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N-E Café Episode 40 now available! Now up on the main page. I really enjoyed the discussion in this weeks episode, it was interesting hearing about how to set up a secondary Switch account, useful info there. The game discussion was really varied too, nice bit of Ring Fit Adventure in there and the overlooked Platformers topic featured some really good recomendations. Two weeks to go until the Podpals episode... I'll hopefully make an effort this time to play The Messenger so that I can write down some thoughts about it.
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Steets of Rage 4 is currently 15% off in the latest indie sale... not a huge discount, but it's £19.11 until 30/08/2020 https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Streets-of-Rage-4-1695263.html Also, I don't know who has the game on the Switch or other platforms but I now have the game on Switch, Xbox One and PS4 When the game first came out, I bought the Xbox One version digitally, but I've since obtained physical versions for the other consoles. If anyone wants a game of Streets of Rage 4 then let me know, if you just want to run through the game, or get through a certain stage on a harder difficulty. Though I've only reliably played through the game on Easy, Normal and Hard... Very Hard and Mania are quite brutal in terms of the amount of enemies and their attack frequency.
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Indie World showcase : 18 / 08 / 20, 5pm (UK time)
S.C.G replied to Ronnie's topic in Nintendo Gaming
Nintendo Indie World 18/08/2020 Presentation Roundup All up on the main site, N-Europe's Roundup of the presentation. Full press release and video embed. Raji was the highlight for me, certain elements remind me of the Prince of Persia titles. Manifold Garden looks nice as well, I didn't know that you did the Russian translation for that @Nicktendo that's cool. (there's definitely a few games in the lineup which we may well try to obtain review codes for I reckon) -
Indie World showcase : 18 / 08 / 20, 5pm (UK time)
S.C.G replied to Ronnie's topic in Nintendo Gaming
Indie World Showcase to be broadcast on Tuesday 18th August at 5PM UK time Up on the main page. We'll have the full roundup article with the press release etc up on the main page shortly after the event airs tomorrow. As for personal hopes and expectations? If there's any Streets of Rage 4 dlc announced, I'd be pleasantly surprised. -
Thanks for the games @Glen-i and @RedShell It's a shame that you weren't able to join us @Dcubed I wonder why your internet connection won't allow more than one Switch online at a time? It's an odd one that I can't work out, it was fine for ages and then, it just wasn't, I hope it'll start working for you again soon. I experienced probably my first ever crash in Monster Hunter this evening, it just froze on a loading screen, about five minutes into the Rajang quest that Red and I were doing, never seen that before. Hopefully, taking out those two Rajang on that last quest made up for it though.
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Metroid Prime 4, vapour-ware until 2030 release date on the Nintendo Switch Pro confirmed. Metroid Dread will launch alongside it as an apology for the long development cycle of the game, it will have link-up features (via save file) similar to Prime/Fusion. Metroid Prime Trilogy HD will launch in 2024 at the end of the current Switch console's life-cycle. But this year is the 35th anniversary of the Metroid series, surely we'll get something which will coincide with that? Of course, we'll get the Switch port of the Metroid game on the 3DS which everyone has been clamouring for... Metroid Prime: Federation Force! (All joking aside, I would actually play that, chuck in Metroid Prime Hunters (somehow) and Metroid Prime Pinball, call it the Metroid Prime: Stopgap Collection)
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Thanks for the games last night everyone. There were some really comical "Game!" moments at the end of certain matches. Some good match-ups as well, also, that's probably the first time I can remember winning a match as Diddy Kong.
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I should be able to play some Monster Hunter on Saturday from 8pm. If everyone else wants to hunt today or earlier tomorrow, then that's fine, if that's the case and you're still playing in the evening on Saturday, then I'll hopefully join you.
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N-E Café Episode 39 now available! Now up on the main page. An excellent episode, I especially enjoyed the big topic this week, it's going to be an interesting next few months for videogames. Oh and as for that transition tune?
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Thanks for the hunts @Glen-i It was good to get back into hunting some monsters, I think we did pretty well overall, we had a nice selection of quests and we even got two other players to join us... albeit briefly, though that may have been because of quest I picked that they didn't stick around. I didn't think that Zinogre would be that bad but clearly I underestimated the quest tier I was picking from. That final boss type monster was fun to fight, I don't recall fighting it before, or if I did, it can't have been that often, it'd be interesting to see the higher level version of that fight, though maybe later on down the line if its mega attack really is a one-hit K-O deal. Great fun though and I think we did pretty well, I'd be up for playing more Monster Hunter soon if the chance arises.
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8:30pm is fine by me. We could open it up to randoms, it'll be interesting to see how much of an active online community this game hopefully still has.
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I wouldn't be able to hunt until around after 7:30pm, probably even 8pm but if any of you are still hunting then and could do with an extra hunter, then I'd love to join.
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Cheers for the games @LazyBoy Ended up playing this for just over an hour or so in the end, it's a game that I'd play more when N-E one who has it on PS4 is playing it, but it's not something I could see myself putting a lot of time into just playing against randoms players. I can see what it's going for, as a PS Plus game, this will do well but otherwise, I wouldn't have rushed to buy it. It's in the "Time-Wasters" folder, next to Rocket League, so I'll probably play it again at some point. I almost wish that the "platforming" mechanics were a bit better? But I can't help but think, that's the point of it. There's definitely a certain charm to it but at the same time, it's not a hard game to "get" and you will know whether or not it's your kind of game after just playing a few rounds on it. Once it has some more updates and the servers are a bit smoother, it'll probably feel a bit better to play, plus if they are going to be changing the different games each season, that'll keep players coming back for certain, but if the main aim is just to win, so that you can exchange those crowns for different gear... that's not really a huge draw for me; though it would be nice to win overall at least once, maybe that'll bring me back to it. Right, time to blast through Streets of Rage 4 for the first time on PS4, I need to play something which I know I'm going to get some sense of real enjoyment out of playing, not that Fall Guys isn't enjoyable in its own way but I just can't see myself putting loads of time into it, and at least it got me to play something on the PS4 again, lately I haven't felt much of a drive to play anything much at all, so this is a good thing. Anyway, I'll play it again the next time a few people from here want to play it on the PS4.
