The Nintendo Switch

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

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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

there's no wishlist option on the eshop?

there is, it's kind of small text and is a text link instead of a button so easily missable

also is really only useful for communicating with yourself, there's no way for anyone to buy a game for you off it.

oh yeah that's all I ever use wishlist for anyway, as a sale tracker

is it in the browser version or just in the console version? i can't find any option like that in the browser version.

oh not sure about the browser version I've only used the console one

in which it's right under the buy button on game pages

hmm ok thanks. hopefully i don't forget these games i'm interested in before i get home.

This site says it tracks deals, i'm gonna try it out and see how it goes. the fact that it's already got a specific canada deals section has me excited (as someone in canada. i assume it also has these for other regions)

hopefully i don't get 500 emails a week

that's useful thanks

tbf i get 500 emails a week from Enterprise even though i only rented a car from them once and i've unsubscribed to their list several dozen times. so some of those emails might as well be about potential Switch deals

I've seen lots of good things about Into the Breach, but I couldn't stand FTL - too fiddly and chore-like - is his any different?

do you like chess?

Impressive pile of Switch games I'm ready to get when they go on sale. Dead Cells, both Guacmelees, Gris ...

I recommend The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild it is a good game

Never heard of it.

it's about metroids and how they survive in the koopa kingdom under evil king pikachu

it's about ethics in gaming journalism

did anybody try moonlighter? seems like it should be fun?
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-05-28-moonlighter-review

I’m waiting for Mineko’s Night Market to play a shopowning RPG

i did try moonlighter. i played for about...5-6 hours. it's a great idea for a game, switching between dungeon crawling and selling loot at the shop, and i'd love to see the next version of it. or another take on it from a different studio. unfortunately i thought the mechanics of both sides of the game were pretty shallow. admittedly i got a little addicted to it when i first played it, because the structure of the game lends itself to a "one more day!" kind of thing. but after i took a break from it for a few days i had no desire to go back again.

it looked like a kinda bland recettear clone so i didn't try it

you guys are helping me save money!

yeah you gotta save up for GOTY 2019 Untitled Goose Game

Love That Goose!

games I hope come to switch in 2019: super mega baseball II; obra dinn; 100 others probably

Kids have a console each. Will it cause problems if I link both consoles to my Nintendo account? Or is it best to set them both up with their own account?

Your account can download games to “secondary” consoles but there’s some arcane set of rules that will occasionally check in and prevent anyone from playing download games from the same account on more than one console at a time. If you want kiddos to have cloud save backups you should get the online family plan and give them each their own online account to attach to their profile. This is probably all better spelled out in an faq somewhere

my household got one of these yesterday. i'm a 42-year-old dad trying to figure out how to beat Boss Harriet in Mario Odyssey with my 6-year-old now.

Kids (10 and 13) got a switch for xmas, they have Mario Odyssey and we downloaded hollow knight, what else is cheap and good that young boys will like pls dont say BOTW I'll just end up playing it again lol

mine got stolen out of my office over my lunch break today u_u