The Nintendo Switch

it's inextricably tied with the band Ween in my memory

Mario tennis demo this weekend

NA Switch codes are out for the amazing "Curse of the Moon"

Fortnite is confirmed for switch, surprising no one. release date being announced at e3 presumably

xpost That's the ticket.

any eta on mario tennis?

demo

You can download it already, servers open at 6 pm Seattle time for the NA version. If you have a store account for another region you can start earlier.

Wow I’m crap at tennis so far

Extremely bad at it. I probably still want it but I don’t think I’ll be mixing it up online as much as I did with Arms

lag is an issue

its much closer to a fighting game in terms of how good a connection you need than other types of multiplayer games

Can't make it out of the tutorial.

I’m performing marginally better at tennis this morning. Hopefully the adventure mode will actually train me up good.

I really hope this game gets some FGC traction I wanna watch a live tournament of it

posting on a messageboard thread dedicated to a system i don't own, i reference an article containing tips about a game i will never play, which argued that the adventure mode for mario tennis aces is actually really helpful in training you

https://kotaku.com/mario-tennis-aces-adventure-mode-is-a-great-teacher-1826462641

why do i live

U should absolutely buy a Switch tbh

Switch is life

get a switch karl ffs

Guys I don't care about online gaming or twitchy stuff in general, has the Switch got 4 or 5 games beyond Zelda that would make it worth getting one?

this is for the depresso thread but i've been waiting to buy one for myself as a reward for doing something good (getting a job, getting into grad school, pissing harder than i've ever pissed before, getting health insurance, whatever) for over a year now.

get a switch noodle ffs

Yeah I was kinda thinking retail self-medication myself

xpost, i, a person who has never played the system, should field this question

do you have any other modern system? if you don't, then there are all sorts of ports you might like

stardew valley
dark souls
skyrim
celeste
rocket league
doom

+ mario and all the other first party nintendo games that will rule, obviously
xenoblade

Noteworthy non-twitchy, more than just online Switch experiences:

Super Mario Odyssey (you can have lots of fun without being a platforming wizard)
Mario Kart 8 DX (most accessible local multiplayer game possible)
Mario+Rabbids (turn-based)

Coming soon:
Octopath Traveler (neo-trad JRPG)
Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee (plus a truly new Pokémon next year)
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (the most hidden gem of the Wii U apparently)

And E3 is in like 10 days

I haven't got a current gen system and tbh if I went with PS4 it'd probably just end up being used for Skyrim again. Really I'm just unsure about how much juice the Switch has got compared to the other two.

Karl put $10 in an envelope for every job you apply to and then buy a Switch when it has $300 in it imo, reward yourself for sustainable progress not things out of your control.

Ok half a dozen of the games listed feel like enough of an excuse for an impulse purchase

Honestly Zelda is enough of an excuse for an impulse purchase, the thing justifies itself once you have spent 100 hours on Zelda

Really I'm just unsure about how much juice the Switch has got compared to the other two.

don't get an xbox one. just don't.

PS4 and switch will both be going strong for a while. PS5 will probably launch around 2021, and like most new systems, won't be worth buying for another year or so after that. buying systems on launch day is for rich people and suckers and superfans. around the same time, i'm sure nintendo will have their next next gen gen system ready to go, with a new version of mario and zelda that will make you absolutely shit your pants in REAL life this time, in public, on video, in a tweet, all at the same time. so just get one of the two, PS4 or switch, and you'll be set until that moment. personally i just have a PS4 and i have never run out of interesting new games to try

mario tennis is fun (and deep). lag is annoying but I'd probably not play online mp that much anyway

will pick it up I think. and toad (provided it's not 60£)

I don't understand how to play mario tennis. Why do stars appear? Bc mistimed a return? Or wasn't creative? I get the sense that it all could be very exciting if I were even decent.

