@sanderev Yeah I’m not arguing that by any means. My brother has a gambling addiction, a massive one. Lost a house and boat to sharks.
That said, I couldnt lump Balatro in the same group that would lead to gambling addiction. Not by any means. As a massive Diablo 2 fan, I COULD lump that one in there tho! That game is literally a graphical version of a slot machine - just one more pull and I’ll hear the jingles!
But if I’m being completely honest, MOST games have some sort of hook that’s very similar to gambling. Pokémon and shiny hunting, Monster Hunter and Mantles/Jaspers, Diablo 2 and runes/uniques, Mario and collecting stars…..
@Grumblevolcano Nintendo disabled the gambling on the 3DS VC versions of Pokémon so they wouldn’t get slapped with a higher rating. Nintendo will likely just reuse those versions. 😁
To clarify, Nintendo disabled the slots and such. You can still trade poke dollars for poke coins to purchase the TMs and Pokémon at that shop.
@sanderev there’s truly no gambling, simulated or otherwise in this. It’s no different than Dead Cells, Rogue Legacy, Hades, etc…..
It’s a rogue deck builder. The only reason for the confusion is Poker hands being what judges the base score. This is literally Pokémon the trading card game, you get a hand to beat out a top score, turn and buy booster packs to strengthen your deck. Repeat till win or lose.
A simple switch of poker hands being monsters and the score being enemy health…. Which is why this whole rating thing is frickin ridiculous. As I talked to another NL poster before, PEGI follows the rule set of “guilty until proven innocent” the opposite of America’s ESRB. This allows PEGI (or anyone that wants to SWAT a game) to take down the game and force it to receive a new rating or stall sales until the true rating can be established.
The devs posted immediately following the removal of the game and straight up said they were going to toss it back up as 18+ until the PEGI situation could be sorted
To any parents that are now afraid to get this game for your kids, don’t be. There truly is no actual gambling in it, and there’s no adult themes (no drugs, alcohol, nudity, violence or gore).
You start with a standard deck of cards trying to beat the “top score” of each round. At the end of each round you get cash to buy booster packs and jokers. This is no different than Pokémon TCG, MtG, Yu-gi-oh - and those cost REAL money IRL…
To all the EU adults that have been waiting, go go go go go! You won’t be disappointed!
This is one of those games that you can’t watch and hopefully grasp what type of game it is and how fun it is. There are some games that just don’t translate to trailer/video well unless you already know exactly what’s going on.
Much like Ghost Trick, Ace Attorney, or even Vampire Survivors…. It’s a game that you won’t appreciate until you play it.
I’m not a big fan of card games/deck builders. I’ve played my fair share of poker and spades with friends in real life, so I knew the hands going into it. What I didn’t know was just how addictive the draw is once you get going. Just like Hades, Gungeon, Dead Cells, Slay the Spire, Vampire Survivors. etc there is a massive “omg I was so close, one more run!” Aspect. Before ya know it 4-5 hours have passed.
I implore anyone that’s remotely curious, and has $15 to spend, to try it before ya judge it. If ya don’t like it, then you’re out $15 max - there are worse ways to spend cash. If ya do like it, then you’ll understand why it’s mentioned as a GOTY contender.
Yeah it may not have flashy visuals like Elden Ring or Baldurs Gate 3, or an amazing score like Breath of the Wild, but the gameplay, like the rest, is just as fun and addictive. Like those, it’s one you can spend hundreds of hours on, and enjoy every second.
@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot No problem! I love exploring the indie scene for things. Sometimes you find games that beat out most triple A titles. Usually this isn’t the case with Pokémon-likes though, lol. Tough genre to beat. However there are some gems that do things a bit different and it makes them truly shine: Coromon and Monster Sanctuary are brilliant examples. Coromon especially if you enjoy shiny hunting.
@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Nexomon isn’t bad, an event change of pace from Pokémon with enough similarities to allow ya to jump in.
I haven’t tried Temtem or Cassette Beasts (though I do own CB just haven’t gotten around to trying it)
I highly recommend Coromon if you don’t have that one! That and Monster Sanctuary are the best non-Pokémon but Pokémon-like games on the switch. Both extremely good.
@HeadPirate You’re welcome, and I will always thank a person for educating me and teaching me something new!
Yeah I worked at a GameStop for awhile, we enforced needing a parents permission to buy a mature game if the customer was under 18.
I can see both sides for Steam being less restrictive, freedom of speech and art. Though, being a parent, I can also appreciate having a more filtered approach with console eshops. I’m tech savvy though (grew up with computers in the 80s) and one of the first things I did with my daughters accounts was limit what they could look up on the Nintendo eshop…. No need to have to answer questions like “Dad what’s Waifu mean?” 😂😂
They already talk about twerking…. Thanks YouTube!🙄
@Matt_Barber I wondered thanks for the answer! I already picked this up at launch on Switch (NA region here)….. hopefully it doesn’t affect other regions, but yeah I’ve seen it happen before. NZ likes to throw flags at games and usually there’s fallout in multiple regions.
It truly sucks when it happens to a game like this, which is innocent and also amazing. It’s the indie equal to something like BotW getting flagged and taken down by pegi. True shame, though I get why it happened.
@HeadPirate Tis true, I rarely hear of this problem. I do feel bad for the devs and the customers that can’t get the game.
I’m wondering why this only effects digital storefronts like eshop, but seemingly not pc storefronts like Steam as I’ve seen a few comments saying people are just getting it on Steam instead?
Also, thanks for the informative replies man! Truly appreciate it!
@IsThis5or6 Or just the fact that kids now days are more tech savvy, have access to the internet, and can easily figure out how to disable restrictions and access far more than I was able to back as a kid…..
Granted, AOL 3.0 was a wild place on the chat rooms…..
@HeadPirate ouch…. That does suck. I get the reasoning and understand about preventing adult only games from running around without restriction….. but man that does suck.
I feel like a better alternative would be a developer has to submit final code for review, and PEGI should have a review department that goes fully through the game and coding to verify the rating the developer states. Only after review can the game be released. Any further patches/updates must be reviewed as well.
If it works that way already then being able to “swat” a games rating shouldn’t work….
Either way, I feel better protections are in order on both sides, for the developer and consumer.
@HeadPirate Oy…. That sounds like, in theory at least, you could “swat” a game by just reporting that a game has gambling or something in it….. sounds like guilty till proven innocent to me.
This is absurd. Sorry for the devs, publisher, and those that can’t buy this beauty of a game!
I’m not sure what their terms of gambling are, but I don’t find any gambling in this game. It’s no different than a card version of Diablo 2, or going to the local store and buying Magic the Gathering cards.
