LegendOfStewart

Echoes of Wisdom and Link’s Awakening not getting frame rate boosts is a travesty. I would gladly take not having to deal with the stuttering instead of getting a resolution bump or HDR support for those two games.

This is a minor thing but is Vivian actually the strongest party member in the game? Vivian is my favorite to use in battle, but I think Admiral Bobbery is actually the strongest.

Also - sorry - but I don’t know how you can include this line at the beginning of the article but then start deleting comments that voice dissenting opinions: “Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over.” If you want to actually have a discussion on this subject, you can’t just shut people off who don’t agree.

Boy, these are some lofty hopes for some rapidly aging technology.

@Rpg-lover You disagree with facts? He's not presenting an opinion. He's presenting objective facts from analyzing the technical side of the game. If you want to disagree with facts, well, I don't know what to tell you.

PLEASE have a physical edition

So it's basically DJ Hero? No, thanks.

This makes my heart so happy. I preorderd Two Point Hospital months ago, and this review has just enhanced my excitement for the game ten times over.

This is a remarkable improvement. I had held off on buying it because of the blurry visuals, but this has convinced me to buy it.

@zool Yes.

How adorable. Definitely doesn't mesh with the seemingly "dark" presentation of the game though.

Cloud gaming may be the future, but I just don't believe people are ready to fully move into that future yet. I know I'm not.

Really, really hoping for a physical release. Also, Team 17 is one of the unsung heroes of games this generation. The amount of great budget titles that have been published under their umbrella over the last few years, specifically on Switch, is pretty incredible. Both Yooka-Laylee games, My Time at Portia, Yoku's Island Express, the Overcooked series, Blasphemous, and the Escapists all came out under the Team 17 name.

Welp, I'm out. I was going to double-dip and buy it on Switch, but no physical means no buy from me.

Had this pre-ordered for several months now. I'm a sucker for a good management sim.

I own around 500 physical games. I started seriously collecting a couple years ago pretty much from scratch after graduating college. While I have way more money invested in my collection than my wife would ever want, I don't buy or sell games because I expect to turn a profit one day. Likewise, I don't buy games I have never played or don't plan on playing. Almost every game I own has some sort of story to it, whether it be personal or one that I feel is significant to the platform, genre, industry, developer/publisher, etc. I like to think of my game room as a sort of library that contains all sorts of information on the video game industry. I would never want to sell my collection. But at the same time, life happens and finances change, and that could cause me to have to change my stance. I had to sell off my small collection to finish funding my last year of college. I hope that day doesn't come again because, not to sound overly dramatic, but my collection is a big part of who I am and tells a sort of broad story about myself.

@Damo Dude, there's a massive difference in calling the game "inspired" versus calling it a "clone."

For me, it depends. If it's a massive RPG, nine times out of ten, I'll make the sacrifice and buy it on the Switch. But other genres and, more specifically, games that I know have a major disparity in visual fidelity between the Switch and my PS4, the sacrifice for portability just isn't worth it for me. And it's not just because of visuals, but also because I absolutely detest the joy-cons and find it very uncomfortable to use the Switch in handheld for more than a couple hours at a time.

@KitsuneNight Just because you don't like the genre of a particular game, doesn't make that game a non-game.

@Brutchie-bear well, considering they made the announcement two months after the game launched, it's safe to say it was always the plan. Specifically, the plan was to monetize the whole situation. Some real EA stuff. Such a shame.

Wow. The art design alone had me interested in this game. Then I opened this article and saw all the fuzzy screenshots. What a shame.

My favorite generation. I'll never forget that feeling of becoming champion and going back to Kanto. For me, the original versions of Gold and Silver are the best Pokémon games ever made. They improved and grew so much on the original games.

I would add the Steamworld Dig games to this list as well. The second game is a little too long (around 8 hours) to be considered a one play session game, but the first game is only about a 5 hour experience.

My millennial nostalgia has definitely contributed to this lol. I've bought around 50 N64 games off Ebay in the last couple years.

@Kilroy Dig 2 wasn’t a Super Rare release, hence why you can get it on Amazon. Quest is strictly through Super Rare.

