TheFrenchiestFry

Pro Tip: If you were really THAT excited to play games like this, why would you not buy a platform ahead of time that got these games on a regular basis and didn't get them in a severely stripped down form as is to be expected on a console like Switch

Switch should've been at the absolute bottom of your priority list if you were that excited specifically for Control, Hitman 3 or this, just saying. It's really not that viable for the AAA third party stuff compared to either of its competitors

I predict:

• The Smash character that will inevitably disappoint almost everyone
• A third party port you're surprised took so long to come to Switch
• A third party port you're surprised even came to Switch in the first place
• Project Triangle Strategy being re-revealed with the totally revolutionary new name of "Triangle Strategy"
• a game that will serve as the "bathroom break" period for many viewers
• and lastly, Metroid Dread getting a 20 minute spotlight despite the fact it comes out in like 2 weeks

@ShadowWeaver421 Honestly scalpers are hella smart about this kind of stuff if you think about it

They'll charge ludicrous prices but there are always those few people who clearly couldn't give a crap about their disposable income that would blow their cash for something as stupidly useless as this and they walk away with all the money

I don't agree with it, but they know exactly what they're doing and as long as it works, they keep doing it

@darkswabber Honestly if anything I think after the PR embarassment behind the Xbox One and its launch I think people were actually calling the success of the PS4 even before it was released

I still remember jokes being made back in the day like "Don Mattrick is Sony employee of the year" and stuff like that

Honestly I don't blame a lot of people for being skeptic about Switch's chances of success

I don't think anyone was doubting Nintendo pretty much had nowhere to go but up after the Wii U, but putting into perspective the fact 2016 was such a dry year for them and pretty much them alone and the fact they were so quick to brush Wii U under the rug even going as far as announcing Zelda would also get a version for their next gen console, people honestly had reason to be concerned back then

You also have to keep in mind Nintendo had long been detached from the conversation of the "console wars" or rivalry stuff and Sony was basically wiping the floor with Microsoft at this point especially coming off E3 that year. Switch was more of a "I'll believe it when I see it" sort of thing for the general audience who weren't diehard Nintendo fans. Of course now we know the Switch is a proven success and a major comeback story for the company, but 2015-2016 I recall being a really depressing as hell time to actually be a Nintendo fan

Each day I'm reminded of all the franchises SEGA chooses to keep in purgatory

At least we got Panzeer Dragoon back. Maybe by 2073 when I'm a deteriorating old man I'll be singing "UNDERSTAND, UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF LOVE" again on my death bed

@Clarice Except in GTA whether you actually turn completely to a life of crime or choose to actually reform is completely up to you. Some of the criminal activities you do are completely unalterable but especially in GTA V it's about how the playable characters rise above their previous misdeeds and attempt to turn over a new leaf despite being broken people with no other option before other than crime, especially for characters like Trevor and Michael

@Clarice If we're talking about the original OoT, Skyrim is VASTLY better in terms of sheer replayability and density in content by comparison. Games like Breath of the Wild were literally built off a lot of Elder Scrolls' fundamentals in open world progression and design for a reason. It also actually has a story that can be summarized in more than just a paragraph or two which gives it bonus points

@nessisonett Literally all the games in the finals bracket excluding Bloodborne are pretty environmentally and visually diverse, and at least with Bloodborne it's muddy and grey in that sort of abstract Lovecraftian sense where it's very clearly fantasy but in a more depressing Victorian-era gothic sort of way

@Clarice spoken like someone who's never played a GTA game. You're probably basing all of this off of a single picture of CJ lol. Ghetto residers make up a really small fraction of the kinds of people you play as or interact with in the series

@RBRTMNZ Just because these games are mature does not signify that gamers ONLY like those kinds of games. Games like Witcher 3 and Bloodborne are still very well crafted and should be judged on their own merits as games and not catering to a non-existent bias for people who want their visuals to be muddy and grey

The fact Witcher and Zelda made the finals bracket literally flies in the face of that argument lol. Those games are vibrant as hell

@RBRTMNZ Most of the games that made the finals bracket aren't even shooters so this comment doesn't even make any sense.

