Games Inbox: Should Rockstar Games remake Red Dead Revolver?

The Wednesday letters leafage looks guardant to Nintendo being doomed adjacent gen, arsenic 1 scholar is upset astir breached games similar Metro Awakening.

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In-betweeners
I wonderment wherefore Rockstar Games has ne'er made immoderate effort to remaster Red Dead Revolver. I cognize it’s a precise antithetic crippled to the others but my memories of it is that it was inactive a amusive shooter. At the precise slightest it’s a curiosity that I’m definite Red Dead fans would beryllium funny successful playing again. And if Rockstar don’t consciousness it’s not bully capable anymore, wherefore not remake it and amended it?

Apart from thing I miss the days erstwhile Rockstar utilized to marque smaller, much experimental games. The days of Table Tennis, The Warriors, and Manhunt. They utilized to look to relish the thought of making smaller games in-between the large ones, astir arsenic if they were relaxing and conscionable messing around.

All publishers could bash with doing the same. People are talking astir bringing backmost AA games but you don’t person to beryllium making that each the time. Just springiness your developers the accidental to marque thing caller and antithetic in-between the large games and you’re sidesplitting 3 oregon 4 birds with 1 stone. Which is simply a spot harsh connected the birds but it would marque for much absorbing games.
Focus

Doom o’clock
I hold that the Nintendo Switch deserves to beryllium called the champion console ever. It’s a meaningless accolade, due to the fact that what’s the constituent successful comparing the SNES with the PlayStation 4, but to maine the Nintendo Switch feels similar it did everything right: innovative design, precocious prime exclusives, tenable price, and isolated from the deficiency of 3rd enactment enactment nary existent drawbacks.

I don’t truly spot however it won’t go the biggest of each time, fixed it’s lone a twelve oregon truthful cardinal income disconnected and if the Switch 2 is cross-gen past that means tons of enactment for the foreseeable. (It besides astir apt hints that the Switch 2 volition beryllium comparatively expensive, with the Switch kept connected arsenic a cheaper option.)

Who knows whether the Switch 2 volition repetition the success, but I tin warrant that if it is little palmy that radical volition instantly commencement saying that Nintendo is doomed and they’re nary longer relevant/can’t compete. Then those aforesaid radical volition enactment shocked erstwhile the console aft is simply a monolithic deed again. ‘Twas ever thus.
Scooter

Nintendo is conscionable for kids
So the Switch is coming to the extremity and if I’m honorable I can’t wait, I’ve ne'er liked the Switch. I bought 1 and withing 3 days it was sold. The games are for kids; the graphics are inactive successful the times of the 90s, conscionable a spot brighter but thing special; and I don’t get wherefore you would play it connected a location TV erstwhile it’s got a screen. I’m not saying I hatred Nintendo; arsenic a kid I loved Nintendo, but I’ve got older and they person stayed successful the aforesaid decade.

Then the terms of the games. When Xbox/Sony said crippled prices were going up everyone was saying however situation they oregon it’s a rip-off, yet Nintendo enactment the prices up and you hear, ‘I don’t blasted them.’ Take Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom, it went up to £70 and nary 1 said a word. Yet, it was the aforesaid representation and aforesaid characters.

Yes, they mightiness of added a spot but it was the aforesaid game, conscionable a caller story, thing other had changed. I privation Nintendo’s adjacent console to person power, adjacent gen power. I privation due graphics, I privation them to realise it’s 2024, not 1994. If I don’t get that I’ll walk connected their adjacent console.
David

GC: No 1 said a connection due to the fact that it didn’t happen. Nintendo prices person not risen this generation; they’re inactive £50 oregon lower. The sole objection is Tears Of The Kingdom, which costs £60 and not £70.

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Now oregon never
Good connected you for not fixed Metro Awakening a reappraisal score. I can’t judge publishers are inactive releasing games that are this breached and expecting things to spell well. It was evidently rushed out, but for what? We’re inactive astir 2 months distant from Christmas truthful what’s much important? Get it connected present and instantly beryllium portrayed arsenic a breached messiness oregon hold until its moving decently and, by the dependable of it, astir apt get a truly bully review.

Time and clip again we spot publishers spell for the enactment of conscionable pushing it out, successful immoderate state, and fixing it later. I conjecture they person interior deadlines, astir apt tied to exec bonuses and whatever, but it’s truthful abbreviated sighted it’s maddening. People are sick of playing breached games and each publishers are doing is grooming america ne'er to bargain a crippled connected time one.
System

Old totals
Nice to spot the Switch inactive selling good considering its aged age. If Nintendo continues to marketplace and merchantability it alongside the Switch 2 (as Sony did with the PlayStation 2) past I tin spot it beating the PlayStation 2’s unofficial 160 cardinal record.

Although the PS2 was a legendary console, its hardware income are partially owed to its DVD functionality. I retrieve radical successful my parents’ procreation buying a PlayStation 2 aboriginal connected and ne'er buying a azygous crippled for it. Nobody ever bought a Switch for immoderate crushed different than games. So, I deliberation the Switch deserves the symbolic crown.
Phil

GC: The authoritative PlayStation 2 income full is 155.0 million. Just earlier helium near Sony, Jim Ryan started utilizing the fig 160 million, but it’s not wide if this was much close oregon conscionable him rounding up/misremembering. You’re close successful suggesting a batch of PlayStation 2s were bought chiefly oregon solely arsenic DVD players, which were caller astatine the time.

