The Nintendo Switch

it's a beautiful morning in the ILX village, and BG is a horrible goose

living the dream baby

*HONNNNNNNNNK*

Excited for Goose game, but also for Link's Awakening, as I've never played it before & I know it's a favorite of many

Neither have I, but $60 seems steep (it's the same reason I didn't get the Donkey Kong port), and with Luigi's Mansion looking awesome and right around the corner, I'd rather pay $60 for that.

i'm not sure that $60 is too much for one's vital heat

Hear hear. I justify this to myself by the fact that 1) I almost never buy $60 games and 2) It's freakin' Zelda

basically never use my switch docked... half tempted to sell it and pick up a lite...

Anyone had trouble with "corrupted data" and things purchased digitally? I've tried downloading Astral Chain like ten times now and every time it finishes it tells me to do over because it's rotten or something

do other downloads work? could be a faulty sd card if you're using one of those.

hmmmm -- i am using an SD card, but the last download (just a few days prior) was fine

try downloading some free game like fortnite or warframe or whatever and see if it also corrupts

Weird, I see the Goose game on the Switch store but there is no 'buy' button.

yeah it's not up yet

What part of "Available Now" don't they understand! Where is my Goose!!!?!?

goose me daddy

i want to be goosed, but i also want to wait to see what someone who has played it for more than 30 minutes thinks. please report back!

also, the old puzzle quest (plus expansion + new levels) was released yesterday! aka, marvel puzzle quest but better and not ftp

in this world, it's goose or be goosed

dang, puzzle quest! that's a must buy

in a world, where it's one bizarro goose against a team of heavily armored policemen who say they have a warrant for bizarro goose's arrest, but THIS holiday season *HONK*

*cut to Sinbad*

You silly goose!

rated R

would you rather fight one bizarro-sized goose or 100 goose-sized bizarros

Sounds like the game is predictably sleight and light, and yet, exactly what you'd expect or want.

much like bizarro

*blushes*

*honks*

that's cute, bizarro, but it's past midnight and i have to get up earl *HONK*

ANGRY VILLAGER: that goose slept with my wife!!

ok, sorry, i should just buy it when i get home

i spent £13.49 and now i am a horrible goose and the first five minutes are a+ fun

still not available to buy here!

*ken burns style slow-zoom on weathered photo of goose being sworn into office by the president of the united states*

I can’t get the gardener to put on his sun hat, the fucker

I hadn't heard of this game. It looks totally great.

i think it will be the inaugural game on my switch lite

it's so lite

I also can't wrap my head around paying 60 bucks for Link's Awakening, but I really do quite want it. I could reasonably justify maybe $25, no more than $30. Typically when I have a spare game voucher (or money in my Venmo account) I can convince myself it's pretend money and spend it on whatever extravagant nonsense I want, but for some reason I can't convince myself of it this time around. $60 feels like a ripoff.

I'm holding out for £30...

nintendo games hold their value forever so you might be waiting for a while

first party $60 games go on sale for $40 occasionally, beyond that you'd have to find a retailer trying to get rid of stock

already 40£ on cdkeys... I'm optimistic...

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I'd happily pay $40.

same. got goose game and puzzlequest tho so that should keep me for a month or so.

y'all are skinflints. Video games are impossible to make and all of them should be at least $60.

i made a bunch of games in megazeux when i was 14 its not too hard

Silby, my bet is that Nintendo’s doing just fine

I've been playing through the NES/SNES Zeldas on Switch Online. spending $60 on the next one is my destiny.

oh Nintendo is doing great, truly crazy numbers on the software side, but like for example Celeste, last year's game of the year, was worth $60, but is $20, and that's the sort of price discrimination that bums me out.

That said I'm glad cheaper games are accessible to more people.

I've got no problem with them charging $60, if that's what they want to do, but on every other system the price steadily drops after a while. There are plenty of huge AAA games I've gotten for the PS4 for less than $20 that surely took a heck of a lot more time and work than a graphical rehaul of this Zelda game. Or, you know, games that will at least occasionally be on sale for significantly less than retail. I've noted it before, but Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze was a port of a Wii-U game and it cost *more* on the Switch than it did on the Wii-U!. But the Dark Souls Remastered, for example, was $40 across all systems.

And again, as far as gold standards go, Hollow Knight is $15 for a gorgeous, awesome, long and involved original game, certainly one of my faves of all time. I would have happily paid more for that one, but clearly the developers were happy charging a pittance.

Yeah Hollow Knight is all-time insane value for money. Plus I’m stuck again so I’ll be playing that fucker for years.

I bought Link’s Awakening on the day of release because I finally admitted to myself that I’m a Zelda groupie. I also have an 11 day old newborn so I’ve played it for like five minutes, but it looks adorable! Would be surprised if it’s better than the new Switch version of Link to the Past, though.

Switch would be perfect with a newborn.

i made a bunch of games in megazeux when i was 14 its not too hard

Fuck yes

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yes! I had a good session on the Ori & The Blind Forest demo yesterday while I was lying down, with the baby passed out and snoozing on top

In the name of newborn cupboard space I also gave my PS3, wii and gamecube away to a friend’s daughters and feel a lot of relief about not having to finish those games