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@gamepadnomad Did they kick you out for complaining too much or why do you miss the "Steam Ecosystem"!? 😆

This sale is completely bonkers! All the best games and so so many for the lowest price ever …

@topsekret "since it's on a Game-Key Card" That does not make any sense. 😉✌️

Anyways, never played a Final Fantasy game. So the demo might be my chance to finally find out what all the fuss is about.

@Phelaidar The port, despite some visual downgrades, runs incredibly well on Switch 2 with locked 60 fps and not a single hitch during my playthrough. I paid a bargain bin price (16 €) at launch and don‘t game on other systems. There were comparison videos already pretty close to launch and reviews as well. People can make informed decisions on how to spend their money themselves without your blessings, no need to call them stupid. Just sayin‘, but running around and commenting on how smart (or not) others supposedly are usually points to some insecurities the person making these comments has regarding their own mental faculties. 😉

"Reductive comments like this are why companies try and get away with subpar ports."
@Duncanballs See, it‘s all your fault! 😆

Metroid Prime 4, now in Hard Mode and aiming for 100% of scans. Also some more of the totally amazing Skate Story.

Happy Gaming!

@Olliemar28 Alright got it, thanks! Have only been watching the trailers and wondered how little actual gameplay they sometimes show … But if they're still looking for talent, maybe they should include a message like "Now hiring!" in their trailer. 😉

The trailer really showed nothing of substance … therefore a big shrug from me. What's up with many of the triple AAA trailers anyways? Are the games themselves so bad that they will only show cinematics and no real gameplay footage?

@GrailUK "Oh, what was up with it?" I can only guess here, but most likely it angered the woke police …

Trailer looks cool, nice art style, I'll keep it on my watchlist. I like that they bring something original instead of some duty call or rehash of the past.

Really enjoyed the first one! Animal sacrifice though, I don't know. You want to pet every animal … but instead burn that little fluff up and leave its friends behind the flames?

Hypercapitalist AAA slop peddler meets toxic fandom … they deserve each other. May CoD forever rest in development limbo. They cannot do innovation and now they have to find other ways of printing money. Bring their back catalog to Nintendo? Nah, keep it.

Here's a glowing review on Switchcorner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R4yWGDDq4U
Also addressing and actually measuring the framerates.

Played through the intro and really looking forward to giving this game my full attention … after beating the final boss in Prime 4 that is.

Why does anyone here entertain anything Bootlicker333 writes? Account created 7 hrs ago and captioned "Ban me if you hate criticism". 😆 Just a troll regurgitating catch phrases.

About 15 hrs in and almost ready for the Endgame. Solid 9/10 game overall. Art direction, sound and overall atmosphere 10/10. Gameplay design / progression flow 8/10.

Had this on my whishlist ever since it was announced on here … and now an 8/10 seals the deal, downloading right now. Just finishing up Prime 4 and then I‘m gonna skate the underworld! Christmas keeps coming early this December …

But what does it matter? You posted elsewhere "MP4 looks like a mobile game". So you seem to be quite the expert and I should absolutely take your opinion into consideration when rating the game for myself. Have fun owning and returning.

@scoobdoo Have you played it?

@HalBailman There is this eerie soundscape, can't really call it music, that is playing when crossing the desert. I like it a lot. The only use case for overlaying that with music would be an hour long grind to gather crystals. So I'd consider it cosmetic. And people getting into a fit over it … @scoobdoo And if you collect them like a sane person, you won't do it all in one go. Who is this BarararaKing anyways, your ruler or something?

Instead of breaking up such business structures … another market regulation failure if this goes through.

Compare the voting results above to the comments down here to appreciate what the Switch 2 suffers from since launch … just sayin'.

My "Nintendo Life" happens almost exclusively (with some exceptions like Ring Fit) on Switch 2 now. 9.5/10

@wishmylove And where are the high quality comments these days? I read more and more of the same …

And it seems more and more game scores reflect the need of "content creators" to engage certain narratives for farming clicks and engagement, instead of objectively looking at the games themselves.

The quality on display in this game is off the charts.

So thank you, I think you're on the cutting edge of the interwebs. Please enjoy yourself, you fit right in.

