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Is the kid in the last song the same annoying kid from 51 Worldwide Games?

There's a £5 quidco boost on top of normal cashback today too for Nintendo's online shop if you spend over £35.

Wow, Asda have hacked £40 off the price of a Switch?

As much as I really wanted to I couldn't get on with this game, I much prefer Tetris 99.

I completely misread the title, I thought it said Switch games were being released ON Windows.

@ryobi85 Don't assume things just because someone disagrees with you, I was playing docked. It's a 30fps game that drops significantly below that a lot of the time. https://youtu.be/8QANwbfpV_8

I thought I'd struggle with this game based on the videos, the demo has confirmed it. Me taking on thousands of enemies while my allies just stand around and neither my allies or enemies do any damage to anything...not exactly fun. I don't like the very different gameplay compared to BOTW, while I know it's a very different game set in the same world and story it just feels wrong there being so many easy enemies with the fighting just being the same button bashing over and over compared to taking on a few harder bad guys at a time in BOTW but being able to explore different ways of fighting them.
Performance also sucks.

O look, a worthless, clueless "analyst" who does nothing useful but talk crap about stuff he has no idea about.
I am usually about 50-50 TV-handheld but given that I have been working from home for the past 7 months I have been on TV exclusively apart from Mahjong in 51 Worldwide Games as that's impossible to get 3 stars with an analogue stick.

There was a game that I rented and liked but never bought but I can't remember what it was called and even after reading through the list I still can't :/ Some great memories were invoked with this list though.

@NotoriousWhiz Don't know, sorry. Only played it for a few minutes as the text was too small for my current TV setup so I don't even know how far you can get in it. I have been looking forward to the game since it was announced so I'll be giving it another go in a few weeks when I rearrange my room.

@NotoriousWhiz A demo came out a few weeks ago so you could try it for yourself.

These are the reason it took me so long to finish BOTW! My map is completely covered in path lines finding them all. Never again.

@RiasGremory Who knows, maybe the time limit is actually 6 months for SMB then after that they replace it with SMB2 for 6 months, etc.

@Joriss Controls are good, the gyro aiming is so seamless you don't even realise you're using it to perfect your shot, it's just natural. I guess the only downside to the controls is there's that many characters you have to get used to what button does what for each character's abilities (apart from right trigger for the main weapon).
Online works fine, don't notice any lag or anything like that.

@Yanina Not sure what's changed. Doesn't help that if you get in to a game that doesn't have enough players you all get kicked out to queue again, surely it's a lot easier to find 1 person for a game than to find a game for 11 people.

@VenomousAlbino yup, it's on the News channel too saying 50% off until the 25th rather than 25% off as for the Japanese.

@teixeiras for me at least the queues seem to have only gone up in the last couple of weeks, before that I was in within a few seconds.

I can't stand Tracer or Genji so would rather not have them in Smash. To say they're so weak healthwise they are far harder to kill than anybody else and will rinse you in a couple of seconds.

Given the history of Bomberman on Nintendo consoles I'm kinda surprised he's not been a playable character yet, just an assist trophy and now a costume. I'd much prefer him to most of the new characters.

I was lucky in that it took 2 and a half years to start on mine but I can't use mine anymore it's that bad. Because of lockdown I haven't used my Switch undocked as I haven't taken it anywhere and have a pro controller for home use so I haven't bothered to get it fixed yet but the memory of it is rage inducing.

@BlackenedHalo They'd have to all die before your clock ran out.

Other than buying the power up it wasn't immediately obvious what the purpose of coins was, good to know they affect what enemies you send.
On first impressions it seems in comparison to Tetris 99 that it's easier to KO yourself and harder to KO others. You can quite easily jump on a bunch of goombas no matter how many there are, you can't so easily stop 3/4 of a screen's worth of tetriminos from suddenly appearing. But you can more easily recover from a mistake in Tetris (unless near the top of your screen) whereas a mistake in Mario is the same cost no matter what state your screen is in.

Well, it's now 01/10 here, I wonder what time Mario 35 appears.

OnLive flopped, Stadia isn't doing well, Amazon's app based services suck hard so I can't see their cloud gaming doing any better in the long run.

Scores of enemies and yet it seems practically impossible to get hurt. Is there going to be any sort of difficulty in this game?

Rocket league is fine in handheld mode but the text is tiny on a TV screen and not because you're further away, it's smaller in relation to the screen size.

I must have missed this poll.
Galaxy is so much better than Odyssey, it has much more variety, a ton more worlds and Galaxy's headline mechanic of gravity is more fun than Odyssey's headline mechanic of cappy. They had enough ideas to make a second game out of it so that says a lot.

@charlieonholiday also got mine from Argos without pre-order so no reason to be stung by scalpers.

