The Nintendo Switch

josh, tell the truth: did you start playing dead cells just because it sounds like dead souls

a game so difficult, it doesn't exist

i call it dud cells

Honestly I had no idea there was any relationship besides the two titles. But whenever the game came out (last year?) I know it got lots of good reviews and year-end notices, and that it was one of those games that developers kept, well, developing, so it seemed like a potentially good value and added it to my list for when it went on sale. Like I said before, I've never played any of the usual rogue likes, and this one I saw specifically referred to as a roguelike that gets right what a lot of them get wrong, so while I had avoided the ones I mentioned before (Binding of Isaac, Enter the Gungeon, Spelunky; I did buy Death Road to Canada and Darkwood, the former I played once, the latter not yet) this one was intriguing enough to take the plunge. I'd also been looking for the occasional good Switch game to pick up between epic PS4 games, which I can also only play on the TV, which is to say, when the TV is not in use by anyone else.

https://ogn.theonion.com/the-11-best-games-to-play-for-the-nintendo-switch-1843476876/slides/4

hehehehe

would play: https://ogn.theonion.com/the-11-best-games-to-play-for-the-nintendo-switch-1843476876/slides/11

have been playing a lot of 'president' from the clubhouse games pack in btwn work/clients. always my favorite card game, very happy to have an actually deece version you can play super quick rounds of at a whim. to me that's worth the 40 bux right there, and then there are 50 other games??!? thx nintendo!

do most of the Clubhouse games have online play?

not 100% sure about that as I've just been playing against the computer... but judging from the games menus I think they probably all do yeah

SMT3 Nocturne HD OMG

cool, i'd been holding out on playing that via emulator just in case

good to see 5 still actually exists too

Super Mario Turtles 3?

am currently still being blown away by Z: BOTW so i got some catching up to do here

working on a second playthrough and its wild how much quicker/different im doing it just based on knowledge picked up the first time around

Is paper mario good?

It probably doesn't matter. I am in the middle of the world's slowest playthrough of DQXI.

No no I am

Actually probably not since I’ve taken the whole week off and have no plans other than playing DQXI, but I bet I end up taking more hours to finish than everyone else

I just finished up the horse race and a party member finally died in a desert battle. Sometimes, I'll spend a whole session on the forge.

I am still a few levels away from maxing out (at 20) the levels of my party in the DQXI demo - beat that, losers.

is dqxi really light and stupid? i think i might be into it. howlongtobeat.com says main + extras = ~ 87½ Hours

i started playing witcher 3 in march. i'm still not done, and i'm not being a completionist. i'm at 178 hours, and there are hours and hours left of DLC left. i didn't even play fucking gwent.

i need a follow-up that's big and absorbing, but not filled with ~ evil ~ and horrible load times.

ps i have never played dragon quest

if youre looking at the switch version there's a demo that includes the first several hours of the game and your progress carries over if you buy the real thing

this looks potentially good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ2FD-UBIns

for some reason they showed it on the Japanese direct but not the North American one. action-platform-farmer-rpg!

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-hid-todays-best-looking-switch-game-in-the-jap-1844443255

one of the major upsides of digital distribution is that getting games that would never show up in america hinges primarily on localization costs... maybe we get that in 2021?

oh shit it IS coming out here and oh MORE shit it's xseed! yeah, that looks like a purchase to me.

yeah, it's odd they didn't include it in the NA direct because it's getting released here first!

that game's been in development for a while, i played a demo of it at pax last year. its nice

Is paper mario good?

― a morley steve vai bad horsie what? (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, July 20, 2020 11:30 AM

I’ve been wondering this myself. The battle system could be really clever if done right but I fear it’s just some dumb bullshit. I think a bad Paper Mario game would really bum me out.

However according to most Paper Mario fans it seems there hasn’t been a good entry since the GameCube one.

That's what I've been hearing as well. Still if this gets enough positive notice I'll give it a try. Hearing more mixed reactions though

tbh i haven't played one since the N64

The GameCube entry was great, if you have a means to play it

the first two paper mario games are proper JRPGs with levels, itemization, party members, etc, then they decided to step down all the RPG elements and turn them into adventure games, with mixed results. this is the fourth one of the latter type and it sounds like it might be the best but it's still not gonna satisfy people who want the full-on RPG stuff

Anyone pick up "Carrion?" Game looks pretty cool, and probably ideal for Switch (which isn't getting much use from me these days, tbh).

my Switch is now a dedicated Tetris 99 device

Carrion looks super dope. Will get around to buying it someday

carrion looks a bit like Shadow Complex, which I loved

Yeah Carrion's on my "wait for a sale" list

just played a little carrion and it seems pretty fun. moving around feels good and the the sound design is gross. chewing up dudes is satisfying but hopefully it's only a couple hours long as idk if i want to do like 10 hours of it.

also loaded up panzer paladin, also fun with terrific visuals and music.

pikmin 3 deluxe coming in october

sounds good to me

i've never played any pikmin game, so i'm pretty excited

they are great fun

I never played this before, either, but ... $60 for an 8-year old Wii-U game? That until this announcement was apparently priced at $20 on the Wii-U shop? I can't pretend to understand Nintendo, but I think it's kinda sad that there are handful of brand new titles I want to get for my end of life PS4, two of them PS4 exclusives, but it's been months since there's been a first party title I wanted to get for my Switch and nothing concrete to look forward to, either, beyond the long teased promise of Metroid 4 and a BotW sequel.

Fun fact: while my kids never want to play Smash Bros., when we did they would often make me play as the Pikmin guy as a sort of handicap.

the price of street fighter 2 turbo was $69.99 (or $79.99?) in mid-90s dollars

At least Nintendo has been consistent, then. Maybe Pikmin 3 is underpriced. Do I hear $80? $100?

Seriously, though, if a game like Red Dead Redemption 2, which was reportedly made for between $80 and $100 million, can be sold for $30 (even if on sale) two years after release, then Nintendo can do better than $60 for a spiffed-up port of an 8-year old game. For that matter, it's not like Nintendo titles get much in the way of sales or discounts, either. But hey, I'm not going to buy it, so no worries, Nintendo. You do you.

earthbound was like $80 in 1995 yeah. part of why it flopped. the $60 standard didnt really get established until the late 90s

Anyway, it's really not a matter of what things cost 20 years ago, isn't a better comparison what competitors charge today?

who are the competitors for pikmin?