I love hand drawn animation movies, and surreal adventure games, so just like Later Alligator, this really screams to me "play me!", "buy the physical edition!", but value and price are two things I consider when purchasing anything, and a game that is too short (or too long to likely be enjoyable until the end, and probably is full of filler) is harder to "invest" in... On sale I'll get them, but knowing that I truly WANT to experience it and DO value the art of it.
There's quite a few I'm looking forward to, like Wargroove 2 and DLC for Eastward (and the more obvious ones), but I'm most excited for Another Code. That's the one I really WANT. I grew up with Nintendo handhelds, so beautiful modern spritework in 2d games that seem like a more advanced GBA game make me happy, but a remake of a gorgeous early DS game I played so many times (even if I knew it by heart and was just skipping through the loads of text at that point) and have such fond memories of and around, and its totally unexpected very low profile Wii sequel, yes please.
It was only later in the Gamecube time that I even got a tv and a used GC. Before that, I only had handhelds.
I especially recall how much I was impressed with some of the GBA versions of home console games, mostly Rogue Spear, Max Payne, Kill.Switch, Payback, Doom 2... Before the GBA, on GBC, there were a few impressive ones as well, like Cannon Fodder, Perfect Dark, Alone in the Dark,...
Of course my jaw dropped to the floor when I first installed my new second hand GC on my new tv and booted up some of my first games on that, like RE 0, REmake, Wind Waker, Hitman 2 (the original Hitman 2), Freedom Fighters, XIII,... But it never stopped me from appreciating handheld adaptations even on later systems like the DS. They often could not just make a downgraded version of the original, and I think that, often, that was a good thing, as they had to be more creative and build their game around the system's strength, not bypass its weakness.
I played Fantasy Life so much with my then-partner in co-op. Bought the dlc twice for that. I was dressed like a carrot (in game, that is). Until today we still sometimes think back to that game, and hum the music of that tower in the dlc I think. We both god-tiered every job. So yeah, I'm keeping an eye on that one, and the other look great too.
So Vanillaware makes a new game, Cing games are coming back from what I feared was their grave with Another Code and hopefully Hotel Dusk collection in the future, old school Tomb Raider, Wargroove 2, Eastward DLC,... A thousand Year Door, Prince of Persia looking fine,... Luigi's Mansion 2 I won't get, I rather have a 3ds downgrade of 3, as the 3d was awesome in 2 and I don't even want to play 2 in 2d... Had to check my two's and threes there. I was already confused when the announcer said Tomb Raider 1 through 3.
Some may call me easily satisfied, but I am satisfied, actually genuinely excited about Another Code.
I remember playing that game in the evenings when I did volunteer work with disabled kids and adults in some sort of school / village / farm. Some of the most (and only truly) satisfying work I ever did - but EXHAUSTING. Didn't even get paid, I just loved my time there, at will playing with the kids outside or inside in case of bad weather, helping on the fields, in and around the small houses of the adults,... The evenings playing Another Code on my then still quite new standard OG DS which has etched the music and everything about the game in my memory forever.
@Stamina_Wheel @Daniel36 even as a Belgian (Flemish) player, I very highly appreciated the Dutch voice over. I later got an English copy as well, but kept both, as I had originally played it in Dutch and probably will again if this version has the option. Its how I know the game and characters best.
@AlexHarford Those are two of the greater games of that generation, which had some of the greatest games I ever played. Eternal Darkness is one of them, BG&E is also a personal favourite but was criminally overlooked and underrated back then.
All depends on port quality, physical sale, and download requirements for the physical release... BUT I'm definitely interested. The second game was a huge download even in the "physical" collection, so I'm not sure... Currently limited to 10 Gb / month on 3G, no home internet or whatever.
Given how bland the European one is, I thought I'd skip this article entirely. But I clicked, and the Japanese one makes me excited to ride a dirtbike.
I won't, but still, that one wins for me. European one not even close enough to eat its dirt.
Playing some straight forward highly flawed games now, not sure why. John Wick done, now playing through 1971 Project Helios. The latter makes me want to return to John Wick, which is a fun game that utlimately fails to shine through technical flaws on all levels.
Last week was Tunic. Maybe that's why I'm playing flawed games now, most good games would be disappointing anyway after Tunic. I love the physical release, game manuals for some reason were always something I loved, and Flower, Sun, Rain as a second place, I don't think many games ever had a higher need of a physical release with an in-game mechanic focusing on carefully reading a manual or brochure.
As for Alan Wake, that was the game that made me switch my unused Japanese eshop account to a Mexican one, where I got the shadow dropped game for about €1,2 due to a pricing error. Great game still, handheld was always acceptible, but apparently they patched docked to a decent degree as well. Later I got Squad 51 very cheap for the same reason on the same account.
Still have the GBA (I THINK this is my favourite version) and GC copies of this game, still love it. I was recently thinking that it took them very long to bring back this old favourite (when I was replaying one of my many versions of Cave Story, of which I can't say whether the 3DS or Switch physical release is my favourite version)
In my search form cheap physical games I got Young Souls, XIII, Thema's Fighting Herds, and Asterix & Obelix Slap 'm All. Playing the first 2 now, XIII has issues but I knew that going in and it's still a great old school fps that does get extra points for nostalgia and style, and Young Souls is amazing. Just HATE button mashing "mini games". I was always terrible at them, hated them with a passion, and they never made anything more enjoyable, immersive, fun, ... They should die. Luckily it's sort of optional in this otherwise beautiful gem I van't believe I never paid attention tot before.
