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@smoreon Well, yeah. I don’t -feel- old, for sure. And the 80’s are indeed perpetually 20 years ago! 😂

@smoreon No, my friend... I'm pushing 40, so I'm definitely not young.

So it's less me being young and thinking "This looks old", and my childhood feeling very distant!

When I see ”Can’t believe game X is this old!” I almost always think ”Huh. Thought it was older.”

Best 3D platformer. Easy buy.

I guess the new content makes save files incompatible?

Glad I foresaw this and shelved Ryza 1 for a bit.

I hate guest characters with a burning passion, and would’ve hoped that Guilty Gear would avoid them.

But… she looks like great fun. Damn.

As a bonafide gooner, this is great.

I picked up a Lenovo Legion Go and decided to revisit Metal Gear Solid V.

Stealth gameplay doesn’t get better than that (and while the story is what it is, it’s still better than MGS4).

As much as I love ArcSys, this looks… not great.

Then again, I thought the anime was just okay — and then it took a sharp nosedive with the Chimera Ant Arc. That refused to end…

Atlus, Square and their lack of upgrade paths.

@Fiergala That’d be great!

More to the point, tempering expectations for a Partner Direct announced with one day’s heads up, in July, weeks after a system is released seems sensible — rather than risking disappointment and frustration.

What were people expecting? It’s July, one month and some weeks after the console’s launch. And a partner direct, when many developers didn’t even get a dev kit.

Of course it’d largely be ports, with a fairly decent spread of genres to boot.

And with ports, many gamers will have played some titles already. Hardly the fault of developers.

Expecting anything else seems borderline delusional. The announcements will come, patience is a virtue.

Nice. Glad to see the old Yakuza games coming to Switch.

Like A Dragon turn-based really didn’t do it for me.

It looks like 3D-printed Temu trash.

Props on the price point, though.

Persona 3 Reload is good. Romancing Saga good.

I think that’s it. Not great, not terrible.

Kirby is the best 3D platformer bar none. Easy buy.

Can’t wait to see some more Hentai puzzle games!

All good.

Glad they’re transparent, and I assume this is a low priority project for them as the numbers on Switch probably aren’t great.

The port is magic, however.

@WRDend Happy to read that!

For your sake, I do hope they make a sequel one day.

I think that the game card outrage is a whole bunching overreactions, but nah. This ain’t it.

@ibookboyuk The best I’ve heard about it is ”It’s not as bad as people say. It’s okay if you like Star Wars”.

I’ve never heard anyone say they love it.

I remember trying to play it, and I didn’t vibe with the looks, gameplay or humor — and later the fandom turned out to be pretty damn obnoxious (as every fandom is).

Bangin’ soundtrack though.

@Whirlwound All good then! I just see so many people who are unaware that it’s rare for the Rail Pass to be worth it nowadays.

Do enjoy the trip!

The outrage is quite something. If you already bought the game on Switch, you’ve got the game. If not, this is an ever so slightly better package.

I agree that an upgrade path would always be preferable (Hi Suikoden, P5R on PS5 etc.), but damn.

@Whirlwound Not on topic at all, but a few years ago the JR Rail Pass got a dramatic price hike and is VERY rarely worth the money. You'd have to use it so much that you'd spend most of your trip on the Shinkansen.

Sometimes it's usable on local trains, but it's far from a given.

Now this is some copium. ”Star Wars just ain’t popular enough”.

Jedi Survivors did great, and on a similar note Hogwarts Legacy did numbers despite plenty of Harry Potter drama.

Zero surprises there. Truly.

It’s okay. I feel it’s way too easy, and the constant congratulations for just playing is just some instant gratification BS which wear thin quickly. Same with the destruction.

It’s polished and pretty, but…

6/10

How is this news? Switch 2 is more expensive and has been out for a bit north of a month. Switch had been out for half a year at Odyssey’s release, and Mario is a household name. Donkey Kong doesn’t have half his oomph with the general public.