@Clarice Lmao GHETTO Auto. Calm down buddy who hurt you

Ok I like New Vegas a lot but how did it win against KOTOR

New Vegas is one of the best Fallouts but KOTOR is literally like one of the finest WRPGs, let alone Star Wars games ever made

Also Pokemon Yellow vs. Batman Arkham City is such a weird and unfair pairing lol. You're pitting a 1996 Game Boy game against BATMAN ARKHAM CITY

@Heavyarms55 Except when it's Nintendo right? You can just say you don't like the fact it's exclusive to PlayStation instead of trying to act like you wouldn't have bought it if it was only on Switch and nothing else. You've been pretty vocal about not liking the fact SMT V is on Switch but Persona 5 isn't.

@DiamondJim If P5 Arena or that rumored P4AU remaster happens, 100% guarantee it'll be on Switch given ArcSys has been a major supporter of Nintendo consoles

@HotGoomba P5 on Switch is basically never happening now lol

It would've ideally been done when Royal was also coming out for PS4 but if it hasn't happened in the 2-ish years since Joker came to Smash and Strikers dropped, the ship's probably sailed. At best, maybe a PC version like P4G, but no other consoles outside PlayStation 4/5

The symphonic concert will be f*cking hype. Persona's OSTs are incredible and their concerts have never disappointed in terms of spectacle. Hope they also highlight the PS1 Persona OST, as well as some of the spinoff games like Arena and Q

@Heavyarms55 Until very recently Atlus in house didn't really have the budget to consistently support multiplatform games for their big flagship RPGs, so they mostly just focused on a single platform that was typically the most popular at that time. Persona has a proven track record of selling really well on PlayStation so they saw no reason to deviate, and SMT after switching consoles throughout each gen has a proven track record of doing well on Nintendo, so now that's just the way

They keep talking about branching out to more systems especially after P4G's success on PC, but I wouldn't hold my breath. SMT and Persona are essentially third party exclusives to their respective consoles at this point.

Also no chance either of them would show up on Xbox in the near future. Atlus just doesn't care about that platform anymore after so many games bombed on those systems

I wouldn't say Nintendo is being slow at all with the distribution of their models for the console family considering the Switch as is is selling perfectly well to the point where even the lack of these models before the announcements didn't really hurt it that much from what I've seen

The Fusion and Zero Mission art are extremely nostalgic for me

@KiraMoonvalley FFVII Remake and Sonic 06 don't even deserve to be compared in that spectrum at all

Remake is a great game that looks even better next to 06 lol

I don't like overly shiny things at all so no not at all for me

The GameCube as it was is way more aesthetically appealing to me

I feel like a 3D hack n' slash Murasame Castle could actually kind of work. I can definitely see that series going for an Okami-like or even Nioh-like aesthetic and play more like the 3D Ninja Gaidens

It's coming out around Halloween calling it

PROJECT RE:FANTASY

IS IT TIME

@Rpg-lover He made Industry Baby because of people like you

As expected, no console release yet. Just like Undertale it'll probably be PC-only for a while and then come to Switch and PlayStation at the very least

It is an interesting experience going through Deltarune and uncovering lots of parallels to Undertale though. It's like a companion piece and not so much a sequel in the traditional sense

@NintenGuy it's a stereotype that Melee players don't take showers or care about their personal hygiene. I wouldn't look too deeply into it

I feel like there's gonna be that one person in my social circle that does this to f*ck around with the neighbourhood locals this year

It's not portable in the sense that there is an entire subdivision of consoles that are literally dedicated to both being usable and transportable with ease. Stuff like the Game Boy, DS and 3DS, the PSP, the Vita and the Switch would occupy this

It's a "portable" console, but it's not a portable console

I mean it looks okay but like especially after Jedi Fallen Order being so good and the announcement of the KOTOR remake I honestly couldn't care less about any other Star Wars games other than those two

@DoesWhatSegaint I mean for one, they brought back Dead Space after like 8 straight years of radiosilence, and two, even though I like EA Motive's work, they still completely shuttered the original developer out of nowhere in the time it took to get to where we are now

@Paraka You have to be willing to continue said franchise to ruin it

Burnout was the sh*t. Played the hell out of 2 and Dominator. Really wish that series made a proper comeback without all the open-world stuff in Paradise

the voice acting is

questionable

Once again, emulation is my best friend

@dimi There's way more than just Persona 4 that's console exclusive from Atlus

Literally every Persona game except 1 and 4 are only available on consoles, not to mention a good majority of SMT games, and other Atlus games like Trauma Center, Etrian Odyssey and Dragon's Crown.

