The Nintendo Switch

the all-star lineup is a really big part. it is rad to see Pikachu or Princess Peach or Pac-Man or Megaman or dozens of other hugely popular and well-rendered characters all throw down, all together on the same screen. im definitely getting Smash.

excited for Dark Souls! it looks like a straight port of the original game but that is even better cos the original game was perfect and if they had gone in with new lighting or whatever it for real would change the experience. im looking forward to the portability, the online functionality. and the Solaire amiibo.

Interesting side note to the Undertale reveal is that it was also announced that games made in the GameMaker engine will be able to be ported to Switch from the summer onwards, so we should see stuff like Hyper Light Drifter, Va 11 Hall A, Hotline Miami, Nuclear Throne, Spelunky, Downwell etc soon

i think i spent every day in the summers of 2003 to 2006 playing smashee with my friends, its so fun

Yeah, it wasn't until I saw on Twitter that GameMaker Studio 2 was getting Switch support that I realised that was subtly implied by Undertale coming. If I remember correctly, though, the guys at Heart Machine (Hyper Light Drifter) have previously said there's some blocking factors for moving HLD to Game Maker Studio 2, so I wouldn't get too excited about that one, but I would love it - and buy it for the fourth time (backed it for 2 copies on Kickstarter, hoping for that PS Vita love, then bought the physical PS4 copy) - if that did happen.

HLD would be nice but give me Nuclear Throne first

Super Smash Bros is also the mainstream heir to Street Fighter, and probably the most popular competitive fighting game community

Ready to pull the trigger on Splatoon 2. But.... can I not play it with somebody else locally?

there's no local multiplayer, it's not that kinda game. you can play it locally LAN party style if everyone has a switch but otherwise it's just online multiplayer

it's honestly not a great handheld game either in multiplayer since it's so fast paced and you have to track movement well as it's a shooter. it's much more of a Competitive Gaming Experience than anything else Nintendo makes

Wonder how long til the Switch really hits the “buy one for every kid” price point the Game Boy and DS lines always eventually reached. Might be a while considering the launch model is probably going to keep doing well through this holiday season and Nintendo just announced new 3DS games yesterday, one out to 2019.

thinking about getting splatoon 2 too, I think. didn't realise it had a half decent single player too

More single player coming to Splat2n as DLC later this year, too

I still don’t think I can play Splatoon without throwing up but I’m SO JEALOUS OF THE OUTFITS MY GOD

Splatoon 2 also has a really fun horde mode where you work with 3 other players collecting salmon eggs for a shady company. It’s the part of the game that I keep coming back to.

yeah that falls under multiplayer still but its co-op multiplayer which is a p different (yet still much more intense than single player) experience

personally i dont like it but its super popular so i think i'm just a grump about co-op modes in general

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtvRaMPJWLs

hmmmmm. tempted
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Splatoon-2-Nintendo-Switch-Game/222875943753?epid=2268068545&hash=item33e4710349:g:Z4IAAOSwxdtao5qM&clk_rvr_id=1462559198498&afsrc=1&rmvSB=true

can someone just lend me a Switch for a month so I can play Mario Odyssey and then remove the distraction

Can’t lend it but you can come play it at my house if you want

ha I was actually thinking if I can get my Karting skills back I would see if you want to race!

and then I could meet your cat too

There are a lot of games (well, relatively speaking) I order in advance because of Amazon's generous 20% off discount, but this week was the first I cancelled one. Two, actually: the new Kirby and the Donkey Kong port. The former, it just looked dumb and easy, and the demo did it no favors. My kids may finally be old enough that this Kirby game seems below their abilities, which might have been OK were it not a $60 AAA title. As for DK, I never played this on the Wii-U, but despite high praise it also looks dumb, and I have enough challenging side-scrollers and platformers to deal with, let alone one so apparently tricky that one of the few new features is a surfboard toting rasta DK called Funky Kong which helps you along. That was so stupid I thought maybe it was a plus, but no, it just seems stupid. Didn't help DK that I think the price is higher than it was on the Wii-U, which ... makes no sense. Will focus instead for the time being on watching the kids play Zelda, kicking their butt at Mario Kart, returning to Celeste at some point and creeping along with Doom (which seems so well done on the Switch it's hard to believe people were really complaining, unless the fixed glitches were truly that apparent), at least until Hollow Knight and Dark Souls appear.

DKC tropical freeze is really good tbh, but it is just a DKC game so if you liked the SNES ones you'll like it and vice versa

Never played the SNES game. Every clip I've seen of TF made me ask myself if I was missing something. Plus it looked kind of stupid.

one of the few new features is a surfboard toting rasta DK called Funky Kong

umm waht

~pre-orders~

the only switch game i'm hyped enough about to preorder is Octopath Traveler and even then i'd rather just buy digital, owning physical things sucks in 2018

I’m all in on physical carts, got a little cart wallet and everything.

resale value is pretty good.

still love having physical artifacts but my personal space is totally overrun with previous generations of unplayed games

need to sell my copy of Neverdead or something

i would go all digital but i bought a microSDXC UHS-I Card and my Switch refused to use it so when the chance came up to pre-order Dark Souls i went for physical

i'm still a little iffy on Nin's digital situation, that's the only thing

glad to see former GOTY Clustertruck showing up on the eshop this week. this might have to be my first switch double dip

Indie game showcase coming Tuesday

Clustertruck is 10x harder without mouse look as it turns out. i shouldn't be surprised by this but it's been a while

Also, horny Nintendo going strong into 2018

http://fortooate.tumblr.com/post/171868976489/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Ugh sorry for AMP trash

Well I'll just away and eat my hat. Hyper Light Drifter running on Switch:

Dash dash pic.twitter.com/gVxfg4kGMY

— Skeletons Inside (@HeartMachineZ) March 20, 2018

yeah they got the gamemaker studio engine running on switch so now we get ports of all the gamemaker games e.g. undertale, HLD, maybe hotline miami or nuclear throne in the future as well

Gamemaker Studio is that popular huh? I guess it's that or Unity these days for indies

speaking of which

Get ready to SWITCH IT UP with your favorite intergalactic truckers! #CRASHLANDS IS COMING TO SWIIIIIIIITCH! @NintendoAmerica pic.twitter.com/6mMXGvyYIu

— Bscotch @GDC (@BScotchShenani) March 20, 2018

Which of all these upcoming indies are any good? I only know about Hollow Knight, but that's been talked about forever.

i can't vouch for any of them though hyper light drifter has a good rep (its a 2d zelda-like but with more difficult combat iirc)

Ys VIII is out June 26:

https://youtu.be/p-tOaEFYQOc

ah it's a Vita port. that makes sense given the look

yeah falcom's not exactly the most technically impressive studio but they make fun games

Using my Switch almost always in portable mode now - less fiddling about w/ cables and controllers and I get to play in bed. Can't help but think I'm letting myself miss out on some big visual whoa moments though.

i think xenoblade is the only thing i've played where you really miss out on those on the small screen

Splatoon 2 makes me queasy on the small screen. It's 2010 all over again: a bag of doritos in my lap, making one part of the sofa all misshapen. I'm old though, so the idea of playing a video game in bed seems so foreign.