Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@BAMozzy Monochrome is fine. I can see every object, or near enough, because the colour that was there isn't, but replaced with shades of grey. I haven't tested if its still an issue or not. I expect it will be, but who knows.

And yeah its damn near impossible to explain. I went 19 years without knowing! How insane is that?

@BLP_Software I bet its difficult to explain. We are told a certain colour is red but whether I see that the same way as another person sees it or not who knows. Its not like these things change over time is it. I assume that if someone told you something was Red you just assume they saw it the same way as you do although I am sure you must have wondered why some colours looked the same and why some people could distinguish between them more easily. Trying to describe colours is ridiculously difficult without a reference - how do you describe 'green' without referencing something we are told is green - like grass, leaves etc.

@BAMozzy My family still isn't used to it.

I had to repaint a pink bedroom white. Mum asked why it was patchy. I told her I was doing alright for someone who couldn't see it! But yeah I've just had to guess. What I call pink isn't pink! And god forbid if yellow comes up...

@BLP_Software I take it that bomb diffusing isn't a job for you... I said cut the green wire, next to the orange wire and avoid the brown wire and don't touch the yellow wire

@BAMozzy Nah, game designer man Even more fun when drawing concept art XD

Got to make games be inclusive, you know? That's my drive. It's why I've come to focus on Switch as of late: It's inherently more accessible by design. You should smile when playing games, and be able to play them to the best of your ability.

@BAMozzy I don't see how it would be possible to explain color to anyone else if you don't have a common point of reference, and it is impossible to know if that actually does exist. What we understand to be color is, of course, nothing but a reflection of our own qualic experience of phenomenal data that is relayed to us through our biology. We can agree that, say, something has the property of "greenness," but it is impossible to know if our qualic experience of "green" is the same or radically different.

@BLP_Software

I have exactly the same colour deficiency as you reading your comments with maybe a different cone acting dysfunctionally. Higher contrast and HDR helps differeciate the colours you are stronger with compared to the confused part of the spectrum. I've played games with @BAMozzy and one of the reasons I'm terrible at FPS is everything's blends together in browns, reds and Grey's (at least I think they are the colours) which are the goto colours for these games. Playing on the 4k TV at a higher resolution makes objects clearer not less clear. It's way more preferable to play Titanfall pro enabled than at standard definition. It helps, although I still struggle with my own colour blindness, and realistically my colour perception is a barrier to competing wherever I play at 4k or 1080p as it's the nature of the condition.

With the Ishara colour blindness test the pools of colour are in relatively big blobs compared to a pixel on a typical 4k display. So playing at a lower definition isn't an advantage for colour blind people. In fact the opposite, having more pixels means a colour you don't have a colour blindness issue with could break up the merge of colours you do have an issue with.

Sorry but this seems to have derailed the topic. I can see why Switches games may be great for those with forms of colour blindness - the fact that they often lack the details that other games use. For example Mario's solid Blue dungarees and solid Red top instead of textured denim blue and fabric reds. Often Nintendo games are bright and colourful but they also use quite solid blocks of colour with black outlines.

However it doesn't do 4k or HDR and therefore I don't think its relevant to discuss the merits or the cons of that technology here. It is inevitable that Sony and MS will be moving solely towards 4k HDR consoles and I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo do later on down the line too.

Mario Kart is great, I would like to see a Diddy King racing type mode dropped in future installments to broaden the single player appeal.

@KratosMD Rose tinted glasses from me lol. MK 8 is awesome especially the new mechanics which take the game to probably the best level from a driving perspective against friends or family. But realistically outside of time trialing which gets old quick on your own or grand prixs which I feel are unfairly weighted towards weapons there's not much to do in single player.

I've read comments of people playing for hundreds of hours prior to purchase, but unless your a hardcore time trailer I can't see it.

I probably need a guide on the leveling unlocks or other hidden tidbits and work towards them.

MK8 is, on a mechanical and track design level, easily the best game in the series, and the best kart racer ever made. I do agree that the single-player options are a bit limited, though. That seems to be the norm for these devs now, as ARMS' mode offerings seem incredibly similar to the modes in MK8.

I do play online sometimes, but I'm a single-player gamer at heart. With that said, perfecting all the grand prix levels and time trials provide more than enough challenge for me. I've still yet to figure out how to handle 200cc. It feels I'm blasting around these tracks on a rocket. The new Rainbow Road is hell on 200cc. Perhaps I'm just not good with these super fast racers: Wipeout games and older F-Zeros are manageable, but F-Zero GX and Fast RMX feel too fast. I barely even have time to react to stuff.

You're just getting older

MK8's tracks aren't really designed with 200cc in mind, so some work a little better than others. 200cc on those F-Zero tracks made me realise how much I'd want another F-Zero game.

@Octane Very possible. I don't do wll with roller coasters anymore either. My sister, who is almost double my age, calls me a wuss now whenever we visit theme parks.

@Ralizah Wait, double your age? Or did you mean half your age?

@Octane A little under double. In her early fifties. Still enjoys brutally fast rollercoasters. They only nauseate me, on the other hand.

So, um... this is apparently an actual thing.

@Ralizah That's a pretty big age difference then!

@KratosMD There are more slides, they describe it as a tactical turn-based game or something like that. The overworld looks out of Mario Party, minus the blue and red circles...

@KratosMD The rabbids are repulsive and obnoxious little buggers. They really put me off the game.

Anyway, the idea is that this will be a strategy RPG akin to Fire Emblem. Some pictures also suggest weapon customization. We'll see how it pans out.

I'd be more excited about the Rabbids game if the Rabbids were, you know, actual distinguishable characters, rather than those clearly just wearing the garb of Mario characters. Nintendo seems to be afraid to associate its flagship franchises with newer or unusual characters (with the exception of the smash bros series).

Think about how back in the day Nintendo combined mario the with wholly original chracters Geno and Mario in Super Mario RPG. Nothing like them had previously existed in the mario universe (though you could argue Mallow resembled one of the smiley face cloud platforms), and they were the most interesting characters in the game. Even the early Mario and Luigi series games introduced original characters, while the most recent one, paper jam, stuck with the series staples. It's annoying, and it makes the game more bland then they could be.

Fortunately, Super Mario Odyssey seems to be breaking this trend. I noticed a lot of new characters and baddies that didn't look anything like those in earlier mario games. Super excited for that one.

Maybe the rabbids will have their own personalities despite being imitators of mario characters. Hopefully time will tell.