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Definitely feeling the lure, it's just a question of fate. I'm not going to consciously decide one way or the other, I'm just going to let my gaming fancy do its thing.

Couldn't even tell you which version. I have them all and the hardware to play them, so it could even be a melange...

Tbh, I think i might be more inclined to play an existing copy soon, then buy the new version a bit later down the line. I don't think I need to Day 1 it, and I don't particularly want to encourage Nintendo to endlessly remake the same games.

It's kinda funny how Link and Epona are always together. Epona features prominently on both covers, and in the title screen in-game, but it's very possible (and dare I say, probable, for newcomers, at least) to play the whole game and not 'unlock' Epona at all.

This is a tough vote, because I don't particularly like either cover.

The Europe cover, while featuring nice lighting in the background around the castle, and attractive flowers in the grass, just isn't a very pleasing composition to me (Death Mountain and Lon Lon Ranch cut in half, Link/Epona to far towards the corner - just smacks of cropping a bigger picture to fit 3DS ratio), and I wouldn't have run with that character art style. I want to like this cover, because it feels like it's trying to inspire me, but it just kinda misses. Kinda reminds me of the European Breath of the Wild cover - a bit of a letdown.

The North American cover, while pretty boring and fairly plain, doesn't irritate me as much, and the gold feels kinda fitting for the legendary status the game had at the time of the 3DS release, so I think it's going to get my vote.

I somehow found myself returning to my Switch save of FM19 (Football Manager) this week, so... it's been nice knowing you.

Peace, love, outrageously unfair RNG & injury record, and pixels to all ✌🏼❤️⚽🕹️ xxx

@ottoecamn I don't think it's damage control at all. I think it's just a case that games media knows that character redesigns attract clicks and engagement, so they trawl the web to fish out any new small fry comment of relevance to justify another article and more clicks.

How to take me to 100 and then dump me down at 6-7.

Seems really disappointing. Real lack of ambition being shown by Nintendo with their sports games since the Wii.

Wii Sports Club - good but too few sports, just an HD Wii Sports with basic online.

Switch Sports - Good starting point for a reboot, Football was great, the best thing they've done since the Wii, but Bowling felt too easy, and they only added a very limited Golf and a rubbish Basketball.

Then this, Switch Sports Resort, they take Football away (!) but keep Basketball - what in the actual eff 🤬🤷🏼‍♂️🤬😭 and don't bring anything new apart from Thumb Wrestling...

Switch Sports Resort should have 24 sports minimum, or 12 sports that are very good and offer more than just the same experience we've had for 20 years.

If anyone ever had the gall to call me a backwater noble, I would spit in their face.

Interesting detail at 1:10, where the attack on the monster appears to result in the top of the large rock in the background to be sliced off. Some environmental modification of some sort going on...

Can't say I love the box art - a bit too much in-yer-face-character-art with beige and grey colouring, not enough inspiring background elements. It does nothing to capture my imagination or whet my appetite.

Where's that 'Rose from Titanic as an old wrinkly' gif when you need it?!?

OMG THEY DON'T EVEN TELL US HOW LONG IT WILL BE - THAT AUTOMATICALLY MEANS IT WILL HAVE ALL THE GAMES!!!

Hype alert. No... Sleep... Til Direct!

Never watched any footage of Elden Ring until this.

It's dark, innit?

Two out of Two

Pretty sure I've found all the secrets during my second playthrough. I'd happily prove it by discussing them all here but anyone that knows me knows how passionate I am about spoiler avoidance. I want you all to enjoy finding them just as much as I did. Have fun - there's some real doozies in there...

@mouseclicker Probably both 😜

It's kinda odd seeing how many people seem to have an issue with computers being used to create computer games.

How many games over the past 20 years have used lighting and shadow effects entirely human generated? How many games use completely hand drawn graphics? How many sound effects and music tracks are purely analogue instrument derived?

Dem computers. **** 'em.

Legendary indeed. What a pleasure.

"It's the wrong tunic, Gromit!"

A remake, huh... wonders will never cease. I was just thinking to myself recently, 'It's been a while since an old game got re- released/mastered/made, why doesn't a game company try that more often?'

And when I say 'recently', I mean ****ing never.

I think I'd rather have an AI co-comm than Jim Beglin, and if he's phoning it in too... uurrghh - was Liz Truss too busy to have a crack at it?

Ah well, even a comatose Jim Beglin is a win if it means we don't have to put up with Guy Mowbray.

A rare top 10 placing in Tetris 99 last night helped me smash the padlock on the Yoshi theme, leaving me to carry on with the delightful Mysterious Book this weekend, as well as continuing with Indy's gaping hole.

I tried the Ball X Pit trial, but I found it too much like Vampire Survivors in the semi-mindless simplicity of it's time-snatching nature.

Peace, love, Golden Plumebrellas and pixels to all ✌🏼❤️🌂🕹️ xxx

This is almost as painful as only getting Mass Effect 3 on Wii U. Just... for the love of the video gaming gods, just keep series' rights intact and let us have some more trilogy collections.

I've bought fourteen in the last week. Filling a container with them to undercut prices next Christmas.

