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100YrsofAttitude posted:That sounds rad. If it runs ok I’ll be happy. I think it'll run like total poo poo on the switch I wanna compare it to starlink except with an infinite universe, running around on foot, and more freedom/less checklists (although still some, if you wanna find all the flora and fauna of a planet for example). Similar kind of zen chilled atmosphere which yes absolutely can be boring for some. I stopped playing it on my PC because it had a weird crashing bug often enough to piss me off but I had a good time until then.
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Speaking of space sandboxes has anyone bought astroneer for switch? It would have to run better than no man's sky I would think but it was a weird buggy mess on PC despite being quite fun so I haven't wanted to pull the trigger
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:The best Mario RPG is Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, and that is not due to the presence of Mario or even Luigi. Speaking of, how’s the 3DS remake of that game?
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I have a pretty solid idea: like poo poo  edit: to me, No Man’s Sky is a procedural crafting thing for sci-fi nerds who don’t jive with the fantasy tropes of Minecraft. There are countless great games I just can’t get down with because the Tolkien part of my brain is underdeveloped. Fly Ricky fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Feb 15, 2022 |
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Butterfly Valley posted:How long are we gonna use covid as an excuse? There's a billion other much more plausible reasons BotW2 and Prime 4 aren't out yet all to do with big games taking a lot of time to develop and Nintendo are generally better at letting them take as long as they need. Sure covid would have hindered development but it's not like in a world where people didn't gently caress bats we'd have them both out by now Because COVID pokes multiple perpetual small holes in organizations across a span of time (See also; Logistic and supply chains still being utterly hosed for anything manufactured). Eg; This week it's a programmer out for a week or two. Last month it was a couple of the artists. Might lose a couple programmers more over the coming weeks due to being close-contacts with the first one during an onsite test on demo hardware. BoTW2 is also going to be a loving huge game, made by a team that isn't a global army of cheap programmers capable of brute-forcing a large open-world game into existence quickly like, say, Ubisoft can. Remember they had to rope in a good portion of other studio's coders to get the first one done (and here's hoping Monolithsoft doesn't wind up hosed over for XC3 to get BOTW2 done like they were for XC2, quite frankly)
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anyone have those binbok split controllers? Thinking of getting a set, they have gyro and rumble that the horis don’t
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Feb 15, 2022 15:27
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You know, BotW selling a bazillion copies at $60 for five years providing steady revenue for EPD to make a game that's a worthy successor without having to succumb to crunch, low pay, and all the other lovely practices the rest of the industry does is something I'm perfectly OK with. I just hope that's what's happening and not crunch, low pay, and lovely practices that never make it out because they've buttoned up all the leaks.
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Feb 15, 2022 15:37
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Larryb posted:Speaking of, how’s the 3DS remake of that game? Do not get it. It suffers from quite a few technical issues. From what I told others: quote:What pushes it into rebreak are the technical issues. The loading times are significantly worse and will add up a lot since you get into a lot of battles, outright slowdown during certain parts of the game (quite a few Bros. attacks, especially Falling Star was a good way to cause some during battles), and sometimes the game just hanging while it was unloading a segment you just went through. Hell I saw a pretty nasty glitch where the screen just blanked out entirely for one cutscene and things only went back to normal when it was over. Just pick up the DS version instead. Araxxor fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Feb 15, 2022 |
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Speaking of space sandboxes has anyone bought astroneer for switch? It would have to run better than no man's sky I would think but it was a weird buggy mess on PC despite being quite fun so I haven't wanted to pull the trigger Get the original instead. The remake offers nothing new & looks worse. The DS version had gorgeous pixel art & vibrant colors. The remake uses the same art style & assets that the 4 other 3DS M&L games use. The new side mode "Bowser Jr's journey" is absolute garbage.
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Feb 15, 2022 16:14
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The DS version is also still cheap despite DS games getting into stupid territories with resale value these days. It helps that it sold 8 billion copies and isn't named "Pokemon"
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Feb 15, 2022 16:16
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Nintendo are being cool with the new Mario Kart DLC, which will be shuffled into the online rotation for everyone so as not to fragment the online player base. Also if your friends own the DLC you can play it online with them even if you don't.
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Butterfly Valley posted:Nintendo are being cool with the new Mario Kart DLC, which will be shuffled into the online rotation for everyone so as not to fragment the online player base. Also if your friends own the DLC you can play it online with them even if you don't. yoooo
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Araxxor posted:Do not get it. It suffers from quite a few technical issues. From what I told others: Yikes, thanks for the warning
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Is Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity good (as far as these musou games go) or should I just play the first HW that everyone seemed to love
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HW is more of a love letter to the whole Zelda series up to that point, AoC is focused on BotW stuff. So it really depends on what flavor of setting you're interested in.
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From what I’ve seen AoC basically takes the Hyrule Warriors template and adds some BOTW flare to it (like larger maps and more abilities for characters), also as mentioned above it’s pretty firmly set in the BOTW universe
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The first HW is better, play that instead.
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Goth Odell Beckham posted:Is Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity good (as far as these musou games go) or should I just play the first HW that everyone seemed to love it's pretty bad but kinda fun. i didn't play the first one but AoC has you fight big chunky boss units 95% of the time to take over the control points and it's like BotW combat but worse, and there's nothing else really in the game, since nothing seems to happen on the strategic layer of the game. you just rush the control points for every mission. i enjoyed unlocking a lot of new characters and trying them out though.
