Nintendo Switch (Currently Plagued) - Here we shit post about the new Nintendo console, The Switch

[Chin of Campbell]

The 3ds is haram, and limiting movement to the circle pad is the corn kernel on top of the shit sundae.

No one ever did figure out why the krocs got the boot, did they? I assume it was to distance the series as much as possible from rare, which on one hand I totally get because those limeys were starting to sink it very quickly after 3 and 64, but at the same time you can't force a series reboot and expect people to go along with it when your substitutions are planks of wood with no personality or charm.

Retro just wanted to do their own thing, there've been like ten billion interviews where they were asked the same thing and they always say, "Because we wanted to make our own villains". I think the enemy design is the weakest point of the two otherwise in-fucking-credible Retro DK games (well, one of them is, the other is okay) but it is what it is.

 

[Cnut]

As someone who never felt the need to get a Switch, I've patiently waited for Breath of the Wild 2 hoping it would also appear on the Switch successor as BOTW did with Wii U and Switch (a decision for which the Wii U version got severely gimped.) Now it looks like I'll be getting a Switch in the next two months unless there's some groundbreaking news coming very soon.

I quite liked the Wii U and its pro controller is great. I use it with the 8bitdo USB adapter when people want me to play Smash or Mario Kart on Switch with them. Joystick placement is optimal, can't even imagine using that lower right hand stick on Switch, especially with dinky joycons. Only sad part is no motion controls so basically useless in BOTW if you want to hit anything with arrows.

Never had a Ds or 3ds either, but I'd appreciate a return of dual screen gaming in the home, since I have no desire for portable gaming. Splatoon on Wii U rules because of the map right in your hands. There aren't enough games that take advantage of both screens rather than mirroring them, but those that do are generally worth the experience.

Also let me say since there are only a few weeks left of the Wii U eShop, some solo madlad (Sungrand Studios) just put out a game where you explore your grandad's property, aka a forest filled with invisible monsters you use the gamepad screen to scan for. Hold the gamepad like a cellphone in one hand and a wiimote like a flashlight in the other. Silver Falls: White Inside its Umbra. There is an arcade style multiplayer mode too I think up to five players.

Sungrand has like 3 or 4 brand new games on 3ds as well, in the same Silver Falls series. Apparently he's worked 16-20 hours a day for the last year or more to get all this shit out so I'm willing to support him, mostly out of curiosity, but also a bit of pity. I can't imagine at this point selling many copies of each game since there is like zero publicity and his YouTube videos don't even hit 1000 views. I hope he feels it was worth it in the end because it does all seem pretty neat.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Bitch, jailbreak your 3DS and you can play all of that on one system. That's what I'm doing.

3DS > every handheld before it.

The 3DS dpad it one of the worst on a handheld, you're not playing Mega Man Zero on that fucking thing, or any action heavy game. But yeah, overall you're right.

Can confirm. Super Street Fighter 4 3D is a bitch to play on that tiny thing that's so close to the bottom screen.

That's the only fighting game where I ever used the "stick" over the dpad. Idk how they fucked that thing up.

 

[Billy_Sama!]

The original L and R shoulder buttons on the 3ds stop working on mine even after I tried all the cleaning methods. The New 3DS XL I have still works fine despite the rubber on the circle pad crumbling away.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

you're not playing Mega Man Zero on that fucking thing,

I did

It hurt

 

[TVB]

Well, Capcom has a reputation for fucking up their own franchises (as with most companies), and the Mega Man one really hurts me inside.

 

[Epoch]

I quite liked the Wii U and its pro controller is great. I use it with the 8bitdo USB adapter when people want me to play Smash or Mario Kart on Switch with them. Joystick placement is optimal, can't even imagine using that lower right hand stick on Switch, especially with dinky joycons. Only sad part is no motion controls so basically useless in BOTW if you want to hit anything with arrows.

Hack the Switch and install this: https://github.com/ndeadly/MissionControl
Works perfectly, I used my Wii U pro controller to play Metroid Prime. Rumble and everything works

 

[Inafune Fanfiction]

I did

It hurt

I played a gba rom after I beat the zero games on the switch. Its like they retroactively removed the soul from it.

 

[Two Dollars]

I think their philosophy behind the Switch was as follows: The Wii was a success and people loved the motion controls, the Wii U was a flop but we feel like this concept of a screen in a controller can become a hit, especially if we manage to make the console itself to be a controller.

So what they essentially did is they took the Wii U controller, put the entire console in that, and made it so that you can disconnect the controllers and use them as Wiimotes.

