Kang81

Nice Enya reference there. 👍😁

Any list that puts BotW at #1 loses all credibility with me. Is it a bad game, arguably, no. Is it a bad Zelda game, arguably yes.

@AggressiveCucco

Minish Cap is a personal favorite! I'm not excited for BotW 2 at all, but I would lose my $#^+! If Nintendo announced a sequel to Minish Cap!

@StephenYap3

I was glad I noticed it was on Game Pass, because I almost bought it for Switch, and I would have been pretty disappointed.

I did discover a Metroidvania I had somehow missed on Switch called Feudal Alloy. It's got a few annoying quirks, mainly the equipment menu is pretty lackluster making it a bit difficult to know what your equipping and comparing, but I love the music and it's nice to have a game in the genre that's not dark, Gothic, or brooding.

I like the mechanic of overheating, so far, but im still really early in the game.

https://youtu.be/ngqNBQ5Y5s0

I recently tried Touhou Luna Nights on Game Pass. It's beautifully animated and had some nice ideas. However, I did not like the main attack mechanic in which you could lose the ability to attack at all by running out of a meter. The awkward idea of purposely getting hit to refill said attack meter was equally annoying.

I would have enjoyed continuing to play the game had it not been for that.

Coincidentally, Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth is also on Game Pass. I'll give it a try this week. The last Record of Lodoss War game I played was a Diablo clone on the Dreamcast and I adored it.

This looks amazing! However, I'm really tired of game announcements/reveals with a release date more than 6 months away. If this even releases on time without a delay.

It was boring, cringeworthy, and as usual, a complete waste of time and money.

This is only the second time I've ever watched the awards. I watched the original, thought it was a waste and never watched it again until last night.

I'm not sure why I watched last night. Probably because I've been a bit disinterested in actually playing games lately and needed something to entertain me while relaxing after work and eating dinner.

The only good thing about the awards was the fun I had texting back and forth with my brother about how bad everything was. 🤷‍♂️

I'm looking forward to this. I was never big on anime, but I did love the original Record of Lodoss War when it was airing back on the Sci-Fi channel back in the early 90's.

I recall grabbing a copy of Record of Lodoss War for the Dreamcast. It was a single player Diablo-like, and honestly, is still one of my favorites in the genre. I wish there was a way to play it without unboxing my Dreamcast.

It would have been amazing in co-op, but it resulted in a different kind of shared experience for my brother and I. We would constantly call each other on the phone or go visit each other to compare our progress and loot. It was different, but its a favorite gaming memory of ours.

@BloodNinja

Tabletop games has never been a thing for me, but my brother has partaken occasionally. It's most likely I don't know enough people in real life that are gamers of any kind, and the few I do know are the more casual CoD, sports game type.

If my brother ever gets a group going again I may try to see what all the fuss is about. The downsides of being one of the few gamers in my group of friends.

SteamWorld Headhunters seems interesting, but I want a legit 2D Metroidvania SteamWorld Dig 3.

@Dethmunk

Yeah, if they can't add any actual improvements, they shouldn't even bother. That goes for any of these remasters.

Wow, that is far jankier and dated than I remembered.

@Jeff2sayshi

I have definitely bought games most people would consider shovelware, but in reality, the vast majority off those 6700 3rd party games are highly likely shovelware or lazily ported mobile games that end up charging consumers 3-4 times the price of their mobile counterparts.

@MS7000

Well if the Switch has 6700 3rd party games, I'm going to guess about 6500 of them are shovelware. If I'm to be more generous, than I'd say about 6300.

I'm going to borrow and slightly alter the subtitle from a recent NintendoLife article. 😁

"Please stop buying it, people, we want a Switch 2"

Lorenzo Music is Garfield, he can never be replaced for me.

Fun fact: He also voiced Peter Venkman in the Ghostbusters cartoon. While the real Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) voiced Garfield in the live action movies.

Bill Murray did a decent job, unfortunately everything else about the live action movies were horrible.

So, anyone have word on when the Switch OLED docks will be sold separately? I just want the new dock for my Switch, there is nothing left for the console I want until Metroid Prime 4 releases and the Mario + Rabbids sequel.

Maybe BotW 2, but that depends on whether or not they remove or at least tweak weapon durability.

OMG!!! YES!!!!

These have been on my most requested ports since the Switch was announced!

I am freaking over the moon right now!

Now how about porting Legend, Anniversary, and Underworld to Switch? I'd take all of these over ports of the most recent reboot.

I love the recent reboot, but the earlier TR games from Crystal Dynamics are some of my absolute favorites!

