cloud Lock In Nintendo Switch Release Dates
I’m curios how much these will cost. I mean, $29.99 would already be pushing it imo
Re: Grand Theft Auto Trilogy's Latest Nintendo Switch Update Is Now Available
@NinjaNicky wut? read again buddy. @tomcat said “ Release gta 5 Nintendo” and you replied to them saying “They can't even get the trilogy to run properly”.
Re: Grand Theft Auto Trilogy's Latest Nintendo Switch Update Is Now Available
@NinjaNicky @Thomcat ah yes GTA, famous Nintendo franchise. It’s not up to Nintendo.
Also, GTA 5 ran on PS3 and X360, platforms with less than 1/10th the memory. Issue is with how big GTA Online is, and they have had no interest in only releasing the single player portion so far. Still, it’s up to Rockstar, not Nintendo
Re: A New Bayonetta 3 Report Features A Differing Account Of PlatinumGames VA Pay Offer
@Would_you_kindly Regardless of this is situation, are you not familiar with how investigative journalism works?
It’s 100% the norm to have sources stay anonymous (to the public, not to the journalist) when there are whistleblowers and in many other instances too
Re: OlliOlli World's Final Expansion, 'Finding The Flowzone', Lands November Release
Looks great. Both expansions look phenomenal really. Waiting for 50%off to nab the game and expansions, it’s been 30% off before but I just too big a backlog to justify anything that isn’t half off
Re: Deals: Superbly Chill Morph Ball Platformer 'Glyph' Is 90% Off On Switch eShop
Grabbed it, enjoyed the demo
Re: Switch Online's N64 Update Is Live (Version 2.7.0), Here's What's Included
@Ensemen No. However, this won’t be a concern for a few years at least. NSO is here to stay.
Re: Pompom: The Great Space Rescue Looks Like A Lost SNES Platformer, Switch Demo Out Now
@FX102A @Drac_Mazoku it has a demo already out on the eShop, you can just try it and see for yourself
You know you’re old when you can spot a Super Ghouls ‘n Ghosts reference in the pirate ship shot ahah -_-
Re: Review: No Man's Sky - Right Up There With The Very Best Switch Ports
So what’s still missing now, multiplayer and?
Are Alien settlements there now or still MIA for example
Re: Community: 24 Switch Games We Missed, As Recommended By You
WEBBED looks INCREDIBLE!!
And how they’ve managed to render such scary kind of spider CUTE with those animations… dang there’s a lot of talent sat display in that trailer. Gonna buy it for sure, thanks to @danmonse for the mention!
Re: Atari Anniversary Collection Full List Of Games Possibly Revealed In Retailer Leak
I get why there’s no Pitfall or H.E.R.O. or Jungle King (much prefer it to Pirate Pete and its awful music) but I didn’t know they didn’t have rights to Atari Games so no Paperboy (nor did I know its righrs were of Midway apparantely) as well as no KLAX, no Marble Madness, etc.
30 versions of Asteroids and Breakout… I’m one that would always go for the arcade (or “best”) version of any game (when the home version is a simple downport), so I don’t see the appeal of playing an arcade game on 2600, but nostalgia hits everybody differently I guess so I get it
Re: Review In Progress: No Man's Sky - Right Up There With The Very Best Switch Ports
Is there cross-save compatibility between Xbox and NSW?
Re: Video: Here's What Mario's Movie Voice Sounds Like In Other Languages
French is great. Spanish Bowser is awesome but Toad is terrible as is Mario.
German’s cool.
Italian’s is awful. As expected.
How the mighty have fallen, what was once the best voice acting “school” in the world is now in shambles (well, it’s been going downhill since all the great voice actors of the ‘70s/80s are now dead or retired). Still not as bad as Spanish dubs but still awful.
Re: Mini Review: Severed Steel - A Heart-Pounding FPS That Makes You Feel Like John Wick
Full patch content:
New bonus campaigns with achievements:
QUERY – [ INPUT ]
COMMAND – [ EXIST ]
ICARUS
CHURCH
SOULS
Quality of life
General performance and level load time improvements
Native gyro support
Rumble support for gamepads
Increased impact cannon punch radius
Added gamma adjustment slider
Added NPC voice volume slider
Added setting to disable gamepad
Improved pick up weapon logic on gamepad
OC cannon now kills shield NPCs on shield hit
Buffed weapon pickups in Conscience campaign level
New HUD option to center hud elements
Achievement for Chalet campaign
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug with uploading props
Fix workshop button showing on victory screen when no valid workshop link
Reduced aim acceleration radius for joypads
Tweaked deadzone logic for joypads
Improved various particle FX performance
Added more FX to simple fx mode
Relit firefight levels in simple lighting mode
Improved performance of large moving props with no need for collision
Removed crouch binding option
Fix sound volume in museum
Reduced turret firing volume
Hid shuffle music button in campaign until I can think of a fix for music resetting
Re: Mini Review: Severed Steel - A Heart-Pounding FPS That Makes You Feel Like John Wick
btw GYRO SUPPORT has been patched in!
