Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

Bad camera skills? Worrying indeed

@Octane Can ya not see the flickering pixels in the angle?

And yes it is bad camera skills, given I constantly shake, was controlling the system with one hand, and my phone isn't exactly light

I'm not sure what pixels you are talking about. I don't see anything.

@Octane

Seems like a bunch of broken pixels to me, but it's hard to see in that video.

@Octane Only just appeared today once I played Mega Man.

This entire system is a mess for all the games it gets.

Heh, the character designs and visual presentation are a big part of what turned me off of the original Xenoblade. Everything is so ugly looking.

Xenoblade 2 is a bit anime-ish, but it's a joy to look at. Certain later environments are especially breath-taking.

@Kidfried Has overcooked been mentioned? That is suppossed to be a really fun couch mp game.

@Kidfried Dunno. Never tried Rabbids multiplayer as I have no one to play with nor do I own Golf Story.

I simply gave you a list of good games that also have multiplayer.

Plus it's well and good telling me you probably already own the old games, but how do I know if you do or dont yet? Assuming makes an ass out of you and me, so I am covering all my bases in case there is an older game you dont yet own.

Hey guys!

EA just announced Madden 19!

PS4/Xbox One.

Told you, their stuff aint coming this year. The deadline they gave for greenlighting is too close.

So after that certain exploit got reported on by just about every major bloody site it appears a string of cheating has occurred in Splatoon 2.

Namely users Dodge Rolling with weapons they shouldn't, and modifying fire speed of weapons to ludicrous degrees.

https://twitter.com/Water_011209/status/1000050314630828033?s=20

This is why I was strongly against any of that stuff. I dont care about the fun of seeing what you can do, it opened this door, they released that info, its on them.

Ugh, this just went and killed Splatoon 2 if unchecked.

@Kidfried The multiplayer in Mario + Rabbids is good, but limited. It's PRIMARILY a single-player game with some multi-player content on the side.

I am sorry but anyone who thinks big third party games will come to a Nintendo console is either naive or just stupid, and now before that gets takin out of context I am not saying Nintendo fans are stupid.

But let's look at the history.

N64 Besides Rare very little third party support. I mean this is where companies like Square jumped ship.

GameCube some modest third party support (I will say that their version of Soul Caliber II was the best)

Wii Third part support but it was mostly stripped down versions of PS3/360 games and to make matters worst had motion control gimmicks added or shovelware.

Wii U very little third part support after a year.

Yes I know Nintendo has promised 3rd party support for the Switch and I love Skyrim and a few other games but let's be honest it's become to the point that If you want Nintendo games you buy Nintendo products. If you want Madden, CoD, Battlefield, Final Fantasy, Overwatch, GTA, etc. etc you buy a PS or Xbox.

@Tasuki I never said I thought they were coming.

Hell I've been ridiculed for saying we wont get anything from EA this year. Why? They wouldn't greenlight anything until the earliest March 2018, if the system met their expectations. Which isn't enough time even for FIFA.

But people say "Switch got the World Cup update". Yeah, to an existing game. We aren't getting 19 you know.

@KratosMD And all of them are inhabited by Bokoblins, Lizalfos, Keese and Chuchus

Odyssey is a great game. My only complaint is that the countless moons don't seem to be worth collecting. A star or shine sprite in 64 and Sunshine felt quite special. There are just too many moons in Odyssey, and you find them all over the place (almost as common as red or blue coins from the previous games).

The level design is pretty good though. The desert level is a tad too big for my tastes, but it's alright.

I also wish there were more unique boss fights like in Sunshine, I'm not a big fan of the Koopaling-clone rabbits.

@Octane More unique bosses?

7 Shadow Mario fights
3 Gooper Blooper fights
2 Petey Piranha fights
2 Monty Mole Cannons
Phantamanta
King Boo
Mecha Bowser

Meanwhile Odyssey has

3 Topper
3 Harriet
3 Rango
3 Spewart
2 Madame Brood
2 Bowser
Sand Kingdom
Mecha wiggler
2 Mecha Brood
That UFO thing
Cookatiel
Lord of Lightning
That squid thing

Its kinda sad actually that Sunshine reused so much now I look back.

And a warning to anyone plating odyssey. The game has more moons than all the starts in 64/Sunshine and both Galaxies combined.

Big game is big but feels small

Korok seeds weren't really designed to be 100% collected. They're there to add a constant sense of engagement with the world around you as you're exploring. There's something to find pretty much everywhere you go, be it a memory, a chest, a korok seed, etc. They're only an issue for people with the neurotic need to "do everything" in a game. I believe Nintendo made its feelings on tracking down all of those seeds clear with the "reward" you get for collecting them all.

And the issue with there being so many moons disappears if you think of Odyssey less as a traditional 3D Mario game and more as a modern take on the classic collectathon platformer ala Banjo-Kazooie or Donkey Kong 64.

BotW blew me away from beginning to end. I understand the criticisms some people have of it, but none of them impact my feelings of the game at all.

SMO... I was initially disappointed when I first completed the story, but I gradually grew to enjoy it more as I continued through the post-game and collected some of the more challenging moons. It's a great game, but I don't know that I would put it over Galaxy or Sunshine (although it definitely ranks above 64 and Galaxy 2, as far as I am concerned).

The only big Nintendo exclusives I've been thoroughly disappointed with in the last several years are Smash Wii U and Bayonetta 2 (I'm, of course, excluding the terrible smaller exclusives like Amiibo Festival and Color Splash that came out on the tail end of the Wii U's life).

@Ralizah Why on earth were you disappointed with those two?

My issue with the Korok seeds isn't that there's too many, it's the fact that they're always the same thing. God of War has tons and tons of collectables too, but it's something different a lot of the time. You never know whether it'll be hacksilver, an enchantment, or any other random type of item. With Korok seeds, you always know what you're getting, and for me, collecting them got boring fast.

As for Odyssey, I don't like the collectathon nature, either. In games like Sunshine and 64, every star or shine felt special and important, and the tasks you needed to complete were usually very engaging and felt like quests. In Odyssey, you barely even care when you find most moons because they're literally all over the place. I liked basically everything else about the game a lot, though. The levels were all very unique and well-designed. The music could have been better, though. It was all really good music, don't get me wrong, but I barely even remember it outside of the Cascade Kingdom theme, the Metro Kingdom theme, the Seaside Kingdom theme, and the Jump Up Superstar song.

They're both very quality games, I just don't think they're the Holy Grail of video games like most people do. God of War was more memorable and enjoyable than those games ever were IMO.

Still, I do feel the urge to play Breath of the Wild again lately. It is very good, despite my problems with it, and the atmosphere is very relaxing and beautiful.