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@Chowdaire Yes, well, I started out liking World, especially for the nice graphics and seemless areas, but after a while I realised I wasn't having fun and that it was actually boring, at least compared to 3U, 4U and GU. I understand they made the changes to attract a wider audience, and they obviously succeeded, but I really hope Rise will be good. Iceborne made several steps in the right direction, and Rise is probably primarily aimed at a Japanese audience, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

OK, I kinda get the idea they are going for here, but still... if the game is better without starting with these free items, why would you get them for playing the demo? I mean, if they thought starting the game with these made it better, they would obviously give them to every player. Ah, well...

I have been in love with this series since Tri, and my feeling after playing the demo is they are continuing the trend from World, where they make the actual monster fighting more involved and complex, while simplifying other aspects that have always made this series unique, like capturing and actually finding the monsters. Not too keen on this development. My biggest complaint about World was the boring design of weapons and armour and they seem to have fixed that at least. Can't wait to sink hundreds of hours into this when it releases!

@6thHorizon you download software that allows you to stream it

@TheFrenchiestFry If they start to charge a lower price for a specified time period, I'm for cloud gaming. As it is now, I pay full price for having the game for an unspecified time until they close down the servers. Give me a reasonable price per month for renting the game and I'm in.

The initial sales of Monster Hunter Rise in Japan will be crazy.

@Sooezz Skyward sword was never on the Wii U. And it was a great game, apart from the hand holding and being told what to do and where to go all the time. It's like the opposite of BotW: Great story and the best dungeons of any Zelda game, but very little freedom to explore.

Cloud gaming is a good idea in principle, but the main issue is that we don't know for how long we will be able to play the game. If they did it like a rental service, where you pay a certain amount of money per month, I'd be interested. I'm definitely not paying full price for a rental when I don't know the time period.

Looks great, so I assume the Nintendo ninjas will take it down.

So many great games on the WiiU! Plus the controller had built-in headphone jack AND voice chat functionality. Xenoblade Chronicles X, Monster Hunter 3U, Bayonetta 2, Wonderful 101, Donkey Kong Country TF... well, just look at that list.

I'm on Pearl's side, of course. So... mushroom?

@Meikahidenori The portable team also made Generations, while the main team made 4. I think you can see a little more of the playfulness in the "portable" titles, but to me it's especially World that stands out as a little dull (design-wise). And of course, that was intentional, to reach a broader Western audience, which turned out to be a huge success.

@anoyonmus This is what Monster Hunter demos usually are like, more or less, so I'm quite sure they won't release a demo of the character creation. If you're interested in that particular aspect, they have shown a little of it previously:
https://youtu.be/KZirp7kyhIQ

@anoyonmus No character creation in the demo. But you have different characters and armour for each weapon.

@Varkster I agree. Being far too conservative when it comes to Monster Hunter, I don't really like to know immediately where the monster is without actually tracking it down first. But it's a minor issue, and I understand I'm in a very small minority. I think so far, from what I've played, that's the only negative I have. Of course, I'm a little concerned about multiplayer monster scaling, the World system where the quests are almost easier to solo was terrible. My main issue with World was the overall boring tone of the game, where they toned down the goofiness and colorful armor and weapon designs, and they seem to have fixed that here. I'm conservative enough to prefer MHGU over World, so I have no doubt this will the best Monster Hunter game ever.

@meeto_1 I'm pretty sure every Japanese developer already know it's a good investment, but there are always a reason or two for focusing on other things as well. But yeah, by now they should have had enough time to start releasing more ambitious Japanese Switch games. Exciting times.

1000 on a scale from 1-1000.

@mikegamer I just downloaded it. Maybe you need to restart the eshop?

@mikegamer Here's the international link. January 8. So probably January 7 in the US:

https://www.monsterhunter.com/rise/uk/topics/demo/

@tourjeff probably within an hour, if I understood the "UTC: January 8" statement correctly.

So what he can report is the codename for it and that he "personally believes" it's 4k. Impressive, man.

Very strange. The Mario collection showed that they have a working N64 emulator for the Switch, so maybe these will be released for the Switch some time in the future?

