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In the 1980s we had the Nintendo Cinematic Universe of Captain N. And it was glorious.

Unless the games are a stated sequel it’s best to ignore the Zelda timeline altogether. It gives you less of a headache

Just goes to show you the extra polish Nintendo put on their games. Had this been a 3rd party PC title the devs would have just told the users to buy a better graphics card and left it alone.

The Mii is something I hope Nintendo bring back with the Switch 2. It’s on Switch 1 but buried away. I always got the impression that Miitomo was supposed to be the Switch’s Mii/Everybody Votes Channel that would link back to the regular console. I guess they canned the idea.

Hugely popular Fallguys Rip-off.

Get the headline right.

Surely there is a limit to how many 5 second pieces of incidental piano music there is?

Literally the worst colour combination they could have used. How about the incredibly clean looking light suit instead?

The platform splits are interesting. With such a huge slice of sales amazed it took EA this long to bring a feature-parity version of FIFA to the Switch.

They could set a game in the interim years of Ocarina of Time where Ganondorf must venture into the Triforce itself to gain access to the power he wishes. Add in all sorts of crazy levels and get Platinum to develop it.

The Legend of Zelda: The Trials of Power

They could use this as a scenario to let us get a better understanding of his motives. For example as King of the Gerudo is he born with the Triforce of Power or does he earn it? When did he get possessed by Demise? Did the man named Ganondorf actually make some sort of unholy pact with him?

@JohnnyMind Google ‘Frasier Fantasy’ 😉

A more powerful Switch would be fine.

Oh, and better Joycons.

I don’t mind longer cycles if it means a polished, finished product on release. I’m still playing Breath of the Wild, 7 years later. I just love the experience of being in that world. The same can be said of games on other platforms: I will load up SSX, Jet Set Radio or Forza Horizon just to experience it again ir maybe beat a hi-score.

Go get em. Systems not on sale? Fair game. But for a current gen console these people are just looking to get something for nothing.

Unsold stock for a store is valuable shelf space and lost money on markdowns. It may be that less and less people are even using them for physical sales at all. It’s still sad to see the last high street videogames retailer go.

People still buy physical games. The shelves in your local Cex will show you this. Maybe there is still a gap for one that sells new ones somewhere?

Not every anniversary needs a celebration. 10 years. Maybe 25. After this it’s 50. Anything else is dust.

Counterpoint: Perfect Dark is the only decent game on this list.

Resi 2 has horribly blurry graphics compression. It’s not as graphically impressive as the PS1 original.

The Turok trilogy is only fondly remembered because of the gore and the novelty of a console FPS at the time. In their original forms they are all pretty terrible games.

Forsakes? Shadowman? Daikatana?!? Really?!?

I’ll give your Conker. That’s hilarious!

I think maybe most of these gamers have forgotten that these glitches were all in the original N64 version! It was pretty easy to crash, especially in hectic multiplayer. What next? “Turok is unplayable due to all the fog”?!

Maybe they’ve been spoiled by the Xbox HD version and its masked the old version?

Whilst the Halo-style action of number 3 was great, it would be great to have the bleak loneliness of number 2 back for another shot.

Whilst playing such a game on a portable is a lot of fun, downloading all the updates is not. They really should have negotiated with Microsoft to have it hosted on streaming servers.

Counter Idea: Streetpass is the perfect idea for a mobile game.

Piggyback the Covid-19 Bluetooth ping system

Offer Quest 1 and Puzzles for free. Sell the other games as DLC.

A raft of smaller sets from different games:

• Link vs Ganon on Hyrule Castle
• Link on Loftwing
• Majora’s Mask band set
• Minish Woods with oversized scenery
• King of Red Lions
• ‘Dangerous to Go Alone’ cave
• Midna on Wolf Link vs Zant
• Lon Lon Ranch with Epona and Malon
• Temple of Time from Breath of the Wild
• Light/Dark LttP set

The last one got it right.

Then they brought back Shadow. Yuck.

Looks like a lot of PC players were polled. There’s no way I, a gamer of 40+ years could pick out anyone from Baldur’s Gate 3 from a crowd. They don’t belong there at all. I’d probably say the same for Arthur Morgan; he’s no John Marston and really more Iconic than Kent Paul or Lance Vance?

Agent 47 I kind of get but he’s a little bit generic.

Depending on the time of year it has to be something that might be portable or playable at home. Nothing too taxing and most importantly nothing violent.