You earn money by beating a high score, in turn you spend money on buying jokers or booster packs to strengthen your deck so you can move on to the next score to beat….theres no wagering of money, or betting of any kind. So yeah the gambling aspect makes no sense to me…..
The only relation to gambling is they use poker hands as the basis…… smh
Knew this was going to get at least a 9! Truly a great game and addictive as any AAA I’ve ever played. It’s seriously addictive as BotW, Skyrim, Witcher, etc…. Hours pass and you don’t even realize.
@Crono1973 I get that, I do. Dealing Bethesda titles for years, yeah I’d rather have a non buggy mess, lol.
Unfortunately what will likely end up happening in the future is the companies banding together, and tossing a ton of legal and financial might at the situation to force the hand, likely shutting emulators down completely unless they’re official emulators: which Nintendo, Sony, Xbox, etc creating official emulators is best case scenario pipe dream.
It’s impossible to stop the dumping and sharing of roms. it’s just too easy to do… like spreading a virus or sprinkling glitter. However if the companies overturn emulators as being illegal it mostly bricks the reason for roms. Emulators are the bottleneck target of this crusade. The only other way to play roms would be a modified system, which they can’t stop that either. They can stop the sales of, but they can’t stop knowledge from spreading or people from opening their switches. Nintendo still wins because Switches are still bought.
I guarantee this is the path that is trying to be carved…. Not sure if it’ll succeed. Be interesting to watch. Like I said in an earlier post tho, be ware poking the bear….
@Crono1973 There’s no need for them to exist to the public until a console is dead is my thought. If all someone cares about is backing up their games/software then you don’t need an emulator capable of playing said games to do such a thing.
Emulators for current consoles exist for 3 reasons - piracy, development and modding/visual upgrades.
Piracy is stupid to argue so we won’t include that. Development is a decent argument, however there exist a fully ethical and legal path to do such things, and more over it’s free. I know cause I’ve got a Nintendo developer account. Lastly visual upgrades/modding doesn’t qualify for a necessity or justifiable arguement. It’s just an entitled “I want it so it should be” argument.
The law even stipulates that you’re allowed to make back up copies of your games for archival purposes - this does not mean play directly from the back up. This means restoring the back up on to the intended medium and playing from the intended system. We dealt with this all the time back in Floppy Disc days.
Now once a console is dead and there’s difficulty / impossibility to purchase the original system, then there becomes a justifiable reason for an emulator to exist. Until then there’s not, truly there is not. And any argument for it falls under one of those three things - illegal…. Unethical…. Or entitlement.
@DestructoDisk I never claimed they were my friend. And more over, emulation is only legal as of this moment. Familiar with Roe v Wade or Prohibition? Stuff that’s been legal for years can change to illegal in an instant and Vice versa. And it likely will if people keep messing with emulation of active systems.
I’m fully aware of Bleem, I was writing Java script and html code when Bleem was first created. I’ve been around since the internet was created, born in 1982, so I’ve seen pretty much all of the emulation scene. I also respect and support your right to back up your games and play them on pc or any other device - ONCE the intended console has shut down production and discontinued service. While the system is currently active however there is no just reason to have emulators or copies of games: there exist 2 and only 2 reasons to emulate a current system - piracy and modding games/upgrading visuals. Both of the latter are a luxury. So your argument is invalid about preservation when the games and systems are still buyable.
Like I said previously, I’m on the side of emulation for preservation and revisiting gamings older days. But that’s not the case for any current system. Every one else arguing here has no moral leg to stand on, as morally and ethically speaking emulation is a grey area at best and I’m not going to pretend it’s not.
Furthermore, the argument in favor of this is literally no different than the gun argument. I’m a responsible gun owner, I like shooting guns at targets, I’m not a hunter nor do I feel I need my guns for self defense. I just like them. I’m not a criminal or felon and the only things on my record are a few speeding tickets from when I was teen. But there’s a good chance that some day I’ll loose my guns because some idiot shoots up another school.
In relation, I’m a responsible emulator user, I only use emulators to preserve and play games from the past that are no longer accessible, playable or purchasable, or I play games I already own. But there’s people out there that use them in illegal fashion and download game roms. One day it’ll be highly likely that emulation will become fully illegal if people keep poking the bear.
There’s one caveat to those two paragraphs though. Only one of them has an amendment backing it up.
But anyways, I’m done discussing this. It literally leads nowhere as people can’t quite grasp morals and ethics anymore, and feel that just because a company makes millions of dollars it’s completely fine to steal from them. Stealing is stealing regardless, theft is theft, and there’s no morally or ethically good reason for a Switch emulator to exist at this current time.
Edit - Also check Copyright.gov. Might be surprised at what you learn about the legalities of back up copies.
@Kekshook That not how intended that to come across, but trust that you’re not arguing on a morally high hill here.
Emulation has always been a grey area at BEST. I’ve been around since emulation was birthed. You may not see any fault in Yuzu, or their dev team, and they may have never intended for it to be used in an illegal fashion.
Neither did Limewire or Napster…..
Also I support emulation when it truly has a justifiable meaning, truly preserving old consoles and titles. Emulating switch has no other meaning than piracy, or playing games in a modded fashion / at higher resolution. Both of the latter reasons are purely luxury and for want, not need. The piracy reason is fully illegal, so no point in arguing for that.
So I’m going to assume you’re arguing for luxury sake, which isn’t a necessity, a need…. Nothing that is going to cause you loss to your gaming besides clearer visuals or an unofficial mod pack.
So again, I state, emulation of a current system is not a necessity. There is no truly good reason for it.
@Kekshook I’m not talking about making copies or such, I’m saying that Yuzu is a means to emulation. The creators are accountable for that. This has nothing to do with modded switches or roms. I’m not talking about those whatsoever.
I apologize my examples went over your head. Are you perchance a parent? Would you be totally ok with someone coming and taking your child’s dna to make exact clones? Cause that’s what the dev team did by making an emulator to switch. They cloned it, and gave it out to others.
In this case you’re the parent (Nintendo), your child is the switch, and the clones are Yuzu.
That a bit clearer?
If you truly need a lesson in accountability look up Napster and Limewire. Both were just “tools” that people ended up using in an illegal fashion. Both companies got lawsuits, both companies lost, and their owners held accountable. This is seriously no different than that.
@Kekshook nope, I’m talking about the creation and means.
I’ll use another example, Pharmaceutical companies. They make all kinds of medicines to cure us of various ailments, and most work REALLY well. We’ll say a new drug is created that cures lymphoma. Does its job 100%. 7 years later it’s discovered that the same drug also causes liver failure.
