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100YrsofAttitude posted:I basically can't play games on my first generation iphone SE. Screen's too small, but frankly I have zero desire for a monster phone because the whole point is the thing goes nice and easy in my pocket. I really wanted to get Final Fantasy Tactics after playing Triangle Strategy, but I realized it would be miserable on a screen that small. Have you considered an oversized book with a switch-shape hole carved into the pages in which to hide your Nintendo switch?
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CFox posted:I’ve never played a saga game but is the battle system as fun as it looks here? I wanna suplex demons while shooting laser lances into their rear end in a top hat. Also that setup at the beginning with haste + buffs and then petrify + grail looked like the sort of thing you can setup some crazy nonsense with. I never played this game but the music makes me feel like a teenager again. That's some solid Squaresoft battle music.
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me your dad posted:I'm looking for a recommendation. We bought a Switch for our kids, ages 6 (twins) and 9. I'm trying to find a multiplayer game that also has a solid single player component. I'll toss a Mario Kart 8 recommendation into the mix. Also you should keep posting music in the psych rock thread.
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Xalidur posted:How's the Satisfye Grip if you have small hands? Extended undocked time makes my wrists hurt, so a solution would be groovy, but I'm concerned the grip could make the shoulder buttons harder to use. I don't have small hands but I can't imagine it making shoulder buttons hard to reach. It doesn't really add bulk to the switch. It gives you an area to hold it with your middle, ring, and little fingers. It feels like using a normal controller. Using my Switch in HH without my satisfye grip is unfathomable.
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I discovered a new type of Korok after ~150 hrs of BOTW across 1.5 playthroughs. I noticed a nut sitting in a hole in the side of a tree, shot it with an arrow, and a Korok popped out! Now I have to look closely at every large tree I pass by...
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Mar 28, 2021 16:37
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Spiteski posted:I'm having trouble deciding which switch game to spend money on. MonHun Rise, or Bravely Default 2. This is easy. Monhun. It's real, real good. Just an absolute joy to play. I didn't play World so I'm losing my mind about hour smooth this is and all the QOL stuff. It's a great game!
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crunchytacosupreme posted:Got really into Cadence of Hyrule and will pick up Crypt of the NecroDancer when it released on April 30th. What other cool rhythm games or dungeon rougelikes should I try? Check out Enter the Gungeon and Dead Cells. Both are good but I think Gungeon is the better game. Cells gets too hard too quickly and the increase in difficulty is primarily due to unfun game mechanics in higher difficulty. crunchytacosupreme posted:I tried binding of Isaac but could not get into it. Sold it for Cadence of Hyrule. What couldn't you get into with Isaac? I'm curious because I bought it several years ago and bounced off it. Last year I got really into Cadence, which made me check out Gungeon, which lead to Dead Cells, which finally made me revisit Isaac. Then Isaac clicked real hard with me and I played it exclusively for a good 150 hours and still drop in every now and then. What I'm trying to say is maybe give Isaac a second chance because that's what I did and I'm glad I did 'cause it's fun as heck. PS: I have Cadence of Hyrule too and I think it's one of the weakest roguelikes I've played, despite having some of the best damned music.
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Lodin posted:Tangledeep is legit awesome and as far as I know the only proper roguelike on the system. Oh ya this game is really good too! It's the most traditional roguelike in my Switch library. I got a good 35-40 hours out of it.
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Oh I forgot Hades too! Goodness I'm out of it today (got monhun on the mind). Hades is great and one of the best games I played last year.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Hades is so good. Between that and MH Rise I've been getting obsessed with games I didn't think I'd really be into At the risk of sounding pretentious, Hades and Rise didn't get me into these kinds of games, but I love them so much and appreciate everything they do to make the game more accessible because all those things make it more fun for me, too! I'm so excited for a broader group of people to experience the types of games I love so much, but are a hard sell for whatever reason. It's a great time for game design making obtuse/challenging games more accessible. Everyone deserves to have fun! 
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Nth’ing sword and shield. I used to think the controls in the games were the worst. Then I tried sword and board and it was a gateway into a real fun game series.
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Monster Hunter is so good my cat spent the morning in bed and played it with me. 
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External Organs posted:I'm not sure how monster hunter works, is it something I could jump into after the content update (this summer?)? I think it'll be fine to join any time. MP is pretty chill. Hell even the MP hunts scale to 1 player if you find the MP is unwelcoming for whatever reason. There are no resets. It's a very fun game filled with complexity ranging from drop chances to gathering items to the combat. Each of the 14 weapons has its own systems at play. Loads of skills to consider and find ways to use. It's a real fun playground of complicated systems.