Kind of stuck on the third phase of the penultimate boss of Huntdown when the giant snake starts some kind of bullet hell attack that always just brutally murders my character, so I started playing Trek to Yomi, of which I got the Deluxe physical version quite cheap. Also started Wuppo, but haven't really gotten into it yet (it's not exactly the Pikuniku I was expecting, but still funny).
Just done (nearly) 100%-ing Sakuna of Rice and Ruin, and I might start another game with a similar loop soon, perhaps Cult of the Lamb (I did Moonlighter already). Before that I 100%-ed Slaycation, a fun over-the-top top down twin stick shooter with a fun loop of constant progression in loot and upgrades, and some grinding in the actual game. Guess that's what they call "rogue-lite"?
Other than that, still so much to play... So many big titles I haven't even touched yet but do have in my collection, or big indie games I got dirt cheap and still need to start playing. It's not even funny, it's causing actual stress if I allow it to. And if I allow myself, I'd go to Deku Deals looking for more dirt cheap games and look for reviews to justify a purchase.
I tried buying the limited edition not once, but twice, and failed. Not exactly an in-game experiment but hey. So I quit and haven't actually played the game yet. One day I'll get a used copy. Maybe. Probably. Possibly.
I love the series, I still have nearly every game in it in every version in at least complete in box near mint condition, most collector's editions, and almost every themed console, despite having stopped collecting video games like I used to back then. It's all stored at my mom's house, because my forest cabin is no place for such a collection. So I do want to play it and add it, but no longer at this price, and no longer as a "must".
Surprised to see Secret of Evermore here, it was one of the first games I thought of by the title.
One dog that barely has any "meaning" in the game he is part of, but still put me up for a huge dilemma, was the one in Dredge. You find him abandoned on an island and can take him with you on the boat, and can then bring him to a scientist on an island who is lonely. Basically just a silly "questline", but the dog is cute, but being on a small boat on the ocean is dangerous and sad enough, especially when you think of the eldritch horrors lurking in the water, and the risk of your cargo - the dog does take up cargo space but deserves it - going overboard. Which I read cannot happen as the game is programmed that way.
And indeed, Missile from Ghost Trick, I really DID expect that one here. And the Wario Ware one. COD Ghosts on Wii U. Blair Witch dog. Into the Dead 2 dogs. Plenty of dogs once you really start digging.
Oh well, I love most animals more than most humans, but dogs are just the best.
Tough one, I think I mentally prefer the US one, just because I have that one still and prefer the slimmer black boxes over the fat see-through European boxes. So not actually because of the artwork.
So I might lean towards Japan, it has the European artwork (which I THINK I like SLIGHTLY more) and the thin black box. But I can't read that one...
@AndrewR I have that one in my "backlog", so already in my collection, thanks for the reminder and the confirmation, it does push the game forward. It looks amazing and a lot of game for the price I paid. For some reason I haven't played it yet, but I was thinking about starting a new turn based strategy game soon.
@Yalloo I actually do agree, and understand your point of when it is no longer clever, it's not really "being cheap", it's not being stupid with your spending. I'm not always calculating everything, but I don't have to either given that I don't spend anything on truly stupid things. If I need domething expensive, I can most of the time just get it where my "richer" friends can't. If one of my friends has financial problems, I can often help them out, while I'm considered the "poor" one (but the only one who actually "owns" land, in several countries, and has enough money on the side to continue my current lifestyle for multiple decades without income (in the unlikely event that they stop raising all the prices all of the time and don't find a way to digitalise all money and put an expiry date on digital currency "to keep the economy alive"). I couldn't support anyone else's lifestyle for over a year probably though, but hermit / gipsy life in my own forest, WITH a pack of big dogs, 15 years at least no problem, 25 if I really try. And I don't go places where I could leave a tip in the first place, I've really had it with human society, but yeah, to each their own. I only wish THEY ("society") could leave ME be in harmless peace and quiet...
I'm just really easily satisfied. What I love most is free (if you refuse to pay false debts for it to false authorities) (sunshine, water, nature, the company of animals, a walk, a siesta in my hammock, fruits will be when I get my fruitforest growing in Spain, electricity I get from solar energy mostly... So some cheap games for my Switch are actually my form of decadent spending, and getting as much good game for as little money as I can is part of the game buying myself and the dogs a big watermelon feels like five christmasses at once, while I never felt "poor" eversince I CHOSE "poverty", and constantly did when I chased some kind of riches).
@Yalloo I live in Belgium, but I'm moving to Spain actually, because there i could buy a large plot of natural land in the mountains for a budget unheard of here (8ha for the same price I paid here for 1200 square meters of forest). And because I'll be much further away from human society and the climate (both meteorologically and politically) is much better where I'm moving to.
But yeah, I remember a time where Belgians and Dutch people had jokes about each other, and those about the Dutch were about how cheap and greedy they are assumed to be I call being "cheap" a way of being smart (I personally don't care for money or status or whatever), as all those who easily spend a lot chasing an idea of wealth or status end up poor even in what they value.
In my recent hunt for cheap(er) physical games, I have bought the Klonoa games for €15, the Spyro trilogy for €15, Tales from the Borderlands (downloadcode) and New TftB (on cartridge) combined for €18, and came across some other decent sales like the original Life is Strange collection and some others.
My goal is always to pay less then €15 per game "physical" (but I do count included downloadcodes of separate games as separate games), and less than €5 for download games. So compilations where each game justifies the price on its own are great. The downloadcodes included also give me enough points to buy some more games on deep sales, I like that.
And on that note, but kind of off topic, I also bought Olliolli World as a code in a box (something I normally never do) but it was €5, and I got 150 points for the download, so €1,5 back in eshop credit. Kind of a nice deal. It can buy me one of those older good indie games of €15 on a 90% discount, of which there are several on my wishlist at most times.
