Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Well, fortunately the US situation is resolved too, no extra download!

@NEStalgia
I dont use my 2nd Switch for my main account. Testing only.

There should be a way to sign in and deactivate online, Ill concede that, but there's no begging involved. Its your account. If you want it deactivated, they'll do so. It's not like last gen where there was no proof you owned the games.

Still, on a priority list this would be somewhere around #67. People spend so much time nitpicking every little thing that when an actual, real issue arises you can't tell the difference through the sea of noise.

Priority should be 100% cloud backups, party chat across the board and messaging.

Everything else is nitpicking small potatoes. And they'll never get that message when everyone proceeds to complain about everything. Focus. Priorities. Once we have the save backups addressed, a universal messaging system including voice chat that's not game by game, then come talk about the convenience of signing in multiple accounts at once (which is likely a lost cause anyways cause that'll allow buying 1 digital game and using on multiple systems simultaneously, and right or wrong that aint gonna fly with them)

Heck, I find myself frequently setting the Switch up in tabletop mode at my computer and playing games while browsing forums.

I have an HDMI splitter so I just press a button it and oh look, my Switch/Wii U/future PS4 is now playing on my other monitor. Easy as that while I can browse the Internet on the second monitor. Convenient as hell!

If I clear the cache on my Nintendo Switch, will it delete save data?

Dunno if some of you were interested by Cities Skylines on Switch but if it was the case, forget it !

It's just unplayable. The framerate is like 15fps, Freezes and crashes with the sounds and the CPU is overflooded.

One of the biggest French website just did a review : 3/10 o_O

Yikes. Thanks for the heads up. I was hoping the choppiness in the direct was just a by product of whatever editing they did.

@Cobalt is that your own conclusion or are you just copy pasting that from that review? @Heavyarms55 did some testing for himself over here.

I have to say I really like City Skylines. Even with some performance problems, it is really good city sim.

@toiletduck That's the review : I'm not interested by that kind of game but my wife was... :/

@NEStalgia
It's not really optimism, it's just an "I'm in this for a fun hobby, not a pinata to vent personal frustrations" attitude. Sure some stuff I take issue with. The few things that really matter, I'll say my piece, once, and move on. If I wanted to perpetually complain I could do that about my job. And I'm NOT one of those people always complaining about my job. Oh they dont pay me enough. Oh they dont do this. Oh they should do that. Oh shut the **** up already I'm tired of hearing it. Shut up and be thankful you even have a job you ingrate. Don't like it? There's the door. That's what I wanna say to those people.

Everyone always has a laundry list of complaints, I just get tired of hearing about them constantly, as if people here can do anything about it anyways.

I think games MIA on cloud saves is ridiculous, and said as much when it became known, but then I moved on. I swear not an article goes by now without 5 different people complaining about ports, as if we didnt get Octopath, didnt get Monster Hunter Gen Ultimate, arent getting Valkyria Chronicles 4, arent getting Mega Man 11, didn't get Mario Tennis, aren't getting Mario Party, Smash, Pokemon, Yoshi, Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion, Metroid, No More Heroes, Bayonetta, SMT, etc etc

Dragonball Fighter Z will drop, and they'll complain its "a port and full price". But when MH World came to PC 8 months later, full price, it was happy happy joy joy all day long.

Hypocritical childish nonsense.

Im so tired of hearing complaints. Some are genuine but even those, I can only take hearing them repeated over and over and over again so many times, on every gosh dang article.

Its not actually complaints like yours that bother me, although I'd still say it doesn't warrant repeating. Say it once and be done with it, then lets move on and talk games.

Its the ridiculous complaints about ported games, treating port like a dirty word when, in truth, it's a fabulous blessing to get a great game ported. Like, there's no Diablo on Switch. Should we just NOT HAVE DIABLO ON SWITCH because it would technically be a port, and that's a dirty word?

I've got a word or two in mind for the mindless drones who don't use their brains for two seconds. I honestly am beginning to think it's a front. A convenient excuse to cut down the system in the only desperate way people know how.

So, should we NOT HAVE DOOM ON SWITCH just because its a port? Oh that's a much better solution. Ya. Let's not have games on the system. Then we can brag all day about 90% of the games being new. Cause God forbid a game exist before, that's outrageous.

Never thought I'd see the day people COMPLAIN about getting 9 Final Fantasy titles on a Nintendo console.

