Ronnie

Not enough narrative and lore in Wonder Boy anyway

We all have our individual tastes but going by reviews/industry chatter it sounds like the only thing that can stop BOTW in the big names' eyes is Mario and possibly Persona.

Same as at E3. If all goes well I can easily see it competing with Breath of the Wild for most outlet's GOTY. That'll be a tough call!

Another brilliant trailer. Conveys the message so well.

Luncheon Kingdom looks great, I love the art style

I wonder what the Mario Odyssey presentation from Mr Koizumi will be. Can't imagine it'll be an hour long.

Sounds great, the artwork looks like every other JRPG though and doesn't really tell us much

Disgusting. Sums up what's wrong with AAA openworld gaming when you need to pay to grind faster. What happened to gameplay is king.

VR's must-play game-changer finally revealed

An amazing game, full of invention and fun puzzles, and if a flat difficulty curve is the trade off then so be it for me. Mark's point about how dungeon puzzles can only be tailor-made for one specific item and nothing else is interesting, though I can't say I was particularly bothered by that at the time. It's similar to Breath of the Wild, in that it's very difficult to combine free-form exploration AND a good narrative/structure. There are trade offs to creating a game both linearly and open ended. Still adored ALBW though, my only real issue was the rehashed overworld.

Getting great reviews! This'll look gorgeous on the Switch screen

Switch for sure. Best of both worlds

It could be a huge range of things because there is no main story to begin with, so anything in addition to what is basically a game about crafting would be a start. Maybe something like fleshing out the centre of the galaxy, I read that that was just as disappointing as the Atlas quest outcome. Recurring NPCs would be good. My favourite part of the game was running into those two aliens at the anomaly stations, because they were NPCs whom your relationship with actually evolved and was authored. The game felt alive in those moments, not running into procedurally generated alien #92 giving you procedurally generated quest #492 on procedurally generate building #2353.

We could have discussed the game and been civil like adults, but he chose to discuss me instead. How is this a good thing?

Really. So you're saying the next time someone posts a disparaging comment about a video game on here, people would be doing the right thing in dismissing their view and telling them to stop posting?

There was no sarcasm in my comment. But you're right, it wasn't an in-depth, well argued opinion piece. Not every post on message boards is that. Plenty of people on here put two or three word replies. Do you think attacking another member is ok?

I did, then @somme got personal

Great way to derail a thread, well done. Back to discussing the game, if that's ok with you, I'm happy they're adding a storyline to it as it's in desperate need of one. Hearing the history and politics of the three races does not equal a story. There was nothing more disappointing than finally finishing the Atlas quest and being presented with that utter sham of a pay off. I appreciate the devs working to make the game decent though and adding extra content for free. Commendable given they could have easily just jumped ship. Fingers crossed it's a good meaty update because I want this game to be good.

Complaining about complaining? Why not ask the same question of the many others who post negative opinions on games? I wasted my money on this game and I'm entitled to moan about it, thank you. Oh and lore =/= story.

What story!

Ok, silly name. Of much more importance... fantastic news.

Reaction to this seems very very positive from the various previews.

Wonder if there'll be a new game announcement like last time (hopefully a more impressive one!). The final challenge could be a Mario Odyssey level.

Awesome!!!