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@AnonyQ I hate it. Wonder is overly Americanised and it is a total debasement of the 2d Mario formula

@Oldstalk its funny but the basis for saying it 'exploits' people in a wheelchair is because the game exists at all. If there is no wheelchair game then they are 'excluded'. so it's a lose-lose situation. Its one of those interesting things where the people that actually make a big deal out of it to begin with are actually exploiting the people they claim to be defending, by making their condition into an issue to begin with. And why do they make it into an issue? Because it's a cheap and easy way to score virtue points, and its not even so much to score points with others, but so in their own minds they can think of themselves as virtuous (i.e. its all based on flattering their own vanity).

@TerribleTerabytes normally I would agree with you, because MK8 is a masterpiece and all-timer. MK World however is absolute not 'masterfully designed' and is one of the worst MK games to date

It's quite interesting this 'toys for adults' phenomenon because I swear everyone I know and see is too poor and hard stretched financially to spend 100GBP on a LEGO set. I guess there is still plenty of disposable income out there despite the claims to the contrary.

Its great. The game feels so dynamic and just fun. I always feel I dont like Musou games and went in with the apprehension I always have starting a Musou, and I enjoyed this one more than any other I have played so far. Kinda makes me feel like I should give the Dynasty Warriors games a shot. Credit to Koei for singlehandedly managing to keep their Musou genre of games alive since the PS1 era

@SalvorHardin yeah, games like overwatch and Fortnite have had an unfortunate effect on how games now look

idk what it is with these games, but they are graphically ugly

@ThatOneLevel yeah, highly annoying stuff. it's like Nintendo care more about their movies now than their games.

Switch 3 basically

a 'spiritual successor to Blood Omen' was not excepted but is very welcome

hmmm, something not working for me. Not sure how others feel but does she seem a bit non-convincing as Lara?

@deezcronuts Donkey Kong Bananza is a huge hit. its consistently ranking in the sales charts

idk why they didn't have a major Mario title for launch or near launch. putting time into stuff like drag x drive smh

@gaga64 Turok 2 remaster has been on Switch since August 2019. That's 6 and a half years. I played it about 2021 and it was great with zero issues. Just Nightdive keep tinkering with it and it seems they always will until there is nothing else can be done. I think they deserve credit for that, but it's not like Turok was some major mess and they are only just getting around to fixing it.

@Potimarron IYKYK

Metal Gear Solid: Enchanted Wonderland

are there not Hori joy cons with the classic D-pad for Switch 2 yet? if so I dont see why this is an issue

honestly worried Atari's acquisition of Nightdive is starting to erode Nightdive's quality and integrity

I never play these type of games outside the Hyrule warrior series, but honestly Age of Imprisonment is great. I am constantly impressed by how good Koei Tecmo is in building these games with all the moves, mechanics and wildness going on the screen. Plus they just fill out so much more of the back stories. I just wish they had gone with a canon story with Age of Calamity

@Oldstalk and what do you think Chinese cinema culture is? look at the Chinese box office. Their new thing is AI. their movies are AI movies. Just because you call something a culture doesn't mean it's good. That Japanese anime director was just on the news today saying everything has become slop, and 90% of productions are trash. He is not wrong. This is all slop culture and I am just saying Avatar does not have legs for the long run. Financial success does not equal good cultural product with legs and legacy. How come people love3 and respect Lord of the Rings more even though it generated less at the Box Office? Have we become so vulgar and jaded by muh economic success that something making money means it's good. Are Facebook and instagram good things because they make tons of cash? no, its just the slop market. I know you love Avatar but anyone can gauge the public sentiment just by asking and reading around.

@BrianJL well, we will see. I dont doubt it will do well in China, but its been a terrible year for Hollywood and western audiences, and it will be interesting to see A3 bucks the trend and does numbers.

I mean bear in mind where this discussion started. the game is not even coming to Switch because it's not worth the cost of porting it over (i.e. no one is interested)

@Oldstalk yes, I am gonna say no matter how many Chinese you drive into Chinese cinemas to prop up these movies and your narrative that they are great cultural phenomenon (China was by far the largest market for Avatar 2), that it is all just bloat, and that people are essentially just consuming these movies in the same way they would some other throw away product. That's why these movies are throw-away, and why no one really cares. But of course when you can get the numbers bloated up with asian markets then you can all pretend these movies are great legacy franchises. Funko Pops also had their time in the sun based on great sales and global consumption.