At this point I've just got to admire their perseverance and now commit to buying the whole series. Well done, Atari, you got me.

I feel like I'm going to let Yoshi and the Mysterious Book guide my investment this generation.

I'm sticking with my pre-order, because I love Yoshi games, and will judge for myself whether the price paid turns out to be regretted or not. If it burns me, I shall very likely withdraw my custom from many new games until I can pick them up used or heavily discounted in a few years time. My collection will keep me more than busy and I'm not particularly keen on the idea of getting gouged as a reward for all my support over the past 10 years.

Were we not supposed to buy backups? Not even a just a few, like... ten, say? 😖

So, your answer to the question, 'What is the biggest selling games console of all time?' is... 'DS + Wii'?

🤔

India might have a population of 1bill+, but I have an inkling that inequality of income potentially reduces the prospective market fairly considerably.

Nevertheless, if I was the Sony CEO, I'd be rummaging around the garden shed for that box of old manifest sheets.

Pretty sure the Sony Playstation 2 Excel workbook for tracking unit sales uses the following formula:

=NintendoSwitchSalesTotal+5,000,000

Would you believe I am still playing Yoshi's Crafted World? Must have clocked at least 40 hours across Switch 1 & 2 by now. Turns out there was at least two more whole sections of levels unlocked that I hadn't known about. So I've just had Yoshi planet hopping and am now on a downright tricky little river-riding level that is proving to be a bit of a ball buster when it comes to 100%ing it (those giant fish can just **** right off).

But I had to get Indiana Jones and the Great Circle day one, so I can't reasonably consider not opening that and cracking some whip some time around the FA Cup Final today.

Plus I'm gagging for some Star Fox, so will either bust out 64 3D or Zero at some point too, hopefully.

Peace, love, Belongs in a museums and pixels to all ✌🏼❤️🏛️🕹️ xxx

@the_beaver Yeh, simple logic would say they're not going to release them close together, and that, of the two of them, Elden Ring is probably going to be ready first, which could mean a release in the next 5-10 weeks...

Not watching, already ordered. But nice to know there's another nice trailer to catch up on at some point.

@jarack Codes will always work (unless there's an expiry date on the packaging) for as long as the eshop accepts codes generally.

On behalf of everyone (particularly the investors in consumer credit companies), thank you for baking the fomo into the title of this PSA.

@Zeeba

Sorry, I don't entirely understand what you mean, but Geometry Wars Galaxies was on Wii and DS and the Wii version included Retro Evolved as a bonus.

In your face GKCs! 🤬

Pokopia selling as well as it did should put to rest the idea that GKC releases inherently sell less than regular game cards

What in the axle? How can you possibly know that it wouldn't sell more if it had released on a proper cart?

... And with an attitude like that, nothing will ever beat Geometry Wars Retro Evolved! I mean... what if this actually does beat it, and you miss out? Why would you even visit a review page if you're already deadset on what will always be the best game?

Ah, sweet, this user is going to hype me with their sexy Geometry Wars tales...

*Proceeds to give life story without saying anything more about Geometry Wars.

Ya think!?!

😜

Just give it a 10. Go on. No-one's read this yet (and I'll edit this comment), no-one has to know. Just give it a 10. Go on. It's top of the tree, just stands to reason. Just give it a 10. Go on.

Deserves some brownie points? Fortune & glory is what it deserves, dear boy 🙏🏼

If every game took a similar approach to graphics as Wind Waker HD and Breath of the Wild, I could live with that.

@AussieMcBucket No wonder the kids in the game are such bums... 🙄

@AussieMcBucket 7 days a week? Maybe. But how many hours per day? Bro is probably doing 20 minute days and chatting to George R. R. Martin the rest of the time...

... the 1.7 update for Stardew is said to bring... improvements to the game's children

Hopefully this will make them get off those damn screens, tidy their rooms, do their homework, and eat their ****ing vegetables 🤞🏼

Your Proposal Is Neither Credible Nor Attractive

If I had a buck for every time someone's said that to me in my life...

@kendomustdie 1080p undocked and 720p handheld... 🤔

Phew! Ordered last night, ahead of seeing any reviews. Really happy to support this physical release. Probably wouldn't have paid this much for Fallout 4, but this is Indy and, if the review is to be believed, it's really in the spirit of Indy too, so I'm in like it's a pit of asps.

Oh, wow... bummer.

Kinda strange that they'd pull the plug on such a game-changing project so close to release. Probably a licensing issue or something else equally insurmountable.

Oh well, SEGA, great job - you gave it everything you have and we're proud of your efforts. Better luck next time. Our loss 😥

Presumably this article will trigger 250+ comments from people outraged by this change. Hold on, popcorn ready...

@TheFox Don't forget all that sweet, sweet Game Pass money Xbox rakes in though.

Hang on a minute...

Tomodachi Life is available physically...

Pragmata is GKC...

Nope. I got nothing. I thought I had something but I must be delusional.

Does it really matter? This is such a non article.

A bit of a non comment then 🤷🏼‍♂️

It matters because when armageddon is declared and we all give up and just start pounding on each other until the last person dies, we know who to go for first.