Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@gcunit Like it deserves you say? Care to elaborate on that?

@MegaTen Yeah, for sure. A diverse library of games can only help a system.

@Ralizah That's fair. If you like a game and want to see more games from that company (or other companies) on the Switch, buying it right away is a good way to do that. It's just when people buy games that they don't even plan on playing that it starts getting rediculous IMO. Not up to me what people spend their money on, though.

I'll buy Skyrim and Doom... but next year. Pokemon Gold, NBA 2K18, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Super Mario Odyssey, and Rocket League will take up my time and expendable funds (and time!) for this year.

@KirbyTheVampire Oh, I agree. It's stupid to buy something for yourself that you don't want to show "support" (I don't care if games I don't aren't coming to the Switch, personally). It's why I didn't even consider buying SF II HD. Not my sort of game, and even if I was into side-scrolling fighters, $40 for what amounts to an SNES game with online multiplayer is ridiculous.

^I am obligated to point out that USFIIHD is based upon ST which had significant changes made and Ultra has its own changes with balancing and tech throws in addition to the character roster update or the Udon Skins. Sorry I can't help it.

Resident evil is going to be my "buying for support" game. I don't really like RE but I've been curious about Revelations...so why not...

@IceClimbers Yeah, my shortlist isn't looking so short any more! I'll probably pick up 3 or 4 games before the end of the year as well - and the rest of the ones I'm looking forward to are going to have to join ARMS on the ever-growing list of games that I'll get around to when I have the time and expendable funds (and time!)

I'm going to wait for a few impressions and reviews to drop before I 100% commit to buying any of the games on my short long list - but, shockingly, I'm not sure that Mario Odyssey is going to make the cut (for 2017) ..can't believe I'm saying that!

I'm resurrected from the dead (been playing XCX like MAD, holy moley it's so so good) to XC2 information and other great news! MY WALLET IS CRYING!

@EvilLucario Glad to hear you're enjoying XCX. Have you said hi to a certain giant "white bird" for me? If not, do say hi to Lugalbanda

@UmniKnight Currently 80 hours in and at Chapter 11, but I'm taking my time doing Basic/Affinity Missions right now. That said, haven't seen that bird yet, but in due time.

@EvilLucario Well, I duly hope you'll continue enjoying it, and not get zerged by high-level enemies. It happens quite a lot, especially a certain mob named "Barnabas the Despot" had a ton of deaths to his name back then.

I hope we see something akin to this game come to the Switch at some point, was a great experience imho.

On a separate note, can we talk about the Octopath Traveler demo? It's a lot more... suggestive than I thought it'd be. Particularly Primrose's route/campaign.

@IceClimbers I haven't gotten to Primrose's route yet but I guess I'm not surprised. A lot of the old school JRPGs walked right up to the line of being suggestive without being blatant about it. Of course I'll have more to say once I get there.

@IceClimbers There is the Octopath thread for that I'd reckon, but I paid that part no mind at all. Just enjoyed the experience.

My first Switch games.

I own the three games on the top, and have the other three pre-ordered so they'll be next when they are shipping.

My trio of games after that is also set in stone: Skyrim, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and Doom all before the end of the year. Couldn't find final boxart for them so left them out.

So, these along with Thimbleweed Park will make 10 amazing Switch games for me this year (I wouldn't have time for more). I know I'm different now in my buying habits. I don't buy a ton of games anymore like I did on Wii U, Wii, Gamecube, N64, all the way back to the SNES. I always collected games as long as they were good, with the goal being a massive collection covering all genres with some of the best games of all time. Now that collection is huge enough. The goal is reached. This gen I switched as well. I'm not picking up anything that is remotely good. I'm just picking up what I think is the most interesting and fun to play for me personally.

Also, I'm back into physical games as I love those tiny cards. Back, because on Wii U I went digital-only. And I missed robbing the bargain bins from overlooked gems and getting rare second hand games in the stores. It was a pain waiting for an eShop sale that never happened, when you could get the physical copy much cheaper. Digital-only is not an option for me anymore. It was practical but it doesn't hold long term value.

@UmniKnight Two major, major problems with the game I have though:

• Running away from is an absolute pain in the neck. Even if you're hiding away from them for over 2 minutes, the game won't automatically make them turn tail and leave, making some missions where you have to talk to people or collect something more effort than it should be.
• The first 10ish hours of the game can be extremely unfair with enemies easily 10-20 levels over you in the story missions, so you're always on the run. If you get spotted by them, the above issue also kicks into play and you get annihilated. Pray to god you were near a landmark/deposit at the time.

At first I didn't like the main story (still don't really, XC1's was way better), but the sidequests easily help carry the plot to be way better and easily beats XC1's boring fetchquests (though they still exist in XCX, but more plot-driven). They're way more personal and you get a bit more attached to those characters and what happens around them. It's less about finding the Lifehold and more about humanity struggling to find a place in a new world, and THAT was the real story that was pretty good for my tastes. (Kinda the same for BotW - basic main story, but the "real" story was your adventure in what you did and how you did them and what you discovered, etc.)

Combat, though, is so good in XCX, easily being better and more polished than XC1's (though XC1 has the advantage of being more simple and easy to pick up). Overdrive is just better than Chain Attacks. That said, the lack of morale and personality mid-fights was something I missed. Soul Voices just aren't the same.

With that said, having played both XC games, I am absolutely excited and ecstatic for XC2. It looks to be a really great followup to XC1 and I sincerely hope XC gets even more recognition and attention. I hope they include some stuff from XCX like mechs, but we'll have to see.

I'm calling it now, but here's my (sort of wishful) prediction: XC2 will sell like 1.5m+ copies. I really want that game to succeed and see more games.

@Ralizah - SF2HD was probably targeting a potentially game-hungry market fresh on it's warpath for more games, and it looks like Capcom got more than they hoped out of it. I mean, there is hardcore SF fans among them, like me, who bought it because they love those games. But mostly... They were probably a lot more who just wanted to think SF2HD will lead them to make Megaman at least on Switch.

And yet, here I am hoping for a Maximo game at some point.

@EvilLucario That enemies far higher level thing is something Monolith soft does all the time, so expect it in XC2 as well.

@UmniKnight If it were to be in XC2, then it would most likely be like in XC1 where it was handled much better due to the benefits of more linear exploration. In XC1 they were mostly unaggressive, like those level 90 guys in Gaur Plain. The level 80+ enemies in Makar Forest at night (when you're only at like level 30 or something) was also able to be evaded by simply turning the time to day. Other than that, everything else wasn't so over your level like it is in XCX where they can just suddenly drop multiple level 20-30 things at the first 5 hours of the game in a required story mission.

@EvilLucario True, we'll see how they handle them in XC2 soon enough, though I doubt they'll ever not put them in

When all's said and done, I hope XC2 will have a good story, even if I'm sceptical on it.

Edit: Shudder to think they might shove them into their new project as well! http://nintendoeverything.com/xenoblade-developer-monolith-so...

Just stumbled over some Switch related numbers for the german market. Maybe interesting for some.
Zelda Breath of the Wild has sold more than 200k units in germany so far. This was for August. They received an award for that number from the BIU (Bundesverband Interaktive Unterhaltungssoftware), which is something like a lobby group for the whole videogame industry in germany.
Also the Switch sold more than 100k units in its first month in germany.

source is http://www.gamersglobal.de/news/134784/zelda-breath-of-the-wi...