I think there has been a noticeable drop in the quality of first party games since he stepped back and the previous CEO sadly passed on. I think DK Bananza would have been much better if not for the glitches that didn’t used to happen.

I have to bought it but I didn’t like the fact that the review said it was poor docked. (With the boost mode in handheld does the input lag problems associated with tv play disappear ?)

The main problem with 30fps now is the responsiveness of the controls. You used to just get slowdown but what happens now is worse. (The controls used to be locked to the hz).

I just use the Mario All Stars 50th one almost all the time. I really don’t get t-spins (I occasionally get mini t-spins).. I bet understanding those systems properly is a massive advantage. I think 6th is the highest I have placed.

Don’t get Absolum it’s really glitchy (It’s okay on Xbox where I bought it again it’s a good game). Unless there is a Switch 2 version or upgrade I don’t know about. (I can’t believe that they said it is definitely not getting ported to Xbox saying that and then releasing it just a few weeks later is scummy.)

@Whirlwound Do you not find Space Harrier just not quite right without a big joystick like it used to have ?

@jsty3105 It can’t get patches though which makes it pretty useless. The quality is not there everything needs patching to be even slightly functional.

Rewind seems to make emulation much worse whenever it pops up. If it is disabled do things improve ?

@Rooty The problem is they don’t sell new games. Online it seems to have a decent selection of stuff but it’s very very expensive. The reason behind the decline in physical is shops not selling new games.

Gamestation generally gave pretty decent trade in values and it it was in a tiny tiny shop.

The proper original version of Gamestation was like a good version of Cex (Or maybe what Cex was when it was just that one store and it did imports.) The one in the centre of Leeeds was great for SNES and Megadrive imports. It sold the big SNES imports for £30At a time where it was £60-£80 to import a new copy from a normal importer.) I guess imported had to be dropped when they started stocking new games they opened a store 10 minutes from me but it was never really any good. I got more interesting things I wasn’t expecting at Blockbuster that also had a small games section.
I would be far more positive about Cex if it was closer to the old Gamestation.

@Thomystic Yeah I know it does but I don’t really like Dead Cells that much and I do quite like Bloodstained. I think the chances of a good Nintendo port is higher with the Dead Cells guys but I don’t like their DLC practices. (Bloodstained DLC seems by comparison to have much much more effort put into it. I don’t find the Dead Cells DLC different enough.) This might be brilliant though and I do think there is a better chance of it working properly on Nintendo but I have stopped bothering with 3rd party Nintendo. (During the Wii U days I used to get almost everything day one digital on Nintendo given the opportunity and I didn’t have much I wasn’t happy with.)

@SuperBro64 The thing is both should be possible. It’s not like RDR2 where the 30fps on the one X you can appreciate that’s the best they could do. The Switch is much more powerful than the GameCube. They didn’t even try to get the most out of the hardware they took the path of least effort. (Which is fine until you are charging full price for it). Something like the Switch 3D Mario they put the effort in and it shows.

@SuperBro64 I am indifferent about Mario vs DK (Quite happy with either version.)but TTYD is a poor remake the framerate is halved. It’s the type of cheapness you would expect from 3rd parties. (i.e they choose the easiest cheapest way by starting with an already existing 30fps engine over starting with the 60fps engine.) Much more work needs to be done on 3rd party engines to make them not so rubbish on Nintendo without huge amounts of work that both Grezzo and indies can’t do. Even Intelligent Systems seems to be struggling to make 60fps games.

I am not a great fan of this dev. I didn’t actively dislike Bloodstained (I didn’t play it on Switch).

I would have got this (With DK) if it was an option in the UK when I got mine.

Does Rhythm Heaven support at least the right resolution and VRR handheld on Switch 2.? Or it actually worse ? I have not tried the boost mode because I normally play docked but is that helpful. I really want to get it but I don’t want to have to either unbox my switch 1 or have a lot of difficulty getting it to play right. (The review doesn’t seem to mention any of these things.)

