From the review I read on Patientgamers, it doesn't address faith or religion in a mature or complex way and comes across as something written by a edgy Reddit atheist teenager who has never read a single philosophical or theological piece.
Seems to always be the case with these types of games pretending to be complex or deep.
@Telcontyr This just sounds like hardcore console elitism to me. I like Nintendo and vs Xbox and PlayStation, Nintendo is clearly winning...well Switch 1 that is. Switch 2 has only really released two games thus far and Mario Kart World while fun was hardly revolutionary.
PC does have "exclusives" too with games that are only on PC including games like Sons of the Forest and while you and @Telcontyr mention poor optimisation of some games, that's true of Nintendo too with most third party titles running poorly. We're already seeing that again with upcoming Switch 2 ports such as Resident Evil Requiem.
The truth is every platform has problems but to pretend there's a lack of good third party games is crazy. There's no Silent Hill 2 Remake on Switch 2, no Silent Hill f, no games from the Nioh franchise (which are amongst the best action RPGs out there with a unique combat system), no Dying Light The Beast, no Ninja Gaiden 4, no Crimson Desert, no Black Myth Wukong, no Ghostwire Tokyo, no Hi-Fi Rush, no Expedition 33 and well the list goes on of a whole trove of released and upcoming unique third party games that are missing from Switch 1&2.
If third party didn't matter either, Nintendo only fans wouldn't be getting excited over 10 year old ports of games which run at 30 FPS on Switch and still have frame drops. And games like Hogwarts Legacy wouldn't have sold as much as it did on Switch despite being so poorly optimised for Switch.
Katana Kami a Way of the Samurai Story is an example of a unique third party title and on Switch it often drops below 30 fps. Streets of Rage 4 too. Shinobi as well. Playing them on PC is just the better experience.
And I have no chance of playing the entire Way of the Samurai or Deus Ex series on any console including PlayStation. Only PC allows that. That's another place PC wins due to the large library and emulation.
If you're only sticking with recent first party Nintendo Switch 2 titles, you're going to have a very barebone 7 months ahead considering the only other title releasing this year exclusively for Switch 2 is a Dynasty Warriors game with a Zelda reskin. Fun sure but Dynasty Warriors Origins came out earlier this year for PC, ran well and did something far more revolutionary for the musou genre it created. We already know the Switch 2 port won't be handling 60 fps...meanwhile Age of Imprisonment just looks like Age of Calamity without the musou game evolution we saw in Origins.
And let's not talk Pokemon as that's the definition of slop and already looks like it runs bad.
So for this year alone, Nintendo has only released one unique game and that was Bananza...which isn't without its criticism now that the dust has settled. It's been a very bad launch release for Switch 2, that's the truth.
@Kestrel I only remember transgender people hating that character because the NPC immediately outs themselves and "dead names" themselves. I personally thought it was an accurate portrayal though.
@SalvorHardin Dragon's Dogma 2 was "Itsuno's vision" fully realised. He said that himself. So it failed because of that. He had full reign over the project and it failed to deliver. There's no truth about Capcom limiting him there.
Truth is, Itsuno is the Japanese Todd Howard. I still remember all that talk about amazing NPC AI, he was literally talking as if he had created self aware conscious AI and then the game released and the AI was basic stuff that was somehow worst than the AI in the first game from 2012.
If Capcom was limiting him, there was no reason for him to overhype and lie about features.
@AverageGamer They said Donkey Kong may have occasional performance drops, not that it'll run like crap. That's not the same as this port apparently having performance issues the whole time your playing.
Hope they finally announce the release date so I never have to hear about this game again or from it's annoying fanbase. I also hope the devs announce their retirement and decision to become monks in a desert somewhere so no chance of a third game that its fandom will go on about for years.
@DangoTown People with disabilities still participate in things and even do sports still. Look at the Para-Olympics, so I'm not sure how it's exploiting their existence. Wheelchair basketball is also a real thing too.
Well for starters, they're fictional characters and secondly, it's kinda obvious to anyone with a couple of braincells there's a romance angle involved. This has got nothing to do with you or anyone being friendzoned irl lol.
@Mesozoic_Masquerade
Link and Zelda clearly share a bed in Tears of the Kingdom, that goes beyond platonic friendships. I think the irony here is that while you, @SalvorHardin and @CaleBoi25 make good points...those points are mostly only accurate towards shippers who largely like to ship same sex characters if one man so much as says "hi" to another because apparently two men can't interact without it being romantic. I still remember the shippers freaking out over Prince Sidon getting married to a woman in Tears of the Kingdom because shippers had convinced themselves him and Link were romantically involved simply because he "considers Link a friend." I can only wonder what mental gymnastics those people performed to convince themselves that there was a romantic angle based on that and especially from the silent Link's side.