"Really promising"? It looks like a flash game on Internet Explorer! Or maybe a free-to-play mobile game. I wonder if you have to watch commercials to unlock stages.

@clvr And you're in luck, because it's on sale right now!

@clvr Didn't like Apocalypse either. I can recommend Strange Journey redux if you haven't played it.

@clvr SMT4 is such a great game!

Some of my all time favourites were ported this year: No more heroes, Wonderful 101, Super Mario 64 and Xenoblade Chronicles. Already played them, but they are still as good as always (better in most cases).

@Abeedo As often is the case with sequels of this type of games, some of the design choices in the sequel are a little difficult to understand if you haven't played the first game. But if you play the first game and then the sequel, you go "ah, that's a nice variation of the old mechanics". Playing the first game first makes the sequel better.

@LEGEND_MARIOID Disagree on Majora's Mask, the 3D remake ruins too much.

If I had a couple of TB storage, I would have already downloaded it. My 512 GB SD card is already getting crowded, so I'll wait and see if there will be a cart version in a few months or so.

My favourite game series, like No more heroes, Monster Hunter, Bayonetta, Xenoblade and Metroid are a mix of kid friendly and more violent games. And they're all on the Switch.

Edit: all right, no Metroid yet. Soon though.

Out of context, the joke "What kind of knees are these? Chinese!" is of course not racist. But if it makes the audience think about a well known racist rhyme, it's perhaps understandable that they don't want to show it. On the other hand, worse crimes than racism are often shown in film, so it's still interesting.

@Dirty0814 My comment was just an answer to how investments work. There is a likelihood that the increased cost of a physical release is lower than the increased earnings by selling more games when it's released physically. If that likelihood is large enough, they will do it.

@Chlocean That's not how investments work. If they shell out for the extra bones for a high capacity Switch card, it might mean that they sell more and make more extra bones than they had to shell out. The reason for not doing it would be that they think the probability of getting more money back is too low.

@Supadav03 So what you meant is "this is not important to me"?

@Silly_G You just need some time off. You'll be back in a few months. I just finished S4 myself, so this was perfect timing for me.

@anoyonmus Unfortunately, yes, I get the same game, and less space on my SD.

@LUIGITORNADO Well, I would have bought the game if it was on cartridge, 18 gigs is too much to spend on my SD. So I'd say that's the thing they did wrong.

@Wexter I agree on all you say except "...and should have the same protections as film, books and other artistic mediums."

@Wexter Well, I think a game is different from a piece of art such as music, in the sense that the game is a tool to play, especially in the case of a tournament. I'm not saying games should not be considered art, but this is not a general statement about how all art should be treated legally. I also don't consider your opinion invalid, even though I disagree.

@Wexter How is that a wishy-washy stance? I mean, given that Nintendo are allowed to protect their IP in this way, they totally should. It would be stupid of them not to. At the same time, I think it would be better if they weren't allowed. You probably just misunderstood me, because you're clearly not stupid. And the hockey stick analogy was to clarify how I think the law is strange, not to clarify what the law is.

@Wexter I agree this is what Nintendo should do business-wise, I'm not questioning their decision. I just don't like that they are allowed to do it by law.

@Parmandur Yes, well, that is the law they are using, and it has been debated whether it should be applicable to video games or not. Currently in the US the court says yes. I am not saying they don't have legal rights, just that they shouldn't have. Nintendo have many times themselves said that their games are not to be considered art, but rather means of entertainment.

@Trikeboy Of course not, you are allowed to do whatever you want with the stick, because you own it. That's exactly my point.

The fact that Nintendo has the power to stop a tournament on one of their games is so strange to me. It's like a hockey stick manufacturer being allowed to stop an ice hockey tournament because the players are putting grip tape on the sticks.

@sketchturner Great list! I would replace Golden Eye with Pilotwings though.

@Cevil It became popular on the DS, where the controls made sense.

To all of you hoping to easily install NES roms and the like: the USB port is for loading only, so you need to get familiar with the inside of the G&W for that.

I'd love a multi screen model with accurate renditions of all game & watch games.

@RodSD64 Well, Killer7 was also published by Capcom. But Viewtiful Joe was done by Team Viewtiful, who would become Clover, who would become Platinum.