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not getting political, but it is an interesting strategy to kind of pursue and double down on these things in video games, when the trend is turning away from them ('woke' under heavy criticism). I feel its a bad strategy and we will prob see less of it, but it was an interesting move on Nintendos part given their staunch anti-political general m.o.

@Porky ok man, fair enough, you understand the history and nuance of this better than i do. I imagine you are right

@Porky just because its its own entry doesnt make it MK9. from what i see it is just MK Tour. nothing stops MK9 being the next game just because there was MKTour between 8 and 9

there is a major risk of the Nintendo IP undergoing the Hollywood Pixar'isation of its characters.that is gonna make them more 'universal' but duller and lame in that way Pixar/contemporary animation graphics tend to look. They should stay closer to a Japanese character and not embrace this modern movie animation look. Not everything should look like an American movie.

@AnnoyingFrenzy yeah lol, i dont see this being practical for a fast paced fps where you have to dash the mouse all over the place. this wont work

@Andee well, JRPG's just were not that popular in the UK and Europe at the time. The concept of an RPG was still somewhat alien, and the RPG was way more popular in the USA and obviously Japan at the time. More popular in Europe was third person shooter and horror game type affairs. It wasn't until the success of FF7 in European regions that JRPG's were put on the map in a big way.

USA nearly always have the worst box art. It is Japan > Europe > NA

i love how we re gonna even know what games are coming before nintendo finally do something

@TheBoilerman problem is often the text or UI is just to small to see on Lite. like Alien Isolation. need glasses to read it

@OldGamer999 docked only switch gamers are a mystery to me. i cannot play the thing docked, just feels wrong. Strictly handheld

@Dazman yep. UK is poor mans land now. and we are only getting poorer and it will get worse. Everyone is broke, no one wants to spend beyond their means much. Digital is just much cheaper

i am pleased others are leaking it. Nintendo have just took the p**s this time around. there is a kind of window of reasonable disclosure after you have announced something and Nintendo have this whole thing ready to roll but still wont unveil it.

i mean i personally hate being forced to have to buy from LRG and wait god knows how long before i receive a game. I mean there are other small producers obviously, but the whole system for getting non-major titles is really not great. hopefully some technological advancements will make it easier for devs/publishers to just whack out a bunch of physical products instead of having to rely on places like LRG

@PinderSchloss

'most dangerous man alive'
cant tell if you are serious or joking lol.

my hope is that its true it can competently and comfortably run PS4 games. if thats true then its enough for a huge array of content and ports. hopefully it arrives port heavy.

@Not_Soos i dont think that would be a 'banger year' year tbh. it would be tepid. theres no way the whole thing doesnt not release by autumn.

thing is i dont think people are just 'repeating the past'. video games literally demand innovation at breakneck speed and thats what tends to happen. people get tired of things quik, things move on. there are tons of original games. At the same time its good there is a retro scene that leans heavily on retro paradigms and styles, whilst shaking things up a bit. The nature of the competitiveness in the industry literally demands innovation. Look at how Nintendo shake things up. Nothing against Lena, she is obviously very competent, but it makes me wonder why people say this (its kind of a cliche people just automatically say i supposed) when if you trace video game history the innovation and trying new things is basically the norm.

@SammyGoesHowdy you doubt wrong. Not sure if you remember the SNES mini but shortages caused a scalping craze for a while

its ridiculous the Po'ed remaster is in there. PO'ed is an important piece of gaming/FPS history because it was made when the concept of what a FPS game should be hadnt settled, and it is very weird and experimental but in a good way that is literally totally unique.

people shouldnt take his comments seriously, its more like an act or game he plays where he 'plays the d**k' but isnt actually one. its just part of his persona. He is a bit eccentric and thats a good thing. Genuine artists were often ecentric, but there is such pressure against genuine eccentricity these days, that it makes people inclined toward eccentricity even more uptight and neurotic. Not everything has to be taken as a serious moral failing. He is just an eccentric who likes to play with his fanbase a bit.

