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@epicgamner or he just his hands on a legitimate copy early...

Why the hate for Zero Time Dilemma? It scored a 8 here on NL and imo it was a pretty solid game.
Imo Virtue's Last Reward us the garbage one of the trilogy, but I seem to he the only one that thinks that 😆

@lechugajr @Desrever If you own Slay the Spire on steam then I highly recommend to check out the free mod Slay the Spire: Downfall.
It has a new main character and the Downfall mode, where you can play as one of 7 boss characters and reverse the spire to kill the heroes.

It is incredibly well made and adds an insane ammount of content.

Tbh remote raids where one of the biggest reason I stopped playing. It's just not fun to do a raid a lot of people but being the only one there.

And let's be honest, the game itself is really bad. The only fun thing about it is it encourages you to go outside and meet people.

Glad I jumped ship to Sony last tear, their line-up has been incredible, while Nintendo keeps dissapointing over and over.

Nintendo is the only company I would considder pirating their games. Why pay full price for often outdated games with poor performance and drifting controllers?

Where are the deals? I mostly see a bunch of overpriced old games.

It wouldn't be a Blizzard game if it wasn't predatory.

@RobynAlecksys I rarely ever replay a game. I enjoy the story/singleplayer mode but once I'm through it I'm done with the game and move on to something new.
The few times I did try to replay a great game I just get bored real quick because I know what's coming next.

There are lots of "gamers" who enjoy playing their games in different ways. Even xbox owners are real "gamers". Stop the toxicity and just go back to enjoying your own games.

I'm getting both AI and yurukill somewhere on a sale in the future.

Wasn't lollipop chainsaw a mediocre game that purely relies on gore and "fan service"?

@Ogbert so basicly you're saying it's digital cash?

Somehow I made it to what I think is the final boss before quitting. I mostly remember being lost and frustrated, without any real clues on the map on how to progress.
The only way I see myself ever replaying it is with a walkthrough, but that's probably not gonna happen.

Hopefully they make silksong a bit more easy to follow.

@JustMonika thanks for recommending Corpse Factory, it looks awsome!

The only game on the list I've played is PLA, wich was a 7/10 at best for me. Really not deserving of GOTY IMO.
I'm really excited to try out Neon White or Triangle Strategy if I every get time for it.

I really liked the demo but $50 feels way to expensive. I'll probably wait for a sale.

That kind of thinking is also the reason why the switch has specs of a 10+ year old console, terrible joycon design and a really poor network for a lot of multiplayer games.
It sure produces a ton of great games by trying to be unique but sometimes they're riggid way of thinking is really holding them back.

I'm glad it never left the NGC. It's a great game, but since a lot of sanity effects were specifically tailored to the NGC and the TV's that were populair at that time, it would be a vastly inferior experience palying it on anything other that the NGC.

I would gladly take a sequel or a complete remake, but a simple remaster just isn't gonna cut it.

Lately I get the feeling that activision is just milking every penny possible out of the blizzard franchises with the intention of dropping the blizzard name completely when it drops.

I hope that MicroSoft can turn things around, but I've got the feeling they bought a sinking ship.

Can we just stop with these genre crossovers. I'm tired of getting these musou games shoved down my throat in game series that I love.
It makes me feel like I have to either play through a game I don't like or miss out on the expanded story/character development/world building.

Just let musou franchises be musou games and rpg franchises be rpg games etc.

It seems like hardly anyone here likes musou games, so who are they making these games for?

I'm still pretty salty about the time I bought my switch along with Fire Emblem Warriors, only to find out it was a musou instead of a SRPG like I was hoping.
Guess a lot of these sales come from uneducated people or parents buying these games purely on brand recognition.

Or is there just a huge group of musou fans that just never speak up?

@RubyCarbuncle is it any good without the drum controller?
I've always been interested but not having the drums really sound like it would take away a lot from tge experience.

I tried it for a couple of minutes but it's way to hard to get back to.

Been interested in this since the first reveal, I'm glad it turned out great.
I'm gonna get the pc version because playing fps games with a controller is atrocious.

I've always hated those minigame collections. Didn't like Wii-sports or Nintendo Land. So I'm defenitely not gonna waste my money on 1-2 switch. This sequel seems like a waste of resources.

I'm kinda interested now so I might try it out. Blockchain amd NFTs are gonna be a big part of future gaming so might as well embrace it.

@the_beaver they might have been really good JRPGs back in the day, but with a few exceptions most of those games would be considered mediocre by todays standard.

Why is there such a strong focus on the "90s era feel" in the marketing. It feels like they already know the game is gonna be mediocre and try to twist the mediocrity into nostalgia "the game is supposed to be bland and boring because so were the games in the 90s".

