MrGawain

I like Level 5, they make fun games.

Not sure if I’m willing to buy 5 games in a year from them however. They have a way in taking different genres of game and making the presentation of them all oddly the same.

I'm guessing they talked about it releasing it at the same time as the Hobbit films, and then not releasing it while Game of Thrones was around.

I own a Playstation 5 and I don’t see myself as part of the Playstation community. I definitely don’t think I’m part of a community where I don’t own the console or play any of their published games.

An awkward, self aggrandising statement by Phil.

To me this sounds like the person in charge of awards wants to meet Aonuma. The French normally don’t like promoting other culture’s art over their own due to fear of losing their own cultural identity. I think there’s even a rule that they can’t play more than 10% of foreign music on their radio stations.

Anything past M64 is easy to a point so you can finish the game and see the end. But they all have tougher challenges if you want to get 100%. You have to ask what’s overall the toughest, or what’s the toughest to 100%

I would say 50% of the Switch’s appeal to me is it has a massive back catalogue of old titles that I can play anywhere I want. Who needs a PS5 to play Sonic 2 or Final Fantasy 3, especially when I can take them with me on a bus? And with that mindset, who would want to buy a new Nintendo machine that has 6-7 games to start out with, and that gallery or eshop games gone? I think backwards compatibility really is a no brainer as it means we won’t just stick with our old Switch consoles. That’s what I take from ‘the stability of the Nintendo account’.

Realistically if you’re a big enough COD fan, you won’t only own a Switch to play it on. It’s about graphics and online and voice chat, none of Ninty’s priorities, especially on a mobile console.

To me COD on Nintendo has been a curio, the sort of thing you either try because you’ve never played it and you own a Nintendo product, or because you already own the game elsewhere and you buy a second copy to see if the Nintendo version has any weird options.

Unfortunately the product they made didn't sell. Having a Union means nothing if the work you are doing doesn't have a customer to recoup your investments.

Seeing Spiderman 2 is out the same day implies October 20th is probably the exact sweet spot to release for maximum Seasonal sales.

It shows how important a brand is, and how people blindly buy something because of the name on the box.

EA really didn't do enough to tell people- especially casual fans, that the name was changing.

Characters and IP don’t make good games. People make good games. And just like every other company Microsoft have bought they would lose all the special people if they bought Nintendo and would end up with Mario and Link in a series of awful First Person Shooters made in America.

Until Microsoft get a legitimately successful good game from what they’ve already purchased, I won’t be convinced otherwise.

"Look at the pretty butterfly floating in the sky.

How lovely it would be if we squished it and pinned it in our book next to Rare, Activision and Bethesda."

Of course now Microsoft are trying to rebrand themselves as a digital platform/store front/Subscription service and ditch the console, so the Switch is now more a console than a XBox.

Yup, the graphics are different than the one made 27 years ago.

It was an appropriate list of games for the age of the Switch.

But aside from Eiyuden I’m not really enthused about anything.

How there was never a flumps 1v1 beat em up is beyond me.

Worst case scenario it’s Adam Lambert.

‘Wow! A video game that doesn’t crash! And it didn’t have a deadline it missed!’

I think it’s fair to say 2D Mario has been becoming stale since the first New Super Mario Bros. Mario Maker was a different idea, but has suffered from too many bad user levels. Super Mario Bros to Super Mario World are all different, gameplay, audio, and visual wise. Both New and Maker series suffer from the phrase ‘once to the well too often’.

I’m not sure if Mario Wonder really reinvents the wheel for 2D Mario and if there are any surprises they’ve kept back, but it looks like it has it’s own identity and will be amusing for the time spent with it.

I think the biggest failure of the base game is they added in a load of busywork fetch quests on the map and flashy cutscenes, but the core tactical gameplay was made so easy and became a chore. Shame, because the original game was quite a lot of fun.

It does make you wonder if they announced these games when they have 5 minutes of footage running?

Still worth the wait however, they’re in my all time top 5 of games.

I don’t understand the connection between Dave Bautista and Mortal Kombat if he isn’t in the game?

Wario will be harder to cast than Mario as Martinet has said more as Wario with more inflection and emotion than Mario’s quips. Wario has been pretty much narrating his own games. Luigi is somewhere between the two.

The first game was okay, just uninspired aside from the part inspired by tears of the kingdom. In general most of their stuff is built relatively solid now with few glitches and lots of content, but it all feels Very safe and familiar.

