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@Serpenterror this is partly true, N64 ran at 240p which is half of what a CRT could actually output. So it definitely looks better, but not amazing. Also the N64 didn't have RGB output which meant you had to use S-Video, resulting in a very poor image compared to some other consoles. Gamecube/Dreamcast actually output 480p over RGB and they provide the best possible image on a CRT (which is better than some Switch games in handheld mode lolz). Or for pixel graphics a Mega Drive outputting 240p over RGB will look great on a CRT.

My question is...does the plot turn into absolute nonsense in the 3rd act like XC2? If not I might play it as I really liked the combat in 2.

The how-do-ken on the corrie painting is quite possibly the greatest pun I've ever seen. Outstanding stuff.

@Kiz3000 I thought it was incredibly bland looking, it has that grey texture aesthetic on all the environment that you used to find in 360 games a lot. I agree 4k etc isn't important, I still think BOTW looks brilliant despite it being technically quite poor, I just don't like the stylistic choice of the graphics in MH: Rise.

This looks terrible, the world looks completely barren. If they're going to make an open world game then you need to make the world a pleasure to roam around in or it'll fail. It doesn't need high resolution textures or anything, just plenty of variety and an interesting world. This is one thing that MH: Rise did well, it was graphically dreadful but at least the areas had interesting terrain.

@Diogmites I'm with you, they are mindless but strangely infuriating. The solution to everything is 'go here and press this button', but sometimes it's really not obvious where you have to go. My little boy likes them so I play them with him sometimes but I just end up totally frustrated by them. Horrible, awful, games.

Indies cost like 50p on Steam so Switch will no longer be the indie dream machine. I'm gonna cancel my OLED order and get one of these instead.

@SPM Yeah you have a point, in metal slug every enemy position is based around the fact you can only shoot on two axes. Surely this game is the same. Although I'm also talking out my anoos as i also haven't played it.

@Realness That's how metal slug worked so i guess they're doing the same. On metal slug though you can shoot diagonally by moving between horizontal and vertical shooting quickly, can you do that in this game?

Things like this illustrate how stagnant the old 3d zeldas now seem in comparison. The more time goes on the more I appreciate what they did with BOTW. It is literally the only open world game I've ever played that fully realised the potential of the genre. All the (many) others I've played start off really well but soon come to resemble the theme park and the illusion of the world falls away. BOTW sustains that illusion of being a real place through to the end. If it wasn't for the pesky weapon breakage it would likely be my fav game of all time.

@Crockin what about if you have large amount of games? I'd like to be able to have an 'Unplayed' folder, or perhaps I'm in a mood for some retro fun and I want to go to my 'Arcade' folder instead of having to browse through a massive grid of hundreds of games. The current UI is very poor if you have a lot of games and you don't know what you want to play.

@AmplifyMJ that is sorta what's happening. It's just a really noisy smelly package that turns up one day.

I haven't played a MH game before but I've been intrigued since MHW. I've got a new child coming in the next couple of weeks so I've ordered this. Be perfect to play in bed when I'm getting my early nights in!

Great fun this game. I'm playing it on PS5 so zero chance of me playing it on Switch even with portability, but if it's people's only way to play it I highly recommend it. It's a good one if you're not great at shooters and you are playing with friends as you can spend a lot of time in game being stealthy and just having a laugh on voice chat with your buddies looting buildings.

@milvus976578 I'm not sure if this is a joke. If it's not then you have my deepest sympathy.

I'm currently attempting to do a no death run on Vs Gradius, which is a bloody wonderful but infuriating game. After a week I can get up to the 3rd level boss. Keep em coming Hamster!

I'd love to see a remaster greatest hits type thing that contains all the levels from the first few games. I can see that doing really well.

@Xeno_Emblem by that I just mean that is uses all the worst sort of tropes that you find in anime. Personally I find anime is similar to western fantasy & western comics in that a large portion of it is trash but there's a percentage of stuff at the top which is excellent. I didn't mean to imply that all anime is ridiculous, but surely any fan can admit that a lot of it is absolutely ridiculous, just as a fantasy fiction fan I admit that the majority of that is. P.s. cheers for noticing the beard!

@mazzel no it obviously looks better than a Wii game but there was a digital foundry video about X2 and they did say that in handheld it was dropping to standard def, and it was horribly noticeable in handheld. Not so bad on the TV.

And yeah I thought the story was a bit creepy, plus I found as the game wore on it became convoluted and I had no idea what was going on. Plus there were portions of the game where every few mins gameplay was being intterupted with cut-scenes which really wound me up. I'll prob pick up this one though when the price drops a little.

@mazzel XC2. I just didn't like the fact it ran at about 480p (Wii resolution) in the big areas, and also the weird anti-aliasing artifacts around the characters. It was just too ambitious for the Switch. I think if they had made some compromises in other areas such as textures it would have been much better. I still put 60 odd hours into the game though, and I enjoyed it on the whole (apart from the ridiculous anime storyline).

I'll all over this if it's not a technical wreck like the sequel

Some of those designs look like they have been pulled directly from Hollow Knight. No bad thing though.

People have been saying that Crysis was just a game that looked good, but it's actually a really brilliant sandbox shooter. The open levels, range of weapons, and cool abilities, makes for a lot of ways to approach combat. Imagine the enemy bases in Far Cry 3 on steroids. I remember it very fondly and will 100% be picking this up (not on Switch if we're still in lockdown though, PS4 Pro is too tempting).