Doesn't help that the screenshots look like bad mobile games.

I hope I'm wrong and that the game turns out to be fantastic, but I highly doubt it.

N64 era was imo one of the worst gens for gaming. Every game had to be in 3d while nobody had really figured out yet how to properly make 3d games. Most games were trash tbh.
Gamecube was so much better!

That would've been such a trainwreck. Best for anyone to just ignore that man and let him drown in his own delusions.

If it plays as well as it looks then it's gonna be a must buy.

I don't see how this article has anything to do with scalping. Or is NL implying that videogame collectors are scalpers?

I played all the zero escape games. While I absolutely loved 999 and thought Zero Time Dilemma was pretty good, I hated Virtue's Last Reward so much that I couldn't do more then one ending (looked the others up online and still hated it).

The danganronpa games have really high highs (almost all murder cases are extremely well thought out) and low lows (most characters rely one one gimmick and keep repeating the same lines over and over throughout the whole game, very rarely there is actual character development).

My order would be:
1. 999
2. Dagonronpa
3. Zero Time Dilemma
4. Dagonronpa 2
5. Dagonronpa 3
6. Virtues Last Reward

This sounds amazing, this might be one of the rare day1 games for me.

@DestructoDisk The problem with these remasters of old games is that they have a very niche audience. For people that grew up playing PS1 JRPGs this is probably gonna be a great game.
But I think most people are really gonna hate it because it is really outdated and the PS1 era is really hard to go back to.

Reviews should reflect todays standards because it is competing in the e-shop with other modern games, I wouldn't think a straight up PS1 port would have scored any better either tho.

Ps bringing up Warcraft 3 is a really bad example because they had a lot of false advertising, predatory ToS changes and it stripped online options for both the remake and the original wc3. Refusing to refund players didn't help their cause either.

It looks terrible and the music is horrendous.

@ManaOwls a game should be reviewed as a whole, not just the parts you care about.
Technical aspect make or break games just as much as gameplay and story. Nothing ruins a game more imo then gamebreaking bugs/glitches, constant framedrops or overly long loading times.

And no, this isn't a 20+ year old game, it's a game released in 2022 and should be treated as such.

I thought I recognised the bass player from the thumbnail. It's Adam Neely!
Never thought I'd see him on NintendoLife.

Either make the rival and team of bad guys interesting or just get rid of them all together. The 'rival' in SwSh was cheering me on the whole game, he didn't feel like a rival at all but he kept telling me he was... And I had no clue what was going on with team yell.
The old Pokémon formula is really stale and doesn't fit the newer style of games Gamefreak is producing. I hope they can change things up a bit.

Also more exploration, less handholding and a gamemode that removes exo share and brings back HMs.

I liked both games, so I'm up for another playthrough with Aurora. Pretty cool and unexpected crossover.

Is Pokémon going to be the FIFA of Nintendo, with yearly rushed out entries? Let's hope Gamefreak doesn't learn about microtransactions.

How does EVO need Nintendo's permission in the first place? I'm fairly sure Nintendo never gave permission for Melee being fearures since Nintendo always hated the competitive aspect, yet it has been featured for countless of years.
So what's changed?

@Ogbert first of all a blockchain doesn't just 'dissapear', if at least one node is active the blockchain is live and since anyone can be become a node that just doesn't happen.
So basicly if you can put games on the blockchain then it will be up untill everyone in the world decides to stop caring about it.

The problem with most peoples perception on NFTs is that they only look at what NFTs currently offer: a bunch of useless jpegs to buy and sell.
There is a lot more potential for these proof of ownership certificates (for example I can see a future where you can start your car and unlock your house by using your NFT since it's way more convenient and secure than physical keys).

One of those potentials is when storefronts start selling their gamekeys as NFTs. As consumer you get the ability to sell your games or loan them to a friend (for a small fee to the devs of course). It also means that games that have been pulled from the storefront are still in circulation, although the scarcety is decided by the number of sales.
For devs and the storefront it can provide a decent stream of income een after the storefront dies out.

You can hate on NFTs however you want, but I genuinly believe it will become a big part of our future. Just try to think beyond the stupid jpeg's, that's just a tiny part of what NFTs can offer.
It's like back in '95 or so when everybody was hating on the internet because it "couldn't do anything that radio, television or a newspaper already could offer".

@Ogbert I'm talking about putting the actual games on the blockchain, the NFT would act only as acces keys.

I hope it's gonna be a NFT sale!

NFT sale for sure.

@RubyCarbuncle why care about a gameplay mode that is completely optional?

@pharahmain It's not a proven scam and only a certain procent of NFTs are damaging the environment.

@Ogbert Nah most people on this site don't bother to properly research what NFTs are.