Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@NEStalgia Couple things wrong as usual but all good. Can't imagine attaching the word "hate" to a video game company. It's just not that serious, glad you got all that out there though

Dragon Quest 11 pre-order is $50 on Amazon and Walmart, I know many are excited about that finally coming out.

Unless EA does something miraculous and decides to port previous-gen classics to the Switch (Dead Space, Mass Effect, Burnout, etc) I truly wouldn't care if they continued to disregard the Switch as a viable platform for their live service, lootbox driven, recurring revenue focused games.

DQXI for $10? Well let me go grab a copy. Hay!?

@Magician lol yeah my bad noticed that and fixed it haha

Yeah, same. Nothing short of a Dead Space or Mass Effect collection would really be able to get my attention lol. On the brighter side, there are so many better games and companies on the Switch, so there's no space to even be annoyed by it like there was on the Wii U.

Playing through Xenoblade X on Wii U gets me excited for Daemon X Machina, which I can't believe is next month already

Ghostbusters Remastered releases October 4th.

Can we get something for mid-October? Seems like it's all either early October or late October so far.

@redd214 Hating a video game company because they don't bring games to platform X would be silly. Hating a corporation that actively damages the industry they're in, damages other companies, damages individuals, AND is a poster child for consumer fraud.... while operating what amounts to an illegal gambling outfit and using money and influence to lobby political action for a free pass.... yeah, that kind of warrants hating them. Doesn't matter if they're in video games or fossil fuels, they represent the worst side of corporate power.

@link3710 Hyrule Castle wasn't as big inside as it looked outside, but it was just so cool in how it all went together. I stayed in there for a long while, then left to leave Ganon for another day. And getting back in felt different entirely from the first time. It was great. I can see the next one being about exploring more such ruins somewhere.

@NEStalgia you're right man, all great points.

Bah! Damn Google search mashing up vg247 articles. I thought something interesting had just been announced.

I mean, if EA doesn't want a slice of Switch awesomeness, it's their loss. Plenty of companies have brought games to Switch that do incredibly well with the type of gamer we roughly tend to be.

Ya, there’s so many great games on Switch, it’s hard to care. Sure, it’s disappointing, but it’s not like we’re hurting for games, besides which, most of their current releases are mediocre to straight garbage. Aside from Star Wars, I can’t think of anything good enough to warrant breaking into my planned lineup schedule. And frankly, the only reason Star Wars interested me is because it’s Star Wars. I’m willing to bet the game, if judged on its own merits without any Star Wars content in the game at all, is just another ho hum heavy cinematic high budget AAA release following 90% of the same generic “formula for success” recipe every other big AAA story-driven game follows. So ya, it’s really not that big of a loss. It would be a big loss if they were actually releasing their back catalog, from back when they actually made incredible games all the time. But they’re not even doing that. So screw em.

I’ll put em in the same category I plan to put Atlus, Capcom and Sega going forward. The category of “I just won’t buy any of your games on any platform if you don’t want to release them on Switch”. This isn’t the Wii U era, and frankly I no longer feel the need to spread myself across multiple platforms to keep a consistent grade A lineup of games on my playtime schedule. Switch is a major success, there’s a truckload of demand, and if they don’t want to include Switch while favoring other platforms, then fine, I’ll just play something else. But I’m done buying those games on other platforms. I’m not going to reward them and do exactly what they want me to do, just because they refused to provide a better alternative. I want to play the games over here. So either bring the games here, or forfeit a sale. Simple as that. I said the same thing about Nintendo with the 3DS after Switch launched. I don’t want to play them on that system anymore, I want to play on Switch. So either bring the games to Switch, or forfeit a sale. And I did. I skipped every single 3DS game save Metroid Samus Returns. I won’t be buying Star Wars now, won’t be buying Persona 5 expansion (not that I was going to buy that anyways without it coming to Switch, it’s basically paying an extra $60 for DLC content), and I won’t be buying anything Capcom puts out elsewhere either (save Monster Hunter... everyone has a price, and MH is mine).

Now that I'm back to working 7 days a week (plus everything else: Hobbies, studying, building my portfolio) I have to curate my purchases. EA is a no go for me . Quite frankly if it isn't on the switch (or game pass and that is why i got game pass because i got sick of 60 dollar games in shrink wrap 2 years later) then I'm going to have to let it go. I'm fortunate that aside from NHL EA doesn't have anything that I care about (I've not been a fan of bioware after both DA2 and ME2 so they aren't a pull) and I already have the Mirror's edge games. I don't really understand EA's view point when they throw their games everywhere that can run them or modify to make them fit (mobile versions) so their excuse is empty. It is just lootboxes won't fly on switch and frostbyte is a coffin.

DB FighterZ is on sale for $17.99 on the US eShop

And how much money for the rest of the fighters? lol

@Heavyarms55 Well, from the looks of it, the cheapest way to get all fighters right now (the packages including DLC are on sale too) would be $62, or the price of the game normally. (Yes I know you were joking but I'm thinking about getting it so...)

In all seriousness though, holy shoot, I had no idea this game had 50$ of DLC. That's ridiculous. I'm fine with just having the base game. Well, and maybe Videl will tempt me to get her, IDK.

My first mynintendo physical reward, ready for the wall.

Been a while since I got posters from Nintendo, super glad they're going back to that

tfw American

You failed us once again NOA.

Now now, don't be too harsh to NoA, you can get splatoon wallpapers here! For your phone! Which is like the same thing

So I went ahead and sold SMM2 and bought Fire Emblem. Mario was loads of fun, but being so terrible at it started to wear on me.
I’m excited to try my first Fire Emblem game