Topic: Your Latest Switch Purchase

@NeonPizza I've tried a demo before in some convention. They had No Man's Sky VR, and I thought it was okay, but not mindblowingly amazing or anything.

@NeonPizza I mean, I get that you're obviously enthusiastic about VRs, but I don't see why one insignificant person like me (from a tiny country like Singapore no less) writing it off is such a big deal. Maybe I'll try it, maybe I won't, but dismissing my opinion and calling my remarks ridiculous isn't exactly going to persuade me any.

And besides, what I wrote was more of a offhand casual remark I said off the top of my head. I wasn't even that serious about swearing off VRs. I might even try it again in the future for all you know.

Switch Oled alongside Metroid Dread from Amazon and a used BoTW if that counts

Well, like I said, I might try it in the future, but I still stand by my initial impression, so it's not high on my priority list. It was just my first impression of the VR, and I'm sorry if that upset you, but it is what it is, my genuine reaction.

For what it's worth, when I bought my PS5, I nearly bought a set of VR goggles too, but IIRC, the retail owner told me to wait as the current goggles they had weren't compatible for the PS5 or something, and Sony's coming up with one that is.

But at the end of the day, I guess I just don't like to spend extravagant amount of money for games or hardware I'm halfhearted about, especially when I don't earn much in the first place. That's why I've always been late when it comes to trending games and movies; I would only buy them when I felt like it, or if I have spare cash to spare. I don't like the idea of me buying into the hype of things; it has led me astray before because, as I've learned time and again, what everyone else loves might not be something I personally love.

That does look rather sleek, I'd admit.

@NeonPizza Don't get me.wrong VR is nice, and it's interesting technology and great to see improvemts in gaming but I have always kept things simple. I tried a few things with the Wii motion controls and even Kinect and most of it just seemed gimmicky or like tech demos. Maybe cause it was in its early stages and the hottest Thing, I don't know. Who knows maybe at some point I will try it out again but I am in no rush.

@NeonPizza See I didn't mind the GameCube especially alot of the third party titles. Titles like Soul Calibur 2 and Simpsons Hit and Run just looked better on the Cube then the PS2 and Xbox. Rampage Total Destruction was awesome. The on Nintendo system I couldn't get into was the N64 except for GoldenEye, Ocarina of Time and the WWE games I really didn't play the N64, it's was all Playstation for me.

I loved the Virtual Console on the Wii and I admit, that was the selling point for me. I totally went to town buying up VC games. Old classics and games that I missed. I will admit I too love how if you tilted the wiimote it became a NES controller. The big games for me on the Wii was

Star Wars Forced Unleashed
Mario Kart Wii
Wii Sports
Resident Evil 4
NSMBW

I am sure there are a few more I am missing but that's all I can remember now. As for Skyward Sword I want to get it on the Switch and try it with the normal controls. I have it on the Wii got the Sepcial Edition that came with the Gold Wiimote and CD but by the time I got it I was so done with waggle controls. Kirby Return to Dreamland is one that I wanted to play but never got around to it.

I did have a Wii U, still do as a matter of fact but to be honest I didn't play it much. The lack of third party support and the fact that you had to rebuy all your VC games again just killed it for me on the Wii U. I think I have 5 games on the Wii U including the pack in game Nintendoland. Heck I didn't even play New Super Mario Bros U till it came to the Switch!! Right after the N64 the Wii U is my least favorite Nintendo system.

Have you tried the Joycons in the holder thing when playing the Switch?

@NeonPizza I wasn't too worried about the Wii VC. At the time all my retro gaming treasures were in storage due to me moving around at the time plus at the time I was still rocking a CRT TV I actually didn't get a flat-screen LED TV until midway through the Wii's life cycle. I remember when I first heard that we will be able to play NES, SNES etc games on the Wii I think that was when they were still calling it the Revolution and I thought what an perfect name!!! I remember running over to my friends apartment at the time and declaring that I am going back with Nintendo this gen!! (We both grew up with the big N but the past few years drifted towards Sony).

As for the Wii U yeah I jumped onto the whole Wii U band wagon when it was announced, how could I not be especially after the great job the did with the Wii, even though by the end of the Wiis lifespan it was a torrent of Shovelware. I thought the Wii U was the next evolution of the Wii and was finally able to compete with MS and Sony. Finally going HD output, a tablet so you can still play your game when the TV is in use sign me up, which is why I bought it at launch. Then the problems arose. No third party support, have to rebuy VC games you already bought some VC games weren't allowed and the biggest disappointment the tablet. What was the point of it if I couldn't walk 5 feet away from the console with it?? And what happened with the promise of being able to use 2 tablets on one Wii U (another lie by the great Regginator) Where is Madden, Call of Duty, even GTA Skyrim?? In alot of ways the Switch for me is what the Wii U should have been.

Speaking of the Switch, I do have the Online pass mainly for the VC games I don't play games online and I have to say I am pleased. Funny thing is I haven't played the games on the TV, I play them in handheld mode. I have the new OLED Switch since some no good member of the Foot Clan stole my Switch after my house fire, I figure if I got to get a new one, might as well be the new model! With the OLED the look nice and crisp the colors really pop when I play SMW. My biggest problem with the VC games is I don't like how they drip feed us games, I wish they would give use the whole catalog of games like they did with the Wii 3DS and Wii U and we can purchase them via the eShop individually, but I guess they wouldn't have much of a catalog with companies doing Collections like Konami is with TMNT games.

Back to Wii U (I know my thoughts are all over the place today lol) as I said before I only bought VC games that weren't on the Wii Earthbound being one of them so I can retire my cartridge and a few of the GBA games that I missed. My problem was I didn't like how the GBA games looked on the television, honestly I would have preferred GBA games on the 3DS VC, another odd choice by Nintendo.

