The Nintendo Switch

you are thinking of Kenny Baker

thanks to spyro reignited i am recalling how joyful and engrossing spyro 1 is and how utterly shit 2 and 3 are

I was making a dumb joke, but honestly the first thing that popped into my head was a conflation of Verne Troyer and Kenny Baker.

Haha I just finished Spyro I as part of Spyro Reignited and was looking forward to the others (also, never playing Tree Tops again) :/

tree tops is… an experience

(sorry to tread on existing conversation btw)

tree tops hate is a more important topic than me rambling about JRPGs tbh

ciderpress my body craves your JRPGs of the decade retrospective

might pick up super mega baseball II

xp i have like 8 games left on my to-play list before i issue any such thing, including a few that are getting switch rereleases next year

oh i forgot that super mega baseball was coming to switch, that's a must

my dear friend is drawing a sick as hell comic as she plays Fire Emblem btw (spoilers)

http://spooky.camp/~arielle/threehouses/cover.html

josh, Sekiro will be $25 at Target on BF

Ah! That's a pretty good price! Thanks!

Just looked, might be that cheap at Best Buy, too!

That's a lovely comic your friend's writing, silby!

creating, sorry.

any other hidden gem picks from the sale ?

lots of stuff on sale right now. i got captain toad treasure tracker for my younger kid (not downloading it until xmas) and i'm thinking about super mega baseball 2 for me. what are you getting on sale?

nabbed SMB2 - it's aces

$15 for cuphead might do it for me.

man i love the cuphead aesthetic but i have no patience/time for "hard" games at all. same reason i'll probably never get around to hollow knight.

i was thinking about overland too but reading more about it made it sound not so fun

man i love the cuphead aesthetic but i have no patience/time for "hard" games at all. same reason i'll probably never get around to hollow knight.

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ditto -- i think gave up on hollow knight after like 30min

nothing crazy but happy to pick up Bomberman for 10 bux and rocket league for 10 bux

Getting new soup bros amd probably skyrim finally

man, cuphead is fun!

Love Cuphead, the design makes the defeat go down easy.

Hollow Knight isn't that hard - admittedly I got stuck on the 2nd boss for six months. But for the price, there's tons to play before it gets prohibitively difficult (I never finish games anyway)

I did give up on Dead Souls though

The Gogol book, and also the game Dark Souls

yeah, me too

u should go back to the gogol tho it's great

You should go back to Dark Souls *and* Hollow Knight, which are both difficult in much the same way, but which both become really, really satisfying the better you get at them. At least until "Hollow Knight" goes all platform hell on you (which comes after you finish the main part of the game).

Only Switch game on sale I picked up was "Darkwood," which looked cool (despite mixed reviews?) and only set me back $10.

Civ 5 is cheap. Anyone tried it?

not on the switch but ~61 hours on steam where i remember it being a good (but not groundbreaking) entry in the series

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?

Well, instead I decided to grab Turok 2 for $7. Time to blast some dino-soids!

pretty sure lots of things happening to me in new mario bros aren't fair. is there a hotline i can call?

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*

thanks, i will make my feelings about the non-cheep-cheep auto-scroll levels and the spinning star platforms known

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

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

new SNES & NES games being added next week, all good picks imo
SNES - Star Fox 2, Super Punch Out, Kirby Super Star, Breath of Fire II
NES – Journey To Silius, Crystalis

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.

salute on those retro picks!

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.

Also lol 10 dollars doesn’t mean anything but it’s weird how that will be a dealbreaker for buying a video game sometimes.

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.

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.