Square is such a funny company. They promised multiplatform for all their games but then does this ***** or timed exclusives they probably gonna do FF7R part 3.
No way buying this on that ass key card. Hope I can get an actual version when it releases on other platforms.
I almost bought the game on Switch as I been playing PS5 non stop for half the year due to the insane high quality jrpg/ asia based releases but seems I dodged a bullet. I have the game in my backlog for PS5 but havent started due to waiting for complete dlc.
Monster year for jrpg especially if you on PS5. First half was just incredible and we going into next half with Trails to Daybreak, YS X and Methapor refantazio. Hope these devs think about Switch 2 ports for those missing out/dont have PS5.
@DashKappei thanks! Has to add $20 equivalent for Imports ver compared to local pricing, so I have to settle for the available Switch ver unfortunately if I want to purchase physical. Would have loved to platinum it there but Switch ver it is.
I am buying this on PS5 but may have to resort to the switch ver as its the only version that has a Physical copy. Really avoiding switch for 3d multiplats as its usually the worst performing ones but physical ver really tempting me.
That's fine can't give a sh about it either. I rather capcom go multiplatform than keep stuff like this, very sure nintendo will demand game locked as exclusive if they want the zelda collab stuff.
I am slightly annoyed just give the game away instead of sht like this.
Its available on PS+ deluxe/premium and was/is on Gamepass. Free week is cool but would have loved it if nintendo just do PS+ style monthly game giveaways.
@Mgalens it will be on PC after at least 3 month. Needs clarification on the exclusivity as even FF7R never gone anywhere besides PS/PC.
Square is a very weird company, sometimes they do exclusive for nintendo such as Harvestella and Triangle Strategy, for Sony like FF7 series & FF16. One thing for sure they never port their recent games to other consoles unless cases like Xbox paying for octopath traveller gamepass appearance or pushed by internal team like yoko taro always wishing he could port nier to Vita.... he got a nier port on switch.
No way number 13 and down sales number higher than few hundreds or even in the tens. Who the heck still buys wreckfest that game is super old. Not to mention nfs hot pursuit probably 5 people bought it on switch lmao.
Hope next MH is more like World than Rise. Rise was fun but World environment and ecology design is just incredible. Felt like you really part of that world and you could spend thousand of hours just exploring unlike the barren arenas of rise.
Personally it is not as good as Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2. The novelty of Breath of the Wild is lost to me so I dont really feel like its a masterpiece. Glad many still able to enjoy it.
The actual issue is how much nintendo willing to spen on the chip. Nintendo operates on profit and a $399 is likely the limit for the Switch 2 and not to mention console gaming is such a miniscule and stagnating economy for nvidia as it only supply those chips to nintendo. Would be a really interesting deep dive when we get to the specs on what kind of magic we will see to bridge the gap!
I like MHR its combat mechanics is really good probably the best in MH and I enjoy the sunbreak expansion it address a lot of problem with MHR and improves the combat mechanics.
But I really do hope the next game return to MHW for designs of other things other than combat. Playing Rise and Sunbreak made me appreciates World so much I thought I just want a classic MH where u drop in kill monster and repeat but World's incredible details made hunts just that more fun and memorable. Not to mention the quality of events in World I absolutely adored the Behemoth fight it was probably the best event MH team ever developed even its gameplay so different from every other quest yet works in MH.
@Dom_31 happily disagree. Base rise is fun for around 70 ish hours which is for many people is great but it really lacks endgame grind. Sure it should not have since sunbreak is the true end game but waiting for over a year for sunbreak was painful. At Least in base world u actually see tangible returns for hard work like those deco drops and the events were pretty spectacular like the FF14, Witcher 3 and some few other events.
World quest/event design pretty much destroy rise/sunbreak. Its far more engaging and keeps players invested. My fav quest in MH the MHW FF14 one is really cool like u fight a big ass powered up kulu ya ku using FF crystal and then leads to the fight vs Behemoth. Its those kind of quests that kept people playing longer than Rise.
@UltimateOtaku91 not only that the base P5 sold 300k first week while P5R sold 400k within 1 month on PS4. Atlus also updated P5 series up till march 22 sold 7.2m which PS was the main contributing factor. Game just hit saturation on the console family.