I use this example because it’s got a very clear accountability: the pharmaceutical company. So much so that they routinely set aside MILLIONS of dollars to avoid the lawsuits and just pay people off in settlements.
In both cases I’ve provided Yuzu is the distributor/creator, just like myself or the pharmaceutical company.
Also, should be noted im saying Yuzu and meaning the Dev team/creators.
I make special brownies for my wife and I to enjoy. My intent is only for us to eat them. However, in the middle of the night, my kid smells the brownies, snatches one and puts it in her lunch bag. The next day she takes it to school and shares it with her friend, causing them both to get high and sick. Who’s to blame for this? Where do YOU personally place the responsibility?
@JNolan93 if they didn’t have a legal leg to stand on Nintendo wouldn’t be pursuing this in court. They obviously do, otherwise it wouldn’t have made it court proceedings and would have just been brushed away.
More over, what you said could be used in any situation and holds literally no value - Colt “well we just make the guns, we don’t tell people what to do with them.” Drug Cartels - “well we just make the drugs, we don’t tell people to use them” Pepsi -“well we just make the soda, we don’t tell people to drink it”
See how that’s not really a weighed point?
Yuzu provided a means to circumvent the Switch hardware or software in some fashion which allows the user to modify or copy data that Nintendo does not allow or want to be copied. End of story. This is all part of that EULA that no one ever reads.
I get emulation, truly I do. Used it a bunch in the past, even going so far as modding an old DS Lite to play old nes games and old SCUMM based pc games. But there’s no truly good and valid reason to emulate an actively selling console or its games. Just because someone wants to play ToTK in 4k/60fps does not justify the emulation. Making a back up of your game is arguable, I’ll grant that, but it still doesn’t call for the emulator itself. The emulator does nothing more than allow you to play the game in a means not originally intended. That’s the DEFINITION of emulation. Otherwise it would be called copied/cloned hardware.
I’d be on your/Yuzu side if this wasn’t an active console with active sales and an active eshop. But the fact of the matter is, regardless of intent, this can and does harm sales.
@JakedaArbok Bingo. There’s argument for emulating discontinued consoles and giving continued access to games forgotten to time like Robowarrior. However, actively emulating a console you can still readily buy as well as software for said console…. Ridiculous.
Fable and Fallout for me. Rare Replay is ok, but honestly, we’re likely to see MOST of those pop up on NSO eventually. Now that we have KI and Blast Corps it’s only a matter of time before KIGold and Conker pop up. That said, yeah I’d rather own the collection digital or physical, but I’ll be happy too if they come to NSO.
Plus you guys gotta remember, that collection contains at least 3 Xbox 360 exclusives that were never on Nintendo - Viva 1&2 and Kameo. We’re MUCH more likely to get the games that released on Nintendo systems on NSO than a Rare Replay collection.
Fallout and Fable seem like good bets for a few reasons however. Fable was exclusive to Xbox and somewhat PC (think 2 was only Xbox), however the titles are old and stagnated from a financial standpoint. With Fable 4 on the horizon it would do MS some good to broaden the awareness by tossing the old titles on switch. Would reinvigorate their sales, boost awareness, and help hype Fable 4.
Fallout is also another great candidate. Firstly it’s been multiplatform from FO3/NV/FO4, so having those on another console at this point just makes sense. With the Fallout tv show coming up, and anniversary, once again, from a business standpoint it makes sense to port these games to switch.
Either or both franchises would be million sellers on Switch easy. And if you sell every game at $20-30 I guarantee there will be a large profit margin over cost of development.
I agree that the genre (sim) isn’t in line with the rest of their games which are more action oriented. But the Switch is actually a great platform for the genre itself, it’s great to carry around a city builder like Cities Skylines, or tower management like Project Highrise where ever you go. As a fan of Steamworld games, city builders, and Switch it honestly could have been a perfect match up.
They tried to lean on their fan base, which likely didn’t have as many sim fans in it, as the main driving force to sell the game. I feel like it didn’t get the awareness that other Steamworld games had gotten, and definitely not a targeted focus it deserves.
Now this is just my personal opinion, but I think it would have faired much better if it was more “organic”. The sims that shine in my eyes are the ones where you brush the canvas but the paint decides where it wants to go. In Sim City / Skylines you zone, the populace builds. In Project Highrise you zone the spaces, and the renters come and do their thing. With SWB it functioned more like Sim City mobile or Tropico. It’s still a fun game, but it was more resource management, almost like RTS. Another fine genre, but I don’t enjoy city builders as much when they use that style.
I’d like to see a sequel where they take a full Sim City approach.
I do hope Thunderful can restructure without too much loss, and more over, retains the charm that has made them one of my favorite indie devs over the years - I’ve bought all their games, most numerous times!
Oh and for those on the fence or confused about Hi Fi Rush, it’s Bayonetta but comic book style and you hit to the beat of the music for bonus damage. Fun stuff!
Hi Fi and Pentiment are likely announcements, but I’d fricking love it for MS/Beth/Obsidian to finally bring over Fallout proper with FO3/NV or even 4 (which should be possible, I mean Witcher 3 happened)….
And highly doubtful, but MS would make money hand over fist if they brought over Fable 1-3 on Switch. I mean those titles are old, aren’t generating much sales at this point on Xbox/PC. Tossing on Switch would likely print money. Same as FO3/NV.
Not surprising really. Nintendo likes to launch consoles in the Sept-Nov window AS WELL as the March window. I’ve always suspected it would more likely launch around the March window due to the statements provided by Nintendo officials thus far, aka “we’re focusing on the current Switch this year, or at this time”
Granted they’d say that regardless of possible fall/winter launch as to not possibly detract from sales of current hardware.
With Nintendo ya never truly know. Either way, I’m ready for when it does launch, and as long as it’s got backward compatibility and I don’t loose my current digital catalog in transition, then it’ll be a day one purchase for me.
@Henchdog Oblivion I’m not sure, but I still think FO3 has a decent chance of being ported, as well as NV, and maybe FO4. I think I recall seeing that this year is the anniversary for FO3, and there was originally internal documents pointing towards a FO3 Remake/Remaster potentially. Think that was discovered during the FTC trial regarding internal documents from MS on what they thought/heard/knew/expected Bethesda to be announcing prior to their acquisition. Most of what was on that list came to pass, but the FO3 thing has not.
Given that info, with a potential for FO3 remaster this year, it’s entirely possible that they port it (or the original) to Switch. At least that’s my hopes.
