Specters

I wanted to get this on launch but with Ubisoft being Ubisoft it's a no from me.

@Rayquaza2510 It's because the chip despite being Nvidia does not support DLSS. The AMD is open source and the FidelityFX 1.0 supports older chips.

But hopefully it is a trend we can look forward to the Super Switch or Switch 2 or whatever that they should be utilizing upscaling technology and hopefully the new DLSS which is great.

Sounds like contract workers found out that the rights of contract workers in America is near nonexistent.

Maybe time to invest in some politicians that actually want to better workers rights (progressives)

Looks like great additions. The new movement, weapons and specials look fantastic. Definitely they will mix up meta depending how powerful those rolls i frames are.

Also they didn't really say it but you can see in Rainmaker there is actually now a closer check point platform instead of just 1. I assume the Rainmaker will reset there instead of back in the middle. So there might be other changes to the ranked modes.

@invictus4000 buddy you're the one closing your eyes and complaining you can't see.

@invictus4000 don't know what to tell you other than you seem to have a warped expectation if a new single player campaign, new weapons, new stages, new specials is just not enough 'newness' for you. You should still be playing Splatoon 1 if you could do everything the same as before.
And the rest of us will be playing 3 having much more fun without you.

@invictus4000 new weapons, new specials, new stages, new single player campaign. Maybe you're not looking.

@chocolate_supra Everything in the screenshots was also in the Nintendo Directs. Also if you're really worried about spoilers probably shouldn't read on articles explaining anything about something you don't want spoiled.

I'm not worried about it. I'm actually excited about it. It's been in nearly every regular Nintendo Direct since its announcement and mostly will have something within the next weeks closer to the release.

@Patendo would recommend it if you enjoyed any of the previous games. If you enjoy any JRPG or RPG in general it's already shaping out to be one of the best. I'm about 30 hours in and having a great time with it.
There are several connections already with the previous games but it could still be enjoyed without that knowledge.

If you have no interest in RPGs, expansive worlds, multilayered gameplay systems, or complex storylines then it probably won't be for you but you could always go to a retailer and get a physical copy and most with return them within a certain period of time.

Can't wait to play this! Now the challenge is to complete it before Splatoon 3.

I found a lot of The Witcher 3 to be great with little stories all over the place. The filler icons and 'quests' where whatever. If you were going for completion then it would be annoying. But those icons really bother people because Elden Ring has hundreds of those useless filler bosses/dungeons that held little to no stories and the general consensus is that's brilliant design.

I think BoTW was much better because of the immersion, lack of UI clutter, and the interlocking systems. While on the board they didn't have a ton of side quests they were fun and had some good stories. I would just say they needed more multipart quests and a few legacy dungeons and it would have been damn near perfect.

Definitely doesn't look like Fall Guys. What a click bait title.

Looks more like Air Ride than Fall Guys.

Would rather it just died. These conventions are totally obsolete.

Thought the first one was sort of bland. Barely got through a couple chapters unlike Hyrule Warriors I must have put in like 200 hours. So this one I wasn't optimistic but after playing the demo they made a lot of great changes and the focus on Three Houses characters was the best decision they could have made. I've been playing through the Golden Deer path and loving it so far.

I was 'processing the payment' for about 3 hours before giving up. Oh well.

FINALLY! It's sort of damped by it being on Game Pass but glad for Switch owners that can have it on the go now. I might even get it both on PC and Switch.

Let's hope Atlus/Sega continue this.

At first I was like "is that Erik and Mia or just standard Dragon Quest characters?" But really great to see their story expand and it looks like a fun spin off.

I'm shocked Square had this in the hiding till now. A more refined Rune Factory that looks to be more about the combat than relationship building. The more the merrier.

This looked beautiful. Definitely going to pick this one up.

The two sections that look like traditional Sonic zones actually looked interesting and maybe even fun. The open world/zone/hub still looks lifeless and boring.
But I'm more interested than none now.

Clearly Sega didn't cut that trailer.

This was a pretty decent Nintendo Direct and probably the best Nintendo Direct Mini. Tons of great titles shown off.

Played the demo and then went and bought the game. Definitely feels like their best effort yet for the more traditional Musou. Though I must say I absolutely loved Persona Strikers and I would hope they do more in the style of Persona Strikers for another series with a smaller cast. Maybe even a Tokyo Mirage Sessions sequel if they ever did I think would be perfect for that style.

This was a great game just in general. Really wish they did something more with the IP.

Watched the new gameplay demos and doesn't look any better. He has some punches and kicks and what looks like a dodge counter. Puzzles still look boring. Pop in of platforms is still poor and too close to the player especially when going at speed...like Sonic does.
If we are giving Team Sonic the benefit of the doubt and their concept is just TOOOOO REVOLUTIONARY for our simple minds to understand then whoever is running their marketing and PR should be fired. Sega has really botched this up.

All and all how I see looks like it is trying to be elements of ripped right out of BoTW & Mario Odyssey + bog standard modern platforming + Sonic speed. Wish they could just give us a hint of something more creative. Sonic Forces at least promised something more exciting than Frontiers is now.

Wow this is a bad response to criticism and really shows how terrible Team Sonic's concept is. People responding negatively to videos Team Sonic put out! They could have shown off something everyone could have 'understood' better but I don't think there is anything else to it.
Maybe they need a better marketing team to 'explain' it to all of us.

