also yeah if you're interested in the witcher and not specifically interested in the switch's portability then PS4 is the way to go for that, that game is going to be severely muddied up on switch
― ciderpress, Monday, 14 October 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
I wish there was some sort of shared save mode, to play it on PS4 but also switch to Switch as needed.
I just made it past the Forlorn Ruins/second escape in Ori, which was really tough but so creative I didn't really mind. Man, even the angry bird has a sad backstory. Been a long time since I found a blue energy cell, which I think I need to do to open those other gates. I've been stuck at 3 cells for a while now.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
is there anywhere that reviews all the random cheap-looking games in the eshop that sell for like $1-$10
― na (NA), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
You could! I’d back your patreon.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
these guys - and particularly their forums - are pretty good for thathttps://toucharcade.com/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
one of the review sites that has 'nintendo' in the name reviews every switch release but i forget which
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
nintendo world report or nintendo life maybe
― ciderpress, Thursday, 17 October 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
Return of the Obra Dinn out today for Switch. bought it, worried i'm not smart enough for it.
― na (NA), Friday, 18 October 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
i had to trade notes with a friend who was playing it at the same time to get unstuck at least once
― ciderpress, Friday, 18 October 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
I had heard such good things about it but it really seems (by design) like a computer game, something you sit down in front of at a desk with a notepad.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 October 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
you can use a notepad on your lap, famously
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 18 October 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
But I need two hands to hold the Switch!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 October 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
you can store the notes in your mind palace
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 October 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
i just assumed the rest of you were also taking "mental notes" with google glass the past several years. ok glass, take a note: the guy to the left of the blurry face with the pipe was also in the captain's cabin, the guy in the upper-left corner of the set of pictures, i mean. end note.
ok: the pipe was in the cabin, in the upper left corner to the left of the guy with the blurry face
ok glass
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
that game rules, though. i need to return resume, i never even finished.
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 18 October 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
Heh, you all spend so much time teasing me for *not* starting games that it's a red flag when you concede there's one you never even finished.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/dLoPiuF.jpg
it's rare for me to finish games - probably end up ditching games more often than not. but i find it difficult to struggle on when my enjoyment has ended and the end isn't in sight.
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 18 October 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
Something nice happened in Ori today, when I hit some point in the game/story and iirc it actually told me I was at the halfway point, which was nice.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 October 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
nice
― alomar lines, Friday, 18 October 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
if you like 16bit RPGs at all you it to yourself to buy Cosmic Star Heroine as it's currently 70% off at £3.29/$4.49
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, October 14, 2019 3:47 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
this game is sweet! hadn't heard of it before, it's like if they fixed absolutely everything wrong with old rpgs. really digging it. thx for the tip!
― lumen (esby), Friday, 18 October 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
one more thing, RE: obra dinn
any screenshot won't do it justice. it is really a beautiful game when seen in motion - check out a video or twitch
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Friday, 18 October 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
"Bloodstained" was years in the making. Began as a Kickstarter in 2015, released four years later this past June, was a mess on Switch. The developers promised patches and fixes, which a) was pretty ridiculous, given the long wait in the first place and b) those fixes have yet to show up. I don't know if the Switch poses its own particular set of programming problems, but this seems to happen a lot - game or port gets announced for Switch, people get excited, game arrives in less than ideal state, developers take forever to fix it, if they bother at all. "Sexy Brutale," for example, was unplayable on Switch, by all accounts, but it's been two years and despite promises I don't think the developers ever bothered.
"Blasphemous," on the other hand, began with a Kickstarter in 2017, showed up around two years later this past September, and just got a massive slate of fixes and patches a little over a month later. That's the way you do it. Even PS4 games get patches super fast, it seems. And a AAA game like "Doom" on Switch got some major patches relatively quickly, including the addition of Gyro, which was awesome (people seem to love Panic Button). But a lot of these indies? The lack of attention on Switch accounts for my frequently reluctance to buy games. I've been burned too many times and have little faith fixes will arrive in a timely fashion.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 October 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
This is why they don’t take audience Q&A during Nintendo Directs.
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
games that weren't built to run on hardware weaker than PS4 and then added a switch version due to insane demand for everything to be on switch have a spotty track record with switch performance, i agree with that much. it's pretty easy to just, not buy ports day 1 and wait for performance impressions though
― ciderpress, Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
I think if a game like Doom or Witcher can be made to run at all on Switch, let alone much better than expected, then a game like Bloodstained has no excuse.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:20 (four years ago) link
I think you’re forgetting the “kickstsrter” aspect and what that implies
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
You mean small studios, limited staff? I guess. But if a skeleton crew can divise something as gorgeous and perfectly calibrated as Hollow Knight, retro pixel games don't have much of an excuse.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
My approach to complaining about patches and updates is to wait until I have worked on a game that tons of people are playing before weighing in on how easy it is to fix
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
ok, that's a tad disingenuous - obv i complain about all sorts of shit that i've never directly had any experience working on.
but...do you have any idea what goes into making a patch and deploying it? i don't.
