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Development has to end some time.

However.

Last year Evil Empire's CEO Steve Filby stated that the game will continue to be supported with new DLC until "at least the end of 2024".

Motion Twin have turned this man’s promise into a lie.

So, was he just saying that to get a few more Dead Cells sales knowing full well support was ending sooner? Or was he genuinely blindsided by MT?

Either way, it’s not a good look. Developers shouldn’t promise things that aren’t true. They need to stop acting like politicians.

@Poodlestargenerica no worries. 😄

@Poodlestargenerica I was just meaning the number of strikers is 11 (as the title says) rather than the 29 on the Japanese box.

I think the English title looks better because it’s more prominent. The Japanese one has text above with the title at the bottom which is less bold.

Europe’s has 11 ‘strikers’ on the box. So the name matches.

Also the background faces look good alongside the improved title.

@DiamondCore shudder the thought.

If any game teams up with PETA it will be permanently boycotted by me. Can’t stand them.

Depends on the game, but for most games I play the story is a big part for me, as is the world, the music, the characters and how they all make me feel.

RPGs are my favourite. Slower paced but epic. So I hate spoilers and leaks.

Why’d they make Rayman look like an evil dictator over the Antitoons on the EU box art?

I wasn’t sure if he was wielding them like a minion Lord or about to kill one.

It’s a tough one to judge.

I’m assuming the employees were involved in handing gifts to those in line and weren’t able to take any themselves. So they tried doing that. Or, maybe they were just greedy. We don’t know exactly.

I know that when the Wii came out there was a random ticket system at Toys R Us and it was almost impossible for people to get them. Luckily, I had a friend who worked there and he made sure to keep one back for me. Was it right to do that? Probably not, but his manager allowed it.

In terms of this kind of give away. They should do an event where you have to go to physically go to the exhibition in order to see the display and register to enter a raffle. Then they send you the freebies in the post. And then it won’t matter if you go on the first day or the tenth, you’ll have an equal and fair chance of getting the freebie.

If Nintendo win a lawsuit on this, I wonder what will happen. Will other companies get involved?

That main yellow guy looks like Electrabuzz crossed with Totoro. Will Ghibli sue also?

@The-Chosen-one I’m not a big fan of mods personally, but I will defend modders.

If it’s a private modder then I feel they should be able to do what they like as long as they don’t profit from it.

My friend modded Final Fantasy 15 to have Noctis and co turned into random characters that included Luigi. It was not something I would do, but it was funny and imho should be legitimately fine. It doesn’t hurt the company.

Ash Ketchum in this is just a jibe at the whole similarity thing. It’s not going to affect Pokémon.

That’s a shame. No Tails mount for me.

I usually play games years after release when all DLC is out to get the full experience. But I’m noticing I’m missing things when cross events and limited time events are involved.

Single player games with MMO/Live Service elements are notorious for this.

@Paraka my kids at school and all their friends are talking about it.

“Pokémon with machine guns.”

It’s definitely kicked up a storm similar to how Fortnite did back in the day. We who are outside of the playground/TikTok loop aren’t the target audience.

The 5 million number isn’t surprising.

Japan’s is the first person view of an alien celebrity when Samus sidelines as a paparazzi.

I remember when my closest town (Swindon) had three GAME stores. I used to visit all three whenever I went to town.

Now just the one remains and I haven’t stepped foot in it in years.

I know the NA one is better but the Japanese turtles are SO CUTE!

So Japan got my vote. Just look at Raph’s face!

Losing that many staff will surely have a negative impact. Devs seeing this will be thinking that future enhancements to the software will be impacted and customer/dev support etc. It makes Unity even less appealing.

The only winners are the shareholders who literally couldn’t care for this industry or company and are only in it for money.

Either they were acknowledging a friend leaving or they saw his departure as a win.

@LikelySatan is that the tank’s cannon or does the T -Rex have something in its pocket?

For anyone interested. Yahoo, is still quite popular in Asia and sits among the top 10 most visited websites in the world (mainly for its other services email/news etc).

Japan in particular is fond of Yahoo’s search engine with 15-20% of the country’s web searches taking place on the platform.

In the West it’s only about 2%.

@Anti-Matter I love getting a glimpse into your unique mind.

“They’re the same picture.”

@wert303b that’s actually a really great point about the parental controls and monitoring screen time. You’ve sold it to me even more now.

@Spider-Kev I understand, on Netflix you can control what shows your children see using the website.

We are a Christian family so anything with vampires, monsters, Halloween etc. gets hidden by me so the kids don’t see it. And yes, some of the shows with agendas also.

There are lots of great shows, many older ones, so it’s actually not that hard to control it.

And just as YouTube is available now on Switch but your kids don’t have it. It’s fine to just not install the app. Having the app available doesn’t force you to use it but not having the app makes us who want it to either miss out or forces us to use alternative devices.

From my perspective, it would have saved me money instead of buying tablets which bring their own problems with mobile games etc.

@SuntannedDuck2 yeah, we could edit anything, I suppose. But that Godzilla isn’t edited, it was created in game.

For me, BotW is easily in my top 5 games of all time. One of the reasons is that five years after the game was launched I was still seeing people pulling off amazing stunts or glitches. TotK goes beyond that. (Although I still prefer BotW to TotK).

Having a game be an RPG/Adventure game but allowing player freedom in a way few others offer is more groundbreaking than a solid RPG or action game with a good story and nice visuals. Imho.

@Yoshif3 I get what you’re saying, but I still really enjoy the adventure elements of the game as well as the creative side. And I didn’t really delve into the creative side that much to be honest.

I think Baldurs Gate 3 will win. And I think it’s a worthy GOTY. But ToTK is my GOTY. These are players creating this content and it’s glorious. We will have even more creative things like this for years to come, just as we did with BotW.