Well I am definitely skipping Bayonetta 3 and only buying if a used copy comes up. I am not supporting this at all its more than games people should not be exploited. I already underpaid by my company so I definitely understand her issues and I will support.
Its a crazy purchase too. Now Xbox is the third largest video game publisher by revenue just behind Sony and Tencent. What a crazy audacious purchase, I personally hope it somehow hit an anti trust suit as I am very against market monopoly. Games (ex. Crash, Tony Hawk, Spyro) from activision regardless of what Nintendo fans think of them, potentially not ever coming to Nintendo platform.
Game somehow have popularity in parts of the world. Surprised I even got a match on PS4 few weeks ago. Wonder how mucb they gonna charge Switch users. Seems like a game that needs to be on a service I mean the game was free on PS+ why not do the same thing with NSO.
A deeper observation of why Square dont want a physical version of games is that the holder is Disney and they have a cut which eats into SE revenue. It just doesnt make sense why you want a physical version and Persona Strikers did show in the end Switch version was pretty neglected as most bought on PS4.
Personally the review score is way too generous. I played the PS4 ver and would not rate it more than 7/10. Love the 1st game but the sequel is not the game. Take the positive in the review and add negative as below:
Button mash combat. Literally beat last boss by button mash, no other button combo at all other than when using special skill. No lie here, its one of the easiest way to max lvl to get the max lvl trophy on PS4 so everyone who chase platinum experienced this.
building uses time in game. Wasting your time, cant save and change time in setting. if you not aim for platinum or I guess on switch 100% its very stupid mechanic. Hopefully switch sleep function allows for time flow in game.
recruitment of over 40 char gets bit boring due to the amount of fetch quests related to it.
Less XC2 please. Game personally pretty disgusting with the whole underage hero Rex flirting with 500 year old slave and producers somehow reuse 1st game main villain for twist and its pretty sh*t.
I personally already love it more than Switch. I barely play Switch I only picked it up when there is a nintendo exclusive that I am interested in. With steam deck its pretty much all the games on steam and able to install windows. This is far better deal than playing Mario.
@Joriss they want to sell indies as its pretty big on switch. We already know it can play games that switch could only dream off, what they instead wants to tell you is that it doesnt just cater to the hardcore scene.
The original TWEWY did not make a splash in west but NEO charted top 10 in UK and in some European nations. Hope it also charts in NPD chart next. Hopefully with PC and PS4 release, new series for them alongside Switch the game can sells well. Just shows how 3rd party japan devs need world market more now.
Also seems like switch is finally slowing down, looks like everyone waiting for OLED.
Castlevania Isaac storyline been simply wonderful. Love his character progression from one who hates the world for what it had done to him to now a man of forgiveness. Amazing.
The battle with Carmilla is fuking badass too. He got all the best scenes and budget lol.
@WallyWest technically you could play Ps4/Ps5 or PC and now Xbox games on your bed. On PS its a free service called remote play and works wonderfully well on home internet while PC have so many streaming options and also Gamepass cloud which surprisingly works really well.
Dead game but... yeah no thanks. Unfair to switch users vs the 60fps on other consoles not to mention faster on PC which this game have very low requirements. Also playing this crossplay with joycon yikes.
Probably with real time crops growing and the like eww. Imagine having to wait for 25 days for watermelon to grow for that 500 yen profit per watermelon T.T
I think its really great even the staff treats Nintendo Switch as a 2nd console. Even I purchase everything on anything else and only purchases exclusive or some quirky indies on the system.
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Re: Square Enix Switch 2 Launch Title Scores A Limited-Time Discount
Square is such a funny company. They promised multiplatform for all their games but then does this ***** or timed exclusives they probably gonna do FF7R part 3.
No way buying this on that ass key card. Hope I can get an actual version when it releases on other platforms.
Re: Fantasy Life's New Entry Has Already Hit Its First Major Sales Milestone
This why multiplatform makes sense square. Now port whatever game you make exclusive on nintendo to PS/PC please.
Re: Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Receives Another Switch Update, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
I almost bought the game on Switch as I been playing PS5 non stop for half the year due to the insane high quality jrpg/ asia based releases but seems I dodged a bullet. I have the game in my backlog for PS5 but havent started due to waiting for complete dlc.