I toyed with the idea of getting an Asus Ally or Legion Go for portable gaming of games like FO3/NV, but honestly I don’t wanna deal with the hassle of pc gaming anymore. as a parent I rarely have time to game, so I require being able to just drop the game in and start playing. By the time I fiddled with settings, drivers, etc I wouldn’t have time to actually play. So it’s basically going to come down to if they port it to Switch, or the potential Xbox Handheld that might happen. Either way I’d be happy.
@Zuljaras not sure how but I’d totally forgotten about Fable 1-3…. Seriously having Fable and Fallout would be amazing on switch, and more over, would print money for Phil and company…. Like an OBSCENE amount.
FAFO. I mean those of us who saw the rise and fall of things like Limewire and Napster, as well as the resulting creation and enforcement of DMCA should know all too well just how hard corporations and the legal system can come down on people. In that case a company just provided people with a client that could share data between each other, the computers themselves could already do the ripping and writing.
In Gary’s case, he and his team were not only providing the “client” but the means to rip and write, something that isn’t normally possible without special equipment.
I’m totally fine with modding past systems and emulation that are no longer accessible in any modern fashion - prime example something like Robowarrior from NES, or modding an OG xbox to install games on the HD since the cd drives fail quicker than most other components. But for the love of Pete, leave the modern systems alone until the next Gen. Smh…. At least in a fashion such as this. Personal modification for looks, or whatever, is on the person that owns the device. If they want to mod it how they want, then that’s on them.
@a_brave_new_geek I’ve got a Series X for MS stuff, and I’ll always have Nintendo consoles - grew up with em so they’re a must buy! Yeah I’m Thinkin Ps5/Portal combo after my friend in the Netherlands says it was super smooth, even away from home. Granted he has a 300mb internet service, whereas mine is ATT dsl capped at 25mb/1.5mb down/up. Small town life has its charms, but fast internet ain’t one of em! 😂
@a_brave_new_geek No game pc here, fell outta that race about 15 years back after my last pc blew up during a thunder storm, bah. $3500 down the toilet in 6 months. That’s why I’ve been debating between Ps5/Portal or an Ally/Legion. I primarily game at home, so travel isn’t an issue. I just like being able to take my gaming into the bedroom and get away from the kiddos - plus I can’t play M rated games on the main tv without fear of them wandering in the room.
@a_brave_new_geek I forgot Cities was a Paradox game, and they’ve got others on Switch, so CK3 is also highly possible.
I feel ya one the first world probs, just in opposite direction. I still haven’t picked up a PS5 yet, cause truly it’s hard for me to game on the big screen (kiddos). So I’ve been debating either a Ps5 and Portal combo or just goin with an Ally/Legion and waiting for GoWR PC release. The rest of the games I wish to play from ps4 or ps5 are all on Pc already. Though there’s also the flip arguement that my ps4 titles will carry over to Ps5 / Portal combo. Lol!
@a_brave_new_geek Baldurs would be likely, Larian loves to support all consoles, including switch.
RDR2 likely, Rockstar also showing switch a lot of love. Cyberpunk likely as well, if CDPR can make it run decently. They love having their stuff on Switch, Witcher 3 on switch accounted for a TON of sales.
Mass Effect Legendary could probably run on the current Switch honestly, if toned down a bit. But EA is Rocky with Nintendo, so a solid maybe…. Would love portable Dragon Age and ME tho.
The rest I’m not sure. I seriously thought FromSoft was going to continue supporting the Switch with DS2 and DS3, but those haven’t come around, even tho I know DS1 sold pretty solid on Switch.
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Re: Balatro Back On Switch eShop In Europe With New Age Rating
@sanderev Yeah I’m not arguing that by any means. My brother has a gambling addiction, a massive one. Lost a house and boat to sharks.
That said, I couldnt lump Balatro in the same group that would lead to gambling addiction. Not by any means. As a massive Diablo 2 fan, I COULD lump that one in there tho! That game is literally a graphical version of a slot machine - just one more pull and I’ll hear the jingles!
But if I’m being completely honest, MOST games have some sort of hook that’s very similar to gambling. Pokémon and shiny hunting, Monster Hunter and Mantles/Jaspers, Diablo 2 and runes/uniques, Mario and collecting stars…..
Re: Balatro Back On Switch eShop In Europe With New Age Rating
@Grumblevolcano I kept forgetting were talking about Euro versions. In America the ESRB maintained lower ratings when Nintendo disabled the gambling
Re: Balatro Back On Switch eShop In Europe With New Age Rating
@Grumblevolcano Nintendo disabled the gambling on the 3DS VC versions of Pokémon so they wouldn’t get slapped with a higher rating. Nintendo will likely just reuse those versions. 😁
To clarify, Nintendo disabled the slots and such. You can still trade poke dollars for poke coins to purchase the TMs and Pokémon at that shop.
Re: Balatro Back On Switch eShop In Europe With New Age Rating
@GravyThief 😂😂😂
Re: Balatro Back On Switch eShop In Europe With New Age Rating
@sanderev either way it’s silly and unwarranted.
And didn’t your mother ever teach you not to judge a book by its cover?
Seriously, play it before you condemn it to “a gambling game”. Cause it’s not.
Re: Balatro Back On Switch eShop In Europe With New Age Rating
@sanderev Bingo requires an entry fee to play with the chance that you win money in return….
There’s no entry fee in here - even tho it says “ante”…. your money doesn’t, I repeat DOES NOT, get depleted upon entering the next match.
True there is rng involved, but like I said, it’s a rogue. Do you consider Dead Cells a gambling game? Or Hades?
The rng and outcome can be MANIPULATED unlike gambling or Bingo….
In the case of this, ante is no more than a marker of what level you’re on.
Re: Balatro Back On Switch eShop In Europe With New Age Rating
@sanderev gambling requires a wager, there’s no wager dude….
Also see other countries ratings on it…. None of the rest have done this.
Read the addendum I added. This was likely a swat attempt or some idiot with the wrong idea about the game.
Re: Balatro Back On Switch eShop In Europe With New Age Rating
@sanderev there’s truly no gambling, simulated or otherwise in this. It’s no different than Dead Cells, Rogue Legacy, Hades, etc…..
It’s a rogue deck builder. The only reason for the confusion is Poker hands being what judges the base score. This is literally Pokémon the trading card game, you get a hand to beat out a top score, turn and buy booster packs to strengthen your deck. Repeat till win or lose.
A simple switch of poker hands being monsters and the score being enemy health…. Which is why this whole rating thing is frickin ridiculous. As I talked to another NL poster before, PEGI follows the rule set of “guilty until proven innocent” the opposite of America’s ESRB. This allows PEGI (or anyone that wants to SWAT a game) to take down the game and force it to receive a new rating or stall sales until the true rating can be established.