Budgetgaming is a better hobby than expensive game collecting.
I like the simplicity on one hand, but the excitement on the other. And both are consistent with previous games released in the series (because the series (in-)consistently keeps using two different kinds of box art). So it's a tough one. I wish they had really stuck with one of the two roads, and in that case... I still don't know which one I would have preferred.
@Bucket Yeah they are (on easy, admittedly) just about right on that sweet spot where they get me a couple of times, I think "this is impossible, wtf", and then I win and want to play the next level.
The fact that it has a regular retail physical version with a full colour manual and some buttons of the main characters only makes it more awesomely 80's / 90's.
Now, if they could make a game like this from the movie They Live by John Carpenter, I have no further requests (from the games industry... for a while).
And it's not even the only one playing DVD's, the cheapest Bluray player on the market, or the system everyone and their grandmother is interested in. It's just a fun little handheld that can easily be used as an outdated home console, with some of that Nintendo magic dust sprinkled over it in terms of software. No price cuts, hardly a decent sale or price cut on first party software,... There might not be a successor ever, Nintendo might be banking to colonise Mars, buy the WEF and all of its 8 billion human resources, and bet on whether they'll make a profit of this slave planet or we'll burn it first, while getting drunk on expensive booze and partaking in other decadent activities beyond our imagination.
Or they might not and be working on a successor and planning on the best time to launch it which is not now, time will tell.
Huntdown, a great 90's style game about 80's style action.
Super Bullet Break, a game I would have completely overlooked for not being interesting to me in the slightest, were I not looking for a cheap physical game with some extra's to complete an online order of cheap physical games with some extra's to get free shipping. Absolutely surprised how much I enjoy this game despite how awful it matches with my usual preferences of video games or any media.
I might start Sakuna of Rice and Ruin or Mortal Shell, or one of the other games I got in that same online order (not all of them with physical extra's, some of them just REALLY cheap on sales, used, whatever). Every once in a while I make an order like that, and get enough points to get some extra dirt cheap games on sale on the eshop. Thinking of getting Ritual Crown of Horns now. And I still have several games to play from previous orders, and several others I still just haven't gotten to, so plenty... Perhaps (way) too much.
@Bunkerneath you'll be happy to know then, that the physical (in Europe at least, not sure about other regions) comes with a small art book. I know I love these kinds of things, it makes the game a great experience beyond just playing it.
@Dm9982 Yeah, that's one of the all-time highs for the horror genre, and it is stuck on a system that sold so little but aged so well (and was great even in its own time), it now costs an arm and a leg to buy a few of the good games for it. Glad I still have many of my original games for it, and bought a collection at dumping price as a present both to myself and my younger sister (who got the Gamecube and the doubles that we used to play a ton of back in the day) when the prices were low anyway, just before they skyrocketed, so selling a few doubles my sister wasn't interested in made me back my entire investment in it.
Eternal Darkness and the highly underrated game of John Carpenter's The Thing truly need a remake or remaster at least. Gamecube / PS2 era horror did many things right they seem to have forgotten about now. I can still hear many quotes from those games when I think back.
The most obvious one: "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there. Wondering, fearing, doubting...", every time the game was booted up. Which happened a lot, I'm quite sure that over the years I finished the game at least twenty times, much like RE4 and such.
Just watched the "true" ending on youtube, and I even still knew the words of that scene.
Many of these... items... I wouldn't even consider as "food", but yeah, the fruits do look tasty, and I may not really like the watermelon level in Mario Sunshine, I'll never say no to a watermelon. It is the best food in existence. No competition.
Fresh coconuts, mango's, pineapples, pink grapefruits, some berries, bananas,... All sweet and very ripe... are second tier, but still heavenly. Making Mario Sunshine's vibe one of the greatest I know in games, with its tropical fruitiness and eventual levels of sunshinery and clear water everywhere (once cleaned up).
Can't wait for when my fruitforest in the mountains starts growing and feeding me.
@RainbowGazelle I see it more like any one chapter of Eternal Darkness, just without the final one. I mean the FINAL final one, after beating it in every allignment. Humans can't face off against cosmic horrors, and that's the point of cosmic horror. To me, a cosmic horror that is explained, defeated, or gladly serves a little human spec in resurrecting this little human spec's little human spec wife, is no longer a cosmic horror.
But I too do understand that some people like a more hopeful ending to their games, I just love how either the cosmic horror summoned destroys the earth, or the oceanic life you killed without remorse throughout the game, suddenly remorselessly and without further justification gets back at you.
Loved everything about this game, and I don't know what people disappointed by the ending had hoped for? It had two endings, I liked both, and it made a lot more sense how it actually ended than it would have if some small boat sailor who had been killing ocean life small and large throughout the game with no sign of remorse won in an epic boss fight from an Eldritch horror or just a VERY big oceanic life form that kills without remorse any human stupid enough to come sail and disturb the oceans. Cosmic horror is the kind of horror that is frightening because it is to us what we are to musquitos or bacteria: a ruthless mass killer that isn't even aware it does anything other than squash a minor annoyance, if it is even aware of the fact that it squashes it or entire civilisations of it.
Not only is this game fantastic and am I glad to have a reason to revisit it now, it even had a very nice decent physical retail release with a small artbook to display some of the amazing art in the game such as the dog.
Capcom: "dear fans, don't forget about Mega Man. Let us handle all the forgetting-about-Mega-Man-business while you buy the Mega Man themed merchandise."
Personally I'm not waiting for a new one, it's just something I noticed they do a lot.