The fact people can even make this sort of content from the game proves why it should win Game of the Year.

No other RPG/Action game comes close to this level of creative freedom or use of physics.

Clearly most people here don’t have children.

Yes, Netflix and Disney+ would be very welcome.

There are many children who are old enough to have a Switch but too young to have a phone (mine included) and them having access to streaming apps other than YouTube would be a big bonus.

@JR150 they added her to Disney Dreamlight Valley so there is hope.

They’re both so adorable (even though one is a scene of a gruesome battle).

Europe, though. It’s just much happier.

I want handshake, my son wants fist bump and my daughter wants hug.

Let the battle commence!

Yeah, we will all be Team Hug because me and my son are easy and want to actually play together so we just always go with her option.

This game is the reason we bought 3 Switches and 3 copies of Splatoon 3.

Ori deserves to be on this list.

I prefer the look of EU/Japan but the NA one depicts the game more…

I love SEGA, but what on earth are they talking about?

If they really are making a “Super” game that is better than all the rest. Then I will eat my hat. But I suspect it is just a high budget game that is on par with other AAA titles.

It makes me wonder what Nintendo would consider their “Super” game/s.

If only Nintendo opened a store in Swindon…

I mean, if only anyone would open a store in Swindon. I’d accept anything right now.

The whole top 100 list is off for me. Lots of amazing games not in it and the order is totally different to my own tastes.

However, Breath of the Wild probably is the best game of all time. In my humble opinion.

Nintendo should be proud of having three of the top four games, including the top spot.

@SwagaliciousJohnson I agree.

Starfox Adventures is top of my list for games I want remastered.

My daughter just started playing this on Xbox and is really enjoying it, so I’m glad to see the game is still receiving updates and seasonal content.

The great thing is this game has cross platform saves, so we can get it on Switch and her save carries between the two systems (and my Starfield time doesn’t get interrupted).

I wish more games had cross platform saves like this.

@Zyph I honestly can’t remember having many problems with controllers like I have with Switch. We have 3 Switches and 6 pairs of Joy-Cons. Each set has had a controller have drift.

In contrast, I’ve owned every console from Sega, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft and hardly had any issues, a sticky trigger here and there, but nothing major. The only times they died was actual wear and tear or damage.

I agree with you though that the Wii and Wii U are among the most robust controllers. As a game collector I have bought numerous Wii bundles form people who have stored them in their garage for years with stuff spilled on them etc. And after a clean they have mostly worked like a charm.

@BTB20 I can assure you it’s not my treatment of controllers. I can’t speak for my children though… 😅

I mean, this technology sounds good and all, but it’s not needed to solve drift.

Remember, we’ve had non-drift sticks for 20+ years.

Nintendo just needs to not cheap out on the materials they are using in the future. They should have fixed this issue in all future joy-cons a year after launch, but here I am still sending newly bought joy-cons for repair in 2023…

For some reason my brain created its own images for the game, giving flashbacks of the first person POV we get from inside Tommy’s eyes when he’s trying to walk in the intro to the series.

I think I’d have preferred a 3D monstrosity of Tommy’s wonky than another 2D platformer.

@chiefeagle02 interesting thought about number of households.

We have 3 Switches in my house (one each for me, son and daughter).

We only ever had one Wii and Wii U.

Consoles are different to handhelds and the Switch clearly bridges them both. But I would say that as kids me and my brothers all had our own Game Boys (+DS/3DS) but we shared consoles, so I think it’s a similar concept.

With the marketing of Nintendo (it’s prominent on kids TV), the increase of their brand recognition from the Mario Movie, all the social media kids consume these days, plus the fact friends can bring their Switch anywhere and introduce it to friends who haven’t got one. I’d say the Switch has a higher global impact/recognition than the Wii, although the Wii might have had a more cultural/revolutionary impact with its introduction to motion controls. I mean, even my grandparents played Wii at Christmas.

It’s an interesting thought when you consider which one reached the most people.

I will never buy it… for I am a survivor of this game.

Having decided to ”try it out” on Xbox thanks to Game Pass, I know the nightmare this game is.

“Just one more run,” I would tell myself at 2am on a work night.

“I’m not addicted, you are,” I’d argue with my reflection in the mirror.

Needless to say my gaming/life balance got discombobulated for a week while this was installed on my Xbox. It had to go or I’d never have functioned properly again.

As a big fan of MMORPGs I have always wanted to play this and it’s a shame it never made it Westward.

Alas, we will likely never get to experience it now.

I prefer the word “Gaia” to “Time” on the box. So I chose America.

But the Japanese one is nice also.

I love/hate this game.

Played it on Game Pass. Thought it would suck, but ended up spending 40+ hours playing it with such an addiction that I was going to bed late and missing some sleep. So I deleted it and never installed again for fear it would take me again.

For anyone with self control, this game is great. And it will be a perfect fit for Switch.

Rick flipping rolled…

@Anti-Matter DDR is amazing. I still have my PS2 games and dancing mats that are used from time to time.

However, while I wish they would make more DDR games, Just Dance is the way forward unfortunately. You don’t need any special equipment to play. It’s more accessible for gamers. And so that’s why they will keep going this direction.

I haven’t bought the last couple of these for my kids because of the whole “code in the box” thing.

We have three Switches in the house and having the ability to swap games between them is essential for us.

North America wins (imho). And without their crazy lawsuits we wouldn’t even have this fine game.

Europe’s actually looks like a sign post advert for a lawyer that you’d see on a US highway.

Japan’s looks like an advert for a TV show about lawyers.

I actually like all three.

My save of BotW is on my Wii U.

I have experienced hundreds of hours of janky performance and still have a blast with it to this day.

I know it’s subjective, but this game will run smooth as silk in my eyes.