Kirby games are quality, they're just not difficult.
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
xpost Absolutely. And games like Smash and MarioKart and Mario and Zelda are why I have a Switch and not another system. Given its success I was just hoping for more third party stuff, and I'm sure we'll get it, but with little to nothing prominent on the radar except ports, sequels and the promise of stuff like (as I mentioned) old but new to Nintendo Dark Souls or Hollow Knight, it's just a bit of a bummer. Feels too early in the system's life for it to be this quiet. Stuff that appeals to me (like Metroid) and my kids (Animal Crossing) won't be until some time in 2019, I assume, which is a wait.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
We downloaded the Kirby demo and even my kids, who like Kirby, were (the kid equivalent of) fuck this.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
they are hiring for the new Zelda, so the follow up to BOTW is def going to be worth looking forward to
i'd say wait to panic until after E3. Nintendo has a habit of announcing games out of nowhere and saying, "Btw this is coming out in a few months). they first announced Dark Souls on Switch 2 months ago.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
Nintendo wants to sell 20 million Switches in their FY ending March 2019, they need some sort of tentpole beyond Smash to achieve that probably.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
I don't know, I just figured Smash was meant to coincide with their online system.Also re Dark Souls, don't mean to be impatient, but yeah, they announced it, but within a couple months it was totally off the schedule again.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
The service will launch with 20 games, with new games added regularly. Launch titles include:Soccer Tennis Donkey Kong™ Mario Bros.™ Super Mario Bros.™ Balloon Fight™ Ice Climber™ Dr. Mario™ The Legend of Zelda™ Super Mario Bros.™ 3 And more to be revealed!
20 NES games is pretty cool, i'll take that. 20 dollars a year for 20+ NES games already pays for itself. kind of like a revolving NES Classic. if you can download the games to your Switch that would be a neat way to build up a library of emulated games over time.
i know for sure i am gonna play all the way through TLOZ for the first time (and probably try the Master Quest). Dr. Mario is a nice include. SMB3 is perhaps the greatest game of all time, now it will have extra online features.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
Pretty sure the other publishers only figured out Switch was going to be a big success about 6-9 months ago, and are now rushing to get titles ready. But making a good game can take years, so it might take a while to fill the pipeline.
― DJI, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
yeah any 3rd party game releasing right now is a port that was added late in development or after the fact. third party support will look a lot better once we get into the third year or so of Switch's existence and devs have had time to build games that target it from the start.
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
But why not just announce you're working on something, especially if it's a port? Wolfenstein, for example, was announced with little to no warning, and certainly at the time no release date. It keeps people engaged and invested. If I knew (insert AAA game here) was coming, I'd be more excited. That's why I was looking forward to Dark Souls. Never played it, wanted to, finally coming to Nintendo, and was going to carry me through until the end of the year, when I would get Smash. And then ... poof. But at least I know it's coming!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
again, wait until e3, most publishers will hoard announcements for e3, it's not uncommon to have a lot of silence in the first half of the year
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
best way to market a thing is to announce it far in advance so that it's not a surprise and is boring by the time you can make money selling it
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
to sustain the people
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
How is "Death Road to Canada?"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
xpost Oh, come on, there are lots of anticipated games that were revealed or announced months ago, like Metroid and Hollow Knight.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
And Celeste guy announced he's working on a Switch port of TowerFall, for example. Give you something to look forward to!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
i think Dark Souls on Switch will be worth the wait. the 5 mins of Undead Burg from PAX East look amazing. it is being handled by a different team than the PS4/PC remaster, which getting some criticism for flat textures & lighting. Switch one may visually stand out more even if running at 30fps.
https://media.giphy.com/media/LTVVZwbfXMPB1AiMfl/giphy.gifPS4
https://media.giphy.com/media/2la3EJ92D3bqrJZdcq/giphy.gifSwitch
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Announcing long in advance is also practical, since the Nintendo eShop is a mess (imo) and awash with crappy indies, so it's nice to know to look out for stuff like, say, Don't Starve or Kentucky Route Zero, which I might not have heard of or noticed otherwise.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
Nintendo likes to announce stuff as close to release as they feel they can get away with, it's just how they operate
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
it's a good way to avoid missing announced release dates that's for sure
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
definitely prefer Nintendo's MO of waiting as long as possible to announce stuff compared to everyone else
― Nhex, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
yeah fuck waiting four years between announcement and release
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
i got Sonic Mania and Celeste. Sonic is really good. the gameplay is super smooth. the music is excellent. the level selection is like a mashup of the greatest 16-bit sequences w tweaked designs. like they went in and found spots (not all of them lol) where player momentum gets interrupted by bad enemy placement or whatever and fix that. so the level design is nice, the coding is VERY nice, very fast. these devs know what they are doing, and Sonic was very nearly as fast as i remember it on the Genesis.
