Nintendo Switch Thread

[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.

[Spieler1]

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.

[Cindi Mayweather]

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....

[Trent Dole]

Pokemon is going to sell insanely well no matter how mad internet babbys get. Sword and Shield may well end up being the best selling games in the main franchise.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Millions of people still line up to play the latest buggy and bloated Bethesda game. People don’t care as much about bugs and poor performance as we think.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Millions of people still line up to play the latest buggy and bloated Bethesda game. People don’t care as much about bugs and poor performance as we think.

Bethesda can't write and also make bad rpgs. People still bought Fallout 76 despite it being proven Beth is inferior to making Fallout to Obsidian.

People care far less for quality than we think as well.

They'll be back for the next Bloathesda game because gamers are consumer whores.

[james]

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

It was removed so switch babies wouldn't get their feelings hurt

[demi]

I finished Little Town Story last night. The gameplay doesn't change at all for the entire thing. Really basic game. Kind of cool in that "card game" aspect but the enemies (there are no generic enemies, its all boss battles) would usually pull some bullshit, or you would get some bad dice rolls.

I wouldn't recommend it

[I'm a Puppy!]

I finished Little Town Story last night. The gameplay doesn't change at all for the entire thing. Really basic game. Kind of cool in that "card game" aspect but the enemies (there are no generic enemies, its all boss battles) would usually pull some bullshit, or you would get some bad dice rolls.

I wouldn't recommend it

You're the only person out of like 5 friends that have gotten the game that has actually finished it. All the rest gave up about halfway in.

[demi]

I'm the best, what can I say

Anyway Walmart didn't have Luigi (!) so I picked up Pokemon instead

[EchoRin]

I'm about to open my Pokemayns. Let you know if it's some awful travesty against humankind in a few hours. Peace

[Tasty]

#GameFreakLied story is on the front of CNN Business

Game Freak and Nintendo did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNN.

When the best defenses of your supposed holiday heavyweight are "I've seen some of the game on Twitch, it looks okay" and "My kid loves it," you know you have problems.

At the very least maybe we'll see The Pokemon Company ease up on the gas a bit going forward, there's no goddamn reason this should be a yearly series like Madden.

[Trent Dole]

It looks like a game with a handheld budget that's been released on a mainline console. I guess you could make that argument for Link's Awakening a bit too since it is a port of a old handheld game and has some weird frame rate issues in spots. So Nintendo's vision of a hybrid console software library is spending alternating years on making things that would be for a home machine and the others for a portable? Since the handheld only version of the Switch hit this year I guess it makes sense for this to be the focus, and as a bonus for them all these 'handheld' games go for $50-60 this time instead of $20-30.

[EchoRin]

20-30?  Try $40 for Pokemon games going back to the DS at least.

I have a little over 2 hours in Shield. Reaclimating after not playing the past 3 mainline games is it? Black was my last one. So far it's... fine. Like yeah the presentation is quite simple. None of that really means much to me. I just made my way to the first "wild area". Essentially the land between cities towns in Twilight Princess is how I would describe the feeling. Yeah it's just a big expanse of not much other than it being a massive nest for Pokemon. I have my Switch on Airplane Mode so I'm not doing any online stuff. And I don't have an actual subscription to Nintendo's online service currently. Really, there isn't anything too much to say at this point as I haven't experienced the true repetition yet of going from town to town, gym to gym, wild area to wild area (not to be confused with tall grass areas which are on routes). So I think we'll see how I'm feeling after I have say 3 badges. But as it is for now, if I never payed any attention to those stupid twitter hashtags I wouldn't have ever guessed there was a freak out so far.

My main question is, can you trade Pokemon with people directly through Switch to Switch? Or does it have to be online? My Pokemon Switch friends all live in another city.

As for me, I am playing as a super kawaii girl and I went with the water type starter. I always do my first playthrough with the water type.

Edit: Oh and the music that plays in the area right next to your house (past the gate that the sheep tackles down. Not a spoiler, by the way) is awesome. Some animu greatness type of tune.

[Tasty]

Pop-in is a huge issue, rendering range is extremely limited and almost comical

576p

Switching into battles momentarely drops the framerate in the 20s

[Great Rumbler]

Edit: Oh and the music that plays in the area right next to your house (past the gate that the sheep tackles down. Not a spoiler, by the way) is awesome. Some animu greatness type of tune.

 

[kingv]

Pop-in is a huge issue, rendering range is extremely limited and almost comical

576p

Switching into battles momentarely drops the framerate in the 20s

So it’s fucking good?

[Cerveza mas fina]

Yeah the game looks basic, but it looks good where it counts: the models.

[bluemax]

It looks like a game with a handheld budget that's been released on a mainline console. I guess you could make that argument for Link's Awakening a bit too since it is a port of a old handheld game and has some weird frame rate issues in spots. So Nintendo's vision of a hybrid console software library is spending alternating years on making things that would be for a home machine and the others for a portable? Since the handheld only version of the Switch hit this year I guess it makes sense for this to be the focus, and as a bonus for them all these 'handheld' games go for $50-60 this time instead of $20-30.

