Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

I dunno. Who made that absolute abomination of a FF6 port to android a few years back?

Dragon Quest is like the golden goose of Square. Never lent off, always hoarded by the same guys for 35 years.

@rallydefault Rune Factory is the only property connected to Harvest Moon worth caring about at this point. It's crazy how good RF5 looks, based on the little bit we've seen of it.

@TheJGG Um... Dragon Quest VIII at least was made by Level-5, not in-house, so I know that's not true.

@Magician I'm honestly betting on classic Lara Croft games making a comeback. I know most people don't think of that series when they think Square, but it's definitely one I could see them shipping out of house.

@link3710 Okay, ONCE Square lent out their golden goose. But 99% of the time they don't!

DQ8 was a good game from what I've heard.

HARVEST MOON ONE WORLD First Gameplay on Switch !!

Surprisingly, the game was running on 60 fps ! 😲
Also, your character's parents being shown and talked to you.
The first impression was looked okay so far.
I noticed the time elapsed looked quite fast.10 minutes there = 5 seconds here

@link3710 Yeah, the next Crystal Dynamics game is going to bridge the reboot trilogy and the classic games but availability of the games before the reboot trilogy is quite the mess.

• Tomb Raider (1996) - Angel of Darkness: Newest console they are playable on is PS3 via backwards compatibility.
• Legend - Underworld: Newest console they are playable on is Series X|S because Microsoft focused on backwards compatibility in the XB1 era. Outside of Xbox, the newest console they are on is original platforms (PS3/Wii).

Angel of Darkness was poorly received so I don't see that reappearing but the 5 PS1 titles I could see remakes happening for.

@Ralizah
Rune Factory is good, yea. I don't usually play those games unless I'm in that mood, though. They are quite different. But that franchise has proven itself.

I scratch my itch with Stardew Valley and SoS: Friends of Mineral Town these days. Like a lot of old HM fans, I'll just keep holding out hope for that one game that truly hearkens back to the magic of the original/GameBoy/HM64 vibe. I think XSEED/Marvelous did a great job with the Mineral Town remake.

Really, though, part of me wonders if Stardew Valley is the pinnacle of the genre and the "best" game we'll ever see, at least for quite some time. There is always potential in introducing a new area, new people, some creative new dynamic. That's always out there. I just don't see it happening any time soon.

@Grumblevolcano I'm still dying to play those. I know if they announced Switch ports I'd scoop them up no questions asked.

@TheJGG Not to be that guy, but Omega Force did the heroes games, IX was Level-5, II-V were Spike Chunsoft, and ArtePiazza is a codeveloper on basically every numbered title. Oh and Tose makes the DQ Monsters series. Very few games are entirely in-house.

@link3710 No worries, I stand very corrected. In that case my claim can be tweaked: that the same core staff have worked on it for thirty five years. Especially Yuji Horii, and Koichi Sugiyama. The latter denies the Nanjing Massacre, which is already controversial...

The definitive March games list (you'll have to watch to see why- trust me, this is THE only list you need)

@JaxonH
I have posted Harvest Moon One World first gameplay above.
What do you think about that game so far ?

I like Switchforce, specifically the host.

I mean, I can't say they're my favorite channel or anything, but I do find his taste in games far better than 90% of other Nintendo YouTubers, who only ever want to talk about Zelda, Mario, etc, or old retro game consoles or [insert boring topic #37 here]. I also find him to have a genuine interest in games rather than shilling games for popularity's sake. After Hey Jay!'s boom in subs due to taking an interest in Monster Hunter, I've suddenly seen a few YT say they want to get into it too, but they really don't. They just want that sweet sub increase.

All that said, none of that is particularly relevant to the video shared. You don't have to be a fan of a channel to appreciate a good video here and there. I appreciate him making that video. It needed to be said. You won't hear it from the regulars, that's for sure.

OK. So.

I finally bought another pair of 3rd party joycon. Last pair I bought looked good, but the analog sticks didn't point true. They had magnetism around the X and Y axis, for any tilt within +/- 10° or so. It would snap to the axis unless the tilt was pretty significant.

But all the talk of better joycon with Gyro got me curious. I bought the Binbok joycon, 2nd revision with "fixed" dpad not as wide.