Anyone know if loading times have improved too?
Re: 2D Multiplayer Game 'Killer Queen Black' To Shut Down Next Month
Does the NSW version support local wifi (1 player per Switch console)? If it does they should make the game free on November 30th onwards.
Re: Review: Tunic - Old-School Adventuring With Nods To Zelda, Unforgiving And Ingenious
I wish Digital Foundry or some other reliable tech outlet would review the game’s performance on Switch because impressions still don’t paint an exact picture and I know firsthand how unreliable the internet is concerning anything that’s more in-depth than “graphics suxx/great and runs good/bad” which can mean everything and nothing.
I’d rather play this on Switch (portable mode only) than tied to the TV on my Series S, but not if it’s super blurred out and especially not if framerate is disappointing (I can do with some hiccups here and there, not with inconsistent framerate in the 20s).
Re: Bullet Hell Metroidvania 'The Knight Witch' Finally Gets A Release Date On Switch
Looks great! Hopefully there’s a demo coming to check on bullet/gameplay readability in portable mode (I’m sure it’s fine on a large tv)
Re: Review: Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival - A Solid Entry That Marches To A Familiar Beat
Is the Drum controller still the same as the “old” one? Wasted money on that piece of garbage, so many missed notes I hate it
Re: Nvidia Employee Comment Confirms Chip Rumoured To Be Used In 'Switch Pro' Is Real
@sixrings NSW is probably my fav console in 40 years gaming but let’s not kid ourselves. The opposite is also true, more power allows more creativity, however, that’s not the issue. Many current and (let alone upcoming) INDIE games struggles to have decent performance (framerate, which DOES impact gameplay) right now, let alone in 2 years. 5 years? That is just a bad joke.
Re: Ion Fury Follow-Up Phantom Fury Announced For Nintendo Switch
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Re: Out Now: Treasure's Classic Arcade Shmup 'Radiant Silvergun' Surprise Drops On Switch
@Axelay71 I love vertical shmups played in proper TATE on flip grip (and also on my dedicated TATE-screen cabinet) but for this game the game field is full screen 4:3 and was developed with such screen estate in mind, so it wouldn’t make sense in TATE. It’d be a completely different game.
Re: Out Now: Treasure's Classic Arcade Shmup 'Radiant Silvergun' Surprise Drops On Switch
@RandomNerds @Axelay71 It’s a standard ST-V (Titan) board 320x240p resolution on 4:3 aspect ratio, so it was never in TATE-friendly format.
Honestly, I can’t even think of any other TATE a:r ST-V game besides Shienryu.
@WiltonRoots Actually 3:2 would be a 1.5:1 ar.
It’s 4:3, or 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Re: Octopath Traveler Has Now Sold Over 3 Million Units Physically And Digitally
@Ralizah Imo SE didn’t want a GP version on day 1 jeopardize the sales of the other versions and why make it themselves when they can get it on GP a year later with a nice check and Microsoft paying for porting duties, while Microsoft obviously didn’t care enough to pay a bigger check bring it to GP on Day 1. Also obviously, SE didn’t think it’d be profitable enough to develop OP2 as a retail/digital Xbox title. Will see, it’s all speculation, but I don’t see this game staying Xbox-elusive forever.
Re: Highly Acclaimed Management Sim 'Factorio' Is Heading To Switch
Really hope it has (optional) Touch screen support so you can use a combination of both touch and classic controls at the same time if you’d like.
When playing portable, I find that’s what works best in most cases for this kind of games.
Re: Nintendo Direct Showcase Confirmed For Today (September 13th)
@ThePizzaCheese sure he was lol
Re: Mini Review: Game Tengoku CruisinMix Special - Jaleco's Answer To Parodius Flies Again
It’s currently 50%off (EU+ eShops) so I’ve finally grabbed it, but I should’ve informed myself better because I hate that the game doesn’t support TATE screen-rotation for the Arcade+ (Saturn’s mode is lacking compared to Arcade+), such a bummer.
