V. Amoleo

The Payday 2 VR beta is pretty damn impressive on the HTC Vive.

£9 for Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse isn't bad.

Any rumblings of a Black Friday/Autumn sale next Thursday on the eShop?

What game are you guys playing? I've been playing it almost exclusively in handheld mode and yes it's a little soft but never what I'd describe as pixelated. I have noticed the framerate dropping though, usually the first thirty seconds or so after I've woke it from sleep mode.

Really trying to convince myself I don’t need to pick this up yet and that if I want to get a third party game I should get Skyrim.

My photo does not do these justice. They're all amazingly detailed.

I think they're doing the right thing aiming the marketing for the Switch version at the fact it's portable.

The digital + season pass bundle is a bit naff, there's no discount versus buying separately. Having new quests and brand new story content separate makes me hopeful that this is an expansion-esque download to backup that steep price. Not hopeful enough that I'm going to blindly buy it though. I had got the Collector's Edition pre-ordered but I think I'm going to just cancel that and buy the standard.

Well Amazon have screwed me over with the Xbox One X. Ordered within minutes of it going up and they've not delivered it today, not told me why they haven't delivered it today and the website is still saying it's going to be despatched today to arrive today. My friend who ordered five days later has received theirs today.

I’m really enjoying this. Easily as much as I enjoyed Hyrule Warriors. I do have two issues with it though and they’re not exclusive to this game. Let me have English audio with no subtitles. Let me use the touch screen in portable mode. This is another game where there are menu items all over the screen but instead of being able to click on them, I have to navigate using the controller. Has anybody picked up the 3DS version? I wonder if the season pass will be as good as the Hyrule Warriors one. I haven’t looked at the details for it yet so I have no idea what it includes.

If you’re on Prime try having a moan over CS. I know it’s only a day but what’s the point of pre-ordering if you don’t get it on release day?

I ordered the LE. In a weird twist of events, I got an email about twenty minutes ago saying it's out for delivery today and received it just now. It sounds like they've had a bit of trouble getting these out to people.

Been looking forward to finishing work so I could play this and just as I'm on the way home I get an email saying that Amazon have had a problem with the delivery so it's going to be delayed by up to three days.

Finally finished it! It’s taken me just under 12 hours. Really enjoyed the game. I really like the link shown after the credits too.

Frustrating that the new one includes a breakout box which can pass HDR through. Having to switch the cable over everytime I want to play the PSVR is really annoying at the minute.

Considering what you guys have been saying about the lack of friend play online, this is not going to end well.

While we’re listing games on there I think it’s worth mentioning that the Wii VC is the only place you can get the original Castlevania Rondo of Blood. It’s 900 points.

Super Metroid is my favourite game of all time and it was the first Metroid game that I played. I first got my hands on it on my now brother-in-law's SNES in the 90s. I played it many times over back then and now play it once a year or so via the Virtual Console. I remember the first time I played it I felt a genuine rush during the intro when trying to escape the space station. When I finally got to the planet and kept finding new places to explore as I progressed I honestly thought that games would never get bigger than it. The music is cracking. I still find myself whistling the tunes. And some people have made very good covers of them. The sprite work is excellent and it still looks really good to this day. The story and atmosphere are amazing. Yes there's not much in the way of story segments after you get past the intro, but that's all you need to know. If you try to put too much in you end up with Metroid Other M. It's very much an example of less is more. There are a couple of gameplay functions that have aged a little. For example, the later games have had the ability to hold onto ledges and don't get me started on space jump timing. Both of which annoy me when I go back to Super Metroid now. This is going to sound a little like heresy but if MercurySteam were to remake it in Samus Returns vision, I think I'd be okay with it. I firmly believe that without this game we wouldn't have the awesome Batman Arkham series.

Just got mine delivered from Argos. Gotta admit, I didn’t think it’d turn up after how the site was behaving when I ordered.

There’s now an official date where it will be too late.

Is anybody playing DX? My copy arrived yesterday and it's great to have a version of this which is portable. Seems to be a few new features which keep it interesting. There are daily challenges and there's a challenge wall for when you're fighting in a league.

I went back and re-enabled Super Stable 3D and set the slider to half way, it still kept snapping out of focus. So I still think the tracking camera is either failing or struggling to work when playing the game. Thankfully using 3D on full but without Super Stable 3D works fine, I just have to get in the sweet spot like the original 3DS.

Yes I did.

I don’t know if it’s my New 3DS XL, my expectations or the game but I’ve had to turn off super stable 3D. It just kept losing track of my head and going out of focus, it was starting to make me feel really ill.

You guys should try signing up for this: https://support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/articles/223517768-Humble-Partner-Program-Beta-FAQ I'm sure a lot of us here buy the Humble Bundles anyway. Adding an extra slider which allows you guys to get a portion would be fine by me. Though it might take a while before you get a payout as $250 is the minimum.