#4462

I got about 0.5 out of it, if that helps at all.

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#4463

how much do you enjoy spinning plates?

#4464

Prefer life in a glasshouse

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#4465

*audience groans*

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#4466

Can I change the controls in THPS? There’s an option for game controls but it just seems to present them to you.

#4467

Have just finished Firewatch. Mostly enjoyed it, with some nice moderate tension and feeling of being there, although a little bit annoying when I have to go to the other end of the map from where I was. But on the whole I liked it and glad I played it.

Can’t remember if I mentioned, but I also completed Ori and the Will of the Wisps before that, which was also very good. Other than occasionally not quite sure where I had to go to, and so I traipsed to the other side of the world, before I went back and found out the next direction was near where I started. So a bit similar to the first game! Lovely looking game though.

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#4468

I feel like if you did, the fabric of time would fold in upon itself

#4469

think you need an online subscr-

#4470

Guys, why the fuck can I find NO magnetite in Subnautica?

For that matter why can I not find the remaining bits of the really important base stuff so I can build basically anything with the fucking TONNES of lithium I’m picking up? My Seamoths are upgrade free due to needing the rest of the Moonpool. Dammit.

That said, I have managed to put beacons on both the Gun Island and the one with the three bases on it and activated the jump gate between the two.

#4471

Right old fallow period this, eh? Unless you like niche JRPGs.

I thought only having one Nintendo console to develop for would see a slew of great titles this year, and I know covid has hit hard, but it’s been a poor show for a while now and doesn’t look promising down the line.

Due to support from Capcom, Ubisoft, a good indie scene and some tactical rereleases the gaps don’t look as bad as they are, but they are pretty huge.

A lot of franchises this cycle have been handed to other parties to own such as Luigi’s Mansion 3, Metroid Dread, Mario Golf, Advance Wars, etc. Which isn’t a problem, when they’re handled ok, but does leave me wondering what are they making?!

Animal Crossing wasn’t really supported post launch. The big titles are still a way off.

The sheer volume of games in my backlog on the one hand means it isn’t an issue, but in truth there hasn’t really been a game I’ve been excited to buy day one on my Switch now since Astral Chain, two years ago.

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#4472

honestly there hasn’t been a game I’ve been excited to buy on day one on any platform since Mario Odyssey in late 2017, it’s more of the same on all the console fronts for me

#4473

perhaps I should say big AAA game as I was pretty excited about Streets of Rage 4 which was my favourite game last year. Indies are where the excitement comes from these days

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#4474

To be fair to Nintendo here:
2nd/3rd parties have been handling the Mario sports titles for a few generations now.
Metroid has been handled by Retro since gamecube and on the 2d in Co with Mercury’s team since 3ds.
Next Level also did Luigis Mansion 2 on 3ds.

Reckon BOTW2 is a massive time/money/resource sink right now.
Monolith have at least 2 big games on the go, main Mario team no doubt working on the Odyssey successor but that may be for switch 2.
Mario Kart/Arms team working away.

I think all the teams are busy but we might not see everything come to fruition on Switch. I’d rather they take the time with the key titles tbh.

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#4475

Yeah I hear you. I’ve been excited to buy Paper Mario, Luigi’s Mansion 3, Ring Fit Adventure, Animal Crossing etc and have a new game to play, but they all left me with that feeling of ‘that was a perfectly fine 7/10 experience that killed some time’.

Played a couple of things on PS4 lately that have impressed me a lot (The Last Guardian, Titanfall 2 and Bloodborne) but broadly most of the best experiences I’ve had in the past 5 years have been indies that way exceeded my expectations.

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#4476

Oh and Splatoon 3

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#4477

Don’t think so. Feel like Ollie would be much better suited mapped to A on the Switch due to the size.

Thumb keeps hitting the camera stick also which is annoying. I’m sure you could pump in the originals also but may just be thinking of Skate.

Otherwise it’s great, and i can’t believe how the muscle memory is still there. Very much at the stage where i can remember what i used to do but can’t do it though :smiley:

#4478

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, it’s easy to think if you don’t play AAA zeitgeist titles you are missing out but you could play good new indie or smaller games for years and still feel surprised and entertained with quality titles. Gaming is so big now nobody can really keep up with everything.

I’ve bought stuff on sale on PC like Assassin’s Creed games and a bunch of stuff on Game Pass, tried Forza Horizon 4 but so many AAA games are huge time sinks and I find I end up not starting any of them because I can’t decide which one I want to put 100 hours into. It’s led to me retreating to safe experiences like replaying Final Fantasy titles as I know the pace of them already

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#4479

Yeah there is SO MUCH out there. Shmup fans are losing their shit at Mushihimesema being released on the Switch, to them this is like Ocarina of Time being remastered or something, and that’s just one little niche of the gaming world. Can never get worked up about release schedules when there are hundreds of hours of backlog on my SD card and dozens of games on my wishlist.

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#4480

I have this on Xbox and it’s simultaneously very solid and massively frustrating. I swear that in an hours worth of play time you only do races for 50% of that. The rest of the time you’re navigating menus, looking at the map and waiting for races to load. CBA with it.

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#4481

Yup, thats all fair. And I’d rather someone who loves Metroid and Luigi’s Mansion be given it to develop than it sits on a ‘Nintendo ‘to do list’ corkboard’ for a decade.

I just hoped that the first 2 years Switch had might become the norm after a fallow year again.

When you think in that opening year we had Splatoon 2, ARMS, Mario Kart Deluxe, BOTW, Mario Odyssey, Fire Emblem, Xenoblade 2, Mario vs Rabbids, Smash Bros, Pokemon Evee etc thats a great string of titles I largely want to play.

Mario Golf, Warioware, Mario Party… probably ain’t gonna buy those and they don’t feel comparable in weight or ambition. The Wii / Wii U ports are into the dregs. There isn’t decent DLC or ongoing support for the established titles. Take out Rabbids 2 and Monster Hunter Rise, and the exclusive third party support is pretty dead too.