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I'm actually really happy about Astro Bot's critical success. Nintendo has so little competition in the 3D platforming space as is.

Hopefully they go all out with a new 3D Mario this year for Switch 2.

I really love the hard shift in setting and aesthetic. It's a delightful looking game.

Will be copping on Steam if it's Deck verified, which I can't imagine it won't be.

Really hope the Switch version is less of a dumpster fire than RF5 for console players, though.

@Lightsiyd Thanks for explaining your reasoning.

I feel like, if this pivot does occur, it'll be more of a return to roots moment for Sony than anything. Traditionally, they published quite a few family friendly titles on PS1 - PS3. The current association of them with violent third-person adult-oriented action-adventure games almost exclusively is relatively recent, once the majority of their output was Naughty Dog-ified.

Either way, I'm happy to see they have a team that absolutely loves Nintendo and is capable of producing experiences that are also Nintendo-tier in terms of polish and fun factor. I'm still very salty about what happened with Japan Studio, but Team Asobi is probably the most exciting developer in their stable at the moment after how good Astro Bot turned out to be.

In general, Playstation as a brand will only benefit from introducing more genre diversity back into their stable again.

MM3D. It adds so much across the board to the experience.

I couldn't care less that some random youtuber doesn't like the way certain mechanics were changed.

@Itachi2099 That would be a bit like arguing that showcasing the new Sonic Racing game is them going after the Mario Kart dime lol

@Lightsiyd What exactly did Sony's SoP have to do with Nintendo?

I'm genuinely curious. Please don't be coy about it.

As if the plastic-to-cartridge ratio for Switch games wasn't absurd enough. At least put in manuals or art cards to make the difference less pronounced.

It's an industry standard this generation. The blowback from not including it would've been pretty massive. Also, Switch 1 games are still selling pretty well, so it'd be dumb for the latest platform not to support them.

My favorite PS1 JRPGs literally releasing on my birthday!

Steam digitally on day one. Then physical on one or both consoles, depending on whether I actually get a PS5 at some point.

I feel like this list really does a disservice to the console when you load it up with a bunch of random ports and indies.

How about the rebirth of Metroid and Pikmin? Kirby's foray into 3D? Mario freakin Odyssey? Fire Emblem going full ambitious with Three Houses?

Mine was cancelled awhile back.

Just as well.

@Bret Which is why it stands out so much historically, because it was so egregiously greedy and weird of them. I just took it as him goofing on that.

@VoidofLight The 3D gimmick was extremely prominent and transformative, though. It changed the way games looked, and added depth to the image that was impossible on NDS. That made it feel VERY different.

It's not really the equivalent of some random extra buttons.

We also got the AR games included, Street Pass, etc. Which also distinguished the system. And themes. And Virtual Console. etc.

I guess it's possible Switch 2 comes out with a massively different UI, but it'd have to work to be as different from Switch 1 as the 3DS was from its predecessor.

BotW always seems to top these lists, and it always makes people angry, and it's always extremely funny.

I don't know about it being the best game of all time (what does that even mean?), but I do think is one of the five most important releases of the 2010s alongside Dark Souls, Skyrim, Minecraft, and sigh Fortnite.

@Bret What does the price matter? The basic expectation you have of any electronic device that works off a specific charger is that it'll come with said charger. Even devices that run on batteries tend to ship with batteries.

This game is so good. Perfectly paced. The Super Metroid of Action RPGs. I'd recommend it to almost anyone.

Gal*Gun 3 on PC, please.

DLSS can look absolutely phenomenal, and is a great way for a small hybrid device to punch above its weight class in terms of image quality.

Incredible game that was ported well across multiple platforms. Not shocked it continues to perform well.

@Idiocrates That would actually be a fantastic joke if one of the writers bit the bullet and made a list full of "Hentai" games released on Switch that year.

There should be written transcripts of these videos posted on the site. I'd just follow the youtube channel if I wanted to watch a video.

@rushiosan Take my upvote, king/queen/gender-neutral royalty of some sort

@Gofixmeaplate Not everyone's going to like Balatro. I didn't even try it. No interest whatsoever in poker.

Perfect. I have the feeling this game will be a lot more enjoyable the the gameplay and presentation improvements.

I think the visual style can be stunning when done right, but it has certainly lost its... uniqueness. I'd prefer to see HD-2D-esque styles like in the recent Star Ocean remake. Experiment with new ways of presenting classic pixel art with modern effects.

Favorite game in this style? Triangle Strategy, easily. Absolutely incredible game. I felt like I was a kid playing on my PS1 again.

They're a top three Nintendo studio for me. Xenoblade 3 was an INCREDIBLE game, and even their most flawed older releases are still ambitious and imaginative as heck.

Definitely one of the best acquisitions in the industry to date, given how well they work together.

Danganronpa Tactics, basically. Not a chance I miss out on this.

