Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Grumblevolcano WHAT? I need this right meow!!

I still need to try out Mario and Zelda in VR. I'm loving Steamworld Quest too much at the moment!

I bet that's the big E3 surprise. ALL of the NSO NES Classics will be getting Labo VR support!!

@NEStalgia I think I'd be okay with that. Or Virtual Boy.. and the 14 some games, haha.

@HobbitGamer If it means a chance to finally play VB: Wario Land, I'd be totally for it.

@link3710 It's just not the same without the stuffy red hood and cheap speakers and wires everywhere.

The game is great, but the eerie, creepy sense of isolation and some degree of sensory deprivation the VB could uniquely supply is what really made it.

@NEStalgia Huh, I guess I'll have to take your word for it. The VB is the only Nintendo system I never owned (I didn't even know it existed until years after it came out), so it's not a title I'll ever get to play on it's intended format.

@NEStalgia I’d love to mod a VB casing to act as Labo goggles.
Sure the console was weird, but it was a neat experience.

@link3710 @HobbitGamer Well they weren't even on sale for a year. My first one was defective, and I got a replacement from Toys R' Us (R.I.P.), and then in a month or two they were already gone...That weird isolation is unique to the VB. PSVR doesn't cause that effect. I doubt most other VRs do either. It was something about the pure midnight black background and red lights without color or light bleed, and somehow the audio felt absorbing as a result too. I think I used my OG gameboy earbuds with it.

But it was just such a weird feeling in there.....like it was devouring your soul, slowly, and you couldn't look away. The gentle whir of the mirrors added to the dislocation from reality. It was very disquieting, in retrospect, yet it made the games very memorable. Other VR doesn't have that effect. I don't know what it was doing to us. I just know I must do what they told me to do. The voices, on the other side....

@HobbitGamer No modding of precious VBs allowed....they're too rare to deface!

Ninjala delayed to spring 2020
https://nintendoeverything.com/ninjala-delayed-to-spring-2020/

Now this is hype.

They’ve done a pretty poor job of getting people excited for Fire Emblem. The game looks great but they’ve just held their cards so close to their chest.

Finally we get some real details. Villains, a rebellion, new gameplay mechanics... YES.

https://www.siliconera.com/2019/05/29/fire-emblem-three-house...

LMAO

It doesn't help the Persona comparisons when they add the Fire Emblem equivalent of All-Out Attacks to this game.

Well, the villains look pretty metal.

I mostly skimmed the article, though, as I'd like to actually experience the game in a reasonably fresh manner. I suppose I've already seen the villains now, but that's not really a spoiler: in what world is a dude with a skull mask NOT a bad guy?

I really like how they've added replayability to the game by introducing the different houses without splitting up or compromising the actual plot presentation like in Fire Emblem: Fates.

Also, I'm pleasantly surprised that all three houses are part of the same release.

@Ralizah Halloweentown from Nightmare Before Christmas. But that’s the only place.

Aw maan.....!! 😟😞
I have to wait until next year for "Kingdom Hearts" showdown game aka Ninjala.

Oh, and a new Darksiders game was leaked, called Darksiders: Genesis, and apparently it’s coming to Switch along with Darksiders 2. THQ Nordic said screw the nonsense with big publishers ignoring Switch... more for us.

Yup, THQ gets it. Their support has been great and is only getting better.

Man, it'd be great if THQ got the WWE license back. The best wrestling games were always under THQ.

@JaxonH Honestly, if we could just get a Darksiders 3 port I'd be 100% content with them. Curious that we'd get 4 and not 3, given the story-based nature of the games.

If THQ manages to put the entire darksiders series on switch they will get upgraded to "support no matter what" status for me for purchases. Right now it is just Nintendo and Atlus on that list after I downgraded bioware to "reviews and deep discount first" status.

@Ryu_Niiyama
THQ already earns that status in my house. Their support has been stellar, and the actual quality of their releases superb as well. Darksiders Warmastered is when I really started paying more attention to them, though Battle Chasers: Nightwar was also a great Switch port, and apparently came from the creator of the Darksiders franchise, Joe Madureira.

@link3710
That would be great, though I’m more excited for 1, 2 and this new one tbh. Btw, it’s apparently a spinoff as opposed to 4, which would involve Strife according to game lore. Not sure if it’s going to be top down Diablo style with MP, or something else entirely, but I don’t think it’s going to be the same as the mainline series.

Those new FE villains look like a SMT demons, especially the Flame Emperor. I can't be the only who thinks this right?