However Link & Zelda being linked together romantically isn't a hard sell because it's implied in Skyward Sword, just as it's implied in Tears of the Kingdom in the single bed house they share where Link's headband is kept in the Zelda's cellar study almost like Zelda treasures it. You do that with platonic friends? Share beds with them and keep quite personal items of theirs lol?
It's the same with Mario & Peach considering he's always chasing after her...same as Bowser who wants to marry Peach and in Odyssey, he downright asks Mario if he's "jealous" implying his own awareness of Mario's romantic feelings for Peach.
You know how you guys always say people are blind to queer coded characters, well I think you guys are blind to very obvious straight romances or implied straight romantic attractions.
The whole idea of a man saving a princess (i.e Peach or Zelda) is also a classical romantic love story. It's literally tradition that's been long embedded in the public consciousness too. It's too late to say it's anything different. All those classic stories end up with the man marrying the princess.
@Zeebor15 This isn't only a Nintendo issue. PS4 & 5 aren't backwards compatible with prior gens neither physically or digitally. Three generations are completely missing.
Xbox is probably the only one that did a good job with making their consoles backwards compatible by having a lot of OG Xbox and 360 games natively playable on the latest Xbox consoles. Even then though, it's not every game.
You might be better off getting a PC like I did rather than exclusively sticking to consoles. All your old games will remain playable on PC. Not to mention you've got emulators and everything.
@JokerCK The Nioh games ran fine on PC. You might be confusing them with Wo Long and Rise of the Ronin which were badly optimised for PC and besides, Koei is merely the publisher of those games not the developer.
@johnedwin This comment makes no sense when Metroid Prime 4 is on the list. Maybe the reason Ghost of Yotai isn't, is because Japanese are tired of the usual formula of American open world games that refuse to innovate.
From the gameplay I've seen of it on Xbox, PC and Playstation, the graphics actually do look good.
It seems like the graphics were significantly scaled down for Switch 2.
This is probably because they couldn't be bothered to actually optimise the damn game. Makes sense considering the user reviews I read for the PC, Xbox and PlayStation versions talking about very poor optimisation. It's got a 4/10 rating on Steam.
So they couldn't optimise it for anything and it seems for Switch 2, they said "screw it, set everything to the lowest possible setting." The end result just looks terrible. I think it will sell more badly than when it previously released.
Asides from that, it just doesn't look like a good game regardless of graphics lol.
@Chlocean Once in a lifetime game? I wouldn't say it is. Elden Ring is just Dark Souls but in a open world setting. Nothing is innovative about it. The gameplay is the same combat system from Dark Souls 1, complete with the same animations. The open world has all the usual hiccups of open world games down to reused bosses and dungeons that are copy pasted.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the game when I played it but it never blew me away.
I remember immediately playing Breath of the Wild for the first time ever after this game and that game blew me away simply from how it implemented complete freedom in exploration and even solutions. It also had the usual problems of open world games but the complete player freedom made up for those issues to me. Felt like an immersive sim at times and kinda what every open world game should be striving for as opposed to static worlds where you have zero interaction with the environment.
I wasn't interested in yet another From Software game anyway since once you've played one, you've played them all (courtesy of them reusing so many assets and the same combat system including the animations).
This being multiplayer only means I'm double not interested.
Now we can't even make the joke that's it's Bloodborne 2 for the Switch.
I think it's over for From Software. There's people like me who have got tired of their overused formula and realised they're the new Bethesda/Ubisoft early.
Then there's the new people introduced from Elden Ring who will not like this live service, Fortnite, multiplayer direction From Software is going with Nightreign and now this. And I think they'll rip From apart when they do make their next Elden Ring/Dark Souls and it's the exact same game right down to the same animations and combat. They'll be saying, several years for the same game?
God, even the walking animations shown in the trailer has that usual stiff walk animation that From has been using since Dark Souls 1.
@Bunkerneath I don't remember AoC being grindy unless you're talking about the very first Hyrule Warriors which I never played. I had AoC beat in 20 hours. Even did it again in co op and I don't remember a grind unless you're talking about fully upgrading everything, doing everything and getting all collectables which remains optional?
It made sense they would do this. That whole setup they established in ToTK made a Hyrule Warriors set during this period only natural.
Age of Calamity was surprisingly quite nice and I'm saying that as somebody who typically doesn't enjoy most Warriors games. AoC I thought was quite well written too in terms of dialogue and humour, great for co op as well, so I'm looking forward to this.
@batmanbud2 I didn't cry but damn did it make me joyous being able to replay some of these great classics from my childhood and try others I missed.
