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@WaveBoy I'm a huge fan of this era of fps games and seem to buy them on every platform I own. They're nice to have on the Switch for portable play but I do tend to play them on my PC mainly. For Quake 2 it's the RTX version which looks really good, so it'll be interesting to see how this compares but I'll still be getting it on Switch and probably Xbox

@Ulysses I was gonna say I much preferred the sky island to the depths which I can't say I was a fan of at all really

Thoroughly deserved for such a fantastic game, so far this year its between this and RE4 for my GOTY. That said there's also a little bit of disappointment, as this pretty much cements the fact we won't see new traditional Zelda games anytime soon, or again

I suppose it depends on your point of view, for me very little of what I played on Playstation is on Switch with the odd big exception. That said it's great to see many classics available even if it's only a small proportion of what was on offer but I'd love to see more, especially from Namco

That is a pretty phenomenal update with 4 fantastic games, Revenge of Shinobi has some of the best music from that era and Crusader of Senty is a must play for Zelda fans

I'm enjoying it, its hard to say if the extra content is worth the price and they should have used Master System versions where possible but we knew this going in and the core package is still great.

The real value is in the physical cartridge and i really like the box art, particularly the reversible cover and it's nice to have these Sonic games physically (yes I know the GG games aren't on it but the main games are)

I picked up the Sonic Origins Plus collection for the Switch partly because it's Mega drive reversable cover is amazing. I'm not sure what it is about the new Final Fantasy but it just doesn't appeal to me

Zelda has been £50 on Amazon and Argos since launch, you'd have to go put of your way to pay £60 for it

It's the weakest of the 3 for me but still it'll be nice to have it on Switch, it was a ludicrous decision to remake the original for the 3DS at a time when the Switch was already out and I'd love to see that one come as well

I can't help but feel this is at least 5 years too late

I've learnt to ignore these sales now (it's only taken until I'm 40 🤣) but I barely have time for the main games I buy, let alone adding more to a never ending library that I'll never play

I much prefer TOTK, Breath of The Wild always felt empty to me and quite lonely much of the time. Where as now Hyrule feels more alive and its NPC's more interesting and that's before the shrines, BOTW had many which were frankly rubbish with that one enemy but every one I've done so far has been fun and interesting. The only weakness is the depths and I feel they didn't need to cover anywhere near the entire map amd would be better served as a few small areas like the Sky is

Overall I liked BOTW but it's way down the list of my favourite Zelda games whilst TOTK is very near the top

Well it wouldn't be Sega if they weren't making stupid decisions, from using the Game Gear versions in the first place, instead of their Master System/Megadrive counterparts and now this. I did consider cancelling my preorder but at least the main Sonic games are on the cartridge and at worst it's a tiny install for the rest

@samuelvictor it's just a code for the dlc, so will be tied to your Nintendo account

The remake quite easily, the game is absolutely gorgeous and is one of the best looking games I've ever played

@clianvXAi they also report Japanese and US charts, so I'm not sure what your point is

@Francema plenty of new Switch's are still being sold, so why not pick it up? It's also why games such as Mario 3D All Stars should never have been removed from sale

I'm thoroughly enjoying Street Fighter 6, I've been out of the loop with fighting games for a while (except a bit of MK11) but have my Mayflash F500 Elite and it's a great way to play this new game. It's also got a wealth of content to be getting on with, from a Yakuza style story mode, a PS Home style hub, complete with classic arcade games and a robust Arcade mode.

Between this and TOTK and RE4 earlier, this has been one of the best years for me in some time gaming wise

@Wexter I was about to reply to them saying the exact same thing and people seem to forget how huge Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat really were in the 90's. With Street Fighter 2 alone estimated to have grossed over $10 billion across consoles and Arcade

This company is handling this property so poorly, between this nonsense and the PS5 remake disappearing into the ether. Everyone who bought this should be offered a refund

I can't think of a game I'm less excited for, 1-2 Switch was barely a tech demo, let alone a game and I've got zero interest in this

@Liam_Doolan wow you seem to have found the most complicated one, there's a very simple way. Just ignore steps 4 to 9 and throw the weapon, immediately pause and load your save and you'll still be holding the weapon with another on the floor

I hated the weapon degradation in BOTW and still do but rather like it here as it keeps giving me reasons to experiment with such a vast array of items, the exception being the Master Sword and I still don't think it's necessary to confiscate it every 5 minutes.

