Is Helldivers 2 on the decline?

Thursday’s letters page is excited about Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered Collector’s Editions, as one reader has a theory about Nintendo and Shiver Entertainment.

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Stuck in the middle
As someone who played the game almost every day initially, I’m not surprised that people are starting to lose interest in Helldivers 2. I can’t say why it happened so suddenly, but for me it’s the reason I stopped playing so regularly, it wasn’t just because of the nerfing of all the good weapons, but also because it started to get a bit samey.

There’s only so many times you can play the same thing over and over, and for me I’ve reached my limit. I’m aware that things like Fortnite and Rainbow Six Siege seem to take forever, but I need at least some variation. I’ll probably get back into the game properly in a few months, but I can’t imagine playing it as much as I ever did.

Helldivers 2 didn’t do anything particularly bad, but you can have too much of a good thing. How much this applies to other people I can’t say, but I can think of most long-running live service games are either ones aimed at kids (Fortnite and Minecraft) or hardcore shooter fans (Rainbow Six and Counter-Strike ). .

There isn’t much of a middle ground between the two, and yet that’s exactly where Helldivers 2 is. Maybe that was even the point. But if they do, I think we’ll find that games like that don’t work long term.
Sasquatch

It works according to plan
So is Hellblade 2 the 2024 version of Ryse: Son Of Rome? It looks incredible, but not much happens.

I wasn’t surprised by the low score because I played the original and was absolutely blown away by it. The whole vote gimmick was annoying. Combat was one tone and there were about three or less types of enemies.

Has Ninja Theory made a good game yet? A quick Google check, no. Maybe Enslaved, but not a great record. If of course it’s just my opinion and others might love the previous Ninjas but I won’t be buying their outputs unless they’re cheap like the games I’ve played.
Bobwallet

GC: Ryse was primarily an action game, so in that sense it was a bigger flop. For better or worse, Hellblade 2 is what it is on purpose. We’re not huge fans of Enslaved, but we’ve always felt that the DmC reboot was underrated, even if the story elements were awful.

90s nostalgia
On the 30th anniversary of Resident Evil 1, it’s special. I remember buying a PS1 to play it and calling everyone in the room to look at the lifelike graphics. Nothing like it at the time or a horror style that really made you jump. One of the few games I kept coming back to.

Amazing how far we’ve come in such a short time, although for me Super Mario 64 was the most amazing achievement with limited hardware at the time. Remember watching the intro, waiting for the game to start outside the castle, then realizing it had started and the entire games was like that. Witchcraft at work. Magical, spent 100+ hours getting every star.

All the best and keep your fingers crossed for everyone at Digital Foundry and Eurogamer. Worrying times. They are players and quality journalists.
TWO MACKY

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Lara in the flesh
Great news for me!

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered releases physically on September 24th. I wanted to play it but wasn’t keen on the idea of ​​a digital copy when my other Tomb Raider games are on disc. I’m glad I waited now.

It comes out as a standard edition. But even better is the deluxe steel book edition, which will include maps, an 80+ page book, a soundtrack download and a greatest hits music CD. It all sounds very retro and exactly what I was originally hoping for. It will be released on PlayStation 5 and Switch. No mention of Xbox.
Tony- -1975 (PSN ID)/SW-4453-8520-2043 (Switch)

GC: There’s also a Limited Run collector’s edition for £160, which includes all sorts of extras like action figures and replica guns.

Previous advice
RE: Chaosphere and Paul C’s launch and other issues with the Xbox Series X. I often find that the 2019 Satan Therapist advice – right here on this site – usually solves a number of console issues. The advice was for the Xbox One, but I found it also applies to the Xbox Series X.

Specifically, “Just go to settings, then Disc & Blu-ray, and triple-click the Clear Persistent Storage button (just like clearing the Xbox 360 cache).
Then go into advanced settings under Network and uncheck the Alternate Mac Address box, this will reboot the Xbox and everything is buttery smooth again, at least on that end.’

Hope this helps to some extent.
NatorDom

Dirty discs
I have a little problem, today I received System Shock new and sealed from Hit for the PlayStation 5 and I heard that the disc was loose inside before I opened the blink.

I opened it up and saw some small marks on the disc, I installed the game on the PlayStation 5 and it installed perfectly, and when I selected New Game I started the very first area after the cut scene.

I haven’t had any problems yet. If the drive is installed fine, does that mean the drive is fully functional?

Should I send the disc back for a refund?

I had Sea Of Stars delivered earlier this month from Hit and the disc was loose there too but there were no tracks and it installed perfectly.
Andrew J.

As they come
Great review of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, GC. I’m definitely interested. I briefly played one of those or Super Mario RPG on the DS 15 years ago, so here lies my question… I know the Mario games don’t really have a continuous story, but in your opinion, what is the best order to play them? games?

Just like in those Paper Mario/Mario RPGs. All seem to be available now on Switch, Nintendo Switch Online, or DS. So what’s the most coherent/fun way to experience them? As in your review, you referenced several different games in their history.

Thanks for your reply and keep up the good work!
Lizardpudlian

GC: Thanks. That’s a lot of games though, and none of them have any direct story connections (that we can remember). We would just play Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and The Thousand-Year Door, then go straight to The Origami King. The Mario & Luigi games are a bit more cohesive, with recurring characters like the fabulous Fawful, but the answer to any question like this is always release order.

Any port in a storm
Interesting news about Nintendo’s purchase of the Shiver Entertainment port. Despite some confusion among readers about the quality of recent ports, I feel that Nintendo’s reasons for looking to the market for such a studio make a lot of sense, hoping to avoid gaps in the Switch lineup on Switch 2.

Third-party ports to the Switch usually needed a specialist hired by the original publishers or developers. Panic Button’s work on Doom is probably the most famous, but Saber’s work on The Witcher 3 and Feral’s work on Alien Isolation are also exceptional.

With Nintendo buying their own ports studio, it seems they could offer this service to third parties internally. If EA or Microsoft can make deals with Nintendo directly for the Switch 2 versions, you’d imagine it would be more tempting to port their games to the new platform.

Then there are the patches for existing Switch games for the Switch 2. Many Switch and third-party titles would benefit from being upgraded, so solving this problem with a dedicated studio that knows both old and new hardware would be advantageous.

I feel, like other readers, that Nintendo will charge to upgrade older games, which isn’t a bad thing since it takes resources to make these things. I can see the Switch 2 playing Switch games fine but if you want higher framerates and resolutions… it’ll be £10 and Shiver will do it.
Marc

GC: You talk about the studio as if it is some renowned expert in its field when its gameography suggests anything but. Do you really want the people behind the Mortal Kombat 1 Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom port remaster?

Inbox is also running
Great review for Paper Mario. I remember playing it on the GameCube and it was excellent. I was pretty sad when it ended. Do you think the load times with the Switch 2 will be much reduced if it has backwards compatibility?
Get angry

GC: Thanks. It will probably be a bit faster, but it’s not a major problem, just a minor irritation.

I don’t understand why Helldivers 2 is suddenly gaining popularity, but how does this affect Sony’s future plans? That should teach them how you can never tell you have a hit until much later with live service games, but somehow I don’t think they want to hear that.
Lett

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