@Pandy-the-Panda yes all builds are early builds before release I'm glad you took what he said absolutely literally and not what he meant by saying he hoped they could fix issues in the early build before launch. For the Sonic Team to show this off as their first impressions doesn't give the greatest confidence to potential buyers and it is also true that this is the game if it is releasing soon.
They might polish it up, but their previous games would say that polish ain't their best attribute. They might get the draw distance better so playable platforms don't disappear 50 feet away from the player, I mean how would Sonic go fast if you can't even see the platforms. They might get the frame rate better through optimizations. But this is the game. The art is this, the combat is this, the puzzles are this. You cannot change the core fundamentals of the game within 6 months.

@Pandy-the-Panda this isn't an alpha or a beta. This is the game. Unless they delay it for a couple years and basically scrap it this is how the game is going to look and play.

There is absolutely no way it is from an "early build" and the game is coming out soon and THAT is what they decided to show as the first impression.

Or maybe the Sonic Team is just that poor at even finding something good in their design to show off.

This is bad news just in general. Don't like 99% of their games but all these large mergers are only bad for the industry and over all society becoming more monologist.

If these ultra wealthy executives wanted to do something truly good they could allow the studios to run the company as a collective. They don't need any more money (which this is really about).

@Abes3 Is that what you think markers look like?

They definitely don't want someone taking over because new leadership might not want to cover up all the serious serious serious issues Ubisoft continues to not take any real action on.

Wow this looks great. Hope the final product is good. Definitely on my radar now.

This is a big no. Looks like a very uninspired game.

DxM was decent loved when you were actually in a fight but there was a lot of barriers to just being in the fights themselves. Was really hopeing they did sequel to expand it out because there is a really good core to the game. Maybe later but probably not given how poorly it did.

This is truly excellent news. Though it does make me think that Splatoon 3 won't be coming out this summer anymore as was rumored. Which is fine because XBC3 will take me a month or two to finish easily.

@Chocobo_Shepherd It would only improve the 'open world' that ran at 30 fps (and below) but most if not all the fights were at a fairly steady 60 fps. And taking it from a dynamic 1080p to maybe 4K, but the art style would scale fairly easily.

Doubt they'll put any amount of work to do any other optimizations or improvements for other platforms.

@Lemonyoshi the whole new single player story. The new multiplayer weapons, maps, and gear.

Think it is simple why you would get it if you have already played Splatoon 2.

Been playing Dragalia Lost since day one. Best conversion of RPG to mobile and they kept adding more modes and events, it honestly deserved a real game to utilize these characters.

Since it is shutting down feel they missed an opportunity there to do something like GranBlue. Get Arc System Works to make a blazing hot fighting game with all these characters with roll back and they would be in the money. Platinum or Monolithsoft could make a great ARPG or RPG with all the materials they've already made.

But I feel this series will just go into the Nintendo vault for weird cameos.

@Moonsorrow999 They actually never mention any technical issues until they updated their review on March 3rd, 8 days after posting their review they did a separate article about the performance differences between platforms. Also in the review does not say which versions they played, but Digital Foundry showed that every version of the game cannot hold a stable frame rate usually in the 40s-50s. The most stable version is playing the PS4 version on PS5. I find it hard to believe you never had a noticeable frame rate issue when it has been so widely reported that has been the main focus of From's post launch patches and Valve went as far as to fixed the main issue for Steam Deck (shader compiling and creating thousands of instances without caching).
I 100%ed it on the PC at 140 hours and I was having frame rate and hitching issues right up to the end even after the 2 post release patches. My PC is higher specs than a PS5 and should run the game on paper with zero issue.
What platform did you play on?

This was were I thought the reviews would be. I bet I'll have a good time with it just I'll be waiting for a sale.

Also from what I seen online the technical issues are input lag, pop in, shuttering frame rate when multiple things on the screen. Surprised that seemed to be IGN's major problem with the game and it took it down to a 6 when they just gave Elden Ring a 10/10 which had far worse versions of those exact same problems. When I was reading the review their technical issues part was right next to an Elden Ring ad highlighting their 10/10. Oh well here is me thinking there should be some sort of consistency from publications.

The bosses at it again. Think there is a common issue and it is the corporate structure and lack of employee power in companies.

I'm shocked Hungrybox doesn't know that Smash is actually one of the biggest fighting games. Also it did fine before without EVO and also regularly the highest viewing of EVO events. Competitive Smash will be fine.

The preview didn't look to be anything special. This is one I'll have my eye on and hope for the best.

Funny I had this preordered on Amazon for years and cancelled it myself a couple months ago. Oh well.

I'm still shocked, like many others, that they didn't fix the frame rate. It really shows how little work Square wanted to be put into this.

@BTB20 last I read was it was their second highest grossing mobile game and had 200+ million downloads. Just because you don't play something doesn't mean it was a failure or everyone hated it.

This was big. Can't wait! Hopefully they do 3 as well.

Wow I really wish there was this much resistance to loot boxes, predatory DLC, and pay to win mechanics. Really strange what gamers won't accept when it's fairly similar to what they have accepted as common place (and even defend sometimes).

I have an ultra high end PC run 4K 144 fps on everything that can run it, but when I play on the Switch I know what I'm getting. As long as the game is fun the graphics or even frame rate don't mean much.
Just an example I've played more SMT V or Astral Chain as I have RDR2 on PC running beautifully at 4K silky smooth with DRR and the long awaited DLSS update.

The lack of cross save is the only thing keeping me from buying the PC version. I know when they announced it that they did specify in Q&As that they weren't going to do cross save but I had the slimmest of hopes that they had figured it out.