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The demo seemed more suited to show off existing fans what the new game will offer. I was pumped after the first quest with all the enhancements. Seeing I pre-ordered after playing a couple of quests, freebie gear sounds great!

For me, depends entirely on the price. If it's like a fiver or ten euros and I get a couple of good hours out of it, but then loose the game two years down the road. OK. I got my money worth.

If I fork over 40+ euros for it, I'd be annoyed. I'm still playing Doom on my Switch that I got when it launched.

Jaysus, a visual novel. I think I'll go back to playing the tabletop RPG instead (5th edition is surprisingly good).

@cammy Answering my own question, just checked nintendo.co.uk website and the first terms and conditions say 'residents of Great Britain' only. So not for me. Nice idea though.

Does this include Ireland or is it UK only?

Wow, I'm amazed to see Dublin included. Might actually try and get to it this time.

It's definitely not aiming for simulation of actual sports because if that's meant to be "archery"... holy moley, she's barely dragging the string back. You wouldn't do that with a real bow.

Seems a bit of a "catch 22" in his logic there.

We won't make a full game on the switch because people play on other platforms, which means means our data shows that people don't play our games on the switch, so we won't make full games on the switch...

So why can you get the Sims 4 on PS4 when the best way to play it is with a keyboard and mouse? Hmm.

@tr573 I do hope so. I doubt it, but I do hope so. At the very least the ability to gift or transfer a game to another account would be good (even if you can only do it once or twice per title).

@tr573 I think know what @bloodmetal is talking... We have two switches in our house but we made the mistake of buying everyone's eshop games using my account ... as I'm the Dad, the one with the credit card, etc.

Now only I can play those games on the second switch. So the games I bought for my son (or anyone else in my house)... he must use my account (which means either overwriting my saves or starting from the beginning). I can't transfer the games to his account either.

Not a problem if you go physical.

I fear there is a danger of a little bit of a flood though. I'm still loving Doom on the Switch... so much so I'm not yet ready to get Doom Eternal or Wolfenstien. I can't imagine I'm the only one.

Not myself. Fan of the show but do not enjoy the format of Fortnite. My 12yo son is a big fan of the game, but only plays it on the PC. Sadly he's not a fan of the show. Feels like it's missing the target a bit right!

Ah man. We have two switches in the house and it's great that games played on one are saved on the other. We already have one switch marked as the "Splatoon" switch.

Seeing Animal Crossing is going to be one of those games played by multiple people in our house, it's going to be a pain to manage.

Would need to see a bit more of it tbh. "Narrative experience" is a little off putting.

I've loved the TTRPG books since 2nd ed and the new 5th ed is, IMHO, pretty damn good. Not sure how any of that translated to computer games though.

I've been stuck at one boss battle for months and my desire to push though is tending towards diminishing returns. (So many other games that you can just play and have fun). So the ability to skip part of the fight might get me to play through the rest of the game, because the visuals and music are amazing.

I got the popup on my pokemon go today about adventure sync... but not sure how it actually works. Is it only Google Fit? What about say Garmin or FitBit? Is it just what ever my phone reports?

The plot sounds exactly like a Paul W. S. Anderson movie tbh.

I really enjoy the "Resident Evil" movies, brilliant pure b-movie stuff with stupid fun monster but not really "Resident Evil" as the games I've played.

I expect the MH movie to be the same. It'll have monsters from the game and lots of nods to the fans of the game series, but won't be the game made into a movie. So the plot... is as I expect.

I'm still getting bad network issues when I play, ruining the experience. And sadly there doesn't seem to be many playing... often only getting 3-4 in the game.

I like the idea but it just doesn't feel smooth enough yet.

I loved the Saint Rows series. Not sure I'll double dip to get it on the Switch, but it makes sense to do SR 3 first. I think the story is so over the top in SR 4 that it just wouldn't make sense if you've never played the other games.

I didn't get Skyrim for the Switch at launch because of the lack of mods. There are so many great mods (I'm sorely missing Alternative Start for example) but the best one is all the bug fixes. I didn't realise how bugging vanilla Skyrim was until I started playing it on the Switch.

