Video Game General 6.4: New Halo? What else?

Except the CV collection was only ever meant to be a collection. RE4, 5 and 6 are separate releases on Switch. The Triple Pack is just a bundle with them together.

ā€œItā€™s a triple pack not a collection.ā€

Listen to yourself.

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13 Sentinels stream:

At around 3:49:00 they start showing some of the battle gameplay.

My thoughts:
Wow the animations are amaaaazing

Hmm itā€™s strange though, they show sample 2D animations when selecting attacks but it doesnā€™t seem to show an animation when you actually execute the action.

It almost plays out like watching a 3d radar from a base or something

They put a lot of work into animating the map itself.

Seems like itā€™s real time except while selecting actions?

Shit this is really cool honestly. The attack effects and radar animations are super cool lol

They really got that anime mecha feel with tons and TONs of popcorn enemies that you can blast away with massive missile barrages or lasers n shit.

Thereā€™s abilities units that can shield other units.

Ah, the base itself has special commands like an EMP wave.

Damn, Iā€™m mega sold

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Because they never did say they were selling a collection of three RE games in the same way Konami did the CV collection. All they actually announced was RE 5 and 6 coming out, and then stating there was a bundle to get those two, alongside RE4.

As for a launcher, CV collection is basically just a bunch of ROMs and the launcher an emulator. This is different in that these are actual ports. Having them under one executable would require recoding them all as one executable. Pretty sure a game on any console isnā€™t allowed to call up any other game/application/executable (aside from the store and browser) because that just opens up a whole 'nother can of security worms. Thatā€™s on top of, if they did go this route, having to maintain that build (the ā€œcollectionā€) separately on top of maintaining the individual releases - any patches or fixes will now need to be applied separately, and likely require separate approvals, for each.

Now if they had originally just announced a collection with all three games, then maybe Iā€™d be singing a different tune

At the beginning of this generation it was all ā€œmah Playstation can do 1080p and your Suckbox only 900p, hurrdurrā€ and here we are with Switch outselling the rest.

Maybe, at some point, a few months before the apocalypse, people will understand that the games are the important part form the get-go.

A quick moment to laugh at Fallout 76 againā€¦itā€™s been a while:

:rofl: it surprises me that thereā€™s still people who are even bothering to waste any time with this game at this point. Thereā€™s 2 people on my friend list that actually have this shit for some reasonā€¦at least for one of them it makes sense because heā€™s always had bad/questionable taste.
I was just mentioning to someone the other day that this kind of shit is the reason Iā€™ve actually given up all hope on the future of the Elder Scrolls franchise. I had my fun with Skyrim and a little ESO at least, but that will be the end of it. Itā€™s a foregone conclusion that TES VI will be another shitshow as usual. Theyā€™re terrible but have always gotten a pass somehowā€¦until now, with the gaming audience finally drawing a line in the sand; no longer tolerating substandard, half-ass trash.

But dont forget the Xbox has no games.
PS4 has more actual exclusives and not just ā€œtimedā€ exclusives both from in house and 3rd party publishers.

Switch sells as it fills a niche that regular consoles canā€™t, out performs anything mobile, have a killer library at launch and has good marketing.

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I think the Switch sells on the portability. It gives it more utility than itā€™s competition.

I always buy systems based on their game library. Thatā€™s the only thing thatā€™s important to me. I donā€™t really care what specs are for a system. I donā€™t care about online stability. I donā€™t care if the online player base for x y and z games are better on one system or another. I donā€™t care if all my friends have a certain system. If it has the games/exclusives I want than Iā€™ll get it. I usually wait until there are 5 or more titles I really want to play before I invest into a new system.

The only exception has been the Switch. I bought a switch at launch because their presentation was so fucking good. They showed so much more than a usual new console reveal. It was hard to deny the allure and potential of the Switch. I donā€™t regret buying it at launch either. There are a few games I regret buying but over all Iā€™ve been super happy. Iā€™ve bought more games for my Switch in the 2 1/2 years its been out than the PS4 which has been out for 6 and Iā€™ve had for 5.

I have more games for the PS4 but like 90+% of them are from PS+ so I donā€™t particularly count those.

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I think the reason Switch succeeds is simply because it is officially considered a ā€œgoodā€ platform by both media and consumers alike. People always flock to the cool kid, hence why WiiU never took off (despite 2014 being a killer year in terms of software) and why Xbox One never recovered from its pre-launch disaster.

I think the straight up strong features (portability, game library) are good to give a console some momentum early on by the gamer crowd but as soon as a system starts moving into the casual consumer business itā€™s all about word of mouth.

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Itā€™s almost like PS4 and XB1 launched almost 6 years ago or something

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Iā€™m on my way to Defend the North, my first major. These old dudes about to get wrecked in Super Turbo.

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Hulk doesnā€™t appreciate small talk.

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I am so glad to be on Earth.
Not feeling playing as the Guardians.

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Beat Sandman and Iā€™m getting ready to go after Osborn and the rest of Spidermanā€™s rogues!!

The Avengers, Venom and Wolverine have finally been unlocked!!

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Love clips/pictures taken out of context
https://twitter.com/Sonic103185/status/1149506236724862982?s=19

Itā€™s like you donā€™t know what pack and collection mean.

If it only has one game on the cart then it isnā€™t a pack. Its a single game with two digital codes. Thatā€™s not a pack.

You seriously have to stop.

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Apparently Sonic is showing up in an ep of OK K.O