I'll return to the game now …

@LazyDaisy Agree, a lot of the gameplay in Prime Remastered felt rather dated and I suspect the scores of the original, the status of the game as being a landmark title as well as a cult classic, but also a heavy dose of rose tinted nostalgia went into that rating.
Prime 4 now had this clickbait snowball crashing into it beforehand as well as people expecting a complete rehash and total genre fealty.

I'm about six hours in and imo it deserves to be nowhere new as low as it is on this list. Just one point above the pinball game!? Come off it … Also, Dread on 7? Please …

Great showcase! Best of the trailers yet, I‘d say.

What the trailer does not include

• you can mute NPCs
• it‘s got plenty of isolation
• lenghtwise it‘s in line with Dread/Prime 1

Still though, deserts being deserts that one is pretty empty. 😉 But it‘s quickly crossed.

Hope everyone‘s copy soon arrives. Have fun!

@MJF Even better we now have Dread AND Prime 4.

@Simu001 There is an option slider for Speech Volume in the game's menu. Just turn it down to 0% in Miles is quiet.

@Simu001 You can mute NPCs and the subtitles are visually so unobtrusive you can simply ignore them. Problem solved.

Been playing for a couple of hours now and I'd say NLs review is bang on, Eurogamer's is bang off. It's prime Prime!

Posting here as well, even if I don't know if you want to cross the Doom Slayer or anything, but: You can adjust Speech Volume and thereby mute the NPCs.

And now that that's sorted, go have fun with the game! Just started playing, it's gorgeous (I'd say best art direction in a game since Ori and the Will of the Wisps), has amazing sound design and so far plays absolutely fantastic.

To ease some peoples' fears of this game: You can adjust Speech Volume and thereby mute NPCs – including Miles Moranis. Subtitles are completely unobtrusive.

Thanks for the warning! Played a bit before bed last night and wow, that game is gorgeous! Stellar art direction, fantastic music, trippy sci-fi vibes, that vista over the desert … now on into the Jungle. Sorry for gushing.

@DarkCoolEdge Grief but also Metroid, that should cancel each other out.

@Aerona Yes, don‘t let them dupe you with crispiness.

@Thirteen1355 I often skip games for even minor niggles in reviews or even jump ship after purchase if a game does not really take off or something (mostly gameplay wise) irritates me. My main approach with the Switch 1 which I got in it's 6th year on the market, was to play my way through the titles on it's Metacritic top 100 list that interested me. As you say, so many games and so little time. But based on my previous experiences with the Nintendo (they are a bit of a special case for me) franchises I like, even the games that are not absolutely peak I still quite enjoy.

@Strawblaze I guess having all these people (reviewers mainly, but also people trying it out at conventions etc.) thoroughly play and critique a game will probably offer a lot of valuable feedback – maybe some of it quick to implement. Nonetheless I would really like more features on post-release impressions or review adjustments for heavily patched up games. Can't imagine though that Prime 4 needs any sort of heavy patching.

@Thirteen1355 Fair point and I personally would take a game like Dread over any from the Prime series. They are just completely different animals.

And you're right, it's not always all sunshine and daisies in Metroid land, but overall even the middling entries in the series are pretty strong games. And without first hand experience it's hard to tell how the new one will shake up in comparison to the previous Metroids. I'm quite excited for it though and can take reviews nowadays (and review aggregates) only with a grain of salt anyways.

I mean just look at the recent (especially user) scores of titles like AC Shadows and the new CoD game. Though I don't personally like both of these franchises, they are clearly review bombed and not for lack of being quality games. You see a bit of a reverse in the case of SW Outlaws. Now that the dust from the initial release has settled, the Switch 2 version reviews rather favorably.

There has been quite some drumming up of controversy before the release of Prime 4 also and some outlets will certainly feed off and into this as it drives traffic, engagement and therefore revenue.

"Just one more sleep to go!" Christmas does come early this year. The update sounds like it's just sanding off some minor rough edges …

@Lilligant562 I mean the whole Prime 4 "open world" drama by now just seems like it's being kept alive for the sake of controversy. It's absolutely no open world game. It's more like the map structure that all the Zelda open world critics so fervently demand back for that series. Hub overworld + fully fledged dungeons. Many Metroidvainias use a similar structure.

