Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Anti-Matter Oh does that have photography too? The MH Stories games do interest me more than regular Monster Hunter so I might try them out one day.

Broke out my official SNES-style Switch controller for the first time in a while for a quick dose of nostalgia and...eh?

Was the SNES controller always like this? Everything about it just feels...off. The pad feels too light, the shoulder buttons too clicky, and the buttons don't feel in an ideal position (my thumb naturally rests just to the left of the Y button...I don't even have large hands!). Plus the Pro Controller d-pad is much more to my tastes, feeling a little less stiff and more ergonomically positioned beside the controller's grip.

It's weird because for a while I've thought of the SNES controller as the gold standard for 2D games...but I suppose modern controllers have really gone above and beyond this. Maybe the SNES controller really was that great and the Switch replica has failed to do it justice, or maybe it's just down to my own tastes. I've also been really disappointed going back to the Mega Drive and Saturn pads (which both seem to have some of the worst d-pads and buttons I remember using).

Needless to say, I think I'll sell this on and continue to use my Pro Controller from now on. Definitely my favourite controller ever produced by Nintendo, and a good contender for my favourite of all time.

@Wavey84
Doesn't feel flimsy to me.

Gyro is not IR. Gyro will never be IR, and thus does not work as well imitating an IR pointer. It also isn't meant for SNES Doom games that only turn right and left. But as far as Gyro goes, it's top notch.

Plenty of titles don't hiccup constantly. All the ones that use gyro to supplement aiming with the stick rather than replace it. It never has a chance to lose calibration because the right stick is being moved every few seconds. You can't get mad at a car for not being an airplane. Gyro is not going to replace an IR pointer. And that's fine. But when used to fine tune aiming it's phenomenal. More importantly though, it's just as good as any other gyro. So you can criticize gyro, that's fine, but it's as good as any gyro on any other system. Granted, there is a recent breakthrough using a magnometer on Dualsense which is amazing and helps counter drift. But most games that use it don't have that problem because it's supplementary.

Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil Revelations
Resident Evil Revelations 2
Assassins Creed 3
Assassins Creed Rebel Collection
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Borderlands Handsome Collection
Doom Eternal
Metro 2033
Metro Last Light
Saint's Row 3
Saint's Row 4
Monster Hunter Rise
Zelda BotW
Splatoon 2
Alien Isolation
Daemon X Machina
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
LA Noire
Okami HD (used as pointer but only briefly)
Sniper Elite v2
Sniper Elite 3
Sniper Elite 4
Skyrim
Zombie Army Trilogy

@timleon

Not happy with the official SNES Switch controller?

Maybe you should consider the 8bitdo SN30?

@timleon

It never was that confortable, i always found it hard to hit the shoulder button while keeping your thumb on the face buttons. But back then there wasnt much to compare it to. Plus you probably had smaller hands

@Magician I think maybe the general style just isn't for me these days! I'm more than happy with my Pro Controller tbh.

@Ninchiku definitely true about the smaller hands (I was a kid when I first played the snes). I do wonder how I managed with the much bulkier n64 pad growing up.

Ok. Brutal honesty here. After seeing the initial gameplay for No More Heroes III, I kinda lost any excitement I had. Just didn't look that great.

But this latest trailer, whatever the heck you want to call it... I don't even know what to say, except it looks good. Like, genuinely crazy and fun.

Sequel to Darkside detective just got shadow dropped for next week, the original was really enjoyable.

Are you trying to say that the whole world isn't just the US and UK? And furthermore, not just the super populated parts of said countries?

Insanity.

@rallydefault clearly they are wrong as there’s that Japan place too that makes the Waifu simulator games!

@Slowdive
The Smurfs game again on PS4, Switch, XBOX ONE and PC ? 🧐
I hope the gameplay is not cheap 2D Platformer like The Smurfs 2 on PS3 / Wii / XBOX 360.

Nintendo updated the NSO info video from the September 2018 Direct again to swap SMB 35 with Pac-Man 99. As you'd expect, there's still a lot more dislikes than likes.

Internal voice: Hmm. I really need to try Pac-Man 99. It won't take long to just try it.

...

clicks back into Monster Hunter Rise

True, true!

Hot Wheels Unleashed Pre-Alpha Gameplay looking... well, hot

I was not expecting this to be a game that caught my interest. But this looks really fun.

That’s debunked as a mistake now. Shame but I’m still slowly working my way through the collection and not even on the 3rd game yet so I wouldn’t get to Borderlands 3 any time soon anyway.

Neo: The World Ends With You is looking good too. My brother loved the first one on DS.

July release date. Man, it'd gonna be Monster Hunter Stories 2, Zelda Skyward Sword and Neo: TWEWY all back to back to back right after e3

@jump
I myself am still on Borderlands 2 and have the entire first game and Pre-Sequel (although I'll probably skip the first). So it makes no difference to me. Borderlands 2 is the gold standard and looks incredible on Switch.

Still, I would like to have the 3rd on Switch also. I hate that Claptrap is voiced by someone else, but it's Borderlands- it's still excellent.

I'm pretty sure Borderlands 3 is coming regardless, even if the rating was in error. For one, they went out of their way to release the DLC that connects the story to BL3 after Legendary Collection released. Why do that if BL3 isn't coming? And secondly, Take Two has already stated they regret not supporting Switch sooner and are looking to get on the grind now.

Only way BL3 doesn't end up on Switch is if they can't get it running with satisfactory results (which is a possibility we shouldn't discount, but I think it could be done, especially after the excellent results of the Legendary Collection).

@JaxonH If Take Two are that serious about the Switch they can start making a move on some Rockstar games. Apart from L.A. Noire (I can see the clever thing they did but no thanks) there's no nothing on Switch. Makes me half heartdly wonder if they still have a grudge from the DMA N64 days.

@jump
No doubt.

GTAV should have been on Switch by now.

@jump @JaxonH

I'd like to believe it's the file size limitation of the Switch game cartridge that's holding things up for GTA V on Switch. But that probably isn't the case. Take Two could easily just put the single player portion of GTA V on a 32 GB cartridge and force buyers to download an application for the online portion. But if they haven't bothered to do even that much after four years then...yes, there has to be some form of post Body Harvest grudge going on.