Shame it looks like that Zelda remaster stuff was false but if we're getting Wind Waker, then Twilight Princess will be included at some point so regardless, we're getting to play them and in the end, that's what matters. Remasters would just be fresh icing but not really needed since they're still good.
Japanese developers shouldn't cater to the Western audience, that's the correct position.
However I don't think Nier Automata had anything to do with reversing the Japanese game industry's fortunes. It didn't even sell that much. Even now, it's only just reached 9 million. We might as well say Dragon's Dogma revitalised Japan's game industry by that reasoning. It also released in 2017, the same year as the Switch which sold a lot alongside Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey.
2017 was also when we got Nioh & Yakuza 0. Not long before them, there was Metal Gear 5, Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3. We've since seen many games inspired by Dark Souls, Nioh and Breath of the Wild.
I haven't seen Nier have any influence among any other developer. As an action game I found it lucklaster and as a Platinum game it was disappointing. I think it would have remained as niche as the first title if it weren't for the booty.
@MeanBeanEgg No, you sound mad that someone is questioning its "wokeness". Hell, female employees at Nintendo of Japan only number 19%. Women are half the population. So I don't think the number of LGBT employees would be very high.
Marxism rightfully has a negative perception. As for "self censorship" that's your decision. Likewise, an author who doesn't want their work to be censored years later should have that choice.
@__jamiie
I don't see how people who like "sexy video games" should grow up. Would you say the same for people who enjoy "sexiness" in movies, music videos and people who enjoy erotic art or erotic novels? People like sexy things, sex sells etc etc.
I'm actually somewhat of a prude myself so excessive "sexiness" isn't for me but your comment seems far too judgemental on something that's quite ordinary human nature for many men and women.
As for this game, I'm glad the 13 year old kid has been "censored" because kids shouldn't be sexualised in the first place and Japan can be creepy for that. As for the boob slider, I couldn't care but it seems like a weird thing to not include when literally nearly every game with a character creator nowadays has a slider for boobs...Nioh, Dragon's Dogma, Cyberpunk, the upcoming Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate, The Sims, WWE games etc etc. I doubt its inclusion offends anyone unless they're offended by small boobs/big boobs (because the default in games is regular sized) in which case, I don't know how they cope seeing different sizes in real life.
Also its inclusion, contrary to some comments here, wouldn't give the game a pervy reputation. If anything, it already has that because it's anime and the characters already look ridiculous. The other games don't have that reputation apart from Baldur's Gate 3 or Dragon Age and that's only because of the gay male fans and female fans, not straight men lol.
Honestly though, I think the censorship discussion in this case is a nothing burger.
@UNCLDNS @anoyonmus One reviewer on this site disliking this game doesn't mean Masayoshi Yokoyama was right that "Nintendo isn't the right platform." Calm down, lol.
No they haven't. We've only had two open world Zelda games and the menus aren't even comparable to an RPG. I'm not sure how anyone could spend a lot of time in the limited menus of BoTW or ToTK.
On the otherhand, we've had numerous top down Zelda games. Nintendo has spent 30 years doing them lol.
@OldGamer999 There's been plenty of AAA games that have released with good optimisation, good quality, no or few bugs and good game play. Tekken 8, Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade, Black Myth Wukong etc.
The bad games were the obvious ones such as Dragon's Dogma 2, Concord and Star Wars Outlaws.
@nintendozach Time to throw in the towel for Zelda? Out of ideas? Are you joking or trolling? Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were the most successful Zelda games ever and are highly rated. They also did new things. This game too is doing new things.
Sounds like you want them to stick to the old formula which has been done many times by numerous Zelda games plus hundreds of Zelda clones. That's just lazy.
I'm glad Zelda has not become a stagnant franchise like that, that isn't capable of growth or evolving.
@GarlicGuzzler Why would Switch not be able to run Minecraft when it already runs fine on the system? That Sonic game just sounds like it had poor optimisation but when games like Monster Hunter Rise and Zelda run perfectly on Switch, you should know it's not about hardware.
@LikelySatan OK cool but you realise there's people who have played it and didn't like it? Him and myself included. Nier Automata fans really need to calm down and accept there's people who didn't like the game.
@SlySnake0407 Agreed. Alan Wake 2 just outclasses Baldur's Gate 3 in every aspect. Better gameplay, better writing, better atmosphere, better everything.
Let's be honest, "GOTY" at this ceremony is just based around hype and popularity. It even proved that when Alan Wake 2 beat out BG3 in all the awards for best game direction, gameplay, art direction, story, narrative etc. Yet it doesn't win GOTY? Lol What exactly are they rewarding BG3 GOTY on when their own panel is saying Alan Wake 2 has the better storytelling, atmosphere, gameplay and writing?
