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Is there any reason I shouldn’t buy a switch lite? I need something to do now that all the sports and public events are canceled and I like the idea of saving $100. Also, what software should I buy? What are the switch “must haves?” Do I need to get an SD card?
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2020 05:21 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 21:36 |
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I am aware that the Switch lite cannot connect to a TV. I wouldn’t be playing on a TV right now and I think the $100 now is more valuable to me than the possibility of doing it at some unspecified time in the future. I’m wondering if it’s decent hardware other than that.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2020 05:33 |
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Araxxor posted:No really notable differences in performance if that's what you're asking. It's the same hardware as the Switch, you just can't dock it. Yeah this is what I wanted to know. Does it have some internal flash memory or do I need to buy an SD card?
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2020 05:48 |
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What are some of the highlights of the Spring sale I should check out?
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 14:40 |
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Bust Rodd posted:I’m a 32 year old man whose has played probably 13 out of 15 Kirby games and I seriously just today learned there was lore Kirby's Dream Land was the first game I got for my Gameboy in the nineties so I love Kirby even if I haven't played a Kirby game in over twenty years.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 14:42 |
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I am going to play Tales of Vesperia for the first time with the definitive edition, which is on sale for $20. The Tales of series is notorious for having a LOT of permanently missable content, and I understand Vesperia is no exception. My plan, however, is try and just not worry too much about it my first play through and save the 100% dreams for a future new game+. However, is there anything *big* that I should know going in? Anything on the scale, for example, of the following Tales of Symphonia spoiler: be nice to Zelos or else he will loving DIE?
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2020 06:16 |
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I am thinking of buying Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition when it comes out at the end of the month. Is it good? Is it better or worse than Xenoblade Chronicles 2? I watched a video of the gameplay and it didn't seem all that interesting. I also think I might be getting tired of open world games. I might buy Bioshock instead, since I have fond memories of the first one and have not played the other two.
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# ¿ May 2, 2020 20:25 |
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My problem with BotW is that it is too big. I have more time to play video games right now than I’ve had in years. I played 55 hours of BotW last month. I have finished one of four dungeons. I am bored and have moved on to other games.
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# ¿ May 3, 2020 03:33 |
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Rageaholic posted:That's like half the amount of time I spent with BotW lol. But if you aren't enjoying yourself, then sure, move on. Though it took you 55 hours to realize you weren't enjoying yourself? It was pretty good. I’ll probably get back to it eventually.
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# ¿ May 3, 2020 06:46 |
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Basically any game where added difficulty is just “every enemy is now a crazy bullet sponge” is doing difficulty scaling wrong.
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# ¿ May 3, 2020 17:23 |
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ColdPie posted:The best part about the PSP was you could insert a UMD, use moderate force to "twist" the PSP's body, and the UMD drive would pop open, ejecting the UMD a good 6-12 feet. I remember back in like 2006 there was a half-life 2 mod called SMOD or something that had tons of different novelty weapons and one was a "UMD launcher" that was basically a PSP that launched explosives shaped like UMDs. The alternate fire had Gordon press the square button, and nothing happened. It was hilarious.
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# ¿ May 6, 2020 17:51 |
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Wamdoodle posted:iirc the Square button would get stuck on earlier models and you had to mess with it to unstick it
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# ¿ May 6, 2020 18:16 |
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KingSlime posted:Hell yeah sticky square button gang represent Yeah the PSP was really flashy for the first five minutes after you took it out of the box before every single inch of it was covered in fingerprints. I still don't know why they made the finish so glossy. Here's a fun fact: The PSP had a higher initial MSRP than the Switch Lite.
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# ¿ May 6, 2020 18:54 |
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All joking aside I wish I'd spent more time with my PSP back in the day. It was a great console. I think it was pretty profitable too, even though it never reached the highs of the Nintendo DS.
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# ¿ May 6, 2020 19:05 |
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Mad Wack posted:why is everyone talking about the psp when the Nokia ngage existed Because who the hell had one of those?
