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irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Al Borland Corp. posted:

In Hand-held Mode, the Switch has both Joy-Cons attached to it, allowing for gaming on the go.

The Joycon (plural of Joycon is Joycon)
Um... :thunk:

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irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

In this thread I'm going to take on the role of a shitposter who is definitely not mad as heck about video game consoles.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

VideoGames posted:

Can we please call third party Nintendo games Thindies?
And man, what third party Nintendo games?

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

whaley posted:

my left joycon has trouble if i roll into a ball around the joycon and lay in the floor
You need the upgrade which lets you use your left joycon while in Morph Ball.

Guy Goodbody posted:

3DS sales will decline and Nintendo will stop making games for it
They already have, pretty much everything this year is being farmed out to 3rd parties.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

What is Nico Nico?

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Guy Goodbody posted:

a streaming service
Yeah I got that part, thanks.

Infinitum posted:

Essentially Japanese Youtube
Thanks, I was wondering just because I'd read an article about it but it didn't explain exactly what it was used to stream.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Ostentatious posted:

when is star fox 8 coming out

Golden Goat posted:

In 6 years.

Also it'll be a remake of Starfox 64.

WAIT

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Here's this week's drop.

Switch
ACA NeoGeo Fatal Fury Special | NA | PAL | $7.99 / £6.29 / €6.99 (eShop Only)
Bulb Boy | PAL | £7.19 / €7.99 (eShop Only)
Cars 3: Driven to Win | PAL | £49.99 / €59.99 (eShop / Retail) (14 July)
De Mambo | NA | PAL | $12.99 / £ ? / €10.99 (eShop Only)
Death Squared | NA | PAL | $14.99 / £ ? / €10.50 (eShop Only)
I And Me | NA | $9.99 (eShop Only)
Levels+: Addictive Puzzle Game | NA | PAL | $6.99 / £ ? / € ? (eShop Only)

irlZaphod fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Jul 13, 2017

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

I mean even without the Pro controller it still has the same number of buttons if you're playing in TV, Handheld or Table Top mode. :confused:

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Imagine only owning grey joycons...

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

VideoGames posted:

I feel like my Kirby avatar is one of the best Kirby avatars on the site.
Amppelix has (the cropped version of) the same one :v:

AndrewP posted:

ok so I guess it's Evo weekend which brings me to my next question, where the gently caress is Smash Bros
In the bin, where it belongs.

irlZaphod fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jul 13, 2017

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

It'll be released on March 2nd 2018, marking 1 year of the Switch's release.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

Finally picked up one of these. Paid a bit more than retail but oh well.

What are some e-shop only games? Most of my interest has been obviously the first party Nintendo stuff
ACA NeoGeo games (Metal Slugs, every SNK fighting game ever apparently, Magical Drop)
Blaster Master Zero
Shantae
Snipperclips
Kamiko
GoNNER
Mighty Gunvolt Burst



Not eShop only but may be your bag:
Puyo Puyo Tetris
Disgaea 5

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Has anyone checked out any of today's new games yet?

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

EpicNemesis posted:

A dude on a train had the neon switch
Did you hit on him?

kimpira posted:

I got Levels+ earlier today after watching a gameplay video on youtube. It's a turn-based puzzle game where you merge colored tiles on a grid according to a few rules:

- yellow tiles are treasure; treasure tiles can be merged if they have the same number on them
- blue tiles are heroes; they can merge with other hero tiles with the same number, and they can collect treasures/destroy monsters of equal or lesser value
- monster tiles are red and can't be directly moved or merged with other tiles at all; you have to destroy them with a hero tile.

It reminds me of a slightly more complicated version of Threes but it's surprisingly involving.
I don't think there was a trailer when I looked on the eShop, it was hard to see from the screenshots how the game actually plays. Sounds interesting though.

Has anyone checked out Death Squared or DeMambo? The latter looks...weird. Indie games always just seem to have so much going on, and I can never tell who or what the player is actually controlling. :psyduck:

irlZaphod fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Jul 14, 2017

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Puyo Puyo Tetris is on sale on the eShop in PAL land, it's 20% off (£27.99 / € 32.99)

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

EpicNemesis posted:

I pulled out my switch to show him we were in the same cool club, but he laughed and said "nice grey scrub"
This was me, just FYI :unsmigghh:

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Frankston posted:

Still cheaper than the equivalent EU sale price. It works out to be about £23 in the US shop.
Oh lol. I keep forgetting that. It's so bloody stupid.

The one thing I will say is that, so far, they've done a really good job of keeping game releases in line between NA and EU. It was always so frustrating when NA would get WiiU and 3DS stuff months before us. There have been a few exceptions (like BoI or Cave Story, but those are down to Nicalis being terrible, or Bulb Boy/I And Me getting released in one region earlier than the other, but only a week apart), but in general I have been glad to see that the Switch isn't carrying on the bullshit from the WiiU/3DS days.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

TFRazorsaw posted:

ugh if they didn't care so much about killing babies we'd have all the cool toys we want
:yeah:

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

I don't think it's about thinking of children first, in the case of online chat etc they probably just don't want any parents complaining or suing because Little Johnny heard someone say "gently caress" while playing his Nintendo.

Also they don't develop or publish Senran Kagura, and those games are rated M by ESRB anyway.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

I Am Frick posted:

So there's been a lot of ground made lately on one particular front in the Switch universe that, I feel, should be mentioned in the OP: hacking.

I don't know if this consitutes :filez:, which is why I feel it should be in the OP. If it is, there should be a warning saying to not talk about it.

