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@Serpenterror I've had one of these for a few years and its brilliant. I think there is a standalone lightgun and plug and play console coming soon and is bundled with Time Crisis and Point Blank

@JohnnyMind I won't comment on the standard controls but even with a mouse this plays poorly, as its not actually built as a lightgun game and every time there is a camera cut it resets the cursor to the centre of the screen. So with a mouse, you constantly have to pick it up and move it to be able to aim

I played the demo of Steam a while ago and my review is

Looks worse than the original
Sounds worse than the original
Plays significantly worse than the original
Essentially a lightgun game that isnt even made as a lightgun game, so even on PC cannot function with modern ones

Utter garbage 2/10

We don't need a timeline for any of these games, its just a bit of fun to imagine where they might go but nothing to obsess over or that has to be set in stone. Same for Zelda games, the majority of which have no real connection to one another

@rjejr @Talkshowhost @ATMVF all you have to do is pick the option on the right, the game even suggests this and it works exactly as you'd imagine

Both this and Odyssey are brilliant games that share some elements but by and large the core gameplay loops of both are quite different with the 2 main characters controlling quite differently.

Then structure wise, DK doesn't actually require any banana's for progress, meaning you can engage with as much or as little of the game as you like and the last part of the game is one of the best I've ever played.

I've now collected everything on DK and have the 3 star save file and at some point will do a no banana run , which should be challenging with no upgrades but ultimately if you're a fan of 3D platformers, play both, oh and New Donk City is one of the all time great levels

@Kraven the big problem with this art style is that none of the games that use it have their own identity and just blend into one another

Elliot of Philadelphia looks quite promising, even if I'm kind of over this art style but I am more excited for this than another Octopath game

Is it just me or are far too many games today, way more demanding than their visuals deserve? We all know that the Switch isn't a powerhouse but come on, a 2D pixel art game

Just finishing off Donkey Kong Bananza, I've done the main story and post game quest, so just mopping up the rest of the Banana's. This game is amazing and has one of, if not the best end sequence I've seen in a game which i won't spoil

Once I'm done with that, it'll be back to finishing Death Stranding 2

@Bunkerneath I think it just means sold in store but more importantly, looking at the overall sales, there isn't a big gap between the total of MKW and the Switch 2 itself. So as most of the consoles sold are the bundle, its safe to assume these are included, unless people are going out and buying an extra copy of a game they already have

I'd take Rare Replay and Sea of Thieves on Switch 2 and Doom of course but outside of that, there isn't much I care about from them, now that they cancelled Perfect Dark

Presumably those Mario Kart numbers are including the bundle and its a shame we can't have those separately as I'd imagine DK would have been number 1 by some distance but hopefully DK does well long term as it's a fantastic game

I predict the next Direct will be sometime between now and another point in time

Yeah let's compare the sales of a game that launches in the summer just 6 weeks after its console, to that which launched 7 months into it and the holiday season where more games are sold anyway.

The time to judge Donkey Kong's success isn’t now but in the months and perhaps years to come.

What I will say, if you're one who buys Mario games but not DK's, then you're missing out, as Bananza and the overlooked Tropical Freeze are easily as good as anything with Mario in

They aren't even competing devices and this is simply the old PC vs console debate. People buy Nintendo consoles to play Nintendo's games, so at that point the Steamdeck is irrelevant in that discussion.

A few on here are even saying the Steamdeck is a console and it simply isn’t, its literally a handheld PC and as simplified as its OS is, the majority of games on Steam do not function like console games.

Steamdeck is a great device for what it sets out to be, but sales data alone shows that these do not cater to the same market at all

Absolutely loving it, just smashing through the environment is incredibly addictive and then falling off the map when I go to far 😅

@IronMan30 yeah I watched it after reading this and John was way more positive than this makes it seem

Would I rather it be a locked 60fps, sure but my only real concern from that is some bosses going down to 30fps, so hopefully that can be looked at, everything else seems minor and not something I'd be bothered about.

Actually watching DF's video, John is overall very complimentary about the game, much more so than this article suggest as they only pickup on the negatives

"I highly recommend giving it a shot if it looks interesting to you. Sure, it has a few technical issues under the surface, but what the team has accomplished on the whole is really quite amazing"

@AussieMcBucket I know, it just me me smile when I really think about some of these things.

I just went back and looked at the direct and it looks like the ostrich only glides, similar to how it did in DKC, with updrafts of air to give you more height

@AussieMcBucket I get what you're saying but it's kinda funny that someone can accept that an ape can transform into a giant ostrich, just not that said ostrich can then fly, next you'll be telling me that zebras can't run on 2 legs or on water 😉

@YellowMagic1965 interesting, I'll check that out

@h3s yeah the VRR on PS5 is a smaller range and of course this can easily mask small performance drops though other issues such as traversal stutters would still be noticable, or games like Oblivion which has enormous frame time spikes.

Thing is, most of the time such minor drops aren't a big deal and thats ultimately my point. I've been gaming since the 80's and the majority of console games have suffered from slow down, frame drops etc and for the most part they don't matter.