if you are in the star, when going to return, hit R and (if you have enough energy) it will activate a zone shot. you then get to choose where to place the ball

did you manage to skip the tutorial? I thought it was unskippable

Karl that's probably where my head's at, thanks for the summary

sorry think I misread

think they appear because the return is a bad one, yeah. so the ball is too high

apparently there are certain colour shots you should use to reply to corresponding colour shots. think if you do it right (e.g. respond with a purple to a purple) then you take less stun/stagger

xpost

yeah, you really can't go wrong. it's really a golden age of videogames, i think, and has been for a while now. not just on the platforms, but on PC/Mac/steam as well. there are just so many games in so many genres, from AAA $60 games to little $5 indie puzzle games that are just as good, but shorter

the Switch is my first new console since getting an SNES for Christmas of 1991. since then i gamed on PC (mostly emulators) or through old consoles.

i bought it when Mario came out last year. Mario/Zelda games are always special and i did not want to miss out. my friend had Wii and Wii U and whenever any of the Mario games came out i would check them out and they were always super impressive graphically, in spite of any technical shortcomings. there is this deep level of production quality to everything they do.

the Wii U Mario games, esp Mario Kart, were really headed in a nice direction aesthetically. bright and shiny and colorful and cartoony and strange - reviewing playback footage in slow motion in Mario Kart it seemed like Nintendo games were just a hair away from looking like Pixar films. the grass in BOTW is so beautifully animated, the game itself looks like a interactive Princess Mononoke at times, that just standing in a spot and watching the wind blow across a hill can be a wonderful experience.

the cool thing is, there will be more games to come! they are working on the future Mario/Zelda as we speak. PS4 has been around for years now, and there is already the Pro, while the Switch is just getting started. it feels like there are going to be a number of surprise BOTW-quality games in the Switch's lifetime and i can't wait to see what they are. maybe it won't even be the BOTW/SMO follow ups but something else? one thing is for sure, Mario/Zelda aren't coming out on the other systems. (someday i am going to get a PS4 cos i need to play through Bloodborne eventually and some other stuff. but this will do for now.)

honestly if Switch had no more good games besides Mario and Zelda from last year, I'd still mark it as a worthwhile purchase. and there IS a lot more coming, hopefully good.

if I'm being honest I've always thought of Nintendo consoles as exclusively for Nintendo titles. the rest is bonus.

and that is correct thinking, especially since the N64 (as mentioned above). a lot of people in my generation still nostalgically cling to the dominance of the NES/SNES eras, which, let's face it, is a huge part of Nintendo's strategy in 2018

i don't know about that. i had friends that owned Genesis and i was p impressed with those games too. and going back and playing through Phantasy Star IV or the Streets of Rage or Shinobi series has been v cool. it is sort of funny that i bought a new Sonic the Hedgehog game on a Nintendo system. personally i never cared about the system wars. i liked the Turbo Grafx 16 too. you can't buy all these systems, you would have to be rich. different consoles offer different experiences, everything else is horse race nonsense.

Nintendo's strategy is it is doing its own thing. this has been its strategy since the 80s. it nearly got into legal trouble because of it and i remember all the licensing & marketing stuff it was trying in the wake of the 80's videogame crash being looked at suspiciously. Nintendo has always done things its own way and people project all kinds conspiracies into that.

making a new Mario or Zelda or Metroid game is not a "nostalgic" move. these are legacy characters and Nintendo has continuously produced games for them (including archival releases) across multiple generations.

if nostalgia was that big a factor in my love for gaming i would be playing those fucking sonic games

i'm more specifically referring to N's strong-arming of third parties making killer games for them during that time, which they've never really gotten to happen since

like, hell, even i'm still hoping for great third party games but it's a generally a faint promise with some exceptions. (i gotta pick up Bayonetta 1+2)

It’s because no one makes good games anymore. Games are bad now

I brought a set of Nintendo Labo to a holiday with my brothers and their kids but the latter were not really interested so I just used the Switch to play Enter the Gungeon

xp bayonetta is basically a first-party nintendo thing now, they funded the 2nd game and presumably the upcoming 3rd one too

where is killer7 switch