The devs posted immediately following the removal of the game and straight up said they were going to toss it back up as 18+ until the PEGI situation could be sorted
Re: Balatro Back On Switch eShop In Europe With New Age Rating
Eee….
To any parents that are now afraid to get this game for your kids, don’t be. There truly is no actual gambling in it, and there’s no adult themes (no drugs, alcohol, nudity, violence or gore).
You start with a standard deck of cards trying to beat the “top score” of each round. At the end of each round you get cash to buy booster packs and jokers. This is no different than Pokémon TCG, MtG, Yu-gi-oh - and those cost REAL money IRL…
To all the EU adults that have been waiting, go go go go go! You won’t be disappointed!
Re: Balatro Surpasses 500,000 Sales In First 10 Days
This is one of those games that you can’t watch and hopefully grasp what type of game it is and how fun it is. There are some games that just don’t translate to trailer/video well unless you already know exactly what’s going on.
Much like Ghost Trick, Ace Attorney, or even Vampire Survivors…. It’s a game that you won’t appreciate until you play it.
I’m not a big fan of card games/deck builders. I’ve played my fair share of poker and spades with friends in real life, so I knew the hands going into it. What I didn’t know was just how addictive the draw is once you get going. Just like Hades, Gungeon, Dead Cells, Slay the Spire, Vampire Survivors. etc there is a massive “omg I was so close, one more run!” Aspect. Before ya know it 4-5 hours have passed.
I implore anyone that’s remotely curious, and has $15 to spend, to try it before ya judge it. If ya don’t like it, then you’re out $15 max - there are worse ways to spend cash. If ya do like it, then you’ll understand why it’s mentioned as a GOTY contender.
Yeah it may not have flashy visuals like Elden Ring or Baldurs Gate 3, or an amazing score like Breath of the Wild, but the gameplay, like the rest, is just as fun and addictive. Like those, it’s one you can spend hundreds of hours on, and enjoy every second.
Re: Crypt Of The NecroDancer Returns From The Dead Next Week With "Huge New DLC"
Time to start dancing for my life again…..
Re: Balatro Surpasses 500,000 Sales In First 10 Days
Those are rookie numbers, we gotta get those up!
Re: Darkest Dungeon II Has Been Rated For Nintendo Switch
First one is on sale on the US eshop currently, $9.99 for standard or $15.99 for ancestral edition (all dlcs)
I went ahead and nabbed this to try it out. Seems very much like an RPG crossed with Eternal Darkness in tone/theme…. I’m down for that.
Re: Pokémon-Like Temtem Announces Final Major Updates And Removal Of Monetisation
@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot No problem! I love exploring the indie scene for things. Sometimes you find games that beat out most triple A titles. Usually this isn’t the case with Pokémon-likes though, lol. Tough genre to beat. However there are some gems that do things a bit different and it makes them truly shine: Coromon and Monster Sanctuary are brilliant examples. Coromon especially if you enjoy shiny hunting.
Re: Pokémon-Like Temtem Announces Final Major Updates And Removal Of Monetisation
@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Nexomon isn’t bad, an event change of pace from Pokémon with enough similarities to allow ya to jump in.
I haven’t tried Temtem or Cassette Beasts (though I do own CB just haven’t gotten around to trying it)
I highly recommend Coromon if you don’t have that one! That and Monster Sanctuary are the best non-Pokémon but Pokémon-like games on the switch. Both extremely good.
Oh and Monster Hunter Stories 2. Great game!
Re: Balatro Removed From European Nintendo eShops Due To Ratings Switch
@HeadPirate You’re welcome, and I will always thank a person for educating me and teaching me something new!
Yeah I worked at a GameStop for awhile, we enforced needing a parents permission to buy a mature game if the customer was under 18.
I can see both sides for Steam being less restrictive, freedom of speech and art. Though, being a parent, I can also appreciate having a more filtered approach with console eshops. I’m tech savvy though (grew up with computers in the 80s) and one of the first things I did with my daughters accounts was limit what they could look up on the Nintendo eshop…. No need to have to answer questions like “Dad what’s Waifu mean?” 😂😂
They already talk about twerking…. Thanks YouTube!🙄
Re: Balatro Removed From European Nintendo eShops Due To Ratings Switch
@Matt_Barber I wondered thanks for the answer! I already picked this up at launch on Switch (NA region here)….. hopefully it doesn’t affect other regions, but yeah I’ve seen it happen before. NZ likes to throw flags at games and usually there’s fallout in multiple regions.
It truly sucks when it happens to a game like this, which is innocent and also amazing. It’s the indie equal to something like BotW getting flagged and taken down by pegi. True shame, though I get why it happened.
Re: Balatro Removed From European Nintendo eShops Due To Ratings Switch
@HeadPirate Tis true, I rarely hear of this problem. I do feel bad for the devs and the customers that can’t get the game.
I’m wondering why this only effects digital storefronts like eshop, but seemingly not pc storefronts like Steam as I’ve seen a few comments saying people are just getting it on Steam instead?
Also, thanks for the informative replies man! Truly appreciate it!
Re: Balatro Removed From European Nintendo eShops Due To Ratings Switch
@IsThis5or6 Or just the fact that kids now days are more tech savvy, have access to the internet, and can easily figure out how to disable restrictions and access far more than I was able to back as a kid…..
Granted, AOL 3.0 was a wild place on the chat rooms…..
Re: Balatro Removed From European Nintendo eShops Due To Ratings Switch
@HeadPirate ouch…. That does suck. I get the reasoning and understand about preventing adult only games from running around without restriction….. but man that does suck.
I feel like a better alternative would be a developer has to submit final code for review, and PEGI should have a review department that goes fully through the game and coding to verify the rating the developer states. Only after review can the game be released. Any further patches/updates must be reviewed as well.
If it works that way already then being able to “swat” a games rating shouldn’t work….
Either way, I feel better protections are in order on both sides, for the developer and consumer.
Re: Balatro Removed From European Nintendo eShops Due To Ratings Switch
@HeadPirate Oy…. That sounds like, in theory at least, you could “swat” a game by just reporting that a game has gambling or something in it….. sounds like guilty till proven innocent to me.
Wonder if our ESRB works the same? Hmmmm
Re: Balatro Removed From European Nintendo eShops Due To Ratings Switch
This is absurd. Sorry for the devs, publisher, and those that can’t buy this beauty of a game!
I’m not sure what their terms of gambling are, but I don’t find any gambling in this game. It’s no different than a card version of Diablo 2, or going to the local store and buying Magic the Gathering cards.
