The Nintendo Switch

Nindies stream on Wednesday. fingers crossed for a Stardew Valley release date

I've played the training missions, had a wee explore and done another couple of missions. Enjoying it so far, despite there not being much challenge yet but I'm only like an hour or so in, so that shouldn't be surprising. It borrows the odd "throw your team mates to move farther" move from Chroma Squad (and probably others), which I could never really be bothered using - wonder if I can get away without it. I also have some loot! But haven't figured out how/where to use or equip new gear...

invisibility is for perverts and thieves. AGAIN Pearl is the way to go.

Team Invisible cos I get terrible vertigo so flying would be useless. Also I'm a hugely perverted thief.

perverted thief checking in

i also just learned about upcoming indie game Yoku's Island Express which is a pinball metroidvania, surely one of the last remaining Good Ideas in gaming

there's a Direct sort of thing for indie games on Switch in a couple of hours time, hopefully a Stardew Valley date & some surprises incoming. seems like that Advance Wars type game has been delayed till next year though boo.

Ooh that sounds right up my street. (xp)

also in ball-related indie games, Golf Story is out next month. looks like it's trying to claim the lineage of the gameboy mario golf games (totally classic if you haven't played them) but playing up the RPG element even more

yes plz

i fucking hate golf as a sport but i've always loved golf videogames so hell yeah count me in

golf video games are great and yet the perfect golf video game has never been made, the universe waits

same thing with tennis

mario golf for gameboy color was a perfect golf video game imo - i think its probably in my top 5 games lifetime in # of hours played

i also fucking hate football and yet sensible world of soccer remains the greatest game ever made

i am a complicated man

there also hasn't been a perfect (or even good?) non-sim baseball game in years and years

i really liked super mega baseball

oh yeah, i got really into that for a while too

and not only do i fucking hate baseball i don't even really understand the rules

mario golf for gameboy color was a perfect golf video game imo - i think its probably in my top 5 games lifetime in # of hours played

― ciderpress, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 5:45 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok maybe i will emulate this golf experience

i dunno if it holds up but at the time it was revelatory - a golf game with a bit of actual story/progression and the mechanics were really good for a gameboy game

it's barely even a mario game, it feels like they were making their own golf game and then the mario license fell in their lap somehow and they worked it in. mario doesn't even appear until 80% of the way through the game iirc.

yeah i feel like the sweet spot wld be really good mechanics not too technical in terms of club selection etc and a lot of variation in course design

look keep your talk of 'sweet spots' and 'working it in' out of this family-friendly thread pls

SOME PPL r still butthurt abt the splatoon blood vs cum debate i guess

golf video games are great and yet the perfect golf video game has never been made, the universe waits

― lag∞n, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:40 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same thing with tennis

― lag∞n, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:40 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Virtua Tennis on Dreamcast was pretty great.

otm, also are we really gonna sleep on wii sports tennis guys c'mon

yeah i feel like the sweet spot wld be really good mechanics not too technical in terms of club selection etc and a lot of variation in course design

only 3/4 sarcastically, my recommendation is desert golf

desert golfing is good but its not golf, its desert golfing

i still feel like it somehow nails the mysterious essence of golfing, like when you hit the ball 100 ft past the hole, it bounces onto a backward sloped ridge, careens off of a 50 foot high hoodoo, then slowly rolls into the hole just feet away from an infinite cliff.

otm, also are we really gonna sleep on wii sports tennis guys c'mon

― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, August 30, 2017 6:47 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see wii sports was so in the right direction but then the actual mechanics were so weirdly like binary and translated instead of being an accurate depiction of what u did w the remote, u cld hit a normal shot or WOW a super shot there were really like five total things u cld do

desert golf is good true

i remember the moment i completely stopped with desert golf. it was abrupt and clear.

Golf Story is probably my #1 most anticipated game rn

golf video games are great and yet the perfect golf video game has never been made

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/NinjaGolf.jpg

i beg to differ

i hear that ninja's drive from the tee has a wicked slice

*jazz hands*

ok i reached invisibility king, did my part for the team. i'm really enjoying the splash-o-matic and have no idea why you have to wait until level 25 to get it when its basically just a variant of the gun you get at level 1.

Just saw a squid in the plaza holding a banner that said "Pearl is a Juggalo" which made me laugh. I really like how shady they make Grizzco Enterprises seem, like should I really be working for this company?
There's a demo for Voez up in the eshop with three songs unlocked. I'm not a fan of the music but the presentation and UI is really really nice.

i'm just flying above you all eating some mayo right now just winning

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

rabbid peach is my new spirit animal

yep mario + rabbids is fantastic!

I like how the English was clearly written by the French Canadians working at Ubisoft and not further localized

+1 to the Mario+Rabbids is fantastic. Just finished the second world, and it's so much fun!

This thing is so perfect for single TV apartment living. New Zelda is fantastic.

lol at la noire coming to switch, presumably due to overwhelming public demand

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?

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.

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