Well yeah. Reggie said in his book (which I highly recommend, he even narrated the audio version) that Nintendo could see back in 2013/2014 that the Wii U wasn’t going to work and that they needed to just keep it alive while they planned out the Switch. That initial presentation in early 2017 had a couple minutes dedicated to how the Switch built off every past Nintendo system, and while it’s easy to brush that off as PR speak, I think they really wanted to look back at past systems and understand what made them successful and how to replicate them.

DS > 3DS

Oh boy, that’s a tough one. I think the DS was definitely better for experimental games and anything Mario or Pokemon, while 3DS has the edge on Kirby, Zelda, Fire Emblem, and some others. I’m more nostalgic for the DS, but I’d say 3DS is just barely the better system.

 

[Anonitolia]

3DS has the edge on Kirby

okay but you gotta admit Superstar Ultra gives the DS a fuck ton more points in that department even if robobot and triple deluxe combined kind of quash it

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I just want more Dee Dee Dee Drum Dash

I am but a simple man

 

[Anonitolia]

I just want more Dee Dee Dee Drum Dash

I am but a simple man

deluxe was not enough
a threequel is needed

 

[Celebrate Nite]

deluxe was not enough
a threequel is needed

Deluxe wasn't even big enough to earn that title. While hard mode and all the little bonus content is appreciated, 7 songs is PITIFUL for a series that's been going strong since the GameBoy and NES days. Where the fuck is Castle LoLoLo's theme???

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Oh boy, that’s a tough one. I think the DS was definitely better for experimental games and anything Mario or Pokemon, while 3DS has the edge on Kirby, Zelda, Fire Emblem, and some others. I’m more nostalgic for the DS, but I’d say 3DS is just barely the better system.

LBW may be better than the DS Zeldas, but it's also safe to say they're better than TFH. It's sort of a tie there. Most Kirby games blend together for me so I can't really say which were better. Fire Emblem only had Shadow Dragon for DS, so 3DS certainly wins out.

It is close, but DS has a lot of franchises that didn't have entries for 3DS like Mega Man & Advance Wars, so I give the edge to DS personally. I can see 3DS' advantages though, it's still a good system.

Maybe part of why I didn't like 3DS as much was Vita. A lot of games I'd have otherwise played on 3DS I instead played for Vita. DS seemed to have less overlap with PSP by comparison.

 

[Two Dollars]

okay but you gotta admit Superstar Ultra gives the DS a fuck ton more points in that department even if robobot and triple deluxe combined kind of quash it

Absolutely. Kirby on DS was great, but Kirby on 3DS was really great.

LBW may be better than the DS Zeldas, but it's also safe to say they're better than TFH. It's sort of a tie there. Most Kirby games blend together for me so I can't really say which were better. Fire Emblem only had Shadow Dragon for DS, so 3DS certainly wins out.

To be honest, I completely forgot TFH existed; I was just thinking about LBW and the N64 remakes. And see above, but Robobot on 3DS in particular was peak Kirby until Forgotten Land happened. I’d recommend Robobot, but you’d also probably be better off playing Return to Dream Land Deluxe now.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Absolutely. Kirby on DS was great, but Kirby on 3DS was really great.

To be honest, I completely forgot TFH existed; I was just thinking about LBW and the N64 remakes. And see above, but Robobot on 3DS in particular was peak Kirby until Forgotten Land happened. I’d recommend Robobot, but you’d also probably be better off playing Return to Dream Land Deluxe now.

I see, I typically default to not counting ports, but those were good games (OoT anyway, didn't try MM 3DS).

I didn't like Robobot, I'm pretty sure it's because, IIRC, the game wanted me to collect shit or something. I hate mandatory collectibles unless it's explicitly a collectathon.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

@Dammit Mandrake!

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

I see, I typically default to not counting ports, but those were good games (OoT anyway, didn't try MM 3DS).

I didn't like Robobot, I'm pretty sure it's because, IIRC, the game wanted me to collect shit or something. I hate mandatory collectibles unless it's explicitly a collectathon.

I'd say that the fact that the collectibles are mandatory is mitigated by them being so easy to find. The ones that are relatively hard to find are reserved for the later stages.

 

[Sundae]

Level-5 announced that Megaton Musashi: Wired is getting a worldwide release on Switch later this year.

Megaton Musashi: Wired Sees Level-5's Mech RPG Get Official Worldwide Release

Robo-tastic

www.nintendolife.com

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Time to celebrate over 10 years of Wii U
Wii U: [Fucking dies]

So, I guess no retro scene for Wii U then. Apparently not using the system kills it. One would think a console would die of overuse, not the opposite. Hopefully hackers fix the issue, otherwise Wii U is probably dead.

Taking bets now, which is going to be the last retro console with longevity: Wii or 3DS? In saying this, it is a little sad that the seventh gen and further is seemingly going to be inaccessible as the hardware was designed with too much happening to last.