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Detective No. 27 posted:I know that WayForward isn't a giant company by any means but I would say that they're not really "indie" anymore. One of the games had some small text that said the dev was a part of the THQ Nordic family, which also strikes me as not very indie.
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hatty posted:I’d be interested to see how Pikmin 3 deluxe sold I believe it’s the highest selling Pikmin game, which sounds alright until you consider that the first three games in the series all came out on less-than-successful consoles. I honestly think that the Pikmin game that Niantic just put out on phones is gonna be the actual determinant for whether we get more Pikmin. It’s one of those things that clearly has its fans at Nintendo (up to and including Miyamoto since the first one was his baby) but has not found it’s market yet, even though pretty much everything Pikmin is at worst interesting and at best outstanding, including the phone game and the animated shorts. The other issue is that Pikmin as a concept is really built to utilize processing power of a console and that’s just not what Nintendo is about these days. 2 and 3 are some of the best-looking games of their respective consoles and no Nintendo franchise would benefit more from 4K than it. If they made 3 look that good on Wii U tech, imagine what they’d do with something as powerful as even a PS4 Pro. Oh my god imagine a fully open-world Pikmin. I know you’d have to really adjust the day-timer stuff but you could almost pull a reverse Pikmin 2, with an overworld where you have unlimited time and puzzles that require elaborate solutions, and caves you spelunk into that have set time limits because of oxygen that you have to clear of resources as quickly as possible ala the mission mode in 3. I also think it’s RTS-adjacent roots would really lend itself to resource gathering for crafting and base-building, even though both of those things are sort of passé now. You might even be able to build that within the Pikmin 3 engine if they wanted something that could be made for the Switch.
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Cool Dad posted:I just bought a switch for the first time. I got Breath of the Wild which seems obligatory, and I bought 100 dollars of estore credit. What should I buy now? What are the best things on Switch? I bought Battle Brothers because I wanted a strategy game and it's on sale and I've heard it's good. All of the recommendations so far are good, I’ll add a few more exclusives. I’m gonna assume that you didn’t have a Wii U because anyone who had a Wii U probably bought a Switch at launch so the Wii U Port Pack will also be worth looking at: Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze Pikmin 3 Deluxe Super Mario 3D World Captain Toad If you’re looking for weapons-grade time wasters, there are three Warriors games all with hundreds of hours of gameplay just waiting for you. Hyrule Warriors 1 is bigger but Age of Calamity is better, especially if you end up enjoying BotW. Fire Emblem Warriors is good if you somehow run out of the Hyrule ones or love Fire Emblem. AoC is my second highest game by hours played, aside from Picross, which you should get if you have an even remote interest in logic puzzles, because they are the best. Other quick hits if you love Mario: Mario + Rabbids is a very charming strategy game ala XCom. Paper Mario is a fun adventure game also full of charm (and the best soundtrack on the entire console). Mario Maker 2 is past it’s heyday but it’s got a butt-ton of content if you’re into Mario. If you have people to play with in person, Arms, Clubhouse Games and Mario Party Superstars are all wonderful party games. No matter what games you want, get an account at Dekudeals.com. It’s a price checker that you can fill out a wish list on that will warn you when the game you want goes on sale. At this point every first party Nintendo game has been on sale for at least $40, most of them less. BotW was $30 multiple times in the last month, so if you want to maximize your money, it’s essential. (that said I paid $60 for BotW and it’s worth twice that easily, any sale is like gravy.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I think it's like 10-15 for the main story and like 5 for the side content It’s got the score attack mode which should fill up plenty of time too, they’re all new hand-crafted levels where you have to either get all the treasures or enemies in a certain time that can be fiendishly clever to finish within the time limit
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Dec 30, 2021 05:50
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Must own games, ranked most essential to least: Lol at MUA being on here and not Pikmin or Fire Emblem.
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Looper posted:animal crossing is primarily a solo experience, mario maker you just need an internet connection to download levels, warioware is fun co-op but the actual party mode is pretty lacking compared to the gamecube one The new Warioware is built entirely for co-op, the title is literally “get it together”, as in “together with another person (or multiple people)”. Also I’d love to know who you’re downloading Mario Maker levels from if it’s not other players. all of those games are primarily built for social and/or multiplayer gaming, that’s the whole reason they exist. Which is good, because Nintendo recognizes that if they want millions of people to buy their games they have to make games for all different kinds of people. That’s what they’ve always done. They make cool single-player adventures, fun competitive games, social and cooperative games, and weird little accessory-driven experiments. If you want a console that only has single player games buy a PlayStation. (Which also isn’t an insult, because I love my PlayStation, just that complaining that half of the games Nintendo has made are not aimed directly at you is kinda silly) b_d posted:loved playing wario ware on the gba and 3ds, whole family huddled around the handheld screen and reaching in to push buttons. I can’t tell if this is a joke but the original Warioware did have single-screen mini games for multiple people and every version of the game released on a home console had party gaming as an explicit goal. Plus they had DIY on the DS, which is also social gaming because you don’t just make levels for yourself.
