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@axelhander So you are saying the CDi games had potential?

I watched a playthrough on YouTube, it has absolutely terrible level design and gameplay, whoever made this game has no idea what they are doing. The fact that it's such a copycat only adds insult to injury.

@Expa0 Name a game that didn't have potential.

This game might be good but the CDi games had no potential at all. I mean, if you think they did, then what DOESN'T have potential? They had no budget and they were made by people that had no idea how to make video games.

Moero, Undertale and Earthlock have no place in this list, among others, for different reasons. Undertale is not even a traditional RPG by any definition.

Yeah, just their main focus was games. They have tried other things before with varying results.

They never tried to hide that the graphics are very simplistic and frankly I appreciate that, it does indeed look more like a 3DS game but that's just telling of its budget, we are not supposed to compare it to AAA games because it isn't one. It is also priced in a more budget price range. I liked the first Detective Pikachu, I will play this too.

Can't help but feel people are expecting too much and are going to be disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I am not completely discrediting the reports, but if you expect PS5 levels of power in a competitively priced portable system, you are out of your mind. The thing is, PS4 can still run most PS5 games just fine as long as they are built with scalability in mind. Switch 2 will have significantly more modern architecture than PS4 and potentially more modern than PS5 too, that by itself means that it might be able to pull off AAA visuals by dialing back some settings. But it obviously won't be reaching native quality levels of PS5, that is just impossible.

Phil Spencer is a gem of a man. I hope he remains head of Xbox for a long time.

Bioware is a complete joke these days, a complete shame for what was once one of my top 10 favourite developers.

@ketrac Some people don't own a PC for games, and porting a game costs a lot of money. It's a shame some people are so selfish and don't care at all about others.

@Wexter Unfortunately, it is a necessary "evil" because piracy on Switch is out of control. Many companies opt to eventually get rid of it on software that has run its course, but many games on Nintendo platforms have serious legs, and I can see Nintendo themselves adopting it. Honestly, I'm fine with it as long as the developers know how to use it properly.

Obviously, I'm all for preservation, but not in the expense of projects making less than they should. Some people think that all the companies and projects make billions, this is not the case, some barely break even and then people complain that they are releasing another sequel or remake. One of the reasons many companies decided to switch to online and live service games is exactly that they are unpirateable.

TL;DR: People should stop complaining about things they don't understand and BUY good games. Zero sympathy for pirates. If you can't afford games, there are like a million free to play games and many of them are great.

Really cool to see this game on consoles, I played it back in the day and my mind was blown. I still prefer the sequel (Jedi Outcast) but for its time Dark Forces was phenomenal.

The only sad part is that I am no longer into Star Wars after the absolute disastrous handling of the IP by Disney, but hopefully I can pretend that never happened and enjoy some nostalgia with this.

This is wonderful news for developers who are working on games for Nintendo's platforms (mainly Switch 2 given the timing). It's absolutely ridiculous that pirates get to play (and spoil) games long before paying customers have access to them, and there are no repercussions of any sort most of the time.

Denuvo does not affect performance if it's implemented correctly. Some developers have been lazy or clueless about its implementation in the past and have used it incorrectly, this is not the middleware's fault. Of course everyone wants to have an opinion despite not understanding anything about it.

Also, it goes without saying that so called "boycotts" will do absolutely nothing, and you won't boycott anything anyway, it's just an empty threat. Nobody will ever take gamer boycotts seriously. Software sales have absolutely skyrocketed since more companies adopted anti piracy measures. They are not dumb, it works.

@LilyGoMEOW I liked the orb stacking system in 2, 1 was a bit all over the place, each character was vastly different, so there's variety there. 3 was not my favourite, it played better than the other two but was maybe a bit TOO streamlined. Also, not gonna lie, a bit too many party members in 3, I would like the next game to stick to 3. I like all three though.

@sketchturner What are you talking about? MVG is overclocking the Switch to achieve this, something the actual developers are not allowed to do for obvious reasons.

Taking inspiration and dumbing down said inspiration by making the most toothless iteration of the "borrowed" design is what Ubisoft always excelled at. Nothing of value was lost. The first game was a bad version of Breath of the Wild and this would be a bad version of Elden Ring.

This makes me happy. I enjoyed 3 but this format is really starting to get repetitive now. Doesn't help that the games are 100+ hours long. I just hope the next iteration is better than Xenoblade X which was decent but also had too many design flaws.

@KayFiOS That's my point, it could be better and then it would be worth it.

