Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH Forgot about DQ11! And I just bought the Octo Expansion, I think that still counts

My list for this year:

Spider-Man
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Crash Bandicoot on the Switch (already own it on PS4)
and I have Flashback 25th Anniversary Edition coming on Tuesday, simply because I love that game.

And that's it. Nothing else bothers me. I will see how Red Dead Redemption 2 plays out before buying it.

I'm almost done with DKC Tropical Freeze (barring time trials, which I'll play for years to come). Then it's on to the Octo Expansion and Hollow Knight. I really like the Octo Expansion.

But isn't Mario Tennis Aces coming out like, on Friday? That's 5 days away. And Mario Tennis is hype. Read my Y's VIII special edition just got charged from NIS, so that should be shipping soon as well.

From Mario Tennis to Mega Man X Collection its gonna be total madness.

Get ready. Half a dozen awesome games back to back to back to back for the next 4 weeks starting Friday.

@Octane
I want DQXI but, I'm waiting for the Switch version. I repurchased so many games on Switch I finally decided to just stop buying anything that I know is eventually coming or even might come. Better to wait and get the version you want than buy it twice.

I have Aces and Octopath preordered. Need to preorder Crash, as well. Will get Pokemon, Smash, and Mario Party for sure. MAYBE Octo expansion and Rabbids expansion. Might also get Dark Souls and Wolfenstein.

For other systems: Gotta get around to God of War and will definitely play the new Tomb Raider. Once Warcraft expansion hits in August, though, I'll be committed to that. Hopelessly a WoW player for life.

How depressing to see Crash wasnt even discussed for a Switch release until one guy went and did it himself first.

Like they didnt consider it, or even bother checking if it was possible. They just wrote it off

If I was to count just my physical games as my Switch library then it would be a pitifully small collection of games. I only have 2, Doom and FIFA. If I include digital titles though then my collection is already far bigger than my N64, GameCube and Wii U library combined. Off the top of my head I bought around 55 Wii U games, 35 GameCube games and 20 N64 games. I currently have 141 Switch games. With digital titles included my Wii collection was around 100,I bought a lot of VC for that. So before Switch I owned a rough total of 210 games across every Nintendo console I've ever owned. I reckon I'll be close to that number by the end of the Switch's 2nd year.

@JaxonH It's a game I want to play on my TV anyway, so I'm getting on PS4, especially since it's coming sooner. Any word on the Switch version yet?

I've yet to start the Octo Expansion, but I'm looking forward to it. It scratches that Nintendo action-adventure itch!

I see you're playing God of War too, opinions so far?

@JaxonH Mario Tennis, Wolfenstein 2 and Crash Trilogy as well as Gunbird 2 in the space of 7 days is just superb. 4 games that appeal to me massively.

I've always loved tennis games, played loads over the years but none since Grandslam Tennis on Wii which also happened to be the best one I've ever played. Mario Tennis Aces exceeds that in every way. It oozes class. It feels like the Mario Kart of tennis if that makes sense. Like it's been given the Nintendo A game treatment. I'll be playing that for a long time to come.

Crash Trilogy, well I've never played any of them before, I love platformers and these are highly regarded ones and there is 3 of them, 3 full games remastered and a port that's looks near identical to the PS4 version.

Wolfenstein 2 I have no doubt I'm going to love it. I'm still playing Doom, 65 hours logged so far.

Gunbird 2, well I love my shoot'em ups with Psyko's being my favourites and this one is regarded by many as their best. Cannot wait!

@Octane
I want to play on the TV too... just not exclusively. Especially long JRPG's. Even at home I kick up Netflix on the tube and play in handheld mode a lot.

As for release timing, all we know is its gonna be a year later, maybe a bit more. But I'm not too worried about when it comes. So many other games in the meantime that, I kinda feel like hey, whenever is cool with me. Gonna have Vallyria Chronicles 4 and Shining Resonance and Octopath Traveller and Y's VIII and The World Ends With You all launching in the same time frame (Y's and Shining a little earlier but, those won't be played immediately thanks to all the other games releasing when they do)

As for God of War, I love it. One of their better games I'd say. And I'm not the biggest Sony IP fan either (Infamous Second Son and The Last of Us are the 2 truly great 1st party games I've played on PS4 this gen... and now God of War can be added to that list).