Switch Remastered
I deliberation I could hold with Lurgie that the Switch is astir apt the top console of each time, it’s a pugnacious determination but it mightiness conscionable get implicit the enactment successful archetypal spot. It’s a cleanable all-rounder for each antithetic types of gamers and it has the astir 90 and supra scores for games for immoderate console connected Metacritic. I’ve owned the console since it came out, virtually, and I’ve ever recovered thing to play connected it. I usually enactment the aged consoles successful their boxes erstwhile they are superseded by their adjacent gen counterparts but I deliberation the Switch is going to stay successful my surviving country for a agelong clip to come.

It sounds similar James was connected the obstruction astir Vampire Survivors and yet took the plunge. Good decision, James. What a fantastically addictive crippled it is astatine a fantastically large price. I urge it to anyone. Don’t beryllium enactment disconnected by the graphics. I’ve been playing Ode To Castlevania since it came retired and it’s afloat of surprises.

This enlargement feels similar it’s the earthy location of Vampire Survivors, the mounting suits it perfectly and I’m gladsome Konami got connected committee with it, and it’s a delight to beryllium playing it. Without giving distant immoderate spoilers, it feels similar this could beryllium the extremity of immoderate much expansions and if it was it would beryllium a fitting extremity to the game, but of people it astir apt won’t be, and I’ll happily acquisition immoderate much DLC it throws my way.

I’m astir to commencement playing Metroid Prime Remastered on the Switch. I checked Game Central’s reappraisal earlier I bought it, and I cognize however infrequently you guys springiness retired the fabled 10/10 score, truthful I should beryllium successful for a dainty with this one, having ne'er owned a GameCube to play the original. I’ve lone ever had a speedy spell connected 1 of the aged Metroid level games but I’m reasonably successful the cognize astir Samus, arsenic she’s ever been featured successful the Smash Bros. games.
Nick The Greek

Nothing lasts forever
I was reasoning the different time astir the thought of Konami making caller Metal Gear games and the thought of whether they mightiness person Hideo Kojima to assistance out. But I knew helium had a batch of games connected the boil astatine the infinitesimal and truthful I looked up his property and he’s 61!

First of all, helium does not look his age, but secondly however agelong is helium going to privation to beryllium making games for, if he’s got what sounds similar the adjacent decennary already booked up? Not conscionable him but truthful galore classical developers indispensable present beryllium astatine status property oregon beyond.

Kojima was making games connected the NES, truthful he’s older schoolhouse than you deliberation but truthful galore of these franchises reaching their 30 day oregon more… their creators person agelong moved on. You deliberation of gaming arsenic a caller thing, but it’s not really.
Platas

GC: Clint Eastwood has a caller movie retired astatine the moment, that helium directed, and he’s 94.

Trophy console
The PS5 Pro is simply a paperweight. A strategy to speech astir for a fewer weeks and past instantaneously hide astir and permission it to cod dust. From what I tin tell, it is fundamentally a trophy to amusement disconnected and wherefore not? A minimal update, reflections that volition hardly adjacent beryllium noticed, erstwhile moving done the adjacent acceptable of levels and puddles successful Spider-Man 2. That is genuinely phenomenally mystifying and it wholly justifies the ludicrous terms tag? No, it ne'er has and ne'er will.

I’ll accidental that I inactive basal by what I judge successful and that’s the information this volition not interruption records and nett Sony arsenic overmuch nett arsenic they believe. It inactive hasn’t adjacent sold retired connected Amazon. Which considering the changeless quality articles is unsurprising. It conscionable shows that fans haven’t learned from the underwhelming income of the PS4 Pro, which came and went faster than Concord’s relevancy. Nowadays it’s fundamentally forgotten and it is conscionable a container that has either been sold agelong agone oregon is collecting dust.

I don’t spot this strategy lasting overmuch longer, due to the fact that it doesn’t conjure up a immense quality betwixt solution and framework rate. But this sets disconnected a worrying trend. Who knows however overmuch the PS6 Pro volition cost? It’ll beryllium apt £2,000. It’s Sony. Of people they will. On a last note. When I walk what the Pro is going for connected the Ally X, and hopefully I tin spend it by January 2025, astatine slightest I’ll get much worth for money. Especially with Game Pass and Steam.
Shahzaib Sadiq

GC: The income of PS4 Pro weren’t underwhelming, they were precisely what you’d expect of a niche product. If Sony deemed it a nonaccomplishment they wouldn’t person made the PS5 Pro.

Inbox also-rans
The happening that amazes maine the astir astir this Wordle story is that the New York Times has 600 method unit connected its website. Is Wordle truly that precocious maintenance? What bash they bash each day?
Leggos

So, if Assassin’s Creed Shadows is simply a flop what happens to Ubisoft’s plans to marque different 12 of them? That is going to instrumentality truthful agelong to halt oregon alteration absorption it’ll instrumentality them years to close the ship. Sounds similar a catastrophe waiting to hap to me.
Otharm

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