Of course it sells worse.

They look absolutely horrible. Like 3D printed crap from Temu. 😂

After playing some today, it’s definitely a 7/10. It’s fun for what it is, and I think it’s an interesting take on Pac-Man. I don’t know if I’d call it edgy, but definitely edgy for Pac-Man standards.

I thought Woolby sounded loud when I played it. Guess I wasn’t imagining things.

It does look great, but I wouldn’t get this for the Switch. This feels more akin to something for an iPad Pro or MacBook, as an extra case for a fashion/professional statement.

However, nice to see American products made in America (even if I’m European). That definitely adds to that price tag too.

@Orwellian87 McDonalds won’t ceremoniously let people go either.

These are people paid to do contract jobs, when it comes down to it.

Naturally companies will want to keep popular actors around, but eventually the cost compared to fresh talent will cause a shift. Any form of ceremonious send off would be nothing more than a shallow PR play, and at the end of the day — most of the people playing these games have no idea who these actors are.

And they definitely contribute less than the average developer on the team, who won’t get any ceremony either — when they leave or retire.

Despite not going to, I bought it because of the raving reviews.

It’s better than Odyssey by a mile, but there’s no way this gimmick won’t grow stale. After and hour I felt like ”All right… kinda seen this game now, I think”.

It’s way too simplistic, has absolutely no challenge (so far) and it really is just about smashing up the level with an ugly monkey with an annoying sidekick excitedly cheering you along for… smashing things.

While I’ve gotten some completely braindead enjoyment out of it, and it’s well made — it’s wild that the lowest review score is an 8/10. I’d say, from what I’ve seen so far it’s a 6-7/10, and that would be a generous 7.

Happy for all the people loving it, but… am I missing something?

SMT has some semblance of cohesion and a world that supports it and is intriguing.

This looks like it’s trying too hard to be funny with an R-rated GB-esque JRPG. I’m good.

I pre ordered this one. A dark and gritty take on Pac-Man sounds pretty fun, imo.

And guys — this looks leagues better than Bomberman: Act Zero. 😅

I personally want to see some criticisms, as it just seems like glazing considering the 97 Odyssey sits at. For me that was like a 6/10 at best and I couldn’t even get myself to complete it.

Hopefully people, and particularly kids, will have a god damn blast though!

Strive brought Guilty Gear into the mainstream and made the series bigger than ever before. Literally the opposite of dying.

This happens in game dev. Explore concepts, if the concepts don’t work out — back to the drawing board it is. Even if it means longer until a new entry, this is likely good news.

I don’t really like the second clause. It’s very vaguely worded.

Get rid of sexualized child depictions sure. That’s clear enough ”political content” and ”overly sexual content” means what, exactly?

@HingryHuppo Well, yeah. ”Forever” was naturally a hyperbole. E.g. 3DS store is completely scrapped.

I meant to say that a delisting has zero effect on game cards.

Shame. Got the Switch 2 though, and I wasn’t going for the upgrade path anyway.

@johnedwin Well, no. On the contrary, you could still get your hands on a delisted game.

Even the digital copy you buy before it’s delisted means that you can download it forever. You just can’t buy it after it’s delisted.

Most consumers won’t care and it won’t affect sales.

They work just fine and can be resold.

In terms of usability and comfort it’s really nice though, but I guess that’s secondary.

I had it crash twice in the tutorial mission. And performance isn’t great there either.

Happy to read this. Fantastic game, and portable? If fixed, fantastic.

I just started the first one, and got the other two on deep sales.

Might just play through the first one and if the Switch 2 version is noticeably upgraded — go with 2+3 with this version.

...Some weird flexing going on in these comments.

He's right. It makes judging design decisions easier.

Spec out what the product is supposed to do and what it is, make it measurable. Figure out the constraints and needs to hit the goal.

"Entertainment product". Simple.

Ah, *****. I made great use of these over the years.