RedShell

Yeah, but then it’d probably feel like having bought/played only half a game. How many new monsters are there anyway?

It doesn’t let you play as a cat for a start. I would’ve been all over this if it were a port of World, or a brand new MH. But having spent hundreds of hours on the 3DS games already, there’s very little incentive for me to go through it all over again on Switch. Great news for anyone that missed the 3DS games, or is only just getting into the series though.

Let’s just say the only Blue Shell nearby at the time was a RedShell, and your timing was impeccable.

@Glen-i, that Super Horn on Bowser Castle... too funny.

Awesome stuff, @Hero-of-Time. I think it’s actually a good idea to wait for Kiwami 2 and take a break from the series, but if you did want more Yakuza in between, not to mention seeing more of nut job Majima then you might consider giving Yakuza Dead Souls a go on PS3. Although knowing how you’re not so into the crazier side of Yakuza, perhaps not. But hey, just a suggestion.

I jumped back into this yesterday for the first time since playing through Yakuza 6. Wow, what a difference the frame rate makes! You definitely miss the improved visuals and (much more importantly) the seamless nature of 6 though. I'd forgotten how basically everything needed separate loading in previous Yakuza games, including Zero. Combat felt really strange too, which is funny as I thought exactly the same thing when moving from Zero/Kiwami to 6. Anyway yeah, as I suspected there's a lot of extra content in Zero that I never really spent much time with back when I played through the main story, so checking this stuff out now should keep me busy Yakuza-wise until Kiwami 2 in August.

What the hell? Buy! Buy! Buy!

Man, that is pretty much exactly how I was imagining a potential new version of Space Channel 5 being played, way back in the Wii days! I remember one of the developers on HotD Overkill saying they really wanted to work on a SC5 game, which got me thinking about how well it could work with motion controls, looks like it does too. Here’s hoping it does indeed end up making it to console though and playable without the need for VR. A Switch version could easily retain those controls using split Joy-Con as well, so that would be great IF it did happen. Ulala sounds a bit weird though, guess it’s a new voice actress.

Got hit by a Spiny Shell while in 3rd place.

So I kinda hate the way the "new" forum handles YouTube and Gfycat content. Not a fan of the way videos get stretched to fit the screen, but worse still is what it does with gyfcat stuff, as they often get completely messed up by the scaling process or simply fail to embed at all, meaning I end up using the .gif version instead which is both crappy quality and about 10 times the filesize. I noticed that in threads I posted (before the forum update) using the old method of embedding vids and gifs, they still display like before, but it seems trying to embed stuff now in those ways doesn't work (i.e. [YOUTUBE]vid_id[/YOUTUBE] and I think it was [GFYCAT]link[/GFYCAT]?). Here's an example using the old method: And how that same content displays on the current system: Actually, apart from the scaling that gif doesn't seem to go weird like most do, so I'll post this one too: See? Loads of extra empty space above and bellow the actual image. The .gif version for comparison: Correct proportions, but worse quality/larger filesize. So yeah, just wondering if it might be possible to enable those options again, or perhaps alter the way the current method works?

IN! I don't have a preference when it comes to splitting up the league BTW, I'm only here to enjoy (and help create ) the chaos. So yeah, as long as the chaos remains intact, either option is cool with me.

Awesome! It’s really great that you managed to finally get into the series. Here’s hoping you continue to enjoy it with Kiwami.

Nabbed the Platinum trophy for this last night, first one in quite a while and also my very first for a Yakuza game (I was close with 4 but never quite managed it). Other than a couple of grindy bits Yakuza 6 is almost certainly the easiest in the series to platinum though. Thinking I might jump back to Zero and Kiwami soon, as there’s still quite a bit of content I never got the chance to fully explore in those games. Don’t expect I’d be able to platinum either of those games though, as they both feature pretty insane brick walls on the harder difficulty levels (no doubt where I’ll find my save data at when I do return to them! ) shame they don’t feature the option to just redo the last fight like 6 does.

Cheers for the heads up @killthenet. Very disappointing stuff, here’s hoping they fix those issues via a patch.

OK that was insane.

Yeah, I’ve had to stop myself from downloading that. I really want it, but it’s pointless right now when I’m only just getting into Labo. Will definitely pick it up in the future though and hopefully combine it with the Toy-Con piano to make some awesome Switch tunes!

Finished going through the Joy-Con discovery section. There's some great stuff in there (not to mention some pretty humorous dialogue ) and it does a brilliant job of explaining how the various aspects of the Joy-Con work.

A masterpiece of digital entertainment, that's what.

Liking the new stats you can get since the latest update. Some of mine: Shame you can only get a few stats (and at random) before this happens though: Seeing as the game is already tracking all this stuff, it'd be nice to just be able to see everything in a straightforward list too.

I think it's more that loud noise is just annoying, whereas the consequences of lack of cooling will be financially damaging for them. I guess. It’s just annoying how there seems to be so much variation between systems, certainly doesn’t put their hardware design or quality control in a good light. I mean it’s essentially a lottery as to whether or not you get a quiet or loud PS4, and for a mass produced product intended to be identical that’s pretty crappy.

What do peeps on here make of Fortnite? I’ve only played it a few times on PS4, but wasn’t exactly blown away. Far from it infact, it seems hugely overrated to me. It’s one of those things which sounds awesome on paper (“100 player gunfights!”) but the reality is very different. I spent the majority of my time with it just trying to find someone else to shoot! (or get shot by ) The map decreases in size over time (which helps) but I reckon it’s actually too big in the first place. Maybe this is just my grandpa Simpson moment.

Zero has the longest main story (excluding Yakuza 5) I imagine it’d take around 30 hours if purely focusing on that. Although H-o-T might be able to get that down to around 25.