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I'm hoping for a Chrono Trigger remake in the HD-2D style. With them rereleasing Chrono Cross I can hope but in the meantime I have my DS copy avilable.

@dr-gorgo So Heretic and Hexen are both games that have been in legal limbo as far as I can tell since the IP is owned by Bethesda (through ID) but it was developed by Raven who still had some say in the matter. Raven was owned by Activision who apparently weren't interested in a rerelease but now Microsoft is buying Activision I hope we see them all come across.

@Joker1234 I don’t think they will release both Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment on Switch. They seem to go through and swap which one they release each time. This time it’s Eternal Punishments turn.

Now we only have one cycle of this so it’s not exactly a pattern but it’s a ridiculously stupid idea and remember Altus are owned by Sega now so it just makes sense.

I’m still holding out hopes for SMT Strange Journeys and both SMT 4 games coming to switch. Decided not to focus on Persona as I just get disappointed.

Mine arrived today but has gone away until Christmas so got a fun few weeks of waiting to go…

I ordered mine on the 2nd, it was dispatched on the 4th and it arrived today which is insanely fast for free shipping from China. I quite often by electronic components off Chinese sites and I’m used to waiting 4-6 weeks for their free shipping.

I will be picking this up day one if it’s real. I was more hoping for a collection like they did with Mana and Saga with Advance and Advance 2 in there but that was always a long shot

@nkarafo @eatdogs So this game syncs the music to what happens on screen and your button inputs. It's hard to explain but the music and visuals help you get into that Tetris Zone where everything else leaves your mind and you just focus on the game. I find it really really relaxing and if I'm starting to get stressed out I try to find time to play a quick 10-15 minutes of it and that relaxes me.

If you've ever played Lumines or Rez it's by the same guy trying to achieve the same type of thing.

@KayFiOS I think the logic is to have one entry for each game. Since the NES version of Dragon Warrior was the first release in the west it got used instead of the GBC or Switch versions.

I've played them all except for VI and X. I still think my favourite is VIII (the first one I played) but XI and IV are very very close...

I hope it’s a collection of all the Taxman and Stealth versions with a Sonic 3 and Knuckles port in the same engine. It’s crazy to me that the best versions of Sonic 1 and 2 are stuck on mobile.

If they threw in the other Mega Drive/Master system games I wouldn’t say no to that either.

In an ideal package (which will never happen) I’d like them to port the Sonic Jam collection thing as that was so much fun. They could even update it with more art and adverts.

Also I like 3D blast as I played it as a kid and I have massive nostalgia goggles for it but I had it on PC which had the same soundtrack as the Saturn and I find it really hard to play the ,Eva drive version with its inferior music so some way to play 3D blast with the CD sound would be icing on the cake.

@KateGray Basically all of Sherlock holmes except the last short story collection is in the public domain. The stories in that collection were published between 1921 and 1927 and some of them have since gone into the public domain as Disney didn't bribe any politicians to extend copyright yet again.

As @everynowandben said one of the things still under copyright is him mellowing out but my favourite thing still under copyright about him is how he retired to the Sussex downs to raise bees. I live in Sussex so always liked this part.

Implementing Stresspass would have battery life consequences. It would need to be constantly pinging for any nearby consoles with streetpass on and WiFi uses a lot of battery life. Not to mention the cpu cycles for running it all (would still be small in comparison to the WiFi).

One of the things I hated most about the 3DS was how terrible it was in standby mode. I could get around 24 hours of it in standby before the battery died and I potentially lost save data (I quickly learnt not to do this but still). If Streetpass does come back then please make it an optional feature as I never cared for it and I’d like to save my battery.

Folders and a better activity log would be sweet though!

@Balta666 I’m the same way! I think I’ve largely trained my brain to do the A/B switch but as X and Y don’t come up as much and I normally use them based on the action rather than a button prompt it trips me up.

Even if I’m thinking in my head it takes a few seconds to figure out which way round it is on controllers.