When the weather is cold or wet I tend to go with Forza Horizon or Everybody Has Gone To The Rapture.

If the weather is nice then it’s outside I go to either play Pokémon Go or Orna.

A genuinely chill game, especially with Hayley Westenra

March is the traditional month Nintendo launches new consoles so 2025 wouldn’t be too far off the mark.

I really hope they surpass the PS2. I have nothing against Sony, I just remember all the ‘Nintendo are teh d00med’ posts from 2004 and it makes me warm inside to see them in such good health.

Here’s hoping the next console is a SNES-style upgrade and doesn’t reinvent the wheel. The Switch sold so well in spite of its innovations because it’s still traditional on the inside.

Not Game but I did work on home tech in John Lewis 2004 - 2010. We weren’t allowed any perks over customers due to our rules of fair play (which was ok).

But I did use the internal stock check to find a gold dust PSP 2 cities over and reserve it.

Xbox 360 launch day was a nightmare. 20 consoles but only 12 Premium ones. Some very disappointed buyers who couldn’t find a HDD anywhere in town.

I hooked up all the display consoles to the big TVs to show them off. We had a secret staff tournament on PGR3 all day!

I did find an old Zelda bonus disk at the back of a cupboard my boss let me buy for a tenner.

@GinMiguel Nintendo know that gamers will fall over themselves for a Retro-developed Metroid Prime 4. They’d be foolish to make it cross-gen. Nintendo know the value of software exclusives to shift hardware.

Bonus feature: if they’ve shut off all access to digital only games then hacking your console is now fair game (and really easy)

Come on Nintendo, you’ve shown more aggression towards fan projects based on games you don’t even sell anymore. This game has blatantly used AI to design the creatures to the point it looks like The Island of Dr. Moreau.

The solution is obvious: get Monolith to make a new Pokemon Legends game that directly adapts the anime.

The three character party system allows for an Ash-Misty-Brock team up and the Blade system from Xenoblade 2 shows how they could turn a tired turn based system into something a bit livelier.

@Thaliard I say VII is the worst but it’s still one of the greatest games of all time; I just don’t think it’s as good as VIII or IX. The latter two games do a much better job of fleshing out their worlds with nations, politics, war and history. X-XVI have also done this really well.

I was gripped by VII at the time just like everybody else. But when you stop and think about anything other than the game quest it kind of falls apart. I’m not trying to insult the game or put it down: it’s still one of the best JRPGs ever made and the defining title of its generation! But VIII has one of the best game worlds ever put into an RPG (and a better soundtrack) and IX was ironically the last ‘fantasy’ game in the series.

I think it suffered because of its 16bit origins. The SNES titles kind of all have the same problem really, especially compared to Secret of Mana

We could suggest retro games but we would judge them by modern standards. I’d love to re experience Final Fantasy VII again but it is objectively the worst PS1 FF title and dated compared to Xenoblade or FFXIV.

Therefore it must always be a more recent title that hasn’t aged. I’d probably pick Horizon Zero Dawn.

Street pass was Nintendo’s clever way of making gamers carry a portable console with them daily in an age of smartphone games. The Switch is just too big for that to be convenient.

However, Apple and Google created their own streetpass protocol for the Covid19 pings. Why not piggyback this system and release Streetpass as an F2P app for phones? They could give you Quest for free and then charge a few of your local currency for the extra games.

I always got the idea that Miitomo was supposed to be the Mii Channel for the Switch, offloaded onto phones. Why not resurrect this idea?

I don’t care what it does so long as they put in hall-effect Joycons. Anything less and I’m not buying it.

Nintendo normally do a winter announcement and a march launch. It will be the same with Switch 2.

For the rest of this year? We still have a bunch of easy WiiU ports left like Wind Waker HD and Xenoblade X. Assuming Metroid Prime 4 is the big NS2 launch title they will have Prime 2 and 3 ready to ship on Switch at a moments notice. I’d be amazed if they weren’t already sat on their staging servers right now.

I’m not sure there will be any big Switch exclusives left in the bag. Prime 4 and Mario Odyssey 2 need to be the carrots for the next console. They night have a few GameCube ports in the bag as well to chock up the schedule a bit.

“The weapon degradation system came from a place of well-intentioned design”

I thought they stole it from Story of Thor?

There was some suggestion that Nintendo patented something during Switch development. Having wheels for shoulder buttons you can scroll and click might be an interesting idea. You could use it to quickly switch items in games.

