Specters

LAPD literally killed a 14 year old child just before Christmas when firing on a suspect (who was armed with a bike chain) in a crowded store and no one has been charged much less fired.

Shocking what will actually get you fired as a police officer in America.

This is like those stupid "X character in Unreal Engine 4" youtube videos.
I don't think Sega will ever figure out how to make a truly great 3D Sonic.

This is good but I honestly thought they were going to announce more. They had all those squares...

This looks like the worst game you could make in the Lord of the Rings universe.

Switch: SMT V & Animal Crossing
PC: Noih 2 & Planet Zoo

I am someone who has an ultra high end PC going at 144 fps on basically any game that supports it yet I'm truly not bothers by Switch games when they have low frame rates. The truth is if I'm still able to have fun then it doesn't matter. SMT V, BotW, NMH3, etc all had frame rate issues, but where ultimately so fun regardless.

When it's becomes an issue for me is if it is actually 'preformance issues' meaning I cannot play the game. The biggest offender in the past few years that I played was actually Deathloop's multiplayer. Their matchmaking system and poor net code meant on most matches I was warping back and forth whenever I tried to do any input. It was so unplayable and jittery it actually made me feel sick trying to play it. Since the single player wasn't as interesting as I hoped I ended up uninstalling the game.

Honestly think all the other picks are good (Charlie Day as Luigi is perfect) or interesting enough. Chris Pratt, however, is the most important role and I think a failure of stunt casting. I know he is 'working on" the voice, but honestly for stunt casting the whole point is you know who the actor is so you know who the character they're voicing is suppose to be. He has been a clueless idiot goof, which he can't really pull off anymore, and a gruff christian military bro. That's all his roles. Neither are what I would call Mario.
Get a talented voice actor in there or a different stunt casting.

@Anguspuss that's more of semiconductor shortage than anything. No doubt they are selling well but would they be sold out had they had normal stock? Maybe in the first couple months but not almost a year out. Also that guy is clearly trolling or has the dumbest 'hot take'.

@Snatcher I agree I don't think anyone wants that BUT that is what they are actually saying they want. Reread what people are saying.
"Wasted potential" and "needs more support" means more DLC. We know they are done with free major updates so that means they want more paid DLC. They could have cut this paid DLC in to 4 pieces and that would have been the amount you get with The Sims DLC. They could have made every major free update a paid DLC and had more value added than most games DLC.
"It should be a live service" that is Fortnite, do we need a battle pass for Animal Crossing to keep up constant content? And honestly maybe they don't know that Nintendo does actually already have one of these it's the mobile game. I can remember a huge uproar when they added in loot boxes in that but seems like people here want more content so they can be sold to them.
Almost all the first posters said that everything should have been free and already in the game at launch. Again despite hundreds of hours available with the launch content that clearly wasn't enough according to some people here. The free major updates...not enough. The paid DLC not enough. Nothing will be enough.

A lot of people seem to want Animal Crossing to turn into Fortnite and have Nintendo aggressively monetize everything like The Sims just so you can get more than hundreds of hours of playtime that's available in the base game even without the updates. I'm glad you guys don't work at Nintendo. Glad it's finished, that they did what they wanted, and now they can move onto another project.

@Yorumi see you still can't take your own advice and mind your own business. Really getting a picture of the person you are.

Talking about unions as following authoritarians while you are against democracy in the workplace. OKAAAAAY. You would get a gold medal in mental gymnastics to explain away your nonsense.

Again please take your own advice. Stay out of others business. Don't comment on anyone else's opinions.

@Yorumi 1. Unionization is not an extreme.
2. You're assuming a union is corrupt.
3. You're telling me to mind my own business when you responded to my just general comment totally unsolicited. Take your own advice bruv.
4. You can live your life however you like. Just collective bargain has helped workers far more than 'personal responsibility' ever has. And that's a fact.

@Yorumi no you are saying you don't want anyone making decisions for you. Well society influences you every day in every decision you make.
Futhermore personal responsibility has absolutely nothing to do with employee/employer relationships and business decisions. In fact in this example the employee actually have zero say in what happens with accreditation because the employer has 100% of the control and final say.
I guess you would rather lay down and take it than have to work with others.