Atlus has never really prioritized PC as a platform over dedicated consoles in the case of their major flagship games until very recently

This is fake as all hell lmao

• Chrono Cross remaster: Before Trigger? Seriously?
• Kingdom Hearts 4: Do I even need to explain why this is fake
• Shin Megami Tensei V on PC: This is f*cking Atlus we're talking about. We'll be waiting at least like another 9 years before this is real
• MK12 and Injustice 3: NetherRealm have literally never worked on 2 fighting games simultaneously in this fashion, especially since they tend to dedicate resources to supporting one for a while before moving onto their next project
• FFIX Remake: They haven't even finished VII in its entirety
• Tekken 8: This ain't happening without Harada and I'm pretty sure he already stated his next project wasn't another Tekken

A lot of this just sounds either like it's piggybacking off of other rumored games or is extremely wishful, "too good to be true" game predicting. Reads like a Nintendo Direct leak honestly

EDIT: LMAO I WAS RIGHT THEY'RE JUST SPECULATIVE

this just radiates "LOOK HOW HIP AND IN TUNE WITH THE YOUTH WE ARE" energy just like the actual games lol

Oh crap

This probably means he's not returning as Vandar in the KOTOR remake either. Seriously a bummer

Honestly can't imagine Bayonetta without Hellena Taylor. Her voice and mannerisms literally perfectly matched the design of the character and she's kind of a big reason why I like those games as much as I do

@nessisonett I think those are examples of music that can actually go well with the mainstream listener considering they directly pull elements from popular music or genres in of themselves, especially in the cases of stuff like Persona due to that series' emphasis on vocal tracks, or stuff like God of War or Last of Us which are very cinematic and can even be compared to stuff like movie soundtracks

It's the fact that people pushing for VGM to be more widely appreciated are using examples that only really fit the mood of the game but aren't as applicable anywhere else, like stage music in a platformer or fighting game music and stuff like that. It's very situational and not something that helps that subsection of music break out of the niche it's perceived to be in

Honestly only Star Wars games I'm interested in now are anything that comes from the Jedi Fallen Order team or the KOTOR Remake. This just looks like something I'd see on the App Store or Google Play for free with gacha mechanics

I honestly think some of the examples used in this article kind of inadvertently highlight why there are casual music enthusiasts who don't consider video game music "real music" per se

Nobody who isn't a diehard fan of something like Final Fantasy for example, is going to really recognize the Prelude track. I'd honestly argue it doesn't really feel like music fit for the casual listening experience compared to songs you actually hear on mainstream radio or even see in other people's Spotify for the most part. Same with the Hyrule Field theme

I ain't saying it's worse than mainstream radio because I generally turn to Spotify and my own album list for listening instead of radio tracks, but there is a reason why VGM just hasn't really broken out of that particular niche. I have a lot of VGM on Spotify but it's not really something I turn on casually. I'm way more likely to put on stuff like To Pimp a Butterfly, or 808 & Heartbreaks, or Rage Against the Machine or System of a Down, before "Mumbo's Mountain" or "Vega Stage"

@quinnyboy58 Switch version is considerably rougher on a technical level than either PS4 or PC. The framerate tanks during stuff like the Fiend fights, there's slowdown during regular demon encounters, and that's in addition to all the other lazily implemented presentation quirks of the remaster like the bit-crushed audio and FMV sequences imo

If you're not having those problems, that's great, but SMTIII HD I thought was pretty disappointing considering it was the first time in years it ever got a re-release

@Ccc1985 You also aren't the only person who's played this game nor are you the majority. Just because you've had a great experience doesn't mean everyone else has or that these issues don't exist

Damn two disappointing remasters in one year from SEGA? First SMT Nocturne and now this? Switch got the short end of the stick on both these efforts which is pretty surprising for Colors in particular given you'd think they'd give Switch more attention seeing as how the original game was a Nintendo-exclusive title

But with that being said, I am glad PS5 is positive in that regard because that's where I always intended to pick it up

They really need to outsource these to more capable talent though

@The_Pixel_King Male. He's a male protagonist