I kinda want to pick up Dragon's Dogma for $20, but I'm ambivalent. Everyone has good things to say about the gameplay, but the setting/art direction just looks so painfully boring. Anyone here can vouch for it?
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
Well, instead I decided to grab Turok 2 for $7. Time to blast some dino-soids!
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
pretty sure lots of things happening to me in new mario bros aren't fair. is there a hotline i can call?
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
after hanging out with my younger relatives all last weekend, i can tell you that there is, and the number is 1-800-BUTTHEAD
*runs around the house in ecstasy*
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
thanks, i will make my feelings about the non-cheep-cheep auto-scroll levels and the spinning star platforms known
― $1,000,000 or 1 bag of honeycrisp apples (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
Digital Foundry dude makes the case that "Alien: Isolation" sometimes looks and plays *better* on Switch than on other consoles, with exceptions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kvSGUwAyc&feature=emb_logo
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
i recently fell in love with Wonder Boy VI: Monster World IV so i can't wait to play Wonder Boy VIII (?): Monster World V: Monster Boy I: Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom over the holidays
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
new SNES & NES games being added next week, all good picks imoSNES - Star Fox 2, Super Punch Out, Kirby Super Star, Breath of Fire IINES – Journey To Silius, Crystalis
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
oh and I finished FE3H, well one of the routes anyway (Black Eagles).they added a lot of ancillary stuff to the game between battles which worked well for the most part, Persona type events to level up relationships between characters, learn abilities, fishing & gardening etc etc. I felt it ran out of steam in the last 10 hours or so though, became far too repetitive and I found myself skipping a lot of it to get to the next story-driven battle. also I played on Hard/Classic and found it far too easy, the limited rewind function is a good idea but I barely had to use it. a good but flawed effort to update the FE formula then, hope the next iteration nails it.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
salute on those retro picks!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 5 December 2019 03:47 (four years ago) link
Alien: Isolation seems kinda expensive for what it is and for how long it’s been out. 35 bucks for Switch and 30 on PS4. Feel like I’ve been consistently thinking about buying it over the past five years and not doing it because it seems more expensive than it should be.
― circa1916, Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
Also lol 10 dollars doesn’t mean anything but it’s weird how that will be a dealbreaker for buying a video game sometimes.
― circa1916, Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:07 (four years ago) link
I got it on sale a few weeks back for PS4, and it was $11.99.
My cut-off for impulse purchase is about $20, anything at that price or below. Most games I've bought for Ps4 have probably been somewhere between $10 and $20. But keep an eye out, because certain titles go on sale almost cyclically, while other titles (like Resident Evil 2, or the From games) seem to go on sale much less often, or for much less off.
Price is def. the reason I have trouble pulling the trigger on a lot of Nintendo games.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
Have the same 20 dollar max for impulse purchases I think. Also I get this “who the fuck do you think you are?” attitude when I see newer, better games that are cheaper right next to it.
― circa1916, Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link
indie direct tomorrow wooooohttps://indieworld.nintendo.com/showcase/
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 9 December 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
This Gleamlight game...the first of the Hollow Knight clones?
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
Supermash looks intriguing, it'll be interesting to see how well they pull off that concept
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
aw yeah SkateBird
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
aw yeah Boyfriend Dungeon
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
only interested in golf story 2: sports story and the picross murder mystery game
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
supermash reminds me of the board game "504" which was interesting conceptually but close to 0 of the 504 games it could create were actually fun to play
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
No news on Silksong?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
lol speaking of which, I just saw that clip of Gleamlight, and boy, what a shameless looking mimic of Hollow Knight ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
yeh murder by numbers looks good!
― nxd, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 08:56 (four years ago) link
Picross murder mystery game? sold.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
same
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
what is the name of the picross murder mystery?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx3VGqyJ6uc
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 December 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
I am totally down for "You found: Strangulation marks!"
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 December 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
lol, so nintendo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 December 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
celeste on switch us for ten bucks if anyone's not tried it yetSkyrim and Doom are $30Octopath $36
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
Celeste for $10 is a steal, considering it should've cost $60 to begin with
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
yeah i'll be grabbing that one
― circa1916, Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
anyone played Skyrim on switch? I've never played it before, but I'd like to fill the BOTW hole in my heart and that looks serviceable
― rob, Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
it's nothing like botw other than having a big map but the switch version is a good port if that's what you're asking
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 December 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
yeah mostly concerned with "does it look nice?"
― rob, Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
it looks like skyrim - much gloomier and greyer world than botw but it has its nice bits
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
bravely default 2 hell yeah
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 December 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
well that's a confusing title
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 13 December 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
apparently bravely second was bravely default 1-2 in final fantasy parlance
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 December 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link
square gonna square I guess lolnot a fan of the character models they showed but I love the series (does 4 Heroes Of Light count?) so I'll buy it anyway
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 13 December 2019 02:43 (four years ago) link
okay my family got me a Switch Lite for Christmas as requested
but no games
I'm headed out of town tomorrow, a little under the gun ... so I guess I'm just going to install BOTW on internal storage overnight?
― lukas, Monday, 16 December 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
internal storage is big enough for it if that's what you're asking. maybe grab some smaller stuff too or if you're at all planning to sub to the online service you could do it now and grab the nes & snes games
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 December 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
the eshop xmas sale starts on the 19th too, maybe wait to see what that is like? the EU tweet says "up to 80% off, over 700 games" but no indication if any first party stuff is going to be included
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 16 December 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
I guess I was asking if there were any hidden gotchas, like "once you install on internal storage you can never remove it or you'll lose your saves" or something like it. I guess it's 2019 and Nintendo isn't dumb.
― lukas, Monday, 16 December 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link
Anyway thanks!
I guess it's 2019 and Nintendo isn't dumb.
they're still at least 40% dumb
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 16 December 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
Most of the most popular things in history have always been within the margin of error of being 40% dumb
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link
you have to go out of your way to delete saves even if you uninstall the game
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 00:48 (four years ago) link
the big new stardew patch is out on switch apparently, tempted to spin up a new game of that
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link