As for rupees, whilst they aren't necessary to play through the game, they're obviously needed for armour upgrades and a lot are needed for a fun side quest. I seem to be able to get plenty of rupees, many side quests seem to give me 100, plus there's that guy with the sign and the many many blupees to farm

@TrixieSparkle 100,000 for all the dream room parts? Why would you ever buy them all as you can only put down 15 and it only costs 6700 to fill the plot of land. I did initially duplicate a few diamonds before the game auto updated but even so, after a few armour upgrades and building my house I've still got effectively all the rupees left from those extra diamonds. Perhaps it'll seem to be more of an issue later but so far I've never found it hard to get money even without cooking or farming

I've updated it as I've never felt the need to duplicate items anyway, same as with BOTW I just mark any resources I need on the map and you basically trip over zonaite in the depths, even star fragments are easier now as they often spawn when you dive from the sky. Plus on top of that there's still a couple of easy dupe glitches in the new patch if you really want to use them

@HeadPirate emulators are legal though as long as they don't contain any copyrighted code, ROMs are the issue and how people get them but you can't take down an emulator because people are downloading pirated ROMs, these are 2 separate issues despite their links. Playing your own discs or ROMs by other means isn't illegal in any way.

The reason this DMCA takedown has occurred is because it turns out that Dolphin contains the Wii common keys in its source code, which is copyrighted material, so in this instance Nintendo are correct to take it down. This is why Retroarch is still on Steam as it's Dolphin core had these keys removed so Nintendo has no grounds to take it down despite the fact you can play many Nintendo systems on it

They're not sorry at all have you seen the state of the game? Whoever authorised it to be released should be sacked and every person buying it should be refunded, yes both of them.

@HeadPirate yet this is about Dolphin which isn't a Switch emulator and is perfectly legal, if Nintendo had any legal grounds against Dolphin they'd have gone after them years ago. They just don't want it available on a rival platforms storefront which is understandable

The old style of dungeons are still much better for me, the Divine Beasts weren't particularly good but the temples in TOTK are quite a bit better, with a much longer journey too them, effectively forming part of the dungeon. Plus the shrines are once again much better than in BOTW, with much less emphasis on that one enemy and more interesting puzzles.

Still I'd like to see a more traditional style Zelda game, even of smaller in the vain of Links Awakening

What's that a percentage of? This just looks like Sony making ***** up to make themselves look good. No matter how you swing it, the Switch has been outselling Playstation for years and it's best selling games are significantly more successful than Sony's

Over 35 hours for me which is very rare these days for any game in such a space of time. This game just has me hooked with so much to see and do no matter where I turn

@Serpenterror I disagree with the arcade comparison for 2 main reasons, the first being that you're effectively renting play time on an arcade game where as these mechanics are gambling. Secondly this is a piece of software that you have access to all the time and you could spend hundreds of dollars in seconds which you simply couldn't in an arcade.

Sure there is responsibility on the end user but to suggest the company isn't at fault is nonsense, these kinds of games are very deliberately designed to do exactly this.

Mario Kart Tour along with the vast majority of mobile games are absolutely scummy when it comes to monetisation and this is why I don't play any of them. The fact that someone could spend $170 and above on something like this just goes to show that they are designed primarily to drain the money of a few idiots and those vulnerable to such mechanisms and they should be banned in all games

@Il_Nintenditore I agree with you, Ocarina of Time is the literally foundation of how we play 3D action adventure games today. Even the recent God of War games adapted to follow its formula and became a huge success off the back of that

How is BOTW top? Tears of the Kingdom is better in every single way and even without that game I wouldn't put BOTW 1st.

My top 3 would be

Ocarina of Time
Tears of The Kingdom
Windwaker

@Mattock1987 the game makes building very easy when you've done certain quests

One of the few and easiest 10's I'll ever give to a game, it's the best game I've played on any system for a very long time and already one of my favourite ever games. The game looks great, performance is fine for the vast majority of the game and the draw distance is impressive for what's going on.