Google are not content makers. They are not really even content disturbers, but more platform makers.

I think a new console would need both solid content creation, management and distribution and hardware is nearly secondary to that. It's not impossible (see Microsoft), but they'll have to come a long way.

And just buying existing dev studios is only a step towards that. Without the know-how of everything else, I don't see that as any great sign.

I fear Google's plan is: "if we build it, they will come"... which gaming history has shown to be disastrous. They need to sell the experience to the gamer first and then sell the platform to the other studios... Having some hardware will only sell to google fans. Good luck to them. I'll be curious to see what they do.

I guess it wasn't just me then - when I watched the latest trailer of Death Stranding and saw it's only actual gameplay moments made me think of Breath of the Wild gameplay. Walking across big empty spaces, climbing up mountains and sneaking past guardians (sorry invisible black ghost thingys).

I'm hoping that one subscription covers anyone using a switch. I really don't want to have to pay for it twice so I can play online and my son, using the same switch, can play online too.

Does Fallout: New Vegas or Fallout 4 have mod support on console like Skyrim does on other non Nintendo consoles? If it's just Creation Club stuff, I wouldn't be bothered with them on the Switch.

Dr. Coyle all the way for me, though I only found at during the party crash they had nerfed one of her default arms. Took me a while to get the hang of it again. Had fun, mostly dominated my matches except when I'd hit a decent Max Brass player.

I think this video really sums up the party crash:
https://twitter.com/ddbofthestars/status/977985476719079424?s=21

Looks like they raided a Call of Cthulhu roleplaying book for their monster descriptions and thought they'd make excellent "demons" and utterly missing the point about what makes Cthulhu/Lovecraft mythos interesting (the whole cosmic horror, beyond man's understanding, etc. etc not just "evil deities"). But hey, YMMV.

Lack of gameplay is just the icing on top.

@GameOtaku I've been using the dual sticks with Splatoon 2 alright, but always end up going for weapons that don't depend on accuracy as much because as @Nincompoop points out, they aren't as accurate. I find it a little too slow.

That said, in the single player campaign for Doom, I haven't had a problem at all with using dual sticks.

Do people play with the gyro controls? I tried it when I got splatoon 2, but it never felt comfortable or accurate. Maybe I'm just old fashioned and too used to the PC and mouse format for it.

I'll give it shot again on Doom tonight. What does the "motion melee" do?

Not particularly excited to have to pay. The games for the Switch are expensive enough and without MarioKart, Arms and Splatoon 2 become a lot more boring.

I do hope the price is per console and not user. My son and daughter both play online and I'm not willing to pay for it three times.

There has been a flow of issues and fixes from Rainway since the Sunday release. Most of the time on Sunday nothing loaded at all for me, much like what was happening in the video in the OP -
because they hadn't enough servers up to handle load. I got it to work from my gaming PC Monday evening to my laptop pretty well but for some reason it didn't like my mouse so I couldn't play much. I'll try it again over the weekend.

They did say that this release is only for PC and browsers, not the Switch. They never said they have dropped the Switch. I'm kinda still hoping that once they sort most of the issues out on the PC that the Switch app will come about. The one thing I love about the switch is that I can curl up on the sofa and play games just as easily as watching on the TV.

If I could play my PC games in the same easy way, it would be amazing to play Borderlands, Fallout 4, etc. sitting on my sofa.

I'd have to see the programming interface. I'm guessing it's drag and drop right? Maybe a little like RPGMaker? Or can you can transfer the code between PC and the Switch..

I wonder if they integrate with any of the other teaching code projects out there like Hour of Code or Scratch, because then it'd certainly be interesting for my kids.

@link422007 I don't see that happening tbh, despite the resurgence in board games. But I would love it if it did. I always thought the VR stuff in the 3DS would have been amazing for board games if it had been embraced.

You mean that section on the your CV where you put down non-work stuff like "hobbies" is important? Who knew?

That advice doesn't necessarily hold those for any other industry or even other roles.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE What's worse though is that you can go to Amazon.co.uk and find the game is cheaper there by sometimes €20 after you convert from Sterling (though I've noticed Smyths are pretty good on the hardware when they have it).