Drives me up the wall. These people arent gamers. They disgrace the gamer name.

So ya, that's what I'm fed up with. Not you or the little issues you have. I'm just gosh dang sick of hearing constant illigitimate complaining ALL. THE FREAKING. TIME.

I can't imagine playing city/park building games on a console... ever. Unless there's keyboard and mouse support, but in that case I'll save myself the hassle and just get it on PC.

@JaxonH I'm happy I read that. I totally share your sentiment!

I mean I do complain a lot sometimes. But generally it's just about game design. But I also do complain a bit about some sketchy things like the online not being as good as it could be.

Though yeah, I would rather just spend my energy and time playing games.

@JaxonH Haha, yeah I can understand that easily enough. Though I think you're so jaded by the chronic complainers you're more likely to defend against any complaints or criticisms by knee-jerk (you used to be a commenter, but then you took a whiner to the knee... )

I'll say "repeating" the complaints to a degree is the nature of a forum in that you have multiple different conversations with different people at different times and it crosses the same subject matter often. The regulars like us just happen to see all of them. Most people don't. Or when you see another regular chiming in on it the conversation from earlier tends to continue. But yeah, I can understand where that comes from. Although some of the whiners, while annoying, are also coming from a stem of truth that might be an issue to them. Such as the complaints back months ago with Mario Tennis. There was very valid criticism for that game. The whiners were louder than they ought to be, but despite that there was truth in the base of their viewpoints too. I can understand that too. It's just hard to separate that "loud but not inaccurate" criticism from the true whiners like a few individuals I can think of that will find something negative in just about anything Nintendo while pretending to be fans in ways that make no sense

@Octane Tropico actually works pretty well on console. It's a little clunky but it works reasonably well. I gave Cities a spin on XB (it's included in Game Pass) after the Switch announce. The interface isn't ideal but it's surprisingly well designed. I'd worry that late game would be painful but at least in the beginning it feels comfortable enough.

It is good, probably the best city builder out there. But it is on sales quite often though, so you can get it cheap if you wait a bit.

And yes those kinds of games are much better on PC. Mouse is key. The same goes for civ.

@NEStalgia
I'd say there's usually, at the very least, a seed of truth to any complaint.

Even so, complaining about good things gamers used to celebrate just a short time ago, that kills me. Vita's 2 best games were ports. And you didn't hear ANYONE complain about it. Heck no. Cause a good game is a good game, and a handheld port is like Christmas morning every time.

But we've gotten to a place now where some people are stalking articles like a lion searching for prey. All they have to do is HEAR the word port and they start ripping the game to shreds. Doesn't matter how good the game is. Doesn't matter if they actually played it. Doesn't matter if it's the game's handheld debut. Doesn't matter. By simply being a port, its automatically a stain on the library and should be aborted immediately.

It's almost like video game racism (hate to say that, but it's true). Irrational hatred of games not based on the merit of the game, but an adjective describing it.

And take this example: cross play. Sony doesn't do cross play. We don't like that. How many times have I actually complained about it? Better yet, how many PushSquare articles have I chimed in on saying "oh, yet another game Sony won't allow cross play for". I'd be banned already. Sammy aint playing that nonsense. Say it once. Ok, you don't like it. No need to make 87 separate comments complaining about crossplay in 3 months on a PS fan site. People would run you off the site doing that crap.

But here? Here's thats just the norm. And if you say something like uh, hey guy, I get it, you don't like ports, THAT DOESNT MEAN YOU NEED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, you get a "why are you defending Nintendo". Ohhhh my gosh. Just 2 weeks in the comments have driven my sanity to the brink. Idk how people do it. Idk how people tolerate that crap all day every day

@Octane I have seen Xbox One gameplay of Cities Skylines and I agree, it looks cumbersome to say the least. The game is also pretty demanding, CPU wise, when the cities really start getting big and the traffic starts to really build up so am interested how the Switch handles it in these situations.

@NEStalgia ''pretty well'', ''clunky'', ''reasonably well'', ''isn't ideal'', ''comfortable enough'', reads like a 6/10

@Therad Yeah I know. A friend of mine was into Cities: Skylines after the disappointing SimCity. I tried it out back then, must've been a few years ago. But I haven't played it since, with all the DLC and mods (consoles don't get mods either, do they?). I may give it a shot some day, because those games are always great time wasters.