Mr-Fuggles777

I've been looking at this for a while but I'm not a big fan of rouge like games so didn't want to invest into something that will likely never get played (like dead cells).

Luckily it's coming to GamePass next month so I get to give it a go and see what all of the fuss is about without wasting money and also getting the XsX Performance boost.

Loot boxes for extra demons/items - they seen how the catcha mechanics in Genshin has generated a stupid revenue and want a slice of that pie!!!!

Edit: to say im being sarcastic, but wouldn't be surprised.

@kingbk []The Wii was a gimmick laden underpowered console loaded with shovelware []

I find this statement kind of ironic when the same could be said about the Switch - which you say you love.

I quite like MOBA's so will definitely be giving this a try but will likely be getting it on my phone/tablet rather than the switch - its WiFi stability isn't good enough for an always online competitive game (smite was horrible on Switch compared to other systems)

@tonyp1987 kind of hard to get excited about a 6 year old game getting ported, when the new one is dropping on the other systems and will likely be the same price as DL on Switch.

@NEStalgia totally agree with everything you said.

Ive always been a Microsoft and Nintendo gamer, but I dropped Xbox last gen as the XB1 didn't really have much support so I jumped across to Sony and Nintendo.

The Mrs got me the Series S just because it was so cheap and it would keep me going until I could get hold of a PS5.
I was so happy with it thst I ended up picking up a Series X for the big TV and dropped the idea of a PS5 for now.

I moved the S up to my bedroom and it's amazing that I can be playing a game downstairs, turn it off and pick up exactly where I left off in bed in a matter of minutes - then if I need the toilet I can cast it to my phone and continue playing my game. It's everything I need from the Switch without any of the Compromises or excessive pricing structure.

I've owned every Nintendo console since the SNES but I have become increasingly disillusioned with their business practice and anti consumer approach this gen. It could just be that the competitors have evolved and Nintendo have stayed behind which makes them come across as so backwards thinking.

Its a shame that I love their IP's so much, I think I'm in a Stockholm relationship with them lol.

@NEStalgia if the next iteration of the switch isn't at least backwards compatible with my digital library that will be the end of my support for Ninteno and will be the first of their consoles I don't buy.
I'm sick of buying the same handful of games repeatedly and getting shafted on price this gen.

Microsoft is giving full access to a large library of your previous gen games (when I picked up my Series S, I instantly had over 300 games ready to install without even looking at gamepass), along with the free next gen upgrades to games purchased on last gen hardware.
Nintendo charges you full price if you want to access your last gen games library on current hardware with minimal QoL improvements.

@Flashlink99 Mario Allstars was 3 ports that didn't have any extra work or additions and was a limited edition project for the anniversary.

By your logic, why didn't we receive all 3 of the HD zeldas on 1 cart for Switch - TP, WW and SS?

I cant see them releasing a prime Trilogy. MP 3 would have to be completely redone, it was built for the Wii's motion control and I'm sure Nintendo would want full price for that kind of work (cough, cough #Skyward Sword).

It would also be a tough sell having the first 2 on 1 cart and then a separate full price release for Corruption. £100-£120 for the Trilogy would put most buyers off

Gamecube was always my favourite console but I think the Series X has now over-taken it for me.
Microsoft are killing if this gen with how easy it is to access your old games library along with all free FPS boosts and upgrades.

Its a shame that Nintendo didn't offer backwards compatibility as Switch could have been the best console on the market, but their greed and over reliance on reselling the same products at an inflated premium has really killed my love of the company this gen.

@link3710 it's not that being 2D makes it worth less, it's just when you compare it with whats readily available a metroidvania isn't on the same scale as something like BotW or other AAA games. Ori, iconoclasts and Hollow Knight were all under £20 so will Dread include 3x more content?
Would you have paid £50 for Bloodstained and been happy with the value if it had the Castlevania licence for example?

Nintendo's pricing structure is just crazy in general. Look at the SS remake, that's the same price that EA (one of the greediest publishers) was able to release Mass Effect Legendary.