@Jaybee thanks for that. At that price it may have convinced me to buy it, but not in the way you describe it. I have plenty to play anyway. Maybe if they make it better and the 99cents price returns. I always like giving smaller games a chance over the big expensive ones, and maybe another chance when they make them better over time, showing they care about their product as well.
If the stories are to be believed and my memory and interpretation of them is correct, Link's Awakening started as a non-official port of Link to the Past.
One of the best Zelda games. THE best Game Boy game.
Quit Sakurai-splaining and get to it, Nintendo will see the value. (Of course I'm not serious... But I AM serious that I DO WANT it to happen...)
@DAHstroy That is how I first saw them. As a Nintendo handheld gamer mostly, and a fan of Etrian Odyssey, Persona Q and Persona Q2 were how I first spent a lot of time with the cast of P3, P4, and P5. All chibi'd up.
House of the Dead may not be the lightgun game it should have been, and they should have remade the Overkill extended cut instead, but with the now added touch controls it's a great game if you can get it cheap. I got the limidead edition if that's what it's called for cheap and enjoyed it a lot. It's a bit like Dead and Furious (or Touch the Dead) on the DS if anyone else ever touched that game, except more playable and more available.
Link's Awakening is the obvious winner, on all platforms, for quite a while. Sure, there is the apparently great RE4 remake, but I only play Switch, and no way it's better than the Wii edition, I simply refuse to accept that possibility.
These spin offs are more classic Lara Croft than the reboot series, ironically, and I love twin stick top down gameplay often more than full third person (but Anniversary on Wii is still my favourite I guess). Online or lack thereof is not an issue, I'm quite a loner and the dogs don't play these kind of games, so it's just a matter of the publishers lowering the price to the point where I feel ok with it.
So in short, Jim Ryan is Cryin'. Nintendo fans are not interested in his opinions.
But the best selling platform that exists above and outside of the competition is not bought only by diehard Nintendo fans. Some people want a handheld that gets actual software support. Some are Playstation fans that didn't get a Playstation because there were none. And some are gamers, not business people crying over the internet. More interested in fun than in numbers. As Sony's boss you might want to try that, maybe you'll understand the market better, and won't drown in your own tears with no one to throw you a rope.
@KateGray I completely agree, this game is a ten. When Missile tells you he just wants to scream welcome at everyone, a desklamp says "look at me, I'm a desklamp", the colours are bright, the puzzles mostly really nice, the animation incredible, everything is just amazing... how could it be less?
As for how Capcom handled it, with no physical release in EU AGAIN, for a game that NEEDS at least a small art book... that's a two. Killing my desire to get this at its current price digitally, and I'm not importing it at that price either. I'll stick with my DS original for now, but the demo was enough to get me to replay it again.
@fenlix That's why there are different leagues. And being perfect in your own is a ten. If I want an orange, a watermelon is hardly a three and an orange is a ten. A grapefruit a seven. If I want the best food ever, watermelons are the absolute ten, and grapefruits and oranges both an eight.
Ghost trick is an EXCELLENT ten for a shorter, fun, lovingly crafted, well written puzzle game.
But that's just my opinion. And who knows, I might be just a desklamp.
As much as I like the characters, I think I like the Japanese boxart better. It might be a hypnotic effect though, with the background and Wario's eyes and hands...
Must... Consume... More... Wario Ware...
How did I get here all of a sudden, and who wrote this comment?
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@ZombAid82 "NOT ENOUGH CASH... Stranger..."
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Tough choices like "much money tomorrow, many people out... Or fewer people out and less money tomorrow but durable business?"
"Who are we kidding, you had me at much money."
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Scorpion, Sub Zero and Raiden enter a bar.
John Wick kills them. With a flippin' pencil.
Re: Mini Review: The Many Pieces Of Mr. Coo - Short, Obtuse, But Spectacularly Presented
I love hand drawn animation movies, and surreal adventure games, so just like Later Alligator, this really screams to me "play me!", "buy the physical edition!", but value and price are two things I consider when purchasing anything, and a game that is too short (or too long to likely be enjoyable until the end, and probably is full of filler) is harder to "invest" in... On sale I'll get them, but knowing that I truly WANT to experience it and DO value the art of it.
Re: Nintendo Shares Colourful Graphic Featuring The Games From September's Direct
There's quite a few I'm looking forward to, like Wargroove 2 and DLC for Eastward (and the more obvious ones), but I'm most excited for Another Code. That's the one I really WANT. I grew up with Nintendo handhelds, so beautiful modern spritework in 2d games that seem like a more advanced GBA game make me happy, but a remake of a gorgeous early DS game I played so many times (even if I knew it by heart and was just skipping through the loads of text at that point) and have such fond memories of and around, and its totally unexpected very low profile Wii sequel, yes please.
Re: Feature: Digital Doppelgangers - Home Vs. Handheld Adaptations In The 2000s
It was only later in the Gamecube time that I even got a tv and a used GC. Before that, I only had handhelds.
I especially recall how much I was impressed with some of the GBA versions of home console games, mostly Rogue Spear, Max Payne, Kill.Switch, Payback, Doom 2... Before the GBA, on GBC, there were a few impressive ones as well, like Cannon Fodder, Perfect Dark, Alone in the Dark,...
Of course my jaw dropped to the floor when I first installed my new second hand GC on my new tv and booted up some of my first games on that, like RE 0, REmake, Wind Waker, Hitman 2 (the original Hitman 2), Freedom Fighters, XIII,... But it never stopped me from appreciating handheld adaptations even on later systems like the DS. They often could not just make a downgraded version of the original, and I think that, often, that was a good thing, as they had to be more creative and build their game around the system's strength, not bypass its weakness.
