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Re: WarGroove Will Include Cutscene Editor To Allow Custom Storytelling

Coxula

They really should focus on bringing the game in the stores immediately and not wasting time with goodies like this. I'm waiting for this game so long now - and this is really a feature you can patch in after release if you're feeling it's worth it.
I don't need such gimmicks. I need a campaign and a lot of (couch coop) multiplayer maps.

Re: Review: Super Destronaut DX (Switch eShop)

Coxula

5/10 seems a bit unfair. The game does what you're expecting in a positive way. You want a Space Invaders clone and you get one.
It's chaotic in a good way with all the effects on the screen. It put a smile on my face seeing the only three settings in the Options menu are graphics related. (Two to lessen graphic effects and one to give even more of them - from the Defaults point of view.)
I had a lot of fun so far and I'm shure I'll start it every now and then for a short dive into it.
It helps that loading time of the game is really short and once you're in there are practically no more loading times at all.
A game for a small price that keeps what it promises.

Re: Reggie Says Nintendo Switch Online Will Connect You To Legacy Content "In A Meaningful Way"

Coxula

The pricing is absolutely OK while I hope they rewrite the network code for some games that are using p2p at the moment instead of a client server architecture. But for myself online gaming isn't a big thing tbo - so the benefit on this side is small but maybe changing in the future.
For me it's the so called "legacy content" which makes the offer interesting. I'm looking forward what Nintendo is doing an this part.
The possibility for cloud saves is OK, but I don't want cloud saves - I want to backup my saves on a memory card. Not being able to do that is the most annoying thing of the Switch - while I love the console as a whole.

Re: Review: Lumines Remastered (Switch eShop)

Coxula

I'd rather have a new Meteos. This game was so fantastic. It was the last of it's kind that really blew me away. If Wikipedia is right both licenses (Lumines and Meteos) are in the same hands. So maybe there's hope?
Most probably I'll give Lumines a shot when it's on sale some day.

Re: Soapbox: Let's Give Nintendo Switch Online A Chance Before We Throw It To The Wolves

Coxula

Nintendo always said that the service will come and will cost cash. The pricing is ok, so no complaints about that.

In my eyes the argument of having a stable network infrastructure lacks a bit. Players can potentially profit from the infrastructure in future games. For the existing ones (for example Splatoon and Mario Kart) Nintendo would have to completely reprogram the network code of the games, changing it from peer to peer to something that uses the new infrastructure. Hear my words: This will not happen.
But the point stands: Future games can potentially profit.

I'm not a big online player. Multiplayer happens in my living room together with friends. Not only because of the crappy online app you need to have voice chat. (In fact all of my friends use Teamspeak instead.) But Nintendo don't stomp this app into the ground and offer voice chat via the console itself, they try to push the App in the future. Not a big deal for me - as I said I'm not playing online that much. But this leads to the point that really makes me angry:

Now I understand why Nintendo don't let us backup our save data by ourselves.
I sunk 750 hours of playing time in Xenoblade. Every time I switch on my console I pray it's not wrecked. Maybe the day will come and it is. And then? So as long as we can't backup the saves by ourselves we're practically forced to pay extra and pay for a service, some people just would not need otherwise. I'm really a Nintendo fanboy but I argue that this was Nintendos plan from the day on they decided to not let us save our data on a SD card.

This - and this point only - really makes me angry about the hole online service thing. They not only lock cloud saves behind a paywall (which would be ok for me tbo - I know others think different), they lock save backups behind it.
Bad move Nintendo!

(Sorry about my English - I'm no native speaker.)

Re: Review: KORG Gadget (Switch eShop)

Coxula

I was so hyped about this... let's say... App. But it does not make any sense without an export function.
High hopes - high disappointment.
It would have been a day one buy for me.

Re: Billy Mitchell Breaks His Silence To Address Accusations Of Cheating

Coxula

If I read everything correct in the past few weeks (which might be wrong - I'm no English native speaker) Twin Galaxies have no proof Billy cheated they just have a suspicion. In Germany (that's where I come from) everybodys innocent until the guilt is proofed. I don't see this in this case. The tapes are lost - this alone makes it impossible to proof him guilty.
It's a witch hunt.
The longer the discussion holds on the more I'm on Billy's side.