Had a quick go on Galaxy as it was freshest in my mind to compare but I find the gyro Wiimote IR pointer replacement to be frustrating as it seems to take the starting position of the controller and base everything after on that so if you're holding it funny initially it can be difficult to find the pointer on screen.
Then I jumped back to 64 and will go through them in order.

@Thannus loot boxes and all the associated crap is common place now too, should we just accept that and never complain?
Day 1 patch means it wasn't ready to ship, I'd rather them take the time and delay, especially when a couple of weeks ago nobody 'knew' about it so it's not like it was a release date everyone was looking forward to. I get it for MP games where things like balancing/maps are constantly tweaked up to release and a MP game generally has a certain lifetime but for a physical console SP game, and one that is so old and final, what happens when they turn off the servers before you get the game? At least on PC it's easy to find updates to download and replace files if the official update path disappears.
I was tempted to get physical but now I might just get digital so I can at least back up everything on the SD card.

Perfect Dark on Switch would just about make 2020 kinda alright in the end.

@eRaz0r I bought it 3 years ago and couldn't give a flying toss about the season pass nonsense. I play the game for the gameplay, who cares about some crappy cosmetic items that you don't even notice when you're in the action?

@Yorumi Also as a programmer I'm sick of AI. Remember the moon picture enhancing "AI" of Huawei's phone camera where it actually replaced the moon with a pre-existing image. Then there's the stories of companies saying they have AI when they actually have people doing the work. I did a number of AI modules at uni and next to nothing of it has turned in to a reality 13 years later and most of that is just image analysis.

I hope it's turns out to be limited in printing time only and they actually make 30 million copies in that time and these scalper pricks get screwed over. Unfortunately I don't think that will be the case.

Looks pretty interesting, reminds me of another game from maybe 15 years ago but I cannot remember for the life in me what it was called. I'd love to see the original Hexen games on Switch like they did with Doom.

@rushiosan I played through and 100% Galaxy 1 as both Mario and Luigi, I don't think I even got half way in Galaxy 2. I can't really remember much about 2 so I'm not saying it's a worse game but something obviously didn't compel me to finish it even once, perhaps I had just moved on to something else and it got me hooked enough to forget about Galaxy 2, I'm not sure.

Doom 3 needs gyro more than 1 and 2!

@ilh but then again, the 2 games I would have got are now at the same or better price elsewhere even after 20% cashback.

Quidco have 20% cashback on Switch software for today only so now's your best chance for savings on games never on sale. Unfortunately only 2% for pre-order games.

WoT (Blitz or otherwise) is long overdue on Switch but the physical controls when you're not in a battle are essentially non-existant, instead mostly relying on a horribly implemented cursor. It's been a couple of years since I played it on my phone and while it's pretty good on Switch once you're in battle I still think it's better played on a phone from what I remember of it.

@BulkSlash Apple certainly do NOT provide excellent development tools. Whenever I have to do any iOS development at work I despise every second of it. Even the basics like built in scroll-to-view for when the keyboard covers the focussed input are missing.

@Enigk "2. Average annual salary is the amount paid inclusive of tax in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020, including extra wages and bonuses".
It does include bonuses so it's $84417.

If you take out the salaries of the 3 directors linked from this article then the average drops to $84417.

Saw a pamphlet exactly like this years ago, can't for the life in me remember what for. Provides a lot of entertainment for something that doesn't normally, just like the box that Revolut cards come in.

@playstation_king Same. Was going to get Paper Mario in a couple of weeks too from CDKeys but I guess I won't be able to now.

Didn't have any drift with mine for 2 and a half years, now I can't use it because it drifts left so bad. I have had to resort to only using my pro controller which in the last week or 2 has started to stop registering up on the left stick momentarily every couple of seconds.

@rushiosan I hadn't noticed any sound compression in the launch version, just that it's very very loud.

Is it just me or is the sound in this game ridiculously loud? I have to turn the volume on the TV to practically 0 but then when switching to another game I have to turn it back up.

After a couple of weeks it got to the point where I'd only bother putting in about 15 minutes a day (during the morning Teams meeting, working from home under lockdown ), enough to mine the rocks, dig up fossils and pick fruit and no time to actually develop the island. After another couple of weeks of doing that I realised I was getting nothing out of the game so I've given up completely. Same sort of thing happened when I had it on my old phat DS, I should have remembered and not bothered with the Switch version.

I guess if they're not too fussed about the game title being accurate there could be DLC packs of extra games.

Brexit island fraternising with Europe? We voted leave, Brexit means Brexit, etc.

@Daniel36 Opposite for me, I've never noticed any drift in my left joycon in 2 and a half years of owning it except when playing Animal Crossing. Frustrating when trying to aim my fishing rod then it decides to do a half turn, or my guy decides to start walking to the left when I'm stood still.