@Fizza Easily deserved to win? I think it's clear Alan Wake 2 and Zelda are easily the better games that deserved GOTY and it especially shows with Alan Wake 2 sweeping all the other awards for best narrative, game design and art direction.
What exactly does Baldur's Gate 3 win game of the year for then? Because it's not for gameplay, storytelling, atmosphere or art direction. It's honestly outclassed by Alan Wake 2, which won all those awards.
Just another reason why these ceremonies are quite irrelevant because they seem to reward GOTY based on hype and popularity.
In the end, Zelda wins where it matters anyway as the number 1 selling game of the year. That's the real qualification of GOTY let's be honest lol.
@russell-marlow In what way did Baldur's Gate 3 break new ground that other CRPGs haven't done already? Larian fanboys always proclaim their games as the greatest when they haven't played any other CRPG.
@eltomo No, honestly TOTK should win. Baldur's Gate 3 isn't that special and it shipped with an unfinished third act.
Still, game awards mean nothing. I've been saying for years how "GOTY" is down to the individual.
Just remember how months or even years later, people wonder how some games even won GOTY awards. Take Skyrim winning in 2011 and now in every list, practically most people say in retrospect that Dark Souls was actually the best game to come out that year.
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Re: Rolling Stone's GOTY List Shows A Whole Lot Of Love For One Nintendo Mascot
@ElkinFencer10 Silent Hill F should only be high on a list for worst games of the year.
Re: 'The Duskbloods' Could Be FromSoftware's Most Ambitious Game Yet, According To Leak
I forgot this game even existed until this article lol.
Re: Feature: Why Is Splatoon So Popular In Japan?
@fenlix I think you referring to fictional underage characters in a kid's game as "lolis" is more testament to your tastes than Japan's...
Incidentally, America and Europe host 74% of the world's child abuse images according to the Internet Watch Foundation...
Re: Sakurai's A Fan Of This Award-Winning Monastic Adventure, And Now It's Coming To Switch
From the review I read on Patientgamers, it doesn't address faith or religion in a mature or complex way and comes across as something written by a edgy Reddit atheist teenager who has never read a single philosophical or theological piece.
Seems to always be the case with these types of games pretending to be complex or deep.
Re: Game-Key Cards A "Sales Strategy Decision", Says Resident Evil Requiem Director
@jfp Cover image reminds me of Soyjak screaming lol.
Re: UK Charts: Borderlands 4 Debuts Strong Ahead Of Switch 2 Release
@Telcontyr This just sounds like hardcore console elitism to me. I like Nintendo and vs Xbox and PlayStation, Nintendo is clearly winning...well Switch 1 that is. Switch 2 has only really released two games thus far and Mario Kart World while fun was hardly revolutionary.
PC does have "exclusives" too with games that are only on PC including games like Sons of the Forest and while you and @Telcontyr mention poor optimisation of some games, that's true of Nintendo too with most third party titles running poorly. We're already seeing that again with upcoming Switch 2 ports such as Resident Evil Requiem.
The truth is every platform has problems but to pretend there's a lack of good third party games is crazy. There's no Silent Hill 2 Remake on Switch 2, no Silent Hill f, no games from the Nioh franchise (which are amongst the best action RPGs out there with a unique combat system), no Dying Light The Beast, no Ninja Gaiden 4, no Crimson Desert, no Black Myth Wukong, no Ghostwire Tokyo, no Hi-Fi Rush, no Expedition 33 and well the list goes on of a whole trove of released and upcoming unique third party games that are missing from Switch 1&2.
If third party didn't matter either, Nintendo only fans wouldn't be getting excited over 10 year old ports of games which run at 30 FPS on Switch and still have frame drops. And games like Hogwarts Legacy wouldn't have sold as much as it did on Switch despite being so poorly optimised for Switch.
Katana Kami a Way of the Samurai Story is an example of a unique third party title and on Switch it often drops below 30 fps. Streets of Rage 4 too. Shinobi as well. Playing them on PC is just the better experience.
And I have no chance of playing the entire Way of the Samurai or Deus Ex series on any console including PlayStation. Only PC allows that. That's another place PC wins due to the large library and emulation.
If you're only sticking with recent first party Nintendo Switch 2 titles, you're going to have a very barebone 7 months ahead considering the only other title releasing this year exclusively for Switch 2 is a Dynasty Warriors game with a Zelda reskin. Fun sure but Dynasty Warriors Origins came out earlier this year for PC, ran well and did something far more revolutionary for the musou genre it created. We already know the Switch 2 port won't be handling 60 fps...meanwhile Age of Imprisonment just looks like Age of Calamity without the musou game evolution we saw in Origins.
