Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Octane Yeah, they certainly do. I'm especially wondering what's up with the former. According to Miyamoto-san himself, it has been gathering dust on a shelf for quite a long time already, being practically finished, and yet they don't release it.

And as for Metroid Prime 4, I would have expected there to be a real trailer by now, maybe just an intro, possibly some gameplay teaser. It's been over 18 months now, and surely there must be some parts of it that are already up and running, but I'm afraid we're not going to see more of that one before the next E3 either.

So, in the mean time, why not fill out the catalog with all the other great titles available? For me personally, it would be near impossible to stick to 5 or 6 titles for such a long time, although I reckon I can keep myself busy for quite a few months with Breath of the Wild, but other than that, most games are no more than temporary time killers. Highly entertaining ones, but temporary nonetheless.

@Knuckles-Fajita Wasn't your backlog something like 5 or 6 titles (or more)?
Pretty impressive if you'd be able to clear all that during the consumption of a single bottle...

@ThanosReXXX

Persona 5
Tetris Effect
Superhot
God of War 3 Remastered
Sleeping Dogs
Super Meat Boy
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
Katamari Damacy REROLL
Dragon Quest Builders
Octopath Traveler
Batman Arkham City
Metroid Prime Federation Force

Thats just from memory...

@Knuckles-Fajita Well, that's quite the list already. It would seem that besides work, you've got more than enough to keep you busy. Some nice variety in there too. I got Sleeping Dogs for the Xbox 360, quite a while back. Something of a sleeper hit, in my opinion.

Superhot is also quite entertaining. It's the thinking man's fps, wrapped in a bullet-time blanket.
I've also always liked the Batman games. Got most of them on the Xbox, and I've got the Armoured Edition of Arkham City on the Wii U.

Project Octopath, DKC Tropical Freeze & Dragon Quest Builders are on the wanted list.

@ThanosReXXX Well, at the very least it's all good stuff.

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, I think ''now in development'' for Metroid Prime 4 was the worst case scenario; and people laughed when I said it won't be out until 2019. Even then I'm starting to think 2020 is a more likely scenario.

I'm always open to recommendations. I recently bought Axiom Verge because I hadn't played it yet, so I have something to play on the Switch. I'm not a JRPG guy, I've played a lot of the ''ports'' on PC or PS4 already, and I own a Wii U and pretty much every first party game. I'm fine with that though, first year or so of a new platform is always a bit shallow on content for me. I didn't get a PS4 until 2015, and the only reason I got the Wii U as early as I did was because of Pikmin 3.

@Octane Yeah, Pikmin 3 quite quickly found a home on my Wii U as well. Such an enjoyable game...

As for Switch recommendations: well, depends on what you like, of course. The two games I've bought first (Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey) are two absolute must-haves for the Switch, far as I'm concerned, and now that I've played the demo, I must say that I also really enjoyed ARMS, so if you like that kind of game, then that's a good one as well.

In my previous comment, I mentioned some of @Knuckles-Fajita's games, so there's a couple of Switch games in there as well, and besides that, there's the f2p game Warframe, which is better than most people that haven't tried it yet, seem to think, only judging it based on it being free to play, so it "must" surely be garbage, and full of micro-transactions.

The answer to both of those is a resolute NO. You can actually play the entire game without ever spending a single penny. It just takes longer to grind and level your character up, but other than that, you can play both the single player and online parts completely free.

Oh, and don't play Fallout Shelter, especially not if you like these kind of management sims. It's too late for me, I'm completely hooked, and it's the game I've by now sunk the most hours in on the Switch. It's another free to play, and it's simple, fun and addictive, provided of course that you like the genre.

And if you like RPG's, then Project Octopath is one to look into, but if you don't like the SNES-like visuals, then another brilliant, and highly addictive RPG is Earthlock. I have it on the Xbox One, and it was one of my favorite games from last year. Sunk quite a few hours in that one as well...

@ThanosReXXX I've got Odyssey. Lovely game. Haven't completed it yet, so maybe I'll do that some day. And I already own Zelda on the U; it wasn't the game I wanted from the Zelda franchise, so I'm definitely not going to double dip any time soon. Maybe if it drops in price, but let's be honest, it never will

I like the looks and concept of ARMS, but it's pretty much online only, and that's a real shame IMO. I would've loved a Splatoon-esque campaign mode, I think that would have been enough to convince me. I didn't get to try out the demo unfortunately.

I'm mainly into action-adventure/platformer/puzzle games. I'm fine with racing games like Mario Kart and games like F-Zero, WipeOut, etc. I'm looking forward to Luigi's Mansion. I hope that's going to be good. The original was alright; like a good 7, so I wasn't asking for a sequel, and I'm a bit surprised it got one. I love to see Nintendo tackle something like a modern take on Murasame Castle as well.

@Octane ARMS online only? That's not the impression that I got from the demo. And even though they're locked, all the options are actually visible in the demo. It offers both single and multiplayer, and also local multiplayer, so the online seems no more than another option for multiplayer to me.

