What?! Bill Pac-Man died...?!

I didn't even know his first name was Bill!  

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VOEZ is the first Nintendo Switch game to be portable-mode only Will there be docked mode only games?

Very happy to see Nintendo allowing this.  I'm hoping they'll also allow 'tablet' games, which don't require anything beyond the touchscreen.  I was concerned when Switch was announced that Nintendo would destroy the bouyant slice of the market that were the handheld game developers.  They could only make the kinds of interesting games they were doing because development was cheap.  If Nintendo allows different kinds of games (home play, portable, tablet) to coexist, consumers will accept that some games have lower production values than others.  This is also something that has begun to change in the minds of consumers thanks to indie devs, but it's nice to see Nintendo not being its stubborn old self and allowing it.

gamingeek said:

Just saw this on game.co.uk

red shell?

The kind that homes in on you?

London by way of Horizon Zero Dawn:

There's a whole slew of UK cities getting a makeover over at eurogamer

Hmmm, that Snipperclips Joycon bundle is launching on the third with limited supply.  Perhaps I'll snap that up as well then.  I'll be buying both close to launch anyway, so might as well save some money.  It'll also mean one more multiplayer game to take with me on our ski vacation.  So that makes:

• 1 console at €299
• Zelda at €59
• 1-2 Switch at €45
• a Joycon set with snipperclips at about €80

€485    Perhaps that is stretching it a bit, especially when I'll be risking having the whole thing being stolen on our vacation.  This would be my biggest launch spending ever.

I've been in a Tomb Raider phase lately...played through Legend and I'm almost done with Anniversary which is really an underrated game. Probably the best remake ever made outside of Resident Evil....they completely nailed the vibe and atmosphere of the original, and kept the difficulty while modernizing it.

So I've never played The Angel of Darkness....the PS2 game that was the final nail in the coffin for Core Design. Yesterday, I popped it in the PS3. I totally see WHY this was the end for Core Design.....holy mother of god the controls are HORRIBLE!!! I mean laughably bad. People complained about the controls in the PS1 games...well somehow instead of improving them on the PS2, they managed to make them quite a bit worse....I mean leagues worse than the PS1 titles. When just the act of turning around or picking something up is a challenge, you've probably done something wrong.

And this came out at the same time as Prince of Persia: Sands of Time in 2003.....a game that basically revolutionized TR styled adventure game controls. I feel bad for the people who played them back to back at that time. Fuck. How depressing and sad it must have been for poor Lara. Also, they added some stealth elements to the game which had to go head to head with another Ubisoft game at that time...Splinter Cell. Again, epic fail.

It's a shame because the game itself would have been much better it seems if it actually had good controls. When you play the Crystal Dynamics developed Legend series, then you play THIS....the difference is amazing. Whomever made the decision at Eidos to axe Core and hand it to CD with Toby Gard as a consultant should have gotten a celebration thrown in his honor.

Edge, since you're playing all the TR games, you might be interested in this great article Eurogamer wrote about how those games were made at Core.

Switch vs Wii U Breath of the Wild http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1348277

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Dvader said:

Sounds like Wii U version of zelda is rough.

Shit hardware.