Elldot

I’m glad I was able to cancel my LRG steelbook copy and snag a PAL steelbook in the UK, not only did I save like £45 (it was very expensive on LRG…) it came the day before release. Thanks Hit.co.uk!

I felt compelled to complete this section before moving on to the next, for some reason. After having now explored it... just come back to it later.

@Andee I had this same thought as well, but I think with the high cost of the new SD cards it may bother some when they need to delete/redownload etc to prevent needing to spend the extra money?

Also, something that can’t really be understated, switch was the only console where you could buy a game, put it in and it just play right away. For kids and people on road trips/travelling etc, this was a pretty unassuming thing. It’s a portable device, the carts sort of need to work when not tethered to the internet right?

@larryisaman still a threat!

I kind of assumed he was always joking… I don’t think he meant (most) of the hostility, it was just his thing and it became a badge of honour to get blocked by him?

I think being ‘blocked by kamiya’ was a stretch goal on a kickstarter at some point!

I’m hoping this announcement leads to a new switch version of the original releases, a la trails from zero/ to azure. That would be nice

Imagine if this is finally released and it’s revealed it took so long because it’s just absolutely HUGE. Properly gigantic with multiple playable characters and hundreds of optional bosses.

I don’t know if that would be a good thing actually.

I didn’t get a switch till a little later, so played BOTW on the Wii U. I was also lucky to have played BOTW before release at some Nintendo event thing in London (before the switch got announced), so imagine my surprise when the gamepad had zero use throughout the game… it was so much easier to use the inventory with that gamepad!

I know it doesn't really matter, but when I saw that he got rid of all his boxes, I paused and uttered 'you... absolute monster'.

I really need to sort my loft out with some nice storage boxes.

Maaaan this takes me back! I worked in Game from around 2006 to 2010. I wish I had bought so much more of the rarer ps1, GameCube and Gameboy advance games that went cheap at the time… I had completely forgotten the 360 disc burn in thing, and luckily left just as they started pushing the insurance stuff a bit too much and before mobiles and skylanders took over! Had fun working there during my uni days though.

I have 2 young children (5&8), who have become a bit pokemad in the last year or 2. Helped obviously by the fact I have nearly every game and gave them my old 3DS/gameboys/retro handhelds etc (which also helped with their reading/writing enormously!)

When Scarlet/Violet was released I worried about them watching videos constantly slagging the games off, as they are very excited to get them for Christmas, but they were adamant I show them some gameplay videos and stuff because they couldn’t wait. Whilst watching these ‘performance reviews’ all they could say was how much they couldn’t wait to play them, how cool it looks and which starter they would pick.

These are very popular games for people of all ages (including me!) but for those lamenting these sales figures, let’s not forget that these are largely aimed at children, and it’s before Christmas, and that’s a very very lucrative demographic.

I’ve got a few boxes of random stuff that’s become rare over the years, but what’s really surprised me is…

Solatorobo is worth something?! I’ve got that sealed somewhere in a random box of other stuff in my loft… PAL version though.

I did get the collectors Ed of all 3 ‘operation rainfall’ games on Wii, along with a slipcase and art box to put them in from HMV and some collectible coins for them. I thought that was bound to be worth a bomb in the future!

It’s not.

I bought my first Christmas jumper recently, it’s just black with ‘HAIL SANTA’ written on it:
https://store.gorillaz.com/uk/apparel/hail-santa-sweatshirt.html

Big fan, have played every game in the series, and super excited to play shield next week.

Look, I get why ‘die hard’ fans are disappointed, but whenever I hear about stuff like this it reminds me that a load of ‘videogame communities’ are still kind of... completely pathetic and full of creepy weirdos?

I think I play games for different reasons maybe. Like, if it’s a bad game generally I would probably just not finish it and sell it on, I wouldn’t need to start a hashtag ffs.

@CarpeDiem No, no notice or anything, just checked on my open orders and it was there as £59.99. Others have said the same so not sure why yours is different. Maybe chat to amazon support about it online?

@CarpeDiem yeah, that’s weird, wonder why mine has dropped? Am sure they only have the one listing for it...

For anyone who got the amazon preorder in, just noticed it’s dropped to £59.99 in my orders, which is nice. Must have price matched very at some point?

I bought V a few months back from CEX for about £40 after seeing the trailer for the new film, realising I never played it.

I owned it when it originally released on DS but sold it sealed for a lot of money on eBay a few years back. Took me a while to find it for a reasonable price again.

Only just got into Yo-Kai through 3 on the 3DS. It’s such a fantastic game, I can’t wait for 4 to get announced.

With how limited the release of 3 was, I can them not bothering though. There’s a LOT of localisation work in these games.

As someone who initially dismissed the series, I urge anyone to actually give it a go.