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@kmtrain83 it had to eventually. Developers couldn't offset inflation forever.

@obijuankanoobie fair enough. I will say road trip is more fun than I thought. So if you didn't bother with it then it's worth trying. I would argue it's more than an HD remaster but many of its improvements are either subtle or require engaging with the game in specific ways to make use of.

Aside from that I guess the other consolation is look into switch 2 editions of games. Even if a switch 1 version exists the difference in performance can be pretty big depending on how well it ran on switch 1 in the first place.

@obijuankanoobie have you played DK Bananza? I know not everyone has the same tastes, but I never played a DK game before and Bananza was nearly worth the console alone for me. I also enjoyed Kirby air riders but I get people dismiss it thinking it's a racing focused game. But it might be worth looking into if you haven't already played it.

If you have then sorry, just thought I'd give some suggestions. Because I do think the Switch 2 is worth getting even now.

@Anti-Matter didn't you hear the news? Nintendo is working on lower capacity cards. Meaning third parties will have less excuses to go with keycard.

If course have fun however you want. But there is no indication keycards are going to take over. They'll still be around but with lower capacity options only those with no intentions of a physical release anyway would use it.

A bit of a shame. I remember seeing a rumor of GameStop possibly pivoting to retro goods and such. Which might have actually been useful is done right given how hard it can be to get ahold of older stuff..they could still sell newer games too of course.

But offering a convenient way to acquire older games would have probably gotten them more business then a bunch of random toys and trading cards you can get elsewhere anyway.

@Woodyshoe or hopefully this shortage ends before their agreement runs out.

@Pillowpants yeah. I think LLMs have some genuinely good uses. But this mad push to constantly consume resources to push their power more is insane.

Just slow down, use lower power local models that don't require hundreds of terabytes and let the technology improve slowly.

If it has real practical value we can't stop it's progress, but it's getting pushed too fast and efficiency is being disregarded in favor or just consuming resources at an unsustainable rate.

@Andy_Witmyer except it has nothing to do with overuse.

People have whipp d themselves into such a hysteria that they just assume everything is AI by default.

They're jumping at shadows all because of their own delusions, not because they've seen so many examples already. In fact if they were more familiar with it maybe they wouldn't mak so many false claims.

I am so tired of this crying wolf nonsense.

People have forgotten editing exists and are now incredibly hostile to amateur artists because any defects are "proof of AI".

And God help you if you aren't a pro at hands.

This nonsense isn't saving jobs or artists. It's just spiraling into hysteria that makes it impossible to even tell what's happening anymore.

@Sonicka sometimes I find their humor a bit cringy like they tried a bit too hard.

Not a big deal but I get why it turns some people away.

@breach187 not really..while the switch 2 launch could certainly be stronger. It's not the outright struggle the 3DS had.

The 3DS had a few big issues that plagued it

Nintendo bet big on the 3D features that no other gaming device had pulling people in and that was a MASSIVE mistake. 3D was just a passing fad and including it raised the price far above that of the DS and even most of its competition. In comparison the switch 2 may not wow anyone with new features but the cost of hardware is entirely in performance which will pay off better in the long run.

I would honestly call Donkey Kong Bananza a "Must have" title. But unfortunately people are just not familiar with DK and dismissing it.

People are addicted to IPs and the Switch 2 will need Mario, Pokemon, and Zelda to have some real hits to pull people in ... Hopefully once they buy it they'll play Bananza and maybe even Kirby Air Riders.

Look ... I don't mind the switch 2 being mostly black. But if you're going to release alternate colors then shouldn't you do a bit more?

In handheld mode you barely see the colors.

They're definitely going to sell significantly less joy cons if these are the alternative color options.

Translation: Bethesda needs money and isn't able to put out an actual new game yet.

Amazing that they have control of such big IP and yet need to keep doing this to keep the lights on.

I'd understand if this was just an occasional stopgap measure. But they do this A LOT! More so than any other game developer.

@RoboCube Yeah there are even rumors they're goign to rush out the PS6 now because Sony is desperate to regain market presence. I don't know how true that is ... but there is no way the Ps6 will be superior enough to the Ps5 pro to be worth it's price tag. At least not THIS soon.

Then Xbox has already abadoned their own console and are moving everything to software based services that can be run on anything.

Hoenstly this is all rather unfortunate because Nintendo isn't perfect and having healthy competition probably helped keep them on the ball. If their compeititon in the console market drops off then while there will still be other game developers they might not put as much pressure on Nintendo due to lacking a more unified identity.

There is the Steam machine, but Valve has said it's meant to be a gamign PC. Not their break into the console market.

We'll see what happens. But IMO consoles are important as if everyone just moves to PC gaming it will become near impossible for anythign to stand out. We might see the gaming industry collapse from over saturation ... again.

