The Nintendo Switch

a good new reboot would be cool but i'd appreciate more new flagship series, not so much the nintendo version of a popular genre (like Splatoon 2) but instead just new directions like...Pikmin (which i've never played) ?

Splatoon is barely a "Nintendo version of popular genre", it's as fresh as anything they've made imo

i like splatoon a lot. but it's a team-based first person shooter. it's a cool spin on it!

it's not a fps!

but yeah i get what you're saying but i have no idea what stones they could have left unturned at this point

xp

ok, yeah, lol

it mostly plays like one, though. there are different abilities and ways to hop around the levels and whatnot (kind of like overwatch). anyway, it's all silly, i wasn't trying to make some sort of statement about splatoon, i just want more things that feel genuinely new.

it's so hard to make something like that in 2018 though

2019

:D i've done that about 20 times this year already. but yeah, i agree. not saying it's easy. but nintendo made it's name on occasionally changing the game, so i always hold out a little hope that they can do it again.

ITS

i do enjoy the beloved franchises and the reboots, too, of course. i look forward to them - i'd love to see a new f-zero or metroid, and BotW was still incredibly fun to play despite not being a completely new genre.

josh

have you played botw yet

Nope (and not Odyssey either, fwiw). I was busy with Dark Souls and a) Zelda seems like too much of a (generally) similar endeavor/commitment and b) I'm not a huge Zelda fan, having only ever played the first one. Lately been distracted by Smash Bros. and getting ready to play some Spider-man on PS4, which looks fun. So Zelda (and Mario) gets punted again! But I'll get there, eventually, especially, if no big Switch releases come down the pipe. For example, not interested in Yoshi for the same reason I wasn't interested in Kirby, not interested in party games or JRPGs, not interested in turn-based strategy games, etc., so all's quiet on the Nintendo front.

josh

guys can we lead an intervention on josh pls

It's about time management! Between family, and movies, and books, there are only so many hours.

So, like, is the intervention to get me to play it?

I'm sure spiderman is good but c'mon dude

I already said it's because I can't commit to another collect-and-explore open world epic right now. Unless Zelda is not like that?

Maybe Spider-man is like that! I also have God of War, Last of Us, Uncharteds, etc. And other Soulsborne games to get to. You think Zelda is bad, god knows when or if I'll ever get around to Witcher 3. (I had a modest shortlist of Ps4 games I wanted, and I think I've got them all, thanks to various sales.)

I think my favorite types of games might be the likes of Hollow Knight and Steamworld 2 and hell, maybe even Dark Souls, which played a lot like a 3D Metroidvania.

BOTW is good but overhyped. Can understand not wanting to jump into it right after Dark Souls because it is roughly in the same sphere. Spider-Man is fun and a fine choice imo.

you're not helping circa :)

intervene on circa too pls

went to gamestop today for the first time in years to trade in some switch games and it definitely has the feel of "this place won't exist in 2 more years" that i got from music stores when those were on the way out.

it's half poorly-merchandised toys

I would have given you more money for switch games than Gamestop probably did

i didn't want money, i wanted tales of vesperia

wasn't trading in anything particularly good

The Gamestop near my work experimented with selling retro games for a little bit. It was a fun little thing that got removed after a few months. Really, why aren't they doing this? They get way more profit and it creates an actual incentive for brick and mortar visits and impulse buys. Otherwise there's nothing to differentiate the stores from each other or online.

"Can I help you?"
"Nope, just here browsing this wall of 30 empty cases for Super Smash Brothers- same as last week."

Fair enough!

xp

Or I guess they do this already, but only go as far back as the Wii. Why not sell all types? Yes, condition is something they'd have to deal with, but afaik they already have an online store for retro anyway.

Not that I'm in really in Gamestop's corner, but visit one between September and October and they're all flooded. The toys/merchandising/ThinkGeek stuff probably was a wise move to stay alive.

Katamari Damacy is still reliably bizarre and the HD makeover for Switch, though cursory, is good enough; but my muscle memory is so keyed to Dualshock2 that the Switch sticks arrangement has taken some adjustment. I love this game though, will happily fail levels over and over so I can hear the music again.

Also considering revisiting Tales Of Vesperia but the steps necessary for getting the best weapon for the enigmatic lady warrior were gigantically convoluted and exceptionally easy to mess up very early in the game, with no indication that you'd done so so until much later on. There was also some late-game uber-weapon sidequest that once started, whether completed or not, made the last boss 3x longer and harder. Never completed it as a result but it was definitely the best Tales I've played. Will probably succumb once it's in the sale but current price seems a bit steep.

i'm enjoying it but i'm generally content to ignore arcane side stuff like that in old jrpgs. it's not nearly as good as berseria so far though imo

Anyone bought the new Mario so far, and been plussed or nonplussed?

it's a remake of the wii u title, right? i will definitely pick it up at some point because i've never played it and i love 2D mario

yeah its just a port of the wii u version bumped up to 1080p and with the luigi expansion included

as i said upthread i found the prior NSMB games to be bland and conservative, but they're basically just iterations on super mario world so if more super mario world sounds good to you then that's what you're getting.

My boy is loving it

think it’s finally convinced me to get donkey kong

dunkey is otm on trop freeze vs NSMB here https://youtu.be/1UhFWoDZLxA?t=339

i want more SMB3 style, less SMW

Recent pick ups:

- Sonic Mania Plus
- Steamworld Dig 2
- Golf Story
- Undertale

all cp-approved games good work

Is there any catch buying games from eBay?

Seem to be a few "new & sealed" ones on there £10-£20 below usual price

shouldnt be any catch if they're actually sealed

indies direct tomorrow, i think wargroove might be dropping finally

The catch would be somewhere in the description if it were a scam, like "photo only" or something silly.

it's US only still but dekudeals.com is a v useful price tracker for switch games, being able to see the history is great for knowing whats actually a good sale price for a particular game bc every publisher does things differently

must be a non zero chance RE2 comes to switch right ?

this year's remake? non-zero I guess but I wouldn't count on it