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Yep, it's that time of year again. Happy Birthday @Kaepora_Gaebora I hope that you're having a fantastic day my fantastic feathered friend. Do you want to hear what I said again? => Nope Nah

I love all of your Superbly Creative Genial acronyms. Thank you for the birthday thread and the thoughtful wishes, I appreciate it. I did have a good day as well thanks, I was working but I came home to a nice meal and a delicious cake which I was deifnitely grateful for. Starting to feel better now too which is good, just got to shift the last of this general illness which I'd have for... too long now but aside from that, all is well.

Personally I couldn't even keep No Man's Sky in my collection after it had been such a letdown but I appreciate that there is room for it as a space themed exploration title with less emphasis on realism. However this means that I potentially have more time for Elite so I will be investing time in it at some point soon, I'm not expecting it to be something I'll play all the time but I can definitely see myself exploring a bit of space when I don't want to play anything else. That's not to say that I view Elite as being "not good enough to play" far from it, just that I know I probably won't devote solid weeks on end to it, unless it really surprises me of course. I'm excited to play it either way.

It sounds like you've got whatever I've had for weeks now Ashley, three weeks on and though I'm over most of it but its left me with Laryngitis... Work's going to be fun tomorrow, I might make a badge saying something like "I've lost my voice, please lip read or request morse code" [/illnessRant] Anyway, I hope you feel better soon and have a speedier recovery that I did/am having, all the best to you and your family.

There's only one title I won't bother adding to library in that selection for reasons aforementioned. I'll add the rest though and I'll likely play at least three of them. (Until Dawn, Tokyo Jungle and Darkstalkers Resurrection) The other titles I'd probably play if I had nothing else to invest my time in.

It's definitely not an ideal situation, this has been happening for so long now that it seems to have become a perilous business model for Nintendo. First it was the amiibo, then the NES Classic, then the amiibo again, plus various Special Edition games and now the SNES Classic. With something like this that has such a monumental release attached to it, I would have hoped that there would be greater stock levels so that more people could finally get to play StarFox 2. But now that I've seen just how quickly the pre-orders have sold out, Nintendo could have had five times the amount of stock and I'm still not convinced that it would have been enough. I think for something like this, it's worth going through the trouble of trying to secure a pre-order, or even paying slightly over the odds before the price rockets even more, even though I don't like that idea but for some of the other hard to get items I can understand why it doesn't feel worth the hassle.

Thanks I had a feeling that might be the case so I've put it on the card for now. (it is going to be an expensive month) With that said though, after taking the money I really hope these places will deliver, it'd be annoying to say the least to have paid, then wait three months only to be refunded. Hopefully that's not the case though, I hope that everyone manages to get their pre-orders and that there's enough to go around one way or another.

It took no less than three hours - on and off - to secure a pre-order with Grainger Games who I'm not convinced will honour the pre-order either, so I've got one with them, one with GAME (who I don't trust but who knows?) and the one which I've paid over the odds with on eBay out of sheer panic... so that's the only really guaranteed one. I'll keep you posted though, if I end up with more than the one SNES mini I overpaid for and if I can help anyone out on here then I will but as I've said, I don't have much faith in Grainger or GAME but, desperate times. I'm glad to have definitely secured one though even if it is at extra cost as this is most certainly going to be featured on the site when it eventually releases. Though I do hope Nintendo can allocate some extra stock by then because as nice as it will be to write an article about such a neat little device, it won't be good if everyone who wanted one can't get one for a reasonable price.

I can't believe it, went away from the PC probably minutes after it went live. Oh well, it has cost me, yep I've gone straight for the eBay route, before the prices go up even more, I need one and at least this should mean I definitely have one secured as I don't trust that GAME pre-order one bit. Nintendo could have comfortably listed this for £89.99 as it would still have sold out.