Looks interesting, and the game looks like fun. However, this is the type of game I wait for an ultimate edition to go on sale for.

The music in this trailer is sooo good!

Too bad I can't find the dock itself to purchase online.

Dang, had I known about this I would have waited on picking up physical copies. Having both games on one cart would have been better than having two individual carts.

Oh well. 🤷‍♂️

@Clammy

Because they're incredibly old, and let's face it, the improvements will be minimal as most remasters usually are?

If they're greatly improved, I'll take back what I said, but I'm not counting on it.

"It seems like the Trilogy is going to be the only way to play these games soon, as Rockstar states on their news post:

"To prepare for launch, we will begin removing existing versions of the classic titles from digital retailers next week."

Oh, how generous of Rockstar! 🙄

@HIGHscores85

Sounds like something that would happen to me.

I have an uncanny ability to slice or split the skin under my fingernails on the most unlikely objects. It's like a super power...that no one would want.

I'm just waiting for a Pro model or a successor. While my OLED Vita screen is beautiful, it's not a big enough issue for me to need an OLED on my Switch for the cost of upgrading.

Congratulations Mercury Steam!

I'm not the biggest Metroid fan, but I loved their work on the 1st Castlevania LoS game, it was amazing! The 3DS was was pretty good too, along with their past Metroid game. I can't speak on LoS 2, it's been backlogged and I never made it very far into the game.

So when does the dock itself go on sale? I've used my original only once. I'd like to upgrade to an official one that hopefully won't damage my screen.

I shall not fail at my duty! 🤣

(Oh, it's a shmup, not for me)

@Rpg-lover

I was really down on it originally, but once you make it a few hours in, the Souls-like BS is less relevant.

I'm not a fan of Souls-like games, but I'm fine with knowing they're just not games for me.

Where I take issue, which was the case with DS3, is completely changing a core design.

Yes, Darksiders 2 was different in comparison to Darksiders, but they were still essentially hack n slash adventure games. They were never difficult and always more of a basic combo mashing action game.

It was Darksiders 3 pushing for a more precise action game focused on counters but still button mashing combos. I just felt it wasn't implemented well. Fighting in groups was the biggest issue. Being able to get hit in the back by an enemy, even while I'm mid parry with the enemy in front of me felt cheap.

Even that could have been tolerated, except when cheap hits like that killed you and you had to go back to the start of an area, re-fight your way to your lost souls, and claim them before dying again.

I do think that when I did finally go back to try again a few months ago, the devs added in more fast travel/respawn checkpoints which lessened the blow of dying.

I appreciate that the devs try changing things up each game to avoid them becoming stale, but sometimes it's a hit, other times it's a miss. I think DS3 was a miss.

Of course, having no open hub to explore was disappointing, and removing one of the core features of the series in DS3 was a really poor design choice. I won't say what it is for spoiler reasons, but anyone who is familiar with the series and played the first few hours of DS3 will know what I'm talking about.

I do want to point out that Darksiders Genesis is a hot in my opinion. I really enjoy it as a complementary style game to go along with the main games. I hope we continue to get both styles in the future.

Lastly, considering how fun Remnant from the Ashes is, I'd say there is a good chance we may eventually get a 4 player co-op finale to the series. I highly expect a Strife game to tell the same story although from the sidelines again as we've seen in the first 3 games.

Looks nice, but not enough for me to upgrade. I do however want the new dock. I've used my dock once, but that was in part to all the stories of it scratching screens or warping the system form heat build up in the early days of the Switch.

However, my left joy-con drift is bugging me so much I'm wanting to use my Switch docked now with the pro controller.

@Clarice

Appreciated, and as I replied to another person, I dont blurt them out looking for sympathy or anything, I think it's just a way to get it off my chest. Particularly since covid has limited my interactions with family and friends as of late.

I'll say this, I'm really glad for video games. They're one of the few things that can totally absorb my mind. TV, reading, playing or practicing music just doesn't occupy the same amount of my thoughts as games.

I'll say this, it does make you wiser, and unfortunately older, but I know how to avoid things in the future now. Haha

I know it's odd to just blurt out random life issues, but I honestly think it helps just to get it off my chest.

Not that I do it looking for sympathy or anything, but its appreciated regardless. 👍

I learned never to touch buttons at an early age. You never know what they may do!

They may just...erase history! 🤣🤣

https://vimeo.com/126720159

@Clarice

After dealing with my aging parents, whom have both recently passed, a wife with major health issues like 8 spine surgeries, and covid making it all harder than ever, I think the "therapy session" is the part I need most! 🤣

I hope it turns out good.

