The Nintendo Switch

do you have a sense of what types of games you'd like? 2d platformers? adventure games? RPGs? shooters? etc

DKC tropical freeze is very good imo, it's basically just a modernization of the SNES DKC formula so if you liked those you'll like this and vice versa. very lush, overproduced 2d platforming.

i havent played skyrim since 2012 or so, so no idea how its held up. i have a couple friends who missed it the first time around and are playing it now due to wanting another large world game after BotW, would be a little weird to go in that direction though i think.

Prolly old tomatoes for most ppl but if u haven't played hyper light drifter it's a good un

Thanks HLD looks good!

xpost Basically I want a big expensive-ass-looking game that's fun to play and look at but not punishingly difficult to play. I was thinking Skyrim might be good after BOTW, but you don't think so?

Sort of tempted to get a PS4 for RDR2 and Spider Man but that's a lot of $$$ and there's something so charmless about a PS after spending time with a Switch.

Also sort of tempted to buy a Wii U and get all the Marios and Zeldas. I mean, I'm sure they'll come out for the Switch eventually, but it could be a while.

the marios and zeldas will definitely all show up eventually

xpost Have you played Guacamelee? That looks fun.

skyrim would fit that first part i suppose, just know its a very different game from BotW, 'large map' and 'fantasy setting' are really the only things they have in common

donkey kong is more on the difficult side like those other platformers you listed as being stuck on, though maybe not quite that hard

It has Funky Mode now

oooh, very nice

tropical freeze is definitely on my list

it's tasty

So YouTube is on this now

useful i guess. have heard it's a better youtube app than some of the dedicated tv gadgets like Apple tv

I'm just playing through Super Mario 3 on the Switch NES emulator. It's amazing, obviously, but how TF did people get through this game without save points?

(I mean, apart from the obvious answer - long boring childhoods with a *lot* of spare time.)

excited to have youtube recommend hundreds of three-hour-long rants from alt-right dipshits on yet another device, thx nintendo

xp the warp whistle, dude! Also, I would not be at all surprised to hear that a lot of people would leave the NES on/on pause and turn off the TV.

I for one am happy to be able to watch Contrapoints on my Switch now.

Haven't found the whistle! I just wanted to run through all the levels without warping. I played this when I was a kid, but I never had a NES, so I never had time to get past World 2 or so.

Just that some of the later levels are *so* frustrating, I can't imagine having the time/skills/patience/psychopathy to finish the game, let alone if you have to start every level from scratch - there don't seem to be checkpoints?

games back then would have been like an hour long if they weren't difficult enough to trip you up regularly, it was content through challenge rather than content through content

beating the game was the end goal of days/weeks of practice

yeah i don't know if i ever actually made it straight through SMB 3, i remember worlds 6-7 being a nightmare, as cool as they were (Kuribo's shoe!)

the world with the piranha plants is the nightmare for me, but i can usually push through it. when i was a kid i would usually only play long enough to get a couple warp whistles, then skip to the end. it was the perfect after-school game, in that way. as an adult, whenever i revisit i go for 100% completion, start to finish, and it's an incredibly fun 8-hour adventure.

I've never played it before now; I'm just save-stating between every level and treating it like it's a contemporary die-n-retry platformer.

stream it imo

hmm yeah maybe

theres still no way to stream from switch without a capture device is there?

oh, that's right. forgot which thread we were on. i've streamed smb3 before, but just from my laptop, emulating it.

i kind of find it baffling that the switch doesn't have streaming capabilities, built-in.

the entire switch OS is like 200kb, nintendo likes to keep things lean at the expense of online features

xp eh, that would require more wasted horsepower imo
yeah exactly

I could buy a doohickey

they're expensive doohickeys i've looked into it

silby can you take pictures of the screen every once in a while and then upload them? we can call this a "photo stream"

btw if anyone already bought smash i got the download code for piranha plant in my email the other day, wouldn't have noticed it among all the usual confirmation spam if someone hadnt mentioned it to me

Hmmm. I preordered through amazon. Don't know if that qualifies.

i mean for eshop purchases, if you got the physical you'll get it when you redeem your nintendo points from the cartridge

Ah, I see. Thanks.

note that you can redeem a couple bucks worth of nintendo points from any physical game that's less than a year old just by putting the cart into your switch and going to the software options (+ button on the home screen), i didnt know about this at first as it's not obvious and missed out on doing it with my zelda cart

Yeah, i've missed that up to now.

no more netflix on switch after January 19

"Unfortunately, Nintendo will suspend all video streaming services on Wii - including the Netflix Channel - after January 30, 2019"
https://devices.netflix.com/en/game-consoles/wii/

that would mean no more youtube, either, i guess?

you mean on wii?

er...yeah. man, i'm not exactly firing on all cylinders today!

honestly sometimes i forget that the wii still exists

Ubisoft hasn’t! The new Just Dance came out for it.

i was really into the wii for about a year. then i tried to mod it so i could have every game of all time FOR FREE, and it worked! for about a month. then it stopped working, i tried to fix it and i bricked it. then wii died in my heart.

switch doesnt even have netflix since theyre playing chicken with nintendo over who pays for making the app

Neither of them really has a reason to blink either. There’s no way the few dozen people complaining about it in enthusiast forums are enough of a PR hit to force Nintendo’s hands, and there’s no way the size of the opportunity is enough to force Netflix’s.

how expensive can it be to make the app

Maybe with YouTube arriving (presumably also without any incentive payments from Nintendo) that might put more pressure on Netflix.

Software development can be pretty much arbitrarily expensive, and at Netflix’s scale (ugh) it’s probably automatically millions of dollars to hit a new platform. Things like shitty smart TVs are definitely paying Netflix to be on their platform bc without Netflix they’re dramatically less attractive. Netflix isn’t gonna sell any incremental Switches and Nintendo would rather hoard cash than spend it on anything with unclear value to its bottom line.

I do not desire switch netflix

we were at a dr office today that had a wii setup and I played Mario galaxy on it and now I want to play more but I don’t have a wii or a Wii U. I could borrow my moms wii (not U) or theoretically buy a U but I’d rather just wait until they’re rereleased on the switch is there any chance that happens and if not (or not any time soon) what’s the best way to play it?

fully expect to get a SMG1 + 2 bundle on switch

I play old mario galaxy on Dolphin on my PC. You can crank up the resolution, AA etc and it looks glorious. The wii remotes connect via Bluetooth and I bought a USB wii bar so I didn't need an old wii around. You can use an xbox controller if you don't want the faff but with galaxy the remotes are u&k.