MrGawain

If you consume too many day glo rogue likes and retro platformers you get Indiegestion.

I would guess about 26 miles.

No clue how far I’ve got to go.

I really enjoyed W101 on the Wii U, the Switch version felt forced and didn’t control well. I find it strange they’ve released this so late but I’m happy to give it a go.

Ocarina, Majora Wind Waker, Twilight P and Skyward Sword obviously all had the same skeleton behind them, so you would think they want about 5 games out of the BOTW formula. The trick will be deviating enough on the formula after making a game where you can do anything. I wonder if you could have a game where it’s set in a complete town that you can’t leave but can go everywhere in the town.

I also think we will still get top down 2D Zelda’s every other game.

At the end of the day it’s an advert from Nintendo. Usually they would release one every month to talk about the game that was releasing that month. It definitely feels we’re getting less games for the end of the life of the Switch, so I would guess they haven’t got much to talk about for a while.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Nintendo launch something new, probably an on camera thing when the successor launches.

More excellent Xbox sales tactics.

Play the other consoles, not ours!

As much chance of it running 60fps on the Switch as the XBox X apparently!

Xbox and PlayStation will have a not E3 showcase in June promising a bunch of games for the next 2 years that will be delayed and won’t live up to the hype. Lots of cutscene trailers.

Nintendo will have a September Direct with a handful of titles for just before and after Christmas, but they will be solid stuff we’ll be fairly happy with and will come out when they say they will.

I know what I prefer.

I’m not sure if it’s technically still an indie, but I do wonder if Eiyuden Chronicle will ever be released? I was interested in Se Of Stars but then I played the demo and now I can’t care less. I’ve found a lot of recent indie games to be unremarkable and visually generic amongst each other.

Ahh, so that's why the RRP has gone up by fifteen quid.

I’m guessing Ninty had money pencilled in the budget for E3 at the beginning of the year before they decided to skip it, and have just used some of it on this.

I wouldn’t be surprised an East Coast event will also pop up.

But when does the EAFCDLC launch?

So basically it's just like the game and fun for kids abd families but fails miserably at being Citizen Kane or Schindler's List.

There’s been a lot of Tactical RPGs recently- Fire Emblem, Mario and Rabbids, Tactics Ogre, even Triangle Strategy. This and the game got put up £15 has made it less essential for me.

For me I was really excited for Sea Of Stars, but after playing the demo I’ve lost my interest in it. It felt perfunctory and didn’t have the magic of the games it was emulating.

I’m not happy the price went up, but if you think that if you bought Mario Strikers and Switch Sports, it would cost you £72.

Zelda TOTK is more than likely going to give you 4-5 times more joy than both them combined.

From what I've read I'd imagine less smoky.

Awards to market, not to point out what was actually best.

I’ve been playing through the game, but it’s way too easy and predictable. I at least remember some challenge from the first.

I think it’s more about time. These games are farmed out to inexperienced developers who are told to hit a deadline where these games fit in to release schedules. With that mentality you don’t get good, you get good enough. It’s about getting product out to feed the nostalgia of the Uber fans who will buy it no matter what, so why delay it to improve it for other customers who likely won’t bother with a niche cult game?

It’s disappointing, but it’s also business.

Looking at the Wikipedia page, four attractions. first listed attraction:

“1UP Factory- A store selling various Mario and Nintendo-related merchandise.”

The next was the cafe.

@TheBigBlue

I've got a list of about 10 indie and smaller Nintendo titles that are more than I would pay for, and I'm pretty sure Nintendo knows this and keeps reducing the games I've got or ones I have no interest in instead. Just being frugal with my cash.

As always perfectly curated to include everything not on my want list.

I would imagine the recent share price tumble after the investors meeting meant there was stock for Saudi Arabia to buy. At the end of the say It's a free market and anyone can buy the stock.

Mire than likely Nintendo have security in place to stop a hostile takeover. The Saudi's are just buying in on the future of Films, Toys, and Theme Parks starring Mario and Zelda.

I’m going for the one in a free Amazon cardboard envelope.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is because it needs a 32GB cartridge to fit the whole game on.

There has been/will be A LOT of turn based RPGs recently. Not sure if I have the desire to play the base game yet.

A fantastic game, but I don't know if I could replay it after knowing the puzzles and story.

It’s going to be bigger than BOTW which was 13.4GB. The Cart size was 16GB, so if it goes above that I guess it will add a charge for the 32GB cart. Nintendo will not release a flagship game incomplete on the cart and expect people to download the rest.