You earn money by beating a high score, in turn you spend money on buying jokers or booster packs to strengthen your deck so you can move on to the next score to beat….theres no wagering of money, or betting of any kind. So yeah the gambling aspect makes no sense to me…..
The only relation to gambling is they use poker hands as the basis…… smh
Re: Review: Balatro (Switch) - Devilishly Compelling Cardplay, And A Clear GOTY Contender
Knew this was going to get at least a 9! Truly a great game and addictive as any AAA I’ve ever played. It’s seriously addictive as BotW, Skyrim, Witcher, etc…. Hours pass and you don’t even realize.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@Crono1973 I get that, I do. Dealing Bethesda titles for years, yeah I’d rather have a non buggy mess, lol.
Unfortunately what will likely end up happening in the future is the companies banding together, and tossing a ton of legal and financial might at the situation to force the hand, likely shutting emulators down completely unless they’re official emulators: which Nintendo, Sony, Xbox, etc creating official emulators is best case scenario pipe dream.
It’s impossible to stop the dumping and sharing of roms. it’s just too easy to do… like spreading a virus or sprinkling glitter. However if the companies overturn emulators as being illegal it mostly bricks the reason for roms. Emulators are the bottleneck target of this crusade. The only other way to play roms would be a modified system, which they can’t stop that either. They can stop the sales of, but they can’t stop knowledge from spreading or people from opening their switches. Nintendo still wins because Switches are still bought.
I guarantee this is the path that is trying to be carved…. Not sure if it’ll succeed. Be interesting to watch. Like I said in an earlier post tho, be ware poking the bear….
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@Crono1973 There’s no need for them to exist to the public until a console is dead is my thought. If all someone cares about is backing up their games/software then you don’t need an emulator capable of playing said games to do such a thing.
Emulators for current consoles exist for 3 reasons - piracy, development and modding/visual upgrades.
Piracy is stupid to argue so we won’t include that. Development is a decent argument, however there exist a fully ethical and legal path to do such things, and more over it’s free. I know cause I’ve got a Nintendo developer account. Lastly visual upgrades/modding doesn’t qualify for a necessity or justifiable arguement. It’s just an entitled “I want it so it should be” argument.
The law even stipulates that you’re allowed to make back up copies of your games for archival purposes - this does not mean play directly from the back up. This means restoring the back up on to the intended medium and playing from the intended system. We dealt with this all the time back in Floppy Disc days.
Now once a console is dead and there’s difficulty / impossibility to purchase the original system, then there becomes a justifiable reason for an emulator to exist. Until then there’s not, truly there is not. And any argument for it falls under one of those three things - illegal…. Unethical…. Or entitlement.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@DestructoDisk I never claimed they were my friend. And more over, emulation is only legal as of this moment. Familiar with Roe v Wade or Prohibition? Stuff that’s been legal for years can change to illegal in an instant and Vice versa. And it likely will if people keep messing with emulation of active systems.
I’m fully aware of Bleem, I was writing Java script and html code when Bleem was first created. I’ve been around since the internet was created, born in 1982, so I’ve seen pretty much all of the emulation scene. I also respect and support your right to back up your games and play them on pc or any other device - ONCE the intended console has shut down production and discontinued service. While the system is currently active however there is no just reason to have emulators or copies of games: there exist 2 and only 2 reasons to emulate a current system - piracy and modding games/upgrading visuals. Both of the latter are a luxury. So your argument is invalid about preservation when the games and systems are still buyable.
Like I said previously, I’m on the side of emulation for preservation and revisiting gamings older days. But that’s not the case for any current system. Every one else arguing here has no moral leg to stand on, as morally and ethically speaking emulation is a grey area at best and I’m not going to pretend it’s not.
Furthermore, the argument in favor of this is literally no different than the gun argument. I’m a responsible gun owner, I like shooting guns at targets, I’m not a hunter nor do I feel I need my guns for self defense. I just like them. I’m not a criminal or felon and the only things on my record are a few speeding tickets from when I was teen. But there’s a good chance that some day I’ll loose my guns because some idiot shoots up another school.
In relation, I’m a responsible emulator user, I only use emulators to preserve and play games from the past that are no longer accessible, playable or purchasable, or I play games I already own. But there’s people out there that use them in illegal fashion and download game roms. One day it’ll be highly likely that emulation will become fully illegal if people keep poking the bear.
There’s one caveat to those two paragraphs though. Only one of them has an amendment backing it up.
But anyways, I’m done discussing this. It literally leads nowhere as people can’t quite grasp morals and ethics anymore, and feel that just because a company makes millions of dollars it’s completely fine to steal from them. Stealing is stealing regardless, theft is theft, and there’s no morally or ethically good reason for a Switch emulator to exist at this current time.
Edit - Also check Copyright.gov. Might be surprised at what you learn about the legalities of back up copies.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@Kekshook That not how intended that to come across, but trust that you’re not arguing on a morally high hill here.
Emulation has always been a grey area at BEST. I’ve been around since emulation was birthed. You may not see any fault in Yuzu, or their dev team, and they may have never intended for it to be used in an illegal fashion.
Neither did Limewire or Napster…..
Also I support emulation when it truly has a justifiable meaning, truly preserving old consoles and titles. Emulating switch has no other meaning than piracy, or playing games in a modded fashion / at higher resolution. Both of the latter reasons are purely luxury and for want, not need. The piracy reason is fully illegal, so no point in arguing for that.
So I’m going to assume you’re arguing for luxury sake, which isn’t a necessity, a need…. Nothing that is going to cause you loss to your gaming besides clearer visuals or an unofficial mod pack.
So again, I state, emulation of a current system is not a necessity. There is no truly good reason for it.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@Kekshook again I’m not talking about games, I’m talking about the ability to play them. Yuzu is an emulator correct? It plays switch games correct?
You’re the one hung up on roms, games and modded switches. I’m not talking about ANY of that. Pure emulation/emulator. Nothing more.
An emulator is a means to play games in a fashion not originally intended.
In my examples the Brownies were an EMULATOR, the Drugs were an EMULATOR, and the clones were an EMULATOR.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@Kekshook I’m not talking about making copies or such, I’m saying that Yuzu is a means to emulation. The creators are accountable for that. This has nothing to do with modded switches or roms. I’m not talking about those whatsoever.
I apologize my examples went over your head. Are you perchance a parent? Would you be totally ok with someone coming and taking your child’s dna to make exact clones? Cause that’s what the dev team did by making an emulator to switch. They cloned it, and gave it out to others.
