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Modern Video Games / Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 - 4.2.2025 thoughts?

« on: April 02, 2025, 03:26:47 am »

Join us April 2nd, at 6 a.m. PT for a closer look at Nintendo Switch 2! The Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 4.2.2025 livestream will be approximately 60 minutes long.

June 5th | price announced after direct: $450 without mario kart world, $500 with mario kart world

Mario Kart World looks good! love the free roam and Moo Moo Meadows cow

Nintendo Discord seems pretty unnecessary as does the camera, no one used Wii U Chat

charging for the sequel to PS Vita's Welcome Park is insane

4k and 120fps options

June 5, 2025 release date

Nintendo Switch 2 gets exclusive paid expansions to the latest Mario Party, Kirby and both BOTW and TOTK

drag x drive wheelchair basketball with mouse controls, reminds me of the 2005 documentary Murderball

metroid prime 4 and pokemon za both get native switch 2 versions

bunch of existing games getting ported including elden ring, street fighter 6 with amiibo support, split fiction looking noticeably downgraded

spongebob level for tony hawk's 3+4

more hyrule warriors no one asked for

wind waker finally coming to switch! via gamecube nso.. also soul calibur II, f-zero gx, chibi robo, luigi's mansion and a few more, launch titles for switch 2

deltarune 3+4 day one (new release)

video freezes for everyone and continues playing audio during some pirate game and the world premiere of enter the gungeon 2 gameplay, they have now moved back the video but the current audio is still playing

fast fusion launch title just like fast rmx, big montage of games

essentially Bloodborne 2 (title is the duskbloods) by From Software exclusive to Switch 2, very embarrassing for Sony

kirby air riders (air ride 2) directed by sakurai this year

donkey kong bananaza looks amazing - looks like a mix of super mario odyssey and knack, releases in july

no price, maybe revealed later today? two SKUs for no real reason, one includes mario kart world. i guess if you want physical you'd buy the one without it?

pretty good showing!

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Modern Video Games / Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025 thoughts?

« on: March 27, 2025, 09:57:40 am »

Tune in on March 27th, at 7 a.m. PT for a livestreamed Nintendo Direct, featuring around 30 minutes of upcoming games for Nintendo Switch. There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation.

Information about Nintendo Switch 2 will be shared on April 2nd at 6 a.m. PT in the Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 4.2.2025 presentation.

after publishing a remaster of freedom wars, bandai namco is now publishing the first 2 patapon games

metroid prime 4 and pokémon look alright

a new rhythm heaven next year

a new hot shots/everybody's golf announced here, weird

a new tomodachi life next year

a new app called nintendo today

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Modern Video Games / State of Play | February 12, 2025 thoughts?

« on: February 12, 2025, 06:00:38 pm »

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds looks good and I'll be signing up for the test. (test, like Splitgate 2, is PS5 only despite the full game launching on PS4..)

Lost Soul Aside is a single player Sony published game launching day one on PC so there's that.

Splitgate 2 looks great, seems like their test isn't on PS4 but full game still is confirmed for it.

Darwin's Paradox looks like a modern version of Oddworld.

Hell Is Us looks decent.

Ape Escape in the Snake Eater remake is nice.

Days Gone remaster is a $10 upgrade and has a new arcade horde mode.

MindsEye from one of the leads on GTA V looks pretty fun but maybe too dark.

Housemarque somehow ready to release a new game next year.

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Modern Video Games / New details on Bungie's Marathon (2025 game)

« on: September 19, 2024, 04:21:31 am »

A new report from Forbes is detailing some information about the upcoming game, which isn't expected to be talked about in an official capacity until spring but they may release a video to announce that it isn't a hero shooter.

They are saying the game will be the same price as Concord despite what happened to Concord because Helldivers 2 was a success and The Finals wasn't? The Finals seems to be managing well so not sure why they used that as an example, it's also unrelated to Sony. Marathon will have a battle pass and cosmetic store. (Keep in mind Destiny 2 has been free to play for years now.)

It is said to be an extraction shooter, if you don't know what that is it's because it was the "next big thing" which never happened. Call of Duty even failed making an extraction shooter so that should put it in to perspective. The major successes in this genre seem to be Escape from Tarkov and Hunt: Showdown, neither of which market themselves as extraction shooters.

Despite not being a hero shooter the playable characters have been likened to Apex Legends but with more customization.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/09/18/new-marathon-details-on-heroes-price-and-radio-silence/

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Modern Video Games / Freedom Wars Remastered - popular Sony published Vita game returns

« on: September 18, 2024, 04:08:20 am »

Sony has little to do with this release with Namco Bandai handling publishing duties despite being a Sony owned IP.

