Had an amazing online battle mode in Mario Kart , Renegade roundup.

So you have to be in teams and run from the cops. If you get caught you get stuck in a cage and can only honk to be freed. It's hilarious when you see the cage slowly filling up with your team and you're kind of eyeing each other thinking 'crap guys'. Then you can be sprung from your cage by someone free who smashes the lock on it. Then you immediately boost and rush out to freedom. So I freed the most and topped the 12 player match, very surprising. But what was hilarious  was in the lobby for the next match our winning teams Miis all had kingly gold royal crowns. I must have laughed for 5 minutes. Then in the next match I noticed  when you are leading you have the same gold crown in game.

Anyhow you guys it's  well worth the money picking this game up. There are like 5 I think battle  mode variations including one where you all pile in on one guy and another where it's  all bombs all the time. And there are 8 new arenas in the game and the Splatoon map is frigging awesome. Also because the graphics are sharper I find myself actually  watching the replays. The animations are amazing slowed down.

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Is it any good?  All those knock-off systems with packed in games always seem to ooze shoddiness.

I was wondering that myself. There's a plug-and-play Genesis system out there that has some utterly bad emulation. Not sure if it's the same manufacturer or not, but they offer a similar amount of Genesis games and a bunch of extra arcade games that typically end up being knock-offs of stuff like Pong or basic board games.

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EA is now bullish on Switch ​ Considering bringing more games

I'm sure all us Switch owners are looking forward to their year-late, gimped ports.

What would qualify as a gimped port for the Switch? Any game that's designed on the stronger hardware is going to need to be scaled back on Switch. Does that make them gimped?

Also, will Nintendo's next system be called the Switch U?

edgecrusher said:

What would qualify as a gimped port for the Switch? Any game that's designed on the stronger hardware is going to need to be scaled back on Switch. Does that make them gimped?

Also, will Nintendo's next system be called the Switch U?

So anyhow in renegade roundup battle mode in MK8 in that match I was talking about 3 of our team were caught in the cage and the game tells you how many are left for the cops to catch before we lose. So essentially it said "One more left!" and us 3 losers in the cage, the tension was rising. Then the last guy on our team, at this point it was 1 renegade vs 4 cops and he alone bust us out and we rode out the last seconds of the match as the winners.

EDIT: I tried the Puyo Puyo Tetris demo on Switch eshop. Don't like it.

It always has two screens, and you are always competing against the CPU doing the puzzle on the right. I just want the whole large display to myself.

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Assassin’s Creed Origins ditches its working title, and a slew of new details emerge.

Rumours about the next Assassin’s creed game have been swirling about during the series’ much-needed break. The latest one is suggesting that it’ll go down the Syndicate route, with a pair of male and female protagonists.

Thus far, we’ve heard that the project’s title is Assassin’s Creed Empire, and that the setting for the game will be Egypt.

WWG claims to have spoken to sources at Ubisoft who have confirmed that the game will be revealed at E3 in a few weeks, and that the new title is Assassin’s Creed Origins.

Apparently the game is “a vast open world experience” set in Egypt, telling the tale of the original Assassin’s guild. Character progression won’t be intertwined with the story to the same extent as previous titles in the series, with one of the sources going so far as to compare it to Skyrim. Players can even venture beyond the bounds of Egypt, “possibly even as far as Greece,” says WWG.

The freedom and exploration sound like a far cry from the usual fare of the franchise. Another source told WWG that Assassin’s Creed Origins is the game will be “huge,” and the biggest Assassin’s Creed game created.

Boats and naval combat are also purported to be a part of the gameplay, as you can see in the image above posted on this Reddit thread. The guy manning the boat also looks similar to purported leaked screenshot of the game from February.

If you zoom in on the image posted over on Imgur, you’ll notice a couple of objectives in the top left of the screengrab: “assassinate the crocodile”, and “Follow Shadya to Khenut’s villa” – which appears to be a reference to Queen Khenut during the Fifth Dynasty (thanks, GamesRadar).

Following the E3 2017 reveal, we can expect a fall release which is in line with the series’ usual October release date. Until Ubisoft announces the next Assassin’s Creed game, again, take everything in this post as a rumor.