My nearsightedness makes text difficult to read on even big TVs. Handheld mode is always fine.

Games overall need options for adjustable subtitle/text sizes. Maybe spend a tiny bit of dev time on something that'll make your game more playable for so many people.

They had the opportunity to evolve the Lego formula and chose not to, I guess. Disappointing.

Stuff like this this used to happen prior to release, not months after.

Just saying.

Nintendo Switch and performance issues. Name a more iconic duo.

@Akibiyori For real. I do think Square had a golden era back in the 90s, but people allow emotion about childhood favorites and misplaced cynicism about modern releases to cloud their judgment in some frankly baffling ways.

A lot of earlier millennials are hitting middle age and becoming 'olds' themselves, with everything that tends to imply.

@PluckyRicky Triangle Strategy blew me away. Very much a top three SRPG for me. It 'feels' like a masterpiece from the PS1 era, but with a ton of enhancements that games from back then would have never had.

I'll probably give the Mario soundtracks another listen, but it won't get heavy use until Xenoblade shows up.

Looking forward to eventually playing Nordics, but Ys VIII and Felghana are really hard to top. Easily the best representative examples of classic and modern Ys.

Felt this way for a long time. Fully plugged into other aspects of popular culture. But music? You could be making up the names of popular artists and I wouldn't know any better.

So the Mario + Rabbids guy is gone. Now the Rayman Legends team is gone.

I believe that seals it. Never buying an Ubisoft game again. They're officially dead to me.

Didn't like the original B-K at all when I played through it on NSO. That said, I've heard there are considerable differences in the sequel, which makes me curious to see how they impact the experience for me.

Extremely happy with how well Metaphor is selling worldwide. It improves on the Persona formula in all the right ways (a cast that's diverse in age; a far more balanced combat system; tighter pacing; etc.) without sacrificing the elements that make the modern Persona games so enjoyable in the first place.

@BlublacMH I meant more distinguishable as a gameplay experience, not distinguishable because a portion of the gaming community loses its mind any time they see a black person in a game.

Ultimately it didn't review all that well, and failed to set itself apart in the genre most oversaturated with up-and-coming indie developers.

Not quite the Keijo game I still want to be made.

@PharoneTheGnome I think it depends on your priorities. The price seems nuts for a console, yes, but you'd be paying a lot more for comparable power on PC if you were just building one. Just an equivalent GPU would cost around $500+ on its own.

Then again, that would also make PC cheaper to upgrade, which is the benefit of a modular design.

I'll probably never own a PS5 myself, since Sony is porting their games to PC anyway, but if you're a console person or don't already have a rig set up, there's a ton of stuff to play.

Publishers aren't charities set up for the benefit of artists to realize their dreams. They're always going to look for stuff that will sell, first and foremost.

The best ones will find passionate teams whose work is excellent and also marketable.

The real issue with the trendchasing from big corporations is that games take so long to develop now that they often miss the boat entirely with such releases. Suicide Squad and Concord were great examples of this in 2024.

Anyway, if this developer wants their next game to sell better, they should look at finding a way to distinguish it from about 50,000 other similar games in that genre also being released by other indie devs. The indies that make it big now are ones creative enough to be distinguishable and/or create new genres.

Nice numbers for Silent Hill 2. Would be curious to see if Bloober is able to make an original entry that's decent now that they've had experience with remaking one of the classic entries.

Would've liked to have seen them remake the entire trilogy, but that would just seem weird after starting with SH2.

Wish Metaphor was higher, but honestly, it's selling so well overall it doesn't really matter in this instance.

PS5 is swimming in good games atm.

Aww, that's a shame. I really liked the look of this one.

@Milk_ tfw you discover your experience with the law offices of Wright and co. means nothing in real world courts.

@RetroGames Representing oneself in court is almost always a bad idea, lol. Let alone against an entity like Nintendo that likely has some of the best lawyers in the world on tap.

Hope it sells well. The more incentivized Sony is to put its games on other platforms, the less need there is to actually buy their consoles.

Were the comments mistranslated, or were they "localized?"

So did almost everyone else. The PS1 was a hot little number in the mid-to-late 90s. Quite the homewrecker.

@Yoshi3 Err, blaming fans for what, exactly?

And wait... Rian Johnson, the director? What's he got to do with any of this?

I think we're rapidly approaching the point where we won't be seeing Miyamoto's name appear in almost any game credit sequences.

The man is old, and has left behind an incredible legacy. Everyone sails off into the sunset at some point.

@Yoshi3 You realize Aonuma has helped direct or produce every 3D Zelda game, right? Including most of the ones you probably like?

About time. Was amazed it didn't launch on Switch alongside PC, considering how big the platform is for indies.

Heard it's excellent.

As usual, the best strategy with new releases is to just wait for the major patches to release.