Re: Level-5 Premieres Multiple Trailers For Its Upcoming Switch Games
I played Fantasy Life so much with my then-partner in co-op. Bought the dlc twice for that. I was dressed like a carrot (in game, that is). Until today we still sometimes think back to that game, and hum the music of that tower in the dlc I think. We both god-tiered every job. So yeah, I'm keeping an eye on that one, and the other look great too.
Re: Nintendo Direct September 2023: Every Announcement, Game Reveal, Trailer
So Vanillaware makes a new game, Cing games are coming back from what I feared was their grave with Another Code and hopefully Hotel Dusk collection in the future, old school Tomb Raider, Wargroove 2, Eastward DLC,... A thousand Year Door, Prince of Persia looking fine,... Luigi's Mansion 2 I won't get, I rather have a 3ds downgrade of 3, as the 3d was awesome in 2 and I don't even want to play 2 in 2d... Had to check my two's and threes there. I was already confused when the announcer said Tomb Raider 1 through 3.
Some may call me easily satisfied, but I am satisfied, actually genuinely excited about Another Code.
I remember playing that game in the evenings when I did volunteer work with disabled kids and adults in some sort of school / village / farm. Some of the most (and only truly) satisfying work I ever did - but EXHAUSTING. Didn't even get paid, I just loved my time there, at will playing with the kids outside or inside in case of bad weather, helping on the fields, in and around the small houses of the adults,... The evenings playing Another Code on my then still quite new standard OG DS which has etched the music and everything about the game in my memory forever.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 2nd)
Rayman expansion of Mario + Rabbids, and Into the Breach after that.
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not sure what I just watched, but I would like to play an old school fps after I eat a toast for some reason.
Re: Cat Quest III Sets Sail With "Furrst" Gameplay Trailer
@Balladeer You have all the right and justification for being highly hyped for this release. And if anyone challenges that, send them my way.
Re: Beyond Good And Evil 20th Anniversary Edition Has Been Rated For Switch
@Stamina_Wheel @Daniel36 even as a Belgian (Flemish) player, I very highly appreciated the Dutch voice over. I later got an English copy as well, but kept both, as I had originally played it in Dutch and probably will again if this version has the option. Its how I know the game and characters best.
Re: Beyond Good And Evil 20th Anniversary Edition Has Been Rated For Switch
@AlexHarford Those are two of the greater games of that generation, which had some of the greatest games I ever played. Eternal Darkness is one of them, BG&E is also a personal favourite but was criminally overlooked and underrated back then.
Re: Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition Announced For Switch
All depends on port quality, physical sale, and download requirements for the physical release... BUT I'm definitely interested. The second game was a huge download even in the "physical" collection, so I'm not sure... Currently limited to 10 Gb / month on 3G, no home internet or whatever.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Duel: Excitebike 64
Given how bland the European one is, I thought I'd skip this article entirely. But I clicked, and the Japanese one makes me excited to ride a dirtbike.
I won't, but still, that one wins for me. European one not even close enough to eat its dirt.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 26th)
Playing some straight forward highly flawed games now, not sure why. John Wick done, now playing through 1971 Project Helios. The latter makes me want to return to John Wick, which is a fun game that utlimately fails to shine through technical flaws on all levels.
Last week was Tunic. Maybe that's why I'm playing flawed games now, most good games would be disappointing anyway after Tunic. I love the physical release, game manuals for some reason were always something I loved, and Flower, Sun, Rain as a second place, I don't think many games ever had a higher need of a physical release with an in-game mechanic focusing on carefully reading a manual or brochure.
As for Alan Wake, that was the game that made me switch my unused Japanese eshop account to a Mexican one, where I got the shadow dropped game for about €1,2 due to a pricing error. Great game still, handheld was always acceptible, but apparently they patched docked to a decent degree as well. Later I got Squad 51 very cheap for the same reason on the same account.
Re: Newgrounds Classic 'Alien Hominid' Returns In HD Remaster On Switch
Still have the GBA (I THINK this is my favourite version) and GC copies of this game, still love it. I was recently thinking that it took them very long to bring back this old favourite (when I was replaying one of my many versions of Cave Story, of which I can't say whether the 3DS or Switch physical release is my favourite version)
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 5th)
In my search form cheap physical games I got Young Souls, XIII, Thema's Fighting Herds, and Asterix & Obelix Slap 'm All. Playing the first 2 now, XIII has issues but I knew that going in and it's still a great old school fps that does get extra points for nostalgia and style, and Young Souls is amazing. Just HATE button mashing "mini games". I was always terrible at them, hated them with a passion, and they never made anything more enjoyable, immersive, fun, ... They should die. Luckily it's sort of optional in this otherwise beautiful gem I van't believe I never paid attention tot before.
Re: Dodgy 'Last Of Us' Clone On Switch Is No Longer Available, Thank Goodness
@Zeldork I'm trying to learn some Spanish nowadays, thanks for this enrichment of my vocabulary, I hope I never need this one though.
Re: Dodgy 'Last Of Us' Clone On Switch Is No Longer Available, Thank Goodness
@__jamiie You sold your entire backlog and collection for 0,99€? It must have had similar quality games in it.
Now, if Limited Run Games picks this one up for a, well, limited run, I'm sure SOME people will pay an arm and a leg for it.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 29th)
Kind of stuck on the third phase of the penultimate boss of Huntdown when the giant snake starts some kind of bullet hell attack that always just brutally murders my character, so I started playing Trek to Yomi, of which I got the Deluxe physical version quite cheap. Also started Wuppo, but haven't really gotten into it yet (it's not exactly the Pikuniku I was expecting, but still funny).
