The Nintendo Switch

I’m faintly bummed by the lack of an out-there new announcement for a game due this year. I don’t really see tentpole Nintendo releases dated for August/September/October still and with Smash slipping to December you’d think they’d want a fresh multiplayer game in September to help sell paid online, rather than just starting to charge people to play what they were already playing.

On the other hand, I don’t think I’ll run out of stuff to do this year between Octopath, Tennis, Hyrule Warriors, Captain Toad, finishing Rabbids, playing my Master Mode file on Zelda…and if I really want, Rabbids and Xenoblade DLC…

Oh I guess Super Mario Party is October

played my first match in Fortnight. had no idea what was going on but still had a blast. the game has a really nice colorful art design, i can see why it's so huge. fwiw it runs pretty well on Switch.

Yeah, my daughter had a ton of fun watching me play, which was somewhat limited until I learned how to run (!). Or what direction to run. Or who was on my team. Or why I need to hit things with an axe. Or how to build. Or why to build. Or how to heal. Or what everything does. Several matches in and I even finally made it to a point where I was actually shooting at people.

They're showing off a "challenge battle" mode for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 rn. The post-launch support for this game has been pretty incredible for an offline single-player game; I don't think I'll experience any of it though because I'm not sure I need to spend any more time with that game.

the dlc story campaign looks like an entire new game. I wasn't gonna bother with the dlc but now I'm tempted

still hoping for some more physical package compilations to come out, like XC2 with all DLC or Rabbids with all DLC on disc

I want to play the Smash

so excited for smashee

have no interest in Smash or Pokemon so this E3 has been a bit of a bust for me :/
oh well just downloaded Hollow Knight, it's so pretty. plus Octo tonight!

don't think fortnite is for me. don't get on with the building aspect. I'm a stone cold killer don't want to be faffing around with bricks and mortar

Going to try sexy brutale at 50% off

building was the reason i stopped playing fortnite.

E3 sale incoming tomorrow. hoping for a decent amount off splatoon

xpost let me know what you think of sexy brutale, everything I read says it plays like shit on a switch.

I wonder if Nintendo had been hoping to have something else ready for E3, which is why they went so long on Smash and its more quotidian features, like a redesigned Wii Fit trainer face or whatever. Because apparently the stock got hammered today, with Smash the only big title before the end of the year - and all the way at the end of the year, no less - and no clear showoff-y sort of thing for the company's pay online venture. And Reggie did a sort of quiet damage control, promising ports faster in the near future. But I dunno.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/13/17460528/nintendo-switch-multiplatform-games-delay-fortnite

smash isn't even their biggest title before the end of the year

but yeah yoshi and fire emblem getting delayed mean we have a sparse first party schedule. shouldn't really matter in the long run and there's plenty of 3rd party games on the way

also lol

while other publishers made sure to emphasize ultraviolence in their E3 game footage (e.g. executions, curb-stomping, neck-stabbing), Nintendo/Marvelous rushed to clarify that the buildings and mechs you destroy in Daemon X Machina absolutely do not have people inside them pic.twitter.com/XfjRe9o1oR

— Tiny Cartridge (@tinycartridge) June 13, 2018

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I think I have been playing 50 vs 50 in Fortnite, and I think I survived my first match, but it was wholly unsatisfying. Literally like I just waited long enough, and that doesn't take into account somehow almost dying by falling off a rock and somebody rushing over, healing me, then building a protective wall. Like all that all they needed was just another body to survive so that the team would win. Which I think is accurate? Anyway, all I want to know is how to disguise myself as a bush and I think I will be happy. Not sure what all this stuff about dancing is about, no idea how to do that, and I'll be fucked if I'm going to pay a penny for this janky free game. In the meantime, I guess until they ad gyro controls to the switch I'm pretty much useless on offense, so will be stuck learning how to build things and hide.

heh yeah i still haven't won a match. it's decent fun but i have only ever played MP with k+m and truly suck at this. yesterday i ran it docked for the first time and it was looking a little rough. that dynamic resolution.

looks way better in handheld mode imo. which is cool. to me it's just a little freebie, and pretty perfect for bus rides or whatever.

