Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Nice! Looks quite decent and I love my cricket games! Will be keeping an eye out for this one

I just passed up some really good Cyber Monday deals. I think I'm largely done perusing sales until I get my backlog under control. I'm buying five or so big games next year, and that's it.

@Ralizah Me too (I think...). In the last week of 'sales' I've bought one game (Velocity 2X - c.£5.50) and sold one (Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap - c.£18), so I'm running a profit and not seeing anything irresistible in the sales (that might be different if I hadn't already bought PSVR a few months back). Plenty of games on the watch list, but I'm starting to rack up games I'm seeing cheaper than I paid for them and still haven't played. Lesson learned... I hope.

@gcunit There's tons of stuff I want, but what's the point if I don't have the time to play them and they just get added to a pile? Besides, it's not like the stuff on sale now will never be on sale in the future.

@Ralizah I don't know. I don't know how much I'm going to hate PS5 and Scarlett so I figure a mammoth library on current systems guaranteed I have like a decade plus of things I wan to play for "Free" after I've already bought them. It's like my own Netflix of games. Except I paid for all of them.

I did double dip though. DKCTF and Rabbids (not true double dipping, I had physical, didn't get DLC, so for $10 more than the DLC I got a digital copy....which is probably going to make me a lot more likely to play it. Same with DKCTF...I regretted not going digital on that after getting it the first time, so that's the cheapest a Nintendo first party game will ever be on the eShop. Great platformer but I don't see myself swapping a cart in for it.

I'm so tempted to double dip DOOM too. Fun, fast game I don't want to play in long stretches, won't put the cart in....but....21GB...ouch. the 8GB for physical that must be installed is bad enough.

I was tempted for Skyrim but I figured if I'm playing that it'll be a binge so the cart is fine.

I'm just going to play on PC and Switch for the next generation. Unless there's some big exclusive Japanese game on either of those systems, I won't buy into the PS5 or Scarlett so I'll just primarily stick with Nintendo games for my gaming fix.

I only got a PS4 because it was dirt cheap and I really wanted to play Bloodborne (which is badass af, btw). I also got Horizon Zero Dawn for $10, but after BotW that game has been doing barely anything for me. Combat in that game is pretty mediocre imo, it's mostly in the world design that excels which I like, but not being able to climb everything is extremely limiting, and having invisible walls in an open world game is a no-no. (BotW does have invisible walls too, but at least they're at the edge of the world, not sectioning off certain areas within the world)

@NEStalgia I'll upgrade my PC GPU to the 1050 at some point once Cyberpunk 2077 releases, but otherwise, I'm only maining Nintendo from here on out. PS4 and Scarlett will be very 4K-focused machines, and I don't plan on upgrading to a 4KTV until our current one breaks (well, breaks worse; the sound on the TV died, so we had to wire up a set of external speakers for it, which worked like a charm). And even when we do, Xbox is of no interest to me, and the Playstation brand has become far more Western and American than I'm comfortable with.

If Persona 6 is a PS5 exclusive, I'll... have to think about getting one in a deep sale eventually, but Atlus designed the last two Persona games around last-gen technology, and I see no reason why that'd stop with Persona 6. And if it's releasing on both PS4 and PS5, then I'm good. If it releases on PC or Switch, even better.

I understand building up a library for next gen. Across all my systems (primarily PC), I have about 190 games I've yet to play, so I'm actually pretty much already set.

The one concession I made was nabbing a year-long PS+ sub for $39.99. Primarily because there are a lot of games on there I have yet to play, and I'm not really interested in subbing again after this, so I'll probably be playing on my PS4 quite a bit over this coming year.

@EvilLucario I haven't played Horizon, but that's the impression it gave me. Gorgeous environmental design, but it's all set-dressing, with Uncharted-esque climbing and an off-putting interface.

For next gen I'll let how long my OG XB1 lasts be a big factor in deciding. The special thing about XB1 is that if it breaks you lose nothing (except the console itself and time spent redownloading games/DLC that were on the internal drive) so I don't have to consider upgrading until it literally breaks or we know enough about Scarlett that I can make an informed decision about whether to get it or a new XB1.

Unfortunately the same can't be said about Switch because Nintendo ruined the cloud saving feature by allowing some games not to be eligible. Also from the data transfer between Switches video it seems you lose your data even if your old system is intact so if you want a special edition Switch or a new model comes in the future your Splatoon 2 data (among other select games) is doomed completely.

