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gcunit

Ha, has a dethroning just occurred? An hour ago, my copy of Tears of the Kingdom was delivered. Just now, the Breath of the Wild poster in my house fell off the wall!

You guys had me at blood and semen.

What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?

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GrailUK

@Giancarlothomaz Fair dos. I think if I had a big budget third party game to release, I'd give Tears of the Kingdom some breathing room too. Cough cough, sorry, cough, I mean, more development time cough cough.

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Ryu_Niiyama

@gcunit You better replace it with a TotK poster...or some holy water. Ganon is in your house.

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JaxonH

Switch library of games is gonna go down in history as the absolute pinnacle of Nintendo software.

Just as we look back on the GameCube and reminisce about getting Zelda Windwaker, Zelda Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 1 and 2, F-Zero GX, Fire Emblem Path of Radiance, etc... with some standout 3rd party titles.

One day, 20 years from now we're gonna look back on Switch the same way. The system that gave us Zelda Breath of the Wild, Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Metroid Prime Remastered, Metroid Dread, Metroid Prime 4 (even if it's a Switch 2 release, I'm pretty sure it'll still come to Switch), Fire Emblem Three Houses and Engage, Xenoblade Chronicles Trilogy, Luigi's Mansion 3, Splatoon 2 and 3, Bayonetta Trilogy, Shin Megami Tensei V, Pikmin 4, etc, with a whole host of standout 3rd party titles (Portal 1/2, Persona 5 Royal, Nier Automata, etc etc).

That day will come. Someone can dig up this post on an internet archive site in the future to see what we were talking about during this generation and determine whether we recognized how great it was at the time.

@Ralizah
I definitely don't wanna go back to LCD. Even so, there's no chance I'm not pre-ordering Switch 2 for day 1 delivery. I'd rather have Switch 2 on an LCD screen than no Switch 2 at all. If and when an OLED revision drops, I'll upgrade. There's just no way I could live in a world where Switch 2 exists and I don't immediately own it.

That being said, I would keep my Switch OLED for any games that don't see a significant benefit via BC. Because if they're gonna look and run the same, I'm going OLED every time. But if a game gets framerate notably improved or had sub-standard res and gets a resolution increase... I'll deal with the LCD.

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Grumblevolcano

I just finished Advance Wars 2's campaign (finished the first game's campaign before Future Redeemed released), definitely feel that Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp is a strong contender for GotY for me so far. I don't remember how far I got in the GBA originals on Wii U VC but the quality of life improvements and the addition of casual difficulty (it's more like what a newer game's "normal" difficulty would be like) made the remakes more enjoyable. I'll check out more of the War Room stuff later on in the year but right now I'm moving on to Return to Dream Land Deluxe.

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JaxonH

Its not even a "contender" as far as I'm concerned. Unless something absolutely unprecedented happens, it's easily the best game I'll play all year, and probably the next several. Which is really saying something given Metroid Prime Remastered is one of my favorite games ever made, and Pikmin 4 will probably end up on my shortlist of all time greats. And Xenoblade 3 Future Redeemed, while a masterful expansion is it's own right, isn't quite on the same level.

Tears of the Kingdom makes me realize how hungry I am for something refreshing and different. To date, only 1 other game has provided a similar experience to TotK (that being BotW), and that was over half a decade ago. I suppose Immortals Fenyx Rising did attempt it, with moderate success.

Over the years, memories of what a true masterpiece feels like to play start to fade. Then you play Tears of the Kingdom and get a sudden jolt that reminds you.

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Magician

TotK isn't a GotY contender.

When you have around 50 perfect scores from review outlets you're the game to beat during GotYs.

Conversely, Elden Ring had 44 and GoW: Ragnarok had 52, on PS5.

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Grumblevolcano

@JaxonH Nintendo are the unpredictable ones of course, for all we know Prime 4 could end up being the big holiday title. In any case, it's nice seeing all the excitement out there for TotK.

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Anti-Matter

@JaxonH
In my opinion, Switch games library started to show some downgrades for the 3rd party games and it made me nervous to consider 3rd party games on Switch especially the 3rd party multi console games so I will pick the PS4 / PS5 version as possible for having better performance and I build my Switch 3rd party games from 3rd party exclusives on Switch and 3rd party remastered from older Nintendo machines

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Giancarlothomaz

@JaxonH, @Grumblevolcano e @Magician Tears of the Kingdom is quite obivious is gonna be the true winner of 2023, the GOTY of this year, few games can managed to reach the apeal of the game, Tears of the Kingdom will be talked for 30 years or more and will be the basis for future open world games, just like Breath of the Wild was.

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JaxonH

The big AAA games feel so formulaic by comparison, with no real, extensive environmental interaction or true player freedom in how to overcome puzzles and obstacles without the game telling you what to do step by step.

You play TotK and it just reminds you that AAA devs have learned practically nothing from BotW. This is the true evolution of gameplay we should be getting in games.

@Anti-Matter
That's why you do research and play the good ones. The vast majority of the 3rd party games I play on Switch look spectacular.

Btw, all you do is post about how you don't play Switch and play PS. That's cool, everyone has their preferences, but it gets old having you interject that fact over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Take it to PushSquare or the PS forum, please. We're here to talk Switch.

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Xyphon22

Quick question that is probably obvious or answered somewhere. I finally went ahead and got a new Switch (got the Zelda one and letting the kids have the original). I transferred my account over, but it's still blank with nothing on it. Do I just have to re-download the games and things I've already bought on the new system and everything should be fine, complete with save data? Or is some stuff stuck on the old system and/or old SD card? Thanks.

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skywake

GOTY contender? Honestly, I'm calling it now. All hail TotK, Game of the Decade contender

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Ralizah

It's one of the highest rated games of all time. And while the rest of the industry tends to ignore other Nintendo stuff, they loooooooove Zelda games. Especially these open air ones.

Starfield would have to be unprecedentedly amazing to impress more than TotK. I don't think BGS has it in them, personally. And there won't really be anything else that's sufficiently mainstream and ambitious to challenge Zelda.

@JaxonH I guess the thing is that I'm already extremely satisfied with my Switch OLED right now, so it's going to take me a lot to convince me to transition anyway.

If it's $400 or less, backwards-compatible, has an OLED screen, and either boosts the performance of my older games or comes with a killer exclusive at launch, I'll probably buy in day one. Otherwise, depending on what I'm dissatisfied with, I'll wait and see how things pan out.

TotK being exclusive would have done it, but it's not. It's way too soon for a new Xenoblade or SMT VI. I could definitely see it launching with an open world Mario platformer, though. That would be a tough one to wait on!

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NintendoByNature

I could absolutely adore starfield but it doesn't have that cache zelda has for me. That'll be its biggest hurdle for most I'd say. New IP vs one of the longest running IPs.

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Ralizah

@Professor_Plumber I mean, I like Bethesda games. I upgraded my video card for Starfield recently, and built my last two computers around Fallout 4 (disappointing) and Skyrim (amazing). But they're not in the habit of creating masterpieces.

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IceClimbers

@Ralizah One thing to note is that the OLED model launched 4 years into the system's lifespan. If they wait 4 years into Switch 2's lifespan to release an OLED version, I'd have a VERY hard time waiting lol

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