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Blasphemous is great. I loved every moment I spent finishing the game. Dead Cells is fun until it's not. The difficulty curve is steep and full of dumb mechanics.
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AlphaKeny1 posted:There was a learning curve for me to adjust in terms of control, but there are still platforming sections that make me feel really annoyed when comparing it to similar games like Hollow Knight. Blasphemous smokes Hollow Knight in both inspiration-from-Dark-Souls and Fun Game categories.
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American McGay posted:I hate Hollow Knight and I'm not even brave enough to make that comment in this thread. Better head for the bunker my friend, they're coming for you. This is the hill on which I've chosen to make my stand.
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flavor.flv posted:I think the aesthetic and animation work on blasphemous is incredible, but it is not fun to play at all I made great use of sliding in Blasphemous to get where I was going quickly. You're more resilient than two hits. And I thought the run backs to bosses were shorter. Also the bosses were more fun and required far less attempts than Hollow Knight's.
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Has anyone played this Crying Suns game that’s releasing later this month? It’s been around on PC for a year or two I think. It sounds like it’s a mash up of lots of things I enjoy, but I am always wary of games doing too many things just okay, rather than one thing very well. https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/crying-suns-switch/
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Anyway, I'm pumped for Subnautica tomorrow What convinced you to finally play Subnautica? I am interested in it, I know folks love it, but I haven’t yet figured out why.
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I wasn't originally going to pick it up (haven't played it before), but like 2 reviews from YouTube in, and I'm loving sold.
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Those wind gust enemies at the top of Rico Harbor sure are obnoxious.
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Collecting 8 red coins at Rocco Harbor is quite possibly the worst mission I’ve played in any Mario game to date. Absolutely no part of this is fun. The controls suck. Red coin hit detection is flawed at best, I’ve lost count of the number of coins I just zoom right through without collecting. And then the end. How do you collect the shine on the dock? I’ve died just as many times trying to collect the shine as I have collecting all 8 red coins. Seriously, gently caress this dumb mission. https://mobile.twitter.com/wildtortilla/status/1400429929813012485
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I got the shine everyone. It’s sucked a whole bunch. In my attempts to hop onto the dock more strange things happened in addition to the clip I shared earlier. One time I got stuck on the face of the dock while still in the water, the blooper was acting like it was swimming forward but I was glued to the dock. Another time I got switched to another blooper which then swim straight out, similar to my earlier clip, but this time we went thru the yellow out of bounds line and just zoomed off into the ocean. I couldn’t steer and we rode out for 5-10 seconds and then crashed into nothing. Can’t wait to see what else Sunshine has in store for me!
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ErrEff posted:Oh, the places you will go! Later levels are even more unfinished than Rocco Harbor. 
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Wowza the controls in Sunshine are really getting to me. Such a shame. I started out really digging this game. The setting and aesthetics are so good! But the gameplay leaves much to be desired.
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I generally don’t mind the FLUDDless levels of Sunshine, but the hotel lobby secret can get hosed. There’s too much dumb poo poo that wastes your time. Mario is fun when you’re moving forward making progress. At the second jump of the level there are three enemies waiting to push you off the ledge, so the prudent thing is to wait for them to rush you and jump on all three of them. Then the next section requires you to wait for three floating enemies to float into place so you can use them to complete a jump, because for some god forsaken reason this game doesn’t have a long jump. Then you need to wall climb after that, but not before going up the wall three times to break blocks before the fourth time up thru the cleared path. Then you deal with some falling sand blocks to ultimately get to a section that requires you to ride a spinning block. This god damned spinning block is the absolute worst. Sometimes I slide off when I think I’m on flat ground and get PTSD flash backs of all the unnecessary and physics-defying sliding that I suffered through in Mario 64. Or maybe I jump to the next section but need to quickly jump backwards to correct my landing, but too bad Mario’s going to do his high backwards somersault and shoop off the block. gently caress this block and this level forever. It’s full of dumb bullshit that wastes your time. This isn’t the first Mario level that requires patience and it probably won’t be the last, but they’re all terrible.