@Ralizah Yeah in some ways, BotW feels way more next-gen than Horizon ever does. BotW's core gameplay loop and systems just beats out Horizon's gameplay loop in almost every way imo.

Horizon is still a good game, don't get me wrong, but BotW really spoiled me on open world games.

In BotW, I like how I can play around and not worry about missing events, choosing sides, or losing items and NPCs to things beyond my control.

As often happens in open world games.

Wasn't sure where to ask this. Has anyone had any success ordering from the Square-Enix online store? I saw they have Lost Sphear for $19.99, same price as on eShop, but I'd rather get it physical. But nothing seems to work. I got to the page, but clicking "Add to Cart" does nothing. I tried to sign up for a membership, but some of the drop-down lists are completely blank. It's like the site is mostly broken, and I was wondering if this is normal or if some people have had success at it.

@Ralizah FWIW, I play on a 1080p monitor, and "4k" of the X1X and pro matters to me quite a bit. All the annoying shimmering artifacts are taken care of. To me it doesn't get better I doubt I'll ever buy a 4k display for gaming as I'm not sure they're ever going to make 4k displays in a size small enough for my mount (over 23" is too heavy.) IMO 4k actaully matters for rendering computer graphics. It doesn't actually matter for displaying graphics. So a 4k console actually makes a lot more sense than a 4k display TBH (one thing I do wish for is HDR, though....sadly that doesn't come in that size either.) The "4k console" is less about "being 4k" and more about having super sampling AA, rendering a much smoother 1080p output.

Yeah, PS has become weirdly western, which I don't get. It's an exclusives box to me, but it does nothing better than XBox and does lots of things worse for multiplats. Of course if you're doing PC, that's already a "big XBox" more or less so it's not really bowing out of the MS/DirectX ecosystem. I do like Sony's exclusives though. Sell me Knack 3 and I'm in (no joke )

@Grumblevolcano Yeah. Dark Souls, Splatoon, and Pokemon not doing cloud saves is just rediculous. Splatoon it's because the devs messed it up. Pokemon does whatever Pokemon does. But Dark Souls....it supports cloud on all other systems....that makes no sense.

@Xyphon22 It's working fine for me....it might be a browser thing (I'm not buying but I can add to cart and such.) I bought it on the eShop.

@NEStalgia

OOOOOOO KNACK!!!! NOTHING CAN COMPETE! GAME OF THE YEAR EVERY YEAR ALL YEAR BABY! HERE COMES THE MONEY CHA-CHING BLING BLING

@EvilLucario I actually happen to love Knack Not a popular opinion, but it's legitimately fun, and I really do want another sequel

@NEStalgia Thanks. I just switched browsers and it worked fine. It had $10 shipping, but I went ahead and bought it anyway assuming I will be able to sell it for much more than that as the cheapest price on Amazon right now is almost $40.

@NEStalgia I actually have no opinion on Knack as a game series. I'm not opposed to trying it out and I'm sure I can enjoy it fine, but most of its notoriety came from Dunkey who memed the crap out of Knack lol.

@EvilLucario Ahh, is that where the hate came from. I always wondered where. I mean yeah, as a platformer it's pretty meh, but it's kind of a fun combo puzzle platformer and brawler. Maybe "over easy" on normal difficulty. It's "lite" but in the same kind of lite but fun way Kirby can be. I dunno if they'll give it another sequel, I was amazed at one, but I'd definitely keep buying as long as they're selling. Fun games to go back to now and again (unlike Uncharted. )

@NEStalgia Yeah Uncharted is absolutely not my type of game. Bad enough it's a third-person shooter and I normally don't like shooters (save for Metroid Prime and Doom 2016), but it's a rigid cinematic game that won't be as good the second time around.

Now a JRPG? Heavy melee combat like Bayonetta and Bloodborne? Platformers? Sign me up big time.

@EvilLucario I actually think combat was one of Horizon's highlights. Taking off armour piece by piece, using their weapons against them, trip wires, etc. I actually went out of my way to do random fights which probably meant my playthrough lasted longer than necessary. Story was just there. Definitely not bad, but not memorable either, just... standard.

@EvilLucario I actually enjoy Uncharted....but, yeah, it's kind of a one-and-done affair. It's a fun movie, but not a replayable video game. I like that "I don't like shooters, except the reboot of the most quintessential shooter that started most other shooters....that one's fine"

Still, RPGs are my bread and butter. Even pseudo-RPGs.

@Octane Robo-Monster Hunter is kinda cool, and I love the story world. I just wish the stealth mechanics were...you know...good... Great game though....still have to get deeper into that.