The Nintendo Switch

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

donkey kong, should i buy you

guess how long i play dankey kong

if you liked the SNES ones it's very much in tune with those - gorgeous and overproduced. a lot of people think it's the best 2D platformer ever made.

the amount of detail in each level is kind of staggering tbh

i'm only on the 2nd world but here's a minecart level i just did that i thought was cool, if you want a taste of what the production values are like on this thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKTLRL5XzSM

omg I want a Switch rn

so it's like Sonic but really slow and heavy

ik, ik

the heaviness of minecart physics in OG DKC was always delightful

In fairness I am really slow and heavy these days so that sounds like a good fit.

i recently watched this Digital Foundry thing on the origins of Donkey Kong Country/Killer Instinct CGI. it's pretty great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ7qtqqgTlo

super cool that we now have real time graphics that can pull off the look that required a lengthy pipeline from massive rendering farms churning out individual frames overnight to compressing into 16 colors per sprite.

def gonna pick this up someday. just too much on my plate at the moment...

wow @ the music in the level i'm on now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFP4wn0dejc

That is pretty awesome.

my favorite thing about Tropical Freeze is every single level is different, they never reuse a theme or mechanic, and there are multiple things going on per level unlike the old games which generally just worked a single mechanic to its extreme per level. nothing outstays its welcome and it makes you want to replay levels just to get a taste of their unique bits again.

here's a good vid about the level design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqHcE6B4OP4

and another good vid from someone else breaking down a single level:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5wIIwBL784

picked up dankey kang today after never getting around to it on the wii u and goddamn this is a delight (albeit a regularly v challenging one)

so it's like Sonic but really slow and heavy

it kinda is, in the best possible way! it's melds mario and sonic in a really innarestin' way

should I buy dk y/n

nah

buy dkc if you like dkc, for all the praise its still a dkc game with the same gameplay as the snes ones

putting expense aside, if i have to choose between platformers, i think i'll get celeste next

sonic was always too fast for me, even as a kid!

donkey kong is nothing like sonic, it's not fast at all