Sure I'd rather every game lock to their fps target but what I've seen of this so far it seems unobtrusive and I think sometimes we get far too obsessive over such minor things (myself included), rather than just look forward to something or having fun with it

@tseliot yet if you want me to list all the games that drop frames on the PS5, PS5 Pro and Series X then we are going to be here for a very, very long time

I used it once and in reality it was only a tiny discount or in many cases, actually more expensive than purchasing them elsewhere. They stated a while ago they weren't using them for Switch 2 so it makes sense they discontinue them

That's normal for how game development works and clearly this concept wouldn't have been fully realised on Switch 1.

I see some going on about graphics but I think both this and Mario Kart World look gorgeous

Mines a lot faster than Switch 1 over WiFi, downloading all my games when I first got it was significantly faster than when I did the same with the OLED

Given the size of them, they absolutely should. Out of that initial lineup, I've not interest in half of them, such as the Pokemon games, Chibi Robo and Mario Sunshine as I have the 3D All Stars version, so if much rather save the sapce than have multiple gb taken up so I can play Wind Waker and Luigi's Mansion

All the console manufacturers have been able to do this for a couple of generations so why are people now suddenly making a big deal of it for Nintendo?

@SillyG it seems Switch 2 is more susceptible to EMI and thats what's causing the disconnects, cheaper or older HDMI cables may lack proper shielding so it could interfere with the signal. Also if you have other devices connected that have an active HDMI signal, they could potentially cause disconnects as well

I've been playing Mario Odyssey and in New Donk City its a dramatic difference. I might go back to Echoes of Wisdom now its performance has been fixed and they finally patched in a way to filter just the echoes you want to use

@russell-marlow funnily enough I never bought Team Sonic Racing for similar reasons that you described, as it looked like a huge downgrade from Sonic Racing Transformed in terms of character roster, track selection and gameplay and I was playing a ton of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at the time

I'm a big beat em up fan but Double Dragon is one series I've never really understood the popularity of. It probably didn't help that id already played the vastly superior Streets of Rage before playing any but even later entries like Neon weren't great.

This though, the gameplay looks like it could be interesting but visually, I don't find it particularly appealing

Why are they obsessed with forcing these intermission tracks? Don't get me wrong, I don't mind them but its clear to everyone who's played the game that it badly needs a traditional 3 lap option, in both single player and online.

Ordered, I'm not even an Amiibo collector but I've got to have this one

I always found the blue shell to be a weird item, as the person who gets that has no real benefit from using it and I do feel the frequency of them should be significantly turned down, that said its hardly made a difference to the success of Mario Kart.

Thing is, even if you remove the blue shell or don't have an equivalent, the chances are that the person in first is just target practice for all manner of projectiles anyway

It just isn’t is it? How many people even bought that stupid Mig Switch? This is something that 99.99% of Switch 2 owners will never encounter and youre just as likely to find a used PS5 or Xbox thats banned

I've played my Switch 2 handheld way more than I did the OLED, mainly because the joycons are significantly better but also because I prefer a bigger screen. Sure the motion clarity isn't as good as the OLED but I don't really notice it when playing and as I said, I prefer it because it's larger and has HDR, I'd also say the screen is way better than the og Switch.

What's the fuss over the USB cable length? I only use it to charge my Pro controller on the rare occasion it dies

Not for me, I'll be buying the base game but have no interest in having those characters in the game. I'd much rather they used their own IP rather than add these which themselves are way past their best.

I'll be buying the main game but not the dlc

After seeing that Direct, I can't say I'm waiting on a 3D Mario, Donkey Kong has this covered

Shy Guy in the Billdozer when I'm racing and Donkey Kong for cruising around the open world because his face is so expressive

I think the spines look way better than Switch 1 cases did, I much prefer seeing a bit of artwork on the side instead of just plain red with white text that changes position and size

Love House of The Dead and i played the demo of this and sadly ot has the same poor controls as the original. This could have been great on Switch 2 with mouse controls but its not made as a lightgun game would be, so doesn't even work properly with them on PC.

I'll stick to playing the originals with my Sinden Lightgun on PC

Same, even as someone who plays on all platforms. I was excited being a Donkey Kong fan and having waited 26 years for a new 3D entry but that initial reveal seemed like it'd be good though maybe not truly special.

However, all that changed in the Direct and it looked incredible, seemingly taking all the best bits of Odyssey, the soundtrack style of MKW and throwing in a bit of Banjo Kazzoie. I cannot wait

A very easy 10, the game looks outstanding and it's great to see Pauline and DK together again without that evil little Mario trying to steal her away

I'm happy we've got DK Rap but even happier to have new arrangements of the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack

Now bring them to Mario Kart World

I'm not even an Amiibo collector but I'm getting that one

This looks incredible and its brilliant to see Donkey Kong and Pauline back together after all these years. Does this mean it was actually Mario kidnapping her back in the original game?

I'm super excited for this, it looks like they're taking the best parts pf Odyssey and sprinkling a bit of Banjo Kazzoie magic on top

Yeah and they're pretty useful, especially early on for extra weapon storage and I like the auto builder QR code function.

For new players I'd recommend not using it for Koroks etc (straight away) as it kind of spoils your exploration and learning the environments