MrGawain

I think I’ll get HFR on the PS5 if it’s a reasonable price. . I don’t need to play it on the go and this year looks a little thin on the ground for games I want to play otherwise.

Currently I have a PS5 I’ve owned for over 2 years that aside from GOW2 that came with it that I found very dull, and FF16 that was quite dull, it has gathered dust and not much more.

@tabris95

I got to a point where I thought I was almost near the end and had to grind to get through the last few bosses, then found out it was longer than I thought.

It really wasn’t worth it.

I would guess something Pokemon for Christmas, probably Wind Waker for October. Guessing Decapolice may be a big title as well.

But personally I’m more interested in some of the RPGs lined up.

I enjoyed Shin Megami Tensei for 60 hours.

Unfortunately I played it for 80 hours.

It looks a lovely game, if slightly marred by the amount of hype we’ve had from a few clips for the past 20 months.

I had it on the N64. I can remember it being really fun and different, but making me feel a bit sick playing it too long. Now I'm pretty sure the framerate was a bit low for all the action and would give me a headache.

I’m of the mindset that Gamepass damages creativity. Instead of trying to make the greatest game so people buy it, Gamepass needs ‘CONTENT’ that’s on time to fill a schedule, and satisfy the algorithm that says what people play on the service. It’s why there are so many first person shooters.

It’s just like films on Netflix- how many Adam Sandler comedies and cheap horror films do they churn out because the Algorithm shows people settle on watching them?

Personally I don’t own an Xbox because I don’t play First Person Shooters. I can understand why they’ve chosen to put these games out on other platforms- they fit better on the Switch and the Playstation.

In the meantime Xbox holds a monopoly on FPS.

The Switch successor needs to be higher powered but the same price, use exactly the same infrastructure so we can play old Switch games on it but have a completely unique selling point, and be more like the competition but stay true to Nintendo's quirky and innovative design mantra.

See, I solved the problem for them.

Redfall on Switch.

Yay.

It all comes down to good software, but I will say Switch 2 will already start at a disadvantage without the Wii U library, the Switch Online libraries, and the massive amount of remakes and remasters the Switch had to bolster it’s lineup.

What does it mean?

Miyamoto is taking advantage of the 2 for 1 tickets deal.

No, I was told by Ubisoft I should get used to not owning their games.

Apparently they’ve got the R’s about it.

We don’t make art. We make ‘content’.

This all seems to do with how they categorise Amusement Machines from part of their software division to part of the toy line. I’m guessing they’re going to do less Arcade games and concentrate on claw machines and gacha games?

There are some people playing long games like TOTK for a long time, and there are lots of people playing shorter games like Mario Wonder. And then there are kids playing match after match after match after match of fortnite.

Not entirely sure this tells us any valuable information.

Very much the educated guess of what is happening else in gaming will happen to Nintendo.

But knowing it’s Nintendo, expect taste’o’vision, a mandatory Diving Bell add on, and graphics not being any different than they are now.

I’d much prefer a little of special gameplay than a lot of churned content.

Nintendo tends to wring the most out of every console it has for its tentpole franchises. I believe we got the best Pikmin we could from this machine. Same as Animal Crossing, Smash, Mario Kart, 3D Mario, and Zelda world. That’s why we rarely get 2 different engines for these series on one console.

It’s not just about can Nintendo still make games with the Switch hardware, it’s what big IP hasn’t been used yet? Maybe Donkey Kong? and A new console makes it acceptable to get a new Mario Kart, a new Animal Crossing, and a new Splatoon.

Reading this I thought they had sabotaged the patch to replace him.

Tears of the Kingdom is an absolutely mind blowing game, but I must admit I have the most fun memories this year playing Bayonetta Origins. Pikmin 4 was also a perfect gem. Mario Wonder would be in my top 3 if it had been a bit longer.

The biggest issue the Switch 2 faces is 99% of the classic games- especially from Japan- are available to play on Switch.

Except Miles Edgeworth 1&2.

It’s an advert. The sponsorship? Advert. The guests who just happen to have a film or tv show out? Adverts. The adverts in between? Adverts. The nominations? Adverts.

It’s not about respecting art for tackling a deep issue, it’s saying you should buy this game if you haven’t already.

This has been the only real news about Xbox since Starfield released and was forgotten about quickly. And it looks like there won’t be any other big game to talk about for a while, so expect more hypothetical news of Gamepass being put on toasters or cans of beans until they can get an exclusive triple A game to run on the service.

Admittedly Microsoft is offering a way to get a lot of games cheaply, but it also seems this business model is also driving the quality of their product down. What’s the point making the best game if you’ll be paid no matter the state it arrives in?

That and the fact they have a very narrow concept of what genres gamers beyond the XBox faithful care for.

Seeing you can watch all this stuff on most tellys, phones, or tablets, I don’t really see why you need the Switch doing the same thing worse.

Maybe just don’t announce something years in advance?

I think we’ve come to the point with indies where everything looks like something else that came before it- both in graphics and gameplay. There are so many games now, and probably only 1 in a 1000 stands out now. Even now I couldn’t tell you anything that happened in the direct that I remembered.

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.