More importantly its great fun with the new mechanics offering almost endless gameplay possibilities. There's plenty to see and do no matter where you head out to and much like Skyrim it's not afraid to let you complete tasks before being told.

Compared to BOTW, the world feels much more alive, there's a lot more to do and everything is seemingly unlockable without Amiibo.

A definite 10 from me and it makes most open world games look very dated by comparison

It's not a great addition when you consider that these games are effectively already on the service. I'd much rather see games which don't already have versions already on there

@lighteningbolt79 it's definitely in the top 5 games I've ever played and I can't think of anything I've played on Switch or elsewhere over the last few years that really come close to it

Quite how Skyward Sword managed that is anyone's guess but Tears of The Kingdom is a staggering achievement in game design and execution

I managed to get that very controller but luckily mine seems to be fine, I've played at least 10 hours with it and no issues so far

As much as I felt BOTW went in the wrong direction, I have to say that Tears of The Kingdom has proven to me that Zelda does work this way. That said I would still like them to create more traditional Zelda style games, perhaps just on a smaller scale such as the Link's Awakening remake

I've played about 15 hours and can't say the performance has affected my enjoyment at all. The only time it really dips is using ultrahand, at which point you're not doing anything that needs quick responses anyway. In general gameplay it runs great and if anything makes me wonder what developers are wasting resources on with more powerful hardware, given how interactive this world is

@MrLinkTathapast its certainly the same map underneath but I'd argue it still feels new with how much has changed and that's before you consider the shrines plus the world above and below. Yakuza made an entire series out of a very small evolving city and if anything I'd say more games should reuse maps for sequels rather than throwing everything away

@DwaynesGames I've not seen any gyro ones yet and they were annoying in BOTW, especially in handheld mode. Those that I have done have taken a bit more thinking than before and one even turned into a mini game of sorts after putting it together. Even the combat shrines have been good as they teach you a technique that you may not be aware of

I've played about 10 or so hours and already I'd say its better than BOTW in almost every way, the shrines are better designed and there's a lot more thought into quality of life touches such as recipes etc. An amazing game

@SwitchForce nobody here is playing fast and loose with the definition of emulation here apart from you.

"Also Nintendo games never came on emulation"

Well if you ignore the entire Wii Virtual Console, the Wii U Virtual Console, every game on Nintendo Switch Online, the Zelda bonus disc back on the GameCube, the NES games in the original Animal Crossing, Mario 3D All Stars, Super Mario All Stars on the Wii and the Arcade Archives entries of Donkey Kong and Sky Skipper then perhaps you could be right.

"emulation has benefited no one"

I'd say the people who have played all of those games, or subscribe to PS Plus to play PS1 and PS2 classics, or bought PS1 classics on the Vita, PSP and PS3, or indeed played a PS1 or PS2 game on the PS3 hardware, or play back compat 360 and og Xbox games on the Xbox One or Series console benefit from emulation. Oh and all the people who have bought the however many retro collections we've had over the vast amount of consoles released, I could go on but I suspect you get the point.

@-wc- it just makes me laugh seeing these comments
Article - person playing game early on actual Switch
Everyone else - emulation is bad

@Kestrel You can re-use any of the parts, either those lying around or from the capsules. Just that once a capsule is opened you can't put them back in your inventory, think of it more like it gives you the ability to spawn a fan or another item anywhere in the world

@epicgamner exactly, in BOTW I ended up hoarding a lot of weapons that I never used, now I swing away happy that I can turn a stick into a deadly weapon. Without spoiling anything for anyone, this has fixed every niggling gripe that I had with BOTW and everyone is in for a treat

@SwitchForce You're conflating emulation and piracy, emulation has no part in obtaining illegal copies, it can be used to play them afterwards but that can also be done on original hardware. Playing on original hardware is often the bigger problem, think back to the PS1 or those cards for the DS and even this very article shows the game running on the Switch itself and is the biggest cause of Switch piracy

I emulate many games, either through publishers like Nintendo who sell me emulated games, or the vast amount of roms I have, almost none of which are available to buy anymore and the rest I've bought legitimately anyway