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I wish they'd have brought the original along with it and referring to Alex's video as well, the first game on Gamecube was absolutely a visual showcase.

I've got mixed feeling over Luigi's Mansion 2, it's certainly the weakest entry with a lack of the character ghosts and the standard ghosts don't look as good as in the original either, but it's mainly the mission structure which dragged it down and I just wish it would let you explore. Though on the positive side, the multiple mansions were a nice change and it was still great fun to play

@Anti-Matter modding games has been common for a very long time, if anything I feel companies should embrace it more, a game like Sonic Mania for example only exists because of the modding community and the recent Doom ports actually add them to the retail package

I've recently returned to fresh play through of Animal Crossing and Super Mario Odyssey alongside starting Super Mario RPG, I never played the original version of this so it's an entirely new experience for me

I like Super Monkey Ball and I like Sonic but I have no desire to see Super Monkey Ball turned into some weird Sonic tribute. I'll just buy the standard edition

@Truegamer79 Luigi's Mansion and Rogue Leader were stunning to see at the time and that's even me coming from the Dreamcast and PS2

It's the weakest of the 3 for me but still a game I really enjoy and I'm looking forward to playing it again. Hopefully Nintendo will see sense and bring the first game to Switch at some point, I mean it should have been ported to Switch instead of 3DS given when it released but Nintendo do strange things at times

Age is completely irrelevant for what is retro, especially as games basically haven't changed significantly now for well over a decade, so I always think of retro as a style. The PS3 isn't far off 20 years old but has way more in common with a PS5 than a PS2, even the Dreamcast had online gaming and is arguably closer to today's gaming then the Megadrive/SNES of just a few years earlier

So for me retro is still the likes of Atari and up to and including the 16 bit era and now including the early 3D consoles of the PS1, Saturn and N64

@LadyCharlie yeah basically this for me

@Fighting_Game_Loser Atari didn't buy the Amico, there's basically only Phil Adam left at that company and no chance the console gets released

Simple fact is that it was 60fps on Gamecube so could definitely be on Switch. Metroid Prime got improved visuals on Switch and maintained 60fps and I'd say there are more visually impressive games on Switch that are also 60fps.

That said, framerate isn't that important for this type of game, it's just seems an odd choice to aim lower

Now I want to know what movies don't feature trees

@HeadPirate sadly there seem to be some crazy idiots in most fandoms. As a long time RARE fan myself, I can't say I cared for Nuts and Bolts but Battletoads was fun and I loved their new IP in Viva Pinata and Sea of Thieves

@GrailUK exactly, there are some great games coming to NSO online from RARE and there's no reason why more won't come. If people are that bothered about RARE Replay (which is an amazing collection) then go buy an old Xbox One

Hang on, Phil said they were only launching 4 games elsewhere and here's another 5 🤪

Seriously though, Killer Instinct was awesome in SNES and stands shoulder to shoulder with Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat of the time and Blast Corps is good fun

@Martijn87 they're basically identical, for what it's worth I'm playing them on PC and they look great on a big screen

The Remaster is fantastic, with the only negative being the framerate in the classic graphics. The updated visuals have being done very well and fit with how Lara looked in the promotional materials and cutscenes. I've really enjoyed revisiting these games and having all the modern nonsense stripped away for some pure exploration fun, all with the classic controls

Sonic Superstars was a bit of a disappointment, mainly down to its rather poor boss battles and putting it full price when the likes of Mania and even Streets of Rage 4, was never going to help, not to mention launching it into such a busy period. I seem to remember Sonic Frontiers been available for a much lower price around launch and it was a much better game too.

Obviously loads will point to Mario Wonder and that will have been a factor, though I found that to be rather disappointing too.

Overall I'd say Like A Dragon (Yakuza) is Sega's best and most consistent IP at the moment, with Infinite Wealth being one of the very best games I've played in the last few years

The trailer is great and I'm pleasantly surprised to see it matching the quality of the movies. Bring it on and then Sonic 3

Awesome news, he is one of the major reasons these films were so good

@liljmoore Arkham Knight was fine on PS4 and Xbox, it's PC port was broken beyond belief and still is rather poor but it was good on console. That said it never had any realistic chance of running well on Switch

@Truegamer79 the PC port never got fixed, just PC's got more powerful and brute forced it's issues

I've seen a few here saying it was a buggy mess on all platforms at launch but it was actually in a good place on console, just with the awful PC port.

"The PC's dire situation may cast a shadow over its launch, but the fact remains that Arkham Knight is an exceptional release on console"

A quote from Digital Foundry at the time.