@Chrysologus I have been hoping for all these myself since the port of 9 came across. Would also add the 3 Final Fantasy Tactics onto that. They could even do a collection I'd happily pay £50 for if it had them all in instead of scoffing at the price and waiting for a sale like I did with the mana collection.

@anoyonmus there was a remake of the original Tomb Raider, it came out in 1997 and fit in with the other 2 that crystal dynamics did. I'm hoping for a collection with those 3.

I went back last summer and tried the original 5 games for the first time in over a decade and the controls have aged even worse than I expected. I don't think I have the patience to go through them now. Maybe if they had save states and a rewind feature I would but otherwise probably not for me.

@Giygas_95 that is a great feature for the console to have and one that makes sense considering it's mobile chip origin. Really boogles my mind that it isn't used by default...

I have similarly wished for a wireless split pad pro with the features you described...

@Giygas_95 @TheFullAndy yeah can you say what version of the split pad you have as mine doesn’t have Gyro or rumble in it.

FullAndy I’d still recommend it however. I barely use my normal Joycon anymore. I used to use them when taking my switch out the house but that super rare now. Also the analogue sticks on the split pad are insanely nice. Like the best analogue sticks I’ve used (maybe my Xbox one elite controller is up there too).

@thethreatisreal well you see your problem is you bought a 120hz monitor. Now if you had bought a 240hz monitor you'd be singing a different tune!

So I'm a big RPG fan but never touched SaGa before. Am I ok to jump into this one without playing any of the others first? Is it a Final Fantasy style thing where everything changes between release, a Ys where you can play them and not miss out on much or a Trails where you probably shouldn't jump in half way through a series?

I'm cautiously excited for these. Only thing keeping me cautious is the size of the originals. Famicom Disc System games were a maximum of 112KB, you can't fit a huge amount of text into that space (I know Kanji is more space friendly than our alphabet but still). Has anyone played these previously and if so are they a decent length?

@YoshiFlutterJump just commenting to say that WiKirby is a fantastic name! I love it when you can get a bad pun into fan wiki names.

Even with all the drama around it I’m still surprised no one has mentioned Cyberpunk. So I’d like to see Cyberpunk if only to give the base PS4 and Xbox one something to feel superior about (plus I’d be curious to see how low tech they could take it).

@The-Nate oh wow just googled that guy and yikes. My only experience of brutal doom is through the oculus quest port of doom which has insane mod support (it’s also an insanely good fan port of doom and providing you already own the wads is free) and it was pretty good on that.

Since doom on switch has been so good I haven’t played on a pc in ages and Bethesda adding so many wads makes it pretty unlikely I will go back.

@JR150 you know you say that but when I was doing all those loyalty missions in Mass Effect 2 I still felt super ill that BioWare would rip off persona 3 that badly! Must of been EAs influence...

I can't believe no one has mentioned this one yet!

So at the end of a Nintendo Direct Aonuma looks into the camera and says there will be a special announcement stream at the same time in a week, behind him are papercraft Zelda figures in a diorama and many other things that hint at what people have suggested in the previous comments.

Everyone gets HYPED and tunes in for the sure to be amazing announcement and it's a free to play Zelda MOBA! With potentially crossover with the Pokemon MOBA!

For a small fee (assuming you get lucky on the gatcha) you can have your link in the MOBA ride around on a ponyta or something.

I think it’s a bit weird that companies are celebrating 35th anniversaries like it’s a big deal. In light of this when I turn 35 in a few years I’m thinking of remastering myself. Maybe getting a haircut and losing some weight...

All I want from the Dragon Quest thing is 4-8 ported and a remake of 9. While they are at it they should release the DS version of Chrono Trigger (since it’s the 25th anniversary this year and they forgot) but I wouldn’t say no to a remake with three same art style as octopath...

Also as we are doing this it’s the 35th anniversary of final fantasy in 2022 so rereleases of 1-6 (as for versions PSP for the first 2 and 4 3DS for 3 then GBA eight non gimped audio for 5 and 6).