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
I assume it's a lot of work! That's not in question. What's in question is releasing a game with issues so significant they take months and months to fix, assuming they bother at all. Like, a lot of these games that people complain about, people complain on or close to *day one*, which means that the developers *must* know. I can only speak for myself, but I'd rather a game get delayed and run right than a game get released prematurely and take forever to get fixed after they've already got my money. Releasing games early (for the cash? to get the max out of releasing on all platforms at once?) is like distilleries that release "white whiskey" and pretend that it is some sort of special thing, or even premium, when everyone knows it's really a quick way to make a buck while the good stuff ages in barrels.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 October 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
I did, btw, recently find at least a personal drawback to the Switch's biggest pro: I don't need reading glasses, but as someone in my 40s I'm more liable to miss little details in handheld mode than I am when the Switch is docked and on the big screen. I hit a wall (more or less literally) in Ori and had to look up what to do, and it turns out there was a lever right there that I just couldn't see in that particular environment on the small screen. Obviously ymmv, and I'm usually OK with it, but it's a potential strike for some against playing in portable mode. I want to say I've read reviews of Switch games in the recent past that made people complain about things like font size? Maybe Darkest Dungeon (until it was patched)? Octopath Traveler? Something like that.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 October 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
octopath font was fine, fire emblem was the one that people rightfully complained about
― ciderpress, Saturday, 19 October 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
I still have only used the switch in portable mode like, once. I use it docked pretty much daily.
I'm about 40 hours into Dragon Quest XI now. What a lovely game. I can't help but compare it to Breath of the Wild, and while I think it's a worse game than BOTW, I think maybe I enjoy it more? like, playing BOTW was sublime, like ~~~art~~~ in a way I'd never experienced in a video game until then---but that made it, like, harrowing to play: to be too brute was to break the sublimity, to make its lost world recede, whereas its magic was in making that lost world present. You tell its story, you are part of it. But that was work! By contrast the linearity of DQXI is easy and comfortable: nothing is left unsaid, unless you choose not to talk to anyone in the game, I suppose. There have been cataclysms in this world too, and the game too is to unravel it, but it is done more overtly: yes, monsters have destroyed this world before, and will do it again, and you are the light and they are the dark, and you will master the dark; but the ache of this eternal recurrence is absent, whereas it was everywhere in BOTW. And I guess I don't always want to ache when I'm playing a game.
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 19 October 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
DQXI is the video game equivalent of dad rock
― ciderpress, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
otm
― L'assie (Euler), Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
good post euler
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
agreed, nice Euler
and lol ciderpress. maybe that's why I keep thinking about getting it...
and josh - that's one of the reasons I try to stick to indies on PC (then, PS4) in general
― Nhex, Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
Finished "Ori!" What an absolutely lovely game, start to finish. Maybe a little short, but other than that I can't think of anything that could make this game better.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 October 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link
sequel is out in a few months though i think its xbox exclusive at launch
― ciderpress, Sunday, 20 October 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
Yeah, trailer looks nice. Ori was one of those games I just figured I'd never get to play, so the fact that the first one came to Switch was a wonderful surprise (same with Cuphead).
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 October 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link
I’m early on with Return of Obra Dinn but I think I’ll be obsessed with this thing.
― circa1916, Sunday, 20 October 2019 05:55 (four years ago) link
Sweet didn’t realise that was out yet
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 20 October 2019 09:53 (four years ago) link
Do tell more
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 20 October 2019 09:54 (four years ago) link
it's a very good game if you enjoy actually playing the detective rather than assisting the detective like in most mystery games
― ciderpress, Sunday, 20 October 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link
I noticed that What Remains of Edith Finch is on Switch. That got a great response, right? I'm wondering whether to get it for the Nintendo or just wait for another PS4 sale.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 October 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
I played many hours of Obra Dinn yesterday, it’s uh quite good
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
I beat Obra Dinn! It’s good.
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 21 October 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 October 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
i've been playing it too. it's definitely cool but it's kind of repetitive and i feel like it keeps rushing me along and not giving me space to figure things out.
― na (NA), Monday, 21 October 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
you can't really figure out too many until you've seen all the scenes. once it starts raining on the boat that's the cue that you've seen everything and it's time to review and solve
― ciderpress, Monday, 21 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link