In this case you’re the parent (Nintendo), your child is the switch, and the clones are Yuzu.
That a bit clearer?
If you truly need a lesson in accountability look up Napster and Limewire. Both were just “tools” that people ended up using in an illegal fashion. Both companies got lawsuits, both companies lost, and their owners held accountable. This is seriously no different than that.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@Kekshook nope, I’m talking about the creation and means.
I’ll use another example, Pharmaceutical companies. They make all kinds of medicines to cure us of various ailments, and most work REALLY well. We’ll say a new drug is created that cures lymphoma. Does its job 100%. 7 years later it’s discovered that the same drug also causes liver failure.
I use this example because it’s got a very clear accountability: the pharmaceutical company. So much so that they routinely set aside MILLIONS of dollars to avoid the lawsuits and just pay people off in settlements.
In both cases I’ve provided Yuzu is the distributor/creator, just like myself or the pharmaceutical company.
Also, should be noted im saying Yuzu and meaning the Dev team/creators.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@Kekshook accountability needs to lie somewhere.
Let’s look at an example….
I make special brownies for my wife and I to enjoy. My intent is only for us to eat them. However, in the middle of the night, my kid smells the brownies, snatches one and puts it in her lunch bag. The next day she takes it to school and shares it with her friend, causing them both to get high and sick. Who’s to blame for this? Where do YOU personally place the responsibility?
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@JNolan93 if they didn’t have a legal leg to stand on Nintendo wouldn’t be pursuing this in court. They obviously do, otherwise it wouldn’t have made it court proceedings and would have just been brushed away.
More over, what you said could be used in any situation and holds literally no value - Colt “well we just make the guns, we don’t tell people what to do with them.” Drug Cartels - “well we just make the drugs, we don’t tell people to use them” Pepsi -“well we just make the soda, we don’t tell people to drink it”
See how that’s not really a weighed point?
Yuzu provided a means to circumvent the Switch hardware or software in some fashion which allows the user to modify or copy data that Nintendo does not allow or want to be copied. End of story. This is all part of that EULA that no one ever reads.
I get emulation, truly I do. Used it a bunch in the past, even going so far as modding an old DS Lite to play old nes games and old SCUMM based pc games. But there’s no truly good and valid reason to emulate an actively selling console or its games. Just because someone wants to play ToTK in 4k/60fps does not justify the emulation. Making a back up of your game is arguable, I’ll grant that, but it still doesn’t call for the emulator itself. The emulator does nothing more than allow you to play the game in a means not originally intended. That’s the DEFINITION of emulation. Otherwise it would be called copied/cloned hardware.
I’d be on your/Yuzu side if this wasn’t an active console with active sales and an active eshop. But the fact of the matter is, regardless of intent, this can and does harm sales.
Re: Nintendo Sets Its Sights On Switch Emulator Yuzu In New Lawsuit
@JakedaArbok Bingo. There’s argument for emulating discontinued consoles and giving continued access to games forgotten to time like Robowarrior. However, actively emulating a console you can still readily buy as well as software for said console…. Ridiculous.
Re: New Metroidvania From CERN Physicist Focuses On The Wonder Of Science
Color me intrigued! Def will add this to wishlist
Re: Community: What's The Best Switch eShop Game We Missed? (February 2024)
Balatro and Pentiment are the main ones.
Also highlights from Feb include:
Grime
Clem
Alisa
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark 2
Anomaly Agent
Arcade Tycoon
Actually a few of those were end of Jan releases, my bad! Either way, highlights of the past 30 days.
Edit - oh and Cattails: Wild Story. Really curious about this one as the original got an 8/10. (I need to get back to it and finish it)
Re: 35 Upcoming Nintendo Switch Games To Look Forward To In 2024
You said “Buffy-esq” about Demonschool and now my interest is piqued.
Also, now I really really really want a new Buffy game…. Preferably action rpg or Metroidvania. Ugh… 😭
Re: Talking Point: Which Xbox Games Would You Like To See Come To Switch?
Fable and Fallout for me. Rare Replay is ok, but honestly, we’re likely to see MOST of those pop up on NSO eventually. Now that we have KI and Blast Corps it’s only a matter of time before KIGold and Conker pop up. That said, yeah I’d rather own the collection digital or physical, but I’ll be happy too if they come to NSO.
Plus you guys gotta remember, that collection contains at least 3 Xbox 360 exclusives that were never on Nintendo - Viva 1&2 and Kameo. We’re MUCH more likely to get the games that released on Nintendo systems on NSO than a Rare Replay collection.
Fallout and Fable seem like good bets for a few reasons however. Fable was exclusive to Xbox and somewhat PC (think 2 was only Xbox), however the titles are old and stagnated from a financial standpoint. With Fable 4 on the horizon it would do MS some good to broaden the awareness by tossing the old titles on switch. Would reinvigorate their sales, boost awareness, and help hype Fable 4.
Fallout is also another great candidate. Firstly it’s been multiplatform from FO3/NV/FO4, so having those on another console at this point just makes sense. With the Fallout tv show coming up, and anniversary, once again, from a business standpoint it makes sense to port these games to switch.
Either or both franchises would be million sellers on Switch easy. And if you sell every game at $20-30 I guarantee there will be a large profit margin over cost of development.
Re: New SteamWorld Game Sales Fell "Slightly Short" Of Thunderful's Expectations
I agree that the genre (sim) isn’t in line with the rest of their games which are more action oriented. But the Switch is actually a great platform for the genre itself, it’s great to carry around a city builder like Cities Skylines, or tower management like Project Highrise where ever you go. As a fan of Steamworld games, city builders, and Switch it honestly could have been a perfect match up.
They tried to lean on their fan base, which likely didn’t have as many sim fans in it, as the main driving force to sell the game. I feel like it didn’t get the awareness that other Steamworld games had gotten, and definitely not a targeted focus it deserves.
Now this is just my personal opinion, but I think it would have faired much better if it was more “organic”. The sims that shine in my eyes are the ones where you brush the canvas but the paint decides where it wants to go. In Sim City / Skylines you zone, the populace builds. In Project Highrise you zone the spaces, and the renters come and do their thing. With SWB it functioned more like Sim City mobile or Tropico. It’s still a fun game, but it was more resource management, almost like RTS. Another fine genre, but I don’t enjoy city builders as much when they use that style.
I’d like to see a sequel where they take a full Sim City approach.
I do hope Thunderful can restructure without too much loss, and more over, retains the charm that has made them one of my favorite indie devs over the years - I’ve bought all their games, most numerous times!
