The Nintendo Switch

tether that shit to yr phone and pwn n00bs in starbucks imo

wait starbucks has wifi

pwn n00bs at the beach imo

And I get that’s what a lot of people love about DS, that they really get into the Guard - Turn - Parry - Dodge - Spin - Thrust, but is suspect I’d be more oh Jesus this guy again I’m terrified.

heh you have to connect the second part of your sentence to the first, that's where the magic is. the memories of OH SHIT NO WAY I AM FIGHTING THAT and then a few hours later you are rolling thru hits and decimating them. Dark Souls has great presentation here (one reason the standard fantasy stuff is so more impressive) of rolling out bosses, new areas, enemies, etc. the combat/fighting and world exploring is intricately tied. exploring the world is at least 50% of it for me.

xpost i agree w Nhex Mega Man 1 is a hard as heck game + Contra needs the 30 lives code. but they are not impossible!

DS can also be broken down into lots of smaller action/puzzle segments, where you need to decide if you're going to methodically draw out one enemy at a time (because avoiding groups is a huge part of the game), go in like a martial arts movie, or just run past everything without getting caught.

WiFi works in portable mode

Heh, there will probably a new generation of invaders complaining about Starbucks wifi lag.

lol but not all games are a waste of time! or if they are, fine, but within my time wasting I don’t want to waste time!

at the risk of being a fanboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-rVlMIJZs

After lurking on this board for a while, I succumbed and bought one of these today. It's arriving tomorrow with Zelda and MarioKart and some steering wheels. If there are any good games for a lazy person and his partner, would love to know!

wait starbucks has wifi

pwn n00bs at the beach imo

― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Friday, January 12, 2018 1:51 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wasn't online but when I first got my Switch last spring I was playing Mario Kart on the beach in Antigua. That's when I knew I'd made it. My wife read some dumb boring paper book.

welcome to the cult family Chuck

evan u are my hero

i mostly just use the portability to play in bed

I use it to play in the room where my son is watching pj masks

I'm using the portability to play during my breaks at work for the most part. Playing in transit makes me motion sick. Playing in bed feels decadent and disagrees with my Protestant work ethic or something.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-01-11-the-pitch-that-convinced-miyamoto-to-back-mario-rabbids

I'm at the point where i really wanna try this now

I tried it out (my friend who works for Ubisoft gave me a copy). I thought it was pretty cool, and that it would be right up my wife's alley, but she didn't dig it. I have a trip next week, and I think I'll give it a go.

Looks like Dark Souls will be $40 on Switch, which is what I wish more of these double/triple/quadruple dips would do. $60 for, say, Doom is super-steep for a reissue, let alone one with some reported performance issues/compromises.

Ehhh, Dark Souls and Doom not really comparable in that respect. 2011 game vs a 2016 game and it’s kind of a miracle that Doom can run on the system at all.

Though I guess Skyrim is looking like 60? That’s questionable, but ppl will absolutely pay for it.

Whether people will pay is another matter. Doom on PC is $15. Doom on PS4 is $25. Doom on Switch is $60. That's a big difference to pay for portable. Skyrim looks like it is about $20 more for Switch, too.

since folks are talking about shovel knight's old-school difficulty, i do want to mention that shovel knight also has old-school cheat codes, about a billion of them.

xp to Josh

I think a lot of that pricing is due to the novelty of it being a current-ish FPS (only FPS on Switch I think?) that nobody thought the system was capable of even running. Maybe is too high, but I don’t count it in the same category as DS.

The novelty can in theory justify the price, but given reported performance issues, or at least compromises, the price should be dropped.

Re: Shovel Knight, rather than cheat, per se, along with getting better I realized I can just play the first (easy) level again a couple of extra times to accumulate some quick cash. Upgrades have helped beat a couple of the tougher later bits, though I still think the second level (grim reaper boss?) is a significant enough incline in difficulty that the subsequent stages haven't seemed so bad.

itt: josh gits gud

£50-60 for skyrim is unacceptable imo. I'm sorely tempted by it as an idea (had it on 360 but never even got close to finishing iirc, would definitely replay) but I'm not paying north of 50 quid for a port of a 6 year old game. Especially not when I can download it for free on my laptop if I choose to do so.

