The Nintendo Switch

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.

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

i think it just adds a bunch more Stuff to the game, i don't want to look up the details either. i don't think it'll fundamentally change how you feel about the game

I want a 2D Mario game and I'm probably not good enough to play weird Mario Maker levels, so I guess I'm buying New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

New: Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

New Super Mario Bros.: U Deluxe

New: Super Mario Bros. U: Deluxe

have you played Celeste

I have played nothing

it looks hard. imagine you're recommending games for an easily frustrated eleven-year-old.

cuphead (jk)

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

― ciderpress, Monday, December 16, 2019 7:48 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is smart. What if you got a physical copy and want to free up space on the system but want to pick and choose what save files you hang onto?

you can delete them on a game by game basis, there's a menu for it in settings -> data management

lukas Celeste has a granular Assist Mode that lets you tweak the difficulty to your preferences if you get frustrated, and it's also the best Mario game imo

Cuphead is a million times harder than Celeste imo

Honestly, in a way, Stardew Valley was harder for me than Celeste. Once I started going in the mines that shit got stressful for me.

i need to update my $20-and-under eshop recommendation list now that a zillion more games have been ported

hopefully they port disco elysium!

you can delete them on a game by game basis, there's a menu for it in settings -> data management

― ciderpress, Tuesday, December 17, 2019 1:50 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Maybe I'm missing something (probably) but if this is meant to be a rebuttal I can't figure out how.

You win, getting Celeste ty

celeste is fantastic. ILG game of the year iirc.

celeste is indeed excellent but it's more of a SMB (super meat boy) spiritual sequel than SMB (super mario bros)

SMB can be played by your mother who doesn't know that you can hold Y to run and only uses the spin jump button--SMB cannot

oh i thought it was a real question and not a rhetorical one

Oh, yeah. I thought you were originally complaining that it was dumb the switch wouldn't automatically dump the save files when you uninstall the corresponding game.

And looking back that is where I misread the conversation.

lukas if you want great platformers you should play VVVVVV and super meat boy too. donkey kong tropical freeze too.

no, the way they handle it is good. the only bad gotcha with save data is you can't back it up to a sd card but i guess they're paranoid about people using that as a hacking entry point

Celeste is like Super Meat Boy but it's *also* like Super Mario Bros 3! And it's even a little bit like Undertale maybe? There's a lot there.

Very minor point, but I love the menus. They have the polish of like Gran Turismo or something.

holiday eshop sale is up i think

gonna take a flyer on saga scarlet grace

nothing in the sale I really want, spent too much during the BF one so kinda relieved ha

Anyone play Heave Ho?

may pick up river city girls and hyper light drifter in the sale

worth the cop ?

so river city girls is good?

i haven't played it yet despite buying it at release. i think the consensus was that it's fine?