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@Bunkerneath I mean, when you look at it that way he's ransoming everyone.

But for real though, this is basically the ideal Kickstarter. He's a kid trying to solo develop and publish his first real game. He's got a ton of work to show already and is just trying to get to the finish line.

@Friendly There are more numbers. But, again, do you want to read a review about crappy shovelware platformer #37958 that will get a 3 star review. No. It's a waste of everyone's time.

And for what it's worth. NL does throw out a LOT of 4/5/6 star reviews.

@Friendly Reviewing shovelware 1 or 2 star games though takes time away from more interesting games that people actually want to read about though. There are only so many reviewers and so many hours in the day. So they have to pick and choose what to review.

@Serpenterror And that's totally cool! I have more than a handful of games that I truly love that sit at a five or six on Metacritic. And there are plenty of ten out of ten games I think are as dull as watching paint dry.

I just don't see how the other dude read this review and came to the conclusion that it's a disaster when overall the text was very positive.

@Sequel Is a 7/10 a disaster?

@Olliemar28 The previous trailer showed some more otherworldly locations that looked wayyyyy more colourful. I think it's an intentional design choice that the more natural world is dull to set up a big contrast there. The only gameplay we've seen is the Tokyo section which isn't admittedly isn't doing the visuals any favours.

@BloodyMurder The only thing 3 has been lacking in my 70 hours has been the more fantastical environments that popped up in the first two.

@NinjaNicky It's not so much more expensive. The game is the same price on Steam and PSN.

@Sonos One where people are pleasant to each other? Yes, absolutely.

@dew12333 Yeah, we should just chain him to his desk at his office. Screw him for having fun.

@Alpha008 So long as the video is clearly titled and the poster doesn't use the final boss in the image.

@Nintendo4Sonic I mean, we know they've had the game for at least three weeks given that PJ wrote a very long preview for the game that was published on the 7th of this month. So no, I don't think anyone is claiming to have beaten the game in just a few days.

This looks like it'll scratch the same itch that Neon White did. I'm into it.

If they're holding off like this for EU maybe that means NA fans will get another shot?????? Cause I'm still livid about the trainwreck that the NA preorder was.

@twztid13 It's being written about on a Nintendo news site.

Also, at the bottom of the article it says,
"related games: Sea of Stars (Nintendo Switch)"

@Zorox88 I think they're just going for something else. Nothing to do with it having been done 20+ years ago.

@twztid13 I mean, it was announced for Switch months ago.

@Browny I think you missed it being on sale on Switch for 6.79 by like two days. On the plus side, it's been hitting that price like once a month for the last few months.

I'm currently #1 in the global leaderboards on one of the early stages. It's such an incredibly minor thing and someone will no doubt knock me off soon enough but for now I'm sitting at work feeling very proud of myself.

@LittleGhost You say that like there have been a ton of games in this style. Including Live A Live in a couple weeks we've got three games in four years.

@Axecon The mods had him delete the post due to lack of proof, but then reversed course when he showed an email that very heavily implied the shadow drop of a pretty big indie Switch console exclusive.

To all of the Silksong people, it's not Silksong.

@Not_Soos Not gonna throw stones because I think that this opinion is dead on. My first thought when I saw the Frontiers gameplay was how similar the world design feels to Xenoblade and the Gaur Plains.

THAT SAID...I think Xeno has far more character to it. The world feels far more lived in, the points of interest feel more natural...it doesn't have a blue hedgehog running around a fairly realistic world...

@nessisonett I adored this and Berserk. I'm not crazy about AoT, but I think a lot of that is the fanbase praising it as the second coming.

@Yodalovesu I dunno. I'm watching three different people in my house (and I've picked up the controller a couple times myself) play Forbidden West and it's just...not interesting. It's stupid pretty, but even then the only location that actually wowed me was Vegas.

@ReggidMusic I got into the folder! Thanks for taking the time dude, I appreciate it. Definitely looks a lot better than it did at launch.

@ReggidMusic Have you seen any actual footage with the patch? Not seeing anything on YouTube yet.

@Jakejm79 Sorry, I should have been more clear. I figured that saying the "current design" would get across that this new product was doing something different.

I did read the article.

@Meehanuk_1987 With the current design for sticks, all controllers will drift eventually. Standard controllers like the Pro Controller, Xbox, and DualShock are just more durable due to size allowing for more durable materials.

@Serpenterror Both Octopath and Triangle Strategy push the Switch pretty hard. While they have a pixel aesthetic, everything is rendered in 3d and there are a lot of very taxing modern effects used. Octopath runs at subnative resolution and Triangle has framerate drops when there is a lot happening on screen. It's not unreasonable that a small studio making a game funded through Kickstarter doesn't have the capacity to do a proper Switch port.

@GrailUK It's kinda nutty, everyone acts like the series is being milked and released too quickly but seven years is a long time and it's not uncommon in the industry.

If we're talking Nintendo, both Zelda and Mario were even faster.

If we're talking more modern games, the entire Mass Effect trilogy and Tomb Raider reboot trilogy took five years, the Uncharted Trilogy was only four years.

@AndyC_MK111 GamePass' offering is head and shoulders more expansive than NSO+, but the yearly cost for it is significantly higher. Even accounting for the price difference I'd still say that Gasspass is a better value but it does seem an unfair comparison considering Microsoft is marketing the Xbox entirely around the service.

I will say that I appreciate NSO+ more than PS+. I haven't gotten anything good out of PS+ in what feels like ages.

@gaga64 NPD did a study about five or six years ago showing that something like 26% of people playing videogames buy DLC. Obviously the numbers have gone up in recent years, and the rise in games as a service has changed how we consume our gaming content but the purchase rate for single player DLC hasn't gone up in the same way. So there is probably still a fairly significant portion of the Splatoon 2 audience that may benefit from this.

@AndyC_MK111 I agree in preferring to pay for it. But if you are already paying for NSO+ then this is nice to sample them before purchasing or checking out one of lesser interest.

@rjejr No worries. Yeah I've been here for a while but I have been a lot less active as of late which I think is why you saying your kid is in college surprised me. I just remembering you posting about them being much smaller.

I got over having Covid last week. Thankfully I was pretty mild. Hopefully your case is pretty easy going as well.

@rjejr Not gonna lie, reading that your kid is in college made me feel old.

@Vyacheslav333 Those games are all a bunch of fun.

@zool What an individual retailer decides to do once the game is on their shelves is a totally different matter. If Curry's decided to knock 10£ off the MSRP off the game three days after it comes out that's up to them.

A handful of developers have actually discussed this before. Most notably Grey Box/Tequila Works with the release of Rime on Switch.

@EarthboundBenjy Educated guess, something to do with maintaining a relationship with brick and mortar businesses. Game pricing is hamstrung by the cost of manufacturing (which is notoriously expensive for Switch games) and the fact that stores want to see price parity for digital and physical releases. Releasing a 40 dollar physical version at GameStop/Bestbuy/Walmart would force them to release the EShop version at the same price.

Releasing only on Play-Asia, a site that caters pretty heavily towards collectors and importers, allows them to charge what they need to in order to make a profit on physical sales while also not potentially pricing themselves out of the digital market.

@moodycat Launching a physical game is significantly more costly than a digital release. It's not, "taking advantage of collectors." There's a reason you don't see any physical games whatsoever launching for less than 30 or 40USD.

Also just popping in to verify that the game is absolutely fantastic. Would have no qualms purchasing a second time to have it on Switch.

@dimi She's not involved but she does still hold the rights to the Harry Potter IP which means she's still getting paid.

Back on topic. The game looks cool, I'll be hunting down a used copy in the week or two after release.

@Zeldawakening Really kind of an apples to oranges comparison there.

Need to remember to order the physical version as this game has been on my list for a while. But I do still have to finish Triangle Strategy and I just bought Tunic last night.

If anyone here has an Xbox or a moderately capable PC, I cannot recommend Tunic highly enough.

@Nymos Fast was out on Switch on day one. Search Fast RMX.

@Specter_of-the_OLED The developers very straight up said it won't be coming to Switch. It would seem an odd thing to lie about if it was in fact still in the pipeline.

@twicesmt Is it though? I'm seeing a lot of scores in the 4/5/6 range. And all of the complaints in the reviews I've actually read through have been pretty much the same.

Unfortunate as I was looking forward to this but it seems like more time in the oven would've been wise.

@Specter_of-the_OLED Platinum has maybe 3 bad games out of a total of like 17 releases. So really it's the opposite.

@RupeeClock I've had luck placing two separate orders with Fangamer and then emailing their customer service to mash them both up into one shipment before. They've been super cool and just refunded the shipping cost for one of them.

@Kimyonaakuma I don't think the visuals are going to be more detailed in the final release, but I imagine the resolution and framerate will be cleaned up a bit similarly to Arceus' reveal vs the final product.

@BongoBongo123 Supposed to be the end of this year I think. Playable demo is on Steam.