Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

""Significant increase" over her pay for B2". Yikes, how much did she get for voicing Bayonetta 2 back then? Must be pretty low.

Also, would be interesting to know how much Hale got for Bayonetta 3.

@Kairu Not sure if we have each other on Switch Online... but I play a lot of MHR/Sunbreak, and more than happy to co-op if you need a hunting partner mate

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@Kairu Yeh I feel you mate, only so many minutes a day to spare/committ! In fairness though, I actually find that MHRise lends itself to really short bursts of play .... and if the Switch is nearby I'll often just plough 15 mins spare into a hunt or so. If you catch the bug with this game let me know!

Started playing AI: The Somnium Files and it's such a great game to play on the Switch. I haven't played a visual novel in a long time so it feels nice to be playing one now. This game has made me miss visual novels in general actually. Luckily for me, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is on sale now for €25 so I might actually pick it up. I haven't played an Ace Attorney game since Spirit of Justice came out in 2016. It's crazy that we haven't seen a new entry in the franchise since then.

On a side note if anyone's interested, I saw that Death's Door and Ender Lilies are on sale now on Switch. I've heard great things about those two titles so I might pick them up along with Ace Attorney.

Since Mario Party 1 and 2 were added to Switch Online Expansion this week, my friends and I decided to finally upgrade to the expansion pack. We're actually planning to play them tomorrow, but me and my friend decided to test out some other games online today. We played Mario Kart 64, Dr Mario 64 and Mario Tennis. All fun games but we really enjoyed Mario Tennis. It still holds up really well today and the rounds could get really intense.

I'm definitely impressed by the selection of games and I feel that it's been absolutely worth upgrading to the expansion pack so far. Not to mention being able to play the N64 titles online. So much good stuff to be had here! I also want to play Earthbound and Paper Mario at some point.

It's in general just so incredible how much there is to play on the Switch right now. There are so many first-party and third-party games, and then we have all the retro titles as well. The Switch is such an amazing device!

@Kairu Yeah this was an excellent year for Nintendo. I wasn't expecting that going into 2022, but man did they release so many games this year!

On a side note, I have been contemplating about learning things that I've missed out on doing during my life. One of those things is learning how to play chess, which I feel is an important game to know how to play. Then I remembered that chess is actually included as one of the games in 51 Worldwide Games on Switch and I decided to finally learn how to play it. It wasn't actually as bad as I thought, it took me maybe about an hour including the game's lessons and practice but I know now how to play it! Obviously I'm far from being good at it, but at least I know what the goal of the game is and how you move each chess piece. It's actually a fun game with so much depth, so I understand now why it's such a popular game. Might actually keep playing it from here on out.

@Kairu Thanks for the recommendation. I'll add it to my watchlist!

2022 is easily the best year of support for the system since 2017. Actually, it might be my favorite year for the system overall, since it always feels like there's some really high-quality exclusive just around the corner now.

Which is weird, since Nintendo console support usually dies out pretty quickly after the first few years. 2018 and 2020 weren't great, but otherwise, I've been consistently happy with how the system has been supported.

Just got done playing one game of Mario Party 1 and 2 respectively. I can say with confidence that the first Mario Party doesn't hold up well today at all lol. It's absolutely brutal, you can lose coins by simply losing in regular mini-games. Not to mention that landing on Bowser spaces screws up other players more often than it does yourself. There's also no items to hold, there's basically no strategy at all in the first game.

Mario Party 2 on the other hand plays very similarly to modern Mario Party. You don't lose coins from losing in mini-games, landing on Bowser spaces actually punishes you more often than other players, there's items and more strategy overall. So we're definitely going to be playing more Mario Party 2 in the future and skipping Mario Party 1 completely. Hopefully Mario Party 3 is also similar to Mario Party 2 so we can look forward to it in the future.

Like I thought, Pokemon Legends: Arceus raised peoples' standards for what they expect from a modern Pokemon game, and Scarlet/Violet are getting hosed in reviews as a result. They really should have held off another year or so, polished up the performance, and integrated the improvements from that game.

Seen a video in regards to all the new Pokémon introduced and... Yeah I don't like the look of pretty much every single new 'mon.

Admitedly I've thought the designs have been on a downwards slope since gen V (Though to be fair I pretty much liked all of Kalos' designs).

However even putting that personal opinion aside the whole past and future forms are some of the laziest rehashes I think I've ever seen since they introduced alternate forms. The future ones in particular look incredibly uninspired.

Here's the video I took a look at by the way to see them all.

Glad to see the new Pokémon games getting a bit of a kicking, but it’s still probably not as bad as it should be. And of course it’ll still sell like crazy.

