Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Daemon X Machina's new demo is pretty solid. 1.5 hours of gameplay to beat and I'm really liking what I played. And it's also in a more natural game progression. Framerate seems way better even if you're blowing a ton of crap up at once.

It feels really easy for now (although I did spend a longer than necessary time in the original alpha) but hopefully the rest of the game is more suitably challenging.

The Direct was stinking awesome! I feel like the Switch has reached critical mass! There are so many amazing games on it already and so many more coming that I can pretty easily call it my favorite console of all time now! Forget their A game, Nintendo is at S-tier levels with releases over the last couple years and on-going.

The crazy thing is there's still a few things that should be releasing this year that are undated - Alien Isolation and Rune Factory 4 Special among them.

The Switch went straight up into maximum overdrive starting with Astral Chain's release. Send help lol

@J-Plap As I say, Indiana Jones hasn't been relevant in a long time for those to be ported. Star Wars is already getting a new game that sounds as though its going to be chock-full of content. And Pirates I'm unsure on, but if what they do with Skywalker Saga is successful, I can see a new game with a full open world similar to Zelda Wind Waker.

Of course, they have only just started with the ports. One a year, by my count. Anything's possible these days, so we could even see The Complete Saga get ported after Skywalker Saga releases. After all, I didn't ever expect City Undercover to be ported onto anything, yet it did.

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This Direct... There was some good stuff within it. I'm excited for Jedi Outcast releasing on a handheld, seeing the new 'mon and a bit more of Galar was nice to see. Even Animal Crossing, for as little new info we got from that part, at least allowed us to see more of the island we'll be staying on.

But most of the rest of it... Put it this way. These Directs I always try to rate not on the games that interest me, but as an entertainment package. Did I find it a good watch? Barely. For some reason I felt it dragged, and that's probably because none of the games had a chance to speak for themselves. The narrator was always there, telling us exactly what the games were. There just wasn't any flair or hype, I guess you could say. It worked for Animal Crossing, as that segment was designed to be an infomercial. The Smash Fighter 4 reveal didn't have any narration, and I liked that as well. But everything else was the same narrator talking over everything.

For those concerned about the Censorship apparently in Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE on Switch, the Japanese version of the game supports English. I have no way of knowing if the English in this release is still edited or not, but hey, in case you were wondering.

Nice to get a Star Wars game, but a bit strange that it was singular and a sequel.

Anyone know when the SNES controllers release?

@Heavyarms55 Iirc the switch version seems to have the same... 'censorship'. Although to be honest, not sure if the gravure part will still be censored though, I hope not but who knows.

@gcunit A Nintendo Life article says that the first Star Wars Jedi Knight game is being released on the Switch too. The article didn't give a source though and it wasn't mentioned in the Direct so I'm not sure where that was announced.

Star Wars Jedi Knight 2 and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy are both coming to Switch.

You know what? I think I will get Overwatch. With gyro included and bots, I can play in handheld mode against bots using gyro, and that sounds awesome. Maybe if I get good enough I'll play some online matches and get into it like Splatoon 2.

Btw, Divinity Original Sin II is a must own. This game is widely regarded as one of the best RPGs of the generation. Its got a MC score of like 93, it's nuts. I know alot of Switch gamers aren't up to date with these multiplatform titles but, this is definitely one you don't want to neglect. At least watch a review and check it out.

@Dogorilla Thanks for pointing that out.

Embarrassingly, for a massive Star Wars fan, I don't know much about this series so have looked it up. Outcast follows on from Mysteries of the Sith, which was an expansion pack for Dark Forces II.

Academy (coming to Switch in 2020) is the follow up to Outcast.

I think I have all these nowadays on Steam (bought the entire set for about £5 I suspect), but the only one I've played was the original Dark Forces back in the day on Windows, pre-Steam.

Would be great if that entire set sold on Steam came to Switch so that I could play them in order. Can't remember much at all of Dark Forces but I know I liked it and think I finished it, so perhaps I'll just try and play Dark Forces II and the expansion on Steam before playing the Switch games.

Star Wars includes gyro on Switch, I hear. That's awesome. Even if its waggle, I wanna swing some lightsabers 😁

@JaxonH Divinity: Original Sin 2 has been on my wishlist for a Switch port as I've heard how good it's meant to be, but I've not heard anything about a physical release, in which case I may have to ignore it for now.

I've just checked my Steam account - I bought all 5 of the above mentioned Jedi Knight games in 2011 and not touched them since. Time to address that.

What are the chances of new stuff for Switch being shown at TGS?

@gcunit SuperRareGames has sent me an email to fill what game I want to be made into Physical next and I filled Divinity: Original Sin 2.
I got the email probably because I bought from them Machinarium.

So if anyone has been customer of their lately and like Divinity we could unite and sent multiple mails

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Capcom has a 1 hour long Switch remasters presentation at TGS. But aside from that I imagine it'll just be showcasing what's already announced, given how jam packed the lineup is.

We're all still waiting for the Switch-exclusive version of Monster Hunter.

I still believe it'll be a sequel to Monster Hunter Stories but we'll see.

On second thoughts, f-that for a plan. Just tried Dark Forces, Dark Forces II, and Mysteries of the Sith in Steam and, rather predictably, the graphical glitching and controller configuration issues are there immediately, and I have too many other games to play to spend time trying to see if I can improve the situation. **** PC gaming.

@Zuljaras Nice one - certainly better than nothing.

@Heavyarms55 From what I remember after checking out the Japanese trailer, the boss was censored in the Japanese version of the trailer too. But hopefully its just in the trailer and the game itself will be uncensored. And that it gets a retail release.