Laxeybobby

This is the best game on Switch. I had never played this until now and I’m hooked. I get annoyed that I have to go to work and spend time with the family 😮😂.
I have a dilemma now of splitting my game time between this, Diablo, Atlas and Skyrim. I loved the fact in this video they pointed out the graphics were the same as the PS4 😄.

I backed this on kickstarter as I wanted it to play pinball fx3.

Had a kickstarter update saying it will be shipped from 1st December. Glad to read the favourable review.

Nice to see a UK competition. Entered. Wishing everyone entering the best of luck.

@Dalarrun
I agree with your synopsis to an extent that is definitely not a remaster and you’re also right it’s not a direct port (like for like) for the reasons you mention. However it’s closer to a port than a remaster.
In my opinion Bandi have publicised this across all platforms as a remaster including the Switch with no explanation prior or after release on Switch as to why it’s nearer to a port than a remaster of similar standard to other consoles. No explanation as to why the buttons that annoy @alexolney so much are the way they are or why the audio is so compressed. It is for this reason I feel @nintendolife team should be approaching Bandi for an official statement or answer to some investigative questions.

I have never played a game in this series until now having purchased this. I play this game docked on my tv and the graphics quality doesn’t really bother me and I get used to buttons once I’ve played it for a short while (at the beginning of each play session I do have that getting used to period where I get them wrong).
The Audio bothers me as I struggle to make sense of it. Sounds like a pirated audio track!
The game is for me addictive due to its difficulty as I don’t like being beaten.

It’s very very unlikely that Bandi will patch anything and as such I think they are misleading Switch owners with the title and it’s marketing.

It’s ok writing these articles about issues with the game; buttons, compressed sound to the fact that nothing on the Switch version is actually remastered and it’s just a direct XBox 360 port even through it was delayed by 5 months
All creating a furores of comments about the game.
What @nintendolife @alexolney should do is some journalistic challenges with Bandi or the developers and hold them to account for the issues and report on their answers.

I love this game, takes me back to my warhammer and magic the gathering days. I have also shouted many curses at the screen when the dice roles or wheel spins don’t go my way.
Will definitely be buying this DLC and I hope there is more to come.

Surprised that Paladins doesn't appear on this list. I prefer Paladins to Fortnite by far.

I downloaded the demo having read this and having owned samba de amigo on wii and before that DK Bongos on Cube.
However after a five minutes of trying to understand and then doing the calibration for the motion control joy-cons, followed by trying the single player campaign several times on easy mode, I deleted it as it was obvious it has the same motion control issues that Samba De Amigo had with the wii-motes! I found the Blue Joy Con was less responsive than the Red and once that controller missed a shake down it threw out the red controller and there followed a load of misses. The joy cons also were hit and miss (Pardon the pun) with the side tap angle action.
I even got my daughter to have a go and she duplicated the same result.
I think I'll be giving this a big miss.

I was a young teen when the NES first appeared and as there was nothing else about that bettered 8bit games, these games back then were great and I spent many hours playing some of these that I purchased or had bought for me.
Now though these have nostalgia value, worthy of a few minutes play before you get bored with the limited gameplay/controls and options.
Ive tried all of these games and they are all now very dated. I find the sounds/music, limited gameplay options, controls schemes, basic graphics annoying and make them worthy of a few minutes play only.
I hope this service expands beyond NES.
What would be interesting @nintendolife if the original magazine reviews of these games could be located and reproduced on Nintendolife as a retro article.

I continually return to Skyrim, it the only game I have that I do this for. Other just gather dust.
Would like the mods functionality but can’t see it happening.

@Filbert_Wang I totally agree with your synopsis of Manticore. I purchased it based on the review and thinking it was more that it was, which is a mobile phone game with quick short missions in a confined play area.
Would love an Elite Horizons for switch.

