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New Nintendo Switch

@sixrings
Well, we differ on a fundamental principle, then. I think games are art, and much like movies or music or books, I don't think prices for these things should naturally decrease over time (copyright for very old books is different obviously). Old games aren't day-old bread or appliances or cars that have newer models, thus defeating the purpose of owning the old other than collector's value. After adjusting for regular economics like inflation, I believe games and other art forms shouldn't lose value based solely on age.

@LXP8
Yea, well, welcome to gaming for the last 10 years. Nintendo's just been late to the party. They're still the least egregious when it comes to all this stuff, though, even though it's all ridiculous.

I would say it's definitely a revival of gaming, but the "golden age" will always be the SNES era into the N64 era (and rival consoles, of course). So many new franchises and ideas and large, noticeable leaps in tech and capabilities.

@Northwind
If it's free, people will complain. If it costs money, people will complain. If they don't even own the game, people will complain.

@SalvorHardin
It's not optimal, but you just need to spend some time in the game playing random endless levels until you find makers you like. Sometimes the trending levels aren't bad. You can easily tell the 3D World spam levels at a glance, so don't play them obviously.

It's not as good as curated lists by a long shot, but there are tons of great levels and makers out there.

@tatchy
Origami King is awesome. On my second playthrough now. It's gonna be one of those games I play every couple years or so. It's not an RPG, though.

I'm sticking with Mineral Town for now. Simpler for sure, but I always thought Harvest Moon was best when it nailed the simpler stuff while focusing more on relationships and cool areas rather than a million different ways to build gadgets and process items.

Looks awesome! I will definitely get it.

@Razer
Wow, you really put a lot of weight on the art and what a game "looks like." You've likely missed out on a lot of awesome titles if that's how you usually approach purchases.

I loved the demo. Really took me back to FF Tactics, like choosing character direction at the end of your turn, targeting spaces on the ground for AoE effects regardless of enemies, individual turn order instead of whole teams going at once. I also liked some of the environmental effects you can create, like the ice wall from one of your mages. It's neat that height plays such a crucial role in planning attacks, too.

Super pumped. Makes you appreciate how certain art styles age a bit better, though (Wind Waker).

This looks so cool. I gotta get the demo tomorrow.

Should be interesting. I hope they publish a nice little catalog of quality games. And I'm excited to see what they develop themselves after how awesome Impossible Lair was.

@Darknyht
Very true, but then it kind of becomes a chicken-and-egg thing. Who would put a stop to the cycle?

Is it us, the gamers, if we just stop purchasing this crud?
Is it the developers if they refuse to cave to their publishers (which they really can't do in 99% of cases).
Is it the media who needs to be more honest in their previews and impressions of games that aren't stacking up to be what they are promised?

Yea honestly the man has a point. What we put up with as gamers is what's landed us in this land of Season Passes and 10-dollar horse armor and Games as Services that takes years to reach their originally advertised potential.

@NinjaWaddleDee
You sound like you've halfway made up your mind already. Maybe you just skipped your cereal this morning.

Would it be possible for them to include both options? Let's Go-motion control style could be turned on or off, same for random wild encounters. People who want the original experience could just turn that stuff off and boom - back to random encounters.

@JimmySpades
Dang, I was gonna make the same joke lol

I loved my Wii U, though. Great console. Pretty telling that the top 2 games were both available on other systems at the time they launched, though.

It's a fun game. I never did finish it on my 360. Maybe.

@Atariboy
They did it for Captain Toad on the Switch already. Playing handheld you still just touch the platforms, and if you're playing in docked you have a cursor for the Joycon or Pro Controller gyroscope to "click" on platforms.

They removed the need to blow into the microphone because, as you said, the Switch controllers don't have one. I'd have to get out my Wii U copy to see exactly what levels that affected, but after playing through Captain Toad on Switch I didn't even notice the absence of those parts. I think they just turned those parts into more touch blocks? Maybe someone else knows.

Dang, that's cool. Must resist.

Yea, I mean, this isn't hard to believe. Some kind of 4k upscaling when docked is logical, and a better handheld screen is logical, as well. So... yea. People just need to remember that rendering natively in 4k and 4k upscaling/checkerboarding are entirely different things.

Just don't buy it. Geez loweez.

Having played it and beaten it on Switch before and after the patch, it's totally worth it. You can nitpick the price per hour ratio if you want, but I felt my money was worth it. You can definitely beat it in 20 hours or less if you don't look for everything. I would think 100% would take between 30-40 hours for anyone who isn't an absolute pro or doesn't have advance knowledge of the routes. I could just play it on my Game Pass, but I hardly get a chance to sit down in front of my TV these days (and I hate playing platformers on my PC). Having it on Switch and taking it mobile is the reason why I got to enjoy this game (and so many others).

One of my favorite games, actually. I would totally buy it.

I really liked Friends of Mineral Town. I did my first "quick" playthrough for just 20 hours until I got married, but I intend on going back for a fresh farm and really finding everything.

