The Nintendo Switch

There'll probably be a New Year sale if you can hang on

ill prob buy at least one of the big two games (wild/ody) before then, since i doubt they'll go on sale significantly

Amazon Logistics apparently has no idea where my order of Let's Go Eevee is; the last time this happened was also coincidentally with a big-ticket Switch game close to release (Mario Odyssey). What are the odds

To clarify, I'm not accusing anyone in the unfortunate situation of working for Amazon of stealing stuff- by all means, steal my shit if you can get away with it, Amazon will pay for the replacement- just that somehow the largest retailer in the world has a garbage supply chain and that the shipping confirmation/"delivery update"/useless tracking number for an in-house shipping service is probably a series of convenient ass-covering fictions

amazon isn't reliable with nintendo preorders for some reason, have heard the same thing from a lot of people. you can often get a free month of prime if they miss the delivery date and you complain.

do all switch games require two switches if i want to play multiplayer with my kids (like splatoon 2) or does it vary from game to game? are there some that can be played multiplayer with one switch but multiple controllers?

Nearly all Nintendo-published games with multiplayer have local multiplayer; it's a big selling point of the hardware after all. (Ready for local multiplayer anywhere with the joycons!) Splatoon is an exception. But Mario Kart, Mario Party, ARMS, and many indie games have local multiplayer.

yeh there's plenty of local multiplayer games, Mario Kart, Overcooked, Rocket League, Smash of course, Minecraft, Mario Tennis etc. oh and get Snipperclips, that game is awesome.

yeah Splatoon is an exception, i think everything else Nintendo makes has local multiplayer

All local multiplayer fans should get TowerFall btw I just want to reiterate that

ok cool thanks

& almost every local multiplayer game works with a single joycon per player, they even have secret L and R buttons on the rail side that i never realized were there until i tried it

they're less secret when you slide the Joy-Con Grip on

yeah when i bought my switch the wristband things went right into storage and i never really looked at them

You all are really bad at keeping secrets

Splatoon 2 local multiplayer is a bit of a pisser as that is one of the games my son wants.

We've got 2 Switches but looks like we'll also need two copies of the game.

Splatoon is Nintendo's online shooter it doesn't really work as a local multiplayer game as it uses teams of 4

Fair enough. Was sure I'd seen a photo/video of a stock Nintendo family all playing it on the same screen but could be wrong.

mario odyssey and xc2 are in this weekend's eshop sale if that's relevant for anyone

GOD DAMN IT

JUST BOUGHT ODYSSEY

(before the sale)
(from a store)
(and opened it)

I bought XC2 from the Eshop on sale last week, for 40 € I think

i think euro eshop has different sales yeah

maybe someone else has already talked abhout it so i apologize, but: as someone who has never touched a xenoblade game, will i like xc2? who are they for? i sometimes get into jrpgs but it isn't consistent. i might pick this one up but i really have no frame or reference? ditto for octopath traveler, which i remember getting a lot of praise in this thread for the demo, but not as much for the main game? help my ilg, i trust only u

as someone who has never touched a xenoblade game, will i like xc2? who are they for?

weebs, mostly

i loved xenoblade 2 but you definitely need to either enjoy shonen anime nonsense or have a high tolerance for it. beyond that the draw is it's got insanely good environment design and music, a weirdo multi-layered MMO-esque combat system, and a story that's clearly from the same mind as xenogears

octopath traveler is more of a throwback to the snes/psx era sprite-based jrpgs and has more general appeal

octopath traveler is fine, it perfectly serves its intention of slavishly recreating a certain type of gaming experience with some of the worst or most frustrating parts smoothed out but if you arent brain damaged by a childhood of grinding for meaningless quest items in poorly translated jrpgs i dont know how "fun" it would be to play

i love danganronpa and persona so animu bullshit is fine. trying to figure out if i will get into xc2 is tricky tho, the vibe i am getting from watching videos is like... "tales of" or new star oceans or phantasy star online, games that never "stuck" for me. am i way off?

xp i am brain damaged by said things so octo seems ok for me

tales of is a good comparison for the general style of anime writing it is but the combat is way different and the world design is more detailed and alien than tales. xenoblade combat isn't really like anything else in the JRPG space so it's really hard to know if you'd like it before trying it, but FF12 is a bit similar at least on the surface level? you have autoattacks and abilities on cooldowns like in an MMO and then there's elaborate element-based combo chains.

i think lamp's selling octopath short in that its combat system is way more engaging and puzzley than any of the games it's calling back to

Octopath Traveller and XC2 sort of have similar concepts for their combat systems, in that the objective is to do enough of certain moves that do a little damage but make your enemy more vulnerable so that you can then do other moves to do lots of damage at critical moments. In XC2 it's in real-time and substantially more complicated.

Play Xenoblade Chronicles 2 if doing combos to do other combos to do other combos to do the ultimate combo and then starting over sounds like fun to you (it is fun)

(there are literally five layers of combos)

The story of XC2 is bananaballs and the combat is like playing extremely slow Dance Dance Revolution

octopath gets docked a full point though for not giving exp to benched characters in 2018. even dragon quest does this now!

goty candidate yoku's island express is also half off in the eshop sale

Oooh sold.

SMASH IS GOOD. REAL GOOD.

stardew multiplayer patch is out later this week

!

Apparently Doom just got another big patch. You've got to respect Panic Button for applying new porting techniques this long after the fact. Most people (myself included) were pretty satisfied with the last big patch, so the fact that the group is apparently still making tweaks and improvements no one was really asking for is laudable. Anyway, after I beat Dark Souls I still need to finish Doom, but I guess I have to relearn the controls first.

i started the octopath demo, and i picked the hunter. everyone talks so embarrassingly. like they ran regular english through an "ye-olde-ify!" bot or something. Is it like this for every path or does the hunting village just talk weird? I hate to say this might be a dealbreaker but jesus it's annoying and bad to read

haha Dragon Quest Builders is like that too but I find it endearing, also if I wanted to read very much I wouldn't be playing a video game but I dunno

After you get out of Haannit’s chapter 1, everybody else talks normal, without archaic verb endings

yeah the hunter and her starting town are the only ppl in the game that talk like that

dunno if the Japanese script had some comparable archaic language there or if it's just an invention of Nintendo's loc team

i have no idea but like i am 99% sure these words did not have these suffixes in ye oldene daysen

good to know it's only there though. it's also hilariously inconsistent, there were like 10 lines in one conversation where they just dropped the oldey-talk and then just... picked it up again

so yeah, this localization is very nostalgic for an older time, is what i am sayin

gris looks sick

Seriously. I want to know if it's any good, but I wonder if looking gorgeous is enough.

Rain World looks great, too!

I backed that on kickstarter iirc but never played b/c playing games on PC is the pits so I'll pay again for it now, a friend of mine loves that game, to the tune of like 100 hrs