This is infuriating. I’ve been waiting months to hear the announcement of a physical release. Now I have to be lucky enough to order in the short period of time that extremely limited amount of copies are going to be available? Absolutely shameful.

This seriously looks like a very, very early 360/PS3 game, like a worse lookling Fable.

@EasyDaRon Not necessarily. I think it depends on the genre, developer, publisher, etc. If a game gets delayed by a major third party developer or publisher, the game isn't going to lose customers because they will spend the money to advertise the game to make sure people remain interested. Although not from a major third party, with the case of Two Point in terms of genre, a simulator, they hit a certain portion of the gaming world that will play it no matter what. People who are into simulators play every simulator they can get their hands on. The same goes for RPG fans, FPS fans, etc. At the same time, your ordinary person isn't necessarily interested in a simulator, not like RPGs, FPSs, etc. Only certain types of gamers are into games like this, so those who are interested will still probably buy the game regardless of the delay. People who were only remotely interested or not interested at all probably won't buy it regardless of a delay.

I'll never complain about a game getting delayed. I'd much rather wait for a more polished product than get an earlier release of a game that is technically or otherwise flawed.

No discussion of performance? These screenshots look incredibly fuzzy.

God, this makes me think of the New Super Mario Bros U theme songs - which I absolutely hate.

Probably buying this for my very casual gamer wife. She played Yonder and My Time at Portia and really liked those games, especially Yonder, so I'm thinking she'll probably like this one as well.

Kinda left out the most appealing part of these controllers - NO JOY-CON DRIFT!

No analog triggers means I'm not playing this on Switch.

@Deanster101 I'm aware. If it's running at 720p docked, it's going to run at a lower resolution in handheld, i.e. sub-HD.

Super disappointed we're only getting the PS3 port and not the true remaster that other systems are getting. Very surprised it can only run at 720p docked, so it sounds like it could very well run at sub-HD levels in handheld.

I didn't play these when they first released on the PS1, but I platinumed all three when it was released on PS4. The first game is easily the best of the three. @ me.

@Mathieu_B A few months ago, their official Twitter account tweeted that the end of the year was still the plan, but I'm starting to doubt it will be out before next year. Hope I'm wrong though.

Still patiently waiting for a physical release.

@Wavey84 barren? You're kidding, right?

@Blizzia Not disputing the quality of the exclusives. My only complaint on that end is the lack of quantity of exclusives the last year or so.

@clvr For only slightly inferior ports and top quality exclusives.

@BeefSanta it might be what you signed up for, but not me. I didn't sign up for significantly inferior ports of 5+ year old games.

@PorllM I'm fully aware that a standard PS4 can't display 4k. But we're splitting hairs discussing checkerboarding. Checkerboarding on PS4pro and XBOX One X is near equivalent to 4k.

@BeefSanta absolutely not. I'd rather not have the game on Switch at all than have a significantly inferior version of the game for full price. I bought the complete edition for PS4 for $15. If they released the game for $30-$40, I would probably change my tune. But I'm sick of getting significantly inferior ports. I expect a visual downgrade, but not cutting the resolution in half.

540p? Dude. We're basically playing a PS2 version of the game then.

@Magician It barely ran at 1080p on a PS4 5 years ago. It can run in 4k now.

I bought the revised version of the Brawler64 a few months ago and absolutely love it. Very surprised by the criticism of the analogue stick – it's literally my favorite part of the controller. The d-pad is where my criticism lies. It feels mushy to me. Overall though, I love the controller and I haven't used my original N64 controllers since I bought a Brawler64.

"Nintendo obviously took note from Bethesda’s fifth entry in the Elder Scrolls series when creating its latest iteration of Hyrule." Lol that's a bit of an understatement. I love Breath of the Wild and spent 90 hours playing it, but it's seriously just a six years later Nintendo version of Skyrim, a game I've sunk 500+ hours into over the years.

Getting my physical copy today. Hoping to get the Asian version of X and X-2 in the next couple weeks. Also, pretty sure I'm the only human being on the planet waiting for a version of 13 to eventually come to Switch.

They seriously just added scan lines. Hardly a 64-bit look.

Yeah it lost something - fuzziness. This is beautiful.