I feel Pokemon always gets a boost as being ‘The Kids Christmas Game’. I don’t think it’s many people’s favourite game any more, but it’s pretty much unopposed for the spot under the Christmas Tree.

I think that playing N64 games on gamepass is fun for a bit, but outside the legitimate classics like Zelda it isn’t something I’ve spent too much time with as the things that used to bug me originally are now magnified. I have trouble playing 1st person games without going giddy and used to have real troubles with Goldeneye.

I think Nintendo are going to have to come up with more than retro games to make me commit to the higher tier again this year.

I'd like to play it eventually, but it doesn't seem like a must dash out on Friday game.

More the point- have either the PS5 or XBX overtaken the Switch as a more worthwhile product yet?

In my opinion no, and it seems unlikely it will happen this year.

I managed to buy a PS5 with a bundled digital copy of God Of War 2.

It took 87 hours to download on my basic Broadband.

Pokeleague have found out he’s been competing as an under 13 for 25 years and are banning him.

This year was all about delegation:

Pokemon Arceus: Get the Pokemon to fight for you.
Triangle Strategy: Get the others to vote for your fight.
Kirby: Get the everyday items to fight for you.
Xenoblade 3: Get the attractive Waifu to meld into a killing robot to fight for you.
Splatoon 3: Get your little fish guy to fight for you.
Mario and Rabbids: Get Bowser to fight for you.
Bayonetta 3: Get the Demons to fight for you.

Elsewhere robot dinosaurs, stroppy god sons, talking guns, cult members and people playing as Robin helped with the fighting.

The developer of Eiyuden Chronicle said that they planned to release the game on the successor to the Switch, delayed the game for a year, and then announced they were going to make it work on the Switch after all. If there was any new Ninty hardware this year, I would think they wouldn’t be putting the game on the Switch.

Ys 8 on the Switch was a fun game. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a ‘refined’ game, but it certainly had a charm and amused me for a month.

The whole point of the Switch is it’s portability offsets it’s lack of power. I really can’t fathom the point of cloud gaming on the system if you have to dock it to get a barely playable experience.

Let’s be honest, Nintendo speaks a different language to the rest of the mainstream games world, and I don’t mean Japanese- It’s a completely alternate idea of what is important in a game. I think it’s clever hiring someone who has actually worked with these creative problems as opposed to a more business minded or PR person.

Did anyone notice the ‘continuing stories of Cereza’ line in Platinum’s statement read by Doug Bowser?

I took that as they’re showing us the character Cereza isn’t gone.

I really enjoyed my time with XCX, along with Nintendoland it was the only game to really use the Gamepad that couldn’t be replicated with a normal control.

Saying that, the character models were ugly compared to scenery, and the game was more story driven instead of character driven- creating your own character means it was a little vague about the lead characters character. In a gaming world that worships JRPG’s in the FF7 style it’s a bit too different for it’s own good.

The cutscenes look great, but I get the feeling they’re only showing the briefest of gameplay because there’s a lot less there than the previous game and no hubworld.

At this point we’re heading for a world where you can only play FPS on Xbox, Open World Sandboxes on Playstation, and Fun Games on Nintendo.

Some of the mechanics and character of Violet annoyed me. As a change up from Bayonetta it was okay, but I’d rather not have any more Violet thank you very much.

The Wii U still has a better library than the XB1 and PS4 combined, and probably the XBX and PS5 as well.

And yes the hardware was weird, but with a few tweaks it became the Switch.

The whole industry is in a bottleneck at the moment. New consoles cost more and people are finding it hard to find the ruddy things, coupled with the need to produce games twice as big and twice as detailed and twice as expensive that will thin the herd to a few triple A titles and a bunch of indies.

Nintendo seems to be the only company with a solid release schedule recently, so you can see why they don’t really want to move up in the power wars.

Wow! I’m looking at all the stuff listed on my eShop wishlist!

…Which won’t be included in the sale.

The Switch has had a nice solid, varied year so I don’t need an awards ceremony to tell me if it’s worthy or not.

Let’s be honest, God Of War 2 was already game of the year without anyone playing it to find out it was any good or not. It’ll be a 3 hour Playstation love fest only interjected by ‘Influencers’ and thinly veiled adverts for Hollywood and mobile games.

I would think the biggest spoiler to this game would be it had different a different plot structure from the last 10 odd games.