dont blame them tbh, waiting for Nintendo to have the right timing on showing this bloody thing that is visually ready for ages is liek watching paint dry. Just do it. Someone else had to because nintendo wouldnt. There is being a tease and then there is being a bore. Nintendo just keeps dragging it

Alders Blood is a great game made wiht a lot of care. people should dismiss that title as junk or shovel ware or anything

theres so much in December anyway, that no big deal. Legacy of Kain drops in 4 days and theres nightdives remaster of Thing in a couple of days as well

@Burning_Spear idk man, if it is otherwise bug free and playing well (as i understand it is) then not having Touch is hardly making it an incomplete product. there were never part of the classic set up to begin with. if someone releases metal gear solid and it is a perfect port but without touch controls, is it then an 'incomplete product'?

i tried LiS 2 and to like these games you need to have a quite specific mindset, that likes a kind of cringey narrative based affair. a lot of that kind of contemporary drama kind of dialogue

man, we are so dry and starved and just all here waiting for Switch 2 that we have to drag out some 'drama' from a behind the scenes making of an advert for Switch 1.

Nintendo put us out of our misery and drop the Direct for Switch 2 already...

@Toastmaster well Nightdive are the gold standard for remasters. The Shadowman remaster is one of the greatest most caring remasters ever. its a damn shame Nightdive didnt get a hold of the LoK games for remaster. Aspyr are just a corporation going through the motions. Nightdive are something like artists of remastering

'abandoned his family' is a bit rough. he is an honorable guy and maybe just had to leave temporarily.

never a fan of the 'upgrade ship' mechanic, but looks pretty good tbh

thank goodness they didnt go with that shortest hairstyle on Zelda

id give it a 7/10 personally. its actually a really fun game you get in to. not complete yet, but honestly better and more fun than expected

i like a tough game, and gave it a good shot, but the first game was just so hard lol.

we need Switch 2 bad

@AfroMario i have about 300 hours in it, and at the end i would say it is of course a great game, but at the same time disappointing. I was raging at people first saying it is a DLC, but in truth, there is an element of it that does just feel like it is a large DLC. the weakest aspects though are the voice acting and elements of the story line. BotW just has so much of a more coherent and engaging plot line/narrative. I will be happy to see a new art direction and concept on the Switch 2

@sixrings the whole thing was a total scam anyway lol. i give credit to any business that tried to stay open and keep things running instead of succumbing to 'tank the economy and die'.

its kind of the end then. there is only so much a company who's whole rationale was the sale of physical games and hardware can 'adapt'. May as well become on online store only because thats how like 95% of people buy physical games anyway

@LadyCharlie Nov 30th is pretty close to Christmas lol

@Takoda i just thought it was a bit too easy. Once you have the flurry rush thing down its an absolute walk in the park. I personally preferred the Ganon fight from BotW, and preferred Dark Beast Ganon over the dragon. But was still fun to be fair

just a damn shame no DLC

@LEGEND_MARIOID some people dont mind censorship. generally when someone is not bothered it is because they are already of a certain political persuasion. but if things go the other way then they get interested and angry.

@LikelySatan ah man, impossible to have convo. NL just delete everything lol. so nevermind. all the best anyway

@LikelySatan given the furore around it and the silence i mean its a bit suspect. Most of these things are always the same thing. you dont have to be especially prescient to guess (and you want to bet that the people who have been guessing this is about 'womens objectification' or something similar to that are right? ) it would be a risky wager. And come on man, no one thinks that some right winger in Crystal Dynamics asked to have these removed for 'think of the children' lol. At least let us be honest and we can be pretty sure what this is. This is the zeitgesit we are living in, and it just ties in with the increase in hate speech laws and bills being passed left right and centre and the culture of wrong think that is coming from left wing/liberal sources. If i am wrong, i will stand corrected, but i am willing to bet i and everyone here is not. I mean read the article, earlier statements from CD show a left wing narrative and scope running through the whole ethos of the company. they have the statement in the actual article. It is extremely disingenuine to say 'ah, this could actually be a right wing thing' lol. we know what this is