Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Whelp that was short lived.

It seems like Legends Arceus is still going extremely well, it's higher in the UK eshop popularity sorting than Fortnite.

@Cynas The Waddle Dee was not as wise as we thought.

@Fizza I would argue he was the wiser of all

If you enjoy the Mario/Mushroom Kingdom cast of characters, and you enjoy football, then there'll definitely be fun to be had. I'm a big fan of the original GameCube version and have only really played that single-player.

To me, the disappointing thing about Battle League is that it's not really adding much depth to what we've had before. I've been crying out for them to make it a bit more simulation-like, because the football gameplay is pretty simplistic: you can dribble, perform a skill move to evade tackles, dash, pass, aerial pass, shoot, head and tackle. On the one hand, that is sufficient for fun gameplay, but you don't get a great deal of variation in the football gameplay because it's only five-a-side and individual players don't have individual skill moves. From the trailer for Battle League it does look like now individual players will have their own special shots, as we see Yoshi performing some sort of egg special shot, which is a positive thing for sure. But I would like the option to expand the football to bigger pitches, eleven-a-side, and have a bit more FIFA/PES style nuance to the football.

What makes Stikers fun though is that as soon as the difficulty is up from rookie, games become a real scrap, smashing opponents off the ball, items flying everywhere, goals don't come easy and the opposition is always a threat - that makes for tense titanic slugfests and when you score a goal it always feels good.

Hopefully Battle League will be brilliant in local multiplayer as it's offering 8-player local on a single Switch, which just sounds epic if you can gather a group of football enthusiasts to play, but even in single player, if you've not played Strikers before then I'm confident there's fun to be had.

I'm not convinced Battle League has got the same soul as that in the GameCube version, but the basic ingredients are the same so can't go too far wrong.

Though I do feel we're past the point now where each new generation of Mario sports games fails to build sufficiently upon what's gone before, as the consensus seems to be regarding the tennis and golf games on Switch, and from a single player perspective the same looks true for Battle League, so I do question the value of each of the three (golf, tennis, football) being full price games and would like to see them bundled.

Has Nintendo ever done an American football game before? Granted if Bowser tackled someone, he would likely kill them.

@Ryu_Niiyama

NES Play Action Football

Edit: As well as Super Play Action Football. I didn't know about that one, lol.

@Magician hmm, Both Play Action games were developed by TOSE who co owns Starfy. So nothing fully in house or by a “Nintendo only” dev. TOSE works with Sony as well. Still good to know. Thank you.

@Ryu_Niiyama

shrug

Just Googled and saw that Nintendo EAD 3 was attached.

@Magician I used wikipedia. So I could be wrong. I have never played either.

@Ryu_Niiyama

NES PAF was awful. All the kids my age preferred Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl.

Tecmo Super Bowl III was pretty special too.

@Cynas OH MY GOD IT WAS JON ALL ALONG. WHAT A F******* TWIST.

@Fizza Hah, never would have expected that! He did a pretty good job with it.

I feel bad that I all noticed in the video was all the Zelda stuff in the background. I didn't even listen to him.

What a legend.

This needed to be done. I keep telling ppl the “leakers” who live on Twitter and their whole account is devoted to leaks, who delete wrong tweets to make themselves look more accurate… they aren’t leakers.

Samus Hunter and definitely Markomaro come to mind.

I must admit though, despite being wrong wrong wrong wrong, soooo wrong for sooo long, Samus Hunter has actually been correct the last 2 times in a row, one of which was giving the specific date of the Direct well in advance. Idk if she just faked it so long she finally got a source, or if it was miraculous luck, but I can’t deny the evidence in front of me. I’m currently reassessing her but the jury is still out. I’ll have to see a few more correct predictions before I put my trust in anything she says.

There’s apparently American football in some of the Mario & Sonic games, but I’m not sure who makes those.

@Eel
That’s rugby. Very similar but not the same. I am far from an expert on rugby but from what I know it is basically a less controlled football

@JaxonH
Samus hunter guessing a direct would happen in February is not some amazing thing. Anyone could see it coming based on the last ten years.

@blindsquarel
It wasn't just guessing the month. It was specifying the exact day.

Or rather, I think it was the Kirby release date. Ya. She nailed the exact release date of Kirby Forgotten Land long before the Direct told us. And, she nailed a previous prediction spot on as well.

So that's not something that can be hand waved away as lucky guessing, unless there was incredibly lightning in a bottle lottery ticket luck involved.

I'm neither gullible nor a skeptic. I assess fairly and rationally based on evidence. Up until recently, I categorized her as a fake.

But recent events have brought me to re-assess, specifically because it wasn't something that could easily be guessed. Certainly not twice in a row, that multiplies probabilities to become incredibly minute by random chance.

But as I said, I'm keeping a close eye so that I can acquire the information necessary to make a proper determination

@blindsquarel ah thanks, I had assumed it was just a regional name for it. Like how the USA says Soccer when talking about the other football.