Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@KirbyTheVampire Actually, yeah. PC Master Race are the worst. To be fair, fanboys of anything are bad. These are all money grabbing companies trying to part you with your money. We shouldn't pledge allegiance to them like football teams.

BTW, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Direct today. Who's excited?

Xenoblade Chronicles was probably my favourite game on the Wii. I sunk hundreds of hours into that. I'm really hoping this one knocks it out of the park. And on a personal note, I'm really hoping that the baddies still all have comedy cockney accents.

@johncalmc I watched the trailer yesterday (will reserve judgement on the voice acting, I can only assume it's supposed to be terrible!) but it didn't look that great - way too much overwrought political mumbo jumbo. It reminded me of the worst parts of FF12. I'm still interested because I heard good stuff about the last one.. I dunno though..

@kyleforrester87 Xenoblade Chronicles' voice acting was garbage town but the game was wonderful. It was a massive RPG with a fairly interesting story and some fun combat. Honestly, I loved that game.

@johncalmc I'll be keeping an eye on it for sure. Wish it was a bit more Skies of Arcadia, though.

@johncalmc Not excited for Xenoblade TBH. All I remember is the awful voice acting, and ugly character designs.

Is it possible to transfer games (& saves) from the system storage to extended storage like on PS4?
I probably won't get time to pick up a memory card till the weekend, but I really feel like picking up Sonic Mania for the Switch digitally.

Also physical copy of WWE2K18 is going to require a 24GB download. I really hope that this isn't the way third party support is heading.
I'll still pick up the majority of releases on PS4, but certain games just lend themselves better being portable.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Yes and no.

@BLP_Software Moot question. I see it now, it's within system settings. Data management under the game file only has archive/delete software.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Delete the software from the system memory.

Insert SD Card.

Download it to SD Card.

Simple.

The Yes was: Yes, you can put your games on your SD Card.

Bonus Fact: If you unlink your Nintendo Account from your Switch and get another one, you can redownload all your games if you link that unliked account.

The No was: No, you cant move save data.

@BLP_Software Thanks for clearing that up. Thought I might lose progress in the process. On vita if you delete the game, you delete the save. So that's good to know.

@Fight_Teza_Fight I had that hesitation as well. I wish Vita games were like PSP games where you had to delete the save data separately.

And hopefully the paid service introduces cloud saves to the Switch. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to back up my save data in this day and age.

It's just been announced you can play Xenoblade Chronicles 2 with Japanese audio.

They must have been reading this thread.

@johncalmc Day one downloadable DLC for JP voices like in Persona 5. FE Warriors had downloadable Japanese audio as well, and BotW had multiple spoken languages patched in. It's looking like a new standard for Nintendo's more Japanese first-party games.

Which is fantastic, considering this is another Xenoblade game where everyone is dubbed in British English. Shivers

@Ralizah It's better than everyone being dubbed in dodgy poorly spelt Yankeedoodle.

Shivers

@Ralizah Honestly, I love the comedy cockney accents. But then I'm the one guy who liked watching Ong Bak dubbed because I thought it was amusing how everyone sounded like they were from Sarf Lahndan.

It should at least keep people happy though. I know the whole Japanese audio thing has been high on the wish list for a lot of people when it comes to games like these for a long time, so it's nice to see it being addressed.

@johncalmc The fact that I like the character designs and personalities more than in the original game so far will probably also help. Unlike a lot of people, I thought Xenoblade 1 had an obnoxious and shallow cast. Particularly Reyn.

It'll be interesting to hear the cockney accents coming out of what look to be straight anime people.

Honestly, between the lack of major censorship, embrace of "mature" games like DOOM and Gal Gun, and the lack of region locking, it feels like Nintendo has addressed three of the most contentious issues people had with their Wii U era policy and hardware in one go.

@johncalmc watched the direct.. ok does look pretty good.

I never watch Directs or anything similar to them concerning games I'm already planning on buying, or am considering buying. Companies like to spoil 3/4 of the game before it's actually out. Nintendo is pretty bad for that, too.

@kyleforrester87 I actually didn't watch it. Like SMO and BotW before it, I feel like Nintendo is way overexposing this game.

I have mixed feelings about the Xenoblade games, but I really like the streamlined UI and colorful, anime-esque character designs in this one, so it'll probably be a day-one download.