This should never have been ported to Switch as its clear that it has no chance of running it and how this review got a 6 is beyond me. Sure the other 2 games run OK, well Asylum runs poor considering its age but is playable but when one of the games is basically unplayable then surely it has to score lower

We all know the timeline in nonsense and should never really be used as a limiting factor, there's only a couple of games that directly relate to one another anyway

The beginning of many Nintendo games, these introductions such as in Twilight Princess are great the first time playing, but make returning to them a chore at times

I love how we're on version 17 and it's still largely the same as day one

Hang on, is the Switch version of Asylum based upon the PS3/360 version? I'd pick that up if it was available individually as it's artwork is better than the "remaster"

Shame, if not unexpected that Knight is a complete mess

Not really, I play mainly on PC these days and don't even use it there as the vast majority of games I want to play aren't even on it

Oh it absolutely deserves a modern remake and not because the original is in any way bad to play these days. With all the games getting remakes, I find it crazy that both Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time have not had the same treatment and no I'm not counting the handheld versions

@rvcolem1 it looked on odd way to write it to me and I'm from the UK, we most definitely use the word billion over here. The original meaning of a billion was one million million but we've used the short scale one thousand million as its meaning for quite some time

@Truegamer79 they're the same versions just at half the framerate on Switch. MGS2 runs at 60fps on a PS2 and sure it's still playable at 30 but frankly it's unacceptable that they couldn't match the performance of a 23 year old console

Basically it's a garbage port, they should be embarrassed running a PS2 game at half the framerate on the Switch. Nintendo have Metroid Prime with improved visuals running at a flawless 60fps at 1080p and these clowns barely get a PS2 game running at 30fps at 720p with no visual updates over the original

Physical 😂😂😂

They don't even try anymore

Started Mario Wonder and it's absolutely amazing, it looks great and is just a joy to play. I've also got Spider-Man 2 but will wait until my day off on Monday to start it

I'm not sure about that, so many will have large libraries and many of those digital, do you expect so many developers to port their games again to another system? Oh and don't give them another excuse to drip feed us NES and SNES games again.

One of the big reasons Xbox is in the position they're in, is that people built up libraries of games during last gen so went forward with the console that keeps them, it's also one of the reasons why Epic struggle to eat into Steam's lead on PC

@RareFan I'd rather it be all Kong related then just having Peach again

Why on Earth are we getting "physical" editions that just aren't physical at all? I'd have loved to own all this on a cartridge

At least the 3 new characters are good choices with the return of Diddy Kong and Funky Kong being great additions and Pauline too

I'd much rather have the first game, Dark Moon whilst fun is easily the weakest of the 3, with pretty poor ghost designs compared with the original and now 3 as well

Don't get me wrong this looks fun but I'd much prefer a remake of the Gamecube game or a new entry, that and we know they'll probably shut it down in a year or two anyway

Don't care about Daisy but why not Wario? Do we really need multiple coloured Yoshi's and Toad's? Game looks great but it's bloated character list is uninspired

@RobTheIII I'll take 2 please, also do you have any snacks whilst we're at it?

@JokerCK all whilst easily being cracked for piracy purposes anyway. This only ever harms legitimate consumers

@Qwiff @Max_the_German yeah I seemed to have clicked on the one site that had the information the wrong way round, silly me.

Though I do recall it having slightly less performance in games such as Doom 3 and Mario Galaxy compared with Switch, largely because of it's OS

@GrailUK thing is this was already 60fps on the Nvidia Shield which is basically an underclocked Switch with less RAM and generally less performance, so it's already been proved the Switch could do it.

EDIT, I got this the wrong way round, the Switch runs at lower clocks but does have more RAM but it does outperform the Shield in games such as Doom 3 due to it's OS

Woohoo I can play Metal Gear Solid 2 at half the performance of the original PS2 version. Thank God for Konami

@russell-marlow there's no reason for this collection to be 30fps on Switch though, its literally a port of a collection that was already 60fps on older hardware and by all accounts its still just 720p on the PS5. Sure wait for reviews but I'd be stunned if the final product was vastly different.

As for the SH HD Collection, sure not having the source code isn't ideal but that's not an excuse for using comic sans for in game textures. These things can be fixed or improved with enough care and attention

@koekiemonster at least with Mario 3D All Stars they made some enhancements to Mario Sunshine, where as this Metal Gear Collection seems to be worse than its own previous release.

At 30fps this is a joke of a collection, why on earth would I consider spending money on a collection that has worse performance than the original game on the Playstation 2?

@Princess_Lilly yeah there's probably worse games on Steam but it's also much easier for a user to avoid and see the games that'll likely interest them

@Princess_Lilly they all have them but the eshop is the worst in the sense that all games are given equal billing. All of the others have some form of curating to feature new releases and with Steam it's very easy to follow developers and be notified of their games. Plus sales on games are much more controlled, where as here anyone can put their game on sale and they're all slapped together in a huge pile

The Switch eshop is awful, not only is garbage like the above given as much prominence as actual competently made games, the sales section is filled with this rubbish as well. On top of that it's painfully slow to navigate, Nintendo really need to get on top of this for a Switch successor

Quake 2 remastered mainly but also picked up a couple of Dreamcast games in Resident Evil 2 and Ecco the Dolphin, oh and the boy wants to go through Kirby Forgotten Land with me as well

A fantastic package of what was already a great game and to think I got it as a free upgrade on Steam. I'll certainly be picking up the Switch version as well, such a shame other games don't get such treatment when ported to modern hardware. It's a bit sad to think that of the N64 FPS games ported to modern hardware, that Goldeneye is in by far the worse state of any of them and Nightdive asked of they could do it but were turned down.

Still on a happier note this is an amazing release and for the price is an absolute steal