Nintendo Switch Thread

[Cindi Mayweather]

Did the shrine at kakariko so I finally got a tutorial on evading/parry and I was doing parry wrong the whole time. Time to try out some Guardians.

[EchoRin]

I still suck at parrying. Good luck 

[Sho Nuff]

I'll take "Things found at Goodwill for $1.99 in 2023," Alex

[Cindi Mayweather]

Jesus the English voice acting is awful. Impa just narrated as if reading a script. I had it in Japanese before and wanted to try English. Good God. Thankfully there’s barely any voice acting.

[Fifstar]

I like how all the posts mentioning the fitness peripheral thing don’t mention that Nintendo didn’t even bring it up during direct, showing they now have learned how to cater to their core audience and their casual audience. They can coexist. Except now they aren’t marketing it to hardcore. This is a good thing and step up.

Yup. Wii ERA Nintendo would have teased us with a direct and then spend the direct drumming up some casual shit. Now it's just a side project which they don't try to shove down the gamers throats.

[james]

I like the splatoon joycons and have a splatoon pro controller as well. 

Thank god this shithole forum has at least one poster of culture

[Cindi Mayweather]

Just took out a guardian on first try thanks to parry. Didn’t think it’d one hit kill. Pretty easy.

[james]

The only colors that matter

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Luckily the Cum Squidz 2 bundle in Europe didn't have the Epstein color scheme 

I should have gotten black joycon like an adult. Or rather, as an adult that isn’t attracted to children.

Heh. I went with the standard color red/blue. Figured it would make it easier to identify which one is left and right in a finger snap via color.

By the way. Not to prod too much about your BotW journey, but since you are at the beginning, are you finding some of the enemy encounters challenging along with your weapons breaking? I didn't think it was a big deal. A little bit like being pushed into the deep end, but I didn't feel like it was some ___ Souls moment where you feel completely overwhelmed at the humble beginnings.

The first time I fought a Lynel was definitely a 'now what' moment.
Some other encounters too. At that point I didn't really need to 'perfect dodge' before.

And I played it on Wii U, which was the more 'epic' version at 20fps

Oh for sure. Especially that Lynel that

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you have to take down in Zora Domain, which was the first Lynel I saw.

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. In the end I had to back off and take on it later in the game. Not sure if Cindi has encountered that enemy though. Maybe we should spoiler tag that stuff?

I also played on the Wii U. Thought it ran totally fine for the vast majority of the game. Didn't the Switch version have some hickup or some minor graphics issue at launch instead?

There is no reason to engage with that Lynel. All you need to do is sneak around and collect the arrows, as the damn people in the story tell you to do.

[EchoRin]

I did after trying many times to take him down. Was trying to bite off much more than I could chew before throwing up my hands and only getting the arrows.
Though I'm pretty sure he was still the first one I downed eventually.

[demi]

imagine not being able to kill the lynel the first time. how bad are you at videogames

[Cindi Mayweather]

Joe and Mac 2 is utter balls and should have been left to history.

[Cerveza mas fina]

This astral chains story 

Such weaboo

"This is where dad came to feed cats"

Zzzz

[CatsCatsCats]

He fed the cats cum? That is pretty weeaboo

[Occam]

Joe and Mac 2 is utter balls and should have been left to history.

Emulation is free, you know, you can try before you pay money for those glorified long term rentals.

[Chooky]

The only colors that matter

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Eva joycons

imagine not being able to kill the lynel the first time. how bad are you at videogames

i played master mode my first playthru because im a true gamer. get on my level you fucking cowards

[CatsCatsCats]

Joe and Mac 2 is utter balls and should have been left to history.

Emulation is free, you know, you can try before you pay money for those glorified long term rentals.

It’s free with Nintendo online, dummy

[Cindi Mayweather]

Joe and Mac 2 is utter balls and should have been left to history.

Emulation is free, you know, you can try before you pay money for those glorified long term rentals.

Shut the fuck up. No one gives a shit.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Still game def has something, kind of feels like a Sega game.

Im enjoying it.

Im just like on the 4th case so fare.

[Cerveza mas fina]

There is such dumb things in this game though like cleaning your Legion. Like you need to manually shoot at dirty spots 

[Trent Dole]

He fed the cats cum? That is pretty weeaboo

[Joe Molotov]

There is such dumb things in this game though like cleaning your Legion. Like you need to manually shoot at dirty spots 

Or you could not, since it literally does nothing. 

[HardcoreRetro]

What about my sense of pride in taking good care of my Legion.

