The Nintendo Switch

consensus seems to be octopath traveler for the old school style action
DQXI looks amazing and you know what you're going to get

note that i haven't played either

i think i read a bit too much about octopath traveler before i got a switch and bought into the backlash. i should probably just get it b/c i like old grindy jrpgs

do you want turn based or action jrpg?

DQXI is more old school than octopath gameplay wise, theres not really anything in it that couldn't have been in a 90s game other than the graphics. whereas octopath's combat system builds off of mechanics from more recent stuff like persona and bravely default, it feels a lot more modern to play even if the presentation is retro

i think they're both good not great games but if you want a standard turn based jrpg they're the options

theres also the actual best jrpg on the system, xenoblade 2, if youre open to something much weirder

i will eventually play octopath. unfortuanately i will never play xenoblade due to the battle sounds/speech. holy shit, not for me. it's too bad because i've enjoyed the small bits of the xeno series that i've played

i prefer turn-based, but i'm open to weirder combat systems. a terrible aesthetic will ruin the game for me, though, which is why i'm hesitant to buy xenoblade 2. i suspect i will think DQXI is a great game. i love persona 5, played through a lot of it on a friend's ps4

dont think persona has much bearing on anything else here, its in a different school of jrpg

Shin Megami Tensei 5 should be coming later this year, I think it is the only game from the initial Switch reveal that hasn't been released yet?

oh and Valkyria Chronicles is currently on sale for €9.99/£7.99 in EU eshops, well worth playing if you haven't already

I don’t think there’s any particular reason to expect SMTV this year

shh I'm being optimistic!

any atlus announcements will happen late march at sega's event thing

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— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) February 26, 2019

My kids can officially kick my butt at SSBU all the time now. Need to practice more. Any tips? They are into the harsh tournament style 1:1 with no weapons or spirits.

hop online!

Seems pretty laggy online, at least according to my kids...

well I guess you should grind it out against your kids and git gud~

which chars do you like to play? all the anime sword dudes are pretty easy because their normal attacks have bigger hitboxes

more seriously I'd say make sure you know how to shield, grab, throw, use your normal (A button) attacks and aerial attacks. When my sister and I were small playing Smash on N64 I'm pretty sure we only believed in special (B button) attacks for a long time.

like not use them well necessarily just get the inputs down.

I’m getting there. Back in the day, we would play 4-player free-for-alls with weapons so it never felt that bad to lose. Much worse in a 1:1 battle. I’ve been using Ganandorf and I can beat L9 CPUs like 25% of the time. My kids play faster characters and have gotten really evilly good at spiking and edge-guarding. I think that’s my next frontier, but that shit feels particularly cruel.

it's just part of the game, think of it like having someone stuck in the corner in a trad fighter

pokemon direct in a few mins

Pokemon sword & shield

game world looks based on England

looks pretty nice for a Pokemon game but not revolutionary

grookey > sobble >>> scorbunny

gotta say i disagree w/ you entirely

scorbunny > sobble >>> grookey

all three of them look like professor layton characters

sobble > scorbunny >>> grookey for me

high five on putting the green chimpanzee at the bottom too. what is this, pokemon or survey monkey dot com?

are you guys having strokes

xp

'scorbunny' sounds like a gross website or an english countryside depending on how you pronounce it. neither is acceptable.

also, fucking green chimpanzee would be called groopanzee and wouldn't have a tail. visit a goddamn zoo.

groozee is a cool name, actually

like saying 'thank you' incorrectly but also adorably

i said chimp because polygon reported "Grookey, the grass type, is described as a mischievous, curious chimp" so checkmate, mr primate pedant

"I said trump because facebook reported "hillary hid the bodies" so checkmate, america

"

now we see the true stakes

what

you should have checked snopes.com to see if grookey really is a chimp. you would have found a soundcloud of the bestie boys singing "grass monkey. that funky monkey." is my point.

thread got weird

pokemon will do that

i was trying to have a comically serious argument w/ will m about the best new pokemon. perhaps the cohen testimony leaked in too much.

yeah man once you got american about it i was like, my maple leaf ass cannot keep up anymore

also someone pointed out to me that the blue one is making the pikachu meme face, and now I AM MAKING THE PIKACHU MEME FACE

it is still wild to me that this is now where we're at with handheld graphics

https://i.imgur.com/X70jLk4.jpg

Sure, but with a decent designer it can look as good as titles of old.

both games on my wishlist, Fe and Gris, are on sale

thanks for the heads up, been waiting for Gris.