Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

I loved yesterday's Nintendo Direct personally. Looking forward to the following games/DLC...

2021:
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Wave 2 DLC - October 29

2022:
Project Triangle Strategy - March 04
Rune Factory 5 - March 22

TBA 2022:
Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Spring 2022
Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak DLC - Summer 2022
Bayonetta 3
Chocobo GP

I definitely prefer the Wii U/3DS era. It’s important to include the backwards compatibility in there because that’s something Switch lacks. So you had a whole 4 consoles worth of content to play last gen. Switch is alright but it’s not grabbed me the same way. I’ve only actually beaten a few games on it because I just hate the act of playing it. That being said, there are some games coming out that look great.

If you include 1st + 3rd party stuff, Switch is slowly edging out 3DS for me, and will fully eclipse it fairly soon. It's a great console. Soon to become my favorite Nintendo console.

But the first-party support is suffering a bit for many of us who owned and played most of the major Wii U and 3DS releases. But, like, 80%+ of the Switch playerbase never owned a Wii U, so I totally get why it wouldn't be an issue for them.

As for Sony, it's looking like the glory days of the PS1 and PS2 will never be topped.

@Ralizah I'm just going to stop you right there. The discussion you want to have is about which games are better and I honestly don't see the point of having that discussion. We can go back and forth bickering which games are better, and that would be no different than a console war. It's fine to have these sorts of discussions when it's done in a casual way, but you're just blowing it way out of proportion now and I'm not enjoying this discussion anymore because you're taking it too seriously now.

It's fine if you think Wii U/3DS's first-party output is better, I respect that. And I hope that you in turn can respect that I think Switch's first-party output is better. Agree to disagree and all that, we all have different opinions. But I'm not going to sit here and list all games that I think are better just to prove to you something that at the end of the day doesn't matter at all. At that point it's not fun anymore, I'm here to have fun discussions with people and they stop being fun once you take things too seriously.

Viiiiideeeo games! You Nintendo fans are crazy 😘

I haven’t touched my switch since Bravely Default 2 to be honest. Mainline Zelda, Mario or Xenoblade or I am not interested at this point frankly.

Probably had too many sambucas

@kyleforrester87 We've all been there.

@kyleforrester87 I recall you not enjoying Xenoblade 1 that much. Am I mistaken?

I've been on the jam all night.

@kyleforrester87 I’ve never had Sambuca but a mate brought back Ouzo which is apparently similar and that tasted like haunted earwax.

@Ralizah I loved XB2! Came to 1 late on the remaster and didn’t enjoy it. Keeping an open mind on the next instalment…

@kyleforrester87 Have you played Torna: The Golden Country? It's an expansion to XC2 that fleshes out the backstories of certain characters, but it basically feels like it's own (somewhat short) Xenoblade game, since it's set generations before the main game and features a unique cast, narrative, combat system, and OST. Really enjoyed my time with it.

@nessisonett I'm certain ouzo is just the waste product of a chemical factory packaged and sold as booze.

Nothing there for me really. Looks like my Switch will continue to be a demo machine for games I then buy on PS5. And slowly playing my way through Ori.

Yeah that one drink after work thing turned into something else entirely. Just got home 🥱

@Ralizah yeah I played Torna, I believe I am right near the end but managed to die on the last boss and didn’t try again. I didn’t love it to be honest, I wanted more adventures with Rex and the Scottish woman! It was nice enough, though.

@LtSarge Yeah, everyone will get different value from it. I'm a bit of a grumpy old man these days, and it's easy to forget that there's now a whole generation of young people who never played any of the games. My stance may change depending on how many games are added and what it ends up costing, but what I would really like to see are some of the quirkier titles that have never seen rerelease. Games like Mischief Makers, Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, Space Station Silicon Valley and Body Harvest. Diddy Kong Racing would also be a nice one, given the DS version butchered it. As for Banjo-Kazooie, I'm rather hoping that Microsoft see that the continued interest signals that people would love a new Banjo platformer.

I haven't played Mario Kart 64 in years, but had an absolute blast in multiplayer with my siblings back in the day. It's definitely simple (and slow) compared to the new, flashier entries, but there's a purity there that you might enjoy. Mario Kart 8 is almost sensory overload, which is why I prefer Mario Kart 7 over it.

@Ralizah Other than Metroid Dread and BotW2, third party releases are more enticing for me going forward. Nintendo sometimes feel like they're phoning it in a bit, especially with all the ports. Metroid is the most excited I've been for a Nintendo game since 2017, and I can hardly wait. Just a few more weeks to go!

@mookysam Well I mean, I do understand where you're coming from because Nintendo keeps releasing Wii U/3DS ports on Switch that I've already played and I'd rather see them put these resources into making new games entirely. So I totally understand your point of view. At this point I'm hoping that they'll eventually put Gamecube games on the Switch because man are there titles on that system that I've been dying to play but can't due to scarce availability. For example, Paper Mario The Thousand Year-Door isn't available digitally on any Nintendo system, nor has it ever been re-released. I also don't have a Wii anymore that can play Gamecube games and even if I did, a physical copy costs €150. So that's one thing I seriously hope Nintendo will eventually add on the Switch in the future.

Out of curiosity, you say that you want Nintendo to bring back more quirky titles and as we've seen for the past year or so, they've kept releasing games on the NES/SNES Switch apps that most people haven't heard of or don't care about. Have these games appealed to you?

@LtSarge I wish I’d taken better care of my Cube games. I have loads of those expensive ones like Skies of Arcadia Legends, 2 copies of The Thousand Year Door etc. I just didn’t really take good care of them so the discs are scratched and stuff. Still better than the PS1 discs I ate.

@LtSarge The irony is that those ports hardly require any resources. The Apple vs Epic case revealed all sorts of documents, even detailing things like how many people it takes to port a game, and it was like 2 people for six months or something like that (I'll have to look it up again).

Which is great, because it doesn't take away resources from other games, the problem is that they still ask full price, as if a 100-person team worked on it for 5 years. And they treat them like brand new games to fill in the release schedule.