Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@NEStalgia I found out that after you've downloaded the update, the MCC and Halo 3 ODST DLC file sizes are merged into one (it's now 73.7GB for MCC and 10MB for ODST DLC) so in short the physical version is rendered completely useless. If you use the physical version you have to download a 73.7GB patch but if you have the digital version it's a 73.7GB download.

@Grumblevolcano So basically, it's an XBox One Back Compat game now?

@DarthNocturnal probably compressing it all together rather than separate yielded some shrinkage. And yeah assets were probably massively re-used between the two, ODST was a Halo 3 "expansion" more or less. But then shouldn't it be bigger for 4k textures across the board? Other possibility is the discs had a lot of duplicated data for faster load and was just copied verbatim into the MCC without actually adjusting it?

Stoked for Bastion. I have it on PC but never finished.

@Knuckles-Fajita You forgot the additional option: Streamed service, Japan only.

@NEStalgia Yeah but this isn't a big game

@Knuckles-Fajita It's like you don't even understand Capcom logic.......

Preload for Hyper Light Drifter, Bastion, Undertale, and Towerfall is live on the US eShop.

Bullet Age made the biggest impression on me in that showcase. Other than that, some nice stuff, but an awful lot of pixels...

@gcunit Imagine how many pixels youd see if this was an Xbox One X game like HALO Infinite.

Shovel Knight release dates are coming later this week:

Yet another Indie Impressions article written, and I picked up Far Cry 3 on Steam for em….future projects lets say (And hope, Steam sales suck).

Now back to Hollow Knight.

Japan is getting physical for switch last I read. If the box art is nice I'll import but otherwise I'm fine with digital.

As a physical collector, all of these indie announcements are awesome. LRG, SRG, Play-Asia, Fangamer, and other small publishers are going to be fighting over who's going to publish physical copies of all these indie games. My wallet is crying, but the goal of having the Switch be the last console I collect physical games for is becoming increasingly more enjoyable to reach will each new game announcement. Collecting games for the Switch over the next several years is going to be a memorable adventure.

Just cleared the campaign in Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders.

The Good:

• A decent amount of Single Player modes including 3 Campaigns (6 missions each, so a total of 18 missions), a Survival Mode, and a 13 mission Dogfight Mode (though the difficulty on these is either very easy or seemingly impossible, with nothing in between).
• A good amount of Online Multiplayer modes such as Free For All, Free Flight, Last Man Standing, Capture the Flag, Defend the Base, and Team Deathmatch (Luckily they can all be played offline with bots, because the online component is pretty dead...).
• 29 different real world aircraft to play as, each with 3 different skins (most have to be unlocked, naturally).
• All the customization options you'd expect, such as inverting the controls, sim or arcade gameplay styles, aim assist on/off, choice of Imperial or Metric measurements, whether or not to show the health of other planes, and the option to customize your planes' color scheme.
• Gameplay is smooth & I didn't notice any performance issues.

The Bad:

• No local multiplayer, as far as I can tell.
• You choose your aircraft first thing, before entering any modes, so if you want to change aircraft you have to go all the way back to the main menu. It's a minor inconvienence in the grand scheme of things, but it is what it is.
• Snow. In a few of the campaign missions there'll be parcipitation that'll "hit" your screen. Usually it's rain which didn't bother me (it's actually a cool little effect), but in one it's snow and it was very distracting.
• Cockpit view. It's here and accounted for, even with an animated control stick & foot pedals that react correctly to your inputs, but it has the same cockpit for every plane, which will probably annoy the kinds of aircraft buffs these kinds of games attract.

Overall I quite liked it, and would recommend it if you like these kinds of games, especially for the price. The same dev has a tank game on the system, so I'll probably look into it eventually as well.

It's rather weird, September is tomorrow yet we don't know September's Splatoon 2 content.

By the way, there's huge maintenance today, the eshops and Wii Shop Channel will be unavailable between 5pm today and 3am tomorrow (UK time).

https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/network/en_na/network_statu...

They said that the Splatoon content would release early September in a recent tweet and that Starfish main stage is receiving a big reworking. So they may be planning a bigger update.

I'm noticing more and more that this weird void that is east of the US and west of Japan is seemingly ignored by publishers a lot.

Hmm. Good thing I can import now I guess. Had to skip loads of stuff in the past

@Knuckles-Fajita What void?

@Octane That map is totally incorrect. The ocean should be a dark blue. Other than that, totally flawless in every way.

@-Green- Big new updates for the multiplayer games in September would help the subscription.