The Nintendo Switch

woah, just catching up and so many games I want to buy :O
can't believe they are localizing Famicom Detective Club games
Octopath Tactics looks amazing

i got my kids all pumped up for the splatoon 3 trailer - they're big splatoon fans - and they were getting more and more hyped as it played and then at the end in big red numbers: 2022 which is like 100 years away when you're six years old

I thought the direct was supposed to be about stuff in the first half of 2021?

they always say that to temper expectations and then show some further off stuff anyway

I've only played Splatoon 2 a tiny bit, since I don't have online, and it was fun, but boy, Splatoon 3 being the thing "further away" to look forward to really does temper my exceptions even more, since I don't want it or pretty much anything else teased or announced. Which is fine, because I have plenty of games to play as it is, but still sort of innately disappointing, since I do like my Switch but have already been let down by a pretty uninspiring slate the last year or so. It's all about the indies for me, as usual.

pvmic

I’m gonna try one of those Famicom Detective games

yeah i love detective adventure games i'll surely play those

same

Isn't that what Return of the Obra Dinn is? Thoughts? Do games like this have any replay value?

only after a traumatic brain injury probably

Seems very feasible to invent a roguelite detective game

dunno if it would be any fun though, sounds like those encyclopedia brown challenges where you should've realized that one kid was shorter than the other so he couldn't have reached the top counter except that is completely impossible to guess.

all i want is a new Wario Ware game. Or hell, ports of the old ones.

xp obra dinn is a detective game that makes you do all the detective work yourself rather than follow a fictional protagonist who solves the big picture while you're only asked to figure out individual steps e.g. ace attorney or danganronpa or most of these games really. dunno where famicom detective club lands on the spectrum but guessing the latter

obra dinn is the best but you don't play it twice

There's probably a right way to do it- all sorts of variables can be creatively handled. All hypothetical of course and I'm not going to task anyone with figuring it all out here. Just feels like the conditions that dictate unique "seeds" in roguelites could conceivably be applied to detective grenre if programmed cleverly.

xps

outer wilds is the former too. a 20 minute game that takes 10-20 hours of exploration/research to figure out how to beat

obra dinn is the best but you don't play it twice

I'm planning to replay it sometime to get the Captain Did It achievement

loved obra dinn
quite tricky tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bx1IKQ1btY

kinda love that, also kinda not sure if he's being a parody of Nintendo fans or actually is that angry

Dunkey is Josh confirmed.

I don't think he's that angry for real. Fwiw, I think his previous two videos were nothing but effusive praise for Super Mario 3D World and Bowser's Fury, the latter of which he called his presumptive game of the year, which might have actually been serious.

you seem to know an awful lot about his video history, almost as if ... Andrew is on to something lol

Almost as if I saw the latest one yesterday and thought, oh shit, I missed his last two, which were right next to it and which I watched right after, lol.

But yes, I'm also Dunkey.

japanese people must really love those japanese rpgs

They just call them "rpgs."

i think japanese people all like american games now and vice versa

that was supposed to be some sort of comedy joke but it came out just sounding defensive

i will probably play the square triangle octagon project tbrr

surely this time they will change the name...?

Seems unlikely

Triangapath Traveler

Looks enough like final fantasy tactics, possibly my fave game of all time, that I will likely buy it and perhaps not play it.

Mario 3D world has been enjoyable but not immersive fro me. I may be broken.

its not really supposed to be immersive like odyssey, its diorama style (except mauybe the new bowsers fury thing)

recommend going straight into bowsers fiery maw it rules

may do that

my favorite thing in 3D World has been to play as cat suit Peach in 1-1, run to the top of the ramp near the beginning, run and jump off of it, float and then cat-dive directly into the clear pipe, then run back and do it again. kind of an immersive experience in the sense that it makes me feel like a kid at a playground

bowsers fury is pretty cool kind of a mix between 3d world and odyssey, unusual thing to make, its a small mario game that has all the qualities of a big mario game, riding the dino is super sweet

JiC, Borderlands trilogy is half off once again

yah! the second two are $13 on PS4 right now, but I might as well get all three for $25.

i bought a much needed pro controller and i am living

my hands are filled with joy from being able to d-pad again

dammit, i need to buy a much needed pro controller too. shit's expensive though

Best battery life ever.

KM I urge you to consider the 8bitdo Sn30 Pro+ Controller it is incredible and maybe better than the Nintendo pro controller which I also have and love. And it is cheaper. Battery life has been great.

might want to hold off on that as they just announced the 8BitDo Pro 2, adds two paddle buttons and 3 switchable profiles for the same price
https://www.engadget.com/8-bitdo-pro-2-controller-150048045.html?guccounter=1

does the 8bitdo have gyro aim? thats a major consideration if youre planning to play like splatoon or any other shooters. otherwise yeah i've heard good things