The Nintendo Switch

get gud scrubs. and listen to your mother

oh man i opened the worm can that is smash bros for my kid and i kind of regret it because talk of it - including topics like which other characters should be included, how awesome today's favorite character's smash move is, how even awesomer it is that wario farts and chews on you, how terrible olimar is, and spin off games based on it - permeates basically everything now

also a whole lot of wii fit trainer jokes

Smash his also taken over my nephew’s life. He was only 9

He especially likes to make me download $5.99 smash DLC so he can play me as some new character, before promptly never playing as that character ever again. Smash + premium DLC is diabolical on Nintendo’s part

tragic when smash afflicts one so young

The first class action settlement that offers Nintendo nation the free smash DLC + complementary replacement joycons we deserve??

fighting games making more characters as paid dlc post-release is pretty standard. but unlike every other game, smash has blasted past the point of "okay i don't really need the 26th character when i already have 25" and into "there's such a hilariously large number of characters that it would be a shame if i didn't have them all"

We had about 6 months spent on which of the latest DLC characters were "OP." And what had been "Nerfed." Yes, I'm old.

I eventually learned that toon Link is best for me. neutral special has full board range. Good down special w/ timed bombs. The up special is very easy to use for attacking above and for recovery. the moveset is also natural for the character with no strange reloading dynamic (olimar, splatoon, etc).

however, I think the various children and nephews of the board would feel Toon Link has "a low ceiling". I've watched pros play in tournaments on youtube, and I can't even really wrap my head around the way they play. Duck Hunt is an especially baffling juggling of TNT barrels and projected cowboys.

i regret to inform you all that the dlc characters are all better and more fun than the regular characters.

except byleth. fuck byleth.

I liked Toon Link as well. Never could find a decent main that felt right in Smash though

Love FE3H so maybe I'll get into Byleth... might finally pull the trigger on the character pass DLCs when it's all released

first impression of mario golf is that the speed golf mode is actually less fun than regular golf in 1p (and most of the story mode uses it instead of regular golf). if you have any mario golf experience at all then time isn't a factor so it's functionally the same as regular golf except you have to spend time running to your ball which becomes a drag quickly. also you don't get to see your cool shots like if you get a hole in one it just kinda happens offscreen while you're running towards the green. same as real life i guess lol.

not a total dealbreaker but disappointing

the speed golf is kinda silly but battle golf and XC golf make up for it imo, XC golf in particular. plotting out the most efficient hole-to-hole route just to have it immediately torpedoed by cloud dudes or whatever is pretty good.

Did you play multiplayer speed golf? I kind of assumed that was the intended market (like smash) for that

no and i'd believe it works better there especially since i think there's a scoring method that actually rewards speed but in adventure mode it doesn't really have a purpose other than to make you run everywehre

Ah, ok, good to know! hmmmmmm

Picked it up on Saturday morning.

Local multiplayer with motion controls is where the game will pay for itself. It has all the classic ingredients. Competitive and silly, fun and easy enough to pick up and start swinging but with enough depth to allow for micro-adjustments and fine tuning your swing, plenty of potential for getting it calamitously wrong at the most dramatic moment.

Ideal for a lengthy weed smoking sesh with friends, as is so often the case with local multiplayer Nintendo. The battle golf is really good chaotic fun.

Do feel shortchanged on the number of courses though and haven’t got much faith they will remedy that with DLC. Same issue with the most recent mario party. I gather they are about to drop a new MP with some classic N64 party boards but it’s still just remastered old content for which they are charging full whack

It’s Nintendo, so.

new variant with oled screen, same internals though

Meet the newest entry to the #NintendoSwitch family! Nintendo Switch (OLED model) brings the versatility of the Nintendo Switch experience with a vibrant 7-inch OLED screen, a wide adjustable stand, and more. Nintendo Switch (OLED model) releases on 10/8.https://t.co/zRpGxakJDn pic.twitter.com/Tsc55r35ay

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) July 6, 2021

Interesting. I never ever play undocked though, because joycons are terrible.

is it pro tho

it's professionally made

nice

Hot tbh

the big rumor was it would have 4k in docked mode but it does not, and in fact there is no upgrade to the chips and so forth at all, therefor is teh fail

Switch Max not for me either.

chips are unavailable to even nintendo

xp no joycons for me, ever, from now on. unless they want to drop the price to $19

Fab capacity being meted out like senior and junior water rights

Tempted to bite just because the battery would be the upgraded one from 2019, over the launch version. And the OLED screen does sound nice.

Unless the nicer bigger screen means more power being drawn which means even with the 2019 battery you end up no better off than you were with the original model? I can't remember the specifics with OLED tech though, possible it's actually more efficient rather than less.

Anyone tried skyward sword yet?

Playing it now. It's fun! Even though the tutorial stuff is interminable - my son got frustrated with the sheer amount of reading and exposition - I've read this has been toned down from the original which is a bit o_O.

Overall so far it's very much a classic Zelda with added 3D and motion controls. You can absolutely see the seeds of BOTW in it (in sometimes frustrating ways, like it has a paraglider only you can't steer, just descend straight down, and the early shields are appalingly fragile) but it's not BOTW. The main thing is it only gestures at being open world – you definitely have to some locations and tasks in a particular order.

It’s famous for being the most linear of all the zeldas. So much so that I could see it being a major wake up call to reset and make true open world work in the spirit of the original, resulting in BOTW

here we go again

Tune in 9/23 at 3 p.m. PT for a #NintendoDirect livestream featuring roughly 40 minutes of information focused mainly on #NintendoSwitch games launching this winter. pic.twitter.com/feHBEKfHPG

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) September 22, 2021

please lord i know i havent been good but a breath of the wild 2 release sometime in the next six months seems like not too much to ask

as always i want to see monolithsoft's next game where is it nintendo

other than that i have no clue, i think every active nintendo franchise is on the switch now, or has an approaching release date in metroid's case. bayonetta 3 is still mia but i dont care about that. show me something new

It's been so long since I played my Switch I literally forgot what I had bought for it. But if/when I beat Sekiro I think I'll finally try Hades!

I did briefly consider the new Wario Ware game, since iirc one of my kids liked a previous version, but if ever there was a game I will not pay $50 for it's that one.

they're expensive, the games

then again you probably regularly spend more than that on a much shorter experience that ends up in the toilet

I don’t know, I still shit for free and I’m too old to change

i get paid to shit

#paymentforpostbodymatter

i want to sell my switch but all my games are downloads and i have 3 broken joy-cons, all of them the left one, the one with the analog stick i have to press all the time to win

*press analog stick to win game*

*zach presses stick and loses $30-50 again*

what game even uses the stick button i havent played one in ages that did

let me tell you, i'd be super monkey ballin on Oct 1 if the dang stick worked

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