Gaming Smack My Switch Up: The Nintendo Switch Discussion Thread (was: NX)

Pft I had an NES in 1988. Suck it fictional kids!!

 

Frankly, I'm lucky that my first console was an N64.

I say "lucky" because it gives me bragging rights.

 

I want to buy a new game today. It might be 3 emblems, but I'm open to other options. The general idea is that I'd like a fantasy rpg as usual since it's my favorite genre. The Zelda variant is also an option, but I probably better wait for BOTW2

 

RPG you say? Phantasy Star is on sale for £2.57

 

If you like turn-based RPGs there are some pretty good options on sale at the moment like Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Dragon Quest XI.

Yeah but that's a fairly miserable 1980s first person dungeon crawler.

 

Also a rather fast dungeon crawler by today's standards!

 

I am unsure about turn based but I have already played the two main live action for switch, Witcher and Zelda.
I'm not hooked by Xenoblade chronicles. So I thought that either I go for skyrim or Zelda skyword, or I'll better try tirn based.

Skyrim... meh it's probably awesome but I'm not used to first person.

 

You might not like Skyward Sword if you like Breath of the Wild, it's... kind of infamously of the opposite design philosophy. Don't bother with Skyrim, the Switch port is bad and somehow has even worse bugs than the original.

 

I may only play Skyward Sword for the backstory of the series.

But I'm not expecting it to be that special. Not bad. Probably good. But nothing particularly great.

 

Has anyone played Monster Hunter Rise ?
It looks pretty cool.

(I have seen a bunch of gameplay of the the games suggested above. I don't think I'm ready for turn based games. It just feels awkward to me that the opponent simply waits for me to choose what to do. I know I can't say for sure until I try but they don't look like my cup of tea.)

 

It’s just a layer of abstraction to keep things manageable, going back to tabletop games. Like, imagine if in chess everyone had to move their pieces in simultaneous real time. That’d be a mess.

 

Don't run away I'm almost at gamestop @Ramza

 

They don't even have Divinity....

 

Well that probably makes it easier.

 

It has a free demo, have downloaded but not tried it out yet.

 

Is 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim that good? May get it, but that would be in April.

Still, everyone swears by this game.

 

I ended up buying Monster Hunter Rise, still too shy to make the turn-based games jump, but also because it was on sale and I paid about half the price.
There is no thread for it, I might create one in the future if needed.

The world looks quite beautiful and it seems there is really a lot to customize in weapons and combat style.
It is relatively fun to play, but I feel that I won't get as obsessed by it as with Zelda and Witcher because it seems to be kind of repetitive.

I need to play a bit more to make more definitive assessments.

A minor critique is about the combat. When I hit a monster their body does not seem to absorb the hit. Both in Zelda and Witcher smashing something is very satisfactory because the opponent's bodies tend to be perturbed by the hit in a fairly believable way. This is not the case here.

 

Reggie Fils-Aimé to present at The Game Awards 2021

Okay, who's body is Reggie?

 

I'm still not getting the Expansion Pass.

 

Don't get me wrong:

I think Nintendo will improve on it dramatically going forward.

But... I mean, my biggest problem is whether or not the next console by Nintendo will you carry the same library of games from the Switch to whatever machine comes afterward.

Granted, the next console will likely come out in, perhaps, 2023 or 2024.

Until then: we'll have to deal more dumb "Switch Pro" rumors and people that absolutely swear that it exists.

But more to the point: I'm just not sure if I'll bother to get the Expansion Pass before the Nintendo Switch gives way to whatever else Nintendo is working on.

 

To be honest: I don't ever expect there to be a Switch Pro.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong. But I lean toward it not even existing.