Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

For anyone looking to dive into Monster Hunter when Sunbreak releases, the base game is on sale for $29.99 on Amazon right now. With just enough time to get through it before Sunbreak releases June 30th

https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Hunter-Rise-Nintendo-Switch/dp...

Oh, and the Sunbreak Pro Controller is live on Amazon UK. Ships to US
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Switch-Controller-Monster-S...

I started playing Crash Bandicoot N'sane Trilogy, and I'm putting it in my backlog for now mainly because I'm finding it very hard (I'm still on world 1). The is great. just not what I want to play right now.

But I'm still loving Okami! I love that whole world and its characters.

@Yoshi2 It's a singular experience that can be really wonderous to explore. There are plenty of voices on the internet who'll tell you that it's terrible or OK but "not Zelda". That's the internet - most people who play BoTW do love it.

N64 games were always a bit ropey around the edges (even at the time) but they were cutting edge graphically - especially for multiplayer. It's hard to go back to - though the arcade style games like Star Fox 64, F-Zero X and Wave Race 64 are still great fun.

The Gamecube on the other hand has some amazing & very "Nintendo" games that you might never have played. Hopefully Wind Waker HD comes to Switch soon - it's still a series highlight especially after its nip & tuck for Wii U - and Paper Mario TTYD is also a top, top tier game. It's a scandal that they've not re-released that one in 20 years.

You've piqued my interest. I'd like to understand more about your perception of Switch before you bought in. Here it was, averaging 20 million units sold over 5 years, with the game that got the most universal praise I've ever witnessed as a launch title, but you were put off by bad reviews. What were these bad reviews focusing on, and what were they saying?

Don't want to watch those, @Yoshi2 .... Can we just have the main points they made? & When were they made?
Certainly seems like you'd have been better off ignoring them or looking for more positive ones to get a balance

@Yoshi2
Switch isn't perfect, that's for sure, but a lot of the complaints leveraged against it are weak arguments- things the vast majority of people aren't bothered by. Or they're things that can largely be tolerated or overlooked when weighed against the benefits and appeal of the system.

I've found anyone can rattle off a list of critiques for just about anything if they want to make it look as bad as possible. But without putting those critiques in proper context alongside the pros, it's easy to be misled and come to a biased conclusion. And once that seed has been planted, confirmation bias can then become a major hindrance.

Which is why I never watch videos that only focus on a narrative of something being bad. Right off the bat it's a biased perspective. Omitting the positives always results in an unbalanced viewpoint. Likewise for omitting the negatives.

Best to find real gamers who own the system and ask them what their overall thoughts are. Pros and cons both taken into account, how much do they enjoy the system? I know about 10 ppl with a Switch besides myself. Some use it more than others, some like it more than others, but I don't think a single one would say they wouldn't recommend owning one (especially the OLED).

@Yoshi2

After almost forty years of enjoying the hobby, having owned most of the mainstream consoles at one point or another, the Switch stands as my favorite of all-time. Even though I feel that the joy-con are among one of the worst controllers Nintendo have ever produced (I haven't used a pair that lasted more than six months; all of them suffered drift eventually), that doesn't detract from how I feel about the platform. It wasn't the first to give the hybrid design a try (Sega Nomad and/or Turbo Express tried it first), but the Switch is the best example of the idea.

So with Pinball on the NES online it's possible with rewind to get a maxed out score.

wish me luck lads I'm going to do the impossible, with NES controllers.

Nintendo announced out of nowhere that KOTOR II is coming to Switch June 8th:

@Grumblevolcano Interesting shadow drop

@DarthNocturnal The end of this trailer says "Restored Content DLC" is coming soon, is that what you're on about?

Yo!!!

I've been waiting on this! Ever since KOTOR released I've been badgering Aspyr to release the sequel. I'm so glad it's coming, and soon.

Perfect games for Switch. And they fixed the large text issue in the first game, so this should definitely be on point.

Star Wars Celebration has been such a great time for game news. I never expected KotOR II to be announced, nor a trailer for Jedi: Fallen Order's sequel to drop. Before this second day of the event, I'd had little hope that any gaming news beyond Star Wars Hunters would be here - as that was the only one with an actual panel.

But now, with two days left, there's every possibility we get more. And I seriously hope we do. It'd be great to see something new - that's not a mobile game or port - be announced to be coming to the Switch. And if anyone has anything ready, Celebration is the best place to show it.

@Grumblevolcano its not really out of nothing. these days are the Star Wars celebration days (until 29th of may.) so we might expect more today and tomorrow.

I want it to be June 2nd already, event season begins on that day with a State of Play.

@reporterdavid When I posted it, I wasn't aware of the Star Wars celebration.

@Grumblevolcano Who needs E3 when you just have E(veryone else).

I'm getting antsy for some Pokemon news myself, I don't want the Great Pokemon News Drought of 2021 to happen again (it hopefully won't since it was very much because BDSP and PLA were linked together but it still makes me worried whenever we get past May and there's still nothing).

I can't fathom what you're even talking about. We got 3 games, they did not avoid talking about those 3 games.

@kkslider5552000 There was not a single bit of news between February (the reveal) to August (the Pokemon Presents) apart from the release dates, box-arts and a tiiiiiiiny bit of BDSP gameplay in the Switch OLED reveal trailer. It was absolute hell when we knew next to nothing about both, particularly PLA. The August trailers were fantastic but still, was it ever painful.

@kkslider5552000 After February 2021 reveal for BDSP and Legends Arceus, the only info we got on them before August 2021 was release dates revealed in June 2021 and a small snippet of gameplay in the Switch OLED reveal in July 2021 so it was very much an info drought for those 2 games.

I'm sure there'll be something in June. It's a new generation. They wouldn't leave us hanging for info. Right?