The Nintendo Switch

any of you other doofuses donate $20 to Nintendo because you didn't think about the difference between the year of online service and the year of family online service

i'll just begrudgingly pay my $20 but waiting until the next time i feel like playing something online which could be anytime between now and December

I don't really have any online play interest on switch yet but I'm sorta tempted to subscribe for the NES games & then I can teach my son about Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl

none of the NES games are big enough selling points to me, just a minor bonus. I've played the good ones plenty already and don't really have nostalgia for that generation of games. i just want to play fighting games online sometimes and insure my stardew valley save file

when they finally get to SNES games that will make it all feel more worthwhile

kinda happy that the NES games are just a bunch of roms in an emulator, means they can add them quicker than their old way of building a custom emulator for each game. Not many that I'm interested in playing so far but Adventures Of Lolo is coming soon, love that series.
I've fallen down the Monster Hunter hole again, Switch version is like my platonic ideal of the "old style" of MH.

i'll pay by the time smash comes out
oh wait, i have mario kart which means i'll probably spring soon

I have a 7 year old and Splatoon 2 so it was basically mandatory that I cough it up on day 1, hence the fuckup and paying 36% more than I should have

get another switch, problem solved

i immediately bought this because i have never finished mario 3 and i can’t think of a more appealing box to play mario 3 on. that said i wish the emulation was less barebones: i want scanlines and bloom, it looks way too clean.

i thought there was a scanline filter i dont have it yet so i dont know how but i saw people talking about it

i just want to play ice hockey once more

My wishlist is comprised of Bionic Commando and River City Ransom - I assume Metroid, Zelda, and Castlevania II are all but assured

Bionic Commando was so fun!

i thought there was a scanline filter i dont have it yet so i dont know how but i saw people talking about it

you're right! man i am an idiot

megaman has a better one though

isn't river city ransom already on there?

Dead Cells: I beat the Hand Of The King, twice. Then I beat him on hard mode, twice. Then I got my ass handed to me on Very Hard mode.

My tactic-- it's basically one that has been outlined elsewhere-- always upgrade Survivability. Otherwise, upgrade highest HP gains. Emphasize damage reducing items-- good amulet, and a shield (even if you don't use it, it reduces damage passively). Take YOLO and Tough Nut, then either Efficiency (if it's good accessories) or Ammo (if it's bows). Ideal accessory combo is Wolf Trap and Crusher (both green). Hope for good legendaries. Ideal weapon is a legendary Infantry Bow, which has come up fairly often. I have won with Legendary Hayabusa Gloves and Legendary Pyromancy, also. Make sure accessories and primary weapon have comorbid modifiers-- have them all do major burning or major frozen or major poison or major bleeding. My secondary weapon is always an Ice Bow or a shield-- almost never anything else.

Rush through Level 1, killing next to nobody, rolling rolling rolling, and get two upgrades and the major chest and at least one accessory. Make it to the timed door on Promenade. Rush through again, only stopping for scrolls, treasure side-tracks, starred enemies and any elites. Make it to the timed door on Ramparts. Run run run, get everything on the level, only stop to kill the swarming flying shitbirds. I can kill The Concierge with practically anything-- do it before 15 minutes, but this is the "soft" deadline-- the important deadline is the Stilt Village timed door. Take a little more time on Stilt Village, kill a few things, don't get swarmed by warping worms-- the timed door on Sepulcher is fairly easy to make, if you have made the Stilt Village timed door. Once you make the Sepulcher timed door, slow down and start killing things, kill everything. Upgrade only the items you think you'll keep to the end. If all goes well, you'll have somewhere between 15-20 Survivability going into the Castle, a great (fast) primary weapon, and a great combo of accessories (again: Crusher is essential, Wolf Trap extremely useful, maybe Death Orb-- sometimes I get Corrupted Power or similar just for damage reduction).

