LOL, carrying around the switch just to listen to Nintendo game soundtracks.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
aw i was hoping for knuckles as an echo fighter
― nxd, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
lol at the majora's mask moon as an assist trophy
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
God I thought they crammed an impossible amount of stuff into the last game. That squad mode is gonna be super popular I think.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:46 (five years ago) link
any rumours going round what that green bit was
― nxd, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
hoping for 'settings'
Ppl suspect a “story” 1P mode like Brawl’s Subspace Emissary103 stages my god. If the competitive people decide only four of them are legal again I’m going to pee on them.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
every one has a battlefield mode at least!
― nxd, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
the squad mode is something i thought would be great with such a big roster but didnt expect them to actually do
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:04 (five years ago) link
Sakurai wants everything in this game so he never has to make another one. N64 Saffron City and Hyrule Castle 💜
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
are we at 70 fighters now? i'm guessing we'll end up with 72 for a nice tidy 12x6 select screen
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
I don’t think that quite enters into it, since you can smush echo fighters into their templates, and DLC seems inevitable, if only because Arms and XC2 characters may not have made it to the initial design doc. Everyone expects Shadow as a Sonic echo and there’s bound to be a couple more straight up newcomers to announce when they show off the Mystery Green Mode.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
lets go for 80 then why not
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
Perfectly sane number of characters, who could complain.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
is shadow the hedgehog actually more popular a secondary character than knuckles these days? i don't know my sonic lore
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
He’s extremely edgy. Also has identical abilities to Sonic, hence, echo character.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
they also confirmed today that waluigi will serve as an echo to snake
― nxd, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
they should add linkle as an echo of bayonetta
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:37 (five years ago) link
Yoooo
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
the squad thing and Battleground swapping and stuff like that, I really like the idea of those things, because there are so many Battlegrounds and so many characters it would take forever to play all of them.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
Searching “Sakurai” on Twitter rn is pretty heartwarming
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
Also heartwarming apparently his w1fe has been the menu UI designer from the beginning?!
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
Minit comes out tomorrow on Switch. It's a great little game.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
yeah planning to play that this weekend
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
iconoclasts is out now too, will get around to that at some point
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link
Dragon Ball FighterZ beta/network test is available for download now and starts tomorrow I think. I’m gonna give it a shot! I will not do well.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
okami HD out tomorrow too, I think. I'm moving house tho
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
okami's pretty far down my to-play list but it's on there, will get to it someday
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:17 (five years ago) link
nice interview with Sakurai in the Graun https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/aug/08/super-smash-bros-ultimate-masahiro-sakurai-35-years-gaming-history-nintendo
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
Details on the online service, kind of underwhelming for those of us who await the Return of the Virtual Console.
https://www.nintendo.com/switch/online-service/
― a film with a little more emotional balls (zchyrs), Friday, 10 August 2018 11:06 (five years ago) link
I can’t stop daydreaming about Smash it’s distracting.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Monday, 13 August 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
Dark Souls port rescheduled for 10/19
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
Forbes seemingly broke an embargo, confirming Diablo III for Switch which I think ppl already basically assumed was happening
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
there are few game series i 'get' less than diablo
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
I think it’s about the extremely mild friction of clicking on things until they explode.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
yeah i assume its just the american version of dynasty warriors games, which i am generally lukewarm on
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
diablo's more about making numbers go up
― Nhex, Thursday, 16 August 2018 06:23 (five years ago) link
strong first impressions from cosmic star heroine. the combat system uses a mechanic i like a lot from certain board games, where each character can only use each of their abilities once and then it goes on cooldown until they take a turn off to rest which refreshes everything. there's a nice risk/reward of wanting to be efficient and rest as few times as possible but also not wanting to get caught with no options on an important turn.
presentation wise it basically looks like a late 90s 2d jrpg like suikoden or whatever
― ciderpress, Friday, 17 August 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
bunch more indie games:
https://youtu.be/qNUSrhEEvL0
nothing super exciting but I've played most of these at pax or on pc in the past if anyone wants words
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 August 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
tombot finally gets his terraria, in "2019"
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 August 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
grandia 1&2 HD... pretty random but more old jrpgs i never played are always welcome
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 August 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
trying to decide what to play next... recommendations from the following: bayonetta 2, shovel knight, tropical freeze, owlboy?, mario rabbids?
― Mordy, Monday, 20 August 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
i've only played tropical freeze of those but it rules if you like DKC games. very much in the spirit of the old ones in being super overproduced for a 2d platformer
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 August 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
have heard good things about mario&rabbids as a more deterministic and puzzley take on the xcom style of gameplay, not so good things about owlboy
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 August 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
i really liked the DKC game tho i haven't played them since it first came out on snes in 1994 and i was 10yo.
― Mordy, Monday, 20 August 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link
Rabbids is an excellent xcom type game, easy at the beginning but really ramps up the difficulty towards the end. also features the best opera scene in a game since ff6 https://youtu.be/PH-cpqE-efw
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 20 August 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
i'm still enjoying the combat system in cosmic star heroine, though the writing has been pretty wonky, the first 4 or 5 hours reminds me of some of the old FF games in how it jerks you around from one Bad Situation to another without much sense of pacing and new characters just kind of happily jump into your renegade group without clear motivation. i seem to have gotten to the part where i have the equivalent of the airship though, where it slows down and you get to select your party.
― ciderpress, Monday, 20 August 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
I’m thinking about getting The Escapists 2 for local multiplayer with the kid. Anyone else tried it on switch?
― El Tomboto, Monday, 20 August 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
Heard bad things about Owlboy, but Shovel Knight is fun and tons of (smart) retro bang for the buck.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 August 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
buy the shovel knight with 'treasure' in title. It contains the other one on eshop. Agree that it's great. I love rabbids, and i'd think a board game lover would too. I'd wait for a eshop sale on rabbids though and get all the dlc.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link