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Goth Odell Beckham posted:Is Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity good (as far as these musou games go) or should I just play the first HW that everyone seemed to love It's good if you liked BotW and it's probably the only time in LoZ history where Zelda is the focus of the story.
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The original Hyrule Warriors has way more content on switch, since it has all the dlc from multiple releases included. It also has more of a focus on the battlefield-scale fights, with the player needing to capture bases around the map. Age of Calamity has more polished mechanics for actually fighting, with a lot of small improvements over the original. There’s also much less of a focus on the battlefield stuff, and more on combat gauntlets. They’re both good. I’d say Age of Calamity is a bit better moment to moment because of the gameplay improvements, but I got more time out of the original because of how much more there is to do.
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lunar detritus posted:It's good if you liked BotW and it's probably the only time in LoZ history where Zelda is the focus of the story. she already had two games starring her actually... maybe you've heard of them...
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American McGay posted:The first HW is better, play that instead. This.
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HW:DE has a lot more variety in mission types. Been playing adventure mode again, full cleared the first two maps, working through the master quest map. It's fun.
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FOLKS https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1493634022005559299 that's an insta-buy from me. fantastic, fantastic game.
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It's routinely like $12 on the eShop. But yeah, extremely good and funny game.
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drat, had no idea it was on the switch at all! well, i prefer physical, so i'm still happy with this.
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abelwingnut posted:FOLKS I already got it on Switch, Steam, iOS and the original CD-ROM and you bet your giant orange demonic rear end I'm getting this too.
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I don't want people to ask me about Grim Fandango.
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Foul Fowl posted:it's pretty bad but kinda fun. i didn't play the first one but AoC has you fight big chunky boss units 95% of the time to take over the control points and it's like BotW combat but worse, and there's nothing else really in the game, since nothing seems to happen on the strategic layer of the game. you just rush the control points for every mission. i enjoyed unlocking a lot of new characters and trying them out though. I didn't like the first one as much because the chunky boss units also made you use items like the bombs and bow and arrow that felt completely out of place on the characters movesets. At least the sheikah slate stuff is flavored to the user
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The strategic gameplay, mission variety, and feeling of controlling an army is far better in the first HW game. The combat is far better in AoC, mostly because there's basically always something your character can be doing to force weak point gauges out from enemies, as opposed to the first HW game where you stand around for two and a half minutes waiting for the giant boss to do the one attack that exposes its weak point.
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Fly Ricky posted:
You know, this may be true. It would explain why I love No Man's Sky so much, despite despising Minecraft so much at the same time. I can't stop leaving a string of bizarre towers to nowhere and strange archaeological monuments to my own hubris behind me as I slowly travel from one technicolor 70s SF-world after another. Still, my reaction to NMS on Switch:  This can't possibly work, considering how fast my PS4 starts choking when I'm building any base of substantial size.
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Maybe they finally got somebody to optimize it The switch is a wonderful device, but by far the best thing it's done is force devs to optimize their loving games again
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flavor.flv posted:by far the best thing it's done is force devs to optimize their loving games again lol not any more. It’s all cloud poo poo from here on out
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https://twitter.com/vgcartography/status/1493660718666817538Libluini posted:Still, my reaction to NMS on Switch: I assumed it was another streaming deal, is it an actual port?
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flavor.flv posted:Maybe they finally got somebody to "optimize" the trailer 
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Electromax posted:[url][/url] They didn't say cloud or streaming at all, which is standard for titles that use it. If it is cart + DL, I'll be very impressed.
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Suddenly, I realize why the PS4 got bombarded with new updates starting last year, all apparently mostly targeting performance. Like, one of my worst glitched bases improved vastly from "not even the glass ceiling exists" to "only sometimes storms seep through the walls", which is enormous considering before that, just standing around too far from the walls could get you killed if a lethal ice storm suddenly teleported through the glitched walls Still, I'll wait a bit to see how bad peoples' Switches catch on fire after NMS releases on Switch before making a decision
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They'll put 6 gigs on the cart and require a 15 gig download for the rest. But it still counts as physical, right?
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I did enjoy Subnautica a whole lot so if the loop is just going from planet to planet leaving behind phallic monoliths and it is actually playable on the Switch, I could see myself getting it.
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Feels like a bad set-up to invoke Minecraft and Subnautica when describing NMS, but I think there's a pretty enjoyable set of gameloops to go through before you start hitting that point of "why am I doing any of this" sets in. I put off completing the main story for as long as possible because I kind of feared I'd run out of "okay did this now what's next" feeling. There is more to do after it and the story itself is optional and only added later into the game, but that's still about when I started running low on self-directed goals. Getting your big megaship that's a buildable base and smaller-ship hangar was sweet, probably the only time in gaming I got maybe what Star Citizen types wanted from a videogame. Like yeah, it is pretty cool to go from your Star Destroyer command bridge, down to your sweet multi-floor space-base, then into your ship hangar to hop into a ship and fly to a planet down through the atmosphere nad onto a planet, then your get to name a bunch of hosed up pokemon and rocks like a self-appointed Adam.
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