@Lord I agree with you. I’ve tried to play this having never played it on a mobile phone. Firstly it assumes you know how to play and already understand its mechanics in terms of menus such as the armoury. Which I don’t. What tutorials it provides are so basic they’re pointless.
The load times are far too long, the controls are sluggish to respond, the gameplay is continually lagging,
The action is confusing to see and know what’s going on.
I’ve just deleted it - having just played a robot type character on a ball. I was continually killed and couldn’t seem to do anything to change that. It was also lagging to the extent that it was jumping from place to place.
I’ll stick with Paladins and give this a permanent miss.

Living on the Isle of Man 🇮🇲 I’d like to see Sega’s TT Racing. I know it was an arcade rideon machine, but it would be nice to see it on switch. Switch is never going to have the TT racing game that’s on PS4 and XBone.

Missed opportunity for a GUI update. Would have been great to have digital skins for the switch like the 3DS.
I’ve purchased the online service. I have faith that this will evolve over the next 12months.

This will be one of the most expensive games on Switch when you total up the addons (toys) that I’m guessing you’ll need to buy to complete the game. Ships; weapons to add to those ships. Just the ones I’ve seen for pre order already total to about £200 and that’s not including the game set which is £70.

Probably on eBay already for 3 times the price!

Budapest has a pinball machine museum! Worth a holiday for that alone.

"No smoke without fire"

Now that I’ve completed Wolfenstein II I’ll be returning to Fortnite.
Motion controls - 👍 - just might be able to hit the barn door from a distance now oh and those annoying players who obviously have ants in their pants because they are jumping all the time. 😂

Yes please, this one is on my to purchase list.

@PALversusNTSC I agree with you on that as the Amiga 1200 Team17 catalogue has fond memories with me. Not sure if the Team17 of today is the same organisation however they have bought Worms to switch.
Maybe someone should ask Team17 about the possibility. Probably none but if enough ask then they may consider.

This one interests me, I used to play Magic the Gathering. If this is similar I will await the review and may make a purchase

Reminds me of Alien Breed from Team17. I loved that style of gameplay so may give this a go.

So I have the cartridge version and have downloaded the required update, yet this game is not working correctly.
I have no ability to move through the menus at the start, right from the beginning the only button that does anything is the 'A' which obviously is the select / continue.
When the game ask me to calibrate the screen, nothing on my controllers seem to respond accept the 'A' button. When I am asked to select a difficulty level, nothing - not the sticks, shoulder buttons or the D pad being pressed up, down left or right moves anything, the only button that works is the 'A' button.
Same for choosing a save slot.
The then game starts and after the movie intro, in the wheelchair - No motion controls, just jerky stick movement.
Press the '+' button which opens the pause menu which offers options of Save, Load, Return to main menu etc and once again anything pressed on my controllers has no response accept the 'A' button that returns me back to the game.

Anyone else having this issue?

@onex Thanks for the explanation. The ‘Plays’ that appear for selection also appear that you need knowledge of the game to understand them and use them properly.
Anyway having read your post I now know the basics.

If I understood how American Football plays then this could be fun. Unfortunately I don’t so I’ll probably give it a miss.
Shame someone doesn’t remake or remaster and update Speedball from the Amiga day’s for the switch. Universally understood gameplay.

The UK Turtle Beach website has nothing relating to Nintendo Switch.
I would like to buy a decent head set but it would need to be wireless be that with a bluetooth dongle in the audio jack or Bluetooth direct to the Switch or via USB.
It will need to work in both docked and portable mode and it needs to support chat and audio.
Trouble is there’s so many about that knowing what ones will and won’t work is a gamble. @NintendoLife could do an article covering the top 10 compatible headsets for UK and USA.
Would make the choice easier.

@BenAV That’s exactly what I’m doing. Just can’t get good enough with the analogue sticks. Yet my son (who plays XBone) has a go and picks it up with ease.

No giro controls update. 😞
Still, will have to keep improving with the sticks. 🤗

There is a mention of cross platform play with Xbone. How does this work?
When I’m in the lobby I see in greyed font something like Fortnite: EU, Fill With: Same platform, Play Against: Same Platform

I thought these referred to playing with other consoles but can’t find any way to change this.
My son plays fornight on his Xbone and it would be good to team up across platforms.

