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@GravyThief

It really has. I don’t even really consider the Switch 2 portable in the traditional sense. Like yeah I take it with me places but unlike with stuff like the DS and GBA SP where I would whip those out anywhere, I have to be sitting down and perfectly comfortable to use my Switch 2. The definition of portability has changed a lot over the years and older games (like us) use watched it first hand.

@Noelemahc speaking of the original dead space, that foot stomp is the best foot stomp animation ever put into a game in my opinion. That animation is burned into my memory despite not having played the game since way back on Xbox 360.

@Noelemahc

Whoever does Link in Zelda has the best job in world. Come to the recording booth and do some grunts and yells. Done.

@Smackosynthesis

He’s only got a few lines.

@Zeebor15

In the 2016, Eternal, and Dark Ages games he does a little bit. He’s not a chatty nanny or anything but he does speak to other characters.

I’m doing another run of the Ivalice Chronicles. Specifically went for a Ramza mage/arithmetic build and no special characters run. And boy is it busted. Arithmetic combined with high level black magic is just dumb. Currently working on the Midlight Dephs side quest.

Sounds interesting. I do kind of wish they would have gunned for a light ray tracing mode but I assume memory bandwidth was a problem they couldn’t get around with the way the game is built out. It’s a demanding game to run anyway.

@UltimateOtaku91

Dread is one of the hardest non-souls games I’ve played in recent years. It’s basically SNES Mega man X difficulty without instant kill *****. Minus the EMMIs. Which are instant kill enemies but the game does give you a ton of tools to work around them.

@Isaix

It’s basically tradition for the series as a whole.

Plus by building it like that and forcing you to play normal first, you get a subconscious mind of how the game is built out first. Then when you play hard they can really crank the difficulty up in meaningful ways.

I wish hard was unlocked from the start. But it is a prime tradition at this point.

While I’m not the biggest fan of the writing so far, I’m still hella excited about this game. I’m hoping the gameplay loops makes up for how dumb these NPCs are written. That said, I could end up getting attached to them.

@SalvorHardin

It’s not surprising. The PS5 doesn’t have true LFC built in either. It works down to about 48fps. But if the framerate dips below that, you have to use a custom set-up for LFC.

The Xbox is ironically the only one that has true full fat LFC built in.

The button remapping is a God send. Now I don’t have to do it though the system settings.

Also I wish they’d show the genesis app some more love. Sonic 3 still isn’t on it and they could start adding some Sega CD games.

@PokemonDMG I think they’re scared everyone would just play the old games instead of the newer switch releases.

They should add them though. I never played crystal it would be nice to play it.

I kind of want to play this again but I played it on PS4 (it was the third game I bought for my PS4 way back in the day) and I feel like the 360/PS3 quality visual set-up will leave a bad taste in my mouth considering I experienced the PS4/Xbone version first.

Makes sense. Same rating and content as previous games. The prime games were always surprisingly bloody for teen games. I think it’s because you’re fighting non humanoid monsters so you can get away with ALOT more blood and gore than you can with humans or humanoid enemies. I replayed the original Prime Remaster recently and I noticed that when you shoot animal like aliens and monsters with a missile they explode into shards of meat with blood going every where, but that doesn’t happen with the space pirates, who are humanoid aliens.

@RumandCohibas

Yeah they’re pretty nuts still. I just broke down and got a 512 gig card for 80 bucks. Which considering my tastes and pickiness (I only buy games I know I have the time and patience to complete; considering how fast I gave up on Valhalla a few years ago I doubt I’ll ever get this game until it’s dirt cheap digitally) it should last me for a long time.

@MeloMan

Based on their history, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re working on a port of Doom The Dark Ages for Switch 2.

Honestly I’m surprised Nintendo doesn’t make an offer to buy them. The fact that Nintendo was willing to trust them to update their own internally developed games and the fact that they have such an impressive pedigree doing switch development just screams a new internal Nintendo studio.

They both look pretty solid.

That said, they should have used hand drawn animation for this movie. Something in the art style of studio ghibli. Would have fit very nice.

From what has been said in the media, it seems like Expedition 33 has probably got this in the bag. I’ve heard it compared to a “2025 technical showcase with the gameplay and heart of a 1998 JRPG” and the commenter said “it absolutely proves Square wrong when they say people don’t want turn based mechanics anymore.”

I haven’t played it but based on what I’ve watched of it on YouTube it’s exactly how FFVII Remake should have been built, even though I love that game’s real time battle system too.

I mean it’s a pretty ugly game. Doesn’t mean it isn’t good. But it ain’t pretty.

@tourjeff id say give it one more chance. It’s a slow burn at first. But once you hit a groove with it is still one of the best open worlds ever realized in a game.

But I will say the controls are wonky as hell in all rockstar games. Mainly because they think virtual humans need to control like World War II tanks.

That’s rich coming from a guy who directed like 8 main series Megaman games and 6 Megaman X games. The one time he stepped out from that we ended up with the disaster known as Mighty No. 9 which is just a worse version of Megaman.

Never played New Horizons. Actually haven’t played an AC game since the original on GameCube. I might pick it up but frankly I doubt it. Money is tight these days.

