I know this is a silly question, but is it okay to put the Switch in the dock everytime you're not playing?
Right now I'm using it soley as a portable (mostly tabletop, actually) because our TV has a picture issue, and even after playing it for an hour the battery life is barely dented, and am wondering if it's safe to put it back on the charger when it's already still almost full?
Currently Playing:
Switch - Blade Strangers
PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)
@RR529 It's completely safe other than the possibility of the dock scratching the screen
Which isn't an issue if you buy the amFilm tempered glass screen protector. $8 for a pack of two. Even idgits such as myself who absolutely suck at putting on screen protectors can put on a glass screen protector without bubbles.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@Caldorosso-E
I remember thinking 2013 was a fantastic year. Just cause we got
Fire Emblem Awakening
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
DKC Returns 3D
Pikmin 3
Wonderful 101
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Zelda Windwaker HD Remake
Super Mario 3D World
Across Wii U and 3DS.
Then in 2014 I thought it was an amazing year for getting, oh what was it...
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
DKC Tropical Freeze
Bayonetta 2
Super Smash Bros
Dragon Age Inquisition
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD
Mario Golf World Tour
Borderlands 2 Vita
Wolfenstein
Shovel Knight
Halo MasterChief Collection
I remember those as being two highlight years for me. Now I look back on it and this year, Shovel Knight Treasure Trove isn't even a blip on the radar compared to all the other awesome games releasing.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
Anyway, whole new video game genres do emerge. Just look at MMOs. When I was growing up, MMOs weren't a thing. You had a few MUDs in the mid 90s (around SNES time), but until stuff like EQ and Ultima (1997-99) started development, the genre didn't exist. That's an entire genre. I'm just talking about games.And as much as I'm hesitant to jump on board, I think virtual reality may lead to some interesting discoveries.
The difference is that games are a relatively new and evolving media. Most of the staple game genres of today were born out of developments in tech not new kinds of art. On this site when people are asked to list innovative games they'll probably rattle off a list of N64/GC era games. Games from the period of time when everything had to be new as even the sequels were 3D sequels to 2D games.
Fast forward to today and there hasn't really been a change in what's possible in a game for a while. We went from 2D to 3D, SD to HD, memory cards to internal storage, couch multiplayer to ubiquitous broadband. Aside from the Switch which is bringing portable gaming upto spec what does this generation offer that's new in terms of the hardware?
'Amazing year for games' is a relative expression. If this year wasn't the best year, which years beat it? If no years beat it, then saying it's been an amazing year isn't much of a stretch.
IMO 2007. Mostly because we got Mario and Metroid while still winding down from the Wii's launch with Zelda/Wii Sports. We also got Portal, Bioshock, the CoD people list often list as the best CoD, one of the best Pokemon generations and it was peak Guitar Hero. But you're right, as a Nintendo fan its hard to beat a year that has great versions of Mario & Zelda.
So you’re saying the people who haven’t finished Mario might not think 2017 is as great as the rest of us think it’s been then?
I think its fair to say that most of what makes that game great is in spoiler tags. Without the reference to Donkey Kong at the end of New Donk City, the bit where you go to the moon and the fact that you go to Mario 64 after the end credits? Those things are what make it as good as it is. Without that the only thing you know about the game are the mechanics built around Cappy. Which are amazing on their own but you don't realise quite how amazing it is until you're possessing Bowser and Yoshi
With VGChartz, you need much more than a small margin of error 😉
With VGChartz accuracy it depends on what you're looking at. If you're doing a comparison of scale between two games that launched at the same time? It's probably good enough. Especially if it's older data, higher volumes or over long periods of time.
In this case we're talking about the same game launched on the same date and orders of magnitude differences between sales on different platforms. Switch sold ~2x 360, PS3 sold ~2x 360, XBOne sold ~5x PS3, PS4 sold ~4x XBone. So, new data or not, I think its fair to say that the Switch version hasn't performed that well. Though I'm not sure what else you would expect on a new platform with 1/5th of the install base of the XBOne....
@YummyHappyPills
If that's what they were expecting they were delusional. The first FIFA on PS4 didn't even manage to match those numbers. According to VGChartz lifetime sales for FIFA 14 on PS4 are less than week one sales for FIFA 18 on PS4. Infact because FIFA was a launch game for the PS4 it actually sold less in its first week than FIFA on the Switch has.
My favorite years for gaming are actually 2003 and 2009, but a lot of that is more on me than the wider gaming public or even the average quality of popular games. Based heavily on Nintendo as well. And 2009 especially is probably not actually the best year, it was just the best year for games that NONE OF Y'ALL BOUGHT. Retro Game Challenge is still better than most retro indie titles and Rhythm Heaven DS is still the best rhythm game ever made, I apologize for none of this. Even the embarrassingly easy, water level focused, only English released Starfy game was legitimately great.
Tbh, it doesn't matter for most people beyond "what I played at the time" because who the **** can afford most of the best games in one year. Probably adds to the bias of people saying a year they grew up in, because THEY'RE not the ones buying it. AND people still rented games at a store. AND people could still afford entertainment.