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All was fine (for me) after the restart, I believe.
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It is probably to do with our hosting, I think it might even be in order to stop the site and forums going down so frequently. I wasn't aware that there were captcha's coming up though, is this the case for some users? All I've seen is the DDOS cloudflare protection thing, which seems to come up if you either haven't used the site for a certain period of time, or when first loading it up.
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You don't have to restart on my account but if there have been technical issues with other players getting kicked, then we could restart, I don't mind either way. I was just noting that I missed the first race, which was completely my own doing.
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late joining, missed first race of first GP, oh well.
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Pikmin 3 Deluxe is coming to the Switch All up on the main page, better late than never. (a bit like Nintendo with this port) Indeed, a port it may be, but it's a port of a fine game and one which I might put more time into on the Switch. This is great for those who either didn't own a Wii U or missed out on Pikmin entirely. I think everyone who can, should at least try one Pikmin game out as it really is a very unique and charming series.
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The main site is back up again. Thanks @Shorty
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I've posted this in the staff section, though I've noticed that Shorty hasn't been on the forum for a good week or more, so I've sent him an e-mail. I can't say what's wrong with the site as I haven't a clue, it might be back at some point soon, but at least we still have the forum. Edit - update, Shorty has said he'll take a look at it.
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As I understand it, Halo Infinite is getting a physical release, which can be played on either an Xbox One / X / Xbox Series X at various graphical resolutions, depending on your hardware setup and presumably you will be able to play it on Windows 10 PC's. It's certainly good to have a variety of options available when it comes to playing the main campaign. When it comes to the multiplayer, it seems that this is also true and being that it is Free to Play, presumably it will be a separate install, that way anyone can just play the multiplayer if they wish, also if anyone just wanted to play the campaign, they can do that as well and not need the extra install space for the multiplayer, if they have no interest in it. The other side of it, now that we know the multiplayer will be Free to Play, is the nature of how this will be implemented; a battle pass would be good, loot boxes would be not so good. I'm aware that for any of these types of games to survive, they need to have a decent player base, which should be a given as this is Halo but, depending on how F2P is implemented, it could turn a lot of players away, overall this model is still probably the best business move for the developers but if I had the choice, I'd have picked paid over F2P easily. Halo has always been something which you'd just buy Xbox Live Gold for and then be able to play the multiplayer if you had the game, I'm assuming that now that it has gone F2P, you no longer need the gold subscription, so for anyone who only wants to play Halo and doesn't want to subscribe, this is a good thing but as with all things (especially in gaming) it's a trade-off. Having a game like this run at 120fps is a good thing, it's nice that the option is there, of course there will be plenty of people who will use this option, but I think for the majority of users, 60fps will be ample. Does this make it an unlevel playing field however? It's arguable that if you can play the game on an Xbox or a PC, the playing field is already unlevel due to a variety of factors, so it probably won't make that much of a difference; I do think it would be a good thing to have plenty of matchmaking options though. I write all of this from the perspective of someone who just plays the campaign on the Halo games when they come out usually, I might try the multiplayer out and then not play it again for either a long time or ever, so I don't think I have much of a stake in this. Halo Infinite on an Xbox One base console, on a years old 1080p TV? That'll do nicely. Oh and I watched the trailer, it's Halo... it looks as good as it probably ever has and I like that they've added in some new mechanics to aid the gameplay, let's hope it's good.
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Thanks for the games everyone, those were some fun matches, I almost forgot how much fun Byleth is to play as. Also, I'm really not that good at playing as Falco, some characters in Smash just don't 'click' with me.
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Wishing you all the best @MindFreak, that's a tough set of circumstances, I really hope that yourself, your wife and family will be alright. It can't be easy, but as others have already said, if you need us to talk to, then we're here.
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Day 30 - Personal gaming tradition Local multiplayer games Years ago, playing local multiplayer games would be something which would happen frequently, I really value those times near the end of the year where classics such as Goldeneye, Super Smash Bros. or Mario Kart would be played by my brothers and I, sometimes we'd play four player on the N64 if maybe a friend came over, these days though, it's probably only a case of getting to play local multiplayer games maybe a handful of times a year, or even once or twice. If you have the chance to play local multiplayer games on a regular basis with family or friends, I hope it is something which you value, because these times are easily some of my favourite memories and being that I don't get to play local multiplayer games that often, either for logistical reasons or life just being busy, I certainly value these times even more. I will hopefully have the chance to play two-player local co-op on Streets of Rage 4 for the first time this week, it's a game which I already know that I love, I've played through it many times over online, but playing it locally, on the just released physical version for the Switch? I can't wait, and it will likely bring back some great memories of playing the original games locally on the Mega Drive as well.
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Day 29 - Nicest graphics/art style Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Just seeing screenshots from thge game again recently, reminded me of how fond I am of the art style and I still think it's the strongest entry in the series. I'm guessing that for reasons, it won't get a HD remaster now either, if Nintendo doesn't want lots of varied characters in the series, then a remaster would probably have to be overhauled, possibly altering or chaning characters entirely, which... wouldn't really work, or they just won't do it, despite the fact that it would probably be more popular now than ever. The latest entry looks amazing as well though, full credit to it, visually it is more detailed than ever, but the second game in the series looks just right to me.