@CutchuSlow I mean, it isn't impossible, but "probably"? It's quite unlikely if anything.

@Altaria_97 And there's nothing wrong with it being "just a port". Switch is more or less equivalent hardware as the original release's anyway, any minor improvement is a welcome bonus in my book.

Personally, Baldur's Gate and Starfield are more exciting for me this year. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed Tears of the Kingdom, but it's just not exactly what I want from Zelda. Breath of the Wild was a much more special game in my eyes. Obviously helped that it was fresh, while Tears is very derivative. In fact, I would place Pikmin 4 above it.

This won't fix the botched physical version once they stop supporting downloads.

What an absolute megaton... end of an era. Very sad to see Mr. Martinet go, but that's life, people get older, things move on, I'm curious to see who the next voice of Mario & Co will be.

@Znake Haven't laughed so much in a while, thanks. Wait, you were serious? Let me laugh even harder.

I've owned two Lenovo laptops and both had issues. Wouldn't trust them to get an even more compact device right.

I don't see how $50 is considered too much for this. People are just looking for reasons to complain these days. If you want to pay less, just wait for a price drop. Hardly rocket science.

Literally played Contact a few months ago, and had played it back in the day as well on DS. It wasn't particularly popular or anything but it wasn't completely under the radar either. As far as DS games go, there are much more obscure ones. Personally, I've been trying to find Again to buy for my collection because I own all other Cing games but I can't find it anywhere. That game had an incredibly limited print.

@LikelySatan What are you talking about? I didn't mean it as an insult that it's for kids. It literally is great for kids. But I don't have the time to spend pointlessly making contraptions. That's my entire point. If I was younger, maybe I would.

@LikelySatan I can use my imagination in much more productive ways than playing a video game for hundreds of hours. Ain't anybody got time for that. It's good for kids though.

I don't know or care, I'm done with the game after 120 hours and I don't think I will play it again. I enjoyed it a lot while it lasted but it really has no replay value.

@Sisilly_G Mine was a 386. If I remember correctly, right before I "inherited" this PC, it had 4MB RAM which was upgraded to a whopping 8MB to better run Windows 3.1. It came with some DOS games such as Oscar, Genie, which I just found by accident in the command line, I have no idea who installed them or why. I still have this computer, I need to dig it up one day for old time's sake.

@BrintaPap It's just quite difficult when it comes to more subjective stuff, really. For instance, I think nobody would disagree that Luigi's Mansion or Link's Awakening looks technically very good, but when it comes to Gris, some people won't vibe with it. On the other hand, Baldo does look good when it looks good, but it's also inconsistent.

Nintendo needs to bring back the Seal of Quality. Not that it ever meant that the game will be good, but at least they can filter out trash.

@HotGoomba The first PC I owned had a disk drive with 128MB of storage and 8MB RAM...

Some questionable choices on this list. Not that any of the games listed look bad, but some don't stand out as much as implied in my opinion.

I've been a Zelda fan all my life but Tears of the Kingdom does not deserve GOTY for me. Amazing game, don't get me wrong, but it isn't as exciting as Breath of the Wild was. Baldur's Gate and Starfield are my most anticipated games this year.

This is gonna be so bad.

I would never let my kids on this website. Get a grip guys, you are not Kotaku.

We will find out whether it's commercially accurate or not when it comes out. He might very well be right.

I'm sure it will be a best seller...

There's elegance in simplicity. Less is more is very much a thing.

There is no bad Pikmin game. All are great fun. Haven't played Hey! Yet, but for what it is it's probably fine, just a spin-off.

@Dr_Lugae That argument doesn't make sense. What about creating all the actual mechanics, and putting it all together? You know, basically everything that makes a game a game. Art is only one of the many things required to complete a game.

Not to say that I am supportive of AI art, though, quite the contrary, if we could shut down every AI project in the world outside medicine, I would be all for it.

What a library. Easily the best system ever made.

Well deserved, it's a great game and remake.... However, I still prefer the original.

Makes sense, really, Sakurai is just too integral to these projects, it isn't just a matter of some producer taking over his day to day and that's that. The game is very much his brainchild. We all saw what happened to Star Wars when Lucas is no longer involved.

I was sure Pikmin 4 would smash records. It's the first time we have a proper Pikmin game on a best selling platform, GameCube and especially Wii U had such tiny and less diverse playerbases in comparison.

@Manguy888A Yup, the Gameboy/NES/SNES games look better.