Monster year for jrpg especially if you on PS5. First half was just incredible and we going into next half with Trails to Daybreak, YS X and Methapor refantazio. Hope these devs think about Switch 2 ports for those missing out/dont have PS5.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Monster Hunter Stories (Switch)
@DashKappei thanks! Has to add $20 equivalent for Imports ver compared to local pricing, so I have to settle for the available Switch ver unfortunately if I want to purchase physical. Would have loved to platinum it there but Switch ver it is.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Monster Hunter Stories (Switch)
I am buying this on PS5 but may have to resort to the switch ver as its the only version that has a Physical copy. Really avoiding switch for 3d multiplats as its usually the worst performing ones but physical ver really tempting me.
Re: Review: Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance (Switch) - Even Better Than The Stellar Original
Pre ordered the PS5 version. No way I am playing this with ***** quality on the Switch like the original. Cant wait.
Re: Feature: Monster Hunter Stories' Producer Talks Collaborative Development, Confirms Zelda DLC Isn't Included On Switch
That's fine can't give a sh about it either. I rather capcom go multiplatform than keep stuff like this, very sure nintendo will demand game locked as exclusive if they want the zelda collab stuff.
Re: Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising Is The Next Nintendo Switch Online Free Game Trial (Europe)
I am slightly annoyed just give the game away instead of sht like this.
Its available on PS+ deluxe/premium and was/is on Gamepass. Free week is cool but would have loved it if nintendo just do PS+ style monthly game giveaways.
Re: UK Charts: Unicorn Overlord Plummets As Familiar Faces Return To The Top
@Mgalens it will be on PC after at least 3 month. Needs clarification on the exclusivity as even FF7R never gone anywhere besides PS/PC.
Square is a very weird company, sometimes they do exclusive for nintendo such as Harvestella and Triangle Strategy, for Sony like FF7 series & FF16. One thing for sure they never port their recent games to other consoles unless cases like Xbox paying for octopath traveller gamepass appearance or pushed by internal team like yoko taro always wishing he could port nier to Vita.... he got a nier port on switch.
Re: UK Charts: Unicorn Overlord Plummets As Familiar Faces Return To The Top
No way number 13 and down sales number higher than few hundreds or even in the tens. Who the heck still buys wreckfest that game is super old. Not to mention nfs hot pursuit probably 5 people bought it on switch lmao.
Re: Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Gets Extended Trailer And A Tasty Steelbook
Buying this on the PS5 hope it have a 60fps option.
Re: Monster Hunter Series Producer Shares New Year's Message Ahead Of 20th Anniversary
Hope next MH is more like World than Rise. Rise was fun but World environment and ecology design is just incredible. Felt like you really part of that world and you could spend thousand of hours just exploring unlike the barren arenas of rise.
Re: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Wins Another 'Game Of The Year' Award
Personally it is not as good as Baldur's Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2. The novelty of Breath of the Wild is lost to me so I dont really feel like its a masterpiece. Glad many still able to enjoy it.
Re: Digital Foundry Digs Into The Nvidia Chip Rumoured To Power 'Switch 2'
The actual issue is how much nintendo willing to spen on the chip. Nintendo operates on profit and a $399 is likely the limit for the Switch 2 and not to mention console gaming is such a miniscule and stagnating economy for nvidia as it only supply those chips to nintendo. Would be a really interesting deep dive when we get to the specs on what kind of magic we will see to bridge the gap!
Re: Review: Harvest Moon: The Winds Of Anthos - Terrible Title, Pretty Alright Game
Frame rate issue means its a PS version buy for me.
Re: UK Charts: EA Sports FC 24 Physical Sales Down 30% Compared To FIFA 23
Buying multiplats on the switch always felt like a scam why people do this to themselves.
Re: Monster Hunter Rise Sales Surpass 12 Million Units Worldwide
I like MHR its combat mechanics is really good probably the best in MH and I enjoy the sunbreak expansion it address a lot of problem with MHR and improves the combat mechanics.
