The Nintendo Switch

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.

indie direct tomorrow wooooo
https://indieworld.nintendo.com/showcase/

This Gleamlight game...the first of the Hollow Knight clones?

Supermash looks intriguing, it'll be interesting to see how well they pull off that concept

aw yeah SkateBird

aw yeah Boyfriend Dungeon

only interested in golf story 2: sports story and the picross murder mystery game

supermash reminds me of the board game "504" which was interesting conceptually but close to 0 of the 504 games it could create were actually fun to play

No news on Silksong?

lol speaking of which, I just saw that clip of Gleamlight, and boy, what a shameless looking mimic of Hollow Knight ...

yeh murder by numbers looks good!

Picross murder mystery game? sold.

same

what is the name of the picross murder mystery?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx3VGqyJ6uc

I am totally down for "You found: Strangulation marks!"

lol, so nintendo

celeste on switch us for ten bucks if anyone's not tried it yet
Skyrim and Doom are $30
Octopath $36

Celeste for $10 is a steal, considering it should've cost $60 to begin with

yeah i'll be grabbing that one

anyone played Skyrim on switch? I've never played it before, but I'd like to fill the BOTW hole in my heart and that looks serviceable

it's nothing like botw other than having a big map but the switch version is a good port if that's what you're asking

yeah mostly concerned with "does it look nice?"

it looks like skyrim - much gloomier and greyer world than botw but it has its nice bits

bravely default 2 hell yeah

well that's a confusing title

apparently bravely second was bravely default 1-2 in final fantasy parlance

square gonna square I guess lol
not a fan of the character models they showed but I love the series (does 4 Heroes Of Light count?) so I'll buy it anyway

okay my family got me a Switch Lite for Christmas as requested

but no games

I'm headed out of town tomorrow, a little under the gun ... so I guess I'm just going to install BOTW on internal storage overnight?

internal storage is big enough for it if that's what you're asking. maybe grab some smaller stuff too or if you're at all planning to sub to the online service you could do it now and grab the nes & snes games

the eshop xmas sale starts on the 19th too, maybe wait to see what that is like? the EU tweet says "up to 80% off, over 700 games" but no indication if any first party stuff is going to be included

I guess I was asking if there were any hidden gotchas, like "once you install on internal storage you can never remove it or you'll lose your saves" or something like it. I guess it's 2019 and Nintendo isn't dumb.

Anyway thanks!

I guess it's 2019 and Nintendo isn't dumb.

they're still at least 40% dumb

Most of the most popular things in history have always been within the margin of error of being 40% dumb

you have to go out of your way to delete saves even if you uninstall the game

the big new stardew patch is out on switch apparently, tempted to spin up a new game of that

So annoying that you can't copy a cartridge to the internal storage. I understand why, but it still sucks.