Playing through Hollow Knight again and have also just started a new save on Monster Hunter World.
Might also get a couple of rounds of Mario Golf in with the Mrs.

Mine arrived yesterday, I've copied the data to an NFC chip (so I have it if I decide to grab the game) and its off to ebay for the toy.

After playing games like Hollow Knight and Ori that cost a fraction of the price I cant justify paying so much for this.
Will grab it once it's pre owned, that way I'm not supporting Nintendo's over pricing strategy.

@johnvboy the Oled Switch costs £60 more than an Xbox Series S and is only £40 cheaper than a digital PS5.

I've got the Amiibo on the way but cancelled my pre order for the game as I'm going to wait for a price drop.

@nhSnork regardless of what "generation" it fits into, its still 2 consoles behind the others in terms of raw power so we won't see the same games coming across - Its not worth the additional development time as third party games not selling that well on Switch.

Monster Hunter Rise didn't even make the top 10 best seller list and that was an exclusive AAA game. Doom and Witcher 3 aren't even in the top 43 even though Doom Eternal cost the publishers an extra year of development time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Switch_video_games

In fairness the Switch is now 2 hardware generations behind, why do people expect the latest AAA releases on a handheld?

Until Nintendo decide to match the competition in terms of power (which is never going to happen) we will be stuck with old ports and "legacy" editions

I would love to play through this again on Switch but I can't justify paying £40 for such an old game.
You can grab the PlayStation or xbox version for less than a tenner and that will give you a free next gen upgrade.

@WallyWest in fairness its probably because I've been playing a lot on my Series X and now any load screen over 30 seconds feels like an eternity lol.

@YoungLink64 what about MH Rise, that doesn't run badly at all for a handheld Monster Hunter and yet that isn't in the top 15 and games like miitopia and Mario Kart 8 make it month after month.

Majority of Switch owners only buy Nintendo exclusives.

This is why you don't see any big AAA ports on Switch, they don't sell.

I dont realy play games on PC but I'm seriously considering grabbing this on Steam as those Switch framerates and loading times are a killer.

@1UP_MARIO they have increased the price, must have had a lot of traffic and adjusted the prices accordingly.

@HamatoYoshi that's how they get revenue to keep giving us news articles.

To be fair that's also a really good deal!
Ordered myself the Peach set

Just display it in your office and you can write it off against your profits as a "Work of Art", you could also claim the full amount as it would definitely not be classed as depreciable artwork.

It could be the box is warning about possible update size and required space for events in advance.

Secondly look at Rise, you need to download half of that game now because of the updates so why would Capcom bother paying for larger carts at launch for Stories 2, knowing the "complete" game wouldn't work anyway after updates.

Another article designed to generate clicks through the inevitable arguments - do the authors get a percentage of the add revenue I wonder.

Samus seems an odd choice as a female role model when her gender is literally only used as fan service by Nintendo - probably one of the least inclusive gaming companies going.

This is literally just a bait article to generate clicks and revenue (which is becoming more common on NL recently) and I fall for it everytime.

In order to assess if a game is "worth" the RRP you really need to look at other games in its genre and compare game stats as well as retail price.
Simply compare price points of every 2d metroidvania over the last five years and see how it fits up with Nintendo's pricing for Metroid.
People look at Hollow Knight and say "well its made by 3 people so it shouldn't cost the same as a AAA title". To that I'm going to say, how much work would those 3 people have put in to turn out such a well crafter game? Less staff just means more man hours per person as well as a wider skill set (they had to multi task after all), does that work mean less just because they didn't have a big publisher throwing money at them to secure a larger team?

Nintendo fans have gotten so used to being scalped by the company they have started actively defending the practice - its effectivly gaming stockholm syndrome.
This is also why I don't feel any remorse buying up limited edition Nintendo pre orders just to sell at an inflated price - if its ok for Nintendo to do this, its definitely OK for me.

Cancelled my pre order as I have enough to play atm so will grab this when I see it pre owned or on sale.