@Yorumi unless you're living in the wild surviving and have zero influence from civilization you are not the one choosing what is best for you with no constrains. I doubt that though since you're on the internet and on a video game website.

The answer is simple. Unionize the industry. Set standards and practices for all employers.

Meh we'll see how he plays it, but of all the characters he's played so far none are what I would envision what Mario is. Between silly idiot, idiot savant, idiot outlaw, and army idiot I wouldn't say Mario fits in that mold.
Otherwise all the other casting choices are spot on and/or interesting in a out of the box way.

Well guess it's a no go on the PC version maybe if it's on a deep discount. We've seen other AAA developers do it and even some indies. It's something totally possible if they really want to.

Definitely recommend this game to everyone. On my second play through on the PC. Might even pick it up later down the line if it is on sale on Switch.

This is a modern classic everyone should experience.

Well I'm glad I beat the game last week because this was one of the pop off moments. Considering the 'main' FU fight was totally terrible (one of the only bad boss fights in the game) but the ending was near Wonderful 101 ending of crazy.

Definitely recommend the game there are a lot of surprises besides this.

On the Booyah train

beyond hyped

@VoidofLight You're giving too much credit to Atlus.

@VoidofLight spend I don't value P5 at hundreds of dollars and a console I have no use for. If they even did a low rent port like they did for P4 Golden I would get it on PC full price easy. At least a million more have gotten the P4 PC port and I suspect they would too.

Switch makes so much more sense with Joker being in Smash. They had millions of eyes on the series but didn't capitalize on it. Smash Ultimate has sold over 8 times what P5 in all its iterations and sequels sold.

Release P5 for Switch and PC. Finishing up P5 Strikers right now and they call back to events in P5 I have no idea what happened. And they do that right up to the end. Ridiculous they never released it on systems they released the sequel on.

Combat and story are super fun. Definitely had some big surprising moments. The open world is totally fine and you actually don't really have to interact with it besides fast traveling to an area and driving to the clearly market fights if you don't want to do any of the extra bits.

This is one of my favorite Platinum games. Combat was a little more complex than usual character action, but ultra fun once you got it and improved the abilities.

@Blizzia Yeah you are being dismissive but what are the leagues of difference between NetEase and EA? Ubisoft? Activision Blizzard?

Even still if you're so worried about IP rights, Epic has done more to profit off of others ideas than anyone else in the game ever.

What "abhorrent" act has NetEase done other than making bad to decent mobile/ licensed games? Why are these Chinese companies "basically like someone passing away in terms of game development"?

@Blizzia I said I agree with you originally. Was actually the first thing I said.

You've dismissed the other companies wrong doings, also you seemed to not even know about them, yet you insisted Chinese companies must be worse. So what is the difference was my point. They're all baddies and if that's why you don't support them you would be hard pressed to support any video game developer.

Why is your criticism only at the Chinese? Almost like there is some other motive...

@Blizzia all the companies I named have current nefarious consumer practices, defrauding governments and taxes, and/or mistreatment of employees.

@Strictlystyles guess you'll just have to change political power dynamics set in motion for hundreds of years, the West's dependence on cheap foreign markets and 'free trade', and capitalism in general.

@Blizzia I agree with you but I sincerely hope you don't support or purchase any Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, Microsoft, EA, Square Enix, Sony, Konami, Sega/Atlus, Nintendo prior to Iwata (and some after), and the many other video game companies that have literally done terrible things to employees and consumers. The video games industry is the most deregulated media out there and get away with a lot of truly abhorrent things.

@gojiguy man you must love when Walmart comes to town and kills mom and pop stores too. I mean why didn't they just live the rest of their lives and businesses off of what little success they had? Right?

Played like 300 hours, people complaining there wasn't enough to do.

I share my birthday with him and got to meet him once when I was in high school, he was friends with my teacher. One of the greats.

@XenoShaun there will be a whole new campaign. If that's what you were there for in the first two this will be a third. Don't know where you're getting that it's solely multiplayer or it is like an EA sports rooster update. Truly baffled by what you're saying as if it is fact when all information and precedent is to the contrary.

