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I had a Play-Yan at one point, an official japan only MP3/4 player with a series of tiny games you could install and play on it. It made the DS something closer to the PSP.

I still think the GBC had the best dorky peripherals. Whilst the worm light and TV remote cart were all good fun, who can forget the fishing sonar?

Probably my favourite Metroid. The sense of horror and panic in the dark world is palpable for most of the game and the limited ammo types mean you tend to rely on the base blaster rather than dumping it straight away as in MP1.

The boss fights are impressive (Quadraxis!) and the horror that pervades it for much of the game is unsettling from the start. The only real complaint is the difficulty spike during that bloody boost guardian fight.

The absolute best thing about the game though is the Light Suit. Not only does it look unbelievably cool but finally being able to break free from the horror and take the fight to the Ing makes you feel like a complete badass. Mix this with the screw attack and Samus has never been so OP.

This would be an easy 5/5 if it was £40 or under. As it stands £60 is too much for an 8-hour game, especially when I paid this for the original and spent over 200 hours to get the platinum trophy.

Not every game needs to be hundreds of hours, but then not every game should be £60.

@LadyCharlie Whilst I do agree, quick fire puzzle games are the sorts of titles downloads were made for.

Now they just need to 'Pocket Camp' it and make it the offline game it should have been years ago.

They're only 10m sales off catching the PS2, highly likely as they continue to bundle the console into the life of the Switch 2.

Imagine telling that to yourself during the GameCube generation!

Only if they've got rid of the crappy Skell insurance mechanic. I don't know what the Devs were thinking when they decided to give the player a giant transformer to run, ride and fly around in and then limit throwing it into combat by having to fork out 30,000+ credits to fix it if it dies.

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If you're the sort of gamer who gets angry about this sort of thing you really need to go outside and look at the sky for a few hours and reconsider your hobby. It really doesn't matter at all.

Good news on X but I really hope they've done away with the costly Skell insurance feature so you can actually use the giant transformers with wanton abandon.

@Sakmaster The first title is an all time classic JRPG that drops a lot of JRPG cruft in favour of MMO-style.combat and exploration.

Even Nintendo probably don't have enough spare SNES consoles around to power their whole museum.

Clearly the recent/upcoming online test is for GameCube titles hitting the NSO sub in the future. I do wonder if Nintendo are testing streaming them?

The controller therefore makes sense.

I always wonder if American audiences are aware of how patronising the games industry has been to them over the decades? Are we really sure another 3DS would have been 'too confusing' for them? I often think of the cover art on WipEout Pure for the PSP. The USA gets a generic looking boxart whereas Europe gets the lovely arty wireframe one.

Do all these little chips not bother anyone?

The New 3DS is the only console you can customise as a Xenoblade model so clearly that one is the best.

They should have included some Xenoblade Chronicles.

It could have played the day/night versions of some of the soundtrack for your sleeping needs.

And then woken you up with repeated yells of 'BACKSLASH!' and 'NOW ITS REYN TIME!' to get you out of bed.

This looks the business and I’d be all over it if it wasn’t nearly the same cost as the D&D set.

Crucially this will also be the first set. I’m sure Lego are working on a series of smaller sets across the price ranges like Animal Crossing.

I imagine a Lon-Lon ranch set with Link, Epona, Malon and a bit of fencing for £15 or something.

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