@JayJ me too I think it's pretty bad, I had an initial wow when I used it then ever since it's been gathering dust because every time I use it I have tracking issues and then when I finally get it working I just think holy crap it looks awful, then after 10 minutes I feel horrendously sick! I've actually just packed it all up to sell the whole kit to go towards my PS5 fund.

@LavaTwilight surely you can see the difference between games that use extreme violence as a tool to say something interesting and a game like this which is just extremist trolling. You can still have principles and say you don't like violence (nothing wrong with that), but appreciate the differences between the 2. It's sort of like the difference between torture porn movies and war movies.

@DarkLloyd haha yeah, but to dedicate your life for an extended period of time to producing something which is essentially a troll (they even admit this in their PR) displays some sort of mental instability imo

I'm enjoying the fact I have to look everything up in this game. I always enjoy that meta aspect to games, it's part of the thing which really sold me on Dark Souls. Probably because you stay connected to the game during the day when working etc so it stays with you.

I feel your pain/joy. This is the first game me and and my 3 year old have properly played together. There's been highs (he actually jumped up and fist pumped the first time we used the vaulting pole) and lows (he went round digging about a hundred holes I had to go and full in). It's been a great experience though and I agree with everything you've said, it's also taught me that I take so much for granted as a seasoned gamer!

@BKPyrexx I guess most people who are buying it have never played an AC before (me included). I think there should be an option to either share an island or have separate islands. It's obviously a design decision, i.e. Nintendo wanting to encourage co-operative play and sharing, but maybe just give people the choice.

@Old_Man_Nintendo I actually am a programmer.

These people are fools but it is pretty silly that you can't create multiple islands. Why not allow it and let people fly to the other islands on their switch, makes no sense.

@PacificNorthBC no I haven't actually that's a good call. It's just been 2d platformers so far. NSMB is good as they have the little rabbit character that can't be hurt by enemies. Hollow Knight was something else he really liked. Any game where you have to control the camera is a no as he just immediately points it at the floor and needs me to move it. I agree though it's going to be great when we can properly play something together (I don't think I was finishing games till I was almost 10 though so will be a while).

Never played these games before but I think it will be good to play with my 3 year old. He's been liking Sonic Mania but I think a game where you can't lose would be better for him as he gets game over in under a minute every time.

Imagine how totally ****** in the head that person is. They must have had a terrible life of some sort to end up like that.

@Rich10 yes I did actually notice that my switch was warmer than usual and after an hour it had used half of the battery so it does look like it's using more power. Maybe they have added some extra use of the CPU overclocking along with the graphics options. I'll take less battery life for the improved resolution anyway!

I downloaded this on 3g yesterday on the train on my way home. Well worth using all my allowance, as far as I can see with everything turned off (and keeping foliage as high) it seems to be pretty consistently sticking at or near 720p in handheld. The difference is like night and day, I can't believe the decision was made to keep these graphic options on initially and get a blurry picture as the trade off. Seems crazy to me. Post processing effects are pretty much irrelevant when you're playing the game, however a blurry picture is actually noticable while playing. I kept feeling like my eyes were losing focus when playing the game previously.

I always admired this guy's passion for thongs. It's palpable when you listen to it.

If anyone ever wants me to define hyperbole for them, I'll just point them to the title of this article.

Just bought Burly Men At Sea, under £1 with my points, so I got this free. Bargains all round. This game actually sounds really interesting.

This game is amazing, and terrifying, but waaay too long.

I'd guess that the Roku and Pokemon are both using the same port on the local network, and the Roku doesn't search for another port if the the usual one is in use. So when the Roku is turned on it just keeps rebooting as it can't run on it's usual port. If that is the case though, it's a massive fail by the Roku dev team.

This'll be my first pokemon game since Yellow so looking forward to it.

I dropped this after a couple hours in after Divinity OS 2 dropped, but after 60 hours of that I'm ready to pick it up again. Don't wanna end up doing the same again though when Pokemon drops in a couple weeks though so might just finish off some indies I'm halfway through (Goose, Cadence OH)

@Scorchio that is very good news!

I really liked Sunless Seas. The storytelling was amazing, although I would have liked an easy mode as the survival stuff I didn't like as much. I'll 100% be getting this.

Who the hell is buying these games?!

Pre-ordered. Looks cool. Divinity OS 2 is gonna be taking up another month of my gaming time at least so got the game ££ to spend on something random like this.

@Knuckles-Fajita what a barrel of laughs you are, 'waaaa, someone said people in my country like to drink tea, that's racism, waaaaa'. Pathetic.

@AlternateButtons if it had child rape in it, would you consider it worth mentioning? Would that be virtue signalling? I'm guessing you think that is horrible and isn't OK to put in a game (at least not in a way to just provide entertainment). Well the thing is, people have different levels of what is horrible and where they draw the line. The person who wrote this article likely feels that misogyny shouldn't be present in games, so they mentioned it. I agree that virtue signalling is a thing, but you also have to realise that everybody has different views and they're entitle to comment on it if they see something they don't like, it doesn't make automatically make them an SJW.

I've never played a FE game but I am really really enjoying this. It's the sort of game I can just keep playing and playing and have to force myself to go to bed at night.