Final boss with Tough Nut is still very tough, but doable. By the fifth or tenth failed attempt you'll start to get his patterns.

more like Dead Sells #politics #wisdom

Ace attorney stuff turned out to just be HD version of 1-3 better than nothing i guess, i haven't played 2 or 3

mario 3: pretty good

heck yeah

Atelier Arland Series Deluxe Pack is coming via digital release on the PS4, Switch, and PC via Steam on December 4, 2018. #AtelierArlandDX #KTFamily pic.twitter.com/4gu4LMc3DT

— KOEI TECMO AMERICA (@KoeiTecmoUS) September 26, 2018

mario 3: pretty good

the challops thread is over there >>>>

persona 5 and dragon quest xi have revived my interest in console gaming for the first time since the era of like gta vice city and ffix, so i have no idea what's going on anymore. why is everyone in the twitter thread on that KOEI announcement flipping out about digital only?

a lot of people like buying physical copies of games, especially JRPG fans.

this is just a rerelease/port of 3 extremely niche ps3 games though so it doesn't really make sense for them to manufacture/distribute since only like 1000 people are going to buy it regardless of format

there's a couple publishers whose entire business is producing small print run physical editions of indie games for the insane collector types who refuse to buy a digital game for $20 but will buy a hard copy for $40

bizarre, gamers are the worst

physical copies still serve an important purpose in a world where AAA games are pushing the 50gb bluray capacity and broadband internet isn't accessible to everyone, also they obv allow for a secondary market which is big in some parts of the world. people also have concerns about digital storefronts eventually shutting down and their game collections going away with them which is certainly a problem but i'm optimistic that preservation efforts will outpace that.

i mainly buy digital these days when i can primarily because i'm too lazy to changes discs or cartridges when i want to play something else

i'm doing a mix currently based on sales and whether i anticipate wanting to lend out or trade in the game at some point

i'll take pretty much any opportunity not to have more crap in my house

that's where i was at last year but i just moved into a much bigger apartment and have space to fill now

still, switch is the only device i plan to buy any physical software for ever again

Hi everyone, if you asked yourself what Shin'en is doing since #FastRMX: News are coming tomorrow for #NintendoSwitch!

— Shin'en Multimedia (@ShinenGames) September 26, 2018

fast RMX was really good, looking forward to seeing what they're up to now

SlowEZK

Hey video games are good

yeah funny how that works out

I was exposed to an NES maybe once as a child and so Mario 3 is essentially new to me and man I appreciate being able to savescum my way through this. Losing lives and going back to the start of a world is just intolerable.

In all my life I have never gotten further than the first river in Ghosts and Goblins, but I still love it

that opening stage music helps. but yeah, same here, though my love is tempered with pure hatred

Towerfall, the best local multiplayer game of all time, is out on Switch today with a dollop of new stuff like 6-player mode. Don’t miss it!

xxxp I don't think I ever made it past World 2 in SMB3 without warping as a kid, but I was happy to just play the same levels over and over. Enjoying getting back into it now, but man, I need one of those joycons with a proper d-pad badly.

I’m just using the stick like a heretic

Really? I find the stick even more frustrating than the directional buttons; it's really hard to gauge, e.g. whether down-left will translate to down or left.

I played 40+ hours of Celeste with the stick this year and I think I’m just used to it now. Also the hand position is more natural lol.

Celeste has more than four directions though! I think I'm mainly thinking of my trouble with NES Zelda, here.

it doesn’t help that the Pro Controller has an egregiously flawed D-pad, it’s basically unusable.

How'd that happen? The pro controller is a pretty quality product.

Something about the design of the contacts and the deadzone of the D pad means that you can eg get a down input by pressing left or right in a sort of downward motion. Made Lumines with the pro controller D-pad pretty hazardous for example. Some folks have worked out how to make the dead zone bigger with tape but I’ve not bothered.

the pokken controller is the best dpad I've found on a switch specific controller but it's wired and doesn't have rumble or gyro or sticks so it's not general use

i think you can also get an adapter to use a ps4 controller which have good dpads

ideally they'll fix the pro controller design flaw but my Xenoblade one still has it so they weren't there yet as of last December. will keep an eye on what people say about the smash one

i might go with the GC controller for smash anyway - don't remember how the d-pads on those were
kind of ironic because doesn't Nintendo own the patent on the original + shape design?

I just want replica SNES controllers.

gc dpad is too tiny for anything except menu stuff in my experience

i dunno if Nintendo still holds a patent on the + but i think that's why PlayStation controllers didn't use it

I just want replica SNES controllers.

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