Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@WoomyNNYes
That's a good question nobody has answered. I hope so, and I think so, as Vita used a plastic screen. Plastic ensures it won't break if dropped, while we can use tempered, oleophobic glass screen protector to give the same benefits. I'd be surprised if they made it glass.

@kkslider5552000
Yea, I'm totally disenchanted with most modern game design these days, to be honest. Nintendo's games are kind of my last refuge along with some higher-quality indie stuff.

I just can't climb any more towers, skin any more raccoons, or unlock any more skill trees. It's so monotonous and predictable. I look at games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Red Dead 2 and just shudder. It's the same dirt being shoveled into different rows. Even Last of Us 2 and the Spider Man game don't interest me these days.

On that note, PLEASE bring back some more Zelda elements in BotW2, Nintendo. PLEASE.

@rallydefault It has been very refreshing playing Skyward Sword HD, an actual 3D Zelda game on Switch. The HD remaster fixed the problems that prevented me from progressing far in the Wii original, I hope the rest of the 3D Zelda games come soon.

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Look man, the monster hunter movie was sooooo bad, It was rushed, animation was crap, It felt like a animated tutorial TBH. 2/10

@Kirby_EU

Physical release please. Or I'll be waiting for a deep discount if it's digital-only. Even though the combined file size for the trilogy is less than 8 GB, I can envision TakeTwo asking $60 for this trilogy.

I think you might've missed my point. In theory, I agree with this post. More interested in various other games than these type of modern games.

But odds are at least a handful of them will actually live up to the hype anyway (not Assassin's Creed, **** that series at this point). I mean, a lot of the changes for BOTW are stuff that in theory I wouldn't want, but I adored how that game worked so...who knows?!

I also consistently didn't like stealth games and then doing a no-kill stealth run of Deus Ex: Human Revolution ended up being one of the clear highlights of the Wii U for me. Something something, assumptions bad.

My problem is more that these type of big open world games are stuff I want less frequently than other games, yet they keep focusing on them instead of various other things they could be doing. So less cool games exist because of those decisions. I also don't like when Nintendo over-relied on platformers around a decade ago, and that's my favorite genre.

@kkslider5552000
Hrm... I think we keep crossing lines, I don't know. I also dislike the "big open world games," and those are the games that everybody is making and seems intent on making for the next long while. It seems any big game introduced these days has to have some kind of open-world element and tons of crafty/time-wasting things to do or else it's considered sub-par or should cost less than full price.

I mean, let's all be real. Does anyone think the next God of War, for instance, isn't going to boast about a massive open world and skill trees and crafting?

So if that's not what you're trying to say, I still don't understand what you're trying to say lol sorry

Well the point is that the games are (generally speaking) fine. The trend is obnoxious, some of those games go out of their way to be obnoxious with how big they are, and has gone along with the trend of "let's make less games", which is far more obnoxious. Perfect example is Ghost of Tsushima. I'm confident I would like that game a lot and it looks unbelievable. The fact that its the same type of open world game counteracts that every time I think about it, purely because of how overdone it is. Think of how many good, interesting games Ubisoft didn't make because they just wanted to make the same type of open world game.

Trends are often just kinda bad in general, especially when people who only care about money notice a successful trend. But you'll see in music often, a lot of people will hate on a song or artist because they fit so well in current trends, and then when those trends are long dead, they're looked back upon far more fondly (disco being the best example of this). Because the good stuff tends to stick around, and most of the mediocre to bad stuff is forgotten.

Perfect gaming example would be 3D World and Skyward Sword. Now that Mario Odyssey and BOTW exists, those two games have gotten praise partially for feeling fresh, when they weren't when they first came out (though I'd argue it'd been 5 years since the last 3D Zelda before SS and Zelda clones weren't exactly common by 2011, but whatever)

To be fair though, trends can still suck after they're gone. I played Resistance 1 a while ago, god do I still hate the brown linear, kinda slow, shooter era, it hurts the game quite a bit. That and Bulletstorm are games I like but am fairly confident would've been better had they not felt obligated to follow FPS trends of the time.