The game will be coming to not Xbox AKA PS4, PS5, PC and Nintendo Switch.

The remaster releases January 10th.

Anyone know of more Sony IP published by other publishers? I believe a Fantavision game was recently released by some random publisher? A new Amplitude was self-published by Harmonix in 2016. Demon's Souls was famously published by Atlus in the U.S. Did they own Tomba?

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Modern Video Games / Indie World Showcase + Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase 8.27.2024 thoughts?

« on: August 27, 2024, 09:54:23 am »

Join us on August 27 at 7am PT for an Indie World Showcase followed by a Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase! The livestream, featuring both presentations back-to-back, will be roughly 40 minutes in total. Please note, there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during either of these presentations.

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Modern Video Games / Concord - PlayStation's biggest flop?

« on: August 23, 2024, 10:53:11 pm »

This game launched today. Under 700 players on Steam. PS5 numbers are likely not much better. The top posts on the game's subreddit on launch day are just mocking the player count. On the game's first evening it is outside of the top 100 Twitch games being streamed and the top two streams making up most of the viewers are both sponsored by the game. OpenCritic is a 63 or "Weak". Metacritic is a 69 which is marked by yellow.

This is a FIRST PARTY game from PlayStation which means they own the developer. On PlayStation Store, where I'm pretty sure you need to own a game to be able to rate it, it has a rating of 2.76 out of 5 with 43% being 1 star.

This game is $40 for the standard edition or $60 for deluxe. It seems like Sony will easily lose $100 million on this if not way more. Keep in mind Steam users can easily refund a game if they play for less than two hours.

I doubt Fairgame$ (from another FIRST PARTY) will fare much better. If you don't remember what this is it's a game that looked exactly like SEGA's Hyenas which was cancelled right before release because they knew it would be a flop.

Concord does have a physical release though! Check it out this Black Friday for $10!

I'm not sure what Sony is thinking or how they thought this was a good idea. I don't know why Sony thought people would buy this game when there's an endless amount of similar games that are completely free to play.

Update: Checking out some promotional videos and they're already announcing a cometic store. So they can't even use the "no microtransactions" line. No battle pass though which is somehow touted as a good thing? I get they can be overwhelming for some but unless you absolutely love a game you can simply just not grind a battle pass and still get early rewards from early tiers from playing however much you want.

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Modern Video Games / Shadows of the Damned remaster is $25 and releases this Halloween!

« on: July 24, 2024, 02:27:52 am »

Full title is Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered. It's available on all consoles and PC. It includes 4K support, New Game+ and new costumes.

The price is a bit less than it currently resells for online so that's nice. I don't currently see any info about a physical release.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/TwpT42plQiI

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Modern Video Games / NEW Chibi-Robo!* game coming soon!!

« on: July 19, 2024, 03:43:50 am »

*spiritual successor from "Tiny Wonder Studio, a new game development studio featuring key members from Chibi-Robo! series creators Skip, Ltd."

koROBO

Trailer, screenshots and a ton of information about the game and the developers can be found here: https://www.gematsu.com/2024/07/former-chibi-robo-developers-announce-robot-action-adventure-game-korobo-for-consoles-pc

This is clearly taking things back to the GameCube entry with most of the team having also worked on this game.

The unfortunate part of this is that it's a Kickstarter project. Hopefully this is the next Yooka-Laylee (in terms of funding) and not the next Project Rap Rabbit.

The game's Discord server mentions Strictly Limited Games so it seems as though a physical release is already planned!

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Modern Video Games / Nintendo Direct 6.18.2024 thoughts?

« on: June 17, 2024, 03:04:24 pm »

7 am pt | 10 am et

40 mins, no switch 2

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General / IGN just acquired a ton of their competitors

« on: May 21, 2024, 12:20:57 pm »

IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum.

Gamer Network’s publications include GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer, Rock Paper Shotgun, VG247, and Dicebreaker. The business also holds shares in Outside Xbox, Digital Foundry, and Hookshot (which operates Nintendo life, Push Square, Pure Xbox, and Time Extension).

IGN Entertainment is the division of Ziff Davis that includes IGN, MapGenie, HowLongtoBeat, and Humble Bundle. It has acquired the brands from PAX and New York Comic-Con organizer ReedPop, which initially bought the Gamer Network business in 2018.

Not included in the sale are UK-based events EGX or MCM, or the digital brand Popverse.

