The Nintendo Switch

Maybe tech is moving fast enough that it can be better? Doom, for example, ran pretty eh, but then they fixed it, and Wolfenstein supposedly runs even better on Switch.

When TF is Terraria

terraria devs just cancelled some big new version of the game they were working on for the past 3 years so who knows what the fuck is going on there. does seem like something that ought to have gotten a switch port by now

on the bright side there's another octopath traveler preview vid up and it's still looking great

https://youtu.be/x99ObqWLkYA

Heck yeah. Love these protag designs.

ive decided to do a 180 on buying games digitally, kinda want physical copies of major single player games going forward especially for stuff like DKC where there's a decent chance I'll play it for 5-10 hours and then never again.

it's pretty fun to put cards in the thing imo

my Zelda cart has been in there for almost a year now, i feel bad evicting it

^^^

except in my case it’s because we’ve barely put 30 minutes into anything other than Stardew Valley and Minecraft

bought the zelda dlc pack today because I got a mail saying it came with an exclusive t-shirt & right before I bought it I realized it would be an in-game t-shirt for Link & after a brief pause...well...horse armor too...

lol

Was the horse armor real though?

it says there’s a new saddle and something else horsey too!

DLC includes some exceptionally useful horse armor

I have such an awful need for perpetual Nintendo content that I keep trying to read ResetEra or whatever but it’s mostly dumb and pointless, I’m pretty sure Twitter was a better anxious habit than this.

yeah its a decent place to lurk for info or memes but they can succumb to the classic videogame message board curses just the same. a lot of petty console/flame wars & elitism, people unhappy with anything less than 4K 60fps, image quality being called trash that is visually identical to "good" image quality to the naked eye, lots of bragging & lots of trolls. there was one thread on the new Avengers movie being two and a half hours long where someone said they watch all content at 1.5x speed and go to 2x if it is a scene where nobody is discussing the plot or doing action. they got dogged on as trolling but there is a lot of this type of performative consuming on the side and a lot of toxic stuff as a result.

the Switch Dark Souls Remaster being delayed sucks. hopefully it's not for long. it's crazy they announced it just a few months ago. i wonder if its the online stuff, i think the playable demos at pax were single player only...

resetera is pretty awful i have a handful of threads bookmarked on there for rumormongering but anytime someone there actually tries to express an opinion about videogames it raises my blood pressure

i find threads full of people who think and act like they know the future entertaining but threads where people think and act like they know the present frustrating

enjoying golf story atm

it's pretty good the best part is the 'reveal' at the end which i didn't notice before then and made me laugh out loud

sweet, yeh it's been p funny and v adorable so far

wish we were getting a new Mario Golf instead of tennis

sonic forces on sale but also...bad?

3d Sonic is not good as a rule

I was almost tricked into believing it was sonic mania.

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2018/04/26/korg-gadget-now-available-for-nintendo-switch/

they're sticking with the good E3 presentation format again this year, no surprise

Join us during #E32018 for tournament coverage, gameplay with Treehouse | Live, and a video presentation focusing on #NintendoSwitch games coming this year, including Super #SmashBros! https://t.co/7Kiz5KkcW5 pic.twitter.com/2vpvUsHhIr

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) April 27, 2018

Contemplating taking the day off to watch…

At this rate we're not going to see any Smash gameplay til E3 huh, they're going to make us wait another six weeks

nintendo's new MO in general seems to be announcing/showing as little as possible until a few months before release

smash generally isn't full of surprises though...it'll have like 40+ chars in common with the last game and the reveals will just be whoever's new

Yeah but those reveals! Hype, as they say.

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2018/04/26/korg-gadget-now-available-for-nintendo-switch🕸/

i just hope they get rid of the cursed "Wii Fit Trainer" now that that era of nintendo is over

anyone getting a labo yet

We got invited to the local Labo workshop this week but we’re out of town, alas.

I'm not sure what's cursed about it?

cooking mama in smash bros pls

I assume that Smash will be a port and not a new game right?

i dunno, looks like they are hyping it pretty big. the official site has the game listed as "Super Smash Bros. (Title Pending)" so im hoping that's a new title and not just "Deluxe", which would be a pretty lame build up.

it's a new game, in the same way that Splatoon 2 is a new game. it'll look and play mostly the same just with new content/stages/characters

they would not headline their E3 with a port

Is it for sure "headlining?" There are a few other oft rumored titles waiting in the wings, like Pokemon and Animal Crossing and Metroid that could make surprise appearances, right?

Has every system gotten its own Mario Kart except the Switch? Did every system get its own Smash?

it's for sure headlining

that doesn't mean there won't be other games. Fire emblem is likely, Yoshi is likely, something new that we haven't seen before is likely. animal crossing would be a surprise since there's been no indication that they're working on one. metroid is probably not a 2018 game but might get a trailer. Pokemon is bigger than smash so it's probably not an E3 game if smash is the focus.

‘As in recent years, Nintendo will focus its E3 activities on games coming soon, with a special spotlight given to a key headlining title: the recently announced Super Smash Bros. game coming to the Nintendo Switch console this year’, reads their official press release.

‘Games launching beyond 2018 will be featured at a later date’.

they said that last bit last year too and then immediately showed a metroid teaser. it just means all the games they're doing live demos of are 2018

looking forward to having an hour plus rail commute in a few months to justify getting one of these

haha well there is that.

at least the ride home will be fun!

tbh I'm bringing it on myself and sorta looking forward to it?? enamored with the idea of a mixed train / bike commute, esp if the "wasted time" on the train is spent on stuff like games. makes it less of a guilty indulgence and more justifiable