The Nintendo Switch

I think I am enjoying RE4

hell yeah @ switch port of super mega baseball 2

out next week??

waht ?! YES

port begging redeemed

@tracerhand

when does the FE OT go live

I want to get a Switch! Possibly going to look for s/h though to keep costs down. I don't know much about the machine at all other than I'm intrigued by some of the indie games like Baba Is You, and also I'd like a really good RPG to play so as to fill the Chrono Trigger-sized hole in my life.
Is there anything I need to watch out for if buying s/h? Any features or pitfalls? Are they all more or less the same?

a new model with longer battery life just dropped. so weigh that against any s/h discount. Would also play it with joycons detached to check for signal or drift issues.

the newer model doesn't have detachable joycons or TV output, and the screen is a tad smaller, but it's $100 cheaper and has much better battery life, so tradeoffs

by TV output, you mean you can't plug it into a TV?

also, will it matter that my telly is from like 2005

you're talking about two different "new models." the new "nintendo switch" has longer battery life, the new "switch lite" is the one nhex is talking about.

How very confusing. So the Switch Lite is just handheld I take it; like a Game Gear. The new Switch has better batteries and stuff.

I\'m not sure I GAF about batteries really - I'd mostly be playing it at home.

the better battery one will be out in September it's identical to the current one otherwise

it's not a new model they're just updating the current one

maybe make a general FE thread instead of a specific FE16 thread since we don't really have one already

that'd be cool. i'm planning on jumping in on this Fire Emblem when it comes out. never played any of the others!

i've played the first 5-10 hours of a few but never finished any

xps re your telly - as long as it has HDMI input, you'll be fine.

right - definitely wait until September for the updated Switch with better battery life

Thanks for the help everyone. Maybe Sept is a good time to wait for. Cooler days, plus my birthday coming up so it could be a present to myself

Tbh, while the majority of my (modest) play has been docked, I've never hit a point where my gameplay was seriously hindered by the current battery life. I've had bigger issues with joy con drift and frame lag.

Most of my play is handheld and it's never been an issue. Lasts around 4 hours so it's not really a problem as am mainly playing in the house anyway.

same

opposite: i mostly play on TV, whenever i'm too lazy to do that I ended draining the battery within 3-4 hours as expected

outer worlds coming to switch

anyone played this?

it's not out yet

ahhh I got it mixed up with outer wilds. annoying

Indies on Monday morning

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— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) August 16, 2019

fingers crossed for dates for Goose Game and Mineko's Night Market

i like indies

me too!

i like u ciderpress

An announcement of Silksong would rock my world today. I never totally finished Hollow Knight, not beyond the first ending yet, but I've had this weird desire to play it again from the beginning, I loved it so much.

Roki looks cool, so does Youropa and Touryst. And Ori.

oh touryst is a new shin'en game, that gets my attention

eastward was also on my radar a while back good to see it still exists

SUPERHOT

Waited for ages for the physical release of the Cartoon Network RPG double pack of Steven Universe: Save the Light and OK KO: Let's Play Heroes to come out, didn't get around to it until now. It's a fun thing, but 90% of it is out of fan service. If you love the shows like I do 100% worthwhile, if you don't I'm not sure.

i am on that dragon quest builders 2. animal crossing x minecraft x dq

sent my joycon in for drift repair and it's taking so long that i'm considering ordering a cheap-o controller on amazon so i don't have to go three weeks without the switch

How long should it take? I could have sworn people were talking about a fast turnaround, but maybe they've been deluged? Anyway, I sent mine in early last week, but between my Pro controller and a pair of cheap-os (relative, when the real things apparently misbehave so frequently) I think my family can survive. Though I will say, anecdotally, that my girls are just not taking to gaming one bit. Or at least, only minimally, under duress. One loves Sims, the other is excited about Animal Crossing, but both of those games aren't really games so much as Smart Dollhouses.

If you were to turn your mind to it, what would you say was a descriptor of a Real Game?

Josh, they’re games. Don’t Real Games your own daughters ffs

both the sims and animal crossing are real games, and they're both really fun and also a gateway to gaming for tons of people. i'm making this fact up, but i believe it in my heart - the sims introduced more people to gaming in the late 90s/2000s than any other game out there - it's like the equivalent of tetris/super mario bros/windows solitaire in the 80s

See if they like Gears 5

Of course they're games, they have fun with them. I guess I meant there's no competitive (solo or multiplayer) element to it, afaict. Or at least, they never seem to play them that way. (They're no longer little kids, btw, so they're definitely past the "gateway" stage. They're 14 and 12, if video games haven't taken them in yet, I doubt they will).

the sims doesn't have official win/loss states but you can make choices to make your sims succeed or fail or even die etc so there is kinda a loss state element. i have a harder time with walking simulators not because i want to be all judgey and exclusive about what "games" are but bc i think sometimes "games" means any kind of digitally mediated simulation when i really suspect some of these things are just really novel movies if that makes sense? like for me decision making and success/failure states related to player ability are really important to what games are. so i'm inclined to call the sims or animal crossing games (tho maybe on the border of games/not games) whereas "gone home" or "her" both of which i think had merit i have a hard time considering "games" since you don't really play them as much as observe them, or at least not played much more than you "play" walking through an art gallery.

i do wonder tho if the sims really does lead to more "hardcore" gaming. i'm not sure that it does but i'd be curious to hear differently (either anecdotally or if there are studies on the topic)