Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@MarioLover92 How are you liking it? Have you played many other 3D Zelda games?

@Kermit1 does this You Tuber live in a rock? don't he know Minecraft is avalible on Switch since may of 2017 and @MarioLove92 how far are you in Breath of the Wild? depeding on how far are you in the game, you can finish it playing it, the release of Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

@Giancarlothomaz All I know is he doesn't speak English and doesn't know much about the Switch. Somehow the video has like 57k views.

@Kermit1 someone need to clarefy this man about Switch current situation, and by the way he talk he see to come from some arabic country, maybe Nintendo presence in arabian countries is not so strong like in europe, america(USA, Brazil e Canada) and asian countries(Japan, China, South Corea)

@StarPoint I love it. I've had the game since 2017 (though not at launch since I didn't have a Switch until late May that year), though I kinda played to explore around Hyrule and get as much spirit orbs as I could before making any more story progress. Not to mention, I was busy with other games that time frame. This year, I returned to the game and I made quite a bit more story progress.

Yes I've played the other 3D Zelda games. I've actually finished Wind Waker on Wii U many years back, and I made a healthy amount of progress in Ocarina of Time on 3DS. I couldn't get into Majora's Mask, unfortunately, and I didn't like the motion controls in Skyward Sword. I haven't put too much time into Twilight Princess, but I'll be sure to play more of it at some point.

@MarioLover92 Awesome! It's my favorite of the 3D Zeldas, so I'm glad you've been making progress in it and are enjoying it.

@Giancarlothomaz I think it's like what you said there, I don't think Nintendo has a strong presence over where he lives, I think if he were to read up on Nintendo Switch he could be a great channel for people of his language/country.

@Kermit1 exactly my troughs

Lookin dope

@JaxonH
Looking at the DLC from Mario & Rabbids Spark of Hope, it made me thinking twice to consider the game.
I'm not a fan of DLC practice to be honest and it gave me not so good impression with the games, even I have love and hate feeling with the DLC for The Sims 4 PS4 version. The DLC contents are really good for me but I really hate with too many DLC stuffs to play the games.

@Anti-Matter You realize you can just buy the physical game and completely ignore the DLC, right? It's optional additional content. The full game is on the cartridge.

@JaxonH is the Rayman DLC equivalent to the Donkey Kong adventure in Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle? Ubisoft now do my 3D Rayman that i waiting since Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc.

I love DLC. When you're playing a game you're super into, and you get even more of it with fresh ideas, that's a massive W.

Monster Hunter Rise went from excellent to downright historic with the Sunbreak expansion. Persona 5 morphed into Royal, an even bigger, more robust, perfected game. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 went from a massive, top shelf JRPG to an epic package with the Torna expansion. Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle went from impressive to an all time great with the DKC expansion (and I expect nothing less here with Rayman campaign).

@Giancarlothomaz
Seems that way.

And because this game focuses exclusively on single player, all the DLC releases expand on solo content, which is great. The Rayman campaign seems like the grand finale, though the first two look interesting in their own right.

As a semi PC player I was hyped when DLC first came out and still love DLC. It's just expansions in another form. Sure some companies piecemeal them out or have a LOT of them (the Sims) but it is more content for the game you enjoy and you don't have to buy it. I do have mixed feelings about story DLC that decides a sequel though. because then you are sorta obligated. I hated that Dragon Age elevated a DLC villain to a main villain or when Assassins's Creed used a comic to kill a main villain. I do think if you do a story DLC it should either give an enhanced perspective of the main game (like Tourna did) or be a side story that is part of the history of the game world but not crucial to going into the sequel (awakening dlc in Dragon Age Origins, any of the Skyrim expansions).

I think provided MK8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass gets a decent number of GCN tracks (at least 4), it'll overtake Torna as my favourite Nintendo DLC. There's something extremely special about being able to play 96 tracks in the same Mario Kart game when before MK8 the most tracks a Mario Kart had was 40 (Super Circuit had 20 new tracks and the 20 SNES tracks).

I must give credit where it's due. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC is unprecedented. 96 tracks? The mountain of content between Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Smash Bros Ultimate is astonishing.

@JaxonH Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doesn't have Poke Floats therefore it's not complete!

Bayonetta 3 gets some pretty respectable battery life on the OLED.

@Eagly
Might wanna brush up on that math a bit 😉

Booster course comes to just 52 cents per course. $25 / 48 tracks = $0.52/track. The main game is $1.25/track. Whole thing averages to $0.88/course.

But ya. Game value is by far the best value. There's cheaper entertainment, like my late father who played free Windows solitaire and Bejeweled for the last 15 years of his life. But quality of entertainment must also be accounted for. The quality you get with good games is insane.

I'm playing Bayonetta 3 right now. It's a single player game, which isn't known for being best value $$$ wise. And yet even still, I'm averaging 1.5 hrs per chapter cause I explore every square inch. And I hear there's like 14 chapters. That's over 20 hrs. Plus side chapters. So maybe 25 hrs. Then there's the fact even exploring everywhere I STILL end up missing 1-2 verses per chapter. No idea how, but I am. Which means it really requires a 2nd playthrough to see everything. Not to mention trying to score higher medals which can also be uploaded to a leader board. Could very well end up getting 50+ hrs from a so called "10 hour game".

You don't even wanna know how much I get from other games (700 hrs and counting for Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak and not even close to done). You wanna talk about value...

Yeh as an entertainment medium, and considering money spent vs time enjoyed, there really is no better outlet than video games in that regard.

In saying that though, I have recently been enjoying a number of shorter games... played Monkey Island recently on Switch, and beat in around 10-11hrs. Of course this was not a full 50 £GBP game (probably half the price IIRC) but nonetheless I loved my time with it, and the cheaper asking price well justified the slightly shorter playtime.

Looking at my existing library and backlog, I'd probably say that the overall 'net effect' is stacked in my favor for total amount of potential hours (accross all games) vs total money spent.

I guess we are very very fortunate though to have the luxury of choice - plenty of 100hr + epics out there (Xenoblade 3 for example, or Sunbreak) or shorter punchier experiences (Metroid Dread, Monkey Island are 2 that come off top of my head)