@swedetrap Again Metroid games have never been chart topers. And Metroid Prime 4 was a decent game overall. People just let their hype and years of excessive expectation get out of hand.

The game is fine and overall will probably be remembered fairly fondly long term as people stop trying to be overly critical of it and actual reviews remain.

Unfortunately Metroid has never been much of a chart topper despite its overall fame.

So this is hardly surprising. I think Dread only got so much attention due to it being both good at the first Metroid period in many years.

Prime 4 had a lot of hype around it but we also don't have prime 2 and 3 playable. Even if you don't need to have played those games. A lot won't even glance at a 4th game when they didn't play earlier entries.

So again not surprised. I will say despite some harsh criticism, the game is fun and if you liked the prior games or just like fps mixed with some light puzzle elements then you'll probably like it.

@BTB20 and yet no one's cared about it a month later.

Everyone went to see Avatar 2 because the first movie was so famous. After they saw it ... No one cared.

There are a few reasons for it, but overall Avatar just ... Isn't capable of reaching multimedia cultural phenomenon status.

So it's just MegaMan 11 again with without any numbering this time.

I want more from the X or other series not classic MegaMan. I don't hate classic MegaMan ... But this is making me worry Capcom saw MegaMan 11 do well and now they want to just return to classic and abandon the rest of the series... Aside from milking it for collections anyway.

@Lizuka I will say ... Some of the card art is simply beautiful.

But yeah the collection has gone rather out of control.

@larryisaman this time around they do have a mechanic actually adapt some of the tech to her suit.

But the where number of things designed specifically for morph balls is just silly ... Like power switches you need to roll as a ball inside to activate... How did the creators even use them?

Still if you just overlook that, the morph ball puzzles are pretty good overall.

Game is a lot of fun.

The occasional companions showing up isn't that bad and doesn't take away from the isolation since they are almost never around and rarely of help in a fight. Really their presence is overall a good thing as they help build out the story and make the universe feel less dead. They can get a LITTLE handholding at times. But they don't pester you every 10 minutes or anything like that.

Samus is still mostly on her own.

The desert is fine. People saying it's "boring" are acting like it's a separate level when it's a hub. I don't think these people know what a hub is. Overall it doesn't take too much time to get between actual locations and the desert itself has a few upgrades and mini dungeons hidden in it to give some light exploration some value.

Honestly as a whole I feel a lot of criticism is simply because people waited so long for prime 4 that anything less than their perfect ideal was never going to be considered good enough. Like people complaining about it being too linear when multiple maps loop ans branch. Yes it's not all one massive interconnected network. But the level structure still offers a fair bit of exploration.

I'm only about halfway through so far but I'm liking it. The story is also interesting so far.

@Dom_31 might just be retirement at this point. 30 years is a pretty good career.

It's seriously a crime Kirby air riders isn't doing better. No it's not inferior to Mario Kart, I wouldn't even call it a kart racer.

But it's such a well polished game and it's story mode is actually pretty good.

At least it's doing fairly well in Japan.

@CutMan003 no problem. Also, oh so there is a forum. Was looking for one earlier and failed to find it. Haven't used it in a while so couldn't even remember if this site had one. Thanks.

@CutMan003 this is off topic so probably shouldn't continue this here past this (If you want to have a longer megaman discussion elsewhere I'd be up for it. Like maybe reddit or something) but just to wrap this up here. I will say ... X7 trend chased too much. It copied a lot of what was popular at the time and did so when a lot of those trends were getting stale. So I do agree it gets too much hate. But I also understand it.

Also just FYI you can edit comments, you don't need to reply to yourself and doing so is generally frowned upon.

@CutMan003 X7 graphics were decent for its time. People more just hated the story, Axel in particular got shut down HARD.

Even MegaMan ZX Advent basically faked out Axel with bio metal model A not standing for Axel.

Oh yeah. Forgot to give actual opinion... Eh .... I don't love it. But it's a lot better than those derpy mega forms.

A defense focused Lucario is definitely interesting.

I wonder if it will have a unique ability in the next mainline game? I can't imagine Gamefreak out this much effort into new megas only to immediately burry them.

@Wexter I know. But you hear the same ***** so often, you eventually feel like responding once or twice.

If nothing else just to make it clear to anyone young enough to not have owned one doesn't actually think it's PS2 level graphics.

Plus there is always the chance someone saying that is just parroting others and just never questioned it. So I try to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they aren't a basic rage baiting troll.

@sixrings it's not that people argue they don't matter at all. But they aren't the end all, be all of gaming.

Really 1080p and 60FPS is enough, anything more is nice to have and if you can pull that off then it's a good thing. But it also needs to be understood that 4k and 120fps are resource intensive and take time to optimize a game for and make assets for.