Yeah, so there's always the other side to it where a demo can help the case of a game, especially if it's an unproven potential new franchise. But I can understand some of the larger companies not bothering, to be fair unless a demo comes out significantly before a games general release - say a month or two - I tend not to bother if it's a game I know I'll be buying, though it could still be useful for others who are unsure. The main demo's I tend to download are for games such as Monster Hunter where they provide a set amount of different pre-made characters with classes to try out in addition to having a few monsters to hunt, just to get a feel for the game. I feel like the latest Monster Hunter World could do well from having a similar demo, while things such as yearly update titles - shooters, sports etc - I can understand why it wouldn't be worth the effort, aside from the obligatory multiplayer beta things. For smaller arcade games though, there definitely is a case to be made for them, especially as you have a lot of Kickstarter games these days, the devs tend to periodically give out demo's so you can see how the game is progressing, again a different situatution but there is a place for demo's. If there was suddenly a demo from E3 such as Sonic Mania suddenly made available to play, right now, I would be on it like a shot.

Ah those were the days, plus when you downloaded the demo, you were effectively downloading the full game, then if you decided that you wanted to buy, it was just a case of buying the unlock and continuing to play as normal with no interruptions. It was a really good component of the service from what I remember, the only thing I won't miss is the download times on the games at the time, not so much of an issue then but back in the early days, a few hundred MB took what seemed like forever, now we live in an age where just an update can eat as much space as a GB or more. But yes, demo's should be a key component of any modern digital storefront for all games, as standard and I don't understand why it isn't unless it has just become more of a complicated process somehow.

Same here, though I'm not convinced they'll actually come through, in all the confusion I did end up with two in my basket, I took one out though just in case because I'm assuming it'll be one per customer anyway.

Yes, the Nintendo Switch Grey theme is pretty decent, I'm using it by default now as it's a lot easier on the eyes.

Happy Birthday Animal!

I was barely there for a few races so it hardly seems worth it, thanks anyway though.

Endless communication errors. That's me done for the evening, I might have to give up participating in the league again before I've even started if this is what the online is like on a regular basis.

#ToBeThisBadTakesForever

Sega games, from every console including the Saturn and Dreamcast, for free only on mobile? What a waste, if they can get Dreamcast games running on a damned mobile or tablet though, they can sure as hell get them running on the Switch. A lot of people would even pay money for such a service, so let's hope this is just the "entry level" offering of the newly rebanded Sega and that there's a lot more like this to come, for more technically capable platforms actually designed with classic games in mind. I don't want to sound too down on it, on the face of it this is a good thing but limiting it to just the large but fickle mobile user-base is wasted potential.

Yes, I too thought that I'd be breezing through most of the stages with relative ease... ...nope! :p I'm sticking to Veteran but I am using continues, I think that's the best way to just get used to the gameplay, I made good progress on my first run and then I ended up making silly mistakes thus ending my subsequent runs earlier. I may end up just trying the easier difficulties just so that I can make some progress but again I like to choose the highest possible difficulty, especially when I know there's a harder difficulty to unlock. We shall see, either way I'm going to keep putting a bit more practice into it as I feel like Nex Machina is well worth the time. : peace:

Nope, same one as ever. I was definitely online, just perhaps somewhat stealthily. I only got a little bit into the first stage last night - the heat was too much in the evening - but I'm keen to put in some more time with this wonderful game later on today as it's as enjoyable as it is punishing and I love it. : peace: I see you got yourself a nice number 7 on the leaderboard last night well played.

2 mins to midnight, it's almost time! :awesome:

How are you playing it alre... Oh yeah, time-zones. Less than fifteen minutes to go for me, get hyped!

I couldn't agree more... May the best highscore "Obliterator" win.

I was just waiting until the game is actually available to play, I've been checking it on the store every time I load up my PS4 ever since I pre-ordered it ages ago. :p *three weeks ago* "Is it ready yet?" *two weeks ago* "I could have sworn more time had passed than that" *a week ago* "Can't I just... play it now?" *two nights ago* "aww come on!" *last night* "this is ready to play now right? Oh... 23 hours and 16 mins..." So tonight, I'm going to be all over this as I love me some Housemarque. Well, I didn't really like Alienation that much but this looks so much better than that so all is well!