Idk maybe people are paying those prices? Seems like bullshit to me

All legacy ports on the Sony and MS systems eventually drop hard in price, hoping this is the case with the Switch ports eventually. Probably not, but I'm still gonna hope.

Playing Shovel Knight for the first time cuz of this thread (just the latest installment, Specter of Torment) and man it’s really fun. Nice middle of the road level of challenge IMO. After 4 levels anyway.

Nintendo’s first corporate commandment is “protect the selling price of our games forever”. This gives cover for “old” games to command premium price on their platforms, even from third parties. So yeah, people are paying full price for Skyrim on Switch.

i'm kind of amazed that games aren't $80+ at this point. i remember buying street fighter II turbo for $70 back when it came out.

Yeah, that’s a constant source of amazement for me. Even NES games were like 50 bucks, right? Surprised my parents shelled out for that shit back in the day.

Part of it is, from what I understand, cartridges were not cheap to produce.

I think we've talked about this a bit. It's not that they are overpriced, adjusted for inflation. They are still a historically good value, on paper. It's just that they are priced significantly more than all other editions of the same (in some cases years old) game. I I have no problem with Nintendo double-dipping on proprietary Wii U titles that few actually played, because the console didn't sell so well. But games that have been released on every other platform, repeatedly, sometimes as an inferior port (Doom, which I'm sure still looks great on the switch), it takes some cojones to charge full price for that.

Which is why I think it is cool that the Dark Souls people recognize this and are only charging $40.

I still don’t think the Doom thing is a big deal. I can see it being 40 bucks in a year anyway. It’s weird to dock it points for being an inferior port because it’s running on hardware that nobody thought was even capable of handling it. It’s unique and maybe even a system seller for some people (“hey it can run PS4, XB1 level games”).

My Switch was delivered today.

Zelda is amaaaaaazing.

otm

xbox/PS4 era has conditioned me to paying at most £30 for a game. the £50 standard for switch games stings (particularly first party nintendo games, which tend to hold their value)

I played too much Skyrim since Christmas and my eyes feel permanently crossed and my body feels permanently angry at me

was up too late playing VS. Super Mario Bros.

it's a really good port. so after they made Super Mario Bros. they made this version for the arcade and they switched it up to make it harder. there are only 4 1-UPs in the entire game (there are 10 in the NES one). the staircase in 3-1 with the turtles that you can use to do infinite lives? it's been nerfed, one of the turtles is a goomba, it no longer works.

the warp zone in level 4-2 that takes you to 8-1 in the NES version? it goes to 6-1! plus not only that but some levels are entirely new and were made specifically for this version. 6-3, 6-4, 7-2, 7-3 are all new levels that would end up re-used in the famously difficult Japanese "Super Mario Bros. 2". it's insane.

i made it to 6-3 but i kept dying and getting kicked back to 6-1. it requires really accurate jumping. highly recommended and actually kind of cool in a historical sense! it's almost Super Mario Bros. 1.5

mario and rabbids is fantastic and the difficulty goes up a fair bit towards the end.

I need to polish that off, beat the midboss of world 3 in my last session.

yes mario rabbids is excellent and as jamiesummerz says it gets hard towards the end (but not unfairly). the opera boss is one of my fav bosses ever!

how do we feel about ARMS

i wish i had someone nearby irl who wanted to play with me for it

what is the gameplay like? i imagine it is something like Punch Out with motion controls.

it’s more of its own thing than that but it’s a good way to get a sense of whether you might enjoy it for yrself imo

I like ARMS a lot.

ha! i totally slept on ARMS but I still kinda want to play it

ARMS, like Splatoon and Rabbids, is totally a title I would try for maybe $40, but not $60.

if only there was some kind of way to acquire second-hand goods shipped from locations near and far

some type of 'electronic bay' if u will

Ok I have a boring question

What is a good case