The Nintendo Switch

if anyone wants to go to hell,

Hades (from Supergiant, maker of Pyre, Bastion, Transistor)

I'll get to it after I play Transistor and Pyre...

i've never played transistor, i need to check that one out! i loved pyre (put it in my coint and plick) but i have already put about twice as much time into Hades, it is a ridiculously addicting game

transistor has a cool combat system but it doesn't ramp up enough, once you get the hang of it all the encounters are kinda samey even for a 4-5 hour game or however long it is

A brand-new Kirby game is available NOW! Choose from a cast of Kirby’s most iconic copy abilities and duke it out to be the last Kirby standing in #KirbyFighters2!

Download now: https://t.co/4EeCbC1m2b pic.twitter.com/5NrX452WvJ

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) September 24, 2020

i'm not in the market for a kirby game rn but this exists

As someone who’s new(ish) to modern gaming, I will never understand this weird depressive strand of fan entitlement

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/super-mario-3d-all-stars-review

― Chuck_Tatum, 2020年9月20日 星期日 上午 4:29 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

very late to this but i don’t agree that being annoyed by a lazy emulation of three games at full price is ‘entitlement’. the spyro three-game bumper pack was a full rebuild and cost less. 3d all stars is as cynical as it gets.

We'll never know if 3D all stars would have been different if it was not created in a remote working forced pandemic, or if they had had more time and not had to tie it to the 35th Anniversary.

I like to think that mario64 is such a swiss watch, that adding things like adding luigi would have plain broke sections of it, unless Luigi was the same size/weight and mass as Mario.

they were doomed whatever they did, but given the circumstances, I'll accept it as better than nothing. (except for that limited availability s**t)

Also Super Mario Sunshine is considerably better than the first Spyro, and that's the worst against the best.

GameCube controller support on Sunshine would have been nice and easy.

i have bought the marios and can report back that n64 mario is the best mario of the 3, the most pure mario, also the spray backpack is a huge bummer its an anti mario device mario is intended to run and jump and be free instead there is the fiddly shooting thing and many of his jumps have been taken away in favor of spray controls, galaxy is cool with the variety of planets but also maybe too many planets and too small constantly cresting a planet instead of being on flat ground is perhaps also an anti mario form and the lil star bits are dumb too much busy work

i have not played super mario 3d world or super mario galaxy 2 and i would like to in order to have complete 3d mario knowledge

Also is that Kirby thing just a stripped down Smash Bros or what?

i think its just a kirby platform fighter yeah. small scope multiplayer/party game

It looks like when Capcom would just make endless SF clones with the CPS engine. Like they barely even changed Smash Bros Ultimate, and all the characters are Kirby!

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ThreadbareFirstAnole-small.gif

I like to think that mario64 is such a swiss watch, that adding things like adding luigi would have plain broke sections of it, unless Luigi was the same size/weight and mass as Mario.

they did this 16 years ago, which had updated graphics and even a playable luigi.

or if they had had more time and not had to tie it to the 35th Anniversary.

yeah, i do wonder if they saw people saying ‘mario’s 35th this year! they’re going to update mario 64!’ and shat themselves and dumped this emulation collection at the last minute. it would also explain why galaxy 2 got left off.

I suspect that has at least some truth to it. Also possible, they would've split it into two collections for more money

i would have paid 60 bucks for galaxy 1&2 but not just one

lagoon's reviews pretty much line up with my own, down to the planets on galaxy 1 being too small (often, at least. i think. it's been a while)

galaxy 2 ruled

the small planet physics of galaxy 1 seemed like a sub-level from another recent 3D mario, but blown up into every stage

Oh shit, the second Ori is now out on Switch?! When did that happen?!

it was in the same direct as the monster hunter announcements a couple weeks ago

Looks lovely

First game was an absolute joy and totally gorgeous. The new one I understand to be more of the same, and then some. I'm considering pulling the full-price trigger (which is of course half that of your typical Nintendo title).

I have trouble keeping up with this stuff, and tbh Digital Foundry often gets stuck in the weeds, but I thought this was fascinating, how they were able to get this painterly Xbox game running on the Switch at all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH6wTpIObxE

Sounds like the Switch needs a few patches, from what I've read, but the developers are on it. Seems like an example of how well a port can be done if the original devs (with all their understanding of every last detail) do it.

(60fps is nearly everywhere) but you may notice a dip into the upper 50s from time to time

Voiceover: you will not

Yeah, seriously. In this case, issue seems to be intermittent crashes.

looks gorgeous; please post when it's appropriately patched so i can buy?

They seem to be working hard at it. For what it's worth, not everybody on Switch has been reporting problems, and even the PC and Xbox release had their need for patches. So I bet it will be fixed sooner rather than later. But I will report ASAP!

enjoying this second ori game

Left joycon is fucked so returned it to Nintendo for repair/replacement, I should really look into setting it up on my TV but it seems like effort, c/d?

joycons being shite is why i almost exclusively play on the tv with a 8bitdo pad

docked switch: classic

I managed to reduce my left joycon's drift by 95% with some compressed air and q-tips dipped in isopropyl alcohol

i got lucky with my left joycon i guess

Finally starting getting drift with Animal Crossing this year. If it gets really bad I'll probably just finally give in and buy the Pro Controller, or one of them 8bitdos.

xps to crüt yeah I tried this but no luck, was moving involuntarily by the time I sent the thing off

pro controller is great and totally worth it btw; it should really ship with the system.

^

^^^

i wish the dpad was fighting game capable but its oversensitive otherwise yeah its a great controller

Pro Controller is one thing imo that Nintendo truly does better than everyone else. That battery is a work of wonder.

they used leftover 3ds batteries in it so it has insane battery life

Should I buy my daughter Zelda so I can play in on her Switch? not like she ever uses it anyway

uhh its a pretty good game if that's what you're asking

buy da zelda

it's likely the best open world game of this generation

how can you
just
gtfouttahere with that garb-AGE

(that is pro-Zelda in case it was unclear)

Buy Zelda and a pro controller