I say that having really enjoyed Arceus.. but these games just have so much untapped potential, it’s so annoying.

I have free access to Pokemon Scarlet (legally; the family member I digitally share games with preordered it), so I'll be trying this out come midnight! My hopes aren't high, but I did love Pokemon Legends: Arceus, so we'll see what happens.

Can't be any worse than Let's Go or Sword/Shield, surely.

@kyleforrester87 While the critical consensus wasn't as low, fans kicked Sword/Shield WAY harder and pushed a social media hate campaign against it for months that grew so all-consuming that even normie publications were talking about it. There was this big movement to boycott the game and teach GF a lesson.

The result? It's currently either the second or third best-selling generation in the entire series, lol.

@Ralizah lol true. Is there a cut down dex in this one too? I assume so, are people upset about that again?

Been playing Pokémon Violet for a couple of hours now and it's a superb game so far. Definitely the most refreshing Pokémon experience in a long time. I absolutely love the increased freedom and finding all kinds of different Pokémon. It's crazy actually, in just a couple of hours, I've already caught 30 Pokémon lol. I'm very impressed by the sheer variety of mons you can find early on.

I am still waiting for my copy of the new Pokemon game to arrive. I ordered two copies, one for my Sister and one for me (we live in different cities). Hers arrived yesterday in the morning, mine has yet to show up

On the Pokemon thing above, I have heard this a few times and it definitely has me intrigued. I found Arceus honestly kinda boring, I thought it might have been because of the objectives and general lack of structure, but I do wonder if a part of it is that there wasn't really a huge variety it felt like in Pokemon in the world.

You would discover new Pokemon, but then the game would just overwhelm you with that one new Pokemon by spreading them in large clusters. It felt like each new area had like maybe only five new Pokemon in at most, but they would just spread a hundred of those 5 across the map.

I feel like a big part of the excitement of a Pokemon game is driving forwards to see what creatures pop up, you take that away and the incentive to push lessens for me. Especially when the objective is also like "catch x Pokemon 5000000000000 times".

Hearing Scarlet and Violet have way more variety out of the gate of Pokemon, plus a more traditional Pokemon structure set against an open world, does sound like it is the Pokemon game for me. However, I am still a little baffled by a lot of the reviews "Performance so bad, it borders on unplayable, 8/10" ????

Like it is so funny to me that the Switch hardware is so ***** at this point, it is just like a casualty people acknowledge but ultimately exclude from their round up. If this game released on PS5 in this state it'd be getting 5 or 6s, regardless of how good the mechanics or story are.

Played Violet for a good 5-6 hours. And this game's performance is an insult on games in general. The main city runs so poorly, people and Pokemon constantly jumping in and out of existence. You can even enter buildings, and most NPCs aren't even interactive. Movement is slow as molasses and still the game has issues with rendering. Textures are awful and repetitive. There is a lot of weird stuttering and visual glitches, even loading screens itself have difficulty loading and cause the game to slow down. The camera has clipped through the floor and buildings more times than I'd like to remember. And most animations run at a steady 3fps in the overworld.

How this game got positive reviews is beyond my understanding.

@Pizzamorg The thing is, mechanically the game is good; Pokemon games are good. They have a solid battle system that hasn't changed for years. And that isn't a bad thing, but hardly something you can praise them for at this point. The game does lack a bunch of options, like skipping battle animations and playing in set mode for some reason. So even as a battle SIM, this is probably worse than most games.

@Pizzamorg Wholeheartedly agree with you. While I haven't played Arceus, I watched hours of live streams and it looks so repetitive. Catching the same Pokémon X amount of times or finding certain items. There are no objectives, you're just out to fill your Pokédex. That's what makes Arceus so lackluster. It feels like an experiment, not an actual game. Scarlet/Violet on the other hand are actual games since they are mainline entries with a new take. You have an actual open world and you're allowed to explore a fair amount early on. On top of that, there are so many different Pokémon to find in each area. Like you said, there's an actual incentive to explore because you'll find different Pokémon everywhere. It's awesome, it's like the Pokémon game we dreamed of as kids.

Which is why I'm not bothered much by the technical aspects of the game. As I'm getting older, I care less about visuals and more about the games being fun. Not to mention ambitious. In this case, this is the most ambitious mainline Pokémon game yet and I'm fine with it looking like it does as long as it pushes the series forward. Performance is another thing though, but as long as it stays around 30 fps most of the time, then I'm fine with it because it's a JRPG, not an action game that requires a good frame rate.

I wonder if some reviewers are almost scared of giving certain games a bad score due to the backlash they might get. If so, what a sorry state of affairs the industry has become.