Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

@AgentCooper Might not help in the short term, but there are regular decent sales on eshop credit. Like, $5 off for a $50 card.

I've also had a good experience with raise.com on this front. I'd check them out.

Copying Nintendo? Absolutely.

Am I excited? 100%

So glad they put the internal improvements toward the battery life.

@Ralizah Oh thanks so much, I will keep that in mind. He wants Gang Beasts so probably just throw 15 on there for now. He does prefer physical but the prices are daft and eshop is currently £9.99

@AgentCooper It's way easier to save money on digital Switch purchases if you play your cards right. Especially for first-party games with the vouchers, since you can put discounted eshop credit against them.

There was this beautiful deal on Walmart.com once where I snagged $200 worth of eshop credit for... $140, as I recall. Never seen a deal that good since. Basically got a free game out of it!

@Ralizah Oh gosh, that is a beautiful deal. Will definitely keep my ear to the ground on deals. Eventually went with adding funds via the website, which was surprisingly smooth and I didn’t have to leave my card details on file, CDkeys was only offering a pound off 15 so it made more sense at this time to add a tenner directly. Thanks again for your advice 👍

Got Super Mario RPG installed and ready to go!

Really looking forward to it. I’ve never played the original, so it’ll be a new experience for me.

Think I must be near the end of Bravely Default, since I’m basically at the Earth Crystal. I say that, but all I’ve heard are horror stories about the game refusing to end.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Buckle up, buckaroo.

@Ralizah I have now realised my error. I can’t believe they expect me to just play the game again 😂

@nessisonett haha yeah, good luck with that man. And I’ve played it through twice, for some reason!

@nessisonett I'm not sure you quite grasp the sheer scale of BS the game is preparing to put you through. The middle-to-late game of Bravely Default is basically the gaming world's version of Haruhi Suzumiya's "Endless Eight" arc.

It's a shame, because the final hours of the game are superb. Fantastic music, epic boss fights, subversive twists, cool gimmicks that make great use of the 3DS hardware... but getting there is such a slog!

Also, as I recall, there's a really annoying difficulty spike in Ch. 5.

Apologies if this theory has been mooted before, but I was thinking yesterday - I love TOTK, it’s one of the best games ever made IMO. But is it really representative of years of effort? Same world, same engine.. I believe lots of it would have been developed as BOTW DLC also, at least conceptually. I say this to say, is there a good chance development of the NEXT Zelda could actually be a lot further along than you might think, if they had resources to spare? Could we get get a new Zelda as soon as 2025, and a trailer to go with a Switch 2 announcement? I mean I expect them to come out the gate with a new 3D Mario and Mario Kart but would a new Zelda perhaps not be far behind?

@kyleforrester87 Interesting you say same world, same engine, as dataminers found it's actually NOT the same engine, which would explain some things like the better fidelity and level of detail plus new interactions.

one or two games im planning on buying sometime this week this month for my Switch Lite are

Mortal Kombat 1
the new Super Mario RPG remake of Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars

The Switch version of Hogwarts Legacy actually looks pretty good. They’ve had to make some compromises to get it running, but it definitely looks playable.

@kyleforrester87 There's so much stuff in the game, and they pretty much re-made the overworld content as well. And all the time needed to get the building stuff to comply with the physics systems...

I could believe it took them a long time.

Games without a tenth of those interactions take years to make, after all.

@Bentleyma Wow, no wonder the port took so long. They simplified a lot of the geometry and made it not fully open world.

Well, glad they made some hard choices to get it running well enough.

@Ralizah I’m still not talking to you!

@kyleforrester87 LMAO

really hope they remake and re-release mario hoops 3-on-3 for switch one day . unfortunately the game wasn’t as popular/successful which is crazy to me because back in the day in my area every kid had a DS & hoops 3-on-3, it was like a system seller. it deserves another chance with online support!

Finished Xenoblade Chronicles 3. The final boss just refused to die! I really enjoyed it, but I don’t think I’ll be getting the DLC. I’ll definitely be picking up Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 at some point. Now to play Super Mario RPG!