Man, it's expensive enough that between myself and my two kids, we got one. We all love it, but I can't imagine us buying a second one until it's under or close €100 which won't happen until a few years into it's cycle. And that the games come down big time in price.

We have multiple *DS (2x 3DS, 1x 2DS) in the house though, because they hit that price point where it was cheap enough that we could get more than one for each of us play and had a big enough library of games to share between us and in some case it was cheap enough to buy multiple copies of games (like Smash Bros and Animal Crossing).

Maybe ... if ... Nintendo allow us to share or move games between accounts or allow us to have "family" sharing (like with Steam for example) and the price of the hardware drops...

That trailer sold it for me and it wasn't hard to convince my son that we should get one. The form factor of tablet/home console and the hints of some of the games are what sold it.

Haven't been disappointed since we got it.

I'm still in the middle of my first play-through and while I agree with some points (repetition of shrines, lack of cutscenes, etc.) — I disagree on that it should be more linear. I found the experience so far quite linear, you're guiding constantly to the next main thing, to the point I seek out every side-quest I can before moving on. The layout of the land, the characters you meet, the position of each of the divine beasts, difficulty level of enemies, etc. loads of constantly subtle guidance. You can veer off and I try other things, but it isn't as satisfying as doing so in Skyrim say - as the sidequests are short one note things. If it was more linear, it'd practically be a JRPG ... one main plot and lots of grinding via sidequests.

Personally that's my biggest disappointment, that there isn't a branching story lines and plots or that the world feels alive and stuff can happen unexpectedly. It's still one great experience and one of my favourite games right now.

Before BOW was announced, an open world game with the gameplay and design of Nintendo was my ultimate imaginary title... and BOW doesn't disappoint.. mostly. Just wish it was a little more "open" and felt more like a "world" you could get lost in.

I've kind of got bored of the Monster Hunter series on the 3DS. I felt in love with Tri because it had a bit of an immersive feel to the game, which has steadily been removed from every iteration. It's still fun, but it lost that lovely feeling of discovering monsters fighting each other or just that they appear to be real animals rather than gaming challenges.

World looks like it brings that back, so personally I'm disappointed it's not making it's way to Switch. I think I'll be skipping on MH XX now. (Once I get a switch of course..).

Any chance of adding/listing a few Irish/ROI ones?

Smyths.ie have pre-orders for Switch @ €329.99
http://www.smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/video-games-tablets/c-1000/nintendo-switch-consoles/p-22494/nintendo-switch/

Weird that there is no figures at all on the right side of that graph.

TBH when the 3DS first launched I thought it would take the AR reality stuff further. I was hoping they'd suddenly be Nintendo-like board games where you zap zombies with your 3DS and so forth. But nothing much happened besides some crappy photo stuff.

Nintendo will have to do something pretty magic in the AR or VR area to get people excited.

I would love to see the Smash Bros soundtrack... but this wouldn't be so bad. Must dig out the last of my star registrations...

I can't find any mention of the "new 3ds" in any Irish retailers.

Damn. My 7yo son loves Pac-Man from Smash Bros - so much so he even now plays the original Pac Man games. He want this game for Christmas, I fear he may be disappointed.

Hmm. No. With my phone (which is smaller) providing (I assume) much better music playing choices, it's unlikely I would turn to my 3DS for music. However I did use it for playing smash bros soundtrack. We even hooked it up a stereo so my son could enjoy his favourite track.

I figure my 10yo daughter would make use of this feature though.

Never played it before myself - though the nostalgia factor was still a massive pull.

Still waiting for that killer feature to get a Wii U. I love my 3DS and certainly knowing that games play across all devices would be an interesting one. Knowing that future Nintendo consoles would support that too would be even better.

That sounds about right for EA.

@KeatonTS I guess so. I may go through my small game library and see which ones work and don't but when I checked at lunch time half the games didn't have communities yet.

@Warruz Sounds like it's very hit and miss. I'm surprised that Zelda doesn't!

@Warruz No MH? That's a pity. I did see Luigi's Mansion screenshot up there this morning.