I've kept the pre order of the joycons and Amiibo, my joycon has started to drift again and the Amiibos always sell for more so would be daft cancelling when I've already secured one.

I really enjoyed the Medium, would be awesome to see a next gen Silent Hill using similar twin world mechanics for the puzzles.

@Dirty0814 I haven't played on my PlayStation for a while so can't say about recent games but a lot of the classic remakes/ports released at a reduced rate - Shadow of the Colossus, Uncharted collection, Skyrim and Wipeout.
A lot of the other remakes like Last of Us and FF7 have also been given away with PS+.

When was the last time Nintendo released a budget version of an older game/port?

@BloodNinja being corridor shooters instead of open world really help with the narrative as well as making better use of the armour powers - I hardly ever went invisible in the first game as you could just spam armour using hit n run tactics between charges.

I suppose they felt more like "blockbusters" where you went from one set piece to another at a breakneck speed.
That kind of game also lends itself to a late night session, where you can hit a few bowls before going to shoot aliens and bad army guys without having to put a lot of thought into it and just get carried away in the spectacle. Open world games I tend to just walk around in circles and get bored if I'm under the influence.

@Red_Silurian Why not, Nintendo get away with charging £50 for a 20 year old game - *cough cough * Skyward Sword.

@BloodNinja I was the other way, preferred 2 & 3 over the first.

Will stick with playing it on Gamepass - and before people chime in saying "portability" is better than flashy graphics, you can play this on your phone via XCloud without any of those downgrades for free if you subscribe to gamepass.

@TheFrenchiestFry fair enough, then Sega should have made enough of the Limited edition - especially knowing how in demand this game is.

@Preposterous then it's always going to happen and the only winners are the company and reseller.

@Phostachio I will give it another shot, probably didn't help swapping from a 55" 4k TV to a 6" 720p screen and trying to continue playing the same game.

@Preposterous so why doesn't Nintendo make more of these collections to ensure there is enough for everyone if they are so desirable?
If they were readily available people wouldn't be able to flip them for a profit and the gamers wouldn't have to go without.

@Phostachio it felt really janky so I assumed it was locked at 30FPS. Might have been the low resolution that gave me a headache then.

If a dev can't match the framerate with a native port on Switch then just do a cloud version instead.
Who would be playing Overwatch without a stable Internet connection in the first place and locking it at 30 FPS puts switch players at a huge disadvantage.

I was convinced to start playing Paladins by some people in my Clan and was loving it on Xbox, so thought I would download it on switch to play In bed as it had cross play - It's like a completely different game. Graphically it doesn't look to bad but dropping to 30FPS from 120 gave me a massive headache and I turned it off.

I only really see this problem with Nintendo products, I've never had any issue securing copies of limited/collector's editions of games on any other system.

Are they manufactured in smaller amounts to ensure they get snapped up to guarantee sales by creating an artificial scarcity - They don't care if it's a reseller or a collector that buys as they get paid either way.

A bit of Mario Golf and I have just started a new playthrough on Monster Hunter World enjoying the Series X enhancements.

@COVIDberry that boss looks like she's going to be a "handful"!!

We are just waiting on the postman, we pre ordered 2 copies do that we can play together in bed on our Lites - the Mrs loves Mario Golf.

Our copies will be arriving tomorrow but I have lost interest in this game the closer to release we have gotten.

Nintendo games used to be solid om Day but have become increasingly dated as technology has moved forward. why not include a party option in multiplayer? I want to be able to bitch and moan at my friends when I'm losing and having a bad round, without having to mess around with Discord or the stupid app and hoping my phone maintains charge.

Just need an update that brings it to Xbox and gamepass now. I'm interested in this game, just not enough to actually spend money on it.

@MajinSoul you stated that "If you want the legal system to work, you can't make exceptions based on personal bias".

Are you now saying that it's OK to break the law in some circumstances - if that's the case who gets to decide what laws are ok to break and for what reason?
I'm not getting into a social political debate here, but ultimately if someone enters a country illegally they are a criminal and should be held to account - the same as someone who steals because they are hungry.