I don't wanna jump the gun and say it's better than Zelda, but it's probably right up there neck and neck. There are a lot of aspects about this game that are just flat out worse or primitive, yet even despite that, I think I love this game equally as much as I loved Zelda Breath of the Wild (which is the same reason I love that game- even despite the aspects that weren't as good, everything else was so amazing it still couldn't stop it from being one of the best games I've played in years).
The world in this game is simply unparalleled. I'm a huge Dragon Age fan. Man I love me some Dragon Age. I love it more than The Witcher or any other modern western RPG. Bioware in their heyday was unstoppable. But Skyrim... I think Dragon Age has finally met it's match.
Now, I have played this game before. At least. the start of the game anyways. But I stopped when I learned it was coming to Switch. And clearly I stopped before the game dug its claws in. This feels like Zelda did. Like Xenoblade X did. Like Dragon Age Inquisition did. And I think it's got a better world then any of them.
I can honestly say this is now one of my absolute favorite games on the Switch. And I love it even more for being on Switch. There's something magical about this game being a hybrid tribrid version. There's something magical about this game having motion controls for aiming your bow and casting your spells, with separate motion for each Joycon (left for spell casting, right for bow aiming). There's absolutely something magical about the lockpicking with motion and HD rumble... such a small aspect of the game and yet that single experience is just elevated so high as a result of system features.
When I think of Switch, the games that come to mind will now be Zelda, Mario and Skyrim. Splatoon, Xenoblade and Mario Kart. And soon Fire Emblem, Pokémon and Metroid. But Skyrim is right there in the top percentile. It feels right on Switch. The port is so well done. I almost want to say welcome home because it feels like this is where it's always belonged.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@JaxonH That game is like heroin. You can put hundreds, if not thousands of hours into it and not get bored.
I can't say the same for Zelda, unfortunately. I think I put like 60 hours into it. Still well worth the money, but it's not anywhere near on the same level as Skyrim for me.
Really take your time to explore stuff, because there is so much hidden stuff in the game that I was finding new secrets years after it came out. It's really unparalleled when it comes to lore, atmosphere, and world-building IMO. It's more of an experience than a game.
Probably adds to the bias of people saying a year they grew up in, because THEY'RE not the ones buying it. AND people still rented games at a store. AND people could still afford entertainment.
In addition to that our brains are just generally wired to grow an attachment to things during our teens and early 20s. If you had a favourite a band, game, tv show or movie when you were a teenager? You probably liked it with a level of intensity that you will never feel towards anything ever again. And you're more likely to be into stuff that was being promoted at the time.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, here's the number of games in the top 100 on Metacritic by year:
Being as objective as possible puts 2000 on top. Though I still think there's something to be said for the level of influence of games in addition to the volume of "10s". In which case I'd personally point to 1998 and 2007 again.
edit: BTW, the games on that list from the last 5 years:
Breath of the Wild
Super Mario Odyssey
GTA 5
Metal Gear Solid 5
The Last of Us (I accidentally counted this and the remaster)
@electrolite77 They used to calculate and estimate their own sales numbers based on a select amount of retailers they got data from. Yes, they were wrong at times, but they corrected errors whenever official numbers were released. At times it was the best we had, and it still is. I don't think they calculate any of their own numbers anymore, they stopped doing that a while ago. Now everything is based on other outlets, like NPD, Famitsu and Media Create. And everyone assumes those are without errors, even though they are all estimates in the end. Anyway, their numbers are a lot more accurate these days, and it also explains why they are always a month or two behind. @skywake is right, take them as ballpark numbers, you can deduce whether a game sold twice as much, or ten times as much without much trouble. However, there's just no point in arguing that, for example, Project Cars 2 on the PS4 (36,917) outsold Forza Horizon 3 on the XOne (35,975) in Europe (September 30, 2017), because the numbers are incredibly close. And this is true for all sales estimates, they're fine as a reference point, provided you know how to use them.
I would like Nintendo to create a game with a koopa as the main character. I recently have noticed that imho koopas are very nice and fun as characters, for me they are the most nice and fun amongst all the Super Mario cast of characters (along with Donkey Kong if you want to count him as part of Super Mario cast of characters). I'd like a lot a game to play as one of them, a spin off like Captain Toad was.
I used to be a ripple user like you, then I took The Arrow in the knee
@KirbyTheVampire
Speaking about gaming addiction, how about my gaming habit ?
I LOVE to play Dance Dance Revolution games since my cousin introduced me from DDR 3rd Mix on PS1 & Arcade. And i still play Dance Dance Revolution until today ( I have been playing for 14 years), maybe about 1 - 2 hours per week on Arcade. What is my gaming level ? Same as Jaxon ?
@NaviAndMii
I still can't pass any Double play Lv 17 songs... X_X
But i can pass sometimes Lv 19 of Valkyrie Dimension on Challenge difficulty.
Btw, check my gameplay on Youtube.
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