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# ¿ May 6, 2020 20:14 |
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My favorite half remembered fact about the NGage was that changing games required you to remove the battery from the device. No idea if that’s true but it’s what I can remember about the NGage 17 years later.
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# ¿ May 6, 2020 21:36 |
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Bloodstained is exactly what you want if you want a continuation of those. Iga didn't miss a beat. Did the Switch version ever get fixed?
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# ¿ May 6, 2020 22:43 |
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I said come in! posted:Yep, the game instantly bombed on mobile last year, and Bethesda has been trying to think of a way to salvage it along with their reputation because all of their games in the last few years have been bad. Lol Bethesda hasn't released a good game since like 2002. The best thing Bethesda has done since then is allow Fallout: New Vegas to be made. Sometimes I just pretend that New Vegas is Fallout 3.
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# ¿ May 15, 2020 19:20 |
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Pants Donkey posted:Remember when people thought mobile games would threaten Nintendo’s reign over handheld gaming? Mobile gaming has seriously cut into Nintendo's handheld gaming business, and will continue to do so. Compare 3ds sales to Nintendo DS sales. I don't think anything like the success Nintendo achieved with the DS could ever happen again, mostly because of mobile gaming. A whole audience of casual and light game players who absolutely ate up poo poo like Nintendogs and Brain Age can find experiences like that on the ios and Android app stores. There's a reason why Nintendo is essentially positioning the Switch Lite as their new handheld, even at the cost of cannibalizing the end of the 3ds's life cycle. I doubt Nintendo is going to release a dedicated handheld independent of the Switch anytime soon either, and is likely to stick with their hybrid portable console strategy for a while.
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# ¿ May 15, 2020 20:47 |
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I still have four wavebirds from 2003 and about a year ago I got them out to use for smash bros. and they all worked great. Gosh, there may never be another controller like the wavebird.
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# ¿ May 16, 2020 17:12 |
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Why can’t third party controllers wake up a switch? People have talked about that a few times now and its very strange.
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# ¿ May 16, 2020 23:12 |
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I mean, if “Nintendo is doomed” stories cropped up a lot this century, it’s because Nintendo did, quite often, appear to be doomed.
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# ¿ May 19, 2020 15:57 |
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Guys? Morrowind owns and I’m sore I missed the Bethesda derail because I have so many Bethesda opinions.
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# ¿ May 21, 2020 04:58 |
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Wait wait wait wait wait hold up. There is a switch version if the Binding of Isaac rebirth? Is it good?
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# ¿ May 21, 2020 05:00 |
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Safari Disco Lion posted:It's fine but it's expensive on Switch. I regret spending $40 on the package and will probably try and refund it. Yeah I love Binding of Isaac but I’m not willing to pay $40 for it. I would probably pay $25 and maybe $30. I played the original but somehow never got around to rebirth and was briefly excited at the idea of playing it on switch, but not for $40.
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# ¿ May 21, 2020 05:10 |
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Waltzing Along posted:Nethack is good. Especially, if you back up your save file. lol imagine being this lame. If you can't beat nethack, just play a Valkyrie or something, don't cheat.
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# ¿ May 21, 2020 14:29 |
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Pretty good posted:Tangentially related to the mention of FTL as a game that wouldn't work great with button controls: I really miss the ubiquitous IR (and later gyro) pointer UIs that we got during the Wii era. I might be in the minority here but I feel like there's so much in the Switch's library that'd benefit from the option of cursor controls – like, even though Civ VI is totally playable as it is, being able to use the joycon like a pointer mouse and drag the map around would be a significant quality-of-life upgrade. I'm thinking about how the PS4 touchpad went woefully underused in part because publishers tended to mandate that multiplatform games offer "parity of experience" across both consoles. Nintendo doesn't insist on something similar for handheld vs TV play, right? Or if they did at first, they've since eased up on it? Otherwise we wouldn't see third party devs adding bespoke touchscreen controls in the cases of games like Civ and Cities Skylines. One of the main downsides of the hybrid console gimmick of the Switch is that the most distinctive control features of the previous generation of Nintendo consoles are rendered useless. Nintendo wants most games to be playable in handheld mode, so most games can't have IR controls or elaborate motion controls. Also, basically every game has to be playable docked so the touchscreen can't be properly utilized.
