Matt_Barber

One the one hand you can argue that Shovel Knight isn't retro, because it isn't that old.

On the other, you could argue that it always was. Even on the day it launched, it was evoking the style of an earlier period.

The word gets used both ways, so it's probably best to deal with that rather than attempt to gatekeep one way or the other.

@Ooyah Yeah, it's right up there with The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival.

I wonder if it'll see a similar fate.

Lego Star Wars is still the best Star Wars game, and you won't get mugged by time-limited microtransactions when you play it.

I'm a PC gamer who regularly plays games at 120fps where appropriate and who generally avoids buying twitchy games for the Switch, where it can't deliver that. I've got no problem buying 30fps RPGs on Switch though, because they don't need that level of performance.

At the end of the day, we're talking about hardware that's based around a mobile SoC from 2015. If you want 60fps for everything that's going to require visual trade-offs for games where it makes no sense at all.

And sure, the original TTYD ran at 60fps, but this is not that game. It's a ground-up remake of it, with a radically enhanced visual style.

@bobrocks95 It's exactly how it works. It takes two fields to make a frame, so 60 fields per second means 30 frames per second.

If you want to get 60fps out of a 480i TV set, the only way you're doing it is by rendering it at 240p, which some older consoles do, but not the GameCube.

Edit: There's obviously nothing to stop a game from rendering at 60FPS, but the TV set just doesn't have the bandwidth to display that many full frames.

If you played it on GameCube back in the day, the chances are that it wasn't 60fps.

You'd have needed either a digital TV (very rare) or the component cable (not that much more common), otherwise it ran at 30fps with an interlaced display.

I suppose a lot of people will have played it on the Wii or with an emulator these days, however.

It's a great Direct for cat lovers.

I always thought that FF6 was the best game in the series. I didn't know it was the best three though.

I suppose it has to be said that, from 7 onward, the games aren't at their best on Nintendo platforms, when available at all.

The master reaches his final form.

It's a sad day for sure, but what an incredible legacy he's left behind him.

@BinaryMessiah In this case, the $2.4 million will not be borne by the individual developers as the judgement was against a limited liability company, that will be liquidated as part of the settlement.

@the_beaver Citra just got caught in the crossfire. It's not mentioned at all in the lawsuit and obviously was neither here nor there when it came to the piracy of TotK. Most likely, they had to sign a blanket agreement not to work on any Nintendo emulators.

It is, however, an open source project with other branches under active development by completely unrelated teams, so one of those might keep the project alive.

We might have to wait for the dust to settle first though, because I don't think anyone's going to be inclined to stick their head up right now.

@Arawn93 Ryujinx still takes money on Patreon and facilitates the dumping of encryption keys, however.

They're probably going to have to clean up their act and keep a low profile if they want to remain active.

@Dm9982 Steam is unaffected because it doesn't require games to be rated.

All console platforms require a rating though, so they're required to remove the game immediately if the rating is changed or revoked.

Also, I'd bear in mind that PEGI ratings are sometimes used for other regions via the International Age Rating Coalition, so knock-on effects may cause the game to be removed from sale there too.

What's kinda ridiculous is that PEGI don't take a hard stance on loot boxes - which are gambling with real money - but do with a card game that only involves simulated gambling where you can't lose anything of value.

@KingMike Atari isn't really even Infogrames these days because they in turn went bankrupt in 2013, closed all their studios and put the IP up for sale.

Ah well, at least the new owners are doing some good things with that IP, with Night Dive and Digital Eclipse both being studios worth watching regardless of who owns them.

I'd like to know what games Pyoro "spoiled" because all I saw from that account was a series of cryptic hints.

"is xbox a partner" = Grounded, Pentiment, NSO games

"Sometimes Nintendo can be a Partner because they love dolphins" = Endless Ocean

"Is Game Freak a partner" = Pocket Card Jockey

etc.

You'd only be able to infer the games mentioned with information from other sources, some of which weren't entirely reliable. That's why loads of other "insiders" were predicting Hi-Fi Rush from Microsoft, and Dolphin to be a reference to GameCube games.

Showing my age here, but I first played a Jeff Minter game on a friend's VIC-20 in 1982 and yes, it was Gridrunner.

My main concern is that they do a good with the emulation and keep the latency as low as possible. Most of his games are very twitchy, and too much lag would be ruinous.

I'll forever remember him for "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child" which will live on in the memories of those with a fondness for ridiculous song titles.

My most played re-make of the year would be Baten Kaitos, which probably isn't anyone's idea of a good one. Yet, the original games shine through and I really enjoyed them in spite of the issues.

Anyway, yeah, Link's Awakening is the greatest re-make. I'd love to see all the 2D Zelda games eventually get the same treatment.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Tacoma yet. Obviously, it never made it to Switch, but I thought that game was a big step up from Gone Home, both in terms of the visuals and offering more varied gameplay.

I've got to say that I'm a bit nervous about this one, given its troubled development. Fingers crossed though.

I woke up pleasantly surprised to find that they hadn't sold out. The shipping to Australia wasn't so pleasant, but I've got my order in.

I don't always buy physical but when I do, it's usually for a collectors edition of a game that I'd consider to be a keeper and this has at least six of them.

I wish they were doing an open preorder. At only 2500 copies this is going to sell out in seconds.

This all takes me back to the 1990s when, if you wanted to play the latest games from Japan, you had to import them and play them in Japanese. You usually didn't get English subtitles either.

As a veteran from that era, I can say that the language barrier is a lot less than you think it'll be. If the lack of a dub is the only thing holding you back, take a chance on it. I honestly don't think you'll regret it.

I hope he gets sued for every last cent of his severance pay by his former employees.

Games Machine gave it an 86, while acknowledging the bugs and clunky mechanics, so there's one positive review from a somewhat reputable outlet.

I think it's just going to go down as one of those games where it's both a labour of love that some players are going to feel totally enchanted by, and will be spurred to put in the effort to work around its issue, but also an unplayable mess for many others. Both perspectives are valid, but it's hard to sum them up in a single score.

Although I managed to get a fair way into it, I think I'll be putting it on the back burner for a while. There are presumably many more patches to come and it'll be more fun when there's a guide to fall back on rather than just having to live with getting stuck.

Karl Jobst = absolute legend

It's worth remembering that you can avoid all this garbage just by buying the games you want to play and keeping the ones you've enjoyed.