Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@link3710 If you're talking about that elephant game, it is because it was a digital game, so Game Freak could be the ''publisher''. Nintendo is the publisher for Town, so it's really a Nintendo thing. It's like how Nintendo doesn't own HAL, but they do own Kirby, so Ninty gets to decide when and where to show Kirby.

Is Town even getting a retail release?

@IceClimbers Why wouldn't it?

@Octane I heavily assumed Town was digital only from the way it's been advertised. Didn't know NIntendo was officially publishing it either.

So for this year, things I want;

• Final Fantasy XII the Zodiac Age
• Resident Evil 4
• Fire Emblem The Three Houses
• Dragon Quest XI
• Astral Chain
• Link’s Awakening

And there will be more. I’m good.

@Sadist I'm thinking since we haven't heard any news on the 3 resident evil games coming yet. It's going to be end of the year thing with all 3 games in a bundle at retail. I'm sure they'll have the ability to purchase each one individually like revelations was.

I think it will be Physical release.

I just played the Daemon X Machina prototype missions, and man is this game fun!

All I kept hearing on reddit was complaints, and “I didn’t like it” and things of that nature. I don’t know what those people are on because this game is freaking awesome. Sometimes I think there are certain people who are used to Western AAA games, and when they play a game like this it’s completely underwhelming to them. Same thing happened with Xenoblade 2. People played Zelda BotW, and then got caught in the hype for Xenoblade 2, and hated it. But for people who play those types of games it was amazing. And it kinda feels the same here.

All I know is I love it. I had low expectations going in because of the reactions I had read from others. But I’m glad I played it for myself.

@JaxonH I'm going to pick it up for sure. I will say I wish the sound effects were beefier.

@JaxonH The thing to do with Reddit is just ignore 99% of what people say, because it's always complaints about something, They never seem happy. Luckily, they aren't the majority of Nintendo fans, let alone owners so the game isn't going to live or die by their misery. But I do really love the look of the game though I don't have time to try the demo - way too much to play right now.

All I know is, the demo pushed quite a lot of cut scenes on me to begin with, when all I wanted to do was get into the mech and test out the handling. Thankfully the cutscenes were skippable.

So I finally get into the game proper... I got about half a second to think 'Oh, the handheld graphics are a bit ropey' and then it immediately crashed. Can't remember another Switch game crashing on me yet.

Haven't bothered trying it again yet. I don't want to be a Debbie Downer on any game, but this wasn't a great first impression.

I've seen alot of mixed information on the game. Either really good or really bad. I'll try the demo soon and see what all the fuss is about

It has some major issues that dragged it down for me, but, on the whole, they're things that should be easily addressable. It could very easily be quite a fun game, and they're apparently sending surveys out to some people to gather data on improvements. Hopefully "INCREASE AMMO DROPS FROM SMALL ENEMIES" and "STABILIZE THE FRAMERATE" will ring through loud and clear.

I have some criticisms, for sure. Needs more tactile and audial feedback for gunfire and being hit with gunfire. Enemies blend into surroundings. Also heard complaints about redirecting from out of bounds during boss fight caused some issues when boss shield bounced you OOB.

I’ll be glad to share that feedback if I get a survey.

Also, where’s the Dragon Quest hype? Seriously. I look on Twitter, I see Hollow Knight sequel with 42k upvotes, Mario Maker 2 and Zelda with tens of thousands of upvotes, even Deltarune...

And Dragon Quest XI S and DQ Builders 2 sitting at 2-3k. Like, are you for real Nintendo fans? Same for Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice. Game won crazy awards, and the Switch version looks insanely good... like 3k upvotes. At least that one I can kinda understand. But Dragon Quest? What gives. I thought this whole “if it isn’t made by Nintendo or an indie, I’m not interested” schtick was a thing of the past...

@JaxonH I’m already making a feedback list. So if I don’t get a survey, I’ll still drop my thoughts on their Facebook. I’m only doing it because I really like what it could be. I think it’s neat that they thought “Hey, Let’s put these playable bits out there and get feedback while we have time to make changes, not two weeks before the game comes out” (Looking at you, 76)
It also helps that I imagine I’m playing a mix of Macross Plus and what could have been Crystal Dreams 😂

@JackEatsSparrows What's wrong with 76? That was a 10/10.

@JaxonH I'm super hyped for Hellblade. Nooooot so much for DQ XI. I'll give the series another try... but so far the only entries I've enjoyed were the original Dragon Quest Monsters games. DQ XI looks really good but... my hopes aren't high.

@Octane Game of the Year. We just couldn’t understand the artistry.

@JaxonH The spider boss thing (to give it it's official name lol) jumps far too close to the area boundary. I got blasted quite far outside the zone and there is a really painfully slow reset where you have no control to get back any quicker. My arsenal just dragged awkwardly across the floor. Worse still, it didn't mind putting me back inside the boss's shields. Happened to me last night.

@nintendobynature

Knowing Capcom, (and seeing RE 4, 5 and 6 got stand alone retail releases) at best you’ll get an Origins Collection, REmake and Zero. But I can see Capcom just doing seperate releases, digital only.