But I really do hope the next game return to MHW for designs of other things other than combat. Playing Rise and Sunbreak made me appreciates World so much I thought I just want a classic MH where u drop in kill monster and repeat but World's incredible details made hunts just that more fun and memorable. Not to mention the quality of events in World I absolutely adored the Behemoth fight it was probably the best event MH team ever developed even its gameplay so different from every other quest yet works in MH.
Re: Monster Hunter Rise Sales Surpass 12 Million Units Worldwide
@Dom_31 happily disagree. Base rise is fun for around 70 ish hours which is for many people is great but it really lacks endgame grind. Sure it should not have since sunbreak is the true end game but waiting for over a year for sunbreak was painful. At Least in base world u actually see tangible returns for hard work like those deco drops and the events were pretty spectacular like the FF14, Witcher 3 and some few other events.
World quest/event design pretty much destroy rise/sunbreak. Its far more engaging and keeps players invested. My fav quest in MH the MHW FF14 one is really cool like u fight a big ass powered up kulu ya ku using FF crystal and then leads to the fight vs Behemoth. Its those kind of quests that kept people playing longer than Rise.
Re: Japanese Charts: Persona 5 Royal On Switch Steals Hearts
@UltimateOtaku91 not only that the base P5 sold 300k first week while P5R sold 400k within 1 month on PS4. Atlus also updated P5 series up till march 22 sold 7.2m which PS was the main contributing factor. Game just hit saturation on the console family.
Re: Bayonetta's OG Voice Actor Asks Fans To "Boycott" Third Game After PlatinumGames Wage Fallout
@Stocksy the usual fan antics. Gotta defend good old nintendo/else over some people who think they are underpaid.
Re: Bayonetta's OG Voice Actor Asks Fans To "Boycott" Third Game After PlatinumGames Wage Fallout
Well I am definitely skipping Bayonetta 3 and only buying if a used copy comes up. I am not supporting this at all its more than games people should not be exploited. I already underpaid by my company so I definitely understand her issues and I will support.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Digimon Survive
@CorePrideX even more surprised xbox got a physical release and in europe.
Re: Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard, Now Owns Call Of Duty And Crash Bandicoot
Its a crazy purchase too. Now Xbox is the third largest video game publisher by revenue just behind Sony and Tencent. What a crazy audacious purchase, I personally hope it somehow hit an anti trust suit as I am very against market monopoly. Games (ex. Crash, Tony Hawk, Spyro) from activision regardless of what Nintendo fans think of them, potentially not ever coming to Nintendo platform.
Re: Talking Point: Should The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Library Expand Faster?
Only nintendo can drip feed but somehow fanbase is content. Weird bunch.
Re: Sorry Folks, Fall Guys For Nintendo Switch Won't Be Released This Year
Game somehow have popularity in parts of the world. Surprised I even got a match on PS4 few weeks ago. Wonder how mucb they gonna charge Switch users. Seems like a game that needs to be on a service I mean the game was free on PS+ why not do the same thing with NSO.
Re: Shin Megami Tensei V Outshines Other Popular JRPGs At UK Retail
I'm gonna wait for the ineviable PC release instead as leak points out to PC and PS4 port.
Re: Video: Why Didn't Square Enix Port The Kingdom Hearts Collection To Switch?
A deeper observation of why Square dont want a physical version of games is that the holder is Disney and they have a cut which eats into SE revenue. It just doesnt make sense why you want a physical version and Persona Strikers did show in the end Switch version was pretty neglected as most bought on PS4.
Re: Nintendo Reveals The Top 15 Most-Downloaded Switch Games In August 2021 (Europe)
Huh, No More Heroes 3 bombed harder than you'd think
Re: Random: Luigi Has Been Found Inside The Dreamcast Prototype Of Sega GT
Sonygt2 and luigi lol. They testing some weird stuff.
Re: Review: Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom - A Sublime Port Of An Awesome Adventure
Personally the review score is way too generous. I played the PS4 ver and would not rate it more than 7/10. Love the 1st game but the sequel is not the game. Take the positive in the review and add negative as below:
Re: Court Orders Popular ROM Website To "Destroy" All Of Its Unauthorised Nintendo Games
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Re: Xenoblade Chronicles Voice Actor Says She 'Thinks' Another Game Is On The Way
Less XC2 please. Game personally pretty disgusting with the whole underage hero Rex flirting with 500 year old slave and producers somehow reuse 1st game main villain for twist and its pretty sh*t.
