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
Agreed with all of this except that the one in Undertale is better
― Iain Mew (if), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link
if you have amazon prime the super smash bros pre-order is still discounted for another week
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
Thanks for the tip! Ordered.
― DJI, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
ok i thought grandia was a pretty random choice for a port but saints row 3 easily outdoes it
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
What? Wouldn't it make more sense to do SR4?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
Other quick q: if I want to get Mario kart and play four players what do I need beyond my one joycon? One more or three more? Also should I get the wheel adapters?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
Don't need the wheels, which are nice but small (I have generic). But for 4 to play you need another two controllers, whether two Joy cons, two pros, a pro and joycon, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
wait, how can you have just one joycon? switch comes with two ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
I guess I was thinking of the two halves as one controller
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
Playing with the little half-controllers destroys my hands pretty quickly.
― DJI, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
just got MK8 myself. does the gamecube controller and adapter work with it? i'm probably getting that for Smash anyway
― Nhex, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:47 (five years ago) link
i assume any controller works for mario kart all you need is a few buttons and a stick
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
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what is even going on anymore https://gematsu.com/2018/08/langrisser-i-ii-full-remakes-announced-for-ps4-switch
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 05:42 (five years ago) link
Gesundheit!
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 05:51 (five years ago) link
another indie direct next week for pax games
Tune in 8/28 at 9am PT for a new #Nindies Showcase video presentation highlighting multiple unannounced indie games coming to #NintendoSwitch!Watch it live here: https://t.co/qcN9TpZwnp pic.twitter.com/JwjO7PEGjg— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) August 23, 2018
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
The drumbeat never stops. In the first few months after the Switch launch there were a few items about some indie devs being frustrated with NoA in particular about access to the developer program but even with a more tightly controlled developer program it seems clear that indie games are a pillar of Nintendo’s value proposition for this platform, not an afterthought.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
Quacamelee seems perfect for the Switch, not least because it was on the Wii-U. Sequel just came out, I wonder when they will make an appearance? It's a great example of a game that (from the looks of it) I would prefer on the Switch to the PS4.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 August 2018 13:53 (five years ago) link
Really hoping for an “available today!” for Towerfall at this Nindies presentation.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 24 August 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
there's a few other things that could be shadowdropped - Undertale, Hyper Light Drifter, the new Shovel Knight expansion
― ciderpress, Friday, 24 August 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
Hyper Light Drifter 9/6Towerfall 9/27
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
Samurai Gunn 2 out of nowhere
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
UNTITLED GOOSE GAME CONFIRMED
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Sizzle reel: Wasteland 2, Bastion & Transistor, Undertale, others dated
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
Into the Breach out today
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
I wanted Towerfall to get the Out Today slot so bad :(
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
nice, unfortunately all the games in my sphere of interest from this one i already have on pc except into the breach
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
hoping for pyre soon if we're getting the other 2 supergiant games
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
I’ve had Towerfall on computer this whole time but syncing PS3 controllers and plugging in over HDMI has only mostly worked at best so I’m jazzed for Switch.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
i've been playing Into the Breach quite a bit (the mac port was released a couple weeks ago). there are things i love about it (the central concept of knowing what the enemy is going to do every turn, then planning out your response to it, knowing exactly what the results will be before you do it), and things i don't (the enemy AI is wack sometimes. and despite having a variety of environmental effects for many stages - tidal waves that destroy tiles, volcano blasts, etc - all of the levels start to seem the same after a while, just with different units on top of them)
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link