As for the rest: have you ever browsed the free games and demos section in the eShop? It's a great way to find some hidden gems, and practically all genres are in there. I think I've downloaded practically all of them, and played plenty of them by now as well. I was also pleasantly surprised by the fact that Nintendo finally dropped the insanely stupid concept of timed demos, such as they offered on the 3DS.

That still annoys me to this day...

@ThanosReXXX Well, pretty much. There's not really a single player component to it. It's one of those games I'll gladly check out for €20, but it doesn't seem worth the €50 to me. It's not like there's an actual story mode, like there is in Smash for example.

I haven't been on the eShop a lot, I'll check out the free games!

@Octane I'd search for demos as well. Might just win you over on some games that you might be on the fence about.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that I also downloaded Golf Story. If you liked Mario Golf on the Gameboy Color and Game Boy Advance, then you're also going to like this one.

And as a final recommendation for now, you might also want to check out the trailer of Rogue Trooper Redux in the eShop. On the Wii, that game was one of my favorites, and now it is overhauled and HD-ified.

@Octane By the way: I just looked up some more info on ARMS and I suppose that it depends on what you're expecting from it, or what you see as little single player content. From what I've gathered, there's 10 campaign levels, and various difficulty settings, with the higher ones become quite "insane" according to some critics/forum commenters, so to overcome all of those, should keep a single player busy for quite some time to come, and of course it's a good way to unlock all the weapons/gloves.

To me, that's more than enough content. Most fighters I've played and/or play also don't have more or much more than 10 stages, so it kinda comes with the genre. (games like Super Smash Brothers might be the odd exception to the rule)

But, having said all that, even I am not sure that I want to pay full price for it, but mainly because it's "just" a fighting game, and I almost never buy these for their launch price, far as I can recall.

@ThanosReXXX
Um...
Do you play Wii / Gamecube games ?
One question about Gamecube Freeloader.
Is Gamecube Freeloader still working on Wii with latest update 3.3 and higher ?

And also about Earthlock : Festival of Magic.
The PS4 & Xbox one have physical release with subtitle Festival of Magic (Old version), while the Switch, PS4 & Xbox one version also got the Remake version of Earthlock without subtitle. My question is, if i own Earthlock Festival of Magic Old version in physical (PS4 / Xbox one version), will i get the Update so i will play the Remake version with Old version disc ?

@Anti-Matter Sorry, I have no idea. Never used that. I only have my own PAL region GameCube games, so these work for standard Wii's and for other GameCube titles and so on, I've soft-modded my Wii, so that already makes it region free without the need for a Freeloader disc.

@Octane Yeah, I mean it's a fighting game, true to modern fighting games but without all the obligatory DLC. SFV now has a story mode, but it originally didn't. Smash, SC6, DBF:Z, etc all have good story/map modes. Tekken 7 has a story mode and it probably shouldn't. BlazBlue has "story" modes that's literally just an anime with no playable parts (or a handful of them.) Like launch SFV, and Tekken 7 it's just a straight up fighter with an arcade mode. Not a bad thing, that's how fighters always were. I'll say the online is way way way better than Smash and XBox Tekken 7 though.....

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, I already own Golf Story. It's a neat little game; I should give it another go some day. I think I quite because there's no retry button. If you want to redo a challenge it's a bit tedious. Other that, I like it quite a lot. I also beat Minit the other day. It's definitely one of those games you want to beat in a single sitting; but it's also very easy to start over as it can be pretty short if you know what you're doing.

Well, I have to say that I'm not really into fighting games to begin with; I don't really care for them, and I don't see the appeal unfortunately. ARMS looks neat though. I just wish there was more to it. I'm not sure if that's possible for a fighting game, and maybe I'm asking too much, I dunno

Now we're on the topic of indie games; I did want to buy Return of the Obra Dinn recently, but I discovered it wasn't even on Switch. I could've sworn I saw a Switch trailer for that game during a Direct... But maybe I'm mistaken...

@ThanosReXXX I did buy this at launch and also the reason I bought a second joy con. I enjoyed it at first as there wasn’t really much big games at the time on the switch, online was good but after the online subscription, it was a ghost town and got really boring. Kids enjoyed the game at first too but after 5 hours of trying all the players, they just stopped playing it, maybe splatoon 2 just took everyone away from it especially online and then there was mario kart 8 aswell. It’s a ok game and I found playing this with a pro controller better. I believe this would of done better if this game came out later 2017.

I gave up on this game and traded it in. The 2nd switch game I traded in.

@Octane To be honest, most fighters I know and have played, have no more than a thin shell of a story line, if any, and sometimes even just tacked on for the hell of it.

But hey, that ARMS demo is definitely single player, and it's free and never ending, so you could always download and play that for free...

@1UP_MARIO Which game? ARMS? And what was the other game you traded in?

@Anti-Matter just softmod the Wii and you won’t need additional software like freeloader but if you want freeloader https://www.codejunkies.com/products/sd-media-launcher__ef000...

@ThanosReXXX I thought it was a timed thing though.