Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

May's NES games have been revealed via the official Nintendo Switch Online site:
Donkey Kong Jr.
Vs. Excitebike
Clu Clu Land

https://www.nintendo.com/switch/online-service/nes/

@Grumblevolcano slow month 😭. Would love to see final fantasy or something. Unless that means there may be a final fantasy collection coming much like castlevania was absent from nes online.. I've actually been playing alot nes games lately as the quality has been there

@rallydefault I wouldn't say paying to play a game counts as a paywall

Or else things went downhill with the first game made to be sold.

That's definitely exactly what I meant. Bring back a bartering system that relies on pigs and various rare spices, I say.

A pigwall

@ReaderRagfish Let June be Urban Champion, Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Fire Emblem Gaiden (Japan only with no NA/EU replacement) with Treehouse Live having a 30 minute segment on Urban Champion during E3

@subpopz I think the best example of an open world I've ever played is like that, the inFAMOUS games (or well, the first two, haven't played the third). With the world slowly opening up to you as the story unfolds, and the story itself being very well handled (mostly), it didn't run into most of the pitfalls open world games seem to.

@rallydefault I mean, back when paid online became a thing, that was one of the big things that pushed me to get a Wii U over a XB1/PS4. Clearly I was in the minority on that however, and at this point the only option is to just not play online on consoles anymore. Which sucks but... yeah. I have a free year of NSO from Prime anyways but... Not really sure how else to avoid paying for online at this point.

Yoshi special edition

The one difference is that you start with a full stack ready to hatch a big yoshi.

I kinda want to play punch out special edition where little Mac just dodges a punch and whoever you fight just wiffs, falls over and Mario counts 10 on em

@link3710
Yea, I mean, I'm part of the problem. I ponied up for Xbox Live on my 360 with everyone else. It's just depressing that gamers didn't make a stand against this kind of stuff when it first started happening. Whether it's paid online for consoles, microtransactions, ridiculous Early Access games on Steam at stupid prices, "founders packs" for various PC games that sometimes cost multiple hundreds of dollars, free-to-play "games."

When I was growing up (grabs cane and waves it in the air), paid "DLC" was almost 100% in the form of huge expansion packs for PC games. I vividly remember buying most expansion packs for like 20 bucks. And now, we look back at the (in)famous example of the Oblivion horse armor DLC that was like 15-20 bucks to put some pixelated padding on your horse. I feel like that should have been a point where we wised up and refused to go down this path.

Does anybody remember how much they paid for WoW's betas back in 2004? Does anyone remember what other game they had to buy to get access? Nope and nope - it was all free. Wanna sign up for a lot of betas today? Pony up some cash. Or buy this other game to get access. Or, if on console, you must have that console's online service. I'm happy I got to try Anthem and Division 2 on my PC for free this year, but those are now the exceptions, not the rule. PC is definitely the easiest space to try and avoid a lot of this crud, but even there it's getting harder.

@rallydefault Switch is the easiest though I could see there being a point where betas are NSO exclusive in the future (maybe another meaning of "special offers").

Opened up my import copy of Onimusha Warlords today! It's just the standard release, but it has a reversible cover and a little folded up instruction pamphlet, which are nice touches. As far as the game itself, I played up to the point I was able to save after the first boss fight, and while it is a bit dated in places, I like the setting and have been finding it pretty fun so far.

I also finished up all the single player levels in Boxboy+Boxgirl this morning, including "a Tall Tale", with all goals met. That was actually pretty good and worth the $10.

Man they really need to add SNES games soon.

Also anyone think Switch Mini could be announced this month?

@WebHead agree on the snes, I'd actually like original gameboy games to show up. Granted, both systems are old, outdated, and so on. At least gameboy games haven't had much exposure other than the 40-50 games on 3ds vc.. I'd like to play some Super Mario land on my t.v. as well as links awakening( dx or not), and some donkey Kong land. To be honest, the games that most excite me about the castlevania collection are the gameboy games. I know they have their issues but playing them on a tv sounds pretty rad to me

@NintendoByNature GB games would be good to due to probable switch mini and 30th anniversary of GB

@WebHead good point. Could be an e3 thing who knows

@WebHead I think SNES is going to be one of those "out in a week or so" announcements for a September Direct to tie into 1 year anniversary of NSO. There's plenty more NES games left of similar status to this month's games.

I really hope so. I'm on my third set of joy-cons because of wear and tear. Clearly the build quality isn't all that great for these things. And on top of that, my right joy-con has ceased charging while fully seated with the console. So if I don't offset the right joy-con while charging I'll come back to a fully charged Switch and a right joy-con with zero charge.

So from my perspective, a Switch that has no detachable joy-cons can't arrive soon enough.

@Magician im still on my first set of joy con that I've had since launch but im afraid that won't be much longer. My right joy con does the exact same thing as yours. Don't know if it's a switch issue or a joy con issue since i don't have other joy cons to test it on.

@WebHead All I want is GBA support. Then I can die happy.