Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

So apparently this is the reason for the Joy Con drifts

I am kinda shocked that Nintendo has such poor quality control nowadays. I have NES and SNES controllers that are 30+ years old and still work fine. Man what has happened to you Nintendo.

The production issues leading to joycon drift likely wouldn't be any different had Nintendo not released the Switch so early. The commonness of this phenomenon is unacceptable, though, and Nintendo NEEDS to address the issue before the Switch Lite and its integrated controls hits the market.

Wonder whether it is caused by people doing something in Nintendo didn’t originally expect. Like moving and clicking the stick simultaneously. Looking at that graphite sensor on the clickable stick that’s the issue that comes to mind.

Nintendo is apparently doing repairs on drifting joycon sticks for free now, and will refund people they charged for the repairs in the past. Public pressure is paying off.

I've been playing Three Houses for a few hours now and I love it. I've been a FE fan on and off since FE7 on the GBA but I always wanted a richer story and world, and for the characters to more commonly transcend their basic archetype. Well looks like I've got my wish. They're still based on basic archetypes but there's a lot more details on top of that, and you see everyone in far more situations rather than mainly in 3-4 support conversations. The music's great too. The gameplay hasn't been overlooked in favour of story and world building either.

Ahahahahahaha.

Omega Labyrinth Life is getting a full, uncensored release in the N/A eshop on the Switch.

I'm glad Sony didn't end up preventing people outside of asian territories from enjoying this game.

@Matroska Oh man, I'm incredibly jealous you got an early copy.

Enjoy your early access, you lucky jerk.

Reviews for Three Houses are excellent across the board! I've played Sacred Stones, Awakening and all three Fates games, and this looks to have the great world building of Sacred Stones, characters of Awakening and gameplay of Conquest (we don't talk about the rest of Fates yikes), all wrapped in an excellent story! Can't wait to dig into it when my copy arrives tomorrow!

@BranJ0 Birthright's gameplay was just fine. Very Awakening+. Nothing remarkable, but, unlike Conquest, the writing wasn't actively stupid.

@Ralizah Hehehe (at getting it early)

@BranJ0 Yeah, though to play Devil's Advocate, Fates got good reviews too IIRC and pretty much every FE fan hates that game with a burning passion - however in this case the reviews are right. Maybe even underrating it a bit. The characters are less one-note than a lot of the Awakening ones, I'd say. Sure, you get stuff like Leonie being obsessed with Jeralt but that's not all there is to her, unlike Gaius who could've been replaced with a sign saying "I like candy". It's the different activities you can do with them, their preferred foods, do they like singing in the choir, would they rather clear the stables or work in the greenhouse, etc, those things make them feel more like actual people than a walking trope. The world building is amazing too, they even have a library where you can read about the history of the world, and additional lore is sprinkled through all the dialogue, even with random NPCs.

@Ralizah Everything about Birthright was so mediocre though that it just hasn't lasted in my mind at all. Despite Conquest's abysmal characters and plot, the gameplay was so good that at least I view that as worth playing. At least Birthright wasn't offensively bad like Revelation though, which genuinely put me off Fire Emblem for the past two years.

@Matroska I was thinking that, but on IGN's comment section the reviewer mentioned how he really didn't like Fates so it seems to be the general consensus that this is at least better than that! That sounds absolutely brilliant though, Awakening had some bad one note characters but nearly all of Fates' characters were "insert gimmick here" which led to all supports being dull and lifeless. Fates' world building was also appalling. I'm really glad to hear they've improved all of that!

@BranJ0 I dunno. The level design in Conquest felt downright gimmicky at times to me. The biggest issue with Birthright is that it felt like it was terrified of altering Awakening's formula. Thus the very vanilla levels and (in all campaigns) utterly absurd reintroduction of adult children. I don't disagree that it wasn't terribly memorable, though.

I actually never played Revelation, so put off was I by Conquest and its terrible writing, but I have a friend who played all three and she also fingered Revelation as being the worst of the campaigns, which is a... scary thought.