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The Metal Gear Solid movie will be made by people who understand the franchise, if the director has anything to say about it.

Metal Gear Solid is being made into a movie and we all expect it to be a total nightmare disaster because that’s how this industry rolls.

Every time a new video game movie approaches, everyone involved swears that this time things will be different (looking at you, Assassin’s Creed) – but even in this age of cynicism we find it in our hearts to have a little bit of hope for Metal Gear Solid.

In a new interview with Glixel, Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who has been attached to he project since 2014, described the lengths he went to securing his role and finding the right writers.

“I brought them over to my house and I designed this weird course where I would load up the original Metal Gear and I would have the writer play that for a while…”

“I was sitting in an executive’s room at Sony, and there was a Metal Gear Solid book on the table and I said, ‘Oh my God, you have Metal Gear?’ And they said, ‘Yeah but that’s not for you,’ more or less,” the director said of his hiring process.

“I went to my agents and I was like, ‘You guys don’t understand how important this is for me, how much I love it, how much I love the tone, the characters, the idiosyncratic nature of what these games were and what they mean to me, and there’s no greater project that I would rather embark upon.’ I told my agents and managers that I want to do this movie.”

Everyone told Vogt-Roberts, who was fresh off Kings of Summer, that he had no chance at directing Metal Gear Solid – but he was not to be put off. Even if he couldn’t be a part of it, he reasoned, he could help make sure it would be done right – so he wrote a book about what he’d do with a Metal Gear Solid movie if he had the chance, where gaming movies go wrong, and the essential spirit of Metal Gear.

“I spent three months of my life putting together this massive book to say, ‘This is how important this property is to me, and I don’t care if you don’t hire me. I need to do this for myself, because if you give this to someone else, I just need to be able to say I did everything I could,'” he said.

“So I made that book and it just started going up the ladder, meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting, and eventually, I got the job.”

Having secure the gig, Vogt-Roberts went looking for writers – but he wouldn’t work with just anyone. Whoever works on the Metal Gear Solid movie has to know what the heck they’re getting in to.

“As I brought in writers, I basically took them on this weird journey where I brought them over to my house and I designed this weird course where I would load up the original Metal Gear and I would have the writer play that for a while, and just teach them this idea of stealth gameplay,” the director explained, referring to the 1987 original.

“I would let them play that, and generally, anyone was able to play that because anyone can pick up a game of that era and understand the mechanics of it. They’d play that for an hour or so, and then I would jump forward and then I’d load up Metal Gear Solid 5 and say, ‘This is where it jumps to. You just saw the beginnings of this, and over the course of 30-odd years, this is where it took us,’ so you see both ends of the spectrum.”

After showing both extreme, Vogt-Roberts would have the potential writer fire up Metal Gear Solid on PSOne, which he said is easy for newcomers to pick up and “makes a strong thesis” in the first hour. After that, he’d make them play Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

This allowed Vogt-Roberts to give writers a sense of what makes Metal Gear special in a way that a story summary or watching video cannot, even if they aren’t familiar with video games at all.

These new comments from Vogt-Roberts about his determination to see the movie done well echo a February interview in which he said he hopes the Metal Gear Solid movie will be like Deadpool or Logan: aimed at mega-fans.

One can only hope all this means Metal Gear Solid will end up the first truly good bit of gaming cinema but as long as poorly reviewed movies like Assassin’s Creed continue to make oodles of money (did you know Warcraft made a bundle?) it doesn’t seem hugely likely the big studios with throw talent and resources at each other and take enough of a hands-off approach (again, see Assassin’s Creed and Warcraft) to allow success. Remember when they were going to make Uncharted a family crime drama?

The Metal Gear Solid movie was announced in 2012, but it wasn’t until June 2015 that Sony Pictures managed to close a deal and sign Vogt-Roberts. It’s one of a number of gaming cinema projects initiated by Avi Arad including Uncharted and Mass Effect. Although Kojima wants an unknown actor for Solid Snake, it’s probably studio executives will want a big name, and someone will hate them.

RDR2 pic?