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
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
yes plz
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
i fucking hate golf as a sport but i've always loved golf videogames so hell yeah count me in
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
golf video games are great and yet the perfect golf video game has never been made, the universe waits
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
i also fucking hate football and yet sensible world of soccer remains the greatest game ever made
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
i am a complicated man
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
there also hasn't been a perfect (or even good?) non-sim baseball game in years and years
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
i really liked super mega baseball
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
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
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
― ciderpress, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 5:45 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok maybe i will emulate this golf experience
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:03 (six years ago) link
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.
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
look keep your talk of 'sweet spots' and 'working it in' out of this family-friendly thread pls
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
SOME PPL r still butthurt abt the splatoon blood vs cum debate i guess
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
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 Permalinksame thing with tennis― lag∞n, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:40 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:40 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Virtua Tennis on Dreamcast was pretty great.
― DJI, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
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, 30 August 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link
only 3/4 sarcastically, my recommendation is desert golf
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link
desert golfing is good but its not golf, its desert golfing
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link
― 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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
desert golf is good true
i remember the moment i completely stopped with desert golf. it was abrupt and clear.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
Golf Story is probably my #1 most anticipated game rn
― thos beads (jamescobo), Thursday, 31 August 2017 00:43 (six years ago) link
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
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 31 August 2017 11:15 (six years ago) link
i hear that ninja's drive from the tee has a wicked slice
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 August 2017 11:22 (six years ago) link
*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.
― ciderpress, Saturday, 2 September 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
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.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 2 September 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
i'm just flying above you all eating some mayo right now just winning
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 4 September 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
rabbid peach is my new spirit animal
yep mario + rabbids is fantastic!
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 4 September 2017 16:36 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
45 minutes Nintendo Direct coming wednesday night. Get on the hype/mild disappoint train
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 11 September 2017 15:06 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
looks kind of like a paper-mario-ized FF6 visually
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:53 (six 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 (six years ago) link