And let's not talk Pokemon as that's the definition of slop and already looks like it runs bad.
So for this year alone, Nintendo has only released one unique game and that was Bananza...which isn't without its criticism now that the dust has settled. It's been a very bad launch release for Switch 2, that's the truth.
Re: Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition Switch Physical Pre-Orders Now Live
@Kestrel I only remember transgender people hating that character because the NPC immediately outs themselves and "dead names" themselves. I personally thought it was an accurate portrayal though.
Re: Hideaki Itsuno Hires 'Devil May Cry' And 'Street Fighter' Legends For New Studio
@SalvorHardin Dragon's Dogma 2 was "Itsuno's vision" fully realised. He said that himself. So it failed because of that. He had full reign over the project and it failed to deliver. There's no truth about Capcom limiting him there.
Truth is, Itsuno is the Japanese Todd Howard. I still remember all that talk about amazing NPC AI, he was literally talking as if he had created self aware conscious AI and then the game released and the AI was basic stuff that was somehow worst than the AI in the first game from 2012.
If Capcom was limiting him, there was no reason for him to overhype and lie about features.
Re: Video: Uh Oh, Elden Ring On Switch 2 Has Issues In Handheld Mode
@AverageGamer They said Donkey Kong may have occasional performance drops, not that it'll run like crap. That's not the same as this port apparently having performance issues the whole time your playing.
Re: Hollow Knight: Silksong "Special Announcement" Is Coming This Thursday
Hope they finally announce the release date so I never have to hear about this game again or from it's annoying fanbase. I also hope the devs announce their retirement and decision to become monks in a desert somewhere so no chance of a third game that its fandom will go on about for years.
Re: PSA: Shoot Some Hoops With Drag x Drive's Dev Team This Weekend
@DangoTown People with disabilities still participate in things and even do sports still. Look at the Para-Olympics, so I'm not sure how it's exploiting their existence. Wheelchair basketball is also a real thing too.
Re: The Legend Of Zelda Movie's Official Social Media Account Goes Live
@Orwellian87 One can wish...one can wish.
Re: Random: Don't Worry Folks, Nintendo Says Mario And Peach Are Just "Good Friends"
@martynstuff
Well for starters, they're fictional characters and secondly, it's kinda obvious to anyone with a couple of braincells there's a romance angle involved. This has got nothing to do with you or anyone being friendzoned irl lol.
@Mesozoic_Masquerade
Link and Zelda clearly share a bed in Tears of the Kingdom, that goes beyond platonic friendships. I think the irony here is that while you, @SalvorHardin and @CaleBoi25 make good points...those points are mostly only accurate towards shippers who largely like to ship same sex characters if one man so much as says "hi" to another because apparently two men can't interact without it being romantic. I still remember the shippers freaking out over Prince Sidon getting married to a woman in Tears of the Kingdom because shippers had convinced themselves him and Link were romantically involved simply because he "considers Link a friend." I can only wonder what mental gymnastics those people performed to convince themselves that there was a romantic angle based on that and especially from the silent Link's side.
However Link & Zelda being linked together romantically isn't a hard sell because it's implied in Skyward Sword, just as it's implied in Tears of the Kingdom in the single bed house they share where Link's headband is kept in the Zelda's cellar study almost like Zelda treasures it. You do that with platonic friends? Share beds with them and keep quite personal items of theirs lol?
It's the same with Mario & Peach considering he's always chasing after her...same as Bowser who wants to marry Peach and in Odyssey, he downright asks Mario if he's "jealous" implying his own awareness of Mario's romantic feelings for Peach.
You know how you guys always say people are blind to queer coded characters, well I think you guys are blind to very obvious straight romances or implied straight romantic attractions.
The whole idea of a man saving a princess (i.e Peach or Zelda) is also a classical romantic love story. It's literally tradition that's been long embedded in the public consciousness too. It's too late to say it's anything different. All those classic stories end up with the man marrying the princess.
Re: Street Fighter 6 Reveals Special Collab Outfit Available For "One Year Only"
@Zeebor15 This isn't only a Nintendo issue. PS4 & 5 aren't backwards compatible with prior gens neither physically or digitally. Three generations are completely missing.
Xbox is probably the only one that did a good job with making their consoles backwards compatible by having a lot of OG Xbox and 360 games natively playable on the latest Xbox consoles. Even then though, it's not every game.
You might be better off getting a PC like I did rather than exclusively sticking to consoles. All your old games will remain playable on PC. Not to mention you've got emulators and everything.
Re: Japanese Charts: Mario Kart World Speeds Past 1 Million Physical Sales
@GrailUK I think Japan realises Cyberpunk isn't any good.
