Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Can't say I have. My internet is good so, I've never encountered such a problem.

I'd just look into getting better internet. Or use your phone's hotspot. I've downloaded countless games at work over my phone's hotspot.

Or, if you know the connection keeps dropping, just check on it every 20 min or so.

Its definitely happened to me when I'm downloading much larger games. YS viii and some of the RE games took a few restarts since they take a while and internet would drop..but like jaxon said just check it frequently. That's what I did.

Yeah I suppose checking frequently is my best bet for now. Even when I've had better Internet this has been an occasional problem - honestly auto-resume is the only thing I want Nintendo to patch into the system firmware at this point. I can't think of any other console that has this problem.

If anybody gets Harvest Moon today can you post some impressions?

@rallydefault You mean the Friends of Mineral Town remake? It's a good one. Everything works fine. There's been a few additions to the controls such as pointing at objects in your bag with the right stick so you never have to open the menu to hold things. Plenty of other little things such as being able to walk through fully grown crops like in newer games makes things a bit easier to manage everything.

Currently in the middle of Fall, and while the events are sparse, they offer some fun. Overall, it's a great game. No framerate issues like with the 3DS games, either.

@DarkRula
Yes, thank you! It's been a long time since I played the older Harvest Moons, but I kind of like the simplicity of the older games. Stardew Valley is borderline almost too much for me (but I still enjoy it immensely). I'm not actually a big fan of the recent Story of Season games.

@rallydefault Well, there's definitely none of the bloat that resides within those newer games with this one. You should be right at home.

Bored. I thought I'd grab a decade-old top 100 games list from 2009 and see how it held up. I think GI got #1 and #2 right, but how about the rest? What to you think? Did some of these games (and the list in general) hold up?
https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2009/11/16/ga...

@Magician Interesting list, thanks. Not from 2009 though.

@Magician Interesting list but it seems must less a "best games" than someone's personal favorites. Certainly some games on the list with near universal love and then some games that really shocked me for being on the list at all or as high as they were.

@rallydefault I'm liking it so far and if you find Stardew too much then this one should be good for you, since it does seem considerably simpler.

@DarkRula You're already in Fall?! Did you get an early copy or just play for hours in one sitting?! Do the NPCs ever start saying different things? Admittedly I'm only on like day 8 or 9 but I'm already feeling like there's no point to talk to anyone because they don't say anything different. Like, the lady in the vineyard tells that story about her daughter, every day. Ran loves cleaning, every day. Karen doesn't like the priest... every day.

@Magician Oh man, I remember that issue. Some of these would never make it today, like Mario's Picross. When a hundred better iterations of Picross have launched in the last two decades and aren't listworthy, you have to look back at how good the original really was.

Also, the list is from 2001, not 2009, it's one of my oldest issues. It was shortly before the release of the Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube, and before the Dreamcast had officially died. Otherwise we'd have seen things like Soul Calibur II or III or IV top the relatively barebones original. Or y'know, them call FF VI that instead of FF III.

Though... claiming Legend of Zelda was better than A Link to the Past is certainly controversial. Or claiming that Super Mario Bros were better than both 3 and World. And nearly everyone would agree Super Metroid is better than Metroid. All in all, the SNES seems to have weathered the test of time far better than the NES.

I do agree with them including Ms. Pac-Man over Pac-Man though.

It's something!

Joker and Hero amiibo come October 2nd.

@Grumblevolcano Intriguing. Well, they only ever announce Smash Amiibo info in a direct if it's alongside other Smash info, never on its own. So that suggests that we aren't getting Smash info if we have a direct this month, which shouldn't be a surprise.

@link3710 There hasn't been a Smash amiibo announcement in a Direct since February 2019 so it wouldn't be the deconfirmation of Smash news in a July Direct but it would be deconfirmation of the release date being close to the announcement date which is obvious given Min Min came out last month. 7 fighters spread over 2 years with Byleth in January and Min Min in June would suggest the next fighter would be in September at the very earliest.

I'd imagine any Smash news in a Direct would be some sort of fighter reveal whether the actual fighter or just a franchise tease followed a release window of fall or winter 2020.

@Heavyarms55 Europe had the game Friday. NPCs very rarely have different things to say. They'll change what they say based on context of where they are, or if an event is near. Getting friendly with a person will also change what they say. It's certainly not like Animal Crossing where they'd have a choice of various things to talk about each time you did talk to them.

@DarkRula That explains it.

And that's honestly quite a bummer. How will I know if I've become closer to them?

@gcunit @Heavyarms55 @link3710

Ah, my mistake, I was looking at the article date rather than the GI issue date.

Nintendo releasing more plastic and old DK country games to distract us from the fact there are no new games coming out. Sure reminds me of my amiibo collection during the Wii u life.

At least, in this case, we can blame it largely on a notable pandemic messing with everything and not them having a floundering console

@-Green- games take years to develop. The games which were supposed to be released this year should have been close to done when the pandemic began. Other companies are figuring it out but Nintendo and it's fans are using the pandemic as an excuse.