Link's Awakening is a ground up remake. Man, do people not understand the difference between a remake and a port?

[Nintex]

You watch that thinking: "Well it could be worse" and they show a glimpse of a Zelda game originally developed for Wii U 
The towns look pretty nice though, but the game could've really used another 6 - 12 month of development time.

[Tasty]

Yeah the game looks basic, but it looks good where it counts: the models.

You got the same quality models but more of them for $20 less on 3DS. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Cerveza mas fina]

Yeah the game looks basic, but it looks good where it counts: the models.

You got the same quality models but more of them for $20 less on 3DS. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yeah but 3DS sucks

I mean why do I care about an old 3DS game, I don't have a 3DS.

[Tasty]

So does paying more for less.

[Cerveza mas fina]

But you aren't, its a whole different game.

Can you play Sword/Shield on 3DS?

[Cerveza mas fina]

Btw tasty this is exactly how I imagined Pokemon games to be watching from the sidelines for 20 years.

The game is technically behind the times, just as much as the series has been forever.

[Tasty]

But you aren't, its a whole different game.

It's a lesser game. It offers less than what came before.

If you're a baby to the series, obviously Sword and Shield are going to feel cool and fresh.

[Cindi Mayweather]

I've turned on Shenmue and Tasty has turned on Pokemon.

We all die in 2020.

[Cerveza mas fina]

You're forgetting I sold my PS4.

Unholy trinity.

[Nintex]

If this was Pokemon on GameBoy Ultimate or Nintendo 4DS it wouldn't be looked down as much.
Some of Nintendo's teams moved on but GameFreak is still lagging behind.

I can sorta see this becoming a problem with other primarily handheld teams at Nintendo as well.
Intelligent Systems tackled this early by enlisting the help of Tecmo Koei.
Alpha Dream filed for bankruptcy (  ) but something like, I dunno... Golden Sun Switch from Camelot, would probably suffer the same fate as Pokemon.

Grezzo struggled with Link's Awakening too but got lucky they were just doing a remake with a specific art style.
HAL Labs only needed to make a mediocre 2.5D platforming game and Good Feel just slashed the resolution.

Maybe Nintendo should just acquire Namco Bandai and/or Tecmo Koei for the development muscle at this point. 

[bork]

I've turned on Shenmue and Tasty has turned on Pokemon.

We all die in 2020.

It's OK guys- Animal Crossing is in 2020.

[Cindi Mayweather]

I've turned on Shenmue and Tasty has turned on Pokemon.

We all die in 2020.

It's OK guys- Animal Crossing is in 2020.

I said we all die in 2020 and you go and prove me correct.

[Cindi Mayweather]

You're forgetting I sold my PS4.

Unholy trinity.

Selling a console? In your 30's? Why?

[Tasty]

It's OK guys- Animal Crossing is in 2020.

I said we all die in 2020 and you go and prove me correct.

s/Leaf/Horizons

[Joe Molotov]

You're forgetting I sold my PS4.

Unholy trinity.

Selling a console? In your 30's? Why?

Gotta do it for your Japanese tradwife, Marie Kondo-san.

[Cerveza mas fina]

You're forgetting I sold my PS4.

Unholy trinity.

Selling a console? In your 30's? Why?

What's 30s got to do with it?  If anything its a time to grow beyond keeping toys around forever for no reason.

Don't see the point of keeping it as a dust magnet. In the end its just going to end up in storage or something. I havent even turned it on in a year or so. This way I got some Eshop credit that I actually used.

[bork]

You're forgetting I sold my PS4.

Unholy trinity.

Selling a console? In your 30's? Why?

What's 30s got to do with it?  If anything its a time to grow beyond keeping toys around forever for no reason.

Don't see the point of keeping it as a dust magnet. In the end its just going to end up in storage or something. I havent even turned it on in a year or so. This way I got some Eshop credit that I actually used.

I can agree with this.  If you're not using it, don't think you're going to use it, and/or aren't into keeping stuff for a collection, who cares?  PS5 is next year anyway.

[nachobro]

i got rid of my ps4 as well. wasn't using it for anything now that pretty much every fighting game is on PC

[Tasty]

https://twitter.com/TylerGlaiel/status/1196145880509734912

Man they just pulled out all the stops for their big holiday release this year.

[Tasty]

Rumbler: "It's probably only people who have jailbroken their Rokus"

[Chooky]

u so mad

[Tasty]

u so mad

Not mad, just disappointed. And also happy I get to keep $60.

There's nothing stopping Gamefreak from making a game I'll buy in the future.

[demi]

I dont think one man could be so triggered

Hopefully this is a wake up call to those weirdo hoarders who have pokemon from 1976 still

[Rahxephon91]

Playing this on the tv reminds me how shitty Nintendo is when it comes to audio.

Not going to pay for voice acting. Fine. But it would be nice if your console supported a audio codec most sound systems can use to decode surround sound.

Nintendo is so cheap.

[Tasty]

I dont think one man could be so triggered

Bitch you post on the Bore, there's been worse meltdowns this week.

Hell this isn't even my final form my worst one here