Re: Third-Party Launch Games On Switch 2 Reportedly Sold "Very Low Numbers"
@Anguspuss Cyberpunk is mehhhhh. Yakuza 0 is good but it's a PS3 game and literally a decade old.
@KBuckley27
It could be because they're all old games people have already played.
Re: Rumour: The Search For The Zelda Movie's Link & Zelda Has Begun, Apparently Seeking Actors 16-23
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Re: Forget The PS4, Koei Tecmo Reckons Switch 2 Is Closer To Xbox Series S
@JokerCK The Nioh games ran fine on PC. You might be confusing them with Wo Long and Rise of the Ronin which were badly optimised for PC and besides, Koei is merely the publisher of those games not the developer.
Re: Mario Kart World For Switch 2 Tops Famitsu's "Most Wanted" Games List
@johnedwin This comment makes no sense when Metroid Prime 4 is on the list. Maybe the reason Ghost of Yotai isn't, is because Japanese are tired of the usual formula of American open world games that refuse to innovate.
Re: Video: First Look At 'Wild Hearts S' Four-Player Gameplay On Switch 2
@Cotter1
From the gameplay I've seen of it on Xbox, PC and Playstation, the graphics actually do look good.
It seems like the graphics were significantly scaled down for Switch 2.
This is probably because they couldn't be bothered to actually optimise the damn game. Makes sense considering the user reviews I read for the PC, Xbox and PlayStation versions talking about very poor optimisation. It's got a 4/10 rating on Steam.
So they couldn't optimise it for anything and it seems for Switch 2, they said "screw it, set everything to the lowest possible setting." The end result just looks terrible. I think it will sell more badly than when it previously released.
Asides from that, it just doesn't look like a good game regardless of graphics lol.
Re: Elden Ring On Switch 2 Will Introduce Two Brand New Character Classes
@Chlocean Once in a lifetime game? I wouldn't say it is. Elden Ring is just Dark Souls but in a open world setting. Nothing is innovative about it. The gameplay is the same combat system from Dark Souls 1, complete with the same animations. The open world has all the usual hiccups of open world games down to reused bosses and dungeons that are copy pasted.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the game when I played it but it never blew me away.
I remember immediately playing Breath of the Wild for the first time ever after this game and that game blew me away simply from how it implemented complete freedom in exploration and even solutions. It also had the usual problems of open world games but the complete player freedom made up for those issues to me. Felt like an immersive sim at times and kinda what every open world game should be striving for as opposed to static worlds where you have zero interaction with the environment.
Re: UK Retailer GAME Is Selling Off Goods And Fixtures As Head Office Shuts Down
Good riddance. I'm surprised this rip off store survived for this long.
Re: Don't Worry, Duskbloods Will Be "Satisfying" For People Who Dislike PvP, Says Hidetaka Miyazaki
I wasn't interested in yet another From Software game anyway since once you've played one, you've played them all (courtesy of them reusing so many assets and the same combat system including the animations).
This being multiplayer only means I'm double not interested.
Now we can't even make the joke that's it's Bloodborne 2 for the Switch.
I think it's over for From Software. There's people like me who have got tired of their overused formula and realised they're the new Bethesda/Ubisoft early.
Then there's the new people introduced from Elden Ring who will not like this live service, Fortnite, multiplayer direction From Software is going with Nightreign and now this. And I think they'll rip From apart when they do make their next Elden Ring/Dark Souls and it's the exact same game right down to the same animations and combat. They'll be saying, several years for the same game?
God, even the walking animations shown in the trailer has that usual stiff walk animation that From has been using since Dark Souls 1.
Re: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment Confirmed For Nintendo Switch 2
@Bunkerneath I don't remember AoC being grindy unless you're talking about the very first Hyrule Warriors which I never played. I had AoC beat in 20 hours. Even did it again in co op and I don't remember a grind unless you're talking about fully upgrading everything, doing everything and getting all collectables which remains optional?
Re: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment Confirmed For Nintendo Switch 2
It made sense they would do this. That whole setup they established in ToTK made a Hyrule Warriors set during this period only natural.
Age of Calamity was surprisingly quite nice and I'm saying that as somebody who typically doesn't enjoy most Warriors games. AoC I thought was quite well written too in terms of dialogue and humour, great for co op as well, so I'm looking forward to this.
Re: Fromsoftware's The Duskbloods Looks Like Bloodborne 2, Coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026
@Ulysses I don't think it'll be a timed exclusive. Nintendo just decided to beat Sony to their own game here.
Sony fans have been waiting for Bloodborne 2 for years and here it is... exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2.
Re: Fromsoftware's The Duskbloods Looks Like Bloodborne 2, Coming to Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026
@TAndvig Yep and it's exclusively for Nintendo which is hilarious.