Just done (nearly) 100%-ing Sakuna of Rice and Ruin, and I might start another game with a similar loop soon, perhaps Cult of the Lamb (I did Moonlighter already). Before that I 100%-ed Slaycation, a fun over-the-top top down twin stick shooter with a fun loop of constant progression in loot and upgrades, and some grinding in the actual game. Guess that's what they call "rogue-lite"?
Other than that, still so much to play... So many big titles I haven't even touched yet but do have in my collection, or big indie games I got dirt cheap and still need to start playing. It's not even funny, it's causing actual stress if I allow it to. And if I allow myself, I'd go to Deku Deals looking for more dirt cheap games and look for reviews to justify a purchase.
MUST RESIST.
Re: Random: Fans Share Their Most Memorable Failed Experiments From Zelda: TOTK
I tried buying the limited edition not once, but twice, and failed. Not exactly an in-game experiment but hey. So I quit and haven't actually played the game yet. One day I'll get a used copy. Maybe. Probably. Possibly.
I love the series, I still have nearly every game in it in every version in at least complete in box near mint condition, most collector's editions, and almost every themed console, despite having stopped collecting video games like I used to back then. It's all stored at my mom's house, because my forest cabin is no place for such a collection. So I do want to play it and add it, but no longer at this price, and no longer as a "must".
Re: Feature: Our 17 Favourite Dogs In Games - Canine Companions & Memorable Mutts
Surprised to see Secret of Evermore here, it was one of the first games I thought of by the title.
One dog that barely has any "meaning" in the game he is part of, but still put me up for a huge dilemma, was the one in Dredge. You find him abandoned on an island and can take him with you on the boat, and can then bring him to a scientist on an island who is lonely. Basically just a silly "questline", but the dog is cute, but being on a small boat on the ocean is dangerous and sad enough, especially when you think of the eldritch horrors lurking in the water, and the risk of your cargo - the dog does take up cargo space but deserves it - going overboard. Which I read cannot happen as the game is programmed that way.
And indeed, Missile from Ghost Trick, I really DID expect that one here. And the Wario Ware one. COD Ghosts on Wii U. Blair Witch dog. Into the Dead 2 dogs. Plenty of dogs once you really start digging.
Oh well, I love most animals more than most humans, but dogs are just the best.
Re: First-Person Action Platformer Neon White Scores A Physical Switch Release
@farfetchd I would be happy if it had a manual or artbooklet in the box, not just some stickers...
Fangamer seems to be more consistent with manuals. But the prices and availability is always better, so I still agree.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - Castlevania: Order Of Ecclesia
Tough one, I think I mentally prefer the US one, just because I have that one still and prefer the slimmer black boxes over the fat see-through European boxes. So not actually because of the artwork.
So I might lean towards Japan, it has the European artwork (which I THINK I like SLIGHTLY more) and the thin black box. But I can't read that one...
Still not voting.
Re: MythForce Brings Roguelike Action And '80s Cartoon Aesthetics To Switch This September
Dragon's Lair 3D has always maintained a top spot in visual style, this looks great... It has my attention.
Re: Best Nintendo Switch Collections And Compilation Games
@AndrewR I have that one in my "backlog", so already in my collection, thanks for the reminder and the confirmation, it does push the game forward. It looks amazing and a lot of game for the price I paid. For some reason I haven't played it yet, but I was thinking about starting a new turn based strategy game soon.
Re: Best Nintendo Switch Collections And Compilation Games
@Yalloo I actually do agree, and understand your point of when it is no longer clever, it's not really "being cheap", it's not being stupid with your spending. I'm not always calculating everything, but I don't have to either given that I don't spend anything on truly stupid things. If I need domething expensive, I can most of the time just get it where my "richer" friends can't. If one of my friends has financial problems, I can often help them out, while I'm considered the "poor" one (but the only one who actually "owns" land, in several countries, and has enough money on the side to continue my current lifestyle for multiple decades without income (in the unlikely event that they stop raising all the prices all of the time and don't find a way to digitalise all money and put an expiry date on digital currency "to keep the economy alive"). I couldn't support anyone else's lifestyle for over a year probably though, but hermit / gipsy life in my own forest, WITH a pack of big dogs, 15 years at least no problem, 25 if I really try. And I don't go places where I could leave a tip in the first place, I've really had it with human society, but yeah, to each their own. I only wish THEY ("society") could leave ME be in harmless peace and quiet...
I'm just really easily satisfied. What I love most is free (if you refuse to pay false debts for it to false authorities) (sunshine, water, nature, the company of animals, a walk, a siesta in my hammock, fruits will be when I get my fruitforest growing in Spain, electricity I get from solar energy mostly... So some cheap games for my Switch are actually my form of decadent spending, and getting as much good game for as little money as I can is part of the game buying myself and the dogs a big watermelon feels like five christmasses at once, while I never felt "poor" eversince I CHOSE "poverty", and constantly did when I chased some kind of riches).
Success with your plan!
Re: Best Nintendo Switch Collections And Compilation Games
@Yalloo I live in Belgium, but I'm moving to Spain actually, because there i could buy a large plot of natural land in the mountains for a budget unheard of here (8ha for the same price I paid here for 1200 square meters of forest). And because I'll be much further away from human society and the climate (both meteorologically and politically) is much better where I'm moving to.
But yeah, I remember a time where Belgians and Dutch people had jokes about each other, and those about the Dutch were about how cheap and greedy they are assumed to be I call being "cheap" a way of being smart (I personally don't care for money or status or whatever), as all those who easily spend a lot chasing an idea of wealth or status end up poor even in what they value.
