We have a grocery/other store chain here in Canada that had an electronics section but scrapped it some years back. I can certainly say I did shop for games there, and was sad to see it go, but they were definitely more impulse buys, and “while I’m here, why not look” type of purchases than pre-planned ones.
I remember playing this one on my PC some years ago, with an unofficial translation. Of course, I sailed the seven seas for that, and this will be an opportunity to own the game legally/revisit it on my console of choice, so I’m looking forward to this.
For real? Heck yeah, sign me up!
Hot take but I’m not of the opinion that either is quite the apex of open world design, though they do adequately carry over elements of the Zelda formula to that type of design. Still, I do absolutely think they could be better, though you may be correct that these games are the apex of what Nintendo is capable of with open worlds.
I’d love to see the return of the older formula too. Here’s hoping we don’t have to rely solely on the indie scene for new games they give us...
Both recent games are great, though far from my favourite open world games, and I just prefer the more streamlined gameplay of the older titles. Sometimes more doesn’t mean better IMHO, and I just feel as though the series has moved too far towards trying to replicate the increasingly stale open world formula, and away from the older style, which to me struck the perfect balance between simplicity and complexity, and having a more than large enough world, while being more streamlined where i...
Technically SE has packed up and left…Xbox that is. They know where the real money is, and where it’s not, so they’ve dumped Xbox like some needy gf who took more than she gave. With 3M in less than a week on PS5, I highly doubt they’re at all sorry.
Ok? But MS does that all the time. In actuality, many of “Sony’s” exclusivity tactics are things MS was pulling with the 360 that Sony just took notes on, as MS decided that’s how the gaming landscape should be at the time, and it was indeed working for them. That Sony has since bested MS at the game they started just means that they’re a better player. It’s so ironic to me that MS is now crying over Sony doing things they had no problem doing a couple gens ago.
Cool story bruh, but let’s hope this latest PR spin by MS over their low sales debacle doesn’t turn into a series of articles restating the same exact thing for the next week. “Xbox Series X Fans are Ok With the Focus on the Cloud.” “Why Focusing on the Cloud is the Right Move for Xbox.” “Xbox Series Sales Have Suffered So Xbox Can Focus on the Cloud, but That’s Ok.”
With how well Switch continues to do, even with it now being two gens behind, I don’t think that’s a bad “rock and hard place” to be between. We must be talking the finest rock, like a glimmering diamond, next to a magnificent gold bar. Isn’t Tears of the Kingdom blowing up the charts? There’s that new Pikmin collection too, that also seems to be turning heads. Poor Nintendo, raking in all that money. /s How about poor journalists trying to find a reason to push some doom-and-gloom narra...
Let me guess, there will be an article claiming Starfield fans are ok with that?
My goodness, first this game was being so hyped up that if it ends up being less than the second coming of Christ in videogame form, it will go down as the most disappointing game of the generation, and now we’re getting these, thankfully more honest articles, but there’s a common theme of “aspect of game is less than you were probably expecting, but that’s ok.”
Perhaps it would have been wise to have just been honest from the start? Don’t promise the moon if you can’t del...
I know MS wants to look weak for the courts, but is that something investors like to hear? To top it all off, this statement is in writing, on a legal document.
Ok, but for someone who writes for a site called The Gamer, you’re clearly a very lukewarm gamer at best. I get that gaming isn’t an essential expense, but neither is getting a tattoo. I’d be a little more sympathetic if you sold your PS5 to keep a roof over your head for another month or something, but as you sold it and “bought something nice with the cash”, you’re just trading one luxury for another.
Also, how do you not remember if you got a tattoo, as that’s one of...
If I had a dollar for every time someone claimed “next year will belong to Xbox”… I’ll believe it when it happens.
And that was on the most successful Xbox to date, and the one that had made enough of a name for itself worldwide that even Japan took notice (even though that was mostly for the international market even then). It has been all downhill from there across the board, but especially where Japan is concerned.
It’s not a mystery. Xbox does so poorly in Japan that sales of Japanese IPs would depend almost entirely on overseas sales, and even then, they can expect poorer sales than even just the overseas market for Japanese games on PlayStstion and Switch, and that’s before even factoring in the GamePass crowd who would rather play a game on that service than actually buy one.
With even SE telling MS to F off now, it’s no surprise MS offered SEGA a handsome sum to stick around, ...
In all fairness, they have to contend not only with the prevalence of digital games, but also Amazon and other online storefronts that sell physical games too that can be shipped right to you, not to mention all the other physical stores that still sell games, so GameStop’s financial woes are far from the whole story regarding the success of physical games, even if that were 100% of the reason for GameStop’s decline (I think there are other factors at play too that make it a less appealing op...
I’ve done something similar, or upon seeing that there’s a physical version of a game I loved digitally that I didn’t know existed, I’ve bought myself a copy even though I already had the digital version.
Heck, I’ve also bought a physical copy of a game I already had on another system if it came over to my favourite system. Once, it was partially because I missed out on the pre-order bonus the first time and it came up again the second time, but having it on my system of...
Eh…I’ll live with it if that ends up being the case, and would certainly take it over a streaming-only future and/or one where games all require an ongoing subscription on top of being digital-only, but I’ll support the option of physical games for as long as they’re still around as that will always be mt favourite option.
I used to enjoy EB Games (now GameStop) in the 2000s too. It’s the 2010s that killed it for me, with it starting to be a mobile accessories store, and then becoming a general hobby store where it’s not always easy to even find the section for the games I’m looking for, which you would think would be front and centre.
The stores are cramped and crammed full of extraneous stuff that has nothing to do with what I’m interested in, so I just stopped shopping there. If they con...