Nintendo + PC is the winning combination.
Re: GameCube Games Confirmed For Nintendo Switch Online On Switch 2
@batmanbud2 I didn't cry but damn did it make me joyous being able to replay some of these great classics from my childhood and try others I missed.
Shame it looks like that Zelda remaster stuff was false but if we're getting Wind Waker, then Twilight Princess will be included at some point so regardless, we're getting to play them and in the end, that's what matters. Remasters would just be fresh icing but not really needed since they're still good.
Re: Elden Ring Coming To Switch 2
Bloodborne spiritual successor is exclusively for Switch 2 lol.
Playstation fanboys must be upset.
Re: Nier Automata's Dev Was "Ordered" To Ignore What The West Thinks Of His Game
Japanese developers shouldn't cater to the Western audience, that's the correct position.
However I don't think Nier Automata had anything to do with reversing the Japanese game industry's fortunes. It didn't even sell that much. Even now, it's only just reached 9 million. We might as well say Dragon's Dogma revitalised Japan's game industry by that reasoning. It also released in 2017, the same year as the Switch which sold a lot alongside Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey.
2017 was also when we got Nioh & Yakuza 0. Not long before them, there was Metal Gear 5, Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3. We've since seen many games inspired by Dark Souls, Nioh and Breath of the Wild.
I haven't seen Nier have any influence among any other developer. As an action game I found it lucklaster and as a Platinum game it was disappointing. I think it would have remained as niche as the first title if it weren't for the booty.
Re: Nintendo Is Ranked The Third Most Sought-After Employer In Japan
@MeanBeanEgg No, you sound mad that someone is questioning its "wokeness". Hell, female employees at Nintendo of Japan only number 19%. Women are half the population. So I don't think the number of LGBT employees would be very high.
Which kinda affirms that guy's point.
Re: The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Has Been Added To The Official Timeline
@Yoshi3 They did do the same for TOTK though.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X Fans Are Once Again Discussing The Game's 'Censorship'
@HeadPirate
Marxism rightfully has a negative perception. As for "self censorship" that's your decision. Likewise, an author who doesn't want their work to be censored years later should have that choice.
@__jamiie
I don't see how people who like "sexy video games" should grow up. Would you say the same for people who enjoy "sexiness" in movies, music videos and people who enjoy erotic art or erotic novels? People like sexy things, sex sells etc etc.
I'm actually somewhat of a prude myself so excessive "sexiness" isn't for me but your comment seems far too judgemental on something that's quite ordinary human nature for many men and women.
As for this game, I'm glad the 13 year old kid has been "censored" because kids shouldn't be sexualised in the first place and Japan can be creepy for that. As for the boob slider, I couldn't care but it seems like a weird thing to not include when literally nearly every game with a character creator nowadays has a slider for boobs...Nioh, Dragon's Dogma, Cyberpunk, the upcoming Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate, The Sims, WWE games etc etc. I doubt its inclusion offends anyone unless they're offended by small boobs/big boobs (because the default in games is regular sized) in which case, I don't know how they cope seeing different sizes in real life.
Also its inclusion, contrary to some comments here, wouldn't give the game a pervy reputation. If anything, it already has that because it's anime and the characters already look ridiculous. The other games don't have that reputation apart from Baldur's Gate 3 or Dragon Age and that's only because of the gay male fans and female fans, not straight men lol.
Honestly though, I think the censorship discussion in this case is a nothing burger.
Re: Review: Yakuza Kiwami (Switch) - A Decent Port Of An Ambitious, Frustrating Game
@UNCLDNS @anoyonmus One reviewer on this site disliking this game doesn't mean Masayoshi Yokoyama was right that "Nintendo isn't the right platform." Calm down, lol.
Re: Dragon Quest's Creator Criticises 'Mistranslation' Of DQ3 Remake Costume Comments
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Re: The First Review For The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Is In
@Maubari
No they haven't. We've only had two open world Zelda games and the menus aren't even comparable to an RPG. I'm not sure how anyone could spend a lot of time in the limited menus of BoTW or ToTK.
On the otherhand, we've had numerous top down Zelda games. Nintendo has spent 30 years doing them lol.
Re: The First Review For The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Is In
@RainbowGazelle When was Tears of the Kingdom about menus? If the quick inventory was that bad for you, you'd hate any RPG. Lol
Also they rate most Zelda games just fine.
Re: Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom Trailer Introduces Us To The 'Still World' And Dungeons
@OldGamer999 There's been plenty of AAA games that have released with good optimisation, good quality, no or few bugs and good game play. Tekken 8, Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade, Black Myth Wukong etc.