Josh have you gotten your Curse of the Moon code yet? that game is a lot of fun and really scratches the Megaman/Castlevania itch.

I concur that Curse of the Moon rules, like an awesome mod of Castlevania III

is there no practice mode or lobby that i can like figure out fortnite's mechanics?

Maybe the original paid version had it...

Nope. You just get 8-10 seconds of fucking around in the weird pseudo lobby before they fly you in on the bus.

I might get splatoon in the sale. fortnite has made me want to play a shooter w decent mechanics and gameplay and splatoon looks solid

does the standard game have a single player ?

Josh have you gotten your Curse of the Moon code yet? that game is a lot of fun and really scratches the Megaman/Castlevania itch.

Yeah, it's cool, but nowhere near as cool as Hollow Knight right now, which is everything I hoped it would be.

Splatoon 2 has a single player campaign yes. it's not super meaty like the expansion one looks to be but it's there.

im def going to check out Hollow Knight. if it's as cool as it looks then $15 is a steal.

Hollow Knight is like a cross between Steamworld 2 Dig and ... Dark Souls (from what I know of it). And the price is absolutely right. Unlike, say, Little Nightmares, which also looks cool, but not for $30. Or Don't Starve for $20, which seems a bit high for something that's still of indeterminate stability on the Switch. Isn't there a sale coming up?

sale now on, 25-50% off Zelda, Splatoon, FE Warriors, Overcooked, Pacman CE etc https://e3.nintendo.com/sale/

also arcade Donkey Kong available for the first time ever digitally, the rights for using the original code were a legal mess so this is a big surprise (with a big price tag to go along with it ofc)

excited to try golf story on sale, too

i still haven't made any big digital purchases on Switch. are game purchases finally tied to the user account, so if i pick up a new Switch down the road i can transfer my purchases without hassle?

yes games are tied to account though save data is tied to the hardware unless you have the online service

cool cool. i'll probably get Golf Story, maybe the Rabbids bundle...

had some coins so picked up golf story. kinda slow paced but fun enough !

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i got Hollow Knight. yall were right, the game rules so much. i love how it plays, how simple the controls are. the art is great and there is a real crunch to all of your actions. the rebound of your 4-way attack is an important mechanic. i can tell the boss fights are going to rule. i fought two bosses and both of them i was just jumping and attacking and healing, nothing else, and they ruled. level design wise it feels close to Metroid, especially in these initial cave areas. but it's way less frustrating to play.

Octopath Traveler demo has been very nice. played as the hunter, had a pet cheetah with me. im going to have to get this game. just the way they did the 3D world maps is so cool. plus the combat is fun and flashy and classic Final Fantasy ATB style. def check out this demo.

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

i smile when i saw they have 90s cyberpunk computer game D/Generation on the Switch eshop.

The game takes place in a slightly cyberpunk futuristic setting in 2021. A French company called Genoq has developed a series of new genetically engineered bioweapons, which have run out of control and taken over Genoq's Singapore lab. The main character is a courier making an emergency delivery by jetpack of an important package to one of Genoq's top researchers, Jean-Paul Derrida (a name likely inspired by the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida), and who is happily oblivious to the carnage until the lab's doors lock behind him. His customer is ten floors away, all of them crawling with bioweapons.

good lord

used to play this a shit ton on my amiga. great game. the remake version looks terrible.

But miss my Amiga. Or I miss myself when I had an Amiga.

Man, I thought I was facing a boss in Hollow Knight but it just turns out to be a hard to beat Husk dude, lol. This game is challenging!

finished shovel knight first campaign. great fun! gonna leave a little break before hitting the followup ones.