Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Yeah the affection system in BDSP is busted. I purposely didn't fight all the trainers in order to not be overlevelled, which resulted in me being a bit underlevelled for the Elite 4 and I still won thanks to power of friendship anime nonsense. It was hilarious when my Pokemon would survive a hit and have 1 hp left, and then have it activate again and survive another hit.

Like I said, straight up deus ex machina power of friendship anime nonsense.

Haven is surprisingly good. Granted I think a lot of the game hinges on being emotionally invested in the couple (very grateful they added a same sex option) but over it’s a nice bit of game design overall.

I’m supposed to be playing Kirby. Ah well.

@Link-Hero Cool! I posted a more detailed opinion in the recommendations thread as well. I gotta say I need to pick up Furi now. I am starting to like this dev.

Sony acquiring Square Enix rumours are running rampant again, it will be sad times if Live a Live is the end of Square Enix support on the Switch.

Decided to bite the bullet and buy Mario Tennis Aces while it was on sale. While it is as overwhelming as I thought it might be mechanically, you can feel things falling into place with every match and when things are clicking, it is honestly very fun and very satisfying. Nothing like capping off a surprisingly intense, sweaty, rally with some sort of Dragon Ball Z death swing to knock out your opponent.

While I don't enjoy the core Mario games as I do not like platformers at all, I end up enjoying pretty much any other genre Nintendo seem to throw this brand on that I end up trying. Whereas other studios might licence out their IP for cheap mobile game garbage, it feels like Nintendo put a lot of work into polishing each of these titles to make sure they feel more than just cash grab spin offs. This honestly gives me a lot of hope for Mario Strikers later in the year.

I do feel very much right now like I am mostly just spamming buttons trying to stay in the game, but I can already see the high ceiling a game like this could offer for those who are dedicated and I am interested to see how far I can get with it. One thing I really like, is while the game can be pretty difficulty given it is fast paced, with a lot of things to remember and a lot of precision required, there are mercy rules. Get stuck on a boss too long, you just get like a super saiyan mode to beat the boss and move on. And online it isn't like one racket break and it is game over, like these boss battles are, so you can keep learning, keep getting stronger with the levelling system, without actually getting stuck.

Another thing I really like, is for whatever reason, Nintendo hates my internet. I play games like Pokemon and MH Rise on my Switch fine, same with every PC game I ever play, but I guess the Nintendo made 1st party stuff must use some really antiquated peer to peer system for all of their titles? As literally I never find anybody, this pretty much killed Mario Kart and Party for me. However, this just populates the game with bots. Not as fun as playing against people I am sure, but at least it means I'm not locked out like the co-op challenges and stuff when I get around to doing them.

@Pizzamorg MH Rise was the first Switch game on Nintendo's new servers, Nintendo games prior to that was on Windows 98 servers. Games with multiplayer since then are:

• Mario Golf Super Rush
• Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl
• Switch Sports

Oh my Gosh does this mean I'll actually be able to play Switch Sports online?

Wait, Windows 98 servers?! That's frankly unbelievable. It's taken them that long for decent multiplayer?

Nintendo Life reported on it back in February 2021:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/02/nintendo_is_replaci...

@Grumblevolcano I remember hearing about this prior to Legends Arceus coming out. The fact that Nintendo servers up until 2021 were run on the same thing as this:

is hilariously depressing. So many lag spikes in Smash.... so many.....

I think you are sorta splitting hairs here and focusing on the wrong things. All we are saying is NSO was ***** up until basically 2021, when they finally went... okay, let us use infrastructure that isn't the same as an AOL online chat from the late 90s.

For many, they would just get bad performance from NSO because I have to assume it was using antiquated peer to peer infrastructure, which means you have to have a fully open internet connection that is very high speed as you are effectively torrenting the game down and up to play it online.

For someone like me, who uses hybrid mobile internet due to where I live, I cannot open my ports to the degree that NSO agrees with to allow this peer to peer sharing, so I just couldn't play any Nintendo games online basically until Rise came out.

@Pizzamorg What's weird for me is that, despite only using 1-2 bars of wifi for online games since my TV is situated far away from my broadband, I still get mostly great connections in games like Pokemon Unite, Mario Kart 8 and even Splatoon 2, the game that started this whole discussion in the first place. I guess Ireland just has better wifi than most? I mean I'll take it.

I mean it might seem fine on your end, but for all you know you're teleporting around the screen, thinking you're some unbeatable God when actually you are just lagging.

@Pizzamorg Trust me, it feels like the exact opposite most of the time: I get completely trounced over and over again. In Splatoon and Smash especially, even today I just fought the most annoying Palutena who just spammed Up-Smash and Counter constantly.... and I still managed to lose. Mamma mia....

I've never had an issue with Splatoon online, interestingly.

Smash is almost unplayable on Wi-Fi for me, though.

@Fizza Morbidly curious about Sheep.exe, I'll admit.

@Rambler your assessment is correct. That article didn’t say they were running win98 servers just checking for it which was likely holdover code.

Software like that is modified over time to run on whatever OS is needed. At my job we had some ABB robots still running programs off floppy disk. Crude, but it worked. And if it works, it's hard to convince the company to allocate funds to replace. Unless the financial impact of not upgrading outweighs the cost of upgrading, companies typically just let it ride until the inevitable day comes they're forced to replace it.

I've been on a Splatoon 2 binge since restarting my save file, and am fast approaching 100 hours logged just in the past few weeks. I've never had online connection issues in Splatoon. I'm currently hardwired with ethernet for all my consoles, Switch included, but I put 300+ hours into Splatoon 2 with a wireless connection when it released and that game has always run flawlessly, barring a few isolated incidents I remember in the first month after launch. I even played Salmon Run at work today in tabletop using my phone's hotspot, and it felt no different than playing at home.

Monster Hunter Rise was also perfect online, and at least from the little I've played online, Switch Sports as well. I don't really recall ever having issues with online, but then again, I seldom play games online. Splatoon and Monster Hunter are rare exceptions where I pump hundreds of hours in. I never bothered playing Smash online, and probably did less than 10 hours online in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

@Rambler yeah I bought it about 5 months ago. Not any different to the original I think. Its not on sale much. I think I paid €8 for it. I think there was an update, but I'm not sure what for.

Nintendo life had 3500 new members this week. Not many sites do that amount of new members. I think.

@Ninfan How do you see how many new members joined Nintendo Life?