I wish they'd do the FE DLC, too.

@DDFawfulGuy
Have some breakfast, my friend. Try the waffles.

This is the first time I've had zero interest in the launch of a MS or Sony console. I don't know. My Switch is doing just fine for me. I'm sure I'll get a PS5 or Series X in a year or so, but I'm just not feeling excited about either of them right now.

Do we really have to rehash all of this again? Every system has stuff for kids, adults, and everyone in between. Nintendo has the best selection for kids.

End of story.

So I clicked ahead in the first video and honestly didn't know which side was the Switch... the left?

@TG16_IS_BAE
Just leave, dude. You said something earlier about 33 years gaming, so I'm gonna assume you're in your 30s just like me. We have better things to do than hang around game forums of companies we don't like (I love Nintendo, so here I am, but even then I need to stop reading these comments lol).

Especially during these times, appreciate some of the other great stuff in your life. Don't waste it coming here to make negative comments about everything.

Well dang. Held off on buying it on my PC to play it on Switch, but this puts an end to that. I'll be getting this next time it goes on sale on Steam.

@Ambassador_Kong
Irony - a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character

Don't explode your brain, man. Not worth it.

@BlackenedHalo
You really managed to pack a lot of irony into such a small statement. Well done, my friend.

I'm gonna get flak for this, but Nintendo gamers have always been "gamers" in the truest sense of the word. By that I mean I would be willing to bet that Nintendo gamers, by and large, are the most diverse audience and have the most diverse genre interests.

MS and Sony have sort of pigeon-holed their consoles and, to a relatively equal degree, their audiences, into a very specific corner. They absolutely eat up the Call of Duties, Red Dead Redemptions, and other AAA action games, but when they try to hype games outside that niche, the results are usually much smaller. For example, when Crash 4 comes to Switch, I'd bet anything it ends up selling more on Switch than anywhere else, even if it takes a bit of time.

I really don't see any reason why any smaller game or indie game would not want to come to Switch.

Series X makes no sense to me... all their stuff is on PC too.

I liked it. It was a competent action platformer. Definitely a bit floaty in the controls, but the story and mythos of India was SUPER cool to follow, and the weapons and movesets you gain as the game gets further along really diversify the action.

Definitely a worth a playthrough if you can find it for a few bucks off.

I didn't really like the demo. Didn't have the tight, tactile feel that other action rhythm games like Runner have had. Just my opinion. The characters and button inputs/actions just felt very light/floaty and not necessarily intuitive to the all of the music across the difficulty levels.

So pumped for the demo! Hopefully before the end of the week!

It's a great game. And I just think these indie games are mostly a better fit for a hybrid console, honestly. I have a beast gaming rig, but it's kind of reserved for times when I can afford to really sit down and spend a couple hours on a game. For smaller games like this, it's much easier to game portably for 10 minutes and then put it down.

It is fun, but if you're good it can go on for a long time.

Yea, I'm about five hours in and have had two hard crashes and one time when I couldn't move after teleporting. Was a downer, for sure, but I figured it's a pretty big game and they were probably working on a fix already. I put it aside for 3D Collection until the patch comes out.

I have them both digitally. I try to buy physical, but I just want to play games, and waiting for months just to get the physical doesn't make sense to me if I'm not an avid collector.

Loving Will of the Wisps even more than the original, though I have had 2 game crashes and a time when I warped and then couldn't move the character without exiting to the main menu. About 5 hours played. I didn't have any crashes with the original on Switch.

Wow - that'll be a huge exclusive when the next Elder Scrolls game comes out, even though that will be years from now.

I say "exclusive," but all their stuff comes to PC as well, so really it's just exclusive against Sony.

Another day another outrage. It's outrageous.

@Eel
Yep, and I just realized my original post I said Story of Seasons when I meant Friend of Mineral Town specifically lol my bad gotta fix that

Article comments are generally where people go to hate, and if it's video games I'd wager it's a majority of people who haven't even played the game (or in this case the closest current playable game by the same company). People are gonna be people. Live and let live, is what I say, but dang it does get annoying.

I can't help but wonder if these people ever stop and realize how nonsensical they are.

Friends of Mineral Town on Switch was pretty good, I'll admit. I was grouchy about it and held out for a bit, but I took the plunge and bought it a couple weeks ago. I'm over a year in and it's been a fun time. Graphics were much better in motion. Sounds like a cop-out, and I was totally a skeptic, but it turned out to be true.

People still saying it looks like a cell phone game or whatever most likely haven't played it, and that's just the cold truth, say what you want. All of these farming sims have the over stylized graphics these days, some are just more hand-drawn and some are more computerized and rounded. People don't drag Stardew Valley through the mud for looking like a SNES game, so I don't get the hate. FoMT in motion reminded me a lot of HM 64's graphics, and for me that was pretty nice.

So I'll support them on this.

Yea, I heard awesome things about this on NVC. Gonna get it later today.