glad to see former GOTY Clustertruck showing up on the eshop this week. this might have to be my first switch double dip
― ciderpress, Thursday, 15 March 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
Indie game showcase coming Tuesday
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 16 March 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
Clustertruck is 10x harder without mouse look as it turns out. i shouldn't be surprised by this but it's been a while
― ciderpress, Friday, 16 March 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
Also, horny Nintendo going strong into 2018http://fortooate.tumblr.com/post/171868976489/amp?__twitter_impression=true
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 16 March 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
Ugh sorry for AMP trash
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 17 March 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
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
― CraigG, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
Gamemaker Studio is that popular huh? I guess it's that or Unity these days for indies
― Nhex, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
Which of all these upcoming indies are any good? I only know about Hollow Knight, but that's been talked about forever.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
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)
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
Ys VIII is out June 26:
https://youtu.be/p-tOaEFYQOc
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
ah it's a Vita port. that makes sense given the look
― Nhex, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
yeah falcom's not exactly the most technically impressive studio but they make fun games
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
i think xenoblade is the only thing i've played where you really miss out on those on the small screen
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
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.
― p.j.b. (pj), Thursday, 22 March 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
any decent deals in this spring eshop sale?
― ||||||||, Thursday, 22 March 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
Is Skyrim an automatic buy if I'm into Zelda? It's 15 quid off.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 22 March 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
skyrim is nothing like zelda but it is a 'classic' open world rpg at this point if you want more of that. i find it kind of dreary after playing zelda and other more recent games
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 March 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
Well, it's like Zelda in the sense that there is an expansive/immersive world to explore, no?
― Evan, Thursday, 22 March 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
Yeah it’s already a little dated imo lots of it feels procedurally generated and the stories and quests are half assed imo. In the post Witcher 3 post BotW world Bethesda is going to have to step it up I think.
― Mordy, Thursday, 22 March 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
for sure
it's more of an RPG though in that you build a character that levels up and gets skills from a skill tree and such - zelda doesn't have any of that, it just gives you all your tools up front
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 March 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
i bet witcher 3 could run on the switch in 720p/30fps, that game is v well optimized. not likely to happen though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 22 March 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
Sure, though in a less classic RPG way you level up your health and stamina and find progression items along the journey.
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― Evan, Thursday, 22 March 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
ach i think i'll go for celeste (tho it's not on sale)
also, i just remembered i have Skyrim on my old PS3 and never play it, whoops
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 22 March 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
mario is thicc and bi
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― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 22 March 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/here-are-the-biggest-selling-games-in-japan-in-2017-1824250532
1. Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon (3DS)2017 sales: 2,198,231 unitsLife to date: 2,198,231 units2. Splatoon 2 (Switch)2017 sales: 2,146,190 unitsLife to date: 2,146,190 units3. Monster Hunter: World (PS4)2017 sales: 1,917,492 unitsLife to date: 1,917,492 units4. Dragon Quest XI (3DS)2017 sales: 1,763,948 unitsLife to date: 1,763,948 units5. Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)2017 sales: 1,613,076 unitsLife to date: 1,613,076 units6. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch)2017 sales: 1,613,076 unitsLife to date: 1,613,076 units7. Dragon Quest Xi (PS4)2017 sales: 1,353,432 unitsLife to date: 1,353,432 units8. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)2017 sales: 563,274 unitsLife to date: 870,895 units9. Yokai Watch Busters 2 (3DS)2017 sales: 491,779 unitsLife to date: 491,779 units10. Monster Hunter XX (3DS)2017 sales: 417,119 unitsLife to date: 1,687,451 units
2. Splatoon 2 (Switch)2017 sales: 2,146,190 unitsLife to date: 2,146,190 units
3. Monster Hunter: World (PS4)2017 sales: 1,917,492 unitsLife to date: 1,917,492 units
4. Dragon Quest XI (3DS)2017 sales: 1,763,948 unitsLife to date: 1,763,948 units
5. Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)2017 sales: 1,613,076 unitsLife to date: 1,613,076 units
6. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch)2017 sales: 1,613,076 unitsLife to date: 1,613,076 units
7. Dragon Quest Xi (PS4)2017 sales: 1,353,432 unitsLife to date: 1,353,432 units
8. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)2017 sales: 563,274 unitsLife to date: 870,895 units
9. Yokai Watch Busters 2 (3DS)2017 sales: 491,779 unitsLife to date: 491,779 units
10. Monster Hunter XX (3DS)2017 sales: 417,119 unitsLife to date: 1,687,451 units
some surprising figures in here. splatoon 2 outsold both odyssey and BotW by quite a margin in japan!
