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@Dethmunk Agreed on the controls. That's why the Trilogy is the best way to play the two good games in the series (but you need to change the sensitivity to "advanced" or whatever they called the highest setting).

I don't know whay you are insinuating, but Metroid Prime 2: Echoes is the best in the series. (MP3 is obviously the worst, so things can go either way)

@Specter_of-the_OLED 1, 2 and If are already on the Japanese Nintendo Switch Online. An official translation of the first game would be a nice surprise.

Needs more SMT, obviously. And No More Heroes 3.

It was a fantastic year for 3rd party games on the Switch, with Monster Hunter, No More Heroes and SMT. As for 1st party, Metroid Dread was the star together with WarioWare.

Yes, but as has been said already, the ability to load roms from SD will not be there from the start, even though it's a pretty safe bet it will be added via "jailbreak", as for the other Analogue machines.

@Meteoroid Even if you load it with roms from an SD card, it's still the FPGA reading them, which means no emulation.

No More Heroes 3
Shin Megami Tensei V
Metroid Dread
Monster Hunter Rise
WarioWare

@Vexx234 So the likelihood that it is both excellent and mediocre is 49.5% then.

At first I thought it was kind of strange that you have to buy the back cover separately...

N64 and Genesis games should be part of the basic NSO subscription.

My vote goes to Minish Cap. Most boring Zelda game for sure, I had no fun at all playing it. Sure, Triforce heroes is not a great game either, but it kind of works if you're three players.

@Orangezap89 Don't be sad, there are other old ladies out there for you, just don't let the kink-shamers get to you.

@BlackenedHalo Haha, that's great to hear!

@BlackenedHalo I just mean that the demons almost never turn down my offers. If I just give them what they ask for they normally agree to join. More so than in previous installments.

At first I thought it would be nice to have the camera more zoomed out in the overworld, but that would probably make the pop-ins worse, so maybe not. Anyway, great game, but I'm not far enough to judge it in comparison to the other SMT games yet. The only thing I'm not completely happy with is that demon negotiations are too easy.

@PharoneTheGnome The gyro control is not worse on the Switch, unless you count in the fact that it is sometimes more suitable for the longer Wiimote. The lack of IR controls is a bummer for shooters though. What games are you referring to?
Edit: The motion controls in Skyward sword are worse on Switch, but I suspect they didn't take the time to recalibrate them from the original properly.

@MrHonest I don't know what they changed in the game but I highly doubt the reason is either social justice or injustice people getting triggered.

This is great! The worst part about MH becoming a large franchise is that the visible part of the "fan" community now mostly consists of whiny "gamers" who expect Monster Hunter to be like Fortnite with new significant updates every week.

Persona's exclusiveness depends on what deal they made with Sony. Same thing with SMT V, if Nintendo paid for it to be Nintendo only, it will be, otherwise not.

@MS7000 I would stay off YouTube until I had the game. Had to do it myself for Monster Hunter Rise. But SMT V is really an amazing game!

@GrailUK I felt that way about the Super Mario one, but the Zelda G&W is multi screen, so it wouldn't have looked that neat.

Looks fine, just as expected, I'll get it on cartridge if the extra download isn't too large.

Only the developers of Fortnite are clever enough to implement voice chat in-game.

I love the 3D effect of the 3DS and is actually quite sad that we won't see a successor with HD graphics. Some of the best 3D games on the system are Luigi's Mansion 2, Monster Hunter 4 and Resident Evil Revelations. (There were also some truly great games where the 3D effect didn't add anything, such as Shin Megami Tensei 4.)

@basswitch Spot on!

@ParadoxFawkes The thing is, a 1 TB memory card runs out pretty quickly if you buy enough large games from the eshop. The difference on PC is that you can use large hard drives to play from.

Looks awesome. I'll buy it eventually.

@Meteoroid If the quests are good, sure, I definitely agree with you. But if they aren't, I think it's kind of nice that I don't have to spend that extra time doing lame quests while still feeling that I play the game in its entirety. I don't know, the word I seek is probably "meh".

@Meteoroid These DLC:s will be highly unnecessary.
@Neoicelord You don't really need to play Apocalypse though.

Also, the time I spend on a game is more valuable than the money, so the question I often ask myself is "is it worth the amount of time I spend on it"?

Sadly no Non Specific Action Figure in the reveal.

@Zimon That's very interesting, I didn't know about that, but it's not for legal reasons, right? Unless they are afraid the games could be considered child pornography under the actually pretty strange Swedish law regarding that.

@Link-Hero That was kind of obvious, but weird that if you turn it the other way around, it seems he liked Prime 3 much better than 2, which is a complete mystery to me.

Apart from the awful gameplay, level design, controls and all the stupid decisions they made, it's... at least a very pretty Wii game.

@Zag_Man Sorry, I read your £ sign wrong.

@Zag_Man It's $2.50 a month, right?

Since the online capabilities on the Switch aren't that good, the original price would have been good with NES, SNES, N64 and MegaDrive games added. This is way too expensive.

@120frames-please I'm also quite sensitive to framerates and I have been surprised by people saying that they can't tell the difference between 30 and 60 fps. But recently I have noticed most people have no problem with modern, low energy LED lightbulbs either, whereas I always get slightly annoyed by their high frequency flickering that many others don't even notice. Is it the same for you?

@Rosona I understand, and I'm not really that upset. But I just went back to MH3U and, wow, that game gets so many things right. The combat is all about learning your weapon and learning the monsters. And once you do that you just feel awesome. With Rise, you can breeze through most of the game without knowing what you do, which means the game really never tells you how to play it and have fun with it. Maybe it's not the difficulty in itself, but if the monsters would have just hit harder, you would automatically learn how to play and become good at it automatically. Other design choices they made to make it more of a mainstream game are more understandable. Even if I personally don't like them, I can understand that it leads to a larger audience.

@Dirty0814 There is some truth to that, and I suppose the reason is that video games has become part of the mainstream culture and the audience has grown substantially. But skill-based games are still popular, and if you try to widen your audience by lowering the difficulty, you have to be much more careful than Capcom has been here.

One of the main problem with Rise is that it is too easy, in the way that all the cool moves and attacks the monsters do are pointless. You don't have to learn the monsters' behaviours, because the threat of being carted is so small even if you get hit multiple times. There are other issues I have personally as well, like the decisions to go from "hunting" monsters, with all the preparations needed for that, towards simply "fighting" the monsters like in any other action game. But that's a choice Capcom did to make it accessible to more people, so I can understand that. Hopefully G rank will solve the difficulty issue, because the game is great and has potentials in so many ways.

Ha! Your only negative is a positive in my book, so Friday can't come soon enough!

@1ofUs You pay full price for a game you are renting for an unknown time. On the other hand, if you payed a smaller rental fee per year, it would have been a really good idea in my opinion.

This looks really interesting! Much more so than the card game.

I don't miss voice chat that much, even though it's a stupid thing to take away when it worked in MH3U on the Wii U. Now I fear that will be a reason to not have cross play between Switch and Steam.

All three of the GBA games are great. Dracula X is a good game, but most other Castlevania games are better.

@Would_you_kindly Is it the same team that is responsible for that port? And are the originals made with the same engine?

@Clammy Because you want that extra rom that you're now paying for?

I understand lotteries are legal only because we would have black market lotteries financing other criminal activities otherwise. But there should be no reason to allow it in video games.