[nachobro]

eMULaTioN is FREe, yOU KnOW

shaddup clown

[HardcoreRetro]

Don't sleep on it, y'all.

I'd break the damn game if I tried doing that with my fat ass. Superfluous information.

[Occam]

Joe and Mac 2 is utter balls and should have been left to history.

Emulation is free, you know, you can try before you pay money for those glorified long term rentals.

It’s free with Nintendo online, dummy

Not giving money to Nintendo for their sub-par online service/paywall, so I had no idea. So how long do you keep those games?

[james]

Joe and Mac 2 is utter balls and should have been left to history.

Emulation is free, you know, you can try before you pay money for those glorified long term rentals.

It’s free with Nintendo online, dummy

Not giving money to Nintendo for their sub-par online service/paywall, so I had no idea. So how long do you keep those games?

They are yours as long as you want them

[Trent Dole]

They don't go away when/if your subscription ends?

[nachobro]

i no longer want yoshi's island. can i trade it in for a good game?

They don't go away when/if your subscription ends?

they do but i'm not too concerned. i got two years on it still cause i got a free year from twitch prime

[CatsCatsCats]

You can’t diss YI like that

[nachobro]

IT SUCKS




GIMME SMRPG GODDAMNIT

[CatsCatsCats]

Well, I also like that game

[nachobro]

no i mean you personally. send it over pls.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Consider it a Nintendo game rental service, which is what gamers cried about wanting for years but now complain now that they’ve got it jfc

You don't even dl the games. You dl an app - nes or snes - and then pick whatever game you want to play at any moment like Netflix. Fuck.

[Akala]

I haven't checked, the NES and SNES you still have to be online to play? Or just when first launching?

[kingv]

I believe it’s neither. I have played it on a plane in airplane mode.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I wasn’t too impressed with Zelda Skyrim but it’s not a series that has ever tickled my nerd pickle. I do appreciate that they were moving on from the OOT formula, vociferous laudations aside, because the formula was about 20 years old when BOTW came out.

i got the black but ended up getting a set of neons cause i liked the way they looked and now the black ones sit on the charger

the neons that come with the console are the reverse color of the neons bought separately iirc so lmk if you want to trade. then i can have an all red or all blue one.

I ditched all the joycons. Pro Controller supremacy

[nachobro]

my wife and her siblings love mario party and that's single joycon only so we had to get four

[Human Snorenado]

my wife and her siblings love mario party and that's single joycon only so we had to get four

Or... and just work with me here... you could get a new wife.

[CatsCatsCats]

No u, mario party is lit

[nachobro]

too much work, joycons much easier

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Your wife is pretty easy too

[CatsCatsCats]

Only if you know the cheat codes

[Cindi Mayweather]

I wasn’t too impressed with Zelda Skyrim but it’s not a series that has ever tickled my nerd pickle. I do appreciate that they were moving on from the OOT formula, vociferous laudations aside, because the formula was about 20 years old when BOTW came out.

i got the black but ended up getting a set of neons cause i liked the way they looked and now the black ones sit on the charger

the neons that come with the console are the reverse color of the neons bought separately iirc so lmk if you want to trade. then i can have an all red or all blue one.

I ditched all the joycons. Pro Controller supremacy

Actually, OoT is the LTTP formula. So it was well over 20 years.

30 if you consider LTTP just an evolutionary step on what the original Zelda already did like I do.

[CatsCatsCats]

What was y’alls first Zelda? Links Awakening here, then LttP after I met a kid at elementary who was also into games and he told me about it

Wait false, we had Zelda 2 on nes. For years that was Zelda to me — you know that noise when you run into an enemy in the overworld? For some reason I had decided it was saying broooooooown.

[Cindi Mayweather]

What was y’alls first Zelda? Links Awakening here, then LttP after I met a kid at elementary who was also into games and he told me about it

Wait false, we had Zelda 2 on nes. For years that was Zelda to me — you know that noise when you run into an enemy in the overworld? For some reason I had decided it was saying broooooooown.

Zelda 1 then 2. Hated 2. Dream of beating it some day.

[nachobro]

Zelda 1 and then Link's Awakening. Didn't know there was even a Zelda 2 for a while

[CatsCatsCats]

What was y’alls first Zelda? Links Awakening here, then LttP after I met a kid at elementary who was also into games and he told me about it

Wait false, we had Zelda 2 on nes. For years that was Zelda to me — you know that noise when you run into an enemy in the overworld? For some reason I had decided it was saying broooooooown.

