Nintendo Switch Thread

[Tasty]

watched some of the game on Twitch

Loving all this insight.

[Tasty]

It's pretty fun so far.

Let's Go was fun enough too but I still can't be bothered to beat Misty.

[Great Rumbler]

okay

[I'm a Puppy!]

It's a sad day in the puppy household. For the first time since before heart gold/soul silver a mainline pokemon game was released and we didn't buy it day one. Even the kids are like "eh, I've heard nothing great so far, so let's wait and see."
What a fuck up.

[james]

What are you waiting and seeing?

Has a Pokemon gave ever received post launch support?

[I'm a Puppy!]

What are you waiting and seeing?

Has a Pokemon gave ever received post launch support?

Mainly for impressions from people we trust. If they come back and say "eh, it's actually great!" then we'll get it. If they come back and say "Actually it's as bad as they say it is." Then we'll skip.

[demi]

Last mainline I played was X/Y and it was dookie as fuck

I will still cop though. Hoping for a B2G1 sometime soon so I can get that + luigi + ... something

[Tasty]

What are you waiting and seeing?

Has a Pokemon gave ever received post launch support?

Mythical Pokemon get distributed. Since they axed the GTS (RIP non-random online trading, 2007-2019), paying attention to those are even more important now.

Otherwise they have issued patches to fix bugs. But that's it.

So maybe this exFAT thing gets solved, but I wouldn't expect DLC.

[Tasty]

I lived to see the day where Andy-kun trolls pokemon.

Your bae could never have this much growth

Sorry to disappoint, but I will be there for the midnight launch of Pokemon HOME at least.

They'll never see the Galarian sun (#ThanksGameFreak), but I can't let the 500+ 'mons I've built up over 15 years just rot (or rather fade away when Nintendo flips the lights off on Pokemon Bank.)

[Chooky]

watched some of the game on Twitch

Loving all this insight.

watching someone play the released product vs watching Alex Jones level YouTube screeds and reddit rants

but ok, rage on

[Tasty]

rage on

Gladly, soyboy

[Great Rumbler]

nintendo fans lmao

[bork]

It's pretty fun so far.

40 minute or so into Sword and I nearly soft locked. Crashed 3 times the moment I got the pokedex. Turned off auto saves and was finally able to make progress on the 4th try after reading this sub.

Gotta be honest. This is not a good start.

2 locks/glitches for me.

One completely uncalibrated one of my Joycons from the console and wouldn't reconnect unless I quit the game.

The other just froze the controls and wouldn't respond despot the Switch home UI being fine.

Sounds great.   

[Chooky]

there go those lazy devs again

[james]

Speaking of pokemans, anyone still playing Pokemon go?

I played it extensively for a year but got sick of the same loop on repeat.

Did they add anything to make it more of a game, or is it the same catch pidgeys, wait 6 month, catch the gen 2 version of pidgeys, wait 6 months, catch the gen 3 pidgey etc?

[Cerveza mas fina]

Booted it up, my oldest daughter (almost 5) wanted to try and played 40 min together with me.

First time she ever wanted to play a game more then 2-5 min on the switch.

Nintendo magic 

[james]

Booted it up, my oldest daughter (almost 5) wanted to try and played 40 min together with me.

First time she ever wanted to play a game more then 2-5 min on the switch.

Nintendo magic 

Get her on splatoon

[bork]

https://twitter.com/ZolbieAB/status/1195331904976896001

[bork]

https://twitter.com/zenith_gamer/status/1195281055751626752

Most people seem to be doing OK with the game though.

[bork]

[james]

https://twitter.com/zenith_gamer/status/1195281055751626752

Most people seem to be doing OK with the game though.

Porting Breath of the Wild to the Gamecube was worth it in the end

[EchoRin]

Got my copy of Shield.

Guess I'll turn off auto-save 

[kingv]

It’s still going to sell like 10 million copies, no matter how dog shit it is.

[bork]

It’s still going to sell like 10 million copies, no matter how dog shit it is.

I wonder if it really is "dog shit."  If I check Twitter, it's filled with tons of positive stuff and people enjoying it.  Reddit has the one thread about that save bug where people are bitching.

It already feels like the majority of the GEN 8 HATERZ (I don't even know WTF that means  ) have shut up and bought it as expected.

[Great Rumbler]

It’s still going to sell like 10 million copies, no matter how dog shit it is.

I wonder if it really is "dog shit."

It isn't. Outside of the SD card issue [which may or may not be caused by custom firmware or piracy or whatever] and not having every Pokemon ever [which may or may not be something you even care about], it's perfectly fine. Yeah, there's a glitch here and a hiccup there and whatever, but it's a fun, colorful Pokemon game from what I've played so far.

[CatsCatsCats]

Question: does this game have gyrados?

[Great Rumbler]

Question: does this game have gyrados?

It has magikarp, so I'd assume it does.

[Tuckers Law]

watched some of the game on Twitch

Loving all this insight.

What’s your beef with twitch, Tasty?

[demi]

ITS A FUCKING HOTEL

A british person reviews Pokemon Sword/Shield

A shiny meowth!

[Tasty]

Wait I just realized, this game doesn't even work with Cloud Saves either does it

[Great Rumbler]

Some of the new tracks slap:

[Tasty]

watched some of the game on Twitch

Loving all this insight.

What’s your beef with twitch, Tasty?

