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Minesweeper!

Capping the docked resolution at 1080p baffles me. Not even a 1440p option? Maybe a dynamic res that leans the other way? That irks me for some reason, but it's not like I'm a regular player.

So boring and predictable. I hope the Age of AA continues.

I have had solid results docking my Switch 2 with a 1440p monitor. I don't personally expect most hefty AAA games to look the best in 4k, but there are a few titles that might prove me wrong, I suppose. Pretty sure anyone wanting to pick this up for Switch 2 is gonna have a good time. Play it on PC if graphics are the most important thing.

While I was considering purchasing this game while it was on sale, I read the comments here.

As a 50 year old dude who remembers poorly edited and dubbed martial arts movies on TV in the 70s and 80s, I was surprised at how good the voiceovers actually are in this release. No, Kiryu's voice doesn't exactly "fit", but overall it is leagues better than the poorly edited TV content I can recall from childhood. Glad I picked this up. Great vibe in this one out of the gate.

Also, I mean zero disrespect to any people who prefer the original voiceovers or even hate this release. Ce la vie.

Trails! This time, not on Switch, but PC. I deserve some higher end graphics on occasion!

I don't care about consumable items so much as locking the game's freaking music behind an Amiibo. It makes me wicked mad when I think about it, so I'm gonna go play more Trails.

I've played my Switch 2 a lot since I got it, probably about 2/3 of my gaming. Mostly JRPGs (Trails) and played maybe an hour of Bananza which has the best game title in history. I need to get on that. Haven't touched my OLED since. I loved my Switch 1, but always felt it was limited to games that ran well on it and/or wasn't a blurry pile of dog crap. Switch 2 fixed that and then some, so I was an ideal candidate to enjoy it a bunch. That is all.

Thank god. I thought Alex was to be crushed under the immense weight of his responsibilities. Howdy!

@RiasGremory It really annoys me. Both consoles share the same ecosystem ffs@! /sigh

Duuuuuuude... put a freakin resolution setting in there so we can bump it up. Let us make the decision. It would run great on Switch 2 with that option, not much need for testing, imho. I love my Switch 2, but I'm not supporting releases like this anymore. Do they want to sell games or no? Anyway, I'm really not as crabby as that sounds. /sips coffee

I picked 2 and 3. I 'memba.

Those are pastel versions of two of my absolute favorite colors and I love it. Signed, a Charlotte Hornets fan.

It's so freakin cute! Can't decide on platform yet, but I've checked out the demo on Switch 2 and my beastly PC. Plenty snappy on Switch 2, but docked on a 4K display won't win any awards.

I think studios need to be more transparent about the ways they are using AI, because there is a very broad range of potential uses, not nearly all of which are as harmful as the average person believes.

What to do first? Why, try every game in your backlog on the new hardware and marvel at that brute force, of course.

If you like Pokemon, but stayed away from Violet and Scarlet because of how it ran on S1, that's something to consider. I am NOT a big Pokemon fan and have been enjoying Violet casually. Runs and looks fantastic.

Also, IMHO, the dBrand Killswitch case is a must buy. I recommend that over any game currently. It's not cheap, no, but I find it to be a must have enhancement.

@JaxonH Those screenshots are a pretty good sell, I'll admit! I like dungeon crawling way more than crafting and coziness. The dlc sounds like it might be more my speed than the main game.

The visuals of this one don't appeal to me much, but the sound of this dlc definitely makes it sound more interesting. Might have a look next year on a deeper sale. I do have a couple friends playing it that really love it and none that don't, fwiw.

It depends on what it is being used for and what kind of studio is leveraging it. For example, if a single person creating a game wanted hundreds of NPCs, he could feed it some of his own examples and have the AI tool create lots of random ones using only that data to extrapolate from. I would find that pretty neat, personally. Also, just because gen AI is being used in a studio doesn't mean it is replacing humans. If anything it helps them meet their deadlines without having to release a broken piece of crap, in turn keeping studios open. Having used it for tasks at work that are not video game-related, I can imagine hundreds of potential uses for it. #opinions

NA for me, but totally personal bias having grown up with those. Nintendo had all my attention back then.

I'm about 18-20 hours in and haven't noticed any issues at all (on S2). It is simply... MARVELOUS!

Next new release I buy is Trails Beyond The Horizon, but that's probably not how it's gonna go exactly. I love holiday sales too much.

Patch notes:

We did stuff.

I started with Trails Through Daybreak, and I've played a few hours of several of the others here and there. I also finished Daybreak 2 and this new 1st Chapter remake. In short, 1st Chapter is the best place to start, and it's a great RPG to boot. I do think certain players looking for something a bit more mature with a more modern setting might get pulled into the series more readily through Daybreak, but that is just my opinion. The Trails vets gonna get angry at me if I say too much.

It's Nightdive. I expect it will be fixed. I honestly don't mind games being delayed or waiting for them to fix it. The criticism is deserved, mind you, just that there have been worse scenarios! Anyway, my backlog is ridonkulous and I'll come back to it.

A locked 30 on the Switch 2's display with VRR tends to look really smooth to me, on a well-optimized game anyway. I freakin love my Switch 2 and pretty much in JRPG heaven. I also have a pretty beefy PC if I feel like impressing myself with graphics. Haters gonna hate!

The folks who aren't impressed by the Switch 2 hardware should definitely avoid buying one. That should solve their problem, you would think.

@Handy_Man yes... I think.

I'm super interested in this one, but need to actually play through Megaton Musashi some first. Played a bit today even!

I really like it so far. Kinda like Myles even. By far the most egregious thing for me, aside from the Amiibo thing issue, is Samus's silence. Awkward af... and dumb, imho. Let her speak!

I like it a bunch, pretty hooked, in fact, but it is very easy up until your first major boss around level 20. The random fights in the wild are no longer such pushovers after beating them, thankfully. I'm actually enjoying this more than the other two OTs, because the story isn't broken up into parts. I'm too ADHD for OT2, quite frankly. I'll go back to it eventually.

I'm annoyed that there's no official word yet on a western release. I've been waiting to play it and will buy it right now gottdangit.

Ordered the Classic, shipping from Canada at a slight premium. I hate to say this at all, but it's nice to see that the average price on ebay is not astronomical compared to say... GPUs. In most cases, seems like a reasonable finders fee, which is totally debatable, sure. I think I ultimately paid like $70 more than retail, which is still kinda dumb maybe. Don't do that if you can help it. Also, I had no interest in this until I recently upgraded my PC monitor to a LG C1 OLED. It ruined me. Beware, your wallet.

Anyway, I'm gonna give my original Switch with the new red and blue joycons to my guitarist (he will trade me back my old Lite) and keep my not so old purple and orange ones, which I prefer (Suns fan). <3