@Munchlax I say this without irony but my honest opinion is this is one of the most overrated games of all time. I put some time into it. Once I finally figured out how to get into space I thought it might be fun to explore the ocean planet with the winds. My ship got stuck, I fell out and I spent the next 20 minutes waiting for the loop to restart. Tried exploring it again and the same thing happened. I tried following some sort of signal a third time and got nowhere. I then uninstalled it.

I appreciate I am in a minority but I reckon it is one of the worst gaming experinces I have ever had. I'd put it somewhere betwen Last Battle on the Mega Drive and Turok Evolution.

This is one of those games where the hype isn't worth paying attention to because the end title is utter tripe.

Players have been bemoaning 'wacky mechanics' ever since they added in planes way back in C1S7. I recall he backlash there was that you could just fly through people's builds which broke up the metagame.

At the time I thought so what? It's nice to have a leveller against players who are much better at building than I am.

And you know what? I miss all those new mechanics terribly. If Epic had just kept the core build mechanics for 5 years the game would have got old, quick. Things that mess with the metagame are there to keep you on your toes so that you have to adapt and find new ways to win, keeping the game exciting.

I for one cannot wait for planes to return next week and hopefully the mechs the week after.

The only way I see live action working is if they go with a 1980's adventure movie look and feel. The original game came out at the same time as movies like Willow, Neverending Story, Ladyhawke and Labyrinth; if they embraced a well built studio set backdrop with as many practical SFX as possible (and made sure to embrace the inherent campiness of Ganon) it could be something great.

If they end up green-screening it all it will be terrible.

Gamers: "what the heck?!?"

Sega: "Apple paid us a wodge of cash to put the game on a marketplace with hundreds of millions of potential customers that widens the appeal of our brand."

It's the next one I look forward to most.

I'll assume all the portable games get their own compilation ie the 4 PSP titles and the GBC release.

Then it's all the HD titles in one. MGS4 is still imprisoned on the PS3. Will be good to play Revengeance again.

I really don’t see Nintendo selling a console at anything over $350 ever. Their entire mantra is Gunpei Yokoi’s ‘lateral thinking with withered technology’. It pervades everything the company does and has lead to your large pile of cash they are currently sitting on. If they launched a new console at $450 It might attract the sort of gamer who is considering a Steam Deck or ROG Ally but there is no way they’d be doing Switch numbers with it.

The last console Nintendo launched at a high price was the 3DS and that got cut within months of launch and led to a huge increase in sales. They won’t make that mistake again.

The only way it might work would be to sell the dock separately and offer the core handheld component at $300.

@Cia I reckon TOTK has better 'videogamey' mechanics due to its unbridled creativity but it loses out when it comes to the wonder of exploration.

BOTW was the first real open world videogame where you'd just see something on the horizon and then just walk towards it. There are no barriers to exploration and no dots on a map to mop up. You as the player have to find everything and it's wonderful because of it.

@Woderwick Its not that I disliked it per se, I just found it overly long. I like my side quests as optional extras, not baked in to every story mission where to finally get to the point you want you have to do 10 people different favours. I get that this makes it a little more ‘episodic’ in nature but I just wanted to find Ciri!

I found the story and spreading out of map icons a lot better paced in Horizon Zero Dawn which is also an exercise in how to tell a compelling story but not let the game get in the way.

What is the point in having two swords when silver is still better against humans anyway due to its much higher attack power?

What I didn’t like was the levelling system. Unlocking skills and then being unable to use them because you don’t have enough slots is tedious. Just let me be the superheroic killer the game makes me out to be!

I have many of the same issues with other western RPGs. I dislike BioWare games and titles like Baldur’s Gate because of how po faced they can be and how they let the mechanics get in the way of the gameplay.

I much prefer Fable 2 which has a sensible levelling system, pokes fun at a lot of fantasy tropes yet still allows the player to actually roleplay within the game world. Maybe Diablo 3 is the closest Ive come to really enjoying another western RPG

@Woderwick I’d love to hear your other thoughts too! I ploughed on with the game but there are only so many quests you can play that go like this:

• Find person to get quest from. They need a favour.
• Go talk to other person to do with above favour. They also need a favour.
• Go talk to next person to do with the above. They need a favour but you have to meet them 2 miles away first.
• Go to location and have horse race. Horse needs a favour.
• Go talk to next person…..

And so on.

They could make them the next Minifig set but add in the NFC bases from Lego Dimensions and make every figure an Amiibo too.