On that note, in the past week people working the Switch managed to get hold of the kernel, which is a huge step toward homebrew and everything along those lines (which includes piracy, hence :filez:). Is conversation about this allowed? I remember back in the day of the Wii that it was allowed (it even had its own megathread), but not sure how times have changed on this since, at the time, there were even piracy subforums here.
There aren't really any rules against discussion of Homebrew or Hacking (so long as it doesn't stray into the area of piracy), but for me I'd prefer to keep it contained in the Nintendo Homebrew Thread. They got really pissy when we asked them to make a thread for it but it was really clogging up the 3DS thread when the rest of us wanted to talk about, you know, games. This early in a console's life I don't really care about homebrew.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

The Bloop posted:

I got one on impulse for $4 on black friday and the next week my old one died.
It died of a broken heart. :oh:

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

I'm really bad at Mega Man games because the Wii was basically my first Nintendo system so I never played any MM when I was growing up. Would it be worth me checking out Mighty Gunvolt Burst?

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

I think one of my joycons is loving up. Every other day or so I’ll get “your joycon is disconnected” from just playing the switch in handheld mode, forcing me to actually remove and reconnect the joycon for it to work again.
Do you just have 1 set of joycons? It could be the joycon or the Switch itself.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Oh my god

It makes sense that if you answer a phone call, it's gonna interrupt your voice chat. I should be able to open WhatsApp while voice chatting though.

Endorph posted:

just driving by to lol at the horde mode being local only. why cant nintendo exist in reality.
Must be pretty embarrassing to come into a thread with the intention to troll but to be wrong. :laugh:

irlZaphod fucked around with this message at 10:29 on Jul 19, 2017

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

MK8 is great and it's one of those games you can keep going back to with friends and family. The re-release brought back the online community too.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

TFRazorsaw posted:

I'm trying to understand the baclash against the whole "using another app suspends the voice chat" thing.

Like.

The gently caress are you doing checking other poo poo on your phone in the middle of a match anyway? "Hold on, I can't help you fight the other team, I've got to check Facebook for 20 seconds."
Splatoon matches are a few minutes long and there's usually a few minutes in between while the lobby fills up. I shouldn't get disconnected from a voice chat just because I decided to change apps on my smartphone.

It's not a dealbreaker or anything, it's just not a good look.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

TFRazorsaw posted:

I just wonder what important things you'd possibly be missing in that scenario. I dunno. Maybe my priorities are different. But that just doesn't feel like a big deal. You're effectively having everything put on mute for a little bit.
Again, it's not a dealbreaker. I'm just saying it's not a good sign if it drops you from your voice channel and requires you to reconnect. I don't know if it's intentional or not, but it seems like a strange feature to put in the app.

e: Yeah I've only used Discord a couple of times but I don't remember it dropping me from voice chat if I switched apps.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:

i run my consoles through my pc so i can mix together the audio from the game, pc based voice chat, and maybe some music
:yeah:

A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:

while i also watch porn on my second monitor
:yikes:

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Quest For Glory II posted:

also it's weird that the Switch doesn't have a microphone in it when the Wii U had it, the 3DS had it, the DS had it

of course, those platforms all had it so that you could blow into it to make a thing happen in a game, but you'd think Nintendo wouldn't be able to resist doing it again. blow into it to make the platforms rise for mario to jump on!!

hell, how are you supposed to yell objection if Phoenix Wright ever comes to Switch?!
With the Nintendo Switch Online Phoenix Wright app, obviously.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Sakurazuka posted:

Did anything good come out in the eShop today?
A NeoGeo fighting game, probably.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

irlZaphod posted:

A NeoGeo fighting game, probably.
It's Samurai Showdown.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Fate/Extella is out tomorrow :v:

Probably won't really know until later what's dropping. There's not much info on either NOE's or NOA's site about this week's releases. Of course, with Spla2n they maybe didn't want to put much out this week. The only other Switch game is some Match 3 puzzle game: http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/boost-beast-switch

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Is Extella just a Musou with Sexy Anime Babes?

(I just watched the trailer and there do seem to be Sexy Anime Dudes in it too)

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Oh Cave Story+ is out in Europe today also apparently.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Please stop replying to the troll for the love of god.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is better than Persona 5, there I said it.

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Sorry, red+black & acid jazz are superior to pastel & idol j-pop
Pastel & idol j-pop plus not having a micro-managing cat telling you to go to bed

irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Here's this week's drop.

Switch

ACA NeoGeo Samurai Shodown | NA | PAL | $7.99 / £6.29 / €6.99 (eShop Only)
Boost Beast | NA | PAL | $9.99 / £8.99 / €9.99 (eShop Only)
Cave Story+ | PAL | £26.99 / €29.99 (eShop Only)
Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbral Star | NA | PAL | $59.99 / £49.99 / €59.99 (Retail Only) (July 25 NA / July 21 PAL)
Splatoon 2 | NA | PAL | $59.99 / £49.99 / €59.99 (eShop / Retail) (July 21)

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irlZaphod
Mar 26, 2004

Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

Zelder posted:

Did the Wii u have a lot of Wii ports? I own one but I can't remember

a.lo posted:

metroid prime

Spellman posted:

Resident Evil 4, the New Play Control series of games, others



I'm not sure if you're talking about the Wii Downloads for WiiU but those weren't ports.

Metroid Prime Trilogy was a Wii game, so was RE4 and the New Play Control games. All of them were playable on WiiU (provided you had Wii Remote/Nunchuk), but there were never any actual ports of them. The only actual port of a Wii game to WiiU was, like, Twilight Princess I'm pretty sure (and technically that was a GameCube port). Well, maybe some indie or 3rd party stuff was ported from Wii to WiiU.

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