I get the feeling Ubisoft themselves don’t think their games are good enough and that’s why they drop their prices less than a month after release.

I wonder if this implies going forward Mario will be speaking more, or at least different things- perhaps in a Mario movie style.

I really don’t see why Ninty would need to do this if the next Mario game was ‘yah/hah/woohoo/oh no/I got it/Mario time’ as usual.

Doesn’t he have a podcast? I think it’s more likely to do with that instead of going to work for Nintendo and tell them how to get customers like XBox does.

Let’s be honest, triple A game development has been slowing down since the release of the XBX and the PS5. Making the graphics twice as detailed means twice the time to make it in, and costs have spiralled out of control meaning there’s less games being greenlit. I’m also not convinced games are better because of this, and rushing them makes them worse. At the moment there is very little to talk about.

The games justify the media coverage, the media coverage doesn’t justify the games.

I’ve been thinking about playing some of this again, and this has convinced me to play the PS4 versions I already have on disc that should hopefully run better than this.

Beyond the eyebrow raises of what it looks like, it’s an overpriced stuffed sock.

I get Rockstar are beloved by a huge fan base, but to me the games have never gelled with me. I’m a cliche of a Nintendo gamer.

It all comes down to if the Switch 2 will be able to play Switch games, and how long Nintendo continues to sell the Switch once the next thing comes out.

I love the Suikoden series, and I really want to play this.

However if I had contributed to the Kickstarter for this I would be slightly peeved this game has been delayed so many times when they had enough budget to make a prequel game on top.

I think this run of DLC has convinced me Mario Kart needs a TOTK style reinvention for the Switch sequel, and I don't just mean adding Kirby and Samus.

I'd like to see some long form tracks with some more hazards to avoid- think Marik Kart Cannonball Run.

It’s easy to think it’s about Call Of Duty, but I get the feeling Microsoft are trying to distract everyone with the fact it’s about online gaming and holding all the major live service cards.

@johnedwin

I have a PS5, but at the moment there isn’t any games that interest me- not many Japanese games and those that there are seem to be trying to ape grizzled grey American games. I’m very disappointed by the shift in styles of the sort of games on the PS5 so far.

Undoubtedly it will garner more attention from the mainstream market now it isn’t an RPG, but I think I’m done with it. Plenty of other JRPG’s to play on the Switch.

I’m assuming the FC stands for Financial Cashcow?

Of course we have to remember Nintendo games don’t count as competition to XBX and PS, so the top 40 is actually only a top 25.

Is it just me but have we seen an increase in licensed games recently? Disney, AEW, The Grinch, Transformers, Inspector Gadget, This… is there more than usual or is there just getting more press because there’s less original IP out there?

The reason Nintendo has developed such innovative games is because they build them for the console. Think about the camera control on the N64 or DS touchpad or the Wiimote or Labo. Without them the industry wouldn’t evolve, we would just get the same sorts of games all the time.

"Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear."

And it’s a nightmare the money wasted by video game developers that exists outside logic.

It’s much cheaper to have your own ideas.

Let’s be honest, unless it’s an exclusive like Smash, Splatoon, or Mario Kart, very few people play online games on the Switch.

Which is what Call Of Duty is all about.

I think the differences between the Switch and the other two are more philosophical than technical. Microsoft seem to be after buying up every major FPS developer and publisher at the moment, which doesn’t really affect the Switch gaming library, but will eventually create a stranglehold on the online gaming space.

I don’t think the Xbox takeover strategy is about buying every big game in existence, but creating a monopoly of online, live service and streaming games which is where a lot of the real money is.

I find it strange to promote a 5 year old game after its sequel came out.

But then I enjoyed the game for 40 hours but wished it hadn’t lasted for another 25.

Suikoden and Eiyuden and I’m happy.

I may check this out a week after release when Ubisoft drop it to half price as usual.

TOTK is the only game I’ve bought day one recently, everything else drops in price after a month or two these days. And seeing the amount of older titles in the top 40, I’m not the only person who does this.

Someone on YouTube comments called it the Pii U.

It seems the jump to next gen and added expectations and costs have hit a lot of the industry. When problems arise they either release the game broken and lose the trust of the customer, or delay it and run over budget which upsets investors.

BOTW and TOTK are the 4th branch from Ocarina of Time, where Ganon died before meeting Link and Zelda due to sudden Codpiece related injury.