People also tend to have somewhat rose-tinted glasses when it comes to Prime 1, which became glaringly obvious with the remaster. Still a great game, but sometimes the backtracking through at times several biomes at once became a right slog, the scanathon was a bit too much and a completionist's nightmare and some boss battles were truly lame. Atmosphere was perfect though.

@luke88 Just kidding around (a little). These discussions get far too serious sometimes. ✌️

@luke88 "I mean, is there a human being alive who saw that trailer with the desert open world area and thought, 'wow, that looks great,'?"

Well, actually yes. And just look at some of the screenshots of it in NL's review of the game, they are quite strikingly beautiful. But maybe you're one of those people who look out at the calm sea and after a few seconds proclaim "boring, let's go ride the banana boat!"?

A game like Journey might just be your next Halloween horror pick.

@OLD64FOREVER Good choice! I hope you'll enjoy Bananza as much as I did. A truly great launch (well almost launch) title.

And Mario Kart World is the perfect side companion to that for short (or longer) multiplayer sessions. Knockout Tour is the best addition to the series in a very long time.

Happy gaming to you too!

Already loaded to the console!

And to calm some peoples' nerves I will here quote from a comment by @Olliemar28 under his review of the game:

"The puzzles are great; some of the best in the series, and there are plenty of them.
Despite the added dialogue from the Federation Troopers, much of the game is quiet and isolating, with some areas completely without power or enemies for long stretches of time. It's equal parts calming and unsettling."

That does sound nice!

@Yoshi3 "I’ll wait for your comment in around 7 to 8 years"
I'd actually expect Prime 5 (Switch 2 exclusive) much sooner, maybe with an interval rather like between BotW and TotK or even shorter (because it's not a large open world 😉 and more streamlined). It's much easier (also judging from Prime 4 being the rumored money pit it would make a lot of financial sense) to keep the development ball rolling once started and I would be surprised if the next one isn't already in the pipeline and quite advanced in development.

Edit: Maybe we get a sequel to Dread in two years time and Prime 5 another 2 years after that. One can dream at least!

@DennyCrane Thanks a lot! Well for me then it will be quality mode all the way. I will certainly try out the 120 fps, but 60 is quite perfect already and increased frames just can't beat the higher image quality on display there.

@Jack_Goetz Though I‘m pretty sure I‘ll like Prime 4 a lot, I will probably also play through Dread once finished. It‘s my favorite game of the whole Switch 1 era.

@AverageGamer But why? Don‘t do this to yourself.

@RiasGremory Did it throw something back?

Only skimmed the review to not spoil any story beats for myself … Glad it reviewed well on here. Come Thursday I‘ll dive right in and give it thorough whirl (and probably won‘t stop – except for sleep and food – until I‘ve seen it through). Not too (or at all) worried about mixed reviews, the media landscape changed quite a bit since the last Prime games were released. A negative or even middling review on such a high profile / highly anticipated (and in the last couple of weeks also divisive) title can drive a lot of traffic. I for one am very excited. Let‘s go!

@OLD64FOREVER Have fun! Any inclination which single player adventure you‘ll embark on first?

@WiltonRoots Never a dull moment with these folks … Just look at the adorable cover image dripping with cuteness above and then all the cut-throat comments below. Quite the contrast. Maybe some spotted the rainbow in the image and something inside them just snapped … 😆

@Yalloo Which one is it? Mine is a Kirby one too. Return to Dreamland was also the first one I unlocked during the game's Maximus Cup and it is still by far my favorite. The soundtrack on that one is just perfect.

@SBandy1 Exactly, one can not like a game personally, but still want to see it succeed! It’s the same for me on both accounts, also no Musou fan. Hope though both games find their way under many Christmas trees and gather new fans. These are like the games a non-gamer aunt or uncle would gift, because well it‘s Kirby/Zelda.

@SBandy1 I know! ✌️ And Air Riders is not for me either, although I really really hoped it would be … cause I mean it‘s Kirby and I really like that little fluff. Would love to see the game find a bigger audience, it‘s quite unique and we need more of that.