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EdwardTivrusky

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Due to GAME uk going down the shitter with regards to their store policies and physical store i have £160 worth of store credit to use up in the next week or two.

So... please suggest to me some "Must Have" Switch games from the last two years and i'll see if they are available on the game uk site.



I doubt there's any PS4 games worth grabbing and same for PC... however i might get a new PS4/PS5 controller ( if they work on PC ) instead of a game. hmmm.
 

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Due to GAME uk going down the shitter with regards to their store policies and physical store i have £160 worth of store credit to use up in the next week or two.

So... please suggest to me some "Must Have" Switch games from the last two years and i'll see if they are available on the game uk site.



I doubt there's any PS4 games worth grabbing and same for PC... however i might get a new PS4/PS5 controller ( if they work on PC ) instead of a game. hmmm.
Maybe Pikmin series? The whole series is on Switch. I haven't played Pikmin 4 yet but 3 was really good. 4 was also reviewed well.

Also Paper Mario. Origami King is a great adventure game (not an RPG), and if you want a classic RPG there is Thousand-Year Door remaster.
 
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EdwardTivrusky

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Maybe Pikmin series? The whole series is on Switch. I haven't played Pikmin 4 yet but 3 was really good. 4 was also reviewed well.

Also Paper Mario. Origami King is a great adventure game (not an RPG), and if you want a classic RPG there is Thousand-Year Door remaster.
DOH, i forgot about Thousand Year Door!

I ended up getting these as it was fairly slim choices. I had Rain Code in mind too but decided against it.
Star Ocean The Second Story R
Front Mission 1st - Limited Edition
Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster
Persona 5 Tactica - ( Edition with Persona 5 Tactica Coasters )
Pokemon Violet & Area Zero DLC - ( Edition with Pokemon S and V Poster )
 
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Due to GAME uk going down the shitter with regards to their store policies and physical store i have £160 worth of store credit to use up in the next week or two.

So... please suggest to me some "Must Have" Switch games from the last two years and i'll see if they are available on the game uk site.



I doubt there's any PS4 games worth grabbing and same for PC... however i might get a new PS4/PS5 controller ( if they work on PC ) instead of a game. hmmm.
Unicorn Overlord and Bayonetta Orgins are both really good Switch games.
 
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yuraya

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Back in my day, consoles went down in price after several years.
Console prices goes up
Game prices goes up
Services and subscriptions prices goes up
DLC and expansions prices goes up
Amount of microtransactions in games goes up
Game dev takes longer
Thousands of devs lost their jobs

The gen has been awful. The net benefit to gaming is a fat zero.
 
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I remember getting a PS2 and Gamecube at the end of their lifecycles for $100 each and getting a bunch of Player's Choice games for $20/each as well.

I really can't wait for the PS5 Pro to be announced and cost something like 600 to 700. It's going to be so funny
The Switch 2 will probably wind up being $400 as well. This sucks.
 
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I really can't wait for the PS5 Pro to be announced and cost something like 600 to 700. It's going to be so funny
Inflation + the inability to shrink the chips has let to that.
I remember getting a PS2 and Gamecube at the end of their lifecycles for $100 each and getting a bunch of Player's Choice games for $20/each as well.
The era of supercheap consoles at the end of the gen it's long gone.
 

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I guess I will have to replay this game on DC next rather than just go oh, what a cool port, but never actually care to touch it myself because it's readily available elsewhere. It's weird the PC remaster didn't add something like this (if not the original game having it too, it was after all around this time that Quake, Powerslave and other games pushing graphics forward were making dynamic lighting a pretty big deal on multiple platforms, even some supposedly lesser to the N64 like the Sega Saturn), it seems so fitting for its visual style that I had to go back and check it didn't already have it, wow.

It's surprising (well, mostly because of 2.5 decades of widespread bashing of the system unfairly leading to underestimating and underrating it) that some of the first things that actually work, even with this kind of homebrew amateur project and early days at that, are so called advanced features like most of the lighting effects, that all the haters pretended would be the very first thing to go, even before polygon and streaming optimizations, had there been an official Dreamcast version of the game, likening an imaginary final AAA product to early pre-release media that aren't even from DC.
This is an actual hardware capture of our WIP #GTA 3 port to the Sega #Dreamcast. SUBSTANTIAL framerate gainz have come from converting the model geometry from triangle lists to triangle strips as well as from utilizing KallistiOS's "Direct Rendering" PVR API for fast polygon submission via the SH4 CPU's "Store Queues." Oh... plus we enabled LTO, and it seriously jumped like another 3-5fps.