@Coalescence Yeah Gen 1 was some real jank. Gen 2 is really the beginning of Pokemon's potential. It did have some issues (mainly related to just how little trainers you get for exp and money building after you beat the Elite 4 and then do the Kanto run) but it was a gigantic improvement on Gen 1.

Ya know thinking about it Microsoft for the past two console generations was even more mismanaged than Sega was back in the day. Yeah Sega flat out bombed in the end but at least most of their ideas were good. They just didn’t work out and they ran out of money. Microsoft’s ideas have been much worse but they never fell apart like Sega did because ya know the corporation has more money than a Greek deity.

@Sketcz

Prime 2 was mainly made for people who had beaten the original Prime on hard mode and wanted even more challenge.

I think it’s a great game, but I understand why some people really don’t like it. It’s a love it or hate kind of game.

@HammerGalladeBro

Yepp. And now with Metroid Prime 4 there’s some Bungie DNA in it, since many of their newer hires came from Bungie.

Not a great game. But the name is legendary imo. You would have expected it to get a more “Americanized” name when it was released here but nope.

As for Odyssey, boy was that a sweet ride. It was my first Switch game, getting it in late 2019. And more significantly, it was the first Nintendo developed game I had bought since Days of Ruin way back in the early DS era. I skipped the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS era, was all in on PlayStation and PC during the intervening years. The best part of the game to me was the whole tribute to early SMB in New Donk City. Really made me feel like a kid again.

Yeah I feel old as sin, considering I was 7 years old when Mario 64 came out and I remember getting it a year later with my N64 in 1997.

I mean cool. But the soundtrack was the weakest part of that otherwise fantastic game.

I hope they do. Advance Wars; Days of Ruin needs to be freed from its DS prison.

@AverageGamer it could certainly be done. They both run on the same engine. DF did say that Frontiers would be harder to run though due to its more complex ray tracing and level geometry. But they didn’t rule it out. It could be done with a few smart cuts.

@Duncanballs

Those are great books. After you finish them, I highly recommend the X-Wing series. It’s long as sin, but it really dives deep into how the Empire fell apart slowly after Return of the Jedi. They follow a lot of characters, but Wedge Antilles could be argued to be the main protagonist of the series and he’s actually a really compelling character. He’s sort of an Everyman caught up in galactic level politics and the books follow his rise through the young New Republic’s military that he eventually becomes the highest ranking officer in later book series.

@fenlix

No it can’t. The PS4 GPU architecture cannot perform hardware ray tracing. And the PS4 CPU is way too weak to do software based ray tracing and still have playable framerates. Those games literally don’t have artwork designed for rasterized lighting. You’d have to completely remake the artwork to use raster based lighting methods.

@AceTrainerBloke

I suspect the next mainline entry will be on Switch 1 as well. Pokémon Mainline games tend not to hit the new system until almost midway into their lifespans.

@Indielink

Yeah when they have the budget and time they’re a solid development studio.

The issue with the GTA Remasters is mainly Rock*. They wanted it done dirt cheap and extremely fast. Had they given it a proper development timeline and a useable budget, Grove Street probably would have done a fantastic job with it.

Could open some more US stores. Like New Orleans. That’s only a two hour drive for me. The current Nintendo US store locations require a flight. Ain’t got the money to just Willy nilly take a flight to New York or San Francisco in the People’s Republic of California.

Not sure. Probably not.

Considering how Ubisoft game pricing works after release, I might pick it up in march or something when the 50% off sale is sure to start for that game.

Metroid Prime 4 is a day one game for sure though. I’ve been waiting on it for a long ass time.

It’s pretty fascinating how nvidia laid everything out with the design. It’s a shockingly efficient method of doing things.

Probably 3rd person. I prefer 3rd person resident evil.

No matter how you shake it the price is whack. Still I’m gonna pick these up for Christmas because I’ve never played them. I never had a Wii.

Ya know considering this game, they really should have cut some settings and gunned for a 60fps mode. I think it could have been done with some smart cuts.

@LoneWolfSones

Cyberpunk doesn't use ray tracing at all on Switch 2. It's basically the same visual settings as the PS5 performance mode at a lower resolution and capped at 30fps combined with the PS4's NPC draw level.

Cyberpunk's artwork was designed to look good with either ray tracing or raster lighting depending on the hardware its ran on. All console versions use the rasterized lighting model except for the RT modes on Series X and PS5, which is capped at 30fps and enables ray traced shadows. On PC, the ray tracing menu is as large as most game's entire graphical menu so it's a very scalable game.

By comparison, Star Wars Outlaws literally doesn't have a rasterized backup method for its lighting. Ray tracing is required just to run the game. Switch 2 is Ampere based and has ray tracing cores in its hardware, so games like Outlaws and Indiana Jones are possible on it with smart cuts to account for the greatly reduced power output relative to other platforms.

It's actually a genius little hardware design Nintendo and nVidia came up with and I feel it will be widely supported for a long time.

@nessisonett

God the Cave The Rone. That whole part of that game is some nonsense. Yay time to grind on enemies who are stupid powerful and a ton of them have 1 hit kill spells.

DQII is a classic, trust me I feel that way, but man even by 8-bit standards that game is horrifically paced difficulty wise.

@HugoGED

That is true, but I will say that games opening start loading time on a PS4 was appalling. It was so bad I set it to the side until I got a PS5.