Jesus Christ!

Just tried this Splatoon 3 hookshot like sub that turns you into spiderman.

You shoot a Web of ink and zip across and stick to walls like a ninja.

Completely changes the way the plays. This will be deadly in turf wars if its even available there.

So much fun.

So I tried the Re8 cloud demo.

And 1st time it was seamless. I was playing on the switch screen so maybe the smaller screen helped, but I couldn't tell I was playing a cloud game.

It looked native, and slightly better than the Outlast port on switch (which looks excellent)

And for a brief few minutes I thought, I'd this works as well as this (I now have fibre broadband) why even buy a new console?

It's the pricing plan that's wrong. I can't pay full price to play a game on a server that will eventually die.

A monthly rental fee seems more appropriate.

So then I tried some more cloud games. Hitman looks really good with only a slight artifact pattern if you spin the camera too fast.

So I checked out A Plague tale and like before it was low resolution blurry shit. With audio stutters.

Tried The Forgotten City and it looked about Skyrim quality and since its a slow game, cloud won't affect it too much.

Then went back to the RE Village demo and as my Internet dropped and stutters the game slapped me with a warning it was entering low performance mode. And it looked shit.

Maybe with 5G or full fibre broadband at max speed cloud would actually be a good idea with a monthly subscription fee.

Switch has no problem displaying or downloading the data. It's just your Internet that will mess things up. Shame.

So here's a couple thoughts on today's direct

1. I guess it's cool to see a new fatal frame game. I've never actually played one of these because of the controls have always been just awful. I wonder if they're finally going to fix that.

2. Oh great, they are remaking the longest, slowest, and arguably most depressing Harvest Moon game....

3. That dodgeball game just looks awful.

4. Octopath 2 makes remember I still haven't touched the first.

5. Rune Factory 3 Special and a new Rune Factory game? Theoretically I should be excited, but it just feels like RF5 came out and I don't think anyone like that one.

6. The additional N64 games look nice. I bet there's a lot of mini games on Mario Party that are going to be a lot easier using a switch controller rather than the old end 64 controller.

7. Various Daylife?? That kind of reminds me of that level 5 game, Fantasy Life. That game was fun for about 10 hours, and after that it got really really repetitive. I wonder if that's the same thing here. Also, it's interesting that S-E is starting to borrow ideas from other companies - rune Factory previously and now fantasy life.

8. Wii/Switch Golf! And it's delayed... Oh well.

9. Shiggy either has a serious filter or makeup job or he got plastic surgery.

10. Pikmin 4 is so long overdue. Glad it's coming.

11. Bayonetta 3 really is just around the corner. That's definitely going to make a lot of people happy.

12. Wow Radiant Silvergun. Didn't see that coming. Nice.

13. Return to Dreamland was a solid multiplayer platformer. It wasn't anything revolutionary, but it was a solid way to spend time with my kids. I'd recommend it.

14. And man, couldn't they have given a little more footage on Tears of the Kingdom? Meh.

Isn't a wonderfull life the PS2/GC one? That was the best one!

Ravenprose said:

Are you talking about their normal retail price or the inflated scalper prices?

Well it was Amazon so its the official prices here. Bother over £450.

SupremeAC said:

Isn't a wonderfull life the PS2/GC one? That was the best one!

Agreed, but I played that so hard I got hand cramps. Can't do that again.

That sucks. Nintendo makes upgrading too hard.

Upgrading from my PS4 Pro to my PS5, all I had to do was backup all my games onto a USB hard drive, login to my PS5 and then move all the games from the USB hard drive to the PS5's SSD or I could just play them from the USB hard drive. Only the PS4 games that had a free PS5 upgrade had optional downloads

travo said:

So you cant just start anything,not even a brand new game?

I could, but even a new game like Splatoon 3 needs an update.

I managed to play Xenoblade 2 on the screen. Its not the best game to test the screen as its quite low resolution.

Looked decent though, nice colours and even the small screen increase makes a difference.

A bigger screen makes the details easier to see. Screen is very glossy and rounded, good viewing angles.

Tried Animal Crossing. The update took 2 hrs??

Looks good, it's very slightly less sharp but it has a more rounded and colourful look. Things just look more solid.


Glad I upgraded.

The heat vents on the back are now at the very bottom angled away from your hands. So no more hot hands when charging/playing.

Dock has a lot of space so the switch sits very loosely in it. Great to keep the screen scratch free but when I want to change carts, it's easy to knock the unit up very slightly which obviously gives you a moment of TV signal interruption. Might need a thin cushion or something to put in the Dock. Probably won't bother though.

It's taking forever to download updates and my download speed is 28mbps-ish.

I'm wondering if its a problem with the wireless. Might plug in the lan cable.

One cool thing is that obviously some people play the OLED in handheld only, so cheap OLED docks are all over ebay.