Re: Best Nintendo Switch Collections And Compilation Games
In my recent hunt for cheap(er) physical games, I have bought the Klonoa games for €15, the Spyro trilogy for €15, Tales from the Borderlands (downloadcode) and New TftB (on cartridge) combined for €18, and came across some other decent sales like the original Life is Strange collection and some others.
My goal is always to pay less then €15 per game "physical" (but I do count included downloadcodes of separate games as separate games), and less than €5 for download games. So compilations where each game justifies the price on its own are great. The downloadcodes included also give me enough points to buy some more games on deep sales, I like that.
And on that note, but kind of off topic, I also bought Olliolli World as a code in a box (something I normally never do) but it was €5, and I got 150 points for the download, so €1,5 back in eshop credit. Kind of a nice deal. It can buy me one of those older good indie games of €15 on a 90% discount, of which there are several on my wishlist at most times.
Budgetgaming is a better hobby than expensive game collecting.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions
I like the simplicity on one hand, but the excitement on the other. And both are consistent with previous games released in the series (because the series (in-)consistently keeps using two different kinds of box art). So it's a tough one. I wish they had really stuck with one of the two roads, and in that case... I still don't know which one I would have preferred.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 8th)
@Bucket Yeah they are (on easy, admittedly) just about right on that sweet spot where they get me a couple of times, I think "this is impossible, wtf", and then I win and want to play the next level.
The fact that it has a regular retail physical version with a full colour manual and some buttons of the main characters only makes it more awesomely 80's / 90's.
Now, if they could make a game like this from the movie They Live by John Carpenter, I have no further requests (from the games industry... for a while).
Re: Japan's Switch Sales In June Were Reportedly A Record High For The Console
And it's not even the only one playing DVD's, the cheapest Bluray player on the market, or the system everyone and their grandmother is interested in. It's just a fun little handheld that can easily be used as an outdated home console, with some of that Nintendo magic dust sprinkled over it in terms of software. No price cuts, hardly a decent sale or price cut on first party software,... There might not be a successor ever, Nintendo might be banking to colonise Mars, buy the WEF and all of its 8 billion human resources, and bet on whether they'll make a profit of this slave planet or we'll burn it first, while getting drunk on expensive booze and partaking in other decadent activities beyond our imagination.
Or they might not and be working on a successor and planning on the best time to launch it which is not now, time will tell.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 8th)
Huntdown, a great 90's style game about 80's style action.
Super Bullet Break, a game I would have completely overlooked for not being interesting to me in the slightest, were I not looking for a cheap physical game with some extra's to complete an online order of cheap physical games with some extra's to get free shipping. Absolutely surprised how much I enjoy this game despite how awful it matches with my usual preferences of video games or any media.
I might start Sakuna of Rice and Ruin or Mortal Shell, or one of the other games I got in that same online order (not all of them with physical extra's, some of them just REALLY cheap on sales, used, whatever). Every once in a while I make an order like that, and get enough points to get some extra dirt cheap games on sale on the eshop. Thinking of getting Ritual Crown of Horns now. And I still have several games to play from previous orders, and several others I still just haven't gotten to, so plenty... Perhaps (way) too much.
Re: Sinister Fishing Adventure 'Dredge' Receives Second Free Update On Switch
@Bunkerneath you'll be happy to know then, that the physical (in Europe at least, not sure about other regions) comes with a small art book. I know I love these kinds of things, it makes the game a great experience beyond just playing it.
Re: Sinister Fishing Adventure 'Dredge' Receives Second Free Update On Switch
@Dm9982 Yeah, that's one of the all-time highs for the horror genre, and it is stuck on a system that sold so little but aged so well (and was great even in its own time), it now costs an arm and a leg to buy a few of the good games for it. Glad I still have many of my original games for it, and bought a collection at dumping price as a present both to myself and my younger sister (who got the Gamecube and the doubles that we used to play a ton of back in the day) when the prices were low anyway, just before they skyrocketed, so selling a few doubles my sister wasn't interested in made me back my entire investment in it.
Eternal Darkness and the highly underrated game of John Carpenter's The Thing truly need a remake or remaster at least. Gamecube / PS2 era horror did many things right they seem to have forgotten about now. I can still hear many quotes from those games when I think back.
The most obvious one: "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there. Wondering, fearing, doubting...", every time the game was booted up. Which happened a lot, I'm quite sure that over the years I finished the game at least twenty times, much like RE4 and such.
Just watched the "true" ending on youtube, and I even still knew the words of that scene.
Re: Best Food In Nintendo Switch Games
Many of these... items... I wouldn't even consider as "food", but yeah, the fruits do look tasty, and I may not really like the watermelon level in Mario Sunshine, I'll never say no to a watermelon. It is the best food in existence. No competition.
Fresh coconuts, mango's, pineapples, pink grapefruits, some berries, bananas,... All sweet and very ripe... are second tier, but still heavenly. Making Mario Sunshine's vibe one of the greatest I know in games, with its tropical fruitiness and eventual levels of sunshinery and clear water everywhere (once cleaned up).
Can't wait for when my fruitforest in the mountains starts growing and feeding me.
Re: Sinister Fishing Adventure 'Dredge' Receives Second Free Update On Switch
@RainbowGazelle I see it more like any one chapter of Eternal Darkness, just without the final one. I mean the FINAL final one, after beating it in every allignment. Humans can't face off against cosmic horrors, and that's the point of cosmic horror. To me, a cosmic horror that is explained, defeated, or gladly serves a little human spec in resurrecting this little human spec's little human spec wife, is no longer a cosmic horror.
But I too do understand that some people like a more hopeful ending to their games, I just love how either the cosmic horror summoned destroys the earth, or the oceanic life you killed without remorse throughout the game, suddenly remorselessly and without further justification gets back at you.