The bad games were the obvious ones such as Dragon's Dogma 2, Concord and Star Wars Outlaws.
Re: Here's A Closer Look At The 'Echoes' In The New Zelda Game For Switch
@nintendozach Time to throw in the towel for Zelda? Out of ideas? Are you joking or trolling? Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were the most successful Zelda games ever and are highly rated. They also did new things. This game too is doing new things.
Sounds like you want them to stick to the old formula which has been done many times by numerous Zelda games plus hundreds of Zelda clones. That's just lazy.
I'm glad Zelda has not become a stagnant franchise like that, that isn't capable of growth or evolving.
Re: Godzilla To Unleash Total Destruction In New Minecraft DLC
@GarlicGuzzler Why would Switch not be able to run Minecraft when it already runs fine on the system? That Sonic game just sounds like it had poor optimisation but when games like Monster Hunter Rise and Zelda run perfectly on Switch, you should know it's not about hardware.
Re: Feature: NieR’s Orchestra Concert Delivered An Unforgettable Night, And A Yoko Taro Tease
@LikelySatan OK cool but you realise there's people who have played it and didn't like it? Him and myself included. Nier Automata fans really need to calm down and accept there's people who didn't like the game.
Re: The Game Awards GOTY For 2023 Is Baldur's Gate 3
@SlySnake0407 Agreed. Alan Wake 2 just outclasses Baldur's Gate 3 in every aspect. Better gameplay, better writing, better atmosphere, better everything.
Let's be honest, "GOTY" at this ceremony is just based around hype and popularity. It even proved that when Alan Wake 2 beat out BG3 in all the awards for best game direction, gameplay, art direction, story, narrative etc. Yet it doesn't win GOTY? Lol What exactly are they rewarding BG3 GOTY on when their own panel is saying Alan Wake 2 has the better storytelling, atmosphere, gameplay and writing?
For me, Zelda and Alan Wake 2 are the GOTYs.
Re: The Game Awards GOTY For 2023 Is Baldur's Gate 3
@Yoshif3 Nah, TOTK isn't mediocre. Also BOTW was great, TOTK is an improvement of BOTW.
Re: The Game Awards GOTY For 2023 Is Baldur's Gate 3
@NintendoByNature Trust me, you'll be disappointed with Baldur's Gate 3.
Re: The Game Awards GOTY For 2023 Is Baldur's Gate 3
@sanderev Baldur's Gate 3 had bad writing too though. It didn't deserve GOTY especially after Alan Wake 2 outclassing it everywhere where it matters.
Re: The Game Awards GOTY For 2023 Is Baldur's Gate 3
@Fizza Easily deserved to win? I think it's clear Alan Wake 2 and Zelda are easily the better games that deserved GOTY and it especially shows with Alan Wake 2 sweeping all the other awards for best narrative, game design and art direction.
What exactly does Baldur's Gate 3 win game of the year for then? Because it's not for gameplay, storytelling, atmosphere or art direction. It's honestly outclassed by Alan Wake 2, which won all those awards.
Just another reason why these ceremonies are quite irrelevant because they seem to reward GOTY based on hype and popularity.
In the end, Zelda wins where it matters anyway as the number 1 selling game of the year. That's the real qualification of GOTY let's be honest lol.
Re: Nintendo Reminds Fans Zelda Is Up For Nomination At This Year's Game Awards
@Hwatt Baldur's Gate 3 didn't move the medium forward at all. Also Tears of the Kingdom is holding a 96 Metacritic review score from more reviewers.
Not to mention Baldur's Gate 3 shipped in a state where it was unfinished and buggy like Cyberpunk. For that alone, it doesn't deserve to win.
Re: Nintendo Reminds Fans Zelda Is Up For Nomination At This Year's Game Awards
@russell-marlow In what way did Baldur's Gate 3 break new ground that other CRPGs haven't done already? Larian fanboys always proclaim their games as the greatest when they haven't played any other CRPG.
Re: Zelda: TOTK And Mario Wonder Land GOTY Nominations At The Game Awards 2023
@Quantaur Tbf Remedy games are really good. They're not actually that hyped up whereas Baldur's Gate 3 just seems to be living on the hype still.
Re: Zelda: TOTK And Mario Wonder Land GOTY Nominations At The Game Awards 2023
@eltomo No, honestly TOTK should win. Baldur's Gate 3 isn't that special and it shipped with an unfinished third act.
Still, game awards mean nothing. I've been saying for years how "GOTY" is down to the individual.
Just remember how months or even years later, people wonder how some games even won GOTY awards. Take Skyrim winning in 2011 and now in every list, practically most people say in retrospect that Dark Souls was actually the best game to come out that year.