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# ¿ May 21, 2020 14:34 |
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KingSlime posted:Lol imagine being this lame where you have an opinion on people "cheating" in single player games I mean, it isn’t like, using the Konami code to get extra lives. It’s undermining a core element of the gameplay. It’s like beating super Mario bros with a game shark code that lets you fly over obstacles.
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# ¿ May 21, 2020 16:11 |
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Got to see all that pretty art and story content in nethack.
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# ¿ May 21, 2020 16:36 |
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There's even a debug and "explore" mode in Nethack that a new player can use to learn about game mechanics/see endgame content where you can choose not to die if you want. Keeping a backup save file in Nethack is just a lame thing to do sorry.
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# ¿ May 21, 2020 16:43 |
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I like animal crossing a lot but after about a month it definitely becomes 30-60 minutes of daily zen garden raking rather than a "game" that you're going to spend hours on end playing on a lazy sunday afternoon or whatever.
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# ¿ May 22, 2020 17:42 |
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PantsBandit posted:I think one thing that really bothers me about Animal Crossing is how villagers have to comment on you being missing when you haven't logged on for a few days. I still like to play it but I want to just be able to chat with my villagers without having to go through every single one of them bitching me out because I don't turn the game on every single goddamn day. This annoys me too. Like jeez guys I have limited time to play games and sometimes I spend that with something else for a few days. Don’t have a cow.
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# ¿ May 23, 2020 01:56 |
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How have you guys played it? Do you have review copies?
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# ¿ May 25, 2020 05:08 |
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I had a problem with my Switch lite where for weeks the left stick would fail to register input directly to the left of right. So, say I am playing a game where the left stick controls character movement, and I am holding the stick all the way to the left to move my character left at a right angle to the camera. My character would start to move left, and then around one second later would stop dead. Obviously that was a really irritating problem, and I was planning to send my console in for repair once the repair centers reopened, but after about three weeks it just stopped happening and hasn't happened since. No idea what changed. In conclusion, Nintendo makes lovely analog sticks.
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# ¿ May 26, 2020 20:05 |
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Hot take: the original version of The Wind Waker looked better than the HD remaster.
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# ¿ May 27, 2020 19:27 |
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The HD version has too much bloom. Also, all of the models are more visibly 3d objects, whereas in the GCN release of The Wind Waker the entire world looked pretty much entirely like an immersive cartoon environment, which was great.
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# ¿ May 27, 2020 20:41 |
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I have a lite because I don’t own a television.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 04:52 |
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KingSlime posted:According to some YouTuber who did the digging in research journals: the average person only spends 30 mins a day playing video games. He was shocked at how low this figure was and compared it to his own. After all, most games range from 10-30 hours and RPGs especially hit the 100 hour mark as the norm now so he was skeptical This is super interesting, so a link would be good. I think this comports with my experience. I think it's very likely that I spend more time reading this forum and thinking about video games than actually playing them. I think the only times I actually play video games for more than about an hour a day are during the roughly two weeks after I've bought a new one, which I would estimate I do about once every 2-3 months.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 16:57 |
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Anyone who says FTL is bad is my sworn enemy forever. Btw I have the PC and iOS versions of FTL and although the PC version is definitely better, the iOS version is good enough that it’s the only one I play now because of the convenience and portability.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 22:35 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 21:36 |
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Do they even make amiibos anymore? It feels like they just sort of vanished Good riddance to that microtransaction garbage.
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2020 17:26 |