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[eurogamer.net] Switch 2 update breaks 3rd party docks Edit eurogamer.net gamingeek
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[eurogamer.net] Steam Machine preview: a powerful customisable mini PC for couch gaming Edit eurogamer.net impressions gamingeek
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Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:07:03
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That new Metroid preview was pretty awesome. This was informative: "Abilities include power beam. The ability to jump."

Switch Up is normally pretty good. But the informal chats are a bit useless.

When Mark said "the ability to jump" I had a side eye moment.

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Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:15:47
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Yeah, that’s definitely what he was talking about. Nowadays people have a user profile attached to any given company’s ecosystem. Contains a whole host of things such as digital games, friends list, achievements/trophies, etc. The longer people stay in that ecosystem building all those things up, the more entrenched they’ll get and won’t want to give them up. This is why I think Nintendo would be wise to implement their own achievement/trophy system as well.



I can't even be bothered cancelling Netflix for a month and trying something new.

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Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:30:32

Metroid Prime 4 looking and sounding very good. Only 3 weeks away now. Woo hoo!

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Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:06:08

There seems to be lots of side characters you have to work with. Im worries the isolated atmosphere will suffer.

So I played the first fight in Yakuza Kiwami, combat seems pretty simple, hit, grab, heavy attack and use chairs to beat people.

Does it get more complicated? I like best em ups so its fine so far.

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Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:54:24
Yakuza did feel overwhelming at first, but everything falls into place. Just got to give it a little bit of time.

And at no point is the combat ever complex, but there are skill trees that will open up more moves and more styles.
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Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:51:44
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Yakuza did feel overwhelming at first, but everything falls into place. Just got to give it a little bit of time.


And at no point is the combat ever complex, but there are skill trees that will open up more moves and more styles.

That's good. I prefer brawlers over anything more complicated.

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Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:06:52

Played around a bit on a couple of new purchases:

Cloudpunk is good, its a narrative chill out game. If you like Cyberpunk environments and like the voxel art you're already going to enjoy it. I like the different camera perspectives you can flip through in 3rd person. Lots of voice acting too.

Aragami reminds me of Tenchu. What's cool is that you can kind of turn into a spirit to switch between cover points and move through the environment. Its almost like Portal with ninjas and a lot less disorientating.

Yakuza Kiwami is 60fps and looks very cool. Japan is one of the few places in Asia I've always dreamed of visiting but have not been able to. So walking through these streets is a virtual slice of a dream come true. The fighting is quite fun and instant, nothing too complicated. The cutscenes are good, some are overly long, it almost feels like watching a movie at times, the Switch 2 auto dimming kicked in twice because I hadn't touched the controller in so long.

Anyhow, I'm heading back into Hitman WOA, there's a lot of walking to be done.

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Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:13:06

Holy crap.

Did anyone else watch that update up top about Nintendo, best worst song since the DK Rap?

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/11/video-nintendo-just-dropped-its-best-worst-song-since-dk-rap

What in the actual f***?

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Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:13:09
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It's not the best worst song, it's just bad.
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Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:03:39
Can't believe it was commissioned.

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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 10:33:02
So now I own a decent selection of Switch 2 games, I've reached the point where everything looks great.

It doesn't matter if it's a port that was originally released on ps4 or a high end game that only exists on current gen - they all look great.

Sure there are differences between them, some have better geometry, so have better textures or character models.

But it doesn't really matter when in general it all looks great to me.

It's an unusual, but also inevitable conclusion to ever improving hardware.

I can see now why PS4 gamers were generally happy with visuals and not hugely blown away by even better visuals now.

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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:34:38
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So now I own a decent selection of Switch 2 games, I've reached the point where everything looks great.


It doesn't matter if it's a port that was originally released on ps4 or a high end game that only exists on current gen - they all look great.


Sure there are differences between them, some have better geometry, so have better textures or character models.


But it doesn't really matter when in general it all looks great to me.


It's an unusual, but also inevitable conclusion to ever improving hardware.


I can see now why PS4 gamers were generally happy with visuals and not hugely blown away by even better visuals now.

Yep, the PS5 generation is the first time I was not wowed by the improvements made.

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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:44:11
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PS6 is coming in two short years and the graphicsl improvements will be legendary! Just look at the massive improvements PS5 Pro brought us! When you zoom into the far, far background, the details are a bit sharper, right? Now double that distance and triple that sharpness and we have the mighty PS6! Nyaa

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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:29:39
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Yep, the PS5 generation is the first time I was not wowed by the improvements made.

Hitmam Absolution was just released on switch 1 and its a PS3 game?

Although it obviously looks worse than current Hitman it still looks decent to me.
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PS6 is coming in two short years and the graphicsl improvements will be legendary! Just look at the massive improvements PS5 Pro brought us! When you zoom into the far, far background, the details are a bit sharper, right? Now double that distance and triple that sharpness and we have the mighty PS6! Nyaa


Yeah graphics will get a lot better, but modern games are at such a level that I honestly wouldn't care if they never got better from what they are now.

If switch 2 had a better cpu to run more games at 60fps, that's where I'd be right now.

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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:38:05
Speaking of a 60fps switch 2 game, I've been playing more Yakuza Kiwami.

As I suspected it does have Shenmue level jank

Not in a bad way but it does feel very Japanese and old school in a number of ways. The invisible walls and fixed camera angles are annoying.

I like open world games and being able to explore a modern Japanese downtown district is highly compelling to me. But you can only enter very few shops. You often ca t walk down alleyways, cant open doors, cant walk up and down stairs they don't want you too.

The stuff you buy in the shops is all random Japanese foods and its not always clear what they do.

The combat is okay but now Im out of prison I lost all my skills and have to upgrade a skill tree and start from the bottom.

Combat is not brilliant, mostly because you can be pointing yourself at a character to attack and Kiryu will attack open air instead without you being able to cancel his animation.

I like the story, but everything boils down to fight, fight and fight again. Can get a bit tedious.

Still a fun game, just feels like it could offer the player more freedom, more detailed exploration and more responsive combat.
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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:33:24
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This weekend was all about Atari 5200 Galaxian, Pacman and Missile Command.

I also played a fair bit of SMS Sonic 1 and NES Ninja Gaiden 1.

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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:45:23
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Started the Octopath Traveler 0 demo and looked at the clock and I'm 1 and a half hours in.

Damn, another one I need to buy. Not sure if I like the silent protagonist. Everything else is in line with other games so you can just start playing without reading tutorials.

There's a sale on Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 bundle if anyone's interested. Savage discounts.

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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:19:06
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I played a bit of Super Mario Odyssey this weekend.

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Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:17:03

Played Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 this weekend. Beat the campaign. It was short, only about 7 hours give or take, but I quite enjoyed it. It’s a campaign that you can play co-op with three other people. I played through with online randoms. Went fairly smoothly all things considered. Played some online multiplayer. So far just played the skirmish mode that has two 20 player teams face each other. It’s definitely chaotic but I really enjoy big team battles.

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