@Dizzy_Boy This would be worth a purchase if it allowed you to use bluetooth earphones with a headset so games like Fortnight could be played easier in docked mode. Unless I’ve missed it this device doesn’t support bluetooth gaming headsets which is a shame as I would have made a purchase.

Torn between this or the more serious Tennis World Tour.
Edit: Maybe not, just seen very poor reviews of TWT on other platforms, can't imagine they will have changed anything for the better in the switch port. Mario Tennis it is then.

Do we know if motion control aiming has been included?
Having got so used to motion control aiming I struggled with the dual sticks on the pro controller with Doom (until they released the motion control aiming patch). Hoping this will be standard inclusion for this title.

So can you play with players on xbone?
I noted that in the lobby there is reference to system playing on shaded out.

Releasing on XBox and PlayStation with Cross platform online compatibility 🤪

Side scrolling beat em ups were my arcade bread and butter during my teens in the 80’s through to my adulthood in the 90’s.
Golden Axe series, Streets of Rage, American Ninja, Double Dragon series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Alien Vs Predator. So much so I built my own full size arcade cabinet with these and others from around the world to relive those moments.
For me I’ll be buying this.
Insanely difficult end bosses are part of what makes this genre as this was what they had originally in the arcades. This genre was always meant to be better played with a mate and more difficult in solo.

At one stage I made it into the top 50 🤗, didn’t look to see where I finished.
This should be a regular thing maybe a monthly tournament.

I would like to see the Conduit franchise by High Voltage Software revived for the Switch. Not a HD version of the Wii games but a third game in the evolution of the story.
I really liked Conduit and then Conduit 2.

Haven’t brought CoD since the launch of WiiU and it was that game that made me turn my back on the franchise. This announcement is not going to encourage me to return to the franchise.
Why oh why can’t they just give Switch owners the same as every other console: Single player campaign, multiplayer, zombies and access to any DLC.

Waiting for the update for FX3 then I’ll be investing in these and the other movie related tables. For now I am happily playing the freebies.

Would have possibly purchased Manticore if there had been a review (that is positive). For me reviews sway purchase decisions.

The price on e-shop kinda gives it away really that there’s not a good game here.

Hope the review comes out next week then

@BanjoPickles I have Lynx Version 1 & 2, I have pretty much all the carts released and I purchased some homemade carts made after the Lynx was no longer being made and supported.
Right now they are packed away, and haven't been played for a number of years.

@BanjoPickles I too have Toki on the Atari Lynx 😊

I can't seem to see how you turn these gold points into the discount to use on the eshop. Ive read the news article on MyNintendo and I had 200 gold until the switch turned 1 when I lost 102 leaving me now with 98 gold.
However I can't see a way of turning this paltry amount into a discount before I lose these at a rate of around 20 per month from now on.
Can anyone can point me in the direction of where it tells you how to use them ?

Netflix will appear with the new Switch OS along with other new things like themes and voice chat. (well I live in hope)

Im playing two games continuously at the moment in my spare time and these are Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Skyrim.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has got me intrigued in the unfolding story and Skyrim I just love exploring.

I had this on pre-order with Game.co.uk and it was sent to me the day before any reviews were published so I couldn't cancel the pre-order once I had read the reviews. It arrived yesterday and I returned it to my local Game store today.
The lack of any voice chat was the reason this went back. I knew that the Switch doesn't directly support voice chat through the Switch but I thought it would have used the Nintendo smartphone app that Splatoon 2 uses. I don't have anyone local to play this with so would have had to play online with strangers and voice chat would have been a must.
I may re purchase it sometime in the future when Switch OS has been updated to include voice chat (Which I honestly believe will happen - probably for the launch date of the online service), and by then maybe the game itself will be patched with the up to date content. Shame as I was looking forward to this having never played it on any other format, but its not worth the £59-99 right now.

Would be nice to see Guantlet (maybe the later one that was on the N64).