Re: Nintendo Direct Showcase Confirmed For Tomorrow
@ThePizzaCheese he said the days, not something vague. He said they were thinking about delaying for the queen and sure enough that conversation was real and Nintendo UK is only having a VOD instead of streaming the Direct. Only trolls and people who don’t have any idea how insider info works can hate on Grubb like he’s a lucky guesser. I worked in the industry 20 years, things change at any given moment, just because a game he said might be in the direct isn’t shown doesn’t mean he’a lying or unreliable. Heck, Square Enix, Microsoft, Bungie, have pulled announcements and trailer at the last second at many past E3. Leaks should just be taken as “it might happen”, if you get angry at leakers who’ve been right many many times then simply don’t pay attention to them, it’s that easy. If you enjoy the discourse then by all means understand that things can change. If you can’t see the difference between someone like Grubb and the latest fake insider trying to ride someone else’s source or lying, it’s your fault.
Re: Nintendo Direct Showcase Confirmed For Tomorrow
@ThePizzaCheese it wasn’t obvious at all, go see the comments by the people here.
Re: Nintendo Direct Showcase Confirmed For Tomorrow
Where’s all the usual Grubb haters at now? Enjoy your crow plate
Re: Random: Ever Wanted To Know What It's Like To Peel A Pokémon And Eat It?
I had no idea so many people on this site didn’t know how to not read an article they don’t like or a video they don’t want to watch.
Happy to help! Follow these simple steps:
•Open NintendoLife
•Seek an article you don’t care for
•Now, do NOT click on it.
It seems difficult at first, but with a bit of practice you’ll be skipping on articles left and right in no time! 💪🏻
Re: AeternoBlade II Dev Accuses Publisher PQube Of Withholding Payments
@bluemage1989 sounds like the usual nonsense comment from far right “both sides” internet haters when don’t even bother to read the fact. What sales? Game has been taken off EU eShops/PSN ar their request. Fake controversy… I see you sure know how to read into a situation, smh 🤦🏼♂️
Re: AeternoBlade II Dev Accuses Publisher PQube Of Withholding Payments
@PessitheMystic the game’s quality or lack of isn’t the matter here.
@Bobb PQube’s other partners already did “rise up” with complaints
Re: AeternoBlade II Dev Accuses Publisher PQube Of Withholding Payments
Lol yeah right for 2 years the devs didn’t want to get their game back because… reasons. A whole bowl of nothing from PQube’s statement, as expected. Did you pay them, where are the answers to the devs’ accusations? Reverted the rights long time ago they say, and yet the game was up as of last week on every platform with PQube as the publisher. Put up and shut up.
Re: Video: YouTuber's Switch OLED Screen Still Standing After 7,000 Hours
@iLikeUrAttitude Not much. Switch at full draw (most intensive games, docked for the Tegra at full clock) consumes LESS than a SeriesX on standby. It is truly a marvel what the custom clocked Tegra/Switch are able to pull graphically with such a negligible power draw/consumption, and most definitely a cutting-edge technical feature that sadly doesn’t get the praise it deserves.
Re: Mini Review: Severed Steel - A Heart-Pounding FPS That Makes You Feel Like John Wick
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Re: Review: ANNO: Mutationem - An Impressive Cyberpunk Action-RPG With Stunning Visuals
I HATE long load times. DOOM 2016 and Little Nightmares 1 were plagued by that, and before getting patched and much improved, I couldn’t enjoy them at all despite LOVING both games.
I remember having to lower DOOM’s difficulty just to avoid dying/load times.
Will be waiting for a patch for sure, and if it takes too long than also for a sale.
Re: Mini Review: Severed Steel - A Heart-Pounding FPS That Makes You Feel Like John Wick
No gyro no sale. Also long loading times are enough to ruin a game for me. Hopefully a patch comes soon
@BlackMayge why would it be a con for you if it supported gyro? Or even a pro that it doesn’t include them? Gyro aim/controls is an option, never mandatory. Just don’t use it? Pretty sad way to think, imo.
Also, more options= accessibility you know, which I stan for even when it doesn’t directly affect me.
Re: Review: Spidersaurs - A Love Letter To Contra And A Fun Ride While It Lasts
How’s the scoring system? Are there online leaderboards? Shmups/STGs/Run&Gun and basically anything arcadey is worthless to me without a decent scoring system and online highscoring.