Anyway that's all I have for now as I need to get back to work before Burn Thompson comes busting in on a new Turtle scoop!!! Hahaha

I know I'm far from the first person to post this in this thread, but I just bought a Switch OLED on Amazon. This will be my first Nintendo console since the original NES.

I also think this is one of if not my first post here, but I was more into sports games and online for a while, so Nintendo stuff didn't really interest me much after the NES. The PS3 changed gaming for me as I went strictly single player after experiencing some of their glorious single player games. The desire to shake things up and try some new things, especially JRPG experiences like Fire Emblem: Three Houses and the Xenoblade Chronicles series, finally won and I should have my Switch tomorrow. I may not do much with online gaming, but I will still post my Network ID in the proper thread when the time comes.

My first two purchases digitally (since a lot of the games from the last few years and beyond are out of print in the US) will unsurprisingly be Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition tomorrow.

Just pre-ordered Xenoblade Chronicles 3 but it won't arrive till Tuesday the 2nd of Aug.

What do you think of these babies? lol

It all started when I first heard that the pre-order and early physical copies of Digimon Survive come with special promo Digimon cards. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the case with western countries like America, but Singapore is one of the lucky ones to have such exclusives, so I had to seize this fated opportunity to buy the physical copy, even though I've already bought the game on Steam - which Valve has kindly refunded me just now.

But while there at my local game shop, I went on my obligatory window shopping, see what other games I could buy, so on top of Digimon Survive, I've also bought the two Fire Emblem games on Switch (Three Houses and Three Hopes), plus AI: The Somnium Files, a visual novel I've heard great praises but never found the right moment to buy.

Quite a haul, I would say. Guess I'll be spending quite a bit of time on my Switch! 😆

@Maxenmus Oh boy what a trove!

@Maxenmus Those are some great purchases! I haven't tried the FE games - I plan to, eventually - but have heard great praises, and surely you can't go wrong with either of them. AI: The Somnium Files is easily one of my favorites. It may start out a bit slow (imo), but if you stick to it you're in for a treat. I remember getting some performance issue towards the end though, so I'm getting the sequel on PC 😛

Yeah, that's how a lot of visual novels are like. lol I'm used to having that kind of patience from reading so many of them.

I bought all these yesterday and the ladder today.

Mega Man: The Power Battle
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Pikuniku
Encore DLC (Sonic Mania)

Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness
Avenging Spirit

Xenoblade 3
MK8 Booster Course Pass

What the game does well, it does really well. However, its flaws are more noticeable than with previous XC titles. Don't get me wrong, it's still a very good game and is worth playing. But the first set such a high bar for the series.

I also suggest grabbing Torna at some point if you like XC2, but I recommend playing the base game first since the former can ruin some plot reveals.

Digimon Survive
Played it only briefly. Look forward to playing some more soon, but I'm totally engrossed in Super Mario Odyssey again after 4 years, so much so that it's disrupting my sleep. I'll probably have all of the moons found within a couple of weeks.

I was also panicking a few minutes ago, fearing that I had missed out on Tetris Effect Connected via LRG, but the pre-order window was still open. I was initially going to pick up the boxed edition for that 3-disc soundtrack, and I was willing to accept that US$60 premium, but not the additional US$30 premium that would have added to the already stupidly expensive shipping! (US$72?! Are you freaking kidding me?) Not willing to spend the extra AU$130 for three CDs, I swapped Tetris for the standalone version instead, which brought the shipping cost down to a slightly less outrageous US$44.

I also pre-ordered the Steelbook editions of DOOM Eternal and Good Pizza, Great Pizza.

Just picked up Capcom Fighting Collection and Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection through the Capcom Fighting Bundle!


The story behind me getting this is an absolute doozy let me tell you. So, for the longest while, I've always been an outsider looking in when it came to Street Fighter: loved watching it, loved looking into it and all that kind of stuff but I never actually played any entries in the series. That was until Capcom themselves put the original Street Fighter 2 up for free with Capcom Arcade Stadium (for a limited time if I'm not mistaken). Immensely intrigued, I downloaded both CAS and SF2 the moment I could and the next day I played it for the first time....and immediately hated it. No matter what I tried to do, it just seemed impossible to land moves without getting destroyed in turn. I was about to drop it entirely when I decided to give it one last go as Ken and the minute I did.....everything clicked. I was able to properly space my attacks so as to not trade, I started noticing enemy patterns and I even started to (barely) get the hang of special moves. Fast forward to today and not only have I beaten Arcade mode with half the roster (Ken, Chun Li, Ryu and E. Honda) but I can also do a Hadoken with my eyes closed (Shoryuken.....not so much). I enjoyed my time so much in fact that I was itching to play more games in the series (particularly the Alpha and 3 series) and, in an insanely brilliant twist of fate, Capcom had made a bundle of the two collections I've mentioned previously available for €10 less than it would've been separately! I jumped at the chance, picked them up today and am having a blast. I've only played SF2: Champion edition and Street Fighter Alpha as of now but even now, Alpha has been an absolute joy to play for the first time (Guy is so much fun man) and SF2: CE is no slouch either. Overall, I went from nothing to everything in this series in the span of a month. How's that for efficiency?

@SugarKane Yep, I second looking up guides and videos on XC2's combat. It isn't bad at explaining the basics per se, but some of the more intricate systems...oof. There's a boss fight later in the game that almost requires some level of mastery of the combat system; things didn't really start clicking for me until then lol.

Torna is very worth it, but digital is usually your best bet unless you can find the physical version for an agreeable price (rare).

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