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Butterfly Valley posted:I understand how those Mario 64 likers felt when a wave of people were complaining about the controls on the release of 3D All-Stars when I read all of these Sunshine haters failing at what I thought were mundane challenges My 3D Mario experience has been 3D World, Odyssey, 64, and now Sunshine. 3D and Odyssey have exceptionally perfect controls, especially Odyssey. In those games I don’t feel any challenge is hard because of the controls. All of the challenge in 64 and now Sunshine is because my brain and/or hands cannot make sense of the controls. I know what I can do, and I know how it should work, but mastery of them eludes me. It’s very frustrating because I should enjoy these two games more than I do, but the controls stand firmly between me and maximum fun. So I will eternally resent and bitch about them.
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My nephew got reeeaaaalllly into Mario over the past year from playing Galaxy on his Dad’s Wii. His sixth birthday is in a few months and he will be receiving a Switch from his parents. I’m putting a lot of thought into what game(s) I’m going to get him. For mainline Mario titles I’m thinking about: -Odyssey -3D World -All Stars (probably not since he has Galaxy already and I’m struggling to adapt to 64 and Suneshine as I play through Allstars). -the Wii U NSMB (it got a port, right? I played it on Wii U and thought it was great). I’m also thinking about Mario themed games: -Captain Toad -Smash Bros. -Mario Kart I’m also considering Link’s Awaking. He is aware of Link and Zelda but is under the misconception that he’s too young to play them. I call bullshit because I was playing original LoZ when I was 4 or 5. I wasn’t good at it and I didn’t know what I was doing but I had lots of fun with it. I completed LA as my first solo Zelda game when I was about 7. My nephew is the smartest kid I’ve ever met so I’m pretty sure he’d handle LA just fine. I welcome any help narrowing down my list to one or two games, or other suggestions to consider (this is my first time ever buying a game for a kid).
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Oh right, Mario Maker 2! He mentioned that and already has a very specific course design in mind. I played 3D World on WU with my wife and it’s great. My niece is about 2.5 yrs old so she’s going to be able to hold a controller soon too I imagine. The coop angle is a great idea... though last time I spoke with my BIL he was thinking about getting him a Lite, despite my urging against that idea. A Lite sounds like A Disaster for a kid. Those poor joycons are going to get annihilated so quickly and then the entire system will have to be sent for repairs.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Better whatevers is a dumb argument simply because everyone seems to ignoring the elephant in the room. Already on it. My wife and I have a family plan and I’m anticipating adding him to it.
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Thanks for all the discussion about games and kids. It helps a bunch. I have a related question (tho not about games). I’m decidedly the cool uncle. My first kid is due in August. Do I continue being the cool uncle? I don’t know how this works. My goal is to be cool uncle and cool dad. Is that possible?
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Oscar Wild posted:A loft is a basement with a view. It’a because the IG isn’t LS, LBG, DB, or Bow. IG is reaaaal fun! Keep spinning through the air!! When you want something else fun to do, give GL a whirl!
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This thread sure got weird.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:My fashionably late 5 cents: Been playing Mario Sunshine. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I think it’s mostly love. My friend got a PS5 recently and mailed me his PS4 (and God of War). I got that this weekend and have been puttering around with that. It’s a pretty fun game. I haven’t made it very far and I’m surprised at how challenging I’m finding regular enemies. My first kid is due at the end of August so between painting two rooms in prep for him to arrive and doing everything else, I’m trying to finish GoW. If that goes very quickly I’d like to pick up Bloodborne, but I have my suspicions all the prep work and nesting efforts will preclude setting aside untold hours to play a From Soft game. Also yesterday my BIL and his family visited yesterday. My almost six year old nephew fell in love with Mario during the pandemic and really wants a Switch for his bday in August (spoilers his parents are getting him one and I’m helping select the games). Anyway he was going on and on about how much he wants to play New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe so I fired up my Wii U and showed popped in the disc. He lost his mind. My life long heavy investment into Nintendo is finally paying off. I am the undisputed cool uncle. Then we cooped through most of the first world and had a blast. Everyone eventually gathered around the couch and was hollering and gasping and rooting us on. It was a blast. Next time they visit I’ll be prepared to setup a four person session. It’ll be great. Now I need to really put some thought into what to get him for his bday.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Good stuff. I am no one's uncle, probably for the best, and have yet to have my own kid though we'll see. I am just the friend who keeps trying to get people to play video games with him and not many agree to do so. NMSBUD is a faaaaantastic platformer. It’s very, very excellent.
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Waluigi’s Nebula or bust
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Lube Enthusiast posted:Miyamoto himself reveals Mario’s new “adult look” Nintendo jumps in (much too late) on the brief moment gaming tried to appeal to gamer dads. Mario grows a beard and has a son.
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