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i wonder if Elden Ring will bounce back in after winning GOTY

@JohnnyC "Its been out more than a month. " My man, Mario Kart 8 has been on the scene for years and it is hot on its heels. Amazing how quick some major titles drop out of the top 10 though, and others literally stay in for years.

i hadnt played any Pokemon games since the OG Gameboy titles, so tried a couple on Switch. I played 'Eevee' and Legends. Unbelievably bad games. Not even good RPG's. Just pure fanboy OCD Pokemon collectathon type stuff. Graphically extremely lazy, boring. I cannot believe these games sell so well. I dont get it.

I always feel with Sonic games (especially the 3D titles), it is more a fact that people desire to like these games from a kind of good-will toward the Sonic franchise, then they are actually good. Something about flying at hyper fast speeds is inherently incompatible with a 3D platforming world in an engaging and meaningful way. Even 2D Sonic titles are over-rated, and although had a great vibe, were never on the level of Mario titles. Sad to see this is another mis-direction of the franchise.

@Mince Indeed. 1 point added on for being a Square Enix game - so realistically a 5

@Rykdrew the point seems to be that getting the clear on a 1cc run will take 60-70 hours. sounds about right. so you are right, it takes a long time to clear the game

how come i am in Europe and i have been on the shop almost everyday and never been unable to get in once? Really, i dont get this.

not a bad rendition tbh. nemesis is easy to screw up it seems. this is pretty good

physical on Switch has really sold out. hoping new copies are distributed/produced

@ModdedInkling i kinda like them, and i like what they did with the BotW set up. But after you have played a few more warrior titles, the formula gets familiar very quick, and it is difficult not to get fatigue with these games.

FIFA 22 is there because it was in the sale with a pretty big price reduction

I dunno man. almost all boss fights. the plane shooter levels were my favourite, was hoping for maybe 2 or 3 of those levels. boss fights are nice, but mostly they are better when broken up with different level styles. Would have been nice to have just one run'n'gun level.

i collect Crash merch, and looking back at the early PS1 stuff, they progressively gave him a more moronic cretin look that is just too much at this point. like, dial it down a bit, we know Crash is kinda like that, always was, but it is just ott at this point.

well, if they are doing a mini now, that means the major direct has so much content for Nintendo IP's they have to do that seperate. BotW2, Mario Odyssey 2, Metroid Prime 4 and Metroid Prime Trilogy Switch Edition here we come......

@MidySeaCloud Or what?

theres gotta be something coming. and theoretically we are only about 9 months out from BotW2 release. There has to be a trailer. There is no way a direct is not happening within the next few weeks.

@Expa0 indeed. Nintendo should have licenses AM2R. the mercurysteams are OK, but they are not proper Metroid's.

it is trite and tedious by now, but i am recently getting bothered by the term Metroidvania. This has been gone over plenty, but it is really absurd that the 'vania' part is in there. Castlevanias didnt start doing the whole metroid backtracking item finding thing until the GBA castlevanias, where it basically implemented the Metroid model. it is just that the name works. Really it should be a Metroid-Zelda combo - but 'Zeldatroid', or 'Metelda' doesnt work too well....

This one feels like a no-brainer though. I bet it is called Switch 2, and is full backward compatible, and is essentially a more powerful robust system. If they launch it with full GameCube catalogue on the online, and maybe Wii, with strong lauch titles, i cant see how it would fail.

Breath of the Wild 2 (new footage) and Metroid 4 (some footage) and this will be the greatest direct in a long time.

so i read through this, and the takeaway is that 'wholesome' is a purely subjective term without any objective, fixed or absolute basis. So wholesome, as a result, doesnt really mean anything at all. Well, it does, but what it means to one person, is just 'that persons opinion', and the next person can have an entirely different understanding of wholesome. So there is no shared ground or common/shared meaning the term denotes. That is all well and good, but then that means that the term is kinda meaningless (has no absolute and shared reference), which from what i read they might be happy with anyway.

the main character just feels so badly designed, and it loses what legit OoT vibe it could have had. But this must have been made by the same people that made 'Fatum Betula' with that cat thing. that was actually a really great little game

yeah, sure, will update without question. 'G-Darius for the consumer' should be interesting, since that was the PS1 release of the game. Nice they went the extra mile with this, because they didn't really need to do that.

Dont want to be critical just for the sake of it, but why does it feel like a massive tech demo? This Sonic really needs to have good combat to make the world relatable in some way. As it is i feel like this world would become tedious after around 2 hours. And where is Sonic's Sheikah slate?

@Damo fair enough man, i know you are doing your best. just it feels its getting a little control freak with the comment sections sometimes. But anyway, honestly speaking, i am hyped for this game totally, and really, really hope it comes to Switch soon.

