Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@JaxonH

Ah, my fault. Excuse me. Clearly...I need more coffee.

Sorry for the plug guys but I need your help in asking Remedy to add gyro aiming.

Hardly any Switch fans follow their social media so nobody but me is speaking out asking for it. Need a few likes and additional comments so they know it's actually in demand

Oh my god the game is priced incorrectly in Mexican pesos!

I just bought it for a buck!

how the music in Mario+Rabbids Sparks of Hope was made

Me too! Thanks for the heads up. Don't have room for it, having just updated Fortnite for the n-millionth time, but that's not for worrying about now.

To anyone living in Europe who has a My Nintendo account, there's currently a prize draw for some Mario+Rabbids themed goodies like some figures, a plush and, most interestingly, a full on artbook!

You get 3 entries and it's all payed with Platinum Points funnily enough (you'd think they'd use Gold Points for something like this but I guess they're going the nice route this time!) so if you've got some left over from NSO challenges, I'd say give it a go! I'll probably be submitting an entry myself though that's still undecided.

Should probably avoid Alan Wake. Apparently it's got serious framerate issues and looks worse than the original 360 version, which probably explains the shadow drop.

It's an absolute shame, because the game was on 360 and looked good and ran fine. They never should have tried porting the stupid Remastered version, which even had issues on other consoles. Should have been a straight port of the 360 game and left it at that.

Oh well. Stick to Nier Automata, No Man's Sky, Persona 5 Royal, Mario Rabbids and Bayonetta 3.

@JaxonH Big shame about the performance, would've been a nice pick-up for Halloween. Maybe it'll get patched by next year's festivities? Considering the port job though, I highly doubt it.

I suppose the Mexicans won't complain though if what @Eel says is true.

Yeah I don’t even plan to play it any time soon. I bet I’ll have patches by the time I do.

Mmm, the Alan Wake port might be a good example of how Virtuos are hit-and-miss with their ports.

They must have their own A-team and B-team assignments based on budget.

Nier: Automata = A team
Alan Wake = B team
Dying Light = A team
The Outer Worlds = B team

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/09/rumour_switch_port_...

@Magician
Maybe.

But I actually suspect it's simply the fact the game is an unoptimized mess and they can only work with what they're given. This remaster even had issues on PS/Xbox. Of course Switch is going to be a no-go.

I thought they'd use the 360 version as a base to port from as it would look fantastic and run flawlessly on Switch. But it seems they used their new engine remaster which was crap, and which isn't optimized for Switch in the slightest.

No idea why they wouldn't just use the 360 code as a base. Or the original PC version on Steam before the remaster dropped.

They screwed the pooch big time trying to make the remaster run on Switch.

@Magician
So apparently Virtuos did NOT port this game.

Also, interestingly enough, it's seemingly much better in handheld, and an actually decent experience.

Ppl should just check out this video.

@JaxonH talking about file size, what is Bayonetta 3 file size?16 GB or 13.8GB?Nintendo site e eShop give this two conflicting information regarding the game file size and avoid the Switch version of Alan Wake Remastered(eesh).

Seems Nintendo's back to normal Bayonetta 3 marketing:

Alright folks that critique game names, y'all better have something to say about:

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk, along with Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

https://nintendoeverything.com/milk-inside-a-bag-of-milk-insi...

@Ryu_Niiyama I feel like if I play that I'll start something... (I am the walrus I am the walrus I am the walrus I am the walrus I am the walrus)

@NeonPizza... When I tried to quote you "people" didn't show in the quote... That's very odd.

@Grumblevolcano
Good.

It's time to capitalize off all this publicity.

Bayonetta's really gotten a raw deal all these years. Sega refuses to publish, nobody else will either, and the only one who steps up has the worst selling platform of the last 20 years.

Then Bayo3 got critiqued for having a new VA, then the whole controversy happened...

Thankfully, this controversy solved everything, in the end. Ppl are no longer feeling guilty about buying it, it got a ton of free publicity, nobody cares it has a new VA now after that whole ordeal, and it's releasing into an install base of 115 million units.

This is FINALLY Bayonetta's chance to shine and get the attention and praise it deserves. If not now... then when.

I think I have Alan Wake on Steam, so I'll just play on the Deck whenever I happen to buy one.

Pity, but this sort of thing is why I'm very selective about the games I choose to pre-purchase.

@NeonPizza The trailer looked fine to me. Almost 1:1 with the same scenes from the original game. But Bloober Team... yeah, I'm going to wait to hear from people who also played the original game.

All survival horror combat was clunky prior to RE4. It just happens to work thematically with Silent Hill, since they're not really action games and combat mostly exists to pose a threat to the player and keep them from getting too comfortable.

The nurses... yeah, while there's clearly supposed to be a sexual element to their depiction, recent renders of the enemy make them look more like sexy Halloween nurses or something. Which is what you'd expect if the team remaking this game didn't understand what the developers were going for with the character designs, right? The enemies should NOT be conventionally attractive. Silent Hill's reflection of human sexual desires and behaviors reflects the monstrous, distorted manifestations they adopt in the characters' lives.

The game was revolutionary in terms of the sort of themes it addressed; as you allude to, the horrors of Silent Hill are less about creepy crawlies and more about people struggling to come to terms with the darkest parts of their lives. You're doing yourself a disservice by reading about SH2 instead of just playing it, though. If you have a dusty old CRT somewhere and a PS2 or Xbox, go grab a copy of the game and lose yourself in its unique, hellish vision.

So...

Started New Tales From the Borderlands this morning and it's really good. A solid Switch version, too. When transitioning to larger areas it can take a half second for all textures to load in, but then it's fine.

This game is not like a Telltale game btw. There are segments where you control the character, and it's all 3D modeled so you're moving around in a 3D world just like Borderlands.

Obviously it's still styled after the original, so lots of story, and choosing answers before a timer runs out, and QTE button prompts and sequences. But like... it's really good. Gearbox has made something special here. Humor is definitely on point, too. Game is hilarious.