― Karl Malone, Monday, 2 April 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
hold the phone
are they both...bundled with the system or something?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 2 April 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
damn they love those monster hunter games
― Mordy, Monday, 2 April 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
Yeah Splatoon is hueg in Japan. AIUI Zelda has more or less never been as big in Japan as it is abroad but I don’t know the data on that.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 2 April 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
relative popularity of Nintendo franchises globally is not what you think if you think of Nintendo as Mario and Zelda. it's more like Pokemon, Mario, Splatoon, and Animal Crossing. Zelda is down in the 2nd tier alongside Fire Emblem and the like. Metroid is barely on the map.
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 April 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
Nintendo obv considers Zelda top tier maybe just bc of NA idk
― Mordy, Monday, 2 April 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
honestly shocked Splatoon is doing this well though
― Nhex, Monday, 2 April 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
esp. considering it was a Wii U franchise
It's their only proprietary online shooter (more or less), isn't it?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 April 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Anyway I’m on vacation with my sister (and partner and her sister), we both brought our switches, we played four player Mario Kart in the hotel room over wireless on two systems with each of us using a Joycon, the Switch is pretty brilliant.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Monday, 2 April 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
splatoon is massive in japan, pc gaming doesn't really exist there so that removes most of its competition from the market
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 April 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
zelda gets considered top tier because it has a pretty locked-in fanbase in the west but as we just saw it's not so much of a golden goose that they're not willing to make major changes to its gameplay. you won't see them doing that with pokemon.
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 April 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
hasn't the general feeling been that Zelda was stagnant between Wind Waker and BOTW? I could be imagining that, frankly
― Nhex, Monday, 2 April 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
yeah that's certainly true. people liked the last 3DS one but other than that you wouldn't have missed much if you skipped forward 15 years which is probably part of why it's no longer a golden goose
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 April 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
a lot of those games got very positive reviews at the time though iirc, there's more than a little bit of hindsight at work with that narrative
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 April 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
Not stagnant as much as slow, I'd say - If you consider post-Ocarina handheld games to be sometimes-interesting failures (which I more or less do), then there were three of them between Majora's Mask and Wind Waker - but that's still only two years, with Ocarina of Time only two years before that. Then it's four years to Twilight Princess, five years to Skyward Sword, six years to Breath of the Wild. And each gap has two handheld games in it, but they're a year to two apart.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 2 April 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
I remember really liking Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks, actually, esp. the dungeon design
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 09:13 (six years ago) link
video game gun violence is out of control it must be stopped
https://i.imgur.com/i6hwb2Q.png
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5p0SiWHwvw
DKC:TF is looking good! i never played it but i keep seeing people say it's a GOAT platformer.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
it's also apparently ridiculously unforgiving, which is why they added an easy mode. Seems BS that the switch version retails for $10 more than the Wii U version retailed. It along with Kirby I at one point had pre-ordered then decided you know what? These games look dumb I don't want to play either of them.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
ridiculously unforgiving
heh this is a plus for me. besides, it can't be any worse than Snow Barrel Blast in the original DKC and i made it through that...
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
Yeah I had it on the Wii U and never got very far into it.
― DJI, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
i doubt it's any more or less difficult than the originals
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 4 April 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link