Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

The current XB1 situation is another reason why how the cloud saves work on Switch is important, concept of what happens when you can't access your cloud saves. With XB1 what happens is all games are pretty much unplayable, given Switch has handheld functionality I'd hope Switch's situation is better than that.

@DarthNocturnal It tells you to try again or enter offline mode and if you choose offline mode the message to try again keeps reappearing.

Been playing a whole bunch of Dead Cells on handheld mode. It's actually the most I've ever played on handheld mode and let me say that it is the most painful/uncomfortable way to play for extended periods of time. I love the -feel- of the buttons of the joycon, but playing that rectangle for long periods of time is a fast track to carpel tunnel for me.

On the other hand, Dead Cells is extremely addicting, and yet I've probably made very little progress in it overall.

@MisterPi Get a handheld mode grip from Amazon or something. I did and I just... can't go back to playing it without one. It's just so much more comfortable in handheld mode with the grip attached.

@ReaderRagfish REmake HD was quite successful on modern home consoles/PC, and all they did with that was give it an alternative control method. The tank controls are still available, though, as are the fixed camera viewpoints.

It's also worth mentioning that the PS1 original, like SM64, was re-released with minimal core gameplay changes on the NDS. Actually, it was significantly less visually touched up than SM64 DS as well: presumably because the early PS1 aesthetic holds up better than early N64.

I don't mind what Capcom is doing with Resident Evil 2, though. It feels like they're trying to re-capture what made people love RE2 in the first place with modern game design, which is fine. They want it to be more of an original experience and less of one that just hearkens back to the original.

FF7... I don't know what S-E is going to do with that. If it ever comes out, I wouldn't be surprised if it barely resembles the original game. It's amazing how they've taken the most legendary JRPG series in history and slowly destroyed it through continual re-invention.

@ReaderRagfish FFVII Remake is coming out? News to me.

@EvilLucario It was announced 3 years ago, and probably won't come out for another 5+. It's the new KH3 / Vs. XIII in terms of never coming out. It's still only partially being worked on until KH3 is completed, so that should tell you how long it'll take.

@ReaderRagfish So how's FFXIII: Versus working out for you?

@Grumblevolcano That's weird. Saves are definitely local + cloud just like on PS. You have to manage them seperately too, if you try to delete saves it will prompt you whether you want to just delete it locally or delete it everywhere (meaning cloud.) I wonder if that was a game specific problem or "Patch Tuesday"?

@MisterPi Weird, I have wrist issues at times from bad grips. 3DS did it to me sometimes. Dualshocks can do it to me. Switch really doesn't...you may want to just try different hand positions/angles to make it work though. I use my switch constantly in handheld, but I probably have adjusted my grip. Also, don't listen to anything @Ralizah says about good controller ergonomics....anybody that has anything but zero tolerance for the carpal-tunneler that is the DualShock 4 should just be ignored and told off for trolling.

@Ralizah They wisely refused to remake FF7 for ages specifically because they knew they would just end up disappointing the nostalgia of the game and fans would be upset no matter what they did. I can't imagine why they finally caved and turned it presumably into a modern Fabula Nova Crystalis, moody brooding emo dumpster fire. IF you're going to remake it why not just remake it? Update the assets and keep the game? I can't even stand Crisis Core let alone this one. Maybe they'll retool it and it will take place in Reno.

@link3710 Yeah I'm aware, I was joking because that game may as well not exist with its multiple revisions and vaporware status at this point.

You look at a studio like Monolith Soft who can pump out three games (Xenoblade X, Xenoblade 2, and Xenoblade 2's DLC) within 3-4 years WHILE having half of its studio stripped to help with BotW, then compare it to Square Enix and I'm sitting here wondering what the hell they're doing.

@link3710 " It's still only partially being worked on until KH3 is completed, "

ROFL. 'Member when this was a reason to buy a PS4 back in 2014? And PushSquare was going all crazy? Yeah, I 'member.

"Tired of awaiting greatness? Buy a Switch."

@EvilLucario Well, they made Octopath out of thin air, so there's that! I do wonder how their teams are divided. They have a huge catalog. DQXI, FFXV (loading....85%), the endless remasters of things, Octopath, TWEWY HD, Tomb Raider, Just Cause, KH3, and others I'm forgetting about..... there's too much at once, and I wonder how much Sony paid them to mention FFVII-R at all considering it clearly wasn't even in development yet.

@NEStalgia I don't understand why Square Enix owns Deus Ex and used to own Hitman (from what I heard). Like they're not even made by Japanese people, it seems so out of place.

Square Enix is fine as long as you're not talking about their AAA in-house teams. I swear their management is packed with a bajillion monkeys running the show.

@NEStalgia They'll get to the end of the announced FFXV DLC and then announce another year of DLC for it

Well actually the backgrounds got downgraded a bit. Recreating (and improving) all those prerendered screens for a simple DS remake would've probably costed a lot more than just remaking a few 3D models in Mario 64.

They could've done more for the models too, but they chose not to; probably to keep the graphics consistent. (Although I'm almost sure the models are better in the DS game)

So in short, keeping the graphics mostly unchanged from the original was likely done mostly to save money and time.

@EvilLucario well like the rest of the Japanese publishers, they went through their phase of trying to westernize, and bought eidos and others... Thus the Western portfolio of Deus ex, tomb raider, just cause, etc. Though honestly their Western properties seem to be far far better managed than their Japanese ones for some reason. And really its mostly anything ff related including kh that's a complete cluster. Dq, bravely, etc seems to be managed ok.

It's finally here!

3DS and Switch titles surely means Luigi's Mansion and Mario and Luigi are getting a look in. But what else is going to be here?

@DarkRula I think Nintendo will announce a few 1st party 3DS games that Switch owners are going to get angry because they're not on Switch.

Sounds about right.
"We have F-Zero GX!"
"On 3DS."
"We have Wave Race!"
"On 3DS."
"We have Star Wars Rogue Squadron trilogy!"
"Just kidding."

Thank goodness, now I can actually be hyped for the direct. I hope we see a couple of surprises, but I won't mind for some new info on games we know about

@DarthNocturnal The last Direct with 3DS games (March) announced 4 unannounced 1st party 3DS games (WarioWare Gold, Dillon's Dead-Heat Breakers, Bowser's Inside Story, Luigi's Mansion) so I'm pretty sure there's going to be unannounced 3DS games in this Direct (get your popcorn ready for the salt it'll create )