Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Slowdive The SEGA AGES series was God tier support. M2 did the Lord's work I'm not too fussed about Yakuza, but Vanquish missing the Switch hurt.

@Slowdive i see, so Donkey Kong is in good hands, and is 2D i guess?

@timleon Zero Mission is still one of the best Metroidvanias out there IMO. It's incredibly fluid and fun. It's only real issue is that it's kinda annoying to 100% due to a few minor issues in the endgame.

@Slowdive The team must hate Nintendo. Or someone that's a higher up still has a grudge over that Wiiu port flopping.

Or maybe Sega is stupid. Well, with Persona 5 never appearing on the Switch, I think they are.

To me the real main issue is how embarrassingly easy Ridley is.

@kkslider5552000 I forgot about that since I played on hard mode last time, where he flips around to become the hardest version of Ridley somehow

@MsJubilee thing is Persona 5 on Switch might be Atlus’ doing rather than Sega.

In any case apart from Yakuza, Football Manager and Valkyria Chronicles is there much worth buying from Sega (not Atlus) nowadays anyway? Shenmue 3, Panzer Dragoon Remake and House Of The Dead Remake weren’t even published by Sega.

Anyone think that even though Bethesda is now owned by Microsoft, we may get DOOM Eternal Switch news during E3? It'll have been 7 months since the release of the Switch version when E3 comes along and Ancient Gods Part 1 released 7 months after the release of the PS4/XB1/PC versions.

@Slowdive I just gave that DK vid you posted a listen. I skipped the 2nd half of it as the questions sounded boring but it was a good listen otherwise.

Whilst the talk of secret cancelled games was intriguing the part I found the best from it was their take on fandom. Fandom should be a celebration of the thing rather than an overly critical bitch, rant and complaint of it which it often leads to which is something I have thought too.

@Slowdive I try to avoid Star Wars and comic books fandom myself. It's a shame as the forever on going nature of comics makes for great speculation but I've had enough of CBR (the biggest comics site) and others being so miserable all the time. It's literally just people moaning, every now and then I will read something that is so good I'm desperate to talk about it and go on there only to be reminded what a poop-hole it is, it's not even insightful complaining. The toxic nature of the site has resulted in the entire forum being banned before.

They made a valid point of fandom just doubling down on it's own ideas rather being open to new ones, with their example of Nathan Fillion was good in a genre show like Firefly so whenever a genre movie fantasy casting took place fans kept suggesting him rather than someone like Heath Ledger (who did smash it as Joker) but was moaned about as he was from outside of their limited scope.

I'm still curious about who was originally working on the first DK Switch game if it wasn't Retro. Team Ninja comes to mind as a possibility but I suppose that won't come out for years though.

It's interesting that Sonic Colours Ultimate has kept the "u" in "Colours". The original Wii release had it but didn't expect it to appear in the HD remaster. Nintendo for example used the US spelling in Europe for Paper Mario Color Splash.

@Grumblevolcano I'm just going to leave the over used "Sega Does What Nintendon't" meme here which the internet loves to use every time Sega apparently does something vaguely better than Nintendo, almost like they haven't moved on from the Mega Drive console war days.

I just realized.

Monster Hunter Rise breaking 7 million on Switch means 1 copy for every 12 Switch owners in the world. That's a pretty insane ratio given how niche it was just a few years ago, when I was literally learning Japanese Hiragana and Katakana and basic words for 6 months just to understand the Japanese version of MHXX because localizations were a crapshoot- you never knew if the game was coming west, and if so, how many years it would take.

That's also nearly 0.1% of the entire population of humanity on planet earth. Think about that! Of every human being on earth, a tenth of 1% of them bought Monster Hunter Rise on Nintendo Switch. That's mind boggling! Especially considering the percentage of the global population that is in poverty and doesn't have time or money for such leisure, which makes it all the more impressive.

Perhaps some day the entire world will be into MH, and they'll start giving us holidays whenever a game releases.

@jump From Sega themselves? Haven't played these, but I've heard people liking the new Shenmue, Streets of Rage, and people be excited for the new(?) Virtua Fighter, and that supposed Super Monkey Ball remake. Plus obviously Sonic stuff (even if Rangers doesn't fill me with hope).

@link3710 Nah, Sega didn't make or publish those games I mentioned plus Streets Of Rage 4. Sega just licenced them off and had no dealings with them afterwards.

Sonic with it's consistent inconsistency and Super Monkey Ball re-releases aren't exactly the most thrilling but at least Yuzuka and Valkyria Chronicles are still good.

@jump Unfortunately Valkyria Chronicles was pretty inconsistent outside the first and forth games, judging by reviews. Also it sold pretty badly which is a shame. I have the limited collectors edition of the forth game still boxed. Never got round to playing it.

@FragRed well 4 sold over a million copies, it can't of done that badly. You should get it out of it's box and give it a try, it's a fudging delight!

@jump Jeez, Sega really has gotten lax with their IPs of late. I mean, it's caused a giant upswing in quality but still. Looks like most of their releases in the past 5 years have been Mario & Sonic, Puyo Puyo, or Yakuza. Lots and lots of Yakuza. Sakura Wars, Sonic, and Super Monkey Ball were the only exceptions.

@jump I’m sure it did sell well enough to warrant a profit but unfortunately a lot of publishers only consider games a success if they sell incredibly high numbers. Just look at Square Enix as a prime example of having too high expectations.

@FragRed Square Enix do spend silly money on their games which requires silly sales but VC4 was a smaller project more like Bravely Default or Lost Sphear which doesn’t need the same silly sales. In any case both me and you don’t know what Sega’s projected numbers were for VC4 and if they met to be considered a success but over 1+m doesn’t comes across as it did badly like say Balan did.

Also play the bloody game right now, it’s fantastic! ;p