The Nintendo Switch

I'm honestly not sure how to connect my Wii to my current TV.

pi can do ps2 emulation?

https://gizmodo.com/this-nintendo-switch-emulator-for-the-pc-might-finally-1838779028

I played one next gen game on an emulator about a year ago - Super Mario 3D World. There was no way I would ever purchase wii-u..

As far as retro emulation goes there is rarely any victims if you play 3rd-tier mascots or anything that isn’t being released in collections/remakes or whatever. When I used a ps1 emulator for Crash Team Racing I had no idea that it would eventually get a remake. If anything, playing through it on an emulator made me more likely to ever purchase the remake as I realized how good the original game was.

> pi can do ps2 emulation?

You're right, it's not up to it. https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-2/

CROSSNIQ+ out now, if you want a solid new puzzle game with “Y2K aesthetics”

Anyone get Overland? I've never played a turn-based game, but this looks pretty cool/scary.

Back up, never? Not Civilization, Heroes of Might and Magic, Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem…

Not a single one, ever. Never even heard of one of those games.

this explains a lot about you, Josh

No kidding.

pokemon...

You asking? No, I've never played it, either. All I know about Pokemon are the characters on Smash Brothers (that it took me a while to figure out were from Pokemon).

you must've played ogre battle though

Never heard of it. I did play Hunt the Wumpus though. And Zork.

zork is turn based strategy

yeah, sorry; i was being a bit of a wiseass in that if you haven't played pokemon, you definitely haven't played ogre battle.

For my money, the essential turn-based battle game is Final Fantasy Tactics, which is available on iOS and PS:
After fourteen years of on-and-off play, I finally beat Final Fantasy Tactics last night

theres nothing strategic about zork

actually, I think Hunt the Wumpus might be turn based.

overland -- i bought it in alpha -- was a fun little puzzle, but the block-slideyness of it prevented it from having any narrative punch. much as i hate to agree with RPS so lukewarmly, that review of theirs that said 'you have few reasons to play this when you could play into the breach' was about right imo

You're right, it's not up to it. https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-2/

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love my retropie but be warned that n64 emulation is a no go. ps1 is acceptable, but you might have to overclock the pi. the UI is a bit arcane but it will generally "just work" for about 95% of what you throw at it. for that other 5%, you'll have to deal with the even more arcane retroarch UI and some manual file editing over ssh.

well, i went back to Kensington Curry's (which had snes minis in the window, for the original price, last time i went past) only to find no sign of them (which i kinda expected). they had switch lites in window this time but they were nowhere to be seen in the pokey nintendo corner they had downstairs. turns out they were all in the bins by the checkout, and piled up behind the counter.

(i ended up buying a 3rd party ps4 controller from argos instead. am writing the retropie image as i type)

walking zidane around a quasi-3D church backdrop filled with pews, organs, and shit in FFIX should be a field sobriety test

lol; it is easy to get stuck in those environments, yes!

second post here is Jared Harris in a courtroom explaining some stuff to Cid Fabool https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/67461/realistic-airships

Played a bunch of Ori today. Still gorgeous and compelling, but I think I like Hollow Knight a little better. The latter seems to have taken a lot of lesson from the former, while putting its own spin on things.

ori's not really an action game like hollow knight, i feel like it's more at the metroid end of the metroidvania spectrum whereas hollow knight is all the way at the castlevania end except for that one platforming heavy area

There might be something to that. I'm still early in on Ori, but for example I haven't had to figure out any sort of fighting strategy yet. But the platforming, when it pops up, is moderately challenging.

Wow, just got past the rising waters tree challenge in Ori, and that's got to be one of the most thrilling gaming experiences I've ever had.

the escape sequences are Good

All the backend dashboard crap in Ori is A Little Much. Hollow Knight definitely refined and perfected that stuff.

I don't know what backend dashboard crap is, so I assume I'm a long way from getting there!

Setting aside the post-game game of Hollow Knight, which I haven't played and which ups the platforming challenge considerably, I'd say Ori so far is more challenging. Well, challenging in a different, more Celeste-y kind of way. HK's challenges are more in the Dark Souls vein, but there are bits in Ori that have made my thumbs hurt.

josh we need to get you some more refs besides Celeste and Dark Souls =D

I know where you’re coming from, but it’s kind of like comparing all music to Pink Floyd and Ray Charles

That does cover a lot of musical bases! For sure Celeste is too new to invoke as a comparison, but tbf, Dark Souls is like the ur-comparison. "The Dark Souls of (x)" etc. And also tbf, Hollow Knight is heavily indebted to Dark Souls!

You should play civilization (V), which is like gamelan combined with Boris

I would totally listen to Indonesian trance metal.

Imagine doing that for a couple dozen hours while trying to convince Gandhi not to nuke you in a turn based strategy classic you won’t soon forget!!

(It is also a touchstone reference for games, like Beethoven or Al Green)

The only downside is losing your job after poopsockin it (nsfw) for three weekday nights in a row

I would totally listen to Indonesian trance metal.

you are in luck https://sublimefrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/sujud

Sublime Frequencies ftw! That music is insane.

I nearly bought a Switch today but changed my mind at last minute because I found out Witcher arrives tomorrow and that seems up my street...

But then I read a review saying the PS4 version is superior.

And then I realised a PS4 would let you browse the internet and watch Netflix, Now TV etc, right? And Switch doesn't? It might be the dealbreaker as right now I don't have a smart TV

the majority of my ps4 time is spent using it to watch netflix, hulu, mlb.tv, etc. performance-wise, it'll handle The Witcher 3 a lot better than the switch can, too.

it would certainly save me a lot of time in dicking around with my laptop and hdmi every time I wanna watch a film.

if you like 16bit RPGs at all you it to yourself to buy Cosmic Star Heroine as it's currently 70% off at £3.29/$4.49
about 50 hours into Dragon Quest XI, still absolutely loving it.

i liked cosmic star heroine fine but it softlocked on me like 2/3 of the way through the game and i hadn't saved in an hour and that put me off from finishing it, it wasn't good enough that i wanted to repeat an hour

also i'd say its visually more like playstation 2D RPGs e.g. suikoden than 16 bit, it looks way too nice for SNES

also yeah if you're interested in the witcher and not specifically interested in the switch's portability then PS4 is the way to go for that, that game is going to be severely muddied up on switch

I wish there was some sort of shared save mode, to play it on PS4 but also switch to Switch as needed.

I just made it past the Forlorn Ruins/second escape in Ori, which was really tough but so creative I didn't really mind. Man, even the angry bird has a sad backstory. Been a long time since I found a blue energy cell, which I think I need to do to open those other gates. I've been stuck at 3 cells for a while now.

is there anywhere that reviews all the random cheap-looking games in the eshop that sell for like $1-$10