Re: Sinister Fishing Adventure 'Dredge' Receives Second Free Update On Switch
Loved everything about this game, and I don't know what people disappointed by the ending had hoped for? It had two endings, I liked both, and it made a lot more sense how it actually ended than it would have if some small boat sailor who had been killing ocean life small and large throughout the game with no sign of remorse won in an epic boss fight from an Eldritch horror or just a VERY big oceanic life form that kills without remorse any human stupid enough to come sail and disturb the oceans. Cosmic horror is the kind of horror that is frightening because it is to us what we are to musquitos or bacteria: a ruthless mass killer that isn't even aware it does anything other than squash a minor annoyance, if it is even aware of the fact that it squashes it or entire civilisations of it.
Not only is this game fantastic and am I glad to have a reason to revisit it now, it even had a very nice decent physical retail release with a small artbook to display some of the amazing art in the game such as the dog.
Re: Capcom Provides A Vague But Mildly Promising Update On Mega Man's Future
Capcom: "dear fans, don't forget about Mega Man. Let us handle all the forgetting-about-Mega-Man-business while you buy the Mega Man themed merchandise."
Personally I'm not waiting for a new one, it's just something I noticed they do a lot.
Re: Talking Point: What Makes A Good Sidequest, Anyway?
Something you stumble upon, and becomes your personal highest interest, and has a few surprises of its own.
Re: Random: A 'Last Of Us' Clone Is Available On Switch, But Seriously, Don't Bother
@Jaybee thanks for that. At that price it may have convinced me to buy it, but not in the way you describe it. I have plenty to play anyway. Maybe if they make it better and the 99cents price returns. I always like giving smaller games a chance over the big expensive ones, and maybe another chance when they make them better over time, showing they care about their product as well.
Re: Random: Sakurai Explains Why True Twin-Stick Controls Weren't Possible For Kid Icarus: Uprising
If the stories are to be believed and my memory and interpretation of them is correct, Link's Awakening started as a non-official port of Link to the Past.
One of the best Zelda games. THE best Game Boy game.
Quit Sakurai-splaining and get to it, Nintendo will see the value. (Of course I'm not serious... But I AM serious that I DO WANT it to happen...)
Re: New Persona 5 Tactica Character Spotlight Showcases Joker, Morgana And Erina's Skills
@DAHstroy That is how I first saw them. As a Nintendo handheld gamer mostly, and a fan of Etrian Odyssey, Persona Q and Persona Q2 were how I first spent a lot of time with the cast of P3, P4, and P5. All chibi'd up.
Re: Feature: Pikmin Tier List - Which Pikmin Type Is The Best?
@HotGoomba Says Goomba Pumba.
Re: Best Remakes And Remasters On Nintendo Switch
House of the Dead may not be the lightgun game it should have been, and they should have remade the Overkill extended cut instead, but with the now added touch controls it's a great game if you can get it cheap. I got the limidead edition if that's what it's called for cheap and enjoyed it a lot. It's a bit like Dead and Furious (or Touch the Dead) on the DS if anyone else ever touched that game, except more playable and more available.
Link's Awakening is the obvious winner, on all platforms, for quite a while. Sure, there is the apparently great RE4 remake, but I only play Switch, and no way it's better than the Wii edition, I simply refuse to accept that possibility.
Re: Review: The Lara Croft Collection - Two Well-Preserved Tomb-Raiding Treasures
These spin offs are more classic Lara Croft than the reboot series, ironically, and I love twin stick top down gameplay often more than full third person (but Anniversary on Wii is still my favourite I guess). Online or lack thereof is not an issue, I'm quite a loner and the dogs don't play these kind of games, so it's just a matter of the publishers lowering the price to the point where I feel ok with it.
Re: PlayStation Boss Doesn't Think Call Of Duty Appeals To Nintendo's Core Audience
So in short, Jim Ryan is Cryin'. Nintendo fans are not interested in his opinions.
But the best selling platform that exists above and outside of the competition is not bought only by diehard Nintendo fans. Some people want a handheld that gets actual software support. Some are Playstation fans that didn't get a Playstation because there were none. And some are gamers, not business people crying over the internet. More interested in fun than in numbers. As Sony's boss you might want to try that, maybe you'll understand the market better, and won't drown in your own tears with no one to throw you a rope.
Re: Review: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - A DS All-Timer Returns In Stunning Form
@KateGray I completely agree, this game is a ten. When Missile tells you he just wants to scream welcome at everyone, a desklamp says "look at me, I'm a desklamp", the colours are bright, the puzzles mostly really nice, the animation incredible, everything is just amazing... how could it be less?
As for how Capcom handled it, with no physical release in EU AGAIN, for a game that NEEDS at least a small art book... that's a two. Killing my desire to get this at its current price digitally, and I'm not importing it at that price either. I'll stick with my DS original for now, but the demo was enough to get me to replay it again.
@fenlix That's why there are different leagues. And being perfect in your own is a ten. If I want an orange, a watermelon is hardly a three and an orange is a ten. A grapefruit a seven. If I want the best food ever, watermelons are the absolute ten, and grapefruits and oranges both an eight.
Ghost trick is an EXCELLENT ten for a shorter, fun, lovingly crafted, well written puzzle game.
But that's just my opinion. And who knows, I might be just a desklamp.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel - WarioWare Gold
As much as I like the characters, I think I like the Japanese boxart better. It might be a hypnotic effect though, with the background and Wario's eyes and hands...
Must... Consume... More... Wario Ware...
How did I get here all of a sudden, and who wrote this comment?