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Stux posted:name one ps4 game that isnt garbage, on another platform, or bloodborne Astro Bot Rescue Mission
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Stux posted:clearly does not meet requirements Well you must tell me what other console it’s on because it ain’t garbage and it ain’t bloodborne
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Jan 6, 2022 04:06
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Looper posted:both games are perfectly playable and enjoyable solo. namaste, try not to be so patronizing next time The original post said “multiplayer-focused and party games” not “incapable of being enjoyed with one player.” I had a good time with both solo but that doesn’t change the fact that they are, at their core, social gaming experiences and not “meaty single-player adventures”
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Jan 6, 2022 04:14
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KingSlime posted:Well it's done, I just spent $64 on a digital only version of dread that I can never resell. Pretty short game too if other Metroids are anything to go by. Impatience is a bitch but also I love being all digital so w/e It’s short but during my 10 or so hour there was only about one half-hour where I was frustrated to the point of not liking it (as opposed to the good kind of frustration that makes you better at killing bosses) and the rest of the game is intense like a roller coaster that is perpetually going downhill
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Google Butt posted:What is the best RPG on switch for someone with a minimal anime tolerance KOTOR?
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I finished Picross S7 last night minus the mega puzzles because I don’t like those as much and they’re the same shapes so doing them immediately loses a little impact if I remember a puzzle. I think the puzzle design in this one was the best yet, I feel like there were a lot of really devious smaller puzzles and the first two massive puzzles might be the hardest ones they’ve designed, but not in a really frustrating way. And now I’m back to knockoffs. I discovered that Depixion had a Halloween pack. That game has a lot of really weird quirks (it’s three puzzles in a group that each have two color options that stack on each other to make a wide variety of color options, and all of the puzzles are based off of 4x4 chunks instead of 5x5) but the reward of watching the game put little gifs of how you solved the puzzles on top of each other to reveal the image is always fun. I also started a phone Picross which is fun but is so far piss-easy. No one can beat Jupiter.
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FFXIV Porn posted:i don't dislike botw specifcially i just don't like open world games and it's an open world game. i think botw super succeeds at what it wants to do, it's just not for me I love that you’re very diplomatic about this but the banjo music you’re like “nah gently caress this poo poo it’s awful” you’re awful Edit: here is grant Kirkhope being an absolute joy https://youtu.be/-2UTukcF6f4
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Jan 22, 2022 07:57
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https://youtu.be/XcMhdSYRN3Y Grunty’s Lair music owns because it’s done in different instruments as you approach each world that mirror the music and tone of the world itself and it’s an ear worm that absolutely burrows into your head within an hour of playing
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My most reasonable hope tomorrow is a Mario Party Superstars update with some more boards
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Feb 9, 2022 05:49
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Willo567 posted:It kinda boggles my mind that Sakurai doesn't put some more characters from obscure franchises in as fighters to increase interest in those franchises for Nintendo, like Custom Robo or Sin and Punishment. I would have liked to see Takeru from Mysterious Murasame Castle or Lip from Panel de Pon in, and I guarantee that those characters would gain a huge boost in popularity like the Earthbound and Fire Emblem franchises have On the other hand, Kid Icarus Uprising. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but I feel like that was the big test for rebooting older franchises and I don’t think it was successful to the level Nintendo wanted
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Feb 9, 2022 22:01
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I didn’t actually see the whole FEW3H trailer the first time because I was too busy exploding in joy but I cannot believe that a game so perfect is actually gonna exist Now I’m gonna start working on manifesting a new Pikmin for E3
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BotW is an E3 thing it’s only showing up in n the summer
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I’ve started Triangle and it’s really talky but some fun palace intrigue stuff. The voice acting is spotty (I’m still not 100% sold on Seranoa) but the dude voicing Dragan is 100% going for it and I love it
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Palmtree Panic posted:Your save should transfer to any version of the game. Doesn’t matter if it’s physical or download I think this is how it worked for Pikmin, the Switch doesn’t really determine a difference between digital and regular, you can even switch between them if you have a physical copy and sell it and decide to go digital later
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not a bot posted:Completed the demo for Triangle Strategy and while the fights are nice, they amount for maybe 25% of the gameplay. The rest of the time you're basically just mashing a button to forward endless conversations concerning the dumbass plot with cookie cutter characters. Hopefully that's just a way to set the story and the rest of the game will have a better balance. I hope it keeps being 75% dialogue, the battles are kinda boring but I really like the conflicts that they’re building
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dr.acula posted:My Nintendo concern is there hasnt been anyword on new Amiibos I think both Kirby and FEW have been announced to at least have some amiibo support so there’s a possibility for something for those, I think I saw speculation that they might reprint the Kirby set for the former I would murder people for FE3H Amiibos, I was furious that the Smash amiibo was only the Wrong Byleth