Celeste is cool but it is a single screen insta-respawn Meat Boy type game where you die over and over figuring out how to get past a one screen full of traps at a time. does it have vertical scrolling or linear levels at all? also it mixes pixel art with vector art and that always bugs me heh but thats fine whatever. the levels are very cool and the game pixel art is very nice.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
Celeste is cool but it is a single screen insta-respawn Meat Boy type game where you die over and over figuring out how to get past a one screen full of traps at a time.
yep. if you keep going, you will die hundreds of times.
does it have vertical scrollingyep
or linear levelsall levels have a beginning screen and an end screen, and although there are tons of secrets and sidepaths to discover, you're essentially following a main path to the end of each level.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
I never did unlock the Core but beating the regular game was very satisfying.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of9GOMM9HPg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link
This revelation that dunkey is white is a little concerning
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 04:32 (five years ago) link
I am racist enough to assume that someone that unfunny can only ever have been white.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 08:54 (five years ago) link
This time of year's always a lull for new releases. It will ramp up again in October/November.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 09:52 (five years ago) link
I think Dunkey is funny. Also, fwiw he may be Puerto Rican.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
getting the calipers out to speculate on the ethnicity of a youtuber is def a valuable direction for this thread to go in imo
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 11:39 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it's not a good thing. Tbh, it's sort of a meme among his fans, and it sucks there, too. Anyway he's funny.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 12:07 (five years ago) link
I bought Death Road to Canada because it was discounted to $11, I think, which is not bad. I wasn't interested at first because it seemed like another 8-bit dungeon crawler rogue like whatever, but then I saw it described as Oregon Trail with zombies, and learned that it's infused with tons of weird humor, so I decided, what the heck.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 12:10 (five years ago) link
for me Monster Hunter works best on portable so I'm happy to see this finally getting localized
HUNT ANYWHERE. HUNT ANY WAY. HUNT ULTIMATE. Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate arrives on Nintendo Switch on August 28th. #MHGU pic.twitter.com/pU2wqji7ft— Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter) May 10, 2018
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
I’ll probably try that, I have never Hun’d Mons and I am not gonna get a PS4 ever probably and who needs “quality of life improvements” anyways
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
MH is not my thing but maybe I'll get it if i have ppl to coop with
think the switch release pace is gonna pick up to the point where i can't play everything though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
why not just port MH World?
― Nhex, Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
this port has already existed for a while in Japan. porting World is a much bigger task than localizing this. maybe it'll happen in the future.
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 May 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
MHW has a lot of quality of life improvements & fancy graphics, but Generations Ultimate has a stupid amount of content. I think there's over 3 times as many monsters than MHW to hunt? It's basically a huge love letter to fans of previous MH games, but I expect lots of sniffy reviews and think pieces in Western media about how archaic it feels compared to the new shiny shiny etc.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 10 May 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
have E3 preannouncements started already?puzzle fighting game with a bizarre mashup of characters - Cave Story, Binding of Isaac, Astro Boy, Black Jack(!) and the deepest cut of all, Johnny Turbo the Turbografx mascot wtf
Announcing #CrystalCrisis, the most ambitious Nicalis crossover since the last one! Prepare for the most epic puzzle fighting battle ever when it drops on #NintendoSwitch in Fall 2018! pic.twitter.com/Q8xaSmS9U1— Nicalis, Inc. (@nicalis) May 10, 2018
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 10 May 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
nicalis has a 2d fighting game with the same or similar roster too
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 May 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
i guess they got the licenses for all these characters and are trying to squeeze 2 games out of it isntead of 1
there was a Walmart leak that listed Metroid Prime 4, wonder if that will be this year
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 May 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
Metroid Prime 4 will not release in 2018.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 10 May 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
hey we don't know that... seems unlikely though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 May 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
sure, we don't know, but I'd be surprised as heck if it did
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 10 May 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
they sent out deadlines for backer surveys for Bloodstained recently. i am getting it on Switch. wouldn't surprise me to see it at E3 w a 2018 release.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 May 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
is that the castlevania-but-not game?
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 May 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
yeah.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 May 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
BBxTAG demo with 20 characters out for this weekend
― Nhex, Friday, 11 May 2018 06:39 (five years ago) link