Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Slowdive
They went all out on this Switch release. The arcade version had 5 tracks. They’re good tracks, but only 5. The Switch version will have 29 tracks which is nearly 6X as many as the arcade release! That’s nuts!

Not sure if it’ll have online (don’t think it does?), but frankly, I play arcade racers solo so it makes little difference to me. As long as it has local wireless and split screen (which it does- 4p splitscreen in fact) I’m good. Because the only time I’ll play with anyone else is if I visit my brother and we play in person.

Samurai Musou/Warriors 5 demo on the Japanese eshop.

@JaxonH Wait seriously? I was prepared for this game to be small, but that's like almost as many tracks as the first three games combined. There's also 23 cars apparently, which is also basically as much as the first three games combined...

I wonder if they are all new tracks or if we'll see classic tracks remade?

EDIT: It looks in the trailer like perhaps we're just getting 5 remixed versions of each track...? It's hard to say.

@gcunit
Yea, hoping for a demo on Blast is definitely the way to go. I'm honestly a bit confused as to why everyone seems so over-the-moon about Blast when most Cruis'n console ports over the decades have been, well... pretty darn bad lol

@rallydefault To be fair, this isn't the N64 days. Most arcade ports released now are 1:1 conversions.

@link3710
Hey man, your money. I don't buy Cruis'n console ports unless I get to play a demo or a friend's copy first. Doesn't matter what system.

And if you wanna hop on the 1:1 conversion train, sure, but you might want to check out some of the arcade reviews, then. I don't know about you, but "unresponsive steering" is not really my fave when it comes to any racing game, whether it's kart, arcade, or sim.

@rallydefault Lol, who said I was gonna buy without checking it out first? I can be excited for a game and not lose all sense of reason.

Well I'm hyped for Crus'n blast, especially after seeing that some of the playable racers include a tank, a flying unicorn, a dinosaur, and a shark with a laser on it's head...!

They've increased the tracks from 5 to 30 (!) which kind of indicates they've put a lot of work in to the console port so I'm hoping it'll be a good job. I wonder if Nintendo may have helped out with development.

@link3710
Not I. Why?

@Clyde_Radcliffe
Flying unicorn, dinosaur, tank....
Wuuut ?? 😲
That's so random thing to drift. 😆

I know right... and there's a level in London (where I live) and I saw the entire London Eye (Ferris Wheel) roll across the track and it had to be driven under! The game looks hilarious.

Crusin does look really good especially with excitetruck and the rush series dead. Always wished that blur would have become a full series.

It's a very specific type of racing game that we seem to be sorely missing.

Goodness knows there's no shortage of racers out there. But imo most don't interest me. 95% I'd estimate aren't even on my radar. And the more realistic it is, the less I seem to typically care. But that's only because realism is now highly correlated with simulation.

But the Excitebots, the Cruis'n games, the San Francisco Rush titles... they don't make em like that anymore. And that's a massive shame.

Cruis'n is just a crazy, wacky arcade racer. It won't win any GotY nominations. But it doesn't need to. It just needs to plug that massive gap we have in true arcade racing genre (if you can't do a dozen flips in the air, you're not a true arcade racer 😁).

I wish they'd release a steering wheel and pedal for this game. For real. I'm not into the whole SIM thing, which is what they're usually made for. But I would love to be able to replicate the arcade experience as much as possible. They probably won't, but it would be dope if they did.

Switch is doing a really good job, giving us a ton of specific titles fans have been wanting. The day will come where we're gonna look back on this generation and remember it as the glory days.

@JaxonH
It's fine to be "wacky" and all that other jazz, and nobody is arguing it won't be fun in short bursts. I'm just cautioning people about the franchise on consoles. Cruis'n is notorious for poor controls, bugs, and AI issues that can turn all that "wacky" fun into a frustrating waste of money pretty darn quickly. No amount of unicorn/pegasus piloting can make me smile past the inability to properly control the vehicle/mythical animal lol

Just do some research and read about people's opinions of the arcade version. Better yet, go find it at an arcade and play it.

Damn it! So whenever Ginshin impact comes to the switch, it looks like i'm going to have a alt account bc Sony doesn't have cross-save on theres, so, Now i'm stuck with sony (With my character I mean) So i'm going to have to have alt characters and stuff, Unless when it comes to the switch there's a event for the switch launch, but damn I wish I would have read that before starting, bc Switch is probably going to have cross save, so I did it on mobile I would have been good AWWWW damn it!

Which I don't get bc sony has a lot of cross play on there, So maybe its one, They just didn't go through the issues that would have to be to get it to be cross platform.

2 they tried and failed.

3 or and the is the most unlikely one of them all, The apple vs epic lawsuit But that came after so No,

Oh and about that lawsuit I hate how this two just made Sony and Xbox into the lawsuit, not cool.

@Snatcher
Whenever you buy a game within the Sony ecosystem, it’s best to just assume you’re locked in for life. As a general rule, it’ll save you a lot of hassle in the long run.

@Ryu_Niiyama
Might try the SW5 demo if it were on the NA eShop but, I’ve already got it preordered so, no need to go out of my way for the JP demo.

Let me know how it performs though.

@JaxonH Yep i'm doing that from now on, I haven't gotten anything on it, but its a gacha game so I don't want to lose my characters.

@Northwind Found someone new to block on Twitter once their arguments became "If you haven't played Tekken but have played Smash that's a personal failing" and "If you play games but haven't heard of Tekken then you should be shamed".

Like...what?

Did they have a point initially? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe it's because most of the PS1 game era was one and done titles or the sequels bombed. It was cutthroat back then after all. Who can say how the cultural zeitgeist works really? Its all perception and what they perceive is their reality.

Their reality is also really dismissive and a little bit unhealthy.

(random)

Getting ready to place my summer import order. Mercifully, there's only one Japan-exclusive I don't want to skip. Aria Chronicle. It's basically Darkest Dungeon, only not as merciless and not as...dark.

@Northwind
Croc was my PS1 game when I was teenager.