Zelda 1 then 2. Hated 2. Dream of beating it some day.

I finally beat the cart (with a dead battery) in my 20s

[bork]

I haven't checked, the NES and SNES you still have to be online to play? Or just when first launching?

I believe it’s neither. I have played it on a plane in airplane mode.

The games are downloaded to your system and they check to verify that you have Nintendo Online active.  IIRC it will re-check to verify every so often so you could be SOL if you don't have an Internet connection available.

[bork]

What was y’alls first Zelda? Links Awakening here, then LttP after I met a kid at elementary who was also into games and he told me about it

Wait false, we had Zelda 2 on nes. For years that was Zelda to me — you know that noise when you run into an enemy in the overworld? For some reason I had decided it was saying broooooooown.

Played a little bit of Zelda and Link's Adventure on NES as a kid, but never really cared for either and we never had the games.  We got A Link To The Past when we got an SNES and I loved that game.  Played and re-played it a ton of times.  Loved the shit out of Link's Awakening, too.  And that's really about it for Zelda for me.  Never played the Seasons games or cared much for the 3D games until BoTW, which I didn't finish- I got kind of "stuck" running around looking for stuff and put it aside.  Will get back to it one day maybe.

The one Zelda I'd like to play is Minish Cap- just never got around to playing it.  Also liked A Link Between Worlds but didn't finish it.  Would love to have that ported to Switch.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Minish cap is a mediocre Zelda game. There’s a reason no one really talks about it over ten years later. My opinion, of course.

[james]

They don't go away when/if your subscription ends?

They are yours as long as you want them

[CatsCatsCats]

I thought it was solid but nothin that sticks out as super good

[Cindi Mayweather]

Thought BOTW was great at first but it’s not clicking anymore. It’s not bad but it’s not grabbing me after the initial hurrah either. So far none of the areas are as fun as the Steppe was when starting out and that’s mostly the fresh new smell.

Mario Odyssey is a far, far better game.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Hm. Spoke too soon. Found a dungeon with tough mini guardian enemies and found 100 rupees and a diamond. Very rewarding given rupee scarcity. The puzzles were also fun as fuck. Now I can sell the diamond and buy shit and hopefully en able to take on stronger enemies. Being so strapped for cash you can’t afford arrows gets tedious. 

[Cerveza mas fina]

I tried nes Zelda and didnt like it

Bought LA and loooved it, maybe the first game I ever finished

[Cerveza mas fina]

BOTW is pretty great.

Its basically a sandboxy open world thats cool to explore and find shrines which are bite size handheld friendly dungeons. Finding shrines and doing them is what makes the game fun.

Only thing they dropped the ball on is that there are only 4 samey dungeons. Think if BOTW had 6-8 unique and big dungeons on top of the sand box overworld and shrines it would have been a top 10 of all time game for me. Now its my third fav Zelda.

[Cindi Mayweather]

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[kingv]

Once I got the timing down for the lasers on guardians, I thought they were pretty easy too.

I think there was like a silver lynel that I never managed to beat.

Cindi, you’d probably like the abandoned island or whatever it’s called. Basically you have to get these orbs that are protected in various spots but they take all of your gear when you get there so it’s a puzzle how you can try to use the environment to beat the challenges.

[Rman]

Any of you guys planning on adding a Switch Lite to your rotation? Thinking of doing this and leaving my OG Switch tethered to the TV.

My only issue is if the Nintendo’s cloud save feature is serviceable. They are already making exceptions with AC and Pokémon (lol at the concern of cloning monsters made of 0’s and 1’s). 

[Cindi Mayweather]

Hm. Starting to dig this more again. Experimenting with cooking and cooked a whole bunch of food and elixirs I found, found me a solid color horse, bought arrows because they're in short supply. I want to buy the armor in Kakariko but I might save it for the next town. I've gotten combat mechanics, parrying down, and just need to understand how the fuck dodge/evasion works. I'm getting better at that, but it's not regular. Like that the game doesn't hold your hand one bit and you have to figure out recipes yourself. There's recipe menus on the walls but you have to actually examine and interact with the world to find them which is the opposite of modern open world design. I think I'm about ready to to go to the next story bit. I like that the game has lots of choice. Like, a choice between heart containers and stamina, or increasing weapon, armor, or shield slots. Lots of choice and options here.

I might buy one more thing of arrows and save the rest for later.

I'm also holding on to stuff like my diamond and ancient gear parts because with the recipe system in this game I'm positive, but not quite certain, that it has lots of crafting.