Thoughts
AMAZING! I'll never use any other joycon again! But that won't be true for everyone. Let me explain.

The joycon are nearly perfect in all the ways that matter. The analog sticks are much higher quality and have WAY more travel, yet without being any taller than official joycon. So they still are low profile but have range approaching that of the pro controller. Muah!

The ergonomics is immaculate. Not too big, not too small, cups the hands perfectly. For real. I've tried Hori Split pad. Too bulky by comparison. I've tried my other pair. Decent but not quite as good. These just nail it with the ergonomic shape.

The dpad is indeed fixed and no longer registers wrong directions. The downside to that is they simply made it only register register 4 cardinal directions like official joycon. So not good for jumping diagonally in Street Fighter. Ironically, I can pull moves off perfectly though. But I found the analog stick to work amazing for that game. It feels like a thumb arcade stick, and I was nailing roundhouse to uppercut to flame hadoken with Ryu like it was nothing. All in all, the dpad works no worse than official joycon so, I can live with that provided everything else is on point. Plus it feels way better in platformers.

The joycon even have RGB lighting around the analogs you can toggle to different colors or rainbow. 3 levels of rumble you can set how you like. Gyro works AMAZING, just like real joycon. Can't tell the difference.

OK. So are there any downsides? Unfortunately... yes. The 4 face buttons. For some reason they need to be pressed a little harder than usual to register. Not much. And with a conscious knowledge of that, I was playing fine. But it still annoyed me because I press lightly naturally and every once in a while it wouldn't register.

HUGE disappointment. They're so close!!! But wait... there's hope. I disassembled the right joycon. Didn't watch any tutorials, never done it before either. I just winged it. And it wasn't hard. I found the back of the buttons had 2 small rectangular cutouts, probably plastic savers to cut down on material costs. I think that caused it to push on the membrane unevenly.

So.

I took electrical tape and an exacto knife and cut out 4 square pieces large enough to cover the majority of the backside of the plastic buttons. I know they're round but it's hard to cut round pieces. Guess what. It worked perfectly. And I do mean perfectly. They're perfect now. Absolutely perfect. They work exactly how you'd expect.

Now. The buttons are clicky and kinda loud. All the buttons, not just the face buttons. But whatever. This thing is el-maximo comfort level. The buttons register fine. It has a dpad even if it is 4 directions only. It has amazing analog sticks. It has amazing Gyro. It has adequate rumble with 3 level settings. It has RGB lighting.

I'm so happy with these. I 100% recommend them, but only if you're ok with pressing a little harder than normal for face buttons, or, are OK taking 30 min or so to take back panel off, remove electrical board, and add electrical tape pieces to the backside of the 4 face buttons. If you do though... wow. All the benefits of a Hori Split pad Pro, with wireless, with Gyro, with RGB lighting, and better ergonomics.

There's the update coming soon warning for Smash which happens up to a week before launch so Pyra/Mythra may be a "shortly after the presentation" release tomorrow.

Today is 4th Anniversary of Nintendo Switch. (3 March 2021)
Where is the article about that celebration ?

@Anti-Matter if you google 4th anniversary of Nintendo switch you will find many posts.
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@Wavey84
Because of the angled sides, my thumb actually doesn't go over the analog when resting on the A button. It does when reaching over for the other buttons but that never caused any issues for me.

Although I do get why it's not ideal, the controllers would have been way too fat to avoid that. And the first revision of these were. They looked more like Hori Split Pros. But it seems in the redesign they opted to go with a less bulky approach, which also had the advantage of now barely fitting into the Satisfye case. The previous revision, it was just so wide that no case would fit the Switch with them attached.

Personally I find the trade off between slimmer profile comfort and fitting in a case, and wider profile feeling too bulky and no way to transport, to be a good one

But that's just me.

@Anti-Matter
Never had much interest in Harvest Moon. The fact I've heard it's not as good as Story of Seasons maybe biases me a bit though.

I see Hot Wheels Unleashed announced for Switch. I get a bit excited; I had a few Hot Wheels as a kid, they were cool. Then I see the developer is Milestone and all my enthusiasm evaporates. I'm not a fan of their work. Nice all-CG trailer though.