They let themselves get bought by Amazon

[Great Rumbler]

Scorbunny is the best. Anyone that says otherwise is a liar and a fraud.

[james]

Oh damn that chick on the left

I may just have to buy this game

[bork]

It's getting user review-bombed.  This is sad now- what's the next game that people are keen to shit on for dumb reasons?

https://twitter.com/AlphaOmegaSin/status/1195425984343879680

[Great Rumbler]

The only thing more useless than media reviews are user reviews.

[james]

If Gamefreak wanted good reveiws they should have made a good game

 

[EchoRin]

AlphaOmegaSin. There is a dude I haven't seen in a long time. 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Scorbunny is the best. Anyone that says otherwise is a liar and a fraud.

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If a game lets you pick a monkey you take the monkey man

[Tasty]

It's getting user review-bombed.  This is sad now- what's the next game that people are keen to shit on for dumb reasons?

Yes, very sad. Poor Pokemon. Poor Nintendo. How will they be able to live down this injustice?

[Joe Molotov]

If Gamefreak wanted good reveiws they should have made a good game

 

[bork]

It's getting user review-bombed.  This is sad now- what's the next game that people are keen to shit on for dumb reasons?

Yes, very sad. Poor Pokemon. Poor Nintendo. How will they be able to live down this injustice?

I'm all for taking 'em to task for real stuff.  That's not really what seems to be popping up on metacritic! 

[bork]

AlphaOmegaSin. There is a dude I haven't seen in a long time. 

He is now a "game journo" for Niche Gamer, lol.

[paprikastaude]

AlphaOmegaSin. There is a dude I haven't seen in a long time. 

He is now a "game journo" for Niche Gamer, lol.

not like real "game journalists" had any different/better education in the field than him

[Great Rumbler]

Scorbunny is the best. Anyone that says otherwise is a liar and a fraud.

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If a game lets you pick a monkey you take the monkey man

Look, you wanna be the contrarian here and not choose the clearly superior 'mon, then fine. But you damn well better pick sobble, because I swear to God if you pick grookey out of the three starters then I will find out where you live, come to your house, and slap the Switch right out of your dirty paws.

[EightBitNate]

I’m scratching my head trying to figure out what this means. It’s one of the first few lines in the game.

[Joe Molotov]

He means that your penis is large.

[Himu]

Hopefully this will get Nintendo to get gamefreak off Pokemon and give it to a different developer. Gamefreak clearly has no ideas or passions left for this series.

[james]

If Gamefreak wanted good reveiws they should have made a good game

 

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I cant tell if this is official art or not but

 

[Fifstar]

Hopefully this will get Nintendo to get gamefreak off Pokemon and give it to a different developer. Gamefreak clearly has no ideas or passions left for this series.

It's unclear if Nintendo can even do this, as Game Freak seems to have large control over the IP.

[EightBitNate]

Hopefully this will get Nintendo to get gamefreak off Pokemon and give it to a different developer. Gamefreak clearly has no ideas or passions left for this series.

They just need to be given more resources. There should be more people working on Pokémon than any other Nintendo game.

[Chooky]

This is sad now- what's the next game that people are keen to shit on for dumb reasons?

when's the last time a big game released where they didn't have to deal with wild overreactions? feels like it happens with every fucking new major title now. gamergate is mainstream now.

[Fifstar]

Hopefully this will get Nintendo to get gamefreak off Pokemon and give it to a different developer. Gamefreak clearly has no ideas or passions left for this series.

They just need to be given more resources. There should be more people working on Pokémon than any other Nintendo game.

This is probably more of a management/dev process culture problem than if resources. They could easily sell 15 million of technically simple games for the last two decades, now they made the jump to hd semi open world. Essentially HD towns are hard, just 10 yes later.

[bork]

[CatsCatsCats]

[Tuckers Law]

watched some of the game on Twitch

Loving all this insight.

What’s your beef with twitch, Tasty?

They let themselves get bought by Amazon

You know what: that’s legitimate beef, and I agree.

[james]

when's the last time a big game released where they didn't have to deal with wild overreactions?

BOTW got pretty universal praise.

Some try-hards tried to make the motion controlled dungeon an issue but they all killed themselves anyway

[EchoRin]

when's the last time a big game released where they didn't have to deal with wild overreactions?

BOTW got pretty universal praise.

Some try-hards tried to make the motion controlled dungeon an issue but they all killed themselves anyway

That shrine was so cool cause you could flip the entire platform upside down and totally cheese that puzzle. Except it wasn't cheesing anything. It was fair game.

What sucks is the blatant removal of the map being on the Wii U controller. I mean it was really obvious. Even the sheikah slate was shaped like the Wii U controller. Ah well.

[james]

when's the last time a big game released where they didn't have to deal with wild overreactions?

BOTW got pretty universal praise.

Some try-hards tried to make the motion controlled dungeon an issue but they all killed themselves anyway

That shrine was so cool cause you could flip the entire platform upside down and totally cheese that puzzle. Except it wasn't cheesing anything. It was fair game.

What sucks is the blatant removal of the map being on the Wii U controller. I mean it was really obvious. Even the sheikah slate was shaped like the Wii U controller. Ah well.

I will never forgive Nintendo for that

Wii U erasure

[Fifstar]

Wii U botw doesn't have the map on the controller. Oh Nintendo....