@Damo useless? maybe it was useless to you. But you know, sometimes light hearted comments that are kind of made in jest just lighten up things a little you know. Not everything has to be deadly serious and 'constructive' like we are enthusiastic corporate employees trying to score points with how 'constructive' our comments are. Maybe not everything revolves around your perspective, you know. Plus, it is certainly a bit odd that we are getting a semi-review of a game that may or may not come to Switch, when there are plenty of titles that get zero attention but deserve it.

In terms of the device itself, this isn't even a competition. Steam Deck can run Elden Ring pretty damn fluid. The thing here is that (obviously) Nintendo has a whole gaming world of its own making. People are gonna wanna play BotW2 really, really badly. Cant do that on Steam.

@OorWullie sine mora was horrific

if you are used to playing the PS2, this is basically unplayable on 3DS. it is horrific. Get an old PS2 and play the OG. 1000 times better.

WATA is not primarily for 'game preservation' to begin with. anyone can put a game into a strong plastic case or loader, and it will be protected forever. But of course they grade games and this creates a hierarchy of quality and state for any given title. The games collectables industry is probably more booming than any other collectables industry in the world, bar perhaps the fine art market itself. The crazy inflation on prices is contingent upon an economy that paradoxically, is in very bad state. in fact the whole of western civilisation is in a state of rapid economic collapse. Fiat cash is understood as being a kind of illusion (worthless), so people who have money are flying into whatever commodities and valuables they can. The video game scene is one of the major places for that right now (along with trading cards), and so companies like WATA are naturally making a killing (and playing the market a bit along with it).

They have to be working on Quake 2. The sales on Q1 seem pretty decent, and Q2 is such a masterpiece. I really hope it drops some time this year. But amazing work on this, and great to see some of the best level-mods being added for free download. Value for money on this is off the charts. I personally didn't like this new clear text that was automatically configured into this update, but pleased to see you had the option to revert back to 'classic' text options. Seems to be an overall graphical refinement and tidy-up with this update that is nice to see as well.

idk, nice and everything, but is making a news story everytime a piece of shovelware hits the WiiU feels kinda tedious

"a free digital rom will become available two weeks after sales go live."

are things like this just labors of love and a kind of hobby for the developer. I mean it is gonna be given away for free, and i suppose they will be lucky to get a retun on the money they put into it. Respect to people that do this, but I kinda don't get it.

i gave 1 a good go. I dunno, maybe it is a nostalgia thing were it was epic back in the day, but it didnt grab me in any way. I watched some gameplay of the otheres. Maybe the later titles are superior, but i cannot help but feel the fandom surrounding this franchise is a little gimmicky and hype.

@MrGawain Nintendo didn't develop the game, Mercury Steam did. Nintendo produced it as its IP (and supervised it to an extent). So Dread is 'other people' making Nintendo's stuff. Also, you say this in a dismissive tone as though AM2R is some kind of trashy remake of M2. AM2R is way, way superior to Mercury Steams 3DS M2 remake, and feels authentically like a Metroid game in the way Steam Metroid's dont. It is a remarkable fan 'remake' by any standard, produced with passion and care that eclipses most big budget titles. I think that DoctorM64 is entitled to his opinion.

nice to see TS get into the top 10 for sure. Crazy that MK8 is consistently in the top 10 week after week. What a money spinner..

fitting for a role play game

@origamihero yes, price gouging by the pharma industries that is permitted by Governments is criminal

@origamihero depends what you mean by 'access to healthcare'. medical error was the 3rd leading cause of death in the US - and those stats came in after the fact that no one covers each others backs more than doctors (and the police). When i was doing my postgrad studies, i shared a house with med students, and i realised then that the best and the brightest were definitely not being brought into the hospital systems. Nothing is more misplaced than our current idolisation of the medical system and its employees. At the same time i know some doctors and they are competent and professional - but they tell me how bad it really is with new people coming into the structures. If by access to healthcare you mean access to proper nutrition and well directed medical supplementation (vits D, B, and c, etc) then yes, that is essential. Our soils are heavily depleted, and nutrients in food is decreasing rapidly. Knowledge is most important.

I heard this recently from a old doctor, that the bone density is really decreasing with generations and that now, the bone density and skeletal resistance is very weak. I doubt gaming is the cause lol, but there is something about the way we live now that is making our bodies change.

i would like to see a review on this. clearly alot of heart and effort went into this game. it deserves it

amazing that so much has been invested into the concept and art direction but so many amateur errors and choices in gameplay. A few good updates and yeah, this could be good. Yet they have had so much time since the Steam release to make the said changes. Still enjoyable, but Konami, get it together and finish something properly.

nice. looks like it might be playable without causing an epileptic seizure as well. I couldn't play the 3DS with the 3D on for more than five minutes before starting to feel uncomfortable