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Also it cannot be stressed enough that MP4 restarted its entire development process in 2019, that poo poo is still gonna be A While. BotW 2 doesn’t have that excuse but also we don’t know when active development started on it, maybe it wasn’t right away after BotW came out if they wanted people to take some time away from Hyrule
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Revelations Origins: Reloaded
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MassRafTer posted:It's a toy and while it is fine to bring in toys for show and tell we should not try to ruin toys with boring things like philosophy. Gonna write a paper on GI Joe and American perceptions on our status as the preeminent global military superpower and you can’t stop me
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glassyalabolas posted:Oh hey, Nintendo Switch is 5 years old tomorrow (03/03/2022) Love the person in there saying “it’s not gonna be $300 forever people”
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Does anyone know for Square-Enix games whether they unlock at 12EST (like Nintendo games) or 12PST (like SMTV did)? Triangle Strategy comes out Friday; I normally play games right when they unlock but I was very annoyed when SMT didn’t until 2am my time so I need to know if I should take a nap and play through the night
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hatty posted:Has anyone bought triangle strat? Heard there’s a lot of politicking but is it good political stuff? Not looking for War and Peace or anything but is it maybe on the level or Legend of the Galactic Heroes or something? I have seen multiple comparisons to that specific show I haven’t seen that show but Triangle Strategy does, in fact, whip
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Anyone who uses “honks” as a positive must be some sort of clown
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It is such a different game from Elden Ring that I can’t imagine that there’s anyone who is gonna play one in lieu of the other
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Ibram Gaunt posted:The currency also expires 5 months after purchase lol. This feels illegal, is it illegal? It should be if it isn’t
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Hope everyone likes unnecessary sequels
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Snake Maze posted:Back in the early 2000s I remember being really impressed by metroid2002.com, a fan site that was dedicated to sequence breaks and getting out of bounds in the Metroid Prime games. Clear, concise text descriptions combined with with short, focused videos (generally around 15-30s) for illustrating the parts that are hard to describe in pure text. It was such a great format, I couldn't wait for it to catch on and become really widespread, which it obviously would. See also: Serebii, the very best website for Pokémon game information going all the way back to Red and Blue. In my dream world that’s what all gaming resource sites would look like. The information is all very clear, sorted by generation, each game has its own page with all of the unique things for that game plus common things people might be looking for like exclusive lists and how to get event legendarys. Plus they have full maps of all of the older games that are super easy to navigate. It absolutely wouldn’t exist if it had to start today but because it’s been around and everyone trusts it, it sticks around.
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An Actual Princess posted:i just hope it's better than fire emblem warriors, which was absolute trash If it is as good an “adaptation” of Three Houses as Age of Calamity was of Breath of the Wild it will be great.
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Did somebody say “Jazzy Mario Music”? https://youtu.be/LeJns-mql8s
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https://twitter.com/wario64/status/1526427445838028801?s=21&t=SFQ5QVqrn15-Nz_iP4A18A Everyone drop whatever you’re doing and go buy this immediately
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Snake Maze posted:The switch version has a little bit of new content starring Olimar and Louie (it’s basically some new mission mode levels made from remixed bits of the story stages) and some minor changes to how charge works that makes it more useful (you don’t need to be locked on and it only sends your currently selected color). It also adds some new difficulty settings - “hard” is actually the same as the Wii U game and “normal” is the new easy mode. (There’s also “ultra spicy” for an actual hard mode) Also co-op story mode, I think now literally everything can be played 2P instead of just missions and multiplayer edit: also a Piklopedia which is honestly worth the $30 alone
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Oh I fully agree, and I won't do that but people come in here so often complaining about having to read text before playing just tell them they can skip it because clearly it's not important for them, because people should experience how good the game is it seems. Honestly if they’re gonna skip the story entirely I don’t think they’re gonna get out of it what people who love the game get out of it. The battle system is very well made and the battles are enjoyable but for me the story and themes are the reason to play. All three modes of play (dialogue, battle, exploration) work in a balance together to the end of giving weight to the choices you make through the story. Missing one of them is gonna mean your experience is significantly hampered. If you’re asking “can I play this without the cutscenes,” I would just go find a different game.
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Show your kids these Pikmin shorts, see what they think, they’re pretty adorable and have a similar vibe to the games https://youtu.be/HEbPAXTYhcg https://youtu.be/wpnb9mJ83SU https://youtu.be/233Z0WhDrak
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It starts rough but by the time poo poo gets really serious all the key players are at worst competent (Serenoa, Roland) and at best outstanding (Frederica, Benedict). It’s not on the tier of something like Three Houses (probably the high water mark for English game dub performances) but I think if you don’t mind an English dub it will more than suit your needs.
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