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That's an insane price. I don't even think it stands up very well against the horde of roguelike twin stick games that have come out since. I'd take Enter the Gungeon (routinely on sale for less than £3) over BoI any day.

I'm curious to know how many developers go to the trouble of patching their games for Switch2, without making an extra charge. The Original Switch has a stack of great games that run like trash, either with choppy frame rates (which will presumably just sort themselves out to some extent with the extra power under the hood), but then there's the ones that had to be butchered to get them to run at all (like Journey to the Savage Planet); will they bother un-butcher them without having to fork out for a "switch 2 edition" upgrade?

Got an actual belly-laugh out of me when they said it was paid.

Yeah Oblivion is "easy" to modernise because it's basically fine as it is. The fact that Morrowind would be difficult to modernise is exactly why its worth doing.

@Yosti nah I don't think so, it was just a more interesting game to me. I sunk a lot of hours into Morrowind and Skyrim but I got bored on Oblivion very quickly.

But Morrowind is incredibly dated now. It's really clunky by 2025 standards which is why it's a rare example of a game I'd say is genuinely worth remaking.

There's a project called SkyWind that's trying to rebuild it in the Skyrim engine but who knows if it'll ever see the light of day.

Seems like a bit of a wasted opportunity. Morrowind is far more deserving (and in need) of a remake.

I really liked this game, but I wish they'd do something to make combat a bit more rewarding. The way the sentinels just keep coming, like the cops in GTA, means the only way out of combat is to run away and hide.

I know they said they weren't going to focus on games, but I assumed that meant they would at least give proper focus to the hardware. All they've really done is shown the shape of the thing, which 1) is essentially the same as the old one, and 2) has already been leaked to death.

I think people are seeing what they want to see in this statement.

It doesn't say "all" anywhere in there. If it was fully backward compatible then what would they have to say about "compatibility" at "a later date"?

What this says to me is: some switch software will work on Switch 2, and we'll break the bad news about all the stuff that won't work down the line.

@Qwiff One thing I remember about the sequel is that there was a cheat whereby if you made a crotch-thrusting gesture at the rear end of a cow then it would drop endless extra lives.

This is what happens when you let the French sense of humour creep into computer games.

This game was miles ahead of it's time when it came out and very influential, but when I tried replaying it a few years ago it was a bit of a slog. That was mostly control issues though, so this could be great

The implementation's pretty great I'd say. For such a complicated mechanic on a controller I can't really fault it.

My only real gripe is there's a bit of a lack of creativity in how it's used in the game. Far too many side quests that equate to: build another car (from the conveniently located pile of car parts).

"We've made a game! Here's some footage of a tangentially related cartoon we made to celebrate."

Get in the sea.

Everyone saying "it's no different to Overwatch 1" is crazy. It's **so much worse**. I played the original daily on switch for a couple of years, but performance on 2 is hopeless. Gave up on it after a couple of days.

I was pretty embarrassed not have seen the events at end of the first chapter of Broken Age coming. I spent about 3 seconds thinking "what a great twist", followed by a much longer period of reflection on how incredibly obvious it should have been.

Ironically Nintendo thinks the game I've played the most is Overwatch 2 because its merged it with the original. I think I only played that twice before deleting it.

After that it's Slay the Spire and No Man's Sky

I guess this means a patch. Hopefully they throw some stability improvements in the mix too because the crashes are doing my head in a bit.

You'll be able to hop the wall on platform 11 to avoid the turnstile; no jetpack required.

@rupert_the_giantbear my Watford will be the one I left in 2001 so there'll still be an Athena in the Harlequin centre and a strict no trainers policy at Destiny. Oasis News will happily serve whisky to 13 year olds though, even if their fake ID has been printed in black and white and laminated with cellotape.

Can't believe performance is in the "joy" column. It looks so much worse than the original.

Well having now actually played a couple of rounds; Switch version is a massive downgrade. Both lower frame rate and grainier visuals.

Doesn't feel like a sequel at all. It's the same game but with a few extra maps and characters and, on switch at least, degraded performance. Huge disappointment.

Definitely possible it's an excuse, but clearly there's an army of folk with daggers out for Blizzard. Hardly seems far fetched that they'd be with with a DDoS.

Well I might be the only person on the planet that's looking forward to it. Overwatch is my most played Switch game by a mile and I'm excited to see where they go with it.

Anyone know if this a port of the arcade version, or the Saturn version? In the latter you kept your weapon upgrades in between runs.

I was absolutely hopeless at this game so this actually sounds like exactly what I need to give it another go.

The only way to make an authentic Minecraft movie is to make it a 14 hour long art house epic. No dialogue; no cuts. 1 man struggling against the elements to make a cake.

Love the idea, but the actual gameplay looks janky as hell.

I'm not sure I follow how gyro controls will work. Will it just be like a FPS where you tilt your controller to move an onscreen pointer? Or will it behave in some way gun/pointer like?

I'm absolutely hopeless with Doomfist as it stands so any shakeup that might make him a more playable option is fine by me.

Having said that, I do love seeing people play him well. Can't help but applaud when I find myself getting juggled around like a rag doll by someone that knows what they're doing with him.

Wait a second....

Atari have $1.5m?

You lot are frustratingly earnest.

Took a glance at that list and saw half a dozen or so highly rated games I'd never heard of... every one of them a damn visual novel.

Everyone always moans about the sales but every year I pick up at least half a dozen games in the black-friday-ish discounts. Wolfenstein, Quake, FEZ, Grindstone, Master Blaster, Flinthook and OkunoKA Madness for less than £40. No complaints here.

@Bret big "Two and a Half Men" fan?

Kinda love this

@Ooyah no. That would be silly.

@nhSnork I've always thought Tom Cruise was born to play Billy Mitchell.

@nessisonett if they suddenly allowed emulation then every new player would have an advantage over historic scores, not least because they could pick whatever controller they liked.

Can't wait for "King of Kong 2: Billy's Revenge"

Should have had a custom controller with a tiny knob that you use to wind the mechanism.

@TuxDC agreed. I was thinking of picking this up (partly on the strength of this review) but fortunately spotted the abysmal user ratings on metacritic first.

RSG is still my favourite shooter.

No love on here for Silhouette Mirage?

Aha! I must have just struck it (un)lucky then

Pat on the back for whoever picked 4 screenshots, none of which feature any action whatsoever.

This game has enemies right?

As someone who grew up as a PC gamer in the 90s, looking at my friend's SNES's with green eyes, I have to ask the question: why would anyone deliberately recreate the hell of DOS platformers?

I really want to like this game but it's so damn ugly its hard to look at. I almost can't believe that the screenshots here are from the Switch port as they look a hell of a lot better than the game looks in play.

I enjoyed the combat but I couldn't deal with the tedious guff they drag you through between fights. Gave up on it pretty quickly.

This is an outrage! My surname has been redacted from my Felix The Reaper review. The Beales are a proud people; lawyer up NL.

At first glance my brain parsed "Davidoff" as "David Hasselhoff".

Sorry to be chaining rumours to other rumours, but it seems to me like DLSS (if that arrives on a Switch Pro) could massively improve cloud gaming. If it works the way I understand it, then a relatively low resolution image could be sent over your internet connection and then upscaled locally. I would have thought it would make the service far more stable for people with slightly underwhelming internet connections.

So yeah; xCloud feels entirely plausible to me.