Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Reading user reviews on Metacritic is colossal waste of time. Anytime you see someone rate a game a 0, that's a red flag that either they didn't play it or they are just being overly dramatic. No point in giving it any attention

It works the other way as well, people can rate games/movies higher because they feel it have gotten unfair criticism.

Also, when people have bought something, they become invested in that thing. The switch/PS4/stadia becomes immediately better when you own it and the others becomes worse.

Fanboys on either side of the spectrum, giving games 10 or a 0 just because, are so prevalent that user reviews for most major game releases are hardly trustworthy

So, today's the first day of September, and the mad rush of releases begins.

What does everyone intend on grabbing? As a physical collector I'm looking at...

AI: The Somnium Files
Trine 1-3
Ni No Kuni
Root Letter: Last Answer
Dragon Quest XI
Aggelos
Goat Simulator
Songbird Symphony

I also want Link's Awakening, but that game will sell millions of copies, I'll grab a one down the road.

The only September release I had in mind was Link's Awakening, but since Amazon had a pre-order limit of one per account, I let my brother have that one.

I'll either play it at his place when I visit, or eventually buy it at some point.

Everybody seems worrying their wallet for a lot of upcoming Switch games during September 2019.
But i'm worrying with my wallet on November 2019 for a lot of good Switch games for me.
This September i just worrying about my Dragon Quest Builders 2 Switch USA that i still haven't get yet.

So I got 3 for sures, but astral chain can almost count as a September release at least for me. But links awakening, ori, and creature in the well are 100%er's. I have ALOT of maybes though.

As i was skimming thru the website of upcoming September releases I stumbled on this..

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/sydney-hunter-and-the-c...

I heard about this game I think in 2017 on NL and it really intrigued me but then it was never brought up again. It looks really cool and course, couldn't have come at a worse time. With no publicity though, I'm wondering how good it'll be? Very rarely or at least imo, is a game rock solid but you don't hear anything about it for years and all of sudden it drops in less than 2 weeks.

I think I just need Goose and Zelda. Preordered two each of Zelda and the amiibo, one set for a friend’s birthday.

September Purchases
games in bold text are ones I plan to play ASAP, everything else wins a one-way trip to Backlog Country

Astral Chain (8/30)
Bulletstorm (8/30)
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered (9/3)
Spyro Trilogy (9/3)
Torchlight 2 (9/3)
Monster Hunter World expansion (9/6)
Daemon X Machina (9/13)
AI Somnium Files (9/17)
LEGO Jurassic World (9/17)
Ni No Kuni (9/20)
Zelda Link’s Awakening (9/20)
Baldur’s Gate / Baldur’s Gate 2 (9/24)
Planescape Torment / Icewind Dale (9/24)
Contra Rogue Corps (9/24)
Darksiders II (9/26)
Ori & The Blind Forest (9/27)
Dragon Quest XI S (9/27)
GRID Autosport (9/?)
Sniper Elite III (10/1)

You know it’s packed when I’m even having to bench Monster Hunter, which is one of my favorite game series of all time. But there’s just too many other great games I want to play, and I already played the base game plenty, followed by hundreds of hours in Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate. So the hype just isn’t there for this one given all the games competing for my time. If it was releasing on Switch I would make it a priority.

Switch Lite Flip-Case
You guys see this thing? It’s up for preorder on Amazon Japan. This is a dream come true. This is the case that makes Switch Lite a pocketable system

Yeah, I just ordered Astral Chain, and since I split my time between my Switch, PS4, & anime, that'll probably be it for me on Switch this month, at least in terms of big releases.

@Cotillion Fire Emblem stock has been very unreliable in the UK, if you didn't preorder it you were pretty much screwed on getting a copy. I could see this happening with some Switch titles in this crazy month (I'm looking at August 30th to September 30th as the crazy month).

So i checked out the website for Sydney and the curse of the Mayan( CollectorVision?). Game looks like it's shaping up to be a solid 8bit outing. Sound track is pretty sweet, game play looks good, seems alot like zelda 2 mixed with Indiana Jones. The dev was saying there's tons of Easter eggs and nods to the 80s and 90s. During his gameplay video I saw 1 zelda 2 easter egg that was pretty cool. The coolest part (even though i don't own these) is that the game supports the nes online controllers. I always have my 8bitdo I guess

I'm only picking up Daemon X Machina this month. Then I'll pick up Doom Eternal (on PC though) and Pokemon on November.

Anyone remember Contra: Rogue Corps? Lol. NO ONE is talking about that game. At least Daemon has some buzz.

Of course that doesn't account for a Direct giving new games but you know.

@EvilLucario I'm on the fence about contra. I want it, but on the list of September games for me, it falls to 6th or so. But you're right I haven't heard anyone say much or even youtubers talk about it.

I saw two YouTubers comment on it when it was announced.

One was happy the series wasn't dead. The other thought it looked like shovelware.

Emily Rogers (one of the few reliable sources left) says a Direct is “tentatively scheduled for next week”.

@JaxonH that'd be cool. At least to hear what's up for December and January and maybe into Q2 of 2020

Man... if I total every game up I want to get in Sept/Oct, it's easily over 200 bucks. I don't know if I can justify that. That's not counting Astral Chain, which I didn't purchase yet. Or the DLC for Fire Emblem, which totally earned my support.

I also want to get the Mario vs. Rabbids Donkey Kong expansion now that it's on sale.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

@rallydefault It IS a lot. But then again, last year there weren’t too many games I was interested in buying so it kind of balances itself out.

You could always just, you know, not buy every game directly when it comes out...