I personally check out Push Square, Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox daily. GamesIndustry.biz and Digital Foundry are both pretty important. Eurogamer is pretty big in its own right.

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Modern Video Games / SEGA declares this is the Year of Shadow

« on: April 10, 2024, 11:00:58 am »

https://sonicthehedgehog.com/yearofshadow/

Here's a live-action trailer of a girl inspired by Shadow to form a bicycle gang: https://youtu.be/z6Gx7OTn6H0

Shadow will be in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie this year as well as the game Sonic X Shadow Generations.

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Modern Video Games / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed revealed!

« on: March 05, 2024, 10:11:01 pm »

I've been waiting for this game ever since it was informally announced! This game was unusually announced in September 2023 for PC and unspecified consoles as a movie tie-in game for Mutant Mayhem along with an image showcasing the art style they're going for. It's unusual though because the publisher Outright Games does not typically announce games this far ahead of time, typically opting to announce a game a month or so prior to release.

Today, the title and a few screenshots were revealed via Game Informer. Possibly a first for an Outright Games title to get a formal, exclusive reveal by a gaming publication.The game is set after the movie. It is not due for release until the end of the year. The developer is aheartfulofgames who has worked on Heart&Slash as well as DreamWorks Spirit Lucky's Big Adventure and DreamWorks Dragons: Legends of The Nine Realms both for Outright Games. This is the first 3D Turtles games since 2016 when PlatinumGames released Mutants in Manhattan which was delisted just months after release but has a physical release that seems to be around $40 for a CIB used PS4 copy.

https://www.gameinformer.com/exclusive/2024/03/05/exclusive-first-details-and-screenshots-of-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles

It's easy to write off this game from the publisher but in my opinion Outright Games tends to release decent games for what they are. It also seems like they are taking extra care with this TMNT game given it's unusual rollout. I'm looking forward to it no matter what because I'm obsessed with this era of the Turtles and have watched Mutant Mayhem several times.

They have a continuation of Mutant Mayhem coming sometime this summer via the animated series Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which also takes place after the movie and the direct theatrical sequel film was just recently dated for October 9! ... of 2026. The series and game should be nice to make the wait feel less long at least.

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Modern Video Games / Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase 2.21.2024 thoughts?

« on: February 19, 2024, 06:49:07 pm »

Despite being a Partner Showcase there's rumors of Nintendo's Wii franchise Endless Ocean making an appearance here.

Pocket Card Jockey's Apple Arcade remake from Game Freak is also rumored.

A demo for the already announced Contra: Operation Galuga is rumored.

Maybe the Xbox exclusive Pentiment shows up here.

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Modern Video Games / Foamstars (Splatoon/Overwatch like game) from Square Enix

« on: February 06, 2024, 07:38:00 pm »

Fun new game available for free this month ($30 otherwise) with PS Plus Essential. It's basically Splatoon meets Overwatch.

The core gameplay is about spraying the ground with foam so you can traverse faster by surfing on it. Unlike Splatoon the goal isn't to foam the most of the ground. The main mode is Smash the Star where teams race to get 7 "Chills" (instead of kills) and then the best player on each team will become the Star Player and chilling them ends the game. I guess this would be like Turf War if the focus was on kills.

There's another mode called Happy Bath Survival which to me is the most like the COD Warzone Gulag? 2 teams of 4 battle but 2 players on each time are on the outside of the arena foaming the ground to help the players inside and it's a best of three.

Rubber Duck Party is similar to Turf Control in Splatoon or Escort in Overwatch where you fight to control a rubber duck and get it to the other team's side before the time is up. Probably the most chaotic mode.

In a separate menu they have Foamstar Missions and Squad Missions which are basically PvE horde battles so like Salmon Run but without collecting eggs but featured in many other games as well like GTA Online Survival or Horde in Gears of War.

There's a small hubworld but also just a quick menu to navigate around. There's lots of stuff to collect and there's a practice spot in the hubworld that you can full decorate with furniture and whatnot.

The Overwatch part comes in because this is a hero shooter so all the characters have different abilities and different methods of shooting so instead of swapping weapons like in Splatoon you swap characters. It also has a battle pass (unfortunate for what is supposed to be a paid game, I know) that is similar to Overwatch because it contains an unlockable character where it's late in the free tier of the pass or an instant unlock with the premium pass.

Seasons only last about a month in this game so new content will be added on a monthly basis including new characters and maps.

It's easy to write off new games like this expecting them to soon die out and I'm not even saying that won't happen but I've been enjoying the game and hope it sticks around for a while. I believe new content was promised for at least a year but we'll see.