Vince wrote:
Obviously a troll post, but be realistic- a $2000+ PC could outdo ANYTHING ANY console could produce. The only way consoles stay viable is they're cheap and have some amazing exclusives. You'd be hard pressed to argue that both Zelda and Mario in the same year is not a huge achievement. Especially considering Zelda is getting called (in some quarters) possibly the best Zelda game ever made. Fair effort for an underpowered console/portable.
As for Jeff Gertsman and his comments on Mario/Rabbids- I'd expect nothing less from him. Stopped listening to his podcast a while ago after their extremely unenthusiastic response to almost every fucking game released! Christ almighty Jeff, it's ok to like a few fucking games instead of thinking every game is ok... so excuse me if I don't take much of what he says as the gospel.
And after letting my younglings have daddy's Switch, I've decided to pre order that sexy Mario Odyssey Switch bundle! Love the look of it and I'm just dying to play another 3D Mario platformer.
He was the guy that gave zelda Twilight Princess only a 8.8 when he was at gamespot. Ever since then he is candy's fave reviewer.
You can tell Candy is a closet nintendo fanboy because he wouldn't put this much energy into pretending he hates them so much. Instead he would ignore this whole thread like I do the fake mainstream media.
I think at the end of the day he is just pissed he can't play nintendo games officially on a pc the way he can sega games and frustrated that he has to go through emulation scene to play it.
This is the feeling of many pc gamers who have high spec machines that feel they wasted their money upgrading their machines only to wonder where all the great triple A developers are to support high spec game systems.
What this idiot doesn't get is that developers are greeedy just like any other business and need to actually make a fucking profit so that is why they focus on console which pleases me. It's the reason we can get big games like Witcher 3 because console gamers are less likely to be pirates. Now I love pc myself, but lets face it: the console scene means they can reach a bigger audience by designing a game around a lower spec system as the base, and then prettying it up for pc later. It happened with Rockstar's GTA5 game, and I think it will happen with all future games that rake in big bucks.
Here's the interesting thing:
Would it be possible to see if they can give rockstar a moneyhat to put a port of Red Dead Redemption 1 on the Switch?
I think nintendo would benefit from that stuff on portable device now that the sequel to it is coming and there is demand for people to go back to last gen games and play them again. (as we see with Crash bandicoot and many HD remaster titles on PS4 these days)
The last gen was full of great titles that would suit the switch perfectly to pad the library. Imagine all the borderlands games, Bioshock games, Dead Rising, Dead Island, Dragon's Dogma games on the Switch on tiny cartridge?
Nintendo needs to start paying for ports of these on the small screen. I have said it before: the appeal of playing big games on a small portable is there NOW because we finally have big enough analogue sticks on portable to make controls good enough to justify putting them there.
Previous portables had tiny nubs to move cameras and these never felt as good to aim your guns and move around comfortably. The western gamer has huge hands and the japanese has small hands. What stopped ports of home games to portable succeeding in the past was the poorer controls of portables which cramped your muscles in your hand too much.
I think it is time nintendo reconsidered how they present the Switch. Not as this Wii U port machine, but as a portable that lets you play your older games on cartridges on the go. Red Dead Redemption and GTA 3/SA/VC all on the switch would be great to see on the system now that it is confirmed to be comfortable to use the controls compared to previous portable machines.
Personally I wouldn't mind seeing EA revisit Dragon Age Origins and port this classic to the system. (the best one in the series. Try to make it as polished as they can now that skyrim is coming) Sega announced they are putting Phantasy Star Online 2 on switch but not bringing that to western regions. Is this a money thing? Nintendo needs a diablo-style co-op game imo. MH is one such game, but how about nintendo just make one using the Xenoblade universe? (make it the side game the way PSO was to Phantasy Star)
"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." -Shigeru Miyamoto