I think I have probably missed it by now right ? (My highest rank is 6 but I think I might struggle to get 100 points with the time left). I want to watch House of the Dragon first and then I have other stuff to do if I had known yesterday I could have easily done it sadly.

@romanista There are way's to patch in support for the modern reimplementation of Nintendo Wifi Connection (Open Source reimplementation I am not sure how many people use it beyond the obvious candidates like Mario Kart DS though. Same could be said for any new official implmentation.

I think they really need to look at what they are doing before they start taking on a project like this. Allowing Grezzo (Or whatever they are called) to do a minimal effort Unity port with a really crappy upscaler really won't cut it. They need to actually work with Unity (Or Unreal) or somebody like Microsoft is to make sure that the bits that the platform holder or only the biggest teams are best placed to fix is fixed in the main product. (I think Unity on Wii U was fixed like this and there was a separate build only for registered dev's)

@electrolite77 I think the main problem with Crossworlds is the bits they copied from Mario Kart I think the basic racing is much more fun than Mario Kart (And it feels very different from All Stars Transformed which I think is good as well,) When a racing game feels almost exactly the same as the last entry I find that absolutely dull as hell, I am not even sure I think I got £30 worth of value out of MKW. (I got my Switch 2 when it had a £20 discount so I think of that as £20 off MKW). No ptoblems with the hardware other than no VRR in docked mode, (And it not being possible is horse dung. They might have to do it themselves but it’s definitely possible on hdmi 2.0). If I enable amd freesync on my lg oled then the gsync options come up on an Nvidia card, (There is some reason why doing that is a bad idea on Xbox I think it breaks Dolby Vision but I don’t think that is an issue for
Nintendo so that is an easy thing to do. It would be better if it worked with VRR and was built into the firmware (Game specific implementations can be hit or miss as you see with PS5).

I am finished with Crossworlds (Stuck at legend 8). When there is a complex (Meta ?) game where for most people have to put a ton of effort in then it feels too much like work for me and I stop playing. (The exception for me was the Steam Version of Transformed where I worked out my own strategies. I don’t like Crossworlds enough to do that and even trying I think would take absolutely ridiculous amounts of time. I waited until the game + first season pass (Never knew there was going to be more than one. Hit £50 (Digital Xbox). I bought Shinobi on Xbox and Switch 2 at full price. I dunno what they are expecting. The differences between Crossworlds and racing Transformed are that Crossworlds makes changes to make it more like Mario Kart and that’s not what I wanted, (I have over 100 hrs in it but about 350 hrs in racing transformed.) I don’t think trying to copy something no matter how successful is ever a good strategy. (Maybe Pokémon Kart could pull it off and do what SEGA was expecting but. Stuff like Shinobi is pretty much what I want. (I think I would like another Psnzer Dragoon next the way the original Xbox one runs on Series X is amazing. But I don’t think any of the things I want are going to produce the return on investment SEGA wants. I don’t know why just making games that are profitable and the occasional hit is not good enough anymore. But those remakes of the first two Panzer Dragoon games really should have used how the 3rd one runs on Series X as a guide of what to aim for. I don’t know what to do but I do actually like the really fast difficult 3d Sonic games. (Finding the red rings and going for S Rank) but they have lost a lot of trust. Don’t really make that many Arcade games anymore. (Border Bresk was definitely a success so why still no console version it’s not spe specs or anything holding that back. I would love to play that.. If you want something like GTA you have to work for it over time and have a constant quality. Rockstar didn’t just get there straight away and that’s what everyone seems to expect.

I don’t like the input lag on Shredders Revenge Switch. (Quite happy with it on iPadOS or Xbox)

@Kidfunkadelic83 I would have preferred separate cart slots for Switch 1&2 games. (And a full size sd express because the speed is like 4 times as fast). Think a micro sd as well is too much. A full sized sized Switch 2 cart slot could have been fasted than the nvme as well.