Funnily enough, there's still PLENTY of room for optimization... Every vertex you see was being transformed by the PS2's vector unit coprocessor, while these transforms are being done in plain C++ on the DC's SH4 CPU... These are being accelerated via the SH4's SIMD and fast-math instructions at this very moment.

Yes, we got clipping bugs, but we've been too excited trying to push polygons and frames-per-second to bother fixing that shit just yet. Oh, and yes, this is now running on a 16MB stock Dreamcast.
 
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That giant Wii controller at 11:30 lmaoooooooo

Honestly it looks really fun. Going without a friend would be a bad idea though.
 

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Looks great.
Can't wait. M&L series is really good, and a new entry with good production value is like a dream come true.
 
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Can't wait. M&L series is really good, and a new entry with good production value is like a dream come true.
I haven't played a M&L game since Partners in Time. I think I bought Bowser's Inside Story years ago but never actually played it. Maybe I should scour my closet for it (and my 3DS).
 
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Finally. If it follows the original Switch schedule then initial reveal in fall -> information blowout in January -> release in March.
 

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I just want the reveal to come already so we can move on from all the endless rumors, and so that developers and publishers can start announcing the games that have been waiting for the Switch 2 reveal
 

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I just want the reveal to come already so we can move on from all the endless rumors, and so that developers and publishers can start announcing the games that have been waiting for the Switch 2 reveal
...which makes the reveal likely happen this month because third-parties need to announce their games at TGS. :blobeyes:
 
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Li Kao

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I mean, I'm a sucker for good games, but Astro Bot is not enough for me to shell 500 out.
I would like to be in, I unreasonably still have fond console memories, but at 500 for the console and 60-80 for each game, you need exclusives in the double digits or near it.
 

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I mean, I'm a sucker for good games, but Astro Bot is not enough for me to shell 500 out.
I would like to be in, I unreasonably still have fond console memories, but at 500 for the console and 60-80 for each game, you need exclusives in the double digits or near it.
Totally. I'll most likely go the second hand route.
I'll save money to by myself a gaming PC first time in over decade.
 
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Im never getting a PS5 Pro as a I barely use my current PS5. If I didn't love 3D plattformers, my PS5 would continue to dust down.
 

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Bold of you to think they have games to show
Oh god imagine if all they can do in these 9 minutes is show some shitty Unreal 5 tech demo to brag about effects or wtvr lol.

But seriously tho they have to drop a trailer for something big releasing next year. This console will already be a tough sell you have to somehow get creative with the marketing.
 

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Oh god imagine if all they can do in these 9 minutes is show some shitty Unreal 5 tech demo to brag about effects or wtvr lol.

But seriously tho they have to drop a trailer for something big releasing next year. This console will already be a tough sell you have to somehow get creative with the marketing.
I really can't wait for the PS5 Pro to be announced and cost something like 600 to 700. It's going to be so funny
 

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Astro bot seems to be a really good platforming game after playing for a couple of hours. The level design is full of fun little secrets to discover, and the game is really good about encouraging you to find them as well with "jump to get the coin, learn about hidden items in blocks" Mario style design flow. The story setup seemed almost perfectly efficient in not wasting any of my time. The graphics are great compared with the Nintendo platforming games on Nintendo Switch.

The game seems to be incredibly close to greatness ... but ... have reviewers played the game while listening to podcasts? The music is so bad even compared with entry level Nintendo stuff, and notably bad compared with recent mainline Mario games. I guess I will have fun playing the game while listening to podcasts, but why make such an obvious effort to produce a great game and put zero effort into one of the major aspects of the game?
 
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I finished the Astro Bot main campaign. It was incredible. I'd consider it one of the best 3D platformers ever and better than probably half of the 3D Mario games. I'm going to work on 100% which I rarely do any more.
 
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