They seem really fond of doing those collections like mana and the gameboy FF one that’s out in a few weeks so I want a Tactics one with the original (PSP version) advance and advance A2. Now I moaned about the mana collection being £35 for a gameboy ROM and 2 SNES ones but I would probably let pay £50 for the advance one since I love those games so much.

Hopefully they patch in a way to invert the controls in sunshine or it’s going to be unplayable for me. I’ve tried playing games that don’t let you invert before and I never get used to it

I guess this rules out improving the Mario 64 camera so it’s fully controllable by the right stick instead of in increments and have it go fully around Mario.

@AtlanteanMan HOW DARE YOU SIR. You forgot Yakuza and all it’s weird Japanese only spin offs (which is dearly love to see on switch even though I’ve got them all on PS4)

@NEStalgia I misread your original post and thought you were talking about the X in your first post could blame my lack of glasses at the time but who knows!

@NEStalgia where are you getting your information that the new series X can’t do native 4K? The one x has multiple games that run at native 4K including red dead 2 so it isn’t just less graphically intensive games. With double the power in teraflops (I know it isn’t a 1:1 comparison but it’s an easy benchmark) the new series x shouldn’t have any issues rendering at 4K.

Whether that’s a good use compared to more effects at a lower frame rate is a whole other argument.

@Stremon just to clarify are you talking about the switch running native 4K which I agree is ludicrous or are you including a chipset with DLSS in your comments as not going to happen?

The latter I could see happening and based on playing control (see my previous comment) it could be a good way to increase image quality without a huge increase in performance needed. However I don't have in depth knowledge on the size, TDP or cost of the AI Tensor cores that the DLSS runs on so I could be completely wrong.

I’ve recently been playing control on my pc with every setting turned up to max (including the Ray Tracing) and getting a locked 60fps as I’ve been rendering it at 960x540 and that’s been up scaled to 1080p using their DLSS technique and I can’t tell the difference between that and native 1080p (beside the frame rate of course).

Also I hope this has HDR support. That’s one of my favourite things on PS4 and Xbox one and I’d love to see Mario, Zelda and the rest with expanded colour.

For fans of Tim Rogers (he did the kotaku video reviews of Dragon Quest 11 that got a lot of people into it) he did the translation and I’m getting it partly because of that and mainly because I love bizarre games like this.

@KillerBOB you are doing the lords work. Might I suggest a Romeo and Juliet set in the Mario universe? It could be an epic love story of a toad and a goomba who fall in love despite their families objections!

@potomas I too have done this and it seems like the closest I will get to playing an original one. What did you think of it?

This is a terrible list! You don't have the full top 100 like this list does

http://www.sydlexia.com/top100vb.htm

(please note this is a joke comment)

So excited for this! I have a stupid thing in my brain that stops me from playing games out of order and I’ve got both of the Shantae games (not bought the just released one yet) on switch but not played them as I was watching for at least a rerelease of the second one. Very excited!

It was quite amazing watching the dislikes go from 1.7k to 12k in under 5 minutes.

This rumour has just made it so if they only announced a remaster of galaxy 1&2 we would be disappointed...

However the inner fan boy in me just thought well Zelda came out in 1986 which would make 2021 the 35th anniversary....

@mesome713 I can understand the argument that we shouldn’t have pets. I don’t agree with it but I can see the points they make.

What I don’t agree with is them kidnapping people’s pets and killing them. All that talk about the greater good seems seriously chilling. Do you support people having pets? If not do you think steps should be taken to remove existing pets? I’m trying not to straw man here but it sounds like you are defending kidnapping and the murder of people’s dogs, please tell me that isn’t the case.

I’ve already lost most of my faith in humanity.

@TheDragonDAFan don’t forget kidnapping pets and euthanising them! Seriously PETA are awful.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/17/peta-sorry-for-taking-girls-dog-putting-it-down

@Res462 wasn’t the anti Hillary group a troll thing that posted memes spreading pizzagate?

