Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

1 Galaxy 2
2 M64
3 galaxy
4 SMO
5 3d land
6 sunshine
7 3d world
8 M64DS

My ranking would be:
Odyssey > Galaxy > Sunshine > 3D Land > 3D World > 64

Despite 100%ing Galaxy a few times I've actually never played enough of Galaxy 2 to form a solid opinion on it.

Always surprised how the majority of people on these forums seem to favour Galaxy over Odyssey. Galaxy is great, but personally I think Odyssey is the best 3D platformer I've ever played, and has pretty much perfected the collectathon genre.

I'm excited to play 3D World again, but I don't think it holds a candle to the traditional 3D Marios. My issue with the game is the same as Youtuber Caddicarus - it's very much "self-aware that it's a game", whereas I felt that 64, Sunshine, Galaxy and Odyssey are much more able to immerse you in the 3D environments that they create.

I've had my Hori Split Pad Pro for a few months now. I've been satisfied enough to purchase a backup pair, just in case. It sort of reminds me of the relationship I had with the N64 trident. I couldn't stand it, so I sought out alternatives. Ultimately appreciating the Super Pad 64 immensely.

I bought four pairs after trying one for a few months. And used them for as long as I owned an N64.

Maybe the split pad pro will top them as my all-time favorite third party controller?

We're off to a good start.

I think it's possible that a lot of the things people are expecting in Animal Crossing New Horizons turn out to be part of a big paid DLC instead of free updates and the March free update is just the Mario 35th anniversary celebration stuff.

@Grumblevolcano But doesn't Mario handle a bit differently in the Switch version of 64, because of the different controller being used? I'd have thought that if you're going to make a drastic revision of your ranking of 64 based on controls, you should judge it how it originally controlled with an N64 controller. 2c.

@Anti-Matter I agree - Nintendo is too conservative with what it does with Mario. He would be great in a humorous stealth game, infiltrating Bowser's Castle to rescue his buddies.

Oh goodness. Now they're making a Nia (Xenoblade 2) 1/7 scale figure and an Ike (Fire Emblem) 1/7 scale figure?

It's like they've discovered my kryptonite and are using it mercilessly.

I don't buy non-amiibo figures... except for Monster Hunter, Fire Emblem and Xenoblade. And, they're just pumping them out. Wasn't Pyra and Mythra enough? Nope. Had to add KOS-MOS. Thought for sure that would be the end of it, but nope. Then they announced Melia from the first game. Now it's Nia from XC2, and they haven't even put Melia up for pre-order yet!

Fire Emblem had Tharja and Cordelia from FE Awakening, then Camilla from Fates, then they announced Lyn from FE7 on GBA, and pre-orders aren't even expired yet and they've already announced Ike.

What makes it feel worse is that I just ordered like 7 of the Monster Hunter creator models in my flurry of Rise hype.

Slow it down... Too much, too fast.

@gcunit Before 3D All Stars the previous systems I played Mario 64 on were Wii and Wii U via VC. Switch pro controller is pretty much a heavier Wii U pro controller with gyro.

@gcunit
I would like to see the differences between Mario and other characters, like Mario is great in sneaking and shooting, Luigi is good in running and stealing, Wario is the Brawn, Toad is the Brain /Hacker, etc. Assuming Mario goes Sly Cooper and have to infiltrate Bowser's secret hideout, it would be funny to see Mario have to hide in cardbox or silent kill the Goombas / Koopas from behind with gadgets or avoiding the lasers through the paths, etc.
And the enemies should be brand new with their criminal records that motivated them to commit in crimes. And for the plot twist, Bowser wasn't really the real culprit at all, it was the new enemy behind all of the trouble. What do you think ?

@Slowdive Did they elaborate on the "something promising" or just leave it vague? I've had the vibe that something was going happen, mostly based on all the weird limited time anniversary stuff.

@Grumblevolcano Ah, fair enough then I guess.

@Anti-Matter

Ugh I gotta put in for the Lyndis statue and I know I’m getting the Sakunahime nendoroid. Sigh. I hate being poor.

I think I may know a way to make that happen... but I don't think you're gonna like it.

I wonder, if Sony bought Square Enix would the Bravely games and Octopath be able to be released on PS5?

It feels like Microsoft buying Bethesda will start another console war and Square Enix is the most Sony 3rd party. Hoping that the purchase is rejected.

@Grumblevolcano oh no! i don't want to pay to have Brewster in Animal Crossing.

I'll join in too. Here's how I rank the 3D Mario games:

1) Galaxy
2) Galaxy 2
3) Odyssey
4) 3D World
5) Sunshine
6) 64
7) 3D Land
8) 64 DS

They were a little hard to rank, admittedly. And who knows, I might change my rankings later on. With that said, though, the top 4 are the games that I REALLY like.

@Grumblevolcano
Isn't Octopath already on mobile, though? So it's literally just "console" exclusive to Nintendo? That's... really weird.

I'm still wondering when Nintendo will debut the mythical 64 GB game cards. What if.... what if Nintendo's proprietary cards are still so damn expensive to produce that game companies continue to skip them and only offer digital.

@rallydefault Octopath is also on PC, most 3rd party Switch exclusives are console exclusive rather than full exclusive.

@WoomyNNYes
There is always going to be a market for physical games. Physical releases that require partial downloads to even enjoy the game are wastes of money, the consumer doesn’t get what they paid for. Bigger carts are more expensive true but we are talking on savings of a few cents here or there for the less capacity carts when they are already making the bank if they have a good product. Like anything else it only ends up costing them less than $5 per game to actually produce so saying they are going to be financially hurt by buying larger capacity carts negligible.

Considering almost nobody is willing to use 32GB cards, I find the prospect of offering larger-capacity cards to be a bit pointless. Nintendo will need to eat the costs by offering larger cards at lower prices to third parties if they're going to be adopted in any meaningful way, and I don't see any evidence of that happening.

There will always be a market for physical games, yes, but the future of game distribution is going to look increasingly digital. Especially as the physical-only dinosaurs of my generation are replaced by kids who grew up downloading and streaming their entertainment.