i totally missed out on the splatoon excitement due to getting totally sucked into mario/rabbids, which is way way more fun than any nintendo/ubisoft/xcom mashup has any right to be
― Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast." (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 September 2017 14:14 (seven years ago) link
rabbid peach is my new spirit animal
yep mario + rabbids is fantastic!
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 4 September 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
I like how the English was clearly written by the French Canadians working at Ubisoft and not further localized
― .oO (silby), Monday, 4 September 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
+1 to the Mario+Rabbids is fantastic. Just finished the second world, and it's so much fun!
― CraigG, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 06:01 (seven years ago) link
This thing is so perfect for single TV apartment living. New Zelda is fantastic.
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 10 September 2017 07:50 (seven years ago) link
lol at la noire coming to switch, presumably due to overwhelming public demand
― Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast." (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 September 2017 10:54 (seven years ago) link
are rockstar pulling the classic 'port crappy game, look no one bought it, this means we don't have to develop for your console' maneuver?
― ciderpress, Sunday, 10 September 2017 14:15 (seven years ago) link
Nah there's a rerelease for Xbone and PS4 also. If Switch was thrown in for good measure it's maybe a good sign for portability of AAA engines to the Switch? Idk.
― .oO (silby), Sunday, 10 September 2017 14:21 (seven years ago) link
getting impatient for golf story and stardew valley which are both supposed to show up sometime this month i think - have intentionally put off buying stardew on pc since it seems like a perfect switch game
― ciderpress, Sunday, 10 September 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
agreed on the single tv household thing. new season of Great british bake off. this will get TV priority. that is fine, i will sit here next to you and play splatoon or mario+rabids. everyone wins.
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 11 September 2017 11:13 (seven years ago) link
I find Splatoon difficult to play well on the small screen tbh - some of the visual cues like swimming enemies are too hard to see
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 September 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
45 minutes Nintendo Direct coming wednesday night. Get on the hype/mild disappoint train
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 11 September 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
is anything new expected or just more hyping up their fall releases? they don't usually make big announcements via direct
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 September 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Some of the announcements from the Direct:
Last year's new Doom coming to Switch before holiday, this year's new Wolfenstein coming next year sometime.Kirby: Star Allies is the Switch Kirby title, out Spring '18"Arcade Archives" coming (Arcade versions of Mario Bros, Ice Climber, Balloon Fight…)Xenoblade Chronicles 2 out December 1
Haven't actually watched the video just looked at some recap posts but a bunch of Xenoblade and Mario footage was shown
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:47 (seven years ago) link
yeah nothing too groundbreaking. the other big announcement was a square enix retro-ish jrpg (2d characters in 2.5d environments stylized after the old SNES squaresoft games) called octopath - there's already a demo available for it
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
looks kind of like a paper-mario-ized FF6 visually
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:53 (seven years ago) link
most interesting one to me was the arcade Punchout getting released, think this is the first time it's been ported?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link
I think the Doom and Wolfenstein announcements are interesting business-wise. These are AAA, current gen, third-party, rated-M games of the kind that the last three Nintendo home consoles have seen vanishingly little of.
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:57 (seven years ago) link
but they'll all be old. not as old as Skyrim, but still
― Nhex, Thursday, 14 September 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
people buying the Nintendo Switch during the next 6 months (i.e. me) do not care how old these ported AAA other-console / PC games are - and we never have
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:26 (seven years ago) link
If a Dark Souls Anthology comes out for Switch it will sell many copies.
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:51 (seven years ago) link
Anyway, Octopath Traveler demo was pretty fun, also fairly gorgeous
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:52 (seven years ago) link
jrpgs are the genre that i am the most skeptical of, there's really only a few that i like and they were all made in the 90s. i definitely love the visual style of octopath though so i'll have to give it a try
― ciderpress, Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:21 (seven years ago) link
I'm not sure I've ever finished an honest to god JRPG but I'll sure as hell start em now and then
I guess I finished Golden Sun? Maybe? Yeah I must've.
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah, considering how little third-party support nintendo consoles have had since the gamecube this is really encouraging news
and both doom and wolfenstein are fantastic, i'd be really tempted to double-dip on both because i am an idiot
a dark souls trilogy would be amazing
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:10 (seven years ago) link
i will definitely double up for Doom - DOOM ON THE BUS. DOOOOOOM.
― jamiesummerz, Thursday, 14 September 2017 12:35 (seven years ago) link
Was thinking of getting my son the new 2DS XL for Christmas as thought there'd be load of cheap old 3DS games available for it.
However, upon looking it seems they've all held their price. Super Smash Bros is selling for about £40 for example, despite being 3 years old. Is that something that's happened since the 2DS came out? (As most PS4 and Xbox One games that are over a year old are usually dirt cheap).
― groovypanda, Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:35 (seven years ago) link
Nintendo first party games have always tended to hold their price, unless they are a total disaster like Metroid Other M. There is a half price line of games for the 3DS though http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-selects
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
Some first party games at this point may cost less as download titles than physically, since the physical versions will be out of print and overpriced by Amazon robots
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
also these games are being added to the Selects line in October - Super Mario 3D Land, Kirby's Triple Deluxe and Luigi's Mansion 2.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:44 (seven years ago) link
Nintendo handheld games for first-party stuff, going back as far as GBA at least, always hold value
― Nhex, Thursday, 14 September 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/09/video_super_mario_odyssey_seems_to_have_at_least_600_power_moons_to_collect
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 14 September 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
not eough
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 September 2017 00:48 (seven years ago) link
yeah wtf
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 15 September 2017 00:51 (seven years ago) link
need at least one thousand power moons
― lag∞n, Friday, 15 September 2017 01:11 (seven years ago) link
don't worry there's also 900 korok seeds
― qualx, Friday, 15 September 2017 04:28 (seven years ago) link
mario vs rabbids is exactly charming enough
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 15 September 2017 08:57 (seven years ago) link
ha, yeah - it could easily have toppled over into 'lol so random' minions-style larfs but it toes the line perfectly
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:01 (seven years ago) link
Octopath Traveller demo (square enix new-old school rpg coming as Switch exclusive) is up on the estore and its EXCELLENT.
― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
Golden Sun vibes imo
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:45 (seven years ago) link
is that good or bad
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
I thought golden sun was on the boring side and was only notable for being on handheld
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
I was a teenager when I started Golden Sun and maybe a young adult when I finished it I don't remember but I liked it and this game made me recall Golden Sun fondly, in particular the rhythm of the core combat mechanic of breaking and bursting reminded me of the Djinn system of unleashing and summoning. I bet this game is reminiscent of things that older people or people with different touchstones from the aughts might think of as more noteworthy but yknow I've never actually played a Final Fantasy other than FF Tactics Advance and uh the weird cartoony one for DS.
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
ah ok. visually this is very much trying to be FF6 but 2.5d-ized. I haven't seen the combat system yet so I can't speak to that
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link
i like how it looks but the unskippable text and tiresome first attempts at fighting aren't helping
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
ALERT ALERT ALERThttps://www.polygon.com/2017/9/20/16339746/picross-s-nintendo-switch-release-date-price
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
is picross still fun in 2017
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 19:50 (seven years ago) link
picross is fun for eternity
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
Agree.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link