@rjejr I’m aware of the expiration. I had been saving points since late 2018 and then the delay was announced. I knew the points were expiring so got World of Final Fantasy when it was on sale for £17 for free and got a discount t off something else.

The delay was announced in June so I should be fine by 3 months. Of course if it gets delayed again I’m in the exact same boat...

@rjejr I wouldn’t call gold coins useless. You just need to be patient with them. I’ve been saving them since last year for Animal Crossing and so far it’s going to cost me £20ish unless I go on a spending spree before March.

@Whatdidyousay the cheats are available if you pause while playing. God and all weapons are the only ones I’ve tried.

@Unit_DTH 360 mode was announced at E3 I think. You can watch a video of it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoFa6c6sZTE

I'm not sure if it's coming to PS VR however. They confirmed that the 360 mode is probably going to be Quest exclusive as it is wire free, they did say they are working on a 180 mode for other platforms but I can still see that being an issue on PS VR with the single camera set up. Obviously I don't know your experiences with the tracking on it but I only really use my PS VR now for Tetris Effect as trying to do anything more elaborate (especially when you bring the Move controllers into the picture) results in pretty bad tracking that really takes you out of it. I've spent ages trying to get it working properly but even having the camera mounted 2.5m up doesn't help when you need to bend down or reach behind you.

What I was trying to get at with my previous posts was that Beat Saber without the 3D positioning would be a pretty far step down, I'm sure they could rework it to fit but I think that it would lose what made it special in the process.

@Unit_DTH I agree with you on that. It could definitely be done but with a lot more static sabers. I’m not sure if they would need to change mapping to achieve this (mainly bits where the colours swap sides) or not but I don’t know how much of the experience you could get across.

I’m trying not to sound elitist while saying this (and am aware that I am failing) but I think Beat Saber wouldn’t work outside of VR. I mean the reason I love it is how immersed you get in it and I just don’t think it will translate that well. Plus 360 mode has me really excited!

@Lord I know that but that isn’t enough to track the exact position of the joycon. For example the Quest has a camera in the each corner of the headset and the controllers have a ring of LEDs on them so the cameras can determine where exactly they are. If you move the controller out of sight line of the cameras the tracking gets really dodgy really quickly and beat saber requires pinpoint accuracy. The quest recently had an update that very slightly caused tracking problems when moving fast and you could instantly tell if you were playing on expert as you suddenly started missing notes.

Also Oculus have another headset called the go which has a controller very similar to a joycon (the primary input is using it as a pointer like in world of goo on switch). They didn’t port beat saber to this one presumably because of the controller set up.

I don’t think Beat Saber could be ported across in its current form with the same accuracy as you get in a VR headset. All the current major ones use some form of camera to track the 3D position of the controller in relation to the headset and that’s not really possible on the Switch.

I have an Oculus Quest and a PS VR and when the cameras can’t see the controller you can instantly tell as the tracking switches to guessing where it is based on last known position and data from the gyro and accelerometer which quickly loses accuracy. Switch currently doesn’t have any way to track both the Joycon externally (I mean maybe the sensor on the bottom of the right joycon but it’s in the wrong place if you were holding them for beatsaber and the left one is missing this). The scoring system is all about how accurately you cut the block in half and the angle of your swing before and after you hit a block and 3D positioning is vital for this.

I’m also unsure about how well the game would translate to a standard TV as depth perception is really really useful for hitting blocks in VR.

I’m very happy to be proven wrong on all this of course but I don’t see them bringing full beat saber across to switch.

I’ve played a lot of beat saber since I got my quest over the summer so feel free ask any questions about it or the quest (seriously the quest is my favourite gadget right now).

Half of me wants to get one for the lulz the other half thinks that bringing a console that obviously has a camera and probably a microphone into my house from North Korea is a horrendously bad idea. Getting flashbacks of 1984 about now.

@AG_Awesome yeh I tried it last night and motion controls seemed standard. Sadly no crouch toggle though😞