Anyway, I'm just glad IS is finally releasing a brand new FE game that doesn't feel like yet another retread of Awakening.

@KratosMD It's just gone up to 88, placing it on the same supposed level as Revelations, a game all FE fans despise. It's way better than that, it's sad they put all this care and attention into revitalizing the series and gets the same score as a game FE fans wish didn't exist. Ugh, game reviewers.

Anyway, it's a great game. If you like FE and Persona, you'll be in heaven.

@Matroska The score is skewed by the low scores awarded to it by a tabloid and some no-name site. This is the problem with judging games based on average scores.

Anyway, aside from those 2, the 50 other reviews for the game so far are all positive, and 32/50 are 90 or higher, so it's being very well received.

"Professional" reviews are mostly pretty meaningless in this day and age, considering the ubiquity of pre-release footage, player reviews, Let's Plays, etc. There's no longer a need for anointed gatekeepers to inform the public of what's good and what's not. Especially considering how common it is in other areas of professional criticism (in America, at least) for critics to use their voice for ideological purposes. It's also incredibly common for critics and the public to part ways in opinion on something, and usually, in my experience, not in ways that are flattering to the critical consensus.

With that said, if people care about professional criticism, they should actually take the time to read the reviews instead of acting like there's any real significance to a game or movie being a few points higher or lower on review aggregation sites.

I remember how angry a lot of people got when dissenting critics "ruined" the perfect scores for movies with massive, built-in fanbases like like Black Panther, The Avengers (which, I agree @Kidfried, is a mediocre film, and, more broadly, a mediocre series of films), Toy Story 3, The Dark Knight, etc.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Ah. I knew Daily Star, but had never heard of The Metro before. Thanks for enlightening me.

Having a separate "personal score" is something I've considered adding a few times, and I still might, for games that are objectively excellent, but which I don't like for whatever reason. I believe I did that with Fast RMX on the Switch. It's a really decent F-Zero-esque racing game with involved track design, good performance, and effective use of the HD rumble. I just... didn't like it. But it feels weird giving a low score to something I know is good.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy No, that was a good catch! Although I like @Kidfried, so I also consider him a @Kidfriend.

Oh, and yeah, haha, the articles about fanservice games inevitably provoke strong reactions (from me as well!). I don't mind too much, of course, until accusations of people being "pedophiles," "alt-right," "social justice warriors," etc. start cropping up. America's political discourse is incredibly toxic and divisive right now, and, thanks to our massive reach to every corner of the globe, I think we export a lot of that toxicity to regions where public dialogue is usually much more healthy.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy @Ralizah I read the gaming section on The Meto site daily. It gets me through bus journeys (along with this place of course)! The reviews always come across as honest and not pandering to some corporate overlord or popular opinion, and you know when it is a high the game is a good un. They also do some of the best interviews I've read in recent times.

Edited and corrected my spelling mistakes!

I got FE: Three Houses. It’s really good so far and looks to be the best in the series as an early
Impression. Weapons can be repaired now so no more 5 generations weapons breaking after 20 hits.
The academy section shows lots of promise and the gameplay is great strategy as always.
I also snagged it for $45 so I got a real deal on it.

This isn't something I've heard anyone else say about it, but I'm personally finding Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 to be brutally difficult, so I'm not sure if there's just something I'm doing wrong or what.

I'm only on the Kingpin fight (main boss of the 3rd mission), and he's absolutely tearing me apart. This last time I even used up all my revives before the second phase started.

Overall I'm liking the game (and don't seem to have many issues with regular enemies or puzzle/platforming segments), but almost every boss I've fought has been brutal.

https://nintendoeverything.com/the-outer-worlds-announced-for...

So, continuing the trend of surprising Switch ports, it looks like The Outer Worlds is being ported to the Switch!

@RR529
How often are you changing up characters. The way the leveling system works it's best to find a group of four characters you really like and stick with them.