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Arika’s “Mysterious Fighting Game” for PS4 in 2018
Where is Endless Ocean 3? Assholes!
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GameStop getting multiple Switch custom bundles
this week, available in-store
polygon.com
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Fire Emblem Heroes brings in over $100 million
in revenue, over 10 million downloads
deconstructoroffun.com
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I finally got my first trophy yesterday. From what I scanned from the trophy list, there's only 3 or 4 you can even get with less than 10 hours of play unless you're completely and utterly focusing on one specific aspect of the game. Not a bad thing though. Virtual farming is its own reward.
On a related note, I'm definitely happy that I returned to the game. I messed around with the PC version about a year ago and it didn't impress me, but now that I sit down and play it on a console on the couch with a controller I'm really enjoying it. A few gripes aside its what I wanted Harvest Moon to be for a while.
This is Atari's new console
This intrigues me, the same way that I'm intrigued by two trains heading towards each other on the same track. I want to know more about it, but I cannot think of anyway I would ever throw down money for this. They've got something more than just old atari games planned for it, but hell if I can guess what it is.
I always post multiple stories about a whole range of games in the news section on a regular basis?SEGA must be thinking, "Are you fucking kidding me? These out of touch fuckers have new hardware and we don't?!" or something like that.
SEGA needs to watch this video.
SUPER MARIO MAKER LEVELS:
I'm not talking about the articles linked above but your posts, reviews, discussion.
God, I dread the Switch online app. I'm downloading it now so we will see.
Yeah, I'm guessing some third party stuff and maybe 3D versions of old classics. I want to see the controller.
Nintendo's phone app sounds amazing:
The phones screen needs to remain on for it to work - so if yours is like mine and shuts off the screen every couple of minutes to save power, you are screwed.
..... just cause.
No one checks the Splatoon 2 thread apart from Sup once in a blue moon.
I don't get this online phone app for Switch. I've been playing Arms and Splatoon 2 and it works as it would have worked on Wii U - I can just join a friend online or they join me. I played the Splatfest with Def from GAF, he was a sniper. I played other friends on Arms for a bit too and it was easy to join them.
I think this phone app is just for voice chat - which I never use anyway or for inviting friends via facebook/twatter etc? I think you can still play games online and still play games online with friends on switch without this app.
EDIT: also played MK8 deluxe with friends online, no problems there.
That hurt my brain
The app sounds horrendous. Truth is I don't want to talk to anyone.
The reviews are fine GG, it's a safe sequel. Single player isn't really any different. Multiplayer isn't any different. It's a incremental sequel not one that really changes stuff up, which is fine.
I will have an Xbox one tomorrow. My friend gave it to me cheap cause he got a new one. I will be in destiny on one cause all my friends are there.
I still tried the destiny beta on PS4, good stuff. Seems like a super safe sequel, the strike is nothing different. The story level feels more like a quality campaign. Don't like losing all secondary weapons to a special slot, it's stupid. I love the new powers like the captain America shield.
The small amount of material I've read, said the single player is much improved over the first and as good as any mainline Nintendo game by itself.
As for the multiplayer, Splatoon is Splatoon. Was anyone not expecting there to be turf wars in a sequel with the same rules and timer? I don't get why some reviewers are playing it like it's barely a sequel - then elsewhere in the review saying it's "thrilling" or "absolutely amazing" etc
It's got about as much difference between 1 and 2 as your average Mario Kart game from game to game, generation to generation.
There are plently of sequels where you could say exactly the same thing, I don't know why a lot of reviewers seem to be at pains at pointing this out about Splatoon. For me I want to read a review by someone who's played as much of the first game as I have. I want to see a fans perspective on it, not these journos who played 6 hours of Splatoon 1, a couple of years back for a review when they didn't even have the extra ranked battle modes let alone the new stages. Then they get tasked with reviewing the sequel and saying that it's much like Splatoon 1 is pretty much the laziest and most unimaginative thing they could come up with as a writer.