@KryptoniteKrunch They use NVIDIA for their chips and their DLSS would most likely do the heavy lifting of improving frame rate and RTX for visuals improvements. Both of which can be turned off for the base models
For reference I have a 2070 SUPER in my PC and I could barely get above 40 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 with ultra settings and raytracing on but with DLSS at 1080p Could get over 100 FPS and at 1440p could get 75-90 FPS

This is definitely something for new customers. Unfortunately I already have two Switches so don't need a third just for an improved portable experience.

people complaining that they're updating the firmware as if it's huge deal. takes less than 10 seconds to do. oh boy hope they didn't put you out too much. put more effort into complaining about it than just doing it.

@javiboy2 well I bought the digital version and have it pre installed and it is in fact 13.5GB so I seriously doubt they'll have a 15GB day one patch (this ain't Cyber Punk)
I would be interested to see if this is something they have printed on other physical editions that they plan to have DLC. But yeah probably just a misprint.

@TheJGG lots of voice acting, lots of text, more than one village, cutscenes, hundreds of character models and animation, etc

It's also 13.5 GB now not 28 (don't know where you got that), but I'm sure with updates it might go up a couple GBs.

Honestly I would never use it on Switch. Already have computers, phones, tablets, and streaming boxes that can use it. I use my Switch for games.

But would be nice for others that don't. But sounds like Netflix is looking for some sort of compensation or something from Nintendo since they've withheld this no brainer.

Overall World Tour seemed to get the same Metacritic reception and I played it for weeks on end. People in here acting like 6-8s are terrible games and should be thrown in the trash.

@locard hey buddy I didn't say you personally didn't do it and I didn't say it would fix it for you. Just said that's what I did, it fixed it for me, and it's a SUPER DUPER COMMON misconception between putting a device to sleep and doing a hard restart.

I do IT work and you always start from the most basic steps to eliminate causes and turning off and on a device is one of the first steps. More times than you might think that does in fact solve issues and a lot of people don't think to do that simple solution by themselves before requesting assistance.

I had it then I powered down the console (not sleep actually turned off) and it was fixed. Think a lot of people just put it in sleep instead of powering down and think they did that step.

32.63 million in the first year is seriously impressive for Animal Crossing or any game for that matter. Most games don't even sell 1 million units over their entire lifespan. Also that's over 40% attach rate even big games like GTA don't have that kind of attach rate. And closing in on 3 times as many sales as New Leaf's total sales.
That's a gigantic leap forward for the series.

this is a big no. 8k doesn't really change the art style and ray tracing after effect doesn't look particularly good with the art style.

the art style works as is and making it sharper and in higher resolution doesn't always equal better.

I truly hate repeating this over and over again every single time, but the best thing anyone can do if they truly want big changes in Pokemon is to stop buying them. It is the easiest and simplest way that will actually cause change.

Complaining on the internet isn't going to change anything when you go out and buy the final product regardless.

All they really see is they put in X amount of money and made Y product and got Z amount of profits. And as long as that profit margin is good they have zero incentive to change.

Regardless I think the remakes are faithful to the original, I most likely won't purchase this. I am, however, extremely interested in Pokemon Legends.

so hyped on this

Been playing the game on PC with high-ultra settings with over 60 fps so running it isn't a problem. What I found a problem is that it is way too repetitive with little to do besides the very limited missions with only 3 characters I cared about (1 which leaves the story within the first couple hours). 60 hours in I started playing Yakuza Like A Dragon and I've just straight up dropped Cyberpunk. The writing, plethora of minigames, and deep and fun RPG elements was everything that was lacking in Cyberpunk.

Loved the setting of Night City but just wasn't anything that interesting to do in it and the overall story wasn't that compelling. Maybe the free DLC and expansions will turn it into the game I truly wanted.

@AndyC_MK84 think you're thinking about it too hard. You even said it yourself it's a catchphrase to his most popular character and one of the most popular characters in the world. Think it's pretty self explanatory why people would connect the character and him so closely.

I really don't like the voice think it's too 'typical princess' but that's an issue with the director, producer, and localization.