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@kkslider5552000
You’ve explained my thoughts better than I could.

A lot of these big AAA games are actually really high-quality games. And in a vacuum, any one of them on their own would probably really excite me. But the over saturated genres of cookie cutter trends have all but stifled my interest in most of them, to the point even games I might consider legendary if they were one of a kind, become monotonous and a complete hype killer.

Look at Demon Souls. Great game, right? I might not have the patience for it but I recognize it’s an incredibly high-quality game and my brother is a massive fan. But then we also got Dark Souls. And Dark Souls 2. And Dark Souls 3. And Bloodborne. And Nioh. And Nioh 2. And Sekiro. And Dark Souls Remastered. And Demons Souls remake. And now Eldin Ring… and GOBS of DLC across the board. Not to mention other games following the blueprint like The Surge 2, Darksiders 3, Chronos, etc.

How many freaking games following this same outline do we need? And ppl don’t get sick of it? It’s unbelievable. I see “new Souls game” now and I just roll my eyes. The only reason I’m gonna try Eldin Ring is because I haven’t played all those other games to completion, because I never get that far before giving up. But if I was actually into the series and playing these games I would be fed up by now. Seriously fed up.

And dont even get me started on the “realistic human in 3rd person perspective in open world with skill trees” games. It’s even worse than Souls. Far worse. And again, it’s not that the games are bad in their own right, it’s that there’s way way way way way way way way waaaaay too many of them. And tbh, that might partly explain why I have such a hard time getting into games like that, regardless of how high-quality they are.

@JaxonH Well on the topic of Demon's Souls I feel personally inclined to give that one a pass considering it's literally the reason all those other games exist

The genre can seem to be a tad oversaturated or dare I say, fatiguing nowadays given the slew of either FromSoft or Souls-like games we have now like Code Vein, the Nioh series and even just recently with Final Fantasy Origin which is being made by the Nioh team, but I wouldn't exactly say it's Demon's Souls Remake's fault for coming out so late into the genre's evolution given it's remaking a game that was basically the template for these subsequent titles, on top of being a highly requested game in regards to "PlayStation IP revivals" given FromSoft's relationship to Sony even today.

@kkslider5552000
Perfect games on Nintendo Switch for me are the non popular games with cartoonish looking and only me have interest about.

@TheFrenchiestFry
I don’t place blame at any one titles feet, and if any game “deserves” the right to exist above reproach it’s Demons Souls. That being said, even the Demons Souls remake suffers from fatigue and overload as much as every other game in the list. By no fault of its own, of course. But it is what it is. And no doubt they’re working on another Bloodborne or BB style game, and no doubt Bandai Namco and Koei Tecmo will continue to pump out even more.

There’s so many I can’t even keep up with them all. You mentioned Code Vein- yup, forgot about that. And FF Origins, forgot about that (not sure how close it or follow that template but it’s possible). There was also Lords of the Fallen. It’s nuts. All for a genre that’s not even all that popular in the first place. Most games do a couple million. Imagine if every other game that did a couple million got this many carbon copies. My goodness.

I'd buy a remaster of Vice City so fast.....

I bought very few Nintendo Switch games during this year too as I decided to build my Wii, Gamecube and Wii U games quickly whenever I found Wii / Wii U / Gamecube games I want to get from Tokopedia. Rare old games are more important than some upcoming release games that I can always buy them later.

@JaxonH I mean that was basically where the platformer was back in the 90's lol. They just weren't called "Mario-esques" but everyone under the sun wanted their own mascot and few actually succeeded

I at least credit Souls for being a fresh spin on what action RPGs could be in terms of worldbuilding and gameplay/progression but there are very few "copies" that I've played that really emulate that feel. The best one from a non-FromSoftware company imo would have to be Nioh 1 & 2

Could not get into Nioh or any of the other Souls like games with the Surge (2) being the exception.

But what are we even talking about, it's not like it's as bad as all the Doom clones back in the day. If you don't like them don't buy them.