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@dew12333 Rockstar Games from the 2000s is no more. Most of the people who developed the GTAs from the Golden Age have left Rockstar (Lazlow, Sam Houser to name a few). All there’s left is a bunch of Zoomers who have no clue about what made Rockstar’s games so special, hence the disaster piece that is the Defective Edition

@YusseiWarrior3000 This is Atlus, not Squeenix. If it was made by Square, it would have been a cloud game (exclusive or not to the Switch)

@thiz Me too really! I was just pointing out how stupid Lane’s article is )

I’d rather play Miitopia, sorry for not sharing the joy of playing an overrated furry Sims with the NLife staff

Well Rockstar should think again when hiring fourth-rate mobile game devs for remastering some of the best games ever made

Never trusted Grove Street Games to do these remasters, they basically abused AI upscaling for them when changing the engines, from Renderware to Unreal (like being tasked with translating a best-selling novel in another language and you use Google Translate to finish the job quick).
Also I usually hate Unreal Engine on Switch, this release further cemented my opinion on its performance on the console.
Thus, Rockstar Games is dead (is just another Konami now). I wish we would have been stuck in the 2000s forever

Is this pun referencing the laziness of the remasters? They both really lack creativity. Might as well have been Grand Theft Ono, just as horrible

Although I played the GameCube only once in 2007 at a friend in Vienna, I had such a fun time with it and kind of regretting that it didn’t quite catch on in my country, where people were gaming either on PC or a PS2/PSP. Even now, in the Switch Era, not many Romanians know about Nintendo or it is considered extremely niche/kiddy compared to Sony and Microsoft’s offerings.
GameCube could have been something of a juggernaut, but as Miyamoto said, it was just another T-rex in the fight for supremacy…

@KateGray Happy B-day!!! Noticed Charlie’s wishes while scrolling and thought that another wish would help making your day great!

@dmcc0 exactly, download or not, I don’t really care about that as long as the game is great on Switch. Besides, the only hassle is getting a 256 gb card, or 512 if someone’s lucky enough. After that, everything is peachy.

@iaLgan Capcom is indeed far from being a saint on Switch, as they only released Street Fighter 2, Monster Hunter Rise and Stories 2 full on cartridge. I’m not really expecting any huge publisher to use the 32 gigs due to being cheapskates (CD Projekt is, or at least used to be, the only AAA studio with indie dev maneurisms). I only want to download as little as possible when buying GTA on cart, hopefully San Andreas is at least on cartridge in its fullest.

@dmcc0 Yes, it was Monster Hunter Stories 2, but Capcom is way different compared to Take-Two (more like no. 2). Take-Two, which owns Rockstar Games, has NEVER released a Switch game entirely on cart. They always have the requirement to download data (from 14 gb in LA Noire to over 20 for the latest NBA). It’s not wild to believe that the Trilogy will have at least one game with the requirement to be downloaded (honestly I think Vice City will be the one, while the rest will be on cart, as they should fit on a regular 16 gb one).
At least we can be thankful Rockstar is not Bethesda, famous for the Wolfenstein Youngblood and Doom Eternal blunders, so those who think GTA trilogy will only have a download-code-in-box can shut up

I still refuse to believe that Switch could do Diablo 3 at a higher resolution with almost constant 60 fps and more detailed graphics, but Diablo 2 is running worse (even on PS5 is a tad bit disappointing, because it cannot run at 4K/60fps, while D3 could do that on PS4 Pro).
Unoptimized mess

Next thing we’ll know is that he’ll be employed by NetEase

There’s nothing disappointing here, probably most people interested got a hold of 3D-All Stars and doesn’t have to worry about playing an inferior port of Mario 64 on Switch. At least westerners can get both the hi-res textures and rumble revision, or the original “So Long Gay Bowser” version

Our past selves from the 2000s would laugh at how easily offended people have become only 20 years later…

Not according to Amazon Australia tho, there is a listing for the Switch port with no mention of a download on the cover (and it’s PAL territory so I hope the Monster Hunter Stories 2 incident repeats)

@BloodNinja the moment when I found out that the Korobeiniki theme doesn’t play on the NES version was the most traumatising moment in my life

@DTfeartheBEARD depends, as GTA is a high-profile asset for Take-Two. Maybe this one time they won’t screw up users, it’s the 20th anniversary of some of the most influential games of this century. Same as you, I’ll double dip on both Switch & PS5, so I won’t miss on the greatest graphics and portability

This makes me wonder how would a visual novel by David Firth look like on Switch

I hope people are trolling. Other M is a good Wii game (in terms of gameplay), but having the Metroid moniker tarnishes its reputation. Samus was always supposed to be a badass and not an emotional mess as she was portrayed in Other M. I liked the way Sakamoto used the storytelling in Dread, way more than in Other M, as in Dread he kept Samus the way almost everyone knew and adored her, and turned it up to 11, instead of her constant blabbering about DABABY.
Not to mention the acting in Other M was at cringe-levels of horrible, I prefer Samus being a mute protagonist, much like Link (although I was pleasantly surprised of that one scene in Dread where she talked).

