Smaller, uber-portable handhelds had their charm, and cheap clamshells were certainly good for pocketability. But Switch Lite in a magnetic flip case is just as portable. Anyone still looking for that experience- it hasn't gone anywhere, just evolved like Ralizah said.
Though even Switch OLED, in a Hori Slim case, fits in my rear left jeans pocket. Which is all I need to free up my hands when going to work or the car dealership. Its just small enough to fit.
Anything larger and you need to carry by the case handle. Which, even then, ok it's definitely not as portable as a pocket device, but it's still portable enough. Obviously Switch OLED has the advantage of still being pocketable, but even the lunky Steam Deck can be carried in the case with the handle. Probably not ideal for public transportation- for that get a Switch Lite and flip case. But for everything else it's fine.
The dream has always been a home console experience on a portable device. We just finally reached a point technology could do it. And with home console experiences come home console prerequisites, like a large enough HD screen to read text properly, a full button set with rumble and gyro aiming, and enough power and battery life to run console games without dying in 1-2 hrs.
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@Pizzamorg It depends what you don't like about platformers. SMO rarely features obstacle course level design like the 2D games. It's an exploratory sandbox collect-a-thon with large and varied environments to explore. The "platforming" aspect of it mainly comes from the player needing to utilize Mario's abilities to thoroughly explore levels and defeat enemies.
Kirby is more of a traditional 3D platformer in that you're running through tightly designed levels. And the goal is usually just to get to the end, with various sub-objectives along the way to complete.
The platforming part, lol. I grew up with platform games, but things like the old school platforms where you can’t fight back, and everything kills you in one hit, and you need to do precise inputs to navigate over or through obstacles, I sucked at them and found them frustrating to no end, haha.
But even as we moved forwards, I was always ass at Spyro, I sucked at Tomb Raider, even the buffer sections in DMC 3 which had light platforming, I ended up getting stuck on those sections because I just don’t have the skills for platforming. Oh and the Destiny jumping puzzles, that is smash your TV in pure frustration levels for me, I just wanna shoot stuff!!! Haha.
So yeah, if it is like any of that stuff, I’d probably hate it. But if it is more about exploration, and abilities given you new ways to explore, and it isn’t all about insta-death, precision accurate jumping, then I will probably like it.
Struggling to setup a Switch if anyone can help. Nintendo’s instructions pretty useless. I have setup an adult Nintendo account with two kids in the family group. When I register the account on the switch, add the kids as users, it then asks to link those users to an account. When I enter the family account details it throws up an error relating to that account being in use.
Would really appreciate some help on this. There doesn’t seem to be any Nintendo support you can contact.
Feel free to move this to another thread if it’s in the wrong place.
@Giancarlothomaz I am always impressed with the length of some Youtube videos when the folk that make them don't know anything. Not impressed enough to watch them, mind, but impressed nevertheless
Finally gave Nier Automata a go after all these years thanks to October's Switch release.
And my feelings so far are...mixed.
The opening segment was incredible in the way it seamlessly blended action segments from different perspectives, from third person character action (with RPG elements) to schmup and twin-stick shooter type gameplay. What an excellent first impression.
Plus the atmosphere of this game is great, helped by its so-far excellent soundtrack. Plus the general premise is intriguing and I'm sure the story will develop into something interesting.
It's also quite the impressive port. Everything seems to be at a solid 30fps with no slowdown, and the resolution is...decent?
That said...I'm just not feeling it. Something about the game just feels very clunky to me. Like, I do enjoy the combat somewhat...but for the most part the game is feeling a little tedious. My main gripe is exploration. The combination of the muted colours and the use of so many invisible walls (there are so many areas I'm convinced I can access, but the game says otherwise) just makes it difficult for me to tell where to go. I wonder, is this a technical problem with the Switch version? Does the added sharpness (and presumably clearer textures, etc.) of the PS/Xbox/PC versions make exploration any more streamlined?
IDK...this seems like a game that I should be positioned to enjoy but it's just not clicking. I'll give it a few more hours and see though...
@GrailUK are you refering to the first or second video i posted here?(if is the second video, he does a anual prediction for the Metroid franchise he a huge Metroid fan, Metroid Prime is his favorite game of alltime)
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I initially bounced off Nier Automata. It wasn't until I gave it another go on Switch I got sucked in. I wouldn't say I enjoyed it as much as Bayonetta 3, but it was still a dang good game. It took a few hours for it to dig its claws in but once it did, I was all in. I'd recommend keep playing for a while and see how it goes.
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@JaxonH Thanks for the feedback. I am slowly chipping through it every evening so I will give it a chance. I think the setup alone (and promise of different "paths" to the story) is enough to keep me intrigued for now...I was just hoping to be a little more hooked.
@Rambler The known exploits have even been fixed already so it really seems like it's just getting people worried for the sake of being worried (I'm not saying more won't be found but now that Nintendo have been alerted to the issues, they'll naturally seek to iron out critical issues like this as soon as possible).
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We've had these rumours since before the system even came out. Every three months without damn fail, either a game was too good and had to be on a stronger system, or ran poorly so we need a stronger system. That's all the discourse around this console has ever been, and its people like that that parrot it.
But DigitalFoundry is part of Eurogamer, never forget how they broke Pokemon Stars and Star Fox Grand Prix, those games with assets they got that totally came out.
Just like now, "Yeah we told you it was coming, it just got cancelled trust us". Yeah no. Swallow your pride.
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The rumours always rely on the fact, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are always researching development for future hardware. But the reality is they never know whether it’s going to be announced from one day to the next. It’s really just an easy prediction to make that Nintendo’s next hardware release is a successor rather than a pro model because it’s nearly 6 years into the life cycle. Easy predictions to generate clicks.
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@Haruki_NLI@FragRed All that has really happened in the land of Youtube is the name Switch Pro will be dropped and they will be speculating the exact same shi-errr stuff about the Switch 2 alongside some fantasy context.
I never drive faster than I can see. Besides, it's all in the reflexes.
@GrailUK Are people still speculating pro versions of the PS5 and Xbox? I remember that was a thing for a while - I think in part because of how limiting ray tracing is hardware wise.
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@Haruki_NLI also dont forget the fact that Eurogamer/Bloomberg was the fist media outlet that got the information how the Switch could be first, they could be wrong or not, only Nintendo to tell us about the Switch sucessor, 2023 is very likely they will start droping hints, even revealing the Switch sucessor for a 2023 holiday release or a early 2024 release, Nintendo will only reveal the Switch sucessor when they want, you can rush it reveal/release, holiday 2023/early 2024 and using Tegra 239 as it chipset is the only information we can speculate for the console, before Nintendo reveal more of the console, @Fragred some analysis speculate Nintendo could release the Switch sucessor in 2024
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