Re: Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase February 2024 - Time, Where To Watch, What To Expect
Oh and for those on the fence or confused about Hi Fi Rush, it’s Bayonetta but comic book style and you hit to the beat of the music for bonus damage. Fun stuff!
Re: Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase February 2024 - Time, Where To Watch, What To Expect
Hi Fi and Pentiment are likely announcements, but I’d fricking love it for MS/Beth/Obsidian to finally bring over Fallout proper with FO3/NV or even 4 (which should be possible, I mean Witcher 3 happened)….
And highly doubtful, but MS would make money hand over fist if they brought over Fable 1-3 on Switch. I mean those titles are old, aren’t generating much sales at this point on Xbox/PC. Tossing on Switch would likely print money. Same as FO3/NV.
Re: Rumour: Switch Successor Might Not Be Launching Until 2025
Not surprising really. Nintendo likes to launch consoles in the Sept-Nov window AS WELL as the March window. I’ve always suspected it would more likely launch around the March window due to the statements provided by Nintendo officials thus far, aka “we’re focusing on the current Switch this year, or at this time”
Granted they’d say that regardless of possible fall/winter launch as to not possibly detract from sales of current hardware.
With Nintendo ya never truly know. Either way, I’m ready for when it does launch, and as long as it’s got backward compatibility and I don’t loose my current digital catalog in transition, then it’ll be a day one purchase for me.
Re: Microsoft To Bring Four Xbox Exclusives To Other Consoles, But Won't Name Them
@Henchdog Oblivion I’m not sure, but I still think FO3 has a decent chance of being ported, as well as NV, and maybe FO4. I think I recall seeing that this year is the anniversary for FO3, and there was originally internal documents pointing towards a FO3 Remake/Remaster potentially. Think that was discovered during the FTC trial regarding internal documents from MS on what they thought/heard/knew/expected Bethesda to be announcing prior to their acquisition. Most of what was on that list came to pass, but the FO3 thing has not.
Given that info, with a potential for FO3 remaster this year, it’s entirely possible that they port it (or the original) to Switch. At least that’s my hopes.
I toyed with the idea of getting an Asus Ally or Legion Go for portable gaming of games like FO3/NV, but honestly I don’t wanna deal with the hassle of pc gaming anymore. as a parent I rarely have time to game, so I require being able to just drop the game in and start playing. By the time I fiddled with settings, drivers, etc I wouldn’t have time to actually play. So it’s basically going to come down to if they port it to Switch, or the potential Xbox Handheld that might happen. Either way I’d be happy.
Re: Microsoft To Bring Four Xbox Exclusives To Other Consoles, But Won't Name Them
@Zuljaras not sure how but I’d totally forgotten about Fable 1-3…. Seriously having Fable and Fallout would be amazing on switch, and more over, would print money for Phil and company…. Like an OBSCENE amount.
Re: Microsoft To Bring Four Xbox Exclusives To Other Consoles, But Won't Name Them
Hi Fi and Pent would be amazing additions to the Switch library, but never played SoT or Grounded so can’t comment on them.
I’m sitting here still wishing for portable Fallout 3/NV/4…..
Re: Xbox Exclusives Hi-Fi RUSH & Pentiment Reportedly Coming To "Rival Consoles"
Portable Fallout 3 and NV please!
Re: Hacker Gary Bowser Discusses Post-Jail Life And Chipping Away At Nintendo's $14m
FAFO. I mean those of us who saw the rise and fall of things like Limewire and Napster, as well as the resulting creation and enforcement of DMCA should know all too well just how hard corporations and the legal system can come down on people. In that case a company just provided people with a client that could share data between each other, the computers themselves could already do the ripping and writing.
In Gary’s case, he and his team were not only providing the “client” but the means to rip and write, something that isn’t normally possible without special equipment.
I’m totally fine with modding past systems and emulation that are no longer accessible in any modern fashion - prime example something like Robowarrior from NES, or modding an OG xbox to install games on the HD since the cd drives fail quicker than most other components. But for the love of Pete, leave the modern systems alone until the next Gen. Smh…. At least in a fashion such as this. Personal modification for looks, or whatever, is on the person that owns the device. If they want to mod it how they want, then that’s on them.
Re: 'Switch 2' Launching This Year With 8-Inch LCD Screen, According To New Analyst Rumour
@a_brave_new_geek I’ve got a Series X for MS stuff, and I’ll always have Nintendo consoles - grew up with em so they’re a must buy! Yeah I’m Thinkin Ps5/Portal combo after my friend in the Netherlands says it was super smooth, even away from home. Granted he has a 300mb internet service, whereas mine is ATT dsl capped at 25mb/1.5mb down/up. Small town life has its charms, but fast internet ain’t one of em! 😂
Re: 'Switch 2' Launching This Year With 8-Inch LCD Screen, According To New Analyst Rumour
@a_brave_new_geek No game pc here, fell outta that race about 15 years back after my last pc blew up during a thunder storm, bah. $3500 down the toilet in 6 months. That’s why I’ve been debating between Ps5/Portal or an Ally/Legion. I primarily game at home, so travel isn’t an issue. I just like being able to take my gaming into the bedroom and get away from the kiddos - plus I can’t play M rated games on the main tv without fear of them wandering in the room.
Re: 'Switch 2' Launching This Year With 8-Inch LCD Screen, According To New Analyst Rumour
@a_brave_new_geek I forgot Cities was a Paradox game, and they’ve got others on Switch, so CK3 is also highly possible.
I feel ya one the first world probs, just in opposite direction. I still haven’t picked up a PS5 yet, cause truly it’s hard for me to game on the big screen (kiddos). So I’ve been debating either a Ps5 and Portal combo or just goin with an Ally/Legion and waiting for GoWR PC release. The rest of the games I wish to play from ps4 or ps5 are all on Pc already. Though there’s also the flip arguement that my ps4 titles will carry over to Ps5 / Portal combo. Lol!
Re: 'Switch 2' Launching This Year With 8-Inch LCD Screen, According To New Analyst Rumour
@a_brave_new_geek Baldurs would be likely, Larian loves to support all consoles, including switch.
RDR2 likely, Rockstar also showing switch a lot of love. Cyberpunk likely as well, if CDPR can make it run decently. They love having their stuff on Switch, Witcher 3 on switch accounted for a TON of sales.
Mass Effect Legendary could probably run on the current Switch honestly, if toned down a bit. But EA is Rocky with Nintendo, so a solid maybe…. Would love portable Dragon Age and ME tho.
The rest I’m not sure. I seriously thought FromSoft was going to continue supporting the Switch with DS2 and DS3, but those haven’t come around, even tho I know DS1 sold pretty solid on Switch.