The Nintendo Switch

Miss those days

such artless terms of abuse

I'd buy a pretendo 69

“microdumbsoft xterriblebox”

(If the ports weren't marked up)

((tattooed butthole))

What are the chances of a new kid Icarus game?

20:1

pretty low, the 3DS one was a pet project of sakurai, the smash guy, who presumably has been busy with new smash for the past while

Another reason I haven't played Mario or Zelda yet is that I know they are awesome, but right now, if I played them, I've got nothing waiting in the wings ...

If your other concern is that there's not enough Switch games to play, maybe spend 6-8 months playing Zelda, then there'll be new games out?

This thread is basically the Infinity War of people trying to convince Josh that maybe Nintendo is a company that knows what it's doing.

sushi striker demo is worth checking out if you like this sort of color matching puzzle game. it's quite different from a match-3 game mechanically and the production values are high for the genre - fully voiced Saturday morning cartoon style cutscenes and the like. very cute/funny. it's definitely a touchscreen game though, the joycon controls feel like an afterthought/handicap.

Because I am familiar with the worlds of Mario and Zelda (even if I haven't played these specific games) I'm not quite ready to spend months on them. I wanted something different ... like Dark Souls, dammit! But Doom is pretty different, that'll keep me going, especially because I'm slow. (Though the slowdowns in that game, even post patch, are maddening and, at times, game-breaking.)

yeah I played the Sushi Striker demo last night too. Agree that it is better on the touchscreen. The anime is real delightful though and I'm glad they brought it onto the Switch (it was first announced as a 3DS title, now it'll be both). Not sure if I'll pick it up, but it does make all kinds of real great puzzle game sounds.

it's going in my 'pick up in the future if i somehow exhaust my backlog' pile alongside bayo 2

Mario Tennis demo next weekend. def going to try that out

I keep forgetting about Bayonetta 2! Hopefully it'll go down in price before disappearing altogether.

Nintendo actually ran an eShop sale on ARMS earlier this year so they might someday again put a first party retail title on discount.

This looks neat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReB3xEfT1Xw

Looks clever!

“microdumbsoft xterriblebox”

― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Friday, May 25, 2018 3:48 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gamecube, more like Lamen00b

yoku's island express is out today, a game that I've had my eye on for a while. hoping it's good. will report back later in the week.

also it sounds like the big pokemon announcement is happening this week

apparently pokemon's getting revealed via a private media event in japan tonight with public info to follow

also yoku's island express is very good based on the first couple hours - if you were at all interested in the concept it's a no-brainer

Okay!

Ikaruga up today too I think, I am probably gonna try that

i hope/assume it has vertical mode

Return to the Kanto region and experience a classic Pokémon journey in a whole new way with Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! on the Nintendo Switch! Coming November 16, 2018: https://t.co/kXLdxUMjjA #PokemonLetsGo pic.twitter.com/EKzQsTbDuE

— Pokémon (@Pokemon) May 30, 2018

my childlike wonder has been duly aroused

also the 'proper' next gen pokemon game confirmed for 2019

they also announced a weird free-to-play voxel pokemon spinoff game called pokemon quest that is out now on switch and will be on smartphones too

anyone playing pokemon quest ?

I guess I'm wrong for thinking Pokemon is for grade schoolers? To paraphrase someone else, I'm old enough to have missed out on Pokemon twice. The only people I've seen playing it have been young kids.

Josh I think you might suck at Nintendo

I think you might be right! I mean, I'm 43 and was there at the start, but missed many of the subsequent iterations and iconic games I guess.

Pokémon is for kids and former kids

I mean I ain’t remotely excited for any Pokémon whatever neither but I know better than to go on the Internet and say “what’s the big deal?” about it.

And I wear chuck taylors every day and I still only vaguely understand why people care about the westdashians

Oh, I know Pokemon is a big deal for some people.

josh have u completed zelda yet

josh have u started zelda yet

is josh going to be the turdican of this thread

less than two weeks until e3, we can move past this

I've been slowly playing Doom, which has been extra slow due to, well, game slowdowns. I'll go to jump over a pit or something and just before I press the jump button the frame rates shrink to molasses and it leaves me plummeting to my death.

Oh Josh just buy a PS4.

I'm just not a double console kind of guy.

Throw your switch into a pit or something

josh we can't help you until you learn to help yourself

Fair enough! Honest confession, I was looking around at PS4s enough that I'm starting to get it in targeted pop-up ads.

there's always some amount of grass is greener thing with gaming platforms. until you have a substantive list of specific games you want to play on a console it's always better to just be patient and see what happens

just curious what is your reason for not playing Mario/Zelda? they are both amazing. any time spent fretting over games you could be playing is utterly wasted if you own these and don't give them a shot.