There is already 2 Xbox versions and they both suck. The best way to do it would be Switch Lite + Docked Switch 2 or 2 Switch 2’s. Otherwise the Murtphy bits are horrendously boring. (The Tech is there to do it like when you can play Pauline on a Switch 1 or Lite on DK)

I love the game but I find the bit you return to excessively complicated. I know that if I did a better job there I would be quite a bit further. I hit a brick wall on the second area for no sensible reasson. (I finished the entirity of the achievements and all the skellly statues on the first one. I did the end game befriended everyone. The only thing I didn’t do was all the weapon upgrades because I wasted quite a bit of Titan Blood early on.

(I don’t like scouring websites for information on builds and stuff I know some people enjoy it but for me I like to just play if possible.)

That’s why if someone has a small tip or something that will drastically help me I would be very happy to receive it.

@mr12calvin But to play the Murphy bits properly again I think I would like that enough to get it I think. (I really don’t enjoy those bits on any version where it uses buttons and I don’t really want to play handheld.) If there was some way to use a Switch lite like a PS Portal and it had enough developer support to allow the Wii U games to play as intended I think I would really love that. /I would buy a Switch 2 lite solely to use like that as well. I have a place in my house that will never have a tv but it’s very chilled but I want a dpad and I don’t really want the compromises that you get with handheld mode. (Nintendo have basically most of what is necessary already done like where you can play Pauline on a Switch 1 in DK. I am not thinking it’s likely to happen though but I think some of those Wii U games the Gamepad significantly makes the game more fun. (And having another device that is handheld but works like the PS Portal would be really good for me but I don’t like the fact that the experience is downgraded handheld. (Or the fact the left joy con lacks a proper dpad). Even though it’s unlikely I hope I get something like the above because they have all that work for streaming to another device already implemented.

I am only interested in Rayman if it allows the full experience with something like using a Switch lite as a controller. I want my Switch 2 docked.

I hope Ocarina is of the quality of Metroid Prime remastered not some of other poor quality similar titles (Or the quality of the Wii U Wind Waker remaster anything less and I think I will stick to my 3ds version. I hope they understand the importance of getting this right.

I like this but I think I like the Messenger a lot more (Believe it’s the same team).

I would love a first party brand new game that wasn’t started on switch 1.

I hope to see a real from the ground up (Not started on Switch 1) first party game that is new and uses everything that the Switch 2 has. (I know they won’t have mastery of it yet but at least the Nvidia upscaling tech not fsr v1) If that is Yoshi which I don’t usually like I will get it. (On cart in case I don’t like it. I am not doing what I did with Wii U and most of. 3ds and getting all digital this time there has been too many mistakes.)

At the moment games seem to be taking forever to get made. (I would be happy with some experimental stuff at a budget price with say Wii U quality graphics.) The only reason the Switch worked was because of all the Wii U ports many of the native games were awful technically. (I would have been much happier with the Wii version of dkcr done like Galaxy was in the All Stars Collection than the mess we got.)

@HatesCheese Depends where you were in the world I guess. I got the bundle for £429 (£20 off already) and then another 4% Airtime Rewards which I think was about £25. The Japanese got a subsidy even better than that so it certainly depends.

@JohnnyMind For me I paid £30 more than just the rrp of the system and got 4% of the total back off my phone bill because of where and when I bought it. I don’t think I was ripped off but it did feel like a budget game to me. (It did start as a Switch 1 game and it feels like one). In fact DK did as well looking forward to what we get when stuff starts off as a Switch 2 title to begin with.

@JohnnyMind It being bundled at 50% off makes that statistic a bit unfair. (If I could have had50% off DK I wouldn’t have bothered with it.;

What I don’t enjoy is how the handling etc feels so similar. It doesn’t feel like a new game like the other entries did compared to the previous ones. I know many people like more of the same but I am not one of them. Even if I preferred Sonic Transformed. Crossworlds felt like a new game. That doesn’t apply to the last 2 Mario Karts for me.

