Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH @Grumblevolcano It's perfectly rational to wait when a game is published by a company known for their aggressive price depreciation. I do that with 95% of non-Nintendo published games.

But not this one. It's an exclusive that had a ton of love and money poured into it. This looks better than almost anything Nintendo has put out on the system. Basically, it looks fully worth the $60.

Hopefully it sells another ten million units and we get a third game in the series on the successor. Ubisoft is basically dead to me otherwise, but this series is gold.

Which is so weird, considering how everyone laughed at the idea when it was first leaked.

P3P and P4G release January 19th 2023 (a day before Fire Emblem Engage). I'm guessing no Switch and PS logo in the tweet is more of the same nonsense we saw in June about Microsoft having a few days timed exclusivity over the announcement.

I assume that'll be the release date for the Switch versions as well (though my guess is that'll probably be a bit later)? Was not expecting it to be out so soon after P5 honestly. P4 Golden has been one of my most anticipated releases ever since it was announced so I'll be keeping a close eye on this for any developments.

To be honest I still find it weird Mario uses a gun to kill baddies but the execution is done in a way they can get away it. Same with the Rabbids, rather than just having them be the annoying Rabbids from their own games which people would have hated they are cleverly used as parodies of the main Mario cast which works wonderfully.

I'm not sure it was necessarily laughter.... more absolute mortification.

@Ralizah That showcases more the difference between leaks/rumours and official reveals. Leaks/rumours usually cause a load of anger, frustration, disappointment, etc. by either setting people's expectations extremely high (e.g. Metroid and Zelda rumours turning out to be no shows in September) or by creating a incomplete picture (e.g. if the official HZD remaster reveal turned out to reveal free upgrade to existing owners there'd have been virtually no backlash if the rumour didn't exist).

There are only a few cases where gaming leaks and rumours have actually benefited the players. The one specifically that comes to mind is the Series X|S price leaks forcing Sony to price the PS5 reasonably.

@JaxonH the Mario movie by Illumination has the potencial of be the best movie based on a game and become the highest grosing animation/movie based on a game, watch out Lion King remake your reign is over. and @Ninfan all games work well in handheld mode(all the games i have played so far, the resolution/performance has stayed spot on, with no noticable drop).

@Giancarlothomaz eh? The Lion King isn’t based on a game. It was a rip off from an anime.

@Giancarlothomaz Yeah like Jump said, the Lion King remake was based off the original Disney animation from the 90s. There was also a game for it for the SNES, but the movie came first.

I'm getting my OLED today and it will be put away till sometime around/before US Thanksgiving, because my parents are helping me pay for it and it's also a Christmas gift.

Also I'm no longer getting Pokemon Violet and that's final. I'm getting Tunic instead.

Jan 18th: My birthday
Jan 19th: Persona 3 + Persona 4 Switch
Jan 20th: Fire Emblem Engage

I accept these terms.

Got some new goodies in the mail.

I wanted to keep my XC3 CE sealed, so in order to get the steelbook and art book I grabbed an extra JP version CE from eBay for $95 which said it included everything but the game. And yet when I opened it, the game was included, still sealed!

Can finally try Taiko no Tatsujin the way it was intended. Hope the drum works well.

@Kermit1
I highly recommend putting a tempered glass screen protector on your OLED the moment you open the box. iVoler sells 4 packs on Amazon that comes with an alignment frame. It can be a bit of a chore trying to get perfect if you're picky like I am, but if there's a piece of dust that bothers you, you can carefully peel it up and slip scotch tape underneath to dab the dust, then drop back down. Or completely peel off, use scotch tape to dab sticky underside of tempered glass screen protector, dab Switch screen, then re-apply. Sometimes it takes me 3 or 4 tries to get it flawless. But with enough patience it can be done.

If you're not super picky though, it's a breeze.

@JaxonH That XC3 CE box is sick.

Oh nice, you got the Taiko drum. I haven't used mine in a good while, but I can confirm it indeed works well for the game.

From my experience, how difficult it is to drum on it is contingent on how you hold the bachi. My immediate inclination was to grip them in my palms, but this keeps you from swinging them quickly. It's best to hold them somewhat loosely and away from your palms, which gives them some room to bounce and allows you to drum them in quick succession.

@JaxonH I'll see if that's doable in my budget lol.

I just bought the OLED, me and my dad forgot to bring bags so while we got supper in Wal-Mart... I got some odd looks holding the OLED like a baby with the warranty paper.

Me:

@Kermit1
It's like $7.44 for a 4 pack. But totally worth it to protect your purchase. That OLED screen has an anti-shatter film on it that's extremely prone to scratching, and fingerprints don't easily wipe off. Good tempered glass with oleophobic coating solves both those issues.

https://www.amazon.com/Tempered-Protector-Designed-Alignment-...

@JaxonH I put them in my cart. In Canada there on sale.

@Kermit1
Good call. You'll be glad you did.

Once that glass is on the screen you can breathe a sigh of relief. You can scrape with keys, drop in dock as rough as you want, do whatever, without worrying about the screen being damaged.

@NeonPizza
Yes. And aside from the whole 120fps thing you mentioned, I basically agree 100%

I've never liked R&C. Every time I play one it's the same thing- gorgeous visuals and cutscenes... boring gameplay. No gyro just makes it even worse. I'm not sure gyro would fix the fact it's just not that fun, but it would at least make it tolerable.

It feels like how Ubisoft approaches AAA games. "Just follow this recipe" banking on high production values and spectacle to sell it. But the core gameplay loop is as dull as they come.

They've never made good platformers imo. The best one I've played from them is Tearaway, and even that was alarmingly mediocre. But at least it was creative.

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I take that back- that Astro pack-in game for PS5 was actually good. Mechanics were a little too shallow for my taste (Mario has all kinds of cool mechanics- mid air stomps, rolls, long jumps, etc, which makes it fun to just move around). But the variety in gameplay- bow and arrow with gyro, spring machine using gyro tilt, etc... Definitely a game worth playing.

@NeonPizza I kinda wish games wouldn't throw 3 cut-scenes at you at a time, it breaks the "vibe", one second your beating up robots and jumping the next second you get a cut-scene for something that could have just been text.

idk I'm not everyone and 100% not all of the youngins, so I have no clue if tons of people like that gameplay.

@Kermit1
I hate when cutscenes are blended into gameplay, taking away control from the player suddenly. It makes for a more "cinematic" experience but at the extremely high price of diminishing the gameplay experience.

I don't mind cutscenes when done right- a good balance for the game's respective genre. Platformers are not the kind of game I want a bunch of cutscenes in. JRPGs on the other hand- back up the truck and load em up (just so long as they're not seamlessly integrated with gameplay to where it takes control away when you expect to be able to control the character- few things in video games frustrate me more than that).

Certain fanbases like cinematics more than others. Because Sony makes all their games cinematic, their fans accept it and then want all games to be that way. Which is why Final Fantasy VII Remake had cutscenes constantly interwoven with gameplay so that you'd be controlling the character one moment, and the next they're not responding to inputs. Because the seemless transition makes it "more cinematic". And that doesn't seem to bother them- as long as the camera is zoomed in super close to his sword so they can see every detail and crevice, they're happy. Same reason Monster Hunter World did the same behind the back close up shots. Despite it being absolutely atrocious from a gameplay perspective.

For others who value gameplay first and foremost, it's an irritating trend spreading to more and more games which want to please the large PS market.