Re: Round Up: First "Hands-On" Impressions Of Valve's Steam Deck - How Does It Compare To Switch?
I personally already love it more than Switch. I barely play Switch I only picked it up when there is a nintendo exclusive that I am interested in. With steam deck its pretty much all the games on steam and able to install windows. This is far better deal than playing Mario.
Re: Round Up: First "Hands-On" Impressions Of Valve's Steam Deck - How Does It Compare To Switch?
@Joriss they want to sell indies as its pretty big on switch. We already know it can play games that switch could only dream off, what they instead wants to tell you is that it doesnt just cater to the hardcore scene.
Re: Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of June 2021
Proud to say I dont own any of these bar zelda.
Re: Japanese Charts: NEO: The World Ends With You Gets Debut Number One, Ace Attorney Takes Third
The original TWEWY did not make a splash in west but NEO charted top 10 in UK and in some European nations. Hope it also charts in NPD chart next. Hopefully with PC and PS4 release, new series for them alongside Switch the game can sells well. Just shows how 3rd party japan devs need world market more now.
Also seems like switch is finally slowing down, looks like everyone waiting for OLED.
Re: Valve's Steam Deck Might Be The Closest We'll Get To A Switch Pro In 2021
Dude the controller layout is amazing. Not only great position but also got back pedals?! Sign me up!
Re: Castlevania Animated Series Studio Strengthens Netflix Partnership
Castlevania Isaac storyline been simply wonderful. Love his character progression from one who hates the world for what it had done to him to now a man of forgiveness. Amazing.
The battle with Carmilla is fuking badass too. He got all the best scenes and budget lol.
Re: Here's How Nintendo Is Improving Zelda: Skyward Sword HD Over The Wii Original
Really cant give a damn. Worst zelda by miles but will somehow get rave reviews cause its associated with a beloved series.
Re: Best Nintendo Switch Football Games
Oh good, I almost sued you for misleading.
Re: Overwatch 2 Is Still Coming To Switch, But Blizzard Will Have To Make "Some Compromises"
@WallyWest technically you could play Ps4/Ps5 or PC and now Xbox games on your bed. On PS its a free service called remote play and works wonderfully well on home internet while PC have so many streaming options and also Gamepass cloud which surprisingly works really well.
Re: Overwatch 2 Is Still Coming To Switch, But Blizzard Will Have To Make "Some Compromises"
If its crossplay with no way of turning off then its dead on arrival.
Re: Video: Nintendo Releases New Overview Trailer For Zelda: Skyward Sword HD
@VoidofLight well, its a skip for now and if no good discount, forever.
Re: Switch Overwatch Players Can Now Team Up With Xbox, PlayStation And PC Heroes
Dead game but... yeah no thanks. Unfair to switch users vs the 60fps on other consoles not to mention faster on PC which this game have very low requirements. Also playing this crossplay with joycon yikes.
Re: Video: Nintendo Releases New Overview Trailer For Zelda: Skyward Sword HD
Hopefully someday it will have sales. Not buying at full price.
Re: Talking Point: amiibo Have Always Been Physical DLC, Skyward Sword HD Is No Different
I alwaya see amiibo as dlc and in turn, always fking hated them and have no qualms in doing "magic" to overcome nintendo greed.
Re: Story Of Seasons: Mobile Has Its First Trailer, And It Puts Pioneers Of Olive Town In The Shade
@tkdboy1889 mobile games recently been stepping up their games. I mean everyone knows about genshin impact.
Re: Story Of Seasons: Mobile Has Its First Trailer, And It Puts Pioneers Of Olive Town In The Shade
Probably with real time crops growing and the like eww. Imagine having to wait for 25 days for watermelon to grow for that 500 yen profit per watermelon T.T
Re: Mobile Dev DeNA Wants To Make Its "Relationship" With Nintendo "Even Better" Going Forward
They profitted loads of the partnership not hard to imagine they want to continue it.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (May 8th)
I think its really great even the staff treats Nintendo Switch as a 2nd console. Even I purchase everything on anything else and only purchases exclusive or some quirky indies on the system.