I wouldn’t have bought it I thought it would have fighting game type monetisation. To get any further I think I would have to study builds and all that type of stuff and that feels too much like work to me. (I am legend 8 but rarely end up in a race with anyone less than legend 5 I have had wins with hyper ring engine and ring doubler but it’s so difficult to get better when the competition are so much better.) I want a game where I have a reasonable chance of at least coming in the middle of the pack. Before you hit legend the matchmaking seems reasonably good. It’s so easy to go from first to twelfth in a heartbeat. I am not sure whether I am done with it or not. I played 350 hours of pc racing transformed but the mechanics of this make it much more challenging because of all the gadget combinations.

Digital Eclipse has too much overhead due to the way they make one engine for all platforms. PC followed by Xbox are about only tolerable versions. (Switch and PS5 the input lag is horrendous and it can’t be fixed the way they have done it.) It is not that it isn’t possible see Arcade Archives but the way they won’t do it properly for each platform is the problem.

I wish they made the equivalent of the house of hades a bit less complicated to understand.

I don’t understand how they made such a mess of their finances after shovel knights success. (I bought 4 copies and the gold amino)

@HammerGalladeBro The Wii I version is the one to play it needs the gamepad.

I don’t need another version of Legends unless it allows using a switch 1 as the controller so everything works as intended. (It is possible with what Nintendo allows due to the tech which is usually used for player 2). It really was designed for the Wii U gamepad many parts are just boring without it. I would like Origins though even though I am almost certain I bought it on Steam.

@Indielink I love Hades 2 but I am glad I waited for it to hit Xbox because I had enough technical niggles with Hades switch 1 that I didn’t actually end up enjoying it until it’s iPadOS port. (Which Netflix pulled - I don’t trust them at all now for games). But I did alll the achievements on Xbox and the last Skelly statue so I must have really liked it, I do think the equivalent of the hall of hades is a bit confusing though.

@eldersnake I am actually fixing some stuff I was going to trash just because it has 32 go (ddr 3 udimm ecc). It is just useful to have something around with a decent amount of ram. (It won’t be on 24/7 like it used to be). Sometimes I want to try something out that is far too invasive to do on my main systems.

@eldersnake There is a higher quality (Than usual) Chinese RAM that is going to become available fairly soon. I wish I had maxed out the ram on my intel iMac when I could have done it for less than £200 (128GB). But there again by this time next year I will have no security updates so I will have to upgrade.

I am glad the game is good but I don’t understand how they managed to make such a mess financially after Shovel Knight being a success. (I bought it 4 times I think).

@Shmicko Nintendo had a reputation that I think they have now squandered. Some 1st party is not up to what we have come to expect. That is something that does affect a business. (Now I treat them like any other game company but previously I got all first party day one that trust is hard to earn back,)

People love to hate the Wii U but I think the quality control for both 1st party and indies was much higher than recently. The first party Switch ports are not all that much better and some of the actual native Switch stuff really isn’t up to the usual Nintendo quality.

I miss the days when fighting games were not so astronomically expensive due to all the DLC. I only buy the finished versions these days but by then the only people still playing are masters whilst I am a novice. (It’s even worse when the DLC characters are much better than the basic ones) I would prefer a new release like Super or Championship Edition etc.

@JohnnyMind What gadget setup would you recommend just to get a chance of the top 6 against legend 1,2,3 players who I always seem to be matched with even though I am legend 8. (I have s ranked all the time trials even at Super Sonic Speed) but I am playing against people with so much more skill that I am not improving. I guess you are legend 1 right ?

Once you get to legend the amount of effort required to become competitive goes through the roof. Which is fair enough for people really into it but I have got 100 mostly enjoyable hours out of it.

Once you hit legend you don’t tend to be matched with people at all similar skill level.

I get they have put much more effort into it but because of the vast skill difference I am not really improving.

There is no point in legend 8 like me playing with legend 1,2,3