Meaning if there just isn't time or budget for it ... Then there just isn't.

There are so many 4k and 120fps games that a lot of people didn't even enjoy playing.

@Truegamer79 apparently it's open hub world, but the actual meat of the game in in more classic Metroid prime style maps.

It's just instead of switching between zones by just going through a door or an elevator you actually ride to locations through an open world.

Which is exactly what I figured would be the case.

@Simu001 it's an.entire negative point because there aren't a lot of negative points to make and the fact you can't toggle them off is still bit annoying.

But still, all the reviews are saying it's not nearly as constant as people thought.

At the very least this review specifically said the reminders don't repeat. So it's not going to do "Samus!? Where are you going? The objective is that way".

@KayFiOS did any of you people that say that ***** over and over ever actually own a PS2?

Seriously, anything that doesn't meet some arbitrary graphical standard "looks like a PS2 game".

No ... No it does not.

It's also not day 1 dlc. Yes you could buy it day one but the actual content doesn't drop until later ... But I suppose facts are just optional when they get in the way of your "I'm not buying this" soapbox.

@Simu001 it doesn't sound constant though. Sounds more like just a one time "Hey just so you know, this is where you'll want to head when you're ready".

I get what you mean but it doesn't sound terribly noteworthy.

@Olliemar28 meh. They probably wouldn't have included the feature at all otherwise.

So it not THAT much of a con. Like if it wasn't a feature to sell amiibo, they probably wouldn't have included it.

Radio is probably the same thing.

@sportvater keep me in mind this was a reviewers playtime.

Someone not looking to meet a deadline would probably idle more often, take breaks, wander casually.

Overall I'd expect most regular players to reach 25 to 30 hours.

The thing is the map is a specific location so additional maps would be hard to fit into the narrative. There is one even if it's brief.

Now rather than a new map I could see sakurai possibly being persuaded to increase map variations.

Like greater variety in city layout. Maybe more underground passages that might also change.

Maybe increase the variety of detached sky islands and place some closer so you don't need maxed fly to reach all of them.

Also maybe the stadium bosses could have a chance to spawn on top of existing city trial spawns

Point is while I'm happy with the map as it is ... It is true there is still room for expansion.

But to anyone reading this, don't think that means city trial is lacking. No two matches will feel the same even if the base map is the same. There are enough events and variety placed on the map to keep things fun.

Damn ... Look at those Xbox hardware numbers. It's close to the holiday season and they can't even crack 500 units TOTAL!?!

Honestly I feel bad for the Xbox fans at this point. I don't feel bad for Microsoft, we told them years ago.

I really wonder how much longer they'll pretend to even have a gaming division?

@Bobb that could be.

I'm just happy because gen 3 legendaries are my personal favorites.

They really nailed the theme of two legendaries that opposed one another.

@UpsideDownRowlet same. Although Iay just give in and start only keeping what I have any intention of playing soon downloaded.

I can wait until prices go down to maintain a fully downloaded library.

@Kiyata or ....you can just not have everything downloaded at once.

Look I like physical too. But let's not blame simple refusal to uninstall games you don't plan to play for a while as proof digital is somehow the death of gaming.

I get digital and physical depending on the game and storage management is NOT that hard. It's slightly inconvenient if you want to impulse play a game not installed, but it's hardly the end of the world.

Im waiting for the 1TB size to reach a reasonable price.

The switch 2 already comes with pretty good storage so I can store more than enough for now.

@Charlirnie no. This is an example of a game that might seem rather niche. But if actually very well made and fun if you give it a chance.

Sadly most will probably disregard it simply because it's Kirby or because they assume it's just a racing game.

@TheExile285 same. My only complaint is there is a task needed to unlock Hydra that I'm struggling with. Need to experience all field events but I've been stuck at 38/40 all weekend. I tried looking up if the last two were locked and no info so far.

So I'm a bit frustrated because I was tunnel visioned that task. But that's mostly my fault for not just moving onto other tasks.

Overall I can't stop playing whenever I have time.

Would it be possible to update the images with the details visible if we want to find these? We need the ID to search them.

@PikaPhantom I checked. The ID is on the details screen. You'll need to take a photo or screen cap to save it. But there is a way.

@Bobb exactly. Is air riders for everyone?

Certainly not.

But you're just being salty for being bad with Metro's review.

The controls take getting used to, but they feel pretty good once you do.

@Skunkfish I wouldn't say polarizing. Most reviewed it quite highly
Aside from metro who clearly just didn't get it and blamed the game.

Always liked Zeraora.

Honestly I feel he'd be a lot more well known if he wasn't mythic and just rare like Lucario.

Mega evolution is good too. Feels more like a proper evolution and less like a derpy distortion.