So basically, if I like it then you know its good.

@Knuckles-Fajita I get the feeling this is how most developers look at the Switch, regardless of how successful it will become. It’s always going to be PlayStation, then perhaps Xbox when it comes to where to focus resources with any game.

@FragRed I know for a fact this is the case with EA, given no one has openly stated they even know if Frostbite would work because they havent tried. They've been saying that since last E3 actually...

This is just another blow. Like the guy who said "Eff off Titanfall 2 wont run on that", before it was even out.

I wonder if he changed his tune after the things that have been ported.

You know whats really sad? A lot of things dont seem to take much effort. Like Crash, he got it working in a weekend. Stuff like DOOM and Wolf2 required more work, but they are still there, not impossible. Hell look at ARK, that game was ported in such quick time that the actual developers thought they'd need to announce it later.

But people like that TF2 guy, like the staff at VV, just look at the system and assume.

I'm patiently waiting for Crash to be released. Can't wait to relive my childhood again.

Oh yes, I forgot about this one. Looks amazing, too! I also forgot about The World Ends With You. I had the DS version, but I never got to play a lot of the game. I did pick up the fact that the game has a great soundtrack, though.

@JaxonH That's what I always say as well

I can't multitask, so watching the telly and playing a game is out of the question. I've lost too many Splatoon games because I wasn't paying attention!

Interesting, I don't think Infamous: SS is bad, but I wouldn't put it in my top 10 either. I found it to be quite... average? Like good gaming equivalent of comfort food, but it didn't stand out to me.

Hyper Light Drifter and Undertale should be on every list, but they're digital and I think most were listing retail titles. At least I was. Start listing digital too and we're gonna need the option to start attaching spreadsheets to our posts.

But definitely those two, which are up there with Hollow Knight and Shovel Knight and Steamworld Dig 2 as some of the absolute very best.

And ya, don't forget The World Ends With You. Probably end up being the best JRPG released all year tbh.

And forgot about Disgaea 1. Always forget about that one.

My Right Joy Con suddenly dead (Not charged at all when i plug in Adapter cable).
How do i fix it ?
I heard i should let my Right Joy Con on dry place for several days.

@Octane
I don't really pay attention, I just like it on in the background, or sometimes I'll pause in sleep mode and watch for a bit, then go back to playing. Sometimes I just like playing in handheld mode regardless too. I always liked playing on handhelds, I just didn't like the extreme degradation of visuals and full button suite which was the cost of doing business on handhelds. So now with Switch it's like hey, I can play in HD still and have all the buttons still... what's left to stop me.

Infamous just had really fun gameplay. And that's why I loved it so much. Story was ok, nothing special, but the gameplay was just so much fun. And that's usually what determines if I love a game or not. It's why Uncharted never really impressed me, for example. It's also probably why a lot of people praise some games to the moon for cinematic stories and presentation, and I'm just like eh... Some people value that side of gaming. Some value gameplay. I actually value both, but gameplay is a necessity while the rest is above and beyond. But no question that any game which nails both (God of War, Xenoblade, Fire Emblem) usually ends up on my fave list pretty fast.

@OorWullie Thanks for the reply and suggestions! After some digging, I found that my router had a 5 ghz network, so once I connected my Switch to it the internet issues seemed to largely disappear. Thanks anyway though!

@JaxonH I wasn't listing retail titles, granted most of them were, but one wasn't.

Naturally, I want to say I could get into Undertale but that entire games premise just turns me off. I can see just from hearing about it that it's not for me so maybe if it goes on sale I'll stream it or something.

Anyone know how much Undertale is gonna cost? If it's pricier than the Steam version, I'll probably just get it on Steam.