@anoyonmus Not exactly, there have been sightings of retail releases at Base.com and at a retailer in Poland, coming in December supposedly for the current-gen platforms and sometime in 2022 for next-gen, clearly later than the initial digital release

@Stocksy for those of us who grew up with those games it is important, as those soundtracks are part of the GTA experience in the 2000s and fit perfectly in the atmosphere of those games (this being especially true for Vice City)
If they start replacing the tracks with others, it basically feels like another game and kills a bit of the nostalgic appeal of this release.
I am hopeful they will do justice with the soundtrack, for example Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2 did it (minus 2 tracks but still, it’s a whole lot better than what Rockstar did to the GTAs Vice City to 4 in the last decade)

@Azuris smart business choice! I still cherish my original copy of San Andreas from 2005 (the one with the book) but I got the trilogy on Steam at the time just to own it digitally as well. It’s a shame indeed that people cannot buy the games from Steam anymore and they have to resort to second-hand market or outright piracy…
As for the retail pc games, I own San Andreas, GTA 3 and I’m planning to get Vice City as well (only played it on a pirated copy back in the day)

@Azuris 20? Damn, got it late last year for 3 euros or so on Steam and I still believe that owning the original retail PC versions from 2000s is the only way to play the games as intended (with a few patches to work on modern OSs of course)

I really don’t care about AC, so why should I pay 40 euros for bloatware? I only want the N64 games and, maybe, the Mega Drive games.
I really hope they go back to the drawing board and think of a cheaper package WITHOUT the AC DLC!
I really was excited about the N64 games, until the price dropped…
If I had a slight disdain for AC’s popularity before, now I absolutely have a motivated hatred for it!

Why? Didn’t Crytek say that all three Crysis games will appear physically on Switch separately at some point in the future?

@120frames-please being remastered in Unreal Engine 4, I really have doubts about its performance on Switch…
Although I would be ok with a constant 30 fps as long as it has better controls and keeps the original soundtrack (the graphics are timeless to me).
Luckily I have access to a PS5 for that 4K 120 fps goodness. This clearly will be my first double-dipping of this generation

This is historical, after 20 years, mainline GTA games are finally playable on a Nintendo system, long after GameCube. Everything is coming full circle!

Great, can’t wait for the newly improved inclusive stale 2020s rehash of the name

@kducky11 Yeah, a crossover with gaming characters in a brawling game, with a cohesive design and has at least some rules when it comes to introducing new characters (being a character who originated in a video game mainly, and nothing else). Meanwhile, Fortnite introduces whatever is trendy at the moment, Neymar being the most recent example I can think of, which doesn’t even make sense. Not to mention all the weird events Epic introduces into, like Travis Scott’s concert last year or whatever was supposed to be that screening of MLK’s “Dream” speech, which basically make Fortnite resembling something more of a Second Life spiritual successor, and not the innovative battle royale shooter it was supposed to be in the beginning.

@kducky11 Triggered much? The community is outright obnoxious and I don’t think a great shooter lets you play with Neymar and Ryu for Christ Sake… it’s a pop-culture dump and you know it

I hope you’re kidding with Fortnite, aka the cringiest game in history. At this point why not include the Among Us character?
In reality, I just hope it will come full circle and include Waluigi as a final Smash fighter

2/10 is such a high score, should have been negative really, can’t even flush the game case down the toilet so that’s enough to make the game’s score negative

It doesn’t look like it has too many high-quality graphics assets so it doesn’t surprise me

Maybe it’s Sakurai himself, that would be a banger

Aaah yes, in Europe it’s always the F o o t i e game that always reigns supreme. Might get it on PS5, hope it’s a next-gen showcase and not a pay-2-win mess

Another colorful company logo turned into minimalist generic garbage…
I hate modernity

Oooh boy, here cometh them stinky leaks again. Boomberg is as reliable as CNN at this point so why bother…

@nkarafo it really depends, I have posted so many photos from Bucharest’s subway on Instagram for years, only twice or so got yelled at by security (one time I was photographing the trains with a big film camera so go figure 😆). The Titan station (shown in the trailer) is the most unique in the whole network

I’m shocked that they filmed the European (Russian) ad in Bucharest’s subway, I feel proud as a Romanian ☺️

Game looks great and I don’t seem to remember if Nintendo ever released a full 3D platformer with Kirby in the past. Might get it, I just hope is not too easy like almost every Kirby game in the last decades

I’ll get the games as they are really nice, but I have one grudge…
Why does LRG always snatch such releases??? Their distribution is severely limited, costs a lot to import their releases (for someone outside the US) and I heard horror stories about taking ages to get the games from them…

So sick of the insiders and their stinky leaks…
Gameboy as of now is stil MIA on NSO

As soon as it becomes available at my local stores in Romania, I’ll snatch that cart as fast as it snatched my attention and tokens in the arcade a few months ago. It’s a great modern classic I believe

They’ll do anything except release some games on consoles, Konami is such a joke of a company nowadays

I love Nintendo, but as I grew up playing on PS2 and PS1, they still give me the goosebumps and fill me with nostalgia

I think that inside the question mark block is the almighty Golden Poop

Should call this event Mario Kart 1984

@CharlieGirl It was released on Xbox 360 too, in 2006 or so. Not to mention iOS and Android last year

@BigE This isn’t Valve I’m afraid. Rockstar is too busy being secretive and restrictive with their franchises, just like Nintendo