Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I'm playing mostly cuphead Celeste xc2 torna and little amounts of nes online. Im trying not to start yoshi or gungeon yet. The real test with not starting any new games til I finish my current ones is when RE, shakedown Hawaii, and castlevania collection hit the eshop. I don't have time or the money. Is it fathers day yet? I can use an eshop gift card 😅

Perhaps the lack of talk about those can be at least partly explained by the fact that more than half of those games mentioned are ports of old games.

Darksiders, Dragon's Dogma, Final Fantasy X/X-2/XII - I have all these on other systems.

Mortal Kombat - too expensive for me at launch when I've got waaaay more to get out of Smash before I can justify similar.

Cuphead - waiting for physical.

SteamWorld Quest - not interested enough in a card game to justify that price. 80% off and it's a maybe.

Dragons Dogma is awesome. Genuinely reminds me of BotW sometimes on how it feels to play it

I originally skipped Dragon's Dogma on 360/PS3 because I was busy with other games at the time. Playing it here on Switch I can now see why the game is so highly regarded. It's basically the best mashup of Skyrim and Monster Hunter I can remember playing, only with a different slant on online connectivity with other players of the game. A single player action/rpg with a Souls-lite progression system, fighting against huge enemies with awesome combat and magical abilities.

Easily a top-five game in the arpg genre on Switch.

@JaxonH I think you can stop the one heart challenge of the DLC by going to the Shrine of Resurrection (the one you start out in at the beginning of the game) and either going to the Sheikah slate pedestal or the chamber where Link was resurrected from, one of those two I think.

That was fast, super blood hockey already discounted on launch day. Just another reason why you should wait instead of perodering a game with no incentive or discount. Has me wondering if the game is even good though with it being hit by discount right away. Looks fun though

what dpes this mean about cloud save? it sounds like data can just disappear.https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Nintendo-Switch/Nintendo-Switch-Online/Save-Data-Cloud-Backup-Files-Are-Missing-1441444.html

It's exactly what you think it means. It's what to do if your stuff isn't synced.
But I'll write it a different way for fun ...

//"When automatic backup is enabled, save data will be backed up once the software is closed or while the console is in sleep mode."
IF(ISNULL({save.backup}) AND {subscription.activity_state="ACTIVE"})
THEN (save_data.sync="UPLOAD")
ELSE (save_data.sync="DOWNLOAD")

@AlohaPizzaJack I thought it meant that your data can end up goin missing.

I mean, it probably can if it doesn't sync correctly. It's the information super highway. Sometimes a car pulls a Susan Smith.

As for what I'm playing, I'll try BotW's VR mode tonight, finish the last builds in the LABO VR starter kit tomorrow (a Pinwheel & the non-VR Switch holder thing), and after that it'll be off to Boxboy+Boxgirl.

I just bought a new 4K 50" TV from work for what was the master bedroom, now my office and studio, pushed a two seat sofa upstairs and got a new bed for my mother who can barely get upstairs.

Methinks im gonna ignore games for a bit. Im very sore.

Hopefully that just means folks are gaming. I'm inching my way through Dragon's Dogma (I can't cheat this time around. When I played on 360 I had a buddy that had a high level pawn that didn't get out classed until halfway through DA, so I was able to level very quickly, but it is still fun, just means I'll be grinding a bit)

Working on Dragon's Dogma, Portia, Kirby and Octopath. Want to finish Kirby before I get Yoshi. Octopath is just cleaning up side quest and getting to the final boss. Looking forward to AC III and Saints Row. I know a lot of folks are meh about the ports because they are ports, but for me Switch allows me to take my time when before I had to rush through games because I was shackled to a tv, yet I finish more games now lol.

I am going to get the Kunio-kun and Mana games during golden week but no clue when I'll spin them up. My free time is shrinking as I'm getting more active in work and other hobbies.

I haven't been playing on my Switch recently, but that's only because I have a massive backlog of games. Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5, Risk of Rain 2 runs (SO DAMN GOOD), Ace Combat 7, the list goes on.

i got an micro sd card coming, so now i can finally pick up more switch games to play.
i'll probably start off getting the games that i've missed in 2017, (Splatoon 2 and Mario and Rabbids, etc.)
my Micro SD Card will be used for digital, while the switch's 32gb memory will be used for physical. since the data from the cartridge are smaller.

@Ryu_Niiyama
Ya, right now it feels like a golden age, getting all these games on a hybrid handheld device.

I suspect it won’t last forever. Eventually they’ll run out of games to port at this massive rate, and/or people like me who haven’t played most of them, will eventually get to a point where I played most of them. That day will come...

but it is not this day 😉

@shadow-wolf
Seems right, thank you

@gcunit
I mean ya, it may partly explain it. But... so do I, just not on a handheld device (barring FFX/X-2) and that is exciting for a lot of people. Not to mention, a lot of people don’t have those games anywhere. There’s always a massive chunk of people interested in great games ported over though, even on other systems, as Dragons Dogma, Darksiders and FFX/X-2 are all ports themselves on PS4, which didn’t stop anyone from buying (perhaps even yourself, if that’s those are the versions you own).

I think being ports lessens demand, but being on a hybrid system mitigates alot of that, and being on Nintendo where the Fanbase will have never been exposed to those games before unless they are multiconsole owners (and even some multiconsole owners may have never played them- me, for example) . I’ve seen a few new game releases that sell less than quality ported games.

More fuel to the Switch Mini fire, GAME stops accepting trade-ins for everything to do with the 3DS family of devices (software, accessories, hardware) on May 11th.

I can understand hardware but why not accept software?

@Grumblevolcano watch Switch Mini will be announced in 2 weeks, after golden week.