Google Personalisation settings are fucking me over.
You know if you don't have an account they ask you every couple of weeks to do that form to opt out of their data tracking? Well today, it appears only the page won't work past the first click and just stays endlessly stuck. Same on google and youtube - so I'm effectively locked out of using those sites.
Any idea about a workaround or fix for this?
Horrendous.
Splatoon 2 has got good reviews and if reviewed after the DLC hits it would be better.
But if I sound hyperbolic on the Splatoon 2 reviews, well after scanning through my 5th review or so repeatedly telling me that Splatoon 2 is not a sequel (in the sense that it's not a revolution?) - I end up on the VG24/7 review, which is at PAINS to point out that it's not a sequel - and seems to be intent on telling you so repeatedly throughout every paragraph of the review. Here are the bits of the review pointing that out one after the other:
They then finish with:
"This is the best Splatoon has ever been, with its excellent core concept now reaching a near-perfect critical mass. Everything has been improved, and its jump-in, quick-fire nature makes it perfect for the Switch and its two modes – just keep in mind that it is absolutely more of the same"
One final reminder after the 50 previous ones in the same review - it's more of the same. Probably not a real sequel. Thanks guys, barely mentions any of the changes and how they alter the game balance which is what I want to know.
Any kind of positives from their review like:
Are buried between being repeatedly - like a jackhammer reminding you that - nope - not a real sequel somehow? And most reviews are like this to a lesser degree of course.
For me, a sequel on a brand new console with vastly improved visuals and all new content - both single player and multiplayer is a sequel. Otherwise every Mario Kart game that has ever released is not a sequel and neither is any Halo or COD sequel.
Zelda BOTW Master Mode update:
Well I've unlocked 3 area maps now.
On the whole I'm not seeing a lot of difference here. The Great Plateau was hard starting from scratch and since it's a relatively small area small changes make a big difference. Using basic weapons and having no armour made it tough as shit. But since leaving the Great Plateau I haven't really found the game that hard. Of course this is all aided by the open world gameplay where you can avoid most enemies.
Outside of the positioning of these new floating platforms with asshole snipers with elemental arrows you don't really notice much difference on master mode. But one you have a bit of stamina and some better bows its fairly easy to ride up near them, jump off your horse and shoot them in slow motion in the face. If your bows are weak you can just pop the balloons and the enemy falls off the platform.
The shrines are all the same, no difficulty spike outside the great plateau one with the guardian in it.
I took down a moving guardian with a level 15 sword and just shot it in the eye when it aimed at me. Easy. Killed some stationary guardians with the same method. Bombing stalfos is easy.
The hardest enemies seem to be the brown bokoblins, when there are 2 or 4 of them chasing you down it's very easy to get swamped and die easily. Can't imagine fighting the white ones... eh.
So on the whole there isn't much difference in this master mode so far, but its nice to play the game from scratch again and feeling the progression and getting better/more powered up. Compared to being overpowered and having done everything already in normal mode.
Well I don't think highly of Mario kart for that reason. As for CoD many times that series completely changes areas, skills, weapons and so on. Yeah the core modes are the same but in the last one you are flying spaceships and the next one you will be in WW2. But that's cause different teams handle them.
To me if the single play is actually different then it's a major sequel, but from the impressions it's mostly the same. The exact same amount of levels, the same structure, I read the final boss is worse. The weapon variety is nice but the campaign doesn't seem to take the next step like say uncharted 1 to uncharted 2.
There is not one new pvp mode. That's kind of crazy for any online sequel. That just screams lazy sequel to me. No change to the online structure, same bullshit few maps rotation.
Salmon run is about the only sequel like addition to the game and that is locked every other day. So yeah this is clearly one of those quick basic sequels. That does not mean it has to be worse, you can absolutely live the more refined one better than the last. Mario Galaxy 2 was this kind of sequel, it's still one of the best games ever made.