@BrianJL but this is just money. What you are saying is that Avatar movies pull in more cash than Star Wars movies,, Indiana jones movies, Lord of the rings, James Bond, etc, etc, but this kind of superficial popularity does not correlate with legacy and popularity. We all know that Avatar is a dead in the water franchise culturally speaking. There is no hype for the next movie, or its continuity, but people regard avatar is a CGI slop fest that's good to bury a few hours in.

@BTB20 yeah, but you know this series is tired and it's not going to have a great legacy status or continuity. Money is one thing, but Avatar already feels dead in the water and everyone is going to forget about these movies as soon as they release

dragging out this franchise was such a bad idea. It so desperately wants to be a long time cultural phenomenon, like Star Wars or something, but just doesn't have it. The first movie was a thing and it should have stayed there

this one is a no brainer. For once the USA takes it. yet people going with JP in the poll

@Anachronism never played a monster hunter game in my life. wouldn't know where to start lol. but these prices are low...

honestly, I hate modern Pokemon games. they are just plain ugly.

Isn't there a bit of confusion here with the use of 'brand new entry'?

@Edwicket Hunters is an extremely good title, and amazing for a DS title. It is one of the most technically accomplished DS games. Of course the OG controls now aren't great, but I mean for the time Hunters was amazing

love how the JP one has Hitler in the sky as the big bad guy lol

honestly impressed with Air Riders. A far superior racer to MKW really. Air Riders has a good balance of the random/luck element vs actual skill and thinking about how to win strategically. Mario Kart games in the future really need to dial back the item craziness that feels very silly in many ways. Honestly don't think I will be able to go back to MKW.

@KociolekDoSyta pleased that wasn't just me. I was re-reading that sentence over and over...

I spent countless hours trying to clear the first R-Type on 1CC. got the final boss and was meant to keep grinding but got burned out. classic though. can't wait to play this.

@ear_wig having 'game has a learning curve' as a con is extremely insane tbh. Like games can and should have learning curve. Having insane difficulty spikes might be a con, but having a learning curve as a negative is just weird. Idk if that comes from the fast, ready and easy world we live in. might as well have 'game uses controls', or 'game makes you think' as a con

quip snarky humour is so overdone and tedious by now.

we got SMG2 and a package of both SMG games basically to promote the movie. Personally, I worry that Nintendo is basically shifting toward a movie focus because its big cash and just using its games as a promo base for movies.

ArtDink. they also done Carnage Heart for PS1

SEGA must have got a massive boost from the Sonic movies

I should play a DQ game some day

not that I am some kind of purist but I hate this. Hollywood/Netflix is so bankrupt of ideas they are pillaging the video game scene and its legacy for never-ending race-to=the-bottom content to feed eternal demand. My hope is that publishers just say no, we are letting you defile our product, but I mean given that Konami handed over major franchises like Castlevania I dont have much hope.

@DennyCrane hmmm, not bad. gonna secure nightstalkergear as a web domain now

anything by Nightdive is a good thing

hmmmm. there is no way they are gonna just sit on 2 and 3. must be coming at some point

one of the RE titles I have never been able to finish. Beautiful renders and graphics, love the opening train setting, but something about it gets tedious I found. maybe its just because it was at the backend of the first RE model of doing things before Resi 4 mixed things up. Plus that limited inventory space and having to swap between characters became a chore.

hmmm, the choice been poor, uninspired graphics and environments or poor uninspired graphics and environments but slightly cleaner looking...

'ShinyHunters' and 'Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters', 'Crimson Collective'.

I like how they all have bad guy names and everything, but its funny how you will see the intel agencies and police go massively hard after one person for a fairly minor 'offense' until they catch them, and yet there are organised crime groups out in the open laughing and bragging about running extortion rackets long term.

@Liam_Doolan ok! thanks for the info

you gave this a 8/10 with very few cons (frame rate issues being the main con) saying it is a great game. I guess with the framerate issue fixed you would now do a 9/10? Do reviews ever get update when they fix these things relatively quickly?