@russell-marlow

I've heard about Dolphin, but never messed with it as I’m generally not a PC gamer. But I'd love to try it out. Even the thought of trying BotW with mods sounds interesting, provided it would work. I have no clue, I stopped keeping up with techie stuff for far too long now.

There are just so many possibilities for the Steam Deck. Bonus points for Sony releasing games on PC now. So I'll finally get an unofficial Vita 2!

@russell-marlow

I agree, and I begrudgingly signed up just for cloud saves because I had some corrupted save files on my Switch in the past.

Even more than free cloud save functionality, consumers should be allowed to manually back up their games save files. I find it really frustrating.

EDIT

I am really looking forward to the Steam Deck. It seems more in line with what I always wanted the PSP/Vita and Switch to be.

If they increase the price of NSO, I will not be paying. In fact, I just realized my NSO membership lapsed. The NES and SNES apps have never been used on my Switch.

Can we just have a $5 a year plan for cloud saves since that's the only reason I ever used the service to begin with?

Better yet, how about just letting us manually back up our saves so I can skip the service entirely. 🙄

Meh!

The only Mario I care about outside of games is the old Super Mario Bros. Super Show. It'll never be topped for me.

At least it's nigh impossible to make anything worse than the horrible live action movie.

@Snatcher

Yep.

They need to vastly improve the service for a price increase. While their at it, they need to vastly improve the one store experience. Because navigating the eShop on Switch is an exercise in frustration.

It's incredibly slow, lacks tons of modern day features most of its competitors offer, and just not a good value.

Hahahahahaha!!!! NO!

I only pay, begrudgingly, for cloud saves anyway. Everything else about Switch Online is useless, dated, and in no way an acceptable replacement for the Virtual Console.

Hard Pass if true!

Damn, if they made a set of these and I had a couple grand to throw around like nothing, I'd buy them in an instant!

Also, lame SEGA! You let this stuff be made, knowing it will drum up long dormant desires of a SoA remake or sequel, that we all know will never happen! 😡

@Gryffin

Boo! 😭

I know one of them is on there, I just don't remember which.

@Gryffin

Awesome!

I did not know that! Thanks for letting me know!

@Gryffin

Wait, is Paper Mario: TTYD on Wii U?

Is the store still up? If so I'm checking it out tonight.

I loved my Wii U, though admittedly, it doesn't get used at the moment.

More like why not include games from all past Nintendo systems? Easy, Nintendo is just hoarding them for their dry spells.

I love my Switch, and I love some classic Nintendo franchises from the early days until now, but I'm growing real tired of the way they do things.

They got rid of the virtual console, they refuse to fix let alone even acknowledge the massive joy-con drift issue, they are still generations behind in basic online functionality and standardized features. Also, for a company that brags about themselves as being for the masses or for people of all ages, they have the most bare bones accessibility options, heck standard options in general, for nearly all of their games.

I'm actually really looking forward to the Steam Deck. It's the closest thing to a portable console that has an affordable price point, and doesn't sacrifice on tech.

My Switch is mostly used as an indie machine, occasional port machine, and then to play the occasional big Nintendo game. Out of the big N's franchises, I only care about Zelda, Mario, Donkey Kong, and Luigi.

There is no doubt the Switch is a massive success, but Nintendo needs to step up their game. No company is above criticism, even Nintendo, which doesn't get enough.

@Einherjar

Same thing with Nolan North, I love the guys work, but he really doesn't change up his tone much. The only time he surprised me was when I found out he was playing the Penguin in Arkham City.

Sadly, Troy Baker is getting up there, but I will say that he at least tries to sound different oftentimes.

As for Laura Bailey, I just can't seem to recall female voice actors much. Perhaps they do a better job of mixing their voices up with each project, or perhaps it's because most games still stick with male protagonists.

I've found myself choosing female when giving the choice just because I'm tired of the macho manly protagonist.

Kassandra from AC Odyssey and Fenyx from Immortals Fenyx Rising are stand outs for me lately. Female Eivor isn't too bad, but im really not fond of either actor for Eivor in AC Valhalla.

I want to say I recall this game being infuriatingly difficult, so I'll pass.

I know I have it on XBLA for the 360, but don't recall playing it much.

@NEStalgia

They